Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1952 — Page 18

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The First 100 Years

IF THE Hoosiers who saw the first Indiana State Fair, in 1852, could come back tomorrow and look at this one we have no doubt they'd be properly dumbfounded at what's been going on in this century. Yet we're pretty sure they'd recognize, in spite of the changes, the basic idea on which the state fair began, and still operates. This is now, as it was 100 years ago, Indiana on parade. It shows what we have, and what we produce, and what " sort of progress we are making, and, in a way, what we are like, ourselves. It is the show-case of the amazing agricultural and industrial wealth of a state that only a century ago was largely rural and not too far removed from frontier days. Year by year it has marked the gradual evolution of a strictly farming area into a balanced economy of both farm and factory production—into a state that could, if necessary, be as nearly self-sufficient as any comparable area in North

America.

THERE are larger, and more populous states than Indiana, but Indiana, nevertheless produces year after year one of the greatest state fairs in America—one, in fact, of the greatest expositions in the world. The show this year promises to be the biggest and best of the whole 100-year procession of Indiana fairs, with reasonable expectations that more than a million spectators will see it during its 10-day run. J Indianapolis spreads the welcome mat for those visitors from all over Indiana—and a good many other states, and wishes them a most pleasant visit. We're sure they won't be disappointed in what Indiana has to show them this year.

Passing the Buck

HE construction of five air bases in French Morocco, originally estimated to cost $300 million, will cost at least an additional $120 million, according to the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee. Committee investigators reported “flagrant disregard for specifications and sound engineering practices . , . indecision, confusion, delay and poor administration . . . squandering of public funds . . . large-scale loafing, drunkenness and failure properly to attend to duty.” The consequences, besides increased costs, are “inferior air bases where major pavement failures already have occurred and where progressive deterioration has set in,”

the committee found. » » » ” n . REPLYING to the charges, Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, Chief of Army Engineers, called the committee report “over-critical” and contended that [it is not unusual for contractors to experience some deficiencies in accomplishing large military construction projects under extreme limits of time.” Just why indecision, confusion, delay, loafing, drunkenness and failure properly to attend to duty should be excused when there is a rush job to be done Gen. Pick did not say. Moreover the committee report was well documented and a review of its findings lends no support to the contention that the report was over-critical. An official who regards outrageous waste with such complacency hasn't any business spending the public's money. Here again, however, its the old story, so characteristic of the Truman administration, of everyone passing the buck and no one accepting responsibility. So millions go down the drain and it's just too bad. If Gen. Ike is looking for issues, here is one he can is teeth into and tell some people who need to know h save a lot of money.

Business of the Dollar

ATEST Commerce Department figures on average earnings indicate Americans are making more dollars than ever before. The Federal Reserve System's last report indicated total dollars in circulation just under afi all-time high. By other measurements of the economy, volume-wise, things seem to be on the up. But— : The Bureau of Labor Statistics announees the cost of living is the highest in history. The Treasury announces that last year it took more tax dollars out of American pockets than in any other year. Which explains why Americans surveyed in 91 cities ware found to be spending $400 more a year than they were taking in. With the dollar, it seems to be a case of good pitch, poor hit.

Canned Excuses

HE ingenious Austrians have now provided .taperecorded fairy tales, which anyone may hear by dialing a certain telephone number, We trust some of them are suitable for husbands who have to explain why they didn't get home for dinner.

Reds Did It

OME EAST GERMANS, according. to the Leipzig radio, have invented a Chinese typewriter with 250 keys that will write from left to right, from right to left, from top to bottom, or from bottom to top. That's one Communist invention claim we won't challenge. ‘ A

Reputation

OWN IN Uruguay, they are considering a law under which no person ‘with a good reputation” may be evicted for nonpayment of rent. : Landlords, we presume, will not be permitted to testify as character witnesses, :

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IT'S COSTING US DOUGH . . . By Andrew Tully oo ow fEiy a ™

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Flies, Money, Singing Indians—All Are Part Of Washington' Whirl

WASHINGTON-Life goes on in Washington Curtis W. S8abrosky is still counting the hairs on flies’ legs. Moreover, it's now costing us more money to make money; the U. 8, still can’t borrow from

the World Bank, which it practically owns, and the Library of Congress is offering for sale a recording of an Indian from Brooklyn singing the Custer Victory Chant.

