Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1946 — Page 23

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J IF WE, WERE ASKED to. name three things which can always be found on the far north side we'd say children, dogs, and complaints about bus service. We fdund all three in quantities on a visit to the 5100 block, Rosslyn ave. .”. . We can understand the children and dogs. The clean surburban air and the stretches. of shady lawns are ideal for raising children. Growing children and dogs go hand in hand (or do we mean paw in hand?), hence the + As for the third fay

hair-raising ride out with a Speedway-minded river and a 35-minute ‘wait for a bus that never came. Next time we go north we'll take along a pogo stick. . , . Seriously though, almost everyone we talked to complained about the long waits for buses, the uncertain schedules and the inadequate service during rush hour, . Our first stop was at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. Davis, 5181, Mrs. Davis was dividing her time between ironing and her son, David, a young tow-head who couldn't understand why his mother couldn't get Roy Rogers back on the radio. We're convinced that David has

some sort of a “magic” touch. He was curious about a “clock” which we wore on a lapel instead of our wrist—so curious that he came over and inspected it A few minutes later we noticed the

a couple times,

Five lttie sun bathers all in a row . . . Susie Hill with Little Jane, Nancy, Frankie and Sleepy Doll.

Paging Spang

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10—C. E. Spang of Georgetown, Ill, is no fashion plate, but he used to have, before he entered politics, an excellent reputation. He still has a beautiful wife. He also has a son. George, and a daughter, Ann. They all want to see Washington. They could have a time for themselves in capital high society, while Congressman Spang could do something for the people of the 18th Illinois district. He could, that is, if he’s elected. People of the 18th district, I hope you give him the job. He is my kind of congressman. TI am sure of this. I have been reading Spang on the subject of —Spang. Before we get to Spang writing about Spang, I must report that he received: the Democratic congressional nomination from the 18th district. So the Democratic national committee forwarded him

its official questionnaire, so it could tell the folks about him,

Throws in Letter: Extra HE FILLED IN THE blanks about being a resident at 302 N. Main st. in Georgetown and other such routine details. He enclosed two of his campaign blotters with his picture on ‘em. He is not as homely as he thinks, A little too fat. maybe, but he has a kind face. This still did not tell the story. Spang wrote headquarters a letter about himself. I have this missive. Do not ask me how I got it; just read Spang—on Spang: “My father was a successful grain miller and lumber dealer.” he wrote, “so you see I had a good name until I entered politics. The political acid

Science

BRIG. GEN. DAVID SARNOFF, president of the Radio Corp. of America and oie 6f the leaders of technical progress for more than a quarter of a century, holds optimistic views about the possible applications of atomic energy. Within a few days after the bombing of Hiroshima I wrote that new knowledge of the atom might soon be used to usher in new wonders on a stupendous .scale if the world avoided suicide in an atomic war. Nd Some reviewers of my book thought I was being

unduly optimistic but I am delighted. to see in recent ;

months that views similar to mine have been advanced by scientists and industrialists alike. Gen. Sarnoff sees only the destruction of civilization if the world insists on fighting another war with atomic bombs and methods of spreading epidemics and plague, He says that his conversations with eminent authorities both here and abroad give him scant hope that any adequate protection can be devised against the newer methods of mass destruction. This is a view which I have constantly preached. But if war can be avoided he sees the possibility of such striking achievements as control of the weather, transformation of deserts into gardens, and other wonders.

Sees Television Advances

HE LIKEWISE sees great advances In the art of radio, including world-wide television. He says that “we are still pioneering in the dawn of the radio age.” Dr. Sarnoff rightly sees the connection between freedom and the progress of science. Speaking at a testimonial dinner in honor of his 40 years of service to radio, Gen. Sarnoff said: “In America, radio has grown rapidly as-a great public servant, not only because of freedom to speak

