Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1947 — Page 14

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PAGE 14 Tuesday, Aug. 19, 1947.

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Child Welfare Plan

CAREFUL study of Marion county's child care program has just been completed by an outside organization of experts, and the community has been found to lack many essentials of a balinced program. The survey was undertaken three months ago, following disclosures in The Times of bogging down of the child welfare division of the county welfare department. The study announced yesterday recommended. complete overhauling. of this division, together with employment of a

well-qualified executive and improvement of the staff. dnci- |:

dentelly, one of the recommendations was higher salaries for staff members, which is essential if we are to get highlyqualified workers in this field. Higher benefit payments for children were suggested also. Present police method of handling child neglect and non-support cases was labeled unsatisfactory, particularly with respect to action on complaints which many times are not justified. Juvenile court should handle neglect cases on a 24-hour basis, on a working arrangement of more cooperation between the juvenile court staff and the police department. The experts recommend that police step into the picture only in the cases of ‘youngsters over 16 years old who allegedly are involved in serious offenses. The number of juvenile cases brought into court, many of them needlessly, could be reduced—according to the survey—by more co-operation "among public and private child welfare agencies. Establishment of a psychiatric clinic, long recognized by those who have studied the problem as a need, was suggested. Such a clinic would pay for itself, the report asserted, through reduction in the number of children supported in public boarding homes and those held needlessly in penal institutions. The judge of juvenile court should be selected on a strictly nonpartisan basis, appointed by the governor on recommendation of the state supreme court, concluded the survey. The incumbent judge, Joseph O. Hoffmann, is a Democrat (one of two elected in the last county election) who was supported by a nonpartisan citizens committee whose platform included taking the court out of "politics for the sake of the children and the community. The survey report deserves the most thoughtful consideration of the public officials charged with, carrying out the child care program and those who hold the pursestrings of county funds, Likewise, every public and private welfare agency should study its recommendations with the view of speedily correcting the shortcomings which it points out.

Our Stake in Ruhr Output

THE Anglo-American conference in Washington on Ruhr coal production went into its second week yesterday with negotiators more optimistic than when it started. This is good news—for Americans no less than for Europeans. Some Americans seem to think they have enough to worry about at home without being concerned about troubles as distant as those of Germany. After being forced by self-interest and defense to fight in Germany in two wars in one generation, we should need no long spell-out on our present stake on the Rhine. This problem touches our interests even more directly than most. We are spending about’ three-quarters of a billion dollars a year now on coal shipments to Europe which Europe should be producing for itself. We can afford neither the money, the coal nor the ships. Moreover, failure of coal production has caused such a deterioration in the general European economic situation, and particularly in Germany itself, that our army of occupation is sitting on something that could blow up almost any time. The threatened riots and bloodshed ‘would de‘stroy the small gains we have made in Germany. They would be just what Stalin ordered: It is not an exaggeration fq say that all Europe is dependent to greater or lesser degree—and mostly greater— on Ruhr coal, and steel with which it is interlocked. The Marshall plan and the whole range of American relief policy is based on the possibility of European self-help. That means more production over there. . ' Among the many reasons why Ruhr coal output is 40 per cent under prewar, the experts at the Washington conference agree three are foremost: Living conditions, equipment and transport, and management. Larger food rations for Ruhr miners have not helped as much as had been hoped, because they share with their hungry families and return to the pits undernourished. The. housing problem is worse, Mining machinery and locomotives are short. Management is hamstrung with socialization debate. - But none of these is sufficient excuse. Ruhr production must be speeded.

"Special"... Not "Pro Tem"

IY commenting on the acquittal of Archie (“Joker”) Young on lottery charges last Friday we erroneously described Charles W. Cook Jr., as a “judge pro tem,” when as a matter of fact he was sitting as a “special judge.” We regret.the error and are happy to correct’ | Xl (The difference: A “judge pro tem” is a person appointed by the regular judge when he wishes for any reason ~'to be absent from hig bench; a “special judge” is one selected, by elimination, by defense and prosecution from a panel of three nominated by the regular judge when either party to the case asks for such procedure.) In the interestrof complete fairness to Mr. Cook, we publish here, without comment, his own statement of his reasons for sustaining a defense motion for acquittal in this case. Mr. Cook says: “The fact is, the defendant Young was discharged because the Marion county deputy prosecutor failed to prove that the defendant sold a lottery ticket or tickets or a share or shares in any lottery scheme or gift enterprise. - It was because of this failure of proof that the defendant Young was discharged.” As judge, I offered to give the _ prosecutor additional time to produce evidence of a- sale, but the deputy proseciitor and the three Indianapolis police

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G. |. En Route Home Three Months Due to Red Tap&inGen.-Lee's Area:

By Griffith E. Ogden, 3102 N. Gladstone Ave.

