Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1950 — Page 54

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~Julietta . . . A Job Still to Be Done

ANOTHER grand jury has failed to do anything about the disgraceful way in which Marion County runs its poor farm at Julietta. Perhaps no grand jury can. _ This one seemed to get a little nearer to the sickening truth about the place than some past juries have done. But . it wound up by passing the buck to the County Council for not giving Julietta more money. Possibly more money would help. - Before it is spent the taxpayers are entitled to know they are getting whit "they pay for already. This grand jury report skipped that, The jury reported ghat some meat “has been removed wrongfully” from Julietta, but it could see no reason for doing anything about that, Why not? . It was county property, wasn't it? Somebody was responsible for it, wasn't he?

Marshal's’ finding that the place is a firetrap, nor the i State Board of Health's refusal to approve its sanitary facilities, nor the bedbugs and ‘the lice which swarm over . the hapless patients, nor the phorly “menus” that are posted on the wall of the dining halls but don’t get to the inmates’ “tables , . those. It did observe that “there were variations in the death rate” (which the records show has jumped up 28 per cent * this year) but explained that with the well-worn excuse that . inmates are old and ill when they arrive at Julietta. Twentyeight per cent older and more ill this year than last, no doubt. v It noted that the handling of drug supplies wasn't proper, and that there ought to be provisions for doctors to see the patients actually in the hospital once a day, which it indicated, probably correctly, could be improved with nore money. It criticized ‘the “lack of sufficient and competent help” * (for which it blamed lack of funds) but appeared to see nothing improper in the fact that politically appointed fullh. time employees of Julietta hold down full-time private jobs and operate full-time private businesses elsewhere at the “same time.” ‘ . un.» ~ 5 5» IT criticized The Times for giving the facts on Julietta to the people of Marion County, stating they should have “been given only to county officials and the jury, and not to Re publi, re SY re The report here is only repeating the time-honored alibi 4 of every public officer everywhere when he is caught not Eo doing his job. This institution belongs to the people of 3 Marion County . . . not to the county officials and not to any - grand jury, - For the information of those jurors who let themselves _ be sold that bill of goods, however, The Times has reported conditions at Julietta to the proper public officials . . . not once, but many times. ' No such official ever has taken any action whatever about them. Three times in the last 10 years The Times has conducted thorough investigations’ of Julietta.

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ol “In 1936 a néw wing was started to enlarge the buildifg, under a contrad4 calling for its prompt completion at a cost of $250,000, a job that should have taken about one year. By 1943 this wing had cost more than $500,000 and was still nowhere ‘near completed. The contractor could no longer be found. The contracts themselves had disappeared from the files of the County Commissioners. A prosecuting attorney, and a grand jury, could see nothing improper in that. No action was taken. That ‘prosecutor was not returned to office by the voters. More than two years ago a Times writer worked in Julietta for days, saw for himself th&" sickening filth, the

the mysterious disappearances of food supplies for which the people of this county paid. The prosecuting attorney who was then in office, and a grand jury under his guidance, could find nothing improper in any of that. He was not returned to office by the voters of this county. Two County Commissioners then a majority of the board which hag responsibility for Julietta, were repudiated at the ensuing primary elections by their own political party. = ” - » » . THIS year the facts that Times Writer Bob Bourne reported were known some weeks before they were published. They were deliberately withheld until the elections could be over se that the misery of these Julietta inmates should not be made a political football. Yet again, apparently, nothing is going to be done about them. Through. all this 10 years, though, there have been county officials whose duty it was to correct such things, there have been county grand juries, oné after the other, swhose duty it was to investigate them. Except when The Times has given the facts to the public not one official, and not one grand jury, ever has done anything about it. Whenever the public has known the facts about Julietta, those responsible have been in no doubt on election day as to their wishes in the matter. The report of the grand jury which has just been made, although open to much criticism, is not really a bad report. It is rather better than those juries have made in the past. It reveals rather plainly that these jurors got nearer the truth, that they almost, sometimes, understood what this Julietta mess is all about, even though they were unable to take any action to correct it. : he Frankly we doubt if any grand jury will be able to

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. . although it had incontrovertible evidence of all : SADISTIC SPORT Loa By Frederick C. Othman

