Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1948 — Page 34

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A BURIFPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER Ra. FOF W HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W, MANZ t Editor Business Manager

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Sunday, Nov. 28, 1948

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Seven Years Is Too Long ‘A NY citizen charged with a criminal offense has a right * under the Constitution to have a. trial in court within a reasonable length of time and the public has a right to expect that the guilt or innocence of defendants will be determined promptly. ; Yet, in Marion County Criminal Court there is a case involving charges that four former deputy county clerks embezzled $45,000 public funds and altered court records in an alleged attempt to conceal the shortages. It has been pending on the court docket for seven years and still no date has been set for trial of the case despite an order from the Indiana Supreme Court more than a year ago that it be tried.

IF THE defendants are, innocent of the charges they

certainly should have been acquitted by trial years #go and cleared of the cloud of suspicion that hangs over them. If they are guilty the public expects justice done according to laws passed to protect society. Seven years is much too long for courts and their officers to permit a criminal case to remain untried. If there is 8 good reason for not having a trial in the case, the public ought to know what it is.

Time to Try Parking Meters HE subject of parking meters has been debated and kicked around City Hall for the last 10 years but not a single one ever has been installed on an Indianapolis downtown street. : During the administration of the late Mayor Tyndall, several attempts were made to have meters installed in the ‘downtown area but each time a purchase ordinance came before the City Council it was voted down. None of the ordinances was turned down on the argument that the city does not need them. They were defeated merely through failure of Councilmen, Safety Board members and the Mayor to agree on the brand of device to be purchased:~

2 » " MOST "cities “the size of Indianapolis have parking “meters and reports on the results elsewhere show the devices contribute greatly to the relief of parking congestion and bring in much needed additional revenue. Mayor Al Feeney after nearly a year’s study has announced his administration is ready to proceed with the purchase of meters. It is time for Indianapolis to move forward toward some solution of the parking problems and installation of meters is a step that has helped other cities. They would help solve our problems, ‘too.

The Hoffman-Harriman Team HE Hoffman-Harriman team will continue to direct Marshall Plan aid. This good news comes from the Economic Co-operation Administrator, Paul G. Hoffman, himself. He says the President wants him and roving Ambassador Harriman to stay on the job, and they have agreed to doeso. No two men in public service have had more thankless tasks. They are caught between American pressure for hard-boiled policy to get maximum results and counterpressure from abroad for more money under looser requirements. Besides that inevitable tug of conflicting interests, they also are subjected to rival claims of recipient nations for larger slices of a pie which is expandable. Meanwhile, they must keep Congress satisfied. 8o they need the wisdom of Solomon, the patience of Job, and the vision of the prophets mixed with the trading touch of a Missouri mule dealer.

# » . w ” ” PRESUMABLY they have made mistakes. We have criticized them occasionally for what seemed to us overly optimistic and uncritical reports of progress. “But their batting average has been high. If American economic aid has reversed the downward plunge of Western Europe and at least temporarily saved many of those nations from communism, as most of us believe, chief credit goes to Mr. Hoffman, Averill Harriman and their associates. Secretary of State Marshall who conceived the plan, Sen. Vandenberg and members of Congress who perfected it and voted the money, and the European statesmen whose co-operation has made it possible, have paid tribute at various times to those who are making the plan work. All concerned can be thankful that these two American businessmen, turned international public servants, will carry on during the difficult months ahead.

ClO Red Purge

THE action of the CIO's national executive board in revoking the charter of the Greater New York CIO Coun-cil-is of particular interest. For most of the Communist and pro-Communist CIO union presidents were members of the New York council. The executive board charged that the council had “brought discredit upon the national CIO by the slavish adherence . . . to the line and dictates of the Communist Party.” And a comparison of the council's past activity with general Communist policy in America during the past 10 years stamps that charge as both accurate and temperate. Further, the unprecedented platform attack on Reds in the CIO by President Philip Murray in Portland and the tremendous support which it received from convention delegates indicates the extent to which the union is willing to go in clearing itself of Communists. It is also a heartening commentary on the loyalty and intelligence of union mem- - The CIO big wheels, like a lot of other prominent people, were cool to the Truman candidacy for a long time. But now they are prominent among those who are taking credit for the President's victory and working and hoping for his blessing on their own objectives. : ‘We don't know, of course, what instructions the CIO leftists have been given. But it would be well for both CIO and Democratic leaders to take a close look and make sure ; the Communists aren’t sneaking by the parade, and

