Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1948 — Page 14

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The Telioris Report THE report of the ope County Grand Jury on Julietta infirmary is the result of months of earnest study by the jurors. The recommendations it includes are thoughtful and constructive, and they should be put into effect. In making their report, it seemed to us, the jurors leaned over backward in an effort to be completely fair « + » 8Ven generous . , . to those responsible for the conduct

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of the institution, and thus responsible for whatever is |

wrong with its operation. But to any who, for reasons of their own, pretend that this report exonerates Julietta as a “well run” or “ably managed” institution, we can only suggest that they read the report. A report that recommends a complete revision of the entire management, installation of an accounting system, installation of at least a rudimentary planning of food to be bought and cooked,

———g beginning of compliance with the -minimum-health-stand--|

ards ordered by the state government, and a revision of the whole system of letting: contracts, which it calls “inefficient and -uneconomical” is not, in- our opinion, a description of a well run or ably managed institution.

THE GRAND JURY found, as The Times had found

-before-it,-that the records show. énough meat is purchased

for Julietta to provide an adequate diet . . . nearly 10 pounds a month per inmate: It did not go into. the fact that less than two pounds a month of this meat was actually reaching the inmates of Julietta . . . a fact attested by the state-

“ments of Julietta’s own superintendent, by the only official

written menus that could be found, by the statements of the inmates themselves, and by the personal observation of

Times Writer Richard Lewis while he worked in Julietta's

kitchens as an assistant cook. The jurors did, however, offer a cure for this condition,

in their proposal that qualified persons be placed in charge “of receiving supplies to make sure the institution gets what -

it pays for, and that food supplies don’t mysteriously dis-

; appear between the delivery invoics and the Julietta tables. |

wipe out the obvious discrepancy between what the county

buys and what the inmates get.

ON THE "WHOLE the grand jury has done a good job... and it has not been an easy one. It has undertaken to improve conditions at Julietta, not to fix blame for any conditions that may exist, and improved conditions, more economical and more efficient operation, are very evidently , what the people of Marion County want. . On that subject the voters themselves spoke, it seems to us, very plainly at the May primary elections when two incumbent county commissioners were repudiated by their

own party.

More Voice Trouble

(CONGRESS is in a dither—again—about the Voice of America. And this time it's a Grade A dither, with Senators seething, Representatives raging and investigations blooming in all directions. - It started when Indiana's Sen. Capehart read to a Senate from a series of Spanish language broad-

casts beamed by the Voice to Latin-American listeners. Sup-

posed to portray the virtues of democracy in the U. 8. A, the scripts were studded with such gems as these: ° “New England was founded on hypocrisy and Texas on sin.” “The Quakers of Pennsylvania were and continue “Nevada has no interest in itself; it's a land of cowboys and its two principal cities are in competition. In Las Vegas people get married, and in Reno they get divorced.” “Utah is a kind of oyster.” “Alabama is not a state of stupendous cities of brilliant history, but it has the importance of being the darkest of all.” . Up rose gentlemen from New England and Texas, from Nevada and Utah, from Pennsylvania and Alabama. Up rose their colleagues, in angry suspicion that other states

‘had been similarly aapersst Up rose demands for aki

‘gies and "explanations: ruc mrviotn “Who,” inquired Texas Tom Connally, ‘heading for a truly magnificent anti-climax—‘“who dug up these filthy falsehoods? = They are saboteurs. They are traitors to: their country. Our worst fears have been realized. It would be better not to send anything. » Some sought to fix all blame on the State Department. Others pointed out that Congress itself had required the department to give a share of Voice of America broadcasting to private enterprise, but had limited its funds for checking what went out.

THE NATIONAL BROADCASTING co. in whose studios the offending scripts originated, said that at the time-“personnel was not available to provide English translations.” As soon as it discovered what had gone forth in Spanish, the red-faced NBC added, the script writer and the supervisor who had passed his masterpieces were fired. Well, the history of the Voice of America has been illstarred from the beginning. Much tripe, not calculated to convince people of other lands that American democracy is superior to Russian communism, has bedn ‘exported on the ether. These latest exhibits cap a climax of asininity. According to Sen. Capehart, the Voice is now broadcasting at a rate of about 300,000 words daily. We share Sen, Vandenberg’s opinion that it would be well to send far fewer words and have strict supervision over what is sent. And we hope that kind of supervision will be supplied under George V. Allen, the career diplomat who now heads the

* State Department division responsible for the Voice.

