Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1951 — Page 22

.-NIOW.

A SURIPPS-HOWAKD NEWSPAPER

OY W. HOWARD WALTER LECRRONE HENRY W. MANZ'

Editor Business Manager PAGE 22 “Friday, Dec. 21, . 1051

di is os Pubitsb, ne G aed 40d oie, gain day by Posie 5 fing ¢

Ii wd br Scripps ower & ewvoader fiance, NEA Bore Fg Andie Bureau of Ciroula

in Ma ; SSubty 8 ob oents a . 0 od an 5c, Su Big only saat ig LX ll apd adage To 2 egy. guy, Mexioo. daily, $110 & month. Sunday. naman Telephone PL aza 8551

Give Tort and the Peoples Will Fina Thetr On Wey

President

Middle Eastern Defense

HE AMERICAN reply to Russia's protest against Allied plans to create a Middle Eastern defense command was couched in language which the Kremlin should be able to understand. It was firm and to the point. Moscow had charged that the Allied -plans reflected aggressive intent on the part of the West; also that the idea of any threat to the Middle Eastern states was “absolutely groundless:” The Soviet Union itself poised such a threat, the State Department flatly told Moscow. Similar replies were delivered by Britain, France and Turkey, the other sponsors of the Middle Eastern defense program. In support of its charge that Russia has designs upon the Middle East, the State Department recalled the oncesecret negotiations between the Soviet and Nazi governments in 1940. In these conversations, the Russians asked Hitler-ta recognize and accept “the area south of Batum and of Baku in the general direction of the Persian Gulf” as the “center of the aspirations of the Soviet Union.” Immediately after the last war Moscow indicated its continuing interest in this area by demanding that Turkey cede lands to Russia for use as a sea base, and by its attempt to maintain troops in Iran in violation. of the 1944 Allied agreement.

n 8 . “ u ® 1 J IT IS well to let Moscow khow now that a Russian invasion of the Middle East will not be tolerated. Once that is understood in Moscow, the adventure will appear less inviting.

_The Suez Canal and Middle ‘Eastern’ oil are vital.to ~~

y oy A a

vss Hun

MR. EDITOR:

“the Western world and the extension of the Iron Curtain to that area would be disastrous. ‘The state of near-anarchy prevailing in Egypt and Iran has threatened to create a vacuum of which the Kremlin could be expected to take full advantage if the Western powers should abandon the area to its fate. But that must not happen. The Arab states have been invited to join in defense plans against foreign invasion. But if they refuse to participate in the program, it is to our own interest to protect them from the consequences of that folly. The defense plans the Allies have announced contain no threat to the rights and legitimate aspirations of any

nation. They simply are designed to protect one of the

historic channels against the threat of Soviet piracy.

Just a Whisk Broom?

HEN President Truman suddenly bolted back to Washington from his Key West vacation, he was strongly represented as being in high dudgeon over the scandals which congressional investigators had exposed" in his administration. That was 10 days ago. At a press conference a week ago, Mr. Truman tendec

to confirm his anger, although there was some question

whether he was angrier at the wrong-doers or at the investigators who had exposed them and the newspapers which had published the exposures. - The President indicated he was ready to act, any day A Later, it was said that Federal Judge Thomas F. Murphy of New York would head a commission to houseclean the government. This has not been confirmed and there is no indication of either the scope of Judge Murphy's sweeping or his power to act,

- » = *®

BUT TWO things are obvious. If the Murphy project, whatever its nature, is intended merely to take the play away from House and Senate investigators it will not begin to meet the specifications. If Judge Murphy is to be an independent prosecutor vorking. outside the Justice Department, he will be unde: serious handicaps. He will lack both power and facilities And the cleanup néeds to start in the Justice Department, not only with the T. Lamar Caudles but those who have tolerated the kind of conduct for which Caudle was fired. Under its present management, the department i neither willing nor able to do the job Mr. Truman “claim to have in mind. If the President thinks Judge Murphy is the man { «clean up, then the only logical action is to make him attor ney general. It's the difference Sotveon trying to do the job with the new-broom-that-sweeps-clean or with a whisk broom.

