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"Fighting in Korea is painful, and often fatal. So far American casualties in that conflict have included more

‘than 12,000 killed in action. Nearly 60,000 have been wounded—and thousands of them would have died if "they had not been given blood donated by the people at

- - ” LJ . » GIVING a little blood won't hurt you. It is extracted experts. You'll hardly know you're giving it. You'll ‘ never miss it. Fighting in Korea is tough, dirty work. Preparing

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for it took months of hard training. Combat is even a ougher At the ie best, it leaves lasting marks on the men

They won't take your blood if giving it will cause you harm. . FIGHTING in 2 Korea takes months and yaar out of “he lives of our men in the armed forces. It takes them | away from their families. It interrupts their education. ~~ Giving a pint of blood takes hardly any time at all.

ate Shan Your mck hour loafing or some other (See your local blood bank

Which would you rather ‘do--give a pit of blood fight in Korea? The men in Korea need that blood.

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All this nonsense could be shrugged off, if it weren't for

28 She Bevanites if it stands any chance at all to win the Until recently the moderate Prime Minister Clement ee and his cabinet colleagues have rejected the principal Bevan argument. Which is that the Atlantic Pact countries, a Tr have been rearming too much

BUT af Ottawa last week there webe signs of a change. Hugh Gaitskell, chancellor of the exchequer, called for a slowdown in rearmament. Britain and the European countries, he contended, faced a major financial crisis unless the pace of defense building was eased. In effect, he was echoing the Bevan claim tha} rearmament was endangering the living standards in Europe. _'+. Now the Labor government has gone a step further toward appeasing the advocates of a slowdown. It has called a conference of British commonwealth ministers in London this week and is bidding for their support in the effort to emphasize the enopomie hardships in Tearing,

MEANWHILE, Mr. Bevan is calling for labor to “close ranks” so that “a labor voice in international conferences may be the one safeguard left to protect the werld against final disaster.” HK there is any ranks-closing in the British Labor Party aparently it's going to be done by a swing to the left.

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few minutes every couple of months. It interrupts

the fact that the Attlee government must have the support :

SUPPORT FOR ARMED FORCES . ; Hah er Survey Shows People Don’t Realize Need For Bloo

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26—All over America, the story of giving blood for the Armed Forces is about the same: : The people just don't séem to realize the need. It doesn't seem fo have sunk through that the Army is about out of blood and that soldiers may die needlessly in Korea because

-people aren't giving. , This public apathy, by varying degrees, was reported by city after city in a nation-wide survey conducted by Scripps-Howard newspapers. In Pittsburgh, the new Red Cross defense blood center has received only 575 pints of blood since it opened two months ago on July 16. This is 8 per cent of the center's 3416-pint

monthly goal.

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Jenner Out to ‘Rescue States’

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26—Dear Boss: first step in rebuilding the federal DE is to return to the principle of the federal-state balance of power.” That was the way Sen. William E. Jenner (R. Ind.) introduced what might be called “the Jenner plan” for rescuing the states from Washington domination. He spelled it out at the close of a four-hour Senate speech against raising any new taxes until the federal government has been “reformed.” Briefly, the Jenner plan means that the states should do what they can do and do it without federal aid. He listed the fields of health, Sen. Jenner... education, housing and a fare as Tound by a task force Poway destroyed of the Hoover Commission to be “properly the domain of the state or private citizen.” “Over the last 25 years” Sen. Jenner said, “the federal-state balance of power has been completely destroyed, and the federal governmnt has absorbed an ever-increasing share of the work formerly carried by private citizens or local governments, But we must not forget that diminished the power of Congress also. Congress cannot even see the work of federal

. agencies unless their powers are limited.

‘Collectivist Doctrines’

“IF FEDERAL money is spent on relief cases in our cities and the training of relief workers In collectivist doctrines, Congress will soon. be unable to control the relief agencies. Hatton Summers warned the public in an article in Readers Digest we could not get good Jegislation from Congress until we returned to state and local governments the work they ought to do. “That problem was important in 1945. As Congressman Summers said, why should we carry on a war to fight the Nazis if we intended to adopt national socialism while our soldiers were away. But the issue is far more serious today, There is no possibility of eradicating the fifth column within the American government, no possibility of preventing a sell-out to the Soviet Union, unless we limit the federal government to its duties under the Constitution,” Sen. Jenner said Noting the Hoover Commission recommendation that tax fields should be designated between federal and state governments, Sen. Jenner urged that a committee he ordered to report to Congress on this federal-state relationship by Jan. 15, 1952.