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DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Young Willkie Shows Ambition

White House Looms as

Hoosier's Final Objective

WASHINGTON, Nov, 27—Dear Boss—Growing up to be President of the United States still is a legitimate goal for an American boy—even if he is a Republican, - ' - At any rate reports sre current here that the White House looms as the ultimate objective of a young man just elected to the Indiana legisiature on the GOP ticket despite the Democratic rip-tide. . He is Philip H. Willkie, 28-year-old son of the late Wendell L. Willkie, Republican presidential nominee who was defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940. The presidency was the first and only elective office ever sought by Mr. Willkie, His son, however, is n at the bottom. He won the nomination for the House

from an old-timer by conducting a door-bell-

rining personal canvas. He was elected in the face of his party's loss of the lower branch of the state Legislature, With this trismphant feather in his cap, young Mr. Willkie then rushed off from Rushville to New York City and addressed the Young Republicans at Schwartz's Restaurant, 54 Broad 3 He won this headline in The New York mes:

‘Charter Dynamic Course’ , “WILLKIE Urges Republicans Plan A Program at Parley Convention” and this subhead; “Indiana Legislator Suggests Meeting for '49 to Eanble Amateur, Professional Leaders of Party to.Charter Dynamic Course.” Republican veterans of a dozen political wars returning here rcad the Willkie advice with some amazement. One of them even quoted Shakespeare: “They scoff at scars, who have never felt a wound.” Maybe they misread the piece. Indiana Repelect Willkie was only telling them what to do. Je ula add where they could go if they didn’t e it. Urging his 1049 professional-amateur Republican national convention for next year, the Rushville Navy veteran of World War II who holds degrees from Princeton, Harvard and Columbia universities, had this to say: “There is a widespread theory that the Republican party lost the election through its failure to espouse sufficiently definite ideas and policies. Such a conference convention would give our leaders a chance to stand up and be counted where the people could see them.”

Ready to Be Counted

He added harsher things. He even suggested that some of the Republicans don’t want to “stand up and be counted.” He didn’t name names. Nor did ‘his critics here want their names used for quotation. They are unanimous only about one thing. They are ready to be counted on Mr. Willkie'’s proposed conference. Counted out—that is, Whether it is good to begin young to try and grab the big prize would appear rather dubious from the facts of recent history. Take our own Hoosier statesman on the Democratic side—Paul V. McNutt. He always wanted to be President and set his sights on the White House at a very early age. Instead the job went to Harry 8. Truman who never dreamed of such a thing. Two examples might be cited among the Republicans. First of course is Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. It's difficult to recall when he didn't want the Presidency, but not so difficult to predict his chances for another try at it in the future. The second sample is Sen. Robert E. Taft of Ohio. He may still get a chance at it. He certainly has wanted to live at the White House, if not from the time he lived there with his father at least from the day he married Martha. In his castigation of the conduct of the recent Dewey campaign, Mr. Willkie. said the GOP lost this year “because it failed to excite the imagination of the American people.”

‘Still Believe in Santa Claus’ : IT MAY BE a little late to be retelling postelection tales, but Horace Coats’ comment was “the results prove that the American people still believe in Santa Claus.” He is secretary to Sen. Willlam KE, Jenner (R. Ind.). ‘A Negro girl related here how her sister works at one of the ‘“cliff-dwellers” establishments (old families with wealth, snobbery or both). The day after election she was serving breakfast for madam (who had been planning for weeks to throw parties for the Dewey Republicans). “What happened?” the dowager asked her maid. “I just don't understand.” “You done answered your own question,” the servant quietly replied.-

o = = NOT ALL writers proved to be bad prophets regarding the Truman victory. The trouble was that those who were right just didn’t get into print. Take 11-year-old Jim Pickett, son of the postmaster at Richmond, Ind. He attends Todd School at Woodstock, Ill, and the day before election wrote this to his Democratic dad: “Tomorrow will be election day and by the time you get this letter we probably will have President Truman for President.” He should have sent it to the papers,

