Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1950 — Page 24

The Indianapolis Times

: ih SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER “Ee ROY W. HOWARD “WALTER LECKRONE ENR W._ MANZ President Editor Manager

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Sex Criminals HAT shall we do with our sex offenders whose revolting crimes, often against children, are increasing in ‘horrible frequency?

The present laws of most states appear to be inadequate :

for dealing with the problem. Wor one thing, it’s difficult to nail the sex offender with

a stiff jail sentence until he has committed a erime of -

violence. Even if he has given considerable evidence of abnormal tendencies, such as indecent exposure or other signs of perversion, his acts before the law are still classified as ~-iSAeMOANOrs, «oii

by outward conduct or physical appearance—often he is above average intelligence, quiet and self-effacing.

~ AS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Andrew Tully points out in a series of articles beginning in The Times today on page 2: “Among society's trouble-makers, the sex criminal enjoys a peculiarly privileged position. Everybody knows he's

bound to commit a crime sooner or later, but under present.

laws nobody can do much about it.” Psychiatry may fill the gap, but even this fairly new science has its limitations. In-the meantime, until more effective laws are evolved, the parents probably can do more to prevent sex crimes than anyone else. For guidance in this approach, we believe all parents and the public in general will want to read Mr. Tully's _articles to their conclusion.

‘Total Diplomacy’ ECRETARY of ‘State Dean Acheson, who in his more

reflective moments sometimes chins himself on his own

~ ethereal ideas, has come up with a new thought for this week. He says we've got to use “total diplomacy” in the cold war against Russia. Clearly, he says, “we are not focusing our total resources on the winning of that struggle.” He defines “total diplomacy” as the full use of Congress, the Department of Defense, the Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce and Interior, various other government agencies, as well as business, labor and agriculture—in short, all segments of American life.

~ ” OUR PEOPLE ought to get rid of the idea, he says, that the eold war is the exclusive property of the State Department. There _can be no quarrel with that. We agree that unity by any other name, such as “total diplomacy,” is what America needs. But, in going total, ‘we ought to start with a total Secretary of State, We mean: A Secretary who doesn’t follow one policy in- Europe “against communism, and a diametrically opposite policy in Asia. A Secretary who doesn't mistake Communists for agrarian reformers while he lets the dust settle in China. A Secretary who doesn’t speak from his own high office in defense of a clever handy man who lied about stealing government secrets for the Communist underground.

A SECRETARY who can’t possibly be accused of appeasing, at any stage or in any degree, the very enemy with whom, as he acknowledges, we are locked in a “life and death struggle.” Of course we've got to go all out i in this deadly serious business of playing for keeps against the most dangerous system the world has ever known. But there's no place in this newly envisioned total diplomacy for a leader or practitioner who by the record is not quite total.

County Needs Animal Shelter i Su drive started by the Society for the Prevention of “Cruelty to Animals -to raise $3000 to pay off the mort _ gage on its animal shelter deserves public sapport to keep a valuable community service operating. The Society's shelter on Highway 29 North of Indianapolis has become an important factor in the control of stray dogs .... a menace that has been Increasing here in recent years. : During eight months last year the shelter ok in and cared for 2504 animals that otherwise would have been roaming the suburban communities and some of them spreading rabies. It has been a service Marion County suburban areas

~-have-needed-for-a-long time-and-it-should be’ given support

by the thousands. of residents who would “benefit greatly by its eontinued operation,

It's Only Money—IX Supports; said Secretary of Agriculture Brannan the other day in Denver, “are the business of all the people—the people who pay the taxes, the people who pay out their money in the grocery store, the people who pass the laws, the people who administer the laws . ., .” Then he went on to reveal some interesting figures, . probably closer to that theme than he suspected. . Out in the Pacific Northwest, he said, wheat producers have been growing wheat for around 95 cents a bushel. This includes labor, cash outlay, seed and machinery costs and a charge for the land, According to the Agriculture Department, The government support price in this area ranges from $1.70 a bushel to $2.02, with most of it around $1.90. ~ That means the government, . using the taxpayers’ money, a a profit of 60 to 100 per cent for the grower.

