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Telephone PL aza 5551 Give LAGAN and the People Will Find Their Own Way

Dr. Bahr Steps Aside | a sorry thing for the state of Indiana that Dr. Max Bahr has to end his lifetime of service at Central State Hospital in the midst of this storm of charges and complaints and criticism. - . Some of the charges, we believe, are exaggerated. That some of them are true is less the fault of Dr. Bahr than of the people of Indiana, and of a whole series of legislatures, whose indifference has created the conditions of which they complain. 5 i Dr. Bahr has served in Central State ‘Hospital for 54, vears. During all that time he has had to work without enough money, with a physical plant that was old when he went there and now is 54 years older, with a load of patients that in recent years has far exceeded the capacity for which » the hospital was built, and with a constant and growing “shortage of sverworked underpaid Ly : . ® =» 8 3 Fy : SEVERAL years ago a Times writer, unknown to the hospital management, got a job at Central State Hospital and worked there for weeks as an attendant, to see at first hand just what conditions were, He reported a lack of just 8 t eare po

Bahr ‘and his whole staf their patients in spite of that lack. Since then there has been some improvement, princi-

© ” safety and comfort of the patients, and toward providing ~ more medical and psychiatric care for them. Most of the criticism of the way the hospital operates, however, seems to. come from weakness at the nonprofessional level of employees. A glance at the pay scales and working hours offered these workers makes you wonder how they can get any help at all in times like these. » Dr. Bahr, at 77, has earned honorable retirement. The service he has given to the mentally ill of this state will be remembered long after the flurry of criticism has been’ forgotten.

He Can Avoid Spending It

NXIETY to get home overcame the principle, if any, by which the House of Representatives had defeated the bill for new taxes. : " On Tuesday, the House beat this bill 204 to 157— with 67 members “abstaining” by being somewhere else. Friday, the House passed almost the same bill 184

to 160—84 members “abstaining” this time. The changes made in the bill between these two roll

although they mean an estimated loss of $41 million to the government. (That, too, is “insignificant” in these days of high spending.) : The answer to this unusual flip-flop is that Congress simply could not adjourn without levying new taxes. Tacked on top of the taxes Uncle Sam already is collecting, the new bill means the highest volume of federal taxation ever imposed on the American peaple—even in

war years. ~ tJ n » ” »

BUT A record-high tax bill is an imperative companion to record-high spending. And the spending planned for this year is the tallest of any year outside World War II. The - appropriations voted by this Congress run several billion dollars over the revenue, even with the new taxes. Congress gave President Truman authority to spend more than the government takes in. But the President has been straining for a pay-as-we-go policy, for a balanced budget. The fact that Congress authorized more spending than the income will permit doesn’t say Mr. Truman has to spend it all He can save without hurting the defense effort. He can save without impairing a single essential function of the government. He can save simply by not spending where spending can be reasonably avoided. : If Mr. Truman means what he has been saying, he will take on himself the responsibility Congress bequeathed to him.

Only Russia Gains

HE UNITED NATIONS Security Council has voted eight to one to lay aside the British-Iranian oil dispute until the World Court at The Hague can rule on its own competence to handle the question. Though the vote provided something of a face-saving device for Britain, it .is in the final analysis another humiliating defeat for the once-great empire that wielded an iron hand over the Middle East. Britain had come to the . Security Council with a tough resolution calling for Iran to comply with a World Court injunction against ejecting British technicians from Abadan. But failing to muster the needed majority of seven votes, the British gradually were forced to water down their demands in the face of a resolute counterattack by Iran, » = » » ~ » THE FINAL vote came on a motien to postpone any council action until the World Court decides, probably next year, on its own jurisdiction in the dispute. This is a victory, temporarily at least, for Iran's enigmatic Premier Mossadegh who dramatically flew to this country on a sickbed to:plead his case before the United Nations. And it may be reassuring to small-nation members that they can talk up to a major power before the United Nations and get away with it. -But the over-all effect inthis case, we fear, will be to weaken the authority of the United Nations at a time when world events are putting a heavy strain upon it as an agency for preserving peace. When the United Nations dodges its rekponsibility, only Russia is the net gainer. ; : #. ANSWERING Sen, Taft's stand for honesty, President . Trumah said he is against sin too, What we need is someone who isn't a sucker for sinners, : i

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calls were relatively insignificant to individual taxpayers—

pally to the physical equipment of the institution, for the Fo ster S

Follies

ROME, Italy—The nineteen-centuries-old Colosseum has been restored as a scene of public spectacles. The first opera was recently presented in the historic ampitheater.

