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European Recovery Report :

HEN the last of the 16 European nations signed the| Paris conference report on the so-called Marshall plan| for economic recovery, Foreign Secretary Bevin of Great | Britain said this “marks a new stage in the history of inter-| national endeavor.” That is not an exaggeration. Never | before have so many nations agreed on the details of joint economic co-operation involving such a wide area of financial, agricultpral and industrial affairs. » They were able to get together because the alternative is too terrible to contemplate—the further decline of Europe into a dog-eat-dog struggle for bones. Secretary of State Marshall had offered them a way | out. Not a Marshall plan, as it was erroneously called, but| an invitation to the European states to unite on a self-help plan of their own; and a promise that then the United States, within our capacity, would help them help themselves, Though Russia boycotted the proposal as a ¥ankee plot to enslave Europe, and forced the Soviet satellites to do likewise, all of the other nations jumped at the opportunity. Their report, now submitted to Washington, is the result of two-and-a-half months of intense effort and hard bargaining. At least twice it was redrafted to meet suggestions by American observers, including two ranking state department officials, Mr. Clayton and Mr. Kennan.

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by the report for the four-year plan is the lowest practicable figure, and whether the United States must shoulder $15,800,000,000 of this burden, we cannot know. That is something the American experts must judge. Those experts include, of course, not only state, treasury, com-| merce and agriculture officials, but also congressional committees, But with the purpose of this Marshall policy we are in| complete agreement. We believe Europe is in desperate condition, close to chaog which invites communism. We believe self-help in the form of more production—made pos- | sible by harder work, better, organization, and *elimination” of trade barriers—is the only solution. And we believe that| Europe, in its present weakened condition and suffering | from Soviet sabotage, cannot provide sufficient self-help! without some temporary American and foreign aid. The test should be whether American goods and dollars provided will increase European production in fact. If so, it is good business and good security in a dangerous world, as well as good international ethics.

Victory

REIGN MINISTER -VISHINSKY'S speech to the United | Nations assembly scored a complete victory for Soviet tussia, according to the report sent to the Moscow news-| paper Pravda by its correspondents in New York. The report, as broadcast by Radio Moscow, goes on to assert that Secretary Marshall's “mubh advertised attempt to seize the initiative” was a fizzle. On the other hand, Mr.| Vishinsky's denunciation of warmongers “was aimed 80|

neatly that the camp of American reaction now presents a|

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‘GOOD READING'

E SHOULD, all of us, for our health's sake read good books and eat good food; for the

both highly subject to disturbance when stuffed

not necessarily mean great ones. To have read Plato with understanding is a praiseworthy achievement, but not to have read Plato is no crime. ‘Great books are rather like great mountains, majestic and challenging but requiring, in the scaling an extremity of exertion to which we are not always equal. We may not | have the kind of mind that can. absorb such rugged fare, just as we may not have the kind of legs that can climb mountains, bus that is no reason for not walking, or for not reading. After all, the foothills and the valleys are very pleasant! Among those .vallevs and foothills are to be found some of the most amiable and least known of all good books, what the scholars call the “picaresque” novels (which the dictionary says means “of or pertaining to rogues or rascals”).

topher Ward's “Jonathan Drew”: (a modern example), their scenes laid respectively in Spain, Persia and ploneer America, are prime exemplars. Each deals with the life and wanderings of . a disreputable but lovable scamp, and each brings its hero out at the latter end, exhausted and a little disillusoned but entertaining still, to ‘the safe harbor of respectability, '. Gil Blas, Haji Baba, Jonathan Drew, you prob- . ably wouldn't want to have them living in your house, and never, never, would you lend them money, but they are full of life and enthusiasm and a healthy respect for all the virtues that they do not possess , , , and they are the best company in the world. ~-FRANCIS H. INSLEY. * %

EVENING TIDE When the sun has set in the Golden West; And our daily grind is done; Just remember there's another day: With a battle to be won.

Though you are cross and tired from daily toil; Whatever it may be: Aust ey. 10. Smile alittle bit. A And a difference you will see. ~

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Do you make your Bible a trunk, my dear? Do you put rose petals, pictures, or souvenirs Amongst the pages printed clear, Of loved ones gone, that seem so near? Or do you read the pages that tell,

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More happily where they are, you see, Than if on earth with you and me. ~—EARL" STAUDACHER. ¢ ¢ &

WAR AND PEACE

When will a new world war descend? Weapons, how soon shall we need them? When will the present war definitely end? There are signs for those who will heed em

history straight.

