Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1950 — Page 14

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Julietta’s Phantom Steaks FOR the week of October 14, 1950, Marion County paid 7 Vogel Market $568.12 for 1490 pounds of meat for Julietta. ; Shy SET fo That was in addition to more than 1000 pounds of

and slaughtered on the county farm. More than four pounds of meat, that week, for every person who ate at Julietta. ary That same week Times writer Bob Bourne worked, disguised as a tramp, at Julietta. He helped prepare and serve the food. He took careful notes of every meal. That week Julietta inmates had “meat” five times. Three times it was a tiny scrap of sausage for each. Two times it was one small wiener for each. The county paid for four pounds. Julietta inmates got less than half a pound.

< % o » » - ” SUPERINTENDENT BARRETT says “typical’ week's orders and bills. Bills paid by the county auditor indicate that it was... that purchases-and charges normally run around that figure week after week. Ample evidence exists that the meals inmates got that week were typical, too. Mush and spinach and green bean © soup . . . thin gravy and turnips and prunes. Almost . . . but not quite . . : every day a thin slice of bologna, or a tiny scrap of sausage, or occasionally one little wiener. Inmates and employees by the score can testify to that diet . . . week after week, month after month. Official records of Julietta, and official records of the “Marion County auditor, reveal that Marion County has paid for some 50 tons of meat for Julietta so far this year . .. nearly five pounds for every person there for every week . .. far above the national average meat consumption of about three pounds a week. : Where does it go?. - Either it vanishes from Julietta . . . or it never gets to Julietta at all. : . The bills for it get to the county auditor, though, and are cleared and paid by him. : Why does the Julietta management feel it necessary to post, each week, a “menu” of good, nourishing meals . . . none of which ever appears on a Julietta table? > un = x 8 =» BOTH the prosecutor and the prosecutor-elect have promised searching investigation of the shocking conditions at Julietta. : : i This mystery of the missing meat seems to us like a fine place to start. : How it gets on the records . .. and not on the tables. . Two thousand pounds of meat a week is a lot of meat «.. and a lot of money . . . to just vanish into thin air. The Elections... and “Isolationism” WE SEE by yesterday’sgpaper that our indefatigable = ~columnist,-Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, has been hearing a lot of talk about last week's election, and has reached the conclusion that it was unquestionably a “trend toward isolationism.” : Well, of course, we don't know just who she's been hearing, but that isn't the impression we get around here.

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: kf 2 » wl J = # INDIANA, voter for voter, turned down about as many Democratic candidates as anybody, last Tuesday, in what amounted pretty clearly to a referendum on the _ policies of the Truman administration. : - They expressed some rather strong dissatisfaction with those policies, both foreign and domestic. None of it seemed -to us much like “isolationism” though. a : They were against the policy under which Mr. Truman - and Gen. Marshall and Mr. Acheson isolated us from China, our ‘war-time ally and traditional friend, and let a hostile * Communist dictator take over. They were against the policy-Mr.-Acheson-kept-repeating-on-into-last spring that we were all “isolationist”. as far as Korea was concerned, and, which théy seemed to believe encouraged Communist aggression there. They were against the policy he still - keeps repeating that we're ‘“isolationists” in regard to. Formosa, where the only armed friends we've got in Asia have their bac®= against the wall, and our administration doesn’t seem to care. = SE A SE

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“THEY didn't. like ‘our “isolationist” policies toward Spain either, on which Congress and the President so plainly disagrée.. Not that they. like Franco, especially, but he seems to have the best anti-Communist army in. Europe, and he wants to be on our side .". . and he's really“a ‘good “deal easier to swallow than Tito, at that. : : We all supported the Marshall plan, even when we felt -the same job could have been done better hy a better plan. We're all strong for the Atlantic Treaty, for mutual selfdefense against Communist terrorists. We do believe it ought to be. mutual, though. We doubt if we've got the men or the guns or the resources - to defend a country against communism that isn't willing to lift a hand in its own defense. We sort of feel they. ought to do something for themselves, along with our help. That was the basis on which most of our candidates for office ran, here in Indiana. Not whether we ought to co-operate with other free nations for world peace and order . . . but how. : So there wasn't any discernible “trend toward isolationism” in Indiana. Rather the contrary, it seemed to us. . It’s hardly an issue, any more, in 1950. . - Nor even a very good name to call a voter who disagrees with you. . ~ i Ill Wind Department JN New York City, just as we have long suspected, it's damned if you do and damned if you don't. During a water of last winter and spring, the city saved like eased a serious situation. It now develops. that $2.5 million in loss of revenues from the con-

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PHONE, TV TROUBLES . .

