Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1951 — Page 18

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Future Citizenship at Stake . SERIES of articles that started on Page 1 today points ~ "7 up some significant warning signals about the com--munity’s children and their chances for development into ~sugoessful citizens. ; 5 This comprehensive survey, involving a study of the lives and thoughts of some 20,000 Indianapolis children, shows some glaring weaknesses in the community's social and educational structure and in family life itself. + It has disclosed the disturbing fact that one out of every 10 of the City's youngsters has been getting into trouble that has required some kind of police action—more than police and court statistics have revealed heretofore.

STORIES told by the children themselves, without prompting or “coaching” from their elders, indicate they believe their parents, their teachers and their town are responsible for juvenile troubles, - Nearly half blamed their home life. Another heavy percentage blamed lack of recreational facilities—‘“no place to play.” Others said the school system was to blame. Maybe they are right . . . maybe not. But the fact they feel that way seems to us quite significant. Results of the survey will show how breeding a eriminal costs society $285,000 which only a few hundred dollars spent to turn him in another direction ¢ould save.

» » » » DR. HERMAN L. SHIBLER, superintendent of schools, said the survey is an “open challenge to the entire adult population of the community to support more programs for child guidance, education of parents and recreational facilities.” 21 We agree. "More attention given to a few maladjusted children in the early stages of their trouble might save the community countless family tragedies and crims that is costing us heavily,

Is Billy a Peon?

ONGRESS, never short of things to investigate, is about to tackle organized baseball. Rep. Emanuel Celler of New York heads a House committee which will seek to determine whether the profes- ~ sional players are peons of a monopoly which should be made subject to the federal anti-trust laws. ~The “National Agreement,” covering professional ball clibs in the United States, Canada, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Mexico, along with its “uniform contract’ and its “reserve clause,” will be examined. **'Consider, for example, Billy Joe Davidson, 17-year-old icher from North Carolina. He has just received the

. bonus ever paid”’—said to be at least $120,000— for signing: a contract with the Cleveland Indians. Most will envy him. 2. + ». ‘s .

3 ; » » +“ BUT critics of the “National Agreement” would contehid that Billy Joe has sold himseif into bondage as long as he plays professional ball. His first contract with the Indians will give them an option on hig services for a second year. His second contract, if he gets one, will contain a similar option, and so on each year, ~The Indians can sell his services to any other club. They, or any team he may be sold to, can cancel his contract - at any time on 10 days’ notice. But if he jumped a contract, he would make himself ineligible to play in any league eqeredt by the National Agreement. And this arrangement is an effective bar to organization of leagues outside the agreement. »+ Back in 1922 the U. 8. Supreme Court held that professional baseball was not subject to the federal anti-trust laws. Justice Holmes, who wrote the opinion, said ball games were purely state affairs, despite the travels of the : teams across state lines. That decision still stands. But "Mr. Celler’s committee will look into a new theory—that broad of games by radio and television puts them into interstate commerce and gives federal laws jurisdiction.

- » THE investigation, Mr. Celler has explained, will be “friendly.” He may not be unmindful that organized ball's fans vastly outnumber its players. Whatever the players may think of the National Agreement, a lot of fans like it. They think it makes for better ball games by preventing wealthy clubs from raiding the poorer ones and hiring more than their fair share of star players. As for Billy Joe Davidson, if he's worried about becoming a peon he can, at least, console himself with the thought that peonage promises to pay him handsomely.

Poor Mom - 41K question of whether a man thinks his wife or his smother is the better cook is about as personal a topic as one may find anywhere outside the Kinsey report.

A lucky husband may be wholly pleased with his ~ wife's cooking, and say so, frequently and in aH honesty. OF he may thoroughly dislike it—and still ‘praise it, out of gallantry, tact, or faith. There are other shades of preference, most of them explosive. ; “0'Tt is, therefore, very interesting to see the Gallup poll plinge head-first into such an issue and come up with

¢ unexpected findings. The interviewers were expressly

her, in the presence of his wife, thereby giving y ity to. the answers,

d beat mom cooking; only 20 per cent mothers; 24 per cent said there was inaid four per cent asked to be excused

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Foster's Follies

NEW YORK--Peter Sue, a Chinese, is charged with inflicting a half-dozen bites on his lady-fair's aunt and uncle and a rival suitor, when Peter called to propose and was turned dowy. He did not use the two guns he carried. Poor Peter Sue is a Chinese

who Might find much better things to do. . Sue loved a gal named Loretta Mou, But Mou eschewed Sue's rendezvous,

Sue grabbed his cue and his

top he blew; He sure raised heck ers he was through, ; For he did pursue a.courses he'll rue He bit off more than he could chew, » ~ »

MAYBE the young man was a distant relative of Dr. Fu Man-chu. In. which case he should have confined himself to the men-folk' and refrained from taking a bite out his light-of-love’s aunt. However, being a love-sick calf himself, he probably figured he'd cow all the Mou's while he was at it. He’s not the only Chinese who is seeing Red these days, though. A lot of them in China don’t like it worth a darn either.