NOW WE | have no objection to a farmer raking in 100 per cent profit on a crop. But we don't think the govern‘ment ought to use our money to insure him. that profit. . “If the: grower, under the present support program, : stands a good chance of 100 per cent gain, he also should be prepared to assume the risk of and absorb the costs of 100 per cent loss. ~The government so far has invested $1 billion in loans and purchases to keep wheat prices up for farmers. : _. * It's only money, as we've been saying—but it’s our ‘money, secretary was, Sskinently right in saying Af to ison of 4 he seve SEE

For another thing, the sex offender | is not Feadlls shirked

ear boss. La Koy Civil Rights Bill Pushed

Measure Would End Rows On Poll Tax, Anti-lynching

WASHINGTON, Mar. 11—Dear Boss—A onepackage civil rights bill, which if passed would put an end to the annual squabbles over poll tax repeal and anti-lynching, is° scheduled to be taken up by the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. The measure already has. approval from a subcommittee of which Rep. 2 Winfield K. Derton, Evansyille Democrat, is a member. He ,. voted for it and terms it a bill, § which if it becomes a law, can

“# tutional grounds. k Rep. William T. Byrne (D. f N. Y.) is chairman of the sub- , committee which conducted the hearings on the measure. Rep. James B. Frazier Jr. (D. Tenn.) was the only subcommitteeman against it, His Republican col-

Rep. Denton

of Tennessee was present but abstained from voting. The bill bears the name of Judiciary Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler (D, N. Y.). It

will be bitterly fought by Southerners, who re-

“#ent the very phrase “civil rights Mr. Denton contends that there isn't anything in it to which anyone can object who believes in really carrying out what the U. 8. Constitution provides.

Individual Rights

HERE are the go which it is designed to better protect: The right to be immune from exactions of fines, or deprivations of property, without.due process of law. The right to be immune from punishment for crime or alleged criminal offensés except after a fair trial and upon conviction and sentence pursuant to due process of . Jaw. The right to be immune from physical violence applied to exact testimony or to compel confession of crime or alleged offenses. The right to be free of illegal restraint of the person. The right to protection ®f person and property without discrimination by reason of race, color, religion or national origin. The right to vote as protected hy federal law, Provisions of the bill are the product of President Truman's Civil Rights Study Commission, which was headed by General Electric

President Charles Wilson. It was drafted by the Justice Department under Attorney General Tom Clark, a Texan and now ¥ Associate Justice -of-the-U. 8: Supreme Court,

Dixiecrats Against It IT was the Civil Rights Commission report, which President Truman asked be promptly transiated into law, which gave rise to the Dixiecrat Party, which ran Gov. J. Strom Thurman of South Carolina for the presidency in 1048. Southern Democrats, who didn’t join the Dixiecrats, are likely to be against any civil rights bill in Congress however, The Celler bill would set up a Civil Rights Commission of five members, with a full- time staff. Members would be paid $50° per day and up to $10 expense money when engaged on comTission business. They would not have full time obs . A civil rights division would be established and staffed in the Justice Department, with an additional assistant attorney general in charge. - The FBI would be increased and agents especially trained to investigate civil rights violations. Congress would establish a joint committee on civil rights consisting of seven Senators and seven House members. They would conduct hearings on alleged bLireaches of the civil rights laws and report findings and recommendations.

Penalty for Lynching PRESENT federal civil NG statutes would be amended to provide $5000 fines and 10 years imprisonment for members of lynch mobs and $1000 and one year for traveling in such disguises as Ku Klux Klan robes. Such mobs are defined as “two or more persons” in the bill. { Federal damage suits would also be brought on behalf of the injured parties by the Attorney General, Enslavenient of any persons or kidnaping or transporting them for slaves will be punishable

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LABOR POWER .

