Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1952 — Page 18
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The Indianapolis Times
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ROY W, HOWARD President
WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ Editor Business Manager
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Easter— . .
«rp HE THIRD day He rose again from the dead.” Christians in Indianapolis and the world today are marking the anniversary of the triumph of Jesus Christ over death and the grave. For this is Easter, festival of everlasting life, climax of a vear of “Little Easters.” From the smallest village with only a humble little church to the major city with its cathedral, rise hymns of joy and praise. Thus a fellowship of worship binds together Christian peoples everywhere.
Nature offers lavish beauty for a setting: “Every clod feels a stir of might An instinet within it that reaches and towers And groping blindly above it for light Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers.”
BUT the Korean War goes on. Suffering, want and evil prevail in many quarters. And the grim threat of the atomic bomb hangs over all mankind. Surely as long as there can be an Easter, hope will live anew. And man will seek and find a way out of darkness. No doubt the early fathers of the church, men of deep conviction, who long ago drafted the “Apostles Creed” with its resurrection line, offered it to succeeding generations to meet their plight. Day after day, a “Little Easter” lives in the hearts of those who thoughtfully repeat these words in the Creed: “Jesus Christ...born of the Virgin, Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and was buried. “The third day, He rose again from the dead.”
Price-Fixing and You
HE members of the U. 8. House of Representatives will * be called upon soon to take a stand on legalizing retail price fixing. ; They can vote one of two ways: ONE-—In favor of so-called “fair trade” legislation. This will assure themselves of the votes, and the political contributions, of a few thousand special-interest boys. TWO—Against so-called “fair trade” legislation. This will serve the best interests of 150 million consumers. » " » . . . SOMETIMES Congress can serve the public welfare by doing nothing. , That is the situation on so-called fair trade. The Suprevic Court last year struck down the misnamed Fair Trade Act—the legal foundation for this system of minimum price fixing. The way this system worked was simply this: The so-called Fair Trade Act suspended the antitrust laws by
permitting retailers to agree to sell commodities at the .
price set by the manufacturers. In other words, pricefixing. Then retailers who insisted on setting their own competitive price were prosecuted: If Congress tells the lobbyists it won't over-rule the court, then the entire price-fixing system will die. Manufacturers who genuinely favor healthful competition, retailers who are progressive and sure of their ability to serve their customers, and customers interested in getting value for their money—all will have reason to be grateful to this Congress. » ~ . ~ - ~ ON THE other hand, Congress can restore the legal foundations of so-called fair trade, and then this could happen: More and more manufacturers could be dragooned into joining in the anticompetition scheme. Then more and more products would go under price fixing. Then the public would have less and less opportunity to give its patronage where best values-are offered. If that happens, retail trade will go underground. Filling stations will bootleg razor blades and toothpaste. Canned foods will turn up for sale in furniture shops. Merchandise will be bought through ‘buying clubs’ operated on a speakeasy basis. These “buying clubs” will take business away from legitimate and established retail stores, as they have done in many communities.
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ULTIMATELY, there will be laws saying that certain products can only be sold in stores devoted to one purpose. To make this’ work, government officials would have to be given the power to license stores to handle fair traded products. . When all that happens, the competitive free enterprise system which has done so much for the nation and the world will be dead.-
Quakes and Trembles
(FFHAND, if you had asked, we would have said that Midwest earthquake—which, thank goodness, was not much more than a bad scare--was unique. We shared a popular idea that earthquakes usually are coastal phenomena, not inland hazards. But, on consulting our favorite seismologist, we learn there is a fault line running from South Dakota, down through Nebraska and northeastern Kansas and probably into Arkansas. And that this area has been hit before, and just ‘as hard. Nature, on otcasion, istration in Washington.
can be as trembly as the adminBut not as consistently so.
Way to the White House
.JFRANK E. McKINNEY, the Democratic National chairman who had his horse shot from under him when President Truman announced he wouldn't run, says.that whoever is the next President won't get the job “on a silver platter.” be . ei
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Congress Roundup
WASHINGTON, Apr. 12 —This week the House voted $46.2 billion more for defense spending, raising the total available for fiscal 1953 to some $103 billon. But not more than $46 billlon of that can be spent in the next year. The ceiling was proposed by Rep. Howard Smith (D. Va.). It was backed by Republicans and Southern Democrats. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, actually appropriates $4.7 bililon less than Presfdent Truman had requested.