Sometimes the Gentlemen (?) In the Senate Play Kinda Rough

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.— Now we've. got legislation by laryngitis and I can’t stand it; I'm too much of a humanitarian. I can’t even watch a Senator suffer in the way his cohorts made Sen. George W. Malone (R. Nev.) corrode his swollen tonsils, sadists, I'd call 'em. The gentleman from Reno is all that stands between the addicts of one-armed bandits and a federal ban on their playthings. The House long ago passed a bill outlawing slot machines in interstate commerce. So did

in slightly different form. So at the last regular session of Congress a committee from both sides got together on a compromise. The House approved it, but the Senate didn’t. It never got the chance. ’

The portly gentleman from Nevada spoke

for 11 hours straight in favor of slot machines,

_ which are legal in his home state, and offered’ to talk for a couple of months if necessary

to keep that bill from becoming law. The other Senators gave up, So, fine. Now we've got a new special session of Congress. With a lot of work, both old and new, to. be done. Last week Sen. Edwin C. Johnson

(D. Colo.) in charge of the”antislot machine

bill, announced he'd bring it up some time this week. : Monday morning he happened to run into Sen. Malone, who was pink of eye, weak of knee, and so sore of throat that he barely could croak * The gentleman from Colorado said he thought it was only fair to say he was bringing up the bandit bill immediately. The horrified gentleman from Nevada went, awk. That was about all he could say. , He took to his gargles, his lozenges, and his sprays in.a desperate effort to get ready in & hurry for another long-distance speech.

Sure enough, late in the afternoon, Sen. Johnson offered the bandit bill as the next matter of action. n, Brien McMahon (D. (Conn.) suggested that with the world coming apart at the seams this seemed hardly a time to consider a matter which might take weeks, Sen. Johnson glanced at Sen. Malone, who was sneezing at the moment, and said he believed it could be settled expeditiously.

Briefly Sen. J. outlined the bill, which would

fine $5000 and put into the clink for two years anybody who shipped a slot machine across a state line. ;

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SINCE most of these are manufactured in Chicago, that would put an end to one-armed

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« bandits in Nevada. Sen. Malone opened his

mouth, as if to let out a wail of agony, but no sound emerged. He was frantic.” He blew his nose.

“A -page boy rushed up with a glass of iced

water, Sen. M. took a gulp of that and tried

again. This time some of his words were audible. Some were not. He sounded like a movie with a busted sound track. His speech was an assortment of sports, whispers, and blank spaces, with occasional gutteral croaks, The stenographef crowded close in a vain attempt to hear. . The harder Sen. Malone "tried to make himself understood the worse became his voice. aHe started banging the table to emphasize the words .that never came. : Most of his cohorts strolled outside. I presume that they, too, were too tender-hearted to watch his agony. Only Sen. Johnson, looking benign like a Buddha, sat there with his hands across his middle, making like he was taking in every words, The place was getting too full of germs to suit me. And anyhow, I am a tender-hearted fellow. I got out of there while I still was able.

What Others Say—

"WE HAVE tried every other method to build the peace. . . . We must now make it clear to any aggressor that aggression carries with it their certain. destruction.—Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk,

THE PRESIDENT could ill afford to have more brains in the dog department than in the Department of State.—John L. Lewis.

~ghastly-living- conditions; the half-starvation diets .......and NEWS NOTEBOOK aie By Peter Edson SIDE GLANCES HST Sneaks Letters 1 | In the Mailbox Now |

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20H. 8, T.’s hot letter to Washington Post music e¢ritic Paul Hume, who had written an unflattering review of Margaret Truman's concert in Washington, was a _ sharp reversal of President Truman's old form. It wasn’t the first slip of this kind, for the President's letter criticizing the

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whether concerned local, state, national ‘or inter- - Dational jssues. 1 refer to Mr, Hogan's ac-

~_ceptance of D. C. Stephenson as an “old man

who cannot be

only a few weeks after it was granted is proof that either he has not yet learned to co-operate with society, or worse vet, has no desire to do “80,” This fact alone is grounds for considerable suspicion, even If we.had reason to believe that he was unjustly convicted in the first place. And the words of his own daughter, with whom

he stayed in Oklahoma, presented definite -that he is not above jon ’ Proof

A great number of the crimes Mr. Hogan relates as being perpetrated while our police are

expenses, be the value, In dollars and cents, of the

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"donot agree with a word thet you say, but wil defend fo the death your right fo say it

