Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 November 1948 — Page 34

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A Chance to Make Good AS GOOD an opportunity as any political party ever had to build a record of law enforcement in Marion County has been tossed into the laps of the Democrats, A majority of voters in this community decided to give a new set of officials a chance to reduce our crime rate and step up efficiency to keep pace with a rapidly growing metropolitan district. The people said with their votes that they were not satisfied with some of the performances of past administrations and asked for reforms.

. » ns THIS mandate was given To Prosecutor- elect George 8. Dailey and Sheriff-elect James F. Cunningham, the first Democrats to hold these offices since 1942. The same mandate from the same people was handed to Mayor Feeviey only a year ago at the ballot boxes. Now, with nearly all law enforcement machinery in the hands of one political party, the people of Indianapolis + and Marion County will expect dction—and no alibis.

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Good Winner

MANY a candidate has accepted defeat with becoming humility. Being a good loser isn't fun, but it's not too difficult. Once the traditional statement of concession and congratulation to the victor has been issued, the worst of the job is done. "Being a good winner is harder. Humbleness in the face of triumph is a real test for any man. And we think the country can't fail to be impressed by the way Harry S. Truman is meeting that test. What an opportunity for gloating the election gave him. What a temptation to strut and brag. But from him has come not one vindictive sentence, not one smug statement of self-gratulation, not one approving pat on his own back. Instead, to well-wishers in his home state, words like

this: “You've got to help me because I've got the biggest

job in the world . « I've been in many and many election campaigns, as you people here in Missouri know. After the election’s over I bear no malice or feel badly toward anyone, because the fellow who lost feels badly enough without eating crow.” '

[J » uw ” AND, to the throng greeting him on his return to the White House yesterday, this: “I can’t tell you how very much I appreciate this warm and cordial welcome . . . It is’ overwhelming. It makes a man study and wonder whether he is worthy of the confidence, worthy of the responsibility which has been thrust upon him . . . I shall look forward to the help and co-opera-tion of all the people.” . Mr. Truman achieved his surprising victory by an almost sidgle-handed fight. His graceful acceptance of that victory does not and should not mean, in our opinion, that he will now go soft. We expect to see him fight, and fight hard, to keep the campaign promises with which he won and to carry out what he is entitled to regard as the mandate of the election.

» - s ” ® » ON MANY issues in the future, as in the past, we will support Mr. Truman. We will not like some of the things we look for him to try to do. We shall try, to the best of our ability, to state why we do not like them and why we believe they should not be done. That is our Amercian right and, as we see it, our journalistic duty. “But whether, on specific policies, we agree or disagree with him, we expect to do so with heightened respect for and appreciatio. vi ——

Dulles Speaks for America ON THE heels of our presidential election the world has been given renewed evidence®of American national unity in foreign affairs. Though Republicans lost the election, Mr. Austin continues as our United Nations delegate and the ®pokesman chosen to defend the United States against Soviet attack at the UN yesterday was Gov. Dewey's chief adviser, John Foster Dulles. If Mr. Dullés®had been a Russian and on the losing side in a national political battle by this time he would be liquidated or in prison. Instead, he arose yesterday in the Paris meeting to represent a democracy above party and to ‘confront the stooges of Stalin—who had intervened in our national election in violation of international ‘agreements,

” ” AFTER dismissing Soviet charges of American aggression as “vicious falsehoods,” Mr. Dulles notified Russia that the United States had stopped disarming and intended to grow stronger to protect itself and others. He then spelled out for those who do not already understand—and that includes the one million Americans who voted for Henry Wallace—why the United States and other free nations found it necessary to rearm against the Russian menace: *That is in part because the UN Security Council's power to decide is crippled by veto, and its power to act is crippled by lack of military contingents. It is in part because the threat is deviously contrived.” Unlike Russia, he added, “we organize no fifth columns.”

