Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1951 — Page 22

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Give Light and the Peopie Will Find Their Own Way

FIRST in America With “The Gift of Life”

is led the whole N OCTOBER the people of Indianapolis ; I nation in the gift of their own blood to save the lives of

wounded American soldiers. % In all its history this city can point to no finer achieve-

ment. Late in September U. x, the nation for human blood, critically dangerously short supply. A campaign for donors was 0

and unique lines previously untried. i Mrs. Asnes Ostrom, The Times Women's Club Editor,

called a meeting of club leaders. Women representing more than 500 women's clubs in Indianapolis attended, heard of the urgent need, indorsed the plan for meeting it, formed themselves into an organization of Modern Minute Women, and went to work. Mrs. Ostrom, and The Times, helped to

co-ordinate their activities.

» = » THE REST was a plain, unglamorous story of hard, unceasing effort and real community co-operation. Hundreds of women and men registered for appointments to give blood. The Red Cab Company offered free cab service to and from their homes to all who gave. The Indianapolis Red Cross expanded its facilities for accepting blood, found them quickly swamped with donors, flew in nurses from other cities to meet the needs here. By the last day of October Indianapolis actually had given more than 5000 pints of blood—more than twice as much as ever had been collected here before in a single month. This week the American Red Cross tallied up the records, found Indianapolis had far exceeded every other city in the nation—given more than four times as much as Chicago, more than three times as much as Pittsburgh, per thousand of population. THE giving wasn't over. Before the 50-day drive ended here this past week, pledges had been given and appointments made, almost to the capacity of the blood collection center, promising a total of more than 6000 pints more for November. And

pledges for the months still to come were being made. This campaign, and its result, has saved hundreds,

probably thousands of lives of American young men in our

armed forces. : The Times is proud to have had a part in this mag-

nificent enterprise. : : And we are doubly proud to be part of a community

that so nobly meets its obligations to humanity.

S. Armed Services appealed to needed in Korea and in

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A Foot in the Door OW WOULD Red China figure in any disarmament talks which might be broached by the United Nations? It's a pertinent question because the Communist puppet regime is not a member of the United Nations. Now it turns out that our State Department would welcome the participation of the Chinese Reds in the United Nations talks. Secretary Acheson told the Paris meeting tht it would be necessary to include all countries with “substantial” military forces. Subsequently American spokesmen said this meant the outlaw government would be invited though we would continue to oppose its ad--mission to the United Nations. _ Of course, it would be a foot in the door for the Chinese Communists. The implication would be broad that if they agreed to disarm, they might be rewarded with United Nations membership. And, in turn, this would intensify the pressure on a none-too-reluctant United States State Department to recognize Peiping. Just as we observed the other day, they'll bear watching—our United Nations Delegates who qualify their opposition to Communist China by such phrases as “at present,” and “in the existing circumstances.” They scarcely conceal the hope that some day Red China will turn over a new leaf and be worthy of our recognition.

Trigger-Happy Russians OVIET fighter planes fired on an American bomber which ventured over Vladivostok, Russian naval base in Siberia. One of our bémbers with its crew of 10 is missing from Korea and the evidence is strong that this is the one the Russians shot down. Indeed, Russia appears to be boasting about it by announcing that two Soviet naval fliers have been given a high award “for exemplary fulfillment of ‘their official duty.” Obviously the plane was off its course, and just as obviously, it had no intention of bombing Vladivostok. The plane was flying under a United Nations flag, and Russia is a member of the United Nations. But it would be useless to expect the United Nations to do anything about it. We've lost other planes to trigger-happy Soviet gunners. But all we've done about it is to send diplomatic protests. We'll probably do it again in thi§ instance—for whatever comfort and satisfaction it may afford the wives and parents of 10 Americans—but it will help keep up the pretense that we are not at war with a savage, implacable foe which abides by no rules of civilized conduct.

For a Real Truce PROSPECTS for a truce in Korea appear brighter now than at any time in recent months, For that, let us be thankful. But let's keep our fingers crossed, For, regardless of any cease-fire in Korea, there isn't the slightest reason to suppose that international communism has given up its plans for world conquest. Only by making America strong, by mobilizing with all our might can we be sure of stopping Russia in her tracks. If we let down now, in the dream of a “peace by Christmas,” we will be throwing away our last chance for permanent truce and security.

