Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1949 — Page 20

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be enacted into law.

Stalin's Slave-Labor Camps } [YNE of the mysteries of these times is why the United ~~ States in its counter-publicity against Moscow's continual propaganda campaigns says so little about hellish conditions in Russia. The-slave labor camps for political prisoners are a case in point. There has been plenty of ..... first-hand evidence from refugees for several years.

present a well-documented case tothe United Nations. With -this to go on; the State Department last week did. a good job at Lake Success. It proposed that the United Nations investigate the AFL charges that slave laborers in Russia number from 8,000,000 to 14,000,000, and that - this. system violates the human-rights provisions of the ~~ charter. : . Of course,’ Stalin never will permit a United Nations Investigation of this or of anything else in Russia. He has just withdrawn from the international- health organigation—the only one of the many subsidiary United Nations bodies which Russia had joined—and he has blocked atomic control and arms reduction rather than permit foreign . inspection. So the Soviet delegate’s quick gpposition to -. the proposed slaveé-labor inquiry.-surprised nobody.

in line with Stalin's pledges in the charter is no excuse for ignoring the situation. The facts, if publicized through- — out the world, are so terrible they would make the word communism synonymous with barbarism. Then there would . ~ be fewer millions of Frenchmen, Italians and others who still naively look to the Muscovite tyrant as a liberator.

Council this week will pass the American resolution over , ~~ +Russian and Polish objections. That, however, will accom- _. plish little unless our government and other free nations . | make themostof ft Jana

: Conservation Needs Merit Workers

HERE are some functions of government that for the good of the public, even political parties themselves,

~ should be administered by personnel selected under a merit system completely divorced from political spoils.

One of these, we believe, is the Indiana Department of

~ Conservation which administers the technical phases of conserving our natural resources and wild life. . : =~ A bill to establish a merit system for personnel of the Conservation Department was passed by the Senate and | specialists in Sunday School literature. “sent to the House but it has become embroiled in the kind | of political spoils fight that the measure was intended to » eliminate. bl

The Senate bill provided for a separate unit merit

system for the Conservation Department. The Democratic majority in the House amended it to place the merit system operation for the department under the Indiana Personnel Department. :

The Republican majority in the Senate has refused to

go along with the amendment on the ground that it would give the Democrats sufficient control to ‘freeze’ -in- their jobs many party workers already appointed. . . A merit’ system, properly administered, would not “freeze” anyone, Democrat or Republican, in his job unless he measures up to qualifications for specialized work. And qualified personnel in this department is the main objective for efficiency and public good, regardless of political

The Conservation Department merit system bill should

Forrestal and Johnson - THROUGH the war and since, James V. Forrestal's serv-

ice to our country has been outstanding. He has stood

easily above the mediocrity level of the Roosevelt and Truman cabinets,

He has never sought office, but to every job that has

been assigned him—and they have been several and difficult—he has applied a tireless energy, a tough-minded intelligence, a high sense of public duty. Whatever mis- ~~ takes he has made—few indeed, considering the problems | * he dealt with—have never been due to political considerations or lack of courage. Fi :

We regret that Mr. Forrestal has resigned as Secretary

of Defense, and that Mr. Truman has accepted the resignation. We believe others who think national defense should ~ be kept free of politics also will regret his departure from Washington. : : 2 cin .

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3 4 8-8 > Sen rh HIS. SUCCESSOR, Louis A. Johnson, is*a man of

- experience and competence. He was a soldier in World War I and a national leader for preparedness between wars. As Assistant Secretary of War for three years preceding Pearl Harbor, Mr. Johnson, more than any other public . official, laid the groundwork for effective war mobilization.

He will undertak: his- new duties with two strikes

against him. One, it is generally known that this is a case of a man seeking the office, not the office seeking the man. Two, it is generally believed his appointment is in reward for distinguished political service, as treasurer and moneyraiser for the Democratic Party in the last campaign.

