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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Woy

Why Not Annex Now? ERY OWNERS in five small areas just outside %% the city limits have got permission to use city sewers _in return for what amounts to agreement to be annexed © to Indianapolis when the city wishes to annex them. © That's a good arrangement, so far as it goes. The sewer ‘lines already are available there, the new users will pay * reasonable fees for the service, and will not oppose annexation when and if the question arises. "It seems to us the arrangement might very well be * concluded right mow, and these tracts made a part of the city, before some complication arises to block it. The - property owners then would pay taxes, instead of fees, for the city services, which would amount to about the same "cost to them. The city would have permanently forestalled “any possibility of the development of any more ‘‘islands” in | the corporate boundaries, dependent upon city services but ‘not a part of the city.

£ IN FACT IT seems to us it would be very sound policy . to make annexation the price of any extension of any * municipal services beyond existing city limits.

e<sommunities which have provided, or partially provided, * their ‘own services and in doing so set up municipal "organizations of their own which they are réluctant to . abandon. Those communities probably never will permit © themselves to be merged into a single city, but will continue “in y to provide overlapping, duplicated and in the

: long run excessively costly governmental services for what “ essentially is one community, E Certainly the city should do nothing to encourage, or . compel, the development of more such suburban cities. A k far-sighted policy on extension of city services and annexa- * tion of areas served could do much to forestall it.

Wasteful Buying THE Defense Department is the world's biggest spender. Yet its buying habits are among the sloppiest. Result has been the waste of many millions of dollars. For years Congress has been trying to talk the armed . services into adopting a more streamlined system of buying to end this needless loss. But little has been accomplished. - Defense officials have been quick with promises but slow _onresults. ~~ 3 if 3 A few months ago a House investigating committee . began checking this situation, It found that each branch of the armed services uses one or more catalogs to show what it has in stock. In most cases, identical items are listed under different names and numbers, so that one branch often has no idea of what the other branches have onhand.. ] : Xa + Because of this hodgepodge of catalogh, fe 2 thay © order a huge quantity of some item—paint, for ‘example— when the Army has a surplus of that kind of paint.

i i gy 8 = e = a 4 THE COMMITTEE tound excessive duplications, too— { 200,000 descriptions and numbers for lumber items, for ex1! ample, and 9000 descriptions of venetian blinds. Lack of i system of standardization also was glaringly evilent The " committee said it found “an unbelievable variety of sizes, « colors, shapes and weights.” 5 Witnesses from all three dervices agreed that huge © sums could be saved if many items were standardized and _ a single catalog system used. The Navy said such savings © would run into many millions, while the Air Force guessed © the total would be “substantial.” As a result of the committee's findings, the House has

passed a bill requiring the Defense Department to adopt

© and use a single catalog system and a plan for standardizing © some of the billions of items the department now has listed. Defense officials are opposing the bill. But their arguent that they could accomplish by directive everything e House now proposes to do by law doesn’t hold water. e Defense Department has had its:chance to do that, and failed. ; : ; The Senate should complete passage of this bill and d it to the White House as quickly as possible.

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ecrecy Hasn't Paid Me EN. MARK W. CLARK, our new Far East commander, has a real opportunity to gain the free world’s un3 tinted confidence. Let him tear down the wall of secrecy © which has been erected between the public and the United 1 Nations high command—particularly those in charge of 3 truce négotiations in Korea. ¢ Since the talks started 10 months ago, Unitéd Nations | representatives have been obsessed with the notion that 4 the public should know only what they choose to tell us. Time after time, they have insisted that secret talks { would bring peace and harmony. Let us get away from

| the prying, snooping press—that has been their wounded “4 cry—and all our problems will disappear. :

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| record speaks volumes. It is a record of confusion, double- © talk and double-cross. ! The latest episode—the bungling of the Red POW in- | surrection on Koje—is part of that policy of secrecy. The { Army tried to cover up, alibi—and it played directly int the 5 g's hand. And, as always, the military has come back . § with splutiering explanations four or five days after it 5 should have made a full report. ‘Another case of too little