The Light of

Foster's Follies

NEW YORK — For the first time at the College of the City of New York a girl has been chosen manager of a men's varsity team. Breaking a cen-tury-old, all-male tradition, an 18-year-old miss heads the rifle team.

How lucky he'll be who weds this little eyeful. She should make a wonderful spouse. He'll still be ahead though his pockets she rifle. She'll be quite a boon ‘round the house. The training she's getting this early in life’'ll ) Bring knowledge too often too strange. Some guy should eat well; it's a cinch that his wife'll

Be fully at home --on the range. = un = HOWEVER, this sort of

extra-gunicular activity on the part of any young lady could have certain disadvantages in the Romance Department. Unless she were majoring in Spanish, French, Italian and

Provencal. Her chances might be shot before she even started. Say some sizzling swain asks such a Springfield sweetie for a movie date. So he wants to see “Love Midst the Lilacs” or “Romance in the Rockies.” She holds out for “Straight Shootin’ Sam,” starring Trigger. Finally they compromise on one of Bing’'s ballad bargain bills. And, bang! she spends the entire evening in the powder room. If the young man's luck happens to be running that evening, maybe she lets him give her a quick goodnight kiss. But unless he's smack on the target she can’t resist scoring the shot with a shrill, “A five at 3:00 o'clock, high.” Or maybe our pretty pet isn't petting; just petulant. She

ruins Romeo's evening with, “Sorry, but I really musket going now!” \ No, sir, even though she's

one of the few gals satisfied to draw beads these days, instead of owning them, he still gets it in the neck. Any young fellow will think twice—maybe three times —before he'll trifle with any miss that handy with a rifle, Trouble is maybe she

won't. Miss, But, shoot, our little City College carbine captain can

expect at least four letters real soon: “CCNY.” » = » AUNTY COMMY SAYS. See where them Chinese Comimunists’ new winter uniforms have a vermin-exterminating kit in one of the pockets. What is them Reds thinking of? Suicide? ~ ~ ~

HEH - HEH - HEADLINES: “University Prof. Finds Man's Reasoning Is Better When He's Lying" Down.” Mebbe so, but it's still tough to think up a quick reason when the boss catches you lying down on the job . “1. 8. TELLS HOW TO PICK BABY SITTER.” That's easy. Just locate someone who's allergic to television, radio and refrigerators. “ACTING YOUNG CALLED SECRET OF STAYING YOUNG.” Only trouble is it makes us look so darned childish.

IN LOS ANGELES a 28-year-old man became the father of a 180-pound boy, the other day, The “son” was a 20-year-old orphan sailor who wanted to get married, and needed parental consent. 80 he was adopted and his new “parents” will give their blessing official and otherwise, . But think how the Florida Chamber of Commerce gentry dol before they had the deails, -

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By J.-Hugh

MR. EDITOR: My dear ladies you may have forgotten that some years ago women fought for equal right§ with men. Well, today they have just about reached their goal. and in my opinion I think they are getting just what they deserve. 1 often wish that women could change places with men for a while and I expect eves would open wide on both sides and there would be more crying and belly aching than ever was heard before . . . The trouble with women today is that they

~have demanded and gotten so many gadgets to

do their work for them that they have nothing better to do with their time than pick their providers apart . . . No. I am not a disgruntled male, who had been ripped apart, I am a wife and mother of four children and thankful for what I have. I at least don't have to hang my head in shame when 1 at my husband.

—A Reader, City

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MR. EDITOR: These two women, Mrs. Jane Whitbread and Mrs. Vivian Cadden, haven't gone far enough into nature to arrive at a complete understanding of it. They're so right about many things but have they stopped to realize that love begets love and surpasses all trivial matters . . . What it amounts to is how thoreughly do we Know ourselves? We're all pretty much alike.

