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ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ

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‘® Telephone PL aza 5551 Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

What 1S Our Housing Problem? MUCH OF THE agitation for “public housing” seems to us to come from perfectly sincere people who are convinced that is the only way for families with small incomes to get decent homes to live in. |

_For such families “public housing” proposes to build

“modern new apartments at a cost that no one estimates at

less than $10,000 a family—and some place as high as $17,000. The only thing that could possibly justify that kind of cost would be that there were no homes to be had for less that could meet minimum standards of comfort and health. iF But are there? : 4 In yesterday's Times, on just one day, and not a heavy day at that, 28 homes were advertised for sale at less than $8000. About that many more obviously were in the same price range, but the advertisements did not give the actual full price asked. - Those listed, and priced, ranged from $2800 (five

‘rooms, semi-modern) to $7950 (ten-room modern ‘double

with oil heat and two car garage). Among them were eight for less than $5000, six more for less than $6000 and 10 more for less than $7000—in all four sections of the city.

. . . ro- " . IT IS TRUE that most, though not all, of those advertised are old homes and not fancy new apartment units. Some of them no doubt need repairs. But any of them could be bought and made completely livable for a good deal less than the lowest estimated cost of a new apartment unit. At those prices they fall within the reach of anyone who could afford to live in one of the proposed public housing developments—where rents would be from $35 to $55 a month. But with this difference: i " Their $35 to $55 a month would be paying for a home the family would own. In the public housing program their $35 to $56 would be rent as long as they paid it and the

family would own nothing. : As it stands today the families that need this housing, and for whom the public housing program was devised, cannot buy it, even at this price range. : "Primarily that is because they have not been able to gecumulate enough cash 4o make a “down payment.” Partly it #8 because the very same federal government that wants to build ew homes for them virtually forbids their purchase

of a home without a big ‘down payment.”

It seems to us a plan that would lift that “down payment” restriction and help such families finance the whole purchase of homes they could afford would be better than the housing plan proposed. At least it would cost the community far less. And plainly it would help those families become self-respecting, self-supporting home owners instead of permanent semicharity cases.

John J. O'Neal |

ACK O'NEAL went the way we believe he would have wanted to go—quickly, without ostentation, and with everything down at headquarters right up to date and in

perfect order. That was the way he kept it for all the 38 years he served Indianapolis as a policeman. He was never spectacular about his job, but he always did it well. . He was chief of police only a short time, but it is as Chief that he will be remembered, for here was a post he

_ had richly deserved, and had earned by good, honest capable

performance of his duty. While he did it he had won the respect of his fellow

policemen and of the whole community to such a degree

‘that political attack never shook their corifidence, and those

who attacked him only suffered from it themselves. His calm judgment and his unfailing sense of fairness will be missed in Indianapolis until the last rookie who has served on the force with him has hung up his shield.

lke Said It : MANY HAVE BEEN critical of Gen. Eisenhower because 4YX ye has not come home and taken to the hustings to proclaim his views on any and all issues. In our opinion this criticism has been unfair, because the General is engaged in a desperately important task in Europe, and will not be free to come until he gets at least a little farther along with that job. In due time, if he presses

_ his. claim for the Presidency, he probably will be required

to engage in public debate. : Anyone who may have doubted that Gen. Eisenhower will face up to the issues, when and if the time comes, should be disabused by the General's forthright statement yesterday on universal military training. There is no hotter controversy. There is no issue on which there is a sharper division among the voters. It is at test in Congress this week.

o on s u » " TWO REPUBLICAN Congressmen, Reps. W. Sterling Cole of New York and Leroy Johnson of California; asked Gen. Eisenhower to speak out on thé subject. They got

a quick and firm answer. Here it is: ted 4

“In response to your request for my views on universal

: military training, there are of record many statements I

have made in the past that emphasize the importance both to the country and to the youth of a thorough early. train-

