Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1951 — Page 24
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Municipal Courts—Justice or Jokes?
JNPIANAPOLIS has seldom seen a more shocking performance than the one given in Municipal Court No. 3 last Thursday by acting judge Herbert M. Spencer. To see an acting judge step off the bench and put one of his friends on it while he himself appeared before it as defense attorney is bad enough. ; To see a “judge” clowning through a juvenile mockery of a court session is worse. For most of the people who come before that court it is the only contact they ever have with our vaunted American system of justice. The offenses charged against them may be minor ones, in the general scheme of things, but it is far from. a minor matter when jail or liberty depends on the whimsy of a would-be comedian who makes a joke out of justice. It wasn't funny, Mr. Spencer. It was disgraceful.
» ~ » = LJ = OUR municipal courts have suffered too much and too long from the flagrant abuse of the “pro-tem’” system here displayed at its worst. For years certain judges have side-stepped decisions with which they were afraid to face the people of Indianapolis by getting a “pro-tem” substitute who had no responsibility to the people, to make the dubious decision. This court is in charge of Joseph M. Howard, who was appointed to its bench, who took an oath of office to respect it and uphold its integrity and dignity in the administration of impartial justice—and who is still drawing pay for it. He is responsible for its conduct. s He sought that job—it wasn't forced on him. He has administered it indifferently. The minute he got one with the Democratic National Committee that paid more money he took off fast for Washington, leaving the court in charge of Leo O'Connor “pro tem,” who was responsible to no one. Mr. O'Connor promptly turned it over to Mr. Spencer and brought in one of his own clients for “trial”"—on a serious drunken driving charge involving an accident, and the safety of everyone in this city. “What followed was an insult to every court and every ethical lawyer in the whole state of Indiana—and a slap in the face to every policeman trying to enforce the law in Indianapolis. =
= > 5 ” = x MONKEY business in that particular court will end next Saturday. Gov. Schricker has appointed Phil Bayt to be its judge, and Mr. Bayt is a man whose respect for law and courts and justice and the rights and dignity of human beings will raise it to a decent and respected level. The Governor, we feel, is to be congratulated on this excellent choice. “ This is one of two municipal court appointments he has to make by the end of this year. This one has, by law, to be a Democrat. We hope he does as well with the other, who by law must be a Republican. We hear the political pressures for that vacancy are already forming behind a man whose record is so shady that his appointment would be welcomed by every fixer and petty racketeer in town. We feel pretty confident Gov. Schricker is not going to be tricked by them into lowering his own standards, and the standards of justice in Indianapolis by an ill-considered appointment there, Those courts are just as important to the men and women who come to them for justice as the highest courts in the country.
He Won’t Come Back
TATE DEPARTMENT “spokesmen” now say the Czech spy who roamed this country two and a half years on a diplomatic permit won't be let in again, The department has issued a statement defending itself against charges.by a Senate committee that it permitted the spy to travel in and out of the country after it knew he was.engaging in espionage. The department says it didn't have, and doesn't have even now, the information on which the Senate committee based its charges. And it says the spy won't be back, remarking—
ironically it seems to us—that he has “concluded his service in the United States.” Pretty good “service,” too, if the Senate committee is correct. Ld ~ ” ” un "
- AS AN example of its “vigilance” the department says it has expelled 15 Communist diplomats in the last three years. “In most cases, it should be, added, after the Communists had kicked our diplomats out of thei countries, The State Department “issues the permits for thes “diplomats” to come to this country. Better than anyone else, including a Senate committee, it ought to know wha they are doing. Communist diplomats are .admitted by the Stat Department, it says, so that we can maintain diplomat at “listening posts” in Communist countries. But our diplomats behind the Iron Curtain are hog tied, hamstrung. and walled up. They live in a vacuum Commie agents here, however, enjoy the same priv leges as diplomats from friendly nations. Dees that make sense?
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Always Helpful
NMAJ. GEN. HARRY VAUGHAN, President Truma, = 7 deep-freeze military aide, has been accused hy St. Louis newspaper of sending a letter to a federal judge in behalf of a tax dodger.
A White House secretary says all Gen. Vaughan did
was pass along a letter pleading for mercy which came from an employee of the defendant. - Who does the General think he is? The postman?
Xo ioe
Times
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'l Get Ideas’
Foster's Follies
YARMOUTH, England.— A two-masted schooner, bound for the South China Seas with 13 hunters for the fortune of Capt. Kidd, was wrecked by an English Channel gale.
