Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1952 — Page 23

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By Ed Sovola

EVERY morning, six days a week, in the 900 block of one-way N. Pennsylvania St., pedestrians bet. their lives. They have been winning consistently. ) There is doubt whether the egg or the chicken came first. No doubt exists about the pedestrian and the automobile. Of course, after the latter appeared and RW

demonstrated what it was JEEERA - made of, the wise pedestrian =e 3 never argued. Ns

In this sane and civilized country, there should be enough room for both. Judging bythe statistics, there isn't: Killed, 9470 pedestrians and 290,660 injured in 1851. And 1952 may yield another bumpef crop. The situation in the 900 block of N. Pennsylvania St. was always a bit touch-and-go. When it was made a one-way street, pedestrians soon learned that between the hours of 8 and 9 ‘a. m,, vigilance, physical fitness, split-second reflexes were required to cross the street. The weak of heart walked a square to St. Clair St. and took advantage of the lights, <°

: <> IN THE MORNING, however, to the man or woman hurrying to work, five minutes mean a lot. They often spell the difference between being late and being on time and the fact that the possibility exists of being dead on arrival at General Hosnital, 1s relatively unimportant. e It's a straight shot for motorists from 14th St. to 8t. Clair St. By the time the four-abreast wave of chromed grills hits St. Joseph 8t., they're moving 35 to 40 miles an hour. And when you have these waves practically bumper-to-bumper, a confirmed jaywalker is on his best behavior, Months of observing under the most difficult of conditions (heart in throat), has almost made me a believer in the old axiom of “survival of the fittest.” The most ardent traffic engineer, I'm sure, could be convinced that there might be some merit in considering lifting all controls on thoroughfares. Unlike downtown intersections, where traffic officers and lights protect the citizen, which brings on a false sense of security, the section

By Earl Wilson

doing the GIs a favor if I wrote about “Operation Mail Call.” Some girls in an office thought of it. They write letters to GIs in Korea . . . to boys they don't know . . . passing on chatty bits about sports, movies and themselves—and sending their . pictures. - Now I am very proud to write for the Pacific edition of the Stars and Stripes, published in Tokyo, and read in Korea.

"to GIs—I would—then I checked with the Pentagon. “Better rein in your typewriter,” a spokesman sald. “We can’t encourage letters between the military personnel and people they're not acquainted with.” ; “Why not? You can’t misbehave much by mail,” I said. \ “There's no mail censorship from Korea, you know,” the spokesman said. Td forgotten that we're not officially at war so there's no Sensorsivp, exept of the press.

“WE DON’T want subversives accumulating addresses. It's too bad. Letters do so much for

morale. This is a security attitude.” a “What'll you do about it.” White “We will simply ‘not encourage it’ in a state- ® ment of policy.” . Maybe there'd be a right way to do it ... as Pink these girls, headed by a Miss Betty Jo Watson,

e handle it in the Los Angeles office. “The girls in our office have been writing to

é GIs of California's 40th Division,” she tells me. “Above all we let the boys know we are thinkBlue ing of them and that they are appreciated.”

The mail’s sent to the division, then to chaplains serving the men in the bunkers, and distributed to lonely men who don’t get much mail, Not many get time to write back. The Pentagon Hiought that'd be all right. ANYWAY, it seems a good time to make a resolve this minute to write to all the Gls we do know. ” I happen to get requests from boys in Korea all the time for pinups. Recently I got this letter: “Your pictures came tonight and made the fellows in the section happy. “It's very lucky they didn't come earlier because we had a fire this morning! The wall on which most of our pinups were hung was destroyed. The pictures you sent me were posted elsewhere and will start a new collection. If you come across some other real nice ones . . . To break up my great pinpup collection for the

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

FT. WORTH, Apr. 25—She was a very pretty lady, with all the necessary things to make a lady pretty, and that is why T double-took a little bit when she ordered a cigar with her -afterdinner coffee. She specified the brand and when the cigar came she bit off the end of it and when she fired it she turned the match slowly to assure herself that the weed was lit evenly. She settled back in her chair in the restaurant and sipped heracoffee and smoked her cigar. . There is certainly no law in thé land which forbids a lady to smoke a partaga as big as a baseball bat if the mood strikes her. If you like cigars, and you are a lady, you are allowed to smoke cigars, I suppose, because a cigar is only a big cigaret and, heavens, a great many ladies do smoke cigarets. ’ But the cigar made me nervous as a man in the presence of a lady, which is the purpose of this parable. It may be the story of what is wrong with the boy-girl business today, from the boy's point of view.

