Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1951 — Page 14

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Give Light and the People Will Find Thelr Own Way

There Is No Excuse for Rabies

VERY little has beert done here through the years to meet the growing.menace of rabies. So little in fact, that rabies reports are becoming commonplace . . . tragic stories more and more frequent. Today, on another page, The Times tells of children's pets going mad and turning on their small masters. It's not always somebody else's dog . . . it may be yours. And it's not always somebody else's child. Official records show Marion County has a higher rabies rate than nearly half the states in the country. It places Indiana third worst in the nation. The situation has reached shocking proportions. In 1949 this state “led” the nation in rabies cases; &n in 1950 recorded the most human deaths caused by rabies. Last year four persons died . . . bitten by rabid dogs. There is no excuse for these deaths. Rabies can be stamped

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SUMMER is just around the corner, ‘‘the season for mad dogs,” and we don't know what will happen. County and city officials recently reported an increase in dog packs on the streets and countryside. Under present conditions, dog owners freely violate dog-tag and quarantine laws . . . and there is no reason to believe they will suddenly do an about face and co-operate to the very limit of their ability. Facilities and manpower of the municipal dog pound are woefully inadequate to meet the needs of a city this size. But if we can’t whip the problem through law-en-forcement agencies and the courts, perhaps we can through organized co-operation of dog owners and veterinarians. It's been done before. Other cities have licked it. We can too. . : In Denver, veterinarians joined in a program of low cost vaccination . . . one dollar a head. At specified times

und places, pet owners take their pets to be vaccinated.

It's as simple as that . .. and it doesn’t cost much. Regular charge in most veterinarian’s offices is $2.50. ~ » ~ » » ~ IN THIS manner, Denver was able to undertake mass inoculation. There is no reason to believe we can’t use the same plan for this entire county. The Times is not advocating socialized medicine for veterinarians. It has no place in the scheme of democracy. But we are advocating meeting the peril of rabies head-on with low cost vaccination . . . through the co-operation of dog owners and veterinarians. > It can be done. It has been done and it must be done «a. here.

Belated Decision ONALD S. DAWSON has agreed, with President Truman's permission, to testify in the Fulbright com-

mittee’s investigation of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. That decision is unfortunately belated. More than nine

weeks have passed since Sen. Fulbright invited Mr. Dawson,

one of the President's administrative assistants, to testify. It isn’t easy to understand why he ignored that invitation, why the President permitted him to ignore it, or why either he or Mr. Truman should have had a moment's doubt as to the right answer to the committee's later formal request, with which Mr. Dawson now says he gladly will comply tomorrow.

The explanation given at the White House is that, Mr. Truman required time to weigh carefully the implications of the constitutional separation of executive and congressional powers. su or sv = BUT what the committee wants to question Mr. Dawson about is his own conduct, not his confidential relationship with the President or the executive policy toward the RFC. What it offered him was an opportunity to explain, if he could, that he exerted no improper influence on directors of the big governmental lending agency and that the committee had been unfair in naming him as one who did exert influence.

The matter is a legitimate one for congressional inquiry and one about which the public has every right to he fully informed. : The decision Mr. Truman finally made was correct. And if, as a ‘White House spokesman asserts, he made it at Mr. Dawson's request, that is to Mr. Dawson's credit. But the President should have permitted. or required, him to testify at the earliest possible moment after his name was brought into the investigation That could have prevented the growth of what Mr. Dawson's testimony may show to have been an unjust public suspicion—though certainly it became a very strong one—that the President and his administrative assistant both had reasons for not wanting the whole truth about what went on in the RFC to be disclosed.

