Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1950 — Page 20
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indiana’ s Sex Crimes Program
- ALTHOUGH some revisions may have to be made, Indiana’s new law providing for the custody and -treat- . ment of psychopathic s sex x offenders is proving to be 4 . step +imthe right direction: or 3, - As pointed out in the last of a series of ois on sex crime problems in The Times today, Indiana’s law has resulted in the confinement of 20 suspects for more or less the Boclety of the
minor offenses. / St Ln listed by paychiatrists and law = Rap: Harden Covenant of the enforcement officials as potential sex killers who, because National Presbyterian Church. The society is of acute mental illness, might have committed one or more = composed of Washington church women. I do
& = ran : + . not intend to compare them to the Pendleton ver ned in th by ys ime if custodial treatment had not * pi ners except to point up their predicament. rvened in the early stages.
Mrs. Harden, who doubles in brass as Re- » . n ® . »
‘publiclan National Committeewoman from InTHIS new program, if adriinistered properly and with diana, told all of them to get out and vote and : safeguards for individual rights, could go a long way towird ” reducing the ugliest of crimes—sex fiend killings. It also could result in prevention of life imprisonment or the electric chair for many mentally ill persons by pro‘viding proper treatment in mental hospitals instead of con--finement in prison, or worse—permitting them to run at = large. Indiana does not yet have complete facilities for the . custody and treatment of psychopathic sex offenders but.. progress is being made by the construction of the mental screening hospital at the Indiana University Medical Center + here.
Indeed to do. Lo coo Bomehow Iwas reminded of this when Rep. Ceell Harden, Covington Republican, released a speech she made this week to
Being Washington women they have no vote. In this city, all residents are in the same status as prisoners, politically speaking. They have nothing to say at the polls about how the city of. Washington is run or who inhabits the White House. - "That is why words like those in Mrs. Harden's speech must have fallen as flat as the “go out into the fields” advice given. the reformatory cell-men on that far off Sunday morning.
Easy Delusion “TOO many people,” Mrs, Harden told the voteless Washington women, “are too quick to decide politics is beyond their comprehension. They fall prey to the easy delusion that their votes individually do not matter and that failure to cast votes will not affect the outcome. . “The reverse is true. Each vote counts and there is complete equality in the voting booth.
Establishment of other facilities later alone with read- : Justments of the law and improved enforcement procedures : should give Indiana a head start in fombatics the increas-
: ing menace of sex crimes. 3 all. Your vote counts just as much.as does that
: ; A of anyone else. The only time it does not count
: They Don't Scare Easy is when it is not placed in the ballot box.”
She didn’t touch on the fact that here there ECRETARY OF STATE ACHESON has taken to the political stump to whip up interest in that new catch‘word of our foreign policy—‘“total diplomacy.” By that, as he has explained it, he means we should _all get in the fight against expanding world communism and ‘not leave it to the State Department alone—which is a more He Rul hark d -pensible thought than Mr. Acheson may suspect. one ) Vie € 8c moted eg : 2 «4 the ral votin, en. . For instance, in his San Francisco speech the secretary neoiy (b. W. Va.) heads the Senate District of : dramatically drew a chalk line between China and the rest Columbia Committe at the moment, his favor. {of Asia, and warned international communism not to step 78 home rule for Washington is being check‘over it. You know what'll happen if the Communists cross mated 1 the House, where the District Chair
man is Rep. John L. McMillan (D, 8. C.). ‘over? Well, America will give “limited” assistance to the All seven of the Indiana Democratic members | resisting nations!