They started in search of a fortune well fabled, A seventeenth century treasure, But right at the outset their ship was disabled, The trip to their hopes failed 10 measure.
So if you would look for ti lair of a pirate, Don't try a long vovage forbidding. Just hie to your butcher, you'l find he's most irate, A ‘stabilized’ brigand -—— no Kidd-ing. : 5 2 =
THE SEVENTEENTH Cen-
tury seagoing swashbuckler had the government on his
neck, too. But while your local tradesman is only with red tape, the Cutlass Kidd found himself tied up-—with a good strong rope. The original Billie the Kidd )
tied down
started out as a privateer 1 track down pirates who had been harassing British ship-
ping in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. But, according to the story, a mutinous crew. forced him to turn buccaneer:; Which may have been the first instance Of private suffering from too much outside “assistance.” Being winter time, some people claim they cold-decked him, but in any many crooks sure spoiled this broth of a boy.
enterprise
case too
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KIDD’'S actual fortune. believed to be large, proved inredibly small, That's when most of the stories of his buried trea current, But buried treasure doesn’t pick up any more moss thaag a olow horse on a fast track. As was learned by a lot of folk who put a bucks in the old sockeroo back in the go
before inflat
ure became
few
davs
they dug out the treasure
were shocked to f
a ten-buck suit in a shower, it had shrunk considerably. Anyway, Capt. Kidd waz¢e just another young fellow who gambled with fate—and got it inthe neck. The fact is that Kidd ‘had their .goat which
isn't exactly according to biological standards. Even so, he was lucky. He was swing clear before they put in the 10 per cent gambling tax. Which is mutually frowned on And most of
able to
all bookies.
heir betters,
mF a AUNTY COMMY SAYS: Jist read where the spitting
South Arica. sometimes ejects a venomous spray from its mouth when annoyed With them Kremlin cuties it st a venomous bray.”
nake of
Z =" ”n n HEH-HEH HEADLINES: Headache Survey Finds Six Out of Ten Are Afflicted.’ That ount must hdve been made rior to the November 13t tax nereases,
“PAY HIKES BOOS 'RICES, JOHNSTON CAl "IONS C10.”.- NOW he. find
hat out! “RFC HALTS BUYING © ALCOHOL.” . Thought thei IAngover came from a conco«
tion of slightly different i: gredients, “WIFE ASKS WHAT T DO AFTER FINDING HU:
BAND HAS BEEN STE] PING OUT.” How about hic ing the old boy's shoes, lady : a x 8 There is said to be no def ite historical proof whethe ("leopatra was a blonde, bruns or a. redhead. Maybe that's why many modern women change the color of their hair once a day and twice on Sunday. Although as far as Cleo was concerned, the tone of her tresses didn't =eem to make much difference to Anthony: and a few others, *
@WASHINGTON, Nov. 17-—-Should Frank E. McKinney, Indianapolis, be seeking ad-
vice, help and guidance in connection with ‘his new job as Nations Democratic Chairman, Ke can find it today in a statement from the Catholic Bishops of the United States,
who just closed a two-day meeting here. One of the signers of the statement, which deals with political. as well as personal morality, is’ the Right Rev. John F. Noll, bishop of Ft. Wayne.
Like his six successive predecessors in. the national chairmanship, Mr. McKinney is an Irish Catholic. He was made one of the Papal Knights .of Malta by Cardinal Spellman. So the political sections of the statement from the bishops should be particularly helpful to him In his new position. ” =” 5 UNDER the title “Morality and Pplitics” the bishops’ statement says: “In politics, the principle that ‘anything goes simply becausé people are thought not to expect any high degree of honor in politicians is grossly wrong. We have to recover that sense of personal obligation on the part of the voter and that sense of public trust on the part of the elected official which -give meaning and dignity to political life. Those who are selected for officé by their fellow men are entrusted with grave responsibilities. They
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MR. EDITOR: It has always been a great mystery to some of us just how the New Deal and Fair Deal mind works and just what causes it to tick as it does. Take for who tells us he is a Democrat, In the Forum writing about high taxes, he says: “But the long reach into our pockets is And then he “Of
course, when Aunt Fannie got that government pension, and there are a half dozen ways to get one, Uncle John that nice government subsidy.
instance F. M.
