Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1949 — Page 10

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Our Mental Institutions THERE have been a lot of surveys and recommendations and just plain talk about the need for improvements in Indiana’s antiquated mental institutions. But up to now no very constructive steps have been taken toward a program to bring these hospitals up to a minimum standard of decency. “Another “tour of inspection” was conducted at Central State Hospital here this week by a group of Marion County State Senators who came back with the same conclusions— that something ought to be done about it. They reported that the institution was “woefully understaffed and in dire need of repairs and equipment.” We've known about these same conditions for many years—more years than anyone wants to admit—yet, the last legislature and those preceding it have dodged the job of actually starting a long-range program to build up bet- _ ter-trained staffs and to provide more modern‘equipment. E a =» B® ¥ viii ll 2 | THESE improvements will have to be made if Indiana is to maintain any kind of record for care of its mentally ill, a function of government that reflects on the stature of the whole citizenry. Rehabilitation of the State's mental hospitals could mean a reduction in the number of inmates because modern technique in the mental health sciences has pointed the way to cures in shorter time. 2 Unless the citizens of Indiana get behind a program of modernization we will continue to have an over-flow load of patients, the majority of whom will have to remain there the rest of their lives for lack of better equipment and bigger trained staffs.

Douglas and Byrd [DEMOCRATIC Sen. Paul H. Douglas of Illinois is sup- “ porting a Republican effort to enforce cut-backs in government spending, Lan Da _ This is news because Sen. Douglas is a liberal Democrat, elected last November on his party's “fair deal” platform. It is news also because some of the things he said in a Senate speech this week were much like the things said last " week by conservative Democrat Harry F. Boyd of Virginia shortly before President Truman's reported remark about “too many Byrds in Congress.” ‘But any suggestion that Sens. Douglas and Byrd are two of a kind would be grossly unfair to both. In many respects, their philosophies of government are wide apart, ONE: That, under present conditions, the cotintry cannot afford an unbalanced federal budget and a resort to

“TWO: That at this time, with business already declining, an attempt to balance the budget by increasing taxes would be dangerously unwise. THRE: That the alternative—a reduction of government spending—is absolutely essential. ; ; © FOUR:- That it is the duty of Congress to order this reduction and to require federal departments and agencies to carry out the order,

® wn 8a » » SEN. DOUGLAS believes that ‘squeezing out the waste in government costs while preserving the essential services which government provides” can do the job. He believes the necessary savings can be made by cutting “redacible” spending items 5 or 6 per cent and by taking 5 or 6 per cent of the present federal employees off the pay roll. This, he says, is not a party issue, for waste has existed in all administrations. And it is not a matter of liberalism versus conservatism, ford : : “To be liberal, one does not have to be a wastrel. We must, in fact, be thrifty if we are to be really humane. We are not helping the slum dwellers, the under-educated and sick by supporting an excessive number of stenographers and clerks. We are, on the contrary, wasting money and personnel which, if saved, would remove some of these evils from American life.”

“A Blackeye For Police ANOTHER instance af police brutality in the clubbing of a prisoner at the Police Station is no testimonial on efficiency in law enforcement. Clubbing of a prisoner after he has been placed under arrest and confined at Police Headquarters is a display of bad judgment which brings disrespect for law enforcement agencies. There are times, it is true, when an officer, confronted with an unruly prisoner or two, must use his stick in an emergency to make an arrest. But testimony in the latest clubbing incident showed that the prisoner was in the hands of several officers inside headquarters and that the beating took place after one of_ficer decided the suspect was getting too “smart alecky.”.. The laws of the State of Indiana provide for legal ways to handle lawbreakers, designed principally to create more respect for laws rather than less.

