Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1948 — Page 34
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Juvenile Delinquency . DECLINE. in the number of juvenile deliffyuen in Marion County during the last year indica some progress is being made in the long, uphill reduce social tragedies involving children. . Official records showing a drop of eight per cent® delinquency cases this year is encouraging to many ei organizations and social workers who have been struggling | with the problem for several. years. But, as Juvenile Court authorities hastened to point out, the slight decline in the number of cases is only the start of ‘a long and difficult campaign that will require the co-operation of the entire community before any substantial and lasting progress can be made. One of the handicaps in the battle against juvenile delinquency at present is lack of proper facilities to rehabilitate children who are mentally ill. - The answer to this, of course, is full-time mental health clinics for treatment of scores of emotionally maladjusted children. Another handicap in the program is lack of foster _ homes where dependent and neglected children can be given proper care and guidance. More public support for programs already underway in co-operation with the various private and governmental agencies will go a long way toward reducing juvenile delinquency to a point where it will no longer be a menace to the social structure of the community. .
Police Morale TE plight of Patrolman Bill Babbitt who has to work in a grocery store nights for extra pay to support his -family, points. vp- the. need.for.gome. planning. toward. ree. vision of polivemen's wage schedules. Morale and efficiency in the Police Department will not remain very high with wages below’ the scale of comparable jobs in private industry. Further, the present need for an expanded police force to cope with crime problems ~ of an increasing population, cannot be met because qual-_ ified men will not take patrolmen’s jobs at the starting pay of $2400 a year. These beginners, under the present schedal, will nek Teodive $3000 until the fourth year of service.
» ~ "THE POLICE Department will Svs 100. jobs open after Jan. 1 but only 33 applicants have qualified for them. Men who would make excellent police officers of the future Aare turning to other pursuits where the pay is much better. If Indianapolis’ Police Department is to keep pace with a growing city's needs for better law enforcement, the ‘wages of policemen will have to be revised if we hope to attract officer material of the caliber the city must have for efficient service.
Mr. Truman ls Mistaken
~~ FHERE are grounds: for grave suspicion-that-if it were fthey Jooked-
“Talk of Sen. Jenner ditching Sen. Capehart |
niot for the House ttee on Un-American Activities the American people never wolild ‘have known that Communist agents stole a large number of secret official documents from the State Department. And, in our opinion, President Truman has greatly enarged those grounds by his press-conference remarks. “He said that he still considered the committee's Com5 munist spy.investigation a Red herring; that the committee“was only after headlines; that the committéé was dead, and that he thought the new Congress would take care of it. If Mr. Truman meant that he expected the new Cofgress to abolish the Committee on Un-American Activities =—and. that seems a pit & inference—we Dafieve, he is aly.
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There are plenty of legitimate reasons for criticizing the membership and the methods of this committee. We have stated them time after time. We have urged the
r= “House to use to 8 strengthen and Improve’ “the “conmtitoee, thereby:
“making it a ‘more effective instrument. fof. the. exposure.of | subversive activities. "But we are sure the public would not stand for being left In doubt whether any agency of the government were making any’
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eh LE BA Mls [ Sa SN : - IT 18, of course, the Justice Department's duty to protect the country by catching and punishing conspirators against its safety. But, in this case, the best that can be said for the Justice Department is that it has been deplorably slow to act. And Mr. Truman is responsible for the Justice Department. His resentful jabs at the Hoss Committee, which did bring the theft of the “pumpkin papers” to light, will in- ' grease public suspicion that he and the Justice Department * wanted that shocking matter kept dark. It will strengthen public determination that Congress must maintain some - agency of its own to investigate subversion and to prod the Justice Department. We hope the Committee on Un-American Activities will be made a better agency for that purpose. But, in view of current developments, Congress Sertelnly cannot afford to abolish the committee.
Look What's Bothering the UN
STILL another trouble is pestering the United Nations. Conferees attending meetings of its Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at Lake Success have been informed by the Austrian delegation that ‘practically no country is adhering to the standardized “A” pitch of the musical scale. UNESCO has been urged, in all seri-
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DEAR BOSS... By Bor Kidney
La Follette Out For U.S. Senate?