beginning to hurt.” Rays:
Junior his bonus and most of his advanced education via Uncle Sam, when smart Uncle Ben got that fat government contract on whic he piled plenty of incidentals so as to make his 10 per cent bigger, we smiled and said how nice. But some, big. bad. old man has just handed us the bill for all this free riding and are we unhappy.” - Ds
NOW OF course we all agree with F. M that
is is true
For instance it cost $117 billion to run it in
13 years of the Roosevelt reign. It has
$262 billion to run it
in approximately
seven vears Harry Truman has been President. Now it had ought to be plain to anyone after 20 years that part of the philosophy of the
Democratic Party and high taxes. man Friday spend and
the
is big government spending Harry Hopkins, Roosevelt's faid, “We spend and and elect” and that has been Democrat Party since they
once will elect the
in 1932.
policy of took over to me iz if F. M. or to pay these . why do they voting the Democrat ticket when they that taxes will
the
Now the great myst any
other Demox like
that hurt
taxes
t ought to know
ng as Democrats
However, as I said at the start of this letter. { iz a how the New Deal, and Fair Deal mind works and what causes it to tick as it does. —(. D. C,, Terre Haute
mystery
‘Very Confussticating’
MR. EDITOR Out in Seattle Tuesday, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who refused to fade away as he promised, said that Truman's foreign policies
have the nation hanging onto the brink of dis-
aster by the skin of.its teeth. The good Gen-
bubblehead. same evening
called Harry a York that very Lucius M. Clay, who sparked the Berlin the “Grocery Manufacturers of America that the present foreign policies (Truman’s) are “wise and enlighténed.” which i8 which, huh”? difference the way
:ral as much as Back in New (ien
Airirt told
NOW One is for sure: (jen. MacArthur, who, by till on the Army's payroll, has friends who tease him with the buzz of that ld presidential however, has the service''to chairman board for the Can Co.
is still
hee Gen. Clay,
retired from
f the
became Continental
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"lI do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."
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Presidential bees don’t buzz, mebbe, around can factories. Or could-it be Gen. Clay is tying a can onto Doug? It is all very confussticating. Huh? —Joe Blow, City.
‘Why an Agreement?
MR. EDITOR . Just why we are trying to arrive at some igreement with Russia is bevond mv under-
tanding. Not one agreement with Russia that ve or any nation has ever made has ver been carried out by Russia. To put the Russians under oath means nothg. They do not believe in God or Christ How can any put any confidence in government with Russia's record? If Russia won't admit anvone behind the Iron Curtain nor inyone to come out from ,behjnd-the Iron Curtain, except spies and propaganda and diplomats who are antagonistic to any freedom of any sort, why don’t we them all behind the Iron Curtain Sever all relations with Russia, stop all Russian papers in this country, disfranchise all Communist Party members. Have our ment confiscate plants of all manufacturers selling material to Russia directly or indirectly and withdrawal all aid from countries doing the same. Isolate Russia and and the danger of a third soon be ancient history —E. Bowman; 2821 Station St.
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‘Where Are We?’ MR. EDITOR What 1 want to know is The gos nt takes follar ear business, gavs mann Association of York. Get that” But Louis Irg. chairman of the board for Servel, Inc, told the National Metals Association in Chicago that the. governtakes 40 cents out of every earned dollar.
Forty, see”?
WHERE ARE WE? 70 centscout of every Henry H. Hei National New
ve vice president of Credit Men
Seventy
executt the speaking cents
Ruthenby f
I'rade ment Somebody, seems to have lost 30 cents he
tween New York and Chicago
Where are we
Joe Blow, City.
WHAT IS IT WORTH?
WHAT IS it worth, the climb to fame . . . the reaping of great wealth what is it worth if with it all . . . a man has lost his health , . . what is it worth to fall in love . . . with one for whom vou yearn . .. if You are not lucky enough . . . to be loved in return . . . what is it worth to fool the world ., . when deep inside you know . . | that God above will frown on you . . . when it's your time to go . ., what is it worth to cause a tear . .. to dim a human eve... what is it worth to say a word . ,. that causes hearts to ery... the worth of all of these is naught .. . but priceless is the worth., . . of living a life that's close to God . .. during Your short stay on earth,
—By Ben Burroughs.