There's No Known Cure Ho State University got this letter from a farmer's : wife:

“Please write and tell me what you can do with a damned cow that has all the grass she can eat, all the water she wants to drink and is bred, that just stands and bawls and bawls until she just about drives you nuts. She doesn't havea thing to bawl about that I can see.” . Maybe she just likes an audience. There are people like that. rk

A Stockpile We Could Use Li THE Russians have accepted our official apology for the ©" misconduct of Pvt. Edward Touhey, who went on a _ spree in Austria and mopped the floor with seven or eight Russian officers. But the Army hasn't decided what to do hat's Keep him in good health and find out ‘any bro_hers coming along, We might have ¢ a ;

RED MOVES . . . By Wallace Devel :

* aid into the Reich, it is believed here.

long as the Reich remains reasonably well off.

“army withdrew.

‘make a deal with whatever kind of a regime

ADVICE FOR NATION'S ILLS

Russ ‘Deals’ in Germany Seen

Kremlin May Double-Cross Communist Party in Reich

WASHINGTON, May 13—The Soviets may be getting ready to pull the rug out from under the German Communist Party, z They will do so if the Kremlin decides it can best promote Russia's interests by making a deal with German non-Communists at the Reich Communists’ expense, and there are signs that the Kremlin may have made this decision. It will probably be some time before Moscow needs to decide what to do about the German Communists. Meanwhile, the Kremlin will almost certainly go on supporting the party in the Reich, But the German Communists will be fools if they think they can count on this support indefinitely and under all circumstances, it is believed here. The Soviets’ basic long-term aim is an alliance with a united Germany.

Must Drive U. S. Out

IN ORDER 40 achieve this, Russia must get the Western Allies—and especially the United | States—out of the Reich. Moscow first tried to drive the Western Powers out by making it dificult, disagreeable, dangerous and expensive for them to stay. This attempt has now failed. The Kremlin may now be prepared to try to “buy” the Western Allies out of Germany— or to ‘shame’ them out. Moscow could try to “buy” them out by agreeing to most of the Weatern Powers’ terms for a German peace settlement. The Soviets could try to “shame” the United States, Britain and France out of the Reich by offering a settlement so attractive to the Gere mans—and.to world public opinion in general— that the Western Powers wouldn't have any plausible and popular excuse for staying. If the Western Powers stayed on in the Reich in spite of sweetly reasonable Russian proposals, they would be so unpopular and the Sdviets so popular that Russia and communism cotld gain much ground in Germany. If and when the Western Powers do leave Germany, the Kremlin will probably try two methods of winning the Reich:

Attempt May Fail

FIRST, the Soviets will help the German Communist Party try to conquer political power on a national scale by open, legal methods— among others. But this attempt probably will fall, at least as long as the United States continues to pour

The Communists have made little headway in Western Germany so far, and the best guess here.is that they won't make much more even after the Western Allies leave the country, so

One school of thought here thinks that the Communists would even lose most of their present power in Eastern Germany if the Red

But the Kremlin has another strategy besides help for the German Communists. It will try to

emerges in the Reich, Communists or not. The politburo calculates that all’ Germans will favor an alliance with Russia if that seems the best way to advance the Reich's national interests, and the Kremlin is further betting that this will seem to be the case when Ameri. can ald to Germany stops.

In Tune With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue

No American newspaperman rates any higher in the history of his profession than Horace Greely. People used to write him for advice on all sorts of subjects. He once received a letter from a distressed lady who was greatly concerned because her church was having such a desperate time trying to make both ends meet. She told him that they had tried fairs, festivals, countless suppers, mock weddings and all sorts of shows, but the situation was still desperate, What would Mr. Greely suggest? His reply was terse and very much to the point. He wrote back: “Why not try religion?” He had something there. We don't know where Mr, Greely discovered the secret, but he had it: When people find satisfying religion in the church, the finances are forthcoming, We have a feeling that if Mr. Greely were with us today and still editing his great journal he would make a similar answer to the many letters he would receive as to what should be done about our fears of dreaded “isms.” Would he reply: “Why not try @iemocracy?”

~GEORGE D. GREER, New. Castle.