Return From Germany Starts Speculations
"WASHINGTON, Dec. 11—Déar Bos An"
nounced, return from Germany next month of former Republican Rep. Charles M, La Follette of Evansville has touched off a bomb of Hoosier political speculation, Among the major guesses is that the outspoken liberal lawyer may groom himself for another try for a Senate seat in 1950. - Those who are peddling this story point out that this time, however, the volatile red-head will seek thé Democratic nomination, After ‘serving two terms in the House, where he almost always voted exactly opposite the Republican Majority Leader Charles. A. Halleck, Mr. -La_Follette sought the.1946. Republican. sens. torial nomination in a race against then Sen. Raymond E, Willis and now Sen. William E. Jenner. Gov. Ralph Gates and the GOP organization backed Mr. Jenner. They had the state conven tion hog-tied before it was called to order. So Mr. Willis. had the. rug. pulled--out from under him and Mr, La Follette got the Vanderburg county ‘vote at the. tail end of the roll call. en. Jenner already had the nomination.
N Bolted the Party HAVING had his fill of such steam-roller convention tactics, Mr, La Follette bolted the party and took an administration assignment in German There he has run into difficulties In trying to\checkmate a return of the Nasi to power. Now that he is returning, the theory of his being & possible senatorial nominee is based on thewpPgmise that the State Legislature is sure to retubn the primary elections for all offices, including Roth the senatorship and governorship. If such ig the case, Mr. La Follette will have a perfe Fight to enter and campaign the state. . Should President Truman want to push him along, he could well appoin him as an ad- - ministration man--such “a post as Assistant Secretary of Labor has been suggested. There is an ardent lifelong Democrat here,
program. He is Assistant Atty. Campbell of Ft. Wayne. - He resigned District Attorney in northern Indiana come head of the criminal division in the tice Department this year and was an effects campaigner for. President Truman.
Hot as Firecracker
RIGHT NOW he is shuttling between New York and Washington on the high spy case, which has become hot as a firecracker ever since they opened that pumpkin ou In gary. Lp ar Mr. Campbeh Jong. ‘has wi listed as one of those who would like to run for the Senate in Indiana. Just what the effect of his coming to ‘Washington has been it is hard to say. There is an old adage that those who take office here either “grow or swell.” Since he is harder to get to than the’President right now I couldn't have an opinion in the matter, One thing is certain, Mr. La Follette’'s candidacy would get a rap at the White House from former Sen. Sherman Minton, now on the U. 8. Court of Appeals in Chicago, a close friend of the President. Judge Minton and ‘Mr. La Follette are mortal: enemies. Sen. Homer E. Capehart, who will seek a second term on the Republican ticket in 1950, has said that he expects his Democratic opponent to be former Sen. Samuel D. Jackson of Ft. Wayne. In that case, Mr. Campbell would probably have -taken himself out of the race, whether in a convention or primary.
Speculation on Capehart “WHETHER. -8en:-Capehart -will- be renomi= nated is another subject of considerable speculation here. He has been assured of the support of his junior colleague, Sen. William E.
~Jeririer, who “he (Capehart) “Backed unsuc- |
cessfully for the governorship nomination in convention this year. Both Senators are thanking their lucky stars tHat they didn’t run when -at-the-elestion results on -Nov:-§-
and supporting’ Mr. Halleck for the senatorial nomination is discounted. There is more credence put into the report that retiring Gov. Gates might try to take Sen. Capehart’s seat. This week the senior Senator from Indiana added another round to his running fight with Rep. Wright Patman (D., Tex.). As it now
stands they both are calling each other “liar”
and you can step right up and take your choice,
Willkie --Might- Be Dark -Horse IN. TWO years Philip Willkie will be old enough to run for the U. 8. Senate. With all the publicity he has had in New York newspapers, the Saturday Evening Post and so forth, over his suggested “revitalization convention” for
_the GOP, he might be a very lively dark-horse- |
by-that-time:
Much: will ‘depend upon how- he handies his state legislative work—being a freshman mi-
nority member in the session which is’ coming up:
DIXIECRATS . . . By Marquis Childs
No Big. Purge Seen—
WASHINGTON, Dec... 11--In. the. aftermath of the Nov. 3 triumph a lot of brave talk was heard about how the Dixiecrats and other. turncoats would. be read out. of a purified Democratic party. That talk has gone with the wind and the prescription _a8.0f now ls: More of the same. i “To many inthe South: this 2 not an academic: question. “on |
the contrary it can mean political life or death,
“Alabama 1s a good example of How sharply the issiié of thé = .The Dixiecrat y wealthy corporation lawyers with important connections in the North. These same men and the interests they represent are bitter enemies of Alabama's Sen. Lister Hill because of the liberal line One of the chief Dixiecrats, James Simpson, a corporation lawyer, nearly defeated Mr. Hill | four years ago. The same crowd is already planning to gang up
Dixiacrats cuts across certain political organization in Alabama was bossed
rtunes:
Mr. Hill takes on most questions.
