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THE POST-DEMOCRAT, MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DEC. 15, 1950.

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PRICE 5 CENTS—$2.00 A YEAS MRS. GEO. R. DALE, Publisher 816 West Main Street Muncie, Indiana, Friday, December 15, 1950. Time for Price Control A few days ago Aian Valentine, administrator of the Economic Stabilization Agency, spoke of looking for a wage and price “plateau” at which government controls could be imposed with maximum ease and fairness. Now it appears that if the ESA is to find any such plateau, it must help to make it. That it sees the need of doing so is implicit in Mr. Valentine’s appeal to General Motors and the Ford company to withhold increases they had announced in the prices of automobiles. The motor companies are caught in a rather tight vise as matters stand. If they cannot raise their selling prices, they must absorb the cost of wage increases which under their recent contracts follow automatically from a rise in the general cost-of-living index. Moreover, they are still America’s largest purchasers of steel, on which there was a recent price increase of $5.50 a ton accompanied by higher steel wages. Retail prices have pushed the consumers’ price index up to 75 per cent above the average of 1935-39, and it is widely expected that food prices in particular will continue

to rise.

In the face of this spiral it is urgent that consumers, most of whose incomes are comparatively inflexible, be protected as much as regulatory action can protect them from inequity and hardship. The action of Congress to extend rent controls is a recognition of this need. But many owners of rental property are themselves in low-income brackets and will be in need of relief from high consumer prices. To be honest with themselves, Americans cannot expect to rearm their nation and meet a world emergency without diverting a great deal of material from civilian production and a great deal of purchasing power from maintenance of comfortable standards of living. Price and wage controls, if. they are to be effective, must be backed with a willingness to restrict the amount of money in circulation and to economize in government and personal spending. But the time has certainly arrived when controls on key prices and some restraint on wage increases should be put into effect just as quickly as administrative machinery can be organized for the purpose. — Christian Science Monitor. Readiness At Home Civil defense? Yes, that means air raid shelters. Actually it means a great deal more; but probably community underground shelters against atomic or other bombing typify for most people the program and the need for it as a matter of sober preparedness. To be genuinely effective, civil defense or home-front defense must include many phases, such as fire, engineering, transportation, warning, and rescue services, supplies for volunteer workers, medical units, and evacuees. The plan presented to Congress by the National Security Resources Board estimates these preparations will cost $3,100,000,000 over the next three years. These costs would be divided among federal, state, and local governments, with the national treasury bearing slightly over half. The program is a needed one and has been formulated none too soon. Some cities have been ready to go ahead even faster. The responsibility is a national one. But the effectiveness of the plans will depend largely on

local interest, vigilance, and foresightedness. All who participate will hope, of course, that disaster never strikes. The readiness to meet grim conditions gives one a certain sense of mastery over them. This should expand into knowledge by which the conditions themselves can be averted. Meanwhile, civil defense is better carried out in an atmosphere of calmness and confidence than of dread and apprehension.

