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Job for the Bar Association Fore appointment of a federal district judge, soon to be | made here, ‘is of the utmost importance to the people ‘of Indiana. i "The position is one of great power, and great responsity. The new judge will be appointed for life. The voters “never will have an opportunity to correct a mistake, if one should be made, in selecting him. "He probably will hold | the office for a great many years. - The.incumbent judge, | soon to retire, has served with distinction for a quarter of

<a century. His predecessor was on-the bench for some 20 |

ny an appointment no one wants to be made lightly, _and an I above all others, that should be made on the basis. of proved ability . . . and nothing else. Not only does this bench require a man of unquestioned integrity and keen intelligence, but alse one of broad professional experience and the highest professional standing.

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1 DEAR BOSS... By Dan Kidney

Pressure Rises ZH

Lr Aug. 1 1049. | i

SEI WASHINGTON, Aug. 6—Dear Boss—Fresh- | han Democrat Rep, Edward H. Kruse Jr; will | “than to say they did discuss the fact

“gon to the new seat on the U.

In Senate Race °

“Battle of Ft. Wayne’ Revolves "Around Jackson and Campbell

be 30 on Oct, 22. He was an ensign on a PTboat - at Guadalcanal, . New . Georgia-Munda, Bougoinville. and Rabaul. But right now he | finds. himself ‘in the middle of the battle of Ft. i

Wayne and seems to be casting sheep's eyes |

at those good old.days in the South Pacific. He took his troubles to the White House | this last week and talked them over with President Truman who has & few of his own, Sher wo Ft. Wayne Democrats want the nomination for U. 8. Senator in 1950, Mr. Kruse refused to

divuige details. ~~ — { The Kruse story was hardly news to the

I {itiilaF Head of the Democratic party. For those

two Ft. Wayne fellows have been talked about at the White House before. In fact Lhe Pres ‘dent is perfectly familiar with the plan to have him appoint former U. 8. Sen. Samuel D. Jack8. Court of Appeals at Chicago and leave the other Ft. Wayner. Alex Campbell, a clear field ih the | Senate race,

Didn't Do His Best ACCORDING to one report from-the. White House, politician Truman. recalled that Mr,

ticket when it was FDR, and himself back’ in 1944 and he hasn't forgotten it. Based on that | had Job he is said to have remarked something Mke.. why waste a good judgeship on Sam.’ They were buddiés at Chicago that year when fellow Senator Jackson wielded the na-

THE MEN who are in position to Know best who has | these qualities are the ‘members—of-the- Indiana bar, the | liwyers who practice in the courts of this district . . . and , Who have the most immediate stake in the continued high- * standards of this court. : It seems to us the Bar Associations of this judicial strict SEpeEIANy OY THATANA POTS 7 Have a direct __ obligation to ‘place their appraisal of men who might be | appoifited in the hands of the appointing authorities. The | Bar Association has the machinery by which its membership can be polled, and its recommendations offered. It has used it sometimes—in our opinion not often enough— ‘in the past. Their recommendations have invariably had great weight and waghout exception the Yesults have been in the Public interest. We believe they ‘would be in this case, too. 0» of frankly do not care whether he is young or old, or Where he | lives, or what his political affiliations may be . . . although™ it goes. without saying that a Democratic administration probably will appoint a Democrat . . . 80° long as. he has the | qualifications this bench demands. ; . But we do share the deep concern we believe every | citizen of Indiana should feel that this appointment should | go to the best of the several excellent men who are considered available. The members of the bar have an opportu- | nity to help make this possible. More than that, it seems | to us, they have a duty as officers of the courts to use their “combined influence for maintaining the highest standards of 1 ;

those courts.

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We Need a Pacific Polic 1s SECRETARY OF STATE ACHESON haé told Presidetit Truman that the Communist regime in China serves the interests of the Soviet Union and may lend itself to the aims | _ of Russian imperialism in a Sampaign of aggression against | “China's neighbor nations.” It has taken Mr. Kcheson a long ‘time to reach this very “obvious © sh. Moreover, such § campaign of aggres- + sion is more than a mere px , A review of Communist “activities in bh apan, the Philippines, ‘Hawai, Indonesia, Burma and Siam will show that it is making dangerous headway. | “The State Department knows this. Why doesn't it ad- | mit it? : | The American embassy in ‘Moscow correctly forecast | Russia’ s designs in China and the rest of the Far East ina report to the State Department in April, 1945, according to the department's own white paper. Nevertheless and after that, the department tried to set up a Communist coalition "Yevernment in Cina,

