Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1950 — Page 14
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oe HEALTH. . . By orl Rickert
U.S. May Hunt ‘Wonder’ Drug
Plans Search for New
Plant to Make Cortisone
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28-—The government hopes to help arthritis sufferers. who now must pay about $100 for a single treatment of corti-
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Think for Yourselves
M" ‘HAEL STRAIGHT, national chairman of the American Veterans Committee, accuses the American Legion of “frumiping fp false charges against the Hoover Commisston.” oy The Legion and other veterans’ groups: he says, have * been “hurling insults” at public servants whose sole interest was to make the “terribly inefficient” Veterans Administration more efficient. Mr. Straight is inviting attack by.some redoubtable adiersaries. We know that fromthe vehement protests, offiers. of the Legion and other veterans’ groups have lodged ial in The Times
against a recent editor
" » = = =» ONE such protest asserts that the editorial “demanded « unequivocally” that Congress approve the Hoover CommisJon's proposals as to the Veterans Administration “in full.” it did not do that . It hid state our opinion that the Hoover Commission's at was only to increase efficiency, stop waste, improve wpital. medical, insurance, housing-loan and other servea, and give the veterans fuller value for the tax dollars
pent in their behalf at a current rate of over $6 billion a YVOAr, It did question whether leaders of veterans’ organizations are accurate in charging that the proposals would “destroy and dismember” the Veterans Administration and, in effect, that anybody who supports those proposals is an enemy of the veterans. ~ » r - nu - IT DID, and we now do again, urge veterans to think for themselves—to study the proposals carefully and form their own opinions. We urge Congress to do likewise—to decide the fate of these proposals on the basis of what they actually are and would do, not on the basis of what heated opponents or propongnts say they would do. “We could, of course, be mistaken in our opinion that they would not deprive veterans of any present benefit or service, would not destroy or dismember the Veterans Administration or deprive it of effective control over its present
functions, a." *s = » i JF VETERANS’ organization leaders have sound, factual evidence to support a contrary opinion, it certainly is their right, and their duty, to present such evidence strongly and fully. And, we would add, fairly, for fairness carries conviction and wins converts. Many spokesmen for veterans’ organizations seem to us to be saying that there is no possible merit in the Hoover Commission proposals; that théir whole intent is evil; that anyone who supports them must have disreputable motives, “and that Congress must reject them “in full” or face the wrath of the organized veterans. : That, we think, is not fair argument.
And it is not, to us, convincing argument.
Democracy on Trial
HE crisis in Britain, produced by the near-deadlock of the election, warns that 1950 may be a year of trial and tribulation for the world’s free nations. An abdication of America's moral leadership could make it a year of untold disaster. “The anticipated collapse of the present French government probably will be followed by elections there. But leadership amd cohesion seem to be lacking to give France the strong, ‘unified government she so sadly needs. Greece goes to the polls Mar. 5, with little prospect that any single party will emerge strong enough to stabilize the chaotic political conditions in that country. ~ » » ~ ~ .
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“sone, the kdl "'wonder” drug.
gress for $200,000 to pay for a search for wild plants needed to produce cortisone and to develop these plants for production in “this country. This would lower costs substantially. A department representative in West Africa already is sending back seeds from a vine known to be a source of the drug. It also Is preparing to test a Mexican yam believed to be another source,
May Seek New Plants
BUT department officials say that better plants may be found. If it gets the money, the department first would comb the wild plants of: this country, an official said. Dr. 6, E. Hilbert, chief of the Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry, told the House Appropriations Committee that an intensive effort by government’ agencies would. be necessary if .any significant advance in cortsone production is to be made soon. _The Public Health Service is-asking for about $2 million for use in manufacturing cortisone from the plants found and developed by the Agriculture Department.
Produced From Beef
CORTISONE 18 now produced from beef bile —aeidsbut-t=takes-200-pounds-of ox bile te yield 1% pounds of bile acid. And after 30 to 40 chemical processes, less than 1 per cent of the bile acide is converted Into cortisone. “Even though cattle were slaughtered solely to obtain this drug. there would not be enough cattle in the world to supply the present and potential. demand for this valuable product,” Dr, Hilbert said Cortisone does no! give a permanent cure, the agriculture official said. Relapses almost always occur a week or two after administration of cortisone is stopped.
