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A Pini-Sized Worry

HE world’s a pretty rough place to be in today. Everybody's got worries . . . big ones like war, inflation, “crime; housing, ete. Everybody's more or less wrapped up in their own affairs and the guy that comes up with something else to worry about isn't very popular. But we'll run that risk. We want to squeeze in another worry... a little one, pint-sized . . . but pretty important. ; We want to worry about kids . . . the kind that don’t have warm clothing or enough to eat. We want to worry about ’em and we want you to, also. “There's something about a kid we just can’t pass up. Maybe it's the way he smiles, or the pride he takes in a pretty important. possession like & top or a frog. Maybe it’s that look of wide-eyed trust that cuts Tight through to the heart.

n o - > ... 8 n MAYBE it's because we know this little kid, this squirt with the dirty face, is going to run’ this big, important, unhappy world someday . . . and we'd. like to help him a little, if we know how. There's a good way to help him . him new hope. ." Just pick up the phone and call Times Clothe-A-Child, PLaza 5551, and make an appointment to take a little kid

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on a shopping tour, or add some ‘dimes to The Times

Mile-O-Dimes. Fa It'll mean everything to him. We're willing to bet rh mean quite a bit to you, too.

‘Why Truman Eoinés

An Rants at Press

(GENERALLY speaking, when newspapers are attacked "by public officials they are reluctant to hit back because they feel access to their own columns gives them an undue advantage. : That may be the chief reason the American press has frequently held its punch, in the face of harshly critical statements made by President Truman, . On Thursday he teed off on the Associated Press for what he described as irresponsible journalism, in connection with the cease-fire ‘snafu out of Korea. Anybody who knows even kindergarten stuff about military censorship knows that when dispatches are cleared for publication it means they have been approved in the field by the commanders whom the censorship officers

represent.

Now, in the case of the AP dispatch saying that our troops had been ordered to halt ground action early this week, the censors approved it. It couldn't have got out, except with their approval. s os - ss 8 = z THE SAME is true of a subsequent dispatch when the AP correspondent reported.that at least 100,000. troops had been told of the orders, that any secrecy had vanished,

‘and no serious effort was made to deny that such orders

had been issued. Friday, through his press secretary, Mr. Truman con-

tinued lashing at the Associated Press, contending .that

there had been no orders to halt the fighting, either from the White House or from the Eighth Army. And again he charged that the AP was trying to confuse the American people. The fact that The Times enbseribes to a competing press association's services—the United Press—is unimportant. : For when the President takes after one press association and unjustifiably imputes the worst possible of motives —trying to confuse the public—it reflects unfavorably in ‘the public mind upon all press associations and newspapers. That, we think, is precisely what the President wants to do in this instance, and has on other occasions in the past. The real answer to the recurrent Truman blasts against the press is to be found in the fact that he has been acutely embarrassed by exposure and criticism of — :

The graft and corruption around him in his adminis- ~ tration—about which he is doing very little. —

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THE FACT that the information about that graft was obtained by the newspapers against his wishes, rather than with his help. The consistent mess he has made of international affairs, not excepting the Korean War.

Hence, his obvious irritation with the newspapers; ~and-the feeling that anything he can do to hurt them with

the American public reduces their effectiveness in calling proper attention to his own nonfeasances and malfeasances: in other respects. Certainly it must be a source of annoyance to him to have matters he tries to conceal from the public find their way into newspapers. But he, more than most, should realize that government belongs to the people—and that free government and free press. go hand in hand. Meanwhile, on a kindred matter, we would like to say—

We Stand on Our Own

MAJ. GEN. CHARLES WILLOUGHBY, retired. chief of intelligence for Gen. MacArthur, recently wrote a piece for Cosmopolitan Magazine in which he peels the hide off six correspondents and three magazines. His complaint is that they “distorted” news of. the war effort in Korea and ‘provided aid and comfort to the enemy.” In the same breath he lauds the Scripps-Howard newspapers and the Hearst press as “invariably reliable and wellinformed” on Korea, We would be the first to admit that the dispatches by Jim G. Lucas, who covered much of the war for us in Korea, were both accurate and able. And we are pleased that Gen. Willoughby thinks so.

At the same time, we are not too pleased to be put in © opposition to some of the undoubtedly able and honest

reporters the General so freely castigates—Hal "Boyle of the Associated Press, Homer Bigart of the New York Herald Tribune, and Hanson Baldwin of the New York Times, all

seasoned war FOPRMAYS | and galy respected in their trade, -

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Foster's Follies

NEW YORK—A noted bridge expert (male) says that female bridge players have become

worse in their ethics and now

even resort to such treacherous’ tactics as ‘wearing low neck gowns in tournaments. It may be true that bridge is not for plunging, Like poker and canasta and some more, Yet these cross-words he'd better try expunging, Lest he should meet disaster he'll deplore.