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PRESIDENTIAL POWERS . .

tween the President and the Congress is warmsing up. It went up at least five degrees with the presidential crack about there being too many Byrds—B-Y-R-D—in Congress. The cause of the growing resentment in the

White House is the conviction that the Senate is deliberately - sabotaging the President's power of appointment. 8en. Harry F. Byrd of Virginia voted with the Republicans on the Armed Services Committee to bottle up the appointment of Mon C, Walgren to be chairman of the National Security Resources Board. - Two other appointments held back by the Senate have stirred equally strong feelings. Thomas C. Buchanan was appointed to the Federal Power Commission last July and the

Carson was nominated a member of the Federal Trade Commission on Apr. 7 and there is no indication that any date is to be set soon for hearings. :

President's Policies

IT SEEMS to me important to understand the White House attitude, These three men, as the President sees it, are liberals who believe in the policies the President ran on in the last campaign. ot The President won the election in a victory that bowled over all the so-called experts, and subsequent analysis showed that if more voters had come out to vote the result would have been a Truman landslide. Having lost the election,

preventing the appointment of men who will work to carry out the Truman policies. At any rate, that is how it looks from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Y The most effective case in support of this point of view can be made on the Carson nomination. For 25 years in Washington Mr, Carson has worked diligently and often effectively for social reform of a liberal-progressive nature. He was assistant to the late Sen. James Couzens, the Michigan motor millionaire who had surprisingly liberal conyictions in view of

Carson turned to various public causes that he considered good and desirable, He concentrated

especially on the co-operative movement, feeling

Senate has thus far done nothing about it. John

the opposition now seeks to nullify the result of °

his great wealth, On Sen. Couzens’ death, Mr.

. By Marquis Childs Truman's ‘Cold War’ in Congress

WASHINGTON, May 13—The cold war be.

that it offered an opportunity for the people to control democratically the means of production and thus escape the grip of big business and big government. In 1937 he was appointed to the office of Consumers’ Counsel of the National Bituminous Coal Commission. His work as defender of the consumer has been highly praised in a private study of the commission, as yet unpublished.

Smear Campaign IMMEDIATELY upon Mr, Carson's nomi-

nation a smear campaign was directed against:

him. His public statements were combed over and remarks taken out of context to show that he held radical views and would be a threat to business on the Trade Commission, What was not brought out was the fact that Mr. Carson is a faithful Roman Catholic. As the record shows, Mr. Carson has based his economic views largely on the encyclical of Pope Pius XI, called “Quadragesimo Anno,” and on the interpretations of that encyclical by the Rev. Wilgrid Parsons, 8. J., professor of sociology and politics at Catholic University. In housing, in rural electrification and in other fields where government assistance is approved, Mr. Carson has repeatedly urged the co-operative solution, He has frankly expressed the view that co-operatives are the alternative to some form of stateism —. communism or fascism. Mr. Carson's criticism of capitalism for its failures and limitations coincides with a viewpoint that goes very high in the Catholic hierarchy.

Denounced Capitalism

OVER the past week-end the official Vatican organ, L'osservatore Romano, denounced capitalism as a cancerous growth at the same time that the present Pope was telling European employers that they would have to share responsibility for the direction of industry with their employees In the attack on Mr. Carson it was said that he was named as a Republican to the bipartisan Federal Trade Commission. He was named as an independent and not as a Republican, and there are indications that President Truman intends to find such independents for all vacancies that, under the law, must be filled by appointees who are not Democrats.

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‘Forfeit Citizenship Rights’

By Joseph Cassidy. : Americans read with sickening amazement of the lengths to which Communist nationals -

of this country are going in condemning the United a ee declaring their devotion 3 and allegiance to the Russian Communist gov= ernment. : i The recent Communist-inspired gathering in. Paris was a glaring instance of this increas , ingly vile trend. It makes one impatient with : our government in not taking steps to catch - up with them, especially when it seéms there is enough authority in our Nationality Act to take action to compel them to forfeit their right to - be classed as American nationals. The Nationality Act of 1940 enumerates the instances in which “a national of the United States, whether by birth or naturalization, shall * lose his nationality.” To be a national of the . United States means that one owes permanent allegiance to this:country, whether or not he is a citizen. Among the instances in which American nationality is lost is by “taking an oath or making an affirmation or other formal | declaration of allegiance to a foreign state” = The process of mandatory loss of American - nationality under this subsection is not coms . pleted, however, while such a one is within the United States. But, as the Act provides, “ex. : patriation shall result from the performance . within the United States or any of its outlying possessions of any of the acts or the fulfillment of any of the conditions specified in this sec« tion if and when the national thereafter takes up a residence abroad.”

