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Things, 1950

Was All Wet

Record High Mark

For Precipitation By JOHN V. WILSON | “Sunny” California is bowing to Indianapolis this year. As if you didn’t know, 1950! has been wet. Peeking out from under his| umbrella, the weatherman has)’ announced that 1950 is nearing; the wettest year on record. i Already this year his rain| gauge has been filled to the 54.63-inch mark. That's just three inches and a few drops away,

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Ideal Opportunity To Teach a Lesson By GEORGE WELLER ROME, Dec. 23 (CDN)—Europe is going to night school, and Korea is the classroom. Selfish,

-|Sarrulous, lazy old Europe has

learned more through the retreat of Bi United Nations forces in Korea than through $40 billion in United States aid. The night school is giving instruction to Europe almost free,

“Leo G. Loftus, Donald L. Reeder, James L. ‘Deputy, IU Foundation Director Howard S. Wilcox, Richard A. Garver, William L. Bolling and Jack E. Howey, (left to right) . . . Six newly named Ernie Pyle Scholars at Indiana Universiity confer with Mr. Wilcox on the aotails of the scholarship.

5 BLOOMINGTON, Dec. 23 Ernie Pyle Foundation, created ix more living memorials ‘0 at the university by fellow the late Ernie Pyle, famous In- newspapermen and other friends

dianapolis Times war correspondent and columnist, ware Of the great Hoosier writer.

from the 1876 high. Puddle holes began filling last] January. They've seldom been dry since. In the first month 12.35] inches of rain trickled down In-| dianapolis’ necks. No Change in February Raincoats were the vogue again in February when 5.24 inches of |

Palmyra, Jack E. Howey of | Hobart and Leo G. Loftus of Roxbury, Mass: The new selections increase

rain fell. Not much, you say?| added today at Indiana Uni- The new Pyle Scholars are the number of such scholarWell, you sure thought so then. | versity. - Richard A, Garver of Wolcott- ships awarded to 34. The first For the next seven months| - They were six scholarships ville, James I. Deputy of Law- Pyle ‘Scholar at IU was Ed clouds poured out only an aver-| awarded to outstanding iU rence, Donald L. Reeder of La- Sovola, now Indianapolis Times age amount of precipitation or journalism students . by the Porte, Wiliam L. Bolling of columnist.

Then the rains came again with the first football games,

November ana Decors or Women" s Overseas League Unit Here

have helped boost the precipita-

less.

1 15.68 inches bove rior mer Has Served Continuously for 30 Years Whether the remaining few

days will bring enough rain or| snow for a new record, even the} weatherman can’t say.

Group Has Given had 1725 Camp Shows — mi en

Entertaining and aiding the

Fijian Crewmen, Skipper Get Their

'seryicemen in the Indianapolis {area has for the last 30 years

/been a continuous task for the

Indianapolis Unit of the Women’s

~{1y” troubled over Europe's apathy.

Fill of the Sea {Overseas Service League,

"BRISBANE, Australia, Dec. 23] From the time the local league = (CDN)--No one is sicker of the| provided Christmas cheer for the sea than Skipper John Morris/men in the hospital at Ft. Harriind his. crew of Fijian native son in 1920, right down to this boys. Christmas, when the league will They had no sooner set sail present special entertainment for from Fiji in his 40-foot trading the men in the camps and hoscutter to take copra to another pitals around Indianapolis, it has island than things began to hap- never ceased its service to the pen. Armed Forces. It was only a’ 110-mile voyage, Aq of Dec. 31 this year, the but . . . League will have given 1725 camp A raging cyclone came first. gp wg here since 1941. Currently, Huge seas crashed over the tiny the League is presenting two vari-

ship, destroyed deck. fittings, ety shows each week at Cam shredded the mainsail, and ea P

washed the wheelhouse and charts p i and instruments overboard. | The Women’s Overseas Service The helpless craft was then €ague Is composed of women battered by another cyclone, a|Who have served overseas with squall and two thunderstorms) ithe Armed Forces, eithér in milthat swept the starving and itary or civilian capacities, durthirsty crew and their ship 1500|!n8 and since World, War I. miles to Australia. Main objective of the League is Jabbering excitedly, the nativeito comfort and cheer the servicecrew promised that “ni keitou sajmen and veterans in hospitals. diri raaoe ki neito diri koro, sarna |This includes, in addition to presega tale ni keitou bolea tale! {senting camp shows, training and soko.” Iproviding permanent camp host“That means,” explained Skip- esses to maintain recreational faper Morris, “that ‘we are going cilities for the men, back to our villages and never, During the early days of the go to sea again”. He added it/local unit of the League, its only went. for him, too. {chance to entertain and help the

