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Got Your Driver's License? NUMBER of Indianapolis city employees whose duties require them to drive a motor vehicle were quite indignant yesterday because official state records showed ‘they had no drivers’ licenses. Some of them had a right to be indignant; have licenses and could show them. Some of them could work up only synthetic indignation. They did not have licenses. Several of those rushed in Monday morning to get licenses to drive, after The Times Sunday revealed what the state records showed. A few couldn't get licenses though. Theirs had been revoked or suspended.for cause. Others said their duties for the city do not include driving. We wouldn't know about that. They are offi cially listed. by the heads of their own departments as drivers of city vehicles.
They did
’ » ” : THOSE who did not have licensés were just driving in
violation of the law which applies to city employees, including policemen and firemen the same as it does to everybody else. It is the still undetermined number who Tave valid licenses to drive, but of whom the state has no record, that is significant. The Times has already established that there are some of those . . . though nothing like the proportion that department heads rushing to the defense of their own men, were quick to claim. It is reasonable to assume that whatever that proportion may be, it is about the same for all Marion County motorists. A driver's license is easily lost or mislaid. Thousands of motorists who are legally licensed have been driving for years and have never been called upon to produce a license. Many would have difficulty finding the one they believe they have. : :But a motorist called upon to produce a driver's license is in serious trouble if he can't produce it. If he has a license which he can’t find, his only safeguard is the record of the State Bureau of Motor Vehicles, which shows officially whether he is licensed to drive in Indiana. If is the only proof that he actually has a license. If the official state records do not show that he has one, no court in North America is likely to believe he has. In the case of approximately half the city employees listed by their own departments as drivers of city-owned motor vehicles, the official state records do not show that they have valid licenses to drive.
» » » ~ . ~ WITH a promising campaign of traffic law and safety rule enforcement getting under way in Indianapolis it is doubly important that drivers’ licenses be in order. We suggest that everyone who drives a motor vehicle, ~ whether public or private, check his own driver's license to make sure he has it and can produce it. : If he obtained a license, and now can't find it, "he should check immediately with the state Bureau of Motor Vehicles to make sure he has proof of that, and can get it replaced. “And to those who just don't have drivers’ licenses, of whom the evidence clearly shows there is a substantial number, we suggest that they quit protesting their innocence and go on over and get one.
Silly Partisanship POLITICIANS in Congress should bottle up their partisan speeches and put them on the shelf for a while. We've got to think about Communist aggression and what to do to meet that threat, Sen. Fulbright of Arkansas told the Senate yesterday that, with a narrowed Democratic majority in the new Con-
gress, the Truman administration will need as never before -
thn “sympathetic support” of Republican members.
But, having acknowledged this self-evident fact, the
Al kansas Democrat proceeded to lambaste the Republicans foi: trying to bring about changes in foreign policy by what he described as a campaign of character assassination and methods: smacking of “Nazi totalitarianism.”
~ » » ~ » THAT WAS as foolish as Averell Harriman's preelection charge that Sen. Taft's policies were giving aid and comfort to the Kremlin. Plenty of Republicans, to be sure, have said equally violent and silly things about the Democratic administration and its policies. And the Republicans certainly used Sour judgment when they issued in their party's name a demand that Secretary of State Acheson be fired just as he was leaving to represent the United States at the crucial Brussels Conference on North Atlantic rearmament. . But, with all the important things that need doing, Democrats and Republicans alike shouldn't be wasting time
and keeping destructive animosities alive by hurling verbal
‘brickbats at each other. That's no way to promote unity.
UNITY, of course, doesn't mean blindly following the * blind down wrong roads. Vigorous but constructive criticism is a duty of the party in opposition. And members of the party in power should accept and profit by such criticism without blowing their tops. This country sorely needs sound policies and wise leadership, behind which both parties and all Americans can unite. “The President now has moved a long ave thousli in this newspaper's opinion, not yet far enough—toward advocacy of rearmament and industrial mobilization on a scale that merits united support.
The American Way Ir WAS a rather obscure = that didn't reach the front Mine But to us it ‘was one of the most significant of
It told of a Roumanian woman, arriving by plane in New York. She knew no English, airport attendants knew no Roumanian. She became bewildered and fright-
son In ; he told her.