Seeking Poisons in Food Should makers of food products be permitted to add chemicals to their foods, to make them look better or stay fresh longer, without making sure first that the chemicals aren’t poisonous? Almost anybody will answer “No” to that question, but no such caution is required by the present law. A House committee headed by Congressman James J. Delaney (Dem. N. Y.), has been holding hearings this week to determine whether such a law is needed. The committee has learned that there are a lot of ways poisons can get into food—from fertilizers, from sprays used to rid fruits of insect pests, even from berry boxes treated with a preservative to prevent mold, as well as from chemicals actually used in the food. Dr. Arnold J. Lehman of the U. S. Food and Drug Administration told of a sugar substitute which had been used for 50 years in special diets for people who had to avoid sugar, and which only recently had been found to be harmful. After some pressure on manufacturers its use has been stopped. “Expert” witnesses, some of them employes of manufacturers or trade associations, gave conflicting testimony on a number of chemicals, indicating that it is no simple task to see that the consuming public is protected. , Educators Fight for T. V. i Leading educational organizations of the nation have combined in a Joirft Committee on Educational Television for a “last ditch fight” to see that education is not crowded off the air entirely by commercial interests. “This is the last chance of ever securing a national decision to devote a fair share of television frequencies in the public interest,” the committee declared. The Federal Communications Commission is preparing to allocate 250 channels in the “very high frequency” wave lengths now used for television. The educators fear it may also give to monopolistic interests 2,000 channels in the “ultra high frequency” wave lengths which may soon be opened to television. “Over a period of nearly three decades,” the committee charges, “the F. C. C. has shown extreme reluctance to make any decisions contrary to the immediate interests of the large commercial networks.” One member of the Commission, Miss Freida Hennock, declared at a hearing that the commission is “not doing its job” so far as education is concerned. Blow To Films Movie business has taken a serious drop, and the movie people know just where to point the finger of blame—for part of the drop at least. Charles Skouras, owner of a chain of theatres, said attendance has declined 10 to 15 percent in cities where there is television. In other areas business is off only 2 to 4 per cent. He forecast that the theaters might soon combine good feature pictures with “television entertainment.”

By George Large Hallway At House Entrance Offers A Friendly Invitation

No part of the house expresses warmth and hospitality more effectively than a friendly hallway. A large hall can be made inviting with bold stripes, big floral designs or gay checks on the walls. A tall mirror placed opposite the door will make a small hallway appear larger and noticeably lighter. Paper the ceiling for an added decorative touch. Treat the inside of the hall closet to match. Choose light, bright colors for walls and woodwork. Where there is no hall, create one by installing a single wood panel to screen off an area in the living room. On one side will be space to greet guests; on the other, semi-privacy for a dining alcove. Large double doorways between entrance hall and living room can be a decorative asset. Dramatize them by building bookshelves on either side. Unify the whole by extending a scalloped wood valance across the top. The sweep of space between the two rooms will still be there, and the doorway its attractive picture frame.

Two nairs of socks, he washed. He must be hoarding. ,,

Prospectors Vanish After Uranium Find HOUGHTON, Mich.— Reports yesterday and asked him to test

of two mystery prospectors who vanished after n e a r i y blowing out a Qeiger counter with ore samples sent uranium fever soaring today in this community. Every amateur and professional prospector in thi area was all set to start digging for the supposedly super-radio active ore. But no one knew where to dig, and the two men who started the whole thing had simply disappear-

ed.

Frank Goodman, 41, who runs a sporting goods store and newsstand said the men, clad in wellworn army fatigues, showed up

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The farmer’s share of every dollar spent by consumers for farm-produced foods was 49 cents in September. This compared with 32 cents during the “Hoover depression,” and a peak of 55 cents reached during both world wars.

HIGH TAXES

their courage and determination'

not to he conquered. I was there by Russia.

J and I saw and tried to understand Russia is Dispersed.

world^war 1 ** 4 There'was^othing i the sufferin Ss and the dangers of it is true we should destroy left of England only whatever people of England and now j some of the cities in Russia, but help we could give them and (with the atom bomb,. London! they are far apart in Russia. could be destroyed in one hour Large centers of population are Daniel J. Tobin.

scattered and Russia is an expansive nation while England is concentrated in two or three hundred miles of thickly settled popula-

tion.

That brings me back to the thought I had in mind at this particular time, taxes. Everyone is now finding fault with the administration or with our government in Washington because we are determined, apparently, to raise taxes substantially. The answer is this, as I have stated before, that while we don’t like paying everything out in taxes, we had better pay because money will be no good to us if we lose the struggle for the continuation of the human family under our

form of civilization.

The toughest years that I had were the years that I did not have to pay taxes, when I had lost whatever lit tl e investments I had. The tough years for corporations who are now crying their heads off on taxes were the years 1929 30-31 and 32 when we had 20 million able bodied men and women walking the streets looking for

bread.

