Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1950 — Page 14

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ARD WALTER LECKRONS HENRY W. MANZ Business Manager

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Gure for Julietta

HE REMEDY: for the atrocious state of affairs at Julietta, the Marion County poor farm, seems to us to lie in getting the institution permanently out of the clutches of pasty political machines. we The situation out there that has been shocking this ie country as The Times has revealed it this past week

. : . years during which both political parties have been in power . . . years in which it has been looked upon only as a ripe political plum... years in which it has cost this county hundreds of thousands of disappearing dollars . .. years of — squalor, and neglect, and abuse, and near starvation for the indigent old people who live there. : = - - THIS WING, for example, that the state fire marshal says is a dangerous fire-trap, was just built recently .. . at fantastic cost. . . and by fantastic methods. Contracts were let for it by the County Commissioners along in 1936 for a price of some $250,000 . . . a building job that should have taken about a year. . By 1943, it developed, the county had spent around $600,000 on that job and it wasn't anywhere near finished yet. The contractor wasn't to be found. The contracts them-

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money was gone, too. The then Prosecuting Attorney of this county could find-no grounds for grand jury action. He was not returned

to office.

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" » ” A E » . vy “MORE THAN two years ago a Times writer got into ‘tHe place and worked in the kitchen. He found the inmates being fed a semi-starvation diet of slops while the county paid a high price for food they never got. : * Although men have gone to the electric chair on less evidence, the then Prosecuting Attorney could find no grounds for grand jury action on that. He was not returned ta office. Two of the County Commissioners then in charge of the operation were repudiated by their own party at the next primaries, : The opposing party came into power. * Last month Times Writer Bob Bourne dispdieed 5 as a tramp, worked for ten days inside Julietta. He found it reeking with filth and crawling with vermin. He found the innates living . . . after a fashion . .. on a diet of slops, while the county paid for food enough. to match the cuisine of the - best hotels in town. :

~ » » ; DURING ALL that time Julietta has been strictly a political plum for whichever party happened to be in office. Now a new grand jury is ready to hear the evidence . . . _ which again is complete, and conclusive and not even denied . + . that this county spends hundreds of dollars a week for food that Julietta inmates never see . pointed employees on full-time county pay hold down full time private jobs at the same time . . . that the institution is dirty, and unkempt and elementary health and safety rules are ignored . . . that the death rate of inmates has zoomed sharply upward. ee Cimon ‘Appropriate action there should ve obvious Permanent reorganization so such a situation can't develop again clearly should be the next step. That power lies with the state legislature, to convene within a few weeks.

‘Bravo, El Salvador

HEN great nations like the United States and Britain hesitate to offend Red China in the face of an unprovoked attack on their own troops-in Korea, it was not surprising that none of the great powers rose to the defense

“But it was wholesome and appealing to see little El Salvador step into the breach and demand a United Nations inquiry or, failing in that, a resolution" A deplore the Tibet invasion. Wheh power pol TT em re Be oie Taw for the strong and another for the weak, it is well to have some keeper of the international conscience: El Salvador can be proud of Dr. Hector David Castro, her gate, who had the courage to denounce ‘wrong becaiise it - Was wrong, even though he was warned that his action was

Imefredient.

Potato Wisdom

EXT year the government won't prop up potato prices by buying surplus spuds and dyeing them blue. The National Potato Council, a growers’ organization, has decided not to ask Congress for the legislation that would be z necessary, and Congress probably wouldn't have € passed it. anyway. » ~ *8o there will be no legal restriction on the potato ~ acreage to be planted in 1951. The farmers will have to offer their crops on a competitive free market. : $.Officials of the Council are urging its members to meet the challenge by determined efforts to cultivate public good will and sell more potatoes. Their advice is excellent. Here's ‘wishing success to the proposed selling campaign. Baked, bailed, mashed, fried or however else prepared, potatoes are fine food, and it will be good for the American peoplé to sal. more of them at more reasonaliy prices.

in Their Reader.

jet fighters “escorted” 30 American j all the way across North Korea to their flew on home Without firing a shot, the

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isnt something that just began. It has been there for years .

