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Monday, Oct, 6, 1947

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Double Talk from Judge Bain

THE Constitution of thé State of Indiana says (Article 15, Section 8): ws “No lottery shall be authorized, nor shall the sale of lottery tickets be allowed.” * The Statutes of the State of Indiana say (Article 11, 2790-91-92): “Whoever sets up or proposes any money, goods, chat-| tels, or thing in action to be raffled for or distributed by lot| or chance . , . ta any person who shall have paid . . . for the chance of obtaining such money, goods, or things in action, . , ,

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“Whoever sells a lottery ticket ,.. or a share in any lottery scheme or gift enterprise . ,. or acts as agent or aids and abets , .. or transmits money... to any lot-| tery chance , , .

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nn » ” » n » I UNDREDS, possibly thousands, of defendants have been fined for violation of these statutes. Scores of courts have upheld them. Last week Judge W. D. Bain, of the Marion County Criminal Court, dissented. Before Judge Bain, on appeal from a Municipal Court | conviction, was one Ray Thompson. The evidence, according to Judge Bains own written opinion, showed that Thompson had sold “pick and win” tickets with the understanding that if the tickets bore certain numbers the purchaser would be entitled to receive a certain’sum of money from Thompgon. Or, in other words, it was clear to the court that! Thompson had, in fact, set up money to be raffled or-dis-tributed by lot or. chance, and had sold ticke{s in a lottery scheme for division of money to be determined by chance. But Judge Bain found him not guilty, The reason? There wasn't any “property” to he divided, ...The holders of the Waning chances were to get only

money,

” » » » » ” “IT must be clear to anyone,” Judge Bain writes in a lengthy attempt to justify his decision, “that the purchaser of the tickets was not entitled to, participate in the| ‘division of property’ since there was no ‘property’ to be | ‘divided’ and no ‘property’ that could be ‘divided’. Sorry Judge. It isn't clear at all. All that's clear is! that Judge Bain, somehow, has concluded that money isn't | property and hasn't any value, a somewhat radical view even in these days of inflation and high prices, and a considerable departure from the position of other Indiana courts which have held that even a promise to pay money is! property. | The decision however, if it stands and becomes legal precedent, nullifies the whole long battle to rid Indianapolis | of the big lottery rackets, Under it they are all legal now. They deal only in money. Some $9 million of it a year. We trust it will be challenged. For Judicial mumbo-| jumbo it stands right in the class of the famed White Swan case-—which, if memory doesn't fail us, also came out of this same court, The one where a defendant was

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E HAVE enough. knowledge of techniques now to make a good world, We have enough natural resources to supply our. needs, enough skill to utilize the natural resources, and enough | medical knowledge to kéep most of us alive and | well for a natural lifetime.

These essentials can be made available now to the whole world. But that is possible only if we people of the world all co-operate, That is the only point of uncertainty. The solution of that problem lies within .the field of wisdom: and wisdom, In addition to the knowledge of techniques, includes also the knowledge that consists of sympathy, tolerance, understanding, charity ~everything that makes up good will, In this latter type of knowledge the world is still deficient. The benefit to be derived from the creation of good will is surely superior in the long run to any immediate profit obtainable through the neglect of it. Hatred can never be the foundation of justice. Good will is necessary for satis factory solution of labor, and race, and international problems. This is no time to despair of the power of good will in human affairs and try to substitute . something else for it, It is the time to turn on that power as it has never been turned on before. The language of good will makes Lincoln's Becond Inaugural Address a masterpiece. To speak “with malice toward none, with charity for nll, with confidence in the right as God gives us to wee the right,” would be a wise manner of

today.

speech ~JOHN HOOSIER, > 4

OUR GARDEN

We dreamed in our. lovely garden Woo'd by your tender care, And we thanked God for our blessings, We were so happy there; The birds you loved sang sweetly, The flow'rs bloomed bright and gay, And we spoke of the coming Summer As we sat together that day,

I dream of our lovely garden, And the happiness we shared Will ever remain in my memory With the thought of how much you cared. It is hard to believe you are gone, Dear, The sound of your step, and your smile, The call of your voice at the door, Dear, e Have all gone away for a while,

