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We've Outgrown Our Hospitals

HE revelation that Indianapolis has a critical shortage

of hospital facilities may be shocking, but it should not be surprising. . Almost no new hospital space has been added here in the last 30 years. During that time the city has grown about 40 per cent larger. The immediate shortage found by the survey reported this week is 2763 beds— just about 40 per cent of the minimum needs of a city this size. The amount of money required to bring us up to reasonable, though not by any means lavish, health requirements is a staggering total. It is, of course, the accumulation of what we didn’t spend, since 1920, to keep hospital accommodations in step with the growth of the city in population, and in wealth. Spread over those 30 years it would have been a relatively small amount annually. ~ = ~ ~ n " SINCE we didn't do it methodically as we went along, we now face the task of catching up. That, it is now estimated, will cost some $19 millions, of which nearly $12 millions probably are going to have to be raised right here. Even spread over a two or three year period, that will be the biggest fund raising job Indianapolis ever has undertaken. Fortunately it is one Indianapolis is able to do. Although 22d in size among American cities, Indianapolis ranks fourth among all the large cities in the country, in spendable income. The amount we need here is actually less, per person, and per dollar of income, than has been raised for similar purposes by other, less wealthy cities, some of them right in Indiana. An excellent beginning has been made by Ed Gallahue and his associates in mapping the needs, and the steps that must be taken to meet them. Now they need the support of all the rest of the comemunity to carry the program through.

Fifth Battle of Seoul

EOUL, the capital of Korea, has changed hands four times in the 10 months war, and a fifth battle is presently being fought for the possession of that battered city. A military spokesman at the front has described the fight our troops are making as a “magnificent delaying action” in which, though in retreat, the United Nations are trading “ground for blood’’—meaning enemy blood. But in the 10 months this has heen going on a lot of American blood has been traded for this same ground, and what is there to show for it? The last casualty report, compiled before the beginning of the present enemy offensive, listed 61,744, wounded, missing and dead. Combat deaths total 10,567. Many unrecorded deaths also must be assumed in the list of 10,836 who are missing in action. While this fearful toll is being recorded, members of the Senate are debating whether to hold public or secret hearings when Gen. Douglas MacArthur appears to testify on the issues of this war. Since these hearings will be held for the sole purpose of examining American strategy and war aims in Korea, what possible reason can there be for conducting this examination behind closed doors? THE United States went into this war for the avowed purpose of stopping Communist aggression. But that purpose became confused when our Allies insisted that we take it easy after the Chinese Communists entered the conflict. Political restrictions were placed upon Gen. MacArthur's operations as a result of this pressure and a military stalemate ensued while Britain and India tried to work out a “compromise” which would give the Chinese Reds what they wanted without a fight. Since the collapse of these negotiations, the United Nations hasn't been able to make up its mind what it wants to do. So the seemingly endless round of battles for the city of Seoul has been resumed, though for what purpose nobody seems to know. But the American people want to know, and have said 80 in an avalanche of letters and telegrams to their members of Congress. These demands for light on this situation cannot be answered by partisan, star-chambers proceedings. If any secrets are involved, they are political rather than military.

Patchwork Security

HE United States is preparing to sign a treaty guaranteeing the security of Australia and New Zealand, as one of the preliminaries to the Japanese peace settlement. This arrangement is said to be designed to allay the fears of those two countries that they might jeopardize their own safety by agreeing to a settlement which might permit Japan again to become a power in the Pacific. Since.the Australian-New Zealand treaty is general in its application, however, any act of aggression against them from any source wolild involve the United States. 5° Even without a treaty, our country almost certainly would intervene if Australia and New Zealand became objéets of Communist aggression. So there should be no serious objection to formalizing our position. =" But this proposed agreement cannot be considered in any sense as a Pacific defense pact, and unfortunately. there has been some attempt to present it in that light. point should be clarified, for any misunderstanding about it could do great harm. Here again we may have got ourselves into a jam by our overeagerness to relieve the British Commonwealth of possible embarrassment. India, a member of the Commonwealth, does not care to join an anti-Communist coalition. So, to avoid accentuating the rift within the Commonwealth group, none is being proposed. "But while these considerations are being satisfied what about America’s own protege in the Pacific-—the Philippines? fh Patchwork arrangements of this kind may appeal to a certain type of political mind, but they do not make for

SP seco lity and they are likely to create jealousy and

on when unity is all-important,

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ADVENTURE . . . By Frederick C. Othman Out of Flowers, Into Films—

WASHINGTON, Apr. 27-—-There is a movie producer named Ken McEldowney in town who has no business with the House Un-American Activities Committee. KL He hasn't even been charged with being a communist. This is news and I think maybe I'd better tell you about him

