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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

THE STORY of' the Mecllvaine-Kothe Post 153 of the American lL.egion has to be told, It's been suppressed too long for our own good. Every man, woman and child, over 21, that is, American by birth or spirit, should get a thrill out of this group or gang of rebels, nonconformists, rugged individuals,

veterans, Americans, Yes, sir, Americans, first, men, second, and if there is

any time left over, Legionnaires, Men of Post 153 despise & regimentation and tin-hat histrionics, they won't march in § parades, refuse to wear Legion § trappings and believe it or { not, at their monthly meeting the other night, nobody knew where the Legion national convention was going to be held. The man who asked really didn't want to know. He was simply making conversation. Members of Mcllvaine-Kothe Post have bigger problems to consider than the Legion's national ¢onvention which no one will attend anyway. o oo ¢ BECOMING A member of the Post is difficult, The prospective member must ask to join, He ix not asked. In fact, when National Headquarters begins a membership drive, Post 153 usually kicks out a few. * Long, long ago, an enterprising commander appointed a publicity officer. For years there wasn’t a line in the newspapers about McllvaineKothe. One day a story appeared. The publicity officer wasn’t responsible for its publication. For failing to keep the story out of the/ newspaper the man was thrown out. Time has mellowed the men. If they like a man he can attend the meeting, join the discussion, criticise the way the Post is run. If the members like the man. A state commander visited the Post one time and received the surprise of his life, He sat in the back of the meeting room and at the end of all business matters, he. was intro duced. That's all. A little stink was raised but odors never bother Mcllvaine-Kothe Post. A few years later another state commander appeared at a meeting. The Post commander introduced the distinguished guest and gave him the following instructions “You can talk not more than five niinutes on any subject except the Legion.” . is: 0h oH EVERY DECADE or so a member gets 2a bright idea. He i= usually penalized for it. Like the time somebody suggested having, for a change, the opening ceremony at a past post com-

It Happe By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Feb. 7—“Love Thy Neighbor," it says-in the Good Book—but when I tried to love Frank Erickson,.the king of the bookmakers, he wouldn't love me back. “Frank E.” lives near me on West End Ave. an T decided to drop over and borrow a cup of cough syrup, or something. “After all,” I figured, “it's due to Mr. Erickson and Frank Costello that gambling’s closed in. Florida, New Orleans and practically everywhere. He might wish to give me an eloquent statement.” Erickson’s been in jail, and had lost 36 pounds while working in one of the more unsavory hospital wards a= an orderly. He had been so quiet since. coming out, that most people around our building didn’t even know he lived nearby. Well, sir, my good neighbor policy’ wasn't appreciated. The first fellow who didn’t appreciate it was the doorman. He got very chilly to a friend I sent ahead to ask some questions.” “Why don’t you guys leave poor Mr. Wrickoh alone?” he ‘asked. to his grave?” “Phe word “poor” did not refer to Frank E's

not quite as conservative in dress as Herbert Hoover. He lives a good bit like a banker and plays golf like one. “There's not a_ better man living,” George, the elevator operator at his building, said. “He never smokes, drinks or swears. He is good to us here.” A Cadillac and chauffeur out front were prob“Frank E.” goes almost daily to see his lawyers about fighting a damage at another trial in New Jersey. “We hear Mr. Erickson is very generous,” friend said. “You guys are crazy, but he is,” George said. Erickson at the peak of his “success” couldn't resist hustling for business — this millionaire'd pass out cards and say, “If you ever want to make a bet, here's my number.” One year he sent out $36,000 worth of gold pencils as gifts to customers—600 at $60 each.

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

CHICAGO, Feb. 8—The other day some poor addle-headed teener seized a pistol and blew her brains out here, while watching a television program with two young boy friends. One paper bannered it on the front page, leading you to believe that the television show, through makebelieve violence, had prompted the poor silly child to shoot herself. After considerable reading, 1 eame across the fact—buried in the body of the story in another ‘paper — that the movie | the kids were watching was a placid old film with no killing in it. The victim was also described for later editions as an unquenchable extrovert who would go to any lengths to show off. Lately there has been a small rash of killings with a background of TV--one strangling of a child by a baby-sitter, the shooting of a father by his son, and now this suicide. Already you spot a trend toward panic at the suggestive possibilities of the TV screen in abetting murder and mayhem. -And the beginnings of a bleat for stronger censorship of subject matter and its televised treatment, since TV does shoulder its way into the home.

