Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1948 — Page 12
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Barton Rees Pogue WHEN JOHNNY CONKS
A college faculty wife complains that the child experts solve all child problems under conditions that do not exist ‘at home, She wants to know just what she should do when Johnny, her offspring, conks Freddie, the boy next door, on the head with a shovel. The child psychologists would say: “Teach Johnny that a shovel is to dig with; then show him how to dig, then he will always assoc¢iate shovels with digging.” The trouble with that solution is that it solves nothing. Johnny knows very well that you dig with it. There's the rub: it was not a matter of ignorance as to the true use of the shovel, We fear that the point made by this faculty
- AMERICANS once more are indebted to the British par-
liamen system which forces cabinet officers to state ee to Oho SOT TH 51 Gpen debater this roundabout +. way our public often learns from London of Washington |
policies and what goes on in the world: . Foreign Secretary Bevin describes the hitherto seldommentioned Western Military Security Board for Germany. Unlike so many revelations in diplomacy, this one carries | good news. Why it has been so hush-hush_is not clear. ; The Getman problem is how to revive Ruhr industry | without thereby restoring Germany's war potential. Peace-. ~ time revival is essential to prevent® Germany from going Communist, to stimulate economic recovery of interdependent western Europe, and to get the Germans off the back of American taxpayers. But a similar process after World | War I gave Hitler the war plants for conquest. With Russia waiting to grab and use a German arsenal, the future danger is greater. | _T0 THE French, and also to many Americans, it has | 5 seemed that we are rebuilding German industry without y adequate safeguards against its misuse after allied military occupation ends. Granting that final terms must await the peace treaty, it is time for Western Allies to mature an agreed policy. According to Mr. Bevin, the six powers decided last .—summer-that an American-British-French security board shall police the digarmament and demilitarization of Ger: many after withdrawal of allied forces. The three western _ military governors, in working out the details as to authority and inspection facilities, already are in close agreement. : Increasing attention should be given to this. With the failure of the allied denazification program, and emergence of ex-Hitlerites in German Jeadership, unless we take care
Germany dressed up in the new look.
Greece Wants More 1 AA MmAnSADOR GRADY is hastening back to > Washington from. Athens to report.” ' He is bringing a new request
by the Greek government for more money for more troops to combat the Red guerrillas. There is a limit to the amount of gifts the United States can pour into Greece, though the Athens regime does not seem to be worrying muth about the American taxpayer. - Our commitments to other foreign countries for economic and military aid are already tremendous. China needs more. The Western Eunropean alliance will remain ineffec- | we help arm it. Our own military establishment a wm a past. hao boon misused and wasted Mipart, thanks to inefficiency or worse. Essential Greek reforms still lag. President Truman's report to => Canfreas: this week .was_ properly critical of the Greek i amy's failure to follow up ita victories of last summer,
AS A RESULT of 1 that failure there are’ now. 22,000
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15,000 ‘when the American-aid program started 18 months ago. The present Greek forces of 168,500 should be sufficient if well handled, without the jeiuested increase 1 250,000. We have ‘stated many times the extreme difficulty of defeating rebels who can flit in and out of the Red satellite countries, where they are armed and reinforced. That, however, is not the whole answer. America cannot cease
a problem is to get more for our money instead of increasing the subsidy.
