Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1950 — Page 10
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“Non-Partisan Selection of Jue - VWEAKNESSES in Indiana's system of A Jas control : of the courts through election of judges on party tickets were pointed out by Judge Ralph Hamill in the first ~ of a series of articles in The Times yesterday.
- political issues and party affiliations have been obvious for many years. But because of the difficulties i in making any change _* that involves loss of political power, little or no progress
tisan selection of judges based upon ‘ability and experience rather than political prestige or party issues,
JUDGE HAMILL referred to the so-called “Missouri nlan” under which a non-partisan commissior. nominates three attorneys for a judgeship. The governor of the state - is then empowered to appoint one of the three nominees. t the end of one year’s service on the bench the voters are given an opportunity to decide whether the appointee is to be retained for a full term of four or six years.
dicial officers in elections, divorced entirely from political party tickets.
THE “Missouri Plan” may be regarded bv some as too
be raised to details of other judicial selection procedures. We are not so concerned at the present with the details of these various plans. The important issue before the people of Indiana now is support for a state-wide movement to establish some type
‘Spenders’ Progress TWENTY years ago, in fiscal year 1930, the Federal Government spent slightly more than $3.4 billion. ; That equaled about two-thirds of the total income of all the individuals living in California that year SE California-has-grown-mightity- Many more” live in that state. And their individual incomes otal almost three times the 1930 figure. But if all the citizens of California turned over their entire incomes to the Federal Treasury that wouldn't pay the fast of He. Government this year.
GEORGE" E STRINGFELLOW, “Vice president of Thomas A. Edison, Inc, has been doing some figuring on this subject. This year, he told the Camden ow. J.) Junior Chamber of Commerce the other day, federal spending will equal the combined incomes of all the people living in— California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma Texas and 89 per cent of Minnesota. _. In other words, the cost of the federal government this yeal' equals the total incomes of all the individuals in all the states west of the Mississippi except Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa and 11 per cent. of Minnesota.
The Light Brigade
GECRETARY of ge Acheson meets with the congres-
“the ward on how ‘the State Department is going to “fight” _ communism in Asia. He will be accompanied by Dr. Philip C. Jessup, who has just finished a leisurely sweep through the Far East to size up the situation, and presumably by W. Walton - Butterworth, who also attended the recent Bangkok policy meeting
"team, but now are vatously detailed or detained, are Owen Lattimore, John Carter Vincent, John S. Service and Alger : Hiss. But don't Worrythey won't be missed. There's such a strong community of thought among them on how to deal with the Red threat that any part of the team can
we come.
Afraid of the Dark?
that many federal agencies, squirrel-like, amass great hordes of supplies against a distant day in the future.
rounds. itself with reams of extra paper. In a town that's built on directives-in- triplicate, fears of a paper shortage ‘are understandable: But we're totally puzzled by the: agency that collected “enough light bulbs to serve its needs for the next 93 years. . All. we can guess is that the procurement official resposible for that buying orgy must have been frightened by the famous wartime government order which warned all federal’ employes to “terminate the illumination” when they really didn't need it.
Make Your Bids ” E'RE happy to note that ‘Queen Mary, ‘Britain’ s aden mother, has Row done her bit to close Britain's troublesome “dollar gap.” She has woven an elaborate rug, which ‘has just arrived in New York and will be exhibited in cities throughout America. The British government, of course, wants to sell the rug and it has advised us how to enter any purchase bids we may wish to make. They are to be sent to the governor of the Bank of England, in envelopes bearing the simple notation: “Queen Mary’ Ss Rug. ” Be boxtops from English cookie packages need be included. But be careful that you don’t write: “Queen Mary,
Rugs.” She’s not in the business permanently, even though - this one took her eight years. §
With Special Rates?
roters. They squirt’ them with blue water which their clothing. This is supposed to be so the misJdeuitified later and hauled into court. But
ge Repeal
SE Sr Phy
~The evils of selecting judges for State courts on purely
has been made toward establishing some form of non-par-
_ against primary repeal.
Other systems provide for separate ballots for ju-
cumbersome or impractical and, of course, objections- can.
of non-partisan system of Selection of Judges for nur courts.