of Congress have signed the discharge petition » . . . » »
" the Central Suffrage Conference for D. C, 2 WE VERY much doubt that this will stop communism re Reps. Crook, Denton, Jacobs, Kruse, {in its tracks, In fact, there'll be no need for the Commies Madden, Noland and Walsh. When 218 signato cross the line—they've already gone around it. ~~ res ae Dugmes. ad gin 2), Whi The Red threat that perils French Indo-China today, inte 198 the Distt subject fo: ie eto o : for example, is not so much from a southward invasion as "w a a a al, Jou On pouEnt : from the Moscow-assisted native Communist forces already tabled by the Dixie-dominated House Committee. ‘ Inside the border. That made the petition procedure Decessary. So : The Chinese could tell Mr. Acheson all about that. But SAF 163 Congressmen have signed, _ surprisingly we find Mr. Acheson telling them just how they Tribute to Hoosiers got in their present mess: 3 he x kg for the Central Suffrage «nen thg-old-friends; we say to-the-Chinese people that we Tietonte Tall this Srnute. tothe seven In: “fully understand that their present unhappy status within “We greatly appreciate the fine support. which * the orbit of the Soviet Union is not the result of any thoice
the Indiana Congressmen who have signed the » on their part et has n forced upon them.” petition have rendered to the effort to restore ’ . & 8 ww
democracy to the nation’s capital. ference hopes that all members of the Indiana © THIS is a curious and belated departure from the old delegation in Congress who have not yet signed “doctrine of the State Department left-wingers that com. ‘the petition will do so proniptly, so that the ~munism in China evolved from discontented agrarian re- * formers who represented the real Chinese people. Mr. Acheson lamented that U. S. help “on a massive scale” after the war did not bring peace and recovery to ‘China, whose conquest by the Communists he blamed on the “failure” of the Nationalists. He did not mention that American support was with- « “drawn from the Nationalist government because it failed .to satisfy the Communists’ demands for a coalition at a : time when the Reds were all but defeated.
in the same nonvoting class as reservation Indians, inmates of penal institutions and Insane asylums, Congress is the City Council of this town and things are handled in about the same manner
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important legislation during this session . of } Congress.”
leagues, Reps. Halleck, Wilson and Harvey, are the nonsigners,
armed -forces may be in the making. It would involve: The Right to Vote
Security Council;
controlled division of the mili-
Voting Advice
WASHINGTON, Mar, 17—Dear Boss—Many
County » copy for y ana 10¢ the Indiana Secretary of State's office to do a Ta ® TT id 8 little preaching on the side. a other crate tons. is. Sto 3 Saar 5 _One 1y he went out to Pendleton and DE Tioa” dois 1110s month Sunday. 100 a CoD. pri hg od ’ - Telophone B1 ley 0581 : . : oners there in the @4ve TAokt and the Peoole Will Pind Their Own Was chapel. He told — them they should go
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take an active part in local and national politics. .
You. can have a million dollars or nothing at -
are no ballot boxes, Washingtonians are placed
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House will have an opportunity to vote on this .
Mrs Harden ‘and her fellow “Republican col-
NATIONAL DEFENSE . . . By Jim G. Lucas
Military II
WASHINGTON, Mar. 17—A major shakeup of the nation’s
ONE: A statement of national Objectives by the National
TWO: Abandoning the “balanced force” concept which has
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MARSHALL PLAN .
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and dedicated to the proposition that all people must . suffer some financial loss. ——— Now we-are engaged in a mass of calcula
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. By William H. Stoneman
~U. S. Aid to Europe Stalls Reds
PARIS, Mar. 17—Americans are now being taught that there are certain things that can be done—and certain things that can’t be done
“with $13 billion.
That sum~—dished out to non-Communist Europe in the form of Marshall aid over a period of four years—seems to be enough to "op
“communism in its tracks. whether it is the Republican 80th or the Demo-
But it will not destroy it. : The amount spent so far—roughly $8.5 billion—has enabled the 17 beneficiaries to achieve and to surpass their prewar industrial production’ This has provided employment and wellbeing and has taken the wind out of the
Commies’ sails.
But it has not resulted in any general overhaul of the system In any single country. The Marshall Plan ténds to perpetuate the prevailing system anywhere.
Class Differences
CONSEQUENTLY, it has not wiped out the class differences, or unevennesses of income, which spread discontent when they occur in
-countries where emt sacrifices are demanded "of the masses,
It has enabled the non-Communist countries to get back to prewar agricultural output. With 20 million more mouths to feed than they had
_ before, | this alone is not enough.
