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The Shame of Julietta . . .

- known as Julietta has disgrace to a civilized Be community. —= Xt still is. | Again the evidence is complete and conclusive. ; i Hundreds of helpless old-age pensioners . .Hiving in indescribable filth and gnawed by lice and bedbugs, Meals reminiscent of a Gestapo concentration camp... while faked “menus” are issued to fool the public which _ pays for decent food. . = - = A DEATH rate that has leaped sharply upward. : A superintendent who operates his own private business. while he draws full-time pay from the county to run Julietta: A relative of the superintende nt who draws full time pay from the: county while he holds down a full time job in an Indianapolis factory. Thousands of dollars paid out by the county for food that never appears at Julietta tables. Diets that provide inmates . .. on the average . . . twotenths of a pound of meat a week, in the form of an occasional wiener or a scrap of cheap sausage . . . while Marion County pays for an average of more than three pounds of the finest grades of meats each week for each. "nN "8-8 SEVERAL weeks ago Robert Bourne, a Times staff writer, dressed himself in shabby clothes and applied at Julietta for a hand-out and a job. He got both. For ten days Mr. Bourne lived at Julietta , ..in the filthy, insect-ridden wards. He helped prepare and serve the slops that inmates get for food. He talked with attendants and with the helpless victims of Marion County's “generosity.” His account of what goes on at Julietta begins today on _ Page One . . . right beside the phoney “official” account ~~ issued by the management to fool the public. a ~~. It is not pleasant reading. Nevertheless we urge that you read it. It's your money that is disappearing out there +». for food that never appears, for work that is never done.

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Minds Across the Sea

N reviewing the results of Tuesday's congressional elections, the Manchester Guardian (British) concludes that the American people have repudiated “the soundest foreign policy which the United States has found in this century.” if This policy, as the Guardian views it, has been the construction by President Truman and his associates of a - “strong, coherent, imaginative and realistic answer to the challenge of Communist imperialism.” ~'The-editors-of -the- Guardian appear to have mistaken - window dressing for substance in this appraisal of the President's foreign policy, hence the erroneous conclusion . that the American people voted against one of the very’ things they actually were voting for. Inthe opinion of - this newspaper, they did vote for a ‘strong, coherent, imaginative and realistic answer to the Challenge of Communist imperialism.” » - 3 NEITHER: the American nor the British governments, has a sound, consistent policy on the issue, as we view it. It has not been coherent nor realistic to have one policy toward communism in Europe and another and conflicting “policy toward communism in Asia. The war in ‘Korea, now broadened by Red China's intervention there and in French Indo-China, is one of the consequences of cy on the part of our State Department and

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Times REVITALIZED POLIT ICAL FORCE . <— Can The New I Follow The

WASHINGTON—A revitalized political force, publicans hammered at it throughout the recent scampaign. But it has its Democratic adherents

clearly willed by the American people in Tuesday's elections, is going to be emphatic in "the rew’' Congress—for peace, and for dollar and manpower economy. Senor Elect Everett Dirksen of Illinois calls it “moderationism.” iy Taft of Ohio has no word for" it but prefers “realism. Both Mr, Dirksen and Mr. isolationists, .made synonymous with evil when describing midland Republicans yet Mr. Dirksen and Mr,

Taft were called

«Taft were elected by tremendous majorities,

So were Senators Capehlart in ‘Indiana, Wiley in Wisconsin, Hickenlooper in Iowa, Millikin In Colorado, and a flock of Congressmen. This new force-had something to do with the ~defeat of Senators Tydings in Maryland, Myers in Pennsylvania, Thomas in Utah, and with’ Republican successes in Idaho and California.

