Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1951 — Page 10

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You Be the One in 250

TF ONLY one person of each 250 in this country would ‘dgnate one pint of blood every two months, the needs of the Armed Forces fighting our war in Korea would be met. Last month the national total of blood donations was much less than half the need. . That's letting down the men who are being wounded in bloody Korea. And at a time when the need is greater than ever. The latest casualty list named 1756 wounded. That's the highest for a single week since the Korean War began. Yet it occurs at a time of relative quiet. It does not reflect the bigger battles of the last few days. Every pint of blood is a life-saver. “Of every 1000 wounded brought.into our hospitals,” says Maj. Gen. Edgar E. Hume, chief surgeon for the war, “983 walk out alive.” : . This happens because those men” have been given whole blood. 8 9 7 8 8» JIM G. LUCAS, Scripps-Howard war correspondent, says the armed forces have enough whole blood to last about one week if the fighting is heavy. The situation now ~ appears to be building up to the heaviest fighting of the war. One week's supply is not enough. It could be exhausted in no time, once the going got tough. Nobody in America wants to let down the men in Korea. It's just a question of making the little effort to go by your local blood bank for a few minutes. Here in Indianapolis The: Times Modern Minute Women's blood donor recruitment plan is nearing its deadline. « ’ Club presidents must register their groups by Tuesday. They may do so by calling PL. 5551 and arrange to take their groups to the Red Cross Blood Center. If one American out of every 250 will give blood, the supply will be adequate.

Suppose you be that one.

Center in a Cornfield :

(QFF-HAND, it may seem like a mere statistical note that the center of population in the United States is now in a cornfield eight miles north-northwest of Olney, Ill

But Olney, a community of some 8000 in southeastern Illinois, can take more than passing pride in its new and unexpected fame.

Since the 1940 census, the U. S. center of population has moved 42 miles to the west, and seven and six-tenths miles to the south.

This is considered symbolic of the increasing importance of the west and south in the national economy. The economy is where the people are. Since 1790, when the first census was taken, the population trend has been steadily westward—the southern verge is a new tangent.

In 160 years, the population center has moved 644 miles —a pretty fair measure of the country’s growth. One day it may even come close to the geographical center of the U. 8., near Lebanon, Kas. Such symmetry could not be other than wholesome.

Meanwhile, let Olney, Ill, enjoy its new laurels. What more could anyone ask than to live in the heart of bestliving land in the world?

It's Everybody’s Act

SO LONG as public officials generally cling to the line expressed in a resolution adopted at this week's conference of governors in Tennessee, the problem of crime will be with us in a big way. “We insist,” said the governors, “that the prime responsibility for the elimination of such evils as-may exist lies in the vigilance of local law enforcement officers.” The whole attitude of that sentence is one of aimless bewailing. | = If, indeed, the resolution seems to say, there is any serious crime, it's too bad. But we can’t do much about it. Who, then, do we see about crime? Our. ward chair-

man’

Crime is, by law and by moral obligation, a “prime responsibility” of local officials—the police, prosecuting attorneys, mayors, councilmen. It also is a ‘‘prime responsibility” of every citizen—including especially governors. 2 Ld 2 2 " a CRIME began with the human race. It doubtless will last as long—such things as murder, theft, chiseling. But, without condoning any of these things, the kind of crime which offers a real menace to the country is the kind which usually gets off the easiest—-organized, professional crime. That kind of crime can eat the heart out of the nation, because it not only begets a general level of corruption and depravity. It seeps into politics and takes over. And politics 1s government—the core of a decent, free society. The suppression of crime is a job in which governors, of all people, should be expected to take the lead. They cannot do it by adopting resolutions which merely deplore.

Home-Front Rigors

ASS the word to the American soldiers fighting on the ground around Heartbreak Ridge in Korea — At the Douglas Aircraft Plant in Long Beach, Cal,

10,000 striking United Auto Workers (CIO) have picket headquarters which include:

A six-chair barber shop.

A commissary for feeding a 200-man shift of pickets every four hours, f 4

A baby-sitting service with a four-car taxi system to take sitters to homes of pickets.

A free shoeshine stand,

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DEAR BOSS . . “By Dan Kidney Puts Blame On Schricker

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—Should Rep. Charles A. . Halleck, assistant’ minority leader from Rennselaer, fail to get the Jenner amendment

“a built-in alibi. : For this. week-end the man, who was majority’ leader in the 80th Congress and often has been called “leader of the majority” in the 81st and 82d, pinned the blame in advance on Democratic Gov, Henry F. Schricker. _

He called on the governor to help with the :

Jenner amendment—or else.