Agricultural imports, largely from the doi--lar belt, are needed to keep the stomachs full, The Marshall Plan has financed the dollar deficit of non-Communist Europe, amounting to $835 billion between July 1 1948, and July 1, 1950. But there is no present prospect that the Marshall Plan alone will enable non-Communist Europe to balance its accounts with the dollar
area by the end of the plan in mid-1952. on 8.18 possible that this.
deficit can be reduced... to $1.5 or $2 billion a year by 1952-53. But this deficit will have to be financed somehow to prevent serious economic shortages, And the
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United States will have to do the financing, officially or by private banking methods. The Marshall Plan machinery has helped to bring the 17 beneficiary governments together to discuss their separate problems. It has not been enough to compel them to coordinate their industrial or economic planning for the future. It has been poesible to reduce some barriers “to normal trade and commerce between the Eu-
..ropean countries themselves. .
No. Economic Unity
BUT there is no hope whatsoever of anything like integration, or economic unification, for the simple reason that it would require political integration—which is blatantly impossible. In other words, the $13 billion we are scheduled to put into the Marshall Plan by July 1, 1952, will not buy Utopia. It won't settle anything finally, either po-
. litically or economically. : The best we can hope for is that the present
trend toward greater production and selfsupport will continue and that something can be done to bridge the ‘dollar gap.” To achieve this it will be necessary for the United States to increase its use of European goods and services such as shipping. Other things should be done before the Marshall Plan ends, to give it optimum effec tiveness in “stopping communism.” Among other things, France might start cracking down on its well-to-do by the simple process of applying.its income tax laws,
“tand : Reforms
_ IT might also be reasonable. to expect that the Italian landowners who formed the backbone of Il Duce’s regime, might submit to land reform in such land-starved areas as Calabria. Our ECA people, who are no Communists, favor such reforms. In fact, they insist upon them. But though we may be financing nonCommunist Europe, it is’ being run by a collection of parliaments, cameras, chambers, and
...what:have-you.in.which, Rathing. is. being. given. mo THE -time- has come when we have got. 10.
away to nobody. This is one of the prices which we are com- , pelled to pay for democracy.
By Galbraith
"ment are fouling up the new regime.
CHINA . . . By Ludwell Denny
Discontent is growing.
ADIO Moscow brags that 99.96 per cent of the Soviet Union’s eligible voters cast their ‘ballots in this week's _ Russian election. In Britain's general election last month: 84. per “gent. of the eligible voters showed up at the polling places. A . wa In our own most recent national election, in- 1948; less ‘than 52 per cent-of the eligible American citizens ‘took the trouble to vote, - Practically all Russians who can vote do vote—and vote + “unanimously” for Premier Stalin and other candidates on "the single ticket placed before them-~because theg're afraid
to do otherwise. - ” ~ . ” [
"GENUINE interest in their government brought out : more than four-fifths of the Britons who were entitled to © register their choices among candidates for the new 7 parliament. : Americans are not driven to the polls ‘by fear. It is one of their rights, as citizens of a free country, to refrain *. from voting.
tary dollar since unification, THREE: A new allocation of roles and missions—settied at
Committee recently . charged that the Security Council had
the nation's goals to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Their chairman, Gen. Omar. Bradléy, said he had been forced to “&ssume’’ the goals. T h e committee called on Defense Secretary Louis Johnson,"a council memsber, to obtain a “firm statement of principles upon which the Joint Chiefs may rely as an official expression of their civilian leaders.”
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objectives were ‘extremely fundamental to national defense planning (and) have a
. - But it is a right which they exercise at their peril. That Profound influence on the : d strat f the Unit other right—-the right to vote—is precious. When nearly Sen Siralegy of te Duite
: half of those who have this other right neglect to use it .."
IT was learned at the State 3 . and fail to vote in an election of a President and a Congress, DeEpartort hat ch tuties
‘that is a sign of dangerous indifference to the principle were .under way before -the . + which keeps Americans free, and for lack of which Russians ommiitey Shucem. M ex : are serfs of their masters in the Kremlin. _ urged speed. ih At the military level, the
Joint Chiefs reportedly are considering another look at grand -strategy with the idea of redoing it. The Army, Navy and Air Force are at last convinced
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ITE ukulele’ business is _— a brisk comehack, aceording to the alert Wall Street Journal. One New York oan oy lis at a rate of 2500 a day, plastic ukes { whilch retail at $5.95 each, have nylon strings and can be li 8 BSE Wate, Which we're incfond to Hope they wil
them spend more than $13 billion a year. Théy are not eonvinced, however, that we're
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Key West and Newport in 1948 . “by the Joint Chiefs of ‘Stat.
