Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1948 — Page 11
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rest. Book buyers groaned. “You sure lead a tough life, Mr. Menjou,” I said falling in step. It never hurts to make with a little sympathy. Mr. Menjou waved his hand and began,
“Oh, yes, Ed. I get you confused with Joe Savoldi,” he said quickly. “You have no idea
what a tough schedule .a mam must keep on a tour like this. Say, where we going?” Oh, You're the One
I WAS EDGING toward the stairway to the main floor.
“I thought we might go down the
WHAT? NO GARTERS?—Adolphe Menjou frowns but good at men who don't wear garters. "Mr. Inside" got frowned on, :
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KINGSVILLE, Tex., Mar. 10 — One of -the biggest stories of ‘the past two years—a story as basic as a slab of sirloin—is blossoming again. After having been consistently depreciated and downheld by the Department pf Agriculture. It's my guess Honest Hal Stassen may make as much of it as he did ‘with some of the commodity speculations within the White House elite guard. This is the story of foot-and-mouth, and I do not mean the politician’s penchant for putting the one ‘into ‘the other. Foot-and-mouth is a malady affecting cattle. It causes lesions on foot, tongue and udder. It is violently contagious, and is the No. 1 bugaboo ‘of ‘cattlemen in the United States, .wheréwimeht isvfattended, or finished off, on grain. Foot-and-mouth, or aftosis, starves cattle, lays them open to a score of other diseases, effectively kills off the calf crops; raises hob with milk production and makes a board quarantine, plus slaughter, mandatory. . Foot-and-mouth is running wild in Mexico, and the United States’ efforts to clean it up have failed, to date. The situation contains the following ingredients: A threat to our meat supply, by partial or total ruination of our cattle and hog industry west of the Mississippi, if the disease ever gets a foothold here. The abortive program which we first started has already cost us $36 million, and is going forward at the rate of a million a month. There is a charge of deadly delay on the part of the U. 8S. Department of Agriculture in getting the program going; another charge of maladministration of the slaughter program, and of buckpassing between agriculture and the State Department.
Strain on Mexican Relations OUR GOOD NEIGHBOR relationship with Mexico already has been jeopardized, due to several murders‘ by: the outraged ‘peons and the threat of revolution if our necessary slaughter continued. . There is the further threat of complete closure of the Mexican border if the disease approaches the Rio Grande. If it crosses to Texas, there is the possibility of -a billion-dollar catastrophe which would make a piece of meat on your platter as scarce as good news in th headlines. ) ¢ * These are some of the charges made by people like Robert Kleberg, head of the fabulous King Ranch here, and by Claud McCan, skipper of the
Water Work
WASHINGTON, Mar, 10.—The scene within the House caucus room was hypnotic. Big chunks of machinery sent colored water (vegetable color) whooshing through a series of transparent tanks,
tubes, spigots, valves and troughs. Red lights blinked at me and the Congressmen. Dials whirled. Needles bounced. I conldn’t resist it. Those green, blue and yellow fluids gurgling through the glassware drew me in like Svengali beckoning Trilby. This, as I fear you will agree in about one paragraph, was unfortunate. Words weren't good enough to explain economics, the man said. He had to use water. Now I'm supposed to use the English language to describe the water that takes the place of words for the benefit of awed Congressmen, I don’t know. But I got to talking to a nice young fellow who identified himself:-as Walter Fried, the New York engineer who built the behemoths to order for James D. Mooney, the celebrated industrialist and economist. Mr. Moonéy, you know, is chairman of the Willys-Overland Co. Building a jeep is no trick to him, but trying to explain in words the intricacies of foreign exchange in the sale of a car
abroad is something else. He found that out 11.
years ago when an editor asked him to write an article on the subject.
Hydraulics of Supply and Demand “THERE were too many variables, making the ideas so complicated that words just wouldn't do,” Mr. Fried told me. “So he tried charts.” The charts weren't so hot, either, because they didn’t move like prices. So Mr. Mooney hired Mr. Fried to build the machinery which demonstrates the laws of finance in a free economy. Put your finger on a float, thereby holding up the flow of 8oods and, or, money and you get a flood on the carpet. “Just as in real life," added Mr. Fried. ‘Leave the hydraulics alone, and supply and demand Dalance themselves perfectly.” Yo
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and : “You look like a gangster in began Mr “Are
that hat wearing, for one thing,” you wearing garters?”
