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IX YOUTHS rob a filling station. They are promptly caught by sheriff's deputies, to whom they, confess their crime. They are indicted by a county grand jury, and a court sets a date for their trial. All at the expense of Marion County, by the way. : : "Comes the day, but no trial. No witness appears to testify against them. A deputy prosecutor -has the indictments dismissed. Can't convict anybody without a witness, he says. Why was no witness on hand? Well, it turns out this deputy prosecutor hadn't bothered to issue a supena for the witness, hadn't even bothered to let him know when the trial was coming up till too late for him to get there. » = ~ » SO SIX young criminals are set free, with a dramatic lesson in how easy it is to beat the law in Marion County, and a crime on which the county has spent the time of its police officers, its grand jury and its courts, goes unpunished because of the slipshod carelessness of one man who holds a public office but can't be bothered to perform its ordinary routine duties. . His second-thought excuse that the case was dropped “so the boys can enter the Army" impresses us no more than the competence with which he handled the prosecution. . The Army doesn't want criminals, won't knowingly accept recruits who are sent to it as an alternative to going to prison. Military service in this country is a duty and an honor and a privilege—not a jail sentence. If this is the way his office is conducted, maybe Prosecutor Fairchild needs some new deputies.

‘Count That Day Lost

WE HAVE just thrown into our wastebasket, which is commodious, an invitation from some well-meaning folks to join in the celebration of “President's Day,” of all things. They aim to have, they tell us, a non-partisan, nonpolitical annual ‘day for national recognition for the office of and the President of the United States.” So far they have a letterhead and-a press agent, which 2s everyone knows are the principal essentials of an organization, a proclamation by one governor (of Arkansas) and “Several resolutions passed in California” (where it's always been fairly easy to get resolutions passed). - ~ » ” = ” WE HAVENT the slightest doubt their intentions are strictly honorable, but just the same the idea sends goose-pimples (second grade) down our back. Maybe the ‘memory of the crowds screaming “Duce, Duce” and “Sieg Heil” is still too fresh. i There's been a long, and far-too-successful campaign in this country to build the President—any President—into the ruler of this nation rather than the chief executive of its people’s will. There's been a drive so steady and sg persistent that we can only conclude it has been coolly planned, to vilify and weaken the Congress and the courts of the United States toward the point where they no longer can be the checks upon presidential power . our Constitution created them to be. There's been a growth of government by “executive order” rather than by law to a point that would have been incredible even a single generation ago. Other peoples have lost their liberties that way. 2 5 = = » = INSTEAD of a “President's Day” to implant still deeper the “fuehrer principle” of fascism in America, we -uggest that our California friends join us here in Indiana im our well-established celebration of Constitution Day. "They'd find the Constitution of the United States a truly great document of human freedom.

We recommend that they read it,*sometime.

Telescoped Cars ;

N THE old days, railroad passenger cars were wooden. "It was quite common, when there was a rear-end wreck, for scores of passengers to be killed or maimed as the steel locomotive of the train behind plunged through the plintering boards. The public bitterly protested wooden nassenger cars. This was one of the reasons railroads changed to the {ype of passenger cars known to all of us. for so many décades, Cars became as strong as engines. In wrecks, these cars would jackstraw but never telescope. A huge steel girder right down the center was the reason. Now the day of super-protection for the passenger has faded. We have gleaming streamlined lightweight cars. They are relatively fragile. Most have no huge steel girder down the middle. When struck from behind, they do not absorb the blow by jackstrawing. They merely open up. : The attacking locomotive plunges down the aisle, shoving the sidewalls aside as it ‘grinds bones in blood. Sometimes the engine will go through a couple of cars. Ohne report of the recent Union Pacific wreck in Wyoming says the locomotive plunged through four cars. i We suggest to the railroads that they quit trying to campete with airlines. ‘The reputation of the railroads,

their strength, is in their safety and reliability, not their .

speed.

+ Fragile passenger cars have no place on high-speed trains running only a few minutes apart.

SOME PEOPLE were so busy watching OPS prices go up, they scarcely noticed the new tax bite in their pay check.

