Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1950 — Page 18
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Reform for County Home
T=: County Home Superintendents and Matrons Association is composed, as its name would indicate, of the men and women who now are in direct charge of those institutions in Indiana. The December Bulletin of the association, as might be expected, rather heatedly opposes any change in the present method of operation for those homes. * Ome article, for instance, demands; “Why?
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pable of the administration of such institution? + “Is it because the cost is too high? “Is it because inmates are not well cared for?” = - - w ¥ ” © MARION County the answer is “Yes” to every one of these questions. The inmates at Julietta are definitely not well cared for. They don't get enough to eat and what they get is terrible. They live in filth, the most elementary safeguards to their health are ignored, their death rate, already very high, jumped 28 per cent higher in one year. In Marion County the costs definitely are too high. Any cost is too high if it does not provide what it is spent to buy. Julietta’s own records plainly show that Julietta immates do not get what the county pays for . . . such as the 50 tons of meat a year that disappear somehow and never reach Julietta tables. : In Marion County local county government has definitely demonstrated over a long period of years that it is not capable of administering this institution under the existing system. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers’ money have simply vanished in the building and the operation of that institution with nothing to show for them.
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Pplitical appointees draw full-time salaries there while de-
wating full time to private jobs and businesses elsewhere. The waste and the ghastly conditions in which inmates live bfve Sune 4 on unchecked for at least a decade.
WE c's speak for the other 91 county homes in Indiana because we haven't investigated them. We do know
what goes on at Julietta. There should be a basic change
inl its administration and control.
i The association's Bulletin makes much of its own
charge that “welfare officials” are trying “to wrest control of county farms away from the Sommissioners,” 1 in some
f We wouldn't know about that . . . nor indorse it if it were true. + We don’t need a “welfare” or a "social planning” program at Julietta.
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- * We do need ordinary good sound buisinéss methods
under which Marion County will get what it pays for... whether that is much or little.
- Successive boards of County Commissioners have been
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umable to apply those to the conduct of this institution. The legislature should take this control entirely away from the commissioners and place it in the hands of a board of trustees composed of citizens of sound business judgment and plain common sense, who would be chosen without partisan politics and who would serve without pay. It should give this board authority to operate this institution ofl sound business principles, to hire, and if necessary fire, it§ own personnel, to buy the supplies as any other businéss buys its supplies entirely free from the farce of
“Imdding™ on “supply contracts.”
: Such legislative action cleaned up a similar . . . though le§s acute . . . situation at the Sunnyside (County) Heepitsl for Tuberculosis. - It can do the same job for Julietta.
- Wester Powers Firm
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~JFs too early to measure the altiate. e worth of the Tru. .man-Attlee talks in Washington. But one thing they have already proved beyond doubt: Moscow's attempt to split the Western Powers is doomed to failure. . U. 8 correspondents in Europe have hoch" telling v us the break-up of the North Atlantie nations‘was one prime Soviet objective in prodding the Chinese Reds into their Korean offensive. Evidence of this aim comes from Russia itmelf, where recently there was premature shedding of tears (glycerin, of course) over the predicted collapse of the Western Alliance. - * The Kremlin ‘figured that disputes between Britain, France and the United States over how much strength to commit in Korea would cause the falling out. If that could have been gained, it would have been well worth the risk, sifice the vitally important unity of the West in Europe wuld have been destroyed. % Prime Minister Attlee effectively spiked that hope from the moment he landed on American soil. President Truman, his part, was just as much concerned that no crack be to develop in the West's armor. Through the State Department, he made it plain that a rift simply would not countenanced. i
- = = » J] . 8 IT WAS necessary for Attlee to push out of sight some 45 the criticisms his countrymen had been making of the States. This he did, with unhesitating resolution. * It was necessary for the President, too, to soft-pedal American complaints against the British and French. + This n't to suggest that the two heads of state were
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le harmony at every stage. Reports filtering out
their various meetings indicate they spoke out quite y on many Sopies. One may surmise that a healthy the has resulted.
+ “Is it because the local county government is not ca-
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WHERE THERE'S SMOKE .
By Frederick C. Othman
Match Business Is No Lighter
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13—A few days back I wrote a little piece about the cigaret lighter with a pressure tank inside that cooks on gas like a stove. In signing off I said I believed if I were in the match business, I'd be worried. Oops! Now comes my old friend, Stuart Little, who manufactures matches. He and the match industry are worried, all right. They've been worrying about cigaret lighters for 120 years. And selling more matches than ever before. Even if you don’t smoke, or kiss the lips that do, I believe you'll be interested in the explosive lore of cheroot lighting, as reported by Mr. Little, who is one of the few men in all America who never owned a cigaret lighter.
