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Milk for School Children

EEDY Indianapolis school children, who couldn't afford the price of a bottle of milk and a few cookies, now can have them . . . courtesy of the Federal Government. A Times survey, taken early this month, revealed that hundreds of undernourished children weren't getting milk during school hours. ; The School Board has authorized participation in the federally supported school milk lunch program. This means hundreds of boys-and girls will have badly needed nourishment, s = = . ” IT SEEMS to us it is a fine thing for these children to have milk, especially those who come from families that - are unable to pay for it themselves. It is not a fine thing that the city of Indianapolis has ~ to get it from the government of the United States. “There is no-question involved about who pays for it. We pay for it. The people of the city of Indianapolis. There is only one place to get money for any public spendng, and that's where this money comes from, no matter who disburses it. The point of it all is, though, that the people of Indianwpolis were paying for milk for these children anyway, even whan they didn't get it. The federal government ‘collected the money, and would have continued to collect it, whether or not Indianapolis schools took part in the program. . The principal difference is that this, like most of the “other federal welfare programs, simply costs us a lot more _than a program that furnished an equal amount of milk ‘would cost us if we did it ourselves.

That Priceless Slab

THEFT of the Stone of Scone, that almost-sacred relic of Wi British coronations, defies comparisons with the possible “hijacking of any such historical treasures in America. It is a far worse affront to national dignity than if, for instance, some Texas nationalist stole the skull cap worn by our chief justices when they swear in the President of %he United States. 2 _ It is comparable more heinous than if some prankster ade off with the brass snuff boxes from our Senate. on In England such things aren't done. The British crown jewels might be a legitimate haul for their intrinsic value, but it is unthinkable—or was—to pilfer the slab of sandstone over which British and Scottish kings have been «srowned since musty times. 2." The priceless Stone of Scone was so important to EngWand that it was buried in a secret hiding place when the . M3érmans threatened invasion in 1940. A chart showing its SPosition was sent to Canada and a chart showing where the first chart was concealed was probably elsewhere. The English are that thorough. — - » » » » s #+ [EGEND has it that during coronations the stone Nemains silent if true descendants of the royal line are growned above it. But let an impostor try it, and the stone Al emit a great groan. fae First guess was that the stone"was stolen by Scottish . Zfationalists in an effort to call attention to their desire for me rule and for a stop to the practice of crowning Kings 29f England as Kings of Scotland, too. 2° We hope the theft won't turn out to be the prank of SBbuvenir-loving Gls stationed in England who have in their *¥ime made off with some outlandish things and reportedly have had designs on Big Ben, the huge clock that adorns Parliament. We shudder to think what, a strain it would put on the North Atlantic Treaty if it developed that the Stone of

+ Scone had been swiped by an impulsive coterie of Yank

soldiers named McFard, McCanney, McFarland, McNeil and MacNeish.

Celebration of Death

“THE Christmas holidays in these United States brought 5 on what the National Safety Council describes as “a Zoarousal of carelessness.” pe "! Saturday, Sunday and Monday produced a recorddbreaking toll of accidental deaths.” ™ + At least 554 persons were killed in traffic accidents, 92 in fires, 128 in other accidents. Injuries. numbered thousands. Drunken driving was responsible for a large number * of the accidents on streets and highways. ': Many people, according to.the safety council, celebrated recklessly because they felt that it might be the last “peacetime Christmas for a long while: For a lot of those people, and a lot of their innocent wictims, it was the last Christmas ever. They're as dead "as if they'd been targets for atom bombs. The Nef Year holidays are yet to come, bringing

another opportunity for fools to celebrate by killing

themselves and others. They also will bring opportunity to be sensible, hold ..down the awful toll of deaths and injuries, avoid the “setting of another shameful record for fatal accidents.

