Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1949 — Page 22

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Did You Say ‘Experimental? a little surprised at the reaction from City Hall at our discovery of a flaw in our new parking meters. Here they've been telling us these meters were installed on an “experimental” basis, that we'd try 'em a spell, and if they turned out well why then we'd buy more. Seemed. like a good idea, too. Make sure we had what we wanted before plunging on a whole set of meters,

"4 Bo, the very first day, it turns out you can park in- |

| tely for a penny by a little hocus-pocus with the meter crank, and naturally we duly report that to the city fathers, o you'd think they'd be glad to know it before they get a of money tied up in something that may not be what we

want at all. : £* But they weren't. 8 It was a low trick, reporting that, Mayor Feeney says. ok

We don't agree. On the contrary, it would have been | Jow trick if we had known that and NOT reported it. Fact is, these meters are a type long considered obsolete many cities, and the possibilities of hocus-pocus with the

rank handle is one of the reasons, though not the only

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Meetings With Uncle Joe

\{EMBERS of the American Congress and the British 2°" parliament who are urging a Truman-Attlee-Stalin to reach an agreement on atomic energy controls review Uncle Joe's performance records at Tehran, ©. President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were rated tter than green hands at the diplomatic game. But when clinked glasses with the Soviet's generalissimo, Stalin away everything but their shirts. Russia got the promise of a “third front” in 1044, three to our one in the United Nations, the control of i] naval bases and railroad rights in Manchuria, the ight to occupy the Balkans, the occupation role in Berlin nd the veto in the Security Council. : i * oo =» . » ~ 5 IN RETURN, we_got Russia's promise to invade Manchuria—which resulted in Manchuria being added to the ~ Soviet Empire. : President Truman and Ernest Bevin joined Mr, Churchill in representing the Western Powers at Potsdam, where Uncle Joe picked up the rest of the marbles—the lion's share of German reparations, a stranglehold on Austrian economy and the right to occupy half of Korea. Everything we got out of these deals has,cost us money. Russia picked up most of Hitler's loot in Europe, and a big slice of Japan's conquests in the Pacific. One more big three meeting with Uncle Joe might be

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Unbalanced Bench

EN. LUCAS of lllinois, Democratic leader in his branch of Congress, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Com- . mittee to indorse Judge Sherman Minton, President Tru- “ man's latest Supreme Court nominee. Judge Minton is a Democrat. Some Republican mem- " bers of the committee bewailed the.fact that huge majority of the federal judges appointed since President Roosevelt took office in 1933 have been. Democrats, And, perhaps to their surprise, Sen. Lucas agreed with them

close to a balance. I haveralways felt that the people must retain utmost confidence in the judiciary.” Counting Judge Minton in, the Supreme Court line-up will be,-as it was before Justice Rutledge died, eight Demo'erats and one Republican. None of Mr. Roosevelt's appoint‘ments to that court, and only one of Mr. Truman's has been . Republican. .

STATISTICS placed before the Senate Committee show

“I have always felt,” he said, “that it should be pretty |

that, of the 192 judges Mr. Truman has named to all federal | feourts, 184 have been Democrats. To be sure, as Democratic |

Committee members were quick to point out, Republican Presidents also have favored their own party in the appointment of judges. But that favoritism, carried to extremes, can produce An undesirable over-balance—especially when, as is now the ‘case, Presidents belonging to the same party have done all _ the appointing for over 16 years. “*. We agree with Sen. Lucas. Millions of Americans would have more confidence in the federal judiciary—would have less fear of the Supreme Court acting as a partisan arm of government—if there were something closer to a balance on the bench.