. CHURCHILL will be a White ead visitor after Christmas. , The Chancellor of the Exchequer is knitting him a big Stocking to bring,

IN ALL the fussin’, feudin’ and fightin’ over Gen. Eisen. hower, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's attitude remains one of calm availability. .

“CRITIQUE . . . By Paul Leach

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Republicans Rap.

Truman Speech

Guy Gabrielson Calls It ‘A Surprising Flash of Realism’

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23--" He should be the last person in the world ever to want to talk about "slush funds,” said Rep, _ Busbey (R. Chicago). "A: surprising flash of realism” when he sa “a mistake in a presidential élection can ‘ cause the country untold harm,” commented Guy Gabrielson, Republican National Chairman, Those were samples of GOP. reaction to Preseident Truman's startling speech here Tuesday night before the Nafional Women's Democratic Club. Mr. Truman. said the Republicans are ‘going to try to “buy funds” using “shiek public relations coun# selors"” and “lies and smears." He dared them to make his foreign policy an issue. That was a slap at Sen. Taft (R. 0.), candidate for the GOP Presidential nomination, Mr. Busbey earlier in the day had demanded that the Democratic National Committee pay the government for Truman's use of his fourengine plane to fly here and back in the midst of his five-week Key West, (Fla.) vacation to make a political speech. Mr. Busbey figures the cost to the taxpayers at $2280. Neither the Democratic National Committee nor the White House would comment on that.

‘Look at the Record’

MR. BUSBEY pointed out Wednesday that Mr. Truman also had free use of the major radio networks Tuesday night to carry his speech to the nation. as he does for all his speeches except during--the heat of the campaign. “As the old happy warrior, to say,” said Mr. Busbey, ‘let's record. “ONE: Truman has been given nearly $£1Q0 billion to spend for running the governMuch of that is being used to build up political favoritism and patronage for the Democratic Party. “TWO: The Hoover Reorganization Commission reported that the government payrolls were loaded down with press agents costing the taxpayers $110 million a year. “How much of that is political benefit for the Democrats? “THREE: There are now 2,503,000 civilians on the federal payroll drawing more than $528 million a month. How many of them will be looking to safeguard their jobs? “FOUR: What of the big Jackson Day dinners all over the country costing $100 a plate for which government employees are expected to buy tickets? “FIVE: What of department heads running around the country making politigal speeches at taxpayer expense? “I notice that the President said nothing about freezer cabinets, natural influence peddling in the Bureau of Internal Revenue, or the Department of Justice going. easy on Kansas City ballot-box frauds,” Mr. Busbey said.

‘Disgusted and Alarmed’

REFERRING to Mr. Truman's statement that “a mistake in a Presidential election can cause the country untold harm,” Mr, Gabrielson said:

Guy Gabrielson ... realistic flash.

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“The reminder is not necessary for milion of i?

Americans. “They are disgusted and alarmed by high taxes, high prices. corruption. crises and wars of his incompetent administration. “They won't make that mistake again.” Mr. Gabrielson said it was the Democrats, not the Republicans, who spent the most in the 1950 Congressional campaigns. He said: “If Mr. Truman is interested in facts he will discover that last year the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees spent $2,066,372, “The comparable spent $1,444 894." This Democratic spending in 1950. Mr. Busbey pointed out after looking up the figures at the House Clerk's Office, did not include what was put out by the CIO Political Action Com-: mittee or the AFL's political league.

Republican committees

Huge Sums?

MR. TRUMAN especially charged that the Republicans had spent huge sums in Ohio to re-elect Sen. Taft. The labor political organizations were charged in Ohio with spending $1 million. This has been denied by both labor organizations. The Senate elections subcommittee headed by Sen. Gillette (D. Iowa) is to begin hearings next week into spending by both sides in the Ohio campaign. Mr. Busbey was interested in the timing with the President's speech of an announcement Jy the Federal Security Agency. The agency said that more than 5'; million Americans are receiving some form of public aid in the midst of the biggest business boom in history. The announcement said about $2!; billion was spent by the taxpavers last year on federal, state and local public assistance. Congress in the last session did away with federal secrecy in connection with welfare disbursements, over vigbrous protests from the administration.

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How About a Nice Big Glass of Pumpkin Wine—Maybe Prune?

