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Better Criminal Court Quarters

‘THERE is a great deal of merit in the request of Judge Saul I. Rabb for a better place to hold his criminal court. When a second criminal court was created, early this Year, to handle the greatly increased volume of criminal trials, the only location immediately available was the Court House basement. Makeshift quarters were set up there. They have proved highly unsatisfactory, not only | to Judge Rabb but to the public at large. Nearly all important trials in this court are jury trials, Facilities for caring for a juy in this basement are virtually non-existent. To reach the jury-room for their deliberations they must pass down a long public corridor exposed | to the whispers, and stares—and even possibly the threats ~of loafers and hangers-on, some of them with under- | world connections. In a recent major trial this situation | was almost a public scandal.

~ » ” »y ” ~ JUDGE EMSLEY W. JOHNSON Jr. has been hearing civil cases only in Superior Court room No. 3. His resignation becomes effective soon, and his successor has not yet been named. Superior Court room No. 3 is well equipped for jury trials, although jury trials are rare there, ag they are in most civil courts. Now would be an ideal time, it seems to us, to move Judge Rabb's criminal court to that court room, where its business could be conducted efficiently and fairly, which it can hardly be under its present physical handicaps. The new Superior Court judge, whoever he may be, could then ~ be assigned to the quarters Judge Rabb is now using. They are much more nearly adequate for civil suits, without Juries, and with the small handful of spectators such a trial attracts than they are for the full scale, well attended * criminal trials on Judge Rabb’s docket,

Nicholas Murray Butler

HEN his fellow Republicans were shivering about the prohibition vote and kowtowing, not to say groveling, before Wayne B. Wheeler, Nicholas Murray Butler stepped in. He called prohibition the most colossal failure in the history of our country and the “most immoral undertaking on which any government ever embarked.” A very practical person, high in party management of those times, became much alarmed. “My God, Nick!” he said, “what do vou mean by doing that? You will ruin us all.” “With me,” replied the eminent educator, “it'§ a matter of conscience.” “Oh,” said the practical one, “if it's a matter of con. | science, that's different. 1 hadn't thought of that.” We tell that story because we heard it from Dr. Butler himself and because it is so characteristic. Courage in politics is an uncommon commodity. Dr. Butler had it in vast quantity. Maybe if he had been more | of a pussyfooter he would have gone further, back in those | days when he was actively a candidate. But he was always | crossing up his “practical” associates with his frankness | and his honesty and that conscience of his. However, ‘he did win the Nobel Prize. And he did, through all those many years, before his death, have eminence, and the personal satisfaction which accompanies the philosophy that says “to thine own self be true.”

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List Them All TTORNEY GENERAL CLARK has issued, and the _ Federal Loyalty Review Board has made public, a hst of some BO organizations and 11 so-called “schools” deemed by Mr. Clark to be Communist, Fascist or otherwise subversive, The trouble with this list is not that it violates civil rights, as spokesmen for many of the organizations named are charging. It does not violate civil rights. The trouble with it is that, as Mr. Clark acknowledges, it is incomplete, The essential purpose it is intended to serve calls“for a complete list. And what is that purpose? To assist government departments in getting rid of disloyal employees, Unfortunately, it is no longer possible or safe to take {or granted the loyalty of all government employees. There are too many people in this country who are loyal only to another country; who believe in totalitarian government; who seek to destroy American liberties: who want to change our form of government by unconstitutional means. And there is too much reason to be certain that some of these people have found their way into strategic places in the government service, + Their presence there is, President Truman has said, “a threat to our democratic processes.” It is also an intolerable menace to our national security.