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. By Frederick C. Othman

What Got Into That Ameche?

WASHINGTON, Nov, 14—It is not for me fo comment on the merit§ of the telephone strike; what concerns me is the telephone, itself. Ever since Don Ameche invented this instrument some years ago 1 have worried about what he wrought. Once it almost killed me. The trouble - with my telephone is that it nearly always rings in the middle of the night, with an editor on the other end of the line saying that my stuff doesn’t scan. When I worked in Los Angeles there was a particularly longwinded editor on . the late night desk of the United Press. He phoned one

came out on that screen was a leer. obvious, in addition, that I was toothless.

dreary 3 a.m.’ —-I-staggered out of bed;-sat down on a chair by the phone and made like I was listening to his complaint. He droned on. I shut my eyes to ‘rest em from the light. Then I fell asleep, toppied off the chair, and knocked myself out when niy head hit the floor. The crash awakened my bride, who discovered that my face was blue. * She thought I was a goner. The years pasfed, with me struggling vainly

against my thralldom to the telephone and its

outgrowth, the radio. Then came television. If Mr. Ameche hadn't perfected the phone, there would have been no coaxial cable and hence no TV. This brings us up to last Tuesday night. .. James Crossley, the managing editor of the . Columbus Citizen, in a misguided moment asked me (via long distance telephone) to appear in’ Ohio as one of four television commentators on the subject of what turned out later to be Sen. Bob Taft's re-election, :

= My, Crossley lined up this quartette of deep!

thinkers at a green baize table. He had little cardboard signs bearing our names in front of us, The experts trained two television cameras.

Commie Speeches Fire North Korea

STE THE Conpmanises oid residents of North

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leaders

. Howard McGrath.

elvil- War Dy. MmAarcAINg ...... This. was revealed today in copies of speeches made by Red :

found by investigators, blamed "Ameri-

It’s No Fun Being Toothless

Fach of thése behemoths carried its own spotlight to shine in our eyes. And then I discovered a horrid thing. On a shelf in front of us, out of camera range, was a television set tuned in on our program. We could watch ourselves perform. This should not happen to a dog. I blame it on the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Toothless Leer

I SAW that my hair was mussed and my tie was awry. I opened my mouth to smile in’ kindly fashion at the unseen audience and what It. was

My face seemed a little more squashed in than usual and there was the master of ceremonies (who was observing on the screen that he was no beauty, himself) asking me what I thought about the situation. ; “Uh,” I began, watching my lips part across the teeth that remained invisible. I shut my éyes, “Keep 'em open,” hissed the producer from off side. | 2 : Eventually it was 4a. m. Sen. Taft long since had been elected, but there were the four talkers, still talking. The television screen now indicated that I was drunk. This, I swear, was not true. All I consumed that evening was a cup of coffee and two sandwiches: one pork, the other cheese. : The temptation was overwhelming to look the camera in its glassy eye and say, you fools, shut the blame thing off and go to bed. Then I got to pondering the fact that the citizens of Ohio are extremely intelligent.

. They'd snapped off the switches on their TV

sets long ago and there I was, talking to an audience of one, namely: me, ?

What Others Say—

WITHIN our own country the real peril lies not in what the Cammunists are capable of doing to us, but in what, through fear and hysteria, we are likely te” do to ourselves in meeting the threat.—Attorney General J.

“oe

__1 FEEL that our boys need our ‘support and

it is no more than right that we. (women): get in there and give them a hand.—Mrs. Harriet

- A Hampstead, 43-year-old grandmother.

