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City With a Heart | NDIANAPOLIS is a big town . . . and getting bigger. . But not so big . .. and we hope it never is . . . that a . child's need isn't everybody's concern. ~~ A week ago there didn't seem to be much future for _ little Jerry Dunaway. Jerry has leukemia . . ever been found. The finest medical skill and treatment had - failed to halt the inexorable progress. Death was near . , . and hovering nearer every day.« «Then Jerry's father saw a news story tinsensational routine sort of stores we print so often of discoveries in science , . . about 2 a new ¥ Tedicine doctors believed might hold some hope: : He asked The Times about it. We found the medicine was available only one place in the world .. . New York City. It was so new that only three patients had ever had it. It was so scarce that treatment __eould be given only as enough of it could be accumulated. It was costly , . . and Jerry's long illness already had exhausted his family's modest resources. Last Friday noon we learned that enough was on hand in New York to treat Jerry. His physician here approved. The chance couldn't wait. Swift arrangements followed. Everybody we met helped clear the way. Four hours later we'd put Jerry and his mother on the plane for New York
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PUBLICITY about Jerry's “chance to live” brought to light another leukemia victim in Indianapolis « + » Tyrone Diggin. . - There were the same problems there that had to be met . for Jerry . . . scarce medicine, hospital facilities, and, most “of all, money, But the way had been paved. There was never, really, any doubt Tyrone would get his chance, too. Not in Indianapolis.
Yesterday the Indianapolis Variety Club... a lot of
rone's costly trip and treatment, and he, too, was off to New York . . . and his “one chance” for life. ~ Even in New York Hoosiers still rallied to help. Folks ~~ who used to call Indiana home . . . important people in New _ York, many of them . . . stood in line to give their blood this week in case Jerry needed any . . . and Times Writer Donna Mikels had a long waiting list of donors ready for Tyrone, too, when he got to town. ~ # » ~ ” . “DOCTORS who give ‘thé tréatment are grave i. and hey promise nothing. Up to now no victim of leukemia has ever been cured. All they can offer is the record . . . the three children treated so far have left the hospital “improved” . . . It is many months too soon to know if they'll get well again. But it was the only chance there was. And Indianapolis saw that they got it.
~ proud to be associated with a group like the Indianapolis Variety Club which so unhesitatingly came forward to help Tyrone get his chance, too. And we're proud to know that the hopes and the prayers . . . and the help if they need it. . . of this whole great city go with these two boys in their fight for life.
Wasteful GI Education
THE ‘government has been spending $2.5 billion a year for education of ex-servicemen. - : <—How-many-millions-of that -cutlay are being wasted on vocational or trade schools of questionable worth cannot be estimated. But some insight is afforded by a recent re..port of Veterans Administrator Carl R.Gray Jr...
DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kic
° asked to obtain the views of
. a disease for which no cure has °
big-hearted theater folks . . . furnished the cash for Ty--
We're proud to be part of a comminity like that, We're
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Hoosiers Push GOP Principles
Indiana Leaders Take Big Part in Policy Draft
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8-Dear Boss: Ii was
Sen. William E. Jenner (R. Ind.) who got Indiana National Committeeman Ralph Gates to.
get a resolution through the Republican Na-
tional Committee asking thaf a statement of policy for the 1950 campaign be drafted and approved. That was at the 1949 National Committee meeting when Rep. Hugh D. Scott Jr. (R., Mass.) was succeeded in the national chairmanship by Guy Gabrielson. It took months before the business of carrying out that resolution got under way. But at last the House and Senate set up committees to do 80. Btate organizations were
party workers and the 19 Republican governors were polled. Although he had pioneered with the idea, Sen. Jenner wasn't named on the Senate Policy . Drafting Committee, Nevertheless, he worked with Sen. Kenneth 8. Wherry (R. Neb.), minority leader, and is credited with getting Sen. Arthur
Sen. Jenner
H. Vandenberg (R. Mich.) and his Republican , one of those
Foreign Relations Committee-
final statement’s sharp eriticism of administration foreign policy. 4 This represents . the. “nationalist,” as opposed to “the “internationalist” viewpoint, of which Ben. Jenner long has
ponent. The statement, as approved, does. say, ‘We favor full -support of the United Nations and the improvement of its charter #0 that it may be an effective international or-
Mr. Gates
ganization of independent states prepared to.
mobilize public opinion and the armed forces of the world against aggression.” That eliminates the charge of “isolationism” as a “smear word” used against Midwestern Repuhlicans who largely are credited with having their way throughout the text.