THE Housé Armed Services
wimp od to-FiV eg -statement—of—
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that Mr. Johnson will not let
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working hand in glove on this project. Bad feeling so notice. able last fall has disappeared, at Teast at he Sop level.
ADM. FORREST. P SHERMAN, unlike his predecessor, is
+a full‘time working partner.
Adm. ‘Sherman and Air Force
Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg see eye- -. ]
to-eve on the advantages of breaking down the “balanced force” concept, - In the past, the Navy Tegarded- that. policy — under which the military budget has been split into ‘three almost equal parts—as its greatest
. protection. Now, however, it's
the Army that suspecly it's about to be ganged. : ® » . THE Navy - apparently is willing to take its chances because it feels it has made a case for itself in recent maneuvers and in the field of diplomacy. It feels it demonstrated in the Puerto Rico war games that - there are times when naval giinfire is more #ffective than airplanes Moreover,
"there is a growing suspicion in
all services that we have seriously misjudged Russia's naval strength. How long the Navy and Ale Force would continue to -collaborate—if they achieve their first goal of reassigning roles and responsibilities—is anybody's guess, 2 ; . Adm. Sherman wants a bigger Navy and Gen. Vandenberg: a bigger Air Force—at the ex-
- pense of the Army. But even if
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ADM. SHERMAN wants more money for guided missiles, antisubmarine - warfare,
plugging - for a T0-group Alr Force. - All this is highly tentative, of course. Gen. Bradley is 1m-
concentrate on airborne troops. Moreover, the Joint Chiefs
don’t decide these things. They
mérely advise. The decision rests with President Truman and Mr. Johnson. In the past, those two stub-
. born men have been a road-
block for more ambitious Air
“Force and Navy plans. The
Secretary and. the President blocked the 70-group Air Force --even with Congress behind
it — and they canceled the super-earrier. - “are
And both
Reds. Now they can't deliver. " Conditions are apt to get
Worse instead of better...
The food shortage is so grave the govérnment. must: seize the peasants’ poor crops to feed the cities. ‘That of
“course {s an old China custom.”
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BUT it is one guaranteed to make the government. “If he is one of the lucky few who profited by Communist land distribution he is likely to resent the double cross even-more. : The Communist cure is to kill off the peasants who will not co-operate. That worked in Russia after the regime had several years to perfect its police state; But it is too dangerous for the newer satellite dictatorships to attempt
‘yet in the peasant countries of . Eastern Europe. -And the China
Reds probably are not strong enough to solve their farm problem by mass murder. ® & s FOR the Chinese peasants are not revolutionists who have been won to communism.
- They did not arise and over“throw the Nationalist govern-
ment. . The Reds, with Soviet aid, took over by military con-
. quest. The people still have to
be convinced. Terror may hold
them down for ‘awhile, but it Z
can’t create loyalty. 1 ‘The cities are worse off than
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" THE derided Nationalist Air Force is increasing Communist
tion, testing whether any taxpayer can survive 1 from inundation. We are met on a field where : - we have come to dedicate a portion of our yield Look with those men whose lives are spent devising . to m: ways and means to spend our t, It is with great anguish in our hearts that made from the last remaining dollars we must part. S In an honest sense—we cannot cheat. This tax Roste cannot be beat. The collector's shrewd and clever, have computed this tax now and forever, Just They have estimated faster than our brains can to sa: act, our power is futile to even add or subtract. 2 Our creditors will little care nor remember what . ers a “We “pay there, but the Buréau of Internal TT they'r Revenue will not overlook its share, rosin fl Bowl, ‘argue that we are not fair. of It is rather for us to be dedicated to the re- . braine maining dollars rescued, hoping that the vanish- same, ing dollars be not spent in vain, regardless of - HE our parting pain, : : to 2 That this nation under God; that there will ans be a new birth of freedom and right, all opposis mobile tion and “Commies” will be eliminated in fright; out, it _ that this government of the people by the people the wi ‘of the universe, shall always flourish on this G grand old earth. He . 