4 The President's Pa
-~....a8._President Taft got * have to-pay an income tax. A Mr. Truman has an additional tax-free expense allowance of $30,000 a year. But that's only $5000 more than ~Congress-allowed Mr. Taft, and Mr, Truman can use it only. _ for expenses necessary in connection with’ official duties. The cost of living is about two and a half times higher it was ‘almost 40 years ago, when Mr. Taft moved to*
dissent from the proposition that he should be much Detter = paid than he is. od ¢
MEMBERS of the Hoover Commission, now studying organization of the government; thought of asking Congress to double the President's salary. They are said to "have dropped that idea because the rise would put him into a higher income-tax bracket and leave him only a compara- - tively small increase of “take-home” pay. One expert tells us that Mr. Truman probably pays a . Federal income tax of nearly $30.000 of his $75,000 salary; that on $150,000 a year he would have to pay nearly $79,000. If that's correct: a doubled salary would give him about $71,000 a year for himself, instead of about $45,000 as at present, and his actual pay still would be smaller than President Taft's. : But, after all, $71, 000 is not to be sneezed at. We'd like to see Mr. Truman get at least that much, even if he has to collect it by. the somewhat ridiculous proéess of drawing $150,000 out of the U. 8. Treasury and paying more that half right back in, Anyway, the matter of the President's salary points ‘up one truth not emphasized by those who say the rich are * getting richer: A big income these days isn't nearly. as big as it looks,
Life-and-Death Matter THE Columbia Broadcasting System and the Music Corof America have gone into: the boxing business
a partners’ of the promoting group known as Tournament n, talent scouts for new
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wife and mother is well-taken, Dealing with little children. under. the. well.
of the campus nursery school is one thing; deal-. |
ing with them at home is quite another. At the nursery school there-is-constant: supervision of = all activities; at home that is impossible. Home is quite a dangerous place for small fry, There are stoves, hot water, electric fans, electric heaters, high cupboards that can be reached only by climbing and so forth, What did the harassed faculty wife do? We admit that she became terribly old-fashioned when she tossed away the books. She spanked Johnny soundly. Johnny is doing quite well now. ~~GEORGE D. GREER, New Castle
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THE OLD BRASS BAND
I long to turn the old clock bacl, Back—--to another day, And how I long once more to sit with the Old Brass Band and play, And have the same old gang of boys And take them by the hand; Oh, what a glorious day 'twould be "Long with the Old Brass Band!
And IT would want the dear old Judge To stand there, so erect, Just as he did in days gone by When he loved so to direct Old William Tell and Parsifal: Theres nothing been sogrand As when I used to sit ly play 'Long with the Old Brass Band.
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...The saddest time, it seems to me, Is Decoration Day, The Band still heads the rank and file And leads it on its way, The boys’ steps are slower now,” Folks seem to understand,
EXPERIMENT IN BRITAIN
By William McGaffin
‘State Medicine Swamps Doctors
LONDON, Dec. 13—It may be years before Britain's Socialists achieve their medical utopia. But even with its present inconveniences, state medicine, hardly half a year old, has proved immensely popular with the general publie.
In fact, nothing the labor government has
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Dentists and optical dispensers never had |
it so good. One optician is reported to have made $40,000 filling prescriptions for eyeglasses since the government began footing the bjil
old. militaristic | The time is short to hear them play—
Some of the boys have traveled on And left the rest to stay Until the Master willis that we Shall too be called away; And I fust feel down in my soul That in the Better Land I'm sure once more to sit and play .-'Long with the Old Brass Band! ~GORDON OLVEY; Noblesville. * © o
AGAINST YOURSELF
" You rail at the man, You denounce his creed, You snarl at his past, You question each deed, But while you rail 1 And while you denounce You don’t change my mind Of him by an ounce, . I do change my mind’ > Before you are through. But all of the thangs . Is a change again BARTON Ares go Fo Tpland.
