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Our Juvenile Court

NE office that even the most eynical of our politicians agree-ought to be left entirely out of partisan politics ia the Juvenile Court. By what just uhout amounts to unanimous consent it has been kept out for several years past. Both party organizations are committed to letting it strictly alone, Candidates for its bench—or at least those with any real prospect of election to it—have pledged themselves to conduct it on a completely nonpolitical basis. It is in the best interests of everybody in Marion County that it stay that way. A great deal of what has been accomplished there is due to the fine work of the Citizens Juvenile Court Bipartisan Committee, which has carefully appraised all tandidates for this office and made recommendations of those it considered best qualified without regard fo party ronnections. : 4 FE . {THIS YEAR it has indorsed Judge Joseph O. Hoffmann for the Democratic nomination and Harold N. Fields for the Republican. i . Both are excellent choices. Judge Hoffmann has given this court as fine an adminisas it has ‘ever had. He has built up a capable strative organization, trained in dealing with the droblems of children, and now fully experienced in the gomplicated work of the court. 3 Mr. Fields is a lawyer of 20 years standing, with a Jong record of lead in community service, especially branches + with youth and family problems. temperament and by experience he, too, is well qualified dor this bench. ; Z The election next November of either of these men will fot change the administrative organization now working so well in this court. Mr. Fields, well aware of the value of experience there, has promised to keep it intact if he succeeds Judge Hoffmann. : * The committee, in our opinion, has indorsed for fomin ation two candidates either of whom would maintain _ dhe Juvenile Court at the high standard it has attained. £ We hope the voters of both parties will follow its fecommendation next Tuesday.

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+ zure of the steel mills may become a landmark in our Tepublic’s judicial history. le + For many years there has been a persistent, hastily ‘widening encroachment of executive power, until it seemed there were over-receding limits to that power, if indeed there vere any limits at all. * The issue was sharply drawn. it head on— | I “There is no express grant of power in the Constitution Buthorizing the President to direct this seizure. There is no grant of power from which it reasonably can be implied. “here is no enactment of Congress authorizing it... 1 “The government of the United States . . . derives its “authority wholly from the powers granted to it by the tsitution, which is the only source of power authorizing action by any branch of the government. It is a government bf limited, enumerated and delegated powers . . + “Neither singly nor in the aggregate do they (the Pnumerated-executive powers) grant the President, expressfv or implied the ‘residuum of power’ or ‘inerhent’ power which authorizes him . . . to take such action as he may Joem necessary, including seizure of plaintiffs’ properties, whenever in his opinion an emergency exists requiring him {0 do so in the public interest , . . 1 “To my mind this spells a form of government alien to our constitutional government , . . I therefore find that the acts of the defendant are illegal and without authority of law , . . © “I believe that the contemplated strike, if it came, with all its awful results, would be less injurious to the public than the injury which would flow from a timorous judicial fecognition that there is some basis for this claim to unlimited and unrestrained executive power, which would be implicit in a failure to grant the injunction.”

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. JUDGE PINE's strong ruling is not the last word. The government has access, by appeal, to higher courts—which Very well may find the President's powers much wider than Judge Pine holds them to be.

~ Whatever the final judicial decision, one good thing Which surely must come from this great legal battle is a tourt determination of the definable limits of the President's futhority——and therefore a halt in the trend toward government by men, a move back toward government by law.

* Meanwhile, without waiting for the government to exhaust its legal resources, Philip Murray has called the CIO Bteelworkers out on strike. The blast furnaces have Btarted to cool. The flow of defense weapons will soon slow flown. Unemployment will spread to other indistries. We poon may begin to see what Judge Pine described as the

Yawful results” of the strike.

* And the government has not yet made any use whatever of the Taft-Hartley law, the one statute which Con-

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NATIONAL POLITICS . . . By Charles Lucey

Sen. Russell Pledges Kefauver a Fight

TAMPA, Apr. 30—It's been 18 years since Sen. Richard B.