If not, the American people will surely agree with Sen. . Connally: It would be better not to send anything.

Frugal Conversationalists WHEN Jacob Malik arrived to replace Andrei Gromyko "as Russia's chief spokesman in the United Nations, he

set some sort of record by answering “No comment” to |

about 30 questions put to him by New York reporters. At that, the new delegate may turn out to be more talkative than Mr. Gromyko, whose only answer to so many

In Tune

By MARQUIS CHILDS WASHINGTON, May 31—This Congress is

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“Top Reds Not Tgnoring

OUR FRIEND * # He's missing from our ranks today, But sorrow not, nor give to tear, He surely can't be far away,

likely to end with a record of having “appropriated more for military expendftures than any other peacetime Congress in history. In the

Popular Urge for Peace

same session it has pinched and pared on the

Jue Sa Joo:

We feel his“presence near.

The greatest oak some day must fall, To better serve mankind; 80 too, he has passed along,

A ter work-to-find. service that approaches adequacy. Peace starves es it while war is fattened on what is scarcest and Though others at his desk will be, . , | dearest.

To forge the pattern that he left,

things that make for stability in this country and in the world.

The last goes even for the State Department

although, after a great struggle, it was possible. to get an appropriation for am information

When we look at Russia, the contrast is even

may go much deeper than an A recent visitor here from familia with the trend of in, horomgn) guy Soviet ranks, put it this way: “The Soubie is that we fond J dtr exploit what is parently a ror out and Fo go back 4 fo the old life of privation and oppression. I believe if we could make a bonafide offer of 40 acres and a mule

On every hand his work we see, The useful notches that he cleft.

Perhaps we'll meet again In the room where angels sit, Beyond the Great White Way.

80 let us each endure the worst, While seeking for the best; And strive to learn of finer things. That we may counsel with the blest. ~JAMES E. CLAYTON. ® o o : It's an even bet whether forest fires or pienickers will do the most damage this™ summer. ® & ¢

THOUGHTS ON THE MONUMENT

Where Market and Meridian circle ‘round That beloved plot of Hoosier ground, There in the center, proudly dominant, “Stands the Soldiers and Sailors Monument.

Where Our Lady of Victory looks down. Sculptors with: poetry in their hearts Have carved a masterpiece of art.

80 thoroughly democratic in design For the common soldiers of the“line, Those men who carried on their shoulders Those heavy long-barreled muzzle loaders.

‘The lads who pushed the-ironclads-south From St. Louis to the river’s mouth. For those who waded mud and slime To wheel the field piece into line.

In time it has served as a rendezvous For the Grand Old Army of the Blue, And then for the hoys who warred with

Spain With their battle ery: “Remember the Maine!”

Veterans scarred and battle weary From the Argonne and Chateau Thiery. And now for the lads who proved their worth "On the far flung battlefields of earth.

Boy Scout troops their first steps learning, --For-rookies - vets returning.

3 going, i _ The Grand Old Arena ‘has become

Great - stage for everything under the sun.

Both Peoples Want Peace :

-A_thing of beauty from base to crown. ein

| The reply repeated all the stale generalizations

~ failed to gain.

~ for home consumption as It Was & new move

are hog refuge in the zones of ‘Germany

sharper. World War II did, enormous tion in Russia, so that it is necessary to back toward a level that was already painfully low in comparison to American standards. Yet the little that comes out of that oppressive land is almost all concerned with armed mig" The pictures of Stalin and the members of the Jolearo sake i Red Squsre on May De show them in‘ full military regalia, viewing fleets of planes and miles of marching men. We are told of the largest tank ever made and of new bombers and fighters.

in the U. 8. A. for every make good on it—they woul

dil

. them up all the time."

are. Here was one real accomplishment of the recent exchange of notes and the public declarations that followed, Both peoples are longing for an assurance of peace. The knowing speak of Russia’s “peace offensive,” putting the whole affair down to a tactical maneuver intended to deflect American interest and weaken American determination. It can be interpreted that way and with considerable supporting evidence. Certainly Stalin's Foply 16 "Henry Wallace's | open letter was almost entirely propaganda rather than a realistic effort to remove the obstacles that stand in the way of true peace.

that have come out of the Soviet propaganda machine for the past three years.