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—You ever tasted pumpkin wine? Red clover? *Rhubarb? Grapefruit? Prune?

I thought not. So there 1 was sitting at my desk reading the funny pages in the out-of-town papers when in walked this large young man with a cinnamon mustache. He identified himself as Leicester C. Hemingway of Silver Spring, Md., late of the State Depart-

ment’'s Foreign Service. He turned out also to be the kid

brother of novelist Ernest Hemingway, but said he did not want to trade on the latter's

reputation. The youngest HemIngway is a writer,

too, but he is specializing on stuff more practical than bullfights:

how to use

namely, your bathtub for other things than baths. “I mean I've been interested in wines and

beers for a long time,” he said. “And how to make them at home. So I thought I'd write a little book on the subject. Only first I checked with the Internal Revenue Bureau, where I learned it was legal to make your own wine, but not your own beer. So my book is about wine, only.” He presented me a copy of this tome, which he has published, himself, and also a running commentary on the numerous ways a house- » holder can produce first-class wine for himself at a cost of 10 cents per bottle. “Peach wine is awful good.” he said. “So's apple. Rhubarb wine I like and once my wife and I made some pumpkin wine. It was spicy, potent, and delicious. “The beauty about wine is that vou make it out of anything that grows. Literally anything. Maple syrup, grass, the bark of trees, You ought to try sassafras wine.” So I thumbed. through the recipes book, “Here's How.” and came to red clover wine. ‘One of the rarest individual wines made in this country,” he said, “and well worth the care it takes.” Anyone who believes clover is for cows and woodchucks has a profound surprise coming when first he tastes red clover wine, Hemingway added. “The delicate aroma hangs over the open

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

LONDON — An investigating committee is checking reports that nurses and orderlies at suburban hospitals are running horse bets for patients. Doctors are worrying abot the effect on a loser, In orderly fashion a nurse takes a bet Which the guy sick in bed can afford. That can’t be too bad, for you mustn't forget The chance nf a worth while re-ward. If it’s down in the book ere the race gets it start, " Better times all around may impend, And even the doctors may take on new heart — And patience pay off in the end,

SOUL SEARCHING

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ATHENS, Nov. 23 — The question of how long it would be before the United States could end its aid to Greece was raised by a U. 8. Senate subcommittee which came through here last summer. It started a lot of soul searching by American officials in Greece, Brice Mace Jr, Tennessee farm expert who heads the UJ, 8. agricultural mission, has come up with the answer that Greece might be made self-suf-

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ficient in foods in five years IF there are no drouths and IF the United States can continue limited aid for that period to complete irrigation and reclamation projects now planned and under way,

~ ~ ~ GREECE is 78 per cent mountainous. The arable 22

per cent consists of only 8 million acres with a million farm-ers-—eight acres per farm. There is some good, unused land on the river deltas, but it needs drainage. Irrigation will bring In limited arid acreage in other areas, But the battle to raise enough 2 food for Greece's 8 milllon people means every acre must support one inhabitant in Greece and also produce tobacco, cotton, olives, fruits and other o

bottle, bringing the feel of summer fields with a wind blowing over them.” he said. “It cannot be bought and you must make it, yourself, to Know its light, indescribable taste.” The blossoms must be picked during the heat of the day, he continued. and watch out for bees. One bushel of flowers makes 10 gallons of wine, Pour boiling water on them. let them ferment for 18 hqurs and squeeze the juice from the blossoms in a bag. Add a dozen ground-up oranges and a dozen lemons, plus a pound of rasins, 20 pounds of sugar and a cake of yeast let it stand fr two weeks,- skim off the pulp on the surface, and bottle. ‘This is a real nifty,” he said. “A friend of mine in Iowa has been making it for years and I can’t think of a pleasanter drink.”

No Bees HE SAID rhubarb wine is equally as good, in a different way, and a good deal easier to pluck than cilov er blossoms. No bees. Hemingway's other recipes sounded fine, too. but I questioned the demand for such a book. “There are other good books of recipes for wines,” said Hemingway, “but mine points our that they are as easy as they are legal. So the

*first edition is sold out and I'm on my way to the printer to order another run.” Fair enough. I can only suggest that if

vou take up Hemingway's ideas and hope tn stay out of jail, have no more than 200 gallons of homemade wine on hand in any one vear and drink it all yourself, Sell one small Jug and you're in trouble.

