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Lifeline to Korea Ir YOUR SON, or brother, or husband or sweetheart should die in combat in Korea, it would be to you an immeasurable tragedy. ‘Your only consolation would be that he died in defense of a free way of life. : "But if he should die from wounds because there was _ not enough life-giving blood available for transfusions, |. the tragedy would be compounded. Your consolation, in such circumstances, would be tempered by a bitter feeling of frustration. ' v - ” n * » » IT COULD happen to someone you Know — now wearing the uniform of the United States or our Allies in that shambled, miserable land of Korea as the war with" Communist aggression wears on and on. : The stark fact is, blood donated in this. country by patriotic citizens is being used up in Korea faster than

alarmingly low supply—to the point of a crisis. As a result, Army and Air Force officials have issued

an urgent appeal to Americans for more blood. They have set a quota of 300,000 pints a month—nearly eight times as much as has been donated recently.

u ” ” MANY lives “of American fighting men have been saved in Korea by the use of blood donated by citizens diving normal lives at home. Many more thousands of fighting men will live—if more citizens will give. 2: Do you know of an easier way to save a life?

Citizens, Not Mercenaries “HE obligation of the American people to unite in otal EY * support of our armed forces was the underlying theme of a Senate committee report yesterday. 4 ‘The Lyndon Johnson subcommittee of preparedness ‘revealed its findings on the miserable housing for families “uhasevios men at 1 sampe ang posts. It was the committees second such survey this year. In general, it found only improvement—widespread gouging and profiteering going on, and service dependents living in chicken coops, But the committee had some wise abd tiniely observa: tions about American soldiers of today, and the way we

THE American soldier, it is noted, is oe ] who makes a career out of killing | first of all a citizen. And unless he : of his fellow citizens he will lose

populations —and total obliga- @ whole-hearted siipport of the people and their common, unified will. indicated,” says the report, in the ease the lot of the men who go forth common foe.” : .

7 ‘sojdier forced to house his family in ] coop, represents a crack in the structure national ick “Enough cracks could topple the whole ctu +e 8 nation unable to unite behind its fighting | 1... ~i8 doomed.” The problem of ‘Housing—as well as the problem of proneeded blood for our armed forces—will finally be only by the sacrifice and devotion of individual and their unanimous desire to contribute to morale and peace of mind of our men in uniform. :

orn Blown on Gabrielson BPUBLICANS in and out of Congress have been quick to cry fraud and corruption in the Truman adminOne of the quickest has béen Guy Gabrielson, Republican national chairman. Now it is disclosed that Mr. Gabrielson is president abe general counsel for a corporation which is seeking an extension on loans it obtained from the government's n Finance Corp.

party is not in power in Washington. The original RFC ldans- to the company which Mr. Gabrielson heads whre made before he became GOP chairman. He says he has no influence and sxerted no pressure. .

5 MR. GABRIELSON implies that “rumor and innuendo” have been spread about him in this case, “in the hope of protecting crooks within and without the Truman administration.” But Mr. Gabrielson’s negotiations with the RFC were distlosed by a Republican — Sen. John, J. Williams of - Delaware, who has been doing a. methodical, Objective, painstaking job of uncovering irregularities. "Ben. Williams did not hesitate to turn his fire on his own party when he found reason for it. He said he disapproved of any responsible official, “in either major party,” who would take fees for representing clients before government agencies,

J THE American Lithofold Co., a St. Louis printing ‘concern, has been handing the Republicans a ready-made Issue, as revealed by a Senate investigating committee, The peculiar eagerness of this company to pay “comto government employees is too much to swallow Solasidenes

- Chairman William M. Boyle clainia that d on the company’s books as “commissions” : from this company had nothing to do Ans Jats {rom the BFC. But the loans,

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it is being sent there. The reserve store has reached.