THE United Nations understands the situation and looks to the United States for protection. That fact was » registered Thursday when the UN General Assembly, after six weeks in annual session, made its first major decision. It voted 40 to 6, with only the Soviet bloc opposing, in ‘favor of the Baruch plan for atomic energy control—after sartier rejecting by the same vote the Soviet sabotage plan. e basic Baruch plan had been perfected by all the nonmembers of the UN Atomic Commission but blocked by Russia for more than two years. Though there can be no efféctive international control of the bomb until Russia agrees, at least the General AsLa. has now fixed responsibility. -

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DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Hoosier GOP Row Fading

Changed Roles Seen for

Sens. Capehart and Jenner

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6—Dear Boss: President Truman's joyful return to Washington on Friday may be matched in a minor key when Indiana's two Senators get back here. ~ They also have reason for being elated. Both are Republicans and neither were up for re-election this year. If they had been they more than likely would not be coming back Jere at all. Sen, Homer E. Capehart will ‘start hearings on his basing-point business on Tuesday. But his voice will not be ds forceful as when he

started out, with the idea that his fihdings

would be gobbled up quickly by a GOP Congress and probably be accepted by Mr. Dewey,

Face Democratic Congress THEY will have to be submitted to a Democratic ongress now and President Truman—tha > to Farmer-Labor and just folks—is sta on at the White House while Gov, Dewey took the night boat for Albany. As head of the Senate subcommittee on elections, Sen. William E. Jenner will not get very far in the 81st Congress with his preelection announced plans to challenge the seating of Democrat Senators either.

His $10,000 counsel, Nelson Deranian, formerly of Indianapolis, can go back practicing law here with the Robert W. Lyons firm. Mr. Lyons himself may still b&§ a “Dewey man,” but the New York govern says he isn’t going to run for President for a third time. Apparently Republicans don’t believe in the third term—even for candidates. Maybe . the old animosities between the

Jenner forces and retiring Gov. Ralph Gates _

may heal now, Certainly the junior Senator shouldn’t—to borrow a phrase from Hobart Creighton—be “mad at anybody” for not letting him grab the gubernatorial nomination. In fact those who prevented Mr. Jenner from carrying out his plan turned out to have done him quite a favor.

Not Up to Voters Until 1952

FOR he would have been defeated by Democrat Gov.-elect Henry F. Schricker, just a8 surely as was Mr. Creighton and maybe more so. As it is now, Sen, Jenner doesn’t have fo face the aroused electorate again until 1952, Meanwhile the senior Senator comes to bat. Unless things change from the present setup In the state, Republicans may feel so defeated that they will be willing to let Mr. Capehart be renominated without a fight either in convention or the direct primary—if the latter is restored. He isn't in very much with any organized faction of the party and only has his own little personal organization. Having set himself up as the paragon of the businessman in politics—the politicians may give him the business. Among those who greeted the President on his triumphal return here was former Gov. Paul V. McNutt of Indiana. Although the handsome Hoosier now votes in New York state, having extensive law offices both in New York City and Washington, he went back to Indiana to help the Democrats win.

Didn't Quite Make Grade

ALTHOUGH he talked for President Truman's re-election as much as for that of Mr. Schricker, Mr. McNutt and the other Democrats didn’t quite make the grade as the state went for Mr. Dewey as did Michigan. These were the two Midwest exceptions. Mr. McNutt did have the pleasure of seeing Republican Congressmen defeated in the three districts in which he spoke, however. He took to the hustings against Rep. Gerald W. Landis in Bloomington, Rep. Edward A. Mitchell at New Albany, and Rep. Forest A. Harness at Kokomo. All now are ‘carrying out the latter's slogan . , . “Stay hitched with Harness.” Hitched back home-—that is. . . . Judge James A. Emmert of the Indiana Supreme Court offered this wry comment on the campaign: “You can't win a slugging match dusting off your opponent with a powder puff.” He may have something there. Mr. Dewey has his dignity, but Mr, Truman has the Presidency. Sinee all Hoosiers are philosophers, I enjoyed the comment of an aged elevator operator when I checked out of the Lincoln Hotel after election. “You know what beat Dewey ...” he asked the puzzled riders. “No,” said a man with a long face who looked like he really would like to know. “Votes,” said the elevator man. And he sure was right,

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BALLOTS TALK... By Peter Edson

What Did People Say With Votes?

