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Monday, Aug. 18, 1947 ROY W. HOWARD ‘WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ| 54 President “opawer Business Manager |

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“Give LAGAt and the People Will Pind \Thew Own Way .

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N theory, every attorney is an arm of the courts, sworn - to uphold legal procgsses and the upholding of justice. He practices- law by virtue of a state licensé, and he

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Lawyers as Judges

has a definite responsibility to society. ha 2;

A part of this responsibility is service as judge pro tem. or special judge when called upon, in thé interest of maintaining a high standard for our judiciary. Too often, however, members of the bar who have advanced far in

their profession assert they are “too busy” or it would | ;

“cost me too-much” to sit as substitute judge. That is a position that seems to us incompatible with an attorney's obligations to the community. “ou American justice must, perforce, depend to the greatest extent upon those who sit in judgment. And no lawyer

-. is so good that he can duck the job of acting as judge pro

tem. or special judge when he is called upon, which would

_ ;be rarely if all co-operated. ty amsial. We do not like that part of the pro tem. system under

which a judge can leave the bench in cases where he wishes to avoid making a- decision and put the onus on another

who is not answerable to the public. The judge has a|. " heavy obligation in selection of such judges, and is entitled

to-the co-operation of the practitioners of his profession. ‘High caliber substitutes will bring high caliber decisions— the reverse is also true. Judges pro tem.4in criminal and municipal courts receive only $10 a day—in circuit and superior courts they receive

nothing. That is no consideration to a successful attorney. | Housewives Should Shop Early,

Rather, the consideration should be that of keeping a high standard of judicial decision. Under the special judge system, three names are nominated by the presiding judge. Ome is stricken from the panel by the plaintiff or the prosecution, depending on the | nature of the case, and one by the defendant. The attor- | ney who is left thus becomes trial judge, and receives, likewise, $10 a day. The important duty of nominating the three orginally was in the hands of the state supreme court, but more recently it has been handled by the presiding judge to simplify procedure. Si Final responsibility for selection.of substitute judges’ must always rest with the elected official who names them. But the judges will conduct the trial machinery of the county more effectively if the bar co-operates with them unselfishly. :

Job at Rio

RUSSIA is doing all she can to prevent success of the intgr-American ‘defense conference which opened last Friday in Brazil: Argentina is blowing hot and cold.’ Cuba is trying to lug in her sugar dispute with thé United States. The excluded junta regime of Nicaragua is battering at the conference door. And the Paraguayan revolution is an acute embarrassment to the hemisphere meeting.

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Dung these hot and tiring days 1 have developed a complaint that I would like to air in the Hoosier Forum, and that is against Racketeers Win Again,” alongsige {your top ‘editorial last Friday, it heir Shipping belore the time Ye oles WOrgers have to use the buses. | requires somewhat of a rhetorical ave ev: n on m line for two miles beyond | Washington st. a wd oy housewives. y {contortionist to squeeze any measLoaded with bundles and frequently accompanied by children, they ure of consistency out of the whole. take up space and jam up the transportation system even more than | This much is clear, however. You its normal mess and turmoil. If they would come downtown an hour ido not yourself sincerely believe

earlier, or complete their: shopping only half an hour earlier, those of what you have written on the sub-

us who have to come to fown to — — [Jct of «gambling. work might have more chance of | living which could have been main- You must be aware, are you not,

Despite these distractions, however, hopes are high. The conference's job is relatively simple and should be easy. | That is to put into treaty form the joint security agree-| ment reached by the American republics at the Mexico City conference two years ago. Argentina's bad-neighbor conduct, which has held up action this long, is nominally now reformed-—otherwise there could be no conference. But actually Dictator Peron is still a problem. Apart from his continuing anti-demo-crafic acts at home, especially against the press, he has been maneuvering for veto power over hemisphere security similar to that held by Russia in the United Nations security council. Opposition of virtually all other American governments to his. so-called unanimity proposal has resulted in hints that he is ready to compromise. Peron also is trying to force the economic issue onto this agenda, as is Cuba. Certainly there is genuine need for economic understandings; not only to buttress LatinAmerican prosperity during post-war transition, but also to obtain better Argentine co-operation for European relief | and rehabilitation. Nevertheless, to throw this unprepared | subject into the Rio sessions, instead of waiting for the regular Bogota conference in January, would interfere with the security treaty which is the purpose of this meeting. For that reason, those who are trying to load down the | Rip agenda with unscheduled issues are playing Russia's! game—either wittingly or unwittingly. Of course Stalin wants this conference to flop, because. an effective hemisphere pact against aggression will make Commuwst penetration more difficult. Hence Pravda's attack on the conference as an alleged Yankee move toward “liquidation of the sovereignty of those states by complete military

subjugation.” . A strong inter-American defense is a proper answer to Russia. ol

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A BILL now before the Japanese parliament would per- ., Mit parents, for the first time in 75 years, to name their children for Japanese emperors. The bill revokes a law of 1873 which barred such names on the ground that the imperial family was divine. The present emperor has » J - No doubt this move will open up a whole roster of beautiful and meaningful names for Japan's future children, but we suspect still a lot more will be known only as Joe.