® - ~ . » ” . O Mr. Truman ordered government departments to investigate the loyalty of their employees, and to dismiss those found disloyal. As an aid to them in this duty, he ordered the Attorney General to prepare an up-to-date list of subversive organizations, Membership in or association | with one or more of the organizations named may, as Mr. | Clark says, be considered as evidence bearing on the loyalty of a particular employee. But it will not be taken as conclusive evidence. Mr. Clark and Chairman Richardson of the Loyalty Review Board both: emphasize that, and properly so. Innocent persons, lured temporarily into Communist organizations by their high-sounding titles—titles which desecrate - such names as Lincoln, Jefferson and Adams, and the meaning of such words ds democracy and peace—are not, for that reason, to be dismissed as disloyal. A Issuance of ‘the list does not outlaw organizations | named, or deprive their members, of freedom of speech or other rights. It means simply that persons who have joined | or associated with such organizations, knowing what they. | are, may be judged unfit for government service. |

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moved from federal employment. And, if all such persons | are to be discovered, all subversive organizations, not just | some of them, must be listed by she Attorney General.

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An unsavory origin, a later amelioration of \ the type “and a final transformation of the theological into a ventriloqual creature—such are the high spots in Charlie's pedigree. In the English. Morality Play of pre-S8hake-fpearean days there was an imp called Vice, who | made his stage-entry upon the back of the Devil, | whom he belabored with a dagger of lath to the great delight of the groundlings. From him | by. lineal descent came the Shakespearean Jester, the man In motley with his bauble, wise and witty, often satirical, in some instances tenderly pathetic. After a lapse of two centures this jester reappears in the romances of Scott as a simpleminded youth, completely humanized with ho bauble or motley but appealingly pathetic by reason of his mental weakness. Again in our time the Old Vice of the Morality turns up, now a young sporting dude, monocled and top-hatted, holding forth from the lap of a ventriloquist to whom he owes his very life, though he misses no opportunity to ridicule him. His weakness for his many lady friends indicates a new variation, symptomatic of a generaflon dominated by sex appeal. Instead of appearing on the rude wagon of the Morality or on the “unworthy scaffold” of the Shakespearean stage, Charlie addresses an untold multitude through the medium of the radio. His impishness, however, persists as the original strain in his pedigree; but such viclousness as it reveals loses its evil in being a mere provocation to laughter. JOHN 8. HARRISON * 4 4

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Monument Decorations Lauded

By Anna A. Pich, City Once again we are at the threshold of the year’s most beautiful festival, Christmas. For those of us who have seen many Christmases come and go ‘this special day grows increasingly more significant because of the memories we treasure. This year again our Monument will be decorated and depict the “story which never grows old.” We are indeed fortunate to have a group of men on our City Park Board headed by Mr. Paul Brown who sense the ‘spiritual value of this project not only to the citizens of Indianapolis but to those thousands of visitors who will be enjoying it. It would be wonderful if this year there was no exception to our whole-hearted support and appreciation of the effort being put forth by those who must be credited with the work of this project. This would truly be exercising the moral to be gained from the project and a deserved and coveted “thank you" to those Seserving it. ® %

8 ’ ‘Quit Criticizing Police By C. E. J, City | My dear Mrs, G. B. P. Regarding your Hoosier Forum letter, I am not a policeman but, 1 believe I have a right to express my opinion and, in doing s0, 1 wholeheartedly disagree with you. Have you ever taken time out to ride around the city streets or walk them? No. So you wouldn’t know much about criminal-catching then, ? vous A the 1800's, before we had the automobile, policemen had to walk or ride bicycles, but now we have, in this modern day and age, automobiles and motorcycles. I'll agree with you to a certain extent. If you tell the criminal not to use autos, and walk or

ta run instead, I'm sure the Board of Safety would Hie # candid observation will make it all too / YOUR, make the policemen walk, too. (You still don't : : / Sr TE understand, do you?) That our grasping motivations “but return to us RA GY Why don’t you quit riding the cops and get on pain, { — osecutors instead? Like Ed and Bill—the farmers—who chipped in an ° ALL WET: The Judges ny Pr , ' @ ® % hought a cow, : ‘ - WE iL TACKLE o ge say Prosperity favored partnership until they had a MIM mY ‘Reds Fear Christianity Toe diy ivided “Bossy” botl h By Stan Ways, 223 ¥ Wusoie, Git} 03 s8y"' as both men thought it vAY | The hardest battle communism has to fight is y w — its battle against Christianity. It would not have oung Wg 00k the front end while Ed got to bother with this fight if it did not fear For Ed so bright the future with all as smooth —_— Christianity. as silk, EEA, 187. But real Christianity is free and one hes > Poor Bill just fed the “critter” while Ed's end - pay a toll to belong to the Commiiy apy