When Uncle Sam comes out of his shell Demanding “cash on the barrel head,” as well, Then war is aheady dead ahead! -

And when Sam returns, singing the carol, “Never again for me!” Tired and broke and wearing the barrel, Then peace is restored, but definitely,

But don't call your uncle a sap, pard, His judgment has plenty of vigor— Shrewd, sagacious, his head is hard-— It's just that his heart is bigger! i ~CLAUDE BRADDICK.

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OUR TOWN . .

Dr. Bobbs and the 40 Gall Stones

DR. JOHN STOUGH BOBBS of Indianapolis: was tion, Dr. Bobbs let the world in on his secret by way

operation now known as cholecystotomy, s a slick example of medical sesquipedalianism which, when unwrapped, turns out to mean the removal of gall stones. Mary Wiggins was the beneof Dr. Bobbs' skill. She climb the two steep flights of stairs to get to the top of Vinton & Kiefer's drugstore at the southwest corner of Meridian st, and the alley now known as Pearl * + ; + (where the- Ayres’ people now do And it was there—on June 15, 1867—in a bare, barn_like room made to serve the purpose of an improvised hospital, that Mary was relieved of more than 40 gall

The exact number of gall stones is veiled in obscurity. The dereliction on the part of history seems Your ‘loved ones are happy and are well strange when viewed in the light of the fact that Dr. Bobbs had a gallery of kibitzers watching him that. day. At any rate, it is fairly well established that among those present at the party were Drs. D. H. Oliver, R. N. Todd, F. 8. Newcomer, George W, Mears, John Cameron, John P. Avery and John Cominger. With so many doctors looking on, you'd suspect, of course, that somebody would have kept the case It appears, however, that they lost count after the 40th gall stone was removed,

Got Married After Operation

AFTER THE OPERATION, Mary Wiggins was put to bed in charge of an anonymous English nurse whom Dr. Bobbs had picked up somewhere. Six weeks later Miss Wiggins jumped out of bed none the worse for her experience. she got married almost immediately—Burnsworth was

the chap's name. which is to say for a period of 46 years after the She died at the age of 77. Dr. Bobbs, who didn't have the luck to have gall stones, died in 1870 —{hree years after the operation.

One year after performing the memorable opera-

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she. 0f 8 _DADer, labeled “Lithotomy of the Gall Bladder.” It was read at the annual meeting of the Indiana Medical society. Subsequently, it was published and read the world over. It had all the doctors wondering why they hadn't figured out the thing for themselves, Well, that's the point of today's piece. It's because Dr. Bobbs was one of the most remarkable men ever “to come to Indianapolis. He arrived “in 1835 by way of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, his birthplace. He was 26 years old at the time and had practiced

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a doctor's degree. During his first year of Indianapolis citizenship, however, he took adyantage of a winter's dissections at the Jefferson Medical college. His work impressed the faculty to such a degree that they handed him a doctor's degree forthwith for fear the pupil might show up the professors.

Made Dean of Medical Scool-

AFTER THAT, he had the sick world beating a path to his office which, by the way, was in a house located on the site of the present State Life building. The trustees of Indiana Asbury university (now DePauw) tendered him the chair of surgery in the Central Medical college which was being established in Indianapolis at the time. He accepted and was made dean, to boot. He served as a member of the board of health from 1854 to 1857 and followed it up with two terms as state senator. When he was 52 years old, he served with distinction in the first campaign of the civil war, My only reason for combing the subject so thor. oughly today is because of a determination to clear up the laconic inscription on the memorial tablet

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LJ * * & Wishful Thinking on Red Wheat

By William B. Duncah, Bloomington I can't resist writing in in regard to Mr. Mad-

diately after a wheat crop ripens would be the EA Aon A PY vesting a wheat crop. And if the weather is anything like our plains in the west or northwest it would be ideal for piling wheat in the fields until the following spring when transportation would be available. So transportation or shipping or the lack of it in the Ukraine need not enter into Mr. Maddox's wistful hoping.

I have seen hundreds of thosuands of bushels

of wheat lay in piles in the Dakotas all winter, some in snow fence pens lined with builders paper and some merely spilled in huge piles, neither with any roof or protection on top. And I think the Dakotas would compare more favorably with the Ukraine than our southwest plain such as Oklahome, Kansas, Texas and etc. : v So if Mr. Maddox wants to takd a dig at Russia he should write about something that he has some conception of what he is saying. ° Maybe Russia doesn't give up figures on thelr wheat crop for the same reason we don't give them figures on the amount of atomic bombs we have stored. : 4 Nominations for Generals By Michael P. McDermott, Sullivan Permit me to congratulate two of your “Hoosier Forum” contributors upon their stalwart Americanism and year-round courage. I refer to Dr. Harry H. Nagle and Edward F. Maddox who have been warning us against the “menace of coms munism” every week or so, since 1919. I suggest that Governor Gates call for 100,000 Hoosier volunteers to leave immediately for Greece, Iran, Italy, Turkey, Yugoslavia, France, Germany, China,

