Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1947 — Page 14
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T Give Our Policemen a Chance HERE are at least a dozen murderers loose in Indianap- | olis today. Killers who have not been caught in the unsolved homicides of the last two or three years. Killers who may strike again . , . and again. No wonder folks elsewhere talk about a “frightened city” But before we blame our policemen let's look at what | we give them to work with. The penetrating analysis of police procedure here by Edwin C. Heinke, which we published last week, shows pretty clearly what is wrong. A horse-and- buggy, countryvillage system to fight 1947 big-city crime. The only sur- | prising thing about it is that it works as well as it does. Right now we have a chief of police who appears to be an able and conscientious executive. Ile goes out in January ,.. the fourth to go in five years. Politics. There is
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WELL, we see where someone has come up with “8 painless system for financing the Marshall Plan. | n the vaults at Pt. Knox and elsewhere we have Npietow tons of gold, It's valued, at a $35price fixed by the government, at around The suggestion is that the governhe price up to $70 an ounce. Then billlon ‘worth of gold, and the $22 ted could be used to help Europe. , many bows, the author of this \up a copy of Harold Lamb's
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| same scheme to * “solve” China's economic troubles seven centuries ago: Kublal nationalized goid, ed its. price and issued pieces of paper to its fo r owner. When he needed more purchasing power—which was often—he upped the price and issued more certifi- | cates, AN If this economic elixir is seriously to be considered again, it might be well to check up on what happened next. What happened was i | inflation of prices, The ancient Romans weren't smart enough to. | think up paper money, but their senators had ‘|. | plenty on the ball. When, along about 100 B. C.,, | | relief spending by the Graccus brothers had left N them short , of cash, they issued counterfeit ) denarii—coins, that 1s, That worked until the { silver plating began to wear off, but, by that time, | the Republicans probably were back in again any- | how, The retired senators, we imagine, took: a good * bite at the denarii which Roman publishers offered them for their memoirs.
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There's a Limit to Everything
By Mrs. Martha Politz, Indianapolis
1 agree with one phrase, Mrs. Josephine Buck, R. R. No. 1, Westfield, said. “Men are such sweet
creatures and although they are men they like to
be petted” and loved. Not mothered, they had enough of that at home. They married to have a wife, not a mother. Ane other thing I. dont think the majority of men think of their wives as old hags. I disagree with this, too. “That being a fleeing sveet young thing is out these days.” It takes more courage to stay at home all day ana take care of a child properiy ~hear a child run, play, laugh, cry, tearing up
‘cleaned the house all day, than it does to work in a factory. 1've done both. You can't take proper pos of a house (without children) and work to. 1 worked too, betgre I had my little girl. (I mean in a factory.) Now there's always something to do. The work don't stop at the end of 8-10 hours. 1 said courage to stay at home because it gets discouraging at times and that's why there are many women in factories that should be nome attending to the children. Naturally it's nice to have a couple pay chécks coming in. Yes, but the more you make the more you spend and as for the extra bottle of whisky—that could be uone without. The whisky and all-night poker playing leads to other women. Sweet little young females that can depend on him instead of one that can be ine dependent. Did you ever read Freckles and his Friends? Only there's a limit to everytning. ~
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not an officer in the department today who is sure of his |
rank, or even of his job, five weeks from now. Politics. There are men of ability on the force, and some of them hold high rank. But ability doesn’t get you promotions on
our police force and good performance doesn’t keep them: [ The surer way is to get the indorsements of some ward
chairmen. Or to organize a political clique of your own in the department. Or to have a friend clear outside the government so powerful he can call on the telephone and get a routine transfer of assignment cancelled . . . and that has been done, too. It doesn’t make for efficiency. Most cities have long ago dropped that kind of police methods. They had to. Sooner or later the people of Indianapolis will have to choose, too. Whether we want to. be safe in our homes
and on our streets , , . or whether we'd rather play politics |
with our police force. » » ” » » ” IIREE fundamental steps must be taken, it seems to us, before we have a right to demand of our policemen the kind of efficiency we require for our own protection. ONE: A complete and comprehensive Civil Service system for the whole department, including the chief. TWO: A single Police Commissioner or Director of Saiety, appointed by the Mayor and responsible to the Mayor, to replace the present Board of Safety. THREE: A unified metropolitan police force, with county-wide jurisdiction which will combine all police functions of the sheriff's office with those of the city. of Indianapolis under a single head. » ” . LJ ” » YIVIL Service to take all policemen and police work out of politics, to make ability and good performance the only way to advancement, to give security and incentive to good men and climinate others, to provide continuity of direction, to remove all outside pressures and inside wire-pulling, to put command of the police force in the hands of a chief who got there because he knew his business and who would stay there hecause he did his joh well. One man instead of a Board of Safety because any one man is more eflicient in such a post than any three or five r seven men. But one man charged with policy matters only, and without authority over promotions, demotions, or assignments within the department.