Draft Approved
. REP. CHARLES A, HALLECK, Rensselaer, chairmaned the three-member drafting committee in the House. Rep, Cecil Harden, Covington,
- Indiana national committeewoman, was named
to the 21-member House Committee approving the draft before it was submitted to the party ‘caucus, It met with almost immediate approval. At the Senate caucus, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R. Mass.) objected to the phrasing: “The major domestic issue today is Hberty against socialism.” Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.), who de-
bated Rep. Andrew Jacobs (D. Ind.) on that-
subject back in Indiana, stood up for it and when a vote was taken he beat Sen. Lodge. So all of the Hoosiers got into the act. The
rogram as approved by the Senate and House
bh mien to "go along” with fhe
been the most outspoken pro-
pi Republicans and the National Committee fairly *
represents the 1950 thinking of Republican Party leaders in Indiana,
Lasting Peace’
THE introduction, which was. dressed up by
famous fiction writer, Clarence Buddington Kelland, Arizona national committeeman, reads: “To win lasting peace, to build a country in “which every citizen may make the” most of his skill, initiative and enterprise, and to hold aloft the inspiring torch of American freedom, opportunity and justice, assuring better and happier life for all our people, we dedicate our efforts and issue this statement of principles and objectives supplementing the Republican platform of 1948.
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“We shall not passively defend the principles
stated here, but shall fight for them with all the vigor with which our forefathers fought to establish what we now seek to advance and
_perpetuate—human A i b er t y and dividual
ty. “We pledge that n all we will advocate and in all that we will perform the first test shall be: Does this conduct enlarge and strengthen or does it undermine and lessen human liberty and individual dignity?” Surely that is a preamble to which no objectorr oan be sustained. —
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By Andrew Tully
More Social Security Forecast
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 — Expansion of the nation’s Social Security system is considered a certainty, but it won't be an overnight job, Advocates of increased benefits were jubilant when the Senate Finance Committee hearings on the House-approved bill got off to an early we Start Jan, 17. But now there's little hope the committee can report out the bill until midMarch, at the earliest. The proposed legislation has captured the interest of professional -and amateur alike—the committee already has had re-
the requests are still coming in at the rate of 15 to 20 a day. Hearings already are scheduled through this month and Sen. Walter F. George (D.Ga.),
“the committees chairman, hasn't ever considered ji
setting a closing date. Favorable Senate action seems a certainty, since the House passed the bill by an overwhelming 333-to-14 vote, and the Senate always has been more liberal than the House on social welfare legislation, Moreover, this is an election year, with every politician anxious to Bet his foot in the voter’s door. Certainly, the measure has all the cards stacked in its favor. Besides the support of the average worker, it -also has won the backing of traditionally conservative management.
~The explanation 18” simple—a majority of in-*"
dustry pensions now in force include ‘Social Security benefits, If those benefits, financed jointly by employer and employee, were increased, the remaining amount df the pension,
met wholly by the employer, would be proportio tonately Feduced, ”
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WINTER FROLIC
On a day like this. when clouds hang low, The children look forward to winter's big snow’; Their skates are sharpened, and their sleds . stand by As they Wisttully watch the unbending sky. “Then midst shrieks and shouts Out to their play, in winter's big snow,
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quests from more than 200 persons who want to testify, and ©
They would bring the total number of persons covered to 46 million,
Increased 70 Per Cent
BENEFITS for persons now retired would be increased. about 70 per cent by the House. bill.
Benefits for single persons now range from $10 . 10 $45 a month, with the average just under $26.
