Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1949 — Page 12

Tuesday, Aug. 9, 1949

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2g Beyond 65 5 11 million Americans—1. 5 per cent of this coun- * try's total populstién—are now 65 years old or more. E Their number has grown from nine million, or 6.8 per cent “of the population, since 1940; from a little more than three ‘miflion; or 4.1 per cent of the population, since 1900. .. There are many stories behind the government sta- . tistics which detail this remarkable gain in the numbers and the proportion of elderly citizens. On the bright side is the evidence that medical science “and other factors have wonderfully extended the average “+ American life span in the last half century. Less happy is "the uneven sharing of the benefits among the various states. Vermont, with 10 per cent of its residents at or above. age 65, leads the procession. The New England states in. general tend to the highest percentages of elderly residents, the Southern states to the lowest. South Carolina, with only 4.5 per cent, brings up the rear. “And the fact that 75 out of every 1000 persons in the

Increasing Jangevity

pe bi a re It it is to be that, much must be done to help our senior citizens feel that society needs and values that opportunities for usefulness are not closed to

_them,

‘that there are places of dignity aid self-respect which they can fill, that they can find interest in living instead of == * merely existing. = : -" totliin SOIT retin worth noting that—Harry 8. Truman; 1 a 65.

~-year-old citizen of Missouri, is working in Washington, with youthful zest and vigor, at the world’s hardest job.

derful time as Vice President of the United States. pe Hoe ay y Who eontinues to serve it faithfully and usefully. "Five days later the country will pa Bey tribute to Ethel on (this seems incredible) her 70th birthday and for her brilliant 50 Furs an an ornament to the Amstican Four days after hat, Elder Statesman Bernard M. ~ Baruch will celebrate his 79th birthday. = And, for an example in a humbler walk of life, consider Thomasulo, one of the 1,173,534 residents of New "York State counted as 65 or older. Mr. Thomasulo, born in Italy 82 years ago, came to New York City in 1892, For ‘56 years he operated a one-man hat-cleaning and shoe-shining stand. in the entrance corridor at No, 1 Broadway. He has amassed a modest fortune. He has reared six succes:

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“living a little before 1 die.”

on 5,000 For Life Not Hay OMETHING Americans can't get enthusiastic about, with the government more than a billion dollars in the red the _ frst mionth of the fiscal year, Ia the-ropuaed. 5000-2: eur. increase for federal

i A e gets 8 year, and an valle court judge, $17,500. With 10 | . years service, they may retire at the age of 70, on full pay. BL “Members of Congress draw $15,000 a year—but not for life. A Representative has to hustle out to campaign for re-election every two years, and a Senator every six | years.. We see no reason for paying 2 federal judge more than a Congressman.

i = » " ». PRESIDENT "TRUMAN has just signed-a new law creating. 27 new federal judgeships—six for appelate courts

those appointments run into hundreds. A federal judicial ee RAR never goes begging. Lawyers of the highest type | don't always get the appointments. That is not due to the salary, but to the political method of appointment. With the pyramiding of federal laws over the last 17 years has come increased congestion of dockets. = The only solution thus far attempted has been periodically to increase the number of judgeships. Greater progress might be made in clearing the dockets if something were.done to make sure that all judges put in full time at their work. “Some judges work hard. Others open court late in the _INOrBIng, -slose.early inthe. afternoon. and take dang. VACA: ~ Yions. = Before Congress ‘adds any more new. judges or increases salaries, we suggest a close scrutiny of the work schedules En the various Judicial districts and circuits.

Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, at 71, is having a won. J ‘ Next Wednesday the nation will honor the 75th birth- |

~ ons. Last Friday he retired, Jooking forward eagerly ts

and -21 for district. Candidates pulling political wires for |

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POLITICS .... By Chorles T. Lucey

See No Shokeun In GOP Staff

Harmony Goal Expected Co

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 Behind the colonial pillars and red brick of Republisan National Headquarters here, they're practically holding - their breaths until the new national chairman, Guy Gabrielson, comes to town. Nobody knows his plans, RE a friends: Bf Mr Gabrfeisorn- razard-| three forecasts: ONE: That he is too smart to try a Te. of partisans of Tom Dewey or of others who opposed him for. the chairmanship he won so narrowly last week. 2 TWO: That without any spectacular house cléaning: he wil effect a = tion of “functions and ion in the 1950 election: THREE: That he will avoid what has been called: Republican “me toolsm” and will work to give the electorate’ a clear choice of two