“steel industry.

be. This airport could be one of the greatest in the country if proper buildings were provided for the handling of freight express and passenger traffic. : . < * 4 & IF COL. ROETTGER were given the proper support. this airfield would really grow. You now have six passenger and freight lines with headquarters here, and more would come if space were provided. The colonel has already brought the port out of thé red and could do more if given proper support. 3 Why not give Col. Roettger your full cooperation and support in his fight to give Indianapolis the really modern airport that’ it needs and must have.

[] By Theo. B. Marshall, 1114 Tecumseh St. that we have some constructive

Our foreign’ policy was loudly censured by the Republicans, much of their criticism going back to the acts of the late President Roosevelt, Of course we can, in the light of present day knowledge, see Roosevelt's mistakes. Condemning these mistakes does not help present: day conditions. What we need is clear cut action that will lighten the burden and strengthen the freedom of America for Americans’ now. : It would be well if our Congressmen would whisper in the ear of their members that the citizens are getting tired of depriving their children of some of the good things of life in order to increase the living standards of the people of other countries, who could if they would raise their own standard of living. They have only to refuse to .pay tribute to royalty, aristocracy and the landed geniry of their lands to raise their own standard of Hving. SE The billions of dollars we take from the pockets of our own people to raise the standard ' of living for this people, as we are told, serves but one purpose, to keep the same old bunch’ of rulers in power, :

RFC CLEAN-UP . .. By Earl Richert

Harber Swings a

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14—An old hand at sweeping -out banks is giving the nation’s biggest lending agency, the Reconstruction Finance Corp.. one of ‘the best vaculim-cleaning jobs the Capital has seen in many a day. ; W. Elmer Harber, a blunt-spoken, millionaire country banker from .Shawnee, Okla., who

_ -8tarted his career as a bank janitor, has been

chairman of the RFC for one month. And here's what's happened: : A resolution has been passed by the RFC board preventing borrowers from hiring RFC lending officials for two years after the granting of the loan, or during the time the loan is in effect. (The RFC has been severely eriti--. cized in recent years because several lending officials took high-paying jobs with companies receiving RFC loans.) :

Interest Rate Hike

INTEREST rates have been raised from four to five per cent in order to put the RFC’s business loan department on a paying basis. Fees _ are to be charged on all loan applications. And administrative expenses are to be trimmed by $5 million a year. : Mr. Harber is out to restore the RFC from the position of {ll-repute into which it has fallen in recent years. : “My idea of the RFC,” he says, “is that it is a business organization and shouldn’t be operated at a loss. It shouldn't have to be subsidized by the taxpayers.” The RFC has been making money on its lending operations, But a deficit of nearly $6 million loomed because of the transfer of the profitable home-mortgage buying branch to the Federal Housing Agency and the repayment

Mean Broom

of some large loans, such as the $91 million loan to Henry Kaiser. : Hence, the decision to raise interest rates and trim administration expenses drastically. “I'm not going to say we won't make some bad loans,” Mr, Harber said. “Any fellow who tells you he's going to loan money and not: going to lose any is just a damned liar. He's not even honest. And, the bigger the bank, the bigger the losses.” . The new, 58-year-old RFC chairman sees one big difference between his new job and his old one of running the American National Bank at Shawnee.

A Matter of Degree

“AT HOME,” he said, “I could tell every day just what I've accomplished. Here I can't tell for sure whether I've got the job done or not.. “But as far as loaning money goes, there's no difference, except in amounts. I know about loaning money.” (The RFC has the authority

* to lend over $1 billion dollars to business which

can’t qualify for loans from private banks.) Mr. Harber was one of three new directors ‘appointed by President Truman several weeks ago in a major shake-up of the RFC board. The shake-up followed an investigation of RFC policies by a Senate subcommittee headed by Sen. J. William Fulbright (D. Ark.). Mr. Harber and the two other new directors have not yet beer confirmed by the Senate. One

. man charged that Mr. Harber made hin pay

usurious interest rates on a bank loan. Mr. Harber says he is ready to answer that charge, if the Senate wants to hear him. f .. And he has met another criticism by resigning his post as Democratic national committeeman from Oklahoma.