Russell whupped Ol’ Gene Talmadge in his last tough political fight in Georgia. But Sen. Russell hasn't lost his touch, He's down here now in a hard-hitting presidential primary campaign, based on a simple, two-part formula: ONE-—To try to show his record fits him for the presidency. TWO -- To carry to Sen. Estes Kefauver the most direct attack the Tennessean has met in the long string ef primary battles which have miade him front-runner for the Democratic nomination. : Tete Sa praeh corn or 0! abou Russell—he probably doesn’t handle either very well. No calliope or hillbilly band precedes him as he stumps the state, his speeches manage dignity without stuffihe Claghort ena tiiot of eC orn dem en associated with SOgIng often cut-and-string-necktie breed of

southern politician. He can turn on a bit of whimsy or tell a story without those touches of clowning that are supposed to make votes. Already the catalog of Russell cha to Mr. Kefauver is a full &ne.

Chided by Kefauver

SEN. RUSSELL notes he has been chided by Mr. Kefauver for not entering more presidential primaries, He comments that, as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Agricul-’ tural ropriations Subcommittee, he has been too busy to run about the country cam---an obvious referto Mr. Kefauver’s long absence from Washington. Mr. Russell tells his audiences Ben. Kefauver’'s battle with Florida's Gov. Fuller Warren, dating back to Mr. Kefauver's Florida erime inguiry is unrelated to this campaign. Mr. Warren isn't

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney ;

Bill Book Tells C of C

About. Federal Grants

WASHINGTON, Apr. 30—The tax money by turning down so-called gran

apolis plan for saving -aid. from the fed-

eral government was outlined to a receptive audience here by William H. Book, executive director of the Indianapolis Chamber

of Commerce. Mr. Book was one of the principal speakers at a Statler Hotel luncheon of the 40th annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Subject for discussion was “Better Gqvernment for Less Money.” : Other speakers included Sen. John L. McLellan (D. Ark.), Rep. John Phillips (R. Cal) and Herbert J. Miller, director of the Tax Foundation, Washington, D. C. It was to the local level of saving federal funds that Mr. Book devoted himself. Sometimes local chambers of commerce are talked into going in for partially government financed projects, when they should have sense enough to stay out and save the federal tax money, Mr. Book explained.

» n ” HERE 18S how he said the grants-in-aid gimmick works. “Since 1940, grants in aid within the framework of the federal budget have increased - from $572,800,000 to $2,204,000000 plus for fiscal year 1951, and next year's budget proposes a total in excess of $3 billions, Not a very large proportion of $85 billions, is it? But it is an amount equal to the total federal budget income as late as 1934. That figure refers {0 grants-in-aid to state and local governments, only, Add to that, the grants-in-aid to individuals, and the total of give-away money in the federal budget for the next fiscal year will be substantially in excess of $8 billions, and that figure is as much as the budget of the federal government for all purposes in the year 1839.

~ " - “LET'S take a moment to let the significance of these figures sink in, Give-away money in the federal budget for. next year-—as much as all that was collected for all purposes in 1939, “And the purposes of these

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tivities, heart disease control, cancer control, hospital construction and survey and planning, maternal and child health services, child welfare services, old-age assistance, aid to dependent children, ald to the blind, American printing house for the blind, public housing, state and territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors,

etc.——on and on covering more

than 50 district, local and state activities.

“I DOUBT if many individ-

‘uals, even those who are most

concerned about the growth of the welfare state, yet fully realize the part which federal

grants-in-aid are playing in promoting the idea of dependence on an all-wise and bountiful government to do things for us that we formerly did for ourselves, I doubt if they realize the full extent to which the idea of something for nothing, of government's existence to support the people, instead of people to support the government, has spread throughouto the body of American people.” Through the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce the trend has been reversed by doing without unnecessary federally aided services, or financing locally those that are really needed, Mr. Book said. “Let us frankly admit,” Mr. Book concluded, “that local chambers of commerce have

been all too inconsistent. From :

one end of the country to the other, they have all too often been waiting, tin cup in hand, on the doorstep of Congress or some federal

road, to build an expressway, a school or a hospital . . .