They would be increased to from $25 to $64 a month, with the average $44. Benefits for an average retired worker and his wife now range from $15 to $67.50, with the average $41. They would be raised to around $75. A widow now receiving $30 a month would get $45. For persons retiring after enactment of the measure, the benefits would be ed on a new - formula, approximately doubling the
* amounta now payable. Thus, the average for a
single person would jump to between $50 and
$55 a month and for a married couple to about
$100. In addition, the limit ‘on payments when
both. man and. wife are entitled to the federal . _
pensions, would ‘be. raised from $85 a month to $150. - To finance this liberalized program, the tax would be applied to the first $3600 of annual earnings, instead of the first $3000, as at present. The rate would increase from 11; per cent this year to 2 per cent in 1951; 214 per cent in 1960; 3 per cent in 1965, and 3% per cent in 1970.
Not Satisfied
ALTHOUGH the pending bill calls for substantial increases, some administration Senators are not completely satisfied with it and it’ Bos? sible the Senate will make the law more gene Dr. Francis Townsend, originator of the frst of many pension plans born in depression days, recently told the committee his plan would “stimulate the national economy” since it would require the pensioners to spend each month's
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In tase of the overwhelining evidence rl about us where thousands have won against the. odds, Mr. Casey still thinks there is discrimina-" tion in “equal opportunity” because of 00, auch
Surely Mr. Casey will-have to face some, cold
hard facts, for apparently he is seeing life;
through dark glasses, or he may. have false theories over from youthful hardship, Shakespeare said: “Nothing is Recah 9 or bad, thinking makes it so.” Opportunity is always knocking, but she. does. not climb the back stairs and kick the door in where there is nobody home to leave a basket of gold nuggets on the table. Usually misfortune “is only fortune in disguise. Mr. Casey says he sold papers at the age. of 10. At9 I had a paper route for the Indianapolis ; Sun, which is now The Times. Casey carried . ‘water for 75 cents a day, while I pitched hay for, neighbors 10 to 12 hours for 50 cents a day. He worked at a coal tipple eight hours for $1.06. Irode a bicycle 20 miles and worked 10 hours for $1. So you see we started at the same scrateh, Still I feel incompetent to advise Mr. Casey. He should go to the library and ask for a little book, “The Winning Fight” by Herbert Kauffman. In this he gives 10 rules for success. Some of them are: “A short day's work makes my “face long; give me-more than- I= -expect- -and I'll pay you more than you expect; if you're worth correcting, you're worth hoeping.-1 gout, waste icking specks out of rotien He oy ak will show Mr. Casey that he and every other honest workman has equal opportunities if they grasp them. . >
‘Some Old Things Good’ .
By R. Byers, City “I refer to The Times editorial on "our tite moded, 162-year old ‘electoral ' college system.™ . ‘Now I know you didn't mean it in this senss but such wording is likely to further mislead the many unthinking people today who, some how have gotten the idea that anything 162 years old is no good. Offhand, I can think of the Ten Command. ments which would certainly be good medicine for this sick old world and our system of marriage, which still works pretty well in spite of the-many divorces. -Also our Constitution and our Declaration of Independence. Have We any statesmen today capable of doing a bettér Job?" This American republic was founded more than 162 years ago on certain principles, written and unwritten, and has become the world's greatest nation in standard of living and freedom for the individual. Is that bad? Let's not be in too big a hurry to change these things. Maybe we don’t know what we are doing. It can hardly be called coincidence - that among those who would change everything there are so many that take their orders from® overseas governments who would like to cut us down to their size.
WHAT DO WE NEED IN 1950?
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By Albert G. Berry, Oris Crispus . A Attucks ek School pupil.