gave the milk, Bill just nursed his grievance until there came the day, He struck his half betwixt the eyes and Ed's half passed away, Perhaps they learned their lesson; it's difficult . to say,

NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs

Habit and Affairs of Men

Communist leaders are always yelling about the masses, because they can get more out of a mass of dupes. It seeks to reduce everyone to the same low level of intelligence for this very purpose, It is a rehash of barbaric despotism and cannot exist so long as Christianity is allowed to teach that

Now Ed drinks only water while Bill has too much hay. . . ~—WILLARD MARION SHANNON. LS

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Don't take your wife with you my friend When you go shopping for a lid; I did that-—once-—decided since "Twas the craziest thing I ever did. She did not like the feather that 1 chose with color band, She neatly told me—in such words That IT could understand! She picked the kind of hat for me That I never never wore, I was so mad that honestly (Under my breath—I swore!) And you should see the funnel All draped with carrots—-fat, Which sits atop her glistening curls— I'm told that it's a HAT! ANNA E. YOUNG . db

A MERRY CHRISTMAS DAY

M any, many years ago, E ach Angel of the Host R alsed his voice in loud acclaim R ejoicing in His Holy name, Y e are saved who were lost,

hrist had come to show us all is ‘undying faith in man ighteous love for great or small n every soul's life span aviour lead us through the night hrough evéry darkened way ake our lives a beam of light 8 gratefully we pray incere thanks for all that's right

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SASABE, Ariz, Dec. 9—In the memory of men who are by no means ancient this country on the Mexican border was the old West, wild and open and beyond the law. The dude was not an industry but an occasional daring adventurer certain to go native if he stayed long enough.

While that era is now history, the country still is wild and open. You ride toward the mountains that thrust up like spines out.of the vast emptiness of the land. To the Easterner from the city, the sky has an infinite look. In the thin air the sun is brighter and sharper, and when the cloud shadows fall across the mountains, they seem to recede into unknowable distance, fold upon fold. It is part of the American experience, this response fo space—to the lostness and loneliness of it. It is one reason why it is difficult to adopt the idea of one world and one people who must survive together or go down together. The implacable hatreds of Europe, the spreading chaos and distintegration, seem a long way off. Washington and the bitterness of partisan politics are a remote echo.

Greater Power Than Atom

WHAT WE HAVE “learned” is still only on the surface of the mind = I mean, of course, the lesson of Aug. 6, 1945, when a small atomic bomb destroyed the Japanese city ot Hiroshima. Since that date, millions of words have been written and spoken about the destructive power of atomic fission. The annihilation of the human species—of all life—is possible. Yet in the affairs of men there is a greater power. It is habit. Such .is the power of habit that pebple everywhere go about their ordinary pursuits as though the new force had not been unleashed. Going through the country and talking to all sorts of people, I have been struck with the way in which the new knowledge has been ignored or relegated to an obscure corner. This seems to me due not s0 much to a conscious desire to forget as to the fact that most of us simply are unable to take in a concept that 1s at once so vast and so utterly beyond

The bow and arrow is a deadly weapon. So is an automatic revolver. But in spite of the millions of words that have been “written, the atomic bomb is a theoretical improbabality. Here and there in college communities, you find groups concerned with the imperative need for a world government in the face of such an absolute and final threat. These earnest, serious groups have meetings. They listen to speakers. They are eager for new recruits. One such organization is the World Federalists. In its national leadership it is sparked by men and women of deep conviction and power of intellect. Nevertheless 1t is on the outer edge. The converts spend their time talking to other converts, and the total number directly interested remains very, very small.