WASHINGTON, Nov. there will be conflicting interpretations.

these:

The people said they liked the New Peal reforms. that Harry Truman won because he campaigned far to the left of what he himself thinks privately, may be wrong. For a reference point on that, go back to Harry Truman's 1946 budget message in which he outlined a 21-point program of increased social: welfare and better living conditions for all the people.

He has stuck consistently to that.

The people said they don’t want a reactionary Republican government. This does hot necessarily mean that the Republican Party is dead. More likely it just means that the people think the Republicans made their mistake at Philadelphia last June, when they chose the candidate with the best political machine

instead of the best candidate.

The people said they don’t like a candidate who is too cagy, too cozy, too smooth. The people said they like a scrapper. They like an underdog who is inclined to put up a good fight. The people said they like a man who is honest, even if he is sometimes wrong. The people said they preferred a candidate who told them frankly just where he stood on every issue.

People Rejected Communism

THE people said they wanted nothing to do with communism. They said that in their repudiation of Henry Wallace, Leo Isacson, Lee Pressman and their so-called Progressive Party. They also said they were suspicious of “Wall Street,” of big business that made too much profit. What the people said they wanted was a middle of the road cousse—a sane private enterprise system with plenty of freedom for the individual, but with a government-regulated economy in case business could not or did

not regulate and curb itself sensibly.

The people said they wanted something done about high prices and inflation. They did not necessarily say that they want But they apparently believe that doing something—even if it turns out to be the wrong -thing—is better than doing nothing. You. tion of that in such things as the election of ex-OPA Administra-

full wartime price controls and inflation.

tor Chester Bowles as governor of Connecticut.

The people said they didn't like the record of the 80th Congress. The people didn't like what the 80th Congress did nét do

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6-—~What did the people say in the election? Some of their sayings may be sign language on which But among the things which the election results seemed to say, there may be listed

Man of Distinction

OUR TOWN .

: By Anton Scherrer

Hoosier Writing Talents Traced To ‘Climate’s Spur on Glands’

THESPHILIUS, the Harvard-bred bartender who permits me to call him Tiff, was in a petulent mood when I dropped into his place to begin the morning exercise prescribed by my physician. “The same?” barks Tiff, “The same,” says I preserving the even tenor of my way. In the course of compounding his medicinal masterpiece (a Martini mixed with some regard . for the traditional amount of gin), Tiff emits a series of strange sounds most of which appear to involve and implicate one Howard Peckham, “Who's this Howard Peckham?” says I with bated breath. Says Tiff: “He is the Director of the Indiana Historical Bureau who enlightened the members of the Indianapolis Literary Club the other night with a paper entitled, ‘What Made Hoosiers Write.” ” “Was the evidence sufficient to convict?” says I hoping for the worst, “In a manner of speaking,” says Tiff kinda cryptically. “Come clean,” says I not unmindful of Tiff's habit of reaching for symbols.

Mighty Slick Treatment

TIFF meets the challenge squarely. “This man Peckham,” he says, “entertains a theory, the general import of which is that the extraordinary number of best sellers written by

Hoosiers can be accounted for by the fact that:

the authors had the luck to live and practice

in Indiana—the greatest corn-growing area in the country.” “Strikes me as a mighty slick treatment,” says IL. “Slick and superficial,” says Tiff. “Why?” says I just for the love of hearing Tiff talk. “Because it is an argument in favor of a given construction based on the fear that the opposite construction would create a sensation or, at least, an inconvenience. The old Romans had a phrase for it—ab inconvenienti,” says Tiff fondling Mis Phi" Beta Kappa key. “Sounds as if you said that Mr, Pekham subpressed the iy just j2 the sake of supJt says 1 ? “Your a. does yoy credit, ” "says

“Credit Puflic School 6," says I with considerable pride. Disregarding my remark as .irrelevant to the discussion, Tiff proceeds to elaborate: “To ascertain why so many Hoosiers have written books, it is imperative, first of all, to determine

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why people have the urge to write—not merely in Indiana, but anywhere in the world.” “I take it you have the answer,” says I confident that Tiff won't let me down. “I have given the subject considerable thought,” says Tiff with becoming modesty.