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“I GRANT it is easy

seeking the Democratic presi dential nomination, he observes. : The Georgian mentioned “poor boy” claims of Mr. Kefauver and contended the Tennessean actually has one of the most elaborate organizations of any candidate. He observed that Sens. Hubert Humphrey (D. Minn.) and Paul Douglas (D. Ill.) had spoken in favor of Mr. Kefauver and said: “When it comes to preserving the American system and devotion to constitutional government, I will risk Florida's Sens. Spessard Holland and George Smathers every day in the week before I will Sens. Humphrey or

¥ . we Sen. Russell challenged Mr, Kefauver on civil rights—allimportant issue in the southland. Mr. Russell announced that, if nominated he'll reject any Democratic platform plank calling for a compulsory Fair Employment Practices Law, Mr. Kefauver favors a voluntary “persuasive” FEPC, but would accept compulsion if it is written into the party piatform. :

Supporters Speak

WHERE Mr. Russell leaves off, his supporters take up. Sen. Smathers, introducing

to fight communism and cites Mr. Kefauver in opposition to the House Un-American Activities Committee, which investigated the Commies, .

Mr. Smathers cites Mr. Rus. sell’s talents as governor and senator in many fields and says they weren't to a single area—plain reference to Mr. Kefauver's crime inquiry success.

Mr. Kefauver is criticized, too, for saying after his New Hampshire primary victory that it really wasn’t repudiation of Truman policies, Russell men say that adds up to Truman and Kefauver policies being the same, and they ask: Do you want four more years of it?

Sen. Russell has just about"

got to win this Florida test to

.give real validity to his can-

didacy. He's stressing his contention that he’s a national candidate and says he’ll have support from all over America. He denounces the notion a Southerner cannot lead the Democratic Party to victory.

Asks Balanced .Budget

THE GEORGIAN pleads the “need for a balanced budget. Promises he would manage this by 1954 by eliminating vast government waste, He cites rather modestly his knowledge of military affairs through his Senate committee chairmanship, saying the country must be militarily strong because Stalin understands only that language. He says he would not undo the great gains of the last 20

, years, but argues there must

be less centralization of power in Washington. He urges an “indissoluble union of indestructible states.”

Washington corruption, says

mesnanee

DEAR MAYOR CLARK: There has been now for some time a controversy going on concerning an increase in the transit fare of the city of Indianapolis Railways, serving the city of Indianapolis. This letter is to inform anyone who is interested

that we are very definitely against any increase .

in fare at this time, We, as citizens of this city and state, should have a voice in saying what we think, after all, this is a democratic country, or supposed to be at any rate. . , . We have to work for a living the same as anyone else, and our pay check does not increase each time the fare does, «+. We realize that a lot of people do not have to depend on the Indianapolis Railways for transporta ‘but folks like us do.

You have stated that many have sald they would not mind an increase in fare, if the service was improved. . . . We do not agree to that . , . the service could very definitely be improved beyond a doubt, but waiting in a storm on a corner for some 30 minutes, is not my idea of good service, . , Is it yours? It has also been brought out about the fares in other cities , . . we have also checked them and we find that in many cities, the fare is just a dime and you can gp anywhere in the city for that same dime , . . no extra charge for a transfer either. , . . In Houston, for instance, there is even music on the cars for the passengers. . . . It makes anyone feel better of a morning when there is a spirit of friendliness in the air. . . . You get on the cars here in the city of Indianapolis and you do not get even a civil good morning, or a smile. We think the drivers would do well to pay attention to that sign that was in the cars some time ago . . . and exercise the muscles that smile, not those that frown. « + « Oh, yes, there are a few who will speak to you in the morning (but a very few, it is).

