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Part-Time Police Volunteers
HE Safety Board and Police Chief Rouls have proposed = .doubling the size of the auxiliary police force composed of volunteers, who put on badges, guns and clubs in their off-hours to do part-time police work. Board members and Chief Rouls contend this auxiliary ‘reserve is necessary to augment the under-manned police .department incase of emergency and also for routine police
_ duty at all other times.
These volunteers receive no pay from the city. They ‘all are engaged in full-time employment or have private ‘businesses apart from police work. The only pay they get ‘is money given to the auxiliary force by private enterprises for parking lot uty and as guards, - ” = » ~ .. HOWEVER, they are on call at all times under orders from Chief Rouls for police work with full authority of any regular officer. Granted, these volunteers are a big help to the police department at times but expanding this part-time force of armed men is courting dangers that might not bg apparent at first glance. In the first place, these officers could have little incentive to develop a full sense of responsibility for their action since they are not on the payroll and have no police careers to think of in the future. Secondly, they are not selected through any merit system as are regular officers of the police department and they do not go through the regular police department training school. They conduct their own training school. . . . » » » THERE is no doubt that a large majority of these volunteers are responsible, conscientious citizens who want to do ‘a public service. But expanding this force beyond a handful of carefully picked men seems to us an unwise step that could lead to the old vigilante system wherein private citizens armed
“themselves utlder the disguise of police officers and enforced < laws according to their own personal: prejudices nd With
tragic results. 5 One tragedy due to an irresponsible act on ie. past of a single part-time policeman would be too big a price to pay for all the public service a thousand volunteers could do for the city in a lifetime.
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A Good Trick—If It Works MANEUVERS between Republicaz and Demecratic leads ‘ers in the new Indiana General Assembly oh’thé proposed payment of a state bonus to Hoosier war veterans, indicate both parties are trying to devise some trick whereby they can take the credit for passing a bonus bill and at
the same time dodge the “heat” that will come with higher taxes to pay for it.
- A ‘majority of Indiana voters indicated they favored a soldiers’ bonus and, of course, it's practical politics to be on the side of the. majority. But those same legislators who vote for payment of the bonus will, if sincere and consistent, have to vote for some kind of a tax to raise the $142,000, 000 to pay it and the party label will be on each vote in both instances.
To vote for a bonus, and, by some sleight-of-hand manuever out of the mystic crystal ball, dodge the always unpopular role of supporting higher taxes would be an interesting trick if it would work.
“Stalin's Trap for Truman : SEN. VANDENBERG'S warning to Stalin, against the delusion that our election killed the bipartisan foreign policy, is timely. Moscow comments on the election results
and Stalin's new phony peace offensive indicate a Red move to trap President Truman,
The Kremlin is trying to promote a Truman trip to Moscow. The President and the State Department deny there is any such plan. But Stalin can be counted on to revive talk of it in the hope that public sentiment here will force the President to meet him—or at least to send Chief Justice Vinson or another personalsenvoy, as the President planned until Secretary Marshall objected.
The President has said repeatedly he would welcome Stalin to a conference here at any time, but that he has no intention of going to Moscow. That is a wise decision. It is based on the costly experiences of President Roosevelt at Yalta and Tehran, and of Mr. Truman himself at Potsdam.
WITH Secretary Marshall in daily but futile contact with the Russians at the Paris conference, and likewise Ambassador Smith in Moscow and Gen. Clay in Berlin, if Stalin really wanted a genuine peace agreement he could get it quickly and easily. His doublecross play in the recent four power negotiations in Moscow is proof that he wants a ‘personal Truman conference only to break the bipartisan unity in this country and the American-British-French united front. We hope and believe the President will continue to keep open the door for Russian negotiations through regular channels, but that he will make no move without prior consultation with Sen. Vandenberg and our Allies. Continued bipartisan and Allied unity is the basis of American security ‘and peace.
Bearded in Their Den PRESIDENT TRUMAN showed up recently at Key West wearing a mustache and chin whiskers. When someone remarked that he had a good-looking Van Dyke, the President explained that no, it wasn't a Van Dyke, it was a Jeff
: Davis. Looks like the groundwork for another of those
Truman miracles—you'll be Jioseing next that the southern ‘secession has been called or, :
only, 5c. Mall rates in Indiana, daily and Sunday, .
DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney
Hoosier May Be
In Cabinet Job
Reward Seen for Ewing Due to Campaign Work
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13—Dear Boss: There
are still a few Hoosier Democrats in places around here and prior to the election they really were very still indeed. Maybe they were like me and most other Washington wiseacres, they mistook the various polls for the voice of the people. There were exceptions, of course. Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. “Jack” Ewing was busy day and night campaigning for the
re-election of President Truman. He took plenty .
of editorial heat when he went to an urban league meeting in Richmond, Va. and told the Negroes that if they didn’t support Mr. Truman they would be un, grateful . because he risked his political’ life with his civil rights stand. Generally the Northern Negro did vote for him, but so did a majority of all the other voters in America. - . Mr. Ewing was so confident that this would come about that he was making pre-election predictions regarding various states that turned out to be far superior to the Gallup poll. The payoff may be that Mr. Ewing will be elevated to Cabinet rank. For both President
Truman and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey recom-.
mended a welfare department with such rank in their campaign speeches. The latter did so in his speech at Rensselaer,
Wickard and Coy Silent’
ANOTHER Indiana Democrat, a comparatively newcomer here, who hit the hustings for the President was Alex Campbell. He still is home in Ft. Wayne, which is sending a Democrat to Congress to take the place of Republican Rep, George W. Gillie of the Fourth District. He will return here Monday to resume his post as head of the criminal division of the Justice Department. His title is assistant attorney general of the United States. Two old-timers who have good jobs but didn’t participate in the Democratic campaign are Claude Wickard and Wayne Coy. Mr.
Wickard, now head of*the Rurat Electrification ;
Administration, was Secretary of Agriculture in the Roosevelt Cabinet, Mr. Coy, who seems to be a born bureaucrat—using that term in its best sense—is chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Sen. Carl A. Hatch of New Mexico, who headed the campaign speakers bureau at the Democratic National Committee headquarters here, told me that while his law-—~Hatch Act— didn’t cover Mr. Coy—because he is in a policymaking position—that he didn’t call on the FCC chairman to campaign for the Democrats, “I didn’t think that would be proper,” Sen. Hatch explained. That was based on the fact that FCC has control of radio and television. Also because while Mr. Coy was appointed by President Truman he was approved by a Republican Senate, That Mr. Coy’s career here has been one of outstanding public service and quite free from partisan politics all who are familiar with it admit. In response to the query ‘where were you,” REA Administrator Wickard said that the law under which he operates Presiuded his partici.
pation in the campaign. ‘Barred From Pélitics
DURING the 80th Congress he was quite close to Majority Leader Charles A. Halleck, who represents the highly Republican second Indiana district where the Wickard farm is located. Throughout the campaign Mr. Halleck tried- to win farm votes by declaring that the Republican Congress had appropriated more REA funds than any Democratic Congress had done: In dollars and cents that was certainly true. But what you could buy with the dollars
- might be another stery.
Below these men there are Hoosier Democrats scattered here and there and most of them were barred from politicking by the Hatch Act. The real head man—former Gov. Paul V, McNutt—is no ‘longer in .government service. “But he took time out from a global law practice to return to Indiana and help the Democrats keep Rep. Forest A. Harness hitched in Kokomo. Most pleased man in Washington about what happened to Mr. Harness is Michael W, Straus, commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation in the Interior Department. As a result of one of his highly Partisan investigations— which .cost the taxpayers thousands of dollars -—Mr. Harness, managed to get a law passed ousting Mr, Straus because he isn't an engineer. Not content with that he then kept demanding data from the bureau. Finally, following Mr. Harness’'s defeat, Mr. Straus wrote him a letter saying he would be glad to show him all these things on his next trip here. There was no reply. ‘Both Mr. Harness and Rep. Robert A. Grant, South Bend, were back here this week making: plang to. move their offices. A Demo-
“erat,” Thurman Crook, took the Grant district ~seat a also. a
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WORLD AFFAI AFFAIRS Hk By Marquis Childs
Evidence of TS In Red Policy Seen
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13—The evidence grows that shift in
While in all probability | , it is no more than a change of strategy, it is, nevertheless,
Russian foreign policy is taking place.
important.