Why a New Payroll? | is disappointing to hear that thousands of the 147,000 of the Defense Department ordered dismissed as an economy move may be rehired to administer the new Arms-for-Europe program. : : One of the principal reasons why government overhead increases year after year is that new boards and bureaus are organized, with new payrolls, whenever a new activity ! is authorized by Congress. : 3 : Defense Secretary Johnson seems to be making a determined effort to cut the operating costs of his giant estab- ! lishment. We should like to see him require his subordi- : nates to handle the new arms program with the existing “organization, without adding to the over-all costs. = Of course, bureaucrats don't like to do things that way. Bu the idea should be worth a triak : If we could have a moratorium on new payrolls for all departments for a few years, some headway could be made toward stabilizing the mounting costs of government.

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EUROPE ... By Ludwell Denny i:

Germany Faces

Refugee Peril :

Regarded as Menace to Democracy and Peace

MUNICH, Sept. 20—Fear may force Germans and Allies to face the problem of 11 million German refugees so far ignored. Buckpassing German politicians fear the competition of extreme nationalist parties, which are riding the. wave of refugee despair. Allied governments, which have insisted this

was solely a German headache, are beginning to

‘feel uncomfortable, : Such a huge mass is an immediate” menace to any German democracy, and a grave potential

danger to European peace. - *

These refugees, of course, are not to be confused with the more widely publicized “displaced ‘persons” or “DPs"—the Jewish and other vietims of Nazism, including East Europeans brought here by Hitler for slave labor, The German refugees are those the Allles at Potsdam ordered expelled from East European countries where, as unassimilated minorities, many had been Nazis and fifth columnists.

Fled From Reds

BUT later groups of German refugees and later non-German DPs, while differing in other ways, have one thing In common. Both have fled from Red dictatorship in the Russian satellite states and the Soviet Occupation Zone pf Germany. ; At long last the DP problem is being met. Private Jewish, Catholic and Protestant agencles, U.S, Military Government here and the International Refugee Organization have cooperated. By next summer, when the IRO closes, it hopes the number will be reduced to about 150,000. Meanwhile the German refugees have received no outside help and little from the German state governments, The native attitude is expressed by a clergyman, who is quoted with approval by a Christian Democrat (Government party) Refugee Office paper, as follows: “The Potsdam injustice exceeds any injustice perpetrated by the Nazis. . .. In America, any~ one who treated cattle as humans are treated here would be brought before court. . . . The fathers of Potsdam are duty bound to right the injustice whic they themseives created.”

Program Impossible

BUT Potsdam, in ordering back the ‘“expellees” to be absorbed by Germany, did not allow for almost an equal number of refugees from Communist dictatorship, or for separation of the

Soviet Occupation Zone. So the “absorb polic e

none too practicable four years ago, has beco impossible with less territory to support the greatly expanded excess population. The rub is that the refugees are in competition with natives for jobs when there is unemployment, for housing when 40 per cent of the old population has been bombed out. Capital to create jobs or homes for penniless refugees is lacking. German politicians count on Uncle 8am eventually paying. They have no objection to spending dollars to help refugee voters if even more numerous native voters benefit first.

New Countries

A SECOND solution, in theory, is emigration to new countries. Probably an international organization will be created for this purpose, and the United States requested to take at least a token number under our blocked and unfilled German immigration quota. But emigration is unlikely to dispose of many because: They’'don’t want to emigrate—85 per cent insist on “going home.” They are not wanted abroad, because many are ex-Nazis and most are demoralized by the “hell camps.” The few nations willing to take Immigrants rightly give priority to DPs. Other over-popus lated countries, like Italy, want second priority. There is really no place for most of the German refugees to go except to the former East German provinces annexed by Russia and PoBut that would involve a war against

would threaten world peace. Though no peaceful “solution” is in sight, it might at least be kept under control by com-

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OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer

FOR FEAR of incurring the wrath of those who don't give a tinker's dam for the boyhood I spent on the South Side, I have abstained for several weeks from any mention of the subject. Today, however, I can contain myself no longer. Chances are I'll bust it I don't tell you about the house with the six gables at 2225 Union St. It's supposed to be the little cottage in which Riley's “Little Orphant Annie” spent her last days. What's more, it's a well-documented story of South Side lore. James Whitcomb Riley was a little boy about 8 years old (circa 1857)

when Mary Alice Smith, a 10-year-old orphan,

was brought to the Greenfield home of his par‘ents, Twenty-five years later in “Where Is Mary Alice Smith?” one of his rare prose pieces, Riley told just how she was brought—'‘by a reputed uncle, a gaunt round-shouldered man with deep eyes and sallow cheeks and weedylooking beard” whose home she was leaving to become a hired girl in the Riley household.