on him two years from now,
Opposed Truman
THE IRONY is, of course, that Mr, Hil was so over-awed by Dixiecrat strength that he came out .in opposition to President So’ did his colleague, Sen. John
Truman before the convertion. Sparkman, who was up for re-election.
National officials of the Democratic Party profess to be afraid of the repercussions if they should intervene in state organizations in the South. Such intervention, it is believed, would be deeply resented. The reform, the argument goes, ‘must origi-
nate locally if it 4s to be éffective.
Here in Washington “more /of the same” means that the Dixiecrats will hold their seniority on Congressional Committees. What this adds up to is that direction of six Senate committees
will go to the South: : by
Appropriations, Foreign" Relations; District of Columbia, ¥4nance and Expenditures in Executive Departments will all have chairmen from the South. In addition, Sen. Burnet R. Maybank of South Carolina will almost certainly be acting chairman of Banking and Currency, since Sen. Robert F, Wagner of New York will, because of continuing invalidism, be unable to take
his seat.
Strong Southern Infusion ' ALSO, the chairmanship on Agriculturs will go to Sen. Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma and Sen. Millard Tydings of Maryland will take over the Armed Services committee, These are border states with a strong southern infusion in opinion and attitude, This is, of course, an unreal and abnormal auspropuEtion. Con-
sidered from the point of view of population, the
seen to be even greater. On the. seniority basis not a single Senpopulation
ate chairmanship will go to any of the great in the Northeast and Middle West.
More than half of the prizes ‘go to the sparsely populated
Hoosier Forum “[ do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say-it."
Keep letters 200 words or less om any sub ~ ject with which you are familiar. Some letters used will be' edited but content will ‘be preserved, for here the People Speak in Freedom.
‘Indictment or Challenge?’ By Juanita F. Gammon, City Our preachers 'and politicians by the very i principles of their professions are closely related to each other. They are both servants—the ene of the church, the other of the state. Both know, if they are earnest students of history, that democracy as it was conceived in the U, 8, is the child of religion. Both are. aware that our
founded upon a religious. concept. Both are cognizant pf the fact that at the present time our republican form of government and our democratic processes are challenged by come munism. —In-view. of the above, does it not seem reasonable as servants and leaders of the people, . ~it-mright-then become -their-twin duty.to alert, teach, and warn .their constituents concerning this common foe? Communism is the énemy of both church ahd state. hh denies the presence of God in the stream of history. It teaches, preaches, and practices the idea that man is a pawn and chattel of the state, that the state is master of man, and that the end, howeve¥ evil, justifies any means. Communism destroys the rights of labor and all free men. Two fundamental concepts underlie the ‘American structure of government. First, the - sovereignty of Ged. The Christian is per-
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OUR TOWN .
HEREWITH another batch of items, any ons of which may turn out to be just what you have, been looking for all your life. Tucked away in the archives
the banks Strangely
west of the city of Eagle Creek.
all places. Three members of the’ curious spectators attended was--no-- hearse. After “a si pink-painted box which served loaded onto a wagon and .hauled
dozen There
a coffin was Holy Cross
Whereupon, the male leader of the gypsies (hut apparently not their king) poured a bottle wine into the grave. A silver coin followed To alert eyes it looked like a dime.