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LET US first consider Mr. Sabrosky, a youngish man of 42 who works in the Division of Insect Identification of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine in the

. Agriculture Department. Mr. 8abrosky identifies

flies—by color, by their back bristles and by TRIES AGAIN...By Ludwell Denny

Reds Use Same Bag of Tricks

WASHINGTON Now that Stalin has repeated his usual run-around for a trick Big Four Conference on Germany, there will be the customary disagreement among the Allies on whether to walk into his trap. It never fails, His week-end note, rejecting Allied proposals

“to establish conditions for free elections in all

Germany, Is chiefly a rehash of his Mar. 10 note. That in the main was the same absurd bait with which he hooked them into the Paris Deputies Conference of 1950 and the Moscow Foreign Ministers meeting of 1947. His alm from the beginning has been to obtain more control of Germany and thus world balance-of-power. The. pending Allied-German alllance would prevent it, Therefore his technique is to call conferences for the two-fold

purpose of splitting the Allied governments and of confusing Allled public opinion with propaganda about American warmongering.

Tries to Split Allies

IN PREVIOUS conferences Stalin has barely failed to split the Allies. But every time he has won the propaganda battle by strengthening the appeasement and “neutralist” sentiment-in Allied countries and West Germany. Each time he proposes one of his phony conferences the Allies disagree among themselves, Washington Insists on safeguards, at least to the extent of an accepted agenda. Paris favors a conference almost at any price. London starts in the middle and ends up on the side of France. 80 the U. 8. is usually forced into another conference, despite the plain record of the futility and danger of such meetings controlled by Russia, The best Washington was able to do in the past was to reduce the 1950 session to a Deputiles meeting on an agenda. Washington in the current exchange got an Allied proposal that any meeting be on a lower level.

Issues at Stake ?

NOW THAT ‘Stalin in his new note proposes A German peace conference to meet not later than October, the test of American-British-French unity will come on the following issues:

ONE-—Whether to stand firm on the original Allied terms that a - responsible body first determine the possibility of free elections in the Soviet zone, without which there can be no all-German government and unification as proposed by Stalin. He has refused to let a United Nations commission, appointed for the purpose, to repeat in the Soviet zone the free election investigation it made in the Allied zone. His current note merely promises to discuss— not to guarantee -- free election, after a conference has handled a peace treaty and formation of an all-German government.

TWO—Whether to enter such a conference only after West German ratification of the pending Allled-Bonn _ Peace Contract and European Army-German Rearmament Pact, as desired by Washington; ot accept the Stalin October date, which would certainly indefinitely delay and probably prevent Bonn and Paris ratification of the pacts for Western defense,

THREE—Whether to limit any initial Big Four meeting to lower level officials, such as the High Commissioners . to Germany, as Washington will demand: or commit the Foreign Ministers to meet, as Stalin desires and as the

“French prefer. Prime Minister Winston Churchill

of Britain, under pressure of the Labor Party and a group within his own Tory party, has been wobbling on this.

'KIBITZER' When I am playing cards for fun . oo 1 try to do my best . . . to hide my hand from someone whom . . . I think is quite a pest . . . he is the one who calls the play ... and tells me what to do . .. whenever it's my turn to bid

++. he gives advice anew ... he meddles in most everywhere . . . he's full of ifs and buts + « « he puts his nose in everything . . . right on from soup to nuts . .. and sometimes I am prone to think ... he really thinks he's wise + + + by what he says and what he does , . . and how he plants his eyes . . . but I suppose that in this life . . . of hope and make-believe . there will always be a kibitzer . : . to tug upon my sleeve, —Ben Burroughs.

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

"He bouabt an outboard motor! | wish | needed a fur coat—I'd

o . be mad enough to buv itl"

other means, such as counting their leg hairs. AS a result, fifes, paradoxically, are either:

ONE—Kllled or, TWO—Bred in larger numbers.

In the first instance, Mr. S8abrosky identifies flies so the proper insecticides can be used to kill them. In the second, he traces the origin of certain flies which like the taste of other, more destructive, pests, so an army of flies can be dispatched to wage war on their brethren in man’s behalf, “Flies,” rays Mr. B8abrosky, “have been maligned. There are more good ones than bad ones.” Across the street in the Bureau of Engraving, officials are grieved to report that it now costs a whole penny per bill to print currency,

Old Tanglefoot AND

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compared to seven-tenths of a cent per bill

before World War II. We're also getting less for our money. Today's note contains half linen and

half cotton, whereas pre-war leftuce was 73 per cent linen. The bureau also is printing more dough than it used to. In 1946, only $6 billion worth of currency came off the presses; in the 1952 fiscal year just ended, the bureau turned out more than $11 billion worth. The reason, of course, is inflation, although bureau officials perfer to say, “people use more money these days.” ®* 4 % OVER AT the World Bank, meanwhile, there has been no change in the regulation which bars the U. 8. from borrowing any dough, despite the fact it owns 34 per cent of the shares, Screwy as it may sound, the reason is