Union ‘Monopoly Dangers Cited

WITH another coal strike behind him, John “Lo Lewis has proposed a “mutual aid papt” between his United Mine Workers and the CIO United Steelworkers. “In recent months,” he wrote to CIO President Philip Murray, “each of our great unions has engaged in major conflict with the most

powerful group of associated financial interests

in America.” Their idea seems to be, he continued, “that our great industrial unions should be attacked and crippled one by one.” So Mr. Lewis suggested that his union, Mr. Murray's union and perhaps certain other unions make their own combined financial assets available-for common defense “under emergent conditions.” Mr, Lewis and Mr. Murray have, at times, been allies, as they were in organization of the CIO. In recent years they have been—or have “talked like——bitter enemies, ~~ coi

Pooled Assets

IF they now joined forces again, the pooled assets of. their.unions,. plus perhaps those of other unions, would represent many millions of dollars, But it would fall short of matching the combined financial power of the steel and coal - Industries, plus possibly the automobile, electric and other industries, There js, however, another kind of power in the hands of those who control great industrial unions. It could prove more than a match for the financial strength of any group of corporations. ;

Barbs

TODAY'S Fairy Tale: .Once there was a

“by fines up to $5000 and sentences up to five

years.

man who, on his 100th birthday, attributed his longevity to good ek &

Preventing persons from voting because of race, creed or color will net a $1000 fine and one-year imprisonment. Damage suits could be brought in such cases also. The right-to-vote provisions of. the bill would apply to primary, as well as general, elections, if any national office is involved. This would in- . “clude” President, Vice President, Senators and Congressmen. It probably is this Provision that the Southerners like least.

bet he’s hopping mad. @

&» A NEW JERSEY man won a divorce because his wife insisted on working despite his protests. Hold it, beys--one at a time. e. ®

FIFTY-FOUR Fauz stolen from an auto by a Boston thief’were all for the right foot, We’ un,

MICHIGAN twins celebrated their birthday together. He's 78, so that makes her about 40.

Persons . sa

. By Edward A. Evans

It may, Indeed, destroy this country’s private-

‘entérprise economy. That, at least, is the thesis set forth in a book published recently by the Yale University Press. Title: “Unions and Capitalism.” Author: Charles E. Lindblom, associate professor of economics at Yale. —Mr.- Lindblom says He is RE ‘an enemy of unionism nor a defender of capitalism. He sees many virtues in the first, many defects in the second. -. His book’s purpose, he asserts, is merely to explain why he believes the two are incompatible—why, “once unions become strong, the attempt to maintain our economy as it now stands” cannot succeed, but will produce some other sort of economy.

Waste end Unemployment ‘THE union,” he contends, “is a monopoly

because it-can and does raise the price-of labor to levels which will in a competitive price system

inevitably cause waste, unemployment, inflation or all combined. 3 “And. union monopoly destroys the price system because it produces these consequences to a degree which the economy cannot survive.

“Strictly speaking, ‘the union’ is not a mo-

" nopoly; only this or that union is. But many

unions are strong enough to set in motion wage changes which ultmately sweep over the whole economy. As a whole, union monopoly is more than the sum of its individual parts.” To the argument that unionism is not monopolistic because “labor is not a commodity,” Mr. Lindblom replies: “The slogan, ‘labor is not a. commodity,’ . ‘does not deny that labor is bought and sold on the market, that unionism through its power in collective bargaining does establish what is technically called a monopoly, and that union monopoly will disrupt the economy.”

Good Reading A NEWSPAPER article cannot do full justice to Mr. Lindblom’s book or its author—cannot review all the evidence he cites in support of his thesis or explain adequately his own attitude,

......But_the book, itself, is not hard reading. . “liberals” and “conservatives,” capitalists and

union members, even John L. Lewis and Philip Murray, might find it instructive reading.