For it's a cinch no ladies he'll be swaying By boldly calling such a spade a spade. It may indeed be bridge those gals are playing, But even so, who wants to be-—Old Maid.

” ” ” THE FELLOW should have remembered there are always two sides to a question of this kind. And everything depends on how you look at it. As a matter of fact, we can

think of no. situation where a .

lady could be en-decolletage with more propriety. Nobody's going to get very far in a bridge tournament if his greatest bid to fame is a series of passes. ; Besides, it's. assumed that anyone who gets into those big casino set-tos is

down and matters of the heart

‘cannot be permitted to inter-

fere. Unless, of course, hearts should happen to be trumps.

But ‘the man in New York °

might have been a little less cutting in his remarks. Lady bridge players have enough woe as it is. For one thing there is the anguish with- which any gal has to pass up a diamond bid.

” n o 8 MORE than that, if her partner fails to live up to his contract, she is without re-

- dress: (Like accusing him of reneging—and suing him for |.

breach of promise.) Being reduced to only one dress is a terrible blow. From which no gal finds it easy to re-cover. Yep, poor Bridge-ette is in

_for a ruff time to say the

least. And often she does have to say considerably less than she'd like to. As, for instance, when she happens to draw her own husband for a partner. In that case she can't even bawl the old gent out for being a dummy. As usual.

a. 8 8 AUNT COMMY SAYS: “See where Pravda says journalism teachers in ‘some Soviet unjversities is doing a poor job of preparing journalists for their work. One of them stu-

dents must've turned in a story

‘based on fact.”

” ” » HEH-HEH HEADLINES: “President Truman Spends A

Windy Day Before Fireplace.” Another fireside chat?

“Holiday Meal To Cost 9% ‘More This Year With" 54.8¢ Dollar.” Meaning that the consumer will get ‘‘the bird” as usual, “Science Discovers Method

- For Buttoning Up A Heart.”

Sometimes we'd prefer some means of buttoning a few lips. “Robot Economics Teacher Has Water Pump For Heart.” Maybe that explains what's been happening to the national economy. At least it’s been watered down plenty.

8-8 INDISPUTABLE STATEMENT DEPARTMENT: “I knew I wasn’t dead.”

‘Barbs—-

A COMPLETE set of silverware, with no -spoons missing, never his come ad from a piénie.

IN WAR time an 1dle rumor in the mouth of anybody

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‘ng CHUMP.” “THe chips are really

~ of any kind are ruling.

JueERNENIIRIRARRRANE

A great number of our good citizens were

alarmed observing the headline in the Capital

edition of The Times, Nov. 27. I believe that the particular wording of this headline is most unfortunate and, in effect, a reflection on one of the finest youth movements in the world. The young man, who was a forester, apparently served as an assistant scout master as a matter of hobby. You will agree that if he is guilty of the murder of his mother and sister, it is- probably a matter of insanity,

From a reporter's angle, the wording “hot-

headed Boy “Scout” ‘may be attractive because it is sensational. However, recognizing that a daily paper does not only serve as an informer but has a decisive and often final

. responsibility for leadership and education, I

cannot understand how The Indianapolis Times could choose a headline that could be interpreted as a smear of a very large, very moral

and religious group such as the Boy Scouts of

America. Even in untroubled times this would not be an understandable step. Today, however, those institutions that are attempting to support Americanism at its best, that attempt to promote mental and physical health, religious faith and patriotism should not be subjected to a headline such as this. You are aware of the fact that very few scouts that have gone through the entire

process of scouting have gone bad. Our own

Goverror, Henry Schricker, has often said that

_not a single Eagle Scout has been on record

as serving time -in our Indiana penal institutions. When a Boy Scout does go wrong, then,

{8-it-fair-or-wise-to-headiine- such-a-fact?

Unfortunately there are some in our midst who would gladly abolish all scouting,- as it has been done in all countries where dictators I believe that a headline such as this plays right into the hands of this destructive minority. Possibly you do not wish to publish this letter, .But perhaps you will find a way to undo the effect of this edition and for whatever you may do in that respect, I should like to thank you in advance. —Jack G. Messmer, 504 Holliday Building.

‘A Matter of History’ MR. EDITOR:

C. D. C., whoever he or she or it might be, - blames wars on the Democrats and infers that the present conflict in Korea was started to gear up the economy. It is startling to read this from the pen of the alphabetical ghost, since such a statement is so brash that no logical argument can be used against it. So, while a

“logical answer could not be made to such an

absurdity, it might prove educational to remind him or her or it of the role played by Republicans in our nation's conflicts . . . and to remind him or her or it that it takes no brains to be brash, Abraham:-Lincoln was a Republican and was

HOOSIER SKETCHBOOK :

“By i. Hugh o Donnell

HOOSIER FORUM— Headlines’

"| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to. the death your right 1® say it."

