Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1948 — Page 18

HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ

"PAGE 18 _ Thursday, Jan. 29, 1948 A SURIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER Spee 1 Owned and published daily (except Bunday) by Indianapolis Times Publishing Co., 24 WwW. a Te ——— Member of United Press, Scripps - Howard | Newspaper Alliance, NEA Service, and Audil Bureau of Circulations. . Price in Marion County, 5 cents a copy; delivered by carrier, 25¢c a week. Mail rates in Indiafa, $5 a year; all ‘other states, ‘U. 8. - possessions, Canada and Mexico, $1.10 a month. Telephone RI ley 5551. Give laght ana the People Will Fina Thew Own Woy of

bo Es The Watts Verdict A SOLEMN-FACED Shelby County jury of 11 farmers and a florist who had spent two tedious weeks listening to the testimony and innuendoes in the murder trial of Robert A. Watts returned a verdict of guilty after five hours of deliberation late yesterday. The jury decided the defendant should die in the electric chair and the trial © judge set the date of execution on May 10. "We abide in the spirit of good citizenship with the verdiet; It represents the fulfillment of the processes-of the laws we live by. In nearly every state these laws demand a life for a life. hn The trial which could just as well have been held jm | 4 Marion County, the scene of the crime, was well-handled by the Shelby County court, although there were certain unsavory innuendoes and inferences made by the defense which we felt could have been omitted. The obvious purpose of punishment is to demonstrate to others inclined to similar crimes that offenders virtually always get caught, and that the public whose representatives make the laws, always has the upper hand, always swings the penal whip, always punishes the guilty. When the curtain rolls down on the final scene of this {rama of violence and the prison doctor puts his stetho- | jcope to the chest of Robert A. Watts and pronounces him >fcially dead, the scales of justice, in the eyes of the law, vill swing again into even balance, and the case of the nurder of Mrs. Mary Lois Burney will be closed forever. And we believe the public in general will agree that dur Shabby Street Signs hi “INE of the marks of an aggressive, energetic city is its M ©“ housekeeping. This includes the condition of the | x ireets, their cleanliness and traffic markings, its traffic BN _ghts, their visibility and timing for the varied flow of ._- raffic hour by hour, and last, the street signs themselves. “We would like to be able to say our streets are plainly ||

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or the reverse. We would like citizens to know where |

. True, many of the older residents who travel same paths every day, rarely go a block out of ‘have to ask a stranger the way to their desti- | s is’ a large, metropolitan community and streets even the old-time residefits have

“6 way oi] ition. But ere are man "wer heard about. ; ~~ When we think of the precious gasoline. at 26 cents gallon, the even more precious time, and the nervous ergy that is wasted—all because it is practically imssible to read most of our-street signs in broad daylight, | wonder what city administrations have been doing with r tax money in the last 10 years. : : » ” . . be ” - ” : OUR STREET SIGNS with toosmall black lettering a dirty yellow background were put.up years ago... | 1 ~ mn obviously were forgotten. Go oN : ~~ Today we are paying the penalty for tls neplet It ~~ 4 cost real money to put our street markings in order. s en to repaint the ones we have would be ‘extremely ‘ . tly. To replace them with modern signs would ‘hit the

_ Street signs cannot be successfully neg .'n streets can be neglected. If there is a hole in a street’ —}-a few motorists break the springs under their cars = y howl enough at City_Hall to get the streets repaired. : no ome howls much about an illegible street sign or » which has long since fallen fram its standard on a = et corner. The lost motorist or pedestrian merely mum-

ible - street markers with a department which does hing else but see that they-are kept up, constantly | We recommend to Mayor Feeney, without beirig able tell him where he can get the money, that he keep.a w on this job. He might even be able to get them made one of our state institutions for the price of the maials. stg We feel sure something can be done about it if “there | ‘he will to do it. And the time to start it is now, and to | p at it every day in the year for.all the years to come. |

sung Man of the Year

‘THEN it came time to choose the man under 35 who | had made the outstanding contribution to the general Ifare of Indiana and its citizens, the Junior Chamber of mmerce had many worthy names to consider. The meas- » of the Jaycees' thoroughness was evident inthe selecn of Dr. L. M. Hutchings, a 32-year-old associate progor in the Department. of Veterinary Science at Purdue liversity. Dr. Hutchings made his contribution in a field which

ich to our health and security. In the quiet of his oratory, Dr. Hutchings waged a five-year war against ine brucellosis, one of the principal sources of undulant ver in human beings. i We ‘salute Dr. Hutchings for wining the state fv shievemant ‘Award and congratulate the Indiana Junior Tl of C. for-its obvious care-and consideration in making ho 3 choice. y

he Power of Abstinence EN. WHERRY of Nebraska wants to see this year’s ‘7 political campaign devoted to a full-dress review of . _ ‘merican foreign policy. Afterward, he would let the \" - .merican people decide if they “want tb tighten their belts” 3 earry out a program for European aid and world peace. _* Time being short as it is; the people might like to look the meantime at what a belt-tightening little man named

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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held her in my arms, then touched her hair,

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(“WASHINGTON —Longer Work. Week of the low-wage Backed

by AFL”) luxuries may be reen avers from now on, any event, while

His AFL will plow on 3ig And insure production gains.

