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The Indianapolis Times PAGE 24 . Friday, Nov.21, 1947 ey ROY W. HOWARD WALTER :LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ President.» . _ Editor 5 Business Manager , . A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER rr ’ Owned and published daily (except Sunday) by

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No ‘Deals’ on Murder

E have no doubt that Robert Watts, who has confessed | two brutal and unprovoked killings and a dozen rapes | and attempted rapes, is willing, as he is reported to be, to | plead guilty in court in return for a sentence to life im- | prisonment , , . instead of execution. What has he got to lose? The prosecution can prove at least one of these | murders, even if he repudiates his confessions, Maybe both | of them. So there is nothing to gain except a little temporary’convenience by a bargain for a lighter sentence with a confessed and habitual rapist and killer. Furthermore, | experience shows that life sentenges rarely mean life im- | prisonment. They get out, one way or another. And society dare not take the risk that this man ever again shall be free to prey on defenseless women in their homes. The women he admits he killed hadn't much chance to | bargain for their lives. The people of this county aren't going to have much

patience with a public official who bargains with their killer

for his. We want no “deals by courts or_prosecutor in this case.

Good Advicé for Doctors

\ E wish every doctor in the country could have heard

Bernard M. Baruch's speech this week in New York to members of the state and city medical societies. Mr. Baruch, himself the son of a great doctor, talked about the need for better medical care. “All over the world,” he said, “the masses are stirring | for higher living standards. Improved medical care is a | foundation of better standards, The families whose earn- | ings digappear with serious illness—the many who suffer disease which your skillful diagnosis and treatment could have prevented or halted, or whose limited means bar them from the medical attention available to you and me —~those people will not remain content.” | Organized medicine, he added, can be proud of what | it has achieved in promoting voluntary health insurance— but “it is not good enough.” Too many people can’t afford it. So he advocated a form of compulsory health insurance, paid for in part by government, in part by payroll contributions from employers and workers, with the patient retaining the right to choose his own doctor. And he urged training of more and better doctors, building of more hos- | pitals, expansion of research, a cabinet post for health, | education and social security, and other measures. : “The needs can be met,” Mr. Baruch said, “without the | government taking over medicine, something I would fierce- | lv oppose.” Because he wants to avoid “socialized medi. cine,” he urged doctors to lead in working out an adequate | medical-care program in line with “humanity's legitimate | aspirations.” : | |

The profession, we think, seldom has had wiser advice than this from elder statesman Baruch. “Too many doctors have been fighting a rear-guard action too long, warn them-—time is running against them. The medical profession has justly earned great influence. It can keep | that hold only as it moves forward. It will lose that hold if it has nothing but objections to offer, if it has eyes. only for what not to do. We must look for what can be done— |

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Donald D. Hoover ' THE LIGHT BEYOND

THE SUN shone -brightly on the hilltop. The reds ard golds and yellows and browns of the | autumn foliage glistened and sparkled as a gentle

Great piles of white clouds slowly moved across the face of the backdrop of bright blue sky. The | tops of tall trees filled the fOreground under the | hilltop and ‘beyond on the flat the little white | farm house with its red chimney glistened like a gem. One sat quietly soaking up the warmth and peace of an Indiana October day. A flittering bird distracted attention momentarily and then there was a change in the scene. Upon a stretch of woodland up the slope beyond the little white house rested the dark shadow of 4 great cloud. The gorgeous Persian tapestry of those far-away tree tops, so brilliant minutes ago, was dulled and darkened. But out beyond up the slope gradually rising to the horizon the sun still shone on gay

eye traveled over and beyond the shadow, up the gentle slope to the white building with a spire rising into the blue, called by the neighbors the “church house,” Its cross of gold gleams in the

Can this simple beautiful Indiana nature picture be a symbol to mere man dwelling here in 4 these troubled days? That beyond the shadow of dark and foreboding events light still shines on the hills, : “God's in His heaven— All's right with the world !* —FK. H. K. McC. ow de . * England seems to want to attain success and ease by the sweat of “OUR” brows. * 4 9% Fiddle-faddle, My false teeth rattle. “ 6 It would help a lot if it were as easy to make our money last as it is to make it first,

CLOSE YOUR DOOR, RICHARD

The modest egg, the lowly hen— Which was the first, and how, or when? The questions burn—but so does fat It takes no sage to' reckon that,

All this heckimg—whence or whither Keeps us chicks in quite a dither. 80 leave us to our laying be— : Go, ponder on your family tree. ~BARNYARD QUEENIE, > % 4 The long road that has no turning 1s the path that Europe's mendicant nations beat to. Uncle Sam's door in search of a hand out.