Queer Little Girl MARY ALICE was a queer little girl unlike anything Jim had seen up to that time. For one thing, she had ‘a habit of forever talking to herself, carrying on conversations with people who weren't anywhere in sight. Moreover, she had the weirdest collection of ghost stories of anyone in Hancock County. Young as he was, Mr. Riley couldn't help suspecting that most of the stories were of the girl's own invention. Mary Alice was at her best, though, when going up and down the stairs of the Riley home. Somehow, “it dazed her with delight,” as the

| a poet recalled years later. “Up and down she

bined efforts of the German and Allied govern- |

ments, Ameliorative measures, however, will be useless if delayed much longer.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“Cleveland—Tailor, now an M. D. gives shop free to girl Friday.”)

Here's an action more than fitting; There's no irony Involved. In his tailor shop she's sitting And one pressing problem's solved

With her needle, In the future .8he can make or break that joint, But the doc will stick to suture When he has a case in point! ®* oo o

‘TIS SAID .

There is no justice when you view a school teacher's salary and the salaries of-—politicians, fof instance. But few teachers would trade jobs with anyone else. @

We are never too old to learn—and love. Sometimes‘the mature affection is more deeply appreciated. -B, C., Indianapolis.

SIDE GLANCES

“You mean this is the movie you're taking me out to see?”

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went a_ hundred times a day, it seemed. And she would talk and whisper to herself, and oftentimes stop and nestle down and rest her pleased face against the steps, and pat one softly with her slender hand, peering curiously down at us with half-averted eyes. And he counted them and named them, every one, as she went up and down.” } One day, consumed with curiosity, Jim asked the elf-like little girl why she spent so much

time on the stairs. “Oh, ‘cause I kin play like °

I was climbin’ up to the Good World where my mother is—that's why.” :

Good Reading

YOU CAN find-all this and much more in

Vol. VI of the “Biographical Edition: The Com-

Barbs—

EVENING dresses soon will show where the |

bathing suits left off. * o_o THF. differences between the city and the farm are shown in the two meanings of wellwatered stock. ’ * o

AN Oklahoma man has a radio in his hen house, Just the thing for setting exercises.

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WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE . . . By Douglas Larsen

Mental Ills of U.S. Children to Be Studied

WASHINGTON, Bept. 29—Elaborate plans are now being made in the White House for & big powwow of high-level child psychologists, social workers and educators to be held next year, in an attempt to find out just how much and what is wrong with the personalities and minds of U. 8. kids. Fancy title for the shindig is “The Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth.” This.one will be the fifth of its kind. Teddy Roosevelt called the first one back in 1909 and it Has gotten to be sort of a habit for Presidents to sponsor one

All of these conferences have been held on the loftiest intel lectual plane. Probably for the sake of maximum objectivity they L are kept far above the diaper and dirty-face level. That's just where the American parent grapples with the complex problems of riding herd on an unpredictable bundle of growing energy, in. frantic hope that some day a wage-earning, law abiding citizen Children’s Bureau, which figures prominently in these conferences, assures us that real benefits have seeped down to the ‘child's operational level’ from these

THE 1909 conference, we are told in a bureau publication, “stimulated the creation of a Children's Bureau in the Federal Government.” “Public demand for child labor legislation” -resulted from the one in 1919. The 1830 meeting “pointed up the need for specialized progressive education.” The last one in 1940 “highlighted the importance of th

In planning for next year's MWHCCY, however, Katharine F. Lenroot, head of thie Children's Bureau and secretary for the con- ~< | ference, wants this one to be “better focused.” She says, “the la” | fret two conferences probably were too limited in scope, and the last two covered such a broad r dificult for a clear-cut, understandable program to emerge which basis for action In behalf of children.”

