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A GUY who gets as much kick out of { do stays a bachelor is puzzling at times. But, some guys can't have everything. At least I can watch other people's kids. “Recently I leaned on the “corral” of the Pony Park, across the street from Riverside Amusement Park, and had a barre! of free laughs, Kids and ponies and adults haven't changed much. Sort of comforting, too.

Mechanical rides have their attraction fo the young and old. But I don’t think you can ever replace the pony in a child's mind, with or without Je ienifie impact of Hopalong Cassidy and the res 5

Almost Flipped His Beanie

THERE'S SOMETHING about a pony that lights up a little buckaroo’s eyes. One little fellow ran out of a car and got so excited at the sight of the ponies that he almost flipped his beanie. The boy clapped his hands, jumped up and down and squealed. His mother had a hard time quieting him down. Ah, kids.

Well, she bought a ticket and one of the attendants swung Junior into the saddle and the pony clip-clopped off. The little fellow suddenly decided he didn't want to ride that “fur” from his mammy. With a voice that would have curled the feathers in a Comanche’s headdress, he let go. Mama came on the double,

Tears dried up in a hurry. A big smile appeared. The pony and Mama didn’t wear smiles. Mama wasn’t singing a tender cowpoke's ballad, either.

Giddyap . . . Little Linda Lee Dick, 1147 W. 21st St., is really more excited than she looks.

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slightly son off a pony. He promised him a ride on the choo-choo. Nope. Ferris wheel? Nope. Mama won't | like you for acting this way. Still no success:

father used force. Upsey-daisy, boy. One of the funny sights to watch is when a; child chooses a trotter instead of a walking pony. | Every joint in the body gets loosened as the rider” bumps around. 5 The real little fellows, who occasionally show no emotion at all, are my favorites. Daddy, who probably fancies himself as a great rider, puts his | bronco buster in the saddle. The pony is as gentle and unconcerned as syrup on a flapjack. The! rider sits straight in the saddle. He looks straight ahead, seeing nothing. A clump of grass at the base of a fence post attracts the pony. Okay with the rider. Daddy is almost going silly because he would like to see his boy, a chip off the block, whooping and hollering. He whoops around the house. Come on, Buster, let's go home. “Why doesn’t the horsie look at me, Mama?” asked a small girl “Because he has to see where he is going.” answered her mother. The pony probably could go around the track blindfolded. After a few thousand times, I think! I could gallop blind. 3 When you have about six young riders on the track, brothers and sisters or neighbors, you! usually get the yelling routine. “Hi, Judy.” “Hi Tommy.” “Hey, lookee.” I saw a troop start out on the inner track. The Shetlands didn't bat an eye or increase their| speed. No amount of kicking and pulling seemed 4 to bother them. I asked Stanley Hodges, owner! of the Pony Track, how come. - He said the ponies are trained to walk in the inner track. That's where they earn their alfalfa. No amount of prodding will make them do otherwise.

Second and High Gear

THE PONIES used in the middle track will The man who calls the men, draft director Robinson Hitchcock (inset photo), and a few of the men

trot. The larger ponies .used on the outside track will gallop if started out properly. Of course, you can’t underestimate the intelligence of horses. ' They won't work up a lather needlessly if they can help it. Then you have two or three sad-eyed youngsters up against the fence watching others having fun. Experience has taught you not to be the sport. Pop for a ride for the three and in two minutes you'd have 20 howling at your heels. Besides, the boys I saw who couldn't afford a ride, didn't feel any worse than I did. I would have liked one myself. Thirty-one isn't so old.

Gl Is Individual

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, July 21—Mr. Hanson Baldwin, a military theorist who once graduated from Annapolis at the near-top of his class, has just committed an essay for the Saturday Evening Post which bothers me considerably. The basic tune of Mr. Baldwin's concerto is that the American is not a very good soldier, when contrasted to the German, Jap or Russian, and that American material is not so hot. We win these things largely because we wear down the enemy by force of manpower and production on the home front. So he says. But the individual man, the individual machine, is not much of a buy. I really do not know what Mr. Baldwin is trying to prove, since I am no military theorist, never went to Anrapolis, won neo. decorations outside of area medals, and graduated grateful cum ordinary with the rank of lieutenant, senior grade, after three years of striving abroad.

