Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1950 — Page 10
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Justice . ond Robert Watts x “here can be no shadow of doubt that Robert A. Watts i is : guilty of the murder of ‘which he has ‘twice been con-
Victed. . “Nor can there be any reasonable: Spuestion that the oil
der the laws of this state. .. Throughout this whole case there has been a disturbing “iindércurrént of Tear that this man might be mistreated,” might be given something ‘less than impartial justice be-~ cause he is a Negro. It has been apparent in every step the state has taken to try and convict him. It was obviously in the minds of the judges of the two courts which have heard the. case against him and his defense, and of the higher courts of Indiana which considered his appeal. - Justice Frankfurter almost put it into words when he wrote that judges “cannot ignore as judges what they know 4s men.” The United States Supreme Court set aside his
[v a desire to go to the utmost lengths to make sure this © man’s npAR were completely protected.
WE feel that they have been,
ay 1c “convincing “as any we “have ever seen. It was even stronger
convicted the first time. The rulings of the trial court and Judge Long's conduct _of the hearings seem to us to have been unimpeachable. Every possible chance was. given this man 1 to prove he was innocent. Far from being persecuted because of his race it has seemed to us he was treated, from the first day of his ar- ~ rést, with Spécial consideration because of his race. . : police, and state's attorneys, and judges right up tothe highest courts have leaned over backward to make sure ‘that no such factor might enter the case. In the end the facts could not be denied. Watts . . . and only Watts... knew where the murder weapon was hidden after the crime, and led a search party Lo it. The defense never even tried to explain that. It is a hard thing to vote for conviction when that conviction means a man must die. The long deliberation of the jury this week showed how seriously they considered that. But, under the laws of Indiana, there was no alternative. Those jurors did their duty, hard though it must have been . to do. ; To us it has proved more than the mere guilt of Watts. © It has pr that in Indiana a man who has confessed, and even boasted of, the most revolting crimes can get a fair
- first conviction on the most tenuous of technicalities, al- . though his*guilt was even then apparent, in what was clear-
U.S, Prestige Lowered
THE Senate-State Department feud: and the McCarthy -charges;” have-
ARG Dis able. ee gsmtin: A aa ee Bria
‘than the case built around his Eofleasion upon which he was
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Lrial, and. impartial justice,. no-matier. -what-his-race. cress
Hopes Dim ee Pras = WASHINGTON, Apr. 1—Serious ta NON: Me.) Gers Janie meet in London on May 8. : ~ There are two kinds of international con-, ferences. Those with the best chance of. success
are called after preliminary tions at lower levels have cleared the way for agree-'
ment. The other kind is simply occasional or =
exploratory. This meeting: will be of the latter type—uniess dramatic ‘changes occur meanwhile. The occasion: is -a conference of the. iantic power foreign ministérs, of
Big Three meeting is a by-product. Whenever
the British and French foreign ministers and American Secretary of State are attending a
_ larger conférence, naturally they get together by themselves, But they can’t Actompliah much : without prior spade work.
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AMONG the barriers to success this time are: “Neither Ernest Bevin, Robert Schuman nor Secretary Dean Acheson is able to speak with - authority for a united nation. Here in Washington bipartisan foreign policy virtually has ceaséd to exist. On no major policy can the Democratic administration count on Republican support—not even on scheduled, appropriations for the Marshall Plan,” Which was of bipartisan origin.
Secretary Asheaon himself is under violent
.- attack by Republican leaders, some of whom
demand his resignation. This is due in part to his reaction to the Hiss case and to his weakness in the Far Edst, and in part to politics in an election year. - : The result abroad is costly. ,
prestige: and undermined Secretary Acheson's PEGE BR
diplomatie policies are under attack by’ Winston Churchill and the Tories.’ The Labor cabinet’s majority in: parliament is so small it cannot act on any controversial issue. It got only a .minority of the _Ppopular vote In the recent election. . Mr. Bevin is an old and ill man, worn out
in ‘the fight first against Hitler and now Against Stalin.
