Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1951 — Page 12

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Julietta . . . Back to the Politicians : For THE past 10 years, at least, Marion County’s Julietta : 4 infirmary has been fantastically mismanaged by Marion : County Commissioners. : During that time more than $500,000 of the county's money has just vanished into thin air at Julietta, without anything to show for it or any reasonable account of. what became of it. Julietta is run today, as it has been run all that time, as a political plum of whichever party elects the Commissioners, Right now the politically-appointed top management of the institution includes individuals who draw full - time -malaries from the county and work at full time private jobs “@lsewhere—at the same time—just as one example of how 4k works.

© THE ‘PEOPLE of Marion County do not like that kind : operation. : Three times, in those 10 years, popular indignation at awful waste and the horrible treatmént of inmates has weed grand jury investigations. Each time, a prosecuting ftorney has white-washed that inquiry. Not one of those op prosecuting attornies ever was re-elected afterward to an‘other term. A whole series of county commissioners has il been voted out by the people with mismanagement of Juli-

as the principal issue.

& So the statements of Marion County Senators, who { ought to know better, that commissioners should keep con- : trol because “they are removable by the people” are pure : poppycock. The people have expressed themselves plainly and repeatedly on this very point. i © Whatever improvements have followed invariably have { been minor and temporary.

Li 88 foo. LAST WEEK the Indiana Senate voted overwhelmingly #8 keep the same wasteful, incompetent political control. . . pgardless of what the voters want. Fi Two Marion County Senators, with more respect for he money of the taxpayers and the welfare of the county's ards than for the aims of petty county politicos, voted for ine, economical, efficient administration of this institution. They were Mrs. Mary Garrett and Dr. Walter Kelly. Dr. Kelly, significantly, has been a physician at {Julietta for many years, and knows vastly mo're about that

Eo Four Marion County Senators voted to keep the waste $8nd the mismanagement and the bad food and the filth at

had turned the heat on them. ®¥ They are Cecil McConahay, Greyble McFarland, Jud$son West and Hoyt Moore. ® We trust the voters of this county will remember that Syote when election day comes ‘round again. # But if they don’t, no matter, We'll remind them.

FY EORGIA became the 31st state to ratify the proposed 5¥ amendment limiting Presidents‘of the United States to two consecutive elective terms. This puts the proposed amendment within five votes of the necessary two-thirds. No othef proposal to amend the Constitution got this far and then failed to go over the top. The will of a large ma jority of the American people is now record. Z And public sentiment is snowballing. The lower House of Tennessee's Legislature voted tification, 54 to 14, despite opposition by Governor Gordon Browning. An early favorable Senate vote seems likely. Texas has emerged as a contender in the race to be the 32d state to ratify. The Texas House votes tomorrow and all signs point to approval there and in the Senate. In two previous sessions the amendment was defeated.

«8 # ” THE Oklahoma Legislature is under Democratic control, and a Democratic Senator has introduced a ratifying resolution. It's given a good chance of passing. In Alabama there is growing momentum for approval when the Legislature meets in May. At the rate the other states are ratifying—seven since the first of the year—Alabama'’s affirmation may not be necessary. South Carolina and Florida are counted on for early action. Legislatures are meeting this year in all but one of the 17 states which have not approved. The wisdom of such a Constitutional safeguard is hardly open to question. This amendment can, and should be, adopted this year.

“If War Comes—"'

E'RE tired of hearing that expression, “if ‘war It's a dangerous qualification that plays right into the enemy's hands. Our planning and preparedness are constantly being weakened because too often they're pitched on an alternative: We'll do this or that now, and the other thing—the needful and imperative—*if war comes.” Congress is going slow on taxes because it's not certain there’il be a war. Wage and price controls were disastrously delayed because those in authority thought they might not be necessary. A vital universal military service and training program is held up for similar bad reasons. Our whole economic mobilization is faltering because there is hesitancy when we still think we have a choice. The hard fact is, we have no choice. We are at war now. Regardless of the United Nations’ ridiculous efforts * to gain a cease-fird in Korea, no one can deny that it's a full-scale war going on in that unhappy land. Casualties have passed 50,000 among Americans alone, and more than 200,000 troops of 10 nations are in action. : And the enemy, as éveryone knows, is not Red China . or North Korea, but international communism led, supplied and inspired by Soviet Russia. So let's stop talking and planning and moving crab“wise on the i “if war comes—"