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Ld > : RUT THERE doesn’t seem to be any immediate cause for drastic censorship merely on the strength of a small, clump of crimes. Similar charges have constantly been leveled at books, magazines, movies and so-called “comic” pulps which trade in rugged adventure sometimes mixed with pornography. The charge is always that the book or maga. zine or the movie or the comic exerts a baleful influence on feeble brains-and excitable personalities, rousing them to dark deeds which would go uncommitted had the perpetrators not been tempted by exposure. And the aiitidote is always the same, too—strident shouts for censorship. ld IT IS-:CERTAINLY true that some types of ctima run in waves or cycles, doubtless spurred

4 by gestibility and by ‘broad public attention. is especially applicable to sex crimes, “mercy” Tage some flamboyant - suicides and other

deviations from the usual flow of “ordinary” violences that make up a pattern of modern living. But they usually seem to die out of their own accord. v ts 1 do not believe that the extremely warped and super-impressionable personality can be protected from itself by censorship or anything short of permanent prison in padded cells. ‘girl who is so basically unbalanced as “to kill herself to compete for attention with a creaky, darkgray, patched-up televised movie i= a mortal cinch to do something, drastic to herself or somebody _ alse some other ‘day. You can ‘scarcely hold TV

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nf manders dinner meeting. He thought it would be a novel undertaking since most of the members had never seen an opening ceremony. > Oldtimers shudder when the subject is brought up. It seems the men designated to investigate the procedure didn't take their assign ment seriously and on the night of the dinner, the ceremony was fouled up good. But, only a few knew how much so it didn't make any difference. Mcllvaine-Kothe Fost has the distinction of voting against the payment of bonus to veterans of World War I and II. They don't believe an American should get a bonus for defending his country. “We don’t want a thing from anyone,’ Dougias B. Hill, post commander. In three hours vou can pick up a 1000 un usual bits of information. The Post was named in nonor of Lt. Francs A. Mcllvaine and: €apt. Eugene Hankins Kothe, A temporary charter was issued on Nov. 1, 1919. lHeadquarters have always been at the Athenaeum and always will be, the members hope.

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McILVAINE-KOTHE Post marched ‘n an Armistice Day parade for the first time in history in 1928. Ninety members were tricked into coming out and wearing a huge pretzel. Before the day ended, there were 350 persons at a party, 50 entertainers were hired, the breakage bill was §178 and total cost was $1000. It's costly venture to march in parades. I asked Frank M. Moorman, a past commander, about roll cail and he looked at me as if I had suddenly gone mad. The members know each other and those they don’t know they ask to leave, A member inquired about 1952 membership curds. He had a 1950 card. He was told the 1952 cards were blue. Another satisfied member. The Post has a trust fund but nobody knows what It's for. Finance Officer David W. Duthie thinks a member can get a loan provided he's over 95-and ctu get his great-grandfather to sign a note Sergeant-at-Arms Hay Fatout confirmed the rumor that the Post had rifles somewhere, He had never seen the rifles. Satisfied? Minutes of meetings are points of procedure meinbers are seldom bored with. Once a year they fiear “hourlies.,” That’s one year's business in 10 minutes, The elite group within the Post is the Pretzel Ciub. A member is eligible after 10 years in good standing in Mcilvaine-Kothe. Fellowship is the keynote in Post 153. No place for a stuffea shirt} You get along better without a shirt. Yes, there's a waiting list. A long one, too.

Good Neighbor Policy Falls Flat

The government got the list from the jeweler, and subpenaed the customers. So, anyway, with this background, I went myself to call on “Frank E.” Getting in the elevator, I said, “Mr. Erickson’s on 8, isn't he” “Does he know you’ re coming?” glared the operator. “Oh, it's all right; neighborly call,” I said. “Can’t take up nobody without an appointment. Strict - orders,” the op-

I'm just paying him a

erator said. And he walked out in the lobby and left me standing there. What could I do? Later I met “Frank E.” in a restaurant and told him I'd been to call. He didn’t say anything about giving me an appointment. How'd you like that? When I was just trying to be a small town guy paying .a call on my neighbor. <> * * THE MIDNIGHT EARL . .. Billy Rose may be kidding, but he emphasizes to some that he and Joyce Matthews will never be getting mar- ~ ."ried, ,. , Ken Murray has a reasn to give out cigars; an $- 1b. dtr. born to his wife, exactress Betty Lou Walters. . , Jean Carmen went to Florida to become a trick golfer. . . . Judy. Garland - extended her Palace run to Feb. 24. Joe Frisco nominated himself to follow her.