MR ACHESON now proposes that: American policy be | shaped to “encourage all developments in China” which are aimed “at throwing Off the forGw=yoike-of-Mosomdic-rected communism. Had this’ been our policy tires, Pr even two years ago, | that yoke might not have been imposed on China. Yet, while | talking of encouraging resistance to communism, Mr. Acheson still seems to qbject to extending any aid to the forces | now actively fighting communism in China. That doesn't | add up. Lt. Gen. A. C. ‘Wedemeyer submitted a program to the | President in September,’ 1947, which Ke thought would be I 5 +

his recommendations only now have been made public. Gen. MacArthur is known to have had a similar program in mind, but he wasn't consulted. \ _A lawyer for the defense who ‘doen t+ have a good case either tries to confuse the issue or attacks the victim in the | case, particularly if the victim isn't present to defend him. | self. The State Department. does both these things in its | carefully edited white paper, But, in making Chiang Kaishek the whipping boy ‘for the department’ s own blunders, Mr. Acheson leaves unanswered, the question of most con- | cern to all Americana;

WHAT is the department.doing, or planning to do, to -| protect American interests in the Pacific, not only in China | ~ but in the Philippines, Japan, Hawai and other threistepied areas’ i ———— RR tatk-wbout uy hopeful «developments” = : in China or elsewhere won't get us anywhere. The Kremlin has a plan. We néed one to counter it. 8 - The promised. “review” of Far Eastern policy vy the State Department's hand-picked ‘‘experts,” none of whom qualifies as actually expert in this field, is not the answer. We need a positive, constructive, workable program in the | Pacific—a program prepared by persons who thoroughly un: |

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D Porcenter 8. GEORGIA NEESE CLARK has presented President Truman with 12 of the first $1 bills she signed as the treasurer of U. 8. Now that's a real memento! phed “photos m y ‘be the thing among Washington's i but: we'd rather hawe one of those bills than bo of matches Swipe Tm Hany 5:1 Truman.” i

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1 derstand the military and economic situation in that'part of 4 °

tional convention gavel that beat down the | hue and cry for a second term for Vice Presi- | dent Wallace, that out, -Dewey..carfied-the-state and the Republicans captured the statehouse. So Sam didn't

Last year Mr. Jackson recalled his Help for Mr. Truman in getting thé vice presidency when he: was-the-{avorite-son candidate Lor. that spot on the Truman ticket at Philadelphia. It didn’t take. He has been actively. campdigning for the | senatorship since then, but a spry competitor | has popped up in Mr. Campbell, U. B. Deputy Attorney General and head of the Justice Department Criminal Division. He hasn't an-

‘hard as he ¢an from here.

| Making Speeches i

A WARM personal friend ‘of Attorney “Gen-

eral Tom Clark, Mr. Campbell has taken over | _

4 hils. SPRAKING..e0gAZEMENLS. since. ME. Clark's. appointment to the U. 8B. Supreme Cpurt. He flew to F't. Worth to speak ir Mr. Clark's place

yesterday and Is booked to keep another CIark 1

engagement in Indianapolis Aug. 14, There | Mr. Campbell will speak at ceremonies at the | TW $150,000 American 1Agion home of Post

0 those who want to see a guy who is |

1 running for Senate might wangle an invitation

to attend. i Having two candidates from his home own | leaves Mr, Kriise in the middle. i “Both Sam and Alex are close friends ot | mine and I haven't told a soul which one I | wilt support.” he said upon returning to his | dent didn’t divulge what side he is on either, i Best guess here is that beth ase-bicking’ Alex. The difference in the two Ft. Wayne candiflates is ‘somehow dramatized by pictures of | each hanging on Congressman Kruse's office | wall. Mr. Campbell has a five-foot smile and | boldly, in white ink, has written across the i picture - | “To my good friend Congressman Ed Kruse Jr., of whom T am proud. Alex.”

Subject Appears Grim

ALONGBIDE this circus poster, Mr. Jackson's contribution seems drab enough to qualify > hire forthe black—judicial robes. The" in fn +n is dark and the subject black ink that is searcely” discernibie on inscription - “Hon. Edward H. Kruse Jr, member of | Congress, Fourth Indiana District, with admiration and best wishes. Samuel Jackson.” Background of the two men has been quite different also. Before coming to Washington, Mr. Campbell was U. 8. Attorney at Ft. Wayne. | Mr. Jackson also is a lawyer, but was sent to | the senate to fill the unexpired term of the | Late Sen. Frederick VanNuys. He was ap- | pointed by Gov. Henry F. Schricker and stepped | out to let" the governor take his seat—which Republican Sen. Homer E. Capehart won instead. Co Now Gov. Schricker is back at the State- i house-again.—The §64 question is: Does he favor 8am or Alex, someone else, or will" Je keep: _hands off as he has duid.