CALL this force what you will, it is the expression of the overpowering desires of men and worien for peace and for honest clarity in our relations .with Communists in Russia, China, Europe-—and in the United States: It calls’ for force if we must use it to keep but wants to know why its young men must be called to armed service duty. It asks for more careful use of taxpayer dollars in foreign aid—not just throwing money down one side of the street, It asks more realism in handouts to the gimme: crowd who want something for nothing. It is. Republican in emphasis because Re-

MORE DOVES . . . By Peter Lisagor

Commies Invent New Peace Idea

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 11—Thosetireless peddlers of a Moscow-brand “peace are headed for another convention with gaudy new wrappers for their wares. This time the self-dubbed peace” will-assemble tomorrow

“partisans of in the indus‘trial center of Sheffield, England, for what they call their second “World . Congress.” Authorities on Cominform tactics expect something to emerge from the meeting as flamboyantly spurious as. the famous, though somewhat discredited, S tockholm Pledge. That pledge proposed - to brand the use of the atom bomb as claimed millions of signatures after a global campaign which appealed to the deep yearnings for peace among people everywhere. The Stockholm Pledge was an effort by in"direction to make it appear that-Russia was the great apostle of peace while the United States was bent on war. : In a poorly concealed attempt to divorce itsé1f from its spiritual spawner, the Cominform group has- urged non-Communist peace groups. to attend the Sheffield conference. - It is making a point of the fact that delegates have been invited who are interested in

Mr. Curie . . . doves aggression. The Communists

peace but don’t follow the faith of any particular party . Labor and churh groups in the United

“partisans.” Bit enough innocent people will be attr: A ted to give the meeting an aura of respecta cording to indications here

Armament Industry Heart

THE organization, with headquarjers |i Paris, iz described as the leading international

Communist front, Its permanent executive bureau is headed by the French scientist, Frederic Joliot Curie. . Some 1500 to 2000 invitations weré sent out

to individuals throughout the world. Yugoslavia

was pointedly excluded.

The partisans congress = heduled for

was

Genoa. Italy, in October, but was canceled and . © moved, without a date, to Warsaw . Apparently, the guiding geniuses: reasoned that being behind the Iron Curtain wou uld he less

thin ideal for communicating their views to the

world. Hence Sheffield, where they claimed. they could rent a suitatile hall and living accommo + dations. ; More -Nkely, according to adviees here, they

the British Foreign Office. cn It has been quite unrealistic, in our opinion, to main-

“faim-an-attitude-of -studied—hestiity-toward Franeo-Spain— while going all-out to bring Tito's Yugoslavia ‘into the Western camp. If the distinction between the two Lrands _ of totalitarianism | is one of morals, Frarico should be slightly ~ less objectionable than Tito. If it is a question of sheer ~ expediency, then it cannot be denied that Franco has the “most divisions, and is committed not only against Russtan

imperialism, but communism. in any form, _ TE tHE Lar aia §

_Red- baiting” Siig good politics, pert silly]

"“IA connection with Sen. Tyding’s defeat, “also overlooks aft -isstie-

which the American people regard very seriously, and which should be a matter of equal concern to our British friends.

~ - » , ~ - ~ . “RED-BAITING” is good politics largely because careless loyalty investigations in the United States and Britain enabled the'Soviet Union to obtain some secrets of the atom " bomb. The Alger Hisses in our own government and the British scientists who deserted their country of adoption and went over to Russia made it clear to the American people, at least, that there should be a closer check on the persons having access to our innermost secrets. It is understandable, of course, that even as intelligent a newspaper as the Manchester Guardian should not comprehend all of the nuances of political thinking in the United - States. For that matter, there is much about British socialism that is incomprehensible to this newspaper.

Hats Off to the Eagles - THE Fraternal, Order of Eagles gave a heartening display of human compassion the other day. The , organization handed the President a $1000 check to start

a Harry S. Truman. Foundation for the health and : education welfare of the children of “those men who die

1 a fund would, of i course, be ¥ immediate and

it to the young stepdaughter of Pvt. Leslie White House Suary who gave his Te in

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" watched + suspected of intentions to burn down the house

were Tured there by the Tact that its the heart nf the British armament industry and that a labor element “{n Sheffield has some sympathy for their cause. Also. the “tockholm Pledge was deemed a flop in Britain = Suspected Intentions PRIME MINISTER ATTLEE ~theyv—avanted to. _hlow off steam. wonldnt object But he intimated they” dhe as a “householder -watthes a guest

has said that

Acting as a deceptive peace “front for what ever aggressive intentions the Kremlin may be AADELRT i THE. Tarbns plan to-diseuss four

vearners, = ONE “The “reduction and control of all armaments, — TWO. A résolution to condemn tsereasion and foreign Interference in the internal Affairs of any nation.

