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“New Poor Relief System Needed HE current survey of Marion County's haphazard poor ok relief .operations by Times Writer Richard Lewis has disclosed an urgent need for immediate steps toward coni+ golidating and streamlining these functions. ‘ "Under the present system, an archaic holdover from ~ the horse-and-buggy days of a century ago, Marion County .. has nine Separate agencies administering poor: relief. - They are the trustees of nine townships set up more than 100 years ago as a geographical advantage for resii dents to travel to their seat of local government in a day's THE reasons for separate township governments disappeared long ago, of course, but the system still remains with us as a costly reminder of continuing waste and ineffiClency in overlapping public functions. Many of thé trustees are not ‘equipped to handle the intricate problems of poor relief in a growing metropolis, They

- .any- efficient system for administering relief. ; A program of consolidation and modernization of this ". public function ought to be started at once for submission - to the next legislature or the mounting costs will throw the whole tax structure out of gear.

.. Troops for Europe PAIN has-“very great” strategic value, not only because

» 1 M180 because of the fighting quality of her soldiers, accorda ing to Field Marshal Sir William J. Slim, chief of staff of ‘ the British Army. Heads of our own military forces are known to share «this view and to believe Spain should be included in the “North Atlantic defense organization. But, the Field Marshal says, whether Spain should be = admitted to “the United Nations and all that sort of thing” ls a question for the “statesmen and politicians, M

~~ THIS distinction between the North Atlantit defense ‘! organization and the United Nations is an important one. a While our government may have political reasons for not bs +i Wishing to assume with Spain all the relations which we . have with some other nations, political expediency should /' not obstruct sound military planning. - That job belongs to i * rotesional military men, nt pian. = -We did not hesitate to treat the Soviet Union as an : "ally against & common enemy, Hitler Germany. Refusal = to work with the Russians then might have been suicidal. “Now, however, Russia displays unmistakable enmity 5 for us and for other ig Copeman nations. Practical i : El no Red impetiaiai should toss and present a united front. Spain belongs in those

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THE North Atlantic Defense Union, as how consti"tuted, is deficient in. manpower, especially in fighting men who could get into action on short notice. : i Right now France has an emissary in the United States "seeking a definite commitment from our government as to - how many American divisions could be sent to Europe to oppose a blitz attack. 3 Spain is in a far better position than we are to meet " “such an emergency. Our friends in Europe should enlist - possible defenders already on their continent before ‘asking for an American expeditionary force. We should tell them so, and we should encourage and help them in assuring the potential support of the Spanish Army.

Say It Isn't So PLEASE, Dame Fashion, assure us that we are not going back to the days of the flapper, circa 1926. Of all the flat-chested, uncurving, pin-headed fashions that ever came down the line for what should be luscious, curvacious girls and women, that was the worst since our great-grandmothers were dragged out of their stone-age caves by the hair. Shirley Brown, actress taking part of “Ginger” in “Lend an Ear,” on Broadway, is credited with spurring along a trend already under way. This she resents. She's ready —to-fight about-it. And so are we. “Those flapper styles were the most unglamorous styles ever foisted on women,” she says. Then she added that they are the worst in the world for women's figures, faces and sex appeal. Parisian couturiers, they're dressmgkers: who charge $250 for $50 gowns, are featuring the bare-look blouses, skirts cascading with fringe, uneven hemlines. The boyish bobs are back, the straight-line burlap bag effect in gowns, the tight little bell-like hats, so-called. A leading corset-maker.is encouraging, reports -the “well-molded” feminine figure will remain in fashion indefinitely. The consensus is that the waist will remain small; above and below will depend upon milady's appetite and exercise or lack thereof. Undergarments will continue, they report, to accentuate the feminine look. . * For which, three cheers. Page boys belong only in Shakespearean plays. Flappers? Heavens, no.