These are-tall handicaps. We wish him well. He will need all of his acknowledged ability and driving

force to control and subdue the publicity-and-appropriation- ; grabhing activities of the three Armed Services. He will were FRGQUILE. great. steadiness. of purpose to. stamp. out. the petty. |... rivalries of the Army, Navy and Air intojone effective defense team. : To do all that, he will require, most of all. the active | backing of the public. Let's give it to him. security “that has been passed into his hands. .

Force and mold them

It is our

It remained for the American Federation of Labor to

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will be there!” When .I-visited radio station + WETW on Scout Sunday I discovéred how true was the ‘remark made to me by that New Castle citizen, Mrs. Dannecker was lterally

she is a liberally proportioned human. But . 40 Brownies and Cub Scouts did a complete job of “hemming,” in the largest studio WCTW could afford her ‘audience. - Thirty years ago Hazel 1. Dannecker came to New Castle from Ripley County, where she was born and reared, and began to build her reputation as a story teller for children. Many of these juvenile fabrications insisted on danc-

have been sold to the Methodist Publishing ‘ House and the David C. Cook Publishing Co.

There is an old saying . . . something

about building a better mouse-trap and the ‘world will beat a path to your door . . . well, the same may be frue for a spinner of yarns for children, The Abingdon-Cokesbury Press writers of I. Dannecker to write FISHERMAN. SIMMS for them. That story, delightfully illustrated

- Letters immediately began pouring in to the publishers from department and book stores in 8t. Louis, Nashville, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and other cities. “Send Hazél Dannecker down here to autograph copies of FISHERMAN SIMMS,” they all said. So away went Mrs, - Dannecker, beloved by New Castle children, to be “hemimed in” by American Beauty roses, hospitality and the acclaim of hundreds of boys and girls in distant cities. Very soon there will be another tour of book-stores for Mrs, Dannecker . . . in 1950 her publishers will release her new book, HAPPY, HERO AND JUDGE. On two occasions Mrs. Dannecker has “made” Readers Digest, once in the Life In These United’ States column, and another time in the one called Man's Best Friend. "The

me, “but I am like Riley, who remarked, when someone exclaimed that he had received a -dollar a word for a certain poem, ‘But, it's dern hard to think of the words!” a As the chairman of the local entertainment committee so often says: “Last but not least + +» +" Mrs. Dannecker has published a book of her poems, VARIOUS / LANGUAGES, and does a regular Sunday afternoon broadcast on the New Castle Courier-Times station WCTW, which she calls Stories to Live By. She very frequently lectures to various mother’s groups on How to Tell Stories to Children; Bible stories. in particular, and IN TUNE WITH THE TIMES is grateful that she so graciously contributes of her time and talent to this column.

* & ® KATZE “A soft, bundle

“of bright, siiky fur » With cooling me'ews And a murmuring purr; That's Katze,

Lovable, cuddlesome, Comical, keen; Mischievous, frolicsome, Eyes big dnd green; Playful Katze.

Black coat, white vest And four white shoes, Loves to curl up By the fireplace and snooze, Winsome Katze,

_Romping and leaping On tables and chairs, In his joy and delight erwin EAOTYONS SHARES; - Our Katze. “« Impish and rogueish Making us love him More every day; : Dear Katze

—HAZEL I. DANNECKER, = i New Castle,

With the Times

A HOOSIER WHO = |" “When Hazel Dannecker announces she wit~ tell stories for children all the- kids in town

hemmed In. by boys and girls, and it takes a | lot of hemming to hem Mrs. Dannecker in . . .

ing through her typewriter, and scores of them

of New York beat a path through the forest of |

rate of pay is about a dollar a Word,” she told

She is a Hoosier who in Indiana literature,

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- by Margaret Bradfield, was published in 1947. | = =

Conon Yb, Gut That Balint

WASHINGTON, Mar, 4—Ex-Congressman Charles M. LaFollette of Indiana recently resigned after a year’s service as “Land Director”

. under Military Gov.-Gen. Lucius D. Clay. There has been some mystery about why Mr. LaFollette came home, which can now be partially cleared up. : i Last Oct. 28, which was a Thursday, German unions in Stuttgart scheduled a mass meeting protest against high prices in German stores. The rally was held in the Schloss Platz, -traditional square, where the citizens for many years past have addressed petitions to their rulers. : About 4 o'clock the crowd began to go home. But one group of about 25 went down a main

in front of a German store notably higher priced than others. Somebody threw a brick through the window. A crowd began to gather, German police moved in, threatening with clubs, though not using them, trying to disperse the crowd and move it on. ;

American Reported Attack “..