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Nobody would suspect that the Kitty Hawk was the grandfather of the Hell Cat. : LS J AGES ago the elephant was no bigger than a pig—and life was no circus then “either, * > LOTS of people start things on a shoestring

Probe of Oil Lobby Activity Proposed

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27—The miserable, petty practice of Congressmen who compel their employees to kick back part of their salaries or who put names on. the Congressional pay roll of those who perform no service should be exposed. Rep. J. Parnell. Thomas, of New Jersey, is involved and now similar charges have been brought against Rep. Alvin O’Konski, of Wisconsin. But this does seem petty, indeed, alongside the need for investigation of what may well be a scandal of major proportions. Ever since the middle of the summer rumors have persisted that the oil lobby would spend millions of dollars to defeat President

NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs

Truman.

Their interest was in the vast wealth of -tideland oil which they are now exploiting. President Truman has stood firm for keeping the oil in the tidal waters under Federal jurisdiction. He has been backed by national defense chiefs who have argued

the acute necessity for military reserves.

Essential to Oppose Truman

ON THE OTHER hand, the Republican platform called for turning over the tideland resources to the states. Therefore, it was essential to major oll interests to seek Mr. Truman’s defeat. How was this to be done? One way was to underwrite a re-

volt in the states of the normally solid South. In Augus

for the Dixiecrat revolt.

The report of expenditures by the Dixiecra nothing out of the way with respect to oil. But such reports, and this is true not merely of the Dixiecrats, have tended to en-

croach more and more on the realm of fiction.

Not Costly Campaign

COMPARATIVELY at least, the Dixiecrat campaign was not a costly one. There were many sources of revenue, including the large utility companies, Perhaps the oil interest did not have to come through with any big amounts. The persistent rumors may

be baseless.

Butewe have a right to know all that can possibly be known.

t, hints came from the Democratic National Committee that oil interests in Texas were providing unlimited funds

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. By Anton Scherrer

Heads of 15 Indiana Governors Will Disappear From Circle

INASMUCH as nobody shows any inclination to tackle the job, it behooves me to dedicate this solemn Sunday to what the French call a “catalogue raisonne” designed to deal with the sculptured human heads on the facades of Hotel English. It won't be long now until the housewreckers begin their ghoulish task, leaving us nothing more substantial than a memory. Fifteen of the heads are portraits of early Governors of Indiana. As for the rest, they represent hand-picked examples of a goodly number of generations of the English family, starting with the great-grandfather of Willlam H. (for Hayden] English, the builder of the historic hotel, and running in a direct lineal line to, and including, Mrs. Rosalind English - Parsons, daughter of William E. (son of William H.). Are you keeping up with me? All right. To allocate the two categories, you have to stand facing the entrance to the theater. With your feet planted that way, everything to the right of you (and extending around Meridian St.) represents the English family tree. The Governors are to the left (extending around Market St.).

Came to America in 1700. - THE' ORIGINAL American progenitor of the English family was James, son of Thomas English, Thomas emigrated to America some time around 1700, settling in Laurel, Del. His son, James English II, was the great-grand-father of the builder of Hotel English. And it Is his likeness that starts the portrait gallery on the Circle. Which leaves a lot of generations to be accounted for. Elisha English, son of James II, was born in Delaware and married Sarah Wharton (daughter of Capt. Revel Wharton) who likewise was a native of that state. In 1792, they moved to Kentucky where Elisha Gale English was born. He was one of 14 children, All 14 got married and had children of their own, With the result that when this venerable couple died, their descendants numbered around 200. Elisha Gale English, father of William H. (born in Lexington, Ky. Aug. 27, 1822), was the founder of the family in Indiana (Scott County). In 1847, while serving as a clerk In the Treasury Department in Washington, William H. married Emma Mardulia Jackson of Virginia. They became parents of two children—William E. (for Eastin, his grandmother's family name) and Rosalind (who eventually married Dr. Willoughby Walling, one-time U. S. Consul to Edinburgh, Scotland). As for William E., he married Helen Orr when he was 48 years old. Five years later, in 1903, a baby girl was born. That's right, the father was 53 at the time. The baby was