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Story of ‘Little Orphant Annie’

plete Works of James Whitcomb Riley” (BobbsMerrill Co.), the reading of which is possibly as good a way as any to spend the next two weeks. Well, that more or less, was the reason Mary Alice Smith was made the subject .of “Little Orphant Annie,” a poem first published as “The EIf Child” and later, for a while, as “Little Orphant Allie” (for Alice—see?), Mr. Riley lost track of the little girl after the year she spent in their Greenfield home. The failure to find her tormented him the rest of his life. Indeed, at one time (toward the close of his life), he put an ad in the papers—a classified “Lost” ad, of all things—to learn the whereabouts of his old playmate on the stairs. I doubt whether he ever learned all the details surrounding Mary Alice's concealment, but here they are—at any rate, as the South Side has preserved them, Six or seven years after leaving the Riley home, Mary Alice Smith married John Wesley Gray, a farmer. She lived on the ancestral Wesley farm near Philadelphia (Hancock County) until the death of her husband. At that time, her daughter (Mrs. L. B, Marsh) was living on the South Side of Indianapolis. And soit came to pass that, after her husband's death, “Little Orphant Annie” moved in and lived with her

daughter in the house with the six gables at |

2225 Union Bt. of her death (1924 or thereabouts).

Found Through Ad

AS FOR the “Lost” ad inserted and paid for by Mr. Riley, the South Side has this to say: Mrs. Marsh happened to see that ad (such is the power of the press) and immediately got in touch with the grief-stricken poet who, at that time, was sojourning in Florida. When he returned to Lockerbie St., Mr. Riley was too ill to see anybody—not even “Little Orphant Annie” who then was 70 years old or more. As a matter of fact, James Whitcomb Riley never got to see his old playmate for shortly thereafter he «died. ’'Tis a cruel world,

as the youngsters have yet to learn.

Home of "Little Orphant Annie" .on Union St.

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Hoosier Forum "1 do not agree with 4 word that you sey, but | will defend te the death your right fo say I”

‘Challenge to Doctors’ : : By A. J. Schaelder, 504 W. Dr, Woodruft PL

Feature’ stories in The Times by Robert, Bloem on medicine offer a timely challenge to the centennial convention of the Indiana Medical Association. : One hundred Years of organized medicinel What has it accomplished? Research and scientific genius have made vast strides in these 100 years, New miracle drugs, new techniques in surgery, and applied sciences have tended to check and control diseas¢ and prolong life. But what has been happening during the 100 years on the practical side? We have an organized group, deliberately limiting the num-« ber of young people who may be permitted to study this vital and humanitarian business. The one group who should know the consequences of throttling the ambitions of youth caused thousands of families to be without adequate doctor's protection. They have created a condi tion in which if you are too fll to go to a doctor's office, the doctor doesn't want to hear from you. If you are so inconsiderate that you become fll on a Wednesday, you have the choice of sufe fering until Thursday, or die in the meanwhile, If you happen to be ill enough to go to a doce tor's office, you only need arrange an appoints ment two or three weeks in advance—and then if you are lucky enough to arrive at the doctor's office on the dot of the time of the appointment, you only need wait four or five hours until the favorites and the chronics get in ahead of you. Of course, socialized medicine is not the ane swer—that would only be worse. The answer is in this 100-year-old organization relinquishing its monopolistic control over the number of stu= dents in” medicine so that there will be an ine creased flow of new doctors; so that the natural competition of the law of supply and demand will cause doctors to again begiu to think of their patients and serve them as they need to be served. This cannot happen, however, until there are sufficient doctors to do the job. There was a time when a doctor, if he wanted a day off, or a vacation, had the decency to arrange with a colleague to care for’ Kis patients and the patients knew whom they should call in such cases. Today, this seems to be an unnecessary detail. Today, the average medico fears to turn his patients over to ane other, lest they fail to return to him. In my humble opinion, the doctors theme selves are the best argument in favor of sociale ized medicine, much as I have urged and will continue to urge against soclalization of any

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‘Record of Indiana Senators’ By Ronald F. Faucett, 834 Wright St.