Executive Comes First a

THE FIRST test of Mr. Gabrielson’ s attitude toward those who opposed him could come in shifts in the dominant executive committee. There is no hard-and-fast rule about it, but in the past, executive committee members fre. ‘quently have resigned to permit a new chairman to set up his own oficial family. Presumably. there will be resignations now. ~ Will Mr, Gabrielson accept those of his former opponents and replace them with support“ers of Sen. Robert A. Taft? There are some able men there who long have been on Mr. Dewey's side-—New. York's J. Russel Sprague and Kansas’ Harry Darby for example. The guessing is that Mr, Gabrielson means what he said about “harmony” and that he will not try to displace such acknowledged leaders, "But the Carroll Reece-Harrison Spangler faction which helped elect Mr. Gabrielson will want

a touchy problem for Mr. Gabrielson, On reorgan headquarters, the chairman's friends say he will be guided by a. determinaAion 10 do. a_good job. They see two personal factors at work. First, Mr, Gabrielson moves into the job labeled a.successful businessman and organizer and will seek to prove it. Second. “he may have political ambitions of his own. He "hits béen talked of In the past for U. 8. Senator. from New Jersey, and this could be a means of

getting there. - Tope

Fund Drive Is Sore Bet,

GOP this fall. Approaching the chairmanship, Mr. Gabrielson knows his job Is not one of policymaking. He believes his “rather, is to the party's machinery to get out a greater Re- | publican vote. He will spend much time in the 4. feld

for this purpose. In ‘point of his own choice among various shades of Republican thinking the chairman probably is closest to Mr. Taft, z “Mr. Gabrielson knows his way about poi litieally. The emphasis has been on his business background. But before that he was in the New Jersey legislature and smart enough to become speaker of the New Jersey House.

_TEA FOR TWO -

A five-year-old Ne Asked mama to tea’

Oh! the food was delicious Though ‘twas all make beltevs, Had mama said no " Cook would have been grieved!

They were happy and gay But why shouldn't they be For they really enjoyed : i “That make believe tea! . © —MARGIE YOUNG HILL, 3420 N. Riley Ave, : ; +

STER'S_ FOLLIES

~ BIRMINGHAM, England — : Jumps bed; lands in kitchen on floor below.”)

_Bhe leapt up from her flame-swept bed And plummeted toward earth. No sears, no tears, but joy instead: She found the softest berth,

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The reason she is no dead duck, Or wears no deep-creased frown, Is eider, “providence, or luck; Her landing place was-—-down!

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That a depression could become very, ludlcrous if everyone possessed .a television set, “With nothing better th do we could. quickly” become a nation of sitters.~B. oi tannpmiias

To Prevent House Cleaning al

political patterns. EI

recognition, and how to provide it could beconie |

A DRIVE for big money is a Sure bet for the |

.| our parents subscribed to the same Spartan creed.

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Our Town :

AT A TIME like this when children are reHeved of all discipline and encouraged 'o Vox | press themselves” (even when they have nothing _to_express); It may nol be amiss to note that conditions have - changed quite: a bit in the course of the last 60 yours. or so. Wheh 1 was a little boy, for instance; the kids of my generation were taught not to wag their - tongues lest they betray the emotions’ nearest their hearts. Ve really inherited the notion; for, if the truth be told,

_ Like as not, the habit of concealing one's e Hotions was just ‘another manifestation for which Queen Victoria and her entourage even-

tually will be held ‘accountable. Whatever its

source, 1 distinctly recall that it was considered

say that we liked anything-let alone to say we loved it. The injunction embraced _everything from food to girls. Indeed, it wouldn't surprise me to earn some day (probably by way of some worldly-wise psychiatrist) that the interminable courtships of the Nineties were the inevitable result of a cultivated reticence. And as for our reservations -gconcerning the palatableness of food; it may just be possible that our implanted lack of articulate appretiation at the time accounts

-- Indianapolis today.