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DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney Denton Blasts Senate Bill 86 Terms Republicans’ Action

On Welfare ‘Reprehensible’ WASHINGTON, Feb, 19—-One of the two remaining Democrats in Congress from Indiana “got into the act” today by condemning Repub-

lican state legislators for Senate Bill 86, which

as passed by the Senate permits publication of

the names and addresses of welfare recipients. Winfield K. Denton, Evansville, who was a long-time state legislator before coming to Congress In 1948, termed the action of the Republicans in the state Senate “irresponsible.” He said Social Se-. curity Director Arthur J. Altmeyer, had advised him ‘the state will lose “between $23,000,000 and $24,000,000” in federal welfare funds for fiscal 1951 if the Senate bill is finally passed, This was the administration stand spelled out previously in a statement on the subject from Social Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing, The head of the Federal Security Agency objected to the charge that he was trying to “boss” Indiana in the matter, declaring he was merely carrying out the federal law. He cited the 1939 Social Security amendment, which precludes such publication, and gave its background history. . The Indiana Senate voted for the FSA-con-demned publicity, 26 to 24, on straight party lines. The measure is now in the House where the Republicans have a 69 to 31 majority.

Mr. Denton

‘Two Alternatives’

“IF IT is adopted by the legislature,” Mr. Denton declared, “Indiana will have only two alternatives. Either the state must cut in half the payments to aged persons, to dependent children and to the blind, or“the state and county welfare tax rate will have to be doubled to raise $23,000,000 in funds which will be withdrawn by the federal government.

“Old-age assistance payments in Indiana now average $35.78 a month; payments to dependent children average $65.66, and aid to the blind payments average $38.37. “These Indiana averages are much lower than the general average in the United States” Mr. Denton continued. “As a matter of fact,

only about 15 southern states have lower wel- ,

fare payments. “Publication of welfare rolls would serve no purpose and certainly wouldn't deter ‘chiselers,’ and others who are subjected to public criticism, from receiving welfare funds. “There are 39 states which have a greater percentage of its population receiving old-age assistance than Indiana and 37 states with a greater percentage of population receiving aid

- to dependent children payments.

“in both cases, the records are not made . public and Indiana is very low on the list.

“On the other hand, the percentage of people 4

receiving poor relief in Indiana is very high, since these payments are made out of state funds there is no federal law which would prohibit the publishing of the names of the recipients. Only nine states handle a higher number of poor relief cases per thousand population than Indiana.”

‘Must Comply With Law’

“REPUBLICANS control most of the welfare boards in the state, with the exception of the 8th District. I hope they will not persist in trying to bring back the old abuses that led to the enactment of the present federal law. “Until the federal law is changed, federal officials must comply with federal statutes and if the state wants to take advantage of the federal security program it must do likewise. If the state of Indiana doesn’t like the federal law, it should attempt to have it changed.”

What Others Say—

THE Russians have been trying since 1945 to get the western Allies out of Berlin and bring the entire city under their dominance.—Berlin U. 8. Troop commander Maj.-Gen. Maxwell Taylor.

WOMEN don’t decide their fashions and dress designers . don't create them. Both are led to the fashion blindly by forces beyond their control.—London fine arts museum keeper James Laver.

WE must net forget that the conflict with the Soviet Union has also become intensified in the economic. and political fields. The Soviet Union is trying desperately to capitalize on the swelling social economic pressures row dominant throughout the world.—University of North Carolina president Gordon Gray.

OUR prospects for peace will disappear if we are not strong militarily.—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.

STABILIZATION . . . By Earl Richert

DiSalle Eyes Possible Change in ‘Parity’

* Coraopolis

HEADLINE:

Indianapolis.