$100 for One Treatment
THE drug currently is given in daily doses but is 50 rare that a single treatment at present rates may cost $100, Dr. Hilbert said. He said he believed the prospects were good for finding plants which would produce large supplies of the drug and that, in addition to cheapening costs for arthritis sufferers, a new
and valuable crop would be provided for American agriculture.
SALUTE TO MY FLOWER
It only has a cup of earth . From which to gain its power My window little sunshine gives But you're strong, my little flower!
You firmly stand with head held high You never seem to worry, How winter's bleak and chilling winds Across the lawn do scurry.
And dainty blossoms You send forth * Without my even asking With a fragance that could not
be bought And cheer, g
that's everlasting. How can you be so brave, my friend Without complaint or murmur? You don’t have much on which to depend 4 But you grow with such a fervor,
« lesson dear you've taught fo me Though nothing have I here Of worldly goods yet rich am I If other lives I cheer!
—Thelma Sellman, Martinsville, Ind.
ELEMENTS OF LIFE
It isn't that some folk are gifted “Fls-by-suffering- they tearned to live, That Is why. my dear, they are dedicated To the happiness they can give.
They have learned. to battle the elements And have found in all of the bad There was always a mite of good ‘concealed That they might never have had —
If their ship had not sailed the surface Of an ocean with waves a bit wild, But faith and trust and a courageous heart. Go hand in hand, my child.
Anna E. Young, 3547 N. DeQuincy St.
AMITY
There is one cherished flower In my garden of friends, As its fragrance is scattered It all fubtly blends. Into thoughts that are priceless Bathed in memory’s dew. It was plant and cared for In my garden . . . by you!!
Anna E. Young, 3347 N. DeQuincy St.
—THESE-situations;and-others-which may result from them in sensitive and dependent areas, are not calculated to esfhengthen representative government in_its life and death struggle against totalitarianism. . AUnless the United States stands firm through this pe‘riod of uncertainty, the fight could be lost, T y _This "is no time for us to rock the boat. “Marshall Plan aid has two more years to run under. the moral obligation our government assumed when the program wigs launched. Our end of the agreement should be fulfilled to the let- - ter, even though in some minor respects we may have made a bad deal. All of the benefits which have accrued might be lost if the program is seriously curtailed now, or if its conditions are materially changed. The patient is showing signs * of recovery, but a setback could be fatal. 5 ® a ~ ~ ~ TO DE MAND promises to pay in lieu of the outright grants they have been led to expect, from countries which will not be able to pay, would be “immoral,” as Paul G. Hoffman, the ECA administrator, has said. . It would be even more destructive to reduce the ap-+ propriation to a figure which would weaken the governments we have been supporting. Few of them could survive new.strains.
We must not pull the rug from under, our friends when they need us most.
Getting ‘Results
NE ‘bright spot in the Indiana health picture is the reJport of the Indiana Tuberculosis Association. IThe summary for 1949 disclosed that the TB death id in diana dropped more than 13 per cent below the number of fatal cases the previous year. It means that the year-round drive of such health organizations as the TB Association can show results if given public support. ; : : ~ ~ ” » ” - THE encouraging: statistics on the reduced death rate should not be. taken as\-an indication that the fight 1s
about to be won. : {
‘In fact the TB ASitoch lation reports there are 9500 cases of the disease in Indiana. It means that the citizens of Indiana cannot permit- the health drive fo. be. relaxed any time ” the future.
$100 MILLION PRIZE .. . By Clyde Farnsworth
U.S. Aid for Reds?
HONG KONY:, Feb. 28 Having acquired a ready-made air founded. on. the wartime. bounty..of.. now shopping around for American know-how to help handle its $100 million prize, That is what it. would have cost the Chines by authoritative estimate, to amass the aviation assets to which
transport
ANSp System, largely “Americ ah
taxpayers, Red
China is
they have now fallen heirthrough bashfulness of the U, _ 8. State Department and the good offices of the British in reatlocating other people's property. :
tions
- » ~ - A RELIABLE official source, who disapproves of last week's: ‘decision of the Hong Kong Supreme Court conferring two »
which
Department is asking Con-
were reported been sent here, three weeks before the Supreme Court decided -the airlines case; as to crating and shipping of spare ‘parts and other the airlines’ employees were guarding in this British Crown colony.