—C. C. E., City

MR. EDITOR: It's no wonder the women who wrote those articles have so much to say against men. They must have taken so much time to write the stories that thev neglected their homes and their hushands had a right to complain . , . women ++» Bah. —Ward III Father, City

MR. EDITOR: I'm just a mere man with no trace of the bully or the caveman in me. I do my best to provide for my family and I think I do pretty well. does my wife when she tells our acquaintances about my job and her new fur coat. But, why in h. ... can’t she act like it when I come home in the evening and only want to read the paper-that she and the kids have scattered ‘all over the place , , .? The only thing backward about the cavemen was they didn't know how good they had it . . and look what their getting civilized did to us. —Edward C., City

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MR. EDITOR: Have the women who wrote “The Case of Man vs. Woman’ made their reservations for

If not, their husbands are characters to be taken as examples of American opinionated women are not American wives, thank goodness.

Reno yet? too sorry hushandhood. Such

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. ae WASHINGTON, Nov. 24— Indiana's own Oscar R. (Jack) Ewing, federal security administrator who was legislated

back into the Hoosier fold by the Jenner amendment, today defended public assistance expenditures by his department. Although ‘aid for the aged, dependent children and others have soared in dollar totals, they actually have declined percentagewise since 1940, the Ewing figures from the. Social Security Board show. The population dependent on some form of public aid has dropped from 11'; per cent in 1940 to less than 4 per cent at present. Although higher prices have curbed the decline in dollar costs, public aid programs today account for only 1 per cent of the national incomé dollar as compared to 31, per cent in 1940, Mr. Ewing

reported. ” = 5

TO SIMPLIFY all this, the FSA-SSA Bureau of Public Assistance prepared charts and graphs. One of these shows that the national average per 1000 persons receiving old-age and survivors insurance was 247 in June, 1951. In Indiana, the number was 248. National average of those 65 and over receiving public assistance was 220-and in Indiana only 135. Although far more aged in Indiana are cov-

ered by the pension system than welfare, it was the latter category that kicked up the fuss when the legislature

sought to give the public access to the rolls. Mr. Ewing cut off the grants-in-aid to the state and it took

There's nothing worse than an opinionated woman. But a man who doesn't know his mind . now there's something worse, —Opinionated, City

MR. EDITOR: What makes the lady writers think they have it so bad? They sneak back to bed when their husbands are safely at work in the grist mill. They waste half their time visiting with neighbors tnot out shooting Indians) and spend hours planning long expensive menus full of vitamins (not out hoeing the garden or skinning rabbits). . ..

—Just a Bum Husband, City

MR. EDITOR:

Did the ladies who wrote those articles take a good look at themselves in the mirror” How much do they look like the girls their husbands thave mercy on the poor guys) courted? Those pretty young things who always looked glamorous, never appeared without lipstick or in hair curlers . . . who were always ready for a good time and never nagged about being tired and worn out . who listened to yeur every word as though it were the most brilliant opinion ever uttered . . . The mirror would bust in a thousand pieces, ... —Not Impressed, Terre Haute

‘Is It Too Late?’ MR. EDITOR Time for a change. Democrats would have about over scandals, corruption big government spending. high taxes, medicine. and the price it takes to go to a doctor is outrageous, If everything keeps on going up, there will be a lot of us who won't be ahle to make it. This has been gcing on ever since Truman has been President. I feel that this war could have been avoided. He boys over there without sulting If he would have MacArthur do what he wanted to do last spring there wouldn't have been so manv of our bhovs killed. MacArthur says this country has been caught at one of the most critical times in its history, without leadership. The President says if the unions and farmers are prosperous and secure of the people will be prosperous. and secure too. Well we know this isn't true whgn the unions want more money they go out on a strike not even considering what it will do to the country and not even thinking about our. boys dying over there in Korea. Most of the farmers work unless they get their price. I feel confident the American people will step in and solve the crisis. If they don't I just won't understand the American people. It may be too late to do anything about the condition of our country. 1 feel if anyone can bring us out this terrible Dwight Eisenhower, ~Mrs. Dora Baker, 19 N, Oriental St.

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O'Dsrrel DEAR BOSS i . by Dan Kidney | SATS 7, .. Ewing Defends Hike in Public “Assistance Expenditures

the Jenner amendment to the federal tax bill to get them restored.

n un » COMMENTING on his data showing a 10-year decline in costs and . case loads of the public aid programs, Mr. Ewing declared:

“Further reduction in public aid can be expected as more old people qualify for old-age and survivors insurance.