I dream in our lovely garden, The touch of your vanished hand To guide me along the path, Dear, Only you could understand. For now I must live in the memory Of your never failing care, ol For, wheri I walk again in our. garden, I shall not find you there. ~ =~CAROL MORLEY. > % &

GROWING UP

She professes to scorn the Mother Goose rhymes, And instead of nickels now asks you for dimes: She likes falry stories and adventure tales, And frequently asks for a hammer and nails. She impatiently frets her hair wants to curl, She'd very much rather be a boy than a girl. She's happiest dressed in a cowboy's rough suit, Especially if nearby there's a gun she can shoot. (But still she can sew with a needle and thread If she has some slight ailment that keeps her in bed; Oy color or draw the most distinctive of men, hose fingers and toes may be more than ten.) Most often her dolls lie on high shelves alone, While she uses her hours to call on the.phone Some playmate who shares magic tricks . . . You can easily guess she's a girl just turned six.

—ABBY. > > S CALLING ALL POETS—We have so many poetry contributions that it will be weeks before

we can use those which have been accepted . , . and that makes it tougher to crash into print, too. Please keep your poems under 16 lines , . .

DON'T FORSAKE GOOD WILL

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Mr. Dennis and the Literary Club

I DON'T KNOW what the world is coming to. Last Friday I had occasion to mention Charles Dennis, and woke up to find that the youngsters around here didn't. know what I was talking about. Shocks like that break the heart of a columnist. : Mr. Dennis had the greatest sense of humor of any man Indianapolis ever had, which is all the more remarkable when consider that he was a newspaperman nearly all his life. Even more remarkable -is the discovery that he got into newspaper work by way of a drugstore. To my knowledge, ‘Mr. Dennis was the only soda jerker, here or anywhere

"else, who had a funny bone. :

~ RR When "Oscar Wilde showed up in Indianapolis In

"1882, Mr. Dennis remarked that “Oscar's legs had no

more symmetry than the same" length of garden hose.” And when Bert Willlams turned up (circa 1906) as the only worthwhile part of Ziegfeld's Follies, Mr, Dennis dismissed the whole performance with the single line: “Black Starr & Frost.”

4 . Charlie a Card, You Bet’ IT WAS HE, too, who propounded the question: ‘What does Ghoughphtheightteau spell?” He thought it up one night at the drugstore at the corner of Alabama and 16th Sts. The time was right after we had solved “How old is Ann?” When pressed for an answer, Mr. Dennis said: “Potato.” Gosh, this will slay you: Gh-p, as in hiccough: ough-o, as in dough; phth-t, as in phthisis; eigh-a, as in neighbor; tte-t, as in gazette, and eau-o, as in beau.” Charlie was a card, you bet. Fact is Mr. Dennis was so funny that he couldn't use all his stuff in the newspapers. What was left, he distributed among the members of the Indianapolis Literary Club, I wouldn't be able to tell you about the Literary Club incidents except for

Steve Noland, who enriched posterity with an account

of them in his monumental and authoritative history

-“One night,” says Mr. Noland, “Charles Dennis offered a paper entitled “An Intimate History” which treated in some detail of the loves of Napoleon. Owing to failing eyes Mr. Dennis was unable to read the paper, but laid his offering at the feet of another member, Hilton U. Brown, who read it

Jor him. Mr. Brown, being unprepared for the nature

of some passages, probably lent an unusual emphasis to them by his manner.

“When the paper was submitted to discussion, a member famous for his-candor, rose from his seat” tan old-fashioned practice no longer observed—my 2 cents worth) “and delivered himself of this comment; ‘For years it has been my pleasure. to go” home from these meetings and be greeted at

what I had learned and observed at “The Gentleman's Club” that had enriched my life and ennobled my spirit. For many years I have never failed to carry to her, and share with her, my delight in some morsel of wit or wisdom that has pleased both her and me. But tonight, when she propounds the question, I will be obliged to hang my head in shame and tell her that, alas, it is no longer a gentlemen's club.”

The Retort Perfect

“THE MEMBERS,” says Mr. Noland, “sat aghast, but knowing the resourcefulness of Mr. Dennis awaited his retort. In due tiime it came. From his place ‘in the back row, he recited: ‘King Solomon and King David led merry, merry lives, With many, many concubines arid many, many wives; But when age o'er took them, with its many, many qualms, King Solomon wrote the Proverbs and King David wrote the Psalms.” The only thing to-add at this late date is the name of the “member famous for his candor” which, for some reason, Mr. Noland suppressed. It was John L. Ketcham. Now I guess I got to tell you

will defend to the death your right to say it."

