Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1949 — Page 20
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JUSTICE... by Marquis Childs
Friction. Rises —
Democratic Liberals Critical
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al Pritonar? WE don't know what the ‘F¥hsons were—although ¢ evidently the Governor's Clemency Commission considered
them good ones-—for Rejecting a frole from state. prison . r Ott Workman. y'-is- in this case anyway. | Lo What it cries aloud for is Justice. This man has served 10 years, so Tar, of a 1iTé senténce |
tempt at-armed robbery. aE “The tam who wa shot is wive:and welt and; of course, at liberty.
the crime was set free from prison years ago. The trigger man who did the shooting is still in prison.
° THE TRANSCRIPT of the trial in which Ott Workman was convicted shows no single shred ‘of credible evidence that he was in any way connected with the crime... Unchal~lenged testimony placed him miles away from the scene of ._the shooting. One witness of highly doubtful veracity __ testified that several years before the attempted robbery Ott Workman had said his brother-in-law (the shooting ~ vietim) ‘kept money in his safe. That was all. And on that this man was convicted, sentenced to life imprisonment, and has been held in prison for a decade. =. It'has openly been charged that Workman i isa “political ’ ." The circumstances of his conviction, the background of “feudin’ and fightin’ " against which his trial was conducted, and the political pressures that have been apparE opt ever singe have done nothing to disprove such a charge.
The End of a Mission !
“BUBASEADOR JOHN LEIGHTON STUART'S departure from China, after months as a virtual house prisoner
tea wap and. humilisting episodes in American:
Dr. Stuart was in no sense. a central figuFe in thie recent debacle, as his official designation would imply. He was at worst, a willing, if well-intentioned puppet, of the - left-wingers who have dominated the State Department's office of Far Eastern affairs. == “But he is a personification of a policy which has-under-mined American prestige in an important section of the
world; at a critical time in history.
— tion government, he had no wish to be. burdened by the routine functions of an ambassador, nin in the embassy fell to Dr. Stuart. . ”. = ri» - 7 - A MISSIONARY: EDUCATOR, 73 years old, Dr. Stuart was born in China, and had spent most of his adult life = “His occasional commen on the “subject reflect a 1030. __selioolboy’ 5 version of communism. Any estimates he may "Hive made of the Chinese military SitGAtOH Thust Have been
Department has kept most of his reports among its well guarded secrets. = This kindly ‘old gentleman is notrto—be held at t fault because he was so tragically miscast: It wasn’t until Commiunist soldiers crashed into his bedroom at Nanking that he began to admit any misgivings concerning the epochal events he was witnessing. But the appointive power responsible for his assignment. to one of the most difficult poms in our foreign service cannot’ be 80 easily excused.
Rep. Jacobs on Wegss
this isn't a very good time to raise the pay of federal judges by $5000 a year. Their present salaries of $15,000 and $17,500, with lifetime tenure and security appear to us ~ to have been sufficient to attract lawyers of as much stature
there seems to be no lack-of applicants for the two currently in prospect for Indiana barristers. But one note in Mr. Jacobs” rather frank and straight-
~make-us- wonder alittle...
MIRTH Wages Kbove” $18 1 week so-he opposes raises in the. higher brackets, such as those of judges. - » . mr DOESN'T follow at all, wholly different “things. governmeént of. employees who work for the government, + and upon which the government has to decide, just like any other employer. The other is the proposal that the government, by law, order every private employer to raise the pay of every.employée to a certain level per hour regardless of his job, or his individual worth, which if it has any effect at all would. mean a correspofiding increase in prices for the worker and everybody else. "Whatever the merit in that, if any; we can't for the Life of us see what it has to do with the pay a federal judge
» 7 He's talking about two
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Gi s Weed Menace :
EEDS growing in’ profusion on many vacant lots and
in some'instances.
rodents and are the source of polien- attacking hay fever victims.
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- trafic and have. become. of ‘the city. “There is no excuse for weeds. City officials have authority 1 under & special anti-weed ordinance to order prop-
order, the law provides that and charge the expense t
he: owners.