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in the reading, room of our Central Library. It Illustrious Surgeon . .. . Self Sacrificing Benefactor , . , Servant of God Through Service to Mankind.” Pretty enough, but it leaves a lot to the imaginaIndeed, the inscription goes a long way to disprove Emerson’s contention that the British have the greatest command of under-statement of anybody

Austria, Hungary or wherever heroes are needed to drive those dangerous, blood-thirsty Reds back to Godless” Russia. And, as fitting generals, who will lead thelr troops with gallantry and dauntless courage, I nominate “Hairs-breadth” Harry Nagle and “Eat-Em-Up” Edward Maddox. Yours for a bigger and better war, with medals and E-awards and millions of dead, maimed and blinded.

picture of complete confusion and venom. By bringing up| this problem, the Soviet delegation undoubtedly has taken the initiative firmly.” Somehow, we are reminded of the battered but boastful citizen's version of his victory in a street fight: “1 stuck my eyeball oh this other guy's thumb. 1 jammed my groin against his knee, Then I pulled him down on top of me, pushed my nose between his teeth and | got his hands full of my hair. 1 bet he'll hever forget | what ‘a licking 1 gave him.”

‘Plain and Dangerous Nonsense’

pavs E. LILIENTHAL, Hoosier-born chairman of the U. S. atomic energy commission, told a Wabash college audience Monday night that atomic energy was the business of the people and that he would fight to keep it so. Mr. Lilienthal, in his first major policy address since asuming his new post, said that there was a group of ignorant and fanatical men who sought to keep the public in the dark about atomic energy. This tendency & “plain nonsense and dangerous nonsense.” It is a fallacy to regard atomic energy and the atomic bomb as synonymous, said Mr. Lilienthal, and this fallacy will make it more difficult to eliminate atomic energy as a weapon of war, It is reassuring to have as head of the vital government commission an American of the vision and ability of David Lilienthal. His Wabash talk demonstrated the soundness of his thinking on one of the world’s biggest problems. And it stimulated that Hoosier pride in the accomplishment of its sons to be reminded of the role which one of them is playing in this field.

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Blessings of Capitalism

NATIONAL JZATION of the coal industry is the cause of the “present unrest”

among British miners, says an editorial in the United Mine Workers Journal. The UM W. paper states further that John L. Lewis’ union has voted"

down all proposals for nationalizatioh of this country, and that all it asks is “improved safety legislation.” It ig a comfort to know that private ownership can be thanked for Mr. Lewis’ tranquil contentment and modest demands at contract-negotiating time.

Relativity

HENRY A. WALLACE stopped off in Princeton, N, J. the other day to discuss world problems with Prof. Albert Einstein. These two gentlemen ‘have in’ common the fact {hat they're both great theorists. The difference, of course,\is a matter of relativity. Whilé there are plenty of people Who can’t comprehend the Einstein theory, even

Henry doesn’t understand the Wallace theory,

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Biggest Issue facing every American family today is whether it would be willing to ration itself on food— going on a diet of one or two meatless and wheatless days a week— Just to help feed Europe. No—it's only the second biggest issue,

Biggest issue, of course, is how to make enough money to keep up with today’s high cost of living. Lower income families are already having their meatless days. They can't afford to pay present high prices.

But, as the pressure of high prices is increasingly felt, the move-

J ment for some kind of voluntary rationing grows.

Taxpayer Shows Pardonable Cynicism

IT'S WORTH NOTING that this agitation for meatless and wheatless days is so far an entirely American self-interest proposition. The aim is to force down prices for U. 8. consumers, / The idea that American rationing of some kind may be necessary does not seem to have gotten across. Government officials dealing with the international situation talk about it more and more. But reports from around the country indicate that the mass of he people are not aware how badly off Eirope is.

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Voluntary Rationing Just Won't Work Here

If they do know about it, they aren't concerned, or else they think the situation hopeless, so why bother, The great American taxpayer can, perhaps, be pardoned if he views this whole business somewhat cynically. It is all very easy to figure on paper that, with the U. 8. now eating 400 million pounds of meat a week, one meatless day would save 57 million pounds and two would save 114 million—all for relief. The next step is to estimate how this would back up and make available for Europe oné- or two-sevenths of the 75 million tons of grain being fed livestock. Some of these people want President Truman to leap at a microphone and dramatize the issue of Europe's plight, calling on the

' big-hearted American people to sacrifice again as they have come

through before. Well-meaning though these enthusiasts are, Hoey may be forgetting the history of food rationing.