x r Ld TODAY'S BEST DEFINITION: . “Alcoholic — somebody who drinks about like you do, but you don’t like him"—Jack Hertel. Margaret Truman plays a gypsy fiddler's daughter in “Sari,” the Emmerich Kalman operetta on the Railroad Hour from Hollywood Mar. 17. Gordon MacRae, hunting a. perfect violin, visits the gypsy, and falls for the daughter. ., . . Tallulah

Miss Carmen

Bankhead's in mourning. Gayelord died. He was her lovebird. , , . That's Earl, brother. Pont Blame TV

For Crime Waves

vision was about as guilty as the auto, drunkdriven, which runs down a pedestrian. Jimmy Walker ofice remarked that he never knew a girl to be ruined by a book. Any mentality so frail that it can be pushed to abnormality merely by suggestion will not Ta¢k for ample suggestion very long. The creep who kills and

rapes because of somethirig he read in the comics.

or saw in the movies will kill or rape eventually, inspired by mdonlight or a butterfly or an active dislike for a necktie pattern. + é& THE CORE of living has always been centered in violence—wars, wrecks, accidents, murders, fights, thefts, fires and floods. Much of good literature and ancient folklore is built on the violent theme. adult mind, for some reason has always been intrigued by blood and thunder. From Jack the Giant Kier to Macbeth; human tastes in entertainment have eagerly grasped the ungentle thrills of murder and cops-and-robbers. » Only by banning all books and periodicals; only by doing away with nursery tales and whodunits and most news; only by closing the theaters and making radio and television illegal— only by literally blinding and deafening the nation —can the outsidé risk of tragic suggestibility to morons and unstablés be removed. Supercensorship: has never been the answer to anything—and cracking down on TV won't outlaw the possibility of spontaneous crime among the young or the irresponsible old.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith.

Q—1I received a poinsettia for Christmas 1950. 1t never stopped growing the rest of the winter.

So when early summer came I put it outdoors.

. . forgot it ‘until fall. It had grown into a miniature shrub . . . I brought it into the house where it dropped its leayes. By November I got up enough courage to cut it back. Now. after it has sprouted a few new leaves it seems dormant again though green. Have I ruined its chances of ever blooming again? Or will it bloom

in summer or in winter? How can I make it -

bloom in inter oh Christmas? & A. Vermilion, Sullivan. “"A—Don’t worry. ‘Mother Nature is a very stubborn old gal. winter; or else. Jut put it outdoors again about mid-May, This time give it full sun. No chills

"Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column _ iE ie nT Sunday Times = for poinsettias, you know. Cut it back to about six inches if you want to keep it small. Feed it during “some 1

~The. Indianapolis Times

The youthful mind, and the!

» the crass,

- not redeemable

Your poinsettia wil bloom in’

AMAZONS OF THE AIR .

Inside Of The WAF

By GEORGE W, HERAL D

“HOW ARE your girls billeted?” 1 asked Lit.

Jane

Sieburg, WAF administrative officer at Mitchell Field. “Why don't you come and see for yourself?’ the blonde New York college graduate asked back candidly.

That's how I became the first male civilian ever to penetrate into a WAFs barracks. But Groucho Marx needn't be envious: all the harem dames were out at work. They are housed in the same type” of white two-story bulldiings as any other Gls, only the inside 1s arranged differently. Instead of 36 men, a mere 26 women are assigned to a bar rack. The space ig divided into 13 cubicles partitioned off by plastic walls yet open to the central corridor. Ld ~ w EACH contains twqQ bunks and is decorated to the taste of its lodgers. Bookshelves, radios, record-players, Venetian blinds and family photos give the places a homelike atmosphere. One of the girls had put French impressionist paintings on the wall... Another one had a tall Walt Disney rabbit sitting right next to her gas mask and steel helmet.

The WAFs are allowed to wear civilian clothes after duty. They. have a special laundry room equipped- with up-to-date ironingboards and washing machines at their disposal. In the Day Room, they find hair driers, a television set, ping-pong -and billiard tables and even telephone booths to make dates with their current admirers. In fact, after 5 p.m; a WAF is free to do with her time what she wants, as long as she is

WAR OF WORDS .

EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Herald has done extensive research on varjous aspects of our National Defense. Here he turns the spotlight on America’s newest branch of service—the Women in the Air Force. This is the fourth of a series of reports,

back for duty at the morning. ” » » “WE HAVE lots of fun out here,” pretty page-boyish Pfc. Betty Baumach told me, “There are movies, and dances almost every evening, and the Air-

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"men's Club has a snack bar

where we can meet the beaus of the base.” Most dates “go Dutch” at Mitchell Field, as the girls are financially just as well off as their escorts. A WAF private draws $75 a month and a sergeant $125 minus $12 income tax. Some of them supplement their incomes by working as ticket and popcorn sellers in the base theaters or as hatcheck girls in-the officers’ club. Over the week-end, many WAFs go home to their families in New York and New Jersey to relax from the minor vexations of group living. Furloughs to more distant places are liberally granted, too,

No. 4—

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to feel they have cut all ties to normal life by joining us,” Lt. Sieburg explained.

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ROMANCE—Not discowaged in the Women's Air Force. Pfc. Betty Baumach and Cpl. Fred Hautan sip a soda at a snack bar at Mitchell Field.

“We are here to do a job for

Uncle 8am but that doesn’t mean we have turned into robots.” r “What about mariage” 1 inquired.

There wag a time when the

‘young women in the Air Force

had tg choose between a career and a husband but I was To-

day a girl can wed the man of her choice and still remain in uniform, oo. - »

had dozens of

“WE Ly AVE marriages here” WAF Commander Bradspies told me.

“Last week, for instance, I had to attend three weddings in one day.” “Does a girl have to get your

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permission before she takes such a step?” “Good heavens,” claimed, course, I like to talk things over with the bride and give advice where needed but, in the end, it's entirely up to the young woman herself.” As Major Bradspies told me, the Air Force now even goes out of its way to keep husbands and wives in the services together. In case a man is sent to Japan, for example, the wife can request a transfer to join him. When she expects a baby, she has to quit. She is given an honorable discharge.

HOW sincerely the Air Force encourages girls bent on matri~ mony was shown the other day when Pfe¢., Shirley Palmer of Freeport, L. 1, and her flance, were invited to appear on the TV pro-

she ex-

‘gram “Chance in a Lifetime.”

The couple was escorted to the studio by a delegation of five WAFs and five airmen and promptly won 300 silver dollars and a free honeymoon trip to Puerto Rico. Now their friends wanted to celebrate the occasion by singing a community song over the microphone but would Mr, Petrillo allow it? Air Force officers rapidly made a number of phone calls and talked to several labor bosses. And thanks , to this prompt military intervention, the Musician's Union granted a

+ last-minute clearance to the air-

men's choir at the TV station to speed the happy lovers on their way to the tune of “Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder.”

Last of a Series.

‘There Are No Prizes for Second Place’

By JIM G. LUCAS

Keripps-Howard Staff Writer ©

WASHINGTON, Feb, 7—How effictive has our Se]l America program been in the Far East? “You never know- how well you're doing, and we'd naturally be tempted to give ourselves the best of it,” . says Brad Connor, - Far East Publi¢ Affairs officer in the’ Sta t'e Department. “But we J honestly believe we are doing better all the time. “We do pave one yardstick. The Chinese N a t i onalists celebrate Oct. 104s their Fourth of July. The Communists cele-

Mr. Lucas

' brate Oct. 1. For the first time,

the Nationalist holiday was bigger than the Communist. We'd like to think we were at least partly responsible.” An encouraging thing about the program is that the men in charge of it don’t contend they know all the answers. But we're learning, they say, and we're better than we were

last year. » ~ ”

MUCH OF our compaign can’t be talked about. To boast about it would destroy any good we've done. In one Asian country, for instance, the United States In-

formation Service—at the re-.’

quest of the head of the government — printed pamphlets explaining why the United Nations intervened if Korea. A

THE WAY TO SECURITY .

