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Our Courts Look Better Already

J £ are not surprised, though we certainly are gratified, at the performance of Municipal Judge Bayt in his first few days in office. Sentences pronounced, especially on convicted drunken drivers, are not especially severe in comparison to those in other cities, though they are plainly a lot tougher than has been the custom in Indianapolis. We believe they should be. The drunken, reckless driver is a menace not only to himself but to everybody who crosses -his path. So far this year 60 persons have been killed, and 3351 injured in traffic accidents in Indianapolis —not all, but a goodly share of them, directly the result of drunken driving: : A tap on the wrist is not going to deter.this kind of operator. A few days in jail is likely to stop a great deal of it. Plus the certainty that there won't be any “fix” in the court that tries him, nor any “pro tem” judge to hear the “cases with “influence,” or any series of delays until the case is forgotten.

» n JUDGE BAYT hasn't yet, although we expect he will, come up against the one serious weakness in the whole lower court system. That is the ease of appeal, and the too-good chance of escape on appeal. It seems that any traffic penalty ordered in Municipal Court can be appealed to the criminal courts at a cost of about $3. In the busy Criminal Courts that deal with murders and felonies of all kinds, these are comparatively minor cases. So they are likely tb get lost, and never be pushed at all—and the offender goes free almost by default. Some Municipal Court. judges in the past have become ‘so discouraged over this that they have softened up their own penalties— just so the offender wouldn't bother to appeal. We hope Judge Bayt doesn't get discouraged. We believe there is a solution for this. The first flagrant case that is appealed could be followed on through by the county prosecutor, a county indictment obtained, the case pushed to early trial, and the offender, if still found guilty, given a still stiffer penalty. One or two such prosecutions would pretty quickly confine appeals to the sort of cases for which they were created—and mark a great step forward in justice and in traffic safety in Indianapolis. We hope Prosecutor Fairchild will back up this court in the fine start it has made in that direction, and we're inclined to believe he will.

Boy Scouts—And a Tragic Mistake S newspapermen we've always been deeply serry when anybody in a position of special public trust has betrayed that trust—when a clergyman has got involved in a scandal, when a teacher has committed a crime, when a banker has, perhaps, vanished with the depositors’ funds. Sorry because as newspapermen we have to report the facts—even when we don't like these facts at all, even when we wish it hadn't happened. To that we now can add the tragic slaying of that woman in Detroit, and her daughter, with the Boy Scout ax and knife of the assistant Scoutmaster who was her son, and who still hasn't been found. A Scout leader holds a position of special public trust, too, with tremendous influence over the lives of young boys. Thousands of Scout leaders, probably tens of thousands, have done magnificent work over the years in molding and building character in the youth of America, have given unstintingly of (their time, and effort and talents, and have richly earned the confidence in which they are so universally held. We don’ tirecall ever hearing of one involved in any ‘trouble before, That one of them, whose mind may have cracked up, now appears in such a tragedy is no more an indictment of Boy Scouting than the rare, though not unknown, slip of some minister is an indictment of the church, or the lapse of some teacher is an indictment of the schools. The Boy Scouts have earned a place in the life of America that cannot be destroyed, nor even materially injured, by the failure of one Juman being, perhaps through no sane act of his own, to meet the high standards it has set.

Our Extravagant Army N his article today on the South Korean Army (on Page 17) Jim Lucas includes a side-glance at American Army methods. Brief though it is, it tells volume. Far up in the Korean hills, overlooking the front lines, is a Korean artillery battalion with one American military adviser. He could do with a radio, of course, to get newscasts—but, as Capt. Louis Jaris told Mr. Lucas, a $25 portable set would be quite enough. So what did the Eighth Army do? It sent Capt. Jaris, not one, buf five sets costing an estimated $2500 each. : ] guess they had a surplus of them down at the Eighth Army,” Capt. Jaris explajned. “We need them here like we need a hole in the head, but they insisted we take five of them.” ; One shudders to think how many times and in how many ways this sort of thing has gone on in Korea. Every American who served in the military forces in World War II can tell a half dozen stories of such senseless profligacy. The Lyndon Johnson Senate Preparedness Committee is doing a good job keeping tabs on defense production wastage at home, Namely, what happens after we get the finished product into the active theaters—the squandering, misuse and inefficiency that comes from lack of co-ordination, conscience and common sense.