"ing in modern military practices, organization and tech-

niques. “While I basically believe that this kind of service is an obligation that every citizen owes the nation, I also believe that in reverse the provision of training opportunity is an obligation that the nation owes the individual. “Every one of our wars has, at its beginning, given us reason to regret the consequences of committing to emergency action units and individuals that have been denied opportunity for achieving complete competence. “Because of these convictions, I regard the question as-one of utmost gravity for all of our citizens; it is the problem of fitting together a scheme which will meet the’ vital requirements of a nation and individual alike and doing it in such a way as to occasion the least possible

damage "to the nation’s productivity and general progress

and the least impediment to the young man's personal career. a : : - “So long as any major threat to peace remains in the

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WASHINGTON, Mar} 4—The Justice Department has called a -month halt . in {ts Chicago: Grand Jury investigation of the Lus-

This was the case, made public by the Senate's Fulbright Committee, in which investigators charged that more than $500,000 of the RFC’s $37.5 million loan to the pre-fab housing company was. used to “hire” 40 non-existent trucks.

The one-month delay apparently will be long enough for the statute of limitations to run out. This would make it impossible to prosecute the only part of the evidence which wasn't con-

tested during the Fulbright hearings in 1950. °

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CENTRAL figures in the case are the brothers Jake and John Gottlieb, Chicago truckers, and Paul O. Buckley, a Lustron director. Back in 1947, when the Lustron company

was seeking a way to haul its houses from the

Columbus factory to building sites, Jake Gott-

Heb “lent” $35,000 to Buckley. Gottlieb later .

testified he had not known Buckley well at the time.

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Buckley and thé Gottliebs then formed_the Commercial Home Equipment Co. to buy trucks and lease them to Lustron: On a cash outlay of £2000, they paid themselves $334,964. All told, they received. almost $3 million from Lustron, or $1500 for each house hauled. ; > & 4 JOE ROSENBAUM'S law firm did the legal

. work, in setting up the trucking corporation,

Rosenbaum is the man: who arranged for Mrs. Merl Young to buy his famous mink coat. | The Fulbright Committee subsequently approved a sharply worded report on the trucking firm case. + Last fall, Rep. George Meader (R. Mich.), who had been Fulbright committee counsel, demanded Congréss investigate why the Justice Department had never acted on the case. About Dec. 1, the Justice Department finally sent the files to the prosecuting attorney in Chicago. This was 19° months after the RFC gave the Justice Department its evidence. . ‘Early in December, the Scripps-Howard newspapers reported that the statute of limitations, outlawing prosecution of crimes more than

Pardon My Southern Accent By Talburt

LISSEN : BABY- WHY DON'T YOU’SE AND ME TAKE (T ON THE LAM AN GIT ¢ HITCHED:

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ALEXANDER . . . By Andrew Tully

Remembered as

BRITONS don't have to be briefed on their new defense minister—he'll be remembered -as long as Dunkirk. For ha 1s the man who saved 80 per cent of the British Army at Dunkirk in 1940, the man

. whose full name sounds lke a committee—His

Excellency Field Marshal, the Right Honorable, the Viscount Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander of Tunis.

Lord Alexander, recently governor-general of Canada, also is the man who licked Nazi Field Marshal Rommel in Africa—but not until the Axis had gotten two strikes on him.

The first strike, of course, was Dunkirk. But nobody could have looked any better thdh Alexander.did in taking that swing.

Hollywood Treatment

WHILE Stukas strafed and artillery shells burst all over the place, Alexander gave it the Hollywood treatment. Aboard a white charger, he rode up and down the beach, hustling his men into the boats. And before he left—the last man to go—he paused in a battered farmhouse to dine from a jar of marmalade.

Alexander spent a month's leave in London rebuilding a blitzed greenhouse so his wife could grow tomatoes. Then he took over command of the British and Indian force in the Burma jungles. Strike two. Alexander arrived in Burma only

«ot-hours before the fall of Rangoon. But again

he fought his way brilliantly out of a trap and saved the bulk of his forces. He thought, then, hg'd never again get a lecent command ‘“beca all I'd ‘done was retreat.” But in August, 1942, Prime Minister

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Long as Dunkirk

Winston Churchill named Gen. Alexander com-mander-in-chief in the Middle East—with the ‘Germans and Italians only a fat taxi fare from the Nile.

This time Gen. Alexander caught a fast pitch —and hit 2 home run. Rommel's famous Afrika Korps was routed at El Alamein in a turning point of the war. Within a year Gen. Alexander, who fancies a neat phrase almost as much as Gen. MacArthur, could cable Winston Churchill, “We are masters of the North African shore.”