Stalin's statemient about peace made during the election campaign in this country, Molotov's remark that the Republican defeat was a defeat for those who wanted war, and the way in which Soviet newspapers grabbed an unfounded rumor that President Truman might go to Moscow for a meeting all From the faithful here and abroad, we
add up to a change. are getting prompt echoes of the new line.
ehind the new emphasis, there may be the belated realiza‘tion that Soviet tactics in the recent past have contributed largely to America’s preparation for a possible war. The draft and the other new defense measures hardly would have been been passed by Congress if it had not been for Moscow's persistent belligerence expressed in every form of attack and de-
nunciation. Sabotage From Inside
-£ THE BOSSES in the Kremlin have made one crashing f
Nothing fo It It When You Know How .
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AFTER THE NEW" YORKE
OUR TOWN .
Stirs Anxiety for
THESPHILIUS, the Harvard-bred bartender who permits me to call him Tiff, was in fine fettle when I dropped into his place to begin the morning exercises prescribed by my physician. “The same?” asks Tiff. “The same,” says I. Crowning his masterpiece with a pristine, fresh olive never used before, Tiff observes: “It tickles me no end to learn that finally, at long last, another American myn has been exploded.” “What myth?” asks I, bins gry for the facts of life. “The myth that professional ‘polltakers possess a sixth sense capable of divining the erratic behavior of modern human beings,” says Tiff. “To be sure,” says I, suddenly recalling that I hadn't seen Tiff since the election. “It came like a thunderbolt striking blindly —brutum fulmen, as the old Romans used to say —the corollary of which is, of course, that it was a wasted display of force,” says Tiff, fondling his Phi Beta Kappa key. “Well, it still leaves Mr. Gallup five senses with which to work,” says I, hoping to heaven that the recent election is an omen of nothing worse than the loss of a questionable sixth faculty.
Last Sense of Smell
“IT LEAVES only four,” says Tiff with a finality that arouses me. “Six senses minus one certainly equals five senses,” says I, making the most of the brand of arithmetic taught at Public School 6 when I was a kid. “It would, except for the fact that Americans lost the sense of smell about 30 years ago when a worm undermined the freedoms of this blessed ‘country of ours,” says Tiff with the solemnity of a man about to relate the ghastly details of a recent ‘surgical operation. “You still carry the scars of the prohibition era, don’t you, Tiff?” says I, sympathetically.
heart,” says Tiff with visible emotion. “But didn’t President Roosevelt's lifting of the prohibition restore the sense of smell?” says I, raking the ashes of the past. “It did not,” says Tiff, proceeding to elaborate: “I entertained high hopes at the time that it would, but nothing came of it—not even when the desperate distillers went to untold expense to
he “structions, the general import of which was
“Your compassion warms the cockles of my
circulate this country with diagrammatic Inca
. By Anton Scherrer
Exploded Myth of Sixth Sense
Smell, Taste
help the pled, appreciate the aromatic bouquet of an honest, seasoned whisky.” “Somehow, I don’t recall that phase of American history,” says I with unashamed abandon. “Will I ever forget it?” says Tiff. “In their zeal 46 recujtivate the sense of smell, the distillers distributed a series of colored illustrations, the first of which portrayed a» big balloon glass into which, by way of a second picture, a teeny-weeny quantity of whisky was poured. Thence, by extension, the unsuspecting beneficiary was instructed to surround the glass with both hands—this to warm the liquid. All of which was preliminary, of course, to sticking the nose into the glass to start the process of sniffing and thus recapture the sense of smell.”
‘Love’s Labor Lost’ “SURE it all comes back to me now,” says I. “The educational campaign carried the slogan ‘The Nose Knows,’ if I remember correctly.” “Precisely,” says Tiff, triumphantly. “And nothing came of all this work?” asks I. “It was a case of love's labor lost,” says Tiff. “However, another factor contributed to Its failure.” “Do tell,” says I, all agog. “It was the American fetish that it is impolite to use the nose in public,” says Tiff. “Ex-
cept for this, we might be much further along.”
“How much further?’ says I, determined to get my money’s worth. “If the privilege of sniffing whisky in public had gained any ground, it would—ipso facto— have carried with it the right to smell any and everything in public, both as a matter of precaution and appreciation,” says Tiff. “Well, we got to take things as they come,” says I, consolingly. “Precisely,” says Tiff. “The way matters stand today, the fear of public opinion prevents me from devouring a Thanksgiving turkey dressing with my nose before pitching it on my tongue.”
