Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1951 — Page 14

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. Yors deeply inflencad by their religous comvigpons To

them the source of individual freedom was God. The truth they held to be self-evident was that “all men . , . are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.” . They had the courage to sign and publish such a confey when to do 4 was to fare the wrath of a great and powerful country. ~The deliverance they proclaimed is the freedom Amerleans have njoyed for the 174 years ines.

TODAY Sister forces are threatening this freedom. We are mobilizing against the threat, but the great need is a spiritual mobilization. This year a group of 56 prominent Americans—the same. number that signed the Declaration of Independence —has done much to reawaken and revitalize the religious foe which is the inner strength of our nation. It is the “Committee to Proclaim Liberty,’ whose moving spirit is Dr. James W. Fifield Jr., pastor of the First Congregational Church in Los Angeles. Under the committee's stimulus, clergymen of all denominations preached their Sunday sermons on the freedom we cherish under God. Today at noon church bells will ting for 10 minutes, as on that day in 1776. And every citizen, if America means anything to him, will take time to read again the Declaration of Independence, printed elsewhere on this page. . There could be no better way to observe our country’ 8 birthday. : : te ov

Red Barbarism ty

WILLIAM N. OATIS, 37-year- ‘old Americar newspaperman, has been under arrest by Communist police in

Czechoslovakia since Apr. 23. He has been permitted to see no U. S. official or friend, and has been denied counsel which his employer, the Associated Press, offered to provide.

Monday, looking pale and strained, he ‘confessed’ to Communist charges that he was a spy. Speaking in such a way as to indicate he had memorized his testimony, he named two military attaches of the U. S. Embassy in Pragife us spies against the Red state. There are no Western newsmen in Prague to cover the Oatis “trial.” News of this ghastly proceeding comes from two U. S. Embassy observers who are suffered to be present. This is hardly necessary; or is there need for the Associated Press to deny that Mr. Oatis is a spy. For it is plain by now that the unfortunate American citizen is undergoing the old drug-and-torture treatment made familiar by a long list of similar barbarities practiced in the Communist puppet countries. Persons charged with crimes by Soviet-dominated countries invariably “confess,” and the free world understands. Robert A. Vogeler, the American businessman released after 17 months in a Hungarian prison, said he was subjected to such physical and psychological torture that he was ready to admit anything however preposterous when he was finally given the chance. In other cases, there is evidence that the Communists use a drug which paralyzes the nerves and will power. : Civilized countries are horrified at such inhumanities. How can the United Nations, and our own government, close their eves to these atrocities on the groupd that we must not offend the brutal Kremlin which originated them?

Margarine’s Year

UST A year ago Congress repealed the ancient federal antimargarine laws. Since then, in most states, yellow margarine has been sold tax-free. Sales of the product have jumped, reaching a record rate of over 88 million pounds a month this ypar. About two-thirds of those pounds were yellow margarine: Only about one-third of the margarine sold was colored before ‘yepeal of the 10-cents-a-pound federal tax. ’ However, the butter business doesn't seem to have been ruined, as some of its defenders predicted. Farmers’ 1951 cash receipts from sales of dairy products promise-

Eb be above the 1949 and 1050 levels, and may approach

the all-time record set in 1948. Meanwhile, demand for ‘Soybean and cottonseed oil, farm products used in making margarine, has climbed. ; ; Thirty-nine states and the District of Columbia now permit sale of yellow margarine, Illinois having joined that

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Iowa and Vermont—still prohibit sale of the LA and. a number of other States maintain | d repel of the federal antimar-

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, an arth Festi nual fie fo fc other HEN in the course of human events, it becomes neces‘sary for one people to dissolve the political bands which havé connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires ‘that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life,

liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving

* their just powers from the consent of the governed. That

whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form. as’ to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety‘ and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by alplishing the forms to which they are accustomed, But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing ifivariably the same object, evidence a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is thejr duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colones; *and such is now the necessity which constrains them: to alter their former system of- government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations; all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. n ~ ” ; Eg ” ” HE HAS refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the. legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places, unusual, of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long*time, after such dissélutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these

states; for that purpose obstructing the laws of naturaliza-

tion of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. : He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out, of their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.

a He has affected to render the military independent of

and superior to the civil power.