It would seem that the conditions for mane =

datory loss of American nationality by some - of these. American Communists as set forth in this subsection is being fulfilled. No one doubts any longer that membership in the Communist Party entails the “making of an affirmation « +» Of the allegiance ie. a foreign state."

Urges GOP-Dixiecrat Merger By B. F. fa ® _ The recent doings in Washington cry out for a formal merger of the Republicans and the Dixiecrats. They would work together after elections; why not before? They are united politically in the eyes of the nation; why not have a ring ceremony? The only serious drawback apparently to a union is the name to be taken. The Dixie boys, of course, have strong sentimental objections to changing over to “Republican.” The Republi * cans, having done business (and quite successfully until recent years) since 1856 under that label, probably have equally strong objections to swinging over to “Dixiecrats.” The way of compromise fs dle only way. Combine segments of each label and you dome up with “Dixiecans” or “Republicrats.” Neither will do. An accurate designation would be “Conservative” but that has become a hateful word to so many voters as to be dangerqus. Likewise for “Tory.” : Since this coalition clings to the good old ways, why not go back to an honorable American political title—Federalist? One may quibble that the principles of the Federalists are not exactly those of this coalition, but that is a relatively trifling matter. The main thing is that the Republican-Dixiecrat party should be really united on the natignal scene, not just in the halls of Congress,

What Others Say—_

IT I8 encouraging to Democrats to know that (Republican Chairman Hugh) Scott is back on the road taking those leftover 1048 campaign speeches to the college campus, for it brings to thoughtful young people examples of Republican antidiluvianism which they would not believe without seeing.—Vincent M. Gaughan, executive secretary, Young Democratic Clubs, offering to book speaking dates for GOP Chairman Scott. * ¢ THE time has now come for us to recon sider and restudy our agricultural policies and determine what is a sound and adequate farm policy suitable to the times and conditions which are likely to prevail in the years immediately ahead.—Rep. Clifford Re Hope (R) of Kansas. > ®

IT (the North Atlantic Pact) is an obligation assumed by free peoples who have never undertaken an aggressive war and who want, first and foremost, to safeguard peace, but who also are determined to resist together any possible aggressor.—Premier Paul-Henrl Spaak of Belgium.

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ALLIED DEFENSE . . . By Andrew Tully

Pact’s War Strategy

WASHINGTON, May 13—Congress' traditional right to declare war has emerged untouched from two weeks of Senate hearings on the Atlantic Pact, but the administration nevertheless has made it clear that the Pact's provisions will force Con. gress’ hand in any future emergency. The facts of life under the Pact have been stated bluntly, if somewhat negatively: The next time an aggressor goes on the precwl, the United States will not wait until Europe is overrun before doing something. No matter how much sugar coating you put on that one, it means just ona thing—action the moment any of the signatory nations is attacked, If we are not going to wait until an aggressor's guns command every European beach, it follows we are going to have to trip up the aggressor before he gets that far. a As was to be expected, the situation has been summed up in its grimmest aspects by the military, notably Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and Gen. Omar Bradley, Army chief of staff,

Military Strategy

GEN, BRADLEY has put it in typical, soldierly terms, He told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that in the event of another war, the American military establishment would do everything in its power to avoid another Normandy invasion against an entrenched enemy. But the first responsibility, he emphasized, rested with Congress. Discussing hypothetical questions of aggression, the general described the military's function as an organization which waits for its government to tell it ‘to do and to go.” Bu’ he said he was assuming that Congress would give those orders quickly and plainly in case of invasion anywhere in the guaranteed area of the 12 Atlantic Pact countries. It was Gen. Bradley, too, who emphasized the necessity for a clear-cut commitment from the U, 8.; the treaty would fall, he sald, unless European nations were sure we were ready to stand with them the moment an emergency arose,