When I knew him

in the long ago he was the proprietor of a chain of drive-in florist shops in Hollywood. All he knew = about actors was 3 that they were good = customers for orchids at $15 a throw. The Navy got him: during the war and =; there was Ken shoot-= ing war movies for=3 the admirals. This{§ was fun. It didn’t seem hard to him. After his discharge he discovered that the flower business was going full steam. It didn’t need him. He decided to be a movie producer. And to get as far away from Hollywood as possible to do it. “T took a string and put it on a globe of the world,” he said, “and discovered that the fartnest possible place was Calcutta, India. Tnat was for me.” He mortgaged the flower shoppes and his two automobiles. He borrowed as much money

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is he could from the orchid customers in the old home town, organized Oriental International Films, Inc., and started looking around for a story to match his locale. He bought the movie rights to Rumer Godden’s hit novel about India, ‘The River.” Then he headed for the mysterious East aboard a luxury airplane being ferried” wer for a maharajah. * In India the persuasive McEldowney borrowed some rubies from the maharajah, plus some rupees from the latter's friends, and some pounds from an assortment of Britishers. He hired the celebrated Frenchman Jean Renoir. to direct, and for actors he brought from England and America such performers as Tom Breen, Arthur Shields, Esmond Knight and Nora Swinburne. By now, McEidowney had a private sweeper who dusted off the sidewalk in front of him; two bearers to carry his bundles, an umbrella holder and a personal fanner to whip up a breeze. All he needed was a studio. He ordered one built and it came out air-conditionea Soon Ken was joined by his wife, whom I'd known in Hollywood as Melvinna Pumphrey, one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s top press agents. They finished their movie, in technicolor, no less, and dropped around to Washington to see Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the Indian ambassadress. to talk over the holding of the world premiere here for the benefit of Indian charities. She liked the idea fine. And some day I think I'll make a movie, myself. All about an adventurous florist.

STATE DEPARTMENT . . . By Earl Richert : Campaign Against Homosexuals

WASHINGTON. Apr. 27 The State Depart-

ment has assured Congress it is vigorously pushing its drive to weed out all homosexuals among its employees

Fifty-four homosexuals were forced to resign in 1950 and four more have been forced out so far this year. 4 This bring to 148 the total number of homosexuals § forced out of the State Department since 1947 when the spotlight was first turned on them as a security risk. Eleven cases are now under investigation. There are 28.500 employees in the department. The homosexual question came to the forefront in 1947 when Rep. Karl Stefan (R. Néb.) presented a list of 106 State Department employees of questionable.character. and supposedly doubtful loyalty. An investigation by the department showed many of them to be

SIDE GLANCES

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sfayed home tonight to bone up for exams, Doris—just washed my hair and now I'm going to clean my room!"

homosexuals. John E. Peurifoy, who was then deputy Sage. Secretary of State for administration, said those persons were security risks and that whenever they were discovered the department was forcing them out. That policy is continuing. “There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind and there is no doubt as far as the State Department is concerned, that a homosexual is a security risk,” Mr. Peurifoy’s successor, Carlisle H. Humelsine, told the House Appropriations Committee in recent hearings made public yesterday. “We treat homosexuals as security risks. We are not attempting to run a campaign of going after people because of the fact that they have an illness. IT think homosexuality is a type of illness. A homosexual, in my opinion, is just as sick as a person who has a cancer or some other disease. “But it is absolutely apparent to us that these people are also security risks and we want them off our rolls. And we are going to get them off our rolls.” Of the homosexuals forced out so far, two were women. And of the 54 forced to resign

House members would disappear when the gift idea was abandoned. They were surprised by the vehemence displayed Wednesday by members of the Rules Committee even against the loan plan. Stiff opposition is expected when the bill goes to the floor for a vote. 4 The Rules Committee had been refusing to give a place on the House calendar to the gift bill which was reported out, six weeks ago by the Forsign Affairs Committee.