AMATEUR ORATORY

Police Chief Rouls has ordered a crackdown against trains speeding through

By Frederick C. Othman

In Coraopolis All the Gals Are My Brave, Suffering Pals

PITTSBURGH, Pa. Feb. 19—The ladies of Coraopolis, which is a bustling suburb of this busy city, must come from pioneer stock. They can take it. They are the ones who dragged their long-

' suffering husbands to an hour of amateur

oratory by me and suppressed whatever pain they may have been " feeling. There were 700 people in the High School Auditorium, staring at my shaky knees and not one (I a take this as a tribute |" to my silver tongue) | asked for his money back. I tell you, they are heroines. That is not alk Mrs. Judith K. Eaton, president of the local branch of ihe American Association of : University Women + ¥ who sold the tickets, fed me at a party afterwards on baked ham, beans, salad and other fancy trimmings. I still feel fine. No poison. A triumph. z My subject concerned confusion on the Potomac; it turned out that there also is confusion in Coraopolis. Mrs. Eaton and her husband own a handsome two-story house on the heights above town; the Pittsburghers are building a new airport, including a hotel, about a mile from the Eatons. Their house with its fine trees seems to be in the direct path of the planes that soon will be landing nearby. The management has ordered the Eatons to chop down all their trees and, while they are about it, six feet from the top of their house. Mr, Eaton, a 6-footer who is in the.steel forging business, has balked at this. Take 6 feet off his bedrooms and he'd have to crawl in on his hands and knees. He wants the airport people to buy his house; if they insist on mangling it. They retort that they don't want it; they insist merely that he

. squeeze it down, out of the way of the flying

machines, Back home in Washington, even, nobody has trouble like this. Pittsburgh, where I'd never been before, struck me as an elegant town, where a dollar bill still is spending money. I had a room high up in one of the best hotels and it cost

SIDE GLANCES

me $5.50 per night. In this same hotel, for

medicinal purposes after my oratorial exertions, I bought a whisky sour. The man ysed an ounce _ and a half of the best bonded whisky and

charged me 60 cents. My old friend, Kermit McFarland, the associate editor of the Pittsburgh Press, took me to dinner at what he called the city’s best restaurant. It was de luxe and the food was

super; the price per head was $1.85. No sales

tax. Pittsburgh specializes in large groceries, which have restaurants in connection. That strikes me as a good idea. The chef never runs out of the roast beef; he merely has to send downstairs to the butcher for another ehunk of meat.

Look, No Hands

YOU KNOW about Pittsburgh's steel mills and its newest office building, which is spectacular in a sheathing of glass and satin-finish stainless steel, but you may not have heard about the best use yet for an electric brain. This mighty electronic device is instilled in a new, multi-million dollar brewery. The brewmaster merely touches a few buttons and 14 floors of gleaming copper machinery go to work making beer. No hands. Good beer, too. Pittsburgh I like. also its ladies and their husbands, who listen to speeches and make like they're enjoying themselves.

BOOK WORM

Each time I pay a visit to . . . a store of many books . . . there is a most familiar sight . I see without two looks . . . for in some corner of the place . . . where volumes are stacked high . . . there sits a person delving in...the texts .that round him He... so interested and wrapped up in . . . the book close to his mose . . . he doesn’t realize for a second . . . soon the store will close . . , and I believe if left alone ... and no one did forewarn . . . this intellect would read and read . until the break of morn . . . now it is wonderful ‘te read . . and of some knowledge gain . but it is also good to see . . . or the rain. . . but like his namessake this book worm . . . lives locked in pages of . . . the manuscripts he delves into . . . for bodks are his first love. ~—By Ben Burroughs,

By Galbraith

And,

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ay" "| do not with a word that you say, but | will defend fo the death your right fo it" ‘One Taxpdyer to Another ! Mr. Editor:

A iiig about the headline: ‘SENATH KILLS POLICE-FIRE BONUS BILL.” It happens to be No. 181, I have never written in before although I've been tempted many times, but this is the last straw.