Balance of Power

“THEN WE can proceed at once to draft the necessary legislation in the coming session and notify the state and city governments all grants

operations which properly belong to tional government in Washington.”

SIDE GLANCES

. By Earl Richert

IN FT. WORTH, only one donor tiirned out after Gen. George Marshall opened the “crisis” drive for blood with a nation-wide radio and television appeal two weeks ago, v Along with public apathy, several other factors are at work to impede the Defense Department’'s drive for 300.000 pints a month, the survey showed. Biggest of these Is lack of organization. Many sizable cities don’t have blood centers. Knoxville, Tenn, next door .to the Oak Ridge A-bomb plant, for example, has no blood bank. * +> @ 2 ALBUQUERQUE, N. M,, similarly lacks facilities to handle biwod dopations. The Albu-

. querque Red Cross has been embarrassed by the

national drive because it is unable to do anything and would-be donors are turning up. Evansville, Ind., has no blood donor cam-

paign and its Red Cross chapter too has no facilities to handle one. ; he At Houston, Tex. a squabble tween Harris County Medical Society and the Red Cross has kept a blood bank out. An agreement for a Houston blood center was signed last November. But last month the Medical So-

, ciety revoked the agreement and announced

plans to set up a private, nonprofit blood center. eid 9 ANTIPATHY toward the Red Cross itself was noted nn many cities. But nowhere was it listed as a major factor, In Columbus, 0. Aervicomien particularly were reported to be unfriendly to the Red Cross. Buf, this was said not to be responsible for the. fact that the Columbus center was collecting only three-fourths of its 7500 pints per month

Seuragen Fellow, Isn't He?

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‘GIFTS’

By Frederick C. Othman

Visitor Seeking U. S. Contract Asked to Float ‘Small Loan’

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26—I met the president of a Midwestern paper-box factory the other night at a dinner party. He'd been down in the marble halls trying to snag a govern-

ment contract and he seemed: a little dazed. I thought he’d had one martini too many. ‘

He said that he got 1

of paper boxes, all and things

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He also accepted hams, turkeys, whisky, cigars, free ftrips, a television set, a movie camera and projector, hotel rooms, Werld Series tickets, and a piece of costume jewelry for

those instantaneous picture-making cameras, which the firm bad given to so many other federal hot shots. “Oh, sure,” those, too.’

said Charlie. “I got one of

PRODUCTION

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 Since joining Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson's staff

When he was borrowing $6100 from the Lithofold outfit and $6000 more from the Laurel Printing Co. of New York, Charlie was a civilian employee of the Air Force, having to do with its printing business.

So last March he quit the government after’

30 years of steady service—I almost said, faithful—and what do you think he's doing now? Working for Lithofold at $25,000 a year.

While Charlie was accepting gifts and loans from his pals in the printing trade, we taxpayers were giving him $6400 a year. Sen. Clyde Hoey (D. N. C.), chairman of the investigating committee, denounced Charlie for what he’d done. Sen, Joseph R. McCarthy (R. Wis.)

said there ought to be a law.

No Law on Loans

I THOUGHT all along there was. It turns out that a federal official can’t take valuable gifts from people with - whom he does business, but the law says not one word about loans. So his old friends, R. A. Blauner of Lithefold, slipped him $100 and sometimes $400 a month for two years. Charlie said he wasn’t certain how much he got, exactly, because he

had no records, but he insisted every cent was

a loan. He said also that he had nothing whatever to de with awarding contracts with Lithofold. The Senators didn't seem convinced. They said they intended to check on all the firm's business with the Air Force. By now Charlie's fancy eyeglasses were getting steamed up. The back of his neck was damp.

Badly Shaken

WHEN finally the lawgivers excused him, he got out of there in a hurry. Didn't even hear

- ‘Sen, Hoey's speech on the subject of officialdom

and skulduggery. That brings us back to my paper-box manufacturer. I guess the poor devil wasn't drunk at all. Just badly shaken by his encounter with a box buyer who needed a small loan.

By Peter Edson

Machine Tools Big Defense

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. of the largest in the nation.

: quota. Columbus officials blame public apathy . generally for the failure to reach the quota.