Instead of another “carousal of carelessness,” let's

: ‘make this next week-end a celebration of safety. Sure, it.may be the last “peacetime” New Year for a while. But that’s no reason for running risks of spending

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Is Key to Tito

If Joe Kicks the Bucket Yugoslavia Will Snub West WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—The boys who do

Joe elegantly encased in a glass coffin, a la Lenin. But the foreign policy : administer is also—para-

. continued good health. The reason is Yugoslavia. t As long as Joe Stalin is alive, | they feel, the chances of a reconciliation between Moscow " and Belgrade is slim. For it is now pretty well established that the split between Yugoslavia and Russia was largely:

a % the result of bitter personal differences between the two Joe Stalin dictators. .

« . the master Basically, of course, the : he split was caused by Tito's refusal to let Moscow interfere with Yugoslavia’s

economic affairs. But the feeling is that this

difference of opinion could have been compromised if it hadn’t been for Tito’s personal

rebellion against Stalin and Stalin's anger with

what he felt was Tito’s ingratitude and presumption. Stalin strongly disapproved of Tito’s self-glorification campaign within Yugoslavia while he, Stalin, was underplayed. It is notable, for instance, that whenever those big skyscrapersized portraits of the peerless leaders -of communism were trotted out for a celebration in Belgrade, Tito’'s picture was always bigger than Joe's. On a trip to Yugoslavia last summer, this reporter was told blandly by several officials in Belgrade that Stalin even objected to the elegant uniforms Tito wore.- Joe is- supposed to have told Tito that it was unbecoming for the boss of a small country like Yugoslavia to put on 80 many airs. The battle reached its climax when Tito issued a bunch of new edicts designed to make Yugoslavia economically independent of Moscow. This supposedly verified Stalin's worst fears about having a viper in the cominform family and the split was made official. Today, Stalin hasn't budged an inch, according to reports circulating in diplomatic channels. He still thinks Tito is an ingrate guilty of insubordination. But Tito is supposed to be weakening some. The war in Korea and the general weakness of the West i3 said to have convinced him that if he wants to be on the winning side he'll have to make up with Moscow.

Long Live Joe?

FOR THAT matter, that's where the Belgrade regime's loyalty logically lies. Titoland may be strongly nationalistic, but it's still a Communist state and both Tito and his followers would be more comfortable if they were back in the club with their ideological pals. The Yugoslav chief of information told this reporter that in Belgrade last summer, and Tito himself always has insisted that Yugoslavia and Russia eventually will shake hands and let bygones be bygones. Many U. 8. diplomats say that reconciliation would be a cinch if Stalin were to kick the bucket. Tito is supposed to stand in well with other Kremlin big shots like Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrei Gromyko and even the terrible Laurent! Beria, head of the secret police. These men are supposed to feel that Stalin is being overly stubborn about the matter. And there are reports that they are pressuring him softly to make up with Tito immediately to solidify Europe's Communist bloc. Stalin so far is supposed to have stood off these compromisers. And that's why Uncle Sam’s foreign policy planners are grudgingly admitting that it might be a good thing if Joe lived a little longer.

HEART'S MESSAGE

... and Tito the ingrate

OH, if I could but tell you love +. what's

lingering in my heart . . . then you would know in some small way ... what it's trying to impart . . . I'd tell you of my love for you... and what will come to be . .. and that my sweet, my wonderful . . perhaps it is a dream my dear . . . the love that I enfold . . . a moon, a sun, a shooting star . .. too bright for me to hold . . . but each time I want you to know . . . how much I really care + « +» I'm all but mystified . . .“because you're standing there . . . and so I write this note to you . . . a message from my heart . , . to tell vou that it beats for you... together or apart. —By Ben Burroughs.

NEGOTIATION . . . By Peter Edson

Diplomats Play Grim Korean Chess Game

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—What happens next in the effort It's a subject that can only be speculated on. But it has a number of possibilities, as ==

to stop the Korean War by negotiation?

analyzed in Washington.