PORTRAIT NO. 4
I have watched the years “creep up on you from behind until now their accumulated weight is heavy on your shoulders. But you are ever the well dressed man-about-town, Your attire is faultless, even to the boutonniere in your lapel. Still a gallant, you fancy yourself able to make a lovely lady's heart flutter with a pretty speech. You know many pretty speeches, for you have been rehearsing them for years. Some there are who think you a slightly ridiculous old man. I think you are a little pathetic,
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accepted. Doctors and dentists used to be too expensive for many in this country who were ineligible or too proud to ask for charity. Now they are free—and swamped by the rush. Even many of the middle classes welcome free medicine as a chance to cut out doctor bills and thus ease their strained budgets in these — hard times. Only the very wealthy continue to
indulge themselves in the luxury of paying their -
doctors; as before, to get speedier treatment ‘by private appointment. J
Subject Still Debated sprintire
WITH all its popularity, however, socialized medicine is still a subject of pros and cons. There were not enough doctors and dentists, not to mention hospitals and nurses, even before socialized medicine went into effect last July 5. . Now, there has come an inevitable decline In the quality of medical service rendered, say the doctors and dentists, most of whom were originally opposed to socialization, — ©” But, answer the Socialists: “We must have more doctors: and dentists. And, speaking of “quality; what good was that to a man who could nét afford it?” Critics point to the often long delays now before a patient can get attention. One dentist put up a sign recently: “No new patients for
12 months.” , Sometimes it takes nine or 10 weeks to a pair of spectacles, six months “to get a in. a hospital unless the case is
urgent, nine months for admission to a tuberculosis sanitarium. (Hospitals and nurses are as scarce as doctors and dentists, but the government corftemplates an ambitious building pro-
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‘Let's Smoke Out Secret’
By A Citizen. The City Council's actions indicating nothe “ing may be done. abqut smoke control in Ins -dianapolis should arouse the citizenry to mass protest against administration fallure. We have talked about smoke abatement for years but we still are in the same smoky spot we al--ways-have been. : . aaa Maybe there is something behind the City. Council's attitude on the subject that the public doesn’t drow about. If there is, I sug-.
smoke out the politics behind refusal to proceed at once to end air pollution that is cost«’ ing residents of Indianapolis tho! of -dols —iars—every—week-nottd_mention the Serius. menace to health. I've heard some excuses against too much smoke control on the ground that some people couldn't. afford’ to buy better coal and smoke, control furnace equipment. saving ia cleaning bills alone would make up the.differs. ence in one heating season. ¢ © 9
‘Juveniles Seek Thrills’
By a School Teacher. It seems to me unwise to give a lot of pubHeity to young people who run afoul the.law. These juvenile delinquents often are seeking - thrills. And to see their names and faces in the public’ press satisfies that thirst for the gensational. They never have put enough effort into their young lives to be known because they are £ood. And so they find a degree of pleasure in being known because they are bad. Also, well-meaning parents, iaw abiding and industrious, sometimes have the opposite kind
--of offspring. Mind you, I said “well-meaning,”
not necessarily the wisest and best equipped for bringing up sons and daughters. If fathers and mothers are well-meaning, it seems a pity that they must be humiliated by having their disappointments and anxieties regarding their children made: $00
Criminologists seldom seem to be hopeless
about any boy or girl. They.contend that most of them can be reformed. But I think it would be a simpler, less uncertain job, if the offender had not won “fame” through his misdeeds, ®
‘What About Gambling?
By A Taxpayer
SOME ‘dentists can , gross as much as $48,000 a year. They are paid a rate per job instead of a flat rate per patient and there is no limit to the number of patients they may treat. Some doctors have had their income in‘creased by as much as 40 per cent while others have suffered a reduction of as much as 60 per “«cent. Thus the attitude of doctors toward state medicine generally corresponds with what the plan has meant financially to them. The state pays general practitioners $3.20 per year as a flat fee for each patient treated. A general practitioner cannot have more than 4000 patients on his ljst. Thus, the doctor who takes on the full list of 4000 grosses $12,800 a year. This represents a 40 per cent increase in income for some doctors. But to get a list of 4000 does not require ski so much as a lucky location in a poor people's neighborhood. Some doctors, despite recognized ability, are finding it difficult in their locations to have a list of even 2000 patients. As a consequence: they are not breaking even with the
~ income they get from the state payments.