Kremlin Must Face Public Opinion

BUT IT I8 a mistake, In. my opinion, to | dismiss it Tay as a new tactic aimed at | gaining what the tactic of bluster and threat

. In the same way it is a mistake to assume that the little group of men in the Kremlin can entirely ignore popular feeling. The Boviet “peace offensive” may have been fully as much

in the Soviet-U. 8. chess game. There is at least one piece of tangible evidence showing why the Kremlin might hesitate to send Russian troops into Western That is the continuing desertions of officers attached giiad 15.0 occupation troops. Matione

in Eastern pi gie .....-At a rate that is fairly. Si nay.

under control of the U. 8. and the British. The common soldier in the ranks of the Russian

rter—and really t have an army in‘Germany very long. Not unless they locked

The Voice of America

“THe WATT fo STAUGAEr, “matm” and steal, ~~

Cothimission.™)

The bands, parades, the frenzied cheers Have echoed and Fe-sctioed ugh the years. | Same. The songs at Christmas and Easter time When the shaft becomes a Christian shrine.

And when in remembrance, we come to lay Our wreath of flowers Memorial Day, To soothe the mothers’ hearts that yearn For those brave lads who will not return.

THE RESOLVE . We must keep the faith of our honored dead Who have made the sacrifice in our stead; The torch from their falling hands we grasp, New pledged to the ever-unfinished task. To challenge wrong wherever we see it. And whatsoever the, cost—s0 be it. . ~—EDWARD MOYER. ® © Some folks who claim they have open minds should close them up a while for - repairs. - ® © o

WE STILL REMEMBER

Long sleep the boys in blue and gray, These soldiers, 'neath the mounded clay. Not yet forgotten for the strife That ripped apart the Union's life.’ Remembered yet, in tears and smarts, We place upon their graves, our hearts.

Remembering too, the boys in brown, In every city, county, town. The boys who held the Nazi hordes, The girls who dared the villains’ swords Are cherished still with love and tears And silence, close beside their biers. _ “

Oh! wars of hatred, wars of greed— How long, Oh God! will nations breed

Or live in dread and base appeal; How long, Oh God! will weapons cast The dying, that shall be our last! : 5% 5. B.: TOKOPF,

A Montana man tried po break up a sitdown strike in his plant with a cleaver. Tacks might have worked ng ag ,

FOSTER'S FOLLIES ("WASHINGTON — Truman Names First Woman Member to Federal Communications -

FCC achieves a new look, Whith may bring it added strength, (Plus a note from. fashion’s blue.book:— Lovely waves of proper length.) ‘

For although their sex be “weaker,” *Womenfolk may point with pride:— Nearly every home's loud speaker Is upon the distaff side,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

COR, 1948 BY NEA aaAVIOR, ING. T. . RED. U. 8. PAT. Ore

“She threatened to kill me if | tell him ‘the wasn | wouldn't do it, and now listen’ to her oesing Sweetness “and .

personality! has

" Today California issues no

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same-thing- if -he-were-not-so-and, in fact, locked up each night in barracks, Here is the sign of an internal paras that

OUR TOWN . .. J. ByAnton Scherrer ty You'll Eat Garlic in California, And Like It, With Every Dinner

AFTER A THREE MONTHS’ absence involving an exploration of the heights and depths of civilization to which ours has attained, I deemit my duty $8 yeport that California 33 In the grip of garlic. Time was—and not so far back, either—when it was possible to protect one’s self simply by steering clear of all dishes labeled “a la Provencale.” Brother, we are living in a different age.