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temperature reached 96 degrees at 2:30 o'clock one afternoon last week in Washington. Among federal rkers who were dismissed at 3 o'clock and allowed to : se of the heat were those of the U. S.

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getting a seal on the bus at the ‘'ained in 1046 for $144 per monthiyng¢ such repressive legislation as end of a hard day. It isn't fair, and | her $10,000 would last her only a', oy proposed, tends to build up it certainly isn't thoughtful. | little more than four months. {the rackets about which there is While I'm on the subject, I might | In order to prevent this impend- | yy,ctifiable complaint, mushroom as well compimin about the dis- Ng debauchery of the monetary ineir profits, and further aggracourtesy men on my line show to System of the United States, and vate the corruption of our police women. 1 don't want any of them Possibly the other democratic na-\ro..e with pay-offs, regarding to give me their seats—I'm 32 and | tons of the earth, I will suggest| yo; 1 understand there are alstrong. But it doesnt say much that the congress be called into signed confessions in the for Hoosier cowrtesy to see some Special session at once to enact|y.nqe of the prosecutor (dying a of those lugs staring into space and| ‘he’ following personal income tax|,,iyra] death, or waiting a politiacting like they \don't see elderly Plan into the law. cally opportune time)? women standing nearby and almost! Exemption for a single Person, | you are also aware, are you not, fainting from the .heat: I believe $2000; for a.married couple wih | that the vast majority of our voterthey even should give up their N0 children, $4000, married couple sy avers enjoy some form of gamseats to such passengers carrying With one child, $4500; married | ping" whether it be over a golf bundles! couple with two or more children. | ore or the ponies, or a baseball . = \» $5000. There should be no other | 001; and that any legislation to . . exémptions for any reason whatso- make a crime of acts which gre not Inflation Can Buing ever except business exeppses. No, criminal, only breeds contempt for Complete Debauchery person ‘Wwhomsoever should be ex- gy jaw? This was amply proved By Del Mund, Indianapelis. empt from this tax for any reason ging the 18th amendment era. A certain organization, the in- Whalgever, The net ucome above! gince it must be admitted that vgzity of which d x be ques 18 exemptions should be taxed 50, majority ‘prefer to exercise the cannc {per cent for .the. pext 40,000 and right to gamble if they choose, are tioned, has made a scientific study all above that should be taxed 100 vou not radically unfair and out of the weighted wholesale price of per cent. This would allow a single step to continue the: futile urging 35 leading commodities. The ad- - TRARLIY Joome. ariel | favorable action of the proposed vanc y ing’ ’ ANG 3 MAITeC |, qinance? ing cost of these 3B leading, ni, with two children a ‘maxi-| And would it not be much more commodities determines the ever ,, ft. : 4 {mum income after taxes of $35,000.|,, the credit of your newspaper to increasing cost of living, and points! If the big income people are rea.- | come out openly and honestly urgout the onward march of an in-|IV patriotic let them come for-|,.g o referendum at next election? flationary movement which ‘will in Ward and give approval to this plan | gave you ever known the majority a few years, if not halted, bring Which will remove all danger of ¢ ho American public to be complete debauchery upon the Inflationary “debauchery to our wrong? monetary system of the United monetary system. And if you agree on the last States. 2.x. point, would it not be the better he above stugv. shows Unto Park at Fort Would part of valor to also come out ain amount of commod Cost ‘ openly ing the city eouncil to $100 in 1936; the same commodities Be More for Hoosier pass a PR on Ey mel the cost $144.72 In August, 1046, amd By E. M.. Fortville next. legislature to repeal all stat$187.46 in August, 1047. The in-| Let's have that public park at Pt. oc panning RS crease from August, 1946, to August, | Harrison. It could be used by a lot | therefor new legislation to license 1947, Was 30% ad a of people, not only in Indianapolis, gambling operators, requiring cash each year until 1957 it would take|Put also throughout this gggion. | 2 I ie "the $2469 to buy the same amount of {We have big state parks in other| toying all phases heavily food that could have been bought foarts of Indiana. Why not take and thereby squeezing out the Tackin 1946 for $14.72 re of those around these Darts?| .....o y1,.ts pe consistent, at If ‘this degree of inflation should "Rhen we wouldn't have to travel 80 1 oaist continue until 1957 here is what fer, and the place would not be over- | . y iwi would happen to a widow whose run with peaple from IHinois and! husband’ died In 1957 and left her other states, the way our parks are Call Congress Back $10,000 life insurance. Should she now. A park down there would be $ : continue ‘to live at a standard of | more for us Hoosiers. For Housing Action - By Bud Koesel, 2348 Central ave. . . I am against congress being reSide Glances=By Galbraith cessed until January for two good reasons, First, they are passing up the most important bill which was: before congress—the veterans’ housing bill, I say shame on you, congressmen.’ Have you forgotten that veterans without

bling up with friends fought the last war so we could enjoy a vacation this year. And now in their hour of need for help you are pulling out on them until January, enjoying yourself. While the men “with Purple earts are without homes. wi