The Dollar Reflects Our National

By HENRY C. LINK

STRANGE ag it may seem, materialistic dollar is a scientific measure of spiritual values. A paper dollar has no value in itself, It is, as we

have often beén told, a medium of exchange, that -18, & measure of values. . A gold dollar has a certain intrinsic value. But a paper dollar

in gold, is, in the last analysis, an accur-’ ate measure of the integrity and wisdom of the government and of the citizens who use these dollars. If this be true, the great decline in the value of the dollar

Henry C. Link

. must signify a great decline in

character and principles. Let us -examine this: statement. + ; ~ ” » THE DEPRECIATION of the dollar, many will contend, results from the high cost of

« World War II. To some extent

this i= true, but it would “be. more nearly true if we said: It is because of the fact that we did not pay the high cost of thé war. Instead of .

* paying as we spent we chose » s ANOTHER, ‘easy way out

- for goods and,

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last of two articles by ScrippsHoward Staff Writer Jim G. Lucas about our second war in Asia.

copy was in the seat of each’ member of parliament when it convened to discuss intervention. The head of that government is convinced our pamphlet swung enough votes to line his country up behind the Unit-

‘ed Nations on the Korean issue.

“But if we had started bragging about it,” Mr, Connor said, “the - government might have toppled.” In other instances, the USIS helped members of a powerful labor union rid themselves of a despotic labor boas.

.On the other hand, we have blundered inexcusably. For example, USIS and the Voice of America bear down heavily on news about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Everything that happens in Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters, every shipment of U, 8. arms to Europe, every promise of additional support we make in the North Atlantic has been broadcast throughout the Far East. x ”. ~ ASIANS aren't keen about NATO. They want to know what we're going to do to help them, not how generous we've been with someone else. They regard NATO as a rival, and reports about additional aid to Western Europe create about as much enthusiasm there as more tax scandals do in the White House. “I've never heen able to understand all your emphasis on

EPITOR'S NOTE: This i" the last installment of a series which draw a line -between ‘social security’ and ‘personal sesecurity.’ These chapters are taken from Dr. Link's latest book, WAY TO SECURITY, published by Doubleday & Co, Inc.

We decided to pay for too

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much of the war by borrowing

money through selling government bonds, To be sure, it is quite legitimate “to borrow money either in personal or national emergencies. Our borrowing, however, was a form of self-deception in the present, we took a big mortgage on the future. As a nation, we were more ready to sacrifice our principles of hon-

eat and sound financing than.

our immediate material comforts. As a result, our national debt was increaged fivefold between 1940 and 1946. From an aver:

age of $1300 per family of four

it' rose to an average of $7600 -For

per family, or $1900 per person. This great debt created an unnatural amount of credit and buying “power which would not, have existed had more of the

‘war been paid for by taxation

at the time. And this, in turn, created an enormous demand SonSopenY! .. Inflation.

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‘trouble and resentments.

NATO out here,” Carlos Romulo, former Philippine Foreign Minister, said. “It only causes On the other hand, when your government signed a mutual security pact with us — binding the United States to an Asian people—that was a matter of highest importance. You ought to have broadcast it all over Asia. But. your people skipped right over it and went on taleng. about Western Europe.’

In Hong Kong, I heard an’

hour's broadcast of Al Jolson recordings by the Voice of America. much we paid the British for those two hours, but I'm sure we got nothing out of it. 8:8 » Ee AN ILLUSTRATED magazine, printed in Chinese at considerable expense, carried five pictures of an outing of Chi-nese-Americans in San Francisco, a brief history of the Suez Canal, an “exclusive” picture story showing the big welcome given the King of Siam when he returned home from Switzerland, six pictures. showing the Chinese influence in Indo-Chi-nese art and pictures and articles of ‘a similar nature. Less than one-tenth the material fn the magazine “dealt even remofely with our mission.

Part of the trouble, of course, has been some of the men we've hired. On the whole, they've been hard-working Americans, but there have been some misfits. There have been men who

“know little about the Far Fast

and don't want to learn; men who think in terms of Europe and apparently feel should be flattered that they're

to sacrifice their standard of living to the ideals of the war. Instead, their standard of living was to be kept up to the levels to which they were customed.Having failed to call for genuine war sacrifices at home, it is not strange that we should have felt impelled to raise the wages, family allowances, and rewards of our conscript servjcemen. All kinds of‘ special payments were: devised fH raise the total. Already these ‘and’ other post-war payments have added enormously to-the federal and state debts, and hence to inflation. The total cost of post- war payments to veterans of World War II promises to exceed the total cost of the war itself. The sharp drop in the value of the dollar

I don't know how

Asians

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fed a steady diet of European and American news. ~ - ~ SOME of the fault lies with others. In Indonesia, for in-

stance, the United States Am--

bassador, Merle Cochran, doesn’t like USIS and will have nothing to do with it. There's a USIS staff in Jakarta but Mr.