selves had disappeared from the Commissioners files. The

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‘of remote little Tibet under similar attack. x

chief dele- -

Tim es HINDSIGHT . .. Charles ony

polled his usual heavy vote. _ernorship race, Democrat Walter Lynch's mar-

SCApenart

Democrats Scan City Downfall

Party Counted on Big Metropolitan Vote vs. GOP

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—Democrats who have been studying what happened when the big ‘political wind hit nn Nov. 7 are beginning to point to the cities—strongly Democratic in recent years—as the place where the building job. must be done for the 1952 Presideniial elec- : tion. From coast to coast, with only a few. exceptions, the cities let down the Democrats this year. In state after state, their hopes, as in years past, was to come out of the cities with big pluralities to offset expected Republican ‘strength in the rural areas. : But a breakdown now being compiled shows the Democrats lost many cities they had been accustomed to taking year after vear, or at least had their pluralities clipped. Sen. Robert A. Taft's spectacular feat of carrying all the big-industry, big-labor areas in fHhio has been emphasized, but here are other examples: * In California, Republican Richard Nixon carried Los Angeles County over Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas by 260,000 votes. This was

Mrs. Douglas a surprise

—where the Democrats figured to roll up their:

greatest pluralities. Gov. Earl Warren carried the same area by 400,000 votes over Jimmy Roosevelt. In Denver, where Democrats had forécast a 10,000 to 25,000 plurality for John Carroll in the U. 8. Senate race, the final returns showed Mr. Carroll had lost the city to Republican Sen. Eugene D. Millikin by several hundred votes. In Chicago, where the ‘Democrats- -usually slaughter Republicans, Democratic Sen. Scott Lucas’ plurality over. Republican Everett Dirksen was only 140,000, In all of Cook County, Mr. Lucas had a margin of less than 1000 votes.

Big Plurality IN PITTSBURGH which Harry Truman carried by 58,000 in 1948, Democratic Sen. Francis Myers’ plurality over: Republican James H. Duff was 17,000. Yet a Democratic margin of more than twice this had been talked before the election. Mr. Duff lost Philadelphia - by $2.000 to Sen. Myers, but this was set down

"in part at least to local political scandals which

had involved the GOP.

In New York City, Sen. Herbert H. Lehman But in the gov-

gin over Gov. Thomas E. Dewey was only about 200,000, although Democratic pluralities frequently have ranged from 500,000 to 750,000. In Indianapolis, Republican Sen. Homer hada 25,000-vote —edge — } Democratic opponent, Alex Campbell, and Democratic Rep. Andrew Jacobs was tossed out

of office. by the heaviest plurality in GOP his tory. . ‘Taken for Granted HISTORICALLY, it has been tougher for

the Democrats to get out this vote in off-

. presidential years than it is for the Republicans

“Tution to overthrow capitalism. “ 1f you accept this assumption

‘Russian peace drives have to

~ work out promise

" with the United States,

to roll up a good vote in the same years. Some party leaders are pointing out what happened to the Democrats in the cities this year corresponds to the Republican loss of strength in the farm areas two Yeas ago. It

was just about taken for granted by the GOP

in 1948 that Midwest farmers would vote Republican as they generally had in the past. _But good times and the Democratic farm program had won them mostly to Mr. Truman's side. In some states, at least, there are indications the Democrats continued to do pretty well with the farmers this year, even with misgivings that the Brannan Plan would cost them some votes. But the Democrats will have a big job in getting the cities solidly back in line by 1952.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

HOLLYWOOD — AFL Carpenter's Union picketing of major film studios has been called off after four years, following an NLRB certification -of-another AFL.union.. 2 ‘The pavements bounding glamotr's vard For four long years they pounded. On every point they hammered hard, But now the knell is sounded. We fear they've given up the fuss Perhaps a bit too quick. It's Carpenters, it seems to ‘us, Who maKe the finest pickets!

