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THE POST-DEMOCRAT, MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPT. 8, 1950.fees and so on, with high enough taxes to

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THE POST-DEMOCRAT k Democratic weoxly newspaper representing the democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 10th jongresaional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County Entered as second class matter January 15. 1921, a the Post Office at Muncie. Indiana, under Act of earch 3, 1879. PRICE 5 CENTS—$2.00 A TEAK MRS. GEO. R. DALE, Publisher 916 West Main Street Muncie, Indiana, Friday, September 8, 1950 A Rising Political Star Once every decade or so a young, vigorous, picturesque personality appears in Indiana politics. He shares the people’s views. He voices their aspirations. He becomes their champion and popular leader in the field of government. Alexander M. Campbell of Fort Wayne is such a personality. Mr. Campbell’s nomination for United States Senator by the Democratic State Convention was completely logical. It had long been a foregone conclusion. A great political party was hitching its wagon to a rising star. Alex Campbell’s friends and neighbors are proud of the high honor which has come to him. They have watched his advance with interest. During the 15 years which he has been in public service, he has never failed to rise to any occasion which confronted him. In this community where he grew up and began his career, all citizens, regardless of politics wish him well. Such popularity must be deserved before it can be won. The rapid advance of Mr. Campbell recalls other vigorous and colorful personalities in the recent history of the state whose names are carved high on the rolls of public service —Thomas R. Marshall, Paul V. McNutt and Gov. Henry F. Schricker. The latter has so endeared himself to the people of the state that he has had the distinction of being the only man twice elected chief executive of Indiana. The new Democratic nominee for United States Senator is, like them, a man of great popular appeal. He is an orator of unusual ability. He sprang from the people. He was born liking people, and they like him. His education, background and experience ably fit him for public service. During his long tenure as U. S. District Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana and during his term in Washington as Assistant Attorney.General in charge of the criminal division, Mr. Campbell has crossed swords with many of the ablest lawyers in the country. As head of the criminal division he supervised the prosecution of Axis Sally, Tokyo Rose, the top leaders of the Communist Party, Alger Hiss and Judy Coplin. His close and intimate association with every important governmental official in Washington will make him an exceptionally useful member of the United States Senate. He is young enough to have that vigor and stamina which is so valuable to accomplishment in public life. Nominated with him yesterday was a ticket of exceptional strength. We firmly believe that this ticket, with Mr. Campbell at its head, is in tune with the times and that it is destined for victory at the polls on November 7. Indiana needs a continuation of sound, progressive government in the State House. And we know that Mr. Campbell will give an excellent account of himself in Washington where he is no stranger to the heads of Government. Makes Difference Who Gets The Money Uncle Sam is spending close to $100 million to buy all the “surplus” sugar of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Hawaii. If Uncle Sam spent that sum to help his own folks, poor children and other needy Americans, loud howls of “Welfare State” would come from big businessmen, financiers and the editors of newspapers and magazines. But big American businessmen and financiers own most of the sugar plantations and refineries which will get this $100 million, so the editors see no “Welfare State” dangers in this deal. They welcome a “handout” from Uncle Sam when it goes to the right parties. To Underwrite the Future Ever since the early summer of 1945, when Congress started hearings on a bill, the issue of Universal Military Training has been before the American people in concrete form. It was pushed into the background two years ago when Selective Service was revived. But it is right back now before every citizen’s eyes. For the President and the Dept, of Defense are asking Congress to enact UMT on a stand-by basis, to be put in operation as soon as sufficient officers can be spared from currently more urgent combat and training duties. The first, army-sponsored plan struck the country after VJ-Day, and ran into the rip tides of “redeployment,” demobilization, and the same revulsion against anything military as followed World War I. Those torrents of irrational emotion swept away the power of the United States to hold the postwar world in balance. They came near undermining, also, the whole structure of American armed force to a point alarming at the time and shocking in retrospect. The situation was saved in part by reenactment of Selective Service June 19, 1948 —a solution which this newspaper had been urging for some months. It was our opinion that UMT posed a radical and perhaps per-