Cochran won't let it function. .

He feels that to propagandize the United States would be resented by the Indonesians.

Some of our people in the Far

East have had excellent ideas. In Indonesia, for instance, Gene Gregory arranged to sénd several Viet Namese to Philippines a= a means of countering Red charges .of American imperialism. There, the Philippine government took them in hand.

The Viet Namese were impressed with what they saw and heard. 3 itself up

Often, USIS finds against a situation it can’t handle. In Singapore, for in-

stance, the British-owned Straits Times frontpaged the Cicero (T11.) riots for two’ weeks. The most offensive pictures were printed three and four columns wide. - » ~ “THAT HURT both us and the British,” a URIS official said, “but we couldn't say anything. After all, we're out here championing a free press. It just seems to us they could have shown a little more restraint.” . Another problem, USIS officials say, iz the current rash of motion pictures about racial discrimination in the United States, :

“In America, they're a

taken recognizance of fact. In the face of su¢h a record there can be little doubt that the decline registered by the dollar is a reliable measure of the nation's decline in mora! or spiritual principles. Nor can we attribute this decline to the Democratic” or to the “Republican: leadership,

to" the New Deal or to some other deal. Only we, the people, are fundamentally responsible.

As individuals we have been prone to regard the accumulation of dollars as the chief if not the only guarantee of security. If we could only get hold of enough dollars, our future would be. assured. If only we could depend on a certain dollar income after 60, our worries would cease. Our thinking has become geared to the dollar at the expense of tha. principles which give the dollar its value. Dollars are the answer to almost everything. The nations of Europe we said, were suffering from a “dollar ‘shortage.” If we wanted to help them and the world we could do so ‘by giving or “lending” them dollars. i » ” did WE HAVE ven gone 10. balieve Ei dollars could buy us

“freedom from communism and

war. Therefore. have. poured billions of dollars ihto Europe and elsewhere in the hope of stopping communism, i salagty gs

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the

* these principles,

healthy thing.” one USIS man sald, “We know how to eval--uate them, But out here, they're dynamite. Whenever one of those pictures is shown in Singapore, the Commies advertise it and actually buy blocks of tickets and pass them out on the streets.” » - -

THERE'S a great deal of

curiosity about the United «

States: in the Far East, 1

dropped jn at a USIS reading

room in |

wait several minutes before I could go up the stairs because ‘hundreds of Malays and Chinese were coming down. They were back -- and the reading room full again-—at 1 p. m. But this natural interest must be dealt with intelligently. If it isn't, we're in trouble. For instance, we shipped several thousand portable radios into Indo-China: to insure better reception for the Voice of America and Radio Viet Nam. We

stopped the shipment when we:

discovered that many were tuned to Radio Viet Minh. It was much more interesting. ~ ” » MORE of our pamphlets are being printed guages. More radio programs are being written and broad‘cast by natives. After all, what's funny to us may be offensive to a Cambodian. Car. toons which have appeared in Asian newspapers—and which may be crude to us—are being reproduced and circulated among Asians. They like them. Our truth campaign.in Asia is looking better. But it's not yet good enough. And there are no prizes for second place,

Integrity

this

whether abroad or at home, 1s spiritual, not material. It is ideals not dollars, principles not pensions, character not comfort. ; f we wish to retain or to gain a measure of material security in this world, then we would do well to transfer our interest from the dollar as such and turn it to those principles hich make a dollar worthw e

. IF THE pursuit of such prin. ciples should inevitably lead us into a world war with communism, there will.be at least some hope for ultimate peace and security. But should the lack of As seems now possible, involve us in such a war, there is little. hope left for any security but

that of the slave or the .

bandit.

(Last of a Series) (Copyright, 1952, by Henry C. Link.)

Political Pot Boiling in D.C.

WHAT'S COOKING , . . ? Something's always. brewing , and with this being a presidential election. -

year, there's plenty of extra

heat under the political pot: whet e oe wie inside of

“I am. not God. Of .

Be

Singapore at noon just. . as it closed for lunch. I had to

in native lan-,

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