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~~ Living in the city o of Tndianapoiis would be more delightful if partisan politics did play such an important part. 1 feel that the present type of city goy ; ‘ment “invites” graft, ow
Mayor-Council type of city government, he cannot be removed very easily until his term ends. 2 : As a plan for improvement © in the kind of city goveshmeént. is the City-Manager type.’ In this form of government, there is an established “check and balance” system. It is com- . posed of a commission of usually five commissioneYs who ~—~are elected bythe people ona nonbasis. These commissioners can be vot: office by the people if they fail to fulfill ‘their obligations. This is- known as “recall” ‘.us! The elected commissioners hire a city man-' ager whose job it is to run the city as #2 big. business.” He can be removed by the the commis, -do-his-job—— :
Mr. Berry
_All legislation passed by the comm
for Bey disability. Workers who become totally and praia.’ nentiy disabled would receive the same benefits as retired workers. This would be the federal government's first entry into the disability annuity field, although New York, California, New Jersey, Rhode Island and We state systems. F The pending bill would extend old-age and survivors’ insurance to about 11 million new . Workers. These include certain classes of non“farm self-employed aersons, of domestic ser__vants, of non
oo profit institution _employees of “public employees and of other specified groups.
now have -
cause I hope that the Frenéh
What Others Say—
IF OUR productive power continues to increase at the same rate it has increased for the past 50 years, our total national production 50 years from now will be nearly four times as Toman,
~much-as-it-is-today. President
IT is my most sincere desire that the internal situation in France may stablize be-
then Yate ‘the Sstablisfment of good relations
government will
be referred to the people. a I read an article in The Times Tecently, about a Marion County judge who was declining to seek renomination because of the politics in the courts. Let’s hope that in the future politics will-not Sie the the chance for so much graft, corruptions, A vice. ARR i “Wake up, Indianapolis! Manager type of government.
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able Hedrtain types WaT: ". : Since the GI bill of rights went into effect in 1944, some 5600 schools below the college level have been set up— obviously not all of them creditable institutions of Jearning. ” ” ”. . a»
- MR. GRAY “cited some" startling examples of ‘the flys
by-night “schools” in the list. business;"
A luggage factory failed in
$2626 spieco-cand at the end of a year billed the Veterans - Administration for $306,000. ; A linoleum-laying school, enrolled 170 students and billed the government for $225, 000-—a 266 per cent.profit to “an enterprise with $8180 assets. Some school owners established dummy corporations through wives or relatives and bought their supplies from these companies at 100 per cent markup. Teachers’ payrolls were found to be padded, in many
stances of abuse of the government's benevolence were innumerable. When the Veterans Administration attempted to crack down, the GI students were pressured by the schools to write their Congressmen. In some cases they were furnished stationery, postage and protest forms. - » » . ". ” MOST OF these new vocational schools will disappear as soon as the education program is finished, in 1956, Mr. Gray believes. Meanwhile—‘“the value and need for such schools is questionable:” It's thelpld story of grasping fingers in the subsidy pie. We see no reason why such scandalous operations cannot be ruthlessly weeded out. ' In addition to the curbs promised by the Veterans Adminstration, we believe Congress should take a hand to stop this waste of the taxpayers’ money.
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A WELL*MANAGED private business employs one per.sonnel officer for every 200 to 250 employees.
J ernment has one personnel officer for every 78 employees: Ls Li some departments the ration i as low as one to 38. he Shere’ 8 room for econo,
DISTORTED VISIONS . . . By Don E. Weaver .
‘Lest We Be Fooled’
“SEEING is believing.” one saying goes. But there's another: = upon’ t let your eyes deceive you,” ; : Whether you're an Alger Hiss, tragically duped by 1 the dis- i us u-school; -enrolled-129- veterans for “forted Visions of 4 Brave new WOFd, oF A ‘Blind nian rr describe an elephant, you can be fooled by misiuterpreting what
your senses seem to tell you.
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith GERMANY . . . By Bruce Biossat
‘We Na Act Firmly ’
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8—Is there any cause for ply ss
"recent merger of two small rightist parties in West Germany? vv:JohiJo-MeCloy, American. high. commissioner: for ~— says no. He declares that the two groups pull little weight 1g y Bonn government. And he’s still optimistic about. the
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schools no attendance records were kept, and other in-
| The Hoover Commission found that the federal gov- .