Few Apostles With Patience

OFTEN when these groups discuss the riddle of our time, they raise the question of leadership. Somehow leadership on the national and international level should be able to, show the way. They are brought up short by a reminder that leadership cannot pe effective without at least a minority which is <nformed and determined. The

minority is still in the making, and to the World |

Federalist the process of winning converts must at times seem powerfully slow. There are few apostles with the patience, the persistence and the never failing intensity of conviction of Clarence Streit, the author of “Union Now.” Most of us cling to the belief that somehow we will escape, no‘ matter what happens. The will of the individual to survive is in itself intensely individualistic. : What is more; the outward face of the world is just as it always has been. The western sky at sunset glows with the same glory, and the stars in the desert night shine with the same clear brightness. It is hard to believe that even here, where space and time have the limitless quality of the past, there is no promise of escape. It is the illusion of the individual—and the individual nation-——standing alone that man must surrender in the atomic world.

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o> oo What About Potato Prices?

By O. P. Andrews, 3327 N. Capitol, City. More production and more production. Nobody knows more than The Indianapolis Times that we nave had only one thing that has been an overproduction and that is potatoes and the price is and has been for one year or more the highest in our history. Why, oh, whysdon’t you call this to the attention of the public? We pay top prices for No. 1, when you know we are net getting No. 2. Just who are you afraid of? I don’t expect you to publish this. Although you are strong for the free press. * >

Why Bother to Change Clock? By G. C. F., R. R. 2, Morgantown. As I am a farmer I wish to thank Mrs. H. H. Browne for her fairness to the farmer in her open letter to the Governor about daylight-saving time. Yes, daylight saving time is a brainless idea to the farmer. I see her side of the question. But why bother to change the clock? Why not go to work an hour earlier and let the clock stay on standard time? Let each factory put it to a vote with its employees. Some may want it, some may not. That would help treffic both morning and evening to not have all of it the same hour. - “® % & ‘Santa Display Inspiring’ By Jeanne Seymour, City. . Have you seen Block's display window on Market St.? If you haven't, go see it. It is inspiring to the children and the grown-ups _glso. To grown-ups it awakens that forgotten pleasure we use to enjoy when kids. So take the kiddies by the hands and go see the Awakening of Santa which symbolizes the awakening of a New Life.

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| them to attempt revolution in France and Italy, is the support they oi v ~ Certainly such persons are unfit, and should be re-

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LESSON FROM FRANCE . . . By E. T. Leech Side Glances—By Galbraith

Why Communists Try | To Get Union Jobs

ALL AMERICAN union members should be watching the news from France and Italy. It is of vital importance to them. For France and Italy have been demonstrating, to themselves and the world, the price of having labor unions controlled by Communists, They have been undergoing revolutions by strike. The organizations which workers formed for their own legitimate purposes have been turned against them and the entire French and Italian peoples. In a time of hunger and desperate need, the Communist labor bosses have used the strike weapon to try to starve and harass the French and Italian people into turning over their country to Moscow. As In America, workers in France and Italy are predominantly patriotic and loyal. The great majority are not Communists, This has been demonstrated beyond doubt in recent elections, in which

Refused Strike in Secret Vote IT WAS ALSO demonstrated in France by the retusal of union

tions. And by the calling off of some of the strikes when such an opportunity finally was granted. 9 But unions in which Communists had secured firm control would not permit secret strike votes. By terrorism and aggressive minority action, the Communist leadership forced such unions out on strike, regardless of rank-and-file desires. Just as in this country the proCommunist leadership of certain unions :<(such as the United Elec { trical, Radio and Machine Workers) has been able to commit their | unions: to policies and resolutions favoring Russia and hostile to ‘their’ own country. ; The Communists have developed a new form of revolution. Its

basic weapon, the strike, can cripple and disrupt a nation. The Com- | L___ munist aim is to carry this disruption to the point where it will be safe to finish the job with guns and bombs. . { That's what has been going on in France and Italy. It reveals {

COPR. 1947 BY NEA SERVICE, NC. T. M. REC. U. §. PAT. OFF.