warnings, with the result ~ that practically everything that meets the teeth (or dentures, in my case) packs the punch of garlic. To be sure, some California menu cards carry a notice (in the same fine print employed in insurance policies) that it is still possible to order a salad without a polluted dressing. Believe me, it's a half-truth. Indeed, it belongs to the category of half-truths which when analyzed confirm the conviction that any deviation from the absolute, no matter how slight, carries within ad the

Scherrer

A Treacherous Trick AT ANY RATE, when you rise to the bait (as I did) you'll discover somewhat to your amazement that the half-dozen cloves of garlic originally intended for the native California dressing were deliberately switched and, in this case, used to rub the bowl in which the salad is delivered to your table. This treacherous trick is considered eminently Kosher on the Pacific Coast. - way to account for it is the agricultural fact

that California produces no less ingr 15 million “ wl GPIB wr

of garito- fa a sents a trainload of 499 [reight cars piled high with the stuff. Thus to get rid of the stuff,

California uses every possible means at her

command-—no matter how foul—-to see to it that garlic moves under its own power. Nor is that all. When you complain that you have been tricked by a technicality wrapped in fine print, the kick is received with uplifted eyebrows and the admonition that so “little

CONVENTIONS

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THE FOLKS DID VOTE

If none of the three front

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and did not enter in a twelfth.

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And the only

date this year as in some other years. the primaries indicate, the conventionssnominate. The spring election contests in New. Hampshire, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Ohio and Oregon concerned altogether only 113 national convention delegates—only about one-tenth of those who The primaries indicate, the “conventions nominate,

among Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Sen, Robert A, Taft and Harold E. Stassen. These were the men who did the campaigning, spent the money, met the <olks and posed for pictures.

sleep, in some cases said some rather nasty things about one

Yet in so far as direct nomination of a party's candidate by the péople is concerned, it may all come to nothing--except, perhaps, In a negative way. The primaries, by being inconclusive, may have knocked all three out of the running.

to name someone quite outside the strife of the primaries, with Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan apparently in the best

Nebraskans Liked Vandenberg

He made an excellent showing, ‘too, considering. the fact that he ‘not only had made no campaign but actually had asked Nebraskans to vote for someone else. He made strenuous efforts to ’ keep his name off the primary ballot. -runners can get up enough steam fo fake the nomination and the Philadelphia conventions turns

took a pushing-around in the 1912 and 1920 Republican convenIn 1912, Theodore Roosevelt won nine primaries, Tost two wo Ohio. That year the redoubtable TR won, the primaries in -

garlic” was used to rub the bowl that only B drt could possibly have sensed its presence It's supposed fo put you in your proper place. I'll ignore the implied insult and confine myself for the moment to the Californians’ lamentable way of handling the English lanTo a Midlander brought up to believe that. words should be used with a certain amount of precision—enough, at any rate, to avoid libel suits—it is nothing short of shock“ing to note the abandon with which the Eng- . "lish language is kicked around on the Pacific Coast. And a case in point is the reckless usé of the phrase “a little garlic.” -

Ain't No Such Thing AFTER SHOVELING dow 231 restaurant meals all of which were tainted to some degree, I'm in a position to state with some authority that of all the passions practiced in this unpredictable world the least capable of conception—Ilet alone execition—is the possibility of using “a little garlic.” Take it from me, there just ain’t no such thing as “a little garlic.” - This elementary excursion into the realm of semantics takes on added significance when ...one learns that garlic isn't confined to Califor- |° nia “kitchens. “Believe if or nof, ft “Was “ever |" invaded the sacrosanct precincts of the barroom. In support of which I cite my discovery that an orthodox dry Martini is unknown in * California. In this case, the garlic is slipped in twice— once at the. beginning when the rim of the glass is rubbed with the stuff and, finally, at the end when a loaded “super-colossal” olive (California lingo) is dropped into the cocktail. - Sure, the olive is-loaded with garlic “which accounts for the taste that Hngers. ~*~ Of course, the wanton use of garlic wasn't the only thing I observed on my irip west. On one occasion I saw a live elephant crossing the desert.- He was headed east. And the “very same day I spied-a big bearded Mormon ‘with four adoring wives. They, too, were east in an enormous truck filled with all their household goods and chattels. Like as not, both phenomena represent: protests of something right around the corner. However, they don’t carry the imminent threat of garlic.