Having recently received a letter from Homer Capehart, entitled “The Eighty-worst Congress,” I would like to comment briefly and ask a few questions about the “Eighty-worst Congress.” The main factor in making any organization bad.or unworkable is the lack of co-operation between the various groups within that organization. I have wondered if Happy Homer and his cohort, Sen. William Jenner, have ever voted for any legislation which would be beneficial to the public of Indiana or of the country? Have either of them ever given any constructive criticism to the various committees in Congress? Have they ever gone into a question thinking first of the people they represent? Have they ever, for a moment, forgotten that they represent mainly the special interests and not th people who voted them into office? . Those are silly questions. - The records of both speak for themselves. Happy Homer gets a speech into the record in which he advocates a bill which he votes against at the very next session. He speaks for “progressive and constructive labor laws” and votes to keep the Taft Hartley law. He votes for a cut in government expenses and goes off on a junket in a Navy plane . . . which is paid for by the government. And his partner: There is very little to be said against him. He has done so little that he is almost a nonentity in Congress. Of course, he rushes back hame every once in a while to keep his finger on the pulse of the people . . .- and to try to keep his slim hold on the Hoosier Republicans, who will undoubtedly repudiate him in 1952... as they should do Happy Homer in 1950. i All in all, there is only thing I can’t under stand. How did anyone beat either Happy Homer or Baby Bill out of. the questionable honor of being the two worst Senators in Cone gress, The guy who beat Jenner certainly must be a whizz... and the eight before Happy Homer. certainly must be a bunch of pikers.

What Others Say

THE thing that people fear the most is something they don’t understand, and one thing the Russians don’t understand {is strategie bombing.—General of the Air Force H. H. (Hap) Arnold.

LJ YOU must do away with obstacles to intere national trade . . . that is the balance of trade and that will bring about monetary stability. President Truman, to World Bank and Interna stional Monetary Fund officials, @ @ IF I weren't in the—ahem-—can, as it were, I

| might even be able to run for governor. I'd be

a cinch to get the women's votes.—Love Swine dler Sigmund Engel, 72. ®* ¢ WE should let him (communism) out of school. If he gets tough, we can hit him in the nose. I don't mean that we can entirely laugh off communism, but we can stop worrye ing about it and ridicule it.—Rep. Walter Huber (D. .Ohlo). ,

She adds, “certainly there is a need for recognition of the inclusiveness of concern for children, but there must be sharply defined focal points around which the conference program can be built as well as careful selection of subjects that will receive major attention.” . i In deciding to limit the conference to a study of the mental status of American kids, a staff member of the White House corps planning the meeting explains that this problem is the only one left which is worthy of the group. He explains, “in the past we have gone into the problems of the child's health, economic status, family and education and now the child's personality is about the only good topic left.” a

Job Will Take Year

A PERMANENT staff of four persons has been set up to handle the problems and details of the conference. Glasser, an able executive and former official with the American National Red Cross, will be.in charge. public relations man and two staff workers. It will take them a year, working full steam, to get ready for

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the meeting. And it probably will be close to another year preparing the report and arranging for the post-conferences—"“when resources will. be mobilized for carrying out immediate and lopg=

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range action programs'-—before the job is finished. Just the planning this year is costing $75,000, That pays the salaries of the four staff members, expenses of x! perts to Washington a couple of times for p advance materials and Josthgie on the correspondence necessary to get it under way. It is estimated that the actual conference $750,000. - Publishing the

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