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And a single, unified, policing agency for the county be- |
. . ’ . | cause crime doesn't stop at the city limits, because our pres- |
ent duplication is costly, and ineflicient, and dangerous. The office of sheriff is a hangover from frontier days when a sheriff was the only police power. Today we give him neither the money, the men nor the facilities to do proper police work . ., and what we do spend for county policing can’t possibly get the job done. The sherifl’s civil functions need not be disturbed.
» ~ » ~ » » : OST of this, obviously, will require enabling legislation from the state assembly. Since it affects only Indianapolis and Marion County it should not be difficult to get such action , , . if the people of Indianapolis want it. We believe they do want it. We know the veteran, able, members of our politics-ridden police force want it. It isn't the whole answer. - 1t deals only with-the first phase of the war against crime . . . the capture of the eriminal. For your safety . .. and the safety of your family . there are two more vital steps. Getting him convicted. And keeping him out.of circulation after he is convicted. We'll talk about those tomorrow.
Coming Up AST week was the best, from a production viewpoint, that the automobile industry has had since the war ended. Automotive plants of the United States and Canada turned out 111,228 units—85,914 passenger cars and 25.314 trucks. ! That byings total production in 1947 to 4,472,548 units. If the present pace continues the year's end should see the 5 million mark passed. The figures are .impressive, considering the material shortages and all the other difficulties that have plagued the industry. But, with the greatest, most eager market in all history crying for more and more of their wares, the motorcar anc truck makers face a continuing challenge. Even a 5-million-unit year will be quite a lot short of the all-time record, established back in 1929, when the United States and Canadian plants produced 5,621,045 units, including
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Up to Moscow USTRIANS are puzzled by the bitter war of words bes tween Russia and the U. S. in their controlled press. “That,” they say, “is what preceded the war in 1939. GCermany and the Allies indulged in the same kind of attacks.” They're right. The vicious insults hurled by the rigid‘ly controlled Communist press against this county, particularly, is al least as violent as that with which Hitler whipped up war spirit in World War II. Now, in self- ' defense and on a factual basis, were answering hack with counter-propaganda,
Where will it end? That's up to the Rrohilin We ;
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don’t mg it. We'll lay off Wheige 5 Stalin does.
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LIFE-LONG FRIENDS
I walked alone in the evening, As the sun sank in the west, And the hum of the nearby city Lulled my tired mind to rest, My ‘boyhood friend, the cricket, Chirped blithely his well-known lay, And a honeybee laden with booty, Knocked off and called it a day. My friends, the bees and the cricket, And the butterfly took me In Confidence, saying softly: “The city is full of sin.” “Out here at the edge of the city, We work and we sing and we play, And fill up the niche God gave us Through every life-long day.” ~=-BARNEY E. ANTROBUS, >
OLD PATTERNS FOR PEACE
Callous gods looked down and pondered On the futile fights of men, Yawning, doubtless, as they muttered:
“So they'll bulld their world again. Let us watch them when the peace comes, What they say. and what they do, As their scorched earth's plowed and planted, And their cities built anew; i As their boundaries are bargained, { And the ports are opened wide: They will use their tattered blueprints— They have patterns cut and dried.”
Now our Old Ones and our Young Ones Gather ‘round the council board. Did their patterns burn in war-fires? - Is there hope they'll find accord? | Let them view this shrunken planet, Let them try to understand That its fate a fiend may fondle In the hollow of his hand.