‘bosses give
light.
pledges.
sional Foreign Affairs Committees-this-week to give them
OTHERS "who have play ed onthe Far East- varsity
function as a whole. Look out, ~communism- in Asia, here
a ldoey
dnd Se
Traced to Klan
Voters Kept in Dark : By Convention System
"WASHINGTON, Mar. 27 — Dead Boss — Re-
lease of D. C.
serving 2 not only recalls the sordid political history of the Ku Klux era in Indiana, but also the profit - which party bosses still derive from it. For it was Ku Klux Klan domination of the state, through the Republican Party, that brought about repeal of the direct primary law
by the legislature. With public officials pleading
the statute of limitations to keep from joining the hi dragon at had so disgraced that the law makers ag Seen for so-called “party responsibility.” In a spirit of “it can't happen here—again” the leadership of the two parties joined .and put the governorship, 1. S. senatorship and all af the state ticket offices back under the conven tion system. They argued that this. would prevent such domination as the Klan had exercised under Stephenson.
Opposed Repeal
THE Indianapolis Times,
which won a
Pulitizer prize for its fight against the Klan.
foresaw the possibility of the people trading one kind of domination for another and came out It argued editorially that while Klu Kluxism was a passing fever in the body politic, to restore the old convention system would put the political bosses back in the saddle. Since that time the bosses have proven the point. They probably will do so again this year. On the Republican side they nominated Homer E. Capehart for the U. 8. Senate, although former Secretary of State James Tucker was the most popular man in the convention. Again the GOP convention bosses dumped Sen. Raymond E. Willis, after a single term of respectable service here, and sent “William E. Jenner to replace him. When the junior Senator got fed up with “Washington within two years and recalled that he had been “kicked upstairs,” he wanted to get the gubernatorial nomination. But Gov. Ralph ‘Gates and the state payrollers gave it to Hobart Creighton who was defeated by Gov. Henry F. Schricker.
Debatable Question
WHETHER the more popular Sen, Jenner would have won the rank and file nomination, with most of the Republican press against him, is debatable. What isn’t debatable is that the rank and file Republicans had no chance to ex-
i
press themselves: as between Mr. Jenner and
Mr. Creighton for governor. - Right now on the Democratic side there is
‘no pondering about who most people might want be defeated this. fall
City, the state -
His.
~» 3 J aR v - FIGHT ON COMMUNISM .
. By George Weller
New Trend in Foreign Policy?
NEW YORK, Mar. 27—For the first time" since ‘the war's end the State Department, led by Dean Acheson, appears to be looking for an American program to fight Communism that is also radical, reformist and even faintly revolutionary.. : Signs are cropping out that Jeffersonian democracy, with a dash of Wilsonian idealism, may be the American answer to Russia's call to
: to sec as the U. 8. Senator from Indiana should
All the talk is about whether the forces of Gov. Schricker or National Committeeman Frank M. McHale will prevail at the. party's state convention and which will select the nominee. They might get together, of..course, but in any case such a rank outsider as Charles Price,
the Quaker professor from Notre Dame, has
about as much chance making his candidacy count in a convention as does Donald Duck.
Staté Sen. John Gonas, South Bend entry
into fhe senatorial race, is regarded here as a move to keep the St. Joseph County and maybe the Third District delegates votes away from Alex Campbell, Ft, Wayne, the McHale entry.
Voters in Dark
80 Republicans who don't want Sen. Capehart renominated will have little to say about
‘the matter, under the convention -system, and the. Democrats will remain in the dark as to .-
who will be their nominee until the convention “their peoples choice” the green-
As to “party responsibility,” when the Senators get down here they are very apt to vote as they please, regardless of any platform That argument for the convention system is obviously baseless. Thus the Ku Klux Klan of the Stephenson days can be directly credited with primary re-
All of which makes those who prefer party bossiem shout “hurrah!”
ENCOURAGEMENT
A new path I chose while feeling low And craving a breath of spring. He came my way, looking to and fro; No cheer to me did he bring.
But soon another passed me by, His face aglow with a. smile.
I walked on air {he lastgmile. ~Charlotte B. Kinney, 3736 Kenwood.