Canker of Frustration By "Minority’ . : . I listened to a telephone conversation quite by chance, the other day. I happened to be in a neighborhood grocery looking for chewing gum. The young Negro Who was using the ’phone was excited, and, as his excitement grew, his voice became louder and louder. When he hung up the receiver, he was completely angry. He had been speaking to someone in the Red Cross office but he was stymied in his attempt to get some kind of medical care for His brother, a’ veteran of the last war. There was some technicality which the official was trying to explain, This he brushed aside as an inadequate excuse and proceeded with his tongue lashing. The conversation ended on a bitter note. 2 ) The Negro, in his excitement, let the official have it. “It was all right,” he said, “for Negroes to fight for America, but it is soon forgotten. Now they can’t get any help.” He went on in this vein, and when he could think of no new argument, he repeated himself, Six times I heard him say, “Now we're not good enough; now no one wants to help!” ; I am satisfied that the Red Cross is doing a good job, in spite of this Conversation. But the shocking thing about it was the abuse which sprang from the frustrated Negro. It came with the rush of flood waters. This sort of thing should give pause for thought. When men walk around with hatred in their hearts, it is not a salutary thing. When the dark clouds of resentment gather, there is sure to be a storm. To me this is the unhappiest by-product of pur social system and our culture which decides the worthiness of men on the basis of the color of their skim, their religion or the country of their national origin. It does not advance the building of One World. oS Sb

‘Must They Broadcast Murder?’

By Mrs. Floyd White, Hemlock, Indiana I was wondering how many of your readers have had the same thing as I have had on their minds recently. Have you even .taken your children to Sunday School (I take seven) and have them come home to spend a quiet afternoon listening to the radio? But what does the radio offer—? Murder, Inc, Crime Wave, sleuths galore and all those rotten stories that children do not need to hear. Turn to another station. On the average up to about 6 o'clock there isn't much else that is interesting —to—-a-child. Most of the boys and girls in their early teens like action. But do they have to have murder?

I notice with a great deal of interest in this

month's Pathfinder (Oct, 8, page 14) there is a story about Mrs. Hanowell and the National Council for Youth Entertainment, Inc. and- their pro-

‘gram to help clean up the air ways, After January

there is supposed to be no murder stories up to 8:30 in the evening: I am just another mother interested in her children’s welfare, in fact do not even know the headquarters of this organization, but let's hope for the future of better Americans, that it's a success. If we have to, we mothers can write plays and stories that will improve our children’s minds, not give them “bright” ideas on the wrong subjects.

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‘I Can Face My Garbage Man’ By Mrs. Eva Shafer, 911 St. Peter St., Indianapolis I read your write-up about people wasting food. I have been married 10: years and don’t have a garbage can. I have pets but have to buy the food for them. I never could see how people could afford to bring food in the front door and throw it out the back. When I was a little girl, my mother always told me it was a sin to burn one bit of bread. I always cook as much as we want to eat and if there is any left over, I fix it some other way. I can face my garbage man. I have lived here 10 years and he doesn't pick garbage up at my address. It’s just in people's minds that they can't eat left over food. There are lots of good cook books, to help fix meals with left overs. TI just CO Lie not keep from telling you that I for one never

“acquitted on the court's finding that there was no gambling in his place, and then at the same sitting the prosecution witness was fined for gambling there. If it should be upheld, since these lottery rackets are intolerable to good government and decent public administration, there would have to be a new law to abate them. But we doubt if it will be necessary to go that far. Just a new judge of Marion County Criminal Court ought to be enough.

Mr. Ruark Replies FTER eXpressing the opinion that the Wyche Report on Gen. J. C. H. Lee was a whitewash we said we would turn the continuity over to Seripps-lHoward Columnist Rob-| ert C. Ruark, he being altogether able to take care of him-' self. He does that today—and how! He documents what has happened since his expose, Including items from Gen. Eisenhower's own report and! some more vital facts from independent news and magazine articles. That explaing the “and how.” | You will'want to read what Mr. Ruark savs on Page 1! The Ruark-Lee affair, we believe, is one of the best things that could have happened to our Army, for which as! * we said we have the highest respect, net. It has resulted in making the Army a better place in which to serve, and it will continue to—in those gpots where necessarily rigid authority has over-reached itself, It will save a lot of taxpayer money where such over-reaching runs into unneeded pomp.