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christened Rosalind. Subsequently she married Stewart Parsons. And it is Mrs, Parsons’ sculptured head that completes the ancestral portrait gallery on the Circle.

Two Building Operations NOW FOR the Governors’ Gallery (mind you, this is an imposed job not to my liking). This set of heads is of later vintage—by some 20 years or more. It's explained by the fact that Hotel English represents two distinct building operations. The sculptured family tree, for instance, is part and parcel of the original unit built in 1880-81 by William H. When his son (William E.) extended the structure to Market St., he discovered somewhat to his amazement that he had run out of ancestors. Either that, or he lost heart. "Anyway, he picked Indiana Governors. Beginning at the farthest point west (on Market St.) the Governors’ Gallery starts with the portrait of Claude Matthews (22d Gov.). Thence by extension in an easterly direction following the subtle curve of the Circle are the portraits of Thomas Posey (third Gov. of Indiana Territory); Oliver P. Morton (Civil War Gov.: 1861-67); William Henry Harrison (first Gov. of Indiana Territory and ninth Pres. U. 8S. A.); Thomas, A. Hendricks (16th Gov. and V. P. of U.. 8S. A.); Abram A. Hammond (the Lieut. Gov. who became the 12th on the death of Gov, Willard); Jonathan Jennings (first Gov.); Ratliff Boon (second Gov.); James Brown Ray (fourth Gov.); Noah Noble (fifth Gov.); David Wallace (sixth Gov.); Samuel Bigger (seventh Gov.); James Whitcomb (eighth Gov.); Joseph A. Wright (tenth Gov.), and George Rogers Clark (first Military Gov. of the Northwest Territory).

Carved by Same Man NOTWITHSTANDING the great differences In their ages, however, both sets of heads were carved by the same man, He was Henry M. Saunders, a born and bred Briton, who had left evidence of his skill in the Prince Albert Memorial (London). He turned up in Indianapolis in the late Seventies, and liked it se well here that he stayed. Much of the competent architectural carving of that period may be traced to him. Indeed, Mr. Saunders was kept so busy doing this kind of work that only once after the completion of Hotel English (to my knowledge) did he again venture into the field of fine arts. The result on that occasion was the sculptural group surmounting the pediment of the presént Indiana National Bank. : And now I hand the ball over to Howard Peckham, Director of the Indiana Historical Bureau, with the hope that the power and

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of preserving the portrait gallery that still graces our Circle — for how long, God only knows.

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‘Pull Together for Cleanup’ ‘By Merritt V. Reed, 1044 Ludlow St. >

“In reply to E. P. Robinson regarding trash

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Trash z into Indianapolis was nét.all thrown there. by peoplé living in Indianapolis, but by:suburbanites who do not have a collection service... On their way to work here in town they fill a sack with the day’s collection of empty cans, garbage and waste and toss it out the car window... You surely do have a legitimate complaint and I believe that if you could get the license

streets and call Tony Maio, our street commis- . sioner, he would see that they were prosecuted. Now for my complaint, and I believe it should be yours, too. You live between Hawthorne yards and Beech Grove shops and the Big Four yards. You surely get your share of dirt and smoke. Wouldn't you like to get that cleaned up, too. Let's all pull together. If we work on both of these conditions and can get help from others like us, we can, I'm sure, make it so hot in the City Hall that we are bound to get action. Let's all pull together and some day maybe this city will again be known as ‘The City Beautiful.”