I have been following Mr. Ruark mess that M. T, O. U. 8. A. is in. : I want to congratulate him on I was a staff sergeant in Italy. for the fighting, but I was in the

there, but I guess they never had

numerous fellows who planned to write about what was going on over

1 am sure you will find a number of {~llows to back my complaints.

's articles on the uncovering of the the fine work he is doing. 1 was too young to make it over occupational forces. I have heard

the opportunity to do so.

A group of us arrived in the, replacement depot at Leghorn, Italy, with the hopes of catching] a boat for the States. While we were in the depot, there was an epidemic of mumps, so they cut the ones from orders that had never had it. They came around and asked every man. The honest ones that told them we had never had it, had to stay and suffer. Others who had never had it, but got wise to what was going on, told the medical officer they had had it before. There were 150 of us left in the depot when the ship left.| There we were with only hopes of | catching the next ship. No one knew when that might be. I don't believe there would have been a lot | said about the whole affair but they | transfered us to P. B. 8. head-' quarters to pull guard, There were| two other sergeants and myself pldced in charge of the men.

The medical officer wouldn't let us get on a boat because we had been exposed to the mumps, but they would let us pull guard at officers’ homes and clubs and dependents’ hotels. While we were in P. B. 8. headquarters, Gen. Lee was moving his headquarters from Cosutia to Leg-

mad throwing orders here and there. We worked for two days and nights, ne one excluded. Me who had just come off guard went to work, even though they had to go on guard anywhere from 12 to 18 hour’ later. Some were lucky and got three hours'” sleep. All I have to say is I hope the brass were satisfied. The lieutenants and the captains in the headquarters treated us fair, but there were few over there like them, They finally took us out of the guard company and put us in the

horn. Everyone rushed around like some improvements made on the

Views On The News

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY

After calling off the Howard Hughes hearing, Senator Ferguson was treated for poison ivy. Didn't know you could get that from a hot

pl . . With a Republican congress, a Democrat President and a supreme court in constant conflict over the constitution, it's a full-time job for a federal employee to keep his loyalty 100 per cent pure. ’ » » Henry J. Kaiser is so old:fash-| ioned he seems radical. He wants | to practice free enterprise instead of just preaching it. 2 . . > * A. F. of L. President Green says Senator Taft will “suffer the worst defeat” in G. O. P. history if nominated for President in 1948. Maybe Maine and Vernfont should picket Green.

depot once more to be placed on orders. I think there should be

quarters that the men were placed in, in the replacement depot. They can get material to build and repair hangouts for the big brass, but not for the enlisted men's quarters. If it hadn't been for the Red Cross there the men would have gone crazy. They were very strict with us while we were there. It was more like taking basic training once more than a departure station, We even rated a few nice road marches while we were there, I left my company Feb. 13, and got home May 16, and it only took 10 days on the water,

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Atom Bomb Makes Kings, Slaves Same

‘By Stan ‘Moore, 2858 N. Illinois »t.

One good thing about the atomic bomb is the fact that it brings all humanity to the same level. The high and mighty ignoramuses who claim.they have the right to order others to go out and die to save their sources of wealth, as the Dutch rulers are doing with Dutch troops in Java, are not so sure that they will live to a ripe old age. They used to be able to sneak away to a safe hiding place when war was a matter of a bunch of sweatifg. or freezing troops and a lot of rattling avoided very easily. But today even the most bloodthirsty dictators who think they have all the other humans under their dirty thumbs are as jittery. as burglars trying to break into a police station. They have no idea when something will go “bang.” They are now having experiments made to how deep they will have to go into the earth to get away from the horrors that smart people of the common herd thought up for them to butcher with. They did not think about the danger to themselves, and they ‘want such things outlawed for everyone but themselves to use. Thugs do not want the other fellow to have a

sun. It is said that the time will come when everyone from king to slave will hide in caves and yell for the mountains to fall on them. They know now that bomb shelters are not good enough, .even the kind under the White House. And they know that slaves can run faster than kings and that will not be fast enough. .

