Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1950 — Page 12

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" How to Ruin a Police Force ITve Indianapolis policemen who held a prisoner under ~* arrest last Tuesday and let two parking lot attendants savagely beat him, knock him down, kick him and trample him, were still on duty as policemen this morning. They had not been fired. They had not been suspended. They had not even been censured by their superiors. Instead of action there had so far, in a full week, come from those responsible for police ‘direction and discipline only double talk and buck-passing and an evident intent to wink at the shameful affair and brush it off if possible. Police Chief Rouls said he didn’t think what the patrolmen did “was too damned bad.” : Mayor Feeney said he was waiting for a report of an “investigation” Inspector Troutman was making. Inspector Troutman said he wasn't making any investigation. Se The Board of Safety chairman says he hasn't heard anything about it yet. : . » » » . » » * 80 there either is, or is not, an “investigation” being made by police authorities and apparently you can get either answer by just asking different officials, or asking the same official on different days. So far no “investigator” has gone so far as to question ‘the three responsible and unimpeachable citizens who saw it all happen and were so shocked they appeared voluntarily in court to make sworn statements to that effect. Chief Rouls hints darkly that “this is once The Times will lose” because he's found “a lot of witnesses” who didn't cee it happen. You're wrong there, too, Chief. The Times won't lose. : Indianapolis will lose, if you get away with this cover-

up. x ? Every man, woman and child in town who depends upon a good police force for safety and law and order will lose. Every decent, hardworking, honorable policeman on your force will lose. For every day those two patrolmen stay in uniform you yourself, Chief, and the city administration behind you, will lose some of the respect of the community which put you there . . . and of the real policemen who look to you for direction. : The two men guilty of this disgraceful brutality have proved they don’t belong on police duty. When are you going to act, Chief?

War Powers . . . Forever?

gE President has to have extraordinary powers in He doesn’t object, any more than any of us do, to granting such powers for the brief period of a war emergency, or to giving up even our most basic liberties in the common defense. : He does object, as he told Times Writer Dan Kidney yesterday, to making such powers permanent...so they can be used for purposes far afield from common defense and long after an emergency has passed. Recalling the very recent past we can see his point, ” » » Lo. - - WE CAN think offhand of only one wartime bureau... the Office of Censorship ...which voluntarily abolished itself when the need for it had ended. The rest of them hung on...and-in a few instances are still hanging on... ‘to emergency powers granted them back in 1942 for an emergency that ended five years ago. It took a national election and a tremendous fight in Congress to get rid of OPA, for instance, long after its usefulness had passed and its operations were seriously injuring the welfare of the people. Fa Most of the other wartime bureaus battled to the last mimeograph machine to stay in existence. Nor was ~ that a unique feature of the second world war. That war was well along in the '40s when somebody discovered a bureau out of the first world war, created in 1917 to buy wood to make airplane propellers, still doing business although the emergency it was created to meet had ended 25 years before and we hadn't made an airplane propeller out of wood anyway in decades. 7 The solution, it seems to us, may lie right in the bands of Sen. Capehart and his colleagues in Congress. They can grant any war powers they wish to grant. . . with a definite terminal date on which the grant expires. It can be renewed as many times as it needs renewal by positive action of Congress each time... without which it automatically ends. In short, there need be no fear of permanent socialization of this nation by executive decree... so long as Congress keeps the power to prevent that in its own hands.

Teachers Take Loyalty Oaths : THE proposal of the Veterans of Foreign Wars that In7 diana school teachers be required to take loyalty oaths ~comes more than 20 years late. Loa : They already do take them.

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n order to get a license to teach in Indiana the teacher take approximately the same oath of allegiance as is of the President of the United States, the Governor of 14, a senator, a congressman, a state assemblyman, or an Army or Navy officer. They have done so for more

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of guarding Yugoslavia's four Moscow satellite states. which all

ALREADY, the legend has grown up that never stay in one piace longer than 12 hours. They are all Macedonians—Tito's. most trusted troops—and most of them fought under the marshal in the guerrilla warfare against the Germans. Behind these guerrilla bands Tito has built a series of forts which encircle the country. In them he has based tanks, planes and armored cars. It is from these bases that his Sunday punch is launched whenever a border incident reaches invasion proportions. : This is what happens when a satellite patrol crosses the Yugoslav border. The frontier

$75 MILLION . . . By Earl Richert

U.S. Potato Purchases Up

Many Areas Vote Down

Controls; Surplus Continues

WASHINGTON, July 25--A good-sized bloc of the nation's potato farmers has voted to get along this year without government price supports for their crop. ? But despite this, the government already has purchased more potatoes this year than last when it was supporting prices everywhere in the country. Potatoes from some areas without price supports— places where farmers could grow as much as they wanted and sell for whatever the product would bring-—have been moving into the price-supported areas and in most instances underselling the local spuds, This has caused the government to buy more in the price-supported areas.