Credit Pituitary Gland

“Do tell,” says I all agog. “THE reason people have the urge to write may be traced to the pituitary gland, the emotional: seat responsible for all self-expression no matter whether it takes the form of literature, art or music,” says Tiff springing the sensation all at once. “Sounds pretty awful,” says I feeling sorta sick at the stomach. “The pituitary gland is the most horrible of all the paraphernalia the human body has to put up with,” says Tiff. “Indeed, it is so ghastly that the first symptomatic evidenge of self-ex-pression usually takes the shape of poetry.” “I've often wondered where the hell poetry comes from,” says I hungry for information. Says Tiff: “Poetry, like puberty, is largely governed by the pituitary gland and is normal

only im a childish state, later, atrophying and

being replaced by prose, which is as much a secondary sexual characteristic as the Adam's apple or beard.” “It lets in a world of light,” says I. “But it still doesn’t explain why Hoosiers wrote more than their share of best sellers—after all, that's what this fellow Peckham set Qut to prove.”

Climate That Does It

“I'M coming to that,” says Tiff with the smugness of a cat having kittens. “The reason Hoosiers wrote such an amazing number of books may be traced to the fact that they lived in a climate, the nature of which was largely the result of being hemmed in by a lake, a river and the states of Illinois, Ohio and Michigan.” “Sure, the greatest corn-growing area in the country—that was this fellow Peckham’s contention,” says I, fearful that my morning had been a waste of time. “Corn had nothing to do with it,” says Tiff with such vehemence, indeed, that my glass starts rocking on the bar, -. 1 What then?” says I prepared to hear t the worst. ©... “’ ssbecause of the “hitherto- Suppress: Tro

logical fact that our climate has always pro-

duced a breed of pyople with over-developed pituitary glands.” “Oh,” says I draining the last drop to hide my chagrin. “The same?” asks Tiff triumphantly. “The same,” says I. ’

Hoosier Forum

“1 do not agree with a word that you say, but |

will defend to the death your right fo say H.™

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served, for here the People Speak in Freedom. ‘Direct Primary Needed’ ;

By Clyde E. Schemahorn, Howe e of varied individual experience

Irrespectiv ces, this year has witnessed an event which should

be of special cohcern to every democracy minded person throughout Hoosierland, namely, the initial, and I trust the final, application of a law enacted by the last session of the State Legislature to reform the state convention procedure. This new law affects all citizens gf our state in that it pertains to the selectioh of state officials. And although this law is a vast improvement over the preceding one, which was also designed to control this all-important phase of our democratic form of goverment, it still provides somewhat of a paradise for the career and power-made politicians. It is highly conceivable that a law of this nature would also frequently erect a barrier between the voters and théir right to vote for the candidate of their choice. The right to a free election is, of course, assured by the Constitution of our government, which in a strict interpretation of the same, accords the“qualified voter a right to cast 2 ballot at the polls without fear or intimidaon. However, the stifling of the voters’ freedom becomes extremely apparent when viewed in the light that the names of the candidates on the ballot, and for whom they must vote, if at all, are selected by the leaders and delegates of the respective political parties. This arrangement is not without error and political camouflage. Until the recent change in the method of selecting state candidates for public offices, delegates to political conventions were merely tools in the hands of the county, district, and state leaders. A direct primary in which the people determine the nominees for state offices by direct vote is an honest and practical means of eliminating the evils that invariably arise from indirect voting. * & 9