Mr. Sue was toting a couple of thirty-twos at the time, But he didn’t use them, He's a man of high calibre; one who really likes to get his teeth into a situation. On the other hand, food prices being what they : are, maybe the guy was so hungry he went a-calling with but one thought in mind:

Chow, main-ly. But in one respect Sue may have ‘been the perfect guest. Tt wouldn't. surprise us a bit to learn that when he left he bowed a courtly bow and murmured, “I fang you very much.” » » » THINGS are tough all over. That free clinic patient in New York, found to have $20,511.25 in his pocket, probably figured he might be detained. And have to go out and buy his

lunch. ” » .

AUNTY COMMY says: “See where a couple of Hungarian artists have refused to paint Stalin's portrait. Guess they don’t want to disprove that old wheeze about no one heing as bad as he's painted!” ~ » . TEN THOUSAND employees ‘at the Dodge plant in Detroit walked out recently when smocks werepissued instead of the cover-all that had been requested, Doesn't surprise us too much. That smacks of some kind of a dodge to say the least. Although maybe they just wanted to convince the men they were real artists, But one worker sald, ‘Next thing you know they'll have us wearing them little chapeaus that look like inverted That “would be the berets.” (That leaves us kinda cold, too.)

Barbs—

A DQCTOR says our noses

are becoming sharper, They still shouldn't be stuck in somebody“ else’s business, » » » EVERY customer entering a meat shop is entitled to the

right of weigh.

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down In the street of a western town and tied up t

feebags,

have been raised—a jolt.

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CONTRAST . «+: By Charles Lucey Acheson Tries to Justify

Trade

With Reds—Sherman Blows Top

WASHINGTON, June 2, Senators investigating the MacArthur dismissal got a contrast in views on seriousness of strategic-materials

trade with Red China in testi-

mony of Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Adm. Forrest “P. Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations. Adm. Sherman's view Was expressed in heated indignation against trade with an enemy- doing his utmost to destroy us in Korea. “ Secretary Acheson expressed his objection to trade with the Chinese Communists, but much

.of his testimony on the point

was to justify or explain away action of United Nations countries in some of thelr actions, At one point in his testimony Chairman Richard B, Russell (D. Ga.) directed biting sarcasm at the United Nations attitude in regard to stopping trade with the enemy.

» ~ ADM. SHERMAN told the Senators: “1 feel very strongly that in the conduct of war, whether it be a war of this character or a more general war, that the control of trade, the control of the movement of supplies, is a much more important factor than many of us realize, and that it is unthinkable to send men out to fight in uniform and then, from the same eountry, let shipments go out for the purpose of monetary profit.” Great Britain frequently has been eriticized on this ground. Adm. Sherman said he long had been “pressing” Mr. Ache-

CONGRESS ROUNDUP . . . By Charles Egger

Senate Plays Rough With Dean

WASHINGTON, June 2—This week in Congress Secretary of State Dean Acheson began his testimony Before the Senate committee in-

vestigating U. 8. policy in the Far East and it became clear immediately that he was in for a rough time. The combined Foreign Relations and Armed ServIces Committee overrode Mr. Acheson’s objections and authorized publication of a 1949 State Department memorandum which ‘mini. mized the importance of Formosa to U. 8. security in the Pacific. Mr, Acheson contended that publication of the paper would not be in the best interest of the country, but Republicans, led by Sen. William F, Knowland of California, and some Democrats insisted that the memorandum be made public. Other developments before the committee: Secretary Acheson said relations with our Allies would be weakened: if Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Korean War plans were adopted. Gen. Hoyt 8. Vandenberg, Air Force Chief of Staff, said an Air Force twice as large as the one this country has would be required for safe adoption of Gen. MacArthur's recommendation to bomb Red China. Gen. Vandenberg said the recommended policy, if adopted, would have left us “naked” before Russia. Adm, Forrest Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations, indorsed a blockade of Communist China but only if our Allies joined us in such a move. He also revealed that fear of world war last December resulted in fleld commanders being alerted for possible emergency action.

