Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1947 — Page 14

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Gary's Shame

THE city of Gary has a proud reputation for its work in the field of race relations, a reputation enhanced when segregation was abolished in its schools effective with the opening of this school term. Comes now, a group of dissident school children at the combination Emerson grade and high school with a “strike” against going to school with Negroes. Undoubtedly this so-called strike is inspired by adults, for it is from adults that children learn prejudices and hates, Left alone, children will get along well until they learn from grown-ups that pigmentation or religion sometimes are a ‘basis for prejudice. Invoking the anti-hate law passed unanimously by “the last legislature, Lake county authorities have arrested one parent who was addressing a group of pupils and urging them to continue their protest. It is to the lastihg credit of the city administration and the school authorities of Gary that they are not retreating from a position adopted after long and thoughtful study. Most of the churchmen of the steel city preached sermons Sunday urging parents to order their children to return to school, . It is Gary's shame that a small group of hate=mongérs has befouled its reputation for community unity,

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Don't Shoot Statisticians

SOME 600 delegates, representing 55 countries, are in Washington for a 12-day international statistical confer-

“It'll be a hell of a relief to the American people if all-the professional economists, statisticians, estimators and co-ardingters were taken out and shot., The whole kit and kaboodle of them are a left-wing, designing: lot who would regiment and collectivate this nation into a state of brainless. robots, with themselves occupying the king row.”

« We donot, let it be added hastily, agree with. our Greensburg contemporary. His proposal is certainly too drastic. oalm analysis. ordinatin s aside, for the time being, we woyld say that in the overwhelming main, statisticians are a fine and useful set of people. Without the facts and figures they assemble, without their tables, graphs and charts, the policy-makers of government, labor unions, business enterprises and other institutions would be even more hopelessly lost at sea than . @& lot of them seem to be now. And the fact that so many are meeting to discuss better ways and means of gather-

Member of United Press, Seripps-Howard News:

ence, This news reached our desk as we were reading a copy of “The Westmoreland Observer,” published at Greensburg, Pa., in which an outspoken editor sounds off as| follows : : :

His" conclusions would hardly stand up under| Leaving economists, estimators and co-|.

UST as general weather during the war was often more important than man’s CHANTS ARE Wek DONE, “now ‘nature in many countries has defeated man in his fight against hunger, The latest report of the United Nations food and agriculture organization shows that the world's grain harvest is disastrously bad. This blow follows European reports of lower coal production. With food and fuel the twin necessities of all foreign ‘relief and rehabilitation, these shortages mean the worldwill suffer even-more dur-

. ing the cgming year than in the grim

year which preceded this harvest. nr” ART of the crop damage is due to the severe European winter—the worst in 50 years. The big freeze was followed by floods. Then came the drought—in some countries the longest in a century. In Europe the grain harvest is only 58 per cent of prewar average. Especially serious is the decline in the world’s major food surplus countries. In Canada the wheat harvest is down. In the United States the corn crop has taken such a weather beating that Secretary of Agriculture Anderson says there must be

ing and analyzing statistical information is evidence of the seriousness with which they take their calling. | If the ever-rising tide of statistics is failing to carry il where we'd like to go, it isn't fair to blime the statisticians. Most of them, though not of course all, do their work with scientific detachment. Few occupations contain a larger | - percentage of men and women determined to seek the truth, and nothing but, The trouble with statistics is not the fault of those who gather them. It's the fault of the big] - group, including entirely too many of us all, which insists’ on regarding statistics only as things to be used for proving & whatever it is we HAPPEN to want to prove,

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WAA Inquiry Nedded

RKED by a series of personal experiences with the war assets administration in its disposition of surplus war materials, the state council of the Reserve Officers Association is sending letters to Hoosier members of congress requesting an investigation of that agency. Many veterans have found that they received little real consideration from the agency, and feel that the needs

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of the individual veteran are not give thoughtful attention. ; Veterans who counted heavily on being able to obtain 4 equipment have been sorely disappointed. These range 1 from men who wanted to open garages to young attorneys who needed office equipment. $ :

It is to be hoped that Senators Capehart and Jenner and the congressmen from Indiana will support the request of the reserve officers group. ’

Myths About Chinese Communists

UCH has been printed about what is wrong with the Chinese Nationalist government—denial of civil liberties, oppression of the poor, official corruption. ‘Most of those criticisms have been written or uttered by persons who have never been inside the Conimunist areas of China, | { but have fallen for the propaganda that happier conditions | 3 prevail where the “agraraian revolytionists” are in control.