Gover. ment Shaky
“THE “French government is “even more shaky. Foreign Minister Schuman, an able man, cannot count.on his job from month to month. Apart from these embarrassing personal and domestic political factors, neither —~one of the
Big Three governments has a definite, positive
world policy to present at London. Whether the question is Germany, or Japan, or China or Southeast Asia, all three are waver-
“Ing and wobbling. ' The area of no policy is even
wider than the area ‘of policy disagreement.
In fairness it should be added that there
are no easy, cheap or quick solutions to cold war problems. But, whatever the solution, they
will depend on more Big. Three stability and
unity than now exists,
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‘GOP ATTITUDES
By Marquis Childs
“Forceful Opposition Needed’
- WASHINGTON, _ Apr. 1—The Republican
“Party has lost five: presidential elections in a
row. In the 18 years since 1932 they have lost three congressional elections and won one. That is a somber record of defeat even when the four years of the war, which saw by comparison at least a suspension of partisan politics, are taken into account. For old-line Republicans it is not merely depressing, not merely humiliating; it is downright immoral, wicked and contrary. to nature, You can see this attitude as the two parties approach what may well be a crucial election’ this fall. The opposition party suffers from’ a deep sense of frustration and, with that, one can detect a related feeling that anything is Justified in order to win.
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and the nation to virtue and decency once
It is easy to understand this feeling. The
Republicanism of the past was rooted in.the belief that God and thé American people meant the Republicans to govern the nation.
- This was not just a political: belief, it was
a creed, a faith. I saw it ih my father who was born and lved all his life in- Iowa. Iowa was Republican as inevitably and as finally and as
unshakably as. the.sun rises. and sets.
do-or-die desperation that is visibl¢ today. If
“this attitude is examined carefully; its relation -
to the dangerous conviction that any means, however immoral, justifies the attainment of the moral end becomes clear. That end is the restoration of the Republican Party to power
again.
Political Disaster
OUT of this attitude comes the smear and the demagogic denuncitation. Fundamentally, it is a refusal to discuss issues in the belief ‘that such discussion is futile and that only more virulent and irrational means will _CAITY the day.
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keep from spending sprees or new schemes, we
could apply some of this tax on our national’ -
debt, and in a few years, pay it off to ourselves, bring the dollar back to the 100-cent value, re= duce taxés to*a prewar level. In other. words, let us make an effort to pay ourselves what we “owe ourselves,
‘Creating Prejudice’
“By Mrs. K, City
It's blessed to live in a country where one “can ei press upibiond freely. but: Smt on
I am a Southerner rth and very proud of it. I have lived in different states and, «l= ‘though I have formed my likes and dislikes, I
feel that each state, North, South, East or West,
has its shortcomings. I once thought the South ‘oply God’s country, but I see now that I was narrow-minded. in. that respect 40d. can find some good wherever I go. ~ Since I have lived here, five years to. be exact, I have found the people to be very friendly and nice. But in the schools, my children have been faced with this issue: “Is the South really as bad as this or that teacher says it is?” Teach‘ers are paid to teach all classes of people and for a teacher to get up in front of the class and say
‘things that are detrimental, wholly untrue, ex-
cept .as to their personal feelings, then I. feel
‘that they are unfit to teach, The very pride of
my children has been hurt, although they are not Southerners. I am aware of “the fact that the South has illiteracy, living conditions are
“bad in spots, salaries aren't as high as they
In my opinion there is in this the potentiality 3
of disaster, and disaster not merely for the Republican Party but for our political life. ' If
ever there was an administration that needed |
the corrective of vigorous and persistent criti-
cism on both performance and principle it is the ;
Truman administration.: In large areas it is shabby, threadbare and specious, or worse, It is lacking in vigor and tion. -Far-too many misfits and hacks are
Misplaced Greenery sees
HE House of Representatives had its big April fool joke early and like 50 many pranks of that nature; it backfired. And it’s not funny.
further Marshall Plan aid to Britain until it ends the “partition" -of Ireland. Southern Ireland is now an independent - republic but the six northern counties of Ulster are an integral part of the United Kingdom.