California Crop Sells CALIFORNIA was one of the areas which voted down price supports in order ta avoid government restrictions. Its potatoes have been moving to the East Coast where they are selling well, despite higher prices that must be put on them. In some Washington stores, for example, California potatoes that sell five pounds for 35 cents outsell local-area potatoes priced at five puis for 17 cents. The California spuds look nicer. Other areas which have voted down price supports are Long Island, N. Y., Maryland-Dela-ware and central Nebraska. Elections will be held soon in upper New York state, Pennsylvania, western Nebraska-Wyoming, southern New England and the Michigan-Minnesota-Wis-consin-North Dakota area. The elections will determine whether the potato farmers want pries supports and the accompanying regulaons.

15 Per Cent of Areas ‘Free’ THE AREAS which already have voted down price supports account for about 15 per cent of total potato production. The government has purchased 5.1 million bushels of potatoes from the 1951 crop at a net loss of 3.5 million. Purchases In the entire counAry at the same time last year totaled only 3.3 million bushels. Bulk of the purchases has been in North Carolina where until recently the government was buying at the rate of 150,000 to 200.000 bushels per day. The government support price now is averaging about $1.01 per bushel. Nearly all of the potatoes purchased so far have been sold for livestock feed, with the bulk going back to the original producer® for livestock use at the bargain rate of one cent per 100 pounds. x Agriculture Department officials say that unexpectedly good growing weather has caused greater yields in many areas, accounting for some of the increased government purchases.

$75 Million This Year

BECAUSE of the costly start of the 1951 potato season, Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan has predicted that potato price supports this year may cost the taxpayers another $75 million——only about $10 million less than last year when the entire Crop was supported. This will provide a grand finale for the potato price support program which seems destined to how 4 out of the picture this year after having cos! payers nearly $500 million si of World War II. Se the en Congress early this spring passed a law which said there would be no more potato price supports after this year unless a strict production control law were passed. There has been no action to pass such a law and it seems likely there will not be.

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POLICE FORCE . . . By Ludwell Denny

Korea Poses Question Of W. Reich Defense

WASHINGTON, July 25--The Korean conflict and the Communist order to sabotage Allied defenses of W have Increased Germany's importance in the cold war. New urgency is given to two old questions: Should the Allies lift their ban on West German military forces? Should German war industry be revived to hasten rearmament of the Western

Allies? In each case a compromise answer probably will be ar-

rived at. On Satur- been pressing hard for a soday the U. called federal police. That is igh Com- the name Russia gives missioner puppet East Germany Frankfu a real army with tanks and John ‘J. Me- heavy weapons, led by RusCloy, repeated sian and ex-Nazi his formal de~ Chancellor Adenauer demands nial that re- a m creation-of a armed West German force of German army only 25000 as a counter to is being con- the more formidable East Gersidered. He MeCloy . man force. hinted, how-""r: * eCloy . . .

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“event of an attack.” This is accurate as far as it goes. But it evades the immetection. Germans shall be accepted in an international force not under German command, and whether they, may have a | skeleton professional army Mit

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SUPPLY GOOD . . . By Peter Edson

Fat Wallets Help Hike Meat Prices

WASHINGTON, July 25—Comes a war or a war scare, the first place the average consumer seems fo feel it is in the price of meat. The Korean incident seems to be no exception, although wholesale meat prices really started to rise about mid-June, two weeks before the North Koreans attacked. As of mid-July, wholesale meat prices were running 16 per cent above a year ago. But today's wholesale prices are still about seven per cent below the peak of September, 1948: There is some prospect that meat prices will go even higher in the next few months. Department of Agriculture meat experts say there . are two reasons why this could be so, thi they are Mr. Edson making no prophecies that it will be so, ‘One reason is largely psychological. People get panicky. Those with deep freezes start loading up, though this isn’t a good time to buy.

The second, and most important reason is’

that this is the normal period of reduced livestock slaughtering. Meat reserves in cold storage are usually withdrawn by the big packing houses at this time of year, to meet current demand. Prices normally advance from June to September, when the spring pig crop comes to market. Meat prices normally drop during the fall and winter months. Unless there are some new and unusual demands for meat, prices should decline again this fall. For there is no meat shortage, the experts insist. Livestock numbers are high. There are good grain crops in prospect to fatten them for market. Meat supplies

in cold storage are high. The supply situation _

is far better than in 1941. Up to mid-July, the Army Quartermaster

Corps—which buys for all the armed services—

had made no extra purchases. That situation is subject to change momentarily, however. And extra heavy Army purchases at this time could shoot the price up still higher. With Europe's own meat supplies greatly improved in the ast two years, less U. 8. meat

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will be required for export. That should leave more for increased Army purchases and for home consumption. All meat statistics cook down ultimately to per capita consumption. For 1949, U. 8. meat consumption was 146 pounds per person. It is running at about the same rate this year—

maybe a little higher. Beef consumption may

be down a couple of pounds to 62 per person. Veal, lamb, and mutton will be about the same -—13 pounds. :

Pork Consumption Up

PORK consumption is running about three pounds per person higher, at 71 per year. For there is a big pig crop and the price is relatively lower. Also there is a trend towards eating “higher on the hog.” Hams, loin roasts and chops sell better than bacon, fat back and

jowls. This change in eating habits has had its effect on the pig-raising business. Hogs have been marketed lighter and leaner—from 180 to 240 pounds, instead of up to 300 pounds. This, too, has had its effect on lowering the price of pork. The spring pig crop is estimated at over 60 million head. This is three per cent more than last year. It is exceeded only by the 1942 and 1943 records.