Victim of Politics

T. GEN. ALBERT C. WEDEMEYER, who has requested retirement from active service, is not as old a soldier as Gen. MacArthur, But he has one of the best military minds in the service. The nation can ill afford to lose so fine an officer at the age of 53. The former commander of the China theater has not given his reason for wishing to retire at a time .when he should be nearing the peak of his career. But he has been in the politicians’ dog house ever since he opposed the State Department's disastrous policies in China and Korea, and. he has been denied the recognition his distinguished service entitled him to expect. seek future usefulness in soffe field where a man can

speak his mind without being unjustly penalized, that is

‘Lewis, the

If Gen. Wedemeyer desires to

LABOR— Pensions for Coal Miners

By FRED W. PERKINS

WASHINGTON, May 9 - Some light has been ‘shed on the question, of how the big welfare fund of the United Mine Workers is being spent. This fund, financed by a union tax of 30 cents a ton on coal produced by operators under contract, takes in approximately $150 million a year. The contract provides for an annual audit, reports of which may be seen by “interested parties,” but there is no requirement that it be made generally public.

Mr. Lewis

...a trustee

~MIss “Josephine Roche, di-

rector of the fund and a longtime associate of. John I. Mine Workers’ president, has now disclosed that on Mar. 13 pensions of $100 a month were being paid to 39,111 retired coal miners. In a year these payments would amount to about $47 million-—nearly one-third of the annual collection. How the other two-thirds is being disbursed has not been disclosed, but apparently most of it goes for medical and hospital serv-

ices for miners and in some cases members of their families,

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FUND regulations require 20 years of service In coal mines to make a miner eligible for a pension. The information today was that the average years of service for all pensioners was 34, and that only 17 per cent had worked as few as 20 “to 25 years. Average age at retirement was given as 64.8 years, while 11 per cent had passed 70. These figures were regarded by fund officials as answering some objections by coal operators to the plan. The fund statement said that the “apprehensions expressed by a few when pensions were first initiated, that all eligible miners would retire, was proved groundless by the retirement data.” It was stated that ‘only 9 per cent of the men retiring during the first year of pensions did so merely because they wished to avail themselves of the pension,” and that “34 per cent of the pensions granted during the first vear were to men who had been ‘laid off’ and who applied for a pension only after their jobs ended.”

= o + MIS® ROCHE is designated n the company-union contract

covering the welfare fund as the “neutral” member of the three-member board repretenting the public. Charles A. Owen, of New York, Is designated as the operator trustee and Mr. I.ewis is named as the union trustee, and also as chairman. Although no report has been made on the subject, union spokesmen say they “assume” that Miss Roche and Mr. Owen receive salaries of $35,000 a vear for their services as trustees. Mr. Lewis, who i= paid $50,000 a year as the union's president, — fs understood to draw no additional sum from his trusteeship.

DAY OF HOPE

I THANK my God for Sunday . . . that wondrous day of rest . . . a day that's set aside for prayer . .. and bracing for life's test . a day~of peace and real goodwill . . . when people stop and think . .. about the finer things of life . . . and not of gold or mink ... a time when church bells loudly ring . to tell the world of God . and to invite us to walk awhile . . . upon the churchvard sod . . . it is a day when children dress . In! freshly ironed clothes . , | ups gain new strength to face . + their heartaches and woes . . oh, Sunday, you're a haven for... the tired and the weak .. . you give the sick a new-{ strength . . . you make the mighty meek. .

=By Ben Burroughs 3

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PRICE CONTROL . . . By Frederick C. Othman

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Anybody Got a Chunk of Steak? Lot of Black Eyes Around Today

WASHINGTON, May 9 1 doubt if there'll be any round steak left at any price for eating purposes, the battlers over the cost of meat are going to need the entire supply to poultice their black eyes. Gad! I never did see so many people’ sore about the price of cows. A delegation of cattle-

men, some in highheeled boots and some in hob-nailed shoes (the better to kick bureaucrats),

even now are clomping around town figuring how best to lasso Price Administrator Mike DiSalle. The roly-poly DiSalle, who got that way on a diet of steak and gravy, is ir a jam with the gu. House Agriculture - Committee over his rollback orders on meat

“prices, while his boss, Charles .E. Wilson, isin a .