—SMILEY FOWLER. $e
I'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER
I'll always remember this day, I'll ‘never forget The smile I didn't get. I'll always remember the way You passed me hy Until the day I die, I'll always remember the flowers You forgot to send, To the very end I'll always remember the hours, The eternity, » You were not with me. I'll always remember the glances That did not come my way This long lonely day.” I'll always remember the dances You did not claim When night came. Yes, I'll always remember you Who broke My heart with words you never spoke.
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Bubble Gum That Whistles?
WASHINGTON, Nov, 25—A great big guess as to what life will be like In ‘1960 has been made by Kiplinger's Magazine, published here. It is based primarily ofi a voluminous Twentieth Century Pund study called “America’s” Needs and Resources.” But the Kiplinger experts have doctored up this highpowerea economic treatise with some original ideas of their own. Such as the one that bubble gum of
1060 will also whistle. Do you think ‘you can stand it?
Right at the beginning, the predictions are based on two big if's—IF the world can avoid a war and IF it ‘can avert another depression. If it can't do both—well, the book says a lot af people just won't be around to compare notes.
I">w Both Halves Will Live
EVEN TAKING the optimistic view that war and depression can be averted, the experts predict Europe still won't be settled down. At home there will still be strikes and lockouts and rackets, sickness poverty and crime: Human nature and the economic machinery will still have kinks. U. 8. population will be about 155 million, roughly 10 per cent more than today. Sixty million people will be at work, put there will always be some three million temporarily unemployed. The work week will be 35 hours. In general, people will be making and doing about the same things they make and do today. The living standard will be about a third higher than it was in 1940, but, to show what this means, examples are given for three typical families, with incomes of $150, $266 and $1000 a month. The $12,000-a-year family will live An a custombullt nouse in the suburbs, and may- commute by helicopter to city limits. Mus: Twelve _ Thousand will still go in for antiques, but her husband will have a remote-control lawnmower he can run from the front porch, with a highball ify“the' dther hand. At the other end of the scale, the $1800-a- -year family will still have tough going. It will live in a 20-year-old house, with a second-hand radiophonograph and mechanical refrigerator, but still no car.
The average guy will be making $3196 a year,
annual‘wage. ‘The house the average family lives in should bexbetter than today’s. Garbage cans will be fewer because more home -disposal units'will be in service. Insects will be fewer. Home laundries \will be more automatic. Maids will be scarcer, but house- -cleaning corporations will“send a squad around oncd a week to scrub floors and wash windows. In spite o gadgets, housewives will still work longer hours thar hubsands. People will still be eating too much starch and sugar, not enough green and yellow vegetables. There will still be as much indigestion, and patent medicines will still be sold, but dentists will have television on the ceiling. There won't be enough doctors, but prepaid health insurance and clinics for group practice will be catching on. Mental ‘Tospitals will still be crowded. There will be more federal aid tor education, but it will still be difficult for many people to see things even half-way straight. There will be 45 million cars on the road, instead of today's 30-odd million. New cars will have television, telephone, one tray. of ice-cubes and underseat toilets. Tires and upholstery will last as as the car, The traffic problem will be terrific; but a few cities will.have eliminated rush hour by making people park cars in suburbs and use high-speed urban transit systems. Private flying will still not have caught on. ~Airplane fares will be 3 cents a mile. The 1047 “train of tomorrow” will be on a branch-line milk run in
Georgia. Atomic energy will just be coming into general use. A rocket will have been shot to the moon.