Could Pass for 45

THE REST of Gen. Alexander's World War II career was noteworthy but unspectacular. As Allied Supreme Commander of the Mediter. ranean Theater, he led British and American forces to Sictly and then slowy and labotiously. up the boot of Italy, while generals named Ike and Monty gathered most of the headlines in France.

Lord Alexander was born 60 years ago but could pass for 45. He was brought up, after his father's death, by his older brothers “in a large and straggling mansion” in northern Ireland. He didn't go to school until he was 10 years old and the first thing he had to learn was how to write his name.

, A tall, athletic man with clipped gray mustache, Lord Alexander has talents outside the

military, He is a capable painter and speaks French, Italian, German, Russian and Hindustani. ?

Once again he is being called upon in a omoment of crisis. Britain can take comfort in an appraisal by a soldier who watched him during the terrible retreat in Burma. w= “He is,” said the Tommy, “a bloke who never loses his head.”

WASHINGTON, Maf. 4—All over this land people are buying freeze boxes ‘in which to keep hamburger, last summer's strawberries, ready-mixed martinis, fish, angel food cake and no telling what all else, indefinitely. These big white boxes all come equipped with scrapers. You use these to remove the frost that collects on their walls and sometimes you almost freeze off your good right hand in the doing, but the directions say do not neglect; frost acts as insulation. Boosts the electric bill. And even can spoil the food. Haw. I now give you Dr. Hazel K. Stiebling, chief of the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics, and the handsomest scientist in these parts. She and the other ladies at the Agriculture Department have been festing freeze boxes. The manufacturers thereof can go sit on a cold tack. Dr. Stiebling reported to Cone *

peal for $1,430,000 to run her laboratories this year that. a freezer chest can buzz along at zero temperature with the frost + an inch and a half thick. The stuff inside stays just as cold; the electric bill grows no larger, I shall scrape no" more. . ~ 2 =

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of the case. : In the Fulbright committee hearings, Co mercial’ Home witnesses had offered an explanation for a $500,000 overcharge for the 40 nonexistent trucks. They said a Lustron official, who since has died, had agreed to overpay, even though the RFC had his written statement that this wasn't true. But the Commercifl” Home witnesses attempted no refutation of RFC's separate charge that, prior to Mar. 5, 1949, Commercial Home had earned about $30,000 by reporting trucks being in service for Lustron before the trucks even had left the factory. v ¥ o> od . > EARLY this year, the House Judiciary Committee secretly discussed making the Commercial Home case the starting point for an investigation of ‘the Justice Department. It appeared that the Justice Department's disregard of the fact that time was running out én them would cause the prosecutors to lose the “easiest” part of their case. Immediately an RFC investigator was called

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MR. EDITOR; The telephone 5 By far our most expensive public. utility. And the telephone company

" wants the cost to go still higer. In its argument

for higher rates, the company cites the_.usual factors: Higher employment, higher wages, higher costs of equipment, “funded debt,” etc. In a measure, all those factors should add up to some higher cost to the consumers, But some things are very confusing to the consumer, and they arouse his resentment. All

those factors mentioned above are present in all business; yet the local gas company actually reduced its minimum charge from $1 for 1000 cubic feet to $1 for 1200 cubic feet. The water minimum went up from $1.25 to $1.70. A small family, modest in its requirements, can cook with gas, keep water hot, and perhaps even heat the kitchen for an hour on cold mornings for 4 or 5 cents for gas daily.

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IT CAN have water for the kitchen and the bath, and. perhaps for sprinkling the lawn or garden in hot weather for not more than 6 to 8 cents daily. But the telephone company gets $4.10 a month for a four-party line phone, $5.10 for a 2-party line and $6.25 for a private line. And it still wants more. A business man

“in one room with a phone pays a flat rate of

$16.50. Obviously a bucket of water, a cubic foot of gas, and a. dialed telephone ‘call cannot be weighed on the same scale, but doesn’t it stand

. you on end when you consider that for the price

of two dialings in your office, a milk man will beat his way through snow and wind and deliver a bottle of milk to your door? And that, by further contrast, the gas company will provide you gas to cook ninety meals, keep a tank full of hot water, and bake a pie or two for the same dollar for which the “measured business flat rate” businessman gets nine telephone calls.