Grunewald
HENRY W. GRUNEWALD, mystery man of the tax scandal investigation, was cited
unanimously for contempt of Congress in refusing to testify before the King investigating committee.
Morris
DURING a committee hearing, Newbold: Morris, ousted government corruption investigator, was asked whether he knew that his connection with a surplus tanker deal was being investigated by the Justice Department six months befora he came to Washington. Mr. Morris said he had no knowledge and would not have accepted his government appointment had he known of the Justice Department probe. His connection with the tanker deals was checked by a Senata committee after he took over as investigator
Senate
A BILL setting up a joint budget committee, with a staff of fiscal experts, was passed and sent to the House, The staff would maintain a year-round check on budget requests and grants. Congress often passes appropriations bills now with little idea of exactly how the money is to be spent.
McGranery -
THE Judiciary Committee decided to hold hearings on the nomination of Federal Judge James P, McGranery of Philadelphia as Attorney General The committée probably will take a long look at Judge MecGranery's role in the Amerasia cage, which involved stolen government documents. As an assistant attorney general, Judge McGranery was in charge when prosecution of the case collapsed.
Nathan : FRANK NATHAN, who once peddled vegetables In Pittsburgh, told an’ investigating committee that he
netted a $57.000 fee in 1947 for one telephone call about a surplus property deals Nathan said he found out that a gov ernment-owned plant at Torrance, Cal., was for sale, He phoned a New York junk dealer and later aplit with him a $114,000 fea from a syndicate which bought the plant.:
China : SEN. WAYNE MORSE (R. Ore.) again called for an- investigation of the so-called China lobby. He showed the Senate secret messages which, he said, had been sent to Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa
from the Chinese Embassy .nere. The message in general outlined . plans = to influence
U. 8. policy in. favor of the
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JNB3ERANN
MR. EDITOR: In your editorial of Apr. 9 on stabilization, you placed the blame for price increases with the President. The administration has fought continually for a strict price control law, but Congress passed a weak bill and added to this bill the Capehart amendment. The Capehart amendment was strictly to help big business, not to help all groups of persons. If Congress had not been in such a big hurry to leave Washington last year, a better control bill would have emerged from both houses. The great majority of opposition to a good control bill to keep down inflation came from the Republicans, Then, too, if the Capehart amendment had not been thrown into this price control bill. we would not. be in the difficulty of wage increases and price Increases. It "is no more fair for big business to be able to have price hikes under Capehart’s amendment than it is for the working man to ask for an increase in wages, The steel industry knows that the steel worker's wages are not comparable with other industries, and that no increase for the steel workers has been made since December of 1950. The President had no alternative but to keep the steel industry going and the only way'to do this was to temporarily have the government operate it until an effective bargain could be reached between management and labor. We are faced with an emergency. I am afraid some fail to realize this fact. It is gratifying to many that our President has the courage to do what is right for the country in time of emergency regardless of criticism from the’ steel industry. ~—FEvelyn Walton, 2049 N. Meridian St.
‘Expanding Government’
MR. EDITOR: I would like to suggest that P., C., Danville, éonsult some unbiased authority befors he.ar
she affirms the truth of what C. D. C.,, another alphabet, writes, It is not =o much the points C. D. C. tries
to make as thes implications contained in his letters. Some times, however, he does state specifie points, but always in a distorted manner. As for. poor relief the implied criticism of
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Easter Day Prayer—
ALMIGHTY and most merciful God, who has appointed us to endure sufferings and death with our Lord Jesus Christ, before we enter with Him into eternal glory: Grant us grace at all times to subject ourselves to Thy holy will, and to continue steadfast in the true faith unto the end of our lives, and at all times to find peace and joy in the blessed hope of the resurrection of the dead, and of the glory of the world to come; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord. Amen.
By Rev. Paul E. Huffman, First United Lutheran Church.
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HOOSIER FORUM— ‘Truman’
“I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it.