5 Lest you think him altruistic; Jt gets downto. he Or his motive too sublime, There is nothing here that's mystic—

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IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson

singed JEW unpleasant things under his breath, or to his : oo oo Rea a] : 4 4 “lh if : a 2 li EAR to Se AE TR D i k H “a H = “i d= Fra rape e if-she-is along and lets it go 3% hist a | ar orse ! unte | | THERE ARE several. things which give a town that : - ~. 0 - — to-the-minute look and high among these are large and By GO Progressives.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Most political dopesters in Washington probably figure that n. Eisenhower's self-scratch from he: raca-jeaves Ales nomination

wondering: if there may not be soma, way for the progressives in the Grand Old Party ‘to grab the elephant goads and go places, 1t is an interesting, even if extremely long-shot, possibility. “When the Republican National Committee met. in Washington in mid-January to discuss finances, there was little or no sentiment in favor of ex-Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, Gov.

. Earl Warren.of California or any of the progressive Republican

members of Congress. - It was all Sen. Taft or Gov. Dewey.

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and as Jews. sur committee stated: “There can be no cal identification of Jews outside of

remain true today. .

quct we shall continue to

field have attested that we are bone pone and flesh of the flesh of America:

this newly-to-be-created state?

in Palestine.

sxecutivé action of the United States. A COURSE OF CONDUCT

NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs

Taft Tactics Split Senate GOP

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.— Talking before the Republican majority of the Senate the other “day, Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio expressed the kind of bland optimism that some of his colleagues find almost as hard to take as the scoldings which

their leader occasionally gives them. Sen. Taft. sald he understood prices were beginning to

“Yeah—the price of mink coats and diamond wrist-watches,” one of the anti-Taft Republicans “in the back row muttered.

.than- the destructive -attack. In this connection

sion or of aggrandizement.

that group is disavowed.

American people respond to the constructive rather the remark attributed to the late Wendell Willkie | vislaues Jnchtey- Shichy unde on the subject of Herbert Hoover is recalled: * : “Unfortunately Mr. Hoover allows his thinking to be dominated by Mr. Roosevelt.” . This same charge is made today against the Taft-Wherry leadership. Critics in-the Senate say that they wait to see what the Administration decides and then they oppose it. In other words, they have not outgrown the kind of negative opposition which typified the Republican stand all

with whatever government may there be tn- § stituted.” These words state an axiom and

the death rolls of our Army on many a battle. of the

There is no such problem. Five years ago |

* The Jews of America suffer from no polit. ical schizophrenia. Politically we are not | split personalities, and in faith and in con.’ demonstrate what

What should be the attitude of Jews toward We have aftirmed our sympathy with and our desire to s0-operate with those Jews who wish to settle Now we find this embryo state already beset wtih violence and its shores largely closed to that remnant of European Jewry which yearns to go there. ‘In helping them we emphasize that nothing can he done which constitutes a violation of the laws or the

But we have a. right to represent to our government for its action a great fundamental truth. The United Nation& Assembly did not merely decide a dispute between two peoples—it prescribed a course of internatipnal conduct; il decreed that partition made for the peace of the world, The world must sup-’ port that decree. The responsible Jews in Palestine are engaged in no struggle of aggresIf any hot-headed group is acting at variance with this position,

Responsible Jewish leadership asks for noth- - ing except that the. mandate of the Assembly of the United Nations be executed. To enforce it requires policing of Palestine against the under the: leadership of

It is vital not only to the Jews of Palestine, but to the peace of the world that the dignity and integrity of -a resolution of the United Nations Assembly be defended against such attempts to thwart it as have appeared in Palestine during the last few weeks. To that end we urge on our State Department—first, that under the Security Council of the United Nations there must be created a constabulary en the British

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The spit in the Senate majority over the issue of inflation and what to do about it has sharpened the differences between the two factions as never

can unload the blame for higher and higher prices en the Truman Administration. - . On the other.side are such Senators as Ralph Flanders of Vermont, Raymond Baldwin of Con-

believe - their party, as the majority party in Congress. must take responsibility.

that all the machinery for meat rationing be set up ready to go into-operation if it should prove

have put in a rent-control bill that would extend controls until June 30, 1949. It would give both

and nationally where hardship is claimed.