Like '51 Model—Almost
' JOHN WALKER (he said) invented the friction match in 1827, Three years later, while we still were fighting the Injuns, a German scientist named Dobereiner created a mechanical lighter and the match mfanufacturers had their first excuse to fret. : Like the latest, 1951 models I described, Dobereiner’s lighter used gas. He called it the Electroneumatic Fire Producer. Inside his fank
— he -put--diluted -sulphurie-acid “and a chunk of...
zinc, Action of the acid on the metal created hydrogen gas, which was directed in a fine stream upon a platinum sponge, The flame
lasted until the supply of hydrogen was cut off.
The only trouble with the first cigaret lighter was that it weighed 14 pounds. You could carry it, but you couldn't put it in your pocket. Pants as worn in 1830 were so tight, furthermore, that there was no room for pockets. Dobereiner
never took up smoking. Probably a good thing
he didn’t.
FOSTER'S FOLLIES
OGDEN, Utah—The five-cent hamburger is coming back for a one-day stand. The tounder of a chain of hamburger stands will commemorate his opening by using the same price list he postéd in 1937.
We're glad to see hamburgers back at a nickel, Our appetite leaps with a bound. Now, if he’ll just throw in an onion and pickle, We'll eat like a starved mongrel hound.
But perish the thought that be fooling, Let's hope that the tale has real ground. Ye gads, just suppose, when for beef we are drooling, We find he's just horsing around!
WASHINGTON .
the man may
Ten years later, g Little continued, there was another rival tb keep the match industry from getting complacent. This was the instantaneous light box. It consisted of a metal compact of a size small enough to fit even in 1840 pants. It was filled with sulphuric acid. With it came 50 chemically treated slivers of wood. When the tip of a sliver was dipped in the acid and exposed to the air, it burst into flame. The trouble was that the fire box complete cost $2, or four cents per light. The cost was prohibitive, except for the rich.’ “It had another disadvantage,” Mr. Little said. “Sométimes the stopper worked out of the bottle in the pocket, partially cremating 1s owner and creating customer ill will.”
12 Billion Books a Year
SINCE THE cigaret lighters of many varieties have been invented, but the match business keeps getting bigger and bigger. Mr. Little works for the Diamond Match Co., which introduced the give-away book type of matches 55 years ago; they now are made at the rate of 12 billion books a year. That is still not all. The penny book of safety matches was intro-
duced In 1865 and in 1950 it still costs just one
cent. It is, in fact, the last thing in America except a stick of gum, that can be bought today
“for a penny.
One of Mr. Little's copetitors, I hasten to add, is the Universal Match Co.” This firm manufactures as a sideline an electric cigaret lignter which hooks on the steering wheel and delivers to motorists cigarets already aglow. Works fine, too. What Mr. Little thinks about: it, I have no idea.
What Others Say
NOTHING {irritates me more than to know how much I spend for something. I never enjoy a hat as much if I know how much it cost me.—Accountant Ida Broo.
IT was the men out there on the slopes... who won this victory. They died unquestioningly, uncomplainingly. — Gen. Douglas MaecArthur,
PUBLIC life in America is a rough school. It is no place for anyone who is thin-skinned or who can®' work only in an atmosphere of approbation.—Secretary of State Dean Acheson.
WOMEN themselves are extremely conservative about other women. .They still prefer men doctors or lawyers or bosses. —Barnard College President Mrs. Millicent McIntosh.
. By Peter Edson SIDE GLANCES
Three-in-One (Oil?) etn
WASHINGTON. Dec. 13—First press conference meeting of the three-headed team running the new price and wage control program was one for the book. Washington and New York have been flooded with rumors about impending freeze orders
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nently as a political issue.
this bien of homeless children, Baving
been in an orphanage for a period of 12 years, I cannot help but have sympathy for those who are placed in an orphans home or Guardian's home,
whichever you prefer.
It seems to be the general concept of people that children who do not have the advantage of having a home of their own with parents are just a burden that must be taken care of and it doesn’t
make much difference who the persons ‘are or what they stand for.
The general attitude people take toward boys and girls who must be taken care of by others is one of indifference. They fail to look toward the future for these and the effect they will have in the affairs of the world of tomorrow. I know it is almost an impossibility to give them the full privileges that a private home can give, but we should try our best.