manent departure from American tradition. And that reluctance to embark on so sweeping a change might permit the army, in particular, to melt away to only officers and noncoms. UMT, furthermore, promised only to fill the ranks within three to five years. Selective Service would underwrite a minimum immediately. UMT, we believe, belonged to a prospect of a hostile world for 10 to 20 years and could be deferred until the future became clearer. Events have done me clarifying. The prospect is just that. The United States, through Selective Service, recruiting, and the calling up of reservists and national guardsmen, is mobilizing for visible contingencies. But some systematic program to provide an adequate flow of trained fighting men for the long pull ahead is indispensable and inescapable. The broad question has been ably studied by the President’s Advisory Commission on Universal Training, headed by Dr. Karl Compton. Its implications have been out in the open for five years, and have been thoroughly thrashed out. Until the Defense Department’s draft for a bill is available for study and until changes now under consideration are made known we shall reserve more specific comment. But the need is starkly obvious. And an answer equal to the harsh exigencies of the day and compatible with the best traditions of American freedom can and will be found.—Christian Science Monitor. Found It Doesn't Pay To Believe What They 'Read In The Papers' Because they believed what they “read in the newspapers,” potato farmers on Long Island, one of the biggest “spud” raising regions, now find themselves “out of luck.” Last June, the Department of Agriculture conducted a “mail referendum” vote among potato farmers all over the country. The question was: “Do you want to take part in the potato price-support program this year?” Most farmers elsewhere answered “Yes,” but the Long Island growers had been “reading the papers,” which were full of propaganda saying the support program would “regiment” farmers and take away their American liberties. So the Long Islanders answered: “No, we’ll stay out of the program.” Now these Long Island farmers find themselves getting such low prices for their potatoes that they are suffering losses. So this week they asked the Agriculture Department for another chance to vote and come into the program. This time, it was the department which said “No” — the June referendum was “final.” Will Life Insurance Companies Own U. S.P About 10 years ago, Senator O’Mahoney’s Monopoly Committee revealed that the big life insurance companies had total assets of $30 billion. This week a financial report showed these assets have more than doubled, to $61 billion. In the past year alone, the life insurance concerns put $4.7 billion into “new investments.” About $2 billion of this went into real estate and another $2 billion into the securities of corporations. At that rate, nearly $50 billion of new assets will be piled up by the insurance firms in the next 10 years, on top of their present $61 billion, making a total around $110 billion. A few voices in Congress have warned that, if this keeps up, a few life insurance companies will ultimately just about own the country. Somehow, that does not sound Like a desirable development in the United States, which grew to greatness and democracy as a nation of small individual owners. Not A Police Job As everyone realizes by now the conflict in Korea is no longer a police action. It is war and according to those charged with the responsibility of conducting it, a major effort in terms of men and material will be required of the United States and her allies to win. At present the planners estimate we will need 10 to 15 fighting divisions, 150,000 or more troops, a year’s time and masses of war material. Moreover, in the background is the incalculable threat of Russian inspired aggression breaking out elsewhere. In the meantime domestic problems gather momemtum along with mobilization. The old story of rising prices and wages is going through its paces. Living costs on June 15— just before war in Korea—on the basis of the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics consumerprice index, stood at 170.2 per cent of the 1935-39 level. By mid-July, those costs were at about 172 on the index. Now, after still more increases, they are at the highest level in history. Inflation is no longer a spectre. It is a reality. The fact that it was inevitable does not lessen its threat to the American system and the freedom of the people. The currency in the pocketbook is losing its value. Pressure is rising for Congress to do something. But even among the best informed there is basic disagreement as to the best course to follow. Bernard Baruch, who in his eightieth year has become known as America’s elder statesman and who has been the respected adviser to presidents and congresses for more than a quarter of a century, believes only by immediate imposition of all out controls with taxes “higher than a cat’s back” can the war effort be effective and the future liberty of the people secured. Before a congressional committee he de* manded: “An overall ceiling across the entire economy, over all prices, wages, rents,