EISELE EESTI SORA RE ARR EASTER EET assesses

° MR. EDITOR:

__for years he His been serving us .

EDITOR'S NOTE .

. THERE'S an old yarn that's n going around so long it be true, for all we know, about how a certain eastern college ‘once got a winning football team. Seems some alumni found a lot of rough tough boys around Detroit who knew how to play football, but hadn't progressed much beyond grade school in other fields of study. The alumni solved their lack of scholastic credits for admission to college by simply organizing a “prep school,” which had a name, an address way - batk in the wilds of northern Michigan, and a “headmaster” to answer any mail that turned up, but nothing else. = Then they issued diplomas and credentials to the sandlot stars, and thus got them entered in their college, which had no rule against playing freshmen. According to the legend the lads delivered nobly on the gridiron, if not in the classrooms, and the plot came to light only when sportswriters began to wonder why a single prep school that had nurtured all those stars hadn't ever seemed to win any football games itself, and went to look at it. Maybe it never happened, but as the 1951 college, football season ended yesterday in a crescendo of criticism, facts

up on every hand.

n Ed ” NEITHER the faults, nor the criticism of them, is new. They have been growing for years. This year they add up to a plain warning to the colleges that something had better be done about it.

Principally the. case-against.

President during the greatest Civil War in the history of the world. During the war with Spain, this’ country was headed by another Republican, William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, a

Republican, intervened with American troops in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5.

The Republican Party often has nominated war .heroes to cash in ‘on a military feeling. ‘Tippecanoe and Tyler, too” is an example. Gen. U. 8. Grant was nominated as a Civil War hero. Teddy Roosevelt rode to fame as a “Rough Rider” of the war in Cuba. Lately, certain Republicans went on a great binge for Gen. MacArthur and are now trying to draft another war hero, Gen. Eisenhower. I am not accusing the Republican Party of being in favor of war,”and anyone who. accuses the Democrats of deliberate war planning is not only being unfair and irrational, but makes such

statements in ignorance of American history. © Even now, I cannot believe the Republicans .

want all-out war in Asia although some of its

° lesser brains (including our own Sen. Jenner)

have made such statements. Even Jenner, I'm

convinced does not want war; he wants’ to be

against something . . . anything proposed by

the Democrats. I repeat, neither political party advocates a war policy. But the American people themselves will not stand for too much pushing around. American history books provide ample testimony of that spirit. C. D. C. should take time to read this history . .. if he or she or it has acquired the knack. Judson Haggerty, City

$1 00-A-Flae Statement’

MR. EDITOR: Our local “golden boy,” Frank McKinney recently made a $100-a-plate statement to the effect that he did not think the Republican Party had ever caught up with the people since 1932, Might we ask, Frank, if the American taxpayer has ever caught up with the Democratic Party since then™ -—P. R., City.

THE BUTCHER

WHEREVER there are people . . . and people always eat , . , there is a man whose job it is

+ + « to sell and display meat . . . ‘he is the one who must be quite . . . adept at cutting steak «+. and he must be a master at . . . the weight each cut will make . . . now in our neighborhood we have ... a man who's liked by all ,. . . = without a slip or fall . . . he’s honest. and he's + «'+ his service is just fine . . . and if there's some discrepancy . . . he'll make good on the line . .. a credit to each housewife . . . whose budget must be met . . ones . , , the fairest they can get. --By Ben Burroughs

just as fantastic were turning

courteous

. his prices are the fairest.

5 Walter atkrons - When Are 3 Going to Give Football to the Students?

the. colleges rests on: “Recruiting and_ paying of

football players while pretend-

ing they are unpaid amateurs.

Evading ordinary academic -

requirements. to keep football players in school who are not bona fide college students, High pressure demand for a winning team at any cost, including sacrifice of basic moral standards, = - Letting a game, which is a good game but still just ‘a game, become so important it threatens to overshadow .the "real purpose for which colleges exist. 2 » ” 2 - » ACTUALLY only a relatively few colleges are guilty, although those under fire probably have half; of more than half, of all the college students, Virtually none of the hundreds’ of little colleges—schools with fewer than 1000 students — ever -do any of those things. Nor do some few of the big: ‘ones — they can be readily identified by thelr season’s scores, Scandals like the West Point expulsions, and the faked records at schools like William and Mary College, and CCNY, have revealed some df the more flagrant abuses this year—but no. intelligent observer * imagines that is all there are. » There no doubt are exceptions, but it is reasonably safe to assume that-the college that figures consistently, vear after year, in the “national championship” standings has cut some corners. Teams that good might come

“together once in a blue moon

"by pure coincidence—but™ not every season. ..When a university 1s fued— and settles out-of court as one of the leading football schools in the country did last year . +». for the “wages” promised a student for playing football, the evidence what is going on there, When a ¢oach has to quit because his team has a losing season, as a good many have in the past 12 months, there: can't be much question of “high pressure.”