Vishinsky’s ‘Dinger’ ANDREI VISHINSKY, Russia's minister, called our United Nations delegate Philip C. Jessup a ‘‘secondrate representativc” at the Paris meeting. Just like the Communists—hitting below the belt. Mr. Jessup could have reminded Vishinsky that he didn’t have to be there to take any Russian insults— inasmuch as the U. 8. Senate never did confirm Mr. Jessup for the job in the first place. And that was largely because some Senators thought he'd be entirely too first-rate in Russian estimation.

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DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidriey

‘Homer Predicts “State Cleanup

Capehart Asserts There Won't Be Any GOP @orruption $ WASHINGTON, Nov. 28—Republicans, having won nearly all the city governments in Indiana, will not proceed to build “political machines” of ‘“the’icorrupt Democratic typewhich brought disgrace to. big cities throughout the country,” Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.) prophesied here today. “I have the utmost confidence in. the high quality of the mayors elected throughout the state by our party,” Sen. Capehart asserted.

“Their conduct in office will strengthen thesticket for another sweep of the state next year. Then we will elect a governor, Senator and President.”

The favorite national ticket for Hoosiers right now would be Taft and MacArthur, or MacArthur and Taft, Indiana declared. “We Republicans would support that ticket, either with Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) or Gen. Douglas MacArthur in first place,” he said. “The one not chosen should take the vice presidency. That would be an unbeatable combination in Indiana today.” Sen. Capehart stressed the need for the newlv elected city officials to do an outstand. nz job, as the best way, to aid the party in winning again in 19852. “Way back when I was a member of the committee investigating gambling which resulted in sending the New York gambler Frank Erickson to jail.” Sen. Capehart recalled, “I pointed out that there wasn't anything in city crime and, corruption that local governments couldn't cure. “Later, when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover testified before the Kefauver Committee he stressed the same point. It still holds true. Now we are charged with proving it in Indiana cities where Republicans have been elected.”

The Larger Ones

THE LIST of Hoosier cities captured by the GOP in the elections earlier this month include all of the larger ones, except Terre Haute and Gary. “It was the city political machines of’ the Pendergast - Kelly - Hague type that finally brought disgrace to the Democrats on the national level,” Sen. Capehart concluded. “I am confident that cannot happen in Indiana cities under Republican rule.” While Sen. Canehart was expressing this the new Democratic National Chairman, Frank E. McKinney, Indiananolis, was stressing somewhat the same thema in addressing fellow Democrats at a Waldorf-Astoria dinner in New York City. “T.et's talk frankly about the ethics of public service and the moral atmosphere of government.” Mr. McKinney said. “It was a great Democratic President who said that public office is a public trust, and so long as I am chairman of our party that will be mv watchword. “Termites can attack the soundest building, and in-politics as elsewhere, the termites we shall always have with us. The only way to deal with termites is to keep a sharp watch for them and get rid of them whenever they show up. That is just what the Democratic Party is doing.

‘A Public Enemy’

“ANY MAN who betrays the people's trust in public office is a public enemy. Any man who betrays a public trust in a Democratic Administration is an enemy of the Democratic Party. “In my .opinion, 99.9 per cent of those entrusted with public office are honest and incorruptible. The few who do not measure up to/ these standards must be exposed and punished, relentlessly. “1 am ready to help—and what is more important, Harry 8. Truman is ready to help. The Democratic Party is determined that no malefactor in public office shall go unpunished.” These two statements on civic virture add up to the sort of bi-partisanship that any honest citizen can support. It might be too cynical to recall the saying: “When the devil is sick, would be.”