Rosemary Brennan (seated), Barbara Basset, Janet Ross and | A. Grace Hawk (standing, left to right) plan the camp shows pre-

sented by the Women's Overseas Service League.

campments of the civilian-soldiers with the Red Cross started! at Ft. Harrison. The League! thumbing through tall stacks of! worked merrily away on thisicards, each containing the name! part-time basis until shortly be- of some entertainer available to! {fore World War II, when mobili- her, zation’ began. . Sings From Wheel Chair Since World War II, it has| “Here's one,” she said, holding] never ceased operating at full{UP a card, “who said it was too] speed, providing hostesses and en-/much trouble to go to Atterbury | tertainment at Ft. Harrison and any more. He burned me up.” [Billings Hospital there, Cold| She thumbed down deeper in |Spring Road Hospital and Camp the stack and fished out another) Atterbury. card. "This one here has a hits { The League provided the first story behind it," she smiled. show at Camp Atterbury in 1942, girl i Singer named D. ria land the .last one during the Berty. e started singing on our icamp’s World "War II activation Shows when she was a teen-ager 'when it sent a group of enter- JUring World War 1I She had itainers through a snowstorm on an attack of polio which took Dec. 15, 1946, to perform for 20 Der out of our line-up for a

because Europe has sent as little! as possibie to Asia. Europe is now faced with the hard reality that the United States may decide "ito send as little as possible to | Europe. The first glimmerings of unity in Europe do not take, however, ithe natural form of offering more aid in Korea. The first reaction is, a semi unified chorus asking the United States to give more to help Europe. Europe still wants ito sit pat on its token help in oo __|Korea, and get more from the United States. “Atlantic defense” is turning into a contest for U. S.subsidized arms bids. Facts Leak Through But warnings of the |the American people are leaking] through the fog of Atlantic treaty talkfests and arms-aid speeches. Two Italian correspondents from New York warned the public, using the identical adverb, that the United States is just-

American sacrifices in Korea are paying off in public opinion, despite official indecisiveness. The retreat is honorable, leaving our moral leadership’ unstained. The retreat also is a reproach to the military isolationists of Europe, like heavily armed Switzerland and heavily manned Italy, in that the valor of Turkish and British infantry protected the retreating Americans. But the reproach is unspoken unless some American leader dares utter it. Lets U. 8. Do It Europe's man-in-the-street is not really indifferent to Korea, but has been lulled by basic errors in American policy in telling him about it. : ‘When Europe refused to do its share in Korea, an understandable American reaction would have been to say temperately, “all-right, but we cannot fight in Asia and pay in Europe. You must provide more than token support in Korea and more than talkfests on your own home grounds.” Instead the United States rushed in with blank-check offers to fight both wars, east and west. {Europe, richer and more producitive today than before the war, |doubly reassured by American lalacrity, simply sighed and fell {back into lethargy, palm extend-| ed. American eagerness to culti{vate Europe's will to defend it{self has actually pampered Euirope into inertia. --the- Korean--elassroom-“hacks is not European students {but American teachers. Europe {is willing to listen, but can Amer{ica teach?

- Franklin Man Earns Degree in Sorbonne

A bit of real Christmas cheer— a cautious optimism over the Zhaininigger Niustion in Europe —that's the unexpected gift Dr.

abroad. . "1 may be all wrong” Franklin man said as he visited at the home of his brother, liam 8. Stainbrook, 5831 Primrose Ave, yu I don’t believe Russia

right ov ” “It doesn’t seem possible that

scale war in Europe.” ~ Dr. Stainbrook, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Stainbrook of Franklin, has just returned from France, where he received last June a doctorate with highest honors from the Sorbonne, Faculty of Letters of the University of Paris. The past five months he spent traveling in Western Europe, visiting every country from Spain to Finland. “We will doubtlessly continue to have many so-called ‘ineidents’,” he went on, choosing his words with a care born of his recent use of foreign languages. (He speaks French fluently, German, and can get along in Russian when ‘Decessary. )

~ France Needs Time

“If serious trouble can be avertled for a couple of years, France. may be able to meet her share of it. While she still needs time, there is a definite possibility of building up French military DOW “Today France is getting Atlantic Pact weapons, and she is also devoting 50 per cent of her|

Richard D. Stainbrook brought! home from three years of study

the!

the USSR could be up to it indus-|! trially, so I don’t foresee any|: immediate outbreak of large-|

Dr. Richard Stainbrook .

time out for skiing in Austria.

seen on the boulevards.

SUNDAY. DEC. 2, 1950 [Russians Not Yet Ready, pafoves ~ Hoosier After 3 Years Abroad

(However,

~turned home and

“Today there is no rationing,

Vast Improvement Noted in France

still strong in France and would be a serious, a very serious, fitth

lcolumn in case of war.”