favor continuation of their British tie, “Gestion of what is “being ‘partitioned.
ge) a undo. the dismemberment of St Patrick's Taland.” We wonder how the 99 Congressmen who voted f for that shillelagh in the Economic Co-Operation Administration bill would have responded to a vote in the Dail (Ire-
= ands House of Representatives) suggesting a partition of the state of Texas from the United States. Fortunately this Irish-amendment nonsense, which it taken literally would play into the hands of Moscow, is likely
to be thrown out:
“We're talking about that unexpected vote to “deny
The people of Ulster, or at least a big majority of them," Which raises the * Ea Etching the trees aa ‘against the thin,
— The fate of World masses, Which hinges on the threatened use Of his atonii¢ gases. “I envy not his hollow fame With each new weighty finding, As lesser minds than his perceive . God’s mysteries unwinding. Of -all the men of great repute
seo Ho BOSSE this pare -distinetionua. =o
Of giving Man the proper tools ~To plot his ‘own extinction. =John M. Montani, 2640 N, Meridian St.
WINTER TWILIGHT The blue-gray of twilight moves slowly over the whitened trees, Across the glittering . carpet of snow piled everywhere; : . clear ‘air, ] coloring the blue-white world a soft, pale
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much attention,
woke eT Co Ae Te POINT FOUR PROGRAM . . . By Peter Edson
We apon Against Reds
‘Temporary Support OH, there was another political party called the Democratic Party. And at rare intervals the American people in confusion and uncertainty gave 1 party. But my father never doubted that these were temporary periods of aberration and that ~sooner-or later; and -usuaily sooner; the people would see the error of their ways. My father was a delegate to the Republican convention of 1920 that nominated Warren G. Harding. I remember that I met him at the station when he returned from Chicago and it seemed to me he was just a mite shaken. But
Mr. Harding was a Republican and therefore
he was right. The collapse of farm. prices..in..1920-21-did.
But it was not until long after’ my _ father’s death that I realized how tenacious is
sive RE Has g nerated the kind of
SIDE GLANCES
= great: ‘harm to® Towa and {o- Republicans .in - Iowa.
in important positions. Political appointments have lowered the standards of the judiciary. For a real and a forceful opposition the
" opportunity would seem to be unparalleled. The
answer of many. Republicans is: “We tried
to this other — that and it doesn’t work and it won't, work. so
.long as this crowd keeps on handing out bene- - fits.”
Republicans Divided ~~ OF COURSE, it never has been tried in any
Republicans, themselves, are divided on the kind of opposition they want to set against the party in power. In my opinien any gains growing out of the irrational and demagogic approach are bound -to-be-short-lived.- The -Reépublican-Party-is pot really equipped for that kind of game. The old
. timbers will not stand that kind of strain. If
a’ party of irrational «virulence and demagogery h
; Bu ey must assert themselves quickly if they are
direction. . =
By Galbraith
Advice to Farmers
this week.
HE ADDED that competition is becoming the rule and prices are seeking a level which can be supported by normal Experience suggests, he said, that Indiana farm products should produce satisfactory returns
peacetime demands.
to the farmer operating dn‘efficient farm.’
The trend of continued price supports, as we have pointed out frequently, can only lead to accumulated surpluses and eventual collapse of the agricultural economy. Indiana farmers should consider well Dr. Young’ 8 timely
warning. .
‘Tax Crackdown Pays off
- TAX evasions, if widespread over a period of years, could wreck the state governments economy and throw the
- whole tax structure out of gear.
~~ Hence, we are glad to see the Indiana Gross Income Tax Division tracking down delinquent payments, revenue that probably never would be collectéd without a thorough
‘crackdown of enforcement.
It has been estimated that the enforcement program will bring in an extra $10 million or $11 million and thus “increase -the ‘rapidly falling revenues to a. level near the
record collections last year,
Added efforts on collections will | pay off handsome divi-
dends save the state's
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8 tax structure.