= —~WALT CRESS.

WHEN THE FAMILY GETHERS

When my folks gether ‘round fer a visit, I declare, 'grannies, I do—

= A WRINKLED-OLD gentleman, whose memory | reaches back into the 19th Century, took me aside not long ago to recommend the merits of an ancient drink compounded of champagne and beer. I stewed over it for days to the exclusion of matThet a whole flock of loud squawkin’ guineys ters that should have had my With their children are callin’ on you. immediate attention when, all of ‘ & sudden, it occurred to me that, maybe, the oldtimer was raving about a drink brought to Indianapolis by John Lawrence Sulli-

No gun thet were ever invented Shoots faster than words zip around; Might as well try to muzzle a cannon When they all start in gettin’ unwound.

van; Sure, the one and only . 2 at reat “John L.” I'ts harder than walkin’ on worter grea mT , John L. Sultivan picked out I sentunce before © fish a senguns Oct. 18, 1882, to let the folks

You're stuck in the middle an’ listenin’

An’ wonder'n how you lost the floor around here have their first look at him. The place

was the Grand Opera House run by George Dickson at the time. Besides the one and only ‘John L., the company included Billy Madden, the headliner's trainer; Ed Bibby, champion wrestler; Pete McCoy, champion lightweight, and an Indian club swinging artist by the name of Hoefler whose act proved to be the best part of the bill Indeed, the critics found only one fault with Mr. "Bout the trials an’ troubles of livin'— Hoefler's act. He panted a good deal while doing his These wonderful people. my folks. exercises with. the result that his breathing became ~-CATFEESH PETE. appallingly labored at the end. It was so apparent dN ¢ that an Indianapolis physician seated in the &udience went on record that Mr. Hoefler showed marked signs of hypertrophy. The doctor was so lugubrious about his discovery that he even ventured the opinion (loud enough for everybody around him to hear) that Mr. Hoefler might surprise an audience some night by dying right in the middle. of his act. For some reason. the doctors around here always talked like that when I was a kid

Enter, John L's Double

You watch fer a chance an’ start talkin’ When somebudy slows up fer breath, » But you might as well save yore jaws trouble; You'll lose out as shore as there's death.

But it's always a joy an’ a pleasure When they match up their stories an’ jokes

Henry Wallace was pictured taking his shoes off to enter a mosque in Palestine. Looked like an ad for the book “Barefoot Boy With Cheek.” dW : And right on top of the high cost of will come the higher cost of giving. 9 % :

A TEACHER COMFORTS THE PURITAN ELEMENT

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OUR TOWN . “ie ‘By Anion Sehiorror John L. Sullivan’s Cocktail

‘ y After grading three sets of papers \ AS FOR JOHN L'S act-—a boxing bout with Mr. Eat Less 1 do not feel like cutting capers. Madden—it turned out to be a dismal flop. I can ex- . ' ~—~MYRA AHLER. plain that, too. Seems that just eight months before HERE voluntary methods will do the job, President > > > his Indianapolis debut, Mr, Sullivan had knocked out

The doctors say eat less for vour own good; Uncle Sam says eat less if you know what's good for you,

Truman says, the government won't need to use the price-control and rationing powers he asks of Congress. But voluntary methods can't have a fair.chance unless

Paddy Ryan, “the pride of Troy, N. Y.” (For the benefit of you youngsters, it may be advisable to break the thread of my thought a moment to say