"I can tell you how to cut taxes—you congressmen can put yourselves on part-timé pay!”

clearly why Communists here have sought, above every other objective, control of our unions.

Poison to Communist Control

IT REVEALS, also, why Communist publications are so bitter against the Taft-Hartley Act. That law is not even remotely a “slave labor act,” as the Communists try to lead union men and women to believe. But it does contain a provision which is poison

power in unjons. It is a measure of national defense—of self protection against attacks of the kind we are now seeing abroad. Union members have the most to gain from the provision re- | quiring anti-Communist affidavits by their officers. For it is they and their organigatiohs that face the most immediate Communist threats. The Commies seek union control so they can overthrow to Communist union control—that requiring anti-Communist affidavits | the American government—just as they are now trying to overthrow by union officials. | | the French and Italian governments. L The most amazing thing about the campaign. of Communists to | They have shown in France and Italy the purpose for which gain the same control over ‘American unions which has enabled | they seek to hold union offices. That's why—as a matter of national ' defense—the American people are by law trying to prevent them | from doing so. : . Nobody stands to benefit so much ‘from this effort as do the American workers. For in Russia labor and unions have been . crushed: under ruthless dictatorship. Nowhere else in the world are

have had from men who are not party members. For example, from such union leaders as Philip Murray and John L. Lewis. By refusing to sign anti-Communist declarations, such.men have played squarely into the hands of the Reds. 0

This pro of the new labor law does not seek in any way | workers so helpless and tyrannized. Nowhere else is so much to hamper or restrict their traditional rights. It merely at- real slave labor—millions. of prisoners forced to work f the state. : a . : : Yow wal

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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

Dulles Visit Called A Major Blunder

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9—Legitimate and understandable though | it was, the John Foster Dulles visit to Paris at this particular time | was a major diplomatic blunder. It was a windfall for the Reds. | It has been clear for the past two years that Moscow is stalling all along the line in order to give its Communist Afth columnists in Europe and Asia time to sabotage peace, create chaos and pave | the way for world domination. ! Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov's delaying tactics at the Big Four conference at London have followed the same familiar pattern. And the tiesup between his activities in London and those of the Communists in France and Italy is evident, Thus the desire of Secretary of State Marshall and the American delegation to get the lowdown on the French situation is natural. But for Mr. Dulles or any other top-ranking member of the American delegation to undertake the checkup obviously played into the hands of Red propagandists.

Attempt to Divert Attention

! IT LONG has been the Kremlin line to accuse the United States of trying to make satellites of other nations, That is what Russia | is doing and she always accuses others of what she, herself, is doing. It helps distract attention. i French Communists, like others, take their cue from Moscow. | Maurice Thorez, titular head of the French Reds, has just returned from Moscow to tour the French provinces and whip up the revolu- | tionary spirit there. | The Dulles visit to Paris—where he saw the French president, | Premier Schuman, Gen. De Gaulle and other leaders—has lent itself | to the usual Moscow line. The Reds, of course, are whooping it up | alleging that he crossed the channel to carry Uncle Sam's orders | to the French government. i It makes little difference that Thorez deserted from the French | army and hurried to Moscow rather than‘ fight against Germany | after Stalin and Hitler became partners in 1830. Or that one of | the prerequisites of the French-Soviet pact of 1945 was that Thorez should receive a pardon and be allowed to return to Paris.

Innocent Mission Helps a Lie

OR THAT Andre Marty, another French Communist leader, headed a mutiny in the French Black Sea fleet and forced it to turn | back on the eve of a demonstration before Odessa in 1918. | Moscow's. agents are not fools. They know that one of their | greatest weaknesses is that they have to obey the ! government. Therefore they seek, first of all, It's not Russia, they cry hysterically, day in and day out: but the . | United States that seeks to enslave the world. :

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