Reversal of Party Line

THIS IS a reversal of the states rights party line the GOP in Indiana has been following. They would rather lose $20 million in féderal funds than taken any dictation from Washington. But dictating to Washington is another matter. The Halleck plea was for the governor to turn the heat on President Truman, FSA Administrator Ewing and the two Democratic congressmen, Reps. Winfield K. Denton, Evansville,'and Ray J. Madden, Gary. Mr. Halleck claims they all have been trying to

; get the Jenner Rep. Halleck . . . amendment, which places the 'blame.’ strikes the secrecy

clauses from the ‘social security law, dropped from the tax bill. Putting the amendment in the tax bill was the third time that Sen. Jenner, author of the measure, got it by the Senate. On the two previous occasions it did not get House approval. Now Mr. Halleck hopes he can deliver that. But he wants Gov. Schricker to help or take the blame,

Tie in Senate Battle

that ‘the Democrats here are using the Jenner amendment to put the Indiana Republicans “over a barrel” and elect Gov. Schricker to. the Senate next -year. mit

So far the governor hasn't consented to run for the Senate, despite pleas from many Democratic leaders that he do so. Should he take a hand in the Washington scene at this point, it would be the first time. For he has shunned this city like a plague. He doesn't want Wash< ington telling him what to do and vice versa,

Ordinarily Mr. Halleck thinks the federal and state governments should operate in their own spheres, and being a conservative, he customarily frowns on tacking amendments to: other bills on a tax bill. But this time it's different. He is willing to do anything to get the Jenner amendment passed, he frankly admits.

From Own District

FACTOR in his super-efforts is the fact that State Sen. Roy Conrad, one of the leaders against the stand-pat GOP party line on welfare, is from Mr. Halleck’s own second district. So is Secretary of State Leland Smith, who pioneered in advancing the plan that Indiana's law be dated so that the state wouldn't lose the federal grants-in-aid. Sen. Conrad's view is that the state can wait until “Charley gets the law fixed” before posting books in the courthouses of all old-age relief recipients. Mr. Madden has announced that he and Mr. Denton want to see the Ways and Means Committe¢ conduct hearings on the secrecy matter and bring it before the House on its merits, Mr. Halleck's view is that Mr. Madden and Mr. Denton have been trying to block action on‘ the Jenner amendment in the tax bill. So far as Mr. Madden is concerned that is exactly right. But Mr. Denton has been back in Evansville since the conferees started meeting. If he is doing any business along that line it must be by long distance phone. . Should Mr. Halleck get the Jenner amendment through the House he will be entitled to complete credit. If he doesn’t,.it will be difficult to saddle Gov. Schricker with the blame.

Barbs

MANY divorces are caused by men who

marry to get a home—to stay away from. & o&» & -

MORE and more people seem to have a standing in their own cities—on busses; : “ Sb : MONEY has a different way of talking these days—just hello and goodby! « oS

AN OLD distillery in the South now is making varnish. That wouldn't bother a bootlegger.

LIVE TODAY

DON'T live with thoughts of yesterday . . . or what tomorrow holds . . . live for today and face each thing . . .<that this day now unfolds . . . yesterday's gone and what was then . . . should also be gone too . . . and your tomorrow hasn't yet appeared or come to view don’t plan too hard or contemplate . . . for plans often go wrong . . . work hard today and you will find . . . you'll always get along . . it's hard I know to follow this . . . but I have found it best . . to forget all my yesterdays . . . and let tomorrows rest . . . for if you're to be happy + « I've heard it said by some . . . live only for today be-ause . , , tomorrow may never come. —By Ben Burroughs.

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Don’t Blame the Match If Your

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—National Fire Prevention Week opened yesterday and this pains my old match-making friend, Stuart Little. I hasten to point out that he has no interest in love affairs; his matches are the kind you strike on the seat of your pants, Turns 'em out by the billions. He : doesn’t believe in NON burning up the land - in one grand holocaust, vou understand, but he's tired of having blazes blamed on his product. Says the fire-pre-vention folks give the match star billing as America’s No. 1 arsonist.

