Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1949 — Page 16

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the individual taxpayers in the whole state of Indiana paid in federal income taxes for last year. : ~~ WE'RE going to: miss the Air Force men, of course. | Some Indianapolis business, including no doubt our own, will suffer some loss of revenues because they are gone.

_ than ever.”

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. politics; we have been close to and 1dyal to Mr. Truman .

On Hand-to-Mouth Basis

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 — You never saw in such tough shape as Uncle s

millions a year. That's $00 millions more than the $410,187,000 that all

Some 135,000 workers in Indianapolis and elsewhere no longer needed by the defense establishment, will have to will be some complaint and h none of it will come from anyone who really meant it when he objected to high taxes. : And none of it will come from us.

do the same thing, :

Nimble Is the Word

UCCESS as a Washington “five percenter” seems to call

eenting activities are now being studied by a Senate com-

.On Nov. 25, 1046, soon after the election of a Republican Congress, Mr. Hunt wrote to an American businessman in china: “My Hill (congressional) and ‘white cottage’ contacts are still swell—and in the new turn of events—better oe 0 2 a8 8% ON OCT. 13, 1048, he wrote to the same businessman: “If Dewey is elected, then I am in even better position than before. I am sure you will recall that many of my good friends on the Hill were Republicans. . . . Some of these men-have had long conferences with Dewey and are to be very close to him in the event he wins. And I'll be close to

After the 1048 election, Mr. Hunt to another businessman in Chicago: “The White House group has been most kind to me. . . . We enjoy this life. . . . It also has been very remunerative. Though we are nonpartisan in

Jerson , and our relationship is éven closer than heretoore.” . And on Dec. 29, 1048, in a telephone conversation with | a prospective Chicago client who asked how close he really was to Mr, Truman Mr, Hunt was recorded as saying: “I had a nice assurance after the election. I won't tell you over the phone. I was in the van, down the line. We went through with him all the way. It's going to be a great thing. . The official family are my friends.”

Animal Aberrations’

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showed up. Even t Alben Barkley and Majority Leader Scott Lucas had to be dragged in. No Direct Action

MOSTLY, THOUGH, the delay is because

never think of just let's pass this bill, or let's not. No, they have

to gentlemen and calling guys they'd like to choke Senabout Sad Sty tpesciue a ,

floor. ‘Grooming’ of Women THEN THERE was the speech Rep. Clare Hoffman of Michigan made about the National Labor Relations Board having a clinic to show r women workers how to groom themselves. First he had to point out that the dictionary sald grooming meant “to attend to the needs of a horse, as by currying.” Then he had to let Rep. John Jennings of

| Tennessee say that he had heard about grooms

ing a horse but had never heard about groom.

==Congider James V. Hunt; the wartime : : pp opp oman, And final y Mr, Hoffman recalled wo. Sm, . ; Mrs. Hoffman 10 Ferer t= nr Bridge became a “management counselor’ and whose five-per- | cub as “the girls” and said he wouldn't tell

how old Mrs. Hoffman was but she was still girlish ‘and kittenish enough for him.

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ONE QUALITY which seems to be peculiar to Hoosiers, and which is often a source of never-ending wonder to from other places is our ability to sit down with others from our state, perhaps total strangers, enly to learn before long of a close mutual acquaintance. If it hasn't hit you forceably before, try it the next time you are away from home and meet another native of Indiana. It's uncanny, but you can't get away from it. It happened to me the other night when I drove into the Quonset Village Motel at Valparaiso seeking lodging for the night. One space was left in the line of cars parked before

Wednesday and Friday in The Times.

4he various apartments. When my old car slid into place it was the only one the red and white license of our home state. igan, Towa, Nebraska, West Virginia, Illinois, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Colorado, each were represented there.

me in, and who was careful to get my license number, and be sure that I approved the room,

revealed that he was a long tim

SH Next week, beanbag practice:

KINSHIP

Have you ever spoken the trivial thing When your heart was nigh to breaking? Have you ever smiled, when a tear was nigh, When your very soul was quaking? Have you ever tried to hide life's scars— “ From a world that deals unfairly? What would you do , . . I want to know— ‘w TO meet the issue squarely? And, what would you do, for a friend In need? Would you practice the “Golden Rule”? Would you offer the wayworn rover A glass of water , . . sparkling and cool? Oh, there are many kind deeds to be done Never, no pever, their doing shun. And, “If” and “Is” this, of you true You know me . . . and I, know you.