When Gen. George C. Marshall went to China as Presi- * ogo. Truman's special envoy to set up a Communist coali- |
airy and unrealistio—if. indeed he ever regarded the subject, | as one of importance. That we cannot know as the State |
TE'RE inclined To agree with Rep. Andrew Jacobs that
in prison for the shooting of his brother-in-law in an at- |
Ai. Actual & EEmplice nthe" ‘shooting -ut-the-scene-of—-
iff Communist-held Nanking, signalizes. the end of one of {—H
So the role of front- |
* Of Truman's Court Choice
«WASHINGTON, Aug. 4~In thé wake of the nomination of Attorney General ‘Tom Clark to
in -the labor: liberal, eX-New Deal Wing of the Democratic Party. The ‘reaction in this. impor-. tant section 6f the Fair Deal party is_ one. of - gloom and apprehension. i The reasons for —the—gioom . deserve more “examination than, they are likely to get, since Mr. Clark’s confirmation by the Senate is almost’ a certainty, Any controversy over the appoint. - ment will be stirred up off the: conservative rather than the liberal side. ey To begin with, liberals critical of the nomination ut it,in ‘the framework of, first the Tru“They believe that Chief Justice Fred Vinson had | “ore to do than any other “STAGTe THATVIATAY ot] side the White House in influencing the choice.
Government by. Crony
ernment by crony. Little or no animus toward - Prop iaek—ente rt —into—thie-
ministration is narrowing and contracting, ‘rather than expanding. On the court, Mr. Clark will be under the: domination of the Chief Justice, his is where -the apprehension of the liberals enters in. They see the majority of five in faver of a generous interpretation of major issues—the late Justice Frank Murphy was one of the. five—converted into a minority of four. The concern is deepest over civil -ights in a : period when fear and suspicion have reached a kind of fever piteh.” IT Mr. Clark on the court follows Justice Vinson's ‘Tead, he will take a narrow view of the constitutional rights of the individual, A table has been compiled for the years 1946 through 1948, showing the stand taken by éach ofthe nine justices in civil rights cases in which the court has divided. Justice -Murpny cast his vote 53 times in support of the right claimed by the individual or individuals. This made hm first in this respect among the nine, although Justice Rutledge was a close second with 52. votes for the claimed right. —
Bottom of List
ON THIS score, Chief Justice Vinson and Justice Stanley Réed were at the bottom of the list, having each voted only eight times in favor of the claimed right of the indiv.dual. Justice . ~Mr. Truman's first appointment to the tourt, voted 10 times for tne claimed right. For the other justices the record stands: Douglas 47, Black 39, Frankfurter 23 and Jack. som 14. Viewed from the other perspective, Mr. Murphy is also at the top of the list. in only three cases did he vote to dehy the claimed right of the individual. . The score for the others is as follows: . Rutledge, 4, Douglas (0, Black 17, Frankfurter 34, Jackson 41, Burton 47 and Reed and Vinson each 49, : Many who reject such score-keeping on the ground that it ignores the legal intricacies in each and merely indicates the intellectual and emotionat-beat of the individual. But it does
| undoubtedly do the latter, and even though a
man is elevated to the rarified atmosphere of the | wholly from his past prejudices:
New Moijority
Vinson. it appears likely that a new méjority | of five will prevail over a new minority The | core of the minority will;be Justices Black, | _ Rutledge and Douglas, who will be joined frum | "time to time by either Justice ‘Frankfurter or | Justice Jackson. . A - A number of highly significant civil rights | cases are bound to come before the eourt.in.ibe. next few years, those cases -wiil be a.powerful influence in de- | termining the future of "this demdcracy.’ And they will come at a time when the power of the state is everywhere encroaching on the-rights of the individual.
FOSTER'S- FOLLIES {ROME Leftists recall protest; ban on nude: Venus off") ie Said the leftist to the rightist, .
as federal administrations have been willing to appoint and
forward letter on the subject to the Bar Association does | Mr. Jacobs. says a.good.many..... pede write him that “our economy cannot stand to raise |
One is a straight pay raise by the :
"|" developed by the private companies.
en saissaemsn
even on some residential properties here are rapidly be- | pr a major health menace and a serioiis traffic hazard fe
Patches of weeds that have been shooting up in \ recent weeks are natura) breeding grounds for mosgiittoes and |
On some street corners, weeds obstiuct the view of
owners to cut down growth. If property owners ignore | ty officials shall cut the i
“That nude statu€ must.come down, 1 don't like it in the slightest, < It defames our lovely san
Bat the rightist calrfied the leftist, Quleted. his false alarm. “As he asked“in manner deftest, "Now! ‘in Vefius, where's the 'arm?"
