Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1950 — Page 16

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‘We Can Still Pray’

p= Christmas editorial this year comes from Korea—a letter from an American soldier to + “Dear Dad: # “I guess by the time this reaches you it will be right faround Christmas, the best time of year, always. And not Hust because it means everybody can leave his work for a Swhile and have a rest. But because everybody feels good and thinks about Jesus and goodness, and about his family and how much more important they are than anything in the , world. “I think if everybody felt like Christmas every day, instead of just in December, there wouldn't be anything like war or hate, or us guys over here in Korea thinking about killing the Chinese, or the Chinse thinking about killing us. “And we could be at home with our mothers and dads and thinking about what to give them, just to show them how much you love them and how happy you are.

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year, and maybe not as much to you and lots of other GIs’ folks back in the States. Over here the only gifts will be bullets, I suppose. The guys here probably will be wringing the wet and cold out of their socks in their foxholes, instead of hanging them up for Christmas, “Maybe there'll be some singing of carols and hymns, like we used to back home. But I don't think we'll be very happy singing—maybe sadder because we'll be thinking of home. “The thing that won't be different, though, is the praying. Because we can still pray, and this year we sure have a lot more to pray about than we used to. It'll help, too, to know that you and mother will be praying for the same things, and at the same time, even if you are 8000 miles away. “Besides, we have a lot to be thankful for. We're still alive, and maybe next year we'll all be together again. And you folks back home don’t have the war in your front yards and have to keep running from bombs and bullets and Communists. That sure is a lot. = “God bless all of you, Dad, and Merry Christmas.— Bavid. "

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Spies and Laws

(CONGRESS has passed, at the Justice Department's request, a bill authorizing FBI agents to make arrests without warrants in cases involving espionage, sabotage and other felonies. Another bill, introduced by Rep. K. B. Keating of New York, would legalize FBI wiretapping to obtain evidence against suspected spies and saboteurs. Both measures result from the New York Federal Appeals Court decision which voided Judith Coplon’s conviction for stealing secret government information and giving it to a Russian agent. The court held that, although her guilt was clear Miss Coplon had been deprived of the constitutional right to due process of law because:

i= ONE: FBI agents, who arrested her without a warrant, failed to prove as present law requires that this was necessary to prevent her escape.

TWO: The government failed to prove that FBI wiretaps led to none of the evidence used in obtaining her conviction. : : Present federal law makes it a crime to “intercept and . divulge” communications. Yet the FBI does intercept—does tap wire—in its work of protecting the country from spies, Gamboteurs and other public enemies.

IT MUST first get permission from the Attorney General, who acts by authority of an executive order issued by President Roosevelt in 1940. But if information the FBI obtains by wiretapping is divulged by its use as evidence in + ipourt, that can give a guilty spy 8 basis for a successful appeal from conviction. That is a ridiculous situation. If FBI wire tapping was essential to national security in 1940, it is more essential now. It should be legalized. Information obtained by this method should be made admissible as evidence, and safeguards against its abuse, and for the rights of innocent persons, should be provided. i The Keating Bill proposes that the FBI be required to in wiretap permits from Federal Courts, upon showing

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dent, Jacob Blaustein.

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Five New Faces fo Join

Republicans From Indiana oy WASHINGTON, Dec. 25—This is Christmas:

And about the only important persons who

haven't left town are the firemen and policemen. It is both sunny and snowy, so that everyone should be satisfied who remains.

So far as the Hoosier Republicans are con-

cerned, this is a very happy Christmas indeed. For In no other state did they win more congressional seats than in Indiana.

5 Freshmen From'Indiana

There will be five GOP freshmen here when the 82nd Congress convenes Jan. 3. And they will find that the of Sen. Willlam E. Jenner (R. Ind.) has far more recognition than when he first took the senate floor to cry out against bipartisanism in our foreign policy. That is unless the Communist war breaks’ out in a new place. The Jenner program of western defense, without European allies, has found a strong voice in former President Herbert Hoover. Such a program has been labeled “appeasement” by the chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, Sen. Brian McMahon (D. Conn.), as follows: “I would call attention to the fact that in a treaty which we ratified in the Senate within the past 12 months, this nation pledged fits sacred word to regard an attack on any of the treaty nations as an attack on ourselves. I do

not believe the American people are going to ~

welsh on it. There is plenty of room for debate as to how we shall implement or fulfill that obligation, and I for one have some questions in my mind as to how we should implement it, but the world should be told that we do not intend to welsh’ on our word, because that is not the spirit of the American people.