BRITISH INSECURITY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28--The outcome of the British elections can give almost no one any satisfaction. The net result is that for the better part of this year Great Britain will have an insecure government, suffering from semiparalysis. A few ‘Republicans and some Southern Democrats seem to think this is a situation which can be exploited to push socialism all the way out of the British picture, They are hinting that American aid should be héld back to encourage the Conservatives still further when ‘the jnevitable next election comes up. To undertake anything like
. A #2 ness. It would inject the issue of American aid ahd AmeriMr. Hoffman ‘can partisanship much more sharply into the next contest. This might occur in such a way as to give the Laborites a definite advantage. Administrator Paul. Hoffman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson have asked for $2 billion in ECA aid for the coming fiscal year. Any sizable cut in that amount would be likelv to mean a proportionately greater cut in the allocation for Britain. Britain is not in precisely a robust financial state at the moment. There.are American officials who feel that, on the contrary, the condition is one of considerable delicacy. The patient has begun to improve since devaluation, but convalescence is almost entirely dependent on spoon-feeding from America. To slash the ECA aid by a third or a half would be likely to produce one immediate result—unemployment. In an election to be held in October or early November, the Labor Party could blame that unemployment on the failure of America to live up to a prior commitment. The failures of the government itself would be glossed over. With a healthy majority and a renewed confidence, a Labor government might have set out to cure the suppressed inflation and take off some of the strangling controls even though this might mean a sacrifice of some of the fruits of so-called full employment. A Conservative government with a workable majority of 40 to 60 seats would certainly have undertaken to reverse many of the trends of the past five years.
SIDE GLANCES
Communists,
to have
-equipment turncoat
that would be dangerous busi-.
By Talburt
by MarquisyChilds.
Danger Seen in Cutting U. S. Aid
Now. there can be only a pause until lines are reformed and the voters permitted a brief respite from oratory. The new. election can scarcely be earlier than May or later than November. Urlléss Parliament takes action to revoke it, the act nationalizing the steel industry becomes law on Jan. 1, 1951, If it were not so serious, there would be something almost comic in this spectacle of a great people caught on a knife-edges8f indecision.
Test Vote
ALL the members of both major parties will have to spend most of their time in the House in readiness for a possible test vote. That will be distinctly uncomfortable, since the House chamber holds hardly more than half the total membership even with standees. In at least one constituency, Coventry, so many voters appeared that the ballots were exhausted. Latecomers were told that they could petition the king for a new election because .they were deprived of “the” privilege of voting. The incumbent, Richard Crossman, who has moved from the left wing of the Labor Party to the center, squeezed through. The Conservative ¢tandidate: T. B. Meek, exploded in wrath, saying the government seemed able to find all the paper in the world for ration books but they couldn't find enough for ballots. The Labor government will have to get some agreement on a budget due at the end of March. That will probably be the most that can be achieved before a new trial of strength. In a time of grave uncertainty, Britain will in- effect have no government, Something like the same condition exists in France as a result of the narrow margin by which the Bidault regime has been getting by.
Some Consolation AND here -in Washington, what with the guerrilla warfare waged by some Republicans and the long-standing battle between executive and legislature, we can scarcely say that we have a government capable of coping with the challenge of a divided world. There may be some small consolation in the thought that a democracy can survive without a strong. central government. The habit of responsibility and self-discipline wild carry through. In a dictatorship without a powerful central government, the whole structure goes to smash. But in times like the present, that. is
cold comfort, indeed.” i
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‘Won't Use Coal Again’ By a Reader. For the past 40 years I have been using coal - for fuel. Today I am making a resolution io never again use coal for any purpose whatsoever, even if the price drove to the 1914 level. If the manufacturers of oil stoves and fur. naces can supply the demand for these units dur.” ing 1950 there will be no domestic fmarket for goal—=
If the miners ever need any help they shoul a receive it from the oil companies they have so
- greatly helped replace coal heat with oil.
As a salesman covering four Midwest stateg I have found no present user of coal for heditin who will use coal in the future.