mde Faint Sign a

SOMETIME AROUND the turn of the cen-

tury a change in the established order of things took place. At any rate, there appeared on —the_horizon a first faint sign the tongue

expression. That was the period when In-

dianapolis fathers with the necessary wherewithal (and vanity) inaugurated the practice of sending their sons to Eastern colleges, with {| the result that in less than four years a group | of intellectual snobs was planted in our midst, Up until that time, snobbishness in Indianapolis was confined to those in a position to

|" parade their worldly goods—like as not, seal-

skin coats on the backs of women and railroad passes on the part of mén—which really “wasn't offensive, the ‘practice of exposing the mind 1 by way of == wif of gab.

for the relatively aw good eating. Jinces In:

was designed to serve as an instrument of

Much more annoying was’

~The germ; when

. By ‘Anton Scherrer ; The Era of Harvard Influence

The gift of gab on the. part of precious sons

® “of indulgent fathers gave rise to a peculiar and

even frightening state of affairs around ‘here. when finall was called

he ger a dsolated, “Harvard indifference.” Heaven only “knows

why that school was picked. for. the

for, if the truth were told, Harvard was no.

"worse than half a dozen ‘other institutions I ' could mention. gies ‘Be that as it may, Harvard indifference was

both a cult and a pose. Considered as a cuit, it also had its roots in Queen Victoria; for it was largely the result of a mental intoxication produced by a too-close reading of Oscar Wilde's books and the rantings of James McNeill Whistler.

As for the pose, it could be detected by | used by the.

listening for a spurious accept and a superficial cleverness which found expression in casual

- understatement, precious epigrams and a passive

resistance to the making of money by way of

--manual--labor, especially if it involved getting

ht uncouth and rude, to

one’s hands soiled in the process. Art for

art's sake was the cry of the time and to hell

with making money the way father did.

Yawn for Indifference I REMEMBER, too, that if any of these signs failed, Harvard indifference could always be recognized by the kind of yawn that distingishes utter boredom. ‘The cult {and its pose) ‘finplly got a kick in the pants mostly by way of Theodore Roosevelt and Edmund Vance Cooke, both of whom made it their business to kill it. President Roosevelt, 2 Harvard grad himself, did it with precept and... “example. As for Mr. Cooke, he composed a ‘Stecie.” one stanza "of ‘which especially: lampooned the college boy's

reluctanct to follow in the footsteps of his -

father- who had learned the trick of making money. Indeed, enough to send his boy to college: = “Business, oh that's beastly twade, Don't you know? * : Something's lost or something's made, Don’t you know? And you wowwy, and you mope, And you hand youah highest hope On the pwice, pe’haps of soap, Don’t you know? ’ Poet Cooke's crusade reveived a tremendous boost when Charles Hoyt had the poem set to music. He introduced it in “A Night in New York" dnd retained in “A Diy and a Night” It turned up again in “The Belle of New York" which was quite enough to bury Harvard indifference, never to show -its face again:

CHINA vin + BY Clyde Farnsworth

still warm may not in itself be fatal. any good.

~the only

White Paper on China. Their speculative answers include:

Budget Blues iy EN. WILEY, Wisconsin Republican, sa staggered by the vast billions it must ‘vote this year that it’s in-a-daze. 2 There cannot have been many times, indeed, when a ‘nation's budget affairs were so confused and hobbled by delay. For the second time this summer the lawmakers have had to approve temporary resolutions authorizing expendi- |

can be voted. The Senate seems to be the worst offender, having ex-

deliberative body in the world,” the Senate has been putting far too much accent on that,word, “deliberative.” “its new » passion for endless débate and dickering is | not serving the “country well.

Advantage for Allies: WHEN Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia split with Russia last year, we were warned. by our foreign experts not to expect much benefit from the event, But it is clear we are © reaping some tage from it. a! "7 Russia's anger over Tito led to her withdrawal of suppot for: hig territorial claims in Austria. Thus one of the

peace-treaty-EE Bal 3a Ts oa ott oer ts soon Toop will--the Western Powegs ought to rack up a pretty good care from this situation afte all.

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SAYS Congress is 80 |

tures by government agencies until regular appropriations |

hibited a snail's pace on virtually everything it has consid- 1 ered this session. Proud of its position as the “greatest |

“was removed.

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around with neighboring countries.