Obligation ‘Not Unilateral’

“IT GOES without saying that the obligation which we assumed is not unilateral. The Atlantic Treaty nations—none of them—can never contemplate welshing on their obligations. “I call attention to the fact that the program enunciated by the ex-President constitutes nothing else but appeasement.” Appeasement or not, it is the Jenner party line.

What Others Say—

I DO not mean that you (teachers) sheuld be a maudlin sentimentalist. There may be times when it is necessary for you to figuratively knock this growing mind into a corner. It is all right to knoek him into a corner if you get into the corner with him and help him out.—Marietta College president, Dr. W. Bay Irvine. > + ¢ ONE has only to examine Communist appeals everywhere in the world to realize that racial and religious persecutions play only Jechiically different roles in the propaganda of fascism communism.—American Jewish Committee ye

* % < I'M glad my playing days are over... . It's mighty good to watch it (football) from the bench. The only things that get hurt are your eardrums.—N. Y. Giants football coach Steve Owen, commenting on the improved brand of professional football of the present day. * % o ABOUT the most satisfying thing a man in public life can have is the knowledge that his people like him enough to call on him again and again.—Rep. Robert Doughton (D. N.C.), upon his re-election to Congress for the 20th time. * © o I CALL people “darling,” because I can't remember names, and I comb my hair to keep it out of my eyes.—Actress Tallulah Bankhead. * & KISS the girl if you like her whether it's your first date or not, but by all means be sincere.— Oklahoma A. & M. home life counselor, Mrs. Gladys Marshall.

CHRISTMAS

The time of our Christmas is on us. It's a time of good hope and cheer. When we pack all our troubles and sorrows, And put them away for the year.

All our thoughts are of helping our neighbors, Our passionate hates fade away. Kind wishes exchange between strangers, In our glorious Christian way.

It's a time when we're happy in giving. The cost matters not, for it's here In the heart that the value is measured, We are blessed by the warmth of good cheer.

‘So be kind to the people whose lives Are less bountifully blessed than your own. Have a word and good wish for your fellow So many spend Christmas alone.

How fine this world could be If we kept. this friendly cheer

Not just for use at Christmas But for every day in the year.

CHRISTMAS

up enough reindeer this year,

The reason is wolves. They've been running amok among the world's reindeer population and in the past 10 years have

destroyed all but about 50,000 of Alaska's once-great herd of 550.000.

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By Andrew Tully Santa Has Trouble With Big Wolf Packs

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25-—-Don't blame Santa Claus if he shows up at your house driving a team of Missouri mules in- _ stead of Donder, Blitzen and Co.—he may not be able to round

. + Tradition says Martin Luther, the Protestant Church, intro-

ESA's HOME . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Started Out in Old Wreck

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25-—The weatherman predicted light rain, so we had a gentle blizzard with snowflakes the size of Christmas seals. I puffed into the office looking like a red-haired Santa Claus and not even snarling inside at the mechanical jingle bells on every street corner. At long last they sounded fine. Iamina good and ily charitable mood, imbued with the spirit of Christmas, like the able gentlemen of the House of Representa tives. These babies began to celebrate so early that even on Thurs. day the speaker couldn’t get | a quorum. The poor, old ser-geant-at-arms went after the missing ones, but he couldn't find 'em, either, On Friday the lawgivers were so widely scattered on their Christmasy errands that the Ea nageaiat made a special point of bringing up nothing requiring a vote; it would have been too embarrassing. What few statesmen were on the job spent their time making speeches about what fine fellows dre their brethren who won't (by edict of the voters) be back next year. Then they quit until after Christmas and 1 presume they went shopping for mistletoe. That's all right with me. For the moment I'm sympathetic with everybody, including the poor devils with the briefcases down at the Economic Stabilization Agency.

Will Affect Our Lives

This is the outfit, under General, Electric's Charles E. Wilson, which is destined to affect the lives of us all as our preparations for war progress. So it is established on the Mall, about halfway between the Washington Monument and the Capitol, in a building hardly good enough to house my horse, He's a tough horse, too. ESA's headquarters were built of chewing gum and gypsum board to house the government’s lady clerks with the high-topped shoes

SIDE GLANCES

who founded

in the emergency of 1917. This yellow-painted structure with the leaky roof was supposed to be torn down after the first World War, but something always kept coming up. Came the depression of the ’30s and Mr. Roosevelt installed there some of his battlers against the low cost of living. Remember? The Blue Eagle and its vain efforts to keep prices up? Then experts began talking again of wrecking the most permanent temporary building ever built. That brought us to the second World War. And this ancient structure with the cardboard ceilings and chicken-coop floors went into use again. Now, 33 years later, it's going into service once more and nobody knows from nothing. Its dusty halls are full of businessmen with briefcases, who don't know who they want to see about what, The sign painters can't keep up with the proper names on the doors. The management opened one bare chamber, hauled In a few old desks and called it the press room. Here a penny ante poker game started immediately, while the reporters awaited some news. The following day there didn’t seem to be any press room. Now it was being used for a con-