Stand and Die Rule

MR. BALDWIN seems a little sore at us, in fact, for violating the classic rules of warfare as laid down at Thermopylae, where the soldiers Just stood there and died some thousands of years back. He says the Japs fought to the death, no matter how hopeless the struggle. He says our men fought because they were drafted and had to fight. “They were not cowards in a collective sense,” says Mr. Baldwin, out of his own Valhalla. “They fought for no positive goal, but for a negative :fear bf the opinion of their fellow men.” % The Japs, he says, fought for a Shinto Valhalla -—death in battle meant life in heaven. “The Germans died the death of martyrdom—a Wagnerian end-—to perpetuate 1000 years of Hitlerian rule.” » Perhaps, says Mr. Baldwin, “this deficiency in (our) determination reflects the changing spirit of our nation—the substitution of easy living for a pioneer psychology; the substitution of collective security for individual initiative. Perhaps it reflects the failure of our way of life to dramatize itself in terms of values worth fighting for—our

Historic Words

WASHINGTON, July 21-1 figured that the high noon reading of President Truman's $10 billion war message before the U. 8. Senate was a historic occasion. 80 I arrived early. The elevator operators were taking nobody upstairs except those with tickets, but there were plenty of these, Solemn: citizens clutching their special passes filled every gallery seat in the vast chamber with the gold brocaded walls, the stainless steel ceiling and the Japanese snuff boxes for old-fashioned statesmen. Other hundreds stood against the pink marble wainscoting.

Chaplain Reads Typed Prayer

CHAIRMAN KENNETH McKELLAR (D. Tenn.) of the Appropriations Committee, who stumbled and hurt his leg the other day, limped in five minutes early with his new cane. Reporters immediately surrounded him; after all, he was the fellow who must spend the billions. He didn’t have much to say. The bells clanged at noon; the reporters vanished; the chaplain read his typedout prayer. Eight Senators stood with bowed heads at their desks. When the dominie finished, a few more walked in. So did a messenger in a summer suit from the White House. There was a brilliant blue-white flash. It startled Sen. Kenneth Wherry (R. Neb.) and angrily he jumped to his feet to demand that the Senate enforce it: own rules against being photographed in action. The Veep tried to shush him; said no photo had been taken. “But I saw the flash,” cried the terrible-tempered gentleman from Nebraska. The Veep sald he just saw the reflection of it through the door from the cloakroom, where somebody was having his picture taken. No rules broken. Sen. Wherry subsided. The Vice President announced that he had a message from the President of the United States. He instructed the clerk to read it.

boys fought for blueberry pie and the right to go| home.” Let us dispose of one argument swiftly. When | Mr. Baldwin reflects on the stark heroism of the|

Japs, the Russians, the Germans, he is praising pn,

the epitomes of “collective security,”

ernments have stressed. He is praising a form of | government that ignores the individual stressing the state. He is praising a regiment that reduces the man to a mass. He cannot! therefore, make a case of agcusing the American of “substituting a collective security for individual initiative.” A few paragraphs later, Mr. Baldwin turns! and rends himself with the statement that our|

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discipline was lousy. If this is true, and I think|sters totaled more than 350,000! they get to their camps. it is, it is the outstanding mark of the individual! inductions.

—the negation of the herd-instinct, which Mr. Baldwin prizes. I do not see how we can be! cattle on one hand and rugged individualists on the same page. ; Mr. Baldwin seems a mite wistful because our lads fought for no “Shinto Valhalla” “1000 years of Hitlerian rule,” right to come home. We skip touch, because there will aiw executives in a democracy.

Will to Live vs. Hall of Fame

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walked into a hamburger joint where he worked as a bus boy in Dayton, O., and told his boss:

boy who had worked there only five days, asked:

militia?

which 18 4,4¢t director who has been called Will be trained,” he says. “This, what the modern German, Jap and Russian 8OV-i tha man who calls the men.” Way they will have some knowl-!

while! 1o0tive Service in World War II,| ation pe had the unpleasant—but nec-|

| knocking down ten pins.

Joe khaki suit. ;.

Draft Chief Readies New Call

he called during World War Il.

Hitchcock Is a ‘Natural’ for '‘Regrettable’ Task of Inducting Hoosier Youngsters |

State Adjutant General Got Early Start in Soldiering; Calls Self ‘Pore Li'l Country Boy’

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ In the summer of 1916, a husky kid fresh from the farm

“I'm leaving. I gotta go with my outfit on maneuvers.”