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4
ind Ydaho Power Co.
Texas Power & Light Co:
areas. Forcing a Texas Power & Light-type contract on: dther power projects would, in effect, restrict the government to developing enly secondary power to pupplement. Primary
Power at One Dam
dam generators.
secondary power for limited periods.
About the best Dennison c¢&h do is deliver firm power for plus limited secondary power, , |_pawer to sell. Southwestern Power Administration has no other | But it does.have A number of potential preference customers among rural coThey could not be served, however, be: cause Texas Power & Light controls all the transmission lines a On the dither hand, Texas Power & Light was in the of needing reserve power “for its peak load: periods in the efternoon and evening. So here were all the elements for a good trade. i Under-the-1aw, Department of Interior is selling agent for, | power generated at flood control dams built by Army engineers.’ | 1947, Southwestern Power Administrator Douglas Wright made a contract for the department with Texas Power
eight hours a day, generating capacity in this territory to tie into.
operatives in the area
So in-April, at | & Ligh.
Good Deal for Both -
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co-op customers. | the company’s capacity. and delivered it 10 {ts customers.
The Central. Valley Project in California—with $440 million & now authorized-—-will have an annual output of 2.3 billion kilowatt hours. Mostiof the capacity from Shasta Dam is now sold to Pacific Gas & Electric Co. because thé governmemwt | has only three short transmission lines ‘which tie its power Into
| expend
Tz the Pacite't Gas’ ‘& Blut oystim,
uié Supreme Court, considerable dismay 18 felt |
THEY see a. repetition of the pattern of g gov- |
Ord ip ge rather, a conviction that the horizon of the ad-
| IF MR. CLARK #ouows the lead of Tustice |
DECLINE OF DEMOCRA CY.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4--You cannot being ~ about prosperity by discouraging thrift. :
You cannot strengthen the weak by weak- .
ening the strong.
You cannot heip-the wage- earner by pulling =
down the wage payer. - You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot establish ‘sound security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. You cannot: help men-permanently by doing
for them what they could and should ao: for
themselves. —1r wasting the lahors of the people on the pre-
Supreme Court he does not divorce “himself | ‘tense of caring for them, they must be nappy.
If we were directed from Washington when— to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone, Th ple themselves are the only safe repositories None of the above statements ic original. They would all -be called reactionary by the
- planners who want to set up a ‘welfare. state”
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GOVERNMENT DAMS ‘or By Peter Edson
Power Plan ‘Joker’?
A huge joker has been found in Senate. Appropriations CommHtee recommendations against the building ‘of government transmission lines from Bureau of Réelamation power dams, It Felntes to proposed orders thatthe Departs ment of Interior make contracts with Pacific Gas & Electric Co, | STMITAr (0 & CONTFRCT NOW Th Torre Between the government's Southwestern Power Administration and the’
The catch in this attempted committee mandate is that the | Texas Power & IL ight contract was a special agreement made to fit peculiar ¢ircumstances not found in the California and ldaho
THE Texas contract wis drawn up to handle only the public power developed at Dennison dam. This is a flood. contro built by the Army engineers on the Red River, which forms the | i ‘boundary between southern Oklahoma and Texas. waler flows through the.Red River throughout the year to make possible the delivery of a large load of firm power by Dennison | But the water held at Dennison dam during | heavy rainfall runoff is sufficient to deliver a fair quantity. of
IN BRIEF, Souhwestern Power swapped its ‘secondary power |s for delivery at peak-load periods, In exchange for firm power from Texas Power & Light for delivery to the government's It is A god deal for both sidea; “It Increased | It marketed ‘the’ government's power
in America. They are eontrary to present. ate ministration policy. i .