-ference between the government and bigwigs in

the oil business. Every other passer-by at ESA asked me for directions to where he was going, and though I was no help, I wished each one a Merry Christmas. Mostly they growled. You can’t blame ‘em for that. I only hope they don't go home and beat their wives. And to you lucky ones, who need not tangle with bureaucrats you can't even find, I wish the happiest Christmas yet.

CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

OH I marvel at the singing . . . of the carols loved so dear .. . . while the snowfall dots the sky with flaky white . . ., and the children’s happy laughter . . . pleases everyone who hears . for their chuckles help to make the heart feel light . . . just like magic soft motes hold me...and I "join the chorus too... as a star breaks through the hazy clouds above . . . and the wonder of this moment . . . seems to thrill me through and through . . . and my heart is filled with kindness and with love . . . soon the joyful bells will ring out . . . for this world of ours to hear . . . and the Christ Child will be very close at hand . . . oh how can I help remember . . . all the friends who round me dwell . . . for there's peace and real goodwill throughout the land. —By Ben Burroughs

By Galbraith

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BAD NEWS . .. Butter Dealers Rush Government Stocks

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25-—All of a sudden the government's stocks of butter seem to have turned into gold. With good profits for themselves virtually assured, butter dealers are staging a Klondike rush on government stocks. And the once huge mountain of government-owned surplus butter is melting away faster than butter on a stove. This is bad news for consumers because the government's stores of butter had

FOR the past twenty-eight years we have tived near the Guardian's home, in fact our , and I can honestly say that

back yards adjoin the boys and girls living there have been good

little neighbors. To be sure, like any group of children, there are the good and the bad, but most of them are very appreciative of a little kindness and ri crave affection and interest in their

welfare. Many of them are children rejected by iets parents, consequently -there is bitterness and despair and a baffled feeling in their hearts when they see -other children loved, protected, and sheltered by ‘a kind father and mother...

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1 DO not know what the appropriation is for clothing at the home, but I do know the children are not always warmly dressed. If there is- insufficient funds, many kindly folks would be glad to contribute good used clothing which their children have outgrown. A child suffers, when he is not as well dressed as his fellows. I believe the home personnel should demand the same standard of behavior from the home children, as other parents in the community.

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NO growing child should be allowed to smoke, from a physical and mental stanfipoint, [ also believe when twilight comes, every litfle child should be off the streets unless he has a Jerinite destination such as the movies, Boy Cub Scout work, etc. . At present we have taken a little 13-year-old boy from the home under our wing. He helps us and we help him. He spends many hours by our fireside reading, and shares our holiday

_ dinners, and all the good things.

He expresses his happiness by saying, “I

just feel so good inside and out,” and I

understand. I believe the folks in charge of the home do

- the best they can under difficult circumstances,

‘Elementary Justice’

By John A. Dilworth; 421 N. Forest St. IT IS my duty as an American citizen te criticize. Ten days after the 32d anniversary of the signing of World ‘War I armistice, Helen Marie Huett, who grew up in Indianapolis and gradu ated with honors and a scholarship from the Indiana Deaf School, was thrown in jail for 10 days in a presumed to be free America because she was deaf—the result of being deaf, Elementary justice demands that Mayor Bayt, the Board of Public Safety and Police Chief Rouls take immediate action in the blonde, frail, 26-year-old Helen Marie case. Justice should be meted out to those who wrested her six-month-old son, Gregory, from her arms while she was thrown into city jail as a “vagrant” and as a “pre-mental” case despite the fact that she had $150 in her possession and she speaks so well that her handicap is not obvious. There are thousands of people like Helen Huett who are living, so to speak, without a Bill of Rights. There is no freedom in being deaf; in being a mother when you are deaf because, due to deafness, you do not awaken when the baby- cries, or. to criticize the city governmet, or police department.

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‘THE ONLY language the police department knows is the language of force; and the only force they respect is superior force. When Judge Alex Clark, Municipal Court 4, said, “If they cah snatch her baby away and lock her up” Communist style, “for a week they could do it to my wife or yours,” he perhaps had in mind the U. 8. Supreme Courts 23 to 13 proportioned decision in four abuse cases of police powers crack down on Monday, 13 December 1948 on what it ruled were abuses -of police powers: “Power is a heady thing; and history shows that the police acting on their own cannot be

My hat is off to Judges Joseph Howard and Alex Clark.