“Naturally this is very distressing to the match manufacturers,” continues manufacturer “Little. “When a guy's wife goes voo-hoo at him while he is taking a swing at a nail and he drives his thumb a half inch into a plank, does he blame the hammer? When a blonde passes a painter, does he blame the ladder should he fall off? When pedestrian is kissed into the side pocket by an automobile, does he put the finger on General Motors?” In the early days, match-maker Little will admit, matches maybe were a hazard. The first friction matches made in 1826 by inventor John Walker of Stockton-On-Tees, Eng., ignited with

Ta series of explosions that showered the user

with sparks. Sam Jones’ Lucifers, which came on the market in 1829, bore this label: “If possible, avoid inhaling the gas which escapes from the black composition heads. Persons whose lungs are delicate should by no means use Lucifers.”

A year later, historian Little continues, Dr. Charles Sauria of France invented the phosphorous match, It wasn't so good. Sometimes it burst into flame at room temperature. Mice chewed on them and immediately started conflagrations, while many a murder was committed by dropping match heads into food and

drink. All this, match-man Little agrees, Is

true, or was.

Today a match is made of sesquisulphide of phosphorus, which is wholesome, but not very nourishing. You ¢an chew it all day; it tastes like sand and will do you no more harm.

It has taken manufacturer Little and me a lot of white paper to get to the point, but we figured Burt Wilkinson of Oswego, N. Y., was one fellow who needed a good deal of introduction. Burt earns a handsome salary at the match factory lighting 3000 matches every day and blowing them out. So far he has lit and extinguished five million matches and he hasn't blistered a finger yet. ™ ” He is one of the fortunate few who is blessed with* a perfect, 15-mile-per-hour breath. This is something that science has not yet been able to build into a machine. If Burt can blow out

a match with a single, 15-mile puff, that match

By Galbraith

CANBERRA, Australia, Oct. 8 — Australia isn’t yet ready to go “all-out” for defense. It plans, in fact, to spend $17.6 million more next year on {ts welfare state program than on defense preparations. Earmarked for defense in the record peacetime budget of $2.3 billion just introduced in Parliament for 1951-52 is the sum of $408.8 million. That's

over last year,

No less than $414 million, however, is to be appropriated for the welfare program in the new financial year—a boost of $127 million in a year, Expressed in other terms, it means defense costs per head of population jump from $40

to $48, social welfare from $33 to $49.

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THIS new defenge tab, considerably short of what Aussies expected, put Australia near the tail end of other Western nations ih this regard. To draw a few comparisons, Australia will spend only 17.4 per cent of its new budget on

Wife Sets Fire to the House

and all others from the batch are destroyed.

A ‘match that fizzles at 15 miles is no good

for outdoor use.

Had a Hot Time

IF IT takes three 15-mile puffs to put it out, Burt considers the match is too hard to extinguish and that lot also is destroyed. What he looks for are matches that take two 15-mile puffs to put them out; these will survive ordinary breezes and yet are easily doused. : Matchmaker Little figures (he didn't tell me how) that fifty-seven million matches are used every hour in the U. 8S. That makes a lot of opportunities to get careless. The wonder is how little damage the match has done, except in the hands of dopes.

My man says, in fact, that no match factory. ever has burned down, while only one fellow"

ever burned to death in one. He really was a little careless. Doused himself with sesquietcetera and scraped against a wall. If there's anything else the fire-prevention people want to know about matches I refer them to Little. And trust he doesn’t explode.

What Others Say

ANYBODY who knows history must realize “never” is not a word to use in international relations.—Elmer Davis, radio reporter. . oS Hb

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THE most critical audience in the world is children. . . . Kids can smell ham all the way to the back seats.——Jean Peters, actress. “> & » REPUBLICANS believe the first and foremost control needed in America today is control of the Truman administration.—Sen. Styles Bridges (R. N. H.). : : * 4 " THE Communist Party . . . seeks desperately to find a hiding place among Negroes. We must spurn the advances of these merchants of discord. — Walter White, executive secretary, NAACP. > 4 4 THE argument has been made that it costs $50,000 to $100,000 to run for governor: If a ‘man had $50,000 to $100,000 he wouldn't be running for governor.—Rep. Clifton L. Caryl (R. 0.).

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

BROOKLYN — This was also the day on which the White House announced that Russia had recently detonated another test atom bomb.

Who cares about bom’'s when da woil's topsy toivy? Dey don't mean a t'ing in our set. We couldn’ feel woise if we all had da scoivy; Our beers wid our tears is all wet. .

So Joe Stalin makes wid automic commoshin, And Washin'ton beats wid da drums. . So what? Brooklyn's dead from a much woise exploshin— Dem Giants just meidered our Bums.

