Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1948 — Page 12

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; Why We Choose Dewey as Leader reason we hope Gov. Dewey will be elected Presiis the dangerous world situation. He has a better hae of preventing war, in our judgment. If Russia - forces war, we believe defense would be safer in his hands. Of course there is no choice between the patriotism of the two candidates. Their Americanism is beyond challenge, their commitment to peace with justice cannot be questioned. But good intentions are not enough. Wisdom in fixing : , skill in carrying it out, administrative efficiency in picking and guiding a diplomatic-defense team, ability to co-operate with Congress and our allies, make all the difference between well-meaning mediocrity and maximum results. On most, if not all, of those counts the Republican * candidate seems to us superior to his opponent.

. » ” . . ” FORTUNATELY American foreign policy is now bipartisan. The campaign competition for credit for this saving grace is absurd, for in fact the two men joined in © lifting this issue above party self-seeking. At least that was. the case until the President's. Vinson-mission-to-Mos-cow ‘blunder, from’ which lie was saved hy Secretary Mar--“shall. Since then Gov. Dewey has the better record. In theory their diplomatic policies are the same, except In the Far East. The Republican candidate is thé more concerned with helping China withstand Red penetration and aggression. We think this is exceedingly important. But whether in the Far East or Europe or the Middle

coming four years can be summarized in the one word “Russia.” Our President must be able to face up to Mr. Stalin. : That requires a firmness and steadiness which the unpredictable Mr. Truman sometimes lacks in the pinches. Mr. and he does not -act-on whim. He moves with sare hut he can be awfully hard when he has to be. That is what it takes when Russia is threatening war. In a crisis such as this, it comes down to a President's capacity for leadership—leadership of a United America, leadership of the democratic forces in the United Nations. | Applying that test, we avy more confidence in Mr. Dewey Fe than in Mr. Truman.

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: Crime and Mental Ulness HE state has taken its first step toward a new method in handling psychopathic criminals, the mentally distorted perverts whose assaults and molestations of women’ and children have increased alarmingly in the last few

A bill that would give law enforcement agencies au- . thority to commit psychopathic perverts to mental insti“tutions “until -fully-and permanently recovered’. has been... dratted by the Attorney General's office for submission to the Legislature. This measure, if passed, would mean that persons suspected of being mentally distorted ‘sexually could be taken off the streets before any serious crime is committed. Upon proper evidence of mental distortions the patient could be turned over by a court to the Indiana Council for Mental Health for indefinite custodial treatment. The present criminal code provides only for sentencing these sick persons to a year or two in prison fot some specific crime. They are turned loose at the end of their terms in many instances worse than when they were committed. It is usually these parplees who are caught in serious crimes later, If, properly administered the proposed new mental | treatment law could go a long way toward reducing the rate of attacks. It is time for the public to get behind-such a program.

Berlin Boomerang THE news from Berlin is not all bad. There are signs | that the Soviet blockade of Allied sectors of the city has | , boomeranged against the entire Russian zone of Germany. | At the same time, Allied zones in western Germany are | makihg remarkable economic progress. rr A month after the Russians halted all ground and |

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water traffic from the west into Berlin the Allies retaliated |

eastern Germany. Now for the first time official Red publications admit a serious economic decline in their zone. They blame the lag in steel and metals production on # “lack of machinery which formerly came from western | Germany.” Ruhr coal and steel and various machine products are the chief items cut off by the counter-blockade. These economic difficulties in the Russian zone are reflected in growing social unrest. The German population is increasingly hostile to the Red dictatorship and is show- | ing this openly. The Russians have to augment their police “force to maintain order.” 1 ens inn loll coi. rt. { MEANWHILE the trend in Belich Aerican “bizonia” lag ¥pwaid Steel output has almost doubled in six r coal production is Tising steadily, eonsummer goods are coming on the market, and living standards are greatly improved. The currency reform, in creating an incentive for harder work also ‘has lifted morale in surprising fashion, This contrast between worsening conditions in the ‘Soviet zone and revived "hope in Bizonia is well known to ‘on both sides of the line. The iron curtain has » prevent the eross-flow of information, and refugees s Soviet side bear constant witness to the facts of tyranny. not even e devastating difference between life western zones outside Berlin has imGermans as much as the spectacular Americant which daily defies the blockade of the capital. of this exploit has done more than