NEW OFFENSIVE . . . By Charles Lucey
Red Push in Italy
be in for a helis-to-pay summer,
It's taken for granted that the Reds won't stop with last : ; Called by the Domus. dominated General Confederition.of Labor, it. was, accompanied. Laeneral- Aetounting: Officein- — ASCIATES “hy 1 wave of v
week's nation-wide general strike.
v lence “whic resulted in one death and
scores of injuries. be solved.
peal and a set-back for democracy.in. Indiana...
My spirits rose to the clean-swept sky;
ROME, Mar. 27—The strikes and raly _demonstrations being engineered ‘by the Communists are a sign that Italy may
vides hope these problems can
worldwide
The first sign of a new trend came when Mr. _ Acheson declared that the United States in Asia intends to lead “revolution by the common. people.” The Secretary condemned Soviet, Nazi and Japanese imperialism, but he failed to reveal American views about the French, Dutch, Belgian, Portuguese, and British empires. He by
( Editor's note: Views expressed in this article are those of the writer, George Weller, whose background as a foreign affairs reporter qualifies him to offer helpful testimony on the debate on American foreign policy now
in progress.)
passed also the colonial sub-empires of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. - The new American trend, to be ethical as well as radical, starts from the answer to a hard question: “Where today is imperialism an exploiting force, and where is it a progressive force?” :
Benevolent mperiulism WHERE imperialism is a trusteeship, working toward more independence where more ma-~ turity is found, this benevolent imperialism can ‘be cautiously sustained by the United States. Examples of this tolerable imperialism - are Britain in Malaya, New Zealand in Samoa, and Holland—as of 1950—in Indonesia. But where imperialism refuses to look for-
ally, capable of infecting U.S. policy if granted .the sanction of silence. The Soviets.are the only pure Wilsonians today. All imperial peoples must be “free,” they
. say, regardiess of degree of maturity. It is not
easy for the United States to flank on the left a policy so insurrectionary. It is especially difficult when lazy or reactionary European powers fail to steer their colonial ‘helms toward self-government, and remain merely paternal, merely economically pros_perous. The United States hesitates to speak out on colonial questions for [ear of upsetting the At-
SIDE GLANCES
>
ward, as. in-South-Africa.-it-becomes-a-tainted—
‘Yantic Alliance. It may be reasoned: however, that if Britain, receiving both Marshall Plan aid and arms help, flouts the Anglo-American alliance in the Far East by recognizing the Chinese Communists, Mr. Acheson has a free hand to speak up on the colonial question.
Reformist Attitude BEYOND. Ale. Banana) a 42
HIN“ RECCS
revolt-by-the- colonial empires. gory that the United States assume a boldly
. reformist attitude toward Franco Spain, toward Tito’s Yugoslavia, and toward the Central American dictators.
The heavy American loans already granted to Tito, without any reservations about his farm collectivism or even religious persecution, have shaken the ethical basis of Balkan policy. It is impossible to be anti-Communist elsewhere in the world and to subsidize Communism in Yugoslavia without even a token statement of reservation.
Spain tempts American, policy with a similar :
chance to subvert itself, this time on the right. Spain is so sure that the United States is buying allies against Communism °that it offers nothing, not even air bases on its long, unused African shores, in return,
Yet such aid cannot be given; with bases or"
without, unless an ethical line is drawn between
Spain's rich dominating class and its pitiful -
poor that places America on the side of the lattes, A great fallacy of American. foreign policy in judging foreign situations has been to consider that the comfort of parliamentary democracy is solace enough for the sufferings-of economic proletarianism.
Paycheck Most important THE failure of the Marshall Plan to ‘defeat or even reduce communism in France and Italy ~—has--taught-alt-but the members of “thé "ECA" machine itself that the paycheck of a factory worker is more important to him than anything else. In Europe the proletarianism that the United States must ‘fight is urban and industrial. In - southeast Asia—especially in Java in Indonesia ~and in Tonkin in Indo-China—the proletarianism is rural and agrarian. In both there is a restlessness among the ‘fion-owners, the cashdependent. / America’s place is with them and against
..the Soviet. Union, which -offers—them-—only—a—
"bloody road to a larger coHectivized polenran. ism.