“running across two or three states to get an old man . . .” are a direct 3 of suth complacency’ as Mr. Hogan : ‘Belief that a” period of detention, reforms all first offenders. ”

YT assume that the footnote to Mr. Hogan's letter was contributed by the editor, in which

case’ I wish to ask the following: If the values of our law enforcement agencies are being based on monetary what oid tige and respect lost by the State of Indiana if we failed to enfqage any parole regulations? If such laxity should prove incentive to future parole violations of such brazen character, would the expense accounts of a few policemen still be of paramount importance? How can you foresee that nothing is to be gained by bringing Stephenson back? If he should be freed, you might very well find yourself eating those words. * Editor's Note: The footnote to Mr. Hogan's letter (Times, Dec. 11) was not an editor's note, It was part of Mr. Hogan's letter, 1

[EUROPEAN DEFENSE . . . By Andrew Tully

German Army §

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20—Even if everything

happens for the best at the North Atlantic Coun-

cil sessions in Brussels, it'll be the middie of 1852 before the diplomats’ decisions can be transiated into a German army capable of helpIhg to defend Europe. > That estimate—about a year and a half—is the most optimistic you can squeeze out of qualified military men here. They'll unbend far enough to say the organizational} part might be speeded. up so Germany will get ‘an army in a year's time—but they hasten to_add it would be an army without enough heavy equipment. : The German force, divided into regimental combat teams, will total about 200,000 men— roughly one-half of France's,..OK coming? contribution to the European army and no more than one-fifth of the total international force. Under the occupational

K. Adenauer

agreement, Germany is prohibited from making

any heavy armaments—such as tanks and heavy artillery—which’ means most of its equipment will have to come either from_the United States or European countries. x Currently, the planners hope to get a lot of this heavy armament produced in the Ruhr, which will be under international control. The U. 8. probably will lend some financial aid to other European industries to boost their arms production, too, because the stuff can be mad much cheaper over there than here. t As for Germany, it's being counted on to produce the bulk of its army’s light equipment— trucks, uniforms, rifles, machine guns, mortars and bazookas, and possibly lighter antiaircraft guns. - Most of the cost of the German army would be borne by the German taxpayer—providing Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s government

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goes along with the rearmament pr . This

is going to’ mean some changes in the Germa: way of life, because up to now Germany alone among European nations has had defense in its national budget. When the German taxpayer is tapped to furnish the to feed, clothe and equip an army, some howls will be added to the already tests over the projected plan to set up To peo line on the Rhine instead of the Elbe. As: for the makeup of the German officers’ corps, there'll be little hair splitting tions of Naziism. The policy is going to a professional soldier who served under the Nazis was not necessarily a Nazi himself unless he actively fomented aggressive warfare and was a party functionary,

Important Exception _ . GENERALLY speaking, the criteria will be

cate of the re-establishment of a German general staff. The planners want to have as little as possible of that spirit in the army. $y As far as possible, too, the supreme command will try to man the German officer corps with younger men—men with as little Nazi taint as possible—in order to build up a new type of German officer. These men will be thrown in as much as possible with officers from nations which are basically more democratic than Ger. many in order to indoctrinate them with a new attitude. The United States has won what our military men believe to be an important point in the decision to make these combat teams completely German in character, with their own German officers. This, we believe, is the only

way we can get the German soldiers to have

pride in their outfits. In addition, there'll be German officers on the staff of the supreme commander as well as on the staffs of the come manders of various national units. 7

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney Korea Put Spark in Congress

“WASHINGTON, “ Dec. 20-<Crisis in Korea

turned this lame duck session of Congress into

by far the fastest moving meeting of the en- -

tire two years. ’ When it first convened, following the election, the triumphant Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. O.), speaking for his party as chairman of its policy committee, said the thing to do was to convene Nov. 27 and immediately vote adjournment. Before that date, the China Reds met the MacArthur forces at the Yalu and everything was changed. Congress met in a serious mood. Even the lame ducks, five of whom are Indiana Democrats, got down to work at once. They are not through yet, but the record of accomplishment in the short time involved is indeed an outstanding one.