—"THERE ‘was some sound advice to farmers inthe speech—— : of Dr. E. C. Young, Purdue University agricultural economist, before tre Hsnapsle Real Estate: Board Yere
Dr. Young ‘warned farmers to reduce their ‘production costs with more efficient operation in order to forestall what “he termed “tiltimate disaster” that will result in the federal government 8 continued price support’ program.
The
column “party line is purely negative. It preaches only revolution against existing governntent. It offers nothing
program to raise living stand-
“*{5e5 that, come the revolution. everything will. be better. A eR = EMPTY as this propaganda may be, it. has unquestionably + Produced results, It has stirred up strikes, riots and political turmoil all over the world. And it has produced intense hatred of the United States. Against + such propaganda, this country has had little to offer. The Voice of America bas of course been built up to tell the news at the story of democracy; U. 8: Information Centers hy been opened in nearly all éountries outside the Iron Curtain, Good as these programs are, théy have not .. been able to offset Communist ' propaganda. - » “ WHAT seems to have been lacking is some kind of an American political and economic missionary -movement. And this is where the Point Four program is said to be capable of yeoman service -in the world struggle between communism and democracy for the possession of men's minds. What the Point Four program now seems to envision is a means to show people in the’ underdeveloped countries how to improve their own standards of living by a peaceful agricul- . tural and industrial revolution, rather than by a mere political revolution,
pattern of operation for Combat agents = most of the backward areas of the world is now Mell known.
constructive .in the way of.a -
.Ards. It gives only vague prom.
‘person, as against veloped countries,
_The fifth
more and better food. If might teach them how to improve their diet so that fewer chil-
“dren dierand- more “people” reds
longer, In short, instead of sending native leaders to Moscow to learn how to be revolutionists, they could be. sent to America to learn how to be doctors, nurses, county agents, engineers and generally pein) citizens. = » ~ - BY FOSTERING: investment of domestic as well as foreign
{private ¢ apital, Point Four could pavé the way. fo in: greased industriglization of
these underdeveloped’ coupfries 8 This would mean eventudl re-
moval of these countries from ~~
their present economic positions as mere colonies or suppliers: of raw materials to the more advanced countries - of North America and Western Europe. **
oF ONLY one-sixth of the world’s population today lives
in a highly developed economy, 38¢
Another sixth in Soviet Rus-
" sla, South Africa, the Argen-
tine and Chile lives in an intermediate development. The other four-sixths or two-thirds of the world's population nearly 1.5 billion people—live
‘In underdeveloped countrips,
y » ~ “ IN THE under developed countries, the food supply aver: ages 2150 calories a day. per in de-
The aver-
—WHAT-this-—might mean—ts—— = —-showing them how to grow
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“vigorous or forthright way. Ope reason is that
should be, but then, I can look around this city and find the very same conditions. _ If teachers, who are paid out of the taxpayers’ pocket, cannot find material worthwhile to teach instead of cramming prejudice into those. who have not seen for themselves, then education ‘is going backward. It would be better to teach in such a manner as to try to. help im=prove this land of ours regardless of the locas tion. . The South is getting along very nicely and coming into its own, no thanks to teachers who degrade it. oe
Views onthe. News... By DAN KIDNEY
DEFINITION—A Fair Deal Bill ‘is one of . which Congress does not approve.”
STORIES about flying saucers: are oq stuff to- divorce lawyers: Tr BRITISH Peers have advocated the revival ..of flogging. for criminals. They. probably. are tired of being the Socialists’ Whipping Boy.
TV WILL now test who can be the busiest— Eleanor Roosevelt or Arthur Godfrey,
" ITALIAN Communists are trying to turn ‘1950 into a Holy Terror Year ’
NATIONAL Democratic Chairman William
rE sans
against Harr Yesterday, ordered Har 19 to “show should not t contempt of order was ba plaint again
Mrs. I. Mi Allisonville I home. She w: <A native c Mrs. McDan “the Friends * -meral service “p.m. “Mone Friends may
" ary. Burial don Cemeter Mrs. McD: two daught Shephard a: Daniel, both son, Chester ter, Mrs. Am two- brother: Hobson, bot} grandchildre grandchildre
Barber
M. Boyle Jr. has appointed Negro Rep. William
-.L._Dawson. (D. Ill). vice chairman in.c
“explaining filibusters.”