DIFFERENT COLOR . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Those Jurors Caught on Fast To St. Louis Brand Whitewash

WASHINGTON—No matter what Mrs. Mary O. Messinger may think of herself and the other 22 members of the federal grand jury in St. Louis, she's no dummy. Those jurors caught on in a hurry about who was brandishing the whitewash brush. Mrs. Messinger was a lady of indeterminate age, with a poodle haircut, a pearl necklace, a purple dress, and a liking for king-sized cigarets. She giggled while identifying herself as a St. Louis housewife, who suddenly found herself

investigating income tax frauds, but you can't blame her for that. Anybody’'d bé nervous under questioning by a committee of Congressmen. ; The trouble, according to Mrs. Messinger and three other members of the jury, was that they didn’t know much about legal hocus-pocus. They figured the U., 8S. attorney was trying to help them and they should take the advice. This, as it turned out, was a horrid mistake. Mrs. Messinger's still blushing.

Just Sign Here

THE government prosecutors, including Ellis

Slack from the Department of Justice in Washington, told the grand jurors the government was doing a good job catching tax cheaters. Sure, some of them had had their cases dismissed, but only with good reason. When time came for the jurors to write a report for the judge, District Attorney Drake Watson, now dead, wrote it for 'em, All they had to do was sign. You could have heard a pin drop when Judge George Moore read it, the embarrassed Mrs. Messinger told the House Judiciary Subcommittee. This report in language legalistic said the jurors had investigated carefully and found no

LONDON — The United States and Britain are at serious election year loggerheads over the Iranian crisis. Americans feel that Britain again is taking a “Colonel Blimp” approach toward Iran —counting too much on mud-

dling through. The British feel that the Truman administration is over eager to appease Premier Mos-sadegh-—worrying too much about American domestic repercussions in a campaign year if Tran goes the way of China while the Democrats are in © power. Americans believe that if Mossadegh falls, Iran will be lost to the Reds. ) - - ~ THE BRITISH doubt that Mossadegh is appeasable, but think that if he is appeased, the same cycle will start in other Middle East countries and the entire Mid-East will be lost. . . Americans look upon Mos- : sadegh as the great evil who, symbol for the Mid-East of how sin pays, ry:

indication of skulduggery among the tax collectors.

When the 72-year-old Judge Moore had

finished reading this document, he exploded. He told Mrs. Messinger and associates they'd failed miserably in their jab. And who put 'em up to writing such a lily-white report?

“We felt just like a bunch of dummies,” Mrs. Messinger continued.

But the judge was nice about it. He indicated that a group of citizens, including four housewives, a Pullman car inspector, an oil salesman, and a retailer of electric fixtures, couldn't help being taken in by the smoothies of the government. He told the jurors to go back to work.

They Gave Orders

THEY DID, too. “We were suspicious now of all those government people,” Mrs. Messinger said.

Instead of asking the district attorney, the grand jurors now {old him. They ordered him to bring before them all the tax cases they previously hadn't even been allowed to see.

They insisted he include -those cases which the Justice Department already had settled and closed. They were amazed. Thievery all over the place. Those jurors, with Mrs. Messinger prodding, issued indictments against 40 alleged cheaters in the St. Louis area. The biggest one they caught was the tax collector, Jimmy Finnegan, now under sentence of two years in jail for giving special breaks to those taxpayers who bought insurance from him. Where this leaves the Justice Department, I don’t rightly know. AH I do know is about those grand jurors. Not a dummy in the lot, once they ceased being awed by the big ‘shots.

AS STALIN WATCHES . . . By R. H. Shackford United States and Britain Juggle ‘Hot Potato’ As Iran Totters on the Brink of Disaster

British officials

that our credit rating is too high. The bank can’t lend money to a country if the country can get the cash elsewhere. Russia can't get a loan, either, It isn't a member of the bank and anyhow, it's considered a poor risk because of the billions of dollars of imperial Russian bonds on which the Reds defaulted. As for that Indian chant, the Brooklyn brave's name is Chief Crazy Bull and his tribal howls are part of the library's archive of American folk song, financed by a Carnegie endowment. You can also buy a record of the voice of H. L. Mencken discoursing on the ugliness of Baltimore, a sermon preached by one sin-killer Griffin (a Negro prison chaplain) and an Ar. kansas farmer emitting a rebel yell. In August, who can ask more?

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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."

