Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1949 — Page 11

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Thanks, Indianapolis... ~~ ‘For a Merry Christmas TWENTY years ago, in 1830, the coming of the Christmas season was far from a merry prospect in many. an * Indianapolis home.' The great depression was! beginning. In thousands of families there were no jobs. Children were beginning to drop out of school because their clothing was too tattered and thin for outdoor wear. ‘That was the year, 1930, when The Times Clothe-A- . Child program began. It was simple enough. The people of Indianapolis who could were just given an opportunity to provide clothes for a child who needed warm clothes. “That year hundreds of Indianapolis folks came to Clothe-A-Child -headquarters and met a child who went shopping with them . 4. and “.who was returned home that evening with a new, warm outfit of winter clothing. Next year the Néed was even greater : ... but so was the, response :to meet it. “And 0. it hag , Been, year after year, i since.

NEVITABLY, of course, there came a time “when folks who wanted to clothe children couldn't manage to do it in person, for one reasorror another. They asked The Times to do it for them. So The Times shopping system was begun. Those who wished to take a child shopping. for Christmas clothing themselves, as hundreds still do, could do 80 in person. Those who could not do that provided the money and a Times shopper did it . . . by proxy.. The Mile of Dimes . . . first in the nation . . . was born to make it possible for everyone to share, even for as little as a dime, in the Joy of helping a needy sig.

P[HROUGHOUT, need has been the only standard, The people who clathe these children . . . whether in person or by proxy . .. haven't bothered themselves too much “with abstract social theories, have never asked whether a * child is “worthy” , . . but only if a child is cold. Through the years of depression and war and on into the post-war present, the need has varied greatly from Christmas to Christmas as the city has grown larger and employment has gone up or down. = “There has always been enough to meet it. Around Wrgnilion dollars, altogether since it started in 1930. those 20 years more than 30,000 children who had BOT ee as Date ives new Christmas outfits of warm, sturdy, becoming clothing. Their identities are never revealed. Their pictures are never published. There will be no pointing of fingers and no shamed faces as they go back to the “world of childhood in which they live. But they don't forget. Nearly every year, now, contributions come in for Clothe-A-Child . . . anonymously, often enough . . . with a Jetter that says: “Ten (or 15, or 20) years ago I got clothes at Christ. mastime . . . now that I'm grown up and working I'd like to pay it back to some other child...” And then we know that 30,000 youngsters, at least, are growing up to be better citizens of Indianapolis because of what Indianapolis has done for them.

- . Ts year has been the greatest of all for Clothe-A-Child. When shopping ended yesterday 2045. children had been clothed, and Jndianapolis had given more than ever beforé to this cause. ~___ 'There-isn’t space here to give credit to all the people v-i-« the -unions,-lodges, clubs, individuals and- drganizations +« + Who have done this. Nor space, probably, anywhere, enough to tell what the doing of it means to this city of ours. The Times is proud and happy to have served as your agent in what you have done . . . to have been the link between you who wanted to help and those who needed your help. ‘We can't thank you for this’. . . but 2045 happy children can. . .. In the true spirit of the One who said: “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these . . . ye have done it unto Me.”

"Read it, Mr. President

PRESIDENT TRUMAN was asked, at his news conference this week, whether he had read the recent report of the Committee for Economic Development on “the threats to our national security and individual freedom.” He replied that he had not read it and did not know “what the CED was talking about. : We hope Mr. Truman will find an early opportunity to. read that report. It asserts that our national security program, at present, is neither efficient nor in balance. It warns that “security bought at the cost of destroying our system of individual liberties or our free economy would be selfdefeating **

"And it proposes definite measures to avoid that danger,

~ of the National Security Resources Board be clarified and developed” and that the President promptly appoint. a fylltime chairman of the board.

THE BOARD has now heen without 2 “full-time chair. man since Dec. 15, 1948—Mr. Truman's selection for that post, Mon Wallgren, having been turned down by the Senate. The CED is a non-partisan national organization of © progressive business men. It was established during ’the "war, with Paul G. Hoffman as its first chairman, to encour- ' age business planning for high post-war employment. It has served this country well, and its thoughtful opinions on a subject of utmost importance deserve careful consideration by the American people. - Their President, -atpecially, should know what the CED ix talking sbaut, Ly * pt ay It's All Free | t id DENYING a soldier Jnjages because an Army doctor who operated on him left a towel in the incision, a Fed: - eral Court at Richmond, Va., ruled in part: ~ [“Congress has long had in mind the peculiar dangers to which the military man is exposed, and has accordingly made elaborate provisions for pay and allowances and rei oo hai dng Congo dn _..-1n this one of the ig Sangey Cougrem had in

+ js characteristic of the man; now is 42, coming from the ebullient Alex it -

"port of the durable Frank M.