tangle with. the Senate on the same subject. Nobody's actually been poked yet in the eve, but.the fight's only just begun and I only hope I can stay out of the fray. This is doubtful -because as an ex-consumer of beefsteaks, myself, I'm on Mike's side. If steaks on the hoof are at 152 per cent of parity, as he says, then it won't hurt anybody to cut the price a little so I can afford to eat 'em again. Those are fighting words, as. far as the cow men are concerned, and I fear the worst. My problem, aside from escaping mayhem, mean‘time, was the fact that I only had one pair of ears. The cow fellows, Mike and his tormentors, and Wilson and the Senators. all were sounding off simultaneously, but in different locations. Not being able to hear them all, I chose Wilson. He's head man. My guess is that he wishes he were back making automatic dishwashers and iceboxes

‘Mac for President’ MR. EDITOR:

As the old soldier used to say, “Dogs and people will always turn out to howl at a parade.” The MacArthur parades have been staged with highly keyed up dramatic effect to cash in on the propaganda .effect. They have drawn great crowds of people and dogs. How many of these people and dogs are really in love with “Mr. I Will Return” it is hard to say. Now the dogs and people of the editorial field are howling and barking at the heels of the parade. They are about as ridiculous as were the dogs that used to foul up the reviews

we gave for “Mr. 1.” But they are to be forgiven, for like the dogs, they know not what they are doing. When I came: back from World War II, I wrote the Hoosier Forum that MacArthur would not return to the U. 8. until his publicity department thought the time was ripe to run him for President. Please admit my prediction was correct . . . —1.. L. Patton, Crawfordsville

EDITOR'S NOTE: We can’t, As far as

we know, he has no Intention of running

for office.

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with two doors for the General Electric Co. But as Director of Defense Mobilization he still was full of fight before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee. Pink of cheek, too. and bright of eye behind his thick-lensed spectacles. He had a 24-page statement to read, telling why he thought Congress ought to strengthen the present Defense Production Act. But before he even got a chance to read it, Chairman Burnet R. Maybank (D. S. C.) denounced the rollback orders on meat as a creator of chaos. Then he took up the law itself, which expires on July 1, and needled the administration for waiting four months to put it into effect. A bitter man was Sen. Maybank. Mr. Wilson said for one thing he'd like to have the power to pay a subsidy on meat. Some of the Senators thought that sounded like the Brannan Plan whereby housewives would pay part of their meat bill at the butcher's and the rest to the tax collecteor.

Import Foods

THE administrator said he also wanted au- _

thority to import foods and sell them cheap in case anybody tried to blackjack the people who hate to give up the habit of eating. “What agriculture products do you want to import?” demanded Sen. John Bricker (R. O.). “Will you excuse me from answering that?” asked Mr. Milson. “Oh, sure, if you want to keep it secret,” replied Sen. B. “I mean if I mentioned the name of it.” said Mr. Wilson, “the price of it would go up tomorrow.” 1 can guess the name of it. I bet. And we'll be hearing more about it. a lot more. shortly. More than 130 organizations so far have demanded the right to testify before the Senators about price controls. The lawgivers have pruned this down to about 60 and we'll be hearing officially from the cow men now, almost anv minute. :

Teedatiaeedetacany

‘Pick-N-Win Tickets’ MR. EDITOR:

As a reader of The Times and after reading the story by Donna Mikels in Sunday's edition concerning the pick-n-win tickets being sold from Lawrence to Ben Davis, I wondered where the Marion County Prosecutor and Sheriff were? Why didn’t they act? I recall that during the last election The Times and the News and Star supported these Republican officials and it became boresome every day to read all the things these two would do in the way of law enforcement if elected. I am an independent voter, who like many more, feel that your paper, the News and the Star should have the courage to admit you were all wrong in supporting such officials. But the News and especially The Star will not because they supress any news that is unfavor-

able to a Republican—John Warren, Greencastle,

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Times supported neither the Prosecutor nor the Sheriff in the last election, has tried since to give a fair Account of their official actions, some successful, some unsuccessful, in law enforcement.

‘People Are Duped’ MR. EDITOR:

The news distributing agencies are keeping the people well duped the way the politicians want them. Politicians scare the people into following them like a bunch of sheep. If they read the papers or listen to the radio they are bound to read or hear some capitalist spouting calamity for our country unless they follow the Republican dope. The MacArthur issue is a clean-cut case of exploiting a situation by bunk, distortion with little regard for the truth and no attention to justice by the Republican Party. Our national security could only be preserved by removing MacArthur. President Truman would have neglected his duty If he had not fired MacArthur, a man who has been praised far beyond his desserts for purely political reasons by the Republican Party. Better remove them from office in the place of impeaching our President. —Theo. B. Marshall, City.