‘The argument has been that open disclosures were fuel } for Red propaganda fires. Nothing of the sort. The Reds 4 tell their press a lot of things that are not true. Tob often , get our information from Radio Peiping. The comment one C nist corrrespondent—“I have never seen work under greater restrictions than the at Panmunjom”—had enough truth in

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TENSION HIGH . . . By Keyes Beech

“Koje Island Camp

SEOUL, May 14—Nobody should be surprised if Koje Island erupts again at any moment. Far from relieving tension on that mountainous prison island - the ransoming of Brig. Gen. Dodd merely strengthened the Communist hand. It demonstrated to the Reds that .they could capture their. prison commander and set him _free on their own terms without fear of reprisals, 3 The ironictruth is that the United Nations command has done a considerably better job of controlling Communists at the front than at Koje far in its rear, . rs One reason could be .that Koje has had five different commanders in less than one week, making a total of 13 since the camp was founded in January, 1051. ‘ ; Brig. Gen, Charles F. Colson who negotiated . Gen Dodd's release was replaced by Brig. Gen. Hayden L. Boatner, assistant commander of the 2d Infantry Division, It was Gen. Colson who, in dickering for Gen. Dodd's release sent Communist leaders this message: “I do admit there have been instances of bloodshed where many POWs have been killed and wounded by United Nations forces.”

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GEN. COLSON, in promising the prisoners almost anything for Gen. Dodd's release, neglected to mention that the Reds have provoked bloodshed, or that they have heen treated with almost every consideration guaranteed by the Geneva Convention excep’ one. They have not been punished for their crimes which range all the way from mass murder and rank insubordi-

WAR ODDS . . . By Ludwell Denny

Allied Weakness Is Red Invitation

‘WASHINGTON, “May 1t=+8talin’s official

peace contract may start a new war, But American military chiefs and diplomats doubt that Stalin has decided on war, according to the House Foreign Affairs Comniittee testimony. . On the surface it appears either that Stalin is bluffing or that our experts are making a bad guess. Actually, however, the. question whether war is near cannot be answered by any such simple deductions. Even assuming Stalin is bluffing, that by no means eliminates the danger of sudden war. In

an explosive situation such as exists now, a miscalculated bluff can cause a blow-up almost as easily as deliberate plan. As long as Stalin is trying to pick up territory cheaply, there is grave risk that one of his planned little wars unexpectedly will turn into a hig war. The safety factor is that he will not misjudge the situation. There is not much safety in that.

Fooled in Korea

"HE DID NOT count on American and United Nations defense of Korea. Otherwise his sabotaging agent would not have been absent from the United Nations Security Council. All the evidence indicates that he expected the. surprise attack by his North Korean puppet ‘army to complete the conquest of South Korea within a few weeks, Earlier he misjudged the Iranian situation when he took over Azerbaijan Province. A larger war was avolded only because at the last moment he got his troops out of Iran when the United Nations challenged his easy cons uest, ’ Hitler went into Poland in the hope that Britain would not fight, just as the Kaiser before him violated Belgium in the belief that The fact that neither Hitler nor the Kaiser wanted a world war—why

"should they?—did not prevent that result. .

Two Surmises

TODAY THERE IS no good reason to challenge the guess of American military leaders and diplomats that “the Soviets have not set a date for an attack on the West.” This surmise is based on a two-fold assumption: "(he is that Stalin will not attack delib-" erately without a further military buildup requiring several weeks at least. The other is that such a buildup has not occurred and cannot without our knowledge. Probably both of these hypotheses are fairly reliable. But a European war can start in another way in Germany. Stalin’s East German satellite regime and the Moscow press threaten what they call a “civil war” if the Allies and the West German government sign a partnership agreement as planned. .

Germany Different

‘WE HAVE HAD experience with such “civil wars” in Greece and Korea. But this would be far more serious. Stalin's “Germans” are better armed and better soldiers. And the chances of partially isolating a German “civil war” as in Korea— much less of completely isolating it as in Greece —are almost nil, So probably the worst danger of world war this year is that Stalin will misjudge the German situation, and gamble on one of his little wars there—which would turn into something terribly big.

To slow down American and Allied prepared-

ness on the theory—even if true—that Stalin plans no-big-attack this-year could be-suicidal Allied military weakness is a continuing invitation to Stalin to push his luck too f&r in Germany. :

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nation to illegal trade with natives and petty thievery. ? At no time has there been any indication fhat the United Nations command selected anyone for the job of running Koje qualified by temperament or training. :

-' wwf\nd despite the extraordinary number’ of commanders at Koje there was no outward --=avidence of any change in policy. This policy

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be model Boy Scouts and play according to the rules. But these Commies don't play by anybody's rules, So what do we do? Nothing. When correspondents were permitted to visit Koje this week for the first time in. a

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. . By Frederick C. Othman

Need Long-Shanked Screwdriver To Get ‘Low-Down’ on TV Morals

WASHINGTON, May 14—The harried gentlemen of the House Commerce Committee now have got to investigate the morals of television. They are worried about this because they don’t know where to start. - It's as easy, gents, as quick-frozen, readybaked pie. First you get yourselves a TV set with one of those gigantic, 20-inch screens. You'll also need a long-shanked screwdriver (with a plastic handle so you won't get electrocuted) for when the morals on the picture tube get a little shaky. Then you'll want to lay in a few cases of matchless, artesian-pure beer with the keg-lined flavor and the light body, so when the announcer orders you to stop everything for a

Slittle refreshment, you'll be ready.

You'll’ need likewise several cartons of the -sigarets with the filtering action, the lack of irritants- that all other cigarets contain, and the kind that doctors smoke. Now you're set, except for vour chairs, .

Urges Soft Sofas

NOTHING 1 know of makes a scat seem

harder than a couple of hours in front of a TV

set, I strongly urge soft sofas, gentlemen, for your inquiry. So it is 6 p. m. when you turn on your machine. On all channels are®programs for what the TV tycoons call kiddies. Mostly these consist of dramas of the Wild West. . You will soon discover that if the films are newly made especlally for television, the actors don't know how to shoot. They don’t even have guns. They chew gum, : If the pictures are ancient ones from Hollywood. then there'll be plenty of gunfire, but stil} nobody gets hurt. This indicates that cowboys either are sissies, or lousy shots, and, obviously, it is not something to instill in the minds of our youth. os

‘All. Highly Moral’ ©

\SHORTLY before 7 p. m. comes a spate of quick ads, including one-minute spiels for refrigerators, pineapple juice, potato chips, scrubbing powder, and gold-plated wrist watches for sweetnearts. All highly moral, and some of those

sweethearts really -are——Coimes—-next-the-news—

commentators; some of these are excellent. Some look like wooden butter paddles. At 8 p. m. arrive the comics. I presume,

WASHINGTON, May 14 Gen, Dwight Eisenhower will be on the scene at the Republican convention in Chicago if a personal appearance is necessary to win the presidential nomination for him,

That's the word from the most influential figures on the

represents a determination to play hard, skillful, sophisticated politics right to the moment of balloting. Earlier, it was assumed that Gen, Ike would not go to Chicago. Eisenhower leaders are not / ready to commit their candidate to a hard and fast schedule after his. return here a little more than two weeks from now. Their inclination is to play it by ear. There'll be an Abilene, Kas, hometown speech June 4, a press confer. ence the next day and a subsequent stay in Denver at “which the General will meet delegations. from many states. A Detroit speech is at least a There may be a others,

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gentlemen, that you will not attempt to decidé what is funny and what isn’t (this being a matter of personal opinion), but that you'll be interested in the plunging necklines of the ladies. Fellows, you are going to be disappointed. In the good old days of TV six months ago, there was a lot of skin on display. The ladies then wore gowns especially designed for this purpose and sometimes things got feverish because you never knew how much longer such frocks would stay put. No more.

Goose Pimples Scarce

THEY STILL are wearing the old dresses, but where the skin used to be is lace in thick folds. It's been months, statesmen, since I've seen a goose-pimply TV siren. “At 9 p. m. usually comes a choice between murder and mayhem. How, gentlemen, can a detective solve a murder unless somebody first is killed? That's the problem. I have seen some wondrous slayings on the magic screen, including one poor joker frozen to death in an icebox, but lately I've been tuning them out. Kind of a bore. That leaves the mayhem, both male and female. Wrestling, I mean. This sometimes is good fun in my own, lowbrow opinion. ladies in particular are expert at kicking each other in the face. They frequently get themselves in the shape of pretzels, but I doubt if lascivious is the word. Ludicrous is better, The morals, I think you Ilawgivers will agree, are top-flight. The cultural aspects of the new art are none of your official business.

"ASCENT OR DESCENT"

IF WE'RE to make the great Ascent . . . and gain God’s paradise . . . we must be kindly toward all men . . . and do whaf’s good and nice . . . we must obey the Golden Rule . .. and lend a helping hand . . . to others who have lost their way . . . and wander o'er the land . « « we must be ever diligent . . . so that we never fall , . . into pits of wickedness . . , or heed the devil's call , . . we must have charity because . . . without it we are lost . .'. and so always be charitable . .. and give at any cost v—-and-when temptation ‘bids you. come. . ...

always be on your guard . . . for the descent :

to Hell.is easy and , . . the ascent to Heaven hard. ~By Ben Burroughs

STRATEGY . . . By Charles Lucey lke to Be at Convention ‘If

friends at the working level of politics in every state. Mr. Brownell's emergence as

to be nominated if he himself doesn’t pull some untoward, colossal boner after his return.

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month, the fruits of the appeasement polidy were painfully obvious. Compound 76 were Gen. Dodd was held looked more like an enemy camp than a P camp. No American—except Dodd—has been in 76 for two weeks. Camp officials admitted that other compounds—only 17 are occupied singe the POWs were screened a month ago to separate Communists from non-Communists—aren't much

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THE ARMY doesn't dare go inside 78 to take down the Communist flags. Nor does the Army dare to occupy its .own command post just inside the compound gate. But food and medical supplies go into the compounds on‘ regular schedules. And the Com-

munists send out picked working details on

schedule. In short, the Communists run the compounds and we run what is outside. * There is convincing proof that POW demonstrations at Koje are closely linked with armistice talks at Panmunjom. The wording -of “POW slogans and banners are identical with

the propaganda line followed by Red negoti- »

ations at Panmunjom. The POWs aren't supposed to have any means of communication with the outside world. News broadcasts and camp newspapers have been discontinued. But it would not be surprsing if the POWs had their own short wave transmitters inside the compounds and were in direct communication with Red armistice delegates. In any event, nobody has gone inside the compounds to find out, *

Hoosier Forum

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

MR. EDITOR: Alea “"“So Regulation W has been lifted. Would someone please tell me what is being done about a much more. important matter, namely housing? ‘ When are houses going to fall back into a price bracket that ap average citizen, without rich relatives, can afford? And I don’t mean these basementless affairs that are forced on you as bargains—but an average three-bedroom home, with eating space in the kitchen, and a basement, which every builder impresses upon you as being something “extra,” and can only be purchased for $16,000 to $20,000.

I know of at least five average income fam- -

ilies that can afford to build a home in the $13,000 bracket with the number of rooms mentioned, but after many discouraging househunting trips, are still in their present renting suites—suites that could be vacant and rented by families without the financial means to buy a home, How much longer are these fabulous prices on homes-going to exist? Right now, it’s the average citizen that needs a good, fair-priced home. Those buying $30,000 homes are usually moving out of a home in the same bracket. Why do builders concentrate on those highpriced homes, and I know of several streets, sitting idle—no sales on these homes. There must be some solution to this grave housing problem. What is it?

Mrs. M. H., City.