1 do not agron with word at you ay bt] will defend to the death yaur right fo sey 5 “We Prefer for Yogilo® © Jo

under the caption, “Trailer Camp Problem.”

~ houses, but like myself, prefer to live in a nice

~ Hootler | Forum:

TE : We Pr en Sul Tl take issue ith the editorial in the Times

IIs “true—hundreds of families were foreea in 4p live in trailers during wartime.. However, { disagree that trailer camps sprang up in vacant lots. all over Indianapolis. It's a known fact that

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a trailer is not supposed to be parked in a For vacant lot within the. ty limits without a ms permit. WAS] The families so Aotng must obtain signed make 2 st __petitions from a certain number of property 5 N owners who have no objection to the parking ow of said trailer. The trailer owner then presents Navy the petition to the proper authorities to obtain ‘vehicles w 4 permit to park. If the permit is granted, it is captured i only good for 90 days, and each 90 days there. Oil in after the same procedure must be gone through, ; in order te remain in the city limits, while. Hyd I don't consider living in a trailer park on . Naval @ permanent bases a “makeshift” drrangement, mass prod ~ We in our trailer park (not camp) have sani. 1's work tary facilities, which are inspected at various it's workin intervals by the State Board of Health. So far, tually we have always received a clean bill on our Navy t sanitary conditions, for its prod nnn AS _2N_example, take a good look at some of - of -Baltimor "the housing conditions along White River Blvd, Stateho south of 16th St, and many more in a very large in Senate ti area south and east of the General Hospital, Biggest Why don't the City and County Planning Come Committee mission take some kind of action on these though he’s places? And I also will add, that the conditions usually = suf of various slum areas really existed a long time tion policy. prior to the war and still existed a long time Leaders | health hazard. 4 bills will ps Trailer park tenants would much rather live since Alask in a good comfortable trailer; than to have te Hawaii Rep: exist in some of the housing projects, OK of DF So, I say, start on your slum areas in Indie LIBERAL anapolis before condemning trailer parks. If it McCarran is direct action that is required, as stated in the bill will pa editorial, the city limits of Indianapolis is the cording to p place to start. There are places and houses in Senators wh and around Indianapolis far more deplorable filibuster ag; than most trailer parks. privately. You state that scores of families living in "Roll call's trailers are unablé to find adequate housing at first week rentals they can afford to pay. Did it ever occur substitute, to you that the people liying in trailers are Kilgore an Paying from $85.to0-§125 per month to purchase similar to b

them, and on top of that théy must pay their

ready passed rent on parking space. At the end of two years . Rural stre

e trailer is paid for. be less afte Why purchase one of these pre-fabricated of party vic houses at a price from $6500 and up? Your pay. _ reapportionn

“ments, it is trie run. around $40 per ménth, Will reflect dt takes 12 to 15 years to pay off your debt, Maybe you still have a house at the end of that

long drawn out period, and maybe you don’t.

Everyone I have come in contact with, living in trailers can well afford paying rental on-

and Illinois redistricted t House seats. “will redistri new district Democrats, t in cities, thi in shake-up,

comfortable trailer and own it, with some crack-pot landlord.

The families living in trailers are not asking the impossible. They want to live and let live,

than to put up

stantially. ‘Lopsided Law’ Test Farn By E. Bowman, 2831 Station St., City IOWA'S F

Brannan: Pl: test of - stren timent at th

The Times recent editorial takes issue with Rep. Madden's statement that “the Taft-Hartley

Law is the cause of strikes.” Like the editorial I Undersecr think Mr. Madden made an exaggeration in his tore. Aste statement. Employees wouldn't strike on ace as at count of the law if they had a satisfactory expected tc contract, make all-o But your question, “what caused strikes be- --1avor of Br fore the T-H Law was enacted?” has no bearing posing him on present labor disputes. During the big Car Hiekenloope negie strike several years ago when hired guards against pla: killed- hundreds of strikers, made thousands of Strategy is

President A American Fi eration in Kline's oppos Brannan Pla far. Support can elect Li other men fir bureau will t: their tunes.