STEEL PRODUCTION PROBLEMS . . . By Robert Taylor

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 14—The frenzied days of World War II are almost back again in the The picture comes complete with constant pressure for more and more production, buyers

pleading for more supplies, Washington issuing needs 11,650,000 _ directives and allocations.

The flashy gent with the big ~~, cigar is back again. He'll promise. to get steel in the grey market-—at a considerable advance in price, of course. But he isn’t doing too well. Steel production is at record heights—far above the peak of World War II. Capacity of the industry now is 101.564,000 tons a year and last week the industry operated at 102.4 per cent of capacity. And that isn’t enough. More than 10 per cent of the output of Pittsburgh mills is going - for defense orders or to allocated uses. That cuts down the steel for civilians, just at the time the demand is described as “tremendous.” The civilian buyer has his work cut out for him. His share of the steel supply is shrinking and ‘he must get as much as he can to keep his plant working and his customers pacified:

_ So, he’s back Tn the same old whirl, pleading

for steel and figuring out how to get a. priority. The steel-for-defense program isn’t biting hard on ciwilian. industry yet. But it will next

year—and that's what the steel ‘industry and its customers are working on now.

Have

wheels.

~~ LAKE SUCCESS Nov. 14—0n.ihe slipp -to-do—about Russian and “Chinese Communist "Korea, the United Nations Security ‘Council is still spinning its

Man With the Big Cigar Is Back

The National Production Authority (NPA) thus far has ordered 930,000 tons of steel for freight car builders in the first three months of 1851. There'll be more directives—for barges and pipelines. The oil industry alone says it tons in 1951, and it's complain- - ing about grey market prices in Texas. Small users want allocations for steel warehouses.

Rush Expansion Plans

A LOT of the increased steel supply earmarked for defense must be taken away from someone else. That's the big headache for steel buyers. NPA tried to ease some of the pressure by banning construction of amusement places, but that doesn't help greafly—steel is a factor in practically every business. ; Steel producers are rushing their expansion plans, on which they've already spent huge amounts. U. 8. Steel worked out a way of

getting higher yields from the same ;furnaces,; =

to add 1.6 million tons a year. Jones & Laugh- - lin, fourth largest producer, has spent $167 million and will"spend. another $130 million. All major producers are expanding.

The grey market isn't as flourishing as it

‘was in post-war days. All steel sales contracts

‘now carry a prohibition ‘against re-sale ‘of the steel for other uses. to keep it ouf of the grey market. A buyer who is caught diverting steel may lose his place on the order. books of the -

_producer—and that’s too big a risk these days.

. The shortage isn’t temporary. It-hasn’'t been for the past 10 years and nobody is predicting when a buyer's market might develop.

"HOT WORDS . . . By Jerry Thorp SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith KOREA... . By Clyde Farnsworth Soviets, Chinese Reds

UN on Hot Spot =

uestion of what — intervention in .

Two weeks after a powerful Red invasion that could easily -

wins —

Ge

One of the speeches,

can itmperialiats’’ for instigating the war ‘and selling. the traitorous Syngman Rhee

president of South Korea, to the country.

This speech was delivered at.

Pyongyang ‘by: Gen. Kim 11 Sung. premier of North Korea. Gen. ‘Kim, who adopted the

name of a famed Korean patriot for propaganda purposes, now is believed ‘to be in Man ria io In his speech, the Red leader claimed: ‘American {mperial-

ists ruthlessly intervened. in the internal affairs of our country with the obvious intention of carrying out their aggressive marauding plan for Korea.

“It is proved that the war FE , dnd -other traitors.

was unleashed in.our country by the traitorous Syngman

Rhee gang and has been under, preparation. for a long time at

direct command of American

fhmperialists and under direct

supervision of the American military advisory Seoul.”

group in

The propaganda address’

charged that “American im-

perialists practiced colonial /

slavery education in South Korea.” And: that they “marred the cultural tradition of our nation by transplanting decadent .Yankee stvie culture.” r a wo FROM THE first day. that Amer -tfoops ‘arrived in Korea -in 1945, Gen. Kim laimed, “they persistently pur-well-mapped plans . to A

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"tinued.

colonize the nation and trans--form all Koreans into slaves.”