ALL THOSE, great big plans to clean up and patch up the Democratic Party in
Indiana are getting nowhere fast Just a few weeks. ago, the Democrats seemed willing— and able tor purge from the party the
professional politicians, like Democratic National Committeeman Frank McHale, who have made some extremealy. fortunate and profitable
political and Mr. Lewis business deals. , , , disqusted Now, however, Marion County Demo-
crats who spearheaded: the reorganization, are discouraged, feel they have lost ground, maybe the fight. Somewhat like a punch-drunk prize fighter who had one clout to the head too many, they frankly admit they don't know what happened or what hit them. But, they are convinced a’ mysterious “something” has gone wrong with the clean-up program. One Democrat, a leader in . the oust-McHale fight, was particularly bitter at the lack of aggressiveness and the lack of leadership of the Statehouse Democratic high command. “1 don’t mind fighting,” he aald.- “And I don’t mind that the Statehouse gang is holding my coat while I fight. But
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this was directed to the whole system of Social Security and it was most assuredly not proven evil by C. D. C. Anyone with reasonable intelligence could uncover mistakes in any of our domestic and fore policies of our state and federal government. This, however, is not sufficient reason to condemn and discard the system. This is not a thing that came into being under the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. The complexities of our expanding government have expanded the possibilities of graft and corruption tremendously and the press and radio have made it possible for most people to learn these things. This has also given the politicians a rich field in which to express their distorted reasoning and confusion. Corruption in government has existed since the time of Moses and will be with us as long as politicians place selfishness and party above government good. Glory to the one who can change this, = —Theo. B. Marshall, 1114 Tecumseh St,
‘Christian Integrity’ MR. EDITOR: A few days ago I returned from the most unique conference of its kind. The UAW-CIO Educational Conference at Cleveland, O. What did I learn? Unionism surely, Americanism certainly, brotherhood yes. Above all, I received an insight of what we need most in
~ America and in the world. A rebirth of morality -and integrity. We need a moral rearmament in
our heads and hearts and some starch in our backbones. An editorial appeared in The Times the other day entitled, “Where is Their Decency?’ Countries of the UN, not USSR, not the Iron Curtain countries, but England, the birth place of Anglo-Saxon liberty; France the home of liberals and Canada , . . what did they do? They urged the U. 8. A. to send back all prisoners of the Korean War to their deaths. Certainly at least 20,000 of/ them. Where is our sense.of fair play and liberaliam? Where is our sense of shame, our sense of morality and our sense of justice? Have we no Christian integrity that we would trade human rights and human lives for political gains? —Harley F. Legg, 2318 W, McCarty St,
EASTERTIME
WHEN ladies don their gayest frocks . . . and chapeaux burst in bloom , . , I feel the touch of Eastertime has now begun to loom . . . when children long for chocolate eggs . . . or bunny rabbits white , , , I think that Faster's near at hand . . . for everything is right . . . when bells ring out and cholrs sing . . . sweet hymns to God on high... I feel a sort of holy glow . . , for Eastertime is nigh . .". and every year we celebrate . . . this day so good and true . . . when Christ rose from the sepulchre , , . to watch o'er me and you.
- —By Ben Burroughs
HOOSIER SKETCHBOOK—
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damn if I want them to hide behind the door while they're holding my coat.” ow = = AS A result, there are indications that Marion County Democratic Chairman David M. Lewis will not be a candidate for re-election. He is tired and disgusted with the way Statehouse Democrats straddle the .fence. : ’ Without Mr. Lewis and the big Marion County. Democratic machine, the Democratic candidates for election would have a difficult job to win in the fall against a well-oiled Republican organization. Marion County Democrats feel the clean-up campaign rests on the two top Statehouse Democrat s—Gov, Schricker and Lt. Gov. John
A. Watkins, the leading Democratic candidate, nor. County Democrats resent “the fact neither has taken a firm public stand against Mr, MeHale and the political deals
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that saw Democrats jumping on the Republican mayoralty bandwagon of Alex Clark last fall. aot
5 on n SINCE Gov. Schricker has stated he will not he a candidate for public office, most of the resentment is directed at Mr. Watkins, the Bloomfield publisher who local Democrats say is playing ‘peek-a-boo’ with the McHale forces. County Democrats feel that
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it isn't enough for Mr. Watking to privately tell them he is opposed to Mr. McHale, They want him to make a publi statement and a public fight to that effect, Now they have a plan which they feel may force him to take a stand or face opposition for Governor at the Democratic State Convention June 24.. The plan, simply, would be to put an opponent against him. There is considerable talk that former Congressman
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Andrew Jacobs would under. .
take to oppose Mr,’ Watkins for Governor, even though he has his heart set on the Sen. atorial nomination.