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ON TUESDAY the foreign affairs group, which had voted originally in favor of a gift, bowed to the will of the Rules Committee by recommending 19 t3 1 that India receive only a loan. The new bill was mostly the work of Rep. John Vorys (R. 0.), who suggested that the Econgmic Co-operation Administraffon make India a loan ' similar to those it has negotiated with many European

HIS JOB SAFE NOW? . . . By Andrew Tully

Acheson Tickled Pink About Pulling Rug From Under Doug

WASHINGTON, Apr. 27—The firing of Gen. Douglas MacArthur has had a noticeable effect on Secretary of State Dean Acheson-—the man whose policies the General opBoses. It has, quite obviously, made Mr. Acheson cockier—at least, in his press conferences—than he has been in months. But it is not the brash, or Dizzy Dean, type of cockiness which Mr. Acheson is wearing these days. That kind wouldn't fit him. Rather, his brimming assurance is of the genteel, or , Groton type. Mr. Acheson does not puff out his chest nor strike aggressive poses nor hurl any challenges at the opposition. He is, after all, too much the gentleman for that. Instead, he sits there quietly confident and ever so slightly superior—and) just a wee bit patronizing. After all those rough months, the Secretary of State clearly is delighted—and relieved—to have won his policy battle with the glamorous victor of the Pacific.

Very Polite Affairs

MR. ACHESON'S press conferences always are pretty polite affairs because that is the tone he invariably sets. Occasionally, to be sure, an impertinent question ruffles the atmosphere, but the Secretary's recovery is rapid and he can usually depend on a few pals among the press to get things back on the right track by tittering sarcastically at the crude fellow who has dared to speak out of turn. But at his most recent meeting with the press since the MacArthur firing, Mr. Acheson took charge without any help from the titterers. In it, he resumed a favorite Acheson role missing from his press conference repertoire in re-

cent months—that of the teacher patiently lec- -

turing a class of none-too-smart schoolboys. He was not only patient, but coolly casual, in announcing an agreement between the U. S. and the Chinese Nationalists governing military aid to Formosa which was signed last February. Despite the fact this agreement had not been made public previously, Mr. Acheson gave the impression everybody should have known about it anyway, and not bothered him with silly questions whether our Formosa policy had changed. The Secretary even grew snappish when, after he'd read the exchange of notes between the two governments, a reporter asked if he was

‘People Out of Work’

MR. EDITOR: We wonder if Mr. Fairchild is aware of the hundreds of people he has thrown out of employment in the fraternal organizations throughout the state of Indiana because of his war on the slot machines. These include waitresses, bartenders, musicians and professional entertainers. These fraternal organizations are guilty of no wrong doing, and should not be persecuted n this manner. In the first place you are required to be a member of same before entering, and in the second place, playing slot machines has always been optional, as no one stands over vou with a whip and makes you do it. Many communities would be minus iron iungs, plus other worthwhile charities, if it nadn't been for wonderful donations of these fraternal organizations, and its a shame to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. —Local Reader, City.

‘It's a Great Town’

MR. EDITOR: Iam from Terre Haute and lived and worked in Indianapolis for about one and a half years. In that time I was young and had a good job and I opened an account with a leading store. I bought clothing and other things like a young fellow likes. Then all of a sudden I found my-

self in the Air Force. I had to leave Indianapolis owing two stores,

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last year 45 were discovered as a result of the department’s own investigations and nine were fired after being arrested by Washington police.

Two Were Women

MR. HUMELSINE also reported that 14 per sons have been separated from the State Department since 1947 as security risks, one of them last year. Two more are now under suspension and investigation. Moreover, information on the homosexuals and persons discharged as straight-out security risks is turned over to the Civil Service Commission, State Department officials said. But the department has no knowledge of how many, if any, have found their way back into other government agencies. That, it was said, is the responsibility of the Civil Service Commission and the employing agencies. Mr. Humelsine said he had been told by authorities on the subject that about 4 per cent of the population may be homosexual or have homosexual tendencies. The 148 homosexuals discovered in the State Department so far amounts to about one-half of 1 per cent of the total personnel.

By Galbraith LONG-TERM LOAN . . . By James Daniel Can New India Grain Bill Pass House?

WASHINGTON, Apr. 27—The India wheat bill, originally proposed by the Truman administration as a $190 million gift, has

returned.

Hoosier Forum-‘Gambling’s OK’

"I do not agree with a word that you say, but Iwill defend to the death your right to say i.”

EEN O NON R ENN EN RENIN TORR REE O NOREEN ERIE TERETassas eases ir tanneresesnses

when no principal has to be

correct in assuming the agreement limited our military aid to Formosa's internal security and for defense purposes. Mr. Acheson said curtly the reporter had heard the notes read and that he, the Secretary, felt they were perfectly clear and needed no clarifying. But then he was his quietly confident and casual self again as another newsman asked

why the agreement hadn't been announced at the time it was signed. He said, with disarming frankness, that he didn’t know but that he'd find out if the ree porter wanted him to. Again, there was the new, confident Acheson in the way he refused to comment on whether the Hungarian government had agreed to release Robert A. Vogeler, the American held as an alleged spy. Twice he merely snapped no comment. In old days, when the heat was on, he probably would have softened his replies with a courteous explanation as to why he couldn't comment. The word, so it's said, has gone out that Dean Acheson's job is safe. No one can say for sure whether this report is the McCoy, but Mr, Acheson's attitude these days may be the tipoff. He certainly acts as if HE'S heard it.