During these five ,years.” the speech read, “American imperialists have set up a

‘terrorist police system in the southern half of our fatherland with intervention of pro-

Japanese nattonal traitors and

all other eleC ments.’

They suppressed and drove

reactionary

“underground all patriotic dem- =

ocratic political parties and social * organizations,” ‘he. con“and massacred huhdreds of thousands of prominent patriots of our fatherland through their ‘lackeys, Syngman Rhee,

“American imperialists -attempted to hide their act of aggression behind the illegal decision of, the United Nations Security Council,” the propa-

ganda blast said. The decision:

was labeled as “deceitfulness of which can see through.” » ” »

FARLIER, success of the

. North Korean troops ‘was said

to be “due to the fact.they are not fighting for American dol-

“lors or enslavement of other .

nations; but because Koreans refuse to again become colo nial slaves.” > > Gen. Kim also credited the

° “international ' sympathy and

support” of the Soviet Union,

_ Peoples Republic _ of.

imprisoned and.

even a small child:

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"| don't care what they wear . o£ other people's democracies and

peace-loving * peoples of the

world.

A parenthentical phrase, in-

the copy of the this = point, read

serted in speech at

“applause continues long.” 5 : Kim condluded with - this heavy propaganda burst:

Gen.

* “Long live: the people of the great Soviet Union, -our. liber-

"ator And Generalissimo Stalin, -

its great leader, the benefactor.

: of the liberation of our nation

on ‘television!

«PR. 1950 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. TM: REG. U 8. PAT. OFF.

You'll catch cold!

and the dearest friend to the Korean people.” : The Korean who read the speech to me observed that “much talking by many sides

* has helped muddle our minds.

“You see,” he said, “I've been

liberated threé times_-first by “Americans

in 1945, then by Communists last * June and now by United Nations. I shake hands with everyone. I never know who, will liberate

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liquidate the ‘United Nations near-victory in Korea and start

© World War III, the Security

Council by its actions has produced only these negative clarifications: ’ ONE: Nothing the United Nations -can” do is alter the ventriloquist dummy relationship between Moscow and Peking. : TWO: The Chinese Reds will not answer Gen. MacArthur's specifications on their invasion’ of Northern Korea. THREE: If given a chance, ‘the. Chinese delegation invited for a discussion of Peking's charges of “American aggression” in Formosa, will use the council privilege to accuse the United States of aggression also in Korea.

——FOUR:+—The-threat of-an-al-—-

out Red offensive in Northern Korea is a gun pointed at the United Nations to force a Mos-

likely to -

that far to prevent them, are questions still begging for answers. - 4 The puppet role of Peking has been’ brought into sharp focus by its ‘week-end spurning of the Security Council's invitation that a representative

. of that regime “be present dur-

ing: discussions” of Gen. MacArthur's report. = = * 5 INSTEAD, Peking announced the imminent departure of a delegation .to appear before the council on the Formosa charge and proposed that it speak not only on the “complaint of armed aggression on Formosa” but also “the accusation against armed intervention in Korea by. the United States, government.”

cow-Peking “solution” — in gn : other words, United Nations Peking's messages followed < abandonment of not only the broad outline of

Korea to Communist control. .

: Swe. THE FIRST thing the Reds

seem to want—Chinese and.

Russian-—is a propoganda picnic at Lake Success while continuing to hold the whip-hand in Manchuria and Kotea. But behind ‘that is. their desire to have Korea. BE

Whether they will be willing

to open World War ITI to get

it, and whether the United Na-

"tions would be willing to go

die

previous Sovief maneuvers in

. the United Nations, but also . exactly echoed phrases of Rus-

sian Delegate Malik's attacks last week oh Gen. MacArthur's report as “one-sided” and “ma-

.licious.” :

Malik: (and now Peking® said the “so-called United Na tions’ command” in Korea was illegally constituted last June

‘by the Security Council during

‘the “absence” of two permanent members—Russia and the

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