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Barton Rees Pogue

EMPTY ‘WAGON

He who orders others around with loud insistance may seem like a most confident gogetter. Very likely he is a “case” sho needs a bit of psychiatric help. He is trying hard to convince himself that he is important, People who talk loud and laugh uproariously in p bile ‘are doing the same thing: They are sufffring from the virus of low self-confidence and are trying to hide it. Noise and uproar are frequently used as remedies for lack of self-confidence. One of the strongest appeals of alcohol is that it gives the addict a larger measure of self-confidence: His tongue is loosed, he is afraid of no one; the raucus laugh and vacant stare are the signs of the “escape mechanism.” He who seeks to impress others is battling against his deep feeling of inadequacy. When he has achieved self-confidence it matters less | to him whether or not anyone is impressed, GEORGE D. SHEER, New Castle. |

PATTER”

It's monotonous “coming and going” To earn one's dally bread, But “coming and going” is better Than being at home “sick in bed.” TrAPLINE, Indianapolis.

HAD | ONLY KNOWN

Had I only known the value of the love I cast aside, How faithfully it would with me abide; Had I only known . . . That precious jewel would have been my own. ~ROSE BOUSE, Indianapolis. “* *

BLESSED

One who scatters joy upon each path, Never knows the wicked pangs of wrath. —CAROL B. WEINBERG, North Vernon.

> o JUST ONE OF THOSE DAYS

..Life isn't a bow! of cherries, += Don't Tet them tell you 86. For some. life may be easy, x For others trouble grows and grows.

You can try with all your strength, Your way to smoother make, But if you are like me, my friend, You'll never get a break.

Today's just one of those off days, I'm sympathetic as can be— —whe-—JT-feel sorry for? No one but “poor little me.’ -ANNE STEYASON, Indianapolis.

SHADOWS

Black is the forest . black and deep, - With a pale moon riding high; Grim is the school house . . . lone and still . ? Silhouette on the sky.

Gone are the dear friends... long ago, But memories flood the night; Voices haunting my thoughts . . . my dreams . . . Out of the pale moonlight,

‘were about.

Realities come with dawn ... i and the light - Of which I am ever a part; But at night . . . the school house and forest— ~ Are etched on my. lonely heart! —RUTH RicHL) rs, Crawfordsville.

PERFECTION

Her friends and neighbors thought of her as Christ-like, | For she was quiet, .gentle-voiced and good; " Noble in speech and deed, she stood for many Their ideal of the best in womanhood. J

«She held. her family in the path of duty: ... Perfect herself, perfection she demanded; No understanding of their little failings; No slightest error went unreprimanded; No laughing at their jokes, no sense of humor, Correcting their English—for she was a purist She gently made their bondage as severe As ever sentence passed by any jurist.

Husband and growing daughter paid her hom- cameras.

age, The Key is the New York governorship. Within the confines of the most populous and ‘wealthy state in the union is every problem and every conflict—social. economic, racail. The governor who learns to manage these problems has a running head-start for the Presidency, - both

Fears and repressions loyally disguised, . (For how can goodness such as hers be censured?) But deep in their hearts, almost unrealized, They hated her.

The reverence of the world she had inspired, But lost at home the love she most desired. ~—MILDRED MUSGRAVE SHARTLE, Danville.