Let’s get down to facts. I'm giving the police-

man’s point of view as I am not acquainted with

(he fireman's side. My husband is a police officer and he works not 40 hours—nor 50 hours, but 56 hours a week. Yes, he works seven days, eight hours a day (changing shifts every 28 days, to the late and middle) gets the eighth day off. Every six weeks he gets a Saturday and Sunday off, which adds up to about six or seven Saturdays and Sundays a year. Although if he’s worked all night Friday, he has to sleep Saturday, which gives him only Sunday off. On all but the day shift, if he has court, he goes on his own time. Many a time at’9 a. m, after working all night the case may be continued, not once, but several times. Labor is always striking for more money, and get it. Most of them making $2 to $— an hour, for a 40-hour week, with

“ time and a half for overtime and double time

on ‘Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Just sit down and figure what this amounts to for 56 hours a week, including most Saturdays and Sundays. That's the pay a policeman should receive. He’s risking his life every time he goes to work. Are you? What are they asking? Just $600 more a year, which isn’t nearly enough. Prices are rising every day and we have families, not to mention insurance, etc., just like you. What are our judges who are making seve eral thousand a year and sitting on their— benches—asking for? Not $600, but several thousand increase. What are all these other bills, not including scalaries? Are they more important than the safeguarding of your life and property? And you do expect a policeman to come to your assistance, day and night, all year round. Come on, police and firemen, we're taxpayers, too—in fact, we're paying our own salaries, Let's ask for a thousand or two, why deal in paltry hundreds? Write to Sen. John A, Kendall, your congressman, newspapers, etc. DO IT TODAY. Let them know how you feel about the matter. Get in and fight for your rights— NOW-—for “he who hesitates is lost.”

—Mrs. P. E. M,, policeman’s wife, eity.

‘We Need Truth’

MR. EDITOR: . +. For a long time, we Americans have depended upon our press to give us true facts. We believe in freedom of the press, but as we read

- our daily newspapers and the headlines shouting

THIS IS WRONG, THAT IS BAD, DOWN WITH THIS, DOWN WITH THAT, we watch and see the newspapers, at will, play up the facts, or batter them down. We are beginning to fear, yes fear, that our press is no longer a true criterion of unbiased facts. We are beginning to fear that we no longer get all the true facts. We want the truth, not half-truths twisted by editors, or controlled by any group in power or any group seeking power. Wake up, Mr. EE ow, because the American reading public are beginning to fear and question the motives behind some of these things. We are even beginning to think for our-

“selves. We love our country and our freedom

too much to live in fear and distrust of all of our leaders. We do not want to be like an ostrich putting his head in the sand. We want to look up and build a United America. —Pearl Bontrager, City.

Thanks a Million

MR. EDITOR: - It was indeed a pleasure to read a letter in the Jan. 31, 1951, issue of The Indianapolis Times, and to know that at least one differs with Gunther on the cleanliness of our city. We thoroughly agree with it that one can always find dirt when he is looking for it. We so seldom get a pat on the back that a letter such as this one should not go unnoticed by this bureau. Thanks again for the expression of civie ig something that is sadly lacking in this city. J. G. Mingle, Bureau of Air Pollution Prevention.

Children and Renters

MR. EDITOR: You had an ad in your paper for a home for rent. I called said number and a very lovely voice answered. In the background could be heard the voices of one or more children. I told said party that our house had been sold. We were three adults with a son who was a veteran of five years in World War II. We have our notice to move, That lovely voice said I'm sorry, we have decided to rent to people with small children, God will give his thanks to this fine couple. -—Mrs. G. 0. P,, City.

PREDICTIONS . . . By Fred Perkins Can U. S. Expect Early End to RR Stalemate?

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19—An early move to end the stalemate between the railroads and the four operating unions was forecast by George E. Leighty, chairman of the Railway Labor Executives’ Association. Mr. Leighty said he looked for the “next step” to be taken

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Jan. 15 June 15 Jan. 15 Commodity Price at Farm Parity Parity Wheat, per bushel $2.09 $2.21 $2.35 Corn, per bushel 1.54 1.60 1.71 Butterfat, per pound 70 2/10 70 6/10 74 Chickens, per pound 24 3/10 29 1/10 30 2/10 Rye, per bushel 1.48 1.71 1.73 Oats, per bushel .88 2/10 94 8/10 95 4/10

—— WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 — Price Administrator Michael V. DiSalle says he will recommend that farm parity prices be ‘“modifled’ if economic stabilization isn't achieved within the next two

or three months.