Cigaret Pi

orphans and widows, there was no T-H law. The fact is the T-H law is a vicious law, lopsided; and was written by anti-union corporations, and: passed by anti-union Congressmen, solely for the benefit of the corporations, and not for the benefit of the public or the employees, The editorial ‘advocates ‘repeal of clauses that exempt labor unions from -anti- -monopoly laws.” Labor unions have no monopoly on anything that anti-trust laws would curtail. About the

only thing they have a monopoly on is their -bal-

"HEAP C lots at the polls. Anti-trust laws don’t seem to aH be still be very effective in stopping the trust activities Manufactu of '‘Big Business. You say that there has been House Ways

fewer strikes since the T-H law was passed. Here is the data put out by Bureau of Labor Statistics: “Man days of idleness due to strikes shot up 50 per cent ‘in 1949 over 1948 and

mittee to fis tax on a pel stead of str

ack. reached the second highest level on record, or P They comp 300.-per-cent- greater-than the - prewar-reeord: “I541 per cen The only good that can come of such edie package of cf

torials is that it wakes up the common people cent tax on

"and causes them to register and vote,

They ask str

COLD WAR. — . By Oland D. Russell

Arms for Europe

WASHINGTON, Mar. 11—The little French aircraft carrier Dixmude, an old-timer of the sea, has called in at Norfolk, Va., to take aboard American fighter planes and bombers. If you weren't reminded that there's a warming cold war on, you might think the clock had been turned back to the early days of World War II when Allied ships by the dozens were calling -at

Signs of Spring |

tax on: all If they. g cigarets will instead of where state price. They’ - spread betw and big five. Committee r closely, seem

TRADE COMMISSION . . By Earl Richert Penalties Increased

WASHINGTON, Mar. 11--Out of the margarine tax-repeal fight has come a drastic strengthening of the Federal Trade Com= mission’s enforcement powers. Included in the margarine bill, now betore President Truman,

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our ports for American planes; - arms and munitions. In that flippancy of the day, you might ask: Isn't this ‘Where_ we came in? } ae THE ‘planes we're putting aboard the Dixmude are going - to France as the first consign-. ment of $1 billion worth of U. 8S. arms for Western Europe —tnder—the— ~Atlantic— Defense — Pact. Once more — for the third time in a generation—a flow of war-making supplies will be started from: America to an embattled Europe. Twice it was German aggression. This time it's against Russian. Our arms are going to France, a potential bastion of defense against Russia, with the blessing of Congress and our bipartisan foreign policy makers. . The hope is that by éarly action -we might avert a shooting war, .

BUT there - too important difference between the consignment of munitions to our Allies in the two previous wars and in this one. ‘Before they were headed for friendly soil;

this time —in the case of

~ France—to an area openly hos-

The French Communists, acting directly under Moscow orders, are set to prevent ship-

ments of Atlantic Pact arms

from being landed. In the case of the Dixmude, a ship of the French nayy, Reds-are to attempt any overt acts.

But commercial ships face a

formidable task ferrying arms aid. The Communist-run GenEo Confederation of Tabor ‘been holding maneuvers of BY Yuki SVEEY i bit ‘ais serious as

likely :

Sten Jragicn OF

‘erations now going on in the Caribbean.

“TW ENTY- FOU R hour "dock strikes have been ‘called in

Workers have been dumping supplies into the sea at Nice. Aware of the portending difficuities and facing a crisis

“Which Might seriously disrupt _

the arms program, Premier Georges’ Bidault's government * went into action. The premier asked the National Assembly for laws authorizing 5 to 10year prison sentences for those who try to sabotage the unloading of arms or’/interfere with shipments, Prison terms also were asked for Frenchmen “or foreigners” who ‘provoke or organize violent action aimed at undermining . the morale of the army.”