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: MUTUAL AID . By Ludwell Denny

Howan WALTER, LECKRONE, BENNY ¥. WANE

" Plan is bogging down.

have no cost standards from which to compile budgets or

of her position at the entrance to the Mediferranean but,

ranks ranks, and, by joining them, would close the present gap in

Allied Citas

Plan Weakened

Tax Evasion in Europe At Expense of U. §. Seen

WASHINGTON, Det. 8-—Unanimous agreement. of the 12 Atlantic Pact nations on a strategic defense plan does not solve the dificult problem of co-operation. Experience with the Marshall Plan shows it is much easier te get agreement in theory than

in practices. Especially wher American dollars

are involved. The basic ‘purpose and method of the military ‘and economic aid programs are the same. In both cases the United States, because of- its Interdependence = with the . other democracies, is trying to help them help themselves and others for mutual prosperity and peace. This necessitates putting™ group interest above national interest. ‘It requires integration and co-ordination of separate national economies and detenaes,

First Phase Easy

THIS is the point at which the Marshall

quasi-relief activities in which the United States supplied food; fuei-and raw materials was not hard. Receplent nations were getting much and giving little in return, But when the time came .for them to scale down tariff and other trade barriers, to relate their production programs to those of their neighbors, and to stabilize currencies on a basis

"of free convertibility, there was more e:aision

than action, The military ajd program of a billion dollars for the first year is bound to run into the same sort of difficulties.

-T'o -the degree that sovereign nations. are..

even more touchy and tradition-bound on military matters than commercial, it will be worse. And to the extent there is competition for diminishing dollars between the military ald program and Marshall Plan the problem will be intensified.

Supplement Each Other

OF course economic and military aid are supposed to supplement each other, rather than conflict. Actually the two cannot be separated. Economic health of a nation is essential peace Insurance. Chaos breeds communism; prosperous countries don’t go red. But merely to fatten up Western Europe with Marshall Aid for Stalin's armiés to capture would be stupid; it would invite attack. Hence the need of both economic and military help. Nevertheless there is unavoidable financial rivalry between the two, just as in our own and in every national budget there is a tug between military and non-military budgets. And this is heightened by the fact that Congress is in the mood to cut Marshall Plan appropriations just at the time it is Smbariing on the Atlantic Defense program.

Self-Help

UNDER the circumstances continued

congressional support for both plans will depend ,

increasingly on the ‘self-help” and “mutual aid” tests—on the readiness of the European nations to contribute more to the common fund. This boils down to their ability to tax themselves. Such countries as France and Italy can neither carry out their part of the Marshall Ald bargain, nor contribute their fair share to Joint defense, without sweeping tax reforms. There is far too much tax.evasion in Western Europe at the expense of the American taxpayer,

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(Ann Arbor, Mich.—Michigan University now offers a course in teeth care, by mail.)

Enclosed find an upper incisor Which, though it's a little bit old, We treasure the way that a miser Would cherish his long-hoarded gold.

Please drill it, and fill it, and shine it, And send it back to us post haste, Our job (may we never resign it) Is moldeling ads for tooth paste!

AMERICA

America tries; how hard she tries! To blaze amid the chaos and ruin A new “trail” where nations will arise Above the cold wars now brewin’ To a Utopia where there'll be No more war on land or sea, And she flaunts not her giant strength But tries to help sufferers in a worldfull length.

BUSINESS PROBLEMS . . . By Marquis Childs

British Conflicts

[=] LONDON, Dec. 6—Henry Ford II Visited London not long ago with a proposal to build a large new Ford plant. a controversy which fllustrated the striking differences between

America and Britain today.

. Mr. Ford wanted to »uild a plant near the present Ford factory at Dagenham. But Dagenham is rated by the government

as an area of acute shortage

The first phase of

‘FREE’ SECURITY. By E.

T. Leech

‘Stealing Value From Our Money’

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—There’s another side to this problem of the “gimmes”—a brighter side than the one you've been hearing. True, the whole world has the disease. The virus has gotten deeply into American blood. There is a passion for “free” help and security. As Gen. Eisenhower phrased it—in about his first frank expression on a major domestic issue: “Somewhere along the line we have dost our respect for mere thrift and Independence.” Many others say the same thing. “Where will it stop?” they ask. “Will the demand for

handouts, at home and abroad, finally bust us?” °

That, in a nutshell, is the bad side of the problem. But there is another side which largely has been neglected. It's about time to consider it, and to make use of it. All Americans aren't clamoring for government help, and for security at somebody else's expense. A vast number aren't at the free lunch counter. The urge to save for a rainy: day and stand on one’s own feet still is strong.