costs, and an all-embracing, effective system of priorities.” Steadiness as Well As Strength Americans, at the moment, are in the throes of discovering that neither they nor their government have been ready enough for a step-up in the temperature of the cold war. For the moment, also, that realization has pressed them to adjust to the idea that another world war may be unavoidable and could be imminent. The adjustment is likely to have a wholesome result, whether or not a shooting war with Russia proves near at hand. And if “the big thing” should come upon them, there is no doubt that their response would be stronger now than it could have been before Korea took fire. But something less than total war is still measurably more probable and, in many ways, unquestionably more difficult. If it, in fact, were not also infinitely preferable, there might be doubt as to whether so hard a job were worth attempting. It is timfe that Americans begin adjusting themselves to their other prospect—that of 10 years or more of preparedness at a level they have yet to experience to a sequence, perhaps, of “small” wars which, if won, could well prevent a world holocaust. And they should begin asking themselves some pretty searching questions: On the military side: Can they stretch their vision beyond their historical experience enough to comprehend a world struggle without a world war, and put such things as Korea in that perspective? Could they, watch, for instance, their naval forces battle in the straits of Formosa against Communist invaders without demanding it be followed by involvement in the bottomless morass of a war against Communist China? Could they stand to see a beachhead won and an offensive started in Korea, only to be abandoned to man some more critical front? Can they steel themselves against years of high taxes, irritating scarcities, and controls on business and, probably, on consumers without losing their priceless spirit of enterprise and initiative, or, on the other hand, without giving way to impatience and plunging their nation into a conflict which would demand taxes, controls and denials that would make previous ones seem inconse-

quential?

Are they ready to meet with skill and understanding the social tensions at home which today’s world tensions are sure to heighten, and to turn them toward tightening rather than straining the national bonds

of unity?

Are they prepared to carry forward in the political field that vigorous and wholesome contest between the ins and the outs which has always made a democratic nation resilient and dynamic, and still maintain a solid front against the enemy without and his agents within? The answer to all these questions lies in what is called morale. Morale is easier to maintain in a period of high crisis than throughout a decade of grim holding on. Morale is a matter of national character, of a

people’s faith in themselves and in the ideals on which their nation has been built. No people has a richer heritage, a greater store of these intangibles. Americans need only rise to make use of what is already theirs. But this they must do. For this struggle is less likely to be won by the side that strikes the first hard blow than by the side that is still steady and clearheaded after a long, long pull. —Christian Science Monitor

As Maine Goes

Young Democrats in Maine are waging a relentless campaign to make Maine go “. . . as goes the Nation.” Nominated to battle for the congressional«seats of this rockbound, rock-ribbed stronghold of Republican backwardism are these aggressive nominees: Miss Lucia Cormier of Rumford, John J. Maloney, Jr. of Lewiston, and John Keenan of Mars Hill, who seek the first, second and third Congressional seats, respectively. Edward C. (Bing) Miller, reelected Maine YD president in their June convention, hopes to give the national Democratic organization the slogan “Remember Maine” for the November election. He predicts that the coming campaign will be a “knock-down-drag-out” affair. By this he means that the YDs are going to drag out the votes and knock down the Republican chances of Victory. The eyes of the Nation will be on Maine’s September election. A Democratic victory there would be the coup-de-grace to the waning Republican chances of a November success. Use Your Head! Scarce-buying undermines the strength of the country and harms us all. Judged on selfish or practical grounds, there is no need for this particular economic disease. Some meat prices increased when the Korean situation developed, because people rushed to market and crammed their freezers to capacity. Thereafter, the pressure eased and prices tended downward. No one can tell what the immediate future holds— more scare-buying could send meat prices up once more. Yet the fact is that the meat supply is excellent. The biggest peacetime pork crop in history is in the making, and it is expected to come “to market earlier than usual this fall. Beef herds are building up throughout the country. According to, the Department of Agriculture, 34 per cent more cattle now are on feed in the corn belt than a year ago. In other words, there is plenty of meat for everyone, and everyone will get his share at a fair price if we purchase our meat in a normal fashion and avoid over-buying. American enterprise is capable of meeting any conceivable situation. In the case Of meat, the farmers and ranchers are keeping up with the demand. The packing industry, made up as it is of thousands of competing concerns, provides the producer, on the one hand, with a year-round cash market—and the consumer, on the other hand, with a remarkably efficient and low-cost service. Under these conditions, there will be no shortages unless we create them. The best advice to the consumer today is simply, “Use your head!”