~MARY R. WHITE, 854 N. Sherman Dr.

Porter County and Valparaiso. Almost like two game cocks sparring for an opening, we began to compare notes on mutual acquaintances. :

Small World HAVING worked in the area before, I mentioned several customers whom he knew slightly, when we suddenly mentioned Eddie Davis. Eddie, I was able to advise him was now in Detroit selling trucks, and being frequently tortured by sinus headaches, had been taking treatments from another Hoosier, Dr. George Beamer, originally from Zionsville, but who had practiced for years in Delphi. *. Dr; Beamer is also related to the Beamer Davises at Greenfield. Small world isn't it? Once a close mutual acquaintance is firmly established such as this case of Waggoner to Davis to Loveland, you can freely discuss a lot of interesting bits of news, and you can get a lot of views that aren't ordinarily disclosed to strangers. Motels and other hostelries which cater to the tourist trade fascinate me, and whenever possible, that's where I'll stay overnight when away from home. There's a story in every one.

PEDDLER'S PASSAGE . . . By John Loveland — It's Small World for Hoosiers

. let you in.”

H.W. Waggoner, the proprietor, who checked

ent of _ spite of the heayy flow of traffic.

For example, I stopped late at night last spring at a place just west of Warsaw on Highway 30. Not getting out of the car I waited for the operator to come to the front door of his house with a lantern, and completing negotiations for a room, asked about a parking

Following his directions, I locked the and met him on the side porch, asking if he thought there was plenty of room for cars to pass. “I'll have

— ve to leave that up to you,” he said.

Just as there had been a story at Warsaw, there was also a story at Valparaiso. I didn’t get it till next morning after a good night's rest wherein I was greatly fmpressed by the fact that there hadn't been much disturbance by passing trucks, although that highway is ounded all night long by heguy trafe moving i And olt or Chicago und tie” = op Seeing host Waggoner the next morning, I commented on the guietness of the rooms in

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Ss ~remedy--make the qualifications pers taining to the position necessary. Civil Service

several ligh installed in various parts of the ¢ity in the past couple of months, so why aren't we entitled to the same protection at this point? The Bloom« ington accident occurred where no crossing was involved—and could happen here more fre

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Know of Any Brass Mines? By H. W. Daacke, 3818 8. Olney - A recent contribution to the Forum entitled Support Your Party” gives some valuable in ‘formation as to why inefficiency is so rampant

- among public office holders. This is because in

many cases the qualification for public office Jappolnitve | or elective). is the ability to donate funds , act as a wardbe an efclent vote-gotier, hosing o To illustrate my point more clearly, let ma tell a true story of the recent war. One of the faithful was rewarded with a very select posie tion, chief procurement officer for a vital metal,

Being of an unusually sincere nature (not very noticeable among government employees), he intended to make an honest effort to serve his _ country honestly and efficiently, So he called Government Information and asked for a list of all the brass mines in the country, their location, capacity, etc, He was so dumb he didn't know that brass was an alloy of several metals, Another illustration is the gentleman that was uncovered by the Seabury investigation.

Unable to either read or write, he was holding

the position of justice of the peace, at $1000 per year, in New York City. or The a onan

examinations would work wonders.

scheduled for dianapolis Cou

“Dinner a meat balls an cheese, chef's

will be music rate of exchan

and Mrs, P. W Jand and D. A. Sorarity Rou Red bandann out the weste night's “Chi a up,” by the Ind of Chi Omega A western bi be served at 6 of Mrs. Wolfe Allisonville Ro ing Purdue an sities next mor Miss Ellen | Gloria Walters, the Purdue Ch a skit, “THe Western and will be led by 1 oweth and - Mi: members of the lege Chapter. Rush. Commi Mrs. Stephe man of the a mittee. Assisti Royce Stevens ton and Donal Active chap will attend inc rush chairmar Carol Miller a rian of Purdu Mary Howard Misses Ma Jackie Oakes, giana Tutrow, and Jane Web versity, and oweth and Bu vania.