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Davidson (cf), (1), Paddy Livingston (co), Wil liams (2b) and Hopke (3b) which, if I remember correctly, was the batting order too. | While with Indianapolis Marquard turned in a string of six straight extraordinary victories. Four were shutouts, In three games he allowed only two

‘| Wits; in two, only three hits. His most lamentable

victory of thal series was a four-hitter. On the occasion of his last performance in Indianapolis (Sept. 3, 1908), Marquard turned in a no-hit performance.

Sold for $11,000 : IN THE fall of that same year, after winning 23 games, Rube Marquard was picked up by New York for the fabulous sum bf $11,000, an up-till-then record price for # pitcher. By this time, the Giants belonged to—guess who? Sure, John T. Brush, Mr. Brush acquired the Giants-after having disposed of the Cincinnati Reds. When Rube Marquard turned up in New York, he was only 19 years old and as handsome as Indianapolis pitchers come. At their first sight of him, the New York fans dubbed him the “$1100 Beauty.” In the course of the next two years, Richard Marquard, the pride of ‘Indianapolis, came to be known as the “$11,000 Lemon.” I can explain that, too. One reason for the Rube's downfall may be traced to John T. Brush’s lovable quality of never selling Indian-

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. =While the struggle between rival airlines was. being aired before the senate war investigating subcommittee, another and far less publicized phase of the contest was in progress. before the civil aeronautics board. At issue were the rates charged by Pan American Airways on its exclusive routes in Latin America. Last November, CAB's public counsel fied a startling brief. It charged that Pan American's figures of cost in Latin America were “abnormally high” and the accounting methods used so confusing “as to cast doubt upon the reliability of the reported figures.” : The brief was caustic. It showed that the com-

pany had an operating profit of $1,679,357 for the | first 10 months of 1944. But in subsequent reports | from the company covering November and Decem- | ber, this profit. was wiped out and replaced by | of almost $800,000. In October of 1044, the company showed an operating profit of 20 cents per revenue mile. The reported figures for the month of December showed a loss of 81 cents per revenue mile. It was this extraordinary change in so short a space of time that CAB's public counsel attacked,

No Basis, Says Pan Am ACCORDING to the brief, many of the thousands of items of cost charged off in November and December applied to other months of, the year. Public counsel asked that these be re-dated to the specific time in which they occurred. Pan American refused this request. The brief included an exhibit to show that “Pan American is the only carrier whose costs revenue mile and per ton mile increased with” increasing operations during “1944. Increasing operations andl increasing trip frequencies accompanied by increasing

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 — Real reason behind President Truman's veto of fhe bill to set up a scientific research foundation is that the people pushing this proposal got too darn smart and slick -and scienRific for their own good. But the veto is apt to be mis‘understood unless the whole history of the bill" is known. : Benator Alexander Smith of New Jersey, who authored the ill this year, says the veto will set science back 10 years. Well, it should be no great trick for congress to pass a revised bill next year. Besides which, the last congress appropriated no money Lo get up the foundation next year 8o nothing could have been done if the President had signed the bill and no time has been lost at all,

Story of Delay ; SMITH ALSO ACCUSED the President bf playing political football with the bill. But it would be difficult to make the science bill more of a political football than it has been in congress for the past five years. In 1942 West Virginia Democratic Senator Harley M. Kilgore’ first got interested in trying to mobilize science by .aw. Nobody else was interested in this subject, however. Kilgore revised his bill in 943 and "44, but it still made no progress. Then in July, ‘1945 Dr. Vannevar Bush of the office of scientific research and development made his famous “Science, the §ndless Frontier” report to President Roosevelt. By strange coincidence, Senator Warren Magnuson

would exactly carry out the Bush recommendations. It beat Kilgore's introduction of the 1945 version of his bill by just a few days. The Magnuson and Kilgore bills differed on three points. Kilgore wanted the government to own and to grant free license to use all patents developed on government financed research. Business groups opposed that. They wanted private industry to do the research, own the patents, and reap the profits on them. Kilgore thought the government should run the whole research program through full-timé directors

VIENNA, Aug. 18.—As my jeep left Tulln air. port, 26 miles up the Danube from Vienna, we came to a point where the airport road joined the main highway. Facing me was a big sign blaring