_ year after the war, when thou- Rep. Madden _sands of labor contracts that
had been status quo for five years during the
war period came up for renewal.” As a proof that I was not telling an untruth in that state ment, I am hereby submitting for your readers, plain recorded facts, taken from the. Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Department of Labor, the last 15 years with the exception of the war years when union labor and management did not negotiate work contracts. Number of man days lost by strikes and work stoppages between 1936 and 1940, 16,900,000 {average per ‘year). Omitting the war years, we come to 1943 which was the first year after the war: approximately 116 million man days lost; 1947, approximately 34 million man days lost; 1948, approxie mately 34 million man days “lost, and 1949, approximately 53 million man days lost. Your second charge that I did not tell the truth about matters of plain recorded fact that the Taft-Hartley law “failed 100%" in the coal strike: In my speech, which you failed to include in your editorial, 1 stated that. “Cyrus 8. Ching, Federal Mediator and former rubber executive, publicly stated several weeks ago that there had not been any honest effore at collective bargaining since contract discussions started last summer. The response of the coal operators to all
collective. bargaining proposals was® an em-
phatic “No.” I further stated that “powerful interests in this country” wanted the Taft-Hartley injunc-, tion tested. When President Truman proceeded with the injunction, 450,000 miners refused to go back to work in spite of the injunction, and I further stated that “when the operators discovered the monumental failure of the Taft Hartley law injunction, they proceeded to coltectively bargain with the union.” When good faith collective bargaining was engaged in, the strike was settled in a few days, - - Furthermore; -in-your-editorial you stated: I failed to say what caused the coal strike the year before the Taft-Hartley law was passed or the year before that and the others previously, You are correct on that statement, but you failed to also mention that there have been four separate coal strikes and work stoppages since the Taft-Hartley act was passed in the summer of 1947.
‘Quit Finding Fault’ By Grandma, Indianapolis What are we going to do about our city?
_Are-we going to first look at ourselves and see
if there is something wrong with our homes, or are we going to say I hate Indianapolis? Or are we going to look at our yards and streets and see if we can improve them? aT Do you ever go into our beautiful churches and look at the beaufy, sing and praise God, or do-you just stand on the outside and find
fault? We have wondertel churches and other S50 cieties that make our city great. We also have a wonderful Fire Department. I admit we need a waiting room, centrally located, where old people and babies can get in out of the cold while changing cars. Lots of ~ Sickness 18 “caused by waiting in “the vam and” cold for yaur car. It is just poor people who suffer as rich ones can choose their transporta- . tion. If our streetcar system is so broke, why can’t some of these rich people who make their money in our fair city, build a place for us and help beautify our city. This waiting room can be made self-supporting by renting office rooms and many other ways of making a profit, as well as helping our fellowmen.. Let's -get-together-and-cleanour city. Quit finding fault and see what a beautiful city Indianapolis can be.
By Galbraith THE BIG COUNT . . . By Roge# Stuart Secret Questions
classrooms
+ structions.
the 14 was so questioned. The bu«
* the ‘ohe-in-five ratio “will pro-
that
reau now thinks, however, that -
We can make a little allowance for an outfit that sur- -
“In rural
The Communists, bovisinty determined to make one final bid for strength, are expected to pump every last bit of propaganda venom they can into an “American imperialism”
campaign tied to the beginning -
of the arms aid program here, as they have in France. 8 » =» THERE have been reports of the landing of arm supplies for the Italian Reds on the Eastern coast, presumably from Albania. ; So far the government's new security barriers against outbreaks and demonstrations have been reasonably success-
~ ful. Although the Reds could claim some success in the gen-.
eral strike, there are strong indications that the Communist influence is decreasing. - Still a big problem for Premier Alcide De Gasperi's government is its slowness in getting started the long-promised and long-oyerdue land reforms. “areas of Southern Italy, where some of the strikers were peasants, there is something fairly Slase to star-
: vation.