When a college engages in,

or winks at, what amounts to fraud in its relations with the

* public and with other colleges,

it is falling sadly short of its avowed purpose of educating youth for American citizenship. This year the protest against such skullduggery has become so serious it may force some reforms, eto FOOTBALL has ‘been . revised before, under public pressure, : Just the other day Eddie Ash was telling in our sports + pages, about the time, nearly 50 years ago, when a President of the United States used the influence of his office to induce colleges to make changes in the game.

is pretty clear.

The criticism then was that the game was too rough, too many players got hurt. It was, definitely, no place" for weaklings. The team with the ball had three “downs” to advance five yards, which it customarily, tried to do by. sheer power and mass weight, It wasn't a very exciting game to watch, and not very many people went to watch it. Under the urging of Presi. dent Thepdore Roosevelt, who loved all sports and especially the rougher ones, the colleges got together and made a few simple changes in the rules, The ‘flying wedge,” a particularly . destructive form of mayhem, was abolished. Pushing, dragging or throwing a ball carrier forward was out-

lawed, “clipping” and mass plays of all kinds were penal. ized. (Biting, eye - gouging,

kicking and slugging always

«had been illegal, although of-

ten hard td" detect inside the pile-ups of the period.) The new rules encouraged the forward pass and the lateral pass (which like. the famed T-formation is by no means a modern invention but has been part of the game from away back) gave the team with the ball four “downs” to.advance ten yards and opened it up to spectacular running plays.

» ” - FAR from spoiling football these new rules made it a thrilling spectacle to watch, and crowds began to grow, Nobody could have foreseen it then, but in that lay the seeds of today’s trouble. It got too good, at the box-office. : The building of the million dollar stadium to be paid for out of ticket sales to crowds which winning teams attract and losers do not, followed naturally. College football had become big business. Competition for that business has brought the ills it faces today. There are many prescriptions offered for them. Actually it would require only relatively

-simple measures to cure most

of them. Such as? or $ Legal paying of college football players by their colleges. Letting only seniors, after three years college, play on the teams. : Keeping all coaches out of contact with the teams during the games, There probably are more that could -be added. These would end football ‘“recruiting” and scholarship faking and take out most of the “high pressure.” Football is a fine game, to play’ in, or to watch. But it is not the main purpose of the American college.

It ought to be given back -

to the students.

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Hoosier Senators Lost

In Avalanche of Mail

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1—Not since President Truman

Senators been .deluged with such an avalanche of mail as has resulted from the nomination of Gen. Mark Clark

as Ambassador to Vatican City. About 99 per cent of this mail addressed to Sens. Homer E. Capehart and William E. Jenner, Indiana Republicans, came from Hoosier Protestants § protesting the appointment. Both Senators answer with a form letter, which doesn’t state just how they would vote should the Clark

Gen. Clark

«oo a few letters

“Tiomination reach the Senate

floor. It is considered likely they would vote against it however. Since Sen. Tom Connally (D. Tex.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

By J. Hugh O’Donnell

which will handle the nomination when Congress reconvenes, ‘already has declared his opposition to the Clark appointment, there is some prospect that it will not be sent to the Senate floor.

The President has been eriticized for nominating a general, who will have to have an act of Congress to serve and save his Army status, in addition to being confirmed as

ambassador. He also has been

castigated for sending Gen.

= Clark's appointment to the

Senate * just ment,

before adjourn-

n SEN. JENNER points out,

~his—letter-of-—reply to stituents, that the appointment appeared patently political. He adds that he doesn’t doubt the “efficacy of the Catholie Church” in helping to combat the spread of communism throughout the world. Both Senators say they will judge the matter on its merits when the proper time comes. Under the aegis of the min{sterial associations tn many places, resolutions and letters of protest have been addressed to. the Senators and not to Representatives, Only the Sen-

ate passes on such appoint:

ments... pr Rep. Charles B. Browneson, Indianapolis Republican, received only 23 letters against

and three in favor of the Vat- _

ican Ambassador proposal. » » o FEW Indiana Cathoics have written, either to the Senators or their Representatives, regarding the matter. Most of the letters of protest

are based on the theory that _

sending an ambassador to Vatfcan City violates the U, 8. constitutional guarantees of geparation of church and state. Of the more than 3000 received by Ben. Capehart, the senior Senator from Indiana, most take a reasoned view of the matter on such a basis. Some are decidedly intemperate. One demanded not only killing the Clark appointment, but bringing back Prohibition.

GEN. OLARK calls Indian

" apolis his home, having mar-

ried a Muncie girl and Hved long at the state capital as the Army officer assigned to the Indiana National Guard. . Should he join the diplomatic colony at Vatican City, it

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