° 4 IT SEEMS TO ME that today's woman is doing too many things to make men uneasy in her presence, and is sacrificing the privileges of her sex in order to achieve the complete and possibly useless equality she craves. She can smoke her cigar, sure, as competently as any man, but I would not wish to kiss a woman who smokes cigars, any more than I would wish to kiss a woman who chews tobacco. . I mentioned this simple preference to the lady y with the big cigar, She got angry at the hint that she was not completely desirable as a woman merely because she smoked cigars, She got angrier when I suggested that the reason an average man would not wish to play postoffice - with a cigar-smoker is because he would keep thinking about the cigar. He would be distracted from the basic business at hand. * SHE WAS ANNOYED at an idea that such 8 freadful simple thing as boys wanting 10 kiss girls could get in the way of the right of the female to compete in all fields on an equal basis, because this is a democracy, she said, and I am as as you are before the law and in the

penders. iH. Sane been doing it for years. lue and out of business as members of the human + 1.98

running for office all the time and shooting the Injuns and molding the nation in direct compe- ’ tition to your opposite numbers, who &e sup-

Inside Indianapolis >

It Happened Last Night

Well, I'd arouse the whole country to writing

TF Pedestrians Touch -and-

between 14th St. ‘and St. Clair St. is wide open. -

You cross at your own peril, The only law is the law of the jungle. > : : : |

80, THE WAGE earner who lives east of Pennsylvania St. crosses so he can reach his place of employment west of the street. The people who live west, go east to work. Same old story; the job is better on the other side of the street. The technique most street crossers use deperids on speed, timing afd distance. I would give you the mathematical formula but it would only lead to more confusion. The important thing is that once you make the break, there is no turning back. Indecision leads te disaster. The pedestrian stands at attention on the curb, eyes on the moving vehicles. After wind ‘direction and rate of flow has been established, the next problem is to figure out quickly the cone stantly changing trajectory. It's the rare morning that you can go straight across. Te Trajectory is figured last and it must be done quickly and if one dilly-dallies, one gets nowhere, I've noticed the rate of breathing increases, the evelids become drawn and the lips are thin lines, (People with thin hos Sioa at St. Clair 8t.)

» THEN THE BIG moment arrives. Tt must take steel nerves to look ‘into the grim-faced drivers and shoot across one lane, pull in a hip, angle off, straizht-arm a fender and broadjump to the curb and safety. Immediately the breathing ‘goes back to normal, the evelids return to their half-asleep posi. tion and lips move with maledictions. (People with thin lips, by this time, are waiting for the light to change on 8t. Clair 8t.) ! From sources close to the traffic engineer's office, it was learned that the situation will change sometime in June. A stoplight is planned at 11th St. and Pennsylvania St. Slow cable deliveries are holding up work. Runners and dodgers of 900 block, the city fathers are aware of the problem. Just keep in shape and alert for another month or so. One fine morning you'll he able to cross Pennsylvania 8t. in perfect safety if you go to St. Clair or 11th Sts. and cross with the lights. One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready and four—GO, Yah, yah, ya missed me.

GI Mail? Sure. But Be Careful

NEW YORK, Apr. 25—1I thought I would be GIs is the smallest thing I can do. Will you be .

doing some writing, too? <> & THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . Hope Hampton's big jewelery burglary was just a, year ago Tuesday. Though three went to jail, the $300,000 worth of uninsured loot’s never been recovered. . . . Howard Hughes’ celebrated check-grabbér Johnny Meyer (the oil man) is back in his employ. . Vivian Blaine and Pinky Lee were slightly incompatible so she quits their TV show May 23, for her own half-hour show later, . . has shows in four theaters on 48th St, they now call it “Ferrerty-eighth St.” — name supplied by Ferrer's daughter, Groucho Marx was visited by Et a gal—‘president of the Grou- ~ cho Marx Fan Club.” He eagerly asked how many are in the

SR 8 club. “Oh,” she said, “I'm the Miss Andre Only one.” . . , French actress Gaby Andre (“The Green