. L]

One on the Nose

AST September in San Francisco, the convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association took a healthy, and deserved, poke at President Truman's executive order giving a multitude of bureaucrats wide discretion in releasing or withholding public. information. The managing editors, who represent papers subscribing to the Associated Press service, said the President's order ought to be rescinded. Later, a delegation from this organization called on Mr. Truman to protest the order in person. The President invited the delegation to make suggestions for its improvement. The committee accepted. Now, two months later, the managing editors have decided they cannot accept the invitation. They backtracked. Mr. Truman promptly wrote a free-swinging letter scorching the managing editors for their “reversal.” They asked for it.

“ Ld » ” - »

BUT NEITHER the managing editors nor'the President should make this decision. Congress should do it. The right of the American people to information about their goyernment is inherent. But some information, which would be highly useful to the enemy and therefore detrimental to the public welfare, necessarily must be kept secret. The place to lay out the policy on this issue—on which

popular government rests—is in the law. It is Congress’ duty to write such a law—and write it in terms which no

bureatietat can misconstve to cover up his own Shorty

a Civic Theater play “without ever having seen it.” g From any attorney I ever retained, I would expect more accuracy than Mr. Bamberger displayed in this letter or an earlier one, still more wildly off the beam. I saw all of Act I of “Mr. Barry's Etéhings.” My review did «pot pretend to comment on anything beyond Act I. I make no apology for not staying throughout the play. As .a now deceased intimate of James Whitcomb Riley told me, the Hoosier bard once said, “It isn’t necessary to eat all of an over-ripe paw-paw to realize it reminds you of an abscess.” Henry Butler, Times.

‘Unbiased Rosetti = MR. EDITOR: I am a student of the Indiana University Division of Social Service and hereby express my appreciation of the fact that you, are the only paper which is presenting an Unbiased picture of current developments in the local public welfare picture. It seems quite foreboding that such a breach in social work ethics, as the partial removal of confidential information concefping the clients’ personal life, has already resulted in a wave of resignations of trained workers. Perhaps it isn't too much to hope that this movement will force the selection of a new director who will be competent and also possess a philosophy that will keep him focused on his function; the provision of services to the aged, the blind and children, as is provided b: law, —Charlotte Clark, Indiana University.

Views on News

By DAN KIDNEY

PAGAN REDS in Korea have provided the U. 8. with its best Christmas list.

AS PREMIER, “Wily Winnie’ Churchill now is ready to do anything for a European army-—except join.

. PRESIDENT TRUMAN has approved an new economic policy for government workers as laid down by Housing Administrator Foley. Officials can no longer accept bribes as gifts.

SEN."ESTES KEFAUVER s against church raffles. : fany Democrats are against Sen. Kefauver taking a chance on him. « + « & chance.

“THROWING rascals out would be more hope‘ul if we didn’t have so many rascals waitin o get in.

AGRICULTURE Department forecasters sa, he corn crop will be short next year. The: idn't include the kind shelled out by electioneer ump speakers.

ALL THE Truman administration wants for ‘hristmas is a clean slate,

SIDE GLANCES

JAttorney.Julian Bamberger is after my hide , inthis column] accusing me of having reviewed

HOOSIER FORUM—Paw-Paw’

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

. By Galbraith

‘Bumps and Lumps’ MR. EDITOR: Boy, oh boy. If this cold weather business doesn't stop soon, this little old Southern boy is going to curl up and crack. Never in all my life have I seen such weather and what happens? I pick up your paper and read, “A new subzero cold jolt will hit Indiana Wednesday morning.” On top of the cold there's going to be snow. Every time it snows, I about get my back bohe

‘jolted out of kilter from shivering and from the

big hard lumps the street department leaves on the streets for weeks. You see, I got an older car. Every time it gets cold the springs freeze up and act like they are not springs at all, but just hunks of solid iron that wouldn't give if they had to. Every time I hit one of those snow bumps,

my head hits the ceiling and man, I'm getting awfully tired of head lumps.

How about a good prediction on the weather, Mr. Weatherman? Either that or get the street department to scrape off those bumps. ~ =—Frozen, City.

BABIES' PRAYERS

WHEN babies pray God answers . . . He will listen to their pléas ... for He always answers angels . . . when they pray on bended knees . . . pure of soul and mind and body . . . are the little children who . . . ask the good Lord for a favor . . . that will make their dreams come true . . . prayers of babes are hymns to heaven . « that will echo through each year’. . . they nstill a peaceful feeling . . . in the hearts. of all who hear . . . for what else could be more honest . . . than a baby’s prayer to God . . . asking Him to bless his mother . . . or to help his daddy plod . . . and my life is so worth living .. and I'm free of strife and care . . . when the good Lord lets me listen . . . to a little baby’s prayer. : -—By Ben Burroughs.