DEAR BOSS . By Dan Kidney

Come Sore Of Senate hig

~~ Expresses Confidence of

Victory in Indiana Next Year WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—Dear Boss: “There is nothing more magnificent. to watch than a Scotchman on the make.” That line describing John 8hand, hero of James M. Barrie's play “What Every Woman Knows,” flashed into my mind when I bade Alex

Campbell goodby and casually asked when he

would be back in Washington, “I'll'be back on Jan. 3, 1951, to take my seat as U. 8. Senator from Indiana,” he answered promptly and with great gusto, Somehow I was not surprised. Such.modesty And although he

sounds more boyish than brash. He leaves you with the net impression that he may be, expressing a fact Alex is a great Hoosier confide nce man-—— confidence in-himselr that is.

Worst Kept Secret ANOTHER example of this confidence’ was demonstrated when the White House released his Justice Department letter last Tuesday and thus made official the worst kept political secret in Indiana and Washington, viz, Campbell is a senatorial candidate. Not only did Alex talk like he already isthe Democratic nominee, but he even nemed his Republican opponent—8en, Homer E. Capehart. Both must face party conventions

Since Sen. Capehart is equally as confident,

Mr. Campbell may be entirely right Nevertheless, nominating oneself and opponent also does seem a bit daring even for this young man on the flying trapeze of Indiana politics Accompanied by the charming Mrs. Campbel) and their 10-year-6ld son, Tom, Alex hurried

“home to, make goort-on these running broad

statements. The .family Christmas card shows three camels following the star and carries

. facsimile signatures of Alex, Eleanor and Tom

with the legend “The Campbells are coming to bring you the season's greetings.”

No Wise Men SO FAR as the 1950 nomination and eléction Is concerned, Mr, Campbell talks as though he already had arrived. The card doesn't show any wise men riding on Alex, although he claims support ot all past chairmen of the Democratic State Committee. And he long has been listed as having the supMcHale, Democratic National Committeeman. and Frank McKinney, prominent Indianapolis banker and président of the Pittsburgh Pirates. two very politically wise men. Another politically wise man, President Truman, gave the-Campbell family a personal sendoff by seeing them in his White House office the first day he came back from Florida. Tom presented him with a necktie for Christmas. The President tied it around his finger, reminding them that he was once a haberdasher even if it n't take.

White House Souvenir HE TOLD them that it was a pleasure to have someone call to give him something rather than just ask for something. Then he gave Tom ,one of those White House souvenir pens, which he will always cherish, even if it refuses to write. He got another, that does function, from Associate Justice Tom Clark, who brought Mr.: Campbell here from the U, 8. district attorneyship in northern Indiana last year and made him Assistant Attorney General in charge of the criminal division. When Mr. Clark, then Attorney General, was promoted to the Supreme Court and Sen. J. Howard McGrath (D. R., 1.) took over the Attorney Generalship, Mr. Campbel' already was running for the Senate as hard as he could under the circumstances. | He“was handicapped by the fact that former U. 8. Sen. Samuel D. Jackson was back in Indiana doing the same thing and they both come from Ft. Wayne. Disinterested Democrats say that the ideal candidate would be a. man with -Mr. Jackson's senatorial abilit yand Mr. Campbell's s stumping affability. The prize description of the latter was that of Ed Heinke of The Times who said: “Alex never met a stranger.”

High Praise

In accepting his-resignation both the Presi-

dent and Atty. Gen. McGrath had nigh praise:

for Mr. Campbell's services here, him nice letters to prove it. For the present, Mr Campbell will make his

They gave

~preconvention campaign from Indfanspolls wnd

oy Wayne, with no cflicial headquarters in either city.

That he really will get around is assured by"

the heavy schedule of trial runs he already has made throughout the state. . There is a story that Alex likes to tell about himself and his former boss, Justice Clark. The latter was asked “How long has Alex Campbell been running for the Senate” — The politically wise man from Texas drawled: “Why; all his life, I guess.”

