Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1947 — Page 10

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PAGE 10 Saturday, Nov. 15, 1047 “ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MAND dent . Editor . Business Manager

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How About Action? HE recent vicious murders and assaults in Marion County: are not the fault alone of the perverts who committed them: “They are the fault of the slipshod system of law

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enforcement that is permitted to exist unchallenged in this |

community—a slipshod system that extends from the police and sheriff’s offices to the prosecuting attorney and the courts. It is time for a cold objective analysis of what is the matter with the way the laws are enforced, the delays, the light sentences, the release of criminals on light bond or with trivial sentences and fines. We suggest that the judges of the county and munici-

pal courts, the prosecuting attorney and his deputies, the sheriff and his deputies, and the chief of police and his key officers get together immediately. for a real “stop this. crime” conference, » n n ~ n »

“UUCH a conference was held early this year, with resounding statements of co-operation and determination

{ndianapolis Times Publishing Co., 214 W. Marvisod| CONFUSION AND DIVISION

"paper Alllance, NEA Service, and Audit Bureau of | people to feel, or to believe, or to act. in certain

U 8. possessions, Canada and Mexico, $1.10 a habits, prejudices; vanities, ideals, impulses and

to get to the bottom of the unsatisfactory conditions here, |

Yet, the president of the Board of Safety can say that

“the vast majority of the cases we investigate will involve | ter.

a man with a long previous record.”

The public should demand a get- together of the agents |.

of law enforcement and adoption of a co-ordinated program which will restore the calm of the community.

Protect the Loyal WENTY citizens, selected by the U. S. Civil Service Commission and approved by President Truman, have been named as members of the new loyalty review board which met for the first time yesterday. Their duty—to pass on the results of Investigations inta the loyalty of federal employees—will be tremendously important. We trust that, in every respect, they will measure up to it. The vast majority of government workers : are, certainly, loyal to the United States. Unfortunately, however, that loyalty no longer can be taken for granted. That is true because a large number of persons in this country owe their real allegiance to a foreign power. Communists—hboth those who avow and those who conceal their party affiliations—cannot be trusted in government offices. And even naive or careless individuals who could be used by spies or saboteurs are menaces to our national security. Government departments and bureaus must have, and have been given, power to rid themselves of Communists, thelr sympathizers and their stooges. This power, we think, does not conflict with civil liberties.. The rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution include no right

to be a government employee if you don't or won't comply And the require- |

with lawful conditions of employment. ment of loyalty is a lawful and reasonable cogdition. There is grave danger that exercise of this power may conflict with justice to individuals. A loyalty investigation is not a criminal prosecution. The Constitution does not require that persons whose loyalty is questioned must have public hearings, or be informed of the nature of the evidence against them or of who their | accusers are, In many cases, indeed, national security would be endangered if such information were disclosed. But discharge from government service, on charges or suspicion of disloyalty, could be cruel punishment to innocent persons denied the opportunity to defend themselves | which they would have if they were tried for crimes. It | could ruin their chances of finding other employment, and condemn them to lifelong disgrace and despair, . We believe there is urgent need for some agency that can serve as a safeguard against miscarriages of justice. It should have authority to find out whether investigations that result in decisions to discharge employees have been made fairly, and whether genuine efforts have been made to get all the facts. The caliber of its membership should be

such that it can be trusted with information which investigaling agencies consider necessary to withhold from the public.

The American people want the disloyal ejected from !

federal jobs. But they also want the utmost possible assurance of protection for the loyal. We hope the new loyalty review board will provide that.

Four Dollars

V THEN prices go up the purchasing value ot dollars goes down-—a fact now being painfully impressed on us all. But since all prices don't rise at the same time, the purchasing value of some dollars falls faster than that of others, depending on what they're spent for. In this connection, the National Industrial Conference Board has prepared an interesting chart, based on statistics from government sources and others. It shows what has

happened to the purchasing value of four different dollars |

since the period from 1935 to 1939. Rising cost-of-living prices had. reducéd the 1935-39 ccnsumers’ dollar to about 66 cents by August, 1947. The dollar spent for construction of all types had shrunk to 53 cents. The dollar spent for raw materials, at wholesale prices, was down to less than 45 cents: The dollar paid for wages of labor in manufacturing industries had dropped. to about 49 cents. As compared with average purchasing values in the five years just before World War 11, the consumers’ dollar now buys less than two-thirds as much; the construction . dollar a little more than half as much, and the TAN: -materials dollar less than half as much. : The wage dollar paid out by manufacturing industries also buys less than half as mucll as it did in the 1935-39 period, To state that another way, the manufacturing in-

dustries now pay more thaf twice as much for each man- |

hour of lahor.