Beef Herds Big

THERE was a heavy slaughter of beef in 1947. But herds have been built up since then and the number of cattle on feed last Jan. 1 was over 4,550,000—an all-time record. Sheep and lamb numbers have been declining, since the war. Numbers were built up to nearly 7 million head, 1942 through 1946. But on Jan. 1 sheep and lambs on feed numbered only 3.7 million. When all's said and done, however, meat consumption and prices depend on earning power and income of consumers—not on the number of animals available for slaughter, People buy all the meat they can afford. Today's high employment and high payrolls mean a greater demand for meat and for better cuts. That's what shoots the price up, more than the war scare and the fear of shortages.

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the time is ripe. In the meantime, the idea is to keep the other guy on edge. And it's a real war, even though nobody’s declared it and even though it is being fought only in isolated spots along the frontier.

Police Control Needed By N. 8S. H,, City : ' WHY fight for freedom in Korea and lose the battle in Indianapolis? We refer specifically to the incident where two Indianapolis police officers held a man under arrest while two civilians beat him.

However, there is an added and ironical twist to the entire matter . . . something which the newspapers have as yet to bring to bear, Isn't it ironical that Inspector Leolin Troutman should be the one to conduct the investigation? eS 0» WASN'T it Leolin Troutman who stated approximately one year ago today when two veterans were arrested for taking down the names of persons witnessing the brutal and "savage beating of a drunk, “We run things our own way down here!” This statement was published in all three papers. Isn’t there any law by which police officers must conduct themselves or is it as L. Troutman says, “We run things our own way . ..” ’ As for Mayor (Pass-the-Buck) Feeney what is he going to do? What is Mr. Leroy. Keach going to do? What is Prosecutor Dailey going to do? Many of the brutalities, alleged or otherwise, take place within earshot of his office located in the House of Horrors at 35 South Alabama St, What is the Indiana State Bar Association going to do? : What is the Governor going to do? When is the citizenry going to arouse itself and do something?

‘Out of Politics?’ By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, City A writer in The Times recently wrote a life story of Frank McKinney in which he stated Mr. McKinney expressed a desire to “get out” of politics. I am confused at what the writer had in mind. Wherever there are people there is politics and wherever there ispolitics there are all kinds of people. There are the “loafers at the top” (a despised lot), the goof, the smart aleck, people who are hard to get along with and bad guys. On the other hand there are those we admire, the decent fellows, those we would like to be our leaders, Every one of these people are politicians in *his own right, but a good leader is one who can lead them all to a better way of life without too much interference. In other words, a good leader is one who can do the greatest good to the greatest number which is democracy, and a very difficult task. > ® THE WORLD is greatly in need of smart politicians. Scme of our best people could be great léaders but they become absorbed in the endless struggle to make more money, to buy more stuff, to make more money. Their leadership has gone off in a tangent, rather than in a desire to improve the world. If we had enough intelligent politicians to find a way for people to live in a society without anyone running anyone else’s business, then our troubles would end dnd we would have a thousand years of peace, but to “get out” of politics is “out of this world.”

‘Square That One’ By H. E. M,, City : FRANKIE SINATRA, ex-Hoboken slum kid, sings for royalty in Britain. How are the “it-could-only-happen-in-America” boys going to square that one? In fact, how do they square a lot of “selfs made” pre-American or non-American exe amples, from Genghis Khan to the Mamelukes, to Caesar, to Dick Whittington, to Napoleon, to Hitler,” Mussolini, Franco, Staiin and so on, ad infinitum?

WAR PRODUCT . . .- By William Cooper

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THE dean of a college of Frankfurt University put it: “The world is in a small boat "together. I think America is

West Democracy

FRANKFURT, July 25—The outgrowth of the bitter Korea fight may be new hope for democracy in West Germany. Ironically, it seemed to take a war to convince the Germans that Americans would fight for peace. Equally ironically, it took some defeats to prove we are tough. Events of the last seven days have had a profound effect on both the West Germans who profess to believe in democracy _and those who don’t know how to spell it. The first are hopeful. The second, at least, are im- -

reminder. But they wondered if someone hadn't left a Brit. ish-style umbrella in Seoul. The turning point was two things, First, the sending of

tally, more air cover for Eu- . rope. oh The matter of $10 billion to fight Russian-dominated North Korea was something Germans could sink their teeth into. Be-

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