Glove”) took lots of U. 8. fashions back to Paris, And now there's a boom for Italian clothes. What happened to Paree? : ae When the Yankees go on their western trip, Joe DiMaggio’ll go west, too, To watch baseball? To watch Marilyn Monroe? . . . Atty. Fred Kaplan, cafe socialite, is very, very {ll at the Savoy-Plaza. . .. It's almost set for Ford to share sponsorship of “Toast of the Town.” 5 . The Daily Worker blasted the Dore ScharyVie Laski pix, “The Hoaxters,” before it came out. Must be good . .. Kenny Delmar (“Senator Klaghorn), closing a tour with Guy Lombardo, is talking TV. od ob oS EARL’S PEARLS , . . Russian dialog as reported by Max Ashas via‘Tony Pettito: “Have you any food for thought?” . ., “No, only thought for food.” > ¢

TODAY'S DAFFYNITION: “Loaded dice —-

poison ivory”’—Hal Fimberg. Bert Lytell, in the fifth year as Lambs Club Shepherd, will be honored at a big public gambol at the Astor Saturday ... Will Lee Tracy be the next “Martin Kane?” , , . George Raft'll be roaming in and out of bars the next few days, being filmed as a gunless detective here in “I Am the Law” . . . Dan Dalley was a stag at Jane Morgan's La Vie en Rpse show. ob BH

IT'S CURIOUS how women have curves, and :

men have angles , , , That's Earl, brother.

Lady’s Cigar Jolis Osculatory Appeal

posed to be strong and rugged, while you are weak and kind of cite. And I would not, even with your husband's permission, want to kiss a girl who smokes cigars. @“ 2 SHE IS STILL MAD, but about this time the floor show comes on and The singer:is a dame who sings the frightfully sophisticated stuff, all of which says papa is a bum. He is either coming home late or he is not coming home at. all, or else he is so dreadful dull he is plumb useless as a man around the house. There is no single plug for papa—it is just a great big pitch about how wonderful mama is. Mama is the mountain and papa is the mouse, and at the end of every song there are great applauses, mostly from females. I am looking now at my lady friend, who is finishing her cigar, and' I am listening at this babe on the bandstand, and I am pretty desperate to make a point. I shook hands with my lady friend, using the good firm lockerroom grasp, I called the waiter, and gave him a bill. “Buy these ladies a cigar,” I said, and if you are wondering what's wrong with the world these days, I think I just summed it up,

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—I want to know are huckleberries and blueberries the same? In the state of Pennsylvania where I was born the stores and door to door fruit peddlers had what is known as huckleberries. Some called them swamp huckieberries. They made delicious pies. After coming to Indiana I seldom saw them anywhere. Then I began seeing blueberries advertised. One day in a restaurant I bought a piece of blueberry pie and I was disappointed. It did not have the same rich flavor. McCordsville. A—Botanically they belong to the same family. But in general people mean the small wild berries when they speak of huckleberries. And

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see pictured in nursery catalogs. I agree with you i 1 often bill of human rights, and if I want to smoke a suffers as other qualities (in this case size of , 1 will smoke a cigar because men have berry and sturdiness of growth) are bred in. There is also a so-called “garden huckleberry” But you dames are going to put yourselves which is not botanically related that’s one of 5 : De Not long race, sezzi, If you keep on smoking cigars and ago I found some frozen small “blueberries” that And the other day I bought om northern

about the disappointing taste, But taste

the few garden products I don't like.

made excellent ple, a can of “native .huckleberries” Wisconsin which promise to be : .

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NAVY CUTLASS, the F-7U.3 and a maximum speed of better than 800 mph,

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By DOUGLAS LARSEN Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Apr. 256—The U. S. has a dozen different kinds of fighter airplanes in production or scheduled for production which can outfight Russia's MIG-15. Most of the new fighter models actually in productighy

now are capable of speeds in the neighborhood of 700 miles per hour. - The ones which are scheduled to go into production sometime this year or.early in 1053-—the Air Force's ¥F-100, F-101, F-102 and F-103--are in the 900-mile-per hour class. Whether or not any of this family of new U. 8. fighters will get into combat with the MIG15 depends on whether or not a truce is achieved in Korea any time soon. . . ” IF WAR continues after this summer, some of them will, according to an Air Force spokesman. In any event, air combat is right on the verge of moving into speeds which are faster than sound, 730 miles per hour. “Operational supersonic speeds are not far off,” according to Maj. Gen. Laurence C. Craigie, chief of Air Force development. “We are getting supersonic fighters because we will have to fly that fast to survive combat

ght), carrier-based, has two engines

NAVY FURY, the F-J-2 (North American), is in 650 mph

with the opposition when these fighters become available, “Some people incorrectly belHeve that air-to-Air combat may be impossible at such speeds,” he says. » » ”