NOT WAR MINDED . . . By Fred B. Hubbard

Aussies Not Ready for All-Out Defense

defense at a time when the U. 8. spends 55 pér cent, Canada 40 per cent, Britain 33

; 4 HESENNNNENINENRENNNING

inflation here —- hits weekly paychecks hard and ushers in an austerity era.

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Hoosier Forum

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

‘New Postage Stamp’ ih

MR. EDITOR: ® : Many persons have. been the -subjects of postage stamps. The providential method, preceding the nativity at Bethlehem of the Saviour, having been ordained was accomplished in. the decree of Augustus Caesar for the first world census wherein each should be enrolled in. their wn city. ® The iow is continued in St. Luke's Gospel in the announcement by the angel to the shepherds that a Saviour was born in- the eity of David and the sign given was the child in the manger wrapped in swaddling clothes. No other event is celebrated with so much joy nor marked with so much solemnity. However, the spiritual aspects of this event are dimmed to a large extent by the commercialization that has grown up around it. ; A great and proud nation paying homage during the Christmas period to.the Redcemer of the world through the medium of the lowly postage stamp picturing the scene as told by the angel could well be like the shot at Lexington, heard around the world and even beyond, anc might be answered in the dawn of better days. * When it looked like the Constitutional Conventien would be broken up, Franklin suggested that prayer be offered up before meetings and differences were resolved so that the convention soon completed its work. Any expression of approval should be directed to the Postmaster General at Washington. —M. F. Sexton, 915 N. Rural St. 9

SOF ERNIE REREBRENEN

‘Times a Victim of Reds’

MR. EDITOR: I become more astounded each day at the attitude vour paper {s taking. It won't be too long until the people of Indiana only need to read The Star or The News and read all that is published. You carry the same thoughts as Mr, Pulliam. Your editorial of Oct. 4 (Lattimore the-Ar-chitect) proves that. Your criticism makes one wonder if your paper isn't falling into Stalin's you only gave Mr. Stassen’s Ideas.” Mr. Stassen has been turned down repeatedly by the Republican Party. He is only trying to stage some sort of coméback for himself. oo % AND The Times falls into the line of least resistance by picking up any material for an editorial that causes confusion. You Republicans hope to gain votes by confusing the publie. But, we aren't so easily fooled. You might find ‘aome very revealing and true facts if you ask Eisenhower what he thinks of Jessup. I've read his high recommendation of Jessup. You Republicans are still trying to find a candidate you can tell what to do and what to say. That's the kind of a president you want. I, for one, won't be misled and confused. The Democratic Party and its fine program are good enough for me. —Evelyn Walton, 2049 N. Meridian St.

‘A Great Party?’ MR. EDITOR:

So the Republican Party is the great party that opposes communism and believes in democracy. Here in Indiana it certainly looks like it, doesn’t it, when their speaker of the House shows what he thinks about democracy by refusing a roll call vote on a motion to recess, Sept. 28, and by not even asking for a ‘no’ vote when strong opposition to recess was evident. Well, that dictatorial action, plus the Republican Party's sudden change from advocatIng economy to showing contempt for the taxpayers’ money plus their desire, it might seem, to humiliate the poor and aged by making their names and situations topics for public gossip . . . those are the things that I am glad I won't have to try to explain, as Republican representatives may very well be asked to do, by Hoosiers as they go to the polls next year. Can't our Republican state Representatives and Senators see what their sad spectacle in the “state house may do? It not only may hurt seriously the state and national GOP's future, but also it may make propaganda for the Communists to influence more of the world's hungry and sick people against us ... at a time when, more than ever, we should practice democracy.

—Elbert D. Jones, 2827 College Ave.

‘Taxpayers’ Rights’ MR. EDITOR: Our state legislature is presently locked ina tug of war over the issue of publishing or not publishing names’ of recipients of public welfare funds. As a citizen speaking in behalf of Indiana taxpayers I must confess I believe we have a right to know where every tax dollar is spent. And as an individual who is not immune from the possibility of needing to receive such aid for myself in years to come, I do not feel that I should have a right to protest the publication of that fact. : Some excuse such protest on the ground that there is a certain stigma inthe publtc eye in connection with anyone known to be receiving public aid, Unfortunately this may be true but it should not be and the sooner we educate ourselves away from such false pride as recipients or from uncharitable tential donors of such benefits the better it will be for ourselves in seeing and understanding life's problems as they are. ! I confess there may be angles to this I have never explored and which ever way it is handled it is in danger of being made a political football but as I see it I am in favor of our national Congress clearing the way for the recently enacted Indiana law requiring that relief rolls be opened for publie inspection, ~John W, Lemon, 1231 Naomi St,

IN THE last financial year, for example, national income

an increase of $109.6 million *

per cent, Holland 24 per cent, and Denmark and Norway 20 per cent,

The relatively small defense appropriation—considéred with the fact that military costs are double those of World War II—is further shown in a com‘parison with Australia’s spending in the last war.