PEACE PROSPECTS

ati

armies:

that the Krenilin aims to sub.jugate the - free world and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat, then the various

be dismissed as meaningless. It Sen. Taft doesn’t accept

—less—pits.—

~ TWO: Will Russia start “her - marching before Western European nations are prepared to resist invasion? THREE: What - about “will to fight” in Western Eu-

wil i world have to live indefinitely

Shipwreck Kelly

the earth,

“hard - paved

. stuff was in short supply.

GOOP, GLUCK .

. By Frederick C. Othman

If You Want to Fix Driveway, Be Careful, You Might Get Stuck

McLEAN, Va., Nov. 20—1I have come to the sorry conclusion that every other home owner in America is having driveway trouble. His private road is full of chuckholes, boulders, and bottom-

I thought I'd solve my own road problem a couple of months a go, with soil cement, which the Army. developed during the war as a’ /# fast and efficient way to pave airports. Just mix the cement with

sprinkle it properly, tamp it down and" you've got a

road. Tt\ sounded won-FieN derful. I wrote § apiece ‘about: it. Since then! I have been deluged with mail from the proprietors of roads

which are a menace to life, limb, and automobile

springs. g Well, sir, it developed that there had been a series of strikes in cement plants and the Wait a couple of months, the man said. He did give me a couple of booklets on'the subjéct, which indicatéd that if the job isn't done exactly right, the result is likely to be mud of a peculiarly sticky variety. The earth has got to be tested for porosity. The .cement must be plowed into it and harrowed. Then the proper amount of water must be added and this involves the use of a hydrometer. Next the project has got to be processed

By Peter Edson SIDE GLANCES Will European Arms =~ Aid Help Avoid War?

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—Sen. Robert A. Taft's announced intention to reopen the question of American arms aid to western "Europe brings to the fore still bigger questions on which hang {he prospects for world peace or a third world war. : One assumption has to be made before considering these

acne

the the

the Western

with a sheep's foot roller and finally it needs a thin asphalt coating. No job, obviously, for a householder to do on a Saturday afternoon. Even so, when done by a professional, the phaltic drive would cost. So I waited. And . waited some more. The .man says now he gives up. The cement strikes ended, all right, and just as he was about to return to the road business, there went out from Washington rumors of stringent building restrictions. Nobody knew exactly what they would be. - “So everybody all over the country who had an idea of ‘building anything quickly dug a hole in the ground for his cellar and began lining it with cement,” my contractor said.

“The idea was that the government probably ,

wouldn't stop a building already under construction.” :

Serious Situation

NOW cement’s harder to come by than ever before and no telling when my correspondents “and 1 will get our fancy roads. The situation at our house became so serious after the last big rain that Mrs. O., who held a dim view of my

negotiations, took -matters-into her own hands.

She made a deal with a sand and gravel company to deliver to us the goop, also known as gluck, which is left over after the gravel is washed. This is a grayish, gooey substance, which is supposed to turn hard when dry. 1 don’t know about this for sure, but some of my neighbors report good luck. This has been arriving at my place for the last couple of days in dump trucks and all I've got’ to ‘do ‘now is spread it smooth before it congeals into humps. T am doing this ‘with a rake. I'm geiting blisters on my hands, My bride says quit complaining. Her goop is costing $2.50 per load, delivered. She says if it works, and she has every reason to believe it will, we will have the cheapest paved road ever built.” If my rake and I hold out, that is.

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DARK VIEW . Labor Papers Sulk Over Nov. 7 Results

WASHINGTON, dark view of the Nov. 7 election results. Typical .is a statement in the official weekly of the International Association ‘of Machinists,

—LRinin people: ent

The AFL's political “weekly, “League Reporter,” . ing but. trou-

“The worldwide fight: com- . § munism has | received a big

"| do not agree with a word that you say, but

1 wil defend fo.the death your right fo say "it."

‘What Price Globalism?’ By C.D.C. Terre Haute

IT WAS back in 1898 that we took our first flyer in globalism when we fought the Spanish American War and the cause was the same as all other wars; money.