The Chinese Communist government has turned down the United Nations General Assembly's fhree-man truce commission

offer to arrange a cease-fire. That commission fs made up

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WORLD OF SCIENCE . . . By Frederick C. Othman

The Cow Is a Simple Critter; Her Milk Is Sweet, Never Bitter

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—Looks like 1951 is the year that will mark the beginning of the end of the milk bottle. And also, obviously, of the milkman. The idea is to take the water out of the milk. as in fresh frozen orange juice. This leaves a white pe z goo like Nbrary paste, = which may or may not be = frozen, so=j that the housewife may water it down at her own tap. The poor old cow, who still is included in the process, gets pushed f a rther: into the b a c k ground, the milkman takes a job in an airplane factory, the jokes about him disappear from the smoking cars, and I'm not so sure that I'm pleased by the prospect. The dairymen first began soft-pedaling the cow 50 years ago, with condensed milk. They merely boiled out some of the water, but the # heat changed the flavor, no matter how gently it was applied. The gentlemen with the cows did not give up. + Coincident with the last war came a number of high-vacuum processes, which revolutionized numerous chemical industries. They all work on the theory that if you can pump the air from a bottle half filled with water, the warmth from your hand will generate cold steam, . The milk men took over variations of these vacuum schemes, which made concentrated milk tasting, when properly diluted, almost exactly like the original article. That word, properly, is important. The cow did it right. When she mixed the water in her milk in the first place, she used only the purest, as refined in her own laboratory, The problem

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of the concentrated-milk men is to find the right kind of water to mix with the stuff in their small packages. For test-marketing of their new product they have chosen cities like Wilmington, Del, and Lima, O., where the tap water is unusually pure and palatable. The results have been excellent and the housewives enthusiastic. In Philadelphia, where the city water contains no telling what, the scientists tested out their new milk with appalling results, It tasted so horrid only the brave could drink it. Turns out that a Philadelphian can get used to his drinking water and think no more about it, but when he takes a glass of milk he wants it pure. The Chicago situation isn’t much better. I lived there once, myself, when the water in the kitchen sink one morning turned into a trickle. I took the faucet apart and found a small fich blocking the flow.

Masks the Flavor

CHICAGOANS probably will not get concentrated milk until the city installs a better waterworks, but they have not been forgotten by the milk men. Even now the natives of the Windy City can buy fresh frozen, concentrated chocolate milk for 19 cents per six-ounce cah. This is made of milk with chocolate added and an emulsifier stirred in so the flavoring won't separate. Then it's vacuumed and frozen. To each can you add three more of Chicago water, but the chocolate masks the flavor of the water and the result is good, There are two schools of thought on concentrated milk. One sells it in undersized paper cartons, fresh, like cottage cheese. used soon, like old-fashioned milk, or it turns sour. The rival manufacturers freeze their milk. This is a nuisance, but so long as it's ice, it stays fresh. I tell you, science is wonderful. amazing as the cow,

What Others Say—

HOW &an you get any place in politics if you deceive people? : ~Bare-domed Sen. Eugene Millikan (R. Colo.), on men who comb their remaining hair across their heads from the fringe to conceal baldness. .

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less concerned about “losing boys” than you are °

about “losing face.” How about prohibiting all trade of all kinds with the enemy nation? An application to total ‘economic sanctions? We have tried total everything else. I recognize such action might work economic hardships and sacrifices upon our national life, but a nation’s freedom and a nation's peace is attained in no easy way. I believe that total economic pressure would be more effective than the use of the atomic bomb and with less tragic results and without cauterizing our conscience. a Think about the above suggestions, Uncle Sam, and let me know by sending a notice to the newspapers and radio of your “about face” intentions. ’ 3 >

Sparks Report Untrue? By Dick Morland, USN, Korea IN A recent letter from my wife, who resides in Brownsburg, Ind., I received a clipping from your paper, “Japan Is Missed by GI in Korea,” by Fred Sparks, and was dated Nov. 17, 1950. Naturally there were a few comments expressed between her letters and mine concerning this article. I thought that the article was pretty near true, but then again, there was so much exaggeration that it was pathetic. It seems like the article more or less covered the personnel that were in Japan with the occupation forces, but then again it brought out the fact that any person that had ever visited Japan could be an emperor.