The boss, a trifle perplexed at the actions of the young bus t

“Do you belong to that damn] : You're an awful fool. are “more resourceful” when they That boy was State Adj. Gen. 8° Into combat, | binson Hitchcock, the state! It's refreshing to see that boys t

As Indiana Director of Se-| edge of taking care of themselves.” Comforts Parents For mothers and fathers who| ssary—task of upsetting per. are worried lest their sons be y {upset by the induction process, onal lives like a bowling ball Gen. Hitchcock has a comforting ; | word. Called 350,000 | “We will feed 'em, house 'em His upsets of Hoosier young- and take good care of them until

the Army will take over.” Now he's back at the same old

Gen. Hitchcock knows first- after the welfare of the all-|

At 52, he is inclined to be! He apparently is aware of the heavy set but still with the!

I WILL personally buy me a boy who wants arise from the vast, impersonal stand out in a crowd of men. 4 to get home over any single adversary who is job of making fighting men out He has the trick of relaxing POY trying to get along. bucking for a seat in a nebulous hall of fame, of Hoosiers who weren't raised completely by writing poetry—|

away off in the clouds somewhere. If wishing to to be soldiers,

stay alive in battles is a blotch on the escutcheon | of a good soldier then we will order up a con-| signment of such blotches. Mr. Baldwin is loaded down with strategy, from Genghis Khan to Rommel, but he evidently has had small experience with individuals in a recent war, because he makes sweeping statements with little proof to shore them up. Mr. Baldwin seems infatuated with fanatics who lose the hard way. I like unwilling heroes who win, in order to get back to what Mr. Hanson calls “the weakening virus of work less and mak more.”

By Frederick C. Othman

A young man in horn-rimmed eyeglasses, with hair parted in the middle, stood up with Mr. Tru-| man’s nine-and-a-half-page message, and plowed through it with a singular lack of inspiration. He! probably was thinking about Korea as it affected | himself.

While he read in a near monotone, a Repub- |

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lican Senator studied a New York tabloid news- 3

paper. On the other side of the chamber a Democrat read a local front page, studded with Korean headlines. Most of the other lawgivers followed! the reading closely with their own mimeographed | copies of the President's message. The garishly illuminated room was so quiet that when the clerk turned a page the Senators turned theirs and the rustle of paper sounded like | wind in the autumn leaves. A Senator sneezed and |

the sound of it reverberated under the fluorescent.

chandelier.

Suit Like Boiled Asparagus

WHEN THE- CLERK finished Mr. Truman's statement, Sen. Scott Lucas, of Illinois, the Democratic sachem, stood in a suit the exact shade of boiled asparagus and said all Senators realized the gravity of the situation. He asked them to grant unanimous consent to any of their fellows who wanted to insert material in the Congressional Record.

Sen, Wherry said he would consent to anything except the Foreign Relations Committee report saying unpleasant things about the spy-hunt-ing Sen. Joe MeCarthy (R. Wis.). Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. Ohio) said he objected to relinquishing his right to object,

There was a large rhubarb about that. The Veep got into the act before it was finished. And I should say that the Senate received perhaps Mr. Truman's most important message in its usual stride,

The Quiz Master

??? Test Your Skill 2???

Was the Apostle Peter married? The of St. Matthew describes the healing by Jesus of the mother of Peter's wife, who lay sick of a fever at Peter's house. ¢ © 9

Who is reputed to be the first electrician? Thales, Greek

who lived from 640

Do buffalo still roam wild in the United States? In House Rock Valley, Ariz; is the only roaming herd of wild buffalo in the United States. The herd is protected by the state. > ¢ 9

Does England have a national dog? . All Englishmen refer to the English bulidog as their national dog. :

|jutant general says, “but the st who have the real Dani ea ground voice, Gen. Hitchcock | |deserve the credit are the draft Sounds as if he is commanding men, trained in the ways of warThey're the pick-and- 2 Platoon of men every time hei fare will spell the difference beshovel boys . . . we just do the ad- talks to his personable secre{ministrative work.”

boards.

€| country doesn’t go to war.

mentally and physically alert.”

[“the damn stuff is corny but I| {like it.” i | Military Voice Gifted with a booming parade

Credits Draft Boards , “It's a regrettable job,” the ad-|

| tary, Miss Louise Sachs. |

diers.

350 or 400 boards in the event the world situation critical.”

come about naturally. 3 assistant adjutant general of In- § diana from 1933 until called to {active duty in the fall of 1940 when he became state draft board director. y In 1945 he was appointed assistant legal advisor to the United {States High Commissioner to the!.,1 company of the 31st Infantry! Philippine Islands. On Jan. 10, Regiment. 11949, he became Adjutant GenThen eral of Indiana.