As a GI, he had his first look abroad while serving with a chemical mortar battalion of the {First Army during 1944-45 and fighting in the Rhineland campaign. ~ When the war was over, he recompleted work

on an A. B. degree at Franklin

year’s study at the University of Chicago, where he obtained a master’s degree in international relations.

“I thought I could speak French when I entered the Sorbonne,” Dr. Stainbrook said with a grin, “but all the lectures were

{the first vear. Conversational {French is easy, but it is a differlent matter when you don’t even

rationed. Cars were but seldom'know what is to be disc

| Lectures By Radio » There is no such thing as a

and the streets are crowded with leflit-and-dried , program “at the

[ane

turn for the good had come. “There was another way it was! felt, too. In 1947 communism | was very strong in France. Either the Communists

| or the DeGaull- to the classes they care to attend. ists could have staged a coup

d'etat at that time, but since then] both parties have dost ground to the point that they are no longer, a really serious threat as things! stand now. “The chief reasen, aside from

the betterment of economic conditions, for the deflection from communism was its cumbersome | | direction of the general strike, |

By the spring of 1949 the ‘University of Paris, The faculty

/doesn’t care what courses you fol= {low, or if you follow any. The {various professors give lectures jonce a week, and students just go

“This year lots of students didn't even go to the lectures. {Many of the lectures, those with {any popular appeal, are being {broadcast over the radio which, Jou um understand, is nationalized in Fig to go to school at all, if they don’t choose,”

While he has no immediate

new budget to national defense./When the Reds resorted to vi- plans for the future, he would

She plans to activate 10 new divisions by 1952. “There has been a great moral | regeneration there. it with my own eyes. The en! in attitude has been as marked as the change in economic conditions. “Of course, the French have done a great deal for themselves, but we can take much credit for the fact that Marshall Plan aid has greatly improved over-all! , economic conditions in France. “The change has come quite gradually. Right after World, War II there was an attitude of! ‘Je m'en fous'—‘I don't care— what is the use?’ The people were | 80 exhausted from war, “Now a ray of hope is beginning to shine. They're beginning

to believe there might be a future *

after all, that-France may rise again. You can see it in the initiative which France is gradually taking in the Council of Europe.” Vast Gains Already “When I returned to France to istudy international relations in 1947, I found it still i acutely from the effects of the war. | “There was no heat, at times no water, and the electricity was frequently off. Meat, bread, an important part of the French diet, ~ chieese, coffee, tea, sugar and many other foods _were

vention of a pocket radiation’

{hospitalized men who hadn't yet wae, She came back and {been transferred after the camp ih ue 0 sing even though .|was de-activated. re No stn 8 Shar on He Talent for thesé many camp g g 30 she

can walk alone again. shows is recruited from the local | “At first I didn’t know what amateur. and professional ranks, effect it would have on the boys| With a heavy share of the enter- |i, the hospitals if she entertained, tainment chores falling to teen- put 1 soon found out at Cold! agers des Joung 10 help the war Springs, After she sang from Fer effort in any other way. chair one night, a boy | | Talent Is Donated ght. 2 boy In a wheel

chair rolled up to her and sai From the hundreds of persons wae griped lho, we aa, jeager to work in the shows, MiSs | we ag it tough.’ Doris is one of |Grace Hawk, who has been. the tp, best -performers r have.” League's unit president for more sp {than ten years, must sort out! and arrange the programs, Miss Hawk has to deal with dozens of artistic temperaments, |give every act the best spot on {the program, mix professionals

Junior B'nai B'rith Group to Meet Here

A three-state regional convention of AZA, junior order of B'nai

{and amateurs on the same pro- B : r . {gram without creating jealoustes, Ps Will open today at the ideploy her forces to give every Kirshbaum Community Center. Josqie Sue Loffland at the vibrohsrp ond Bill Pierpont, with |

{program the proper balance and {at the same time arrange to get the talent free, . “We (the League) don't have imoney for our shows, All {have is elbow grease,” she said./Ronnie Weiss of Houston and {Then the grey-haired veteran of Clarence Borns, Gary, World War 1 overseas service present for the meeting.

Indianapolis Chapter 520 is host to. .the convention, which will run through Wednesday... The national president and vice

the accordion, are regular performers on tha WOSL revues.

‘Wage Price War

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Father, Son Grocers |

SYDNEY, Australia, {of them greengrocers with stores) jon the same street, are waging | a price war . . . against each other.

The son, Ron Morgan, began |

it by undercutting his dad, J. M. Morgan, on lettuce prices. Pop prompt!y retaliated by giving 600 ‘heads of lettuce away free. Junior has generously decided, |

we president of the Jewish fraternity, however, not to “break” the. old | “After all, he advanced me| will be the money to start my business,” |

man.

he explains.

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