U.IV. Radio Presents Atomic Broadcast

THE BEST WAY TO WASH DISHES By Hand or by Machine

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j From Maine to California women spend up to two hours every day on “the meanest job of all"— j washing dishes. In 30 years of i married life the dishes stack up a pile twice as high as the Empire State building, an estimated 340 tons of plates, cups, glasses, preparation dishes, pots and pans, not counting silverware. With a job of ,that size, efficiency saves a housewife countless steps and time. There are almost as many ways of washing dishes as there are housewives — from splashing the dishes with hot water at one extreme to placing them in an auto- _ matic electric > W dishwasher at the other. For the majority of worn e n who wash them in a dish pan of hot water, H o t p o i n t home economists make these recommendations for greatest ease and speed. I First, segregate glasses, cups land saucers, and silverware. Place the garbage pail on a stool and use a rubber'scraper to remove food from plates. Rinse sticky dishes and cups under the faucet. In the dish pan use a sudsy cleanser in powder or liquid form. These new products drain the j water off without leaving the 'dishes spotted. Do not use too l much soap or sudser since longer i rinsing will be required. The order you wash the dishes in is no’t too important but most women start with the glasses and sUverware and wind up with the i cooking utensils. This cuts down : the number of water changes necessary. Rubber gloves are a big ! help not only in saving your : hands, but also in permitting you i to use hotter water than your ! bare hands could stand. Not only i should dishes look clean when you i are through, but also they should • be exposed to sufficient suds to be I actually clean. The dish cloth is ; usually more effective than a dish mop for washing. A brush can be helpful not only on pots and pans, but in removing adamant food matter from the dishes. When the dishes have been placed in the rinsing rack, hot water cap be I sprayed over them with a faucet hose attachment or poured over | them with a teakettle. If you are doing a very small number of j .dishes, it is handier to hold them I directly under the hot water faucet. Dishes should be left in the ! racks long enough to drain well .for beat results.

Silverware should not be left too long in the pan of heated water. A few pieces at a time should be given short soaking and then wiped off with a dish cloth. While many, detergent users let the dishes dry in the racks, glasses and silverware should be dried with a towel. A good supply of towels should be on hand for these items and for times when you want to dry all •the dishes by hand to get them out of the way. Experience shows .that cleaning pots and pans encru§ted with grease or food matter is the biggest time killer a woman faces. This is a tough problem to solve but best tips are to have a good scraper on hand, wash these utensils as soon after use as possible or, if you must leave them till later, put hot water in them to soak. Also watch that food does not boil over on them while cooking. The above suggestions represent a brief consensus on how to cut down the time involved in dishwashing by hand but to lop up to an hour and a half from the job, many women have been considering the purchase of an automatic dishwasher. Reports from several thousand owners sent to Hotpoint, largest dishwasher producer, indicate that these machines require less than one half hour daily, since women merely place the dishes in.them and start the machine. There are several types of automatic dishwashers, but the best known and the most automatic have a rack that slides out when the front is opened leaving the top of the appliance as free working surface fof stacking dishes. The racks hold 60 dishes, cups, saucers, pots, pans and glasses plus silverware. These are washed, rinsed and electncally dried at