Now that we have embarked in globalism * again. which is actually a mild form of imperial_ism, it might be well for us to study our lessons

and try to determine what the payoff is going to be. In Cuba; we have only established a moderately stable government for the past several years which has always been maked by violent insurrections. We have spent over fifty dollars for every dollar benefits we received ‘and no doubt the Cuban government would be a com--plete dictatorship tody except for our moral support. In the Philippines we have spent more than $1000 for every dollar we have been benefitted, Besides thousands of young American boys have given their lives in defending the country, Today, after four years of self rule, the Philip. pine government is broke and so corrupt the Communists are likely to take over unless we fill up her tin cup. : eh !

I MERELY mention these facts to show that

it is not likely that either the Latin Americans, the Asiatics or the people of Central Europe could govern themselves under a republican form of’government such as our own. They have been under the heel of dictators for centuries and - their concepts of both government and moral principles are entirely different from our. Today, thanks to the globalists who have been running our own government, we are now being forced to choose between two great evils, If we quit helping all the nations that are holding out the tin cup thev are going to go Communist and if we do help thiem we are going broke ourselves. - As I see it, the only choice we have left is to get tough with all of them.

Justice for Julietta By E. Bowman, 2831 Station St.

BOB BOURNE has finished hig series of articles on conditions he found to exist at the Julietta Home during his 10-day stay. Will that be the end of the whole affair? The Times would do its readers a great service by following up the case by letting them know just what is being done, if anything, and who ‘was directly or {indirectly responsible for the conditions as reported by Mr. Bourne. The County Commissioners and _the ‘Wels fare Department are already passing the buck, The inspection made by the Welfare Depart-

ment seems to have been sort of a formal af-

fair. They undoubtedly could have seen tha urine soaked beds, the filthy clothing on the inmates, and detected the odor of which Mr,

‘He-is—desperate— And-I'm—po-help.——eost—is—only-a—fraction—of—what-a regular—as-—Beurne-writes.

Sob IT APPEARS that the county has been frauded of thousands of dollars in paying for

supplies that never were delivered to the home.

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Why don’t law enforcement officers act at once? —

What was our Sanitary Department doing while such conditions‘existed in a public institution? Every person responsible for these de= plorable conditions should be exposed and justice done. EDITOR'S NOTE: The Times is following up the case of Julietta.

Would Regulate Size of Trucks By Vern F. Vader THIS MASS murder and maiming on our highways and streets must be stopped. Every time you pick up a newspaper you read of trucks involved in accidents with streetcars, busses or

passenger cars.

These rubber-tired boxcars are getting too

numerous and too big. Of 32 million vehicles on "~"

the road, eight miillion are trucks. Oiir laws are partially responsible for allowing trucks to ba so large and especially when heavily loaded to

: pull a trailer also. :

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THEY SAY they pay an enormous licensa tax, but neglect to add that trucks tear up our highways 100 times quicker than normal use, Look at the tremendous increase in road exw -

_ penditure in the last 10 years.

Why not tax out some of the profit ‘made by not having. to maintain a private right-of-wav like the railroads do. Let's fight this infringe-

ment on our rights and bring safety back to our Streets and highways. Oh yes, my reason for this letter. I have a

small boy who walks to school in the shadbw of these monsters.

.By Fred W. Perkins

Nov. 20—Lahor-union papers are taking A

big independent union:

“basically, ‘labor ig on the right sees noth- . job of getting the people registered,” and that “we'll go on organizing until we win.” The “ClO News” presses -alarm’ at

also exe

the election

the-potix ant Soret agaist hei pwn

this premise, then he must be prepared to try to make & ‘deal with Stalin to stabilize a peace. Gov, Harold Stassen has indi-

“cated that he would like to try

talking with Stalin. But few other people in responsible positions believe it possible to any lasting - comwith, the Russians. After all, the record shows thatthe Russians have already broken made last 10 vears. oo n » &

in the

THis BEING the situation.

the only riddle is when and how the Communists will attack, Further. what do the United States and its antiCommunists allies do to meet stave off or delay that attack? It, so happens that in past month a series of leading

. questions on this subject have . been put to European states-

men. Their identities and detailed answers cannot be disclosed for obvious reasons. of not “revealing their govern-

ments’ policies, But the con"

gensus on four of the main questions - can be given, and

' they have a direct bearing on

Sen. Taft's proposal to reconsider American arms aid. This is the substance of the: ‘questions: ONE: What

effect “will

nearly 50 agreements

‘anyone

the

. expressed by

vy Russia. to attack.