- - » THE Communist deputies countered with obstruction tactics, including several tumultuous free-for-alls in the chamber. There are 181 Communist deputies in the assembly. Meanwhile, the Communist press intensified its campaign calling ‘on dock workers and railway men to refuse to handle American arms or any French war cargo for IndoChina,

The National Assembly went -

into a marathon session lasting four days. Fist fights and brawls were frequent. On two oceasibns the Security had to be. called out to stop melees that resulted in hospital - Injuries for several ushers. ine were beaten up. g the ovement finally © in pushing through

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major French’ ports to “deter: SHR _ mine effectiveness of the union.

WHETHER it will be effective in insuring the unhampered arrival of our arms in France won't he kfown until

the first shipments start coming in on commercial vessels around Mar, 15,

Meanwhile. the ploture has

oclouded by the worst

Strike wave France has seen in three years. Transportation and utility systems were hard hit.

out. Other thousands struck in

~ the coal mines and textile in-

Susie

- a similar strategy, ‘the Reds.

Metal workers and auto: . ‘mobile factory hands walked

surisdietion over false and misleading advertising as well as

straint-of-trade cases. g \& ’ ® 8 = i ia "MANY businessmen and business groups, alarmed about the new penalty, have protested to their Congressmen and Senators. One argument was that such an important change in the Federal Trade Commission law should not have been made in the margarine tax-repeal bill. ' Sen, Walter Gedrge (D. Ga.) promised during final Senate debate that the penalty provision would be corrected later if it were found to. have gone too far.

sioned margarine manufacturers advertising their product on billboards -bearing beautiful dairy farm scenes and embell-

milkmaids, He didn’t think a $5000 fine for such misrepresentation was enough and asked the Federal Trade Commission to draw. up

last Feb. 12, after 10 years of government wage ceilings. : The situation was reminiscent of the general Commuhist drive in France. in 1947 against the Marshall Plan. Employing

at penalties, for violation of ssion orders were too

over some price-fixing and re-

SEN. AIKEN said he envi-

‘ ‘the stronger penalty provision, * ~The FTC did this: willingly becaipe ‘many of its officials a long time had believed

ished with figures of pretty

is a provision which would increase maximum penalties for violas Lewis Dre _tion of the Commission's orders from $5000 per violation to $5000 AFL AND for each day of violation. ——— This rox to all industry, Would be particularly effective Jeger tegen not just to margarine manu- ‘in forcing. compliance with organized lab facturers. © price fixing and restraint of . dow. The Trade Commission wipggageen trade. practices... rogers este so AE EN

He §did the Commissioh had CIO Preside cool. and n mine worke

for an’ allia

conspiracies involving

cement, - salt, electrical equip- Reuther of —ment—and- —ang————————bHe—Worke steel products. Lewis’ offe “The continuance of -such loan to his practices in violation of Come CIO heads mission orders could result in say he tries injury to the public running ganization h "Into millions of dollars annual- i On he oth ly, and under existing law the Con be ween maximum penalty is limited to loi ot nel $5000, " he said. ower ecneion levels, » - ” F C SEN. GEORGE pointed out gees a) that the penalties could be as- being tried 1 sessed only after the Trade Appropriatior Commission's order had bee running inte come final—with defendants - Congressmen when roll is having had the opportunity to " April, bill wil carry their cases through the committee; w courts, into normal And them; to collect the fines, bills. ella the Commission would have to “central IE file civil suit against the al- Appropriatior leged violator. - Clarence Can

of ‘subcommi cut as much - eould: out of

Sen. George also sald the judge might assess a fine of much’less than $5000 since that

. priations. _ amoynt is Se maximum, *" Subcommit Gn oe men with mt SEN. ALEXANDER WILEY. | : -have spent n AR. Wis.), leader of the dairy = ialiet. Susy forces who fought margar- cuts, 2 ine bill to Be that & Idea of vn small firm which was in violas: “give opport tion of a Commission order for all percentay six mon d be fined as | figures. Bul much as ind thus be. : to fear