~ perfidy scarcely parglleled in the most batbarous ages, «and

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b: ; * He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation; for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us; for protecting them by a mock trial from punishment for any murders they should commit on the inhabitants of these states; for cutting off our trade with all

parts of the world; for imposing taxes on us without our consent; for depriving us in many cases of the benfits of trial by jury; for transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses; for abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so

"as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for

introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies; for taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments: for suspending our own legislatures and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. :

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HE HAS abdicated government here by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravished our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and

totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. ‘He hds constrained our fellow citizens taken. eaptive on the high seas to bear arms against their’ country to become the executioners of* their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in tHe most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act, which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have we been wanting in attention to our Brit‘ish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration, and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt Bur connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

: WE THEREFORE, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions do, in the name, and by authority of the good

people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political con-

nection between them and the state of Great Britain is and#

ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. :

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Dignity in Lowliest Peon

. EL PASO, Tex., July 4—Justice is tempered with merey and the human dignity of the lowliest, ignorant peon 18 reo ‘ognized in Federal Court here. District Judge Ewing Thomason has worked out a means of thus dealing with “wetbacks,” Mexican laborers who come illegall¥across thé border to find work. ‘They're

“wetbacks” because many swim or wade the. Rio Grande to elude border patrolmen. w

“Wetbacks” were the subject of a study by a presidene ’

‘tial commission. A congressional committee is to Investigate charges of their mistreatment by American farmers, Congress has just passed a bill authorizing the Labor Debartment 20 recruit farm laborers in Mexico and bring em across the border to rece n . 8. farm operators can hire them. Tie ties where 1.2. 8 ment, which expired July 1, that permitted U. 8. em layers individually to go into Mexico to contract for farm la

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MEANWHILE, “wetbacks” come across th the thousands. 8 Fiver vel ia, : Miegal | entrants must be deported. Here the en discovered, is given the chan turn home voluntarily ‘if he has § Bie me ig Io Ftun criminal “wetback” is -given’ four “VR’ s"—voluntary reture pach Is Sngerprinted. If the “wetback” comes back e, 1a. arrested 3 Shs in and brought before Judge In Judge Thomason’ s court the noncriminal ik r ded merely as a poor alien here to earn what to him — tastic wages. I saw nearly 100 arraigned, None had crimie

nal records. Each had heretofore been v “ " Each had been in jail two to four a on four "YR

Through “an interpreter, the judge rights. Charges were explained, Judge oid aon Thole mostly young, listened intently, hardly moving a muscle. Judge Thomason called on them to plead. As the interpre ter called each name, a man arose. Each said “culpable” — guilty. They spoke with an obvious sense of relief, Jump-

ing up like children in school. 8 hy ome smiled; some raised

Why They Came Here

JUDGE THOMASON sentenced them to 60 days, sus-

pending the sentence. He called on several to tell why they were here.

There was the man from Zacatecas, father of home there was almost no work. Here he chopped pr. iol A $4 a day. At home he got 3 pesos a day. (The Mexican peso is about 9 to the dollar.) His employer treated him well, gave him every cent promised; he bought his own provisions. There was the young bachelor who waded the river, went to Midland and worked for a construction company as a shovelman, at $1 an hour. He, too, got 3 pesos at home, He sent back to Mexico all the money he made, except for what he had to spend on quarters and food. He had $150 in his pocket. “Tell these men,” Judge Thomason said to the interpre~ ter, “that I know they have no criminal records, and that I know they are here just to do honest work" where they are needed. Tell them the court is friendly and sympathetie and knows conditions in their home country.” The interpreter spoke rapidly, gesturing. The “wet. backs” were deeply interested.

‘Just Poor People’

“TELL them the court has shown his lenience. Explain that if they come back illegally they will be sent up for four Months to two years, Tell them the court begs and pleads with them to stay in their own country, unlese they can Some in legally. Explain to them how they can snter legally.”

The judge spoke. om AS the nterpriter finished, ‘the NE

, wetbacks” uttered a fervent “gracias”—thanks. : “They're jus poor, ignorant people, these. first offends ers,” Judge Thomason said later. “We treat repeaters differently.. But these first offenders are, generally speaking, just hungry men hunting work, I think our treatment of them is a part of our good neighbor policy. I have found this treatment has reduced the number of repeaters.” A recent article in the El Paso Herald-Post said Mexican farm laborers are sending back so much money to their homes that the Juarez post office, just across the river, had to hire extra help to handle money orders. In 15 days, the Juarez office processed more than T7000 money orders aggregating $295.364, or 2,540,133 Mexican pesos. Remittances came from this region, the Midwest, and from as far north as Idaho and North Dakota.