A LITTLE later an American passenger car, driven by a man with two women military government employees, instead of going around the demonstration, tried to go through. When the driver got to the end of the block, he said the Germans had thrown bricks at his car,

onto the railroad station square were two American jeeps which had brought an MP captain, a sergeant and six privates to the scene.

car had been threatened, the MP's moved up the street against the crowd, now grown to 2000 or 3000. When thé German police saw the MP's, they withdrew. In the melee that followed, one of the Americans had his coat slashed and two othérs were cut on the wrists. ~ About this time—it was nearly dark—an American armed services radio network reporter

Barbs— =

“THESE are cold days but the heat's still

-t;-00-£0F the purchase of.-more government-bondsy

® oo AN Illinois bank, robbed three times, threatens to catch up with the baby’s bank. RE TTY ll WINTER is one of the nicest times to have In-laws visit you—or don’t you wear earmuffs? ~ +e

WITH trailer folks, an invitation to a blowout means you're invited to help fix a tire.

or governor of Wierttemberg-Baden, Germany,

street toward the railroad station and stopped .

Half obstructing the exit from this street

When the driver told the MP captain that his

MILITARY GOVERNMENT . . . By Peter Edson LaFollette’s Rift in Germany

dashed to his microphéne to make a regular 6 o'clock news broadcast. He reported that a mob of 30,000 Germans was rioting on the streets ol Stuttgart, In Frankfurt, Maj.-Gen.

“Clarence R. Huebner; commanding -U. 8. armed

. forces in Germany, heard the broadcast. He immediately called out’ the constabulary, with tanks, then reported to Gen. Cla."

Gen. Clay, in Frankfurt, called Mr. LaFol- |

lette in Stuttgart and asked him what he was doing about the riot. “What riot?” and assured him there were no . 30,000 on the streets. Next day—Friday—there was a regular meeting of the Land Directors with Gen. Clay in Heidelberg. Gen. Clay had transcripts of the speeches madé in Stuttgart. He sald they were inflammatory. Also, three of his men had been injured. He demanded that Mr. LaFollette

order a9 o'clock “curfew-and -ban all. public. |.

* meetings in Stuttgart. Mr. LaFollette argued

strenuously that-this would be a mistake, but

Gem Clay insisted. —— = Caused LaFollette to Resign

BECAUSE the orders were issued on a Saturday, the Stuttgarters had the “week-end in which to cool off, and there was no further trouble. The curfew stayed on for eight days, then was withdrawn.” But this incident, together with earlier curbs on the people which he had been ordered to impose, caused Mr. LaFollette to decide to come home when his contract ended in December; 1948. It would take a superhuman judge to decide whether Gen. Clay or Mr. LaFollette was right in this case. For an understanding of Mr. LaFollette’s motives, it is necessary to go back over his record. He was elected Congressman from Evangville, Ind, as a Republican, but he is about as liberal as Feépublicans ever come. He tried for the Republican nomination for the Senate in 1946 against Sen. William Jenner, and was overwhelmingly rejected by the Indiana Republican convention. :

Denied Nazi Sympathy THEN he went to Germany as a prosecutor of Nazi justice officials before the Nuremberg war ¢rimes tribunal. - In: this experience, Mr. TaFollette found that the defendants invariably claimed they were not Nazis, but that they had held office under the Nazis in order to soften

“their-rulers’ excesses. There came-a time, howe -

ever, when every one of these German officials saw’ that he could do nothing to stop Nazi judicial processes from becoming the ‘mere tool of totalitarian government. But not one of these German officials ever resigned in protest. « To.the prosécutor, this proved that their alleged defense was a sham, : - Mr. LaFollette apparently resigned as Director of Wuerttemberg-Baden in protest against what he considered the undemocratic trends of American military government in Germany,

Marshall Plan aid to’ England?