the turn of a dial. Women who use dishwashers reverse the ordinary hand routine j and place the pots and pans in! the dishwasher immediately after use to let the machine wash them' while the family is eating. The' racks are loaded with the dinner-; ware five to ten minutes after dessert dishes have been cleared.! The appliance takes over when the dial is set and 30 minutes later the dishes are dry and can be put away. Some women leave! the dishes stored overnight in the machine until ready to use them again next morning. With a large group, the appetizer and dinner dishes can be put in the machine to wash while dessert is served. This leaves only the final course dishes and coffee cups and saucers to be put in the racks before the housewife can rejoin her guests. The preparation of pots, pans and dishware for a dishwasher is similar to preparation for hand washing which means brushing off all loose foreign matter and for greasy ones, running them under hot water. For fine china and stemware, a good dishwasher is neither kinder nor harder than hand washing. Where the machine has heated forced air for drying, a point to watch when shopping for a dishwasher, glasses and silverware will dry spotless and sparkling. Because good dishwashers use water at 150 degrees, which is hotter than the hands can stand, they do a more thorough washing job than can be done by hand. Before you purchase any dishwasher, you should discuss installation with your dealer or contractor. The best models all require plumbing but with the increased popularity of this modern i work-saving appliance plumbers I are experienced in installation., (

United Nations Radio documentary feature on atomic energy, entitled “Year of Decision,” will be heard over many radio stations all over the world. The program features excerpts from U.N. meetings and includes statements on atomic armaments race and the future use of atomic energy by such authorities as Albert Einstein, whose voice is heard; David Lilienthal; J. Robert Oppenheimer; and Robert M. Hutchins. Movie actor John Garfield (left) and U.N. Radio personnel are shown here recording the program.

CAMERA TOPICS By T. T. Holden*

/ ' * . . % Carefully planned and welPexposed photos of summer fun keep those wonderful vocation memories alive for years. Photo by Rogers Thorpe was made with Speed Graphic in 1/700 sec. ot f/ll. HINTS FOR BETTER BEACH PICTURES

Most beach pictures that friends show us are badly overexposed. The light around water, even on cloudy days, is so intense that it is hard for us to realize how little exposure is necessary. Even when using a good exposure meter, the tendency is to think the meter couldn't possibly be right when it registers so high. ( It is a good idea to use a very slow film for beach photography. A lens shade is a big help in keeping stray light from bouncing off your lens. And a medium yellow filter should be a “must” for all your pictures. This filter gives a better relationship between the sky, sand, and skin tones and also protects your lens against flying sand, water, spray, and other damage. T^ke most of your beach pictures early in the morning and

late in the afternoon for most pleasing results. In the two-nour period before and after noon when the sun is high overhead, the light is very harsh and annoying shadows are hard to avoid. Also,'during this hottest part of the day, your subjects are seldom as cooperative about posing as during the cooler hours. Don’t leave your camera out in the hot sun at the beach. And be careful about getting it wet or sandy. A camera is a delicate instrument and it doesn’t take much rust or grit to throw it out of kilter. A good stunt is to keep the camera in a plastic or oil skin bag when not in use. And when you get home, give it a good once-over before you put it away so you will know it is clean and dry and ready to work well on your next outing. *GraJlex Photo Direct**

Good pasture management of grassland farming resulted in doubling beef production per acre on the Purdue-Miller farm near Upland, Ind., it was revealed at the recent field day there by Dr. G. O. Mott, Purdue University specialist. In 1949 beef production amounted to 165 pounds per acre. Adding lime, phosphorus, potash and nitrogen increased production to 339 pounds per acre on rotation grazing and to 387 pounds per acre with deferred summer grazing. Mott explained rotation pasture mixtures last year showed best produc-

tion from alfalfa and timothy bv danger of winter killing lessene effectiveness of alfalfa. Secon best gain was on a mixture < ladino and brome grass, shown i the lower photo above. One parti< ularly good plot on the farm wa the hirdsfoot trefoil-bluegrass mb ture, shown in the top photograph As pointed out at the field day b Dr. D. R. Dodd, pasture specialis at Ohio State University, grasslan< farming well managed boosts farn income, economy of livestock feed ing and preserves and builds soi fertility.