‘The Biggest Lie’ By LEO WARREN, USN, KOREA THE suggestion to the people reading your paper by Fred Sparks from Somewhere in Korea dated Nov. 17 saying that Japan is missed by GI in Korea, and saying that over fifty per cent wanted and dreamed of going back to Japan is about the biggest lie I have read in the Amerfcan press in many a day. Does he know how many homes he brought unhappiness too with his big mouth. A man

might stray sometimes but his days out here

are spent living for the day for his return to his family and the American way of life. We do not care for his cheap reporting and perhaps the men he talked to: are of a low class such as himself. Tonight many a sailor, all who have been in Japan and who found many things really nice there but the idea of a change from American womanhood, well I wish you could look out at the men writing home tonight and they are al

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By Earl Richert

on price lists issued ‘monthly, although there has been no

good reason to believe that information thus obtained is e ry to proper investigations, This would seem a much ter safeguard than the present requirement for permits fom the FBI's boss, the Attorney General.

Profits for Hong Kong

VWHEN American troops are fighting a desperate rearguard action against the Chinese Communists swarming down upon them around the Hungnam beachhead, it is infuriating to read that Britain's sales of war materials to Red China rose 60 per cent in November. ‘Moreover, machinery, much of it with a war-making potential, accounted ‘for more than 80 per cent of Britain's exports to five European Iron Curtain nations. "We are well into the fifth year of the so-called cold war _ with the Russian-led powers. It would seem by this time that United and its Allies could have agreed on comting trade with Russia and her satellites.

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se than appeasement. American lives are while Britain builds up her Hong Kong

In a stab at protecting the dwindling Rudolphs, the U. 8. government is using modern methods. Airplanes are used to spot wolves and then, if possible, to machine gun them from the air. We've also been using poisoned bait, which tastes fine to wolves and awful to other animals. In Lapland—the Arctic region which includes sections of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia—the reindeer is a little better off since it’s been

a domestic animal since pre--

historic times:- Laplanders use reindeer to pull sleds and to carry riders, or, supposedly, “reinboys”, Reindeer milk is good if you like it rich and creamy, and the meat is tough but nourishing. One reindeer hide will make two parkas and a pair of boots.

» » ” : ITALIANS call Christmas Il Natale and the Germans call it Weihnachtsfest . . . although it's celebratsd in most countries on Dec, 25, scholars still -argue about the date. Some day it should be cele brated - Jen May 20 is

duced the custom of having a Christmas tree. Luther is supposed to have liked the looks of a tree he saw in some woods and took it home to his children.

IT WAS on Christmas night, 1776, that Washington crossed the Delaware while the Hesslans were celebrating and licked ‘em at Trenton ... an old English recipe for Christmas punch calls fof 12 egg yolks and 12 hot baked apples « «+ In France, Spain and Italy people shoot off fireworks on Christmas Day . . . the model for St. Nicholas in ‘’Twas the Night Before Christmas” was & German man-of-all-work who did chores for the poem's author, Dr, Clement Clarke - Moore, a theology professor in’ New York. Dr. Moore wrote the poem for his kids in 1822.

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A GOPR. 198 BY WEA GEAVICE, BIO. T. M0. MOO. arom "All | really wanted was a dozen plain white handkerchiefs!"

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been serving to hold down butter prices since the post-Korea inflation got under way. When the government's stocks are gone, much higher retail butter prices are almost a certainty. “The butter people are buying like mad,” said a high Ag- - riculture Department official.

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an expres-

price change. Department officials say the run on government butter is due to increased consumption of fluid milk, leaving less sur-

plus milk for production of

at Christmas time is the pinata. This is a jar of thin clay which is filied with candy and other good things to eat and hung overhead. Then the kids

ancient times, the mistletoe ‘Wiis. regarded as symbol of peace and hope. Whenever

enemies met under a branch

of it they were supposed to drop their weapons and embrace . . . the term carol comes

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CHICAGO out $57.49 f last year, ¥ spender. That was ita alcoholic ing to F. E. of the Licen tries, Inc. .- In 19486, it Mrs. D. Ls of the Won perance Unic decrease. She adds, $8,550,000,00 for intoxical is equalled k associated ity, loss of i nile delinqu and other I waste.” She said ¢ . eoholic beve nue (reporte yea r)., da crime and J times more The WCT