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White Paper Oddity |

CANTON, Aug. 9-Secretary of State Dean Acheson's aitopsy on the Chinese Nationalist government while the body is But it didn’t do} tite patient

Chinese Nationalists-—and there's still a’hard core of them, effective anti-Communist force in China—have ‘been left | to ‘wonder just what Mr Acheson's purpose was, or more broadly | the purpose of the Washington administration in issuing the

ONE: It was a tacit'11th hour invitation to the Chinese Com- i —|-munists to welsh on their debts and commitments to the Soviet | ~~ "|. Union in return for American recognition. It was intended to shush Jnereased criticism and misgivings at home over the Washington administration's fallure in It's generally regarded here as the best possible face that | + could be put upon American performance from Yalta down to the i -ham-stringing of the LJ. 8. military advisory group. : It was an implicit though somewhat premature ae- | -ceptance of the Chinese Communist conquest of China with which could couple: a warning, however toothless, that the Chinese Reds must keep their revolution in China and not mess

__ BUT, WHATEVER its purpose, the White Poper has in an unpredictable way given new impetus to the Nationalist disin-

RB 1 know an American businessman in Canton who cut short a Hong Kong holiday after the White Paper was published to kack to Canton to liquidate and get out before the Reds get He was sure the White Paper had shatply limited Canton's

There probably will be a Chinese Nationalist government in name, at least, somewhere on China soil for a long time to

Mr. Acheson's letter presented at least one glaring oddity— the statement that the Nationalists did prety well for China from 1927 to 1937 and during the same Time started to run down. That was the period between Chiang Kai-shek's bredk with the

“During this period the Kuomintang (Nationalist Govern- . ment Party) made considérable progress in itd efforts to unify | the country and to build up the nation’s financia’ and economic strength,” n Secretary ‘Acheson wrote, and then added oddly: 3 Somewhere during this decade, however, the Kuomintang be- | gan to lose the dynamism and revolutionary ferver which had -areated It, Communists’; fervor: becam

THE FIRST sentence was " statement of fact teadily documente), The second sentence was an sxercise In cliches Which i as A Whole are: the least Tevalutionary people 1 the world, |

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COP 1949 BY NEA SERVICE, M0. T. M. AEG. U. 6. PRY. OFF.

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not only fitted the general. thesis of the Nationdlists’. Incipient weakness but might have been matched almost word for word in | any one of keveral pro-Comrhunist books that might have come

That's been a dominant theme. of fellow travelers. It goes pretty .and -pat: The Chinese revolution aS seit- I

"Vie for euiersty: Commune leaders a a or leadérship; ommunists being ‘more Secretary (Acheson's letter is sprikied Dr a idea in. various forms, It's an argument f | proof. If there'is any pertinent evidence, it is that the Chiness

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the old people receive scanty care and food but this is better than Russia where those who can't ‘work starve or are killed. Should we pack the . a of lo a to an orphanage. w. re v

“‘Unforfunate for Animal Lovers’ ‘By Freddie Parker, President, the Indiana SPOA™ It is unfortunate for: the diane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ahimals that Mr. Macfarlane has fendered his resignation, He was one of the very few available men in the country who, we felt, was able to do what : this organization intended to do. ’ His methods here were patterned after those largest and most successful ore ganizations of this Kind. It seemed to me that this was a bad course to follow. ’ I would like at this time to say to everyone that, in the face of this unjust opposition which has brought the present situation, the Indiana SPCA, at its present location, will earry on the mals, services that were started under Mr, Macfarlane’s leadership.

What Others Say

1 CANNOT vote for a treaty (the North Atlantic Pact) which, in my opinion, will do far more to bring about a third world war than

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18 IT the function of the, ‘Un-American. Acs ate subversive ace

tivities,’ or to make headlines at any price?— Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D.) of Ohio. » @ AT Palestine, as well as in Indonesid, Kashmir, Korea and Berlin,. an effective, answer has beén given to cynics on the United Nations’ power to maintain peace.-~Dr. Ralph Bunche, UN mediator. * ¢ oO THE ball payers in both leagues feel that the signing of . . . youngsters for bonus contracts is forcing “the older fellows out before their time and also is bringing an inferior brand of baseball before the public. PIE Out~ fielder Dixie Walker. : ® @ v THE latest Russian restriction¥ (on truck traffic into. Berlin) appear to be x bald-faced attempt to create new difficulties.—Lawrence Wilkinson, U. 8, econonile chief in Berlin.