THE Air Force continues -to claim that the present F-86 Sabre in Korea is superior to

the Russian MIG-15, AF experts

point to the 7-to-1 kill advan-

“tage of the Sabre over the MIG

as proof, : * They also claim that unless the Russians come up with a much improved version of their present MIG, the new fighters which will be coming off the line will quickly wipe out the superiority of numbers which the «Communists possess with their air force. : The two new versions of the North American F-88 which are

‘in production will erase the

slight climb, speed and ceiling advantage the MIG has over

the present Sabre. Improved jet engines with a thrust increase

of from a plus 5000 pounds to a

class, looks like earlier F-J.! except for swept-back wings,

AIR FORCE. THUNDERJET, the F-84.F (Republic) has 34-

foot wingspan, range of more than 850 miles, maximum speed of

650 mph. ‘

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Lineup of Our New Fighters

#& © Shown on this page are

_seven of our newest aerial fighters and the available data on their performance, Five other supersonic fight. ers In the same category, on which the Department of Defense has not released photos are:

NAVY F-10F (Grumman), 650° mph. : AF F-100 (N. American), 900 mph. AF F-101 (McDonnell), 900 mph. 2 AF F-102 (Convair), 900 mph, AF F-108 (Republic), §00 mph. : All are one-man planes. ‘Other data Is classified,

NAVY COUGAR, the F-9F-6 (Grumman and top speed of 650 mph, It's carrier-based.

7 ’ plug 7000 pounds will make the big difference and put them into the 700-mile-per-hour class, " ro ”

THE Republic ¥-84-F Thunderjet now in production will have more speed than the MIG as a result of adding swept. back wings to the aly ¥-84, and the addition .of a new

to the 500-mile range o Sabre. ea od

Dukter than the MIG in all cate-

gories. They include the Grum-

' man F-9F-6 Panther and F-10F,

the Chance Vought F-7U-3 Cutlass, the MeDonald F-3H, the North American ¥-2J Fury

and the Douglas ¥-4D Skyray, The Cutlass with two jet engines will probably be fastest —of the group, with a spead ap-

proaching 900 miles per hour, » . »

TRENDS in design as seen in

these new subsonic and super-

sonic fighters reveal nothing revolutionary over the ones in operation today. Biggest factor in increased speed is improved jet engines. They have been made bigger, of improved design and as a result more efficient. Advances in metallurgy have helped make this possible. All 12 of the new planes have either swept-back wings, or delta wings which are triangular. They are all heavier. None of" the safety factors such as armor plating and ejection seats have been sacrificed to improve performance, Lack of such {items in the MIG has helped to give it such a good

performance, the Air Force says. ” » ” MOST radical change com-

mon to the new fighters is the provision for more rockets and guided missiles, and fewer machine guns. In some the machine guns have been elimi-

HOW TO GET RICH IN WASHINGTON . . . No. 11—

Is This The Way To Save Our

By BLAIR BOLLES

THESE stories about those who have gotten rich in Washington prove that the rise of corruption offers a chance to the conscienceless to line their own pockeis at the expense of their countrymen. # But whoever wants to follow those examples should be warned that he risks the destruction of his nation. The men who have been enriching themselves have been : eating away the heart of America, They crush the noble premise that equality of opportunity and equality before the law are the natural rights of every one of us. By action on this premige Americans in years past have infused their way of life with a kind of moral grandeur. Now the grandeur

“and. the way of life it bright-

ens are in danger of ruination. . » » THE first step that Americans should take in rescuing their country from its danger is to insist that © ss and the President make ew rules to govern the use of the money that pours like Niagara into the treasury. The executives who possess the godly authérity to choose what individuals and businesses are to benefit should receive explicit instructions to guide them in the disposition of loans, subsidies, and tax favors. If they don't follow the clear instructions, then the quegtion

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the 11th of a series from the book, HOW TO GET RICH IN WASHINGTON, recently published by W. W. Norton & Cv. In previous installments, Mr. Bolles has described the corruption and favoritism that js rampant. Today he suggests the first steps that need ‘be taken if reform is to come. whether wrong was done will not be a matter of debate and argument. One subsidizer and lender that now operates under precise instructions from Congress fis the Commodity Credit Corporation. It lends money on farm crops in order to stabilize agricultural prices. On a few occasions it has handed out favors unjus‘ly, but Lindsay Warren, the Comptroller General, and Congress have been able every time to reform the situation. !