Words of Lincoln i
“THE first seve of them-the ones starting with “you”-were all spoken by Abraham Lin-" coln. The next thrée are from Thomas Jeffersan. They were said a long time ago, but they are as’ fresh as today's newspaper. Those who are most active today in their efforts to put Americans under state control, and to make them dependent on Washington from cradle to grave, are long on praising Lin: - colin and Jefferson. They also like tc ‘quote, as another great liberal, Woodrow Wilson. who
“If any wet of" our people want to be wards, “if they -want-to-have- guardians pul over them, if-they want to be taken eare of “if they want tobe children, patronized by the government, 1 am sorry, because it. will sap the manhood of America.” } This is from President Wilson's first augural address. He added: “lI believe
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oe TT ant 6] Stand onthe firm “foundation of - taw
and right and take care -of themselves.” The:facts that these quotations are old and
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Welfare State Eells of Ages
that they are the words of great men do not
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or ~ CORE. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. 1. M0. 0. 8 Par, or,
| want you to meet sore friends of mine — General Eisenhower. General Lee, General MacArthur and Gener ral Sten newall Jackson!”
| Unléss the Seante Appropriations Committee ‘recommendations are defeated, the government will be forced to make a | , Texas Power & Light-type.gontract with Pacific Gas & Electric | The government also will be prevented ‘frony building a |' Steafn plant to firm up its power. And it will be prevented from building transmission lines to serve any of its preferred custo_mers save reclamation project pumping stations. 4 A_.Senate floor battle has been promised by Sens. O'Mahoney | of Wyoming. Johnson of Texas, Sparkman of Alabama and | others who waft committee restrictions on the public power proIf committee recommendations are adopted, they ‘will. put the government in the role of being Secondary supplier -
“all, these expressions show that theories which.
~ mocrary. For a those who were citizens and owned property--
‘popular rule by public gatherings which elected |
- free wheat, “But not. for long.’
stitution were exceptional students. They knew
. By E. T. Leech
necessarily make them valid today. But they do make them worth considering. And, above
are advocated today as something new, and sombthing which would justify us in departing from tradition, really aren't new at all,
Older Than America
AS A matter of fact, all these schemes —about a welfare state are far older than -America. They go away back into- ancient history. They have been tried, and have failed, over and over again. Athens tried the first "experiment in de“part of the popu!
it ‘was the most complete democracy which ever existed. Of course, it excliided slaves, foreigners, {reed men and those without property. But for | the ones who could qualify, there was absolute
all officials and made all decisions: “The Greek democracy quqgickly declined when the state began spending its money on the citizens-—~and when the citizens sought more and. more from the state, _As Rome declined, it became the most complete welfare state which has. existed. People depended on the ‘government for food,’ enter-: tainment, . jobs, housing and decisions, They got so’lazy they wouldn't’ even grind their-ows m= so the state ground it. for them.It went broke, lost fts trade and couldn't defend itself. So Rome’ fell :
Political History
THE men who wrote the American Con-
history and “the theories of government, for events before and during the Revolution, and the political troubles “which followed it, has | caused unusual-interest-in political history. { They" * carefully. avoided anything that | smacked of the welfare state, Instead, they °f sought to protect .the- individual citizen in the opportunity and right to make his own way, | and to keep the rewards of his efforts. . We are their heirs. We have inherited the |
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"accumulated political wisdom of the ages, and |
also its follies. The issues of today aren't new. | The theories about a planned. society and state | security are very, very old. They have never | worked anywhere at any time, ‘ {
By Galbraith
LEGISLATIVE FIGHTS ... . By Charles Lucey
Congress in Jam
! WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—A Congress caught in the deep fry | of the hottest summer in years comes up to August facing the staggering prospect of trying to lick three months” ‘work between now and Labor Day. Business is in pretty fair shape in the House. “priation bills whipped-through there, and the oratory on. contros °° versial issues has béen restrained. But the Senators are begine ning to moan that maybe the nation can’t be saved by Laboe
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Jammed in Senate
{——After-the Senate i the independent agencies, now befors it, it has to take up bills on armed forces appropriations, ‘the military pay raise, and the Kerr it tor relax control of the Federal Power ‘Commiasion over
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woman, 3d Ward, 3d Precinct ._ What are your politics? “ 'rhat is the question T am asking the worker -
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“ of the Mth Ward, who claims to be a Demos
cratic worker. There 18 too much “under cover”. politics being conducted as it is. Why belittle our party and its leaders. when we workers “help to put these men in office? There is cleaning needed in
._sclentiously and earnestly tor the party, but do not get the tion of their local political Spar
If a worker; committeeman or vice committees
man cannot depend on his ward chairman and
ward vice chaifman to. back him up and give
him support, who can he depend on? Mr. Gasper and Mr. McDuff should have laurels awarded
tens they rrertainly have met -SLrong--opposis: SE
tion-in making placements. If you want verification of that fact, just inquire of the writer as her statements have " been passed- on as high as Gov. Schricker himself. This' is: the end of the seventh month of another year and there are still too many Republicans holding positions for which the Democratic workers have suffered long and hard. I say, while the Democrats are in power, give them full rein, for it is a certainty that when the Republican Party again gains full power, you Democratic leaders will be the first to go. Come on, you Democrats who are true. 5 your party, Let's back our men instead of’ ridiculing them. We may be a “little balmy” but our party is in, so let's hold that line “All for one and one for all” ‘We need more men like Sheriff Cunningham, Harry Gasper and Paul McDuff and women like Imogene
_ McCleary who believe in backing their party
to the end. Who wouldn't be stumped when they. run up against a stone wall when trying place Democrats? If the writer's father, ‘a Democrat of some 40 years, a firm’ believer in Gov. Henry ¥. Schricker,-were living, he would worider at the present situation of placements, not only in the
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arty : “By -valers E Draper;- Viee Precinct. Committess
State House, but City Hall and the Indianapolis“
Police Department as well. * + +
‘Cause of Rental Shortage’
By 4. F. Frantz, 750 Ketcham St.