Dressing Much Alike
THE CLOTHES of all three income groups will look pretty much alike, though they differ in quality. Cotton and wool will still be competing with synthetics. Some clothes will have Sleetronss welded seams, instead of being sewed. Prices will be a little lower than 1847 but won't be back to pre-war levels. In the 1950's the wholesalers and retailers will finally get together and begin to shave prices to stop the recession from getting too serious. -
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Resents Reference to Feeney By Constant Reader Your used-to-be “So Fair” newspaper is bee coming very biased. Please inform City Editor Ede win Heinke that his masterpiece in tonight's Times did not make good. reading. I resent his inference. I quote: “Every cheater in town was for Al Feeney during the campaign.” His big margin over “Bill* was evidently not made up completely of cheaters and gamblers, either. Church people like him, too, Don’t you think The Times is a little over-zeale ous on the gambling issue? Why be radical? Why send Indianapolis citizens to other cities to spend their bingo money? If they want to gamble, they will do it. A curb on this issue would be as useless as prohibition. We tried once. remember? To our notion, former Chief Morrissey did a good job. We are behin! Al Feeney, too. More power to him. * ® ¢ ¢
‘Relief to Have Dead Home’
By Mrs. Irvin Gamerdinger, 1219 Laurel St. I have just finished réading the article “Don’t Bring Hero Dead Home” and I can truthfully say my blood is boiling. The first sentence of that article hurts. My brother, Pfc. Albert Armel, gave up his life during the invasion of Sicily and I am awaiting the return of his body. One of the remarks he made to our mother and me was, “Please don’t let me .lie in foreign soil if I'm killed. The good earth of the United States is the only place I could really rest.” I know other families who have had their boys returned and they have a relief of mind. Just because some folks don’t decide to return their hero doesn't mean all of us decide that way. LEE ‘How About Watts Reward’ By Mrs. Tillie Byers, 1006 Lexington Ave. Now that Watts has confessed to the slayings of Mrs. Burney and Mrs. Merrifield, who is rightfully entitled to the reward? It is my opinion that it belongs to Mrs. Stout, * If it hadn't of been for her, this criminal might still be at large and more murders committed, Without her description and information concerne ing this man the police might still be looking for him. : My hat is off to her for having the nerve te turn him in.. If anyone is entitled to it, she is. Come on, Indianapolis, don't you agree ‘with me 100%?
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Care for Dogs By M. K., City It was such a short time ago folks were writing nasty letters about ridding our city of dogs because they eat, make noise, etc. My! How quickly things can change for now I see where there is a great demand for dogs. Big dogs they want—it makes no difference how much they eat and, of course, the more they growl and bark the better. I do hope no dog falls into-selfish hands to give protective service until the scare is over only
—JUAN 1TA OSBORNE.
| Republican state of Iowa, which is at the geographical center of what was once considered to be the isolationist Middlewest. The label no longer fits. There is undoubtedly a core of hardshelled dissenters who think we can crawl into our hole and pull it in aftér us, thereby. insuring. the maximum degree of security forever after. But changes are happening fast and I believé the dissenters are in the minority. It is pretty remarkable when the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, in convention here, votes to obtain 100 carloads of .grain for free distribution through established relief chaiinels in Europe. And the approval was not just a grudging acknowledgement of necessity. It came with enthusiastic recognition of the responsibility America faces | in a hungry and devastated world.
Side Glances—By Galbraith
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Country Ahead of Congress on Aid to Euro
DES MOINES, Nov. 25--The country is way ahead of Congress on | the question of aid to Europe. That is true, at any rate, of the dolid |
profit- ~Sharing and a guaranteed
That is something) you simply must wait to see. |
to be kicked dut again. .
Another portent of change was the visit to Europe of 22 Iowa farmers. They went on their own initiative and they d their own way, The trip cost on the average $1500 apiece, and if you think it
| isn't something new for an Iowa farmer to pay $1500 for a trip to
Europe then you don’t know Iowa.
What is more, the trip was no pleasuré junket. These successful
farmers traveled across the Atlantic to find out what was really wrong |
“with Europe and, in particular, with European agriculture.
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NOW THAT they are back, they are spending all the time they |
can spare talking to groups in. town and country about what they learned, Without exception, they are preaching the need to send food to’ Europe‘as quickly as possible, * They are talking about the outmoded methods of JBuropean agriculture and the need to send over fertilizers and certain types of farm machinery to’ help Europeans produce more of the essentials of life. hese are not outsiders come to preach a mission. They are neighbors and they are friends, and therefore what they have to say has the weight 10 times that of the outsider.
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By Marquis Childs
level of farm prosperity represents in part, at least, the triumph of that endeavor. While Mr. Kline is also a champion of the cause of the farmer, he is aware that farming is only a segment of the national economy, He knows that the farmer cannot be prospeérous for long unless the nation and the world are prosperous. Kline pA i before a Senate agrieitirre subcommittee holding hearings in the Middlewest. He talked with such knowledge and ease on world affairs that Chairman George Aiken of Vermont remarked he did not sound like a dirt farmer. But Mr. Kline estab-
lished his pedigree, having thade his way first as a tenant farmer
and then to ownership and operation of a successful Iowa farm.