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Reds And UN Pilots
= TOKYO, Dec. 19—A strange sort of aerial war is being fought along the Yalu-—-the iceclogged river dividing Koréa and © It's a sort of back-alley brawl in which each side tries fo lure the other into its territory. In
effect the United Nations pilots say, “come in - pilots
my yard and I'l} knock you cold. "” Red taunt, “come over heré." The United Nations pilots want to get the Reds deep enough in Korea really to fight. The Reds apparently want to draw us into Manchuria so they can complain to the United Nations. that their boundaries have been violated. It may not stay that kind of war. The Air Force in Washington notes an “increase in enemy air effectiveness and activity.” Some believe the pattern now unfolding may reveal a steadily increasing tempo of air activity. The Reds may try seriously to challenge us in the sky. ; o> TO SOME extent this is borne out by reports from Formosa. The Chinese Nationalist intelligence—which is right far more often than wrong—reports that a combined Russian-Chi-nese air force of two air divisions and three fighter squadrons is just over the border and “can be thrown into action any time.” Meanwhile, the teasing and taunting war
goes on. Day by day it runs something like -
this:
CONGRESS . . . By Charles Lucey -
War Sidetracks Domestic Plan
Military Expansion to Fill Expiring Days of 82d WASHINGTON, Dec. 19—Congress buckled down today to a week of back-breaking work keyed to military expansion with every sign
that the administration's domestic program is on a sidetrack for the duration.
gress will be taken up almost solely with building new armed strength ' and that probably goes just as
new Congress taking office in January. Action will be completed this week on an excess profits tax bill to provide some §3 billion toward the cost of mountains of n e w munitions. The bill has passed the House and will be before
Dean Acheson . + » another problem the Senate. For a tax measure, this has been pushed through in remarkably short time. Coming up for Senate passage also is a $17.8
billion defense appropriation bill. It raises to $42 billion the amount spent on defense for this fiscal year. Congress may ‘act this week on a civil detense bill to protect “life and property in the United States from enemy attack.” The measure is ready for floor action in the Senate and is before the Armed Services Committee in the House. Aid to Yugoslavia to help bolster our European defense line, debate over the position of Secretary of State Dean Acheson and the adequacy of U. 8. foreign policy—-these and. other items on the world front have kept Congress jumping these last few weeks. The pitch in the days ahead will follow ‘much the same line. President Truman in his Friday night speech stressed the importance of a largely pay-as-you-go policy in expanding military strength. That means new and larger tax bills in the next Congress, Whopping new defense programs will be wheeled up to Congress in the new year. Rep. Clarence Cannon (D., Mo.), House Appropriations Committee chairman, said the other day that the $16.8 billion bill passed by the House
Jwas only the beginning of an arms program
that will run to “astronomical heights.”
Lesson in Korea THE Armed Services Committees in the new Congress will be confronted with the need to make policy decisions in a wide range of military fields. ground, air and naval forces may come in the light of lessons learned in Korea. Manpower will be the subject of exhaustive
studies. One of these already is being lined up =
by Sen..Lyndon Johnson's (D. Tex.) Senate War Investigating Subcommittee, It probably will go into universal military service for all
YTnited States youth and utilization of man-
power in the Armed Services. The European economic and military aid program will be re-examined against the background of whatéver agreement comes out of
the Brussels Foreign Ministers Conferencé now.
being attended .by Mr. Acheson. Congress recently has been in an increasingly critical mood over delays in getting an effective Western European army in being. All of this means there will be scaht time to pay much attention to the Fair Deal domestic front objectives in the next session. Whether Congress can wind up its work this week is doubtful. If not it will have to return after..Christmas and earry on almost to the day of the new Congress’ arrival,
SIDE GLANCES
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The Challenge
"EACH OF US SHOULD MEASURE HIS OWN EFFORTS, HIS OWN SACRIFICES, BY THE STANDARD OF OUR HEROIC
MEN IN KOREA.”
» PRESIDENT TRUMAN
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on speed an are waiting. Invariably, however, the home, : The Reds on the other hand try to trick us across the Yalu. Only infrequently do the Red pilots go more than a few miles inside Korea. When they do they fly extremely high. Thus if
By Talburt
- I ALNUATS
CHRISTMAS—1950 .