1 H. Newton, Secripps-Howard Far Eastern correspondent, | from China's war zone. Mr. Newton has talked with sol-

munist rule. His dispatch explodes some of the more prev-| alent myths about the Chinese Communists, and explains why it is that.- : “When -the Communists take a town the people flee. And when the Nationalists take it back; the people comé home again.”

A Far Piece

A MEMBER of the U.

S. atomic energy conimission warns.

around the corner. same block with the United Nations’ effort to agree on a popram for outlawing the omic bomb, eid

| of“draft age in this past war,

| entering upen universal military {training will soon realize that. this| So we hope you read the dispatch on Page 2 by William |i8 the only solution,

diers who have fought on both sides, and with peasants and |d¢em their family name. villagers who have lived under both Nationalist and Com. |

{they wouldn't even have a con-|

that the peacetime use of atomic energy is not just! In other words, ‘it seems to be in the this new program. It would give]

export guts, Though. it is too éarly for crop estimates from Argentina and Australia, the other two grain surplus countries, the United Nations agency predicts that total grain eXports of the Big Four granaries

Hoosier Forum

Dumping Animals or Trash on {Country Road Is Thoughtless

By Josephine Buck, R. R. 1, Westfield Living in a rural district has brought to" my attc habits ‘of people relative to our country roads. be losing their thoughtfulness for general good.

I've been noticing trash dumped by the roadsides deliberately:

appears people have one thought in mind: from their own property any way they can. of junk along one’s fence.

the dogs

UMT Sings Idea of Preparedness. Need

By ET. 0 Put me

Veleran down as being in favor we

universal military training for 18-year-old young men of the than United States and the statesmen of othe! S

have of

to wiltully

ition the appalling To me, people seem to

and that to get rid of trash It isn’t funny to find a pile! Would you call those dumpers good citizens? Also, how about the stray cats and dogs dumped out along the! | roads? Many become wild and prey upon chickens or eggs. | wild ahimals enough of a problem themselves? We have had stray to |dogs enter our feed bins and saw ourselves. - themselves are not to blame, We are supposed to be rulers and trainers of animals in our care too many young born we ghould destroy them at birth rather cast

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will be only 29 million tons. The amount needed to maintain present subnormal FALIONS 18 38 Milton tons. The exceptions to bad harvests seem to be in eastern Europe, where Sovietcontrolled statistics are unreliable. Both Russia and her Yugoslav satellite claim bumper crops. If they have exportable surpluses these will be used for political purposes and pressures, if the past is a criterion, i The world's greater need puts an added burden on the United States. The effect of worse food shortages’ oii the Marshall plan and all other ‘efforts at European reconstruction is obvious. Miners and facfory workers do not produce more on empty bellies. Hunger is the biggest ally of Bolshevism.

” " » MONG several lines of action to meet the world food shortage; three seem to us imperative. Americans, Canadians, Argentinians and Australians must consume less and share more. Export surpluses must be regulated more carefully, with priority given to the people who prove they can stop the leaks. Britain is one of ‘the few countries

.without a flourishing blackmarket in food.

The American zone in Germany is one of the worst examples. Thirdly, preper allocation of the limited export surplus should be made to save’ dwindling dairy herds and animal brood stock and to provide more seed _ grain for next season.

"I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the ceath your right to say it."=Voltaire.