WORLD AFFAIRS . , . By William Philip Simms

No Aid to England? *, | -

‘WASHINGTON, Mar, 4-—Should the United States continue \ Congress and the Ametican

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

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All Guilty of Neglect’

Thorman, Board of Directors, Indiana Mental Hygiene Soclety

_ The Times’ excellent editorial, “Indiana’ Snake Pits,” should leave no doubt as to who responsible for the appalling conditions which led to the death of a patient in one of Indiana's hospitals for the mentally ill All of us are res o—all of us are guilty of gross and inexcusable neglect. ; Seta Our state hospitals are hospitals in name only. They aren't even good asylums. what are we to expect when we ask them run on next to nothing? The shows Indiana stands seventh from amount of money it spends for the mentally {ll. Yet we stand in 10th capita wealth, We can afford

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What kind of care can a doctor £ state hospitals give when we ask to responsible for almost 450:patients? That is average in Indiana hospitals. The American Psychiatric Association says that one ¢an't possibly treat more than 150 patients. Is it any wonder that patients sit in our over crowded wards day after day, getting no specifie treatment, getting worse instead of better? The care of the mentally {ll requires the highest type of skill. Yet in Indiana we place them In the charge of underpaid, untrained and sometimes brutal attendants. Is it any won that patients are negiected;, abused, beaten and die in the back wards of our snake pits! * These are things which shock all of us. They are also things which 2ne out of 20.of us will sometime in our-life have to face and endure. For mental illness reaches into one family out of every five—one out of 20 of us will spend part of his life in a mental hospital. That is why citizens should begin now to demand better facilities for the care of the mentally ill.

But good hospitals won't come by just wish. .

ing for them. They will come only when all of us join hands in a common cause. The Indiana Mental Hygiene Society is a people’s organization which offers everyone a chance to do his

- share in the fight against mental illness. It

needs the support of every citizen if it is to make progress in its state-wide drive for better mental health facilities. For good hospitals, nfore

clinics and ‘adequate pupgram of prevention will

come only when we _willing-t6 fight for them and pay for them. ys : ‘llegal Education’ Hs

By Paul Lahr, 138 E. 48th St.

To Maurice L. Donnellan, Mooresville: Your motives are good, but will you please consider? That release time religious education 1s mconstitutional because ‘it violates the concept of separation of church and state. That whereas only one religion is strictly

true (yours), most of the children are being

taught false (give your own definition) dogma, That many children of “unchurched” parents are left in study halls while faithful Sunday pupils get a double dose, > That children of lesser sects are denied this training because of the high unit cost of teach Ing a few pupils. __ ‘That grade pupils learn to recognize classtes ds little Methodists, Jews, Catholics, ete., rather than as just John, Amos and Philip. That tax money keeps schools in idle “stande by” while lay teachers instruct our children. - That our schools are teaching Christian ethics by example, in the classroom. Can release time. education do more? That ‘all else taught in our school day is subject to the guidance of school administrators and open to the scrutiny of all the parents. Dogma, accepted on faith, should not seek

the tacit endorsement ‘of the school (I am

speaking of quaint beliefs of churches other than your own). z Let us bring more American culture into the regular public school curriculum and cultivate the high principles of freedom, honesty, fair play, kindness, humility, reverence and devotion. And let us help our churches to find a

legal, American way to reach “unchurched” children.

What Others Say—

THE country owes the veterans“a right to

“readjustment to his CoMMURILY Tire," and A"

chance to get started as a civilian, But the country does not owe the veteran a handout.—

Joseph O. Clorety Jr., national vice chairman,’

AVC, opposing Pensions for aged vets.