“No.” I showed him my snazy yellow and blue
sport socks. Mr. Menjou grew pale and groaned. “Why spend money for shirts when you cover up the linen. Do you have sleeves on your shirt?” I showed him the cuffs after I rolled up my suit coat. Well, it seems my suit coat sleeves were too long, too wide and my shirt sleeves too short. “Never wear a figured tie with a striped shirt « « «and the pleats on your trousers are wrong . . . and never, never wear with a business suit.” Mr. Menjou sure is a fast talker.
Handkerchief Like Picket Fence
“HOW ABOUT my white handkerchief in my coat? That's pretty neat, isn’t it?” Something had to be right. ’ “Awful,” shouted my critic. “The points all run in a line like a picket fence. Awful. Say, be sure and see my latest picture, ‘The State of the Union’ when it comes to town. Terrific.”
Amazing how “The State of the Union” worked :
in because by that time my state of affairs were in sad shape. I began to get an inkling why “it took nine tailors.” We didn’t have much time in the men’s department.
However, in the time we did spend}: down there, Mr. Menjou made it clear what he; _
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liked and disliked. He claims gray trousers can §
be worn with anything. Corduroy sport jackets he likes. 4 “They're smart and durable and—awwk!”
For a second I thought he suffered a stroke.| +
Mr. Menjou doesn't like two-tone sports jackets. He definitely does not give two hoots for the cardigan type jacket without a collar. “A man is practically undressed when he wears one of those . . . those things.”
He went through the department like a whirl- 8
wind. , Mr. Menjou despises Windsor knots. He thinks bow ties are fine. “There's a good looking suit,” he pointed out. I didn’t like it.
“Well, T better go back,” Mr. Menjou said.|.
“Was I of any help?” “Yes, thank you. Do you happen to know where I can buy a pair of Oshkosh B'gosh overMr. Menjou didn’t know what I was. talking about. '
By Robert C. Ruark
huge Welder-McCan outfit. I've since talked briefly to Clint Anderson, the Secretary of Agriculture, and at some length to Albert Mitchell, a New Mexico rancher who is chairman of the national advisory committee on foot-and-mouth disease. Mr. Mitchell admits the truth of most of Mr. Kleberg's charges—charges which he relayed straight to Mr. Stassen a<few days ago. Mr. Anderson does not. He made a lengthy speech to cattlemen in Albuquerque Monday, the intent of which was to get him off the hook. It didn’t.
The Slaughter Project Failed
FOOT-AND-MOUTH has. been epidemic in Mexico since late 1946, at which time Mexico permitted the importation of 327 Brazilian bulls, which were either diseased or carriers. of the virus. It was not until April of 1947 that we started curative machinery going. Although Congress wrote a blank check for the stamping out of the disease, it was August, 1947, before the p finally took hold. By that time about seven ‘million cattle had been exposed to it. To date, the only effective method of eradication has been slaughter on the scene. You burn or bury the infected critters and maintain a quarantine which paralyzes most human and animal effort in the grea. We instigated a slaughter control, slaying nearly a million cattle, hogs, pigs, oxen and sheep, at prices ranging from $50 to $200 a head. The project has been abandoned, due to complete failure. Mr. Mitchell says that continued slaughter would have certainly bred a revolution, since the simple Indians couldn't understand the necessity for killing their pet ox. They were abetted in obstruction by the Communists, who made great hay out of the issue. At present we have withdrawn much of the
inadequate to their task. We are maintaining, hopefully, and at the moment successfully, a quarantine line—but in one stretch of 250 miles there are only 26. ill-paid Mexican soldiers to prevent the cattle from grazing across the line. An 800-mile wire fence is contemplated, plus further development vaccine treatment, which up to now has neve ped out the disease since the immunity it gives is only about four months’ duration. Western cattlemen, as 1 said, are scared silly— and people like Mr. Kleberg think the only way to impress the country with the seriousness of it all is to make a political issue of it. More of this tomorrow.
By Frederick C. Othman
Pes sir, he added, he certainly did learn a lot about economics in the years he spent building one machine after another to take the. place of Mr. Mnpney’s words. So Rep. Frederick Smith, the Ohio medico who found himself on the Banking and Currency Committee, got wind of Mr. Mooney’s machinery. He knew some fellows who could learn something by watching the pretty water. He borrowed the whole works, and that, I suppose, is where we came in. : Mr. Fried demonstrated each machine for me, and I must report that I am like economist Mr. “Mooney. Now I also understand the interrelation of money, goods and services, but I'm durned if I can explain in words. Take, for instance, the supply and demand machine. :
Water Blue, Yellow and Green UP NEAR the ceiling is water dyed baby blue. That's the supply of, say, candy bars. So this blue water cascades down to a tank on top of a float in a bath of yellow water. This is the stable money supply. Gold. When the blue water tank gets too heavy, it pushes out the yellow water, thereby causing prices (a tank of green water, as in greenbacks) to go down. Cut off the blue water of supply. The yellow water of gold rises, and prices get sloppy. Clamp the price plunger tight (it takes both hands to do that) and pretty soon (unless the pump leaks) the blue water of supply is cut off to a trickle. And so on with machinery which shows where a man’s salary goes (mostly to fill up a tank marked food) and what happens to the money earned by a business corporation. Precious little of it gets pumped back to the stockholders.