1 THINK that it roople in general would use some of the Christian rules of living in dealing with these children we would have less bad stories to print and tell about children in a Guardian's Home, and we would see these children coming into the world after they have reached maturity as better men and women, profiting from their childhood experiences. I don’t imply they would all be better, but the bad would be greatly diminished because we see bad coming from the best of homes. I know it is impossible to show the love in a large group of children that is shown in a family group, but there are other ways of compensating for this loss, a few of which I would like to list. If you know a child is from one of these homes, make a special effort to show that you consider him an equal with other children and -teach your chil-dren-to do the same. If a child makes an error, don't curse and kick him around. Try a little reasoning and see what a few kind words can mean to a homeless child and the peace of mind that you have.
LABOR .
.. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13—Revision of the Taft-Hartley Act, which previously has been blocked by labor-union supporters in Congress, is still blocked—but now by a different line-up.
“Not much chance is seen for revision during
the current session. But Republican leaders may give the matter some attention in conferences soon . after the new Cong meets Jan. 3. Their aim would be to eliminate the question perma-
The Senate in May, 1949, adopted a set of amendments sponsored by Sen, Robert A. Taft (R. 0.). He said they would not disturb the basic principles of equality and fairness between employers and organized labor, but would correct provisions which had appeared to be unfair to unions, . The “Taft amendments” were placed in cold storage by the House Labor Committee, then headed by the late Rep, John Lesinski (D. Mich.), a labor-union supporter, The intention, it has been charged, was to preserve the law intact for maximum political effect against the Republicans who furnished most of its backing. Mr. Lesinski has been succeeded as committee chairman by Rep. Graham Barden (D. N. C.), whe has contrasting views on deferring to labor unions in lawmaking, Mr. Barden has shown no more anxiety than his predecessor to get the Taft amendments
Mr. Taft . +. cooled off
before the House, but his reasons are Siffsront,
By Galbraith
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“the grade. At present I am helping farm
. By Fred Perkins
Taft- Hartley Changes Blocked
. again reply was, “If "are right and good there shouldn't be. be too Fou
EMERGENCY ‘vie By Earl Richert
-Higher Arms Goal
—— WASHINGTON, Dec. 13-=A high administration official foday hinted that new and sharply increased goals for the size of the armed forces would be revealed at the time President
span of life, wl indifferent to church and God, if they
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have been taught when they are young, works the interest will be there when needed. Yision The last part I know to be a fact as pin I was taken from an orphans home at for hin
the age of 5 and lived with a family i :
who were elderly and believed in Christ He to and taught me any ‘things from the Bolen Bible for a period of five years, at which si time the man died and 1 was returned got out to the home and for the next 10 years Jreight, my association with the church was very ooh small. would At 22, T married and started going Mould: to church and have been fairly active —imag . ever since. I accepted Christ and have BEOH W held several offices of the Sunday School | moutht and church as well as being a leader | ge Fy for the young people's group. For this | I Telit 1 I give all the credit to the five years I to help spent with these grand people and their FADA faith in God. a differes ® x90. ing hal I KNOW from experience that when lime these children leave a home of this type well—a they find tough sledding until they have iin adjusted themselves to the outside world. scribe
They have to learn to express themselves in public; they have to learn to meet people, and be able to pick out the good from the bad. I am now 33 and have a boy 10 and one 7 and a little girl, 3. I am not rich in money, but my home more than compensates for that. I have one ambition that as yet I haven't accomplished. That is getting back to rent a farm and start. farming for myself, but I haven't given up hope one of these days I will make
350 acres.
“Two or three of the Taft amendments need careful study,” he says. “Otherwise, I am for them in general. But any time you touch Taft Hartley it is likely to become a major operation, This--short- -is--not-the time to-try-it.” Mr. Barden was reminded that it the House does not adopt the amendments before this Congress ends they would have to be passed by the Senate. His
trouble about that.”
Satisfied With Law?
IT 18 reported, however, that Sen. Taft has cooled off on some of his amendments, which resulted from compromises. And some Republican leaders in the House take the stand that union defeats in the November elections show that the public in general is satisfied with the law as it is. The upshot is that the favoring amendments which the union leaders might have had a year ago are now doubtful. ‘Among the Taft amendments at which Republican leaders are taking a second look are: + Provisions for plant seizures, as well as injunctions against labor unions, to stop “na- | tional emergency” strikes; weakening of the prohibition against “hiring halls,” and with'it } the prohibition of closed shops in which only £ union members may be hired; permission for i employees on strike to vote in collective-bar- | gaining elections; elimination of mandatory injunctions against some forms of secondary boycotts; changing the relationship between the counsel, Labor Relations Board and Its general counse
this past week. So here the three-heads-are-better-than-one were lined up to tell what they knew about it.