; CONCERNING Western Europe’s will to f paradoxi-

in a state of siege? Or is there any hope that the Kremlin will change its course? x = - r THERE WAS unanimous agreement by the ministers to whom these questions were addressed on only one point. It was a belief that at the pres-

ent time the Kremlin had no “intent” of starting a general War.

There was immediate reservation, however, to the effect’ that the Kremlin did not understand the “Western mind. Korea was offered as a glaring example. Because the members. of the Russian Politbureau could not conceive of not a Korean being willing to fight to defend that country's . independence, the Russians blundered into .a war, . A similar reservation was the European leaders with regard to the United States. They feared that this country, having little understanding of the Russian niind, might take the lead in forcing a war on Europe before it is ready. This is apparently the argusment on. which Sen. Taft bases his opposition to American heavy rearmament of Eu-

rope. He has said in the past

that he fears this will incite

speeding : \ ar

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“cal situation has been revealed.

The countries which, are right ip against, the Russian guns. - Finland, Norway. Turkey, Greece and even Western Ber-

"Hn — have plenty of will to

fight, It is believed that the

“very fact the Kremlin knows

these people will fight to the death for their freedom, gives them a certain protection.

This same paradox is § ven

as an explanation as to why Sweden and Switzerland have

been able to stay out of the last two wars. But this argument is also advanced- for 3» the rearmament

of | European na-

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~ { 1 1 = Ross, about how the ten-cent

ing a thing of the past?"

“Unttéd ~ States in stiffening = French, Italian, and German

resistance iz to convince them-

that their strength is. being built up not to wage war, ‘but *t0 prevent war, The hope éxpressed by most . European: statesmen. questioned seemed to be that if this position of strength could be . maintained for years,

it would be reasonable to ex-

pect that the present top men in the Kremlin would be dead.

“The men who replaced them

_might conceivably be more ‘in-

terésted in building up their

‘own country than in destroy-

‘Ing others:

But these views were x- |

pressed 32 a hope thas

as a

getback. Free nations such as England, France and Italy have been wea kened by the triumph of" 1s olationists. A tremendous attempt will be made in Con-

Mr. Keenan « «. right track

gress to let the rest of the,

world go its. own way-——into Red Russia's jaws” - ~ “The Republican - Dixiecrat

. bloc that has run Congress

since 1938 has been strength‘ened. Little or no liberal legis:

lation is likely to pass ih ‘the .

z 3 : next two years. Inflation will all ,but ruin -American workers. There will be no excess-

-profits tax. Business will get

all the tax. relief it asks for.

. IA soak-the-poor tax: program . will be worked out.

“ a 8» 3 “ALMOST all the nation’s newspapers have betrayed, for all time, the trust the American people once put in them.” © Another “AFL publication

- says “the net result is to in-

crease tremendously the size of the job working people face to maintain even their present standards of living.” ‘But Joseph. D. Keenan, director of the AFL's League for Political Education, says that

tion ‘that the leadership may turn -back from the political

ventures {it embarked on in 1943. Tew » - o HOWEVER, it’ is certain that labor's participation in

politics will be given a going

‘over in the CIQ convention,

opening Monday in Chicago, and” at the AFL Executive Gouncil's

January meeting in Miami, yr The Machinist's Weekly, in an analysis of Sen. Robert-A. in this lesson: “The completed election refurns definitely show that Taft

. carried all the large industrial

centers in Ohio, which ought to make it obvious to all concerned that a large segment of the labor vote did not go

‘against him as was expected.

It is a mistake for’ labor organizations generally to ex-

pect the rank and file'members | to take for granted candidates

sponsored and supported by"* their leadership. : “It becomes apparent that if candidates “aré to be supported "in political campaigns by unions. and all.out efforts,

‘whys’ and ‘wherefores’ must be made much plainer to ‘ths unién members than was donee ‘in this Sampaigne &

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results, but it gives no indica. .

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