Out-Shouted

BUT people who have that urge aren't nearly as foud and pushy as those who don’t. They

- have been grossly out-shouted. They have been

run over by pressure groups. And they have had little help and encouragement, Politiclans—and this goes for both parties — have been playing ‘to those who want gifts from the government, the boss, the rich or anybody else who can be tapped. The popular theory has been to buy people with their own money. ‘ But what about the self-reliant—the ones

“who work and save and plan to care for them-

selves—and who pay most of the taxes for the hand-outs? There are 45 million savings and time accounts in the banks, say the latest figures in the U. 8. Statistical Abstract. . The life insurance industry reports over 188 million policies in the hands of over 78 million individuals. In 1948, U. 8. families had on the average over $5000 worth of life insurance each. Millions own war bonds—which they bought for a future return.

SIDE GLANCES

This led to

These people all are capitalists—just like more than 10 million individuals who owned

stock in only 214 of the nation’s big corpora-’

tions in 1947.

Savings of Little People

POSTAL savings banks—the “little people's banks” -had 4,198,517 depositors in 1947. There

were 6093 savings and loan associations and .

8715 federal institutions for the small saver. millions of them. Now the point is that this vast army of Americans saved and invested money for future needs. Despite what some of them may have gotten in hand-outs, they also were doing some- . thing for themselves. They want to get back their money—in dollars as good as those they put away. But they won't do so if inflation continues—that is, if the dollar keeps buying less and less. Today it buys only what 60 cents did 10 years ago. A$100 war bond cashed today cost $75 ten years ago. But it will buy only what $60 then bought. That's a good example of what inflation does. Those self-reliant Americans with sense enough to save for the future also have sense enough to understand what is happening to their money—and why. But it needs to be frankly and simply explained—by leaders who - have the courage to buck the gimme tide,

Debt Promotes Inflation THE basic fact is that huge government debt always, in all times and all nations, has promoted inflation. Persistent spending of more than the Treasury takes,jn always has lowered the value—that is, buying power—of money. If the thrifty Americans who are tryi ng to help themselves contribute votes and suppo

credit unions—these also being And they had

wild spending, they will be stealing. value hal

their. own money. They will be cutting the future buying power of their savings, insurance and pensions. These people can be won to the side of sound finance. But it will take hard work and political courage. It isn’t as easy as jumping on the gimme-wagon and buying votes with the people’s own money.

By Galbraith

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Dr. Jessup,

im Hoosier Forum 3

"1 da not agree with a word that you say, but-1

will defend fo the death your right fo say it." ‘Free Children From Fear’

By Mrs. H. Wood, 620 E. Kessler Bivd, g . 1 noticed _a story on the release of Angus Ward and your paper stating that we, the people and public opinion, did it. Now, can we people also free our children from fear? I am sure every parent'in the U. 8, —— Jk that accomplished and to us, it is e important than anything else. I ree them from fear of these sex degenerates ning rampant in every part of the country. \Even fear of the Communists is sece ondary to. the problem of protecting our chile dren. I am amazed that our civie organizations have not long ago demanded action on a subject

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The column by Robert Ruark is the only one 1 ‘have seen that even discusses these horrors, He feels, as I do, that life imprisonment is the only curé for these misfits of society. Our new law on psychiatry is worthless, as there is too much red tape before they can even use it-on a prisoner, State hospitals are crowded and do not want them; so 1 say put them away for life on the first misdemeanor and not wait until after an attack and a hig) is Torpared and killed.

‘Clean Up Our City’ By A Teen-Ager It is the teen-agers who will make up the “Indianapolis of tomorrow.” I know that you and I and all other citizens of Indianapolis want our city to be a good, clean place in which to

live. Everyone seems to be very disturbed by

all the juvenile delinquency of our city, but are you doing anything about it? First, the teen-agers’ environment should be one of idealism and upstanding. Their ideals are set a great deal by people whom they admire. In the most part, these are movie stars, Therefore, the moving pictures they see should be of the highest caliber. But being human and normal, they go where the crowd goes.