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The judge had set this fellow free, A mere full sun before, But now he had to cop a plea: “I've copped a whole lot more.”

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hota same clothing store.

“How come you're back within this joint, “When honesty 1 stressed?” “Well, judge, though you may have a Jolt, CAL least I'm. better. dressed!’ ..

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That the Tirst foot: over the bed on .the

I first work day after a holiday is the hardest.

Bome of us would Wish every day a holiday but unfortunately, then thers would » no , pay day. —B. C., Indianapolis.—

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OUR TOWN .

of some “assistance in her weekly shopping spree. It was dusk when we returned and found our house on fire. The flames had reached the roof, -a—sight: so ghastly that I wouldn't wish my most finicky and fanatical critic to Next morning, “bright and early, a‘ Frenchman camp np our

to our house, or what g_ was left of it. His name was Peter Routier. The fact that = Mr.. Routier skipped church to come to our house that Sunday morning was just another instance of father's extraordinary ability to get anybody of the male species to do his bidding. Father was less successful ordering women around. Father and Mr. Routier spent the greater part of that mor exploring the ruins with the result that on the following Monday, Mr. Routier showed up again—this time with a crew of carpenters. who went to work restoring our damaged house.

Built Better House JT TOOK Mr. Routier all of three months “to make our home habitable again. When fin: ished, it was a bigger and better house—bigger. because of the addition of a real-for-sure bathroom (equipped with running water and faucets); and better because of an enormous 12inch thick slab of Indiana limestone placed under the kitchen stove. Father's diagnosis of, our misfortune had convinced him that our predicament was caused by a live coal falling onto ‘a’combustible wooden floor. He wasn't going to have it happen again, he said, As a matter of “fact; it neverdid.~

a for the fire and the fact that father ower, 1t explains why he was the most vitally

had the fordsight to empley ‘an articulate car penter, I might never have heard the story of Mr. Routier’'s participation. in the first lega) hanging in Indianapolis. It was one of the many tales he told when we kids hurried home from school fn the afternoon. They still stick in my memory not- only because of their curious inverted sentence structure, but also because of a heroic quality; for it nearly always turned out

- that Mr. Routler was the principal actor of his

own tales. I liked that. certain authenticity, As a rule, the opening sentences of Mr. Routier’'s stories revealed a Gallic relish for-the equivocal. In the tale of the first hanging, for instance, he startled us kids with an introdue-

It gave his stories a

tion as baffling as this: On a night designed for

murder, in the bitter winter of 1878, two IndlSuapoile men- got into a violent argument con a technical detail

connected with.a- game:

called “Faro.” When the smoke cleared; both had to be hauled away-“one. to the morgue; the other one, to jail.

| Sentenced to Hang Same Day JUST ABOUT the same time, and probably . because of the same malignant winter, a South

“Side iivery-siable keeper found fault ‘with his -

wife and slipped her a dose of strychnine by .way: of a sociable glass of heer. And right on top of that, in the same lousy winter, a hotel

keeper's nephew shot and killed his ‘uncle's - most competent waitress. She was the prettiest __girl"In Indianapolis, said Mr. Routier, an obser-. - T yation which'1 since have learned to récognize ~~

&s8 a typical French literary touch. All- three killers were adjudged guilty of murder in the first deThe magistrate in charge fixed Jan. 29,

1879, as the day of execution. Moreover, he

made it a mandatory condition of the sentence -

that. all three sinners had to be hanged not

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satellite tountries on the spot.