Miss Ruby newly elected Memorial Unit Auxiliary, has : Ham D. Webst 1. Henry, rec sponding secr Charles ¥. Bs the unit. lected offi recently in the bur F. Smith,

“These rooms are all quiet, and a lot of that is due to our location. We are far enough from the grade to the east that the big trucks have all slid into their overdrives and are rolling smoothly. If we were on the side of a hill, you'd be continually bothered by the popping of deceleration, or the heavy growling and grinding that goes along with shifting gears on an upgrade.” :

Tip on Quietness YOU'LL no doubt read a lot about selecting a motel, and should be able to spot one for its respectability, cleanliness, and good management, but this is a tip on picking 'em for quietness, even on a heavily traveled highway.

Don’t get too close to a steep grade, for as

Mr. Waggoner said: “You've had enough experience with motor trucks to know that one of the first things a driver will do is to take a bar and punch right through the muffler so that his engine will talk louder.” It would have been fun to pass more of the time of day with him, but he was busy, and I

hoped to be soon.

What Others Say NEVER in all the world’s history was there a clearer or more urgent need for men to seek to eliminate controversy from their lives. Since controversy begins in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace

must be constructed.—William L. Batt, presi. dent, SKF Indastries, Ine.

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THE Marshall Plan is like a dike around Europe. If it protects Europe from the poisoned flood waters welling up from Moscow, it will only be at the expense of diverting the tide acress. Asia.~~Chinese President Li Teung-jen,

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THE materialism of modern life has been rendered even more grave by the weakening of the institution of matrimony. The war has caused the violent separation of millions of husbands and wives and destroyed millions of *

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homes, aggravating the perils of immorality,

looted of machinery, .

8 if people weren't doing enough queer things and caus 4" ing enough trouble, we've noted lately an alarming umber of reports of strange or disorderly conduct among ¢ members of the animal kingdom.

eA Thus wild bears, looking for free food, have been in.

vading: houses and scaring women and children in the

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outskirts of Duluth and other northern Minnesota cities. |

Conservation officers at Lansing, Mich., aver that a brown trout wearing a pair of plastic.rimmed has been caught there. A cow has been held guilty of getting in the way of an airplane, and wrecking it, at Northampton, Mass, Foxes are blamed for spreading rabies among cattle in New York state's Adirondack forest. Mr, Rhea—a bird some: thing like an ostrich--is getting thin and haggard in the Detroit zoo, because his four wives make him hatch all their eggs. Two raccoons, spooning on high-tension power lines in Iowa, caused a short circuit that darkened homes from Webtser City to Woolstock. Same sort of thing has beén going on in England. There it was a swan that barged into electric wires and put out

the lights in the village of New Mills, . The British Ministry

of Agriculture is trying to find out why hens are laying so many eggs with green or khaki-colored yolks that turn black when boiled. Residents of Crywys-Morford Mill; near have to walk a mile to mail letters because swarms t on living in the village mail box, .: = seldom surprised, any more, by ‘the way folks

million.

‘Shipped to Russia

This Austrian ofl did not go to Austria.

mixed with imported products, Allies at the Paris

performance.

Paris agreement. Trick Interpretation

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region short of oll, “+ ‘Stalin's control of river shi

the Danube Shipping Co. properties in Bulgaria, plus those in East

be able to challenge him,

of the upper Danube from Lins to the German border. . , control of Austrian oll and river traffic is the security risk. Will ASANY. It een Bombers sh to gu Solugh the Cone ; Why is the Austrian government willis to pay such’& price Red troops and secret police remain in the guise of civillan : Command won't fight alone, very bo Just to a treaty with an , who honors a treaty | forcthese Russian properties? Hyg 4.4 plane—Navy, Alr Fores and National Guard--would be used, when JAE h Break jt2 with the $150 million which Aus- AHere again it is the American officials, rater than the Aus- Intelligence ‘Russia has done little ‘with radar