By Frederick C. Othman
Today’s Hig h-Priced Gifts Make Old-Time Yule Look Good
McLEAN, Va., Dec. 19—After the furnace shuts itself off for the night it's cold out here in the country. Tee on the pond and also on my bride's feet. So I got to thinking that the ideal Christmas present would be a high-necked, long-sleeved nightgown to keep her warm.
W ashington’s shiniest department store, found the negligee d epartment (where the lady shoppers took
and ered) and ordered up such a garment of good quality, The saleslady brought out a beauty. It was’ long and it looked
warm and it seemed to have plenty of lace and’
ribbons in the proper places. I sald wrap it up, please, and how much was it? She said, $57.50. I said, spell that out and she said fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents, plus sales tax. She was not joking. Bo Mrs, not that one, and I don't know what this world's
coming to. It may even be that we'll have to
celebrate Christmas as we did in 1939, when I was so broke that the hole in my pants pocket
didn’t matter. The more I consider the idea, the’
better it seems in topsysturvy 1950, The United Press had transferred me to Los Angeles a few months before and we'd just bought our house on top of Hollywood Hill. The down payment took nearly all my ready cash.
It was a beaten-up house and the painters and -
the carpenters took most of the rest. That left us with the problem of doorknobs, which were stained, brass-plated ones some previous owner had covered with paint that
had become badly nicked. I took ihe knobs off
DEFENSE RACKETS .
There's Gold Mine in Fear of A-Bomb Attack
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19—The civil defense rackets are just getting under way. Some people with no scruples see a gold mine in the fears of the American people about A-bomb attacks. The danger from A-bombs is real. But many of the gadgets and materials that are being sold commercially will do you no good at all should an A-bomb attack come. Some gadgets are
O. gets no nightgown, or at least
for burns: As a consequence
or any other kind of radiation” ly
the doors and hauled them to the plater, who said they were so flimsy he'd advise against re-brassing them. I didn’t have enough money for new ones. Only solution then, he continued, was to have them gold-plated. This was cheap because he used the thinnest permissable coat of gold . and the heaviest possible coat of lacquer. Furthermore, said he, they wouldn't tarnish. I ordered the job done.
Gold Doorknobs
SO THERE we were at Christmastime in: our new house with gold doorknobs—and $84 in our joint checking account. Not even enough for one of those 1950 nightgowns. We made. a deal. We'd give each other Christmas gifts costing not over 50 cents. From a magic shop near Hollywood and
"Vine Streets I paid 35 cents for a special fork,
with a handle that eranked, for spaghetti-eating purposes.. Hilda made still a better purchase for me. She presented me with a five-cent stick of peppermint candy. It was an elegant Christmas. No fuss, no bother, no expense. Her gift gave Mrs. O. an idea. She cooked up a bowl of spaghetti and meat balls and tried out her fancy fork. For dessert we split my stick of candy, though I must report my mother had sent us a fruit cake, which we used to fill out the meal. After dinner we took a walk, admired our doorknobs,- and never feit happier. The way nightgowns and practically all other gifts are priced this year, I believe fhe time has come for a - repeat performance. :
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can the nose of the plane down and it ey Coo T her l come down om heir ite of
the Yalu. > “We're convinced the Reds are under strict
"orders not to let one of their planes get in our
hands,” an Afr Force, omen explained. <* SO FAR we haven't gotten possession of a MIG or its pilot, even though we've destroyed many. Thus we don’t know for sure who is in the cockpit. But our men are convinced they're Chinese. They think Russia is deliberately sacrificing a handful of Chinese jet pilots in hopes of provoking an incident, When and if the Rus. sians come in, our men are sure it will be in force. : So far our officers don’t have a high opinion of the Red jet pilots. They can't shoot good and know only the rudiments of flying. They scare easily and head home as soon as one plane is damaged even though they outnumber us. The other day, for instance, 10 MIG's tangled over Sinuiju with four U. 8. F-80’'s. After fighting 20 minutes at 25,000 feet, they ran as soon as one MIG was hit. Recently 24 Red jets challenged six United Nations planes. The same thing happened. “When 24 jets can’t handle four—when 23 jets run away because the 24th is smoking—
. they haven't got much on the ball. That's why
were sure they're piloted by Chinese, not Russians,” an Air Force officer said.
“| Hi not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."