The telephone business seems to be one of the very few businesses, if not the only one, which requires a higher and higher price’ per unit as the total number of units increases; and that makes no sense at all to the layman customer. If Ford made only 100 cars a day, the selling price per car would have to be higher than if Ford made 1000 cars a day. A dressmaker at home may have to charge your wife $8 for a gingham house dress, but let a manufacturer make a thousand dresses a day and he probably can sell ‘them at $2.98 each. a 0h BUT NOT the telephone company. Let the telephone company .add 100,000 new installations and it screams to the high heavens for Higher rates so it can pay for the installations. What we consumers want to know is, first, why isn’t it calculated that the additional revenue will pay for the installations and, sgcond, why doesn’t the cost per unit go down instead of up? Why do we “old” customers have to pay for the installatfon of “new” telephones? What becomes of the money the “new” ‘telephone customers pay? —Dialer, City.

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY SEN. RUSSELL announced as a “Jeffersonian” Democrat, but President Truman will continue to. ride both horses at the JeffersonJackson Day dinner. SS SP A SPEECH in the Congressional Record is entitled, “America at the Fork of the Road.” Maybe Emily Post can tell us how to use the fork. : oS UTOPIA — Where restaurant menus follow food prices down as fdst as they followed them up. $ ob CONGRESS seems to be waiting for universal military training to become universal before voting for it. LA WHOEVER gets to be French Premier, you know he is bound to be a fall guy. :

Sen. Russell + + . one horse.

‘HAW’ . . . By Frederick C. Othman” | Puts the ‘Freeze’ on Congress for

That -néws brought up another thing that long has worried Rep. Walt Horan (R. Wash.) and me. That's the

ry Probe Of Lustron Company - to Chicago. But before his scheduled sestiocny :

mas night with the electric blanket kicked off and myself bathed in sweat. Nearly died of double pneumonia on account of that casual instruction sheet.

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confided to the RFC. witness there had been “some question about the accuracy of the figures on the $30,000. If the RFC man would just skip this part of the story the Justice attorney promised that he would contact the RFC auditor who'd worked on the figures originally, and ‘would get them all straighiened out.

THE AUTHOR of the RFC audit—a certified

public accountant with FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission experience hefore the RFC hired him—works ¢ut-of .Chicago. He -hasn’t been asked yet to appear before the Grand Jury. Whether the figures are straightened out will soon be immaterial. Commercial Home submitted only one bill after Mar. 5, 1049, for services prior to that time. This bill is still within the three-year period. The. Chicago U. 8." attorney, Otto Kerner; disclosed the 30-day Grand Jury recess yestere day. He said he couldn't say when the Grand Jury will meet again or how many witnesses have been called. 'He said he was under no pressure from Washington. tN

Hoosier Forum—‘Phone Hike’

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

‘Difference in Race’ é MR. EDITOR: .< : Although 1 have never written for publica. tion and have grave doubts that this letter will receive any such dttention, I am so indig-

nant and ashamed because of the discrimination °

shown against the Chinese family in San Francisco I decided to tell my favorite newspaper how I feel, Since it is a well known fact that notorious gang lords have been permitted to erect and peccupy palatial homes in the midst of sup posedly decent, law abiding citizens it is very Inconsistent, to say the least, that an intelli. gent, educated, decent family, such as these Chinese people can prove themselves to be, isnot allowed to occupy the home of their choosing because their neighbors are too mer cenary and narrow minded to take the risk of ‘a depreciation in their property due to a slight difference ip race. We preach democracy, but too often do not practice it. Until we do so we should cease trying to convert other countries to our form of government, even though it is the best in the world. ~—Frapces Dunham, City,

‘Dictatorial State?’ MR. EDITOR: : Is it possible that we are living in a dictatorial state? We are house trailer owners, work hard for a living, and yet we find that where we park our trailer, the camp owners tell us what to do, and who to buy from, etc, We have lived in a trailer for two years and have never heard of such a deal before. In November, our rent was raised from $4 per: week, to $5 per week, water furnished. When it rains the place is a filthy mudhole. The roads are very poor, the bathhouses very obsolete. Yet, just this week the owners told us no oil trucks were to be allowed to deliver oil to our drums, that they were going to get the two cents profit per gallon or else. Anyone seen leaving here with an oil can will be forced to move. . : : Is there no way to stop this monopolizing of free enterprise? camp, the lots are supposed to be 30 feet by 40 feet, but our lots are just wide enough to get our car in between our trailer and our neighbors. Isn't this false advertising? We

have lived in several other states, and have §

never encountered anything such as this. Reader, City.