So, let us all get behind the government, rich and poor, especially enormous corporations, and let us lead the way to make it a little easier for the lawmakers and let us say to them in one voice, we are for higher taxes because we know the government needs more ihoney and our taxes are the price of our freedom and

our civilzation.

All we ask the lawmakers to do is not to waste our money, try and expend this governmental tax or our contributions in the same businesslike manner that you would spend your own money. As for me, I have reached the point in life, because I have seen so much wealth destroyed and so many freedoms endangered. I say you can tax and tax and tax and I will pay, as I should because I am paying for my continued freedom and that of my children and my grandchildren.—

some rock samples with his Geiger counter. He said their pockets were bulging with rocks. “I told them it would cost them a quarter for each rock I tested,” Goodman said. “One of them sort of smiled and dug around in his pocket and came up with a rock about five by four inches, the biggest one he had. “I thought the counter was going to pop,” Goodman said. “The neon tube flashed so much that it looked like one steady light. It just kept on buzzing and flashing without stopping.” He said the rock was “lots more active” than several radio active samples from Colorado he uses to demonstrate the counter. “I told the fellows they really had something,” Goodman said. “I asked them where they got the rocks, but they told me they ’just aren’t talking.’ I asked them to wait until I could tell a reporter about them, but they said they didn’t want any publicity. “Then they just turned around and walked out of the station, Goodman said. “Not that I blame them much. I wouldn’t want the whoe town following me around either.” News of the discovery spread quickly through this town of 5,000 on the northern most thrust of Michigan’s uppe rpeninsula. Everyone was waiting for the strangers to file, a claim so they’d know where to start digging for the precious ore—if that’s what it was. This rugged, eroded hilly area jumped into the nation’s headlines in the fall of 1948 when the first uranium strikes were reported. Several more strikes have been made since then in the Houghton area and the territory north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.

mission has decided ... it will not permit the return to positions of ownership and control of those persons who have been found to have furthered the aggressive designs of the National Socialist Party (The Nazis.)” Krupp produced only ten per cent of Gemany’s total steel production, but it was a key target of the bombers and the dismantlers because it specialized in armaments. Earlier Krupps armed the Kaiser’s amy in the first IVorld War. I. G. Farben the greatest economic concentration of all time, tvas spread throughout Germany. Bixty per cent of it was in the western zones and forty per cent jn the Russian zones at the end of the war.

To make a wide double doorway appear narrower, place trellises in each side, on which plants and vines can be trained. This will give semi-privacy and will not shut off light and air. The same effect can be obtained by building open shelves, attached to the inside of the doorway. Glassware and silver arranged on them will give sparkle and individuality to the room. Small Space Large or small, a hall needs very little furniture—a table, a mirror and a chair or two. If there is space, a chest to store skates, rubbers and other outdoor gear is convenient. If the space is too small for a table, try a semi-circular table or console bracketed to the wall and painted to harmonize. Above it hang a mirror with a wooden frame painted to match. Limit the accessories to a lamp and large ashtray on the table. A hall table will take on warmth if you set an attractive growing plant on one side, balanced by a lamp on the other. If the space is gloomy, keep the lamp lit. A square entrance hall can double fon dining if furnished with a dropleaf table and small

chairs. When dishes are cleared away the hallway resumes its own character. Flooring An important feature of any entrance hall is its flooring, which must not only be attractive because it is conspicuous, but must also be sufficiently durable to withstand a steady stream of traffic. No floor covering meets these requirements with more varsatility than asphalt tile. It can be used to good decorative advantage. The hall color scheme can be coordinated by using the adjoining room’s accessory color for the main floor color in the hall. If the living room has green accents, make the hall flooring green Kentile in a darker shade, veined or marbleized in white. Paint the walls light green, woodwork white. If the adjoining living room has yellow-red accessories, a lovely effect can be created in the hall by using rust-colored Kentile asphalt tile flooring bordered wiht a narrow white stripe. Paint the walls peach, keeping woodwork and mirror frame white. A blond or walnut console will be handsome with this color plan.