* NATION'S RESOURCES . . . By Jim G. Lucas

Water Survey Asked

WASHINGTON,

Water, he said, is planning.” :

New York City Is facing )

‘deep through withered leaves;

.among these choice fruits.in a bowl,

Dec. 24—Dr. John R. Steelman, acting cBairman of the National Security Resources Board, has asked the nation's 48 governors for an immediate survey—"If they have not already done so”—of our water supplies, “of major importance in civil defense

CENTURY OF POWER

ie out, Oh Blessed Star

‘promise of the dawn, Glad tidings send afar, Christ ihe Lords born

By Marquis Childs

Dickens’ Christmas Description

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—No writer ever has equalled Charles Dickens in the description. of the rich, warm aburdance that characterized Britain's great century of peace and power. It evokes the sights and sounds and, above all, the smells, fragrant and spicy, of the Christmas season. ’ There are those wonderful passages in Dickens’ immortal “Christmas Carol” in which he lavishes his affection on the good things that adorn the Christmas shops. * “There were,” Dickens wrote, “great, round pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic opulence.” _ “There were ruddy, brown-faced, broadgirthed Spanish onions, shining in the fatness of their growth like Spanish friars and winking

"from their shelves in wanton slyness at the

girls as they went by, and glanced demurely at the huggup mistletoe. .

Blooming Pyramids

‘were pears and apples clustered high in blooming pyramids; there were bunches of grapes, made in the shopkeepers’ benevolence, to dangle from conspictious hooks, that people's mouths might water gratis as they passed; there were piles of filberts, mossy and brown, recalling in their fragrance ancient walks among the woods; and pleasant shufflings anklethere were Norfolk biffins, squat and swarthy setting off the yellow of the oranges and the lemons, and, in the great compactness. of their juicy persons, urgently entreating and beseeching to be carried home in paper bags and eaten after dinner. “The very gold and silver fish, set forth though members of a dull and stagnant-blooded race. appeared to know that there was something going on; and, to a fish, went gasping round and round their little world in slow and passionless excitement.” With a kind of poetic exuberance Dickens goes on to celebrate the raising, the almonds, the sticks of” ‘ctnamon and-the-other spices,” “the

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

Once again the wreaths and holly And the pine trees all alight, Signal Yuletide's season jolly; Christmas time so gay and bright So let's dedicate this jingle To a day of joy and fun. In the words of old Kris Kringle: MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE! 3 Sa

Enough Rope

candied fruit so caked and spotfed with molten _ sugar as to make the col est lookers-on feel faint and subsequently bilious Even S8crooge’'s poor clerk, Bob Cratchit, could afford a goose for his family. And what a glowing -account Dickens gives of that goose and of the small plum pudding which came on after it. To one recently in austere, post-war Britain this has a strange and almost incredible sound. It is sometimes hard to realize that England of another day stood for all that was comfortable

, and opulent and proud.

Reversal of Mighty SOME Americans seem to take a curious satisfaction out of the-reversal éf fortune that has come to John Bull's island. They seem actually to get a certain pleasure out of the fall of the mighty. You may call this just plain or gardenvariety human nature, tied up with envy and resentment. After all, the pride was often arrogance and the opulence was too frequently.

embroidered with a childish snobbism. To-carry

off power and success is almost as hard as to live down failure. But before we take too 'much satisfaction from the coméiipparnce of the high and mighty across the sed, it might be well to remember how much has come from there. It is not merely the outward signs of our greatest feast day. The century of Dickens was for the most part a century of solid peace and what our grandfathers and great-grandfathers liked to call progess. The industrial revolution was taken in the stride of British democracy. The example to the world was one of peaceful evolution toward a more decent and equitable order of society. To get really full satisfaction out of the plight of poor old England, you can put all the blame on socialism and the Labor party. 1 think it's quite possible that the same people who voted 'n the Socialists may next year vote them out again. and with just as little bloodshed and violence.

-- Doubtful Program

THE Tories. ihen can try to engineer a counter-revolition, Whether they can bring back the rich ease and comfort of that other day is most doubtful. No Tories that I talked to in a recent visit believed that such a miracle would come to pass. However passionately . Tory they might be, they were too realistic for that. The clock cannot he turned back tq the triumphant years. But this does not mean that we must spurn and despise the lessons of those years. # .

Hoosier Farum

‘ship.—Mayor

| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say [

‘Time for Riders to Revolt’ By A. Housewife. | \ > To the PSC and Harry Reid; | : Bo we get a second so-called emergency increase in five months! It js the sixth increase in ‘four years. Same old story—financial loss. Where are you going ta stop? High time for: the riders to revolt and do their shopping in their own neighborhoods. Thanks to Mr. Steckler and’ Walter Jones for their wasted effort in the PRL Interest. , / Confusion on Socialism’ By M. 0., Crawfordsville, Ind.