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‘Join Us and Sweat’ By an Ex-G. L In reply to Mrs. J. D. D., Indianapolis-—-¥Xou call practical necessities a luxury. For c¢enturiés { the farmer has been pushed around by people | who like high wages for themselves, but low cost | on everything except society. Take off the price support; you'll have a low | cost of food for a while, but your dollar devalu= | ates, your wages soon decrease and .then the | breadline. . The farmer pays taxes, too, the same as you do, except more because of the larger plots of ground. Then there is the immense cost of up keep of machinery and land. All of the country school children I know pay for their - meals just the same as town children. I don’t know about the betterment of:rural homes except for what the owners do. My wife and I are living with in-laws. No money to build—no money to buy—no houses for rent. It seems the tobacco tax would be fine for paying a bonus. I'm a veteran and I smoke. As for the Farm Bureau, I think we ‘need more organizations of this kind. Why don’t you investigate and find out what it really is about? hin? not join us in our luxury and sweat a ittle? :

‘We're Not on Parade’ By P. K. (A teen-ager)

I'll start right in with what is on my mind. I'm sure you recall the writeup of how terrible Indianapolis women and girls look, quoted from Mrs. Veronica Dengal. Just wheré does she get off telling us how awful we look? First of all, when we women go to town, most of us go to shop, not to parade our new clothes and things, If she went downtown on Thursday, the ‘teenagers were coming home from school and certainly not there to show off. It so happens sport socks are most conservative for school. You certainly can’t expect us to wear hose and good shoes ‘to school; our allowances won't allow it, Saddle oxfords have low heels and are very comfortable for school! It's a shame all of us haven't the money to spend at a beauty ‘Shop a couple times a week. We can’t all be rich. Tell Mrs. Dengal for me the next time she's in town to stay over Sunday and watch us strut our stuff. Because we do have it! P. 8.: Does she remember when she was 17?

What Others Say—

In the Pentagon building in Washington there are people who are men of action, of military trade, who are preparing ‘a new war, working out plans for 50 years ahead.—Andret ¥. Vishinsky, Russian chief delegate to the UN, <> > I don’t like to do sexy roles, but I know I'm good in them.—Rita Colton, New York television actress. * ood dy America is not a melting pot at all, it is a symphony. The precious groups that have come to. these shores must not disappear into an assimilative cauldron, they must retain their uniqueness which has come out of their special heritage.—Dr. Abram Leon Sathar, president of the new Brandeis University, " - SSS Today our national life swings along on a steady cadence of national optimism. The tragic era of confusion, extravagance, cruel economic dislocation and costly administrative bungling is at an end.—Rep. Joseph W. Martin (R) of Massachusetts. oD American ideals and what we practice is.creating moral dry rot within us . . . We must act now because the mental health of America is threatened by this gap.—Mrs. Sadie T. M. Alexander, attorney who was a member of President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights. SoS Our first line of defense is still the United Nations.—Sen. Raymond E. Baldwin (R) of Connecticut.

SA NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Peter Edson iis... Fireworks Expected Over U. S. Economy

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27—In spite of House Speaker-to-be Sam Rayburn's glib assurances that there will be a Democratic honeymoon of four years, other people are having other ideas. What seems to be shaping up is one grand row over what kind of an economic system the country adopts from here on. * No sooner had the election results been confirmed than conservatives began viewing with alarm. 2 Today there are signs and portents of this all over the place. Business leaders and the trade associations are mapping battle lines to protect their special interests from all-out attack by Truman’s re-deal. Machinists’ union has recommended a full dress investigation of Washington lobbies. that at least $12,000,000 and probably more was spent by lobbyists who sought to influence the 80th Congress.

Pressure From Labor, Too ; A KICK-BACK to this proposal inay be expected from employers who will demand that labor union lobbies be given ‘the same treatment during the 81st Congress. ventions indicate that big labor is now feeling its political oats. Plenty of pressure will be put on the coming Congress to deliver what labor feels it won and was promised by the Democrats. President Truman and the Democratic platform are 6n record - in favor of greatly expanded social security. Though Vice President-Elect Alben Barkley has predicted that the new Congress will grant the President power to impose selected price controls, Henry Ford and other industrialists have

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