THREE. A solution for Korea. : . FOUR. A resolution: to compile. a list of warmongers in the manner that the Moscow radio and press alreadv have done,

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Mm Congress, especially among members from the border and Southern states. Tom Hennings, former. Democratic Congressman who defeated: Sen. Donnell in Missouri is no internationalist. Will tke new force be again in conflict with President Truman's. domestic and foreign relations policies? We will begin to find -that out when his messages go to Congress early next year on the state of the union and foreign relations, on the

economy. , As 1 went across the country and back before the elections I found men and women dissatisfied with their government but not knowing clearly what to do about it. Politicans were puzzled, editors too, by what they called apathy, by peoplé’s refusal to say how they were going to vote, either because of indecision or reticence. — With

campaign week came crystalization. The ma-

Road Block —

JUKE BOX BLUES

. By Paul R Leach

the Korean War reverses in the final.

Way Willed By The Pecple?

jority vote was for realism or moderation— extremes.

against ex! Sen. Taft is chairman of the Republican Senate Policy Committee. He will be sitting around the table with the new and old Republicans be= ginning with the special session Nov. 27 to talk over a plan of action in the 82d Congress. Key House Republicans will be joining them. “My emphasis from now on,” Mr. Taft told me by telephone from Cincinnati, “is going to be on plain inefficiency and bad judgement of the administration. We have to combat the old

hangover of Communist influence in the State >

Department. “Secretary Acheson is smart, but he lacks good judgement. He has done the wrong thing at the wrong time. _ “You can’t be an isolationist today even if you want to be,” he added. “We are in world affairs, whether we like it or not. “There has been general agreement on the

countries to help them fight Communism and strengthen their economy. But there has been

By O’Donnell

By Frederick C. Othman

Uncle Sam Plays a Sour Tune For All His Big, Little Taxpayers

Ww ASHINGTON, Nov, stil the unhappy a defunct ike box factory oen-account of the fellow who"

Sam is owner of

was supposed to buy it being in the toils of the income tax collector. This makes a sour but maybe we can palm that canned music plant off on somebody vet I hope. ; Puring the war the Aijer-

tune for us taxpayers,

turing Co.; of Kansas C made parts for Tiving ma chines When the shooting ended it went into the juke business and applied to the Reconstruction Fi nance Cor

ity

loan AS a citizen who likes shence, I protested bitterly at the time against the government taking any part —n—bringing Hillbilly melodies to more saloons’

but the RFC chose to disregard my advice. It kicked in with $1.5 million

And there was this outfit making lke. foe FRC -maduls aiid Fvethe hE “thes Hideaway to. retail for, Around. Ba Eight’ months later the firm went Som on The RFC forec losed and for five long years it

to ‘drink. his beer in

has had on Its hands a first crass, but dust=""

encrusted juke box factory. ; A few weeks back the Starrett Televigion Corp. showed some interest ‘n organizing a new corporation to buy the plant. The RFC was deof course, and set the price at around

tS. PLANNERS .

in 19417

Congress passed the Economic Control Act, and the new agencies blossomed. : This. is the NPA over.-here, the National Production Authority, allocating materials, limiting inventories, halting unecessary construction, and things like that. From this little

total mobilization of resources.’ » » ” :

OVER there is the ESA, or .E conomic. Stabilization Agency, which is going to control prices and wages. It has _its own divisions for these separate chores, the DPS, or Director of Price Stabilization,

zation

which has charge of

acorn grows the great oak of.

Poor. old. Uncle.