Calling All King's Horses—All King's Men—

that the word “knockout” was thought up by Mr. Madden on that occasion). The Ryan-Sullivan event was a terrific nine-round battle fought with bare knuckles and captured the imagination of the American ‘people to such a degree that they wouldn't let Mr. Sullivan out of their sight. They followed him on the street and great crowds turned out at every railroad station when his train went through. The hero-worship finally .got on the young (23) champion’s nerves. To solve what appeared to be an unbearable situation; John L. hired “Big Steve,” an operator in Mike McDonald's Chicago gambling estab-

lishment (“The Store”) to double .for him, Big Steve

looked exactly like the real John L. and, eventually, was coached to act like him, too. Planted in a crowd, Big Steve would remove his derby, thump it on his head, then tilt it on his forearm and spit over it while he growled ferociously: “Much obliged to yees, gentlemin.” It had everybody fooled. Meanwhile, the real John L. was elsewhere taking it easy. 3

Makes Drinking History KNOWING WHICH, it is not unreasonable to suppose that Big Steve went even farther and played the part of John L. on the stage whénever the accasion called for it. At any rate, it's one way of explaining why Mr. Sullivan displayed so little of his acclaimed skill when he boxed Mr. Madden on the night of his Indianapolis debut. What sheds even more light on Mr. Sullivan's whereabouts on the night gf Oct. 18, 1882, is the established historical fact that it was the real John L. and not Big Steve—who entered Chapin & Gore's saloon, 20 N. Illinois St., at a time when he was supposed to be doing his act over at the Grand Opera House. 7 Mr. Sullivan swaggered up to the bar and called for a magnum of champagne and. the same quantity of beer. Then with the magnum in one hand and the pail of beer in the other (it's quite a trick), he poured the two, slowly and simultaneously, into a second and bigger pail taking infinite care not to let the

mixture foam too rapidly. He lapped it up. in one -

draught, And ever since that day, the historical quaff bobs up in some old-timer's memory,

Hoosier Forum

"I do not agree with. a word that you say, but | will defend to the déath your right to say A

" ° Ya ‘Get Rid of Incompetent Officials’ By John Alvah Dilworth, 816!; Broadway. “What is the matter with law enforcement in Marion County?” > Politics, as witnessed by the employment of Robert Austin Watts and others upon political recommendations of precinct and ward chairmen and ability and character reference signatures of persons who openly admit, as per the press, “they never saw ‘the person and only know him wnrough another person.” Why are not applications investigated by the personnel office, before employment, to determine if the applicant has told an untruth about “if they had ever been arrested?” “Why cannot women feel safe” on the highways, “in their homes and on the streets?” Because our sheriff's mind seems to be engrossed with getting what resembles “something for nothing”—by construction work on two build ings and painting a two-car garage on property owned by him in the 6700 block in East 10th St. Had the deputy sheriff, Bill Stockdale, who took over out there, not been ehgaged in a practice of “a price above the tax dollars” instead of protecting the county, as Sheriff Albert Magenheimer's office is supposed to db, the price—the lives of Mrs. Mabel Merrifield and Mrs. Mary Lois Burney ~might not have been paid. In the not too far distant past the chief of the Indianapolis Fire Department was removed from office for using firemen to work on his house at the expense of the taxpayers. “Why are known criminals permitted to go free after repeated arrests have shown that they are menages to the community?” The often cited reason amounts to: A politically controlled police department, sheriff's office, political courts and a politically-conscious prosecuting attorney's office. A partisan Board of Public Safety president who has had many police chiefs and who has the reported ill-will of the police department and who permits reported suppression of the freedom of thought in violation of the Constitution should not be permitted to longer direct their actions ere a complete breakdown of law enforcement. The solution lies in

+ exerting, to the utmost, the tools available,

In Indianapolis and Marion County, appointed and elected officials and law enforcement agencies must end their bickering and assure equal responsibility in solving law enforcement problems caused by the movement of the underworld from city to city. Both city and county law enforcement units are hurt by apparent graft and politics and hiding behind such statements as: = “But as far as I know it is not yet illegal to be unwise.” What has become of the non-partisan group that beseeched the vofers to vote for Judge Hoffman, Prosecutor Stark and Sheriff Magenheimer on the statement amounting to: That they would perform efficient ly? Why does not this.group demand the resig« nation of those who have blotted the silver lining out of the cloud? Let us adopt a recall law as this is one of our needs of urgent law enforcement so that those we elect, who become corrupt, can be removed from office. ro oO os