My Day

NEW YORK, Wednesday.—It was with great sorrow that, a few days ago, I read of the death of Gifford Pinchot, former governor of Pennsylvania. To these of us who have had an interest in good gOVernment, he has held high the torch of unselfish service to his country. I remember very well the first time I ever realized what conservation was. Mr, Pinchot came to Albany and spoke to the New York legislature and showed some films of devastated areas in China. First he explained that once the hillsides had been covered with trees, and that the river had been well behaved and had never flooded the countryside, But as the trees were cut down, soil erosion took place and gradually the river carried more and more good soil out to sea, so that floods became a menace to all the neighboring territory. He translated this situation in China into terms of the United States, Wages Lonely Fight MR. PINCHOT was waging a rather lonely fight then, and very few people paid much attention to his warnings. However, my husband was tremendously impressed and he hegan at once to replant trees on his own and in Duchess County. N. Y. He began to look for soil erosion wherever he went. He taught me, too, to be conscious of this wasting of our land, By dint of perseverance, Mr. Pinchot finally won

,_ city park board some 21 years. ,

watch had started running, after about four weeks of silence.

watch repair expert. . ,.

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WE DROPPED in on Mrs. Starr, of 5177, who's

just recovering from a leg injury thgt kept her in a cast most of the summer. The Starrs moved to Rosslyn from Florida a couple of years ago, much to the disappointment of their youngest daughter, Juanita. Juanita has a birthday coming up soon and for presents she wants a formal, a violin and— last but not least—the family+ to move back to Florida Quite a big order, we'd say. . . . We also had a brief chat with two éther Rosslynites, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Harding, 5143, about the weather, buses and things in general. .

Young Sun Bathers THE BRIGHT MID-MORNING sun was shining on four sun-bathers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Garnett Hill, of 5147. The sun-bathers were the four dolls of young Susie Hill. After a little coaxing Susie told us her dolls names were Little Jane, Sleepy Doll, Frankie and Nancy. The last two names were a surprise to her mother—those particular dolls had been named Tommy and Blondie the last time she heard. Susie's a trifle too young to read Hollywood --g0ssip, but maybe she's heard from somewhete about the much-talked of Frankie and Nancy Sinatra. . . . Like almost everyone else in the block, Mrs. Hill and Nancy were getting ready to go to a P.-T. A. meeting at School 91. Little Susie was worried about

whether she should risk taking her chewing gum with |

her to school or take a chance on parking it on her little table. She finally parked it—she'd heard stories from big brother John about the school’s attitude toward gum and the stuff’s too scarce to risk. ... We

heard a lot of bark from the rear of 5149 but we|

ventured on the porch, anyway. We were a little amazed to learn that all that noise had been coming

out of one little Scottie, the pet of Mr. and Mrs. |

Harley Sedam. Mr. and Mrs. Sedam are 12-year residents of Rosslyn and Mr. Sedam has been on the + » Mrs. Sedam told us one of the many stories we heard about Freddy Browder, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Browder, of 5171. over and asked Mrs. Sedam for her clothes props Monday because “daddy locked ours up.” It seems “Daddy” started locking the garage after several invasions by Freddie and the boys. He forgot about washday, locking the garage and leaving Mrs. Browder with a washing to hang up and no way to get at the clothes props. . . . We're afraid our visit was something of a shock to Mrs. Charles H. Walker, of 5173. We knocked and waited, then stuck our head around a corner when we heard the door opened. Mrs. Walker stuck her head around at the same. moment and it was something like two eyes meeting through a keyhole. We did manage to have a little chat, though, after the shock wore off.

By F rederick C. Othman

ate the silver off that spoon and I had to enter the field of labor . .. and am now engaged in contracting as a sideline to politics.” Spang added that he entered politics first in grammar school and worked his way up by 1937 to be mayor of Georgetown. He had his troubles, but as he pointed out, he played no favorites. “To the independent voter I say that I fired a Democratic attorney,” he said. “I also fired a Republican attorney and have disagreed with high officials within my party in the interest of public - welfare,

That's My Boy Talking . “TO SAY I AM successful would be putting it mildly: for a man to beat a bunch of blundering Republicans and stil] have a roof over his head in their territory, he must have at least half the jury. Spang (Spang said) has paid a good price for his political experience, which need not be itemized here.” Here I must make one more interjection; Spang is ‘seeking the congressional seat of the Republican, Jessie Sumner, who decided not to run again, Now go on with Spang on Spang: we ® “I have a beautiful wife: a son. daughter, Ann, in high school and all want to see Washington,” he wrote. “I believe they could do as well in society as my predecessor and I could do

something for. the people of the 18th district, which |

would be something new. setter in a style show, but he has knocked about in politics enough to know all want to be treated alike and we are all just people regardless of position.” That's my boy talking. It'll be a sore disappoint - ment to me, voters of the 18th district, if he loses.