LISTENING to congressional debates about the bad Phan of. small businesses, one concludes
“RS LS “IT COST $130,500 fo ‘take the battleship
d Ppositive-__—Mis ssouri out of the Chesapeake mud. Moth balls -
would have been cheaper.
PRESSURE IN CONGRESS... By Earl Richart i
WASHINGTON, Apr. 1—Power of the farm bloe has been
in in- House voting on -Marshall-Plan-expendfe— ~~ tires. for next year.
“| didn't need a wave but | had to come! All the radio news was the same old thing—ro secrets that everybody isn't supposed to know!” >
person “has a life expectancy of 30 years in the underdeveloped countries, as against 63 years in the developed countries.
~ .. " THE plan is based on actual expérience and past mistakes of UNRRA, the Marshall Plan, the Export-Import Bank, the
Institute of Inter-American Af-"
fairs, and the U, 8, govern+ ment's little-known Interdepartmpntal Committee on Sci-
entific and Cultural Coapere :
tion, i THE crusade for the minds and sympathies of the people in -these underdeveloped countries is the struggle that will decide whether the great mass of world population goes communistic or democratic. The
two worlds—Soviet Russia and
the Western democracies—are now more -or less balanced as to power. Whoever wins over the people oe the underdevel-
“oped countries ym the world.
e farm ‘bloc got its dander up when the =.= Afralrs Com¥ilttee voted to substitute $1 billion ment-owned' farms surpluses for an equivalent amount of cash in hext year’s program.
__Farm-bloc ~legdérs charged that this would make the farm program look bad-—that price-
“support costs would go up bé- - cause the Commodity Aoredit snd Would. have. to. take up _ the slack which would result
from the lack of purchases on the open market by ‘Marshall Plan countries. » » » 80 they “marched onto the House floor in .a body and knocked out the provision. The $1 billion figure, however, apparently intrigued them. So they pushed-through an amendment telling Marshall Plan AdminiStrator Paul Hoffman that $1 billion of next year’s money must be spent for U. 8. farm products purs chased on the open market, - They did this over the objection of Foreign Affairs
© Committee - Chairman John
Kee (D. W. Va.), Mr. Kee said the amendment was unnecessary because Marshall Plan estimates for next .year pro-
vided that more than $1 billion .
must be spent for U. 8. farm
PR the farm: bloc thought it was just as well to make sure by putting it in the law, , : . =
Poage (D. Tex), a farm-bloc "leader.
He. said that one-third of Marshall Plan money spent for farm products so far had been spent outside the United States.
worth of govern=
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STILLWA + (UP) —Doct Mayor Arth iN eto 1] sought to le shooting att: “the life of ti Mayor Al paralyzed, ur night in an pressure on from a sing] ““oondition wa critical.” . Chris ‘Di: barber, wall cott’s office bullet which the head, th
NAVY PUSH «~-The Navy’ identified su __the norther entered its,
vehicles as 8 co
rvice Commis public hi —of —the
“Marshall Plan money was
“being spent for wheat in Can= ada when wheat iz, my country was: piled up on open-ground,” the Texas $.CongrIsmnay. said.
DEBATE over continuation of the Marshall Plan has brought out pet peeves “of many Congressmen, including some who have been amoung its strong supporters. © Chairman Harold Cooley (D. N. C.) of the House Agricule ture Committee, previously a strong supporter, charged that Marshall Plan missions overseas had lost all sight of the importance of American agri-
culture. “I don’t think ECA (Economic Co-opera tration) money should be spent for beef in Argentina When we have $60 million worth, canned” beef n Mexico,” said.
. = HE reférred to canned beef which our government has ac quired in its program to stamp
out the hoof-and-mouth dis-
et iota
They | this was unfair to American house~
- wives,
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