THis. is the NSRB over here. Resources Board, which has been around since right after World War II, planning all these other agencies when the crisis reached the right temperature, NSRB produced the master blueprint,

partment you will MEA, or Minerals and Energy and the WSB, or Wage SEP" dmunistiation. The Board. :

That suited Jacob Freidus-and-his-wife. who.

were leading stockholders in Starrett, ments were made tp close ceremony in Kansas City My information indicated even that newspaper photographers had been invited to_be on hand to record the proceedings: The crucial moment with the bunting and the handshaking almost was at hand when the RFC learned a surprising thing. Mr, Freidus and his father-in-law, Samuel’ E. Agron, were under indictment on charges of income tax evasion. : The government's ifivestigators tried to find Mr. Freidu§, but they had an’ awful time, because he could not be located in any of his usual haunts. They finally discovered him in District Court in New York, where Assistant U. 8. District Attorney Florence Shientag was “throwing the book at him.

Black Market -Operation—

SHE CHARGED that Jacob and ‘Samuel evaded taxes of $218,000 in 1942 and 1943. She said further that. they’d both bought and sold equipment in the black market during those

Arrangethe deal with proper

At last reports their trial still was in progress. This—put-the RFC ina horrid—spot.—Here—it had promised to sell its juke box factory to Mr; Freidus and here it still was under investigation by Sen. J. William Fiilbright (D Ark.) and associates of the Banking Committee. "The Senators already had been

fla bber-

-gasted--by-the RFC'sdeals with-a-high-flying—

sheriff in Florida and with ‘the proprietors of a gaming den in Nevada, This’ looked. like anEr Case tn wit rs i velit the Bi “reneged On {18 Juke. box deal. Mr. Freidus- might ste. What-to do? The board of directors met and the RFC

“gritted Ta EoFporate teeth. Tt rescinded fteragres

ment with Mr. Freidus. Uncle still owns his juke box factory. The Senators doubtless will be pleased at the way this turned out. And what Mr. Freidus thinks I do not know. He seems ‘0, be busy in another precinct.

. By Edwin A. Lahev

That's the National Security

cil.

the Department of Agriculture, ready to administer the emergency powers delegated by the President to that agency.. Thé PMA will control food and the domestic distribution of farm: equipment and fertilizer. It has set up six auxiliary agencies of its own. And that slight stir as we vere leaving the MPA was the’ “creation of the OSB, or Office ~ of Small Business.” The government wants syerybody. in

this later. ~

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principle of Marshall Plan help for foreign

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secretary has .also set up the PAD, or Petroleum Adminis- ~ tration for Defense, and a 30member EUDAC, or Electric Utility Defense Advisory Coun-

In the Labor Department we have the OSM, or Office of Defense Manpower, which hasn't begun to make itself felt yet. You'll probably hear more of

on TOP of all these, there is an NACMP, or National Advisory Committee on a Mobilization Policy, appointed by the This is made up of representatives labor, agriculture, and the pubThe members meet frequently with Stuart Syming-

much money thrown away. That has en 400 our own economy and theirs, too. - “Now we've got to judge how to help them.

when they come. “We've got to have a strong army. But we've got to decide how big an army we need, whether it is wise to have a large land army in Europe, and in Asia.” In saying we should be firm in the right places and realistic about our armies, Mr. Taft put his finger on one of the problems that is going to be discussed in. Congress. That is whether we should put more army into Europe until England and France agree to arming themselves and a reasonable number of German divisions, to do some of the fighting and dying in defense of Europe if Communism strikes there. ’ Mr. Dirksen was called a turncoat isolationthe Marshall Plan, then in his campaign eritl cised it.