Views on the News

ALTHOUGH he won by more than 400.000 votes, Sen. Taft didn’t like the way the campaign against him was conducted in Ohio last year. He must want to wipe otit the two-party system.

PREDICTION for 1952—traffic will be terrible, with both Democrats and Republicans trying to claim the middle-of-the-road.

OPENING a Stagsen-for-President campaign headquarters in Washington, the manager said they would try to talk Harold into running. He is so busy stumping for himself, he may be hard to catch up with.

A-BOMBAST—Science has made it for one world to lead to another, ONE WAY for Congress to scandals would be to bar athletes commerce.

Sen.” Capehart ... still holds true.

the devil a monk

simple

stop sports in interstate

—D. K.

By Galbraith

SIDE GLANCES !

born. Toi BP xi "He wants a convertible for Christmas! When | was tickled pink with a pair of overshoes!"

the senior Senator from

Tragic Memorial

AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR

TAFT AND OATMEAL .

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 — Sen. Robert A. Taft isn't really kicking about the names the opposition called him during last year’s election

in Ohio. The dirty work got so many hands muddy that Mr. Republican won by 431.000 votes But since the

Democrats are making charges against him, said the fastestrunning Presidential candidate, he thought he'd better give the Senate Elections Committee a fill-in on what the Democrats tried to do to him. - Including their libels about his babyhood gluttony for oatmeal and their charges that the sting of a jellyfish in

the Philippines affected his attitude on foreign policy. On he sidelines in a dove- gray suit sat

to “tell ‘his si ide of the 5 sg story Sabon his campal gn against Taft. He talked to every reporter who'd listen, but we might as well wait until he makes it official. The Senator sat under the bright lights, reading a 62-page statement about the villainies of Jumping Joe's cohorts. He presented 82 separate exhibits, including comic books denouncing him, photographs of his billboards smeared with paint, and speeches of administration stalwarts he called carpetbaggers. He had fake composite photographs showing him with Nazi bigwigs and pictures of CIO carnival signs urging strollers to buy three balls for 10 cents and knock out the teeth of Robert Alphonso Taft in effigy.

A Few Smiles JUMPING JOE and Co., obviously l

no chance to make a bum out of the Senator .

from Ohio. But, he said, they went so far that the majority of Ohio's voters sided with him Certainly, he added, he had an elaborate campaign. But, he asked, who wouldn't when he found the entire labor movement and the Truman administration working against him? Then he got down to details. In one of the handbooks for speakers against Taft was a paragraph which the Senator read with gusto. It went like this: “As a baby, Robert Alphonso was greedy for oatmeal. His nurse tried to curb his appetite by giving him plain milk instead of rich cream served at the Taft breakfast table. When that didn't work, his nurse held out on the sugar. These tactics must have made a deep impresgion on the young heir. Fifty vears later, he When Taft found he couldnt block certain welfare measures in the Senate, he tried to take the good parts out of them.” The same book said that when Sen. Taft was a child in the Philippines with his father,

FUTURE PROBE?

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 — Five train wrecks in two weeks, with a heavy toll of deaths and injuries, today had stirred congressional sentiment for greater safety precautions by American raiiroads. Sen. Ed C. Johnson (D. Colo.), chairman of the Cammerce Committee which handles railroad legislation, said If federal investigation of November train wrecks confirm his belief that the latest types of safety equipment would have helped prevent them, Congress may have to legislate, “When we've had proposais to make installation of certain types of safety devices compulsory, the railroads have been opposed,” he sald. “Why,

jection, I can’t believe there's amything that costs more than a big train wreck.