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PENNY SHORTAGE . .. B By Frederick C. Othman Some Changes in Washington, But No Improvements Noted

WASHINGTON, opt. 25—~There have been some changes here since I headed for Spain a month ago today. Not for the better, either. My first chore was to deposit a pay check in the bank to forestall my creditors and the place was plastered with dignified signs saying there was a serious shortage of pennies. These urged” the customers to empty their piggy banks ‘and added that the management was rationing one~cent pleces to its commercial accounts. What anybody wants swith a penny these days is beyond me.

The situation seems to bé approaching what it is in Spain, where a citizen seldom bothers to pick up a piece of small change he’s dropped ““\.by mistake. Other developments here seem to be deflationary.

Gifts or Bribes

WHEN I LEFT town certain bigwigs in the government were insisting under oath that it was all right for them to accept such gifts as food freezérs, mink coats, and free rooms in Miami Beach hotels. i Now, to another expert before the Senate, it’s OK to take a ham weighing up to 12 pounds from a client, but anything over that is bribery. I'm sorry I wasn’t here to listen

to him say it, because I imagind you'd have

been interested in his exact words, The ham story, however, is not yet finished, and T'll get on the job at once.

I will, that is, if I ever get my fence repainted. Last summer I built this fence around my place in McLean, Va. Then I gave it two coats of a widely advertised white creosote paint. The raw wood drank this stuff, at $5 per gallon, like blotting paper. It cost like sin, but it certainly did look pretty. At first. Then it started fo turn gray and eventually it became streaked with black, and this week--end I have been going over it again with oldfashioned house paint. Anybody who mentions white creosote to me again gets a half-bucket of it in the face. The farm in our absence got along fine under the ministrations of neighbors Ted and Rosalind Lewis. Emma, our poodle, is about

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

TORONTO -— Three robbers painstakingly taped the hands and eyes of a lady cashier at a metal works before rifling the place. The holdup netted them $1.00,

It's evident now that the crooks in Toronto Are not economically wise. They'd better start studying law rather f pronto— The law of demand and supplies. And these silly three better take a Jong lay-off, - They proved to be nothing but jerks. The tape they employed cost them more than the pay-off — ° So all that they got was “the works!”

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

to give birth to what I believe will be octupiets. Our 50 hens are giving 40 eggs per day and what my bride intends to do with them I have no idea.

Tastes Good, Looks Bad

OUR APPLE trees éire loaded with fruit that tastes elegant, but looks awful. Guess we didn't spray enough. Nobody’ll buy ’em on account of the specks. This is peculiar because I remember as if it were yesterday when a cele-

brated professor of nutrition testified before

Congress that the most nourishing part of an apple is the worm. I have been snooping around the Capitol briefly (it does not pay to pitch in too hard immediately after a vacation) and the general idea seems fo be that the statesmen will call it a day around Oct. 5. This I doubt. .The gents even have a pool on when they'll quit. This is gambling, the way I look at it, but then perhaps the Keéfauver committee is looking the other way. My own guess is ‘hat the boys will be on the job at least until snow flies. .

Hard to Stop

THE weather's cool now and they can argue without going into a lather, It's going to be hard to stop 'em, no matter what the administration hopes. If you'll excuse me mow, I'll get back fo that fence. I'm using a hew nylon brush, which cost me $6. 1 can't say that I recommend it; the paint seems to keep sliding off. }

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Views on News

By DAN KIDNEY 4 A GREAT statesman in these stormy days is one who never makes more faces than he can save, ¢ Sb PRESIDENT TRUMAN doesn't like the size of the Senate’s $5.5 billion tax bill. He wants it doubled so it can pass for a Senate AP ation.

SEN. BENTON says Sen. McCarthy is “scared and frightened.” And 1: Hext s year hell run. ; * Sb A PAIR of gift cameras brought the White House back® into focus: at the RFC-Boyle hearin gS. <> "REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN GUY GABRIELSON’S “Carthage Hydrocol” = business yeodlaw's be confused with = “Hadacol.”

It's more oily, : Ld MARGUERITE HIGGINS reports that American GIs‘ whistle at the girls in Frankfort. Just keeping fit for a furlough home.