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its OUR BUSINESS on . By James Thrasher

THERE HAS BEEN MUCH ‘TALK about how much the “Marshall plan” is going to cost the United States, or rather how much congress will be willing to appropriate. There has heen considerably less discussion of how much the plan is going to cost this country in. production. Certainly many of the billions of dollars to be lent

g| under this plan will be spent in the U. 8. They will

doubtless be spent, and spent heavily in the first

B= year or two, on such things as food and clothing, and

machinery for farms and factories. This might place something of a strain on our productive capacity, unless America’s ability to supply is as carefully inventoried as are Europe's needs for recovery,

| Those Reds Again

RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA has ‘tried to break up the Marshall plan before it gets under way by two accusations—that the plan is an instrument of American imperialism, and that it will be used to dispose of vast American surpluses and thus stave off a major depression in this country. The: second charge is as: senseless as the first. With manufacturers trying vainly to catch up with the demand in many lines, there seems little likelihood of our having to dump industrial or agricultural surpluses on Europe in order to Seep the farm and factory workers busy. In fact, the Marshall plan may present American industry with its biggest peacetime challenge to date. And it might be that the main burden of meeting it will fall upon the farmers and steelmakers. America’s agricultural population has been declining steadily for the past hundred years. But the productive capacity of our farms has steadily increased. During the war, while millions of young farm workers were in the service or in factories,

IN WASHINGTON Here's a Fish Story

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—With vacations over for most. people, it's the open opén season on fish stories about the big ones that got away. And, following the.trend of everything in Washington, it appears that fish stories are now being centralized, too.

This one’s told by young, good-natured Dr. Robert R. Miller, who earns his keep as a biologist for the Smithsonian - Institution. He's strictly in the Izaak Walton big league. Fishing now.is. his. job, instead of his favorite sport, as it used to be.

Gruesome But Toothsome

DURING A RECENT junket to some of the best fishin’ *holes in South and Central America, Miller claims he hauldd in, all told, about 50,000 fish. His best catch was made at Lake Yzabel in Guatemala. It was a giant fresh-water sawfish named “Big Tooth.” Miller gave it that name last year when the rare specimen defied his best. efforts to bag him, This year, however, Miller went down equipped with a 125-foot gill-net which did the job. A gill-net is one with many-sized holes which snares almost anything -finny.

from Big Tooth, he cut off a large steak and ate it. Miller says it tasted mighty good and that there wasn’t a trace of the critter’s. orneriness in the steak. He saved the saw-tooth part. His toughest catch was a four-eyed affair he finally- had to land with the aid of a net™a .22 pistol loaded with dust-shot, and a lantern. It was the first like it he ever caught. The fish swims at the surface with two eyes under the water and two eyes just above it. None of the lures in Miller's bat box would do the trick after several days of trying, so he took -a tip from the Guatemalan natives.” He went out at night with a lantern.” This attracted it to the surface and blinded it when the two top eyes got above the water, The natives used torches and drive the fish to shallow water. Miller aimed and shot,

REFLECTIONS

DENVER, Sept. 9.—It seems strange that Ernest Bevin, who wants some of the gold at Ft. Knox | dug up and shunted his way, overlooked a little item

here in Denver. : Ft. Knox has bullion worth $12'% billion.. It's {the greatest store of gold in all history, since the time men began placing a fictitious value on something you can't eat or drink and actually isn't good for anything except ornaments and to fill your teeth with. Here in the Denver mint we’ have a tidy cache of $5 billion worth.

Cost of Living Going Sky-High

By Worried Housewife, City

I've ‘just come back from the grocery" store, my week's allowance

for food is practically gone and I'm blessed if I know what a ‘family with a medium income is going to My husband has a job which pays him only a little more than it did before the war, our taxes have increased, and almost everything we own is wearing We haven't bought a stick of furniture in seven years, or any new The childrens’ school clothes cost more | | hard-earned wealth—or token of wealth—tossed over I dont know|to a foreign nation, what we're going to do if things | distressed it may be “Leveling Prices ‘will have to come down or we'll go further in-

It do these days.

Aren't the |out.

The animals clothes for ourselves in three.

than ever before. If don't come down soon, off” isn't enough. them upon to debt every day.

That figure is five times the assessed valuation of all Colorado property, mines, factories, farms, office buildings, homes, oil wells—and this includes the mountain of molybdenum over at Climax.

‘Colorado Earned Its Gold

IN THE DENVER MINT, which hundreds pass | daily with little “notice, there lies more than five timés as much gold produced in Colorado since the day William Greene Russell found flecks of gold in his pan on the banks of Cherry creek in 1858. Through all the bonanzas, with all the toil and hardships and privations endured, the yield of gold from Colorado's rivers and creeks and mountains has | been less than a billion.