RURAL PHONES . . . By Peter Edson

Farmers Want Action

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9--Backers of the Poage-Hill bill to ‘authorize Rural Electrification Administration financing for farm’ telephone lines have been showing off what they claim is a typical It is from a country store operator in San Bernadino County, California. “We have tried to get telephone service here, buf have not had any fuck,” says one paragraph of the letter. will’ put a pay station at the store, if we make them a gift of $10,700. We can get a 10-party line from Victoryville if we advance $15,000, refunded 10 per cent of the bills for 10 years, then nothing thereafter. .and can get 100 subscribers here and nearby.” - Farm organization representatives are now on the Senate Agriculture ‘Committee to ‘do something this season * about the rural phone bill, so as to take care of situations ike * A subcommittee under. Sen. Oklahoma has held two days of hearings on sucha bill introduced by Sen. Lister Hill of Alabama and nine other Senators.

Difficulty in the Senate THE POAGE bill would -alithorize REA--the Rural Electrifi cation Administration. private companies, public agencies and co-operatives for extend. ing phone service to farmers. There is plenty of opposition trying to keep the Poage- Hill © measure hung up in the Senate, Bell telephone system companies, which tie in over 80 per cent of the Class A telephones in the United States—don't like the Poage bill. telephone companies don’t ke it, A number of Congressmen and free-enterprise trade associas: tions of businessmen oppose the Poage-Hill bill bécause they say ‘socidtistic.” ‘the ‘phone business ‘will simply add to the competition it now ; gives private enterprise, Of course the government is already in the ‘eléctrie power business, through REA. And now that the REA co-ops have their lines strung, they maintain that the same “poles can easily be used for telephone wires.

Private Companies Claim Good Record

REA HAS for some years had a plan whereby private tele phone companies might share use of REA poles to provide rural service. But REA Congress, that only ing phones to only 120,000 more customers. Telephone company officials testifying before: stressed the arguments that they have been ins phones. at record-breaking rates’ They claim 1.2 million new i rural Phones insthlled since the end of ‘the war.- Bi

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to make 2 per cent, 35-year loans to

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. War Lo West { > The U.. autumn, it uma; it w 2. "The war important q “Can Wes fended and , - Military e | answer depe: on where ti i drawn, . “Mili reh 1 - By using | price on the market for the ones we need: iodSeey {nthe mane Why can’t we buy these eggs at their actual "hope to dete “value? IT supply Is greater than demand and ‘mobile Germ the price goes down, maybe the farmer will be fend the “m inspired to produce some other product. You many presen and I won't have to pay twice—once when we bP It was ‘ex buy, once in taxes. Is this tpo simple a solution ! Pperiences of "to parity? © nh Cede) } the maneuwt mx ly lly 2 d ' siderable be " i ences betwee Need Income Tax Deductions’. - HL on When W ly & Reader ” li be defended To Congressmen and President Truman: The Britis Here is my suggestion. Have a bill passed in battle of Br Congress that would entitle anyone who gave i feel that to the poor and could, with f, show that this - should be he was true for deductions from his income tax, Channel in t Right now the only deductions possible are for: 5 Other wor blood relatives supported for 50 per cent of , i . their care, and for- adopted children. po France Now if your best friend died and wanted you . The Euro to care for her child, you could raise this child, , 2 ministers sp spend -your. time, ‘hire baby sitters, clothe the . + how much child, the child but you couldn't deduct one should have cent from your income tax because you cannot Purope. furnish a receipt for the care of the child. Ireland an You can give your own mother up to $50 a, shange in t month and give your husband's mother. a Uke. easier for th #um. But if you are not the only source of supe; “TT questions of port and they are not living under. your roof placed on th you canndt deduct this either. ty Ley ' pean askem Yet you can-deduct $1 given to Red Cross, with the 1 $1 Tor crippled children; $1-for Red Cross seals, § = guurr ine es $50 to church, provided your pastor will okay But the st __that you gave it. Also you can deduct telephone from other tax on cross-country telephone calls, gas tax, materialize. and amusement tax and jewelry tax. . 1 and 3 1 If course we have old folks’ homes whers. of the prog

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