This is the first official recognition by the price boss of the fact that the farm parity provision of the price- -control law cre-

ates a gigantic loophole through which food prices can continue upward. Heretofore, he has kept mum on this hot potato. Now he seems to be coming around to a belief that something must be done about the parity, provision if prices in general are to be stabilized.

» ” » k THE law says that price ceilings cannot be set on farm products when they ar low .parity (the so-called fair price

to farmers). But the trouble is,

that parity never stays still. In a period such as the recent six months it has galloped upward as the cost of the things

the farmers have had to buy

went up.

Result is that- today prices’

of most farm products, despite considerable price increases, are still well below parity—and thus can't be frozen until they g0 up more. (Meats are an exce eo} rt of thing" creates a

« never - ending merry-go-round

and Mr. DiSalle appears about at the point of deciding he will have to move in and stop it somehow, He hasn’t indicated what he has .in mind. And he'll collide head-on with thé congressional farm bloc which always has had sufficlent strength to keep the parity formula intact against all attacks,

. » ~ HAD the administration rolled back non-farm prices to pre-Korean levels when it got price control power in September, it would now be near the point where it could control most farm prices. Under this situation, the June 15 parity would have stood and prices could have been controlled when they reach that mark. Abpve are listed commodities which would be much: nearer the control point now if the June 15 parity had been made the effective parity. Also listed is present parity which shows how far these commodities stfll are from the control level.

SOPR. 1561 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF,

"1 feel like a stra stranger in “this neighborhood since the, people next door got Venetian blinds!"

THE ABOVE figures show that butter would be practically at the control point right

now if the June 15 parity were effective. But as it is butter still has 4 cents a pound to rise’ before it con-

the control Jom,

trolled. Eggs are well below -

trols.

Farm “products now above parity and thus technically controlled through price controls on the processed and fin-

ished goods include cotton,

beef, veal, lambs and hogs. Fresh fruits and vegetables and fish are Sxempt from con-

soon. Unless it is a quick and unexpected settlement, the step

might be to refer the controversy to another emergency board appointed under the Railway Labor Act, or to an arbitration board with power to make a binding decision. * The National (Railway) Mediation Board is required, by thé act, to offer arbitration before it gives up on a case. It has been meeting day and night with both parties for two weeks. Little progress has been reported,

» ” " THE DISPUTE, now nearly two years old, was before an emergency - board in its early stages. That board made recommendations unacceptable to the Qrder of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Later the disagreement was carried to the White House. Last Dec. 21, John R. Steelman, assistant to the President, brought about the signing of a “memorandum _of agreement” between the carriers and the unions, by then joined by the Engineers’ and Firemen’s Brotherhoods. However, the governing bodies of all four organizations rejected

.the memorandum,

alls

" - » THE carriers now refuse to

negotiate except along lines of-

the Dec. 21 document. A week ago the Army, now technically operating the rail

roads, threatened to seek unspecified “corrective” legisla~ tion if the wage dispute continued beyond “a reasonable time.” But a Department of Justice spokesman said any such legislative efforts probably would be deferred until after the conclusion of three contempt of court prosecutions of the Trainmen’s Union. The current trainmen’s ma azine carries an editorial which says: “The unstable wedding of President Truman to the basic principles of his Fair Deal program was evident to us long before. he lowered the boom

on the long-suffering railroad worker . , .

» » “WHIL e big business point of is being protected—and projected—in-gov-ernment by a galaxy of big business appointments to high office, labor must be content with second or third string pldces , . . . “We have a great deal of respect for the integrity and ability of George M. Harrison, president of the Brotherhood

of Railway Clerks, but his ap- “ pointment as an underling to

Stabilizer Eric Johnston fis sot g but window' dressing ated to fool labor into ate it finally was going to get some protection.”

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