Do you patronize the kind of pictures that

set ideals or do you patronize movies that ene courage immorality? Is this the type of ene vironment you want for your future citizens ta be brought up in? Here you can help. If the theater showing thi ype of picture can get no one to patronize ig Wh will quite naturally stop showing it and r one that brings in returns. 1 know you will join me in this fight to clean up our city and help put pictures of this type off the screen. eo oo

‘A Message to Hunters’ By John Leedy This is the season gun-happy zombies invade the suburban areas around Indianapolis. Prevalent among this type of hunter is = basic ignorance as to the true value of a good cat.

. We have heard these gun-happy zombies - remark they shoot a cat on sight in the field or

woods because it has gone wild or destroys wild life. Cats do not go wild as often as they suspect. Neither, do they kill game in the

quantities attributed to them.

How 16ng does an unsportsmanlike hunter think ‘he will be tolerated when it is learned

-that he, while a guest, destroyed his host's or a

neighbor's most effective means of rodent control? As an example, Tommy was born and raised in an old barn. He inherited a beat that was really a toughie, overrun with swarms of rats, actually hundreds, poison-wise and trap-wise, Tommy traveled his beat regularly and faith fully for a period of three years. The situation is now under control and the premises are clean. Tommy was retired from active service the day before Thanksgiving, with high honors, because of injuries sustained while on his regular beat. His eye shot out, his body full of bird shot and his front legs mangled. Imagine the heart-breaking misery Tommy must have suffered the nine days it took him to drag himself 1000 feet home to food and safety.

What Others Say—

RUSSIA has as many atom bombs as we need—no more—and no less.—Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky. >

THIS is the first round but this is not the last round.—John Foster Dulles, defeated in recent New York senatorial Section.

~ WE have an unfavorable balance of trade, unfavorable to the taxpayer and unfavorable ta the consumer.—Secretary of State Dean Ache« son.

U.S. AMBASSADOR... By Parker La Moore Dr. Jessup’s Record

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—In defending the appointment of Dr. Philip C. Jessup as our ambassador-at-large in the Far East, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has taken the position that it has ‘been unfair to single out the left wingers in organizations with which he was affiliated without mentioning certain distinguished citizens who also belonged. she pointed out,

was raised at a membership

in both manpower and housing.

Mr. Ford was told that a new payroll of ten thousand or more at Dagenham would produce a jerry-built town that would quickly degenerate into a slum. That is contrary to the planning concept of the 8ocialist government, which will seek re-election fh the new year. The controls applied by labor ministers who have extraordinarily broad powers often seem not merely’ “irksome and irritating, but downright selfdefeating. A tourist who wants to buy goods with dollars and take then back to America finds himself snarled in red tape that makes it all but impossible. - n ” ” THE Transport Commission operating the nationalized transport system has just announced that the current year will ‘most likely see a loss of $60,000,000. This means a substantial increase in freight charges, and that In turn threatens a drive tc reduce production costs sO exports can be sent out to earn dollars. It is not surprising that, by a hard-boiled rule ¢t thumb, “thé position of Britain in the recent past has been judged hopéless. At the outset is the

oe : . . . © ~ fact that these crowded islands For a while she dared the government to sue her by - to turn over sums dué on her employees’ income °

hold:‘from five to ten million more in population than can be sustained without Imports for which, under the present circumstances, there is no way of paying. “0” .

FROM this, isolationists, jingoists and plain British haters leap to the conclusion that the only sound course. is to cut Britain loose. That, in my opinfon, is a threat of major peril not for England alone, but per-

haps in even greater degree of the U. 8. A. We in America have got ‘in the habit of warning, on every occasion, what would happen to Western Europe if American ald were withdrawn. we have said so often, would go Communist and end as part of the Russian totalitarian sys-

‘tem. This sometimes seems to

imply that America ‘would

stand aside from such a dis--

aster in immaculate isolation.