In the story of the blind men and the elephant, you recall, one grasped ifs tail and said it was like a rope. Another touched its side and thought it was like a wall
Still another felt a leg and ~
said it was like a tree. " .-»
- THERE are {illusions in na-
. ture. There's a stretch of high-
way in ‘Maine where you think you're going down hill, but your car will roll backward if you release the brakes. Now science has taken visual perception out of the
realm of the merely novel and.
amusing. It finds lessons in it for us all. Prof. Hoyt L. Sherman and Dr. Ross ‘L. Mooney of Ohio State University have set up a visual perception laboratory. They show how the eye can “he betrayed, 3 ~ or. YOU look through a peep _hole and see two small white chairs against a dark background, Then you are shown
the interior of the chamber --
from another. angle and discover that the seats of the chairs are white spots painted
on the back wall. What ap-
‘peared to be the leg and backs of the chairs are now mean-
ingless Pieces. 4 of paper strung on fine. thre
You peer ah small aper--tures at lighted objects of uni-
form brightness. Then you find one is a lump of coal, the other “an 88 The intensity of lightfooled you.
‘Things weren't
’ THE lesson in all of this is that past experience may be a
poor guide in forming an opin- 2
ion of new sensations. Training in visual perception is good for artists, and also for economists and politicians.
Most of the world's great
mistakes have been made by putting too much faith in past experience, in trying to stick too closely to what ‘seemed the obvious.
« = = : “THINK of our performance
back in post-war planning. The psychologists worried about readjusting the discharged soldier, while the economists, amateur ‘and professional, planned jobs for him, After VJ-Day some Washington authorities proclaimed there would be six million unemployed by the following spring. How wrong we all were. what they seemed. is :
Take Alger Hiss and the
other young liberals, some of them brilliant - intellectuals, who formed such faulty judgments of the political and sconomic perspective, as they thought' they saw it in the.
Thirties. 0
. - . - OUR Sountry was in a severe depression. capitalist system of free enterprise had obviously’ failed, they thought. - “Sordid competition, our -haphazard’ economics, our groping .social programs, all these:
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idiocy was revived in the earlier
Twenties and then gave it up
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its ‘vicious nature.
teaches us to study well what
we think we see, lest we be * faoled. It ‘can help us appraise glib ey that.
ing’ this or are = = £2 ied some sort of deal With the Rus--
that regime is taking. _ But it’s at least possible that his good spirits are not wholly warranted. Many competent observers of the German scene are definitely disturbed by what they believe is the quickening revival of nationalism there, » » - THE signs are numerous, For one thing, only a last-minute hitch prevented another right-
. ist party from joining the mer-
ger of nationalist radicals. Ob-.
servers think it is only a mat-
ter of time béfore a further pooling of rightist strength occurs. = Not long ago two Bonn cabinet ministers uttered ~ strong
nationalist comment. Their statements now have been of-
ficially repudiated by the Bonn
government, but one may Honestly wonder whether this action may not have been de-
.signed merely to quell risihg
fears over the upsurge of na-
ionalism.
: TRAINED reporters see
West German leaders paying lip service to. the Western Powers, but constantly using the threat of communism to . wring ‘concessions from them
that make the Bonn regime +
stronger. They think this proc ess will continue. Worse, German nationalists ‘sald to be moving toward
hands,
sian Communists. Russia. dons
trolling Bast Germany, Hblis the key to German unity, only the Soviet: Union can store to the Germans their mer territory now in
” . .» FURTHERMORE, West Gery man industrialists, gamblers and opportunists by long tra. dition are eyeing enviously -the vast potential eastern market for German products now ing up for lack of outlets,’ ‘Many are said to be willing to
take a chance on keeping Ger- -
many powerful and independ? -
ent despite a tie with Russia.
Against these lures the
Western Powers can only offer West Germany a place in the Marshall Plan ofbit of European nations. Such a solution implies leaving . Germany - divided for a long time. It will be hard to make this prodpect genuinely attractive.
Iw THE West Germans. are allowed to grow
: strong they may take the bit in
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— CONSTIPA' SAXATIVE tabi demands. Gentle,
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