» » » . CLEAR-CUT legislation by Congress on the government's function as finance capitalist would end current conflision

over the dependency of private enterprise on the government.

It would answer the question:

clearly as to who should have access. to the money-distribut-

ing centers of Washington. _ legislation would bring

Such an end to the day when blunderers in public office can excuse

themselves for wasting the taxpayers’ money on the ground that the law is vague. Corruption has flourished because -executive officials have been free to interpret the law to suit themselves and their friends. The government regulates the use of funds by banks more closely than it regulates the distribution of funds by federal agencies. This freedom makes temptation’ chronic, ” ” » A SECOND measure for the banishment of evil would be to end the independence of the Independent agencies. In theory . the agencies are responsible to Congress. The Supreme Court in 1935 stated that “they must be free of Executive control.” But it became obvious®that they are not free of Executive control as soon as President Truman over-ruled the Civil Aeronautics Board and ordered the merger of Pan-American Airways and American Overseas, THe President appoints the commissioners who run the agencies. The Bureau of Budget, which is a part of the President's executive office, decides how much money each agency may ask of Congress every year. ' The pretense that they are

independent is dangerous be- -

cause it absolves the President of responsibility for what goes on in them. There are so many

‘agencies handing out privilege

en gine with a 7200 pound thrust. It wont quite match the hew Sabre's speed because it has been built for longer range and for carrying heavy bomb loads. Its range is 850 miles compared

ianapolis Times

"FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1052

AIR FORCE SABRE, the F.86-F&G 37-foot wing span, 500-mile range and a 700 |

nated entirely. Improvements in machine guns have not kept pace with increased ‘speed. Guided rockets tied in with electronic firing devices is the goal of hoth the Air Force and Navy as the best armament for their fighters, the experts say. It is not expected that the

that investigators cannot focus on a single spot. . ” ” THE spread of responsibility among a host of agencies labeled “independent” multiplies the opportunities for enrich-

it.

‘“Thes commissioners, though independent, do not live in a vacuum,” Harold Leventhal, a spokesman for the Citizens Committee on the Hoover Commission, told a Senate Committee in 1950. “They may,” and rightfully should, give consideration to the President's views on national politics.” If Congress acknowledged that fact, it could hold the President accountable when the agencies follow policies of their own that harm the national interest, Two means could be used to guard officials from the temptation to use the apparatus of government corruptly in the interest of their political party instead of honestly for the sake of their country. » ” ” THE FIRST is to take jobs in the Department of Jusfice and the Internal Revenue Bureau off the patronage list and to find a new method of appointing United States district attorneys, United States marshals, tax collectors, and their assistants, The U. 8. district attorneys are the prosecutors

) has 38-foot span, 1500-mile

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mph maximum 1 Air Force's 100-series 8 can be in operational use mi before 1056, : 2 Based. on the fact Russia turned up with the ° MIG-15 as a fairly even he for the Sabre, the experts believe that the Reds are similar progress in the development of new fighers, a

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, " y . ation? is wT in the federal courts, which function in every state, The President selects them, They are part of the political machine of the party in power in Wash

ington. By tradition the Af torney General demands from

shals loyalty not simply to his but to his faction of the party. The district attorneys should be appointed in the basis merit, like Army and Navel officers or State De : foreign service officers. » sw A COMPANION piéce would’

ment while the chief executive the district attorney and mare escapes censure for not stopping

* be to adopt new methods of

financing political parties in the. United States. 2 Contributors to the party’ in power gain privileges which don't go to non-contributers. Many of the fortunhates wher were able to buy tankers ly and who sold them were contributors to the Democratic Party. Fog The problem for the

ing Jotitica) parties, One would be for Congress propriate money for:the parties. ey It would have the ef limiting the amount availabl to actual needs and of en

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