NOMINATE—

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do with picking the party's candiIt has been said often: convention on the first ballot.

added up to is a possible deadlock

They poured ratory, worked up big deficits of

Streets x

By Mrs. E. Ogle The City wants us to keep our homes and yards clean, but can’t something be done about our dusty, unpaved streets? I live on Ford St. on the South Side and the street has not been oiled for two years. dust is so thick when automobiles and trucks pass. that it is impossible to have doors and .windows open. It does little good to try to .keep our house clean,

View-Blocked

By George Schultz There is a no-park corner of West and New York Sts: hr ob structs thé view of the stop-and-go ign. A oud many think Raymond St. from the te east to Kentucky Ave. should be widened. Rs too narrow and rutty.. \Just ‘a couple of ideas I wish to pass along.

side, and he was able to obtain his renomination in the

Hoosier Forum

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

Fabulous Hoosier : By Mary Studebaker, 18321; N. Capitol Ave. With Hoosier interest centered on the 500Mile Race, it is doubly exciting to read the . book by Jane Fisher describing the founder of the Speedway. It is a chronicle of the life, promotions and the daring deeds of Carl Graham Fisher; titled “Fabulous Hoosier.” ~ It begins with the scene of the man riding in a white automobile strapped to the underof a red balloon, sailing over down. town ‘Indianapolis. He was promoting interest in the horseless carriage. Soon he got the ides that an automobile should travel at night as well as day and almost blew up the town with “his Prest-O-Lite experiments. He built his factory, then built the town of Speedway to bring workers to town. His next dream was a smooth highway across the continent. It became the Lincoln Highway. He saw a morass in Florida and made it Miami Beach. A dynamic dreamer, this Hoosier born tycoon. We owe him much for ushering in the age of speed and making Indianapolis known around the world.

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Primary Tilts Produced Only 113 Delegates

WASHINGTON, May 31--The crossroads whooping-and-hollering in the Republican presidential primaries these past four

California, Illinois, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, Ore gon, Pennsylvania and South Dakota. He lost Massachusetts to President Taft and North Dakota to the elder Bob La Follstit

But Mr. Taft was in the White House, patronage was OOP

In 1920, California's Sen. Hiram Johnson and Gen. Leonard Wood were the big primary winners. Mr. Johnson carried Call fornia, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota and Oregon Gen. Wood won in Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, South Dakota and ‘Vermont. Gov, Frank Lowden of Illinois and Sen. W G. Harding of Ohio had each carried his own state. Yet despite his brilliant primary record, Sen. John was in better than third position in the famed “smo room convention. Mr. Harding ran last for’ six. ballots, nest last for two more. But when the President-makers got

to deciding, they washed out the primaries and chose a man W

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on Mr, Vandenberg in Nebraska.

will be’ set. The primary winners

"He even defeated President Taft ovat mn at’ Paliageiphiss

had been in no contest outside his own state.

Dewey Won Final Battle

IN THE FOUR 1948 présidential primaries in which Mosars Dewey and. Stassen were in direct competition-—Wisconslr Hampshire, Nebraska and Oregon—Mr. Stassen got abou votes and 36 delegates; Mr. Dewey about 342,000 an gates. Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R. Wis.), a Stassen partisan, this makes Mr. Stassen the logical choice, But Gov, Dewey won the final battle in Oregon where he ample time, as he had not in Wisconsin and Nebraska, to LA pare for it. Despite Mr. Stassen’s tireless campaigning gains in the four primaries where he competed direc New Yorker, Gov. Dewey is stronger because he was stro before a single primary vote was cast, Mk. Taft did fairly well in holding o Ohio primary, but much of his strength today is on the, of his appeal to party leaders in states without primaries. Time was When some men believed the primary might the national convention a mere formality: thought if possible. But again in 1048, although. given indications of candidates’ ? Jopular appeal, they

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