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A Matter of Tax Opinion By R.'N. C., Washington A recent article in Life shows White Collar workers and investors as not being any better off than they were in 1939. With labor better off by 35 per cent and— hold your breath for this one—the FARMERS 155 per cent better off. With corn yielding 40 to 100 bushels an acre and . bringing $2 to $2.25 per bushel, with soy beans yielding 20 to 30 bushels per acre bringing

$3.25 to $3.50 a bushel, and each hog, weighing

225 pounds bringing the feeder a profit of $25, farmers now have so much money they are holding and carrying uncashed checks received for produce and grain, figuring on putting this on next year’s income tax, which, of course, is illegal, Why tax the whole country for the benefit of one group—by this is meant farm supported prices when the farmer has so much money he doesn't know what to do with it. If you want lower prices ‘on what you eat and wear, it cannot be done by holding up prices on the farm. To prove the above statements, the little bank at Eminence, Ind, in 1939, had deposits of $250,000. A few weeks back it had $1,400,000, almost 6 times as much as in 1939, This is the same in all farming communities. Everything comes out of the ground, and unless prices are put where they belong on the farm you cannot expect lower prices on what you eat or wear. : Pressure groups hurry to Washington for this, that and the other. The farm supported prices go out Dec. 31, 1948, and now this group is asking for continuance and tax the whole people to pay them so they can get the gravy. I dare you to print this.

the public considers them logical and wise. The Luckman » * + P li \ . ' food-conservation program, for instance, is a government- Stilwell-Chiang ky t Key to U. S. i oO ICY :

sponsored effort to promote voluntary rationing. Despite all the ballyhoo, we regret to say, public enthusiasm for it is far below boiling point. The unfortunate “poultivless Thursdays” were partly to blame. They are gone. But, as Sen. Flanders’ price investigation subcommittee says, the program still 1s handicapped by its “illogical and madequate-elements.” Many low-income families are “Involuntarily rationed” by high prices. meatless and eggless days to the letter and still not reduce their total use of meat and eggs at all. Yet the present very high per capita consumption of these foods indicates plainly that millions of people are eating much more than they need far an adequate diet. The subcommittee suggests a new basis for voluntary rationing: Appeal to all the well-fed to reduce their weekly consumption of meat and eggs by a defiiiite percentage, In other words, urge them to “eat less.” Even if Sen. Taft did-say it, and even though some politicians think he hurt himself, Mr. Truman ought to stop boggling at that phrase, For, if a food-conservation pro-

gram doesn’t mean “eat less.” it doesn’t mean anything.

It's time, we think, to give voluntary rationing a fair

chance by spelling out the truth to the American people. . If they want to save themselves from inflation; they'll have to stop buying so much of ‘the things that aren't plentiful enough to meet present demand.

Something Coming In z N the heels’ of the President's speech came an announcement which in the epd may have ‘much more effect on our,costs and:standards of living. It was the State

Department's list of tariff reductions we granted at the - Gerieva negotiations last summer. They become effective the first of the vear. : We have reduced the duties “on wool, beef, veal, cheddar cheese, wheat, flour, whisky, brandy, wines, sardines,

. tomatoes, potatoes, walnuts and a number of other items '

Americans would like to buy at a lower price.

One reason America so often, as now, finds itself in a |

. position where it has to give away things is that in the

Higher-income consumers can observe |

f SHANGHAI, Nov. | policies on. China apparently stem back to those of the late Gen Joseph W. (Vinegar Joe) Stilwell, the earlier wartime commander out here. That seems true from information here, despite the fact that Gen. Stilwell had to be relieved of his command to keep China in the War against Japan And despite all the evidence that since has accumulated of Russia’s Intention to use the Chinese Communists to gain‘ control of all Asia, It is about time somebody. put a finger on two of the deepest secrets of past American policy in China. :

Side Glances—By Galbraith

Brought into the open, they might be useful in judging the accusg-

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21—-Secretary of State Marshall's current | tions of undependability now flying back and forth across the Pacific.

The first secret: In 1944 when the Jap offensive was slicing off southeastern China and ill-equipped Chinese armies were folding, Gen. Stilwell was demanding in Chungking that Chiang Kai-shek sign over all Chinese forces to the Stilwell command. That would have been tantamount to handing over the central government; oo ‘ : Rejecting the- demand as incompatible’ with €hinese sovereignty, the Generalissimo promptly asked President Roosevelt for Gen. Stile well’s removal. Jen. Stilwell departed, amid considerable sound and fury, Lt. Gen, Albert C. Wedemeyer succeeded him. The world learned nothing of the Stilwell demand, although there were many rumors.