Professional swordsmen once fought here for gold, . While others used netting and trident, But they, and the lions who roared deep and bold, Give way tn a scream harsh and strident. Yes, sad days are these in the tumble down shack Which was once Rome's great ampithe-yater. Could some lion return for a quick solo snack, There are those who'd be darned—gladiator.

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TOO MANY divas have gone completely overboard on the high C’s! Like when you ask the man for mustard on your hot dog, it’s time for thumbs ‘down. There was enough uproar at the Colosseum in the days of the old Romans. Julius Caesar once showed 320 pairs in gladiatorial combat. Like a modern luxury liner, the old boy must have had about 12 decks. Then Brutus came up with about 15 of a kind, which in those days was considered a full house. And when the showdown came, Julius, like a lot of the rest of us, was completely busted on the 15th of March. One of the Hons dropped by just about then and treported, “Et tu, Brute!™* : = = » IN THOSE ampitheater shows a victorious gladiator was often rewarded with a palm, among other things, Which is probably why the income tax man generally comes out on top. He always has his palm out. Many of the old-time gladiators were slaves, thoroughly trained for this sort of strife. There is some doubt as to whether we modern slaves will ever get used to it. Most of us don't find it very amusing. EJ ” ”

AMONG the several kinds of gladiators who entertained the old emperors and their guests, were the Samnites. Their equipment consisted of a short sword, an oblong shield and a plumed helmet. We present-day Uncle Sam-ites just throw our dollars around—and proffer an upturned cheek if anyone gets rough. Oddly enough, up to now we glap-happy simps have never been kissed. But, even without the plumed helmet, we're sure getting plucked. = ” ”

AUNTY COMMY SAYS: “All + poisonous snakes captured in Rrazil get a free train-ride to the San Paulo snake farm, where their venom is extracted. One of these days, someone's gonna take some of ‘them Kremlin eobras for a ride too.”

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HEH - HEH HEADLINES: “Peron Takes a Leave While Being Re-elected.” And the naked truth is that darned few people would give a fig if he forgot to come back. “Pentagon Calls for Additional 500,000 Men.” Ye gods, it's more crowded than a rushhour bus as it is. “Six Wives in Every Ten Call Their Husbands_ Handsome.” Must he when the ladies want a pretty penny for a new winter outfit. - “Injured. Foothall Player. Wins Disability Pay From Denver 1.” Well, at least he can’t kick/ about that.

PRINCESS ELIZABETH is _#ald to be bringing a personal gift from her father, King George VI, to President Truman. Wonder if it could be a

cravat? To strengthen the ties between

‘the two countries.

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MR. EDITOR: _. In February, 1951, our Legislature was divided purely on political lines when they passed Indiana's new anti-secrecy in welfare law over our Governor's veto. Today the headlines read “GOP Maps Welfare Fight.” Public welfare is now political expediency and the welfare of the public goes to hell. - ' Our Indianapolis General Hospital sends an ambulance when some unfortunate citizen collapses in the street. This is a public welfare service. The man is suffering. He needs help. At the hospital his relatives and friends find he has cancer. They don't publish the unfortunate news. They whisper it. Everyone wants to help. They are all very kind and considerate.

This is what happens in the case of a physical.

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WHAT happens in the case of an economig breakdown. The unfortunate citizen needs help from some division of our social welfare system. Our legislators have now voted that we should be labeled and listed @s chiselers. Our statesmen seem to think that we forget our entire way of life, our cultural background and character training of a lifetime, our coaching at our mother's knee and our 12 years of public school education. Overnight, we the people, become lazy, indolent drunkards who raise our daughters to be prostituted. I was taught that in America we believe that no one should starve, or be withThat those that have more than basic needs share the responsibility of providing the essentials for those who need help. Am I a do-gooder who falls in line with the political welfare state because 1 follow my better judgment toward a common sense Christian concept of the rights of an individual in

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VERY SOON, at Christmas time, all of us will seem to forget our selfish interests in life and start in practice the giving Christian spirit of help one another. Each year at Christmas time we see the needs of others, The Shrine and the Moose and the Masons give baskets of groceries. The city firemen repair broken toys. The Indianapolis Times has a Clothe-A-Child drive. These are people whose needs we can so clearly see at Christmas. Are they suddenly going back to be chiselers on the welfare rolls on Dec, 26th? We may have a representative form of government, but I can’t help feeling sometimes that I am not being very well represented. —D. G. Snyder, 911 Oliver Ave.