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missioned offi- {Japanese city. Cpl Boger cers ‘school of { Cpl. Boger, who is 21, is with the the 24th Infan- 463d Field Artillery Battalion,

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|in Indianapolis. During the war received in a letter July 1, Pfc.| guson, years Indiana had nearly 320 parks was stationed at Camp Main St, Greenboards turning civilians into sol- Hakato, Kyushu. He has been in field. He is 20

Japan since August, 1949.

Expansion Plans . Now the 89 boards are being

put back on a war footing. Plans 80 are being worked out to expand 33d St,

he organization to a complete becomes “more

Gen. Hitchcock's job as selecive service chief seems to have

Awarded the Legion of Merit

Considering the emotional pres- immediately after the war, Gen. mained together in the U, 8. Navy! Sgt. James BE. McNelis, brothe: :stand with an initial quota of 578 sures and emotional demands of Hitchcock has never professed to more than 1 years. lof ;

young men to be put into a GI his job, as well as all the ad- be more than “just a big farm Ress E., who is 20,-and his Clegg, 237 De- | ministrative detail of looking boy from the country.”

When he revisited his home

or for hand the “racket of soldiering.” Hoosier 38th National Guarditown of Selma with Maj. Allie but mainly for the He slogged through the mud in Division, Gen. Hitchcock seems Boutwell, the state's milit, the “blueberry pie” the Mexican border campaign as equipped with a fortunate tem. erations and public information ays be advertising a boy and was commissioned a perament for it. i | second lieutenant in World War I.

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officer, for the dedication of a new American Legion home, he told his old-time chums who insisted

‘hardships and complications that military bearing that makes him on calling him General:

“I'm just a pore I'll ol’ country

Stresses Preparedness

His special interest for many § |years — outside of piano-playing, {which he just took up for relaxation—was military preparedness.

He is convinced that young

tween a World War III and limit- prother's 25 months, finished his ing the present conflict to a local “hoot” training at Great Lakes,

Gen. Hitchcock, who has a son| Although the Indiana selective front,

+ nearing draft age, thinks the draft} service was almost dumped dur-|

“The training they get,” he says conflict, President Truman's

Hitchcock

Lessons learned from three pretty well

111 “A trained America will make |is good for young men even if the Ing the intervening years between any aggressor fear any further World War .II and the Korean attacks,” he says.

Yesterday he flew to Washing-

in a quiet shout, “makes them latest draft call found Gen.ton for a conference with top in possession of a military leaders. He has made a organized skeleton day-and-night job of running the ¢ = wars has taught Gen. Hitchcock staff headed by Comdr. Louis V. state's military affairs. that young men who are trained) Shackelford of the Navy. in the. intricate, impersonal and!

“Those boys in Korea aren't let- 4 Now in existence are 89 state ting up,” he says. complicated ways of killing men draft boards, four of. which are either.”

“We can't,

Gl Gets Warm Greeting |

‘Why Don’t We Drop Atom Bombs?

® Cicero, Ind, is a typical American town . . . made up of typical good Ameri- . can citizens. ® That's why Edwin, C. Heinke, assistant managing editor of The Times, selected Cicero to learn what good citizens think about the present crisis

in Korea . . . some of | them urge the use of the | A-bomb. !

@® Mr. Heinke gained many | typically All - American impressions about war in this community of 1100 God-fearing, peace-loving | citizens. > | ® Maybe*you won't agree with all of their thinking . « « much of it you might cheer. ® But , , . it's a patriotic report from a typically American town. @® It's a story for EVERY American.

ABOUT THE WAR By Edwin C. Heinke | IN THE SUNDAY TIMES |

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Pfc. Joseph Whitaker, Marietta, O., gets a double from two South Korean youngsters after the Ist Cavalry Division made its successful a i near Pohang, South Korea.

Pastor Urges Patience In Spiritual Gift Quest

Service The Rev. : Nellie Curry, St

Rev. Homer Watkins, Detroit, was spoke on the same program.

EAST SANDWICH, Mass., July.