8 ” » “THERE is the loss of life and of property, and there is also the psychological effect on the public. I would guess that the recent train accidents have cost the railroads a million dollars In scared off passenger revenue, “You could install a lot of safety equipment with a mil-

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uv wea savice, tn lion dollars.” his age et waty Sen. Johnson said he was ’ awaiting a “full and satisfac-

0 a REDS IN KOREA

By Frodurick C. Othman

Bob Didn't Mind the Names—

I don’t know. If cost is the ob-

CEASEFIRE? .. + By Ludwiel Denny Stalin Isn’ Santa Claus

Idea of Peace by Christmas In Korea Is a False Hope

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 — Falsé hope of peace-by-Christmas is raised by the tentative agreement on a future cease-fire line in Korea. Chances of an effective truce within a month are none too good. There is no possibility whatever of a genuine peace settlement within that

period permitting the witharavgl of American troops.

Though this is obvious to officials, it apparently is not sufficiently understood by the home folks of U. 8. servicemen or by the American public generally.

Therein is a danger to- morale. Perhaps it is a danger deliberately designed by the Reds. For false hope can react {n bitterness and frustration. It might end in public demands for peace-at-any-price in Korea, and a letdown in the over-all defense effort which is already lagging in the United States and Western Europe. That, of course, would be the biggest and cheapest victory Stalin could gain. Whether Red aggression in Korea pays off or not depends only in part on results in that country. Even cmore important is the effect on world security.

Opposite Effect

SO FAR Korea is an Allied victory and a Red defeat precisely because it has had the opposite effect intended by Stalin. Instead of the quick and easy conquest planned by the Kremlin, it unexpectedly forced the first United Nations military action against aggression. It’ awakened American and Allied publics to the Red world menace as nothing else had done. It convinced our doubting Allies that the United States would fight for others. It made possible Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's defense organization in Europe, offset some of the neutralism of Western Germany and committed the free world to rearmament. Stalin ever since has tried to stop that Allied rearmament which he unwittingly started by ordering his stooges to take defenseless South ». Korea. To date he hag failed to trick the alerted Allies into putting aside their security programs. That will be the test of whatever happens in

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Korea on the battlefield or at the conference table, The so-called future cease-fire line just

agreed to, can be either a small step toward possible peace or a trap—depending on future developments, line originally demanded by the Reds, it gives us only what we already hold. It hands the Reds the advantage by freezing our effective operations for a month, and by giving them the breather needed for propaganda and more military buildup.

“Thats why he is the document con-

he was stung by a jellyfish. now opposed to foreigners, :

tinued. This reading brought on the only laugh “of : s : the day, although there were a few smiles when Main Barriers Remain Taft told about the carpetbaggers, including THE MAIN. barriers to a truce and a subthe Veep, a counle of Democratic Senators, and sequent peace-remain. Any truce without inSecurity Administrator Oscar Ewing, who in- spection teams empowered to enforce it would waded Ohio to speak against him. be a trap. Any peace settlement short of “Did you ever go outside Ohio to speak dur- democratic self-determination of the Korean

ing the campaign?” Hennings iD. Mo.) Sen. Taft chuckled. One Sunday afternoon, But Stalin never has permitted international! he said, he did go over to Illinois to speak in inspection or policing of any Red area anyfavor of Sen, Everett Dirksen, his fellow Re- where. And he never willingly has disgorged publican. any of his ill-gotten territory

inquired Sen. Thomas C. people, under United Nations protection, would

be no peace.

Yes.” said Sen. Taft, “I'd call that carpet- Maybe Stalin will change. But there {8 no bagging. too.’ proof of this in the mere fact that he finds it Nothing p particularly wrong with it, he con- expedient to try to freeze for one month a tinued. unless you run € into the ground. Then battleline which our forces gained the hard way

t backfires.

gh vor as it good thing, too.

turned out in Ohio, a and are still capable of advancing.

Joe is not yet Santa Claus.

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Hoosier Forum--‘Wake Up U.S.”