Since the Capehart-Jacobs debate in making

. “socialism” a public subject, it seems as hard

for uninformed people to find a straight-jacket definition for socialism as for.democracy. Cone fusion is partly due to the fact that most all true information on the subject has had to be

" bootlegged. In respect to teaching economic and

social history, our educational system is a flop. Names adopted by political groups seldom mean much except to uninformed people. Jeffer« son was first anti-Federalist, next Republican, and finally Democrat. Washington was a sort

of hybrid though claimed by the Federalists,

Lincoln was first a Whig and later Repub lican. Grant was first a Democrat and so on down to Hank Wallace. : The original Socialist Party in the U. 8. tor a short time was “Social-Democrat.” I beliéve the first split-off was the Soctaliss-La abor” group. When a group enters the political field it is hard to prevent infiltration of ;ail.shades of beliefs including enemy secret agents. Some students of Socialist classics get the idea that the ultimate purpose of Marxian socialism was the establishment of an industrial system of productién and distribution entirely for use, in place/of the existing systems of pro-

“duction for pfofit, with a minimum of inter-

ference with the privilege of personal selfexpression and self-discipline. / Government ownership, goyernment controls, democratic management, farmer-labor co-oper-atives, seizure of industriés by workers, dic--tatorship of the proletariat, etc., are mere trademark names of means and methods toward the ultimate purpose. Apy of them may easily be turned into antithesis ff the ultimate purpose. Hitler and Mussolini did nothing toward abolition of capitalism ifn Germany and Italy. But they did revive and bolster it up considerably. The New Deal saved American capitalism. In studying higtorical Socialist works, it should be borne in mind that many vocations of today were unknown a century ago. When Marx and Engels issued their “Manifesto” (1848) the proletariat, or labor class of Europe, consisted mostiy_of manual laborers in shops, factories and shipyards and peasant farmers not far removed from-ald feudalistic conditions, Farming was crude and inefficient. from military and maritime en. manus facturing consisted mainly of & oe living essentials. Also, it should be borne in mind that sur. gery and medicine were not available f poorer proletarians. They just got along wi

out doctors. Perhaps in that respect they were

foftunate. | Too many people in our time seem to think that good health is something manufactured by doctors and hospitals. They seem to think ‘that old-age disabilities can be postponed and fayed by costly insurance Policies instead of healthful living habits.

What Others Say

UNLESS théy (the doctors) are willing to #it down and help work out a sound program of health insurance, they will get legislation they won't care for a bit.—Sen. Wayne Morse (R) Oregon. > oo 0 OUR local government here is not a democracy. It-could be called a benevolent dictator. David McDonald ef Richland, Wash, atomic production center. ee © @ UNLESS we can find the spiritual power to match and master that materialistic threat (from Russia), all of our hard-won spiritual heritage may be destroyed.—Wallace E. Bennett, president of National Association of Manufacturers. eo TIME is quickly coming when sterilization of fhe unfit will have to be essential in our social organization.—Rt. Rev. Ernest William Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham, England, . @ THEY. Buropesns) seem to think we have the Midas touch, and if we don't convert things into gold for them, it will be because we are selfish and want them to be underlings.—Sen. A. W. Robertson (D) Virginia. * oo

THE time has come for the American businessman to stop worrying about what somebody is going to do to him and start telling all and sundry what the businessman does for the entire community and how he does it betten than anybody else.—L. W. Graaskamp, vice president, American Can Co.

YULE CHEER FADES . . . By Ludwell Denny

comfort.

Friction is increasing in all

u. S.-British Friction

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—The good cheer of the Christmas season is not reflected in Anglo-American relations. Misunderstandings are bedeviling the two close friends just at the time their firm alliance is most essential for mutual benefit and world peace. reo rae of these conflicts-alone can strain the friendship. But g- . they are piling up too fast for

countries at/ the moment contribute to this,

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Aside |

One highly important recommendation is “that the ro e

the worst water crisis in its systems. “including considerahistory. Los Angeles, Chicago, tion of potential reserve supMilwaukee, Peoria, ‘Phoenix Plies.” and El Paso have had the Other studies recommended same tfouble. Arizona and were (1) means of communiTexas are critically short of cation when normal means walter. | i are disrupted, (2) street and In event of war, air raids on highway systems, including our reservoirs might bring suf- , alternate routes and their

fering to millions. ~ ~ ~ , IT was Dr. Steelman's second letter to the governors since a White House announceiment the Russians have an atdm bomb. In his first, he promised that Uncle 8am would let them know what kind of war to-prepare against and occasionally make recommendations. He stressed, howwver, that civil defense is es-

sentially a matter for states -_

and cities. In his second letter, he told the governors that much eivil defense planning must stil)