By David Dietz

and freedom to listen, science to. advance. Science must be free. tions to bé placed upon the scientists’ right to question; to experiment, and to think. Liberty Attracts Scientists “BECAUSE America has held liberty above all else, distinguished men of science have come here to live, to work and to seek new knowledge. The world has been the benefactor and science has moved forward. “In war, science dares the impossible: it must continue to dare the impossible in peace and in a fuller life to permeate society.” It seems to met that Gen. Sarnoff's words might well be considered as a guiding principle for what we do with atomic energy in this country. We have the atomic bomb because the freedom of America attracted the scientists of Nazi-dominated Europe during the rise of Hitler. Refugee scientists launched the nation on the path that led to the bomb. Scientists who worked on the bomb were at times unhappy over: the restrictions placed upon them by the army. Some have even claimed that the bomb might have been _obtained 18 months earlier with fewer restrictions, A major victory for freedom was won with the passage of the McMahon bill for the control of atomic energy, setting up a civilian commission. But President Truman has not yet appointed that

commission and the present situation has many un- |

fortunate elements of confusion in it. Peacetime wonders as fantastic as the bomb itself, such as Gen. Sarnoff and others have predicted, are possible, But they require an aggressive national policy aimed at their accomplishment. As Gen. Sarnoff says, We must be as bold in peace as in war,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

many other citizens to join his crusade. This crusade was -only one of the many he carried on for good government, He Wasn't Selfish HE WAS NOT selfish nor self-seeking. Honors came to him, He accepted them without laying too much “stress upon them, It will be for his service as a grand human being that he will be remembered and missed by his neighbors and his fellow countrymen, ; I went yesterday to a luncheon in the interest of a campaign which the American Social Hygiene association is launching to raise a’ fund of $300,000. Apparently, we are following the pattern of the last. war. During the war, social diseases were fairly well képt down, But in the period immediately after the war, the number of cases began to increase very iat. Now, the percentage of increase is -about the same—twice as many cases this year as were reported last year, ° : At the luncheon, Vice-Admiral Ross T McIntire, surgeon general of the navy, and Fannie Hurst, the authoress, made very excellent speeches. Afterward, a press conference was held which brought out the really interesting information that aur teen-age youngsters, at the present time, are the victims of social diseases in greater numbers than any other ageggroup,

Maybe the Davis's should put David in! training with the man next door, D. B. Starr, a

Freddie, who's something of a “case,” came

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By JOHN STROHM

(World copyright by NEA Service, Inc. and John Strohm Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited.) ~

KIEV, U.S. 8. R. — Can this be the Ukraine? Before the war these green and amber fields were claimed to be the most highly mechanlized farm area in the world. Where were the huge crawler tractors you'd seen pictured, pulling {giant combines across the limitless (vistas of the Soviet breadbasket? Before me stretched scenes {straight out of the Bible Bare{foot women swung cradles, scythes {with a wooden frame to catch the {sheared grain stalks. Other women stooped to cut the {grain a few straws at a time with |sickles. They bound the bundles by hand.

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George, and a.the grain, tediously fashioned a tie

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of Illinois, lost 24,000 combines and | 56,000 tractors, thus forcing the |

farmers back on the primitive im- start out at 3 a. m..on the 20-mile| plements they had. been steadily |hike to market instead of sending|they brought in the main course— | {one cartload of produce.

discarding since the revolution. | | A team of oxen Ilumbered by,|

|drawing two drums of fuel for the have a “cup of tea.”

machine-tractor station. | “How much are those

worth?” I asked, a bit set back at|I didn't even need their polite urgbut because of the’ freedom of the sight of oxen being hand-|ing to eat heartily.

maidens to tractors.