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Churchmen Hail High Court. Ruling
Insurance of Religious Liberty Now Seen WASHINGTON, Mar. 10 (UP) —Some Protestant and Jewish] churchmen today hailed the Supreme Court ruling against religious instruction in public schools as “insurance of religious liberty.” ”
The Anti-Defamation League! of B'nai B'rith said it now is the duty of all communities which set aside school time for pupils to attend religious classes “to reexamine their programs.” Some two million schoolchildren in 2200 communities in at least 18 states are affected by such! “released time” programs. The | Supreme Court ruling of two days ago opened all these programs to legal attack. Big Church Unit Silent
There was no comment from | the biggest organization in which Protestant churches are represented—the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. However, Dr. Joseph Martin Dawson, spokesman for a newly formed Protestant group, said here: that the decision “serves as the greatest single safeguard of separation of church and state outside the first amendment itself.” Dr. Dawson spoke as secretary of “Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State,” an organization which has engaged in open debate with the Catholic hierarchy since it was formed last January. Hits Free Bus Rides Protestants-United has accused the Catholic hierarchy of seeking a church and state union” at least at the public treasury.”
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BEST-OF-WEEK — "Sweet Water," by. C" Molinelli, of Martins “winner for the 31st week of The Times Amateur Photo Cortest. He used a roll film type camera, S. S. Panchromatic film. Exposure was 1/50 second at -f: 10, with
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'POPEYE'—This alert kitten won honorable mention for Miss Mary Lou Laughlin, 119 E. 33d St. She used a* Busch Pressman camera with Super XX Pan film. Exposure was 1/100 second ‘at f: 5.6. Lighting was provided by a No. | photoflood.
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‘GASSED AND‘ ROBBED'— Maurice E. Kimmel, of DuQuoin, Ill., suggested his.own title for this honorable mention entry. He used a Model D Graflex with Agfa Super-pan film. Exposure was 1/25 second at f: 8.
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: By ART WRIGHT 7 NEW COMPETITORS continued to join the winners’ circle of The Times Amateur Photo Contest in the 31st week of judging. - One of the latest, an honorable mention winner, was Maurice 'E. Kimmel, of Du Quoin, Ill. There are no restrictions on how fa from Indianapolis an entrant livés, for several out of state core testants have earned laurels. Too, home-town servicemen in the
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honorable mention pictures also are selected. ” - ~ THE AMATEUR photo contest, which started last August, will
able entries are received. There are no charges of ‘any kind for taking part and no one is barred, except professionals and employees of The Times and their families. A professional is one whose chief source of income is derived from photographic work. a On the back of each picture
The - organization particularly has denounced free bus transpor-
schools—an activity approved by another Supreme Court decision last year. ‘ No Catholic group contacted had any commerit to make on the Supreme Court decision. No Catholic groups filed any views on the issue with the court while the case was pending. ! About two dozen other groups, | largely denominational, attacked the religious class plan which was! sponsored in Champaign, Il, by! a joint -Protestant-Jewish-Cath-| olic ceuncil. |
Train Kills Three At Hammond
HAMMOND, Ind., Mar. 10 (UP) —Three persons were killed in a train-car accident at the High-
road today. All three were in the car
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The dead were: grade school in Hammond.
High School in Hammond, who was driving the car.
land, Ind. a student at Hammond High. : The car was headed east and the passenger train was north-|
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too much like spoofery. I've got to agree with Mooney, Fried & Co.—that words aren't good enough. Not to explain the free-enterprise system, .they aren't. Colored water (absolutely harmless
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William Rodda of Crown Point, | Ind, a teaeher at Washington
Ruth Bryfocal, also of Crown Point and a teacher at Hammond| |
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Texas Honors Robert C. Ruark
By Scripps-Howard Newspapers AUSTIN, Tex. Mar. 10—Robert C. Ruark, Scripps-Howard columnist, today was an “honorary Texan” by authority of Gov. Beauford H, Jester. The citation, accompanying the commission, praised Mr. Ruark for his “keen concept of the Texas spirit” as shown by his column written from Houston Mar, 8. “The column,” the governor sald, “gives me another.reference which I can use in the speech that
a race of people’.”
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