ROGER BRANIGIN, the witty Lafayette lawyer who stoutly denies he is Mr. Mec. Hale's personal choice for Gove ernor, has been approached by a number of county and district . chairmen to make the race. They feel he has the necessary zip and fire to wage
‘an aggressive fight against the
common Republican foe. Mr. Branigin, a highly succeszful utility attorney, doesn’t need the Governor's $15,000 yearly salary, but he would run for “the prestige” if hs felt he wouldn't be caught in the middle of a .8chricker-Mce-Hale fight. He has told Gov, Schricker that if the Governor and Mr. McHale settled their differences he might be a candidate, not before, Obviously, if either Mr, Branigin or Mr. Jacobs ens tered the gubernatorial race, Mr. Watkins would have to take a stand on a number of fasues, including the red hot McHale question. As it is, he has the nomination by default —no other candidates.
COUNTY Democratic léaders, unhappy with the State Democratic Committee's $25 a-vlate Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner at the Murat Temple Saturday, plan to boycott it, They feel it is a buildup for Mr. McHale and think it will take away needed money from the local primary, May.8. There is no mistaking the alarm of Marion County Dems ocratic leaders. Again, they fear, it may not be Mr. McHale's strength that keeps him in office, but “the ineptitude of the opposition.”
DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney
McKinney Says Graft Won't Be a Big Issue
WASHINGTON, Apr. 12— When Democratic Nae tional Chairman Frank E. McKinney, Indianapolis, appeared on the TV Meet the Press program, he discounted the idea that graft and corruption will be a major issue
in the fall campaign. He prefers to have it pitched on prosperity and peace.
There are Democrats: here who do not - see eye-to-eye with Mr. McKinney on this issue. One of them is Rep. Harley O. Staggers, a World
War IT vet-§ eran fromgs jo : West Virginia. a § Before the Mr, McKinney
House recessed, Mr. Staggers introduced a bill to curb graft and corruption in government. It would penalize the briber as well. ag those ac: cepting bribes. . by In urging measure, the two-térm Democrat delivered sermon on the ery and Graft.” “It is our .duty
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a Jre-Easter subiect “Bribtn eliminate conditions which Breed corruption,” he said. “There is no
excuse for graft among our public servants and it should not be tolerated.
“A man who is found guilty of accepting a bribe, and the
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man who offered the bribe, should be barred for life from ever holding public office. “The ones who do the. bribe ing are far more guilty than the ones who accept the bribes, as the briber knows what he Is doing and he subtly works his wiles on the weak.” The West Virginia Democrat gave his view on what causes grafters. He urged all be brought to judgment — even Congressmen,
“IT 18 time to stop pursuing the gods of greed, glitter, glamor and gold and return to the faith. of our founding fathers,” Mr. Staggers continued, . “Lust for power and craving for weaith has stagnated tre consciousness of the people. It is up to every American citizen to awaken to the significance of God before it is too late or we will find ourselves no longer free men. “We cannot close our eyes to the. corruption of graft which has reached into every state of this nation and into this very body of lawmakers. ... With the coming of Easter Sunday it serves to remind us of Judas, who betrayed Christ for 30 pieces of. silver. , . . “It may be true that we can» not legislate morals, but theres is no wrong in providing leg« {slation with penalties so ses vere and effective that many will think more than once before offering or accepting a bribe,
+ “WE can no longer escape our obligation in this matter, We must stop this tide of corruption. When the pillars of government crumble, chaos can be the only result.” That this Congress hasn't taken the McKinney: view of the graft and corruption busi. ness not ‘being an issue is shown by some statistics put into the Congressional Record by Rep. James E. Van Zandt (R. Penn.). They show that since the 82d Congress convened, Jan, 3, 1951, some 225 distinet ine vestigations. beyond the rou tine legislation and appropria« tions work, have been instituted. More than 60 are now active,
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MORE than $4 million has been appropriated for investigations, . “The exposure of graft, cor. ruption, favoritism and wastes Of American taxpayers’ money warrants the cretion of these committees in the interest of’ the Amearican people,” Mr, Van Zandt declared,
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