». THE Communists are taking
every propaganda advantage
they can of the land-reform
“—jelays. The fact that Southern
Italy, which always has resisted communism, participated
OME police have adopted the strike is evidence that — Re 4 new method “of quelling pn, Reds are making headway : -in this campaign. : Ttaly today faces extremely : economic:
tough u. 8. JHC
At that time the Italian currency was worth about as much
as bettér grade cigar coupons,
the Germans had hauled away
much of the industry and a new government in the democratic pattern had to be started from eragn, » o TODAY the De Gasperi government, in Parliament, is one of the most stable in Europe. Infla-
“. tion has waloped Italy as it
has other countries, but the
- lire is.at a firm level and indi-
vidual -savings are increasing. Both. agricultural and indus-
~ trial production have climbed
upward—but not enough. Italy still faces the human problem of what to do about
excess population, increasing at -
the rate of 400,000 a- year. Some of its industrial payrolls are so overcrowded as to make it difficult or impossible for Italian preducts to compete on & cost basis with those of other
nations.
THIS payroll. ponding is not because Italians are not good workers — the tes ny of U. 8. officials here is exactly
' the opposite. But excessive pay-
rolls grew up in the period immediately after the.war.when it was thought better to get men ute Some kind of jobs
with a safe margin
Ann 1880 OY SEA BERVIGR. BC. 7.8L REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF.
-
"Do | hear your father coming downstairs? |_suppose he wants‘ fo ask what fime it is 2qeinZ"
ITALY, like most other countries here, is plagued by the dollar gap—it cannot sell enough to the U. 8S. to get the dollars it must pay for what it must buy from the U. 8S. The gap this year Bs about $400 million. Getting costs.
em go over tb the problems i goods exports;
comm unin, - Some
t transactions export products is an-
other. But Italy seems soon to
Barbs
IT'S nice to have an easy job
until you find you have time. to "- become disgusted with it. ..
$n ay on
- SOME men have to lose $10.-
{
- Internal Revenue
They'll be told, for example,
-. that the person who refuses to
answer a question faces a $100 fine and 60 days in jail, and that giving false information may ‘cost $500 and a year's imprisonment, 7 = » » HOWEVER, before the enumerators start gathering five billion facts from Uncle Sam’s 150 million people, the point will be driven home that the census is secret—that any enumerator found guilty of revealing confidential infor-
- mation will be subject to a
$1000 fine and two years in prison. > Why does the government _want to know your income? Census Bureau officials say one reason is that many persons with low incomes or with types of incomes not taxable don’t file tax returns, or are not. required to report nontaxable parts of their # statistics, therefore, don’t cover the whole population — not by about 17
“million people. = = ” MOREOVER, it was’ ex-
plained, business concerns, labor and government agencies asked for family-income statistics as well as those for in-
" dividuals. Then, too, small geo-
000 jobs before they realize -graphic areas often want Jasts
= : * 8 =n SIGN on a display of spring frocks: “The Last Word.” Well,
“TODAY'S § ) Fol (ell thi
Tun are fast?
- that's what women ally © ‘must : want, isn't nt 3
more than the Internal Revenue makes available. So every fifth person over 14 tell the enumerators what his income was last year
and how much of it came from
vide sufficient statistical data without requiring . the question to be put to every indtvidual. » ® EVERYONE. will be asked
- to-give his name, relationship
to the head of the household, race, sex, marital status, country of birth, citizenship status, employment status (if over 14), and occupation. } - The Census Bureau has worked out several types of questions “for “scientific sam-
+ pling” purposes in addition to
the one about income. ‘Thus, © approximately 30 “million persons will be required to teil where they lived a year ago, to name the countries where their parents were bofm, and to give the highest grade they attend. ed in schoo]. .
THE government also ‘will ask about marriages and. births. Queries will be limited to every 30th person over 14, questions will include whether the individual was ever married, whether he married more than once, the number of years in his present . marital status and the number of children. The 1950 census; the most extgnsive tical undertaking ever conducted by the government, in reality will be a combination of three surveys,
= It will inciude a population cen~
.
ak WASHINGTON, “Mar. 27—The Census men are going tof ion to learn how to handle the people who don’t want to tell the amount. of their incomes, and to get other tips for use when they start their big count. ; . For five days next week the 140,600 Er hired to take | 5+ the 17th decennial: census; “starting “Apr “1 will gather T5000 fp throughout. couritry to" get their final’ in-
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