Defense in Europe

LIKE Gen. Bradley. Secretary Johnson has stressed the Pact's importance in giving the U. 8. a defense line in Europe rather than on the Atlantic Coast. His implication, too, was ' obvious—your defense line is where you start to fight. Mr. Johnson was not divulging any long-range plans of military establishment, but it was obvious from the nature of his caution that such plans were based on immediate action in case of aggression, Naturally, the testimony of Secretary of State Dean Acheson was more restrained that that of his military supporters. Discussing the controversial article which requires the signatories to take action in the event of an attack on one of them, Mr. Acheson soothed some senatorial feelings by stating that this ‘did not commit the /U, 8. to an automatic declaration of war, But, he added, we do have an obligation to maintain and restore peace and security in the whole area. In other words, it would be up to the Senators, to decide how best to maintain and restore peace and security once an aggressor started shooting. It somewhat of a surprise whem Mr, Acheson declared

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

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that Senators supporting the treaty would be “morally” bound to vote for the $1,130,000,000 arms program. Sen. Tom Connally |

of Texas, chairman of the committee, who fears some Senators may use the arms plan as an argument against approving the treaty, was up on his feet at once to say he thought the Secretary had “gone a little too far.”

And Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan complained of |

what he called a dangerous tendency to undervalue the Pact and to qverstate the accompanying program of military aid, In other words, what these two politically realistic Senators were saying was: “Let's cross that bridge when we come to it.” Strangely enough, that is rot the administration’s attitude. Because it feels the treaty alone will not do the trick, it is willing to gamble on selling the whole package at once,

the $25 million farm-buiiding grant

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FARM HOUSING. . . By Earl Richert

U. S. Aid for Shacks

WASHINGTON, May 13—Congress is likely to vote $25 million in outright gifts to help fix up those tumble-down shacks on completely unproductive ‘farms—farms which government offi cials say the people must leave eventually for their own good. National Housing Agency officials picture the proposed grants as a sort of health aid. Sanitary conditions on these farms are such that the people are sick most of the time and don't have the energy to move around. Perhaps, said a spokesman, if the government put screens

" on the windows, fixed roofs and helped these farmers get sani-

tary water and toilet facilities their health would improve so much “they will have the energy to get up and go.” “The improvements,” he said, “all would be of a temporary nature, perhaps making the place habitable as long as five years. But we don't want to fix things up to the point where it encourages the people to stay.”

Non-Productive Farms

THESE proposed grants, contained in the long-range housing bill passed by the Senate and now being considered by a House committee, do not involve anything that gan be considered a productive or semiproductive farm. They involve only tracts of land on which, in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture, can't be improved enough to provide a living for the occupants. The $25 million outlay represents total income paid hy 460,000 men who make $3000 a year each with a wife and two children. For the self-sustaining or potentially self-sustaining farms, the housing bill authorizes $250 million in loans during the next four years for improvement of buildings. The loahs on the self-sustaining farms would run for 33 years at interest not exceeding four per cent. On the farms which are to be brought up to a self-sustaining basis, the Secretary of Agriculture would be authorized to use subsidies hy giving a partial credit om interest and ptincipal payments due. Such a credit could not cover more than the interest and 50 per cent of the principal payment due the government,

$500 Per Building

THE amount available under the $25 million outright grant would be limited to $500 per building. In addition, the individual would be eligible for a loan of $500 on the same building, Gov ernment officials think few loans would be made on the rune down buildings on which the grants are to be made. The Senate Banking Committee recommended only $12%million in outright grants for the substandard farm improvements. But Sen. Willlam Langer (R. N. D.) got the Senate to double that amount on the grounds that it was voting billions for city slum clearance and low-rent public housing and doing practically nothing for the farmers. : Chairman Brent Spence (D. Ky.) of the House Banking Committee said he thought it likely his committee would approve Beveral H bli aly the - Republicans ey would oppose on the Bross HT Weons ue a a Deol end pron It uth t Ralph A. Gamble (R. N. Y. probably will go through.” : ). be

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