‘Statements Enoneous’ By Dr. Byron N. Lingeman, Craw fordsvillg, Ind, The editorial criticiz. ig} the Federal Council of Churches on its stand favoring ‘extensive uss of taxation Fo" reduce inequalities” is all right except in a couple of statements, You state that “is pure, unalloyed funda. mental socialism.” 1 was under the impression that socialism meant government ownership of factories, banks, railroads, natural resources, etc. To state that because a businessman who pays heavy taxes, does not own his business, is pure nonsense. We have accepted the principle in this country for many years that the fairest tax is one based on ability to pay. Your other statement that, “This means that the man who works, and produces and earns, should be stripped of his earnings by taxes, so what he has will be more nearly equal to what the man has who does not work and produce, -i8 another erroneous statement. The man who works in the grime of the shop produces just as much as the president of the company. The laborer gets from $3000 to $5000 a year while the executive gets from $20,000 to $40,000 a year with good retirement pensions, There is no objection to this except if too much of the national income goes to a few people who cannot begin to. buy the. products of our face tories and farms, then we have a depression. The more I learn of human beings the mors I feel that luck or birth have about as much tn do with success as anything else. It is not ziways the ones with the greatest ability who receive the’ greatest financial man is not always poor because he is lazy.
‘Mail Box Nuisance’ By Joe E. De Lancey Nine-tenths of what I receive in my mails hox I throw away without opening. - The worst offender is the solicitations for magazine subscriptions. The magazine publishers mail out their letters for one cent, but it costs the Amer ican taxpayer five cents to deliver them. My complaint is that my mailbox would not be cluttered up and my waste basket would be. bjg enough. if it wasn't for this-' class” mailing nuisance that the government. subsidizes at taxpayers’ expense, It costs the taxpayer four cents for every piece of this stuff they put in ‘my mailbox against my will, My point is that these “second-class” mails ing demons couldn't afford to operate if the Post ‘Office didn't subsidize four-fifths the cost
‘second-
“of mailing their nuisance material.
Then there's those renewal notices. After I send in my renewal, I continue to get renewal notices for three months. It's cheaper, at one cent a letter; to send out renewal notices than, to check if I have renewed. My mailbox is the goat for this government subsidized. nuisance. One of the large publishers says they can not expect more than one reply out of 300 letters sent out. That is, they expect 299 letters out of every 300 sent out to be thrown in the waste basket unopened. All this foolish waste-
fulness and. nuisance because the Pose Office
subsidizes the racket. If the publisher had to pay the full cost of delivering his propaganda, he couldn't afford to abuse me the way he does,
What Others Say—
WE are grateful for it (Marshall Plan aid) and we are not ashamed of it. We have given assistance to other nations at our own loss and difficulty, and we are not ashamed of that either.—Prime Minister Clement Attlee of Gre ab Britain. _ > NR
SUPPLEMENTING as it purports to do. tha 1948 party platform, it fails to meet the standards provided. in that platform, regardless of intent.—Sen. Irving Ives (R. N. Y.) on 1950 Republican Party platform.
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IT'S a mistake to think you ever can make an agreement with the Communists. philosophy to keep things stirred up. — Gen, Omar Bradley, ¢hairman, joint chiefs of staff, Sn
THERE will be no German army or air force. German security will be best protected by German participation in a closely knit" West European community. U. S. High Comunissioner in Germany John J. McCloy.
By Galbraith DEFENSE OF ARCTIC . .. By Jim G. Lucas
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dered if the United States actually would - “get into it" if Russia ‘attacked over the ArcAmerican reporters assured. him. we would. They said » we were committed. Mr. Munro said that wasn't what
even to themselvés—that It is not ROSS . MUNRO, gegerally conceded to be Canadas top military writer, said -he- won.
“for an airborne ormosa: or to move reinforce-
former Nationalist airlines on the Chinese Reds, said he believed Communist talent scouts were trving here, in Fangkok, Rangoon and possibly the United States to hire American air technicians. He also supposed that British concerns in Hong Kong were preparing ta handle Communist requirements for spare parts and fuel; and he wondered how this .would fit into the proposed $35 million Amertean ECA appropriation to Britain for aircraft parts, So far as he knew, Red agents thus far failed to sign any American pilots for the 71 planes Peking won in the Hong Kong court. But he knew of three American technicians, “and possibly three besides,” who had agreed to werk for
the Reds.