If man- hour production had iticrensed in snyihing like |

t the same proportipn, the purchasing value of all dollars would be much nearer 100 cents Soda.

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In Tone ‘With the Tovias

Donald 'D. Woover

WORDS ARE IMPORTANT ethical instru ments in that they may be used for causing

WRYS. We live in a society where techniques of come | munication and the art of persuasion play daily upon basic human needs, desires, hopes, fears,

principles, Words are dynamic media for teaching, preaching and propagandizing. Through them | we may be either hoodwinked or shown the truth. Words supply knowledge of things and values, Thinking with the correct use of words can do much to build common moral convictions about God, man and society. The Creeks used the idea of “word” to mean the ability to reason to right conclusions. Language and thought are inseparable. How much exact knowledge does a person have to have to know the meaning of democracy and communism? What should be expected of a man when he claims to be a Chris tian? Sincere meditation wu such meanings, followed by honest group ussion can throw much light upon some of our difficulties. “Faith without works is dead” and religion, lacking a vocabulary of words with accurate mean- | ings, produces confusion and division. Frequently | it is claimed that education will correct our pers sonal and social evils, Hope lles in that direc« | tion only if we have enough good moral and religlous teachers who have skill in the processes both of learning and character building. James discouraged many of his people from teaching because of the added moral responsibil ity and severe condemnation for failure. A good teacher always is a doer of the ideas he transmits. The pupils carries over the learning process by observing the conduct of his teacher. A good teacher participates in the worthwhile activities of his community, lives what he teaches. No one can teach citizenship unless he is a good citizen. Neither can one _ teach religion unless he takes part in the forces that shape characIf “they say and do not,” they fall under condemnation. HOWARD a BAUMGARTEL.

iy BALLAD OF RESPECTS DUE

| Dubliners are noted for their wit; Londoners for their poise and polish; Parisians for manners exquisite; Romans for phrases, they aes; Le

Stockholders for their cold approach; Glasgowers for seldom being stung, And Leydeners for being Dutch; While the Brooklynese a brazen sort Of brassy things that caterwaul, Whose value's that of any wart, Are noted for their all-out gall

IN WASHINGTON . . .

{U. S. Industry Plan to Aid Europe

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‘Hoosier Forum

*] do not agree with a word that you sy. but | will defend to. the death your right to say ih

‘How About Recall of Officials?’ By Disturbed Taxpayer, City When you buy something in a reputable store "and you discover that the item is faulty, you return the item to the store and request a refund. Now many states have an analogous method for handling the public services they purcnase through their tax money. I refer to to the legal method of recalling or dismissing from office pubii’ officials who fail to perform their constitutional duties, If that peoples’ safeguard were enacted into Indiana law (albeit over the opposition of Governor Tweedledum, Judge Tweedledee, Prosecutor Thumbsucker, Sheriff Thumbnoser, and Mayor Dodo, the stinking situation with regard to lawenforcement today in Indianapolis and Marion County might get a little fresh air. ' A taxpayer who speeds once in his three-score-and-ten winds up paying his five or ten and costs in court. But the local and visiting hoodlums, prostitutes, pimps, goons, kidnapers, rapists, murderers, and assorted other scum seém .to build up .mothing but brotherly love among the enforcement, prosecution, and judicial officials of this city and county. When John Gunther designated Indianapolis as the “dirtiest city” in America, he must have taken a look into this situation. Let's adopt a recall law to keep the threat of job-loss before the eyes of our public officials, and use that device over and over so that those we elect and select who become corrupt are femoved with the garbage. es /

‘Can't Fool Workers’ By C. C. Barrett, 949 W. 30th St.