Austrialian defense spending, today $408.8 million, was $1.26 billion in 1942-43, $1.22 billion in 1934-44, $1.03 billion in 194445, and $852 million in 1945-46,

” ” - SIR ARTHUR FADDEN, Australia’s treasurer, hasn't

yet explained why the defense appropriation has been fixed at this relatively low level. Some sources believe, however, that a main factor limiting a bigger defense effort may be Australia’s current inability to get all the materials, planes and equipment it needs.

Aussie taxpayers, meanwhile, are trying to get used to the idea that the new budget—

aimed at checking runaway

tralia’s galloping inflation : ing. - or is o>

Income tax has been boosted 10 per cent. Coupled with heavy new indirect taxes over

a wide range of goods, this.

means that the overall tax per

“person will rise this year from

$194 to $252. 4.8

IT ALSO means that Aussies will have to pay 3 cents more a package for cigarets, 2 cents more for a glass of beer, 66 cents more for a bottle of whisky and 10 per cent more for a new car—to cite a few examples.

Stiffer taxes on: company

profits are also features of a budget which © the fedéral treasurer in a pre-budget speech warned would hit “every section of the community.” The -government's budget also provides for a $257 million

surplus—which represents the

government's "attempt to skim off some of the surplus public money that has kept Aus-

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rose 35 per cent. The government, says the treasurer, “proPoses to draw off a part of it and put it for the time being where it can do the least harm.” There's another reason why

the government wants to check public spending on luxury and semiluxury goods. It hopes its new restrictions will divert manpower, materials and investment away from “milk bar” industries to heavy industries which need all three to boost production, rl 8, “OUR resources,” declares Mr. Fadden, “must be concentrated upon the most essential works {instead of being dispersed over a host of less essential activites as they are now." : nr :

The Labor Party, meanwhile,

is preparing a sizzling parlia-

"propaganda machine. You didn't quots facts =" IY

judgment as actual or po-.

mentary attack on the new.

~. budget, which opposition leader Herbert V. Evatt has as a “blueprint for depression.”

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WASHINGTON Democratic Nati man William M. and GOP Chai

George Gabrielson lastenight to resign store public confides tegrity -of- our nat . and government off The demand was Richard M. Nixon member of the Ser nent investigatin which has heen che activities of Mr. B Gabrielson’ in con loans made by the F Finance Corp. Mr. Nixon said t find “no evidence of tude in the action party chairman. LONDON, Oct. 3 British govern closed the Russian Agency's monitor here, shutting off principal ehann which Communist had been pumped t The monitor! started during th pasted. on--the. ef —easty—nf radio) other iron curtain transmitters to U. newspapers and ne

their resignations achieve the “param restoring public con federal government “Others Voice He added that in fabrielson ‘and Mr Republicans and T should “select as tl men who are in : profit neither direc rectly from any « the federal governn Mr. Nixon's state similar demands Ft for . Democratic Ac anti-Communist win ocratic Party. ADA's board of g Saturday that bot and Mr. Gabrielsor as the start of a 's gical” government The group said b questionably abuses for private advanta The Senate invest head by Sen. Clyde N. C.), questionec about his connectior fean Lithofold Corp. rower which he r £500 a month befor the party payroll ‘Owes Duty to It called Mr. Gab tify on his dealings behalf of Carthage | an $18 million R from which Mr. G draws $25.000 a yea and general counse eaid Mr. Gabrielson to his company” t« he can for it with ] gaid, “if he does | fluence the' RFC his client, he will & 40 criticiem becaus tion in the (Repub! “To put it bluntl said, Mr. Gabrielsc a position to do an both for the comp: gents and the part; The California: Mr. Gabrielson’s as GOP chairman *eparably damage fault does not lie srielson— (it) is dt tional committee Mm...

U. S. Statemer

WASHINGTON. Oct ment expenses and receil fiscal year through Oct, a Year ago:

“This Year Expenses $ 186.014.7690. Receibls 12,945 689. Beririt "2.069 09: ash Bal, 5.974.007. Ea Debt 257.045.8612. Gold Res. 22.014.655. INDIANAPOLIS CLE/ Rloaring eaves . ehits

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