By the way, those in the know, Army and outside, have realized what was going on in the Lee theater, That has been attested by a flood of letters, phone calls and other messages to Sceripps-Howard and other Newspapers—coni- | munications too numerous to count. ~ » ” . » » JRUT we by no means want it to he implied that the Ruark! articles were an attack on the Army, as a whole. Far from it,

The Lee area was the exception, not the rule. But it is only natural that such spots develop. The cleaning up of them where they exist then becomes vitally important in| terms of morale, economy and efficiency. | The danger of such development is in natural ratio to! rapid growth, and never in our history was growth so fast. | In 1938 our Army numbered 162,000—less than 10 times the size of New York City’s policé force. At the peak! of the war the figure for Army alone was 8,300,000, ] That there should have grown up as little Lee stuff as did is remarkable, and a tribute to the Marshalls and Eisen-| *“howers and MacArthurs and the rest of the top command. | + So, as a part.of the whole affair, we want to register on hat score, and to repeat that our fine: Army will be still finer as a result of the efforts of Ma. Robert C, Ruarh. ~~. =

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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

Will Red Tide Engulf

All Europe and Asia?

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6-—Many are con-

vinced the United Stutes will not be able to “contain” the red tide

informed Americans flowing out of Moscow, and that it will one day cover Europe and Asia. But, say those who follow this school of thought, that may be the best, if not the only, way to check Russian imperialiym. Once Western Europeans are given a real taste of what it means to live under a police state, they will revolt. Russia would not be able to “contain” 850 many freedom-loving peoples. Napoleon, it is recalled, was not stopped until he had conquered all Europe and placed members of his family or court favorites. on the ursurped thrones. ot ’

In Difficult, Costly Role

LIKE IT OR NOT, it is pointed out, the United States today finds itself fore ed to play a difficult, costly and unpleasant role. The world into two parts, one-half slave, the other free. And the United States is trying to save the free half of the world from being taken over by the other, But while the governments of Western Furopean nations are clamoring for aid, not all their citizens are quite sure they want to be saved. Communists and fellow travelers in their midst are doing all they can to prevent rescue. Under orders from Moscow, these are now out-Goebbling Goebbels with their anti-American propaganda. So colossal are their lies, and so often repeated, that as Hitler discovered, many people seem to believe them. And so blood-curdling are the threats emanating from the Kremlin that some of the smaller nations of the free west are being frightened into “neutrality.”

Must Be Willing to Be Rescued

UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, it is observed, the American effort to save Western Europe is a gamble, The Truman doctrine may fell in the Balkans, The Marshall plan may not turn the trick for Western Europe, Some of the 16 participating nations appear to be in it for what they expect to get out of it for themselves, instead of for the good of all both shoulders,

of that institution,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

Others—afraid of Russia--seem to be trying to carry water on

Eve the British at times appear apologetic for playing ball with !

Uncle Sam. They question his motives, cuit” Nim Selifsh and lecture him against trying to “break up” the commonwealth. Thus the Western European’ man-in-the-street could hardly be blamed if he got the impression that maybe Moscow is right; that maybe the United States is trying to annex the rest of the world: that

maybe, after all, it might be a good idea to tie up with Soviet Russia. |

Europe, all agree, cannot be rescued against her will. She can be saved only if she does her utdhost to helpherself, That is the essence of the Marshall Plan, now up 10 the President, the Congress and the American people for implementation. That is, for a $20 billion appropriation, :

Those in a position to know warn that, for our own sake, we must

do our utmost for Europe. But should communism keep spreading, it | will almost certainly carry along its own eventual antidote, No really | freedom-loving people will long rest content to remain the slave of a |

police state and would rise’ up and throw off the voke for themselves. But they may first have to feel the yoke, Onoe Moscow overreaches

herself, however, she would be so busy trying to put down revolts

ond that she Fouid have no time for ua

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comm {41 en sence, we Yu. wea. u. 8. PAY. ov. “It isn't bad enough that you read the paper-all through- breakfast —now the children are getting old enough to read the backs of the cereal boxes!" a

Red Cat Let Out of Bag

By LUDWELL DENNY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—Sometimes the Russians are more accommodating than they know. Long practice has skilled them in the fine art of sabotage. But occasionally they give the show away so awkwardly that not even the most guillible can be fooled. A case in point is the latest Red play in Korea,

for withdrawal of both Soviet and American troops by January, it was pointed out that something more than love for Korean liberties was behind that gesture. : Now Comrade Han Chong Sook, propaganda chief of Stalin's

voungsters who John L. Ketcham was.

waste food.

/IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson

Shall We Blame

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Farmer for HCL?

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—The tendency of city folk to blame the

farmer for today's high cost of living is worth a second look.

Farm prices are nearly three times as high as in 1910-1914 Mangé farmers would be satisfied with lower prices. But they would also be chumps if they refused to accept the high prices city fellers are willing and eager to pay for crops and livestock today. Only 52 cents out of the consumer's dollar go to the farmer. The other 48 cents go to railroads and truck lines for transportation, the food packers and canners, the wholesalers and retailers. But, as U. S. farmers this month complete their 1947 harvest, the Department of Agriculture estimates that national farm income will reach the all-time total of $29.5 billion. Last year it was $25.3 billion. In 1940 it was only $11 billion. . : The combined assets of American farmers—their land, livestock, machinery and savings—are today given a value of $111 billion. Last year it was $98 billion. Before the war it was $54 billion.

Statistics Show Farmer Well Off

THESE BIG FIGURES “on the national farm prosperity are impressive. They indicate that U. 8. farm income has nearly tripled,

| that the farmers’ net worth has nearly doubled and that their

indebtedness has gone down a fifth. Under such conditions, the average farmer should be feeling no pain. To get the feel of how well off this average farmer should be at harvest time, divide the above dollar totals by 5,800,000—the number

| of U. 8. farms in operation

|" $5000, as against $4300 last year and $1800 before the war.

It will show the average farmer's income this year should he It wi show his land and equipment worth $10,000 today as compared with $9300 before the war. The average farm indebtedness is shown to be $1380 as against $1720 before the war, Bear in ‘mind that these are national averages for all farms— from 10 acres in suburbs to 10,000 acres in Texas. Over the years, the size of American farms has been increasing. Today the average is 220 acres. In 1935 the average acreage was 154. Actually, there is no such thing.as an “average farm” that can

| raise a little bit of everything grown in the United States. In trying

to get at the condition of the mythical average American farmer,

| allowances have to be made for sectional differences.

' This Year's Yield Lower

IN GENERAL, the great plains area has shown greatest advance. Meat and wheat, the two staples of the war, have given midwest

| farmers a real boom. The cotton belt has not done quite so well,

New England farms have shared least in the war prosperity. The physical volume of crops and livestock sent to market this year will probably be down a little from last year's peak. The fortunes of farmers rise and fall as the yields go up or down. It is the continuing scarcity of farm products, plus higher levels of

| consumption, that have driven up prices and brought the farmer his When the Russian commander in Korea first made his proposal |

North Korean government, broadcasts his order to Red agents through- | out the country to start smearing the American demogratie policy as |

imperialistic war-mongering. Then the pay-off—he directs them to “establish our own government and eliminate reactionaries immediately upon the withdrawal of Soviet and American troops.” There it is. Probably not since Hitler's advance publication of his plans has there been so blatant a revelation of totalitarian timetables. If the United States and the United Nations are not forewarned, ft is their own fault . L .

new prosperity. But, even here, there is an unequal spread in the division of farm income. The big, mechanized factory farms using sicentific methods get a greater proportionate share of the profits than the old-fashioned farmers. That may sound like a truism, but it is the big story. Three-fourths of the total farm income this year may be earned by the top third of the nation’s farmers. At the other extreme, the bottom third will get less than 5 per cent of the take. Reducing this to averages again, it means that in round numbers, the. 2,000,000 top farmers will take in more than $11,000 apiece—or

| $22 billion—for their year's work. But the two million farmers at

the bottom of the scale will gross less than $1.4 billion, of $700 each. This is still the tragedy of American farming today—

. of the farmers who live on marginal land and barely make a living.

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