Colorado got its gold the hard way. I'm not at {all confident that Colorado: would care to see this

no matter how {riendly or

There is no logical explanation for the fascination

WORLD EVENTS .

tomorrow... They will be better citizens and be more representative of our country than were some men

Side ‘Glapess - By Galbraith

U. S. Not Telling Its

I'm referring to the thousands

of men who were of draft age at the outbreak of world war II and who

did everything under the sun to protect their ownehides and their own little selfish interests” by

| deferment until such a time as they were over the age or the war was over | Their . 18-year-old sons of today, |

the only way| to prepare themselves for their own!” 1

future and the future of the coun-! try, and will at the same time re-

Of course there were some justifiable cases, everyone knows that. But lit's the others of whom I speak, {the guilty ones who will readily jredden about the neck and ears as! they read this, But then I guess

{science to bother them, There was a time when I was| opposed. to universal training, and I stated so emphatically when the! subject was broached a couple of ivears ago, while in the service. But now after returning and taking |stock of the situation here and |aproad, 1 believe that it would be [most beneficidl for all teen-agers to):

have a short training period under |

each one the opportunity to be-| EL come .& man, prepared physically, | And a oe citizen, ly ; i

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§. PAT. OFF,

ISTANBUL, Sept. 9.—~The Turks want more from the United States than protection against Russia. They want education. . _ To'get American pennies for Turkish edueation, however, seems practically impossible, though getting | millions of dollars for Turkish defense, first under

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'Meager Spending on ‘Information

| THIS IS JUST ANOTHER American foreign pol- | fey mystery to the European observer, To him it appears that the Americans are determined, regardless of how much they “lend,” to avoid making any political impression on the people of the country | being benefited. Depending on his individual feeling toward America, this seems to him either tragic or | comic. : The efficient and smooth running wartime United States information service's office in Istanbul, key political city of the Balkan Middle East, has been cut down from a healthy and useful arm of American policy to a weak skeleton. Economies as foolish as the lavish -éxtravagances carried out by American loans elsewhere have been committed here, just at the moment :when the strategic importance of the Middle East is being recognized. The information service has moved out of its | large, busy location on the main street of Istanbul to, a small, obscure building of empty chairs and suspended.services. - Just when congress under the Truman plan ‘was voting $100 million to. the Turks, some other committee on appropriations decided to swing the ax here. Most nations would have quadrupled their information services, in order to get the most from the

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, | have my doubts about ever getting married—| know I'd look a hight in one of ete house dresses!” 4

good will of this gigantic gift. "To get the budget down frofi about $100,000 a ea—81 of information for every $1000 of arms—to.

After Miller got all: the scientific data he needed"

| lend-lease and now under the Truman bill, has been

ms The Challenge of the ‘Marshall Plan’

“there was an actual improvement in Americans’ diet. At the samg time American farmers were able to make major contributions of food to our principal allies. There. are -several reasons for this. But probably the two most important ones are the development of

‘farm machinery and an improvement in the knowi-

edge of how to maintain and enrich the soil. The first steel plow was made 110 years ago. Three years later came the discovery of how .plants feed, which laid the foundation for modern soil science and the chemical fertilizer industry. Since then thé re. markable advance of scientific and mechanical aids has. permitted fewer and fewer persons to produce more and mere food: This has freed an increasing number of workers for other fields, and has had much to do with making the United States the industrial nation that it is.

Internal Conflict Is Threat

THE TREND AWAY FROM THE FARM was ace celerated by the war, and the coming of peace did not. reverse the migration. Some 2 million whe went from farms to other jobs did not return afterwards, Yet this situation need not be alarming unless production slumps and selfish factionalism increases. © Class consciousness and a philosophy of every man for himself among farmers, industrialists and workers could play havoc with our domestic stability and wreck the Marshall plan. But if labor, agriculture and industry—especially steel—will: co-operate in full

knowledge of their interdependence, there is no reas"

son to fear that the combination of American skill, productive capgpcity and continued effort cannot win the peacetime battle ahead as it did the more dif« ficult battle agama the armed oppressors of mane

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. By Douglas Larsen

From Washington

then picked it up with his net. He caught several this. way. He ate one which he reported wasn't as good as the sawfish steak, but was still very tasty, The natives consider the four-eyed fish a great delie cacy. The four-eyed fish was only. about eight inches long, while the saw-tooth one measured six feet, not including the saw tooth. The Smithsonian Institue

tion attaches. great importancg. to the fact that theme

four-eyed fish “bring forth their young alive.” Dr. Miller's work was a fish survey under the joint

auspices of the Guatemalan government, the state _

department, the U. 8. fish and wildlife service, and the Smithsonian. Part of ‘the effort was purely scientific, and part of the job was to get information for game and commercial fishermen.