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Urey Hopes H-Bomb Will Never Be Built

NEW YORK, July 21 (UP)—|

Atomic Scientist Harold C. Urey says he hopes the hydrogen bomb never can be built, but if it is possible, America should know about it. “If the H-bomb cannot be built, 1 want America to find that out, too,” the University of Chicago

Phillips, 35, of Morattico, Va. 'y,

‘Hoosier Heroes—

Battle-Alerted Son

don’t hear from me. I'll be OK.” in the 35th Ini St. | Monday in a let-

= | ter from her son, { Pvt, Charles J.

Allen, with the {Japan for un{35th Infantry {known destina{Division in Juons. Smith { Japan. i ’ "We think {who is 18, said {we'll take the {most of his Co.

{place of the 24th . | Division in Xorea,” it read.

ter in the last two months, the { 19-year-old private went on to say he believed the outfit would go into battle within the week. At the latest reports, the 35th Division was still in Japan.

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Brugos, ; 1842 N. Talbot Ave. is in Japan, Saturday from

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which has been

until recently to

hold back the | He is the son : Korean Com- {of Mr. and Mrs. | munists. Pfc. Parks | Lloyd Whitaker,

[1st Cavalry Division landed Wed-| and nephew of _ nesday. According to latest word, Mrs. Lois Fer-

He was

| HOW CICERO FEELS

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Don't Worry, Writes

By MARION CRANEY | Pfc. James Lee Smith, “Don't worry, mother, if you Parker Ave, is

Mrs. Ollie Sanders, 826 Bates fantry Division. read these {He has written ords of hope

| headquarters in

E troops believed Pfc. Smith | they were bound for Korea.

Cpl. Donald E. Boger, son of

In his only let-. Pvt. Allen

months in Seoul, Korea before he was reassigned to Japan in 1947. Cpl. Boger was ™ leave last |

Pfe. William M. Parks, son of A ‘to

Kyushu, Japan ifor the United | States after 32 {months in the

He was gradlast Deember from poential non-com-

Robert E. Whitaker, U. 8. | Navy, is cruising in the Atlantic theater aboard ge sts {the USS Corry. Bi

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The 25th Infantry Division and Mohawk, Ind, .

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years old. The {USS Corry rePvt. Alfred J. Volz, son of Mr. cently docked at d Mrs. Alfred P. Volz, 95¢ W.| Pensacola, Fla., where his latest reported in a letter re- letter was postmarked. ceived by his parents Monday] Coast Guardsman Jack Maurice that he was in Smith; son of Mrs, June D. Smith, Korea, advancing] = 0 son of Mrs. June toward the fight- D. Smith, ing line. oi Mills Ave, is Pvt. Volz, who taking patt in

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: is 18, was study-| maneuvers to ing in Osaka guard Alaskan (Japan) General] shores : Hospital to be a} == The 21 -yearsurgical techni-| old guardsman

cian when the war broke out.

cutter Hemlock, He is in the medi-|

patrolling in the northern Pacifie. . In service four mt | years, he recently left port at Two sons of Mr. and Mrs. E. H.| Ketchikan, Alaska, where the Edwards, Mooreland, have re CGC Hemlock had docked.

Pvt. Volz

Jack Smith

Mrs, Arthur

brother, Charles E., 19, are serv- troit St. is cur

corresponded Sgt. MeNells with relatives here Wednesday.

Ross Edwards Charles Edwards ing aboard the USS Manchester, a light cruiser. I They were united after Charles, with 23 months of service to his

Pfc. Raymond R., Morgan is in the U.8. Army Signal Corps, Tomiaka, Japan. The son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Morgan, 4921 Hardegan St, he was graduated from Southport High School and entered the Army in August, 1948, After basic training at Ft, on Knox. K¥s he . was select or Pfe. Morgan goal Corps and transferred to Ft. Monmouth, N.J. He left for Yokohama, Ja~ pan, last October. =

Pfc. Billie George Vaughn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Porter Vaughn,! 3335 Marshall St, is in officer training at West Point, N. Y. A member of the 66th Medium Tank Battalion, he received early training at Ft. Knox. Ky., then was shipped to Germany from 4 Ft. Kilmer, N. J., where he served

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BACH EXPERT DIES AKRON, 0, July 21 (UP)— nine months. Dr. Albert Riemenschneider, diThe 2I1-year- rector of the Baldwin-Wallace old private first College Conservatory of Music at

class, who “ a total af three Berea, O, for the last 50 years years of service, returned from and recognized as one of the Germany to Ft. Hood, Tex. for world's foremost authorities on

additional training. From there the music of Bach, died yesterday he went to West Point. iat the age of 71.

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