What Others Say—

WHY is a man any more a man just because __

he gets a crew cuf? After all, Samson never wore a short haircut until he ran into Delilah. Why is a man a sissy if he changes his appearance—dyes his gray hair- so he looks better? ~-Albert, of Fifth Ave, N.Y. one of nation's leading hair stylists, ©

IT MAY be months the well of the House again. this opportunity to wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.--Rep. Usher L. Burdick (R. N. D.), who rarely mak® House speech, at end of short talk in July.

before you see me in I'd like to take

TODAY a false order of political bondage and economic oppression has been imposed upon hundreds of millions of people. These enemies . find justice, strangely in the coercion, rather than the consent, of .the governed.—Tom Clark, Justice, Supreme Court.

WE WOULD welcome any genuine opportunity to reduce the level of tension in ‘he world --but we must always be alert agsinst the baited hooks of phony propaganda. — Dean Acheson, Secretary of State.

WF would make a grave mistake if we traded British exploitation for Soviet imperialism — Prince Khosrov Ghashghal, of Iran's most powerful tribes.

TV I8 very helpful to girls. Their men can’t strike them. The bruises would show.-—Dagmar, television comedienne,

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‘Democrats and War’

MR. EDITOR: FE. Bowman can't understand why we are" trying to arrive at amy agreement with Russia bécause they wouldn't keep it anyway. Well undoubtedly, the so-called reactionary Republicans knew that before 1932 because they .refused to recognize the Commumist government of Russia. However, it took the world’s champion fall guy, F.D.R., to do that and a greater and wiser man would not have been duped into donating to them on lend lease, especially before we got into war. : Neither would he have sold us down thg river at Yalta and given half the woild he didn't own to Joe Stalin, However, to get back to Harry's war, MacArthur says we could win it in three months with an all out war and probably he's right. However, from Harry's standpoint, if peace should come to the world overnight it would he a political calamity. There were around four million unemployed persons at®the time he sent our boys to be slaughtered over in Korea. His own so-called government economic experts figures showed there would be 12 million unem ploved by 1952 which was not a very bright picture in a presidential-election year. There is now, talk of a peace treaty in Korea, and possibly through Churchill, a peace agreement with Stalin. These agreements wonld probably have about the same value as the white paper they are written on. They might end, at least temporarily, a useless, futile Democrat war in which we are going to lose if we win a military victory. At best the Korean War is not too popular with the American people and Harry doesn't want to be plagued with any hot, shooting war when he holds his political convention next summer. However, the cold war must go on It has to go on to keep the Fair Deal economy from going on the rocks. —C.D.C.,

Terre Haute,

‘Let's Hear the Symphony’

MR. EDITOR: On Station WIRE, I had the pleasure of listening in on alrehearsal of the Indianapolis Symphony. The program was both entertaining and educational. It demonstrated the time, patience and just plain grinding work which goes into the bringing out of the printed score, a beautiful melody. Over and over again these men and women repeated sections ‘of the score until their director was satisfied that they had caught and returned to him the spirit of the music. While it proved that a director, who can catch the misplacement of a single note, is very important, it proved more that the musicians who tuned themselves to him without question were even more important. He may be the tree top swaying to the melody of the wind, but they are the roots which give him sustenance. On a last note why can't we hear this fine organization over one of our local stations as a regular seasonal program. There is much talk that the musicians have a tough time on their off season when no concerts are given, so why not a Sunday afternoon or week day evening radio series at this time. The symphony is noted all over the country as one of thé top groups so why can't one of our industries at home sponsor them? The Times has given plenty of other home product: a push. Why not this one. which literally blows Indianapolis’ horn”? How about the paper getting behind at least one TV pro gram from the symphony, either the presentation of one piece of music or probably better, for TV, another rehearsal program?” —Mrs. Regina M. Hanley, 635 Coffey St.