Food Takes Half of Budget

THE REPUBLICANS have been increasingly aware of the way inflation is pinching the average American. They know how the cost of food (in the average family budget has climbed and limbed until it absorbs nearly half of the income

rise sounds like very bad news, since it could be the herald of depression. The difference wings is not confined to details of legislation.

this election year,

a constructive approach. They think that the

through the New Deal era.

nd are the stalwarts who follow Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska. itting tight, confident that they ...c¢rustive approach. - As Republican leader

ing Ives of New York. They

Ke FO od a bill proving ' 2 ag, ils Nivel sampaign for

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spring. Sens. Ives and Baldwin ‘election.

lords the right of appeal locally They are fearful of what a bad

groups. The fact that prices of leveling off, which is doubtful in prices for necessities continue to

; 5 . in Euro between the two Republican - I period to the spiral the basic approach to politics in -Ives-Baldwin faction believes in blame on the other side in an power: by default. ’

Favor Constructive Approach SENS. IVES and Baldwin have particularly strong feelings on this score. Each in his own state demonstrated what can be done with a in the legislature in Albany, Sen. Ives shaped a constructive program that won elections for his party. He sponsored and pushed to adoption measures such as New York's Fair Employment Practices law. In ‘Connecticut Sen. Bdldwin followed the same

in 1938, he refrained from exploiting the scandals Democratic administration. instead about what his party could do to make Connecticut a. better state and he won the

Naturally it is not just politics and the chances for '48 that concern these conscientious Senators.

could do to the country and thé world. The cost of living is still moving sharply upward. In a preliminary report on the change from November. to December of last year, the .Bureau of Labor Statistics showed ‘that the cost of living index had moved up more than 1 per cent in a month—which is a drastic change. The experts who compile the index see nothing to alter the upward trend. They ‘talk of explosive possibilities in certain foods, particularly meat, with the explosion related to crop conditions here and

Constfuctive action by Congress might put a It is such constructive action’ that. the. Flanders-Baldwin-Ives wing ‘is urging. They insist it is not enough merely to pile the

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| “etther Sen. Taft or Gov. Dewey. But-a few. free thinkers here are

Oh; yes==and John Bricker of Ohio Tt's-a GOP tradition that the party leaders—not the people—pick -the candidate. Wendell Willkie’s nomination in 1940 was just a once-in-a-century accident.

Party leaders are already dedicated to the sacred cause of seeing |

that their steam roller is never again wrecked in the ditch that way. So Sen. Bricker is the man many party big-wigs would ‘really like to see as the radiator ornament on their machine. Sen. Prieker is net openly a. candidate, He is openly supporting Sen. Taft. But if Sen. Taft and Gov, Dewey fight each other to a stalemate at Philadelphia next June, don't rule out the possibility of a deal to put over John Bricker, the handsome silverhaired knight from Columbus.

Progressives May Get Chance IT IS exactly this prospect which now encourages progressive Republicans td think about striking another blow for freedom. They take hope in the fact that Gallup polls so far have shown President Truman can heat Sen. Taft and Gov. Dewey — even with Henry Wallace running as a third party candidate. This is why Republican progressives are beginning to hope. they can put over a candidate, But who? . Here is a real opportunity for the poll-takers. If the voters

startle the paunchy party leaders right off their perches. It might shot, for instance, that the biggest man in the Republican Party today is Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan. The progressive label could not have been hung on him in his earlier years, but he can wear it today. He has rather definitely told his Michigan backers he is not interested in the presidential nomination. He will be 64 years old on March 22. That's pretty well along for anyone to start being President—though Harry Truman will be 64 on May 8. But Sen. Vandenberg, teamed with Mr. Stassen or Gov. Warren, would -be a hard ticket to beat. 1f Sen. Vandenberg is out of the race, progressives feel that the country might fare much worse than by settling for Mr. Stassen and Gov. Warren, if it whnted vigorous young leadership. It-wouldn't make much difference which headed the ticket. Their biggest drawback is lack of Washington experience. Maybe that's an advantage. "

Beginnings of GOP Progressive Bloc than anything else is the fact that there is no organized bloc of progressives in the party. movement in Republican congressional delegations, particularly in ‘the Senate, ’ . . 1f they moved together, it would be impossible to laugh off a combination including Sens. Aiken and Flanders of. Vermont,

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Tobey of New Hampshire, Lodge and Saltonstall of Massachusetts, Vandenberg and Ferguson of M Cooper of Kentucky,