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\ More Promises Than Action Seen on ltalian Pact Change

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25—Premier Alcide De Gasperi probably will get promises than action in his negotiations here this week for revision of the Italian treaty. At least no way has yet been found to make

the change in a manner satisfactory to all the

Allies and which will javold the Russian veto. ! Italy can denounce the © treaty, -on the ground that: Russia violated it in her admission into the United Nations. But the main pur- § pose of the premier’s trip here is to persuade the Allies, and especially the United States, to produce the revision—as they would have to do in the long run to make the change effective. ot y He has been successf 0] . the extent of getting an Al- Mr: De Gasperi lied agreement in principle. That is what the North Atlantic Treaty members committed themselves to indirectly in their Ottawa conference declaration Imst week that “all obstacles which hinder such co-operation on an equal footing should be removed.”

Big Difference

.. BUT there is a big difference in diplomacy between lip-service to a “principle” and prompt action, That is what the premier is up against. The sheer mechanical difficulty of revising a treaty to which Stalin is a party is only one reason for delay. Another reason is that the urgency is more

political than ‘military. If the defense of Europe

in the next few months depended on lifting the ‘military restrictions placed on Italy by the existing treaty, ways undoubtedly would be found

‘to do this quickly. .

Actually, however, Italy still has a consider : able distance to So 14 Tesfmainent bsfore ab: ing her potential under the The

. main barriers are financial and

She cannot or will not adequately equip her present divisions without more Amerjcxn help. She Cannot oF Wil Bot BAe Het A dsioriss ard

her Allies more goods permitted undérthe

unless the United States supplies the raw me terials and capital.

Unpopular at Home

AND SHE will not commit the bulk of Her present ‘to fight under Gen, Eisenhower outside Italy because such a course would be wipoplar at home, : Though. treat y Xevision is thus not ap immediate military necessity, it is——or soon may become-—a domestic political necessity, That was beginning to be true before Japan got such

' ‘a generous treaty, Since then the Italians coninjustice

sider themselves victims of extreme and discrimination. - They demand an “equality” status, not. in exchange for more defense effort, but as a matter or right. Any government in Rome

which fails to achieve this will be. increasingly

the butt of Italy's enraged pride.

Losing Strength THE practical sidé of this is that Premier

- De Gasperi is losing strength at home, for a

variety of reasons, when. it is to Allied interest to keep him in office as the most effective force against communism. So the object here ix to give him promises to take back to Rome, without any very clear agreement as yet on the all-important details. Though the treaty and Trieste issues have been

separated in theory, the Italian-Yugoslav dis-

pute is still an obstruction in fact.

WSERRSNESRIINTIRNIE IER

HOOSIER FORUM—Big

“I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to ng death your right te sey i."

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MR. EDITOR: I get most awfully tired of being told how much I “owe this younger generation for what it did for me in World War IL.” What makes them think they did anything for “me”? Did they not do what they did for their own future and that of those they loved? Who would have suffered most if the war had’ been lost and America been forced to accept a foreign ideol-

ogy? $0 0 AS FAR as thanks may go, we all owe a

= great debt to every generation that has lived.

All the wonderful things we take for granted to-

. day, came to us through the blood and sacrifice

of someone else. Who has inherited greater advantages than the present crop of young folks? i wish they ‘would quit feeling sorry for themselves and use their blessings to id advantage. 1

THIS generation bay oar. so have many other generations. Some spent their entire life fighting, if you read history. No use to make a “big deal” of it. Just do what you have to do ng to your talents, and lick the hand of no one in gratitude. I hope we can learn to live on this earth without war, bit, until we can: learn to live in our neighborhoods in peace and quiet, that is not likely to happen nationally or internationally. ~—F. M., Indianapolis.

‘Looking for Trouble? MR. EDETOR: + I hat® just finished reading an article which

reads: “Chief O'Neal: said he believed any

woman could walk down any Indianapolis street, day or night, and not be molested unless she was looking for trouble.” I wonder if Chief O'Neal thinks that the many ladies that have been grabbed, attacked, assaulted and raped in the last few years on the streets of our city were looking for trouble. -T. B. Ss. City.

. values, increased operating costs, etc.”

‘People Being ‘Taken'' MR. EDITOR: :

In all the muck that the Indiana Bell Tele-

phone has been putting’ dut about “increased

been trying to justify in my own mind, their request for such a tremendous rate hike, from $3.57 to almost $5 for a four-party line, which is useless most of the time if you have inconsiderate people on your line, and I fail to find

- even one logical reason why they should have

any more money.

My husband works for another utility here in town and through the years, they too have expanded, and as they éxpand, it seems the are lowered.

So, people of Indiana, it looks like you are being “taken” again by outsiders,

| =Mrs. J., Clty.

TAKE MY HAND

COME take my hand and follow me . . . down lover's lane tonight . . . and wish upon the moon with me . . . where stars are shining bright » « « Come let me whisper in your ear .. . sweet words of love divipe . . . and ‘answer me with kisses that . . . will tell me you are mine .. sigh like the tender breezes do . . . and I will know you care . . . then rest your head upon my arm , . . while I behold you there . . . and in that magic moment we . . . will know our love is right « «+ 80 come wish on the moon with me . . . where stars are shining bright. ; ~=By Ben Burroughs.

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CHIPS ARE DOWN . . By Bruce Biossat Korean Truce Still a Guess

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25—Whether we shall now gain an acceptable truce in Korea is still anybody's guess, But it is obviously an important sign that the Communist High Command has.decided to return to the council table, Before that indication came, Gen. Ridgway had dispatched a message to the Red negotiators which sounded very much like a last try. In other words, the chips were down and the alternative was plain: fight it out on the bloody N Korean ridges and forget about Kaesong. with this choice, the Communists stopped just short of a final breay-of.

Badly Hurt

THERE surely is one overriding reason why they did this. They have been badly hurt in the past, and they know they will be badly mauled if they try another offensive. Our recent limited thrusts northward over raw hills are a pointed reminder; they cost the Reds nearly 30,000 new casualties. y Furthermore, the Communist Chinese and the North Koreans did not get sufficient material aid from Russia in their spring drives. And despite some evidences of tank forces, and a known buildup of aircraft, it is {ill highly unlikely that the needed Russian helpgvould be fartheoming in another campaign.

HOME STATE APPEAL . . . By Peter Edson

Since this has probably been the p for the aggressors all along, why did they interrupt the truce talks for a month with a barrage of trumped-up charges that we had violated the neutral zone? Perhaps it is foolish to speculate on Red motives. Propaganda is always an objective, of course. And the Communists may well have believed that if they hammered away with lies

for a long-enough time, they would convince

some of the world we were indeed Bezsistently sabotaging the truce effort, It’s more plausible that they talks because the Russians somehow nd the the San Francisco pariey on Japan would give them a chance to attain a political settlement in Korea which they weren't getting at the council table.

May Be Debating

WHEN THAT chance went glimmering, the question was: What to do now? For all we know, fierce debate may have raged within Red circles, over possible resumption of the war on a bigger scale. Or there may have been none at all. As Gens. Ridgway and Van Fleet observe, the Reds’ buildup during the truce period iz not inconsistent with a wholly defensive Posture, in North Korea.

Gambling Tax called ‘Tragedy’ fori Nevada

tor or ata by ever in bettér form than when he rises to extoll the . glories of the grea-a-a-t state from whence he comes, Its hills are always hillier, its fields are greener, its men and industries more prosperous, and its women fairer than in

wealths. That is your average Con-

average. Hels special. It is only natural to exDest therators, that when he to brag about

. any of the other 47 common-

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“IN THE state of Nevada, gaming 1s legal. . . . Proprietors of gaming establishments and their numerous employees are respected citizens who contribute to the civic life of the community . “The economy of the state of Nevada -has developed a

number of distinct characterisof the

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ployment, in comparison with and trades, a national average of 13 per ety ia os, the

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