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WORLD OPINION . . . By William H. Newton

U. S. Second Best In Debates Before UN

PARIS, Oct. 18-In the great battle for word public opinion going on between communism and democracy, thé United States is coming off second best. It is not difficult to see why. The American delegates to the United Nations sessions ard making speeches which would win an A for effort at Harvard Law School while the Soviet delegates are talking over the heads of dignified diplomats directly to the common people of the world. And in a language they can understand. The American spokesmen are surrounded by bright young men of the State Department's foreign service whose idea of a master stroke against Andrei Vishinsky is to quote something Lenin wrote in 1911 which seemingly explains present-day Soviet policy. Instead of convineing the common people of the world that Communist Russia is threatening world peace, we are attempting. to convince the Russians that Lenin was a Communist.

Disregard of Human Righis INSTANCE after instance of flagrant treaty violations by the Soviets, case after case of their cynical disregard of all rights are ignored. Instead, we are hauling Russia before the world court-of public opinion om invoived: questions of Com~ munist dialectics,

Warren ‘Austin’s major statement of U: 8. policy this week -

was in large part a series of quotations from Lenin and other Communist -léaders proving what. “long. Bearers L that Communists are bent on world domination.

~Boyiet speakers are direct, forceful and challenging. " Ours be

“are wordy, obtuse and generally vague. Here ate some examples: _ Becretary of State George C, Marshall at the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly said: “There is. no plot AMONE members of “this to-keep any nation -orgroup of nations in a minority. The minority position is self-imposed. The record shows that there are no mechanical majorities at the disposal of any nation or group of nations. Majorities form quickly in support of the principles of the charer. Nations consistently .ih the minority would be welcomed among the ranks of the majority-—but not at the price of compromise of basic principles.”

‘If You Are Really for Peace’ : WHAT Mr. Marshall meant was: “We don’t control the votes . here. You Communists cian join if you're really for peace, but we are not going against everything we believe in just to get your votes.”

ing the Berlin blockade, said: “The hollowness of the various Soviet pretexts for the imposition of the Berlin’ blockade ~ completely exposed at the recent meeting of the four military governors when, in total disregard of the directive agreed upon in Moscow, the Soviets demanded measures of permanent control of traffic between Berlin and the West, measures to be continued even after the western zone currency would have been removed from Berlin, The Soviet note reinforced this demand and thus gave final proof, if any were needed, that the Soviet blockade measures are designed to force the three western powers to

abandon under duress their rightful position in Berlin." WHat Dr. Jessup meant was; “The Russians proved their

Philip Jessup, who made the principal American plea for dift-

‘DESTINY SPECIAL’ .

the Dewey campaign who na the “Victory Special” It is part of the atmosphere of ‘success skillfully cultivated from the outset and which. now glows like a technicolor sunrise. But they might have given this highly efficient train an even more portentious name— they might have called it the “Destiny Special.” For over it hangs a larger air of destiny and great events to’come, You can almost hear, charged orchestra playing pomp and circumstance or, even, hail to the chief.. And, dentally, a few local bands in their fine Repub-~--Jican zeal have anticipated events to greet Gov. Dewey with the stirring anthem customarily re--served for the President of the United States. A great deal has been written about the clockwork skill with which this campaign is being run. made to sound at times as though it were a kind of mean trick to put over on the simple homespun rival county-fair style.

Moves Like Greased Lightning WHAT this ignores is the origin and background of the skill. that after six years as governor of New York and one previous contest for the Presidency, the Dewey campaign moves like greased lightning. Or, it might be more accurate to say, greased lightning slowed to proper tempo for television

There are striking parallels between Dewey and certain of his immediate predecessors in the gov ernor’ s chair at Albany.

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Keep letters 200 words or less on any subject with which you are familiar. Some letters used will be edited but content will be preserved, for here the People Speak in Freedom.

‘Time to Rescue the People’ By W. F,, City The Indianapolis Railways is trying to raise the fares again. I think it is about time someone came to the rescue of the people of Indianapolis who have to ride them. Why can't some other transit company step in and take over if the Indianapolis Railways are operating at such } a loss? They have so many passengers on they can't seat them, but don’t worry, they will stop for more and keep stopping until the car is so overloaded one is almost afraid to try to get off. I've had it happen to me. If this company is losing $1390 a day, why don’t they declare themselves insolvent and go into voluntary receivership? 1 dare say, if a person driving an auto pulled some of the tricks some trolley drivers do, someone would be seriously injured or killed. I think we are paying too much now to ride. Then we have to be so inconvenienced.