LABOR .

" Chapaev, by his first wife, . . .

- to pay anything to stop it.

- LN veh 3 3 a 24 : ot , : ne ; > . - A 2 ety » LE + Tw 3 $ a i - . » SU Le

HAPPY 2) BIRTHDAY +. By Andrew Tully Sa kY You've Lived 7 72 Years, Joe—

Getting a Bit Short of Breath?

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—The world's most famous bank robber is 72 today. He shys. Others say it's 74. dei His name is Joseph Stalin, and his address is the Kremlin, Moscow . . . He pulled his bankrobbing job in Tiflis, capital of the Russian province of Georgia, in June, 1907, to raise money for the Bolshevik Party . .. Stalin is actually Joe's party name . . . He was born Joseph Vissarionovitch Dzugashvili, but when he got to be a Commie hot shof he suggested ‘to the right people that maybe they'd better start calling him “Stalin,” which means “steel” . .. He has had lots of other aliases, however, including “Koba" and “David” . . . Joe is five feet, four inches tall, his face is pock-marked and one of his arms is lame . .. His pa worked in a shoe factory, but Joe never did a lick of work with his hands . . . His mother wanted him to becorhe a priest and sent

him to a seminary in Tiflis, but Joe got tossed

out at the age of 15 for revolutionary Betivity . Since then he's made his living in politics .

Exiled 6 Times .

JOE WAS exiled six times before he finally helped Lenin and Leon Trotsky take over the Russian government in October, 1917... . Lenin used Joe but was suspicious of him. . ... He called Stalin “the magnificent Georgian” but warned his other followers that Joe was too much of a roughneck, and too much of a conniver. , . . Trotsky sneered .at Stalin because he thought Joe was crude and dull... But Stalin eventually drove Trotsky out of Russia. . . Stalin lives in a simple, three-room suite in the Kremlin, which is not one building, but a series of buildings within a high wall. . , . Visitors say his office looks like a doctor's. Little news ever gets out of Russia about Stalin’s love life, .but it's - known he's bee married three times. . .'. His first wife died in 1917 and when Pravda announced the sudden death of his second wife in 1932 it was the first time the Russians knew he'd married again. . His third wife doesn’t live in the Kremlin, but in a home in the country. ... Stalin had a son, Chapaev was an artillery captain in World War II... . But more is known of air force Gen. Vassily Stalin, Joe's son by his second marriage, who's supposed to be quite a rounder. Five Russian cities are named for Joe, the biggest being Stalingrad, which survived the famous siege of World War II. . . . Everybody is supposed to love him but when he goes out,

¢the streets are cleared in advance for miles.

-ALLIED DEFENSE .

. By Ludwell Denny

“.. On holidays, he never pops up atop Lenin's

tomb in Red Square until every ordinary citizen

within “1000 yards has been shooed away . .

and the troops in the parade have no ammunie. y tion in the guns they carry. + Nobody on this side of the ‘Iron Curtain knows how Stalin is feeling these dae, but the

VISSARIONOVITCH DZUGASHVILI . , , to you the man of steel.

scraps of information that get out indicate he’s -

not in the pink. . . . He's short of. breath, probably due to a heart condition. . . . Stalin writes poetry if secret, mostly about communism. . Joe speaks only Russian; he tried to learn English but found it too hard and gave up. Stalin is also a newspaperman—He was one of the founders of the newspaper, Pravda, and still writes an occasional editorial for it . . . Pravda, naturally, always refers to him as “the great leader and teacher, genius of all man. kind” . .. There's no estimate of how many people have died as a result of Stalin's policies, but it's in the millions. . . , During the first fiveyear plan three million starved to death while Joe's underlings were collectivizing the farms.

Stalin Is Still Not Impressed

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—The current round of the propaganda battle over disarmament fis ending in Allied victory. The 44-to-5 defeat of Russia in the United Nations Political Committee will be confirmed by, the formal assembly, vote which follows. But there are several disturbing developments in this longest debate in<assembly history which offset the Allied success.

The propaganda value is not high. It is

. sufficient to g=t a United Nations vote for the

American-British-french proposal and against the phony Stalin plan, which would eliminate American atomic superiority but perpetuatas Soviet superiority on the ground and in the air. The propaganda is not potent enough, now.

ever, to convert most United Nations members:

to the necessity of speedy rearmament for defense until Russia does accept genuine arms limitation and effective international enforcement. So the victory is somewhat hollow.