‘The Poor Sheep Follow’ By O’Hagen Everybody happy? I hope so, for you might as well be happy now, while you've got the chance. I hope all. you Republicans who scratched and turned about face and voted Democratic are satisfied. You asked for it, and yowre going to get it. I am not a Democrat, Republican, Progressive, Socialist or a Communist; I'm neutral. But I will say this after hearing Henry Wallace for 10 minutes on the air last Tuesday, he said and had more common sense in 10 minutes than Truman did in all his speeches and wise-cracking. 0. K., wise guys, you wanted a joker, so let's hear you laugh at his joke when he tells you the one about civil rights. Me, I'm heading for the country, and have the poor sheep follow me. And that goes for all of you public sheep—by following the dictates of the street car company, by riding and paying higher and higher fares. No wonder this is called U. S., meaning United Suckers. What this suburb of Ben Davis needs is two car companies. I wonder if Henry Schricker will take off the three cents cigaret tax. It’s a good thing Gov. Gates got the gate. It’s all over, and this is all in fun, and maybe a little different than some of the stuff these forum writers send in that’s even too deep for a layman, but I believe #h plain bunk, and not the kind politicians put out. Just think, 20 years of the Democratic way of life... I'm going nuts.

What Others Say—

WAR is the great despoiler of all resources— the ultimate in reckless waste, the final stupidity. . "+. . Unless we can, with honor, avoid war, all planning for conservation will be waste, void and without significance.—~ECA Administrator Paul G. Hoffman. » os IF Stalin.-were starting a war, he would give us maple sugar—he wouldn't be irritating us. —Roger W. Babson, economist, forecasting no war and no depression for 1949. > > IN my time I've had over 5000 proposals. « « « And let me tell you, the toughest job a man ever had is saying ‘“‘no”—politely—to 5000 women.—Clark Gable. SN

PERHAPS the time has come for Americans to take a little stock and think something good about themselves.—Herbert: Hoover, rejecting the idea that the American system is “on its way out.” > & WE can have pes, dE Vor Cpr worked» to oo” Ss oy Hache world wars.

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<> I FEAR we are building broken legs, arms; necks and heads into altogether too many new houses.—Tyler S. Rogers, building executive, Owens-C3rning Fiberglass Co.

By Dick Turner) CONGRESS ON LABOR... By Fred W. Perkins

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about such things as expanding social security coverage, increasing the minimum wage level, taking care of public housing. The people didn’t like what the Soligress did do about labor legislation. A majority of the people said*they were willing to have the Taft-Hartley Act repealed. President Truman so pointedly made that an issue of the campaign that there can be no doubt about it.

Compromise Seen In New Labor Law

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 —Union leaders want President Truman and the new Congress to make promised repeal of the TaftHartley law the first. business when the Democrats take charge

Early indications are that this desire for haste will be joined in even by some of the congressional supporters of this law, and also by the National Labor Relations Board which administers

The reason is that until this question is settled, labor-man-agement affairs will be in confusion. As long as the law stands in its present form the NLRB must enforce it. However, it is not certain that the President and the Democratic majorities in Congress will be able to bring about complete Taft-Hartley repeal, and substitution of the old Wagner Act. Both branches will still contain a majority of members, Democratic and Republican, who voted to override the President’s Taft-Hartley veto, and these members will find it easier to vote for a revision rather than complete repeal, «

Compromise Version Seen

THE probability now, actording to authorities, is a compromise version closer to the Wagner Act than to Taft-Hartley. It has been suggested that many union leaders would be satisfied if Congress knocked out the Taft-Hartley bans on the closed shop, secondary boycotts by unions, and unfair labor practices

Though President Truman in campaign apesches frequently called for Taft-Hartley repeal, he had advocated some of its provisions in an address to Congress on Jan. 6, 1947. That was when Congress was winding up for a labor law with teeth in it. The President, who six months before had asked Congress for authority to draft strikers in essential industries“under military control, this time counseled moderation—“we must not, in order to punish a few labor leaders, pass vindictive laws which will restrict the proper rights of the rank and file of labor.” But he urged laws tp prevent jurisdictional strikes, which he called “indefensible”; certain types of union secondary boycotts, particularly when used to further jurisdictional disputes or to compel employers to violate the law; and final and binding arbitration for disputes arising over interpretation of gollectivebargaining contracts. . Attorney General Clark, at the President's direction, has obtained five court injunctions to avert or stop strikes threatening the national health or safety.

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