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‘I Remember Hoover Years’ By Mrs. Aria F. Fritch, 548 N. Pine St. *

1 well remember the Herbert Hoover years. Many of us do. He made great promises: A chicken in every pot, two cars in every garage. After he got in power, no one had a chicken to put in a pot. People couldn't afford a garage if they had a car. Those who had cars had to sell them _to have a little something to live on. No work. No money. No eat. How well 1 know. I went through it all. My children were grown and had jobs, but were laid-off “fromm ‘work. They had homes, but had to give them +yp.... Furniture..and. all, , They couldn't -make. payments. ‘People had to Age their Homes and. could not pay taxes. Bread lines and soup lines were here in our city. My brother was in War 1. He was one of the CCC boys at a dollar a day and bed and

By Marquis Childs

Clockwork skill Seen Behind ‘Management of Dewey Drive

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While it is unlikely that Mr. Dewey has such’ | a bombshell in the making, he is too positive | and farseeing not to have his own program in readiness long before January.

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real motive is to force us out of Berlin, They proved this when they tried to impose traffic restrictions even after we agreed to have a common currency there.” Compare this with statements like the following from Willard

_ L. Thorp of the State Department, speaking to the .economic

committee: “In the council sessions these debates have frequently tended to focus on the policies of the individual countries, most often the United States and the Soviet Union, and on groups of countries notably those responsible for no self-governing territories. and the countries participating in the organization for European economic co-operation. In some cases these discussions have been lifted into the broader aspects of policy and have been enlightening, but in other instances they have seemed to be aimed not at the members sitting around the table but at some outside audience. » ‘What Mr. Thorp meant by all this was that “most of ihe

‘arguments have been befWwssn Marshall Plan countries and iron

curtain countries. and the Russians have been puting out a lot of propaganda of facts,”

and Franklin D. Roosevelt, developed the same 8 in public management and the same adroitness in. political campaigning: “There are

Al Smith retained the accent and something of the heartiness of his early days on the FulMr. Roosevelt was the Hudson Valley aristocrat, tempered by a brush with death and long invalidism.

Sometimes Called Synthetic

MR. DEWEY has no strong individual perThis is one reason he is often called synthetic, an adjective his enemies sometimes applied to Mr. Roosevelt. It is significant that Mr. Dewey is the first candidate for the Presidency who was born in the twentieth cen-

In the very expertness of his campaign, he may .bé laying up future trouble for himself. They are broad enough to cover almost everyone.

But the time is coming on or about Jan. 21, when Mr. Dewey will have to begin making some tough decisions, it will not be possible to

Full-Dinner-Pail Campaign

THE Roosevelt experience agair suggests a | In 1936 FDR, running for his second term against a backdrop of almost certain vic- | tory, conducted what was in effect a full-din- | ner-pail campaign. Not until the last week or | so. when it could make no difference, talk about issues, and then ‘for the most part

Yes, shortly after the new Congress met in with an overwhelmingly Democratic majority, Mr. Roosevelt sent up his plan to remake the Supreme Court, a plan that must surely have been in his mind long before the |

“ton -on-ecoal production. That is:

this tax. to 30.01.40 cents-a ton,

+ with the United Mine Workers. Counting all the non-union mines ~and-4

_fAgured that 85,000,000 tons will come from the non-UMW mines.

meals. He was -at Nashville. Now he lies sick “in the. Veterans Hospital on Cold Spring Road. Been there six months, My husband

made as low as $22 in twe. weeks during those ~years and he is a good worker, too. I thanked God every day for such a President and for our good man Franklin Roosevelt. It was too bad that he ever had to pass away. I don’t think there can ever be another FDR. But we will try to keep the Democrats in power so we won't need to starve or freeze, Now my children all have their homes and businesses since the Democrats have been in power. |

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‘Golf Courses Need Attention’ By Tom Hankins, 522 Centennial St.