EJ = ” “THEY'RE golden. “We lost 90 per ‘cent of our horses and 80 per cent of our cattle in this region |- “So there is no price on oxen, anymore than you'd put a price on a loaf of bread you needed to keep from starving.” A farmer and his wife were taking some collective farm produce to market, ‘ They were asleep on a clump of hay on the wagon—after all, the horse knew the way. | » un Ld | BUT THE horse was obviously no {friend of motor vehicles. When we lapproached he jumped the ditch and tipped the cart over. Everywhere 1 went in the Soviet Union, except in Moscow, the horses shied at our car. The cobblestone road out of Kiev soon gave way to sand and then to dirt—good black dirt any farmer likes to have on his farm, but not on his road or his face, ” o n | PILES OF rock along the road Lad been there since before the war, They were just getting around to

building the road. He corrected himself. “No, our ‘visitors’ are going to build the road.” The “visitors” were thousands. of

German prisoners. | Some of the Germans were barefcoted, some had rags tied over] their feet and none looked exactly | like a conqueror in His ragged uni- | form. But they were as well dressed | as the ‘Russian road crews, n n 4 1 | “HOW do you feed them?” 1 asked a road guard with a tommy sun slung quer his shoulder. | “They wget the same rations we do,” was his answer, . We passed many women with | milk and cheese and vegetables lung on shoulder yokes, trudging | wearily to market. We saw them lying in the grass | by the side of the road, resting, ! hoping against hope for a truck to come their way. . ot nn» . “BEFORE the war we had buses.

Now, if they can't get a ride, they :

walk. Sometimes 10, sometimes as far as 20 miles to get their produce to market,” a Ukranian told me. Collective farmers who live near the big city. markets can get such .ancy prices- as $2 a pound for the tomatoes they grow on their private plots, or up to $1.25 a quart for milk from their cow, and 50 cents for an egg. « .

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Ukraine Farm

sell or trade. their ration bread for 25 times the price they paid for it. are the oxen that pull the wagon in this region where 90 per cent of the horses, 80 per cent of the cattle, were war casualties. Trucks and roads to drive them on are a rarity in rural Russia,

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BREAD: WAGON AND GOLDEN OXEN. . . .These workers are returning to a Ukrainian state

black bread they got at a “bread factory” in town. People often

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HOME FROM THE FIELDS. this Russian woman returns to her home at the end of the day. After a full day's work in the fields, she will get her children from the nursery, cook supper, then fall into bed exhausted.

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But here's the rub: This privately { —and brought in the soup, the first | grown produce can be marketed course in a collective farm banquet. {only by the owner—that's ‘to preTHE UKRAINIAN republic, a lit- vent Spang is far from a pace tle more than three times the size plained.

~ ~ ” ON EITHER side of me was a farmer whose instructions must x = = have been to keep my plate well SO THAT'S why 25 women will filled. I stuffed and

speculation, an official ex-

stuffed and then

(a couple of suckling pigs, shaved The farm chairman invited us to|and roasted! Somehow I staggered through The table was laden with cold|and finished off with fresh cher-

oxen | meats, cheeses and hardboiled eggs.|ries dipped in honey with salted

cucumbers on the side. At this. “cup of tea” I was beginning to/!set

obviously

Just when up for the visitor, the host

| feel well-fed they cleared the table brought out the inevitable vodka.

Some Enterprise Still Private

MOSCOW.—John Strohm found that private enterprise still exists in the Soviet Union, Some examples: A teen-age boy is a goatherd. Every day he takes the milk. goats of 20 neighbors out to pasture along the highway. He charges each goat owner 100 rubles & month. That makes 2000 rubles ($160) a month for herding goats. A school teacher.earns only one-fourth of that. * A chauffeur, driving a state car, picks up a customer looking for a taxi in Moscow. His charge, 25 rubles, goes into his pocket. - ‘Something goes wrong with the radio in the embassy apartments, The electrician who was called makes the call “after work” and pockets 30 rubles. A Russian needs a new roof for his porch. Two carpenters do the job after hours with hand-hewn shingles for 1000 rubles, which goes into their own pockets. Similar work done ‘in hours” goes to the government, which pays a fixed sum to the workmen,

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a a] GERMAN PRISONERS WORK ON ROADS. . . . By the tens of thousands, German war prisoners are clearing rubble, building roads,

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soldiers are on a street repair job in Kiev,

TRAIAN SAARC

AT 80, STILL A BREADWINNER. . . . This 80-year-old man earned 360 “work days” on a collective farm in Byelorussia, where

the farm's workers received 1.2 kilos of grain, 6 kilos of potatoes, 1.5 kiles of hay, and 71 kopeks per labor day. The workers voted to

leave the money in the collective the farm.