‘You couldn't have found three more different men if you had searched the country o'er. They were: Dr. Alan Valentine-~the pro-
fessor——Economic Stabilization - Director.
Medium height and build, in a double breasted oxford gray suit andsa bow tie. Cyrus Ching-—the business-man~-Chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board. Six-foot-six or thereabouts, smoking an old curved-stem pipe, clad in a
+ brown suit with a greenish tie,
Michael! V, DiSalle—the politician—Dirsctor of Price Stabilization. Short, round and dapper looking, a symphony in blue—blue suit, blue tie, blue stripes on his fresh, starched shirt, The setting was a third-floor walk-up conference room in old Temporary E building at the foot of Capitol Hill, It was buiit as a temporary structure for World War 1
” ” . DR. VALENTINE opened the session with a not-too-good story about the Dolly Sisters, whom he identified as dancers in the gays before fan dancers. He politely said the reporters wouldn't be old enough to have
heard of them, but anyway,
after the “Dolly Sisters had been called back to do their dance over and over again, Roszica Dolly finally came
time. There was “Mike” DiSalle who had been on the job ‘as price administrator for only 48 hours, and who had slept a little in that time. As for himself —"You know my limitations.” aoa. DR. VALENTINE said that earlier he had seen Mr. DiSalle going the wrong way to a conference, and “Mike” explained: “I got lost in the corridors.” But he boasted he had been here two days without making a speech. ‘He said later that, “I got one girl Tuesday afternoon. 1 didn’t have a girl Tuesday
- morning.” When’ everybody
laughed, he said he didn’t mean it that way. What he meant was that Chester Bowles--former Price Administrator-—had 3200 people working for him in Washington, 60.000 paid employees out in the country and from 200,000 to 300,000 volunteers. Did the new Price Administrator aspire to that kind of an organization? Fi “No, I do not,” he answered. The first question popped at the triumvirate was, “Are you or aren't you planning a pricewage freeze?
* “be hunted out and exposed.”
‘maximum price controls? Answer—They
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“We found these old clippings where you won a Charleston contest, Mom—will you show us the steps?"
studies. They would keep
own But he didn’t say how. _ ~their minds open. Only after planning for gen- . discussions could they deteror mine the course of action. And much more of the same,
for any even- from Mr. Valentine and Mr
Truman declares a “limited” national emergency. A big speed up in production of tanks, planes, guns and other fighting equipment is regarded as certain. So is expansion of facilities for production of “materials needed in the huge preparedness program, Issuance of ‘a proclamation of national emergency is now regarded as a foregone conclusion.
= » oa THE DECLARATION itself will have little . psychological importance since laws now in effect give the administration practically all the powers needed for military and homefront mobilization. But its issuance is considered necessary to get the support of the American people - for what is coming—stepped
tional emergency also would authorize the President to place the Coast Guard under the Navy, accept gifts of boats i and yachts from private citi zens, restrict the manufacture of explosives, terminate ship charters, suspend the eighte hour day in plants working on defense contracts, etc. All these powers are effective with a state of national emergency.
yy ® 8 THE EMERGENCY declaration would not bring censorship into effect, since there are
up military mobilization and Work for a censorship setup, in price-wage controls. © case one is needed. Announcement of sharply in- It is expected that President
creased goals for-the armed
win services at the ‘same time “limited” his
would, it was said, serve to President Roosseelt declared a dramatize the urgency of the State of “limited” national situation to the people. Pres- emergency shortly after the
ent goal is 2.8 million men. VERY FEW additional pow-
selective service and defense “unlimited” emergency. The production laws, same dormant laws come into Principal legal effect of the effect with
use the word
down to the footlights and said, “Gents, we ain't got no
- more stuff.”
The point of the story was supposed to be that the ESA the new Economic Stabiliza- ) . Agency, didn’t ‘have no but they were,
it was a
read, a 10-point interpretation of the law which
nl ueriaration hat.
raaty, Did they see any need: for ultimate wage-price ceilings? Answer—They didn’t t Know the
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