Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1950 — Page 19

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“What can I do, Bryan?” asked Mr. Geisel, shedding his coat and hat. “I take it we" doing too well.” were not

“Maybe we should change the slogan ‘I'm Winning Because of You' to ‘I'm Not Winning Because of You' on the envelope,” s Mr.

uggested Mr. Geisecl after looking at the, picture of the little polio vie-

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Mr. Karr informed the group that the epidemic fund of the National Foundation is gone. Last year $31 millions were spent. The local chapter had bonds saved for a rainy day. Last summer turned out to be a flood. The bonds were cashed and spent along with the cash. Mr. Geisel was asked by the council to head a

Jan. 30, the 15th anniversary of the March of Dimes. Would he go to the Governor and ask for a proclamation for a special Polio Day? Mr, Geisel said he would do anything. He'd see Mayor Feeney, too. Something has to be done. We listened as Mr, Geisel, a man who spent the major portion of his life in big league baseball, talk about America’s favorite sport and how many youngsters might be denied the chance to participate if America didn’t open her heart again.

Entitled to Walk

“EVERY boy is entitled to the chance to play before 100,000 people. Every youngster is entitled to walk, run and play. I'll help in any way I can, gentlemen.” Reports and plans for stirring up more public interest brought the meeting to a close. As one who tangled with polio, I felt pretty depressed. My| battle was won. Took 14 months but I won, How about those kids who are battling? What about those who go into battle next summer? “I'm Winning Because of You.” Good slogan. Too bad the little girl on the crutches has only the slogan so far.

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Jan. 26—One thing that the midsection of this century has produced in massive supply is intellectual arrogance, a kind of grand delusion which strikes our scientific, governmental and diplomatic bellwethers. Intellectual arrogance is a disease of the individual mind, and is predicated on the belief that a short handful of heavy thinkers know what is best for everybody, everywhere, . The whole past generation of arrpgants, from the politicos to the atom boys to the generals and diplomats and economists, have operated on the smug assumption that only their select group knows what's right and what's wrong for the masses—that’s you and me—and the masses must never, never be let in on the act. Junior must never be afflicted with knowledge, lest he trip and bruise himself on same.

Can’t Do Business With Ruffians

A FLAGRANT type of intellectual arrogance showed its face the other day when David Lilienthal nominated himself 4 candidate to visit Joseph Stalin, for some secret hog-trading over control of the new hydrogen bomb. Mr, Lilienthal is retiring as chief of the Atomic Energy Commission, - He is now reported violently opposed to the manufacture of hydrogen bombs, - The H-bomb's action, as I get it, is roughly like hiring the sun to do your dirty work for you. Appalled at the prospect of a sunburned world, just one big blister, Mr. Lilienthal now wants to go argue the point with Marshal Stalin. The enormous vanity of these deep and cogent thinkers would be amusing if not so pathetic and so dangerous to us back-burner brains. Who in the name of Pete does Mr, Lilienthal think he is, that he can mediate with a cluster of international thugs who have thrived on the double-cross at every turn? ’ On the record, the Russians have lifted our pants everytime we attempted any private business with them, and any time you start to swapping recipes with them you got nothing to win but a bland smile and a picked pocket. If I were Mr. Truman I wouldn't let’ anybody who could spell atom into Russia. Some of our lads in trusted ~places, like the wistful Mr. Hiss, have seemed all

Steel's Sad Plight By Frederick C. Othman

too eager to share the wealth with our happy little Red brethren. Kindergarten children can tell you the impossibility of doing business with a ‘bunch of ruffians on the make, as we learned from the late Mr. Hitler, and more 1atterly the Russians. But awhile back you had the starry-eyed Henry Wallace pleading| for a chance to make all things right between us and the Reds, atomwise. Henry was going over to talk them into burning their blueprints, and we would burn ours right back—and so they popped up with their own bomb two years ahead of sked. This is arrogance, and so was our Marshall policy in China, and so was the State Department action on Formosa. The action of our top military men in scrapping with each other against the public welfare is intellectual arrogance, and the featherheaded prescription of the tame economists is utter arrogance and the voodoo talk of the meddlesome psychiatrists sheer nonsensical arrogance. The arrogant thinkers talk down to you, and meet in private to applaud their own great minds, and then go off and do things in your name without telling you that you are signing the check. They make their lethal mudpies and get tangled in con games with international cardsharps and when the house blows up they yell Migawd what have I done?