WOMEN'S skirts have dictated dancing styles all down: through the ages. When skirts® are short, the dance will be exuberant with lots of leg action. When skirts are long, the rhythm

| will be lazier; gliding and more romantic.—Done - ald Sawyer, New York dancing master. » o

SOCIAL SECURITY .. . By James Daniel

‘Welfare Price Tag

WASHINGTON, Mas. 4—The members of the tax-writing -

stitutions—our

public are considerably befuddled by the current debate on that |

subject. ‘

. | One school of British officials — like Undersecretary for | Foreign Affairs Mayhew--contend that British recovery is now |

about complete. is needed. But—to the amazement of the man in the street over here—

The corollary, of tourse, is that no further help

ERP officials in Washington are saying, in effect: “You do so

need another billion dollars!” On top of that, some observers are saying that our own prosperity depends largely on ERP ‘exports, If cut off, we might have a depression, A little digging below the surface indicates a cansiderable distortion of the situation.

Vote Test 8f Labor Party

ABOUT & year from now England's labor government will be up for re-election. It came in on a program of nationalization, It already has carried through its.big nationalization projects with ‘the exception of iron and steel, shipbuilding, engiigering, chemicals and land. But there is a creeping doubt about the success of socialization,

To offset some of the doubt, Socialist politicians are taking .

to the hystings. They want to paint the picture in the rosiest colors. To make it appear that the “ins” have performed miracles, accomplishing national recovery in about one-fourth the time

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the experts set for the job, some give the impression that recovery |

is already an accomplished fact. .

Should the American Congress take these British politicians

At their word, it might check Britain off the list of Western European nations now sharing approximately $5 billion a year. The truth is that Britain has indeed staged miraculous recovery. But much of it is on paper. Her January®exports, for

example, reached the record level of 162 per cent of the 1038 |

volume. But, as the London Daily Mail points out, “the days of easy selling are past.” World scarcity is beginning to disappear. It may well be that British exptrts have reached a peak. .

Balance of Trade : Pog) MOREOVER, while British exports to India and other areas exceed imports, thus producing a handsome balance of trade in

| her favor, she can't translate this balance into dellars. Her

imports fro ‘America far excepd exports. And ‘Without these

‘| imports from America*-for which she has no means of n | without Marshall dollars—all her recovery would stop. Tang :

even slip back down hill, warns

“There are plenty of Americans,” it

3 : : : 1h cet | GOPR. 1949 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. ATO. 4. &. MT. OFF. "Imagine a teacher asking us if we'd rather’ have bosuty or brains! Do you suppose he thinks all we've got is good focks?"

exports’ are what -are keeping American prosperity going,+ If such spending is needed-—which many doubt--the same number - .- of jobs could be created by spending $5 billion annually inside

the United 8 highways, slum clearance,

__ ‘Others comment that It is absurd to say that Marshall Plan

this have the same effect but it would add to, rather than

House Ways and Means Committee are trying to persuade the head of the Social Security Administration to let them see the price tag on the Truman program of welfare legislation.

Not just what the expanded Social ‘Security wil—cost Hext

year, or the year thereafter, but what this generation will he paying out 10 years hence and the next generation 20 or 30 years after that. So far Social Security Commissioner Arthur J. Altmeyer has ducked their questions.” In two days ‘of testimony, he has declined to be pinried down. Only Congress knows what kind of Social Becurity laws will

‘be enacted, DA Altmeyer says, adding that he is Just a man who administers the law,

For All Needy Persons hop

SINCE Monday Dr. Altmeyer has been explaining a bill which would authorize the federal government to match state

funds for a direct rellef program for all classes of needy persons. If a depression came, he said this phase of Social

| _Security would expand greatly. Some Congressmen agree; they

see it as the seed of another WPA,

The only cost estimate Dr. Altmeyer will make is that direct

relief will add $230 million annually to the preesnt $1.1 billion which the federal goverfiment spends for public assistance. He

sald his estimate assumed no falling off in prosperity or - ment. His $230 million with a Senats a

estimate of a $240-5270 million, with fewer people eligible and -

smaller payments than Dr. Altmeyer advocated.. a Some committee members are impatient with plecemeal estimates of Social Security cost. They are pre the White House to get an over-all figure on the cost of Some will settle for a dollar estimate. Others want an es

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