‘Welfare Today’

MR. EDITOR: Why doesn't the Indiana Legislature pass a suspended anti-secrecy welfare law and go home? Let the United States Congress clean up this secrecy mess, They passed the law in the first place. . The federal government should never have into the direct welfare business anyway. In times of full em-

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Hugh O'Donnell CONGRESS ROUNDUP . .

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -As

Leader Joseph Martin of Mas-

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Did Special Session Threat Pass Big Tax Increase Bill?

everybody. Mostly, the subcom-

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Tax For

Congress drove to adjournment sachusetts led the opposition to mittee said, the executive this week the $5.7 billion tax the bill. Rep. Reed said there branch must be held to acincrease bill was cleared to the was no excuse, after first re- count. But it also said ConWhite }ouse after the-House jecting the bill, to “knuckle gress was not ahove blame, € first handed the Truman ad- downto administration —prese— and added that the public, too, i Moll, sure’ and pass almost the should not put a halo above x

ministration

(who thought the .bill's provisions were too stiff) and big city Democrats (who thought

on gross receipts of bookies,

tiger by the tail and cannot let go of him. Consider the subsidy of school lunches by the federal government. Why? That idea took form when we had great surplus of food and many on relief rolls. Now, there is no reason

about $900 annually.

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Postal Rates

Senate oh ‘St. Louis. Delaney has been had in other ” A SUBCOMMITTEE headed fired. Finnegan has resigned. Another by Sen. Paul Douglas (D. IIT) The pavments were made hy group thinks roug K §

placed blame for the country’s lowered ethical standards on

subcommittee.

its own head.

effect ordered President Truman price control law which Con-

to. get along with the

” Finnegan, former

the Estate Research Bureau, a New York firm.

‘What Price Glory?’

collector at

its most stun- same measure, But the Housa WASE ning jolt of threatened by President Tru- Paece With Germany ee the session. man with a special session if it THE RESOLUTION ending for a long This came didn't come through-— finally po cio0ia of war with Germany Tempc in-the House's {i voted approval. The Senate had was passed and then signed by fi 1 refusal to ac- § done-sc earlier by voice vole. pracident Truman. : Kiran ] cept the tax : ; " in Interna PIL. even Salary Increases Railroad Benefits erp ~ though it was PAY INCREASES were HIGHER pensions, survivor : Ea only slightly voted for 1.5 million govern- benefits and lump sum death ready ser more than ment workers. About one mil- payments to railroad workers increases. - half of ‘what lion employees in the. classified were voted. Companies and em- Togetl the President . service will get raises ranging ployees will pay the additional 8 had requested. Mr. Martin : from $300 to $800'a year, An- Costs. 1952—elect An alliance of » «opposition | other half million postal work- Hou In 195 R e publicans ers will get hikes averaging se > q THE RULES committee in tion progr