THE FARM chairman toasted the

{friendship of America and the | Soviet Union. I toasted the spirit of the {women who were doing the job

| with cradle, sickle, hoe and flail. Two women were swinging cra-| {dles in a wheat field, | One was barefooted, the other | wore ill-fitting men’s shoes. Each had to cut 1.1 acres a day | to earn a Jabor-day’s work. { » n ~ | | THAT KEPT them ‘busy from dawn until dark, a long day in the Ukraine where in summer it gets light at 3 a. m. and you can still | read a newspaper outdoors an hour before midnight. As we chatted the women whetted their blades. | I complimented them on the | spirit with which they swung their

| cradles when they didn’t have com-

{ bines, said T was going to tell their | story to the women of America. » ~ ~ ONE OF them spoke up. “Then [tell them too that we need bread | —we don’t have enough to eat.” I pointed to the field of ripe grain in. surprise. “Yes, but we don't get any of it,” she answered.

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The Ukrainian people, were more outspoken than any other groups I met. THEY weren't afraid of an NKVD man listening over their shoulders, as many Russians seemed to be. (Recent news dispatches tell of a purge ampng collective farm leaders in the Ukraine, | (While IT was in the Ukraine the newspapers were complaining about | the lack of political leadership, pointing out that 7000 collective farms in the Ukraine had no Komsomol or Young Communist organizations, (One said, “We must sluff off the boredom and apathy which prevails.”) ¥ » » THE GOVERNMENT is doing all it can to increase crop yields through seed selection stations such as the one at Mironovka, where they developed'the famous wheat hybrid, Ukrainka. We visited a machine-tractor station established by the government to keep the tools of production concentrated in the hands of the state. Example: A collective farm cannot own a tractor or a combine— only the MTS can own these tools, A colective farmer cannot own a horse, although the farm can, » ” ” “HOW DOES the MTS work?” I {asked the director. “We are an agency of the ministry lof agriculture and we rent-our ma{chines to the collective fatms. Rent is based on Yields. : :

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bushels to the acre, then the charge for plowing the ground is 20 pounds an acre; for seeding, 3.8 pounds; for cutting, 9 pounds. But if wheat makes 25 bushels an acre the charge for plowing is 138 pounds an acre, for seeding, 23 pounds, and for cutting, 53 pounds.” ~ » » ALL RENTAL fees are paid in kind. The MTS was another method by which the government could ine sure a steady supply of grain and other food crops coming from the farms to the cities, On the way home from an ayto trip into the country our car broke down on the .bumpy road. While the chauffeurs fixed it, we sat on the bank. I coaxed a 12-year-old boy te come over and to hold his attention I tossed my knife in the air to show him a game I had played as a kid— mumble-peg, we called it. The knife did not stick in the ground. ~ » ~ QUICKLY and naturally the boy picked up the knife and went through the entire mumble-peg routine. I had learned it at a one room country school in Illinois. 1 saw little girls playing hope scotch. I saw boys with sling-shots, Others had marbles. Kids of the world are pretty much the same— it's when they get grown up that they change, . ‘

Tomorrow: The Soviet Black Sea Riviera, for workers only

RADAR, TELEVISION COMBINATION SHOWN

Teleran, a combination of television and radar techniques, Is on

display for the first time today at the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization assembly at Weir Cook Municipal airport. Essentially, Teleran employs a ground search radar which surveys the air space of interest and dis plays on a cathode ray tube the information thus received. This radar presentation is viewed by a television camera, a map of the area superimposed, and the coms bination picture is broadcast hy a television transmitter, The picture is reproduced by a television receiver in the airplane and the pilot sees his plane as & spot of light moving across a map; other planes appear as different spots of light, each moving accords ing to its actual course. Teleran system includes & method of separating radar echoes accord - ing to’ altitude and transmitting a separate picture for each altitude level, ; y a

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of safety against collision both with terrain obstacles and other aireraft.