Known as ‘Gypsy Town’
takes two distinct turns. One veérsion has it that immediately following the funeral, the gypsies left for parts unknown to attend a
conclave designed to elect a king and queen to onda ail such-tri
bes-in the Linited States: “The — other version is that the oe. eléctien was actually scheduled to take place in Indianapolis, but had to be transferred because of Milcoa Obexa’s death. Indeed, ardent disciples of this claim they have inside information that Obexa would have been a likely candidate for the national honor had not death interfered. The belief that Indianapolis was originally ‘picked ‘asthe place to hold the national election, together with the publicity it received in. nomadic circles at the time, is the basis for the legend that this burg of ours. came: ©» be known
-a% “Gypsy Town.” Fo
Item two: Tucked away in the archives of Congress ‘is the -105-year-old record of the behavior of David Wallace, an Indianapolis citizen. Except for him, there's—no telling whether any ot us would be sending telegrams today. : ; ~ Samuel Morse; ~you may-recail;- had his-ap-— paratus completed in 1835. On that occasion, he sent nfessages over a wire a half-mile long.
“Two years later; he- Staged a public. “exhibition,
. By Anton Scherrer
Gypsy Queen's Funeral Recorded
,was in no more mood to subsidize genius than
year;old record. ». 4, Is today,
AT THIS point the story wanders a bit'and
Stevenson. -Stylish Plate for Baptisms. THE immersion took place in White River.
~Ward Beecher conducted
“one at WeWashington St.the other at the oid
best pleased the-subjeet of Jt.
-the eustomer.
Interested Spectator
got a patent for his invention, and tried to get |
| ‘We Broke Golden Rule’
Congress to help him build .a telegraph line. Nothing doing. Back in those days, Congress |
e bes Airt far x Morse Bonfield ded Re — Pid Mg Ms. Turned down by Corigress, Morse went to Europe to interest governments over there in his invention.. No_luck.’ They wouldn't even | give him a patent. Returnimg home, he continued his efforts, meanwhile living in poverty. | Finally, after giving up all hope, the 1842-43 ; Congress got around to him’ again.
Vote Broke Tie
BY THAT TIME, David Wallace father) had been elected to Congress. And be-
| wonder who is wrong.
mitted to be flown or lifted above the.American flag, and even our very coins bear the inscrip= tion: “In -God We Trust.” The 'sefond concept
| embraces the sacredness and supreme worth of
the individual regardless of class, color, or creed
| with its attending concept, the freedom of the
human mind. But. now both these cpncepts are challenged. Two | irreconcilable fortes are pitted against each other: Communism’ or Christianity. - . How inthe —face—of -all this, politicians, preachers, priests and rabbis can remain silent, is a mystery, God's overshadowing presence has ever been recognized in American history, Do battle with this enemy the state and church must if our American way of life is to hold. It is either Marx or Christ, communism or Christianity, God or man. ® 4 ¢
By Edward G. Goeke, Evansville, Ind. wope We bret our country aLiaden Bale. Jn thin. |" great big world of ours, some preach that it is | too small and that we must be good neighbors
and take part in every neighborhood brawl. Sometimes I wonder who is right and then I If you are an isolationist should you be frowned upon? We know a peace
| ‘maker is foolish when he interferes between | man and wife, and thousands have learned to
| let them fuss and fight. (Lew's {
And so it is with nations, for those nations over there have been
| fighting for many years. First we joined them
cause of the inexorable law of our alphabet, | i their fighting and broke our country’s Golden
his name was the last one on the roll of the |
committee to which had been referred the Morse petition for $30,000 to build a telegraph line from Washington, D. C. to Baltimore. The vote on recommending an appropriation was a tie when Mr, Wallace's name was called. His vote settled it with the result that a year
{ part for any foel.
| Rule; now we are playing peace-maker, a good We have wasted lives and money because some tell us our world is too small, but we will find it cold and big when we
have given them our all.
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later, in 1844, the first long-distance telegraph | ‘Millions Didn't Vote’
line was completed. And, of course, you know | the first message carried the words “What hath God wrought?’ “But, maybe, you don't know what people. around here thought of the contents of that first message. It was the consid- | Morse had | ited the wrong party. m three: Tucked away in the archives. |.