American personnel, military and civilian. Don't get off road. Follow red arrow to Vienna. That sign was a symbol not only of what is strangling Austria but what is chiefly ‘wrong everywhere. Some call Vienna the “city of fear” But it 1s not that. Like all of Europe west of the fron

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demurred claiming that for the hig league, but faith in Indianapolis products that he It proved a disaster. . Whereupon, Wilbert Robinson, who coach at the time, took the “immature

‘quard pitched back in Indianapolis was perhaps best way after all. - ’ When Marquard had his own way (by which time he was 22 years old) the “$11,000 Lemon” New York win the pennants of 1911, 1812 afd 1913. In those three years, he pitched 101 games ahd won 73. In 1912, he turned in 19.straight victories. ; Little Remains to ‘Mark Stay AS FOR John T. Brush, he stayed in control of the Giants until the day of his death in 1912. When 1t came time to probate his will, it revealed that his estate still had a big stake in the When clothing store of Except for the old building, which housed®the When (28-40 N. Pennsylvania st), the ruins of Lombardy remain the only tangible evidence to remind us of Mr. Brush’s stay in Indianapolis. some of its stones comprise the wall adjoining the building of the Meier Electric & Machine Co. 3525 E. Washington st. Lombardy, the name of Mr, Brush's Indianapolis home, received its label because of Eisie Lombard, a photogenic actress whom Mr. Brush had picked to be his wife.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs ~~ |CAB Questions Pan Am’s Character

unit costs is against all experience in the industry.” “Over the three-year period, Pan Americans plane

mile costs averaged more than twice the costs of the .

four largest domestic carriers,” the brief stated. . In replying, Pan American charged that CAB’ conse] had: no basis for questioning Pan Amy's bookkeeping.” Lack of experience in airline operafion and airline accounting was shown, according to the company, throughout the brief. ah ;

Dilemma ‘of Regulation LATER CAB sent nine accountants to Miami to go over Pan American's books for the period in question. In their report, they said they found nothing irregular in Pan Am’s accounting. The company naturally made much of this. Su This illustrates very well the dilemma of regulatioh in .its present form. The nine accopntants had been borrowed by CAB from one of the older comniifsions. During their stay in Miami, they were prodded by CAB lawyers who pointed out that it was not merely a matter of correct addition and subtraction but the why and wherefores of accountin®practice. : After Sitting on the case for many months, CAB new had handed down a decision. Over its Latin American routes, Pan American was awarded a rate of 80 cents per mail-ton mile. This is considerably éinder the rate asked by the company. But it is more than those who first brought the case had believed equitable. * During his last term in the senate, Justice Hugo L. Black conducted a vigorous investigation info steamship ‘subsidies and profits. The public got a lot of information it never had before. The same kind of investigation into the airlines would be a healthy thing, not alone for the public interest bu for the lines J

REFLECTIONS". . . By Peter Edson 4 Research Sponsors Defeat Own Purpose

named by the President. Bush wanted the’ directors to work only as part_time advisers. Third point of difference was that Kilgore wanted research in the social sciences, while Bush wanted it confined to exact sciences. After joint hearings on these and several other bills, the senate in 1946 passed a bill in line with Kilgore's ideas. a 2 : But by a fast end run, Senator Magnuson was influential in getting the house to take up his bill, incorporating the Bush ideas. A house commerce subcommittee began hearings under the impression that it was considering thé senate approved bill. When the chairman of this subcommittee, ‘J. Percy Priest of Tennessee, found out different, he let the hearings die, and the bill died with it. This year the Republicans came back strong, took the ball away from Democrats Kilgore and Magnuson, and proceeded to run with it The name was ch to the Smith bill. To no one’s surprise, it incorporated the Bush ideas. A compromise was reached on the visions. Social science research was killed off. On, administration, Bush took evéry trick. As ths bill to create a national science foundation was passed, the President was to name 24 members, giving due consideration to’ dations by the National Academy of Sciences—<of whith Bush ig head—the land grant colleges and the state universities.

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THESE 24 WERE TO MEET and elect an executive | committee of nine. These nine would name the director. The nine and the 24 would then go home. The nine would meet every two months and the 24 once a year; to advise and recommend. In the meantims, the director would be the scientific little tin god. Congress would have no ‘control over him and neither would the President. : He This is apparently why the President thought he'd better veto the bill. Its backers had been just a little too cute in trying to set up a show that they couid run, free from what they call “government interference,” but with the taxpayer footing the bills.

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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philp Simms =~ - Third War Fuse Sputters in Austria

selves. They cannot and will not depend on others. They do not want handouts. They must have politis sal liberty, economic freedom and national indivisibility. There. must be ‘an abolition' of demarcation lines splitting the country and its capital four ways. Austria needs to be spared the burdén of occupstion. At the beginning of this year the costs totaled $280 million. Pifty-eight per cent of the costs attributed to Russia, wi among the

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