Draft

A CONFERENCE committee's agreement on a blll setting up a new draft law but ruling out immediate adoption of a universal military training program was adopted. It still must be acted on by the House. Only Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R. Wis.) voted against it in the Senate, The bill extends the draft to July 1, 1953. It also authorizes drafting at 18%, with the required service to be two years. However, it provides only for establishment of a commis-

Mr. Acheson + + « a rough time

“sion to submit a broad outline of a universal

military training program for approval by Congress, That means that no UMT measure can be cleared through Congress until late this year.

Crime Investigation '

THREE witnesses refused to answer most questions asked by the Crime Investigating Committee and Sen. Herbert O'Conor (D. Md.), committee chairman, said he would recommend

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contempt citations against them. The reluctant

" witnesses were George 8. May, Chicago effi-

ciency ‘engineer, and Rocco Fischettl and Mur-

ray Humphreys,

figures. Two bills to combat gamlb'iag were intro-

duced-—one to

license

both Chicago underworld

the transmission of

betting information on sporting events, and the other to ban transmission of gambling information on such events without the permission of persons conducting them. .

RFC

THE FULBRIGHT Investigating Committee decided to drop the case of the 800 letters members of Congress wrote io the Reconstruetion Finance Corp. in support of loan applicaThe letters won’t be made public, the committee said, after adopting an investigator's report that publication of the letters would be misleading rather than informative. The Banking and Currency Committee, meanwhile, released a four-year-old report recommending that the Justice Department investigate collusive aspects of huge RFC loans to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Sen. Charles W. Tobey (R. N. H.) prepared the report in 1947 when he was chairman of a banking subcommittee. Neither the subcommittee nor the full committee had adopted it.

Both Houses—Confrols

WITNESSES continued to parade before committees of both Houses to support or condemn continuation of a Defense Production Act. The present law expires June 30 and President Truman has asked for a stronger one. Defense Secretary George C. Marshall urged a strong law and said that inflation in about the last year had taken about $7 billion of $35 billion voted by Congress for defense. :

tions,

Economic

Stabilizer

Erie Johnston said

chances were good for stemming rising costs for the rest of this year if Congress would help by voting higher taxes and stricter credit curbs. Business organizations continued their eriti-

cism of economic controls.

Rowland Jones Jr.,

president of the American Retail Federation, charged that the Truman administration wag using price control powers to restriet profits. He was asked to prepare an amendment prohibiting such use of control powers, "

President

PRESIDENT TRUMAN signed a bill ap-

propriating another

$68.4 billion for defense,

That raises the total appropriated this year for such purposes to $48 billion.

MY DREAM ISLE

OH TAKE me where the sun shines bright + « «+ and soft waves kiss the shore . . . where hearts are gay and life is light... and love lives

evermore 3-.°. take me and leave me on a beach

« « «» Where palm trees gently sway . .. and people never wear a frown . . . but smile throughout

each day ...

. where evenings are a painted

dream . .". and nights are filled with love . . .

and stars enfold the heavens . . monds up above .

+ Just like dia- - I long to go, I vainly seek

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true,

~-By Ben Burroughs,

1951

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Adm. Sherman “ «+, heated indignation

son to bring the Allies into agreement on a United Nations blockade. He gave the Seqretary some credit on this point. But most of Mr. Acheson's testimony was devoted to citing the progress that had been made toward closing down on trade with the Chinese Communists. He described especially the steps taken by the British to check the flow of oil to the enemy, and said strict enforcement measures had been taken by the Hong Kong (British crown ¢olony) government in seizing illicit shipments and confiscating vessels,

” ~ ” . “THESE facts show there already exists on the part of the major ‘industrial countries of the free world an economic embargo with respect to materials of primary strategic significance.” . Britain has been criticized repeatedly for letting rubber get through to Red China— even Winston Churchill protested against British policy on this, Mr, Acheson acknowledged Britain had not gone along as the U. 8. wished. He said the difference in appraising the rubber problem was largely a ‘question of judgment of its strategic value, and a question of the effectiveness

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‘Price Controls’ MR. EDITOR: The next 30 days or more will determine the course of the effectiveness of the entire economic stabilization program. In those days Congress will either enact and renew laws which will generate spontaneous support for the mobilization effort, or it will, by failure to enact such laws, retard the success of that effort, In. times of international emergency; a newspaper 1s charged with a greater responsibility of crusading for fair legislation than in times of peace. The press should not shirk this great responsibility. It should be evident to all men of vision that price controls will be necessary for some time to come, at least for the duration of this emergency. —By Miles H. Loyd, President, Local - Unlon No. 550, Y UAW-010

‘A Meter Deal’ MR, EDITOR:

Maybe I missed a few editions along the way, but it seems to me wa haven't had any kind of an answer from City Hall about parking meters. The Times says the meters the city is going to buy are not as good as anather kind, and will only be extra cost to

the taxpayers in the long run.