“In fact, the effects of more liberal insurance provisions are already. being felt in highly industrialized

states. In such

Oscar Ewing ... Dollar totals up.

areas, more old people are living on their insurance than are dependent on old-age assistance. For the country as a whole; the number of aged insurance beneficiaries exceeds by nearly half a million the

number of old-age assistance

recipients “Ten years ago many ablebodied adults were receiving aid through various work relief programs, The needy today

are almost exclusively the very old, very young, and the disabled.

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“EVEN though the population has increased by 19 million since 1940--with the larg, est increases occurring in the groups under 5 and over 85 years—better economic conditions have enabled most families to support their dependent members without resorting to public aid.” The latest count of publie assistance recipientd i August, 1951) shows 2.7 million persons over 65 and 2.1 million depend-

ent children and their caretakers. ” » EJ THE TOTAL number ae-

counted for by other public aid Programs, viz., aid to the blind and disabled and aid given through state and locally financed general assistance programs, was less than 1 million. Total cost of all assistance on public aid programs in August was $188,189,000, The Office of Education also comes under Mr. Ewing's juris. diction. They have put out a

little

booklet to dramatize school needs with simple illustrations It is called “They Can't Wait.” As the title suggests, school-age children must have schools and teachers right now or they never will

get them. According to the booklet, £14 billion is needed now for school construction and repairs and 750,000 new teachers will be needed in the next 10 vears BY 1960 there will be 8 million more children in the s« hools, The booklet dramatizes a 20 per cent drop in school expendi-

tures between 1940 and 1950 In 1940, when the national product income was £101 billion

the percentage fpent for education was 3.5. In 1950 the national income had risen to $280.billion and the amount for education fallen to 2 8 per cent the charts show, : Bs

IF TRUCE FAILS . . : By Ludwell Denny

Manchurian Air Bases Will Be Hottest Issue

WASHINGTON, Nov. the Chinese air bases in M

24—To bomb or not to bomb anchuria will become the hot-

test Allied issue if the Korean truce talks fail

World war and an Allied split could

decision. So could the Ameri-

can presidential campaign. Hitherto the administration hoped it had buried the issuefirst raised by Gen, Douglas MacArthur. There have been several reasons for the Truman - Acheson policy, whieh gives "“sanctuary” to the Red air force Gen, MacArthur by prohibiting : a on ... not buried ers from attacking main enemy

bases across the Yalu River frontier, These include Division among our military chiefs themselves, as well as between the Pentagon and the State Department, on this question. Danger that such bombing might provoke open participation of Russia in her war-by-proxy, and thus turn a rela tively small isolated military conflict into a world-wide con

flagration for which the United States is not yet prepared Virtually solid opposition of the United Nations to any risk

of spreading the war. and espe-

veimlly to bombing targets in China proper. Particularly the opposition of Britain, Canada and Australia. And finally the fact that after the earlier retreat, Ameri-

can and. United Nations farees had been gaining slowly - with

By J. Hugh O'Donnell

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Manchurian bases. Moreover, the truce talks in Pea effect postponed the trouhleIssue. There was little pressure, even from Truman to reverse military tacthe midst of so-called negotiations. To do so would have opened us to charges of bad faith abroad

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Russia's Fin WHY DOES air strength in | formidable?

Because - we're up againgt stuff made to repel a Mozcaow and othe After the watched develop strategy for drop with R-29's or B their research

meeting that thre Answer was th sian fighter, plus ajreraft guns, a weapons systems Ing tested in Kor Russian ground able” to ‘drive U air fleets up to ! And Reds have throw great MI( when we get up years of work.

Sudan Outlc DON'T EXPEC litical crisis to stuff in Egypt. Sudanese sta bloodiest revolts | tory at turn of nothing like that now. Fifty vears ¢ British rule, wi drawn into lihera ment, plus Britis] all matters that 1 ligious fanaticisn to pay dividends | But there will | words, Argument: Nationalists, as w ese politicians wh to confirm Fgyp Sudan will echo holding that Egy, abrogation of par