‘Tobey's Derby Pool’ MR. EDITOR:

So it's all right for Sen. Tobey to get up a pool on the Derby, but not for you or me. That's rich isn’t it? This was broadcast over the radio Sunday night. We are always saying .it’s bad to foment class prejudice in this country, and it is, but this is the way we do ft, thinking it's

‘all right for me ‘to do it, but you, oh no. '1

should say not. 1 thought this was a country where men are supposed to be free and equal, but such ‘as this makes it very doubtful, doesn't it? : —Sally V. Ellis, 6101 Broad Ripple Ave,

‘Political Mud’ MR. EDITOR:

Speaking of mud slinging the candidates

‘of both parties: There is plenty in the gutters

“Help yourselves, boys.

for all. ; To —Reader of The Times, City.

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EUROPE ...By Ludwell Donny Churchill Key Figure In China Embargo

LONDON, May 9— Whether Britain will join the United

States in a total embargo on China trade now depends less on the -

Labor Government than on Winston Churchill.

If the Tory leader makes this a political issue Prime Minister

Clement Attlee will act rather than risk fall ‘of his shaky Labor Government and defeat in a general election. Mr. Churchill is undecided and apparently is waiting for

public opinion, which is just beginning to shift away from the pro-Peiping attitude. So far Mr. Churchill has merely suggested the possibility of a complete ban on rubber shipments. : There is no hint yet that he is ready for total embargo. . Mr. Attlee Minister Herbert Morrison, un-

“der. pressure from the U. 8.

State Department and the Senate testimony of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Defense Secretary George C. Marshall, have moved about halfway .from the original British policy to the American position. Given time they’ll go farther. But the British cabinet. split prevents fast Attlee action without vigorous Churchill prodding.

~ » (Xd > THE Attlee-Morrison sharp note of protest Monday to Peiping on the mistreatment of a British consul at Nanking publicizes their growing disillusionment over Mao Tse-tung, the Chinese Red leader. About 10 days ago they gave up hope that Mao would reciprocate diplomatic relations, which Britain extended to him in January, 1950. Nevertheless, this disillusionment in itself is not alone - either in the case of Mr. Attlee or Mr. Churchill-—to determine a total embargo policy. Both leaders are weighing the longterm effects of such policy on the political, economic and strategic interests of the empire. The factors being considered by Mr. Attlee and Mr. .Churchill, as well as other informed Britons, include these in favor of total embargo: : The necessity of: strengthenIng the British-American alliance on which British survival depends. ”n ~ ~ THE desirability of making a deal with Washington, if possible, for British support of America’s China policy in exchange for more vigorous American support of Britain in Persia, Egypt and the Mid East generally. Mr. Attlee and Mr. Churchill are even more concerned with the Mid East than the Far East.

~——The desperate need in" Eng-

land for American raw material allocations to save export industries and to prevent unemployment; as well as to feed rearmament industries, and the incongruity at the same time allowing any British raw materials to go ‘to China. Danger of a sudden kickback by the . English electorate against China trade when British casualties in Korea are beginning to mount. But offsetting the foregoing factors, partly at least, are other considerations:

and Foreign

Total

embargo on China: trade, if effective, increases the risk of a major war in the Far East. This Mr. Attlee and Mr. Churchill are anxious to avoid because it would draw off Allied defense of the United Kingdom and Europe. EJ ~ » A FINAL trade break with China would invite Mao te seize Hong Kong, or at least cause him to starve out the island which is dependent on the mainland for food. With Malaya already hanging by a thread, the opposition of rubber interests there, plus the opposition of the large Chinese population. might lose Britain her last possession in southeast Asia. Britain has been informed by Indonesia, Burma and Commonwealth member Ceylon, who can supply. China, that they won't shut off trade, Though Monday's explanation by Sir Hartley Shawecross, president of the Board of Trade, of the present status of British exports to China somewhat modified critical reactionto Mr. Attlee's stumbling exposition last week, many remain uneasy about the situation. = = ~ THE official alibi is as follows: There's been a British ban on arms and strategic materi-

als since last summer, but rub- -

ber hasn’t been considered war

goods. With that and one or.