The fact is that the U. 8. A. has almost more to lose than Western Europe by splitting off. An economic crisis in “America would almost certaihly follow, Fear and suspicion, with a resulting curtailment of fundamental liberties, would follow, ” . ~ IN ORDER to counter the economic crisis, emphasis would most likely be placed on in-

creasing armaments, In defen- . sive isolation, America would

drift toward war as Russia increased and consolidated her area of total control. would be a disaster which the strained fabric of western civilization could hardly survive. The Marshall Plan \has bought time to understand thése things. Western Europe to a plateau of recovery that few had considered possible two years ago. » . - '

UNLESS new approach and new attack are soon forthcoming, the threat is that the world will slip back into the morass again. It will not be easy. It will take considerably more patience and understanding than have thus far been shown. The temptation will always ’be to abandon hopeless old Europe. , . A partnership with the Western nations, and particularly

Europe,

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“If you can't help him that's no reason for telling him the schools are teaching a lot of silly things nowadays!"

with Britain, seems an abso-

lute essential for survival of ~ the values we hold in common. .

In .partnership, Europe has

- tangible assets of high value,

foremost being its geography. But there also are intangible

assets that match those of

America. One is the deep-rooted belief in fhe values of a free soclety that are real and vital here despite economic controls. And another is its patience, which today, at this halfway point, is n prithe: requisite tu temper America's force and power in the world and insure that it

will be uséd for peace and well-

Barbs—

A NEW Jersey man found two pearls in a restaurant oysster—and then probably complained about the check. » . ~

A MUSICIAN says every

violinist should have two ins struments, ; fiddlers, get tired. Not to mention listeners. M » » © A DOCTOR removed a tiny

bell from the throat of a Penn-.

sylvania girl, which had tinkled every time the tot uttered a sound. She used to be a ringer for her and dad.

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was president of the American Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations only from 1939 to 1940, a position which also had been held by persons of outstanding reputations such as Newton D. Baker and Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur. However, Dr. Jessup held a number of other offices in this organization over a period of years and took an active part in its affairs.

It was during the time of

his greatest activity that the Communists used the organization to further their smear campaign against Chiang Kai-shek and Nationalist China.

” ” . WHEN, at the ‘outset of

this campaign, a representa-

tive of the Chinese government complained to the Institute, he was referred not to

Mr. Baker or Dr. Wilbur, but

to Dr. Jessup. This was in July 1943 when. the Institute's publication, the Far Eastern Survey, published- an article which pre-

sented the Chinese National- -

ists as representatives of “feudal China” and the Communists as “democrats.” * ~ Prominent among tributors to its publications at this time were such left wing writers as Anna Louise Strong,

. Guenther Stein, T. A. Bisson,

Harriet Lucy Moore and Frederick. Vanderbilt Field. « . Similar articles, under some of the same by-lines also ap-

peared in the Communist pub- -

lications, the Daily Worker and the New Massen, ’

IN 1947, "Rep. Walter Judd (R. Minn.) asked the House Committee on Un-American Activ to investigate the Just ecaun of its alleged

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meeting of the Institute that

year, Dr. Jessup defénded the «

management against the charges and voted against the appointment of a committee ta investigate them. Mrs. Roosevelt also ree marked that there certainly was some confusion in an edie torial about Dr. Jessup's afe filiation with the ‘National Emergency Conference for Democratic Rights.”. She suggested this must refer to a legal argumént Dr. Jessup had written sustaining a position taken by Henry L. Stimson.

~ - » HOWEVER, My, Stimson was not in any way concerned with the National Emergency Conference for Democratic Rights. This organization was formed to defend American Communists during the period of the Hitler-Stalin pact, and

Dr; Jessup was listed as a

member ¢f its board of sponsors Feb, 23, 1940. In explaining Dr. Jessup’s position on atomic energy controls, Mrs. Roosevelt said he had advocated, “among other things,” piles on a standby basis for a year. Dr, Jessup's signed letter shows that among the “other things,” he wanted the United

States to stop the production .

of bombs for a year, “as well as all other procedures involved iri‘ the fabrication of the homb.”

This would have taken the

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