I ARRIVED in Japan on Aug. 12, 1950 and departed there on Aug. 30, 1950 and have been in Korea since the first landing at Inchon on Sept. 15, 1950. I have been on both coasts of Korea, and yet have not found a sailor that has had a picture of “A Pert Miss From Kobe.” I think that (Sparks, not Mr, Sparks) is full of malarky and that his expressions that all the boys have a picture in their billfold of a “Pert Miss From Kobe,” is very much untrue. It is this type of article that causes numerous divorces and separations of the personnel that are married, and are trying to be happy, even if they are some 6000 and a few odd miles from their wives. "he only point that Mr. Sparks (I will call him Mr. this time) put over in his article, and I will quote “they're not so damn independent as the girls back home” unquote.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

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STOCKHOLM—Gustav VI, Sweden's newly crowned king, has asked Parliament for a raise of $38,000 a year. Now, this is the story of Sweden's King Gustav, Who asks for a“little more pay. With devaluation he says that he must have More dough than he's getting today.

According to Hoyle, if the good king likes poker, It must be plain stud that he plays. There's no other game where (unless there's a joker) - One lone king would call for a raise!

INDUSTRY ...By Fred W. Perkins: Is Everybody Happy About RR Agreement?

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—The agreement between the nation's railroads and the “Big Four” operating unions—the engineers, firemen, conductors and trainmen—seems to have satisfied most of those directly concerned. The railroads will have -an- additional wage bill of about $130 million a year to pay as a result of last week's agreement. But if precedents are followed the Interstate Commerce Com-

pay boost of 23 cents an hour

of General Assembly President Nazrollah Entezam of Iran, Lesfer B. Pearson of Canada and Sir Benegal Rau of India. It may make other approaches, though there is no known basis for further negotiation. ; The Chinese Communists insist they will agree to a ceasefire only on condition that all ‘foreign”-~meaning .' to them, United Nations — troops be withdrawn from Korea; that all questions regarding Asia, including Formosa, be discussed, and that Red China be admitted to the United Nations. The. position of the threeman commission and a majority of the General Assembly is that. the cease-fire must some first, and that only the Korean situation be then discussed.

s 88 ASSUMING both sides stick to their positions in this argument, the truce commission must eventually report failure to the General Assembly's Political. Committee One. This committee would then report to the full General Assembly. After receiving the report of failure—to negotiate a ceasefire agreement, the next ~tep for the General Assembly would probably be to take up the so-called “six-power” resolution on Korea. . :

six-power resolution may be strengthened in the General Assembly, so as to condemn the Chinese Communists as aggressors. s = . THUS far the U, 8. State Department has taken pains not to brand either Russia or Red China as an aggressor. For failure to take this action the State Department has been accused of pussyfooting. Everyone—including everyone in the State Department and the United Nations— knows that Soviet Russia and Red China planned the Korean invasion. Intelligence reports and the testimony of captured

Communist soldiers have re- -

vealed that the North Korean army was built up more than a year ago by a draft on the

. Chinese army.

Every Communist soldier with any Korean blood in his veins was put in the North Korean army months before the June 25 attack. Also; Chinese support troops and Russian supplies were moved into position in Manchuria

long before the attack. : The - idea that the North

Korean army was built up by “volunteers” from China is of course a complete lle.

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mission will authorize rate increases to make it up. Also

the railroads have a pledge

from the operating unions that they will make no more important demands for nearly three years — until Oct, 1, 1953. Though the term is not used this is regarded as virtually a no-strike pact. 8 8 . NEARLY 300,000 railway workers get pay boosts, which for many are the highest ever recorded in the railway Industry. : . A not so cheerful feature of

the settlement is that it marks

up another defeat for the proc-. esses of the Railway Labor Act, and another victory for the unions in appealing to the White House from the recommendations of emergency boards appointed under the act by the President. However, the Act is still working satisfac-

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