When Congress illegally invaded the private domain of property by seizing property rights without court procedure, our biggest boom in rental shortage was on. The loophole in the law is to refuse to rent; the greatest escape from police powers is to sell. This pepped up the “purge” of tenants by eviction which made the loan and real estate business brisk and sent prices. on. vacant rentals zooming up and left the tenants. homeless. . This made the housing shortage look real
| and made our Congress jittery. The cry for
more rentals was heard everywhere. Ths citizen appealed to our Supreme Court for jus
vate property in our state and under the U. 8, Constitution. The court's decision upheld the police power. How strange and .shocking this dangerous decision must be to a nation that speaks of life, liberty and property as cherished most, and justly so. Our freedom today needs court protection, or it will perish. Our Constitution will be an empty book; our oath.to support our Constitution will be a solemn mockery; our ideals of justice will re forgotten.
What Ohers Soy
THE kind of wage policy which wil heip +
“to maintain full employment in this country, and which will maintain our economy on stable levels, is one which adds to consumer purchasing’ power from year to year, because we have the capacity to produce more and more goods from - year to year.—Leon Keyserling, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors. *
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| tice and the high court closed its eyes-on pris .
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THE administration. 18" the crowd that .
leading us into thé ditch by going right down the avenue af deficit SPEGing Sen Kenneth Wherry (R.) of Nebraska. * + ¢
THERE 1s no freedom in Russia. It is a classic. example of a police state, just as Russia under the Czars was a police state. —Britial Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
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they'll have to work right on into the fall.
They're making it tougher for thémselves, tod: Sen. John McClellan (D. Ark.) didn't like it because the administration was: trying to beat his proposal to .force the ECA to buy some $2 billion of farm sirpluses for export abroad. So he pulled some fast parliamentary footwork which sent
omic aid bill back to the Appropriations Come
Four days of debate went out the window with that Nobody knows how much time may be lost in: committee
moved to the Senate floor again,
only one fighting issue still unmet, At least
tight or 10 other measurss, on which the administration wants action, are jammed in the Senate. tative decision to knock off on Labor Day, have to be shoved over to the next session. Arms for Europe, to. back up the North Atlantic Pact, is an issue that has Senators split hadly, and theré aren't fnany at this
‘Tt everyone holds to the ten« some matters will
willing - to give the administration the $1.450,-
i 000,006 ft is ‘asking. Hearings got under way on this in the House and will be going presently In the Senate hearings are ended, this 'is the kind of issue that could use up
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on ‘the Senate floor,
The House passed an antipoll tax bill last week and there will be heavy pressure on the administration leadership to get it before the Senate.
The talk is that it may be brought yp after n’s “must” legislation is acd upon, and if this
happens the session may wind up in a filibuster.
Reciprocal Trade Fight * “EXTENSION of the Reeiprocal Trade Act is on the docket and it can't be got over without a fight. insisting on some restrictive provisions; the administration will
The Republicans are.
Minimum wage law changes proposed by the administration provide another Battleground. ‘So does Senate action on govern-
wie chimp pletes action on the appropriation for
tn partir’ s the‘old story of not much happening in the early congressional
session and a terrific jam at the end.
But this year it's worse, And soggy. Washington weather fan's
nelping tempers or Spation
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