Picking Up the Pieces MY QUARREL with this arrogance is that the arrogants are so often wrong, and then it is up to a few lowercase millions to go pull their feet out of the fire. This is sometimes extremely hard on the millions, in taxes, death and privatidn. But the taxes, death and privation only breed more arrogants-to prescribe further futilities that end in bloodshed. It is my private opinion that most of these self-styled leaders are little wiser and just as| confused as you and me, and if that is so I want| in- on their acts before they go off and buy us| all another hunk of trouble. Meantime I would] admire great hunks of truth, instead of outright | lies and double-talk, for we are all big boys and| well able to face the facts of life, however un-| pleasant they be. ‘

WASHINGTON, Jan, 26—Remember back last December when Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming put on his pince-nez and announced that he was calling in the big steel men to explain, if they could, why they'd raised their prices? Well, sir, they finally showed up in the historic caucus room, led by the pink-faced Benjamin Fairless, president 6f the United States Steel Corp., who whipped on his horn-rimmed eyeglasses, adjusted his brown bow tie, and settled a small platoon of vice presidents behind him. Mostly these were solid-looking citizens, grayhaired, and also wearing eyeglasses; in their heads they had all the answers that Mr, Fairless might possibly have forgotten. As far as I could tell, his memory was excellent.

Blames the Pensioners

CERTAINLY, he said, his firm had raised the price of steel when it had to give pensions to its workers. His costs went up; his prices followed. “It was as simple as that,” he said. The Senators and the Representatives shot question after question at him. Mr. Fairless said the rise in steel prices was so small that he didn't believe it would have much effect on the cost of fceboxes and four-door sedans. Automobile prices actually were reduced, he added. That wasn’t the way Rep. Walter B, Huber of Ohio had heard it. He'd just bought a super custom de luxe Ford with automatic overdrive, cigar lighter, and foam rubber seats. This magnificent equipage, he said, had cost him $2000. “I'm just wondering which car prices have come down?” he asked. “Why,” sald Mr, Fairless, “Buicks and CadilHe went on to say that for the last 20 years the stockholders in his firm hadn't been getting all the dividends they deserved. He felt sorry for "em.

The Quiz Master

There are 240,000 shareholders in the steel cor-

poration, he said, and many of them are women. &roup of mothers

Some of them are widows and some get no income the {parent group or a neighborhood covered by light outer clothing.

mother's club—but for one small Here the DP mothers have to re-

whatever, except from Big Steel. “I had a letter from a woman who was one of | your stockholders,” said the gentleman from Wyo-| ming, “and she showed that she had a larger in-| come from Social Security than she did from U. 8S. Steel.”

our dividends are too low.”

The Vice Presidents Talk

HE THEN CALLED on his various vice presi-| dents to explain in detail—they all had lengthy

steel business. When I left they still were talking, confidently. There was no doubt that they knew their business and they agreed to a ‘man that if they were to stay in it, they had to make a profit.

day wore on and my attention wandered to a young man who looked like he might have come from Mars. He turned out to be a photographer, using one of the new repeater flash bulbs developed by

another great corporation, name of General yg |

Electric. He carried a kind of big headlight and with a|

strap over his shoulder a gray box full of bat-|,¢ these meetings last week in the teries. If he'd had a third hand he'd have used|ihdianapolis Hebrew Congrega- t that to snap his camera. Even so, he wandered |tjon Temple, as a part of the around the room, taking photo after photo, each program of the Committee for accompanied by a blinding flash. And no spent gervice to the Foreign Born.

bulbs did he drop for the steel men to crunch mia, the red velvet carpet.

wouldn't have noticed it.

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Has football always been played by teams of 117 When football was first played, games were played with 25, 20, 15 or 11 men on a side by mutual agreement. In 1880, at a football convention, the delegates agreed to a rule galling for 11 players on a side.

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How long has the Rio Grande been the southern boundary of Texas?

) farm management groups. acre. Joseph Bischoff, eis Pg tre. oy Maric in Febru boo vat 1000 feet of standing tim-|tine. / field, O., and Auburn, Ind., Presi+| - " Teetg. Co waa gremiati County, took reserve 4 : 101000 board feet of lumber? .And there's the matter/of cloth-(dent Dallas E. Winslow an-| The South Bend Press Club|Feb, 14—June 13. It will include Roscoe Fraser, Purd: Boutidas 7 of Texas, 'wo to three, - ing. The women who|nounced today. wants to botrow Sigmund “Great|evaluation of national horticulturist, . a : . ¥

to seem unusually bright in daylight?

fluorescent pigments that pick up invisible ultra-| violet waves from the daylight and convert them) into visible rays, These are added to the light re-| flected from the sign in the usual way, Increasing’ the brightness as much 10 to 15 per cent. At night

day—early and late breakfast, : such signs ordinarily do mot show as much of lunch around 3 p. m. and late in Employees Given Cars this effect, since most artificial sources give little ner, They must rearrange their

radiation in the ultraviolet, 2 4.

to discuss the health and well-being of their toddlers.

watched an educational movie on children’s health and eagerly received pamphlets issued by the Federal Security Administration on child care. | —

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sound track of the movie. They/in Indiana’s well-heated schoollistened to an “ " “ same interpreter who had transCertainly,” snapped Mr. Fairless. “We think |, :.4 the Dre and the nutri-|14 tional charts {foreign languages.

typical American mothers. It was linger. The mothers all are being speeches typed out—about the facts of life in the YPN a meeting of women who tutored in English but a great 'hope to become typical American deal of translation still is neces{mothers—Displaced Persons who Sary. have been granted the right to a.»