Lansing St. ls Full of Holes

By Mrs, Lucille Lipp, 431% Lansing st. I am writing, this about our very poor upkeep of our city street. Our Lansing st. especially. One can play hopscotch over the holes in Lansing st. After two weeks of telephone calls at the city hall (the pass the buck routine), I finally contacted the chief clerk at the street commissioners office. I asked him if .he couldn't get some one to see if these holes couldn't be patched. He replied’ “Oh, yes, we'll see you people out there get service.” Well, we did—some gravel thrown in and a little tar. They did a quick job «they filled up the holes O. KX. for about a month. A man was checking the workers and I told him, “It is swe a shame they don't fix this street.” He said, well the trouble is the

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population of the town (U. 8. 426. *

Of those who have made Gary great, two men stand out: Elbert H. Gary who sired the town nursed it to greatness; and William A. Hoosier from Markle, who gave the town a two-steel-mill, educational system, This pattern plan spread in two decades to 177 cities in 38 of the nation.

IN WASHINGTON . By Marquis Childs *

Clark Plans ‘Stew’

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—~Before you make your stew, you must first catch your rabbit. That is an ancient bit of advice that politicians too often conveniently ignore. With a great fanfare of publicity, Attorney General Tom C. Clark has announced a campaign of criminal prosecution against those who conspire to increase the price of food, clothing and shelter. He has captured the headlines but whether he will capture an more substantial is a question. , Mr. Clark in particular has a habit of advertising his stew before he has even begun to chase the rabbit through the tall grass. ' He makes many speeches and is frequently photographed doing conspicuous good deeds. In cynical Washington the common explanation for this behavior is that Mr. Clark wants to be the vice presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket next year. ,

Good Luck, Sir

ONE CAN WISH the aftorney general the best luck in the world in his drive on profiteers. Certainly relief from high prices is what most Americans want above everything else. But if he is going to put everyone in jail who helped to force prices up, we are going to need a lot more jails. ‘ Two fundamental ‘errors of the Truman adminis. tration contributed to the upward spiral of prices immediately after the war's end. : 5 One was the repeal of the excess profits tax. The other was the removal of wage controls and the encouragement of labor in demanding additional pay. It would be hard to say which move did the most damage. Repeal of the excess profits tax, in the face of the vast consumer demand after four years of war, made possible the swollen profits reported by most large corporations in recent months. For the corporations

Sans ‘Rabbit’ those profits are decidedly a mixed blessing. They have been used by union leaders as the background for a demand for higher wages and lower prices. At the time the repeal was proposed, there was & kind of conspiracy of silence. Almost the only leader of stature to speak against it was Bernard M. Baruch, who foresaw plainly what such a move would mean.

What Mr. Clark Can Do

. HIGHER WAGES HAVE CONTRIBUTED te higher prices. While you can argue whether this has been the principal cause of the price rise, no one can

deny that it is a major factor. In the vicious upward

see-saw, wages may have kept a little bit ahead. "But the plain, unvarnished fact is that almost no one, of whatever political party or whatever economis group, is guiltless in connection wi ! There are very real limits on what Mr, Clark can actually do! He talks about invoking the anti-trust laws against those guilty qt collusion in price rises, curtailment of output or restriction of capacity exe pansion. That is a large order. It must be measured against the fact that successful anti-trust prosecution can occur only in a climate of opinion sympathetic to it, As head of the anti-trust division of the justice dee partment, Thurman Arnold was able to dramatize the issue of monopoly., Since he left the department of justice, opinion has shifted. No one with the same force and zeal has come along to show what the stakes are. : So long as we can have competition, we are nof too badly off. The question is how much competition is left in our country.