Meatless Days Are No Answer

RECORDS SHOW that SongumpHiy of meat under Herbert 1

Hoover's voluntary meatless-day plan of 8 was higher than it was in either 1917 or 1919, There may be a gimmick in that, however, for there was a drought in 1018, ‘which forced more meat animals to market. But many restaurants had meatless days during world war II, and the per capita consumption of -meat went up, even with

i. rationing.

| Greeks Pin Hope on New Chief

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| of Greece.

Then, In 1946, there was a famine emergency committee. President Truman, Hoover and others went on the air in a dramatic appeal to the American people to cut down on their food consumption and make

ATHENS, Sept. 24.—Politics is the only Pe left to the people It is their sport, their recreation, ‘their art—everything. A session of the Greek parliament combines the excitements of a bull fight, a football game, and opera in the grand style. Partisans

pack the boxes and the galleries. The dramatic entrance of each

| leader is cheered with wild enthusiasm.

The ladies of Athens attend in their smartest clothes, wearing gloves and hats which one almost never sees on women in the streets. They applaud with a fervor that in the United States might be ac-

| ‘gorded to a combination of Lilly Pons and Bob Feller,

Symbol of Integrity

government, Themistocles Sophoulis.

THE GREEK PASSION FOR POLITICS is carried to the point of pathology. Even minor politidians are national heroes, each with a per sonal following giving unquestioning loyalty. The political feuds have ancient roots, and when the outsider tries to untangle them he finds himself in a bewildering maze of complications. This is one of the difficulties the American aid mission to Greece has encountered in trying to bring some ‘order and direction to a nation close to chaos. "Tt explains why so much hope is pinned on the head of the new At-86 Sophoulis is both symbol

| and hero. Repeatedly through the upheavals of the past 40 years he

has maintained his integrity. Living simply in a modest villa in a nearby suburb, Sophoulis has never enriched himself as some Greek politicians have. He has a ready semse of humor and a twinkle in his eye. A crowded press conference that brings many questions from reporters of various nationalities does not ruffle him. He is a Republican but in no sense a Socialist, i SA w* . |

By Peter Edson

more available for war victims. There were ads in the newspapers. Everybody got in on the big drive to save food. What brought ‘the results; however was taking the necessary relief shipments out of U. 8S. supplies before they could be distributed in regular trade channels to consumers.

No Power of Decree Now

COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION was made sole purchasing agent for these supplies. It raised prices to make farmers sell the produce needed for relief. On top of that, the flour extraction rate was raised for all millers. Their inventories were limited. Use of grain by distillers and brewers was prohibited. Use of grain for livestock feed was limited. All these things were done by executive order under the sécond war-powers act. That act has now expired. It is a question whether congress will put back such controls, p Also it is a question whether it would be wise for the government to raise prices again, just to get ‘the farmers to market food supplies now held on farms. ‘ The value of the publicity campaign in 19046 was to explain the . shortages to the public. Psychologically, it helped make people satisfied | with the smaller supplies of meat and cereals available. But this appeal to the great heart of the American people wasn't’ the only

.thing which brought out the extra food that prevented the war-torn

world from starving. Practical food men, who have been all through thig battle of food production, price control, rationing and post-war rglief, are in general agreement that voluntary food rationing wouldn't do &ny more now.

r ~ . By Marquis Childs: western world will be in his debt. It is a heavy responsibility to put on a man of such advanced years. The pathology of Greek politics is a grim object lesson. It is not : a matter merely of corruption. Greece is not unique in having had | corrupt politicians. The pathology is that of individualism run wild 50 that wherever more than two Greeks ate gathured, there you have a political party. It was the fractionalizing and. the splitting oft that in the years . between the wars made Greek political life a shambles. Most serious of all; this splitting off was a perfect opening for the Communists. * With a dozen seats in the parliament, they often held the balance of power and they exploited their advantage to the utmost. 4 With leaders trained in Moscow, such as.the ruthless Nicholas | Zachariades, believed now to be in Yugoslavia or Albania ready to * head a “free government” of Greece, they made a mockery of parlia~mentary procedure. It was the perfect opportunity so long as orders from Moscow held the party to the use of peaceful rather than revolutionary ito gain power.

Reform Is Necessary

IN THE TRADE UNIONS, thé same kind of splitting off oocurred. It ry far it became a cancerous growth protected by a mistaken law granting a trade-union charter to any seven members of any union. In 1940 the number of unions was 1400. Today it is 2200. A union of orphans and a union of retired dancing instructors are among the more ludicrous outgrowths. = . vo It will take years to get Greek unions back on a sound foundation. Fortunately, the international labor office is shortly sending’ a mission to Greece to help straighten out the tangle of laws that seem to have done more harm than good, 3

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