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(Continued from Pace Oner vention rolls around. Mayor Walton is noted throughout the state for his speaking ability and his great interest in Community Service work. This VFW ’51 Club supper was one of the highlights of veterans’ activities this year.

When our Main Street parking problem cropped up again, we announced a strict one-hour parking policy, and swore in extra deputies to enforce it. We also sent over to the State Capitol for a traffic expert, to give us pointers. He turned out to be real helpful—spent a whole afternoon with us talking about zoning and such. And when he left the building he found a ticket on his car for overtime parking! Could have gotten soij^, I guess —i-or asked us to “fix” the ticket. But instead, he insisted on going

over to the Sheriff’s Office and paying his fine. From where I sit, it’s good to know people, like that young fellow, who refuse to be treated any different than anyone else. City people and farmers—those of ns who prefer cider and those who’d rather have a cool glass of temperate beer—we’re all entitled to the same privileges. That is, so long as what we do doesn’t conflict with the law of the land. F)oC

Loss Of Krupp Works Impairs German Defense

FRANKFURT, Germany The giant Krupp Works and the I. G. Farben combine, backbone of the Nazi war machine, have had their war potential reduced to almost zero allied sources declare. If Germany were given the authority of the western powers to re-arm, as some militarists planning the defense of West Europe have recommended, she would have to start from scratch. The Krupp munitions empire, centered in Essen, is a mass of rubble and steel skeletons, the result of war-time bombings and post-war dismantling. Thousands of unemployed workers live in caves dug beneath the crumpled factories, butter and disillusioned. Many of them openly pine for the “good old days” under Hitler. Alfred Krupp, heir to the empire, is a war crimminal doing a twelve years’ stretch in the Landsberg war crimes prison. I. G. Farben, the chemicals, synthetic oils and explosives manufacturing combine which controlled 38 per cent of the world’s chemical business before the war, has been cut up provisionally into small independent units by the allied decartelization branch. I. G. Farben, phsically, fared better than Krupps. Many of its plants were still standing when Germany collapsed. Krupp, if it ever gets on its feet again, will have to rebuild from the rubble. . According to a Krupp spokesman, only two Krupp plants are back in operation. They are a locomotive factory in Essen, which is doing repair work, and a tungsten factory. Krupp attorneys arc figthing for the eventual return of the empire to the Krupp family, but the high commission law on reorganization of the steel industry appears to forestall that in these words: , ■ . “... The allied high com-

: m£k llripf W§r Am &ee*t AMti&A&d from Indiana farms! And, at the risk of sounding immodest, we must frankly admit electricity is the reason. We have been working collectively on the big job of rural electrification for more than a quarter of a century. Through unceasing effort most of the problems of providing electricity to Indiana , farms and developing ways for the farmer to benefit economically from it have been gradually overcome. The electric companies of Indiana long pioneered rural electrification in our State, by (l) y helping manufacturers to create time and labor-saving electric equipment for the farm, (2) by financing experiments at Purdue University to develop more and better ways for electricity to eco- - nomically serve the farmer (still being done), (3) through educational and promotional activities of the companies to acquaint the farmer with the miracles electricity can perform for him, and through many other ways too numerous to mention. Today, over 98% of Indiana’s farms produce more, in less time, with less effort, because of modern electric service. No wonder, to Indiana farmers especially, the big $500 million expansion program of Indiana’s electric companies is very good news. It means that, in the future, as in the past, there will be dependable electric power on the farm—for all of the more than 300 uses to which modern farmers are putting it today! NOW— leMCC tZte SteetUc Pato&t AND MORE TO COME!

INDIANA & MICHIGAN ELECTRIC COMPANY AND THE OTHER ELECTRIC COMPANIES OF INDIANA Indionopolis Power & Light Company Northern Indiana Public Service Company Madison Light & Power Company Public Ser-vice Company of Indiana, Inc. Mooresville Public Service Company Rockport Water Works Company, Inc. Southern Indiana Gas & Electric Company