It looks as though inflation might be the chief .

political fdotball next year, but a multitude of speeches will have little effect on what you and I pay for & loaf of bread. ;

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REFLECTIONS . . . By Peter Edson LE

Review of Military

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—~When young Brig.-Gen. Charles E. Saltzman takes over as assistant secretary of state for occupied areas, he will assume policy~ making responsibility for a military government that is currently running over $1 billion a year in the red. This billion is the present cost of U. 8. occupation in enemy countries. It is divided roughly one-third for Germany, one-third for Japan, the rest for Austria and Korea. : All Saltzman will have to do in the next few years 18 try to liquidate the business or come as close as he can to making it break even. It's a terrific job even for a vice president of the New York stock exchange, which is what Saltzman gave up to come to Washington. For Lhe past few weeks, he has been sitting nm with the present Assistant Secretary Maj. Gen. John H. Hilldring, who is resigning Sept. 1.' “Pretty soon,” says HilMdring, “I'll be able to look at this thing objectively.” ; He has been in it up to his ears for over five yeais. In the war department, before he moved to state, ne shaped policies for the first U. 8. military government in occupied areas.

Start Toward Democracy

LOOKING BACK ON THE RECORD, he can point to the fact that the United States has stuck to the same objectives all the way through: This was to try to make the enemy countries into democracies. The methods of trying to achieve that objective have been changed from time to time—from the original direc~ tive 1067, to the Potsdamn declajation, to the Byrnes Stuttgart policy, to the recently revised 1067 and on to the Marshall plan now being worked out. Gen. Hilldripg believes that the U: 8 can take pride in the fact that the governments of che American zones in Germany, Austria, J and Korea are most successful and popular with the people. They have not yet been e into democratic citizens in the American meaning of the term, but they have freedom such ac they never knew and their education for democracy is taking hold. There comes a time, however, when military government wears out. Gen. MacArthur has been doing

Government Policy

sorfie talking on that in Japan. He puts the time limi§ between three and five years. That points up the need of two things. First, shif{e ing government of the occupation zones from milie tary to civilian control. That is now being worked on. In due time the state department will take over this job from the war department, though army police will remain. Second is the making of peace treaties with Japan and Germany. The Jap treaty is not expected to cause great diffi= culty, because in Japan the U. 8. has major control, If Russia doesn't want to go along, the other allies can make separate peace. German peace is something else again. In the meantime, much can be done to build up the German economy. The problem is economic first, political second. It becomes a political problem—how to handle Communism—only if the business life of Germany is allowed to collapse completely. Management of the two combined zones, to make them self-supporting by 1951, was set up on a 50-50 basis. If the British want the U. 8. to pay more of the costs—and inditations seem to point that way—e that will raise the issue of whether the U,. 8. will have proportionately greater control, Only good would come of that, for it would speed up the recovery of Germany by breaking production bottlenecks and putting American policies and mane agement over lagging German industries, : The French, in the long run, are expected to come along. French leaders are still making speeches against revival of German industry—for political pur« poses.

Ruhr Holds European Key IN THE DESIRE TO LIQUIDATE the costly American occupation of Germany, there may be some noisy demand here at home to turn the job of run= ning western Europe over to the French. They have Sane a good job in‘ their own zone. It is self-supporte 8 But any thought of turning the Ruhr over to the French is sut. All that would mean would be the » bleeding of Germany. That would throw the German people into an alliance with the Russians. That wouid mean the collapse of all Europe.

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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Lee Hill ; China Leaders Outline U.S. Aid Hope

SHANGHAI, Aug. 19.—Here is what China wants from America and what China expects to do to get it. Details were given in interviews with nearly a dozen top Chinese officials, including Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his military and civilian chieftains.

Plan Orderly Changes

OFF THE RECORD, some of them call Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer's “fact-finding” mission here “You know very well that America already knows all it needs to know about China,” said one. “You have 750 men (our army advisory group). here writs ing reports every day. !Gen. Marshall was out here

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Gen. Wu, an old Kuomintang wheelhorse and now vice president of the legislative yuan, outlined what China wants: “We need financial, military and technical aid, By military I mean training and ‘modernizing our army. That has been started by your army ade visory group. By financial, I mean help us tp ese tablish a sound currency and balance our budget and thus’ stop inflation. We need funds to back ® new, sound currency. ‘ “Most of all, we need technical help. Wg need men who know mechanical things and will work ‘for* the Chinese government.

“At Yalta, President Roosevelt gave great concese sions of China's territories and rights to

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