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MR. EDITOR: ‘Keep the Record Straight’

I have been wondering when the American MR. EDITOR

people are going to wake up and demand a showdown with Russia. I have just come from I dont’ "want to get into the fight as to a movie that showed the terrible and murderous whether Democratic administrations cause Saughter of our boys in Korea. I am no softi2 wars or Republican administrations, depresbut I couldn't help but just cry when 1 saw gions hut I should like to correct the statement that. I ed a woman behind me say, “That py John Niblack that no one died of starvation

woman must have a boy in Korea thank God. but I =aw

No. I have during the faces 1

the Hoover administration. There was

no =on there woman who starved to death indhe neighbor-

of hovs that were so voun¥. They died such hond of New Jersey and 11th Sts. I remember horri bie deaths and for what? because it was such a shock to my friends who We back home go on aur merry wavs worry- lived in that neighborhood. ing about having a big Thanksgiving dinner And there were several deaths in the little and how much money we will spend for Christ- groups of tin-can shacks along White River, mas, our President is down in Florida having just north of Was hington St The newspapers a lovely vacation, enjoying the wonderful sun- gave brie ms, calling them malnutrition shine. America is supposed to be a Christian and exposure cases. Just to keep the record nation, but I wonder how many ministers or straight. don't think that people can't starve in their members have laid awgke at night crving this country. ~—Alma Bender, Zionsville. out to God to have mercy and to end this terrible war in Korea. 1 am wondering how | AM YOURS many meals we have missed praying for the safety of our boys.... WHEN doubt and fear surround you... and

—Louise Bashorn, 4283 N. Sherman Dr.

‘Thanks a Million’

MR. EDITOR: Just a few lines to say thanks to you and your paper and to all the good people who made it possible for the Knox family to have a home again. I have been in Sunnyside Sanatorium for 9 years, May God bless each and every one of you who offered a helping hand to one in need. Tell Donna Mikels that I happen to be a man, not a lady.

teardrops fill your eyes’... turn to me my dearest.one . .. and I will clear your skies .. . or when things vou do go wrong . .-. and nothing turns out right . . , lean upon my arm my love +». and I'll show you the light . .. and if perchance the time may come ... when vou will need a friend . . . call on me for anything . . . I'll ‘help you till the end . .. for I want you to know my sweet . .. whatever be your need . . . I'll try to ill your every want . .. your slightest call I'll heed . I'll bea around through thick and thin . . . the dark days and the fair... to partake of your happiness . . . and all your sorrows share.

—An Invalid. —By Ben Burroughs

By James Daniel

Senator's Interested in U. S. Train Wrecks

tory report” from the Interstate Commerce Commission on the following train wrecks: The Nov. 12 collision near Evanston, Wyo., in which one Union Pacific passenger: train

scribed as the best type in current use, on this portion of its line, The assumption is that the engineer didn't see a signal. A Southern Railway spokesman

going an estimated 79 miles blamed the wreck on “man per hour plowed into the rear failure.” of another passenger train of Sen. Johnson said he bethe same line which had lieved that automatic elec-

glowed to 20 miles per hour In a snowstorm. Eighteen were killed and about 40 injured.

” ” ” THE Nov. 22 collision be-

tween two New Haven Railroad passenger trains in Grand

tronic devices, which would ring a bell or apply the brakes in’ the cab of a train attemptIng to proceed on an obstructed section of track, were the answer to the current wave of eollisions.

Central Terminal tunnel | “The railroads have built New York, in which sevetrgl their reputation on safety and passengers were injured. certainly,” he said, “but with The Nov. 24 derailment o their new safety devices the

an Illinois Central train near Vine Grove, Ky., in’ which tw persons were killed and 25 passengers injured, apparently because of excessive speed in taking a curve, The Nov, 25 collision of a westhound Union Pacific freight train with an eastbound freight of the same line

airlines may be pulling ahead.”

Barbs—-

WHEN a gang leader has a questionable employee on his payroll, it's customary to lay him out rather than off. - +

BOOKKEEPING would be a

Sen. Ed Johnson

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