Not Impressed

SIGNIFICANTLY, Stalin is not yet enough impressed by growing Allied military strength While hardly surprising to some, this is a shock to many. They had convinced themselves that the progress in Western defense plans—largely on paper—had shaken Stalin. Now it turns out he does not frighten that easily. Obviously he thinks the Allies are not catching up with him, that he is still widening the military gap in Russia's favor. Since he, like everyone else, is fairly well informed as to Allied strength, while nobody outside the Kremlin has Soviet military secrets, Stalin's apparent judgment that time is still on his side is disturbing. Another development is the proof that di-

. By Fred W. Perkins

rect big power negotiations on disarmament are ‘futile, The climax of the Paris debate was the successful effort of the majority to switch the issue temporarily from the United Nations Assembly to the Big Four. The United States was almost the only nation which knew this would not work but, after fixing a 10-day limit, it had to go along with the side-tracking maneuver. Of course that experiment failed, like so many similar attempts. But the discouraging part is that the majority still has not learned from this repeated experience that you cannot deal profitably with the aggressor until guns

are big enough to enforce the desired settlement,

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French Premier Rene Pleven have just agreed to press President Truman for a Big Four. meeting with Stalin personally. -

“Neutrality Trend

PERHAPS the most significant development of all is the increasing neutrality trend of Asian and Arab nations. At the disarmament showdown, of the 60 nations 11 did not vote. Their attitude is that this whole matter is simply a power struggle between two imperialist blocs, between the United States and Russia—and a curse on both houses. Apart from the fact that the net effect of this alleged neutrality is a great help to Stalin, it is undermining “the entire United Nations structure. The membership obligation of the Asian and Arab nations to uphold the United Nations Charter is exactly the same as that of the United States. When any considerable number of United Nations members come to look upon Soviet aggression and militarism with either sympathy or indifference, the United Nations is in danger. The neutrals cannot long enjoy United Nations privileges Without also carrying its responsibilities.

Question. 1s—=When Should a Man Retire?

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—Labor Secretary

“Maurice J. Tobin joined the protest. against

compulsory retirement of workers at 65.~_ “A worker's age,” he said, “ought not to he measured by years, alertness and efficiency. Many a man at 65 can work harder and better than a man of 40. It's not the age that counts. It's the man.” Meanwhile, it was learned from Federal Security Agency officials that the campaign against forced retirement of elderly workers at an arbitrary age seems to be making

progress. For instance, the number of working men and women over 65 who are still paying into the old-age and survivors’ insurance systen is steadily growing. It is now 1,250,000. SECURITY officials said also that the average retirement age under the Social Security system is not 65, as many have supposed, but 69. This figure also is rising. It means that

BLUSHES .

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 — Sometimes I think there must be a cruel streak in the female sex. At Christmastime at

the lingerie counter it likes to make a mere man feel like a red-faced fool. Meaning me. So there I was, with hat in hand and overcoat feeling a good deal too warm, in a deeply carpeted sanctum labeled, intimate wear. All I wanted was something with lace on it to put under the Christmas tree for Mrs. O. The plaster models on the counters, clad in intimate wear which mostly seemed to be made of pink elastic, were enough to make a fellow feel guilty. As if he were observing things that were strictly none of his business. But; gents, there were living ladies at the counter, buying intimate wear for themselves. They were holding up this merchandise under the neon lights, Some of them were draping it around themselves, over their dresses, as if to get a rough Mex 8s 4 its fit.

1 TRIED to favert my eyes, but wherever I looked there ‘was another female, with a - half-smile on her lips as if she

but by his health and.

more than a million men and women prefer to

remain at work and defer the payments to which they would be entitled if they retired now. In addition to the 1,250,000 men and women over 65 on the insurance rolls, security officials _ said, there are many thousands more among “professional people .and others not covered bj the" federal system. The. drive in behalf of employment for the qualified aged is being pushed as the result of

. the first national conference on aging, held hers

in August, 195Q, aide} auspices of the Federa Security Agency:~ A group that studied the em ployment proble ne “Older men who Be jobs have more diff culty in finding new jobs‘than do younger men, but “older men do not as a rule have as difficu! 1 time retaining ‘their positions as do younge men.” Secretary Tobin's views are in ‘an article i; the “Federationist,” a monthly mag e of th American Federation of Labor. He listed th following 2dvaniages in hiring older workers:

. By Frederick C. Othman

Finally Finds Solace and —Gift For Wife

ONE-—They are stable .and responsible and have a steadying influence on their associates. TWO—They are more careful, producing work of better quality with less “waste and fewer accidents. THREE—They have lower absenteeism and ‘urnover rates than younger workers. FOUR—They may be less strong and agile ‘han younger workers, but their physical Thies seldom go below levels required for most Ss FIVE—They have greater endurance for the ong, slow grind, and theirssteadiness and good udgment more than compensate for slight )sses off speed. SIR-<They have a background of skills and Xperience and can apply these in hew situations wche later in life than is generally assumed. Mr. Tobin said employers would have to iberalize their hiring policies to meet the present nanpower situation. He said the supply of ‘ounger workers was not adequate to meet ndustry’s needs.

were about to laugh at me. A behutiful blonde clerk came, but not to my rescue. I told her, somethifig lacy. She came up with the doggonedest nightgown I ever saw. Kind of misty blue, it was, and so thin that when she held it up in front of her to give me® an idea, I could see through. both layers of it and make out the design of the gold pin on her chest. All the other customers now were staring at me. I asked the lovely one the price of this cerulean trifle. She said — and I quote exactly — $59.95. I said I didn’t believe ft looked warm enough. The other patrons

turned to their own intimate purchases. The blonde, who was a mind reader, brought out something smaller in black lace with pink rosebuds down one side. She said the price was ‘$19.95 and the lace was genuine. I said, yes, but what is it? “Panties,” she replied, Well, sir, I blushed for the first time in maybe 20 -years. She stood there smiling, holding these unmentionables in front of me. The rest of the customers were smiling, too. One of them giggled. This was contagious. The ladies acted like they couldn't help themselves.. Witches. I got out of there in a hurry,

What Others Say—

DON'T TRY to conquer the world. Remember the more you parn, the more you pay in taxes. You can’t become wealthy today.

=Arthur Godfrey, radio-TV comic.

ANY MAN who opposes this undertaking (the proposed St.

‘lawrence seaway) should prepare to make peace with his Maker,

for if (the U. 8. and Canada) are denied steel , . . we must become decadent peoples.—Maj.-Gen, Lewis Pick, U. S. Army

~ bhief of

CHOOSE A good wife . delegate all the real fesponatbilities

to her . . .

04 Je 4 SCN) dissper.=Sen, Helos Hatauver D. Tou) on being 2 sueowasful father : $

I PASSED by numerous other lingerie emporiums, but I dared not enter any of them. It was then that I had an inspiration. Hilda long had complained that somehow the prettier a nightgown, the less there was to it. She ‘said a girl in a really handsome nightgown in

the country, like her, was likely to catch her death of cold. So I strode into my favorite haberdashery and told the man what I needed was a firstclass pair of small-sized pajamas. For my wife, I said. He sald she was a sensible woman. He added that numerous ladies

. bought his pajamas for their

own use, He produced a pair of bluestriped broadcloth ones, size A, which he said was the smallest

in stock. They still looked big”

for my purposes, but as he said, when a. lady's asleep, what does it matter if her trousers are a little long? This logic appealed to m 80 did the price, which - $6.50. I said, wrap 'em up in a box with ribbons on it. I believe Hilda will like her Christ-

mas gift, I think, I hope, may.

i §

+ Fifty boys ar were guests of t in the Chateau ] .8anta Claus, (Vigginia Ann J with a big gift b toys and candy. This is an anr xchange Club.

Service Emk The Indianapol Coy “tonight will emiblems to 25 féfiice racords | yéars. The awa Shtiatmas party ent, | refreshment. on the program.

Concert Choi Choral exc Christmas porti “Messiah” will ‘| p.m. tonight on V Franklin College The 45-voice c} an extended es year. It was in the American Bs in Buffalo last J

Southport D Dress will be annual alumni d nasium of South; tonight R:30. Dale Campbell provide music teachers, friends who attend the }

Scabbard ar

Charles W. Be: P. Gibbons, 4181 bert Kulwin, 312¢ been initiated i University chapf and Blade. This society is an ho tion- for high raj senior students ROTC.

Christmas Pc The Indianapo ment announces Christmas partie the various Con

* Clearest; possible i to you b * Rich, lifel pleasure . tone syste %* Unusually styled in

UP"