. By ‘Anton Scherrer

Story of a Here in 1879

ONE SATURDAY afternoon, back in the . - Eighties. mother took us kids uptown fo

...auck to Mr. Routier to see what he coul _ hanging three men at the same time. At this

* soundness of his economical invention. Indeed,

(continued Mr. Routier)

* Rejection of these attempted resignations put the Communist

slovakia, Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary... Their delegates avoided irritating Russia by not voting on the matter,

Postwar Improvement Shown ALL European countries reported remarkable postwar fmi provement in the health.of their people, |. from a 1945 high of 25 per thousand in Austria to 12. Marshall |. Plan ‘ald has done wonders in preventing ‘disease... A ‘million: {malaria ¢ases in Greece iave been reduced to 1 00,000 by DDT-ng net The cost was. 20 cents a patient. Surgeon Gener] Scheele says he saw only one fly In Greece. *! Dr. H. van Zile Hyde, U. 8. representative on WHO, kids .Dr. ae nd was adoption of a $7 million budget, 3 Scheele about having kiltad the last fly in that country. \ Even the satellite squntries. Tejorted Hppryvesment In health .

‘Indianapolis was utterly unprepared for a simultaneous triple hanging. Indeed, it didn’t even own a galiows for a one-man job; for, up until that time, all Marion County murderers had suffered nothing worse than imprisonment for life. Confronted with what looked like a problem impossible of solution, the authorities De the d do nt | the way of constructing a gallows ‘capable of

of the story, Mr. Rotutier smothered what might have been a loud laugh had he not restrained himself, The secret of the i learned, was the fantastic fact that the buck “had demanded a gallows of a carpenter who had been taught his trade in a country that used nothing but guillotines. The truth was that Mr. Routier had never seen a gallows, not even one of the simplest type; let alone one designed for triple duty. For fear that his reputation might be tarnished if he told the truth, Mr. Routier accepted the commission. Starting from scratch and without inhibitions of any kind, he read everything he could find on the subject only to learn that gallows came only in one size. That started him on an entirely mew track with the result that he invented an instrument the like of which the world had never seen. Instead of bolting three one‘man gallows altogether, as a carpenter of less imagination might have done, Mr. Routier produced a single machine the strains and stresses of which were figured for triple duty. And the amazing thing was that he turned the trick with less than half the lumber called for by three one-man gallows.

One Got Stay of Execution THE PROOF of the Juading is In the eating which. was Mr, ’s. quaint way. of siying that his invention still had to be tested. More

interested spectator in the Courthouse yard ‘on ; the day of the execution. : On that morning, just a few minutes before the time set for the triple hanging, Mr. Routier was dumbfounded to learn that only two of the three murderers would be hanged that day. Seems that at the very last moment two young lawyers just out of school-—one John L. Griffiths and one Alfred D. Potts—had contrived to get a stay of execution for their client (the scoundrel who killed the beautiful waitress). Mr. Routier never forgave the two attorneys for not letting him demonstrate the structural

he ended his story that afternoon by admonishing us kids never to have anything, to do with mwyers."

-XHKE gallows.

Erected here in . 1879.

‘What Others Say

“1 give a raise t buyers’

from. the upper crust to the - r Crust.” In all fairness to Mr. SE

state is = state in which everyone surrenders his right to act for himself, but is Torced to carry his neighbor on his back along with his own

The truth of the matter ", Weller.

therefore cannot give anything. politicians who mislead people into the belief that they are being given something are per: petrating a fraud. Even those who think they ‘are being benefited, actually pay three times as much for any government service as it Wola Eos” But it sure sounds good, the way the politicians dish it up. As an alternative for the welfare state, and all the socialistic schemes embodied in it, ins cluding free housing, free doctors and medicine, free lunches, etc, from cradle to grave, let me suggest that they simplify matters by assuring everyone earning less than $5000 a year, a subs

-.sidy.up. to. $100. a. week, from. cradle. to grave...

Then we will do away with poverty, need for “old “age pensions; health insurance, farm sub« sidies and all other crackpot socialistic ideas, Or would we? Maybe my own crackpot idea wouldn't ‘work. Somebody would have to pay for this subsidy? Maybe the cost would be so = big-that we-would-need: §200-a-weei.But-that--could be easily remedied by just increasing the subsidy. Or could 1t? My own idea is getting too involved for me. y And that is just what is the main TR wrong with a ‘welfare state and the present administration in. Washington, It is getting itself too involved for its own good. Like a coil spring being twisted and tied in knots at the same time, *. *

‘Getting Into Sorry Mess’

By Stan Moore, 2858 N. Illinois St.