Lenten ‘Meditation

Jesus Answers Our

Questions About God

ONE GOD—OR NONE? ..

The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Mark 12:29, Read verses 28-34. Jesus constantly made it clear that there is danger in trying to serve two or more gods. “No man can serve two masters.” es If you start out to “give the devil his due,” you may end by giving him more than his_due. It is this conflict of the gods, this clash of loyalties, that runs beneath so much of the tragedy of modern times. Our only right answer to the problem is the answer of Jesus, “The Lord our God is one.” There will be no peace in our hearts until we put the one God on" the throne of our hearts and let lesser gods take lesser. places. There will be no peace on earth until we put the one God and his moral“low at the head of our governmental policy, in everv country, on every sea, In every hamlet. Over the door of Temple Israel in Boston- this word is carved in stone, “The Lord is One.” It gives us a certain steadiness to know that God is not divided, that -he is the some yesterday, today, and forever, to know that he is the God of the farthest star “as well as the God over the earth and us. . In the year 26 A. D. Pilate first came to Jerusalem and made the mistake of setting up images of the Romon emperor. The Jews protested so powerfully that Pilate had to remove the images. Two gods are one too many, Let Us Pray: Forgive us, O God, when we let lesser gods take Thy place. Set Thyself within us as Lord of our thoughts, our words, our actions, our love, as Jesus did, we pray. Amen.

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the service man. So Rep. Horan has introduced bill foreing the makers of Py equipment to include with each one a detailed book of instructions.

airy way the manufacturers of most electric equipment kiss off the intricacies of their machinery with instruction books that don't say a dang thing.

Well do I remember the.

electric blanket my bride bought me once for Christmas.

. Not one word did the directions

say about how high the juice should be turned on. Just said, adjust to comfortable temperature. .

So I woke up late that Christ-

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The same goes, according to Rep. Horan for washing madishwashers, percolators, vacuum cleaners and all the other mechanical marvels

. that now keep the American

home vibrating. The instruction. books that come with them are equally marvelous, the Congressman adds, for saying nothing whatever.

Let one of these devices go on the fritz and the average -

householder is at the mercy of

'MERRY-GO-ROUND

MOM and dad, do you recall , . . not too far in the past . . . the hand-turned merry-go-round . . . that moved so swift and fast . .., you know the one I'm writing of. . . to ride cost but a cent . . . and it was manned by someone who . . . was a'most pleasing gent... its rail was gaily painted and . .. its metal horses flew . . . and as it spun around ... . it

thrilled the heart of you . . . for while the

music filled your ears . . . you rode in make believe . . . that bloodthirsty Indians tugged «+ o tightly at your sleeve . . . those were the days you will agree . .. but gone are they

now from view , . . so like the many, many - : / things . ., that ‘we all used to do. if

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Dr. Stiebling sald she thought that was a good idea. Me, too. I hope this bill be‘comes a law and sends to jail the manufacturers of machin-

ery purposely kept mysterious,

Dr. 8. said that, meantime, sha was doing her-part by putting out booklets on household repairs; she’s also thinking of making some movie shorts o the subject. :

And while we've got her here, perhaps youd like .to

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she’s been doing lately. Take eggs. They're a fine source of nourishment, but the average American eating a first-class diet can have too much hen fruit. This leads to kidney and .heart trouble, Dr, Stiebling said. Her workers also have discavered which kinds of Irish potatoes come out best mashed, baked or boiled. They have proved that five well known brands of household disinfect ants are phonies when dilute

‘according to. directions,

that a near relative of streptomycin can; if it gets on a wool suit, ruin it in two weeks. Just

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