i in the Their arguments got a little complicated as the png wp their Children 1a

listened. They popped forth conThe meetings to orient the stantly with questions that ” mothers to their new land was ghowed their deep interest in Actress Betty

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. can understand ~what problems This is progress and a boon to the senatorial confront another mother in a| janitors. And maybe it's a good thing the steel strange land. That is the reason|, testimony turned .into statistics; else I probably the Council decided to help orient | total success” by Mrs. Clarence [the newly arrived DP mothers in|Budd, chairman of the home in- = lsuch “little” things.

markets, the most out of unfamiliar canned [of the committee, and Mrs. Alfred and frozen foods, changing ways | Wolfenstein, counc!l president. | of feeding and. clothing children What causes certain printed cardboard signs to conform with customs in this to teach the DP mothers how to Odessa |country—all these are problems make the most of their small, 0. Such signs make use of inks which eontaln which puzzie the newcomers, oe

youngsters How many man-days of labor does it normally meals will fit into the school rou-|Foos Mfg. Co. here, at Spring:

Photos by Henry E. Glesing Jr.

"It's a dog," four-year-old Rosie Kaplan (right) tells Sonja

Davidowitz, 3!/;, and Berry Pakula, 3, as she explains in English a picture-story book. The children looked at ABC books while their DP mothers learned the ABC's of caring for children, American

style.

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Time out for refreshments. Mrs. O. O. Landy serves coffee and cake to Mrs. “Albert Moses, a German DP. Fourteen-month-old Mack Moses (in arms] waits for the milk to come around while four-year-old Peter Moses helps himself to a piece of cake.

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Back to learning. Mrs. Harold Goldberg mothers Mrs. Henry Sobol and Mrs. Leo Sitberstein {seated}. Young William Samuel Silberstein is a Hoosier by a narrow margin—he was born two months after his parents came to Indiana.

They Hear Lectures and See Movies| About People—

On New Ways in Strange Land By DONNA MIKELS IT WAS a group of mothers of preschool age children, gathered

They listened to a lecturer speak on nutrition and child care,

It could have been almost any are helping the DP mothers in Indiana or noticed a tendency to dress chil-

United States—a kindergarten dren in heavy undergarments,

These women did not follow the children don’t become overheated

the rooms and homes. Eleven mothers, bringing their preschool-age , children, atinto a variety of tended the first meeting. They [listened eagerly as Mrs. Harold Goldberg translated the child care lecture prepared by Mrs. Lee Gal-

interpreter,

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THE MOTHERS more than

the idea of the Indianapolis Sec- learning the best ways to take Hutton and her

n, Council of Jewish Women, care of their children. manuf a cturer co-operation with Jewish 80-| ,¢ tne close of the meeting they RUsband, Ted

late refreshments prepared by a Briskin, confer hospitality committee headed by day on a propMrs. O. O. Landey; then collected ®t ¥ settlement heir children who had been play- Paving the way ling in the Jewish Social Service {OT the star's di{playroom with sitter service ar-VOrce action. ranged by Mrs. Leon Adler, Mrs, She will charge |Adler also arranged transporta- CTuelty and seek tion for the mothers and tots, , Custody of her

daughters, LindTh : gaiers, e project was pronounced a say, 3, and Can-

dice, 2.

They held the first of a series

Only a housewife and mother

. |stitute section of the foreign-born Shopping in America’s super- committee; Mrs. Tevie Jacobs and

? Christmas Eve preparing and getting | Mrs. Ervin Perther, co-chairmen Claus pi tor t

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. =» bring the full advantages of their FOR INSTANCE, mothers from Dew land to their children, the some European countries are ac- New land's future citizens. | customed to serving four meals a Meeabiusteaeeammbrom————

schedule, so that, when their (UP)—Bonus automobiles will beg,

start to school their given 210 employees of the Mast-

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an appearance of Sammy Kaye, orchestra leader, who is opening his stage show at the Circle Theater today. Mr. Kaye will lead the Butler band and then will have members of that or ganization visit

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mother today has an answer to

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ter's letter to Santa. » » " Paul T. Ulman, assistant state |entomologist, will speak on *“Disry of Elm Trees” at meeting of the Scientech Club t(Inec.) Mon-| SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Jan. 26/day noon in Hotel Antlers, Henry due Steeg spoke on ‘‘Pre-stressed course of interest to farm superConcrete Structures” at thi s{¥isors

DP Mothers Get First Lesson In American Home And Child Care

Eager to learn the workings of the "kino" (movie picture Wachiae) these European-born mothers crowded around Leon Segal before the showing of a child care film. Left to right are Mrs. Ludwig Hirschberg, native of Germany; Mrs. Wolf Pakula, from Poland; Mrs. Aron Davidand Happiness’ was loaned to the meeting

owitz, Jugoslavian, and Mr. Segal. The film "For Health by the Indiana State Board of Health.

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Legg told home demonstration Lover” Engel, convicted swindler, club members. The proud hen for its gridiron dinner show, promptly laid an egg in her hand, ‘‘Hoaxes of x = #

1950.” The show wrote Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson