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Indiana's Mental Health Problem

HE Indiana Association for Mental Health has made public some shocking facts—that are none the less shocking because many of us have known them before— about our care of mental patients in Indiana. ~~ * . This is a field in which Indiana ranks among the worst “4ix states in the nation, in spite of advances and improvements that have been made. Our state hospitals are crowded, ‘ they have so few psychiatrists that very little can be done “in the way of treatment of patients. There is a serious + shortage of nurses and attendants. . n Some notable progress has been made in the past three “or four years, in this field. The Association now is engaged in recruiting both people and dollars to help advance this “progress further. y PP That is a program every citizen of Indiana should be

* ready to support. : Federal Aid . .. and PTA :

the members of the Parent-Teachers Associations .of this country actually are in favor of federal aid to education. The National PTA is on record as backing it. That stand is backed, in turn, by at least 30 of the state associa tions which make up the National. Indiana is one of the 30 counted as favoring federal aid. 8 But it develops the thousands of Indiana members "never have actually voted on_the issue, and have had no direct voice in the decision to support federal subsidy of ‘ local school systems, There is strong protest, in Indiana * associations, that the membership here actually” doesn’t "favor it at all. Without a vote, of course, no one can say with assurance what position a majority of those members * would take. : ; i: LE noR 8 : - © PARENT-TEACHER Association members in this state consitute a fair cross-section of the whole population. i election that has been held in Indiana in years clearly | indieates that the whole population does not favor any such {| program. Are these PTA members different? Do they "hold an opposite view from other Indiana voters? No one knows, really. They haven't been asked. Yet their numbers are counted solidly, in national circles, as favoring federal aid. "How do the members in the other 20 states feel about

it? Have they been asked, before they were pledged to it? Indiana delegates who undertook to get a vote of members before the National Association could commit them to puch a stand were defeated in the convention yesterday. “9% he National PTA will continue to stand as a supporter of federal aid. ; © Under those circumstances, though, we'd guess its backing won't be very impressive to Congressmen who know how the issue was decided—and who have finally to pass on whether or not we do have federal aid to education.

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i the Privy Council—will hear the appeal of a respected { American citizen attempting to prevent transfer of his i property to the Chinese Communists. ; : i . Hong Kong courts, in three opinions, have denied ¥Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault possession of 40 Americanmade transport planes he purchased from the old China tional Airways. Even worse, they have ordered their ery to Red Chiha—a nation whose soldiers and airmen y are killing our men in Korea. No one seriously doubts the nferits of Gen. Chennault’s ase. But Hong Kong is perilously near Communist China, "dnd the British there are reluctant to annoy their neighbors. a toe the Hong Kong Supreme Court's decisions came after the Chinese intervened in the Korean War. 1 Unfortunately, there is no reason to believe the Hong ong decisions have increased the Reds’ respect for the tish on Hong Kong. Indeed, there is plenty of evidence they are encouraged by this show of weakness. . Meanwhile, Gen. Chenpault is operating his airline on a shoestring. He needs those planes. His remaining thansports today are making daily flights to Korea to service United Nations troops. ; If the case is decided on its merits, Gen. Chennault will get the planes he paid for four years ago.

No Planning REP. WILLIAM G. BRAY (R. Ind.) says the dispute between Japan and Korea over former Japanese property that war-torn peninsula is this country’s fault. It could have been avoided if we'd done any advance planning for the Korean occupation before the end of World War II, Mr.

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Ago. . : The growing bitterness between Japan and Korea— bath allies of the United States—could split the free world y the Far East at a time it badly needs unity. Unfortunate- , Mr. Bray's indictment still holds good. It applies with ial force to the prisoner of war fiasco on Koje: No adnee planning. It applied to the clumsy way we handled repatriation of POWS from the. beginning: Too little a serious problem. It has applied throughout

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GOOD NEWS . oe By James Daniel ah Clothing Prices Expected T

WASHINGTON, May 20—Here's good news for the family clothing budget: : Most experts here think the rash of clothing sales this spring will be followed by even lower prices next fall, . Raw wool is selling now for less than it did before Korea. Wool was the fiber hardest hit by inflation trends right after the Korean War began, It is the basic fiber for most expensive items of famfly clothing. Many manufacturers bought big supplies of wool in the first few months after the Communists marched into South Korea in June, 1950. Now they're using up their old wool before they buy any more. The same goes for garment makers. They're

FAREWELL ...ByR. H. Shackford lke Favors

British View

LONDON, May 20—Gen. Dwight Eisenhower

y is sympathetic to the British side of their ar-

gument with America over the supreme command of the Mediterranean. The General has not committed himself.

. After all, the American Navy has opposed

strongly putting American naval vessels in the Mediterranean under a British commander. . But, British sources got the impresgion during Ike's farewell visit here that, if called upon to do so, he may lean more toward the British than the American side, \ It was among the subjects discussed during Gen, Eisenhower's talks with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Defense Minister Viscount Alexander and the British Chiefs of Staff,

Favor Mountbatten

THE BRITISH want one over-all supreme commander of the Mediterranean, responsible for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's southern flank, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East—and for a lifeline through the Suez Canal, Lord .Louis Mountbatten is their candidate, Americans don't want NATO mixed up any way with the Middle East or the Empire's lifeline to the East. They want to divide responsinility—a move that the British claim might be fatal. Americans want Adm. Robert B. Carney to continue in command of NATO's southern flank on land, sea and in the air. Théy say he should collaborate with Lord Mountbatten, the new British Mediterranean Fleet Commander, who would he responsible for the lifeline,

Refus® to Give Inch

80 _FAR, both British and Americans refuse to give an inch. The question of national prestige can not be discounted. Viscount Alexander told American correspondents the day before Ike's arrival here that, although the major problem was how ~ the Mediterranean was to be commanded, the nationality of the commander also wag Important. , He added that when our two nations are in something like this together, one nation couldn't hold all the top commands, as the U. 8. does now in Eurepe and the Atlantic.

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POLITICALLY, it would be impossible for Mr. Churchill to give in on this issue. And Gen. Eisenhower, soon to be a politician in'a big way himself, presumably understands that. During the war, Ike gained much of his reputation by solving such sticky British-American issues. Mr. Churchill feels strongly on the prestige angle. After all, it was Mr. Churchill who told Lord Ismay when he went to Paris last month to be NATO Secretary General: “Now you're going to'serve 14 different countries. I hope you will not consider it absolutely essential to put Great Britain absolutely last on every possible occasion.”

What Others Say—

I THOUGHT my people had problems till I arrived here (Navajo Indian Reservation). The Navajo is really the underdog.——Glover Rawls, Negro teacher. * oo THE power of a minority of senators to.talk a bill to death has made it impossible since 1875 to enact a federal civil rights bill—Will Maslow, counsel of American Jewish Congress, on Senate cloture rule. : LE > I'M SURE most TV people try to keep humor on a clean level , , . it'd be just awful if a TV policeman rode every camera, ready to hop off and carry off a comedian if he got out of hand.

—Herb Shriner, TV humorist. =

* ¢ & LEARN to imitate a sack full of jello when you walk. Men's eyes watch girls and signs the same way; they'll linger longer on something that wiggles or flashes on and off .—Mala Powers, Actress, on feminine sex appeal. * > NEVER resort to mathematics until you've exhausted the possibilities of two toothpicks and a piece of string~William Bushnell Stout,

airplane designer, uy young inventors. >

THE SOUTH {is becoming ripe for a twoparty system. In the 1952 elections we are going into the so-called “twilight zones” . .. and we are going to build the Republican Party in the South by starting at the precinct level.—Guy George Gabrielson, Republican national chairman.

e.% * THE American people are informed about the dangers from the left, but sometimes our tendencies toward conservatism cause us not to notice the danger from the right.—Rodney Chip, of N. Y. State Teachers Association.

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trying to*get rid of their high-priced cloth before the market softens gore, Retailers are ordering on a day-to-day hasis,

The wool situation duplicates what has hap-

pened in many sections of trade. The Korean War didn’t produce the shortages everybody envisioned and sought to prepare for, Wool for civilian clothing, blankets and carpets, for example, was expected to become

scarce. The Defense Department made clear its interttion to store up reserves of wool and woolens. A year ago, it turned out that the military requirements had heen grossly, exaggerated. . By then, high prices had scared off many retail buyers—after the first rush of hoarding was over. Some waol experts here think their commodity may have priced itself into declining

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. . . By Frederick C. Othman

Bonded Whisky Sales Toppling—

It’s Beer That's Luring the Boys

WASHINGTON, May 20—Now that nobody much is drinking the stuff, the problem is what to do with bonded whisky. It's not much good as a spot remover; the odor lingers on.

No use for running automobiles, because it’s got water in it and, anyhow, it gums up the works. Won't kill weeds, either, because the danged stuff evaporates when sprayed.

So now we've got almost a billion gallons of this useless fluid in storage and the problem is what to do with it, aside from dumping it in our rivers and killing all the fish. You think I'm spoofing? I'm not even exaggerating. You may remember when Congress boosted the tax on this unnecessary liquid from $9 to $10.50 per gallon, Sales have been falling off ever since; they're now running about 20 per cent under last year. Looks like we're becoming a nation of teetotallers.

Or so thinks a whisky-making friend of mine, now in town in hopes that Congress will help him in his plight. Listen to him a bit and

_ you'll shed tears in your beer. That's the fun-

damental trouble; beer, The old whisky topers, said he, are lapping up beer now and soda pop, because they still can afford it. " And all the time the fine whisky in his own warehouses is growing older and mellower, This horrifies him. Each passing day, each new degree of salubriousness brings him that much closer to bankruptcy. This is because of a little-

known quirk in the revenue laws; little known, that is, to everybody but whisky men. They can't think of anything else.

Well sir, it turns out that a fellow can distill a batch of whisky and not pay any tax until he actually sells it. Then that $10.50 per gallon becomes due. If he can’t peddle it, he stores it. This ordinarily is a good deal. After four years in his kegs, his merchandise is known as bonded whisky, gets a fdncy green revenue stamp, and sells (when it does sell) at a premium price. Only there’s a time limit on this bonded business. After eight years, he's got to pay the tax on his schnapps, even if the entire nation is drinking ice water straight. That's the rub. A lot of whisky is about to become eight years old. There'll be seven million gallons at $10.50 per in the fall of 1953; 13 million gallons the next spring. The whisky boys by scraping probably could meet this tax bill. But by the spring of 1955, nearly 40 million gallons more will have to pay a tax of $420 million. This goes on for a while then at about the same rate and it puts all but the best financed of distillers in the soup.

Rep. Herman P. Eberharter (D.! Pa.), the -

Pittsburgh lawyer, has sympathized with them and introduced a bill which would give them a four-year breather. He'd let them keep their booze in bond for 12 years before shelling out the tax and thereby give them another chance to find a use for it. Whether Congress as a whole will agree remains problematical.

BACK FENCE TOPICS . . . By Albert M. Colegrove

WASHINGTON, May 20—A plain, pale yellow powder has become the hottest backfence topic in America since home television's snow-laden debut. In fact, writes Dr. R. Q. Parks of the Agriculture Department here, this same powder “has aroused an unusual amount of interest throughout the world.” Why? \ Because, he says, a year of private and government tests show it transforms packed, brick-like clay soil into that nice, loose, crumbly You-can-run-your-fingers-through-it dirt that all home gardeners spend their winters dreaming

‘about,

Furthermore, the stuff is easily applied. And once tonverted, the soil stays that way a long time. That means elimination of considerable backaches and cusswords for gardeners. The new miracle chemical went on the market only a few days ago. Already: ONE-It has thrown a staid, 51-year-old

TOKYO, May 20—Japan has snapped right back at the U. 8, State Department's assertion that Japan has no property rights in Korea. Foreign Minister Katsuo Okazaki, reporting to a .Jower house committee on suspended Japan-Korean negotiations, insisted that Japan was entitled to claim at least the price of confiscated Japanese property. "” "8 . THIS IS the strongest indication to date of the great bounce and potential cockiness of the bantamweight contender we've got under our wing in the Far East. " Only three moriths ago, when there was still some uncertainty about our ratification of Japan's’ independence, Japan was being very nice to Korea, a country she had annexed 40 years ago “for preservation of peace in the Far East.” Gil Sl JAPAN was telling Korea in. February, as negotiations began, that Korea was entitled to all the benefits of the peace treaty “by virtue of the special

wholesale chemical manufacturing company into a paper-cluttered tizzy, trying to supply fivepound sacks of its soil conditioner to avid home owners from Key West to Ketchikan. TWO-—This same company has begun mut-

: tering darkly about defending its legal rights

against other manufacturers trying to get into the act. THREE—Local garden supply dealers are

buying big ads in newspapers to assure their

customers they'll have the item on-hand by

June 1.

In chemical language, the new presto-chango material. is known as “a sodium salt of hydrolyzed polyacrylonitrile.” To plain folk, it's known most widely as “Krilium,” the trade-marked name given its brand by the Monsanto Chemical Co. Monsanto's chemists gave birth to Krilium in 1850. Last year, by invitation, experimenters at Ohio" State University and government agricultural agencies put it to the test. Their reports were glowing. So a week ago, Monsanto

PROPERTY RIGHTS . . . By Oland D, Russell

Japan Fights Back at U. S. Ruling on Korea

property rights by virtue of the American military, government’s confiscation and disposal at the war’s end is “out of the question” from the view- yr point of either international law or historical precedent. » » ” WHILE RECOGNIZING, as legal the U, 8. action in disposing of Japanese property— railroads, shipping, buildings, gold and silver—as enemy property, Mr. Okazaki said Japan still has the right to claim a price for such hold-

Japan's chief delegate—with his eye on the U. 8. Senate— said, “Japan hopes to be able to establish stable relations with your country first before all Asiatic nations.” In brief, be very palsy-walsy. ”

- » BUT JAPAN somehow managed to drag on the talks past ratification and formal independence. Now, Foreign Minister Okazaki is singing a different tune, even in the face of the State Department note of May 8 attempting to put Japan in her place. Mr. Okazaki said Korea's

claim that Japan had lost her poses to send

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usefulness, A British trade study, showin . that world wool .consumption last year was below production for the first time since the start of World War II, appears to confirm this, : The différence between consumption and production was almost 20 per cent. Previously, the world had been using more wool than it produced, making up the difference from stocks the U, 8. and Britain had accumulated during World War II, when many

Axis-conquered European countries couldn't buy *

in_the free world markets. Ironically, we used up the last of our World War II wool reserve in the first few days after the Korean fighting began. Almost immedi. ately, congressional spokesmen for the dwine dling U. 8. wool growing industry began to urge another government wool purchase program,

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Hoosier Forum

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

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‘Keep Prices Down’ MR. EDITOR: “ Let's set straight that misnomer “fair trade” and call it what it is, fair trade, without the quotes, ! Your editorial implies that under fair trade laws, the public pays more for their products; that a “recent report” shows 208 items were higher in a fair trade state than in a non-fair trade state. First, you don’t say who made the report, to determine the fitness of the reporter. But let us assume that it was correct as to the 208 items. I am a druggist. We carry about 10,000 items. That leaves some 9200 items that are not sold for less elsewhere, The fact is, that they are actually lower in price than non-fair trade states. Some half-dozen reliable market analysts like the Nielson group have made real authori. tative surveys. Their findings have been ree ported before legislative committees in Washington, and they prove that prices on fair trade items are cheaper in fair trade states than elsewhere,

> & ISN'T IT TRUE that products sell better when tHe price is lower? And doesn’t it follow that manufacturers want the retailer to sell at the lowest price possible? Obviously, yes. Yet the overwhelming majority of manufacturers are strongly in favor of fair trade, because they know that their products will sell for a lesser price, over-all, in a fair trade, than elsewhere. Forty-five states and the federal govern ment have decided the issue in favor of fair trade. The Supreme Court has not invalidated the federal law, nor the law of any state. Fair trade laws have kept prices down. They are beneficial to the manufacturers, to the retailers and to the public. $ What could be more fair than that? 7 -F, 8, City.

Takes Deems to Task MR. EDITOR: (Open letter to Franklin S. Deems) Were you eyer tired? Did you ever get hot and push your cap back on your head? Did you ever risk your life to save another? I do not personally know any member of the Indianapolis Police Department. Facts are I was born and raised ia Ohio. However, I can tell you one thing. If you ever find. it necessary to call on our local police you will find them very efficient. With a child lying on the floor and blood pouring from his head you would be mighty happy to hear the police siren knowing help was coming to you. All in all the police are a {ine bunch of men. So pull in your horns, Mr. Deems, and go look in the mirrow. None of us are angels and our police are only human. By Mrs. Harold Miller, 909 S. West St., City

‘I'm Against It’ MR. EDITOR: As to your editorial Friday, May 9, you said unless the consumers were heayd from the Fair Trade Law would pass. I am a consumer and I am against it. I'm sure my esteemed Senators know the majority of the public are against it, but if it takes a letter, here it is. . As long as we are going to have free enterprise, let's have it. If there is no competition there is no free enterprise. I, for one, shall make it my business, if it passes, to make my vote count against those

who passed fit. -—Mrs. F. D, City.

began advertising in many cities, offering fivepound bags of krilium for sale to those who'd write for it. At Monsanto's local office today, an employee sounded cheerful but harassed. “Phone’s been ringing off the hook since Monday,” he chirruped. “We're trying to accomodate the homeowners first. Garden supply dealers have got us under siege.” As to krilium itself: pels A +five-pound sack will treat 40 square feet, of garden to a depth of six inches. You sprinkle half a sack of krilium on the plot, then spade it up. Then sprinkle the rest on top. the clods and rake. It's ready for the first zinnia seed. What happens is that the ground is chemically altered. Instead of being packed solid, it is changed into tiny lumps of soil. ranging from pinhead to pea size. This soil won't erode. It won't pack solid. It remains crumbly through summer sunshine and showers,

rea, whifh is dependent on the U. 8,, a hill for damages if Korea can't restore the original state of the property. :

MR. OKAZAKI said that de spite the deadlock, informal talks between Japanese and South Korean delegates are going on and formal negotiations may be resumed “at the proper time after a cooling period.” There is an element of truth in Japan's charges that the Koreans entered the conference with the attitude of a victor nation. This was particularly galling to Japan as erstwhile overlord of Korea. ® - » ALSO, there is the thorny problem of what to do with 600,000 Koreans in Japan who declined the opportunity of be

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