Hers and there though, about the country, there were brighter signs as the local drives begin to take hold.. ; * » THE MEMPHIS blood center has had steadily improving results since it opened July 7.and

"now is approaching a rate of collection about

equal to its 48,000-pint annual quota. Ohio's Gov. Frank Lausche flew to Cleveland to donate a pint of blood at the opening of the new Cleveland regional center a week ago, And hopes are high for this center, put up at a cost of $450,000 by the Red Cross and one

> % : NEWSPAPERS in most cities are vigorously

* supporting the blood campaign. In New York,

where the blood donor campaign has been at low ebb, the World-Telegram and Sun is urging firms to give employees time off to make donations. In Cincinnati, where only 425 pints of a 1500-pint quota were collected between July 25 and Sept. 10, arrangements have been made at the urging of the Cincinnati Post for the downtown center to remain open two nights a week,

In San Francisco, a new downtown branch

blood bank is being opened this week as a result of 4 campaym | by tn San Fransisen News.

REPORTS fon other cities: —New Red Cross center opened Won Public does not yet seem to understand importance of the program. Indianapolis—Bilood program far behind, Factor seems to be fear that it will hurt or be harmful to health. Too, not one day goes by that people aren't under pressure to give to one thing or another—so they're apathetic. Fl Paso—Is able to supply only half the blood needs for nearby William Beaumont Amy Hospital.

Hoosier Forum

“I do not with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your rig to say it."—Voltaire.

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‘Sales Tax Easier’ MR. EDITOR: I agree with “Taxpayer” regarding Indiana's gross income tax as eompered with Iowa's sales tax. 1, too, originally lived in Towa, and it was a lot easier to pay a few pennies scattered out through the year, than to pay a gross income tax once a year. As he said, Towa's bonus to veterans was paid long ago. Not only that, but the sales tax there also provides for lower property taxes. They have what is called a “homestead exemption,” whereby faxes on a home occupied by the owner is about one-fifth

of the tax assessed on property owned and . .rented to others. You have to live in your

home to get the “homestead exemption.” That reduced property tax is made possible by the 2 per cent sales tax. I am a renter here, so I'm not Jitjudiceq on that phase of lower property tax. A 2 per cent pales tax is the fairest and certainly the easiest to pay. No one in Jowa kicks about it—but plenty of Hoosiers howl about their unjust gross income tax. Stateowned liquor stores also bring huge income

" returns to the state of Iowa.

I think it would be a good idea to have a federal sales tax, and thereby do away with, or lower, other forms of taxation. —Hawkeye Hoosier,

ALL KINDS

THE GENTLE, kind and honest folk . . . the hard, the cruel, the sly . . . the jealous individuals . . . the dreamers in the sky . . . it takes all kinds to form a world . . . and each one Was Mis pines . .+ £0 S11 SNe warld WiH sarrow . with sanctifying grace . . . the rich man

@ with his pot of gold . . . the poor man with his

dream . . . the lovers with their endless bliss . the men whe judge and deem . . the poets and philosophers . . . who try to reason why . . . only to find that life's a game . . . we play until we die. ~-By Ben Burroughs.

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Views on News By DAN KIDNEY

i SEN. JENNER talked for two hours against the $5.5 bill tax bill and never mentioned his $60 billion Armed Serv ices appropriation vote. * ¢ 0 EMERGENCY kerosene lamps are now being advertised for those who want to keep step with the atomic age. mE “TIME will tell” is a good adage only for those who can’t tell time. ® ¢ WHAT the voters need is a gadget which will indicate whether President

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has never claimed that. What he does believe is that certain log jams which were blocking the flow of machine tool production have now been removed.

» “" » A ALSO, certain competitors and enemies of Henry J. Kaiser —for whom Clay Bedford has been chief engineer and right-

hand man for over 25 years— ’

he had graduated from Renssalaer Polytechnie, Troy, N. Y.

Cal., and grew up with it. He was transportation superintendent for: the Six Companies that built Boulder Dam. Then he was general superintendent for Bonneville and Coulee dams.

” » ~ 3 HIS reputation was what attracted him to Messrs. Wilson and Weinberg. As War ProSuetion Board officials in World , they also knew what ord had done as a ship Moreover he was a and likeable. No-

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EN THE past 15 months, all machine tool production has

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lion. In the next 15 months

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