And it seems to us, in all this time, if the company {s losing so much money, and has been all these years, why do they continue to operate the business themselves? Why not give it or sell it to someone else, who will make a profit of the business? And if, as they state, they lose more riders each time they raise the fares, then why do they insist on raising them? If there is no profit in a business, people usually give it up. :

Personally, it seems to us, that there must

be some extra long pockets in connection with that business, that they want filled with greenbacks that belong to working people like us. If that fare increase is what they want, then the people of this city must and should stand together and see that they do not make any profit and simply refuse to ride their busses and trolleys. : We are not politicians and we do not claim to be, but you are, Mr, Clark, so how about it? Are you going to give in this time also, or are you going to help us make a fight out of it? —Employees of Herffl-Jones Co.

DEAR MAYOR CLARK: I have a few proposals relative to the traffic situation which I will submit in this letter since criticism alone offers no solution to any problem. Here are a few contributing factors to the traffic jam in downtown Indianapolis, especially during the rush hours between 4 p. m. and 5:30 p. m.: ONE—The major portion of all traffic either

- by car or bus-trolley is concentrated between

the present business district of Indianapolis, namely, Block's and Ayres’ stores. ’ TWO-—Speed limits on one-way streets are reduced to the point of diminishing returns so that traffic does not get going fast enough to clear the area of jam-up.

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THREE Light signals are so regulated that they create rather than reduce traffic snarls. . FOUR-Taxes ale*too high on parking lots, leading to higher parking costs, thus discouraging motorists from parking in them. : , FIVE-—Parking zones available to’ metorists presently -are inadequate, due not so much to of space, as arrangement. , SIX-—-Parking meters outside the immediate downtown area do not provide for the needs of motorists, who, not wishing to fight traffic

downtown, park away from it and walk the

remaining distance to transact business, always under the limitation of time and the threat of a sticker for even the slightest overtime violation, . ‘SEVEN —The same motorist referred to above will often take a chance and drive downtown hoping a place will be open, thus putting more strain on the traffic load in the business district, EIGHT Bus and trolley traffic all seem directed to one focal point and in one street.

NINE-8pecial parking zones greater in size than necessary are evident especially for busses and trolleys and even some business places, TEN--The biggest obstruction to solving the problem of traffic rests finally- with the determined intention of all public officials concerned whether city or state, to simply hijack the motorist, get the money and afford no aid or come

- fort to either pedestrian or motorist. No in-

jention, on he contrary, exists to solve the aflic problem, repair streets, rearrange parking systems, provide all-day parking places outside traffic congestion areas or do anything in a common sense way. 1 suggest the following for a study in traffic regulations: ONE-—Reduce immediately the taxes on parking lots and encourage owners to lower rates. This may tend also to invite expansion of parking areas. Teo 2 TWO-—Get together with the Indianapolis Rallways and work out routes designed to get people where they want to go quickly yet without a jam-up, This would eventually enlarge the tight business center of town and make

this city of 350,000 people, modern, not a country town.

THREE—Provide minimum speed limits of 45 miles an hour on certain streets for certain - distances leading from town at 4 p. m. for an hour and provide certain streets going all the way across town either north to south or east and west with a light system designed to move traffic swiftly with the least interruption and where centers .of traffic exist that people use, make underground tunnel from one side of street to the other.

FOUR~During rush hours provide that cross streets be used by motorists only every four blocks. FIVE—Arrange light signals on national highway (Washington St.) so that traffic wit be moved quickly on its way without interruption every block or so. SIX-—Arouse public opinion to the fact that the state itself gets the most money from parke ing and other traffic violations. SEVEN-—Get the public interested in press. Ing state legislature for more fumlls for eity use and provisions to obtain additional revenue ny reasonably Proper means instead of hijackset o payers by the mocke a court, ye y Ty ora HT—Provide parking place everywhere downtown between 9 a. m. and 4 p. Ee on the main streets such as Washington. NINE—Fix parking lines to allow cars to park at an angle on one side of downtown: streets and furthe) oui of reach of traffic jam, both sides of streets which are wi contain them. . le enough: 19

: ~—Walter B. Heisel dr., 2338 Nelson St.