~ ‘Need Bigger Bumpers’ \ MR. EDITOR:

: The day has come when something has to be done about bumpers on vehicles. Every day you read about someone being killed or injured because his car has run under the rear of a truck, semitrailer or slow-moving vehicle. Ninety per cent of this type of slaughter could be elitninated if manufacturers of vehicles would consider bumpers primarily for utility and secondarily for appearance. + All passenger cars should have a bumper eight inches wide and strong enough to withstand an ordinary impact. Trucks, semitrailers and slow-moving vehicles should have bumpers

16 inches wide, set four inches lower than pas-

senger cars, to allow for their low-built front ends. Also to allow for squat of front end when brakes are applied. : This would cost money, but think of the lives, painful injuries, not to say anything of property damage, that these new-type bumpers would save. : This can be done if enough people realize the importance \of bumpers. Is life too cheap? Better heed—you may be next. Think it over. “\ =L. H. Britton, 2027 Ruckle St., City, ¥ pM ‘Fine Welcomea®\ MR. EDITOR:

I have just finished reading your splendid paper of May 5, 1052, sent to me by my son with the 31st (Dixie) Division. May I congratulate you on your gesture of Americanism in such. a fine welcome to these boys. It will not only endear their hearts to the city of Indianapolis but those of their parents as well. . Mrs. J. B. Laza, Dallas, Tex.

‘Reminder of Bible’

MR. EDITOR: The President’s reported boast that, after Jan. 1, he expects to do as he damn pleases, as if he isn’t already doing that, reminds one of the Bible story of the rich man, as recorded in Luke 12:17-20. —R. J. Dearborn, 4100 Otterbein Ave., City.

He's Needed’

Gen. Eisenhower. Mr. Taft has pointed out that the 1040 nominee probably was at his popu-

And this, they say, won't a key figure in the Eisenhower . ‘lar peak right after his nomihappen. movement gives the General's ' na that summer in PhilaA couple weeks ago, all at- campaign a professional direc- - delphia—but that as he tackled

tention was being centered on Pennsylvania and Michigan as the big delegations as yet largely uncommitted. Leaders for both the General and Sen. Robert A. Taft make claims of doing well in Michigan. In Pennsylvania, Gov. John 8. Fine has been seen as playing perhaps the key role in deciding the nomination. But the Eisenhower people believe they're doing better in Texas than had been anticipated. They seem sure that if it becomes plain there's to be ‘no convention deadlock which would lead to nomination of some third man, Gov. Earl Warren of California will

tion lacking earlier. invited in as a man agreeable to all sides of an Eisenhower. * coalition headed by Sen, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. - Massachusetts, Sens. James H. Duff of Pennsylvania and Frank Carlson of Kansas, Paul Hoffman and several others. 2 ” ” » 3 STILL another member of the old Dewey team, now in the Eisenhower drive is Thomas Stevens, credited with being one of the ablest, ground campaign managers in the business. Mr. Stevens’-or-ganizing in New Hampshire helped give the Eisenhower .

one issue after. another, he lost friends, as he was bound to do. Gen. Eisenhower's leaders are no less aware of the hazard. Yet they recognize the validity of a wide demand that he speak out plainly on the main public questions. Frid deaders. have talked of 8 majority of the GOP convention votes for their man on the first ballot, or very close to it. The Eisenhower people will not shoot the

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be with them. paign its first victory a un bve. : WHY is it folks so often stop THE EISENHOWER dele- Gen. Eisenhower s leaders in the kitchen for a quick sandgate hunt is being directed ~~ $2¥ NOW there ist any doubt wich on the way to & church now by Herbert Brownell Jr. he'll speak out on the main is-. supper? a

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The Big Ti . Eleven In geniors will t ‘arship to a final examir 23-24. Candi :11 congressio _ diana, They the annual a . bash Life In ner and an ¢ lected. There'll be The 11 will « Speedway anc ners in the M examinations. Local cand " Smith, 715 N. ~ nical High" § "Lamkin Jr. St, Broad R

Program “7 Attorney I “139 Berkley . Whitcomb R poems at a “group meetin; 8 p. m. Fri He'll enter at a session the Indianar Federation J Community | ic Clubs, Inc. Hotel Wash ton. Rep. C McConahay “Ind.) will re on the re Indianapolis ings before Service Com

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