Was reading an article’ in The Times where a spokesman - for the National Retail Ory Goods Association said if overtime pay was cut our prices would .dome down. I don’t agree with him at all, for there is a small amount of overtime being worked, for it is just as cheap to work three men eight hours per day at straight time as two men work 12 hours at straight time. What is the third he, AD, GOING to do? ty ment situation to 160k at: as far as.l can see what holds prices up is for a bunch to gamble on this stuff by buying several thousand dollars worth and sell for a profit. I notice there was a suggestion to buy up old hens that aren't laying, to save grain and send it to Europe, and put the chickens in deep freeze that will make a shortage of chickens and raise the price. If the worker

By Peter Edson

don't make the money, he won't buy and there is a depression. When the coal miners got a raise and figured the raise all the way down the line, freight rates and the amount of coal a miner will mine, a raise of 50 cents per ton would take care of all of it and the raise in coal yard for

You know there is an unem- ._...

They rate themselves dynamic, these Bigmouthed loud parrots, full of wind, Whose souls are rolled in gutter grease, | One disregards time out of mind.

—PHILIP SCHIPIOR.

Mr. Schipior sends his contribution from Brooklyn! * 9 ¢ . THAT POEM from Brooklyn (New York, that 1s) recalls that many readers outside Indianapolis contribute to this column for Hoosiers by Hoosiers. We've received poetry and prose from Miami, Fla., Tennessee, Maine, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Cali- | fornia and Canada. Writers within the state ine clude folk" in Zionsville, Greenwood, Shelbyville, Greensburg, Franklin, Columbus, New Castle, Nashville, Bloomington, Bedford, Evansville, Greencastle, Crawfordsville, Danville, Rockport, Frankfort, Lafayette, Freedom, Hammond, etcetera , . « { to. say nothing of all parts of Indifhapolis.' * ¢ oO

VAGABOND'S CREED

When I was born, the Mother of all living Looked down; and the smile she was giving Was the same warm welcoming smile | She had given to Homer and Ernie Pyle— | The same she'd accorded to Julius Ceaser, | Moses, Daniel and Nebuchadnezer: | Marie Antoinette and the Maid of Orleans; For how could she know, on the day of my birth, That I'd never, never on God's green: earth, Amount to a hill of beans! Or maybe she knew-—the all wise Mother; | And it didn't matter, one way or the other; Maybe all Ma Nature expects you to do

~CLAUDE BRADDICK.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15—An idea that American business should make its own direct contribution to European recovery by furnishing for free the services of its top executives, engineers and technicians is being presented to Congress and Washington officials by Roy W. Gifford of Chicago, board chairman of Borg-Warner International Corp. The plan is to mobilize .American businessmen to aid Europe as they were mobilized to aid in the war effort. Just making the money available is not considered enough. “The United States must also furnish its industrial know-how to help put Europe back on its feet,

lustrial ‘Doctor’ on Charity Case

THE IDEA HAS BEEN TRIED OUT on British and French members of the economic missions here for consultation on the Marshall Plan. Pirst reactions have been favorable K U. 8 Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers have also been brought in on the preliminary discussions. As finally worked out, ‘the exchange of technicians may be arranged through established trade organizations— NAM with the Federation of British Industries, “for

{ instance—rather than through the U. 8. and European

governments. Plan-maker Gifford has no pre-determined rules on, how his idea could best be carried out. Roughly, he believes that American manufacturing companies might pay the salaries of their experts ori loan to European concerns. It is not contemplated that American experts would be forced on’any European industries. But if any European firm requested technical advice, a panel of American industrialists would attempt to find the best team of experts available and persuade them to take their experience overseas. The aid would not be confined to top management. Front

office sub-executives might have to be furnished. Foundry or machine shop superintendents, engineers, foremen and skilled mechanics might be sent. A sixmonth tour of duty would in most cases be sufficient. As Mr. Gifford explains it, the American industrialist could be the best possible doctor for Europe's sick economy. For the doctor, it would be a charity case. But Mr. Gifford believes that the doctor would be amply repaid by the inereased economic “health of the world. Representatives of CEEC, the 16-nation Committee on European Economic Co-operation which drew up the Paris report, have already indicated that their sovereign countries want no Américan interference in the way they handle their affairs and utilize the recovery funds advanced to them American capitalists will have to be sold on the idea that they will not just be building up competitors who will later undersell them in world trade. Reluctance of some companies to donate their best men will have to be ‘overcome,

Our Motives Will Be Questioned |

THE MOTIVES OF “UNCLE SHYLOCK" in this big-hearted gesture are bound to be questioned. From the Communists will come the familiar chant that this is merely another proof of how American monopo= lists and Wall Street are planning to take over Europe. From Planner Gifford’s point of view, communism can best be stopped by raising the world's standard of living. That can best be done by direct application of the methods used in the world’s most productive free society—the United States. What the U. 8, government has to gain out of this international industrial co-operation is insurance that the American-financed recovery is accomplished with minimum outlay and maximum return.