“await information and guid-}

ance on technical matters.” He assured them the board's rts are “working constantly." He also notéd that there is some planning which can be started without waiting for Washington. | » » »y SO FAR, he said, we can ohly guess the amount of materials, manpower, equipment and supplies “needed to operate a civil defense program in

states and cities in time of’

war.” _But the board urges, he said. thint- governors and mayors Srange to for studies of exist-

ony ths nicossary

adaptability to evacuation, (3) means of transportation such as bus, truck, automobile, water, trolley car and subway, (4) emergency shelters for evacuees, (5) hospitals and

first aid facilities, and (7) manpoyer, ” ” ' IN .EACH A he

asked for an inventory of resources now’ in use as well as those In reserve and standby; a statement on the ability of existing and reserve resources to satisfy current and anticipated needs; a study of the availability of substitutes; conservation, and piling of additional reserves. “Effective (civil defense) planning must consider the question of mutual aid between communities within a state and between states,” he said.

. 's LEGISLATION may be required to make mutual aid agreements practicable. It is recommended, therefore, that state ‘and "local civil .defense groups. , . consider the re-

“moval of such barrfers|to ine

trastate. mutual ald agree ments and interstate pacts as are found to exist. “It would be helpful if state governments. would consider the need for, and provision of,

the stock-.

interstate mutual aid pacts and convey to the board their views and the results of such interstaté conferences as may

_be held to discuss the subject.”

. " ” ” + DR. STEELMAN sent each governor a copy of the atomic energy commission's report on “the city of Washington and

an atomic bomb attack.” Al-

though it deals only with the capital, he pointed out that “its principles apply to other large cities.” . hi Warne the governors!

he mistake of défense “pri-

not to mukethinking of cf marily in terms of an aWinle ¥ disaster.” “True readiness’ “Involved measures with all types of potential

he sald. to cope

enemy attacks, including conventional bombing and baeteridlogical and chemical warfare. This all-inclusive planning is being considered by all the agencies of the federal government which have responsibilities in the civil de

Sense planning prograin” {osy

multiply.

three fields — political, pomi¢ and military. » » ”

POLICIES toward China and Germany are involved. Interpretations of the Marshail Plan and Britain's attitude toward European economic integration are sore points. So is the British dual price system, British cuts in Amerfcan oil. purchases, and Amerfcan tariffs. There are disputes on Britain's atomic role, or on- her obligations in r¥turn for U. arms under the Atlantic Sac . » » THE hopeful aspect is that no basic issue of principle or purpose divides the two countries. Each is sincerely committed to gollective security through

““the United Nations and re-

gional pacts, Each is working for democratic solution, © of international Each be~ lleves that political co-opera-tion, economic betterment and military preparedness are essential elements of a secure peace, . » » BUT this very unity of pur. pose has produced a kind of

-_everconfidence. #

Mutual friendship has Fi to" be taken for granted so completely that conflicts, which would. be curbed ander Ha

nary’ circumstances, lessly allowed oh a conditions ia both

8 crackdown British stalling.

IN Britain the government is entering a pre-election campaign. Ministers under such circum-

‘stances tend to pander to na-

tionalistic than

rather needs,

pressures v International

Wherever possible they poste |

pone decisions which might be politically embarrassing. And a country in such desperate financial condition as Britain today is almost forced

to drive hard bargains and.

grasp at questionable interna.

tional devices in the struggle + for survival.. :

unsuccessful effort to ignore

the revival of German nationalism, have made it supersensitive to other but comparable stupidities of its London ally. On. the economic side the need for budget cuts coincides with the end of the Mafshall Plan honeymoon, enceuraging

" .. AS a result the momentary mood ih Washingtqn and London is mutually less sympatifetic than it should be. Meth-

ods ‘are becoming abrupt and

rigid, magnifying disagreement, when a "more flexible spirit of compromise on means

$99i4 SAvaucy th agreed ends,

attitude toward

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