Specialists Toke Beating : AMONG the doctors who are ‘taking a beat: ing are the expensive Harley St. surgeons ‘and | specialists who used to draw their lucrative private practice from the upper 10 per cent of the British income group. and who now have only, the upper-2 or 3 per cent to fall back upon. The other 7 or 8 per cent have gone over to the free medicine scheme. Top income allowed for a Harley St. man
"who goes in full time for state medicine is
$20,000 a year. All of Harley St. has gone in at
ment to conduct a lot of gambling raids re-
cently has me wondering. Every day of the year we hear about gambling going on at this place and that place and nothing is done about them -for-months- at a suddenly there's a big cleanup flourish With big headlines in the papers. What good are all these raids when the operators come back next week and open up new gaming. places and continue operations the same as the always have? It leads me to suspect-that some law viola~ tions are ignored most of the time.
i ‘Gambling Not Productive’ ’
By Hiram Lackey, Martinsville, Ind. What is wrong about gambling? What sort of a world would we have if everybody tried to make a living by gambling? Unlike industry and Christian adventure, there is nothing productive about thé risks involved in gambling. The gambling desire to get something for nothing is the opposite of production; it is dishonest and therefore evil. When illegal it always involves graft, which corrupts government, the foundation of our justice, peace and prosperity. os
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OUR future Ties with democratic ‘and free: dom-loving peoples. We cannot expect the common man to believe our democratic pronouncements if .we make deals with dictators or ally ourselves with political, economic or eeclesiastical reaction.—Pr. G. Bromley Oxnam, Methodist bishop, denouncing Franco's regime in Spain, lp yey
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gram.) Here the Socialists reply, “So there's a delay. But at least the poor man does see a doctor and dentist under our system. And the delays, to
“be expected at the start, will be eliminated when $
there are more doctors and’ dentists" On the financial side, socialized medicine -ds-costing. the state far more than the original estimate-—and js producing a redistribution of . ~Income.. for. doctors..and.. dentists that is both
least part-time for the plan. There was no other choice, if they wished to retain hospital contacts, since the government has taken over the . hospitais.
“Obviously the GOvernIneRt: will ‘have todo"
something to curb the mounting costs of state _Juedicine, costs that are running far above the original estimate “of” 700,000" a Year: 0 far:
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Frederick N. Goldsmith, stockmarket tipster. = meal — WITH the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents. Our knowl-
edge of science -has clearly outstripped our ca-
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DIPLOMATIC HEADACHE ...By Marquis Childs Vacancy in Moscow?
WASHINGTON, Dec: 13—Whatever President Truman's in-
Side Glances |
By Galbraith
DISPUTED DOCUMENTS ...By Tony Smith
List ‘Secret’ Papers
~ WASHINGTON, Dec. 13—Trade agreements with half a ..dozen. countries—many. of them then engaged in. -war—strategic
“clinations may be about changing the principals in his administration, he is likely to be faced soon with & vacancy that. is “hou
Nn * Ns Pt ® ‘nerve-racking, ‘with little or no reward. Shortly before the first of the ‘year.-Gen. ‘Walter Bedell Smith will return to Washingten from Moscow, theoretically on leave from his post as Ambassador to the Soviet Union. ‘But not one in the State Department expects him to return to the frustrating prison that is Spaso House, the barracks- like residence of the ambassador. Gen, Smith has had more than two years of Moscow and he has indibated to friends that he thinks it is more than enough. Moreover, he has had some extraordinary offers from private business and publishing firms, including a particulary tempting one from the Radio Cerporation of America.
Chance for Chief of Staff
THERE 18 also ‘the possibility that Gen. Smith, who came out of the war with the permanent rank of major general, may go back to active duty in the Army. At 53, with a brilliant career behind him, he would have an excellent chance to become chief of staff before enforced retirement at the age of 64. With the exception of his service as ambassador, he has spent his entire life In the Army, having risen from private to be chief of staff to Gen. Eisenhower in North Africa and Europe. Gen. Smith has no private income and would ultimately retire on his pension unless he were to take one of the offers from private business. Virtually all Americans returning = from Russia today, whether officials or the few. newspapermen and other private citizens who are admitted, have the same story to tell. The ¢lose confinement in which foreigners live, with constant: surveillance seen and unseen, is a wearing and nerve-eroding experience.