(delivery, but coal rajsed $2 per ton. You cannot

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‘Regulation Is Needed’ By Edward F. Maddox, City Having gone through the process of inflation after World War I, losing a small farm and finally moving to Indianapolis just before the depression hit the city, then being laid off by the B. & O. as a B. & O. carpenter and going through the depression like thousands of my fellow-workers, my interest lies with both workers and farmers and with our American system of free enterprise. Therefore, having studied the problems of both business, labor and farmer, I long ago came to the conclusion that there can be no safe, sane or stable economic standards without proper legal safeguards and regulations on the same basis as the regulations of weights and measures to insure fairness and prevent fraud and extortion. We don’t want economic anarchy nor rigid regimentation but rather the need is for sensible and flexible price regulation. Put a reasonable floor

and ceiling on all basic commodity prices then .

business, labor and the farmer will be protected. * * @

Sheriff's Workers . By John H. Hall, R. R. 9 Mr. and Mrs. Citizen of Mariorf County, if you will look back not long ago a fire chief was removed for using his men to work on ‘his house %t the expense of the taxpayer. Now this is even a more serious case so let's do the same with the sheriff, if guilty. But first of all we would like to have this money paid back to the county before kicking him out.

Is to just be you!

Eisenhower, Politicians

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15—The big new cloud on the political [ horizon is the Presidential boom for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,

| Tt. 1s a feature of the political landscape that the professional |

politician can no longer ignore.

But does it have any substance? Or is it merely a piece of | window-dressing that inevitably goes along with a Presidential year !

which comes at the end of a great war? The realists and the cynics here in Washington believe it will come to nothing. Their line of reasoning, which seems to make considerable sense, ‘goes like this: The only nomination that Mr. Eisenhower has a chance to get is the Republican’ nomination. The Republican party is a tightly controlled institution. The men who run it have little sympathy. for outsiders and interlopers,

Reluctantly, in 1040, they took Wendell Willkie and later they bitterly regretted it. One reason they took Mr. Willkie was because the boom for him had been so skilfully and quietly manipulated

behind the scenes. Another reason was that they believed their chance [ of winning with a bold newcomer to politics were better than with any of the well-worn veterans vying tor the hominasion.

Worried by Boom

{~~ In-1048 they might be persuaded to take Mr. Eisenhower if it | appeared that they could win only with a glamorous, popular, | headline figure. But come next June at Philadelphia, they are not | likely to think anything of the kina, Confidence within the party has not been gravely shaken by the outcome of the recent elections, when Kentucky went to the Democrats. The Republicans face 1948 with bright confidence. It is not so great, of course, as to tempt them to go “Back to Bricker,” which some of the party workers would like to do. So the finger of destiny | rests on Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York while Mr. Dewey looks "with professional modesty in the other ‘direction.

Realists, Sometimes Wrong THE REALISTS and the cynics have often been wrong. They calculate on suéh practical things as delegate strength and’ the ability to line up delegates long before the roll is called. They tend to ignore the cosmic intangibles—sentiment, emotion, popular favor. And on the whole, judged ‘by performance, they can afford to ignore these intangibles. This, then. is the political QED. But it leaves out of consideration

Side Glances—By Galbraith

| "| said it almost the wa | quit!’ Only | left off the last part”

swe rehearsed it, dear— Either a raise or

the towering figure of Mr. Eisenhower and his very real hold on the imagination of millions of Americans.

As for the general himself, he tries to be frank with the visitors who press him about his intentions. He tells them that he

emphatically doesn't want the job. He. contemplates the possibility | with something like horror.