Down to Three Senses “8AY what you will, though, it still leaves Mr. Gallup four senses with which to work,” says I, drawing a little on my imagination. “I wouldn’t be too sure,” says Tiff. “What with the way prices are soaring today, it may just be possible that in four years, Mr. Gallup he rest of us will have only three senses with which to. work.” “What do you look for to go next?” says I. “The sense of taste,” says Tiff.
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blunder after another if their real objective was to keep this | & \
country disarmed and indifferent.
1947 with his 123 experts. sabotaged the concept from the inside.
The blockade of Berlin was intended to force the Western Allies out of that outpost with shame and humiliation before the world. That move dissatrously backfired when the miracle ~ of the airlift proved to Europe the astonishing power of the
U. 8. Air Force.
So, “peace, it’s wonderful,” is the new line. loudest echoes has come from the incredible Johannes Steel. Mr. Steel, who once ran for Congress on the American Labor Party ticket with the backing of Henry Wallace, visited the In his “report on world affairs,” a monthly news letter, he carried propaganda interviews with all. the Cominform puppets and even—this. was before
satellite countries some time ago.
the break—with Marshall Tito of Yugoslavia.
Now Mr, Steel says, “There will be no war in 1949.” He
goes further than that:
“Notwithstanding ail warmongering, we ‘state categorically that there will be no war between the United States and the + Soviet Union for the rest of 1948 nor in 1949, and that there is not one chance in 25 that there will be war in 1950.”
New Campaign for Peace
MR. STEEL attributes this partly to América's failure to gain support before the United Nations for the charge shat the
Berlin blockade represents a threat to peace.
Eyen thicken the new emphasis should develop into » cam-
b)
Consider what would have happened if Molotov had accepted the invitation to participate in the Marshall Plan when he came to Paris in the summer of Russia and her satellites could have
One of the
“My daughter and her husband want me to visit them for a week’ s rest! Hm¥The baby sitter shortage must be acute out #eir way!’
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Hoosier Forum
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served, for here the People Speak in Freedom. | Dog Ordinance Up Again
By G. W. It is expected that the dog leash ordinance’
will be before the City Council again soon.
What happens, at the city pound concerns every ‘man and his dog. "And it seems to me that it: to concern us for other reasons tnat the purely humane, since we appear ‘to be about to become the victims of an ordinance which would give into arbitrary hands the right to deprive us, as well as our dogs of our liberty and to fine us out of due proportion to our “crime.” For if the ordinance passes, the pound administration will enjoy the happy privilege of arresting us and keeping us in fail for as long as 30 days and may fire us as much as: $100, simply for. having been so unfortunate as to have lost our dog. I doubt if we are quite ready for such enslavement. The prevalence of rabies in the months’ just past has been used as an excuse for a general extermination of dogs. Those who have had this in charge appear to be unaware of the level and sensible way in which such situations are handled in spme other communities. Using the plea of protection, many a good dog has met a sorrowful end and this without Re The public, distracted by many things, has been slow to realize how both animal and owner have been the victims of fear-pressuring in many ine stances, being exploited for private ends, in the name of the public good. In time atrocities become known. It is certainly now long past the time when these things should end:
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‘Leave Poor Cats Alone’
By K. B. It seems that our newspaper reporters have hit a new low in trying to mald public opinion when Robert. Kendall, president of the Amer« ican Feline ‘Society, cannot issue a few paragraphs announcing observance of National Cat Week, without Frederick Othman and others making unfavorable comments. I know lots of nice people who love cats and know it to be a fine, intelgent and friendly little animal. So, Mr. Othman, all your presses in the country hasn't fazed th¢ Democrats for many a year so why don’t you give up taking things for granted about other things and stata the news as is and let us form our own opinions. That would be good reporting and a refreshing change. Leave the poor cats alone. >
‘Women Should Be Counted’
By Mrs. Wayne C. Kimmel, State President of the American Association of University Women, I read in The Times that Governor-elect Henry F. Schricker, in speaking to the Farm Bureau stated that “he will recommend to the Legislature a constitutional amendment
providing that women be counted in the re-
apportionment of the state legislators.” Two years ago, at the state convention of the American Association of University Women in French Lick, our organization passed a resolution stating that we would seek such an amendment to the state constitution. This resolution was reiterated at our State Convention last April, We wish to. commend the governor-elect for his proposal, and we shall co-operates with him in seeking such an amendment to the Constitution, whereby women will be included in the enumeration.