Serious Emergency
By J. F. Frantz, 750 Ketcham St, IF THE emergency is serious it is due to the timid foreign policy and the blundering into the needless tragedy of Korea. It is useless to remind our citizens of the weakness of Dean Acheson and the man responsible for him. And if the emergency is serious, to cope with the situation, we must use the atom bomb, This is inevitable. To safeguard our nation, some members, friends of the Kremlin, on the United Nations should be placed in concentration camps. To save our nation, the realistic military hope is the atom bomb, If we fail to use this bomb now, the long march to Moscow will change the: cold, white snow to blood red and our boys will be buried in Russian soil. ‘Every citizen should now demand that our boys no longer die in-vain. The demand to use the bomb should be unanimous and now is the time to use it.
‘Let's Forget It’
" By Art Wjlliams, 3508 8. Meridian St.
ALL the to-do being made about President Truman's letter to Paul Hume of the Washington Post, After all, the most stupid of us know the President is under very heavy pressure these days, and human nature being what it is, he probably is a little short-tempered like I have seen some of our bosses when under strain. It seems to me that Mr. Hume could have refrained from belittling Margaret's singing at this particular time. Maybe that was his goal to get the President irked, I think so now as he ‘is offering to sell the letter to the highest bidder. How ungallant can a guy get? If all would do right they would shut up about it once and for all. The President is human after all, and I daresay, that many who criticize would have done the Sallie ting if it had been one of their children, and t comfort we give the Communists with our constant criticizing of our : : * > & WHO would trade places with him today? Then, also, he's not the only one responsible for present day conditions as he has a Congress, a Senate, a State Department, and many others who are also in a great measure responsible for the condition of the country today. Now let's forget the condition of the country and who got it that way, and start pulling together before it's too late. And let the old bats (men) and the old bags (women) put their efforts into Red Cross work.
‘Get Results’
By A. J. Schneider, City WE are fighting a war. Whether it is a declared war, or an undeclared war, or World War III, makes very little difference—we are fighting a war. i Sherman said “War Is Hell.” That means there is nothing nice and polite and gentlemanly or humanitarian about war. Nevertheless, while we are fighting a war, the so-called humanitarians in Washington and elsewhere, want us to keep on supplying the enemy with food and medical supplies, and on a gentlemanly basis refrain from blasting out their power dams and to continue to supply their war machine with other necessities with
~-avhich to prolong the war.
THE SWEETEST GIRL
‘ YOU are the sweetest girl I know .. . for reasons in my heart . . . that guide me through the lonely hours . . . whenever we're apart . . . the way you smile . , . the things you say . . to cheer this heart of mine . . . intoxicate my very soul . . . like flowery scented wine ... . damp kisses that you give to me . .. are more than Kisses dear . ., for when your lips press wext to mine . . . I feel that heaven's near . . . because of you I hold the key . . . to happiness unfurled . . . for you are locked within my heart . . . sweetest girl in the world. —By Ben Burroughs
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they indicate.
Some private contractors are offering to build bomb shelters in the backyards of the nation. If you are in a part of town spacious enough to have a back yard' you are probably far enough away from the potential zero not to need a shel-
chase of a stock of ointment
the sale is going up. Don’t buy any. Modern medical thinking is that the best thing to do for a burn is to cover it quickly with a sterile or as clean a piece of cloth as pos- ~
. sible, If you put ointment on,
you limit the doctor in the kinds of treatment he can give
to the burns. ° fered are much more expen. Cw. sive than is necessary: 1 ; DON'T buy a Geiger counter, ove home shel be short-
detector. This fall the Atomic
Energy Commission counted ton. tection strane. ing detection
lingering radiation around. Trained civil defense teams will have the proper radiation detection instruments and will know how to evaluate what
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MANY a.war has been won merely by shutting off the enemy's food supply. Why cannot that be ‘done today? Destroying the power
. dams and power plants will stop war production.
Worse traitors than those in office in Washington, are the traitors who continue sending
“war necessities and food to keep the enemies '
in the war: When are we going to learn this fact? It is time we made this an all-out war. ‘Send
_ nothing and .sell nothing, to our enemies or
those who sympathize with the enemy. It won't take long for this kind of action to get results,
idea. This o rganization is now distributing dog tags to civil. ians.
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