To Mr. Sallee {City Park Superintendent): In reference to your announcement to local newspapers regarding an economy program to cut out “useless activities” and improve park and play facilities next spring. The savings of approximately $1000 a month by closing the golf clubhouses for the winter is another item that should be credited’ to the profit ide of - theledger-along..with. the thou: sands of dollars from fees from we golfers. You tell us that extensive landscaping -is planned for parks—improvements to tennis courts and ball diamonds. Mr. Sallee, before too much planning is made; please turn to the records and see how much improvements have been made toward golf courses in past years. Then turn to records and see how much income we mennct. YOU received from tennis players, ball players, parks, etc. It's a known faét that golfers have been paying for their play for a long time. Next Sunday instead of taking a drive in the parks, take a walk around the first nine at Riverside, then ask yourself if .you would pay 50c to play on those greens, Make a note to | look up the quaiifications of the greenskeepers {you have. Then if you're not too tired look at the back nine at Coffin, but be careful in cross- | ing the creek on the 12th hole, that bridge is a | real hazard. If you go to South Grove, be sure | to take your thermos with some water, ‘cause | | |

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Why not give the local clubs the authority to hire and fire gll greenskeepers and workers? This would insure you of getting competent | men.

MINE UNION PROBLEMS .. ve By Fred W. Perkins

Experts See Lewis Heading for Fall

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18—-John L. Lewis comes out of the Cincinnati convention of the United Mine Workers at a new peak of power over his union and the coal-mining business. But industry experts here say he has set in motion forces that may bring a fall for himself and his organization. The reasons they give are economic— 1 one important particular the same that reducefl the Lewis union in the late 1920's to a weakness from which it was rescued by the NRA. In 1924 Mr. Lewis drove through the “Jacksonville agreement,” which provided the unheard-of basic wage of $7.50 a day for miners. Operators claimed they couldn't do business on that basis, 80 many mines closed down and were reopened as nonunion operations. Mr. Lewis used strikes and picketing to stop the trend but wasn't getting anywhere until he got government help.

Many Try Non-Union Methods

THE NEW factors, according to management spokesmen, offer inducemerit for operators again to try non-union methods. They say these factors will begin to work when the demand for coal lessens. Foremost among the factors is the union tax of 20 cents a up-the mine workers’ health and welfare fund at the rate of $100 million a year, The convention gave Mr. Lewis authority: to move for an increase In

But the tax is not paid by mite that are not under cron ao

~under.contract with. the Independent Progressive Mine. Workers, they represént almost 15 per cent of the national production. Of the 585,000,000 tons forecast for this year, it is

The result 18 that these mines are making an additional profit of 20 cents a ton. When competition grows keen they can cut their prices by 20 cents. The industry has known times when operators considered themselves fortunate to have a profit margin of 20 cents a ton,

Jobs in Non-Union Mines

ANOTHER FACTOR is the new initiation fee ‘of $50 for union members, upped from $10. According to management men, that will operate in two ways: Restrict the growth of the union, and cause young men, to whom $50 may look like a lot of money, to risk the cry of “scab” and take jobs in non-union mines. . The doubling of dues from $2 to $4 a month is regarded as a minor factor at present, but likely to ‘loom larger when the miners are not working full time taking home what union officials describe as the beat pay for labor in all American industry. Mr. Lewis’ threat to enforce a share-the-work program when slack times appear also is expected to tend toward dissatisfaction

.among miners who want steady incomes up to present levels,

It would be found among workers for companies possessing longterm marketing contracts and employees of steel company captive mines. / The captive mines do not depend on he general commerelal market but on how much fuel is required to keep the steal > mills going. ow»

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