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DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney
Good Advice for McKinney In U.S. Bishops’ Statement _
Mr. McKinney . . . good ‘advice
have been selected not for self- .
enrichment but for tious public service. “In their speech and in their actions they are bound by the same laws of justice and charity ‘which bind private individuals in évery other sphere of human _ activity, Dishonesty, slander, detraction, and defamation of character are as truly God's
consclen*
transgressions of
commandments when resorted
to by men in political life as they are for all other men.” Besides ‘condemning, in polite language some of the
shady deals that are being uncovered, that paragraph lends no "aid or comiort to ‘“McCarthyism” either.
= = = “AN ALARMING parallel exists the situation facing us today and that which faced the Roman Empire. 1500 Years ago,” the bishops de-
between
Clare,
“The problems of the empire
closely resemble those which sorely test us now -barbarism on the outside, refined mate-
rialism .and moral decay within Confronted by
were
those prob-
iems, what men of that
time concerned with? = St. Augustine, who lived in that period, gives us the answer in a memorable passage: . ‘They do not trouble about the moral degradation of the empire. All that they ask is that it should be prosperous and secure. ‘What conéerns us,” they say. “is that everyone should be able to increase his wealth so that he can afford a lavish expenditure and can keep the weak in subjection. I.et the laws protect the rights of property and let them leave man's morals alone , , , let tHere be sumptuous banquets where anybody can play and drink and gorge himself and he dissipated by day or night as much as he pleases or is able. Let the noise of dancing be everywhere and let the theaters resound with lewd merriment , . . let the man who dislikes these pleasures be regarded as a public enemy'.”
5 ~ » “DOES not all this have a modern ring? Has not a great part of our society been doing and saving much the same thing” With the threat of the barbarian on the outside, does our conduct reflect the sobriety of citizens who are conscious that a bell may be tolling for them and for eivilization? We have sent our young men on military expeditions to far-off lands so that justice and freedom may be kept alive in the world; and vet at home we have become careless about the foundations of justice and the roots of freedom. It cannot go well with us if we continue on this course, “The lessons of history are evident to those with eves that will The Roman Empire disintegrated from within: and moral corruption was the main cause of its decline and disappearance. The same fate will befall us if we do not awaken to the danger which threatens from within our own household. Mastery over material things will avail us nothing, if we lose mastery aver ourselves,”
see,
EUROPE . . . By Peter Edson
Yugoslav Arms Aid Needs Supervision
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Nov.
17—The military aid
pact just signed by the United States and Yugoslavia
under which Marshal Tito's
anti-Soviet forces will get
modern American weapons, points up a puzzle. It is:
Just how the U. 8S buying in
much security are Britain and France Yugoslavia Military planners at
risenhower’'s headquarters feel
Gen.
that Marshal to's forces are worth an investment Thev were good guerrilla fighters in
How good
they may be is
World War II modern arnwy
1
ething else again. And the
eco 1 support be } ty much «¢ a hollow shell He ¢ he new pat was signed in Beigrade, Marsnal Tito had said that he cot d lake care of his forces on small arms and ammunitior
but he wanted heavy artillery
anks and planes from the United States. He wanted these ms without any strings tied
he would 8 to West-
to gain their assist-
them and said make no concessior
ern powers
ance, =” » z BUT THE aid he will get have str ngs on t De ise the paet provides for
I I an American mission at Belwill the whatever n ateriel
Krade that check on
use made nf
e give hin Also Tito made concessions at least to the
1aKing available to
the 1’. 8 raw and sem
eszed materials Yugoslavia has
ere 3 another side to
3 question, however the 17. 8 viewpoint. There is
a parallel of American: expeing to Turkey start of the Truman
" i the U 8, planned
rience in giv aid Al tne
doctrine
merely to turn over to Tur tanks and heavy without
But it
cov artiliery supervision
was soon found that
By J. Hugh O'Donnell
PINTS FOR. NOVEMBER
INDIANAPOLIS . BlooD CENTER
HL
"BLOOD LINE 15 THE
LIFE LINE 7
Turkey
had no capable of
road system Carrying gasoline and ammunition to the north. Turkish
ern borders, to support mechanized forces. Sn the first requirement Was to