sight. Law can see sv

weeks,

some provisions were unfair) A $117.7 MILLION incredse tuts’ passed in. JUV Result managed to block passage tem- in postal rates was ordered. S708 PERC Eo YY aside - esu porarily. The penny postcard will be a til next year a key amendment years. "The But administration leaders, 2-cent card. Special delivery — 4, tne controls law. This tion will vi led by Speaker Sam Rayburn, and second-class rates also amendment would have soft. it looks as made a few minor concessions ~~ Were increased. But the 3-cent -endd the provision in the pres< Shri and got the bill on the floor for rate for ordinary letters will ent law which permits manu- New jax b ‘a second vote, This time it remain. facturers to add production $e billion. was approved. : : cost increases. since Korea tn billion incre It provides for an 113; per Foreign Aid their prices. President Truman Individuals cent increase in most individ- A BILL appropriating $3 had called it a ‘‘terrible” pro- pay check wi uals’ income taxes, an increase billion for foreign economic vision, = 3 of 5 percentage points in cor- and military aid: v worked : . . : F § - : xX . SOENSTR TRIN RCO er taxes and OQ {ARR (Arends ~PORURIL Ie Ta vestigation a Pressure ¢ higher taxes’ on gasoline, auto-——&ad ready for final approval... Tyo FORMER internat yer: PRESSLR. mobiles, cigarets, liquor and. It includes $100 million for ©7u€ officials received pay. th say he'll | many household appliances, Spain. [rentsaiem a business eqncern GOP preside Also ordered is a #0 per cent having tag diicgliles, 4 bureay 1b do - i 3 11 - $ Flood Gontrol agent told an . investigating whi Ds Ie

numbers operators. and other THE $597 MILLION flood The agent, Jerome Friedman Taft anno gambling actlvitise... control and navigation im- gaiq £10000. Tenis De. gome pro-Eis a a lA Reed CR Ne nas hil Was cleared ti sas a Ei i “TY y-and House Republican. —the Ho EE RAS On an 0 to JAW 68

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before it. DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney Despite st ployment like ye there really 5 small excuse Il k ° : De Ld for som f this relief at all. t it go n, ‘ SARE and it ot re lesan re Ha eC Friends Ask ance Sram H

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why the gqvernment should continue It. WASHINGTON, Oct. 20—What price glory? Supplying : Wa That is the question friends of Rep. Charles A. . Halleck, Rensselaer Republican and assistant minority oe x MOST PARENTS, that amount to anything leader in the House i dav 1 Todis at all, can afford to buy their children's food Thev gfe 8 Nose, are tiny today. A eo at full prices, and they should. They drive new _. <0 40 0 of the Indi- the hill was first rejected by now so grea

cars, buy television, have a liquor party now and then. Let them feed their children. The same is true of older people. A lot of well-to-do offsprings could assist their aged parents,

ana delegation hurt or helped himself by aiding the_passage nf the $£5691,000000 tax bill, fn return for retention of the

the House, the Jenner amendment was not even challenged in conference before tha rewritten measure was brought

munists can materials fre relving on \ Cles,

but just so long as Uncle Sam will do it for ok : Jenner amendment. back and passed. India repo them, JheY Tl tie along the road in the Hoosiers can be certain that aa er y. he helped them by getting the IT PASSED 18 4 a Wi , i y y - : ) ASSE 5 tor 160, th iss with Red We won't stop chiseling on welfare by open- . ¢o4 040 000 in welfare funds re- 147 Demberats, 27 Ti it's mostly.

ing records... We are long past the shame stage. As long as there is a buck lying around, there will be 10 people trying to get it without works ing for it. I never s a time when they expected so much for nothing. I never saw a time when the average person condoned so much that was shoddy. So long as the condoning of people goes on at the grass roots, just so long it will go on and grow. People, not

stored to the state. So far as the House GOP organization is concerned, he may have placed

and one independent voting for it. Against it were 126 Republicans and 34 Democrats, Two of the “no” votes were cast by Hoosiers, despite the Jenner amendment. Voting against it were Rep. Earl Wilson, Republican, Bedford, and Rep. Ray

hemp. But of don’t show g through Indi Office of In here is keep rising reques export licens goods. Reque

government, set the standards. Madden, Democrat, Gary. and truck s Both waited until the second doubled rece oo oS \ i round of the roll call before significant. : y : hala they did so. Also: Sena! ONE VERY nice place to begin would have d that queries been. for Indianapolis to hoyeott the McCarthy In the Senate, the two Indi- Tndividuale. speech. No matter how you feel about what ana Senators voted against tha 2 . a ; : China vielde

this man does, and I feel he {3 another Huey Long, the fact remains he accuses without evidence and in such way as to prevent his being brought to justice. He engages in low prac-

bill's passage after the Jenner amendment was first adopted. When tha new bill cam®back there: was no roll call. Sen. Jenner was present when tha

dresses in In Goa, small F off west coa 2

tices in ‘elections in states where he is not vitally concerned. He hires men to =py on offi- voice vote was taken, but Sen, ad cials all over the world, Now, he comes to Homer E. Capehart. (R. Ind.) Blockade town to te) us how-to vate for-mayor. No was out in Los Angeles talking NATIONA