“of thé, Second Presbyterian Church is the 106- |
year-old - record of Frances (Fanny) Vande- | grift’s baptism. She was the Lin -born | Sho gTenrmily married
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an audience of ‘“sevyral thousand” looking on, a phenomenal turnout, when considered in the light of the historical™xfact that Indianapolis had a popiilation of only at the time. Henry nny's- baptism. West Washington ptisms. Almost e Canal—the
At that time the river. a St. was the stylish place for~ as popular were two places in
Kentucky Ave. bridge. Of the twd, the latter had the call. Indeed, it was here‘that Mr. Beecher first practiced immersion aftera public declaration that he had “no more faith\in the efficacy of the rite in that form than im any other, but would administer in the way that
And 8o fir as T know that was the ‘historical: origin of the Tialindpolly practice of Pleasing
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By Delcevare King Figures on the Nov. 2. election show that |. there were 71,200,000. possible voters who did not vote for President>Truman to 23,600,000 who did -—oyer 3 to 1. Of the 66,800,000. actually registered, 43,200,« .000. did. not. vote for. President Truman to 23,600,000 who did. "I may add that there were any about 2,500,000 fewer votes cast Jey in
~eountry. was. the first nation io history to be...
Eon
“Is estimated to be 14, 145.776 greater than it was
on July 1, 1840. If as-large-a proportion had voted this year as in 1940, the number cast would have been greater by the amazing total of about 8 million votes
What Others Say—
THE" average man 1s more Inferested i & woman who is interested in him than he is tn a woman with beautiful legs. —Marlene Dietrich. *_ % 2 ABANDONED - “communism because 1 found that it isn’t a movement for the better ment of humanity. —Elizabeth Bently, confessed former Communist spy courier, <> <
CLEARLY we are all insane . ., . Ne
~people-would-war-with atomic weapons, yet &il-
Sop we can are preparing’ 107d0" s0.-=Robe cert lakely,- chief editorial writer, St. Star-Times. 73% Yous
WORLD AFFAIRS . ge By William Philip Simms
Reds’ -4-Year. P lan
PARIS, Deo. 11— There will ‘be no “East: West war in — bver Berlin or ‘anything else, barring an accident, before 1952 at the earliest, ;according to a prominent European official who has Just arrived here after a world-wide cheekup, His identity cannot be revealed but it may be sald that this “TAR 18 In an excellent position to obtain ‘the views of leaders in. the countries he visited, which included those of the Far East,
~Middié ‘Bast- and Near Bast. Summing up his Impressions hs ‘gave these steps as the Soviet 1 Union’ 8
FIRST: Fight a Holding battle in the West. Use #t as a
hide the conquest of Asia. Keep Europe in a next three or four years. Prevent recovery by Marshall Plan. Use fifth columns to do the
dirty work under the Cominform’s direction and Subsidies,
Asia Is Big Prize
Press the Communists’ advantage Mm China,
Korea, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, the Middle and Near East Make certain Asia's unmeasured riches eventually will be placed under Soviet command, including .asia’s billion in manpower. THIRD: Make certain of Korea, which traditionally is a
at Japan's head” Once China and Korea ge
Communist, Japan is in the bag-——as soon as the Americans evaouate that country,
Strengthen Red fifth columns throughout Lana
Americk. 'If unable to control a government, at least pla. groups in key places like ports, mines, industries, transporta . and communications so that when war comes the United States .!
of hemisphere assistance.
Wholesale Sabotage
FIFTH: Follow the same policy so far as possible in the United States and all the Atlantic pact countries looking te wholesale sabotage in the event of war,
I © SIXTH; Keep the United Nations debating. Veto any and
all settlements
South and border,
unbalance is | blowing > the capitol itself, So the
centers
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with the West Coast and its population growth being entirely left out. In the House the unbalance is not nearly so great. When you put this business of seniority up to high-ranking Democrats they back away nervously. How else, they want to know, would you ‘cut up the cake, if not on the rule of seniority? They conjure up a frightening picture of southern Democrats revolting in committee, practicing every kind of sabotage short of
show that goes on in January will have striking similarities to performances from the recent past. From the _ veteran actors who will move onte the sag nothing very new
Nations forum flow of insults. by accusing the
great new
SEVENTH:
EIGHTH: pull, shoot.
where possible. Make full use of the United for anti-western propaganda. Maintain a steady Do the most possible to muddle world opinion West of the same crimtes of which Russia herself
is obviously guilty,
Speed up work on the atomic bomb and other
latest-type weapons’ so that when the time comes Russia can ‘make Pearl Harbor look like a wet firecracker.
When all is set and the trigger is ready. »
Russia knows she can play this complicated game without risk because she knows the West won't start a war. Thus she cas bide her time, Sot ifaps all over-the world. 4nd spring them mj, the moment of her choosing. *
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