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WHAT SPOILS the chances of these two candidates more’

There is the making of such a-

Side: Glances—By Galbraith =

World-Bank Warned

to preserve peace in Palestine withdraw, and to make clear fo the world that ‘the decision of the United Nations is not - a serap of paper. Y : WHAT THE HAGANAH IS .. Second, during this crucial interim between the decision of the Assembly and the actual withdrawal of-the British, order must be main- - tained in Palestine. To place an embargo on the importation of munitions into Palestine, when the Mufti can draw arms from other Arab states, will not tend to. produce order... Haganah in Palestine mus} be. differentiated from the terrorists. It is a band of Jewish men and women claiming no- objective other than the defense of their lives and their homes. The conduct of the Arabs is a threat to inter national peace and we should ask our govern. ment to support those who.are defending decision of the United Nations. wo This is not merely a pro-Jewish position. This i8 a pro-American position and a proUnited Nations position, Nor must we forget our ultimhte. That if, in the words of Dr. Weizmann, a state where. Arabs do not dominate Jews and Jews do not dominate Arabs. There is a great basis of good will between right-thinking Arabs and right-thinking Jews in Palestine- upon which the sttucture of two such states can be built. What is going on today is an attempt to destroy that good will, engineered by friends of Hitler and enemies. df the United Nations, who are trying to reduce the decision of the United ‘Nations to mockery. we This statement; I believe, raises a standard to which every right-thinking American, Jew or Christian, and every supporter of the United Nations can with confidence and hope adhere.

|\/ORLD AFFAIRS . ., By William Philip Simms

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Of Currency Crisis WASHINGTON, Jan. 20—The records reveal that the World Bank and its sister organization, the International Monetary Fund,

‘ago unless prompt action were taken to head it off.

British exchequer, told a meeting of the Fund and Bank that in Europe “There are grave dangers in many countries of economic collapse.” The tides, he said, “are fast running out.” And the

us all.” “At the time of Mr, Dalton’s warning—more than a year after the Bank and Fund were set up—the 16 Marshall Plan nations of Western Europe were In session in Paris. So he urged his listeners to “take counsel together, each with a full sense of the gravity of this historic hour.” It might be, he said, “our final oppor tunity.” wt tl - For anyone to say today, thereforé, that France had sprung surprise by devaluing the franc doesn’t hold water. Back in September, 1947, the plight of France and Italy admittedly was precarious. Ifaly met the situation in part in November by deval-

uing the Tire.- That France was able to avert the inevitable for 80 long is more surprising than that she finally took the plunge

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progressives; than right now.

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pin Thye of Minnesota, Morse of Oregon. Others probably belong in this club. Sen. Ives of New York, for instance, if he were not pledged to Gov. Dewey. There is no intention of slighting anyone. It would be a pleasure td welcome others to the clubhouse. More might joint the movement if there were real progressive

The important point is that there is still a germ of the old Theodore Roosevelt progressivism alive in the party. There are millions of Americans who would like to see the Republicans step out again on the T. R. path. They've been’ waiting for it for years. They voted for F. D. Roosevelt while waiting. They will never have a better opportunity to rejoin the party, as

OURS 18 A moral position. We are in.for a long drawn-out political and economic war.—Gen! Luchis D. Clay, commander,

YOU CAN call me-an isolationist if you want fo, but I'm America ) 3 \ «Rep. R F. Rich (R. Pa.).

‘A Return to Pre-war Anarchy’

MR. ‘DALTON is no longer chancellor of the exchequer. He was succeeded by Sir Stafford Cripps. But he still clings to his view that it could be fatal If it were left to each nation to save itself individually from the perils of which he warned. That kind of devaluation, he indicated:in London yesterday, is dangerous. “It is a return” he observed, “to pre-war anarchy in foreign exchange.” ‘

France, She will. remain a member, but will be mildly pun a loss, France will not be allowed to ‘draw any more rector

against her subscription. The Fund's managing di , Camille: Gutt of Belgium, said in Washington yesterday that he was hope-

ful the situstion could be corrected before international rules and standards “go overboard.” ; - : ‘Tide’ Must Be at Ebb Now

” WHETHER “international rules and standards go overboald. it now seems plain, depends on whether the interested at ments take Mr. Daiton’s advice. “The tide of fate” must be low ebb now. : emt : were The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund = set up at Bratton Woods in July, 1944. Most nations are rs bers. Russia and her satellites, as usual, however, are ou

sniping. ; bil i and 10 © The World Bank aims to help post-war ruction promote a balanced world trade. The Fund's principal

ital In proportion to their ability. The United States Is cipal contributor, its share of the Bank beg $3,175,000,000 = a

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