FOSTER'S. FOLLIES

NEW YORK—A lending service for those who want to rent a painting, a drawing or a statue has been set oP by the Museum of Modern Art.

Here is a service that should make a hit With Many a poor lonely guy. Statues should pep up the hallroom a bit For introverts timid and shy.

If not a statue, a painting might do, To brighten a life that's forlorn. Who wouldn't go for an art work or two— Like Venus, or September Morn.

ORANGE, TEXAS A fire prevention week contest winner hopes he'll have no immediate use for his prize a beautiful red plush-covered heavy pine casket.

He was the hottest man in town, He burned all competition, But now he can't take lying down His efforts’ sad fruition.

To such awards he's quite averse They're just not down his alley, For ‘next year's show he won't re-hearse— This was his grand finale.

CAMDEN, N. J.—A plant union rules that any Campe

bell Company cook caught betting, instead of making soupy

should be fired.

It may be this ruling won't cause much ado, : Yet it shan't surprise us a lot, If some of these cookies get into a stew And one of the soups goes to pot.

The onion, tomato, and clear consomme We may still continue to get, , But with these restrictions they're under today— Just how can hey make alpha-bet?

Hoosier Forum—'If Anyone Can Help, Please Find Us A Home’

‘Do You Like Children?’

MR. EDITOR: I am a very desperate mother of four children. We are being evicted from our present rental house. It is to be remodeled and sold. We have no place to go. I have spent day after day searching up and down the streets of Indianapolis for a place to live. No one wants to rent to a person with four little children, I'll sthy in our car by day and spend the nights in tourist cabins before I would live in some of the dirt and rodent infested houses that are for rent to people with children. My babies are strong and healthy and I want them to stay that way. My husband is an engineer for the Indianapolis fon Railway Co. and has been for 10 years, e have very good credit standing in the leading stores and department stores. We also have very high references

and backing. “rankate Houing serv.

PE there. They have offered

job.

on a home?

to us one house. Seven rooms, modern, in Greencastle, for $90 a month. If we are ‘ever to have a home of our own we have to have a place in Indianapolis 80 that we Can save money instead of paying it all out for expenses that .pile up when you are living too far from your

Must I give our children up, one by one, to other people and then go to work myself until we have enough money for a down -payment This was oné suggestion by a “friend.” I want my children. I want to be able to make a home for the six of us. Ig this a crime? Or was it a crime having the children in the first place? ' Is there not one landlord in this large and » friendly city who remembers being a little child among brothers and sisters? Jat there someone who can help me? . The children's ages dre as follows: a boy, § Jats. a gL. 8 years, a boy, 8 years; a girl,

alin and’ T ase. 38 yosrs. ald, Afr June 29 we will have no home.

‘Greedy Shylock’

MR. EDITOR:

stop to this greedy Shylock.

‘It's a Secret’ MR. EDITOR:

like the Missouri a coat apiece.

know 10.666 coats of paint.

“Am so surprised to read in yeur paper that my very good friend, Judge Lloyd Claycombe, was in such a hurry to grant the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. such a substantial rate increase, Of all our public utilities, the telephone company is the last to deserve a rate inorease. This octopus has been gouging the poor public long enough, and it is about time somebody puts a

—Chas. E. Hess Sr., New Augusta.

_ Rep. Brownson is puzzled because the Navy bought enough paint to give 10,668 battleships

Rep. _Brownson apparently doesn't have any as I he NA Otherwise he'd

‘A Poor Editorial’ MR. EDITOR: j : “Your editorial, “He Muffed the Ball” was surely a weak one. If anyone has muffed an opportunity it has been The Times. You could carry on a bi-partisan policy that would be wel comed by this eity. J Your ridicule of all statements by the Presi dent was uncalled for. It's the truth-that hurts, Truman was giving you facts and the truth of the situation, but your only quotes from his speech were ones you ted to criticize. You didn’t once recall the facts the adminiatration has faced and solved. aL rogretable that ok “hai a million citi ndianapolis can in the papers; ridicule of our President and his

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