3 ly tha ‘Eliminate Waste’ ls By H. W. Daacke, Carmel, Ind. peu Much has been published by the proponents Doo of the system of free enterprise, and its suprem-. . tor acy -over other forms of economics. ripped "In my humble opinon, it is highly over-rated, movin since waste is.s0 enormous. Were this not a fact, (from its technjicans and engineers would long past to the have eliminated the waste in processing coal by his W a method that certainly will be used in’ the hoine future. Why not now? Jersty Burn the coal at the mines, transform it into cron electrical energy transmit it to the consumers sub so that they could have, heat, light and power “Texa: at the push of a button or the pulling of a lin’ » switch, : The very expensive transportation of coal : Swing by rail or truck would be eliminated. oLIe Millions ‘upon millions of tons of low grade ha coal, now a waste, could be utilized. H This is just the‘idea of an ex-miner, just a ays layman as far as the technical part of the pro- withou .posal is concerned, but still convinced that it is band, feasible. So if the system of free enterprise is see wants to claim supremacy, let it justify its all alo claims by action, » . b ‘Made by Men Who Work’ Pay, By A Reader and E All wealth has one common characteristie. ee Goods produced are all alike in one particular. the G That is they are made by men who work with ether their hands. All wealth is the product of labor Re hep in making it into useful articles, A fish In the celebrs sea, coal in the ground, have no. economic value HTVers until the labor of ‘man has been applied to ab : transform and transport them, ° To e + No man or group of men should own or con- to mi trol what we all must have in order to live. WINS In order to procure goods we are obliged to \ PI pay some men or group of men for that privilege, Fava Just because we allow some people the privilege sar yy of owning property they take advantage of our mer : needs through a government no longer repre-. ac D sentative of the people. Pr a spoofir the Wi What Others Say— the W ' WE have learned to split the atom—achiev- Rodel ing at last a means of self-destruction for the world—but we still don’t know how to feed the hungry.—Walter Reuther, president, United The | Auto Workers. WH I HOPE that relocatin trying g government agen- NY cies will not become a political Tootball.—Dr. an a “3 Paul J. Larsen, on shifting government agen- at th cies out of Washington in case of atomic war. Hain IF we spend ourselves to death in peacetime, Pastor what hope can we have for survival in an at tl emergency ?—Goy. Alfred E.. Driscoll of New : Yorker IY ; rime inion Rooms Allison KOREA is one of the testing points of (dem- Fran octratic) ideals. We cannot afford, to fail here got | and we shall not fail.——Chairman Kassim Gulik RCA » + _ of the UN Korea Commission. singing IT is not too wise to discard entirely Rose 5 the use of hindsight when charting a course goes for future action.—Sen. Wayne Morse (Rep.) summe Oregon, ing “1, nr SETLY'S. cease paying this money cut on a crop (potatoes) iu which has no effective controls.—Sen. Clinton oo \ P. Anderson (D.) of New Mexico. BT : Lillie § ringsid vyn ‘N Es AR a Thelm: Reds in Trouble i . ciety | WASHINGTON, Mar. 17—Red China is in trouble. Famine opening ! : i : ing to is spreading. People are refusing to take printing press money. during Mar, 2 AHN the old problems which beset- the Nationalist governAll and more, becauss Chiang Kai-shek didn't promise a quick ‘heaven on earth like the- I - ® ”
~choas. Its -bembing-has para« fur
lyzed Shanghai, commercial center, and is forcing factories and Red officials to flee the southern capital of _ Canton. “In this process the Reds are
the biggest
not only losing industrial pro- -
duction, ships and foreign trade, essential to reconstruction. They are also losing face, The Reds have won the war and taken over the country— and yet they are on the run. All of which is embarrassing. - ” HELP from Russia is of the kind that benefits the dictators ship’ but not the people. Moscow sends technicians in terror, and experts in putting the squeeze on the public. It does not send-food or machines in, from Manchuria. The Kremlin has even called for 500,000 Chinese slave laborers for Russia. The role of the satellite is to serve Stalin, not the other way around.
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