“Refused Party Invitations
THERE was a time a yeal or more agn when a few Russiang still felt free to meet ana talk with foreign diplomats. Among the number were artists, writers and stars of the ballet. Last Christmas a member of the American embassy staff invited some of these tame Russians to a holiday party. Without exception they declined, giving one transparent excuse or another.
fraternizing was now at an end. ~ Bince that time Americans and other foreigners have been almost entirely isolated. Aside from a few employees, almost the only Russian citizen that the ambassador sees is the head of the American desk in the Bowiet Foreign Office.- Rarely, if he presses hard enough and m afles a sufficierit number of protests and calls, he may see Foreign Minister Molotov, who greets him
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“I'm not spending much on girls this Christmas—they all say you shouldn't have done it, anyway!"
present ambassador, who is not socially inclingd, it is a bleak experience and for Mrs. Smith and other wives the life is lonely to an extreme degree. Fat odits who have contributed generously to party coffers are ordinarily eager for ampassadorships. But none is likely to seek the Moscow post nor would the job under present circumstances go to one with no experience with the Russians. Gen. Smith dealt with them for many months during the war and Marshal Zhukov personally awarded him the order of Kutuzov, first class. The most logical successor ‘to Smith is Charles Bohlen, the State Department's foremost Russian authority who was named eougsplor of the department by Sewletary: of Stay Marshall ’
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, for possible trade relations with the Chinese Nationalist govern-
military plans outlined on a contingency“ just-in-case” basis, and
many designs for weapons now obsolete make up the bulk-of-the— : secret. documents in the Higs-Chambers case. : £ FR ts; copies and handwritten HA eros taken from restricted government documents are ~~
+ Ineluded in the large batch-of prints; many cquched in the diplomatic jargon of the State Department. Some contain whole sections in foreign languages. Quite a number are in the forth of diagrams and charts.
Political Embarrassment
THE CONCLUSION of many people who have examined them is that at least 100 of the papers produced by ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers from’ various hiding places, including a pumpkin, could not hurt the United States from a security standpoint. Political embarrassment is another matter, these persons say. That might cover anything. Actual documents number 65. These were the ones produced by Mr. Chambers in a Baltimore court. It isn't known whether they are originals or copies, but they are presumed to be copies. Added to these are prints and enlargements made of five rolls of 35 mm camera film. These number more than 180. Following is the best information available to newsmen on what the disputed documents contain: a
Drawings of Aircraft
ONE: A 1938 trade agreement contract, or correspondence pertaining to it, between the United States and Nazi Germany. TWO: Many drawings of American aircraft, all of which
‘are now obsolete.
THREE: A drawing of an aircraft communication device which might have been important at the time it left the State Department. It now has been far surpassed by wartime and postwar technical developments. FOUR: A lengthy document detailing what the United States would do in the event it joined China in the war against
“Japan. This is the document which is reported to contain infor“mation -on the disposition of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist armies which then, as now, were fighting the Communists.
FIVE: A paper detailing “the strategic supply routes” we would take in reaching Chinese army units in the field, SIX: Documents pertaining to trade agreements with Turkey, France and Belgium. = SEVEN: ociiments containing information on megotiations
ment, ; FIGHT: A cablegram from Ambassador William C. Bullitt in Paris addressed to the Assistant Seeretary of State. It was dated Jan. 14, 1938, and is sald to contain information on JapAviess Russian relations. 1937 document which bore the handwritten medsage: Ha, Ly the German ambassador by Mr. Welles.” This 1§ said to have a bearing on the later trade negotiations between the two countries.