thanks. The old guard Republicans are =o desperate, they shame a person. I hope there is enough in both parties, or at least in one, to nominate someone next vear

who has not been fouled up with this political

to the turers

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stench. I would enjoy the opportunity of clean- Mr. Hallack REP. DANIEL. A. REED in Kwantun ing the whole bunch of politicians out, just once. F. naliec (R. N.Y.) ranking minority overland. F . —F. M., City. ‘er hurt or helped member of the House Wavs been reportir himseif in the same position and Means Committee and one a as Gen. Robert E. Lee when . Of the conferees, urged his parCONFESSION he left the U. 8. Army to lead RE vote against the tax 200 Tele : : : the Confederates. In fact, Mr ill. He even pleaded for “lib-- TAFT DE I RUE the day I ever did... a single shady y PHL pr ) : ‘ ; v 1 : th ti : I've Halleck put “his insurgency ©rals’ to do so, on the grounds nouncement act . . . I sorrow for the many times ... I} from the leadership of Rep, that the rewrite would give no for Presiden! misconstrued a fact . . . I deeply and most Joseph W. Martin Jr. on. a working man more than from grams congr ardently . . . regret each passing day . .. that “states rights” basis. 20 cents to $2 a year in tax re- office says 1 didn’t do a deed . . . to help lighten the way Nie hag led ie 1mligna Re- lief yrom the bill voted down time. We'll ublicans, wit Xceptic on the ‘vious confe r Ce i " « «+ I hurt for each and every frown «,, I let 2 Rep Ralph I \ phon i previous conference re- ad Iter i v . 1 &: rh W . . > u uy freeze on my face . .. when I could have easily Castle, to vote against the Mr. Halleck didn’t speak. pubaciy ma + + « put broad smiles in their place . . . I despair ginal tax bil; in the House. Only Rep. John D. Dingell in Ohio cam at the little things . .. I may have said or done ter Sen. William E. Jenner (R. Mich.) assailed the Jenner back on the (R. Ind.) got his’ amendment amendment. He called it a has set up

« + + to cause another's heart to ache . .. I've memorized each one ... I repent for I want to be . .. most ready for my fate ... I vow to do much better now . , . before it is too late,

legalizing the Indiana welfare . publicity law tacked on as a rider to the tax bill, Mr. Hal-

“curse.” Then he voted for tha bill, as one of the conferees. Thus the Indiana angle didn't

room in the Victor Jol publican ca

leck saw that the House con- figure. mueh | —By Ben Burroughs ferees kept it there. And when bates Sin fhe ginal ge ore Wi me . . 8¢ After the roll was called, paign, is a g Rep. Percy J. Priest (D. Tenn.), shortly with majority whip, shook hands Organized ganized with Mr. Halleck in the cloak * to Taft anr

By J. Hugh O'Donnell

room and thanked him for his help.

n n » SOME of the 37 Republicans

verse—hut for one thin; ers are wit it-can do m

told him that he was right too. CIO wants The Congress couldn't go homa made in Ohi without voting some taxes to much of

pay for the multi-billion dollar appropriations that have heen made. Having heen majority leader of the 80th Congress. Mr. Halleck would lixe some day to be Speaker of the

against hin profit from Act wasn't whne Senat tional Press ing once-c

House. He would rather be that than Senator from Indi« may be ho} ana. . If his fight for the state's Still Mor funds hurt his future chances in that direction, he might se- BLOOD riously consider the Senator- rising—but ship next year. N Past week

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deep freeze—and police prompt- began, ’ By roung a place in the cooler or him. leet | is Missing SOME men are homeless and’ CZECHS others are home less than oth- something | ers, Jan Vinar, # x = Czech emb: WE'RE beginning to think out of Wash ? 73 that sour cherries get by on for Prague. 13 YR J o Pr 0 their looks, : a week, Er on «0 TCH D w 4.4 a - vacation, 8 - WA ; E ; DLE Best stuns done in a ~ he's making i ovie house by man who .can reaction Reds B0 INGIPOT ; smiles when you sit on his / - Ik di straw hat, pa R ro