‘Rather Far Fetched’

MR. EDITOR: Here is my reply to the letter written hy Mrs. W. A. Collins, 920 Wright St, Nav. 15 in

the Hoosier Forum. This letter, attacking our public schoo! system. is the same old record that has been played $0 many times it is worn out But this being America, Mrs. Collins has the right to play this debunked propaganda if she chooses. This fight of public schools vs. church or private schools is as old as the United States itself and I have no doubt the fight will continue so. long as we have in our midst those that would undermine our free public schools, and try to raid the public treasury for private uge. Qur public schools are established under the laws of the land. They are open to all regardless of race, creed or color. 1 believe vou, Mrs Collins, have missed the boat completely. By just what law, or any other authority can the church school or private school lay claim to any share -of these taxes for their upkeep or to pay teachers’ salaries” These schools are just what the name sAVS private. It sounds silly and rather far fetched to ask the public to pay for vour private education regardless of how good it might be or how much you may desire it

~—Arthur M. Bowman, 26 S. Capitol Ave.

ENCHANTED HOUR

THE CLOCK in the steeple was striking twelve . . . as I hurried home last night . . . and all the world seemed peaceful as , . . most folks were sleeping tight , thronging crowds . . . or people in a rush . . . the only company 1 had . . . were shadows In

the hush . .. for I was out in what was knewn . as the enchanted hour ... and 1 believed it really so ... . as notes rang from the tower

«+. and as 1 turned the corner to . wherein I dwell . . . a strange fear came npon me ... 80 real I ran pell mell , . , then once Inside my door relaxed . I sighed with great relief . . . for my imagination ran , , , away with my belief,

. the house

~—By Ben Burroughs

Greece Become Self-Supporting?

foodstuffs for export. Only this will enable Greece to earn enough foreign exchange to buy

how poor

£0 out in the country and see the were, Plastiras declared. Greek

Befare the controls were put into effect, the Marshall Plan gave the Greeks $25 million

Greek people

wheat and other foods she cannot raise herself and has to import. Roger D. L.apham, new head of the Marshall Plan mis-

_s8lon to Greece, says it will take “twice as long, or 10 years, to

make (Greece more or less industrially self-supporting. After hearing this size-up from American officials, the question of when United States aid to Greece might be tapered off was put to Gen. Nicholas Plastiras, new prime minister who has just formed a new government.

~ ~ ~ GREECE cannot be treated like the other countries of Europe, he declared in an interview. The war in Greece did not end in 1945, but in 1949. American aid to Greece this year has already been reduced from $250 million to an estimated $190 million. This will make

"it necessary for the Greeks to revise their budget,

Over 40 per cent of the Greek. budget goes to support of its armed forces, Greece was not asking for luxuries, but for the military equipment and necessities of life. The American people should

per capita income is only $128 a year. {This is double the Turkish average, but only half the Italian average.) The program which Prime Minister Plastiras is presenting to Parliament calls for a new social and economic policy to improve the living conditions

of the working classes. This program, however, {is still pretty vague. Gen. Plastiras has called

hack to Greece from Washington, Kyriakos Varvaresses, an economist who has been on the staff of the World Bank. This move has been hailed by the Athens press as one of the most encouraging things that has happened to Greece in a long time, as Dr. Varvaresses is greatly respected. But he has y®t to give his advice and his advice has yet to be #ccepted. » ” . IN THE . meantime, with American assistance, a Greek rationing and price-control system is being put into opera-

tion in an effort to stem the

high cost of living and the terrible inflation. Wholesale

commodity prices in Greece are

400 times higher than in 1939, .

war relief grants and

to build up their food reserves for the winter. The controls are on wheat, rice, beans, sugar and coffee now, Controls will be put on bread, edible oils and codfish soon. This will give Greece one of the most tightly controlled economies in Europe. But the inflationary threat is still here, and with the Greek drachma already selling al 15000 to the dollar, the political threat is serious. It is hard for anyone in the United States to understand what one of these runaway in flations means. While the U. 8 price index has advanced roughly 20 per cent since 1947

. the Greek rise is 200 per. cent.

” ” ” > THE United States will have poured $2 billion into Greece by next June. Over $000 million has been aid, due to end in June. Military aid totals over $550 million, UNRRA and other postloans add up to another $550 millon, Ald can’t go on at this scale forever, no matter how deserving the Greeks may be.

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