Complete Look-See

| “THE TIME has come for moderatioh and a reasoned approach to all our troubles,” Mr, Dirksen said in Chicago. “What we've now got to do is have a come plete look-see at our own capacity to bear other

country’s burdens. We must find out définitely

what degree of co-operation we can expect from our allies for the dollars equeezed out of our taxpayers and spent abroad. “We've got to conserve our own dollars as well as our own young men , . . and we've got to be ready to achieve peace...” If new words are to be substituted for this

political force, let's see how Webster defines them: = Moderate . . . keeping within due bounds .. ,

observing reasonable limits . . . restrained. , . o Realism’. . ity, scientific as opposed to idealistic or speculative or sentimental . . . disposition to think and act in the light of things as they are and to repudiate unrealizable or visionary schemes. Isolationist . . . one who favors keeping aloof

. politically from other countries.

"l do not agree with a rd that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

‘Why Did Taft Win? By Alma Isbell, Greencastle. WHY DID Taft, the labor hater,” win re election? I don’t think it requires the skill of 4 magician to figure that one out. There are so many unprincipled people in the country who would sell”their souls for a mess of ‘pottage and there's big business who poured millions of dollars on his silver platter. He couldn't miss re-election. This discredits him more than ever in the eves of the world. A man of credit needs no

not excessive’

.Preoccupation with fact or real.

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million dollar slush fund and further, he would

not stoop to such levels.

We know what to expect now, :

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ONLY THE wifes and children who suffer from neglect and privation could tell. Or perhaps the more cleverly talented in corrupt

politics could tell, how he got. a new car, or a deep freeze, or a TV set, or a mink coat for his wife, or how his deposit box was enriched by several thousand «dollars, tax free. No wonder we are so distressed by the evil conditions sweeping the nation; by the disregard for the rights of others; by the money spent in misleading propaganda about national health insurance which is positively not socialized medicine but would bring more benefits to morepeople than the Blue Cross ang the ‘Blue Shield at-less—cost—per-—famity: How can we call this a free country people are oppressed by pressure groups?

FOSTER'S FOLLIES BETHESDA, Md.—To speed treatment of mass casualties of disasters the suggestion has

been made that the nature of the injury be marked on the victim's forehead in a kind of shorthand: .’

Should you be in an A-bomb blast (Indeed, a thought that's horrid), Your injuries will all be classed In shorthand on your forehead.

But we just hope one gal we know Won't have to make the transcript. Her shorthand writing's awful slow--And just as plain as Sanskrit.

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BUT A-bombs and H-bombs- are the least of our worries at the moment. A Chicago scientist says it would cost $40 billion and the work of a few years by a major power to pro#luce a bomb that would wipe out civilization. Then he really makes us feel badly by say-

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KING GEORGE of Engl: nd has: been putting out-a lot of cash in recent years to keep up the standard of the. crown. Poor guy ‘s only got $16.800.000-1eft. Maybe that's why he visifed the new chamber of the: House of Commons incognito the other aay. Might ie looking for Some new quarters ~for himself. os

E15 Ah Err alt right. In 1850 he's due to receive his weight (243 pounds now) in’ nine varieties of .

precious stopes. . There is no truth. 40. the res port that he is going on a-diet.

The Aga is a lucky man To rule those folks in Pakistan. There S$ no man in the Aga’s clan ‘an «use his weight like Aga Khan, —By Ben Foster,

Are There Enough Letters in the Alphabet?

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11—Here we go again, on a tour of the, new alphabetical agencies: Will you ever forget the first tour,”

Congress gave him control powers on Sept. 8, the Nae ‘ tional Production Authority, or NPA, has been the most active and most powerful. - ¥ou can tell this when you . stroll through the corridors of the Department of Commerce building, where the NPA offices age scattered.

ginning to clutter up the halls and the elevator stations in the Department of Commerce, They are here to try to under stand the position of their ins dustries in the spreading pate tern of control, a 5 wn SOME serious problems lie ahead .as the effect of government control, seeps down. Cone

of industry,

on the act. ‘ton,, the top man in’ the mo- sumer credit restrictions and eT. omy bilization picture, to assyre inventory. controls already. / OVER in the Interior De- themselves and their cpnstitu- threaten to éurtall production

find the

PresiSURES A Power Lon ‘over these -resources has Jeu) delagaiod 1a :

Secretary of the In’ addition to the

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