E-E-E-E-K . . . By Frederick C. Othman Mice, Moths Kept Stenos on Run

WASHINGTON, Apr. 30

The ladies—e-e-e-e-e-K—in the grain elevator office never did get all their letters written.

They spent too much time standing on top of their desks, while mice scurried across the

floor toward 1 million bushels

of your wheat and mine. The stenographers grew so weary of leaping on their tables at the Roberts Enterprises Inc. "of Rockdale, Ill, that in the winter of 1950 they threatened to resign en masse. They said it was either the mice or them. There was an official investigation. Somebody opened up the old Navy warehouses that had been turned Into makeshift grain elevators and out flew bugs with big wings. Looked like moths, kind of. Millions of ‘em. : Some of these got into the clothes of the ladies, even as they were fleeing the mice, and ate holes therein. Things were getting a little hysterical one noontime when the office staff opened ts box lunches. Nothing much there but the boxes; the moths had eaten the sandwiches, You may ask why were these insects 80 hungry when there was a mountain of taxpayers’ waiting for them? This is a

SIDE GLANCES

good question. The answer is horrendous: Somebody still to be identified had gone west with 50,500 bushels of our corn. It just wasn't there. Much of

« the rest of it had been so badly

damaged by bugs, rats, mice, rot, heat, and whatever else at-

. tacks corn that it wasn’t fit .

for man or beast. It had to be

sold at a fraction of its orig- ’

inal value to an alcohol distillery at nearby Peoria.

Loss: $350,605.92.

So .the Commodity Credit Credit - Corp.,| a-subsidiary of the Agriculture Department, tried to collect from Roberts Enterprises, Inc. The mice and/or the moths seemed also to have been in the till. mighty corporation, which the government entrusted with the million bushels of corn, turned up with assets of $400.

"Now the regional attorney of the CCC at Chicago is cogitaling what to do. Somebody may go to jail, but the chances of getting back either our corn or our money are nil. This sorry tale became a matter of record before the Senate Agriculture Committee it was only one of many as hair-tingling for a taxpayer. So let's examine it a little further: ‘The Chicago CCC office was

> °By Galbraith

This

doing a land-office business in grain storage. It had so many contracts with so many people that Director G. D. Bradley said his clerks (in a moth-and houseproof skyscraper) had to run more than 20 million punch cards through the automatic accounting machines. Somewhere either a mechanical or a human brain went haywire.

The CCC came up with two contracts at the same time to store grain at Rockdale, one with Roberts Enterprises, Inc., and the other with Interlachen Industries, Inc. Youecan imagine the management's cone sternation.

Quickly it cancelled the Interlachen contract and Roberts took over the corn-storage job in the surplus buildings bought from the War Assets Adminis tration. * The original application said Roberts had $4000 in assets to do this job. Somebody crossed that out with pencil and sube stituted $20,000. The regula« tions called for $130,000 bond, but Roberts posted only $10,« 000. Then the firm collected $100,« 000 in federal storage charges including, of course, the rental

,on the corn that wasn’t there,

The moths and the mice did the rest. A very unusual case, said Mr. Bradley. He's tightened up his operating procedures bee cause of it. A good thing, too, says {taxpayer Othman, and also about time.

Glamor

THIS day and age folks seem to thrive . .. on things that catch the eye . . . the movie stars or shiny cars . . . and clothes that make them, sigh . . . they work and slave to purchase all . . . the things they'd like to own . . . forgetting the important things , . . they leave them all alone . . . and most of all our womenfolk + « { they seem to stand down pat . .. that tick makes a difference or . .. the beauty of a hat . . . now ih feels that's 3 «0s bea is within . |, . for nothing ey vou

heart to grin . , . so if you must be rous , . . always leave a little .

the peopl Theodore that he ci in any + hibited by (This t “comfort