two other exceptions China has

been getting only enough for . ~legitimate civilian use. Charges = that British exports have fed °

the Chinese campaign in Korea are termed unjust and silly. Gen. MacArthur's charge of petroleum exports this year is

denied, although it's admitted -

that sulphur shipments were

not stopped until Mar. 18 and - that rubber exports were un- ° two weeks _

controlled until later, There's been a genuine tightening of British controls during the past American pressure. but obviously it's far from the total embargo demanded by Washington,

DEAR BOSS... . By Dan Kidney

Reporters Question Beef Men on Prices

WASHINGTON, May 9—President Hassil Schenck of the Indiana Farm Bureau and Rep. Ralph Harvey, New Castle Republican and member of the House Agriculture Committee, were among those present when Washington reporters gave the beetmen the business at the Press Club Monday night. Here to try and get Congress to checkmate the beef price

roll-back ordéred by Price Stabilization Director Michael DiSalle, the beef producers entertained agriculture Congressmen and the press at cocktails and dinner. Then President Allan Kline of the American Farm Bureau F e deration spoke in con-

demnation of p Harve all price con- Bp. Narvey trols and ... beefing urged that

high taxes and sound money be substituted instead as the “American Way. After that a panel of 12 of the livestock and packer people prepared to answer questions. The questions came from the press far faster than the answers came from the panel. For the story went around how one reporter's 4-vear-old son had just that day asked his mother: “What is steak?” With beef at 152 per cent above parity, the working press wanted to know why farmers were beefing. Under the threestep roll-back, plan announced by Mr. DiSalle, the retail price still would be down only about 10 per cent. That will take un-

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THE PRICE Stabilization Director had spent the day defending his order before the House Committee. With or-: ganized agriculture .representatives from their home district at their elbows, some of the Congressmen tried to see how uncomfortable they could make the price boss. But he proved he can take Iit—even from Texans. “Mike” - DiSalle had undergone similar punishment from the soft-spoken, but loud - shouting Southern Démocrats when he ordered price control on cotton. It never fazed him. So the upshot is likely to be that beef will be controlled, as Congress cannot repealing the price control law at this time. a . “The Farm Bureau program iz ideal for a free economy in

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make sense

normal peacetimes,” Mr. Har- of motorcycles lately?

vey, a bureau member and large-scale farmer, said. “But these are not normal times and until they become so, I not only gxpect to see more controls but also rationing. “Even peace in Korea will not settle the problem. For we will have to continue to spend the billions we have allocated for defensé. That program couldn't be changed within two years without serious damage to our whole economic system.” » » »

MR. HARVEY believes that the best the farmers can hope for is some softening of the Di-

Salle order. He thinks that is necessary. For he believes that while range cattle will still be produced in great number, the Midwest farmers will not buy feeders and finish off the steers for final marketing. Upshot will be grass fed calves of around 600 pounds on the market, instead of the fine fat cattle of 1000 pounds or over. That also means tough meat. ~ ~ ~ ALTHOUGH controls are not yet in effect, such a course already is being pursued by the Farm Bureau cattle buyers in Indiana Mr. Schenck said: : “We have been taking the entire herds from a single | great ranch in Texas,” he said. “But this year we haven't bid for them, So far as I know neither has anyone else. “Our farmers feel that they cannot take a chance on buying them at high prices on the hoof and, after fattening, take them into a controlled mar-. ket.” : :

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A TEACHER says that no’ question a youngster asks is silly. Unless, of course, it. sticks the parents.

A dietitian says no matter low much you serve spinach, some kids are apt to dislike it. Just an old spinach custom.

It's funny how some people apend all day getting out of doIng a morning's work.

The clinging gal is not as popular these days, says a writer. Has he looked at the backs

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