Vu ” HE BELIEVED more exteénsive recruiting was under way. He understood the Communists were offering attractive salaries in foreign currencies. Apart from normal commercial airlifts in China proper, the Communists probably expect to use the transport fleet invasion ‘of
ments or supplies to Communist forces in southeast Asia.
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THERE seems to have been no doubt among the Chinese Communists how the Supreme Court decision would rule on the efforts of Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault and Whiting Willauer, interim purchasers of the airlines’ assets, to have a receiver appointed pending a full-dress ~ourt trial for determination of title. “We hadn't much doubt ourselves,” said one of the lawyers for the two American’ partners, “but we thought the
: court ‘would have the decency
to give us a run for our money and decide the Communists had title only after granting a receivership. We expected them to put more face upon their decision.”
What the Supreme Court ac-
© tually did was to rule that as
of Jan. 6, when Britain recognized the Peking regime, agents of that government (actually the turncoat employees of the airlines) were in physical possession 6f the assets and the Red government and
"the airlines assets therefore
enjoyed “sovereign immunity.” 2 - 3 - ” . TO Chief Justice Sir!Leslie Bertram Gibson it mattered not how the Reds came to be
“in possession of the planes. Nor
did it matter much that at the time of the airline employees’
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desertion on Nov. 10 and until Jan. 6, the Chinese Nationalist government was recognized. by Britain. And during that time the assets had been sold and the planes registered under the U. S. Civil Aeronautics: Authority. oY The Chennault company, a Delaware corporation, has initiated an appeal to the same court ard intends to go next to the British Privy Council. Nationalist:, fighters’ who have been strafing just over
the border probably will be lay-
ing for the big fleet of trans-
ports or will go after them
wherever they set down In China. The State Department's rep-
resentations to London and‘
Hong Kong seem to have drawn the answers that might be expected-—-that this was a judicial] matter and how can His Majesty’s government interfere with the due processes of law? Just what the governor of Hong Kong, Sir Alexander Grantham, had to say to the
- U. 8. Consul General Karl Ran‘kin’s
“vigorous .‘representations” on behalf of Washing-
‘ ton isn't kgown, but it un-
doubtedly was along that line,
CANADA'S war record was a splendid one. She fought as hard as we did--and longer. Her individual GI has never admitted that any soldier is a better man that he. Her Princess Pats, for instance, are among the world's best fighting. men; Americans who have seen them admit they'd stack up well against our marines or paratroops.— But Canada has only 50,000 men in her Army, Air Force. Uncle Sam will em-
ploy that many in maneuvers. in the Caribbean next month.
Canada’s military budget is-a fraction of ours. Farsighted Canadians admit they couldn't defend their northland alone. They don’t plan to. : s » = THE big gap between Can \ ada’s combative spirit and ner “combative tools frequently gets her out on a limb. Canadian newspapermen on this exercise, for instance, are critical of their defense minister, Brooke Claxton. A World War I hero. he
often makes spéeches which ° sound as if he's proposing to ‘defend Canada with Canidian °
troops alone. Mr. Claxton ohviously doesn’t mean that. He's - strong for United States-Ca-
“nadian co-operation. It's just /
that he’s proud of what he has, _and rightly 80,»
‘here whether
Navy: and.
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he meant. He said he fears that the fierce pride of his-owr people -- a pride he shares— would tempt them at least to make a stao at doing it on their own. Mr. Munro said that might be disastrous. But. in the heat of the moment, it might Sess logical. 2 IT COULD ot "be learned ‘the team-work established in Operation-8weet - briar--a slashing- of red tape which lets Canadian Maj. Gen. M. H. 8. Penhale at Edmonton deal directly with tf. 8. Lt. Gen. Stephen J. Chamberlin in Chicago, and vice versa — will continue. Gen. Chamberlin said. - he didn’t know. Neither did Gen. Penhale. Both fell back on the old dodge that they are tactical men concerned only with this maneuver. = » . x AS FOR standardization of arms—allied troops in this maneuver -are using different caliber rifles and can't exchange ammunitions—both sides apparently want it, but each on its terms. There is much talk of conperation and team work—and it is more than idle chatter—up here. Co-operation in the field is real, vital, inspiring. There is rivalry but.it is clean andy
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