Of course I planned on paying them. But when I sent letters to them only one started proceed= ings. The other not only sent me word to not worry but deeply thanked me for writing. This store deserved, I feel, a comment as they ree spected a service man. This store is in Indiane apolis. The one that sued is in another town, Sq it proves again that Indianapolis is a great town. v." : The store in Indianapolis .is L. 8. Ayres, Again I think they deserve mention for their wonderful policy . .. always serving. —Sgt. H. E. Edington, San Antonio, Texas, U. S. Air Force.

‘Traffic Accidents’ :

MR. EDITOR: I am sure many parents will join me in Saye ing thanks to you and your reporters for excel lent editorials on the traffic dangers. We will admit many youngsters do not stop to think of the danger. The principals and teachers of schools are warning us and thinking mothers are beside themselves to know what to do, When a child gets out of a parent's sight there is not much can be done. One of my grandchildren wants to obey traffic rules, but at times forgets to do so. I have given him the job of caring for his older brother and sister on Sunday morning crossing E. 10th St. at Keystone Ave. The little fellow knows no fear because I have told him that a motorist will always stop and let little children across the street. So you will see little Mike every Sunday morning walk out on E.’10th St., put his little arms out wide and the traffic waits until he guides his brother and sister safely across the street. T always say a prayer when the children leave hoping God will be with them and that no motorist will disobey him and knock him down. Mr. Motorist, this is tea hing my grandson responsibility. Will you help him”? This is a very dangerous corner and Mike is so proud that vou stop for him. Please don't let him down. He will either reward you with a great big smile or a thanks, Buddy, and you will go on your way thanking God that a child had faith in your ability to stop.

—Gilda Walker, City. MR. EDITOR: -

I've read in so many books, newspapers and magazines that teen-agers are always the ones who do the majority of speeding and reckless driving. I noticed that The Times :arried a story telling about 38 who were are rested for speeding. Only two of these were teen-agers Seventeen of them were all over 30 and the rest are in their 20s. I am just getting sick and tired of teen igers being blamed for bad driving. It's my opinion that if more parents would take an ine terest ‘in the way their children drive and spend more time teaching them to drive, they would be better drivers. Or could it be that most pa ents don’t know rules of good driving theme selves” —Linda Morton, City,

THIS set off a barrage in the Rules Committee. Members

finally come out of the House Rules Committee in the form of a long-term loan. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved the proposal on a half gift, half loan basis. Observers had thought that most of the opposition among

Rep. John Yorys . + . . behind new bill

countries, and also similar to the special loan voted last year to Spain. These loans have been for a period of 33 to 35 years, repayable with 2!; per cent interest on the with a grace period of six to , eight years at the,

paid principal,’

~ » ~ WITH the loan, India would buy American grain, subject to a guarantee by the Agriculture Department that the 2 million tons involved would not impair our other commitments and needs, and feed it into the Indian rationing system for sale to Indians, along with other grain produced in India or bought commercially abroad. The principal ¢gifference from the gift bill was that it would

have made the grain a present

to the Indian government; with the Indian currency realized from its sale to be set up as a fund which New Delhi, subject to approval of American observers on the spot, would use for local reconstruction projects.

» » » ESSENTIALLY, the gift bill was acknowledged to be the opening phase of a new ECAtype program for India. Rep. John Kee (D. W. Va.), chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, appeared first before the rules group. He

. sald he and a majority of his

committee members still favored the gift idea a felt that asking India to repdy was “like putting a gun to the head” of hungry people.

recalled India's negative role in the United Nations, her ems bargoing of strategic mae terials wanted by the United. States, the alleged radicalism

of some members of Primé,

Minister. Nehru's family, and. the fact that an estimated $6 ‘billion in similar foreign aid proposals is now pending or in

prospect before the Foreigm

Affairs Committee.

Rep. E. E. Cox (D. Ga.) sald Congress sometime had to be= gin saying no to foreign-aid re quests, and the India bill wag’ a good time to start. Mr. Cox sald he did not trust the administration to obtain any increased raw materials as a result of the loan. And Rep, Vorys conceded that his bill really would not require India to ship any more raw materials to the United States, ale though he said he thought this would be the practical result,

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ONLY people carrying a spare head should try speeding on the highway.

PROBING Night Club Racke et—headline. Why can't the teen-agers be more quiet?

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