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THEY EXPECT. to complete it just before

the new 82d Congress takes over on Jan. 3. It includes: : ONE: Appropriation of an additional 18%5 billions for defense. TWO: Passage of an excess profits tax bill. THREE: Extension of rent controls. FOUR: Thirty-eight millions in aid to Yugoslavia. : FIVE: Plugging the physical assets loophole in the antitrust laws to prevent further monopoly. » SIX: A civil defense law providing federal ald for local setups. :

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“SEVEN: A $10,000 free life insurance poticy

for everyone in the armed services. wm. The last, introduced by Indiana lame dutl Democrat, Rep. James E. Noland of the Seve enth Congressional District as a member of the House Veterans Committee, still awaits Senate approval. A World War II captain and Army reservist, Mr. Noland maintains that the end. result of this will be a savings over the present pay deduction plan. : The very swiftness of the action on the tax law brought some criticism from the dean of all Hoosiers on Capitol Hill, Rep, Charles A, Halleck, Rensselaer Republican. “Although I voted for the measure as it passed the House,” Mr. Halleck said, “I had hoped that the Senate version would iron out some of the definite inequities. But there, also, the time was short. It will remain for the next Congress to make-some changes.” . ... 0. Rep. Earl Wilson, Bedford Republican, was one of the few voting against the bill's’ passage by the” House. It passed 378 to 20, with no Democrat opposed. : The seven Indiana Democratic Congressmen all voted for extension of rent controls

and the four Republicans against it. Both Senae

tors voted against it also. The Republicans from the state also voted against Yugoslavian aid and the Democrats for it. There was one exception among the Dempe crats—Rep. Andrew Jacobs, Indianapolis lame duck. He was paired it, as he was

~~ By Galbraith ' CONGRESS . . . By Fred Perkins ori Rough Times Ahead | For Railroad Labor

GTON, Dec. 20—The railroad strike, now apparently bring harder going in Congress for a bill strengthen the rail unions. -.. The Senate last week passed a bill amending the Railway Labor Act to permit rail unions to negotiate with’ management

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U. 8. Marines was another example of how his quick temper

sometimes flares up. The President's practice when he first went into the White House was much different. He burned easily, then as—now. But in the early days he used to dictate these hot letters, show them to one or two of his intimates, then tear up the paper and throw it into the wastebasket, This relieved his temper .and made him feel better. Also, it hurt nobody else's feelings and it saved the President from a lot of criticism, | It's dropping these hot letters in the mail that gets him in so much trouble.

. = ad WHEN U. 8. Marshall Plan Administrator William C. Foster was in Burma, he followed native custom in taking off his ‘ shoes before entering one of the temples. He took off not

only his shoes, but his socks as

well. Then, barefooted, he walked through the streets and into the American: embassy. This made a big hit with.the Burmese who saw him, though it surprised the American diplo-

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brought into’ a U. 8. Army field hospital. Nerves controling movements of the arm were broken, and the American doetor was probing to see how much damage had been done. There are two main nerves, ohe controling movements of the little and . ring fingers, the

other controling thumb, index’

and midde fingers. The doctor took a needle and stabbed gently at the man's fingers to see what reaction he would get. He got none. The Turk spoke little or no English, so to illustrate what he wanted, the doctor took the needle-and jabbed his own fingers, to show how the reflexes should react. Finally the Turk

reached over and took the.

needle from the doctor. He stabbed it right through the palm of his hand and pulled it out on the other wide. “Me Turk,” he said, and

- handed the needle back to the doctor without any show of

emotion whatever, ”

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for :a “union shop.” Under this plan every railroad worker

would have to becomie a union member within 60 days of his employment. The bill also would legalize the check off — deduction of a union member's dues from his pay.

» » ” RAILWAY union leaders hope the House will pass the bill’ during this session. Otherwise, it: must be taken up by

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gress. How the rail strike may affect the bill's chances in the House is shown by a statement made by Rep. Ed Gossett (D. Tex.) while the strike wason. that “strikes in time of national emergency should be unlawful,” Rep. Gossett continued: ‘

“Adding insult to injury, segments of railroad labor are,

to high-pressure a RailroadLabor Bill through this Congress, a bill giving them additional powers to those already possessed. Railroad labor rep-

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