A Man Who Likes His Work

IT'S NOT PART of Dr. Miller's work to eat the fish he catches. He just 1iKé§ fish and enjoys cooking them. He estimates that he's tried between 40 and 50 different species, including shark meat, during his career both as an amdteur and professional angler. Sawfish and four-eyed delicacies notwithe standing, Miller says his favorite is still U. 8. trout, He likes them either baked or grilled and with a little le juice. He says they taste better if you eat them in the open. Another fish that makes mighty good eating and which every seafood lover ought to taste at least once before he dies, according to Miller, is the Guatemalan catfish. They argn't the same as the catfish catight in the U. S.; which few people eat. They're more like sunfish, and have a very distinctive flavor. The only-'thing Miller doesn’t like too well about being a scientific fisherman is what he calls the “un-

fair methods you have to use to catch the fish" .

While at college his favorite pastime was fly-casting in a good mountain stream. He says it just isn't sport when you have to use .22 pistols, gill-nets and lanterns,

. By Lee Casey ‘Ernie Bevin Overlooked Denver Mint’

that gold has excited in the minds of men through the ages. And there is, of course, a special paradox in the gold situation right now. Frank Vanderlip said that anyone who devoted intense study to the monetary question eventually goes crazy—and he made the remark before we went off the gold standard and added another complication, Gold may not be sold, save to the government or for commercial or scientific purposes. Only the government may coin if, and the government hasn't been dping that for a dozen years. Possession of a gold certificate, as was demonstrated during the Lindbergh kidnaping, is unlawful. What's the reason for the hoarding? Well, I guess Mr. Vanderlip gave the answer. Nobody quite knows. When Gen. Mark Clark was trying to make his famous African landing his frail craft capsized and the general lost his pants, his shirt and. 750,000 gold francs. . What was he ¢arrying that gold for? ballast.

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A Universal Tongue

ACTUALLY THAT GOLD was a part of a bigger load used by American officers to bribe their way through Africa and for the winning of ‘a continent, The Arabs who knew no English coveted those tokens, because gold speaks every man's language, everywhere, The gold that ‘Gen. Clark didn’t Jose with his pants helped win the war. ‘IT don’t believe that, worthless though it may be by current statutes, the hoards at Denver and Ft. Knox will be tossed lightly away.

. By George Weller

Story to World

$60,000, Washington fired five out of seven members of its American personnel. - For all the hundreds of inquiries that come to the information service in the Turkish capital of Ankara, there is just one. American to answer; for the lively, chameleon newspapers of Istanbul, just one more American; for the two far- -sepgrated universi« ties, one American librarian. .,, During the war USIS built up a splendid news service in Turkey, with interesting features played sthroughout. the Turkish press. Until August it was getting the unheard of percentage of one-quarter of its offerings printed. Today the feature service limps along, but there is no Americdin money for the even more popular daily news service. The photographic service, which gained much per«suasive space in the eyes of this heavily illiterate country, has been closed. Photographic files, perhaps the fullest in the Middle East, are idle. By this bold stroke Washington saved $1760.

Purdue Instructor Popular - MOST POPULAR COURSE at the University of

Istanbul last year was American literature and world _

humanities, given by Dr. Herbert Muller of Purdue. Muller was swamped with students. This autumn there will be no course and no teacher. Turkey is still willing to pay $4000 and travel expenses for a professor, tops in Turkey, but the U, 8. eannot find another $4000 to fill out the salary: The American post at the University of Ankara isqalso vacant for the same reason. The Turks have requested other professorships in technical subjects like medicine. The answer is the same. “No Tones The Turks ‘also would like scores of younger icans to teach high school . They are willing

to pay standard Turkish salaries. But the U. 8 government has no funds to fatten the stipends out to ] American :

standards, 4 Millions for war but nothing for democrat feach-

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