But—if a miracle should occur and there should be a spontaneous demand for Mr. Eisenhower, he could not say no to it. That would be | a duty, and a soldier always answers the call to duty. Such a

By Marquis Childs

refusal of duty, as Mr. Eisenhower knows as well as any professional politician, has never occurred. To say a flat, final, absolute, unquestionable no in the famous words of Gen. William T. Sherman would not be patriotic in the present state of the world. So there is always the call to the highest duty that might remotely come. _ / Yet those close to Mr. Eisenhower have a feeling that, to forestall such. a call, he may yet come out with the Sherman pronouncement to the effect that he could not be “drafted” and that he would not run even if he were. Such a pronouncement would certainly simplify Gen. Ike's life. It would end the buzz of speculation that Mr. Eisenhower finds so irritating. He wangs to be believed when he says, with all possible fervor, that he does not want the presidency.

Presidential Bug—Paralyzes Victims |, THE PRESIDENTIAL BUG is a germ which paralyzes its victim. Even the threat of it produces unnatural strain and anxiety, and Gen. Ike today looks strained and harassed, Not in many years has he had a vacation. Therefore, shortly after Jan. 1, he will go on a 60-day leave. When he returns, he will take up his new duties as president of Columbia University. Mr. Eisenhower has been deluged by offers from publishers to “tell all” in the kind of popular, hot-off-the-griddle memoir appearing

on’ the best-seller lists. He has steadfastly refused. The general oelieves that both the “I won the war single-handed” and the “I could have won the peace if- they had only let me” schools of writing have chiefly done harms He is determined not to add to it. The man who had so much to do with making history is wisely determined to have no part in the writing of it until time has put a broader perspective on him and on the great events in which he took part.

Forces Seek to Change U. S.

ONE OF THE MOST TERRIBLE PENALTIES of winning two ,

wars lies in the pressures-—external and internal—brought to bear upon | the American people to abandon the traditienal policies that have made them strong. | Because we would like to see all men free, as we are, a cry Is heard that we Bhould extend that freedom to others by force of arms, thereby aba ing our own hard-won freedoms. 5 A century or fore of education against imperidlism is meaningless to those who would have the United States follow the im- | perialist road to prevent others from doing so. We are pressed to change what we have, even the political organ-

| ization that has carried us through 160 years of travail at home and abroad, by every foreign politician whose doctrindire training has led

| him to place absolute power in the hands of government. | The British Socialist can see no way of governing the United Kingdom except through a ‘tangled web of government controls, restraints that now have led to outright coercion of those who work. He would like to see the U. 8. Join Britain in establishing the complete Socialist state, i And now comes France's Charles de Gaulle on his white horse,

waving the Cross of Lorraine, and calling for a holy alliance of Brit- ! Such an |

ain, France and the Un States against Soviet Russia. alliance would be in the same category as the one he signed with Molotov on Dec. 10, 1944, ‘binding France and Russia together for 20 years.

De Gaulle has placed himself on a par with his ¢ co-signer, Molotov, |

another and signator of the despicable alliance between Soviet Russia | and Hitler's Germany. Of what worth are alliances signed by men Who throw them in the wastebasket when their national in

| may have fresh top executives.

By Hal O'Flaherty

change? Such alliances are made for the prosecution of war and we are not at war with Russia nor apt to be in the foreseeable future. External pressures on the American people to change their ways are equaled in some cases by forces at. internally, There are in Washington, men who gained their enn experince of government during the war years. Now, in times of |peace, they would have us abandon state rights, individual liberties and even economic inde-

‘ pendence in order to prepare for another war.

The answer to the advocates of centralized power, alliances, and the aggrandizement of force, can be found in the documents carried by the Freedom Train. Providentially, those documents are being® read by thousands to whom they had been largely a legend of the textbooks. We, as a nation, are no more imperialist than we were when the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were written by the founding fathers. We are no more inclined toward entangling allianées such

as proposed by Gen. Dé Gaulle, than we were when Washington

penned his farewell letter. The trouble with the Vishinskys, Molotovs, De Gaulles and others is that they want us remade to suit their idea of what we should. be. The same applies to our war-trained officials in Washington, Our real hope of finding a solution to post-war, problems lies in

"the inevitable changes that will bring new minds and fresh view-

points to bear upon them. Within a year, both the U. 8. and Russia Stalin's health is none too good ne we already ar® ih the throes of a national election. The administrations of 1948 should be more tolerant in face.of Senipeiaied “Guts and 8 Selua) on, or pert Ww Mendow OW traditions dah

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