First Milestone in Parade of Charges BUT THAT CRISIS in Chinese-American relations became the first milestone in a parade of accusations against the Chinese central government that still. goes marching on today. . It also laid a firm base for Chinese discussion of American diplo-

| macy in China, including the Yalta Agreement and American pres-

sure upon Chiang to form a coalition with the Chinese Communists. Gen. Stilwell's position had been that only by his assuming command could China be reformed. Other American critics 6f the Chinese regime were saying privately at that time that if the United States pulled the plug of financial and material support, Chiang's government would go down the drain. The merits and demerits of the central government are too much for balanced condensation here. But it is ridiculous to imagine that a Chinese Communist regime replacing the one now at Nanking would come. any closer to the popular American idea of what Chinese government should be. China has never been a nation in the complete, modern Occidental sense, You may as well expect Americans to give up knives and forks

Red Hunt Is Backfirin

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21—To carry out the European recovery program will call for the very best brains in this country. That is one fact about which no one can possibly disagree. It calls for economic as well as political specialists. This is part of the responsibility that has fallen on the United

States. It goes along with the greatest accretion of economic, indus-

trial and technological power the world has even seen. In the light of that responsibility and the demand it is certain to make on our brains and our skills, we cdnnot afford the kind of

witch-hynting that has created something like a crisis in government. .

men, men with indepefdent minds, will not come into government service under such circumstances. The financial sacrifice is, in most cases, 00 great to expect that the citizen will subject himself to having his consciente and his thoughts combed for possible heresy. . gli: 8 The cases that come immediately to mind. are those of the 11

By Clyde Farnsworth

“! and turn to chopsticks as to expect a Chinese regime that will satisfy

American tastes in government, In late 1940 at Chungking, Gen. Stilwell told this correspondent, off the record, that what China needed most was “chopping off a hundred well-selected heads.” Another -American once protested to the Generalissimo that cor rupt Chinese. officials in certain places ought to be shot. To which the Generalissimo replied with tired patience, “Yes, I know. But they are the only people I've got there to work with.”

U.S. Text for Realistic Dealing With Nanking

THE GENERALISSIMO'S WORDS might be turned around and taken as a text of realistic Americans in their thinking about Nanking. With all its faults, the central government is the only one

| we've got to work with in. China, |

The second secret: In late July, 1945, the U. S. War Department forwarded for Gen. Wedemeyer's consideration in Chungking a proposed plan to land the U. 8. 10th Army north of the Yangtze to join forces with the Chinese Communists and arm them for a combined assault on Japanese-held Shanghai. Author of the plan was Gen. Stilwell, then commanding the 10th Army on Okinawa. ; Fortunately for the central government, the war was just about over. Execution of such a plan probably would have delivered the lower Yangtze Valley to Red armies and the Communist flag today might be flying at Nanking. i Throughout the war, Chiang's government was under varying pressure to allow U. S. arms and ammunition to reach the Chinese Reds, whom American Jgjuists hailed as the real reformers of China. None ever did. At present Nanking doesn't have tp worry about that threat

~#“Russia has provided for the Chinese Communists. -

l- The central government's problem now is how to get arms for itself. Without help in military materiel—and none is in sight under the Marshall policies—the ceritral government probably cannot survive.

* . By Marquis Childs Bert Andrews of the New York Herald-Tribune performed an Important service 1ff Hiresenting one of these casse in detail; protecting, of course, the identity of the individual involved. The documents in that case showed how tenuous were the grounds for the man’s dismissal. « In June of 1945, five men and one woman were taken in an FBI raid. Two of the men were State Department employees and one a naval officer whose loyalty had never hitherto been questioned, The charges against the three proved baseless. A Grand Jury subsequently cleared them for lack of evidence., ‘The damage of publicity had, of course, seriously harmed them and there was no way in which they could be compensated for this damage. The recent loyalty dismissals were harsher and more cruel

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were found to be “bad security risks.” The State Department per-

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