‘Friendship. Train a Symbol
THE PEOPLE OUT here grasp eagerly at all signs of imagina<
| tion and leadership on the European problem. The Friendship Train,
with its carloads of free food for hungry Europeans, made a deep ime
| pression .wherever it stopped. Large crowds gathered and Iowans | are said to have contributed more, proportionately, than was given in
| any other state. Almost every. person with whom I have talked in
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these first-hand observers have clashed with the myopic type of }
congressman who sees nothing and hears nothing, but unfortunately’ |
talks about it continuously. Leadership has a lot to do with the changes taking place here. One of the most exceptional farm leaders in the country is Allan Kline, head of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. His many admirers believe he may become head of the national federation now that 72-year-old Edward A. O'Neal has at long last announced his retirement. O'NEAL was national president for 16 years. He represented the old type of farm leadership. He was pre-eminently successful as the chief operafor for a powerful pressure group determined to get every-
| thing it could out of the national grab bag. The present phenomenal
|China-U. S. Friendship
PEIPING, Nov. 25—Chinese-American friendship, which had its beginning at the turn of the century in a big power scramble for
| China trade, has never been under greater strain than it is today.
And that includes the time in 1900 when American and other foreign troops, just down Legation St. from where this is being writ-
| ten, broke the fanatical, anti- foreign spirit of the Boxer Rebellion—
which was the nearest the United States ever came to war with China. It is an irony of history that we originally should have won the friendship of the Chinese with our open door policy—which essentially. was a stand against setting up spheres of influence in China— and now come close to losing it by the mistake of restoring to Russia its old Manchurian’ sphere many times multiplied in size.
Candid though unofficial’ Americin confessions of that error— |
the Yalta agreemént—have helped prevent a complete debacle in
| Chinese-American relations,
But it will take more than confession and absolution to restore relations with China, or what is more important, to restore to
| China the full sovereignty over its own territory. Suriacesscratching
i territory to Russian
economi¢ assistance probably won't turn the trick. Chinese history forever ‘will record that the U. 8. while allied with China &gainst Japanese aggression, sacrificed China's richest domination—as SuperT insurance of victory"
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the past few days has mentioned the train and its meaning. We need more ideas that dramatize our role in the world. Gov, Robert Bradford of Massachusetts, whose Pilgrim forefather founded Thanksgiving, is sponsoring the idea of a®“silent guest” at every
| Thanksgiving table. The silent guest is a nameless European who will
receive help from an American family. The sentiment is there. It is real. It needs only to be tapped, But whether sentiment and’ good will are enough is, in this moment of decision, the 64-dollar question. The tide of prosperity, nowhere so evident as here in the heart of the farm belt, tends to make most people think that tomorrow will take care of itself. In any event, no one is thinking very much about tomorrow and the day after.
Slips By Clyde Farnsworth
The. fact that the Chinese now seldom voice their displeasure over this makes their feeling“no less real, and it's not. difficult to find informed Chinese who now are in favor of denouncing the treaty with Russia which Yalta forced on Chiang Kai-shek. They feel it could be properly denounced on the grounds that i fails to conform to realities and that the Russians themselves have stretched it out of any plausible shape by their conduct in Manchuria, But only strong stpport by the U. S. could tempt the Chinese into any drastic effort to restore their national sovereignty in the Northeast, On the other hand, it 4s’ obvious that Russia's special position in Manchuria has strengthened the hand of Chinese Communist elements and fellow travelers who would like to see the U. 8. excluded and
| Russia Invited to “settle” the war befween the Central government
and the Russian-supported Communists, - . Yalta hung a milestone treaty around Chiang's neck and some foreign observers think China herself slipped by ratifying it at a time when Japan already was taking steps for peace in 1945 and i had not yet moved into Manchuria. The whole question is a playground f second-guessers, but it's. no guess that a half-century of genérally American policy in China tuted iis S06 24 Yalta, and that this mistake has been the PHREML Sees PAY to- change the whole Orient.
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