Assuming this, information is correct, what goes on? This city is in bad financial condition, everybody knows that, so why take bad financial risk with a meter that cannot be counted on? It doesn't make sense, unless there is someone behind the scene getting a big, fat payoff. Such procedures are not unusual. Fact is, most companies dealing with equip-

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of “the controls if they were imposed.” «He said the U. 8, welcomed the action finally taken by Britain on May 10 to embargo rubber from British colonies to China. *

» » y CHAIRMAN RUSSELL observed that Mr. Acheson's axplanation was “interesting” but didn't answer what he wanted to know. Then he drew from Mr. Acheson testimony that the naval blockade of all North Korea was invoked by United Nations resolution,. He followed by asking if an effort was made to get United Nations to vote a naval blockade of Red China after the Communists entered the war, No, said Mr. Acheson. He said the aim had been for an economic blockade—as against a naval search and seizure blockades-and that “I think we have had considerable success.” Nations would go along on a naval blockade. But Sen. Russell commented: “The thing that has disturbed me, as one who has had high hopes for the efficacy of United Nations for preserving peace, seems to be the degree of enthusiasm with which United Nations meets aggression of a small power, as compared with the lack of enthusiasm when there is a considerable power involved.”

” » r MR. ACHESON said our Allies had problems that made them hesitate to ‘take com plete and drastic measures.” Adm. Sherman was talking differently, “The fact is,” he said, “that our Allies have been unwilling to join in a naval blockade of China and have been slow to establish a tight economia blockade.” The Admiral presented figures to show what has been getting through to the Chinese Reds. He said that in six weeks from February to April, 235 Western merchant ships had visited Chinese ports—98 of them British, 46 Panama» nian and 22 Norwegian.

to the death your right fo say it."

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ment - cities use, vision for such procedures in thelr budgets. » ” ” MAYOR BAYT has done a R00d- job while he’s been in office. From what I hear he's an honest and capable man. His record tends to hack that up. But honest men have long been made fools of by those who work with them . .. those who don’t value that same quality of personality. Let's take a close look at this thing, Mr. Mayor. It won't hurt you or your ade ministration to weed out dishonest persons. Maybe there are no dishonest persons concerned in this situation. Maybe it 1s just a case of poor judgment. If it is, it would still pay off to find out and then set the thinking straight. On the other hand, mavbe The Times was wrong. If “so, let's prove it . .. let's have a test of both machines and then buy. —Meter Reader, City,

‘Worn Out Theme’ MR. EDITOR:

The Republican worn out theme, criticism of Franklin D. Roosevelt, constitutes only a look backward .at his actions and compares them with toe

“ day’s conditions in an effort to

make his actions responsible for the conditions of today, They should remember that Winston Churchill was as much responsible for the Yalta and Potsdam agreements as was Roosevelt. Roosevelt's Republican critics should read Wendell L. Willkie’s book, “One World,” page 73, and note what their onetime banner carrier thought during these years ‘to which they so often return to criticise Roosevelt, ~ » - THESE are Willkie's exact words as printed: “Many among the democracies fear and mistrust Soviet

Russia. They dread the inroads -

of an economic order that would be destructive to their own, Buch fear is weakness. Russia is neither going to eat us or seduce us, That is—and that is something for us to think about-—that is unless our democratic Institutions and our free economy becomes so frail through abuse and failure in practice to make it vulnarable, The best answer to communism is a living, vibrant, fearless democracy-—economic, social and political. All'we need do is stand up and perform according to our professional ideals. Then those ideals will be safe.” ~ » . “NO, we do not need to fear Russia. We need to learn to work with her against our common enemy, Hitlér. We need to learn to work with her in ‘the world after the war. For Russia is a dynamic country, a vital new society, a force that

. cannot be bypassed in any fu-

ture world.” = pad ““'Thé Republicans by their un-

Just, distorted criticism, are do- -

ing mich to bring about just the opposite to that which Willkie advocated by misleading and confusing the minds of the people, Pitting group against group rand crenting more groups. They have been barred from the banquet hall so long that their great hunger has consumed their morals.’

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