MOSCOW CONTROL . ., By Ludwell Denny

Stalin Grip Tighter spe

VIENNA, Aug. 26 — Austrian oil and Danubian shipping, granted to Stalin under the draft peace treaty, will increase his strategic as well as economic control of this country, p He has done pretty well with both during four years of mili-. tary occupation. Now he agrees to take out his troops only if he can keep these two. He will not even sell back these, as he is turning over for $150 million the other stolen industries he has

All of Auptria’s oll wells and all except one refinery are in the Red occupation mone. They were over-devéloped by’ Hitler. Stalin has been taking out almost as much, though actual figures

"are not known. Last year the production vale,

Two-thirds of it was shipped to Russia or her satellites. Since the draft treaty agreement of last June, which legalizes Stalin's future control, he has been selling about one-third to Austria—in order to get a dollar market. This oll is of such inferior quality, however, it must be

Under treaty-at-any-price pressure by Austria, the Western ference agreed that Russia could keep for 30 years 60 per cent of east Austrian oil capacity based on 1047

At the current London drafting conference Russia is trying to get much more by demanding all of the best fields, which would be 60 per cent of the area but most of the potential pro. duction. She is also demanding two gas fields not covered by the

RUSSIA is trying to get all of the best exploration areas under the same trick interpretation of tha 60 per cent agreement, She receives all the equipment in the fields and plants assigned to

«These concessions are of incalculable value in a strategie

pping will be even more nearly complete, if the treaty goes through. It vis him ownership of

wy Romania and Austria and the Vienna 4 Tha puts the finishing touches on Communist mastery of

strategic waterway of Central and Eastern Europe, which was achieved at the Stalin-rigged Danubian Conference in Be 8. Only Tito, who has since broken away from Stalin, will, the

@ertainly Austria will not, with her control of only 70 miles

SIDE GLANCES

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By Galbraith

- NEW RADAR SETS . . . By Jim G. Lucas

: Air Defense Pushed

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dustrial plants, she thinks Uncle Sam will make good part of the “loss, She hopes to compete with the Soviet monopoly by building new docks in Vienna. Our Economie Co-operation Administration already has authorized for that purpose initial allotment of counterpart Marshall funds amounting to $500,000. Even more serious than the economic consequences of Stalin's

operatin eration

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 26—-The Air Force says its long-range bombers could hit every major target in Russia and get home, But could the Russians hit us? Presumably, they could. Gen. Carl Spaatz, retired chief of the Afr Staff, told Congress this week the best defense isn't good enough to stop a determined bomber raid short of its

What, then, can we expect of our air defenses? . . As of now, they don't amount to much. Little new rada ‘equipment has been made since the war, But in another 13 months we should be. in better shape. : The program has been laid out, Its fate depends on whether Congress passes the $800 million military construction bill now blocked in the House by Armed Services Committes Chairman Carl Vinson, {It carries $50 million to build radar stations—$19 million in the United States and $31 million in Alaska.

Improved Radar

THE FIRST of many new radar "sets will be-deliversd to the Air Force next month, and continue at the rate of several a month, A spokesman for the Continental Defense Command says they are as superior to World War II radar as jets are to conventional planes. : They'll be able to pinpoint enemy planes and fighters to within 1000 feet and one mile of their Alr defense is the primary responsibility of Maj. Gen, Ennis command.

our tion.

It plans a defense ‘in depth. For

instance, a wall of picket stations will run across country froth Maine to Seattle. . ; ' Several lines will be strung across Alaska. These outposts will be equipped with early warning radar; their job is simply ta detect planes approaching this country. S ] Back of them, we'll have ground-control-intercept radar - posts. They'll be closer to major target areas; their pinpoint the enemy and put fighters in the air. Planning is so complete, on paper, that Air Force maps

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tely where planes will be picked up and wherq

show they will be shot down. Using Old Sets j RADAR sites have been picked. In many n temporary buildings with World War kout next month will test that net and provide fresher courses for civilian watchers. A_total of 24,000 men—13 National Guard and t ros groups—will man radar posts. Regus will be on duty ‘around the clock, even in peacetime,

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