heip the Turks build a modern road svstem, = x > THEN it was found that the Turks had no mechanics capable of repairing motorized equipment, So a traf Ing rystem and military schools had to be established with Ameri. fan instru tors in Turkey and r iIrkish instructors sent to the L, 8. for specialized training. Yugoslavia. today has no ad system capable of carry. ng. heavy artillery tanks or upply And while America automobiles
»
trucks
- Made
dash m: about the Streets of drab, Slav Belgrade, mechanics capable of repairing motorized military equipment are few. It is now t} 3" three ve; wil Bn Years since Lito broke with the Russians
Ya ; r 1.a8t vear Yugoslavia suffered
Revere drouth. It may have cast the country as much
as $100 militon in loss of food
om a
export sales, as well Af inter. nal suffering which U 8. food loans helped to relieve, This Year's crops were good. . 5 » »
ALL PRICES and all wages are paid 5 “8 pal in -a of coupons
counts
complex |vstem n bonds, and dis. tags on clothing and the store windows three prices the full NG oper ce count and 60 per — a Lia Value’ of the dinar is from an official rate of 50 to the dol
IAT to s azil ir to an easily obtained black
shoes in
bea
nrice in dinars,
market rate of s be { 400 dollar. to the Tourists hs : tary . lave a Supplemeni currency in
Putniks,
worth 50 to. the dollar, They Pay half the price in dinars and half in putniks Ameri cans stationed in Belgrade who abide hy.the official exchange rates find that PRES Are woe 40 cents apiece bread the equivalent of $1 a pound,
There is inflation all over the place o What all this seems to add up to is that the Yugoslav iovernment and economy are ‘n need of a thorough overhaul hefore they can he considered ! Rood investment. The Tito government had planned some vage and price reforms to he effective in November, but they have heen delayed until January, ’ 2 t ” ” ” “HOW successful the Tito government has been in its efforts to collectivize the farms is another great mystery, There has unquestionably been much local opposition. And Tito himself admits that there have been failures due to lack of machinery, bad planning, had management and CELE tage, In spite of all these drawbacks, the resources of the country are admittedly enormous, There are rich farm areas like Iowa, copper, lead, bauxite, timber and other re. sources. The top men of government are all young parti sans, devoted to the’ {dea of
’
and powerful Communist state,
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- making their country a pep ©
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SUNDAY Washin %: WASH] ‘Attorney Ge Dismiss Caudle, McC only the fir: too, Republi Some admin looks as if t Resoluf already bef is sponsored move agains General som King st ment, as wel additional p McGrath is : Congres connection wit race track. ir ahout tax-avi of Textron's while McGrat! about his acti
ly sensitive in They want
innk at effor head off Kef tion of intel and racketeer tn know whe National Con
Hannegan.- Ba especially wit ternal revenue was chairman And investi go Into McGrath's George Moore halt indictme: ¥innegan;: disj Department a Nashville, and to soft-pedal investigations; ‘ding U. S. at information" t investigators; vestigate “'jur where jurors internal reven fusal to turn « King subcomn Separate in been asked of administration
Slow Motic AND HERF Congressmen Justice Depart: delay in act former RFC ¢ {rand RFC
that Commerci
invest}
ment Corp. of charged lumbus, hauling prefat factory to de: quested Justice tion 19 month happened until mittee annound the matter. “Unusual Pp! then brought o! in behalf of C Joseph E. Case (Casey, former Congressman, { ran $20,000 h £250,000 profit |
1 11gt re Lus .
0 b
er deal) Fulbright prodded Justic
Sn did Federal Underwood of threatened to
grand jury to Justice didn’t a it would invest Pep (jeqrge Mich one-ir Fulbright Com again, when ] ment investiga
going on 168 mot!
go far.
Angry Ach SECRETARY ACHESON is = ing mad over time of report « atrocities agal prisoners of wal he phoned Pre at Xey West, u rebuke be admi sponsible officer Reason: - Ack this latest sensa delicate truce 1 Panmunjom President's re told Acheson ! thorough check. anvone who o
thority In
Coy for Joh IT LOOKS as formerly of Inc kign soon as ct Federal! Commu mission Rource administration t successor to St rector Erie Jol resignation is eff
Yugoslav M HERE'S LATI port to Washin tary muscle of which told Unite week it's being 1 divisions on Red tiers, Tito's army, training, show sound modern ta infahtry, artille Equipment is r moded, antiqua! ably could make ing against Bul manian armies; match well-equi force,
relea
Yugosl! clai (soantily Wquippe Ohne major t
trv's military fi on ox-ecart econe who have seen T no doubt that h Moscow is final.
It's Logistics WHY DO forces try to p tough Korean m ing Nien truce alnly to Imp