Foal. 4, SLR 2. _God, of course, is not a commodity to be ordered from some center of distribution at so

much per kilogram, to be used as a panacea

for - the {lls of life. Humans do not have to try Him out. He tries them out, and if they do not suit His way, they do not get much out of life. A Chinese onde said that God could mot be bought off by men to-pay for their sins, nor could they pay Him for favors, since He owns the whol Viliverse. His laws for the universe Are so ble that man is foolish for. he can change them. Saking 80 those who think they might do better

by getting over their own pig-headed ideas of .

living and condescend to “try God,” will find that they have been trying Him all along by breaking His rules and regulations, and thus getting themselves into a very sorry mess. The nations of the earth will continue to blunder. along, as they have for thousands of years, until they find out that God is letting them be run by a lot of ignorant stumble-bums who wouldn't try His way for fear they would be out of jobs. His way does not cost a thin dime but People will not see it.

“1 DO not believe hat the “steel Industry will suggest that while industry as a whole can ar ford substantial wage increases, the stesl industry cannot. If any industry can afford a wage increase, it is steel.—CIO President Philip. Murray. ® ¢ BY THE way the jury split (on the Alger Hiss perjury trial) righteousness seems to have been on the side of the government by two to one.—Assistant U. 8. Attorney Thomas ¥. Mur phy, chief prosecutor. * *

~—— THERE is no reason why; we cannot use the incredible means of communi cation that science and technology have givem .-U--10.- promote unity. of . Robert M. Hutchins of the University of on

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wr (Chinese) are fighting na “hot war

what our friends are opposing in a cold war; It's up to them to judge the value of the fight we are making . . . in the general war against - ecommunism.—Premier Yen Hsl-shan of Chins, : .®* % @

IT IS only those with a total disregard for their own future welfare . . . or those who have an active desire to damage our. economy who will at the present time press for general wage, salary or profit increases. Sir Stafford Cripps, British Changsllor of the Exchequer.

IT 18 better to fashion our own tate rather - fe xoweh which: other: wf spin for us.:-Sen. Claude Peppéi (D.) of Flor-

thin become immersed:

‘da, urging ratification of the North Atantie Treaty. * * * I THINK" it would be a2 gréat mistake to his year. We're going to be in a market this fall and we can't keep prices down if wages go up.—Henry Ford IL

CAMPAIGN ON DISEASE don By Peter Edson

World Aid for People’s Health Pushed

WW, ASHINGTON, Aug. 6--The world i= now so politically sick that it. isn’t taking very good care of its physical health. That seems to sum up the sityation following the second assembly the World ‘Health. Organization of the United Nations

But the WHO assembly The door was left

conditions, Several reasons are given. other technical people seem to be the.last to give in to domination ° --by_ the. commissars. For another reason, the Commies want to get more;work out of the masses, and when they're not healthy ~ they don't work so well. Representatives. of 58 out of the 64. member nations were .The American delegation was headed by Dr. Leonard A. *“Beheele. surgeon general of the 11. §. Public Health Service. Sen. _ that J. Ellender of Louisiana and. Rep. Joseph L. Pfeifer of | New York were congressional advisers. No delegations came from China and other war-torn lands. Romania and some of the Latin-American countries didn’t come because they lacked dollars to pay their contribusions. ‘Russia, White Russia and the Ukraine thought they had resigned without paying their dues for last year. refused to accept the letters of resignation because they were signed by mere vice ministers of health.

they. discover tha with bolls and bunions. © But in other parts of the world, outside Europs and North America, Dr. Hyde describes the situation as “pretty grim.” One

For one, doctors and

80 doctors are spread around for the

propoganda purpose of giving health to the liberated. peasants and workers. It's only after they have found their better health i their liberties have } been removed, along.

billion of the world's 2,250,000,000 “people suffer. from from diseases Soviet that are preventable and curable. Ee © Malaria afflicts some 300,000,000 people a year. The Middle

East, Africa, Asia, Latin-America, practically all the tropical areas of the world, are plagued by pestilences that reduce their people to a state of chronic disability: There is no chance of

raising their standard of living till their Health is improved.

Preset were Poland, Czecho-

Death rates are down’

§ 0p budget proved difficutte— wanted a lot of free medical service had big

ideas, It was necessary to Hmit ¢perations to the money and staff: available, bt, ‘with a suppletary vadget of things Wat If would be | to do if another : Fi millon vas availble Cre rei, nt 4 iy ca wv ? yim <8 Pm

Some Want Free Services’ WH TRYING to write financial prescriptions ‘to combat these), diseases ran the World Health Organization into something of a _political eramp at the recent Rome assembly. Kastern European .and- the so-called underdeveloped countries thought WHO should be organized Into a supply operation, something like UNRRA tg. pour first aid into their innards on a free basis. .

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