What Others Say—
Today more than ever mankind desperately needs freedom from fears of war and from threats of war in order to repair the ravages of the recent conflict and to move forward to higher levels of civilized existence.—Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull ; * o % The leaders of the Soviet Union are the victims of their owh iron curtain. There is a vast misunderstanding in the minds of those who control the destinies of the Russian people, —President Truman. P. * © Why not take a motor convoy and put it through the corridor to Berlin? If (Gen. George) Patton were running the show he would take it through.—Gen. H. H. Arnold, wartime chief of Army Air Forces. < oo When 1 was married. I made up my mind to be the best wife possible to Tom Dewey. That's my job and I'll stick to it, wherever we go.~Frances Hutt Dewey.
Never again. Never, never again.—Ka
thleen , Winsor, when asked if she is writing another’ - “Forever Amber.”
LIFE IN ASIA . . . By Clyde Farnsworth
‘China Jittery, but People Not Fleeing
SHANGHAI, Nov. 13—Both Shanghai and Nanking are have ing a case of the Red jitters as a result of the Communist threat, but nobody seems to be doing much about it. The only foreigners and Chinese who are resting easy are the few who see, or profess to see, China's travail as the birth pangs of a brave new Marxist world. And even they're worrying over the early possibility of short rations and failure of gas, electricity and. water systems. Despite the order for evacuation of U. S. Army dependents, which was scarcely calculated to reassure.the Chinese in these parts, there has been no overwhelming rush for the exits from this country or retreat into South China by .either foreigners
The principal. movements among the Chinese seem to be conflicting currents of travel which keep trains jammed coming and going between Shanghai and Nanking, and between here and Hangchow and other points South and West. buy tickets are riding the roofs and clinging to footholds between
People too poor to
May Be No Rush
BUT five million people live here and another miliibn in Nanking, and only a few of them have shoved off. Perhaps the
‘ time isn’t ripe yet for the big rush to “ningpo more far,” whieh
AR Po oh in Shanghai pidgin for the indefinite hinterland of this vast 7 1 country. Perhaps there'll be no rush.
Wo The very idea of a military threat to Shanghai and’ Nanking
TM. fea. U. 8 PAT.
sians.
wrangle goes on.
Teng a Temporary beast,
paign for peace, it is not likely that the constant Soviet harassment fa_"Berlin and elsewhere would cease. Kremlin bosses will be ever ready to exploit U. S. mistakes. One of those mistakes, in my opinion, is the decision to turn Ruhr industry back to German ownership, It is a powerful propaganda weapon handed to the RusMany people in this country are coming to feel increasingly that controls in Germany are being put back in the hands
Genuine peace overtures from Russia should not be rebuffed. The position of the United States in Paris is not too strong. Our delegation is vulnerable on several points in the Berlin dis- | ‘pute. The nations not directly involved seem inclined to call down a plague on both the major contenders as’ the Wearisome
This may be the moment for a broad advance toward at
And certainly the
existence.
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is a novelty, incredible to most people. composure reported among Chinese and foreigners in Peiping, where the Chinese Reds have been threatening for three years. But Nanking and Shanghai, just placed under martiai law with an 11 o'clock curfew and a formidable list of restrictions calculated to frustrate Communist fifth columns, are feeling the pinch of an artificial famine. There have been many cases of mobs hijacking trucks carrying rice and raiding rice storehouses, but there has been no real trouble with the police.
Spurn ‘Poor Man's’ Rice PECULIARITY of Shanghai's’ population, rich or poor, is insistence on white polished rice—vitamins or no vitamins. No coolie or ricksha puller would Yhink of ‘eating ng unpolished or ‘poor man’s” rice so long as he Rice is the truest cont of China. And where there's no ‘rice, as in North China, it's of those who will use thé once more for aggression and war. |'“‘kaoliang, millet or other grains. Nothing bears such a direct relationship to the people's livelihood as these staples of bare
Neither c*ty shows the
This has caused rice. riots,
money to buy the other. dex available throughout most
. Factories, railways and indeed almost every industrial or commercial organization needs rice to operate, as they need coal, electricity-or floor space.
The ministry of communications had
to settle this week's strikes and slowdowns on the ShanghaiNanking and the Nanking-Hangchow railways with a small money loan and the gift of 160 pounds of rice to each employee,
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