Great Piece of Propaganda

MR. EDITOR: ’ Your editorial of Aug. 10, “The Fog About Prices” is the greatest piece of Republican propaganda I have read, published in a supposedly nonpartisan newspaper. You state that data on living costs are prosured from government agencies, implying that it is not true just because of its origin. I supe pose if the National Chamber of Commerce published a report you would vouch for the truth of it. The fact that the removal of price controls by the Republicans did cause an immediate increase in the cost of many articles is fresh in the memory of everyone. All housewives will vouch for this. You attempt to offset the increased cost of living by the hourly wages of workers. This is sheer nonsense and has no bearing on the ost of living insofar as showing whether it is advancing or declining. Every one knows that a dollar today will not buy as much as it would a few months ago. >

OF COURSE it's a fact that workers are receiving higher wages than at any other time in the history of the United States. It's also a fact that the increase in wages has not kept pace with the increased cost of living, or the increased profits of business. It’s too bad that in the United States, which apholds the freedom of the press, that we can’t have a press that's not dominated by big and powerful organizations and a newspaper that will publish both sides of the issues freely giving one equal liberty with the other. I do not expect to see this in print, but I have the satisfaction of knowing that I have

«lone the best I can to express what I consider

a discredit to the intelligence of the people. —Theo. B. Marshall, 1114 Tecumseh St., City.

A Plea for Drivers MR. EDITOR:

In answer to the emotional plea of Mrs, J. K. Bailey in The Times on Aug. 11, I would like, just for once, to see a few words written in defense of the lowly driver. . Mrs. Bailey was understandably distraught because her small son was almost truck by a car, and was, also understandably, anxious to prevent injury to other children. Unfortunately, she chose the wrong way. I wonder why Mrs. Bailey's child, why so many children, was and are injured by automobiles? I wonder if careless driving is alone responsible? And I wonder, deeply, if careless parental discipline—or lack of discipline—isn’t frequently to blame for injuries to the little people. > 5 o THE LETTER from Mrs Bailey charges that “no matter how cautious the mother, or how thorough her training of the child,” a child can be hit. This is just not so. If the parents impress on the child the danger of passing automobiles, and impress it on their little southern regions, the only way a youngster will be struck is if the automobile comes up on the sidewalk. Until a child is at least 8 or 9 he should never be allowed to set foot in the street unless accompanied by an adult—and not an older child, either. A youngster can’t be blamed for causing an accident, but the parents —and usually not the driver of the vehicle—can and should be. Keep your child out of the bus; section of cement intended for use by drivers. Keep him in the house, yard, and on the sidewalk where he belongs.

—Jerry N. Williamson, 6402 Broadway, City.

Whose Time More Important? MR. EDITOR:

Why must the banks and post offices be closed, or open just half-days on Saturday, the most convenient day for the average person? This is a public nuisance, not a public serve ice. We pay these employees’ salaries, and yet dor’t have access to this service the one day, and only day, some of us can do perdonal business. Several people are ignorant of the fact that post offices are open only until noon. Evidence of this can be found by anyone around the post office on Saturday. The doors are sometiniés closed a few minutes before noon and if a per. son should be a minute later than noon he fs just out of luck until the following Monday. Are the banks and post offices’ timé more important than the peoples’? —Average Taxpayer.

Editor's Note: No. They close to give ems ployees the five-day week other workers enjoy,

Privately, talk this way:

ONE—Britain has not forgotten how Palestine became a domestic political football before the 1948 U. 8. campaign, TWO — Averell Harriman, who was a potential candidate, has a big stake in the Iranian issue, even though his intervention a year ago failed. A blowup in Iran might point an

embarrassing finger toward the Democrats. THREE — The Democrats

could hardly allow Mossadegh to go down the drain like Chiang Kai-shek for want of a few millions of American dollars. It's unlikely the Democrats have forgotten the castigation they received for cutting off aid to Nationalist China at a critical stage. # . . DESPITE THESE views, strenuous efforts are being made in Washington and London to co-ordinate views. But the outlook for more than a makeshift policy is not’ good. At this moment, the two sides line up this way: . Americans—Want to throw

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prop up Mossadegh on the theory that he's the only hope to keep Iran from going Communist and that the time for Mossadegh to save Iran is extremely short. British -— They don't think the situation is that desperate. At any rate, they say, the effect on the entire Middle East of such a move might make matters worse, » - » DESPITE ALL the transAtlantic jockeying, it is surprising ‘and fortunate how, in the case of Iran—in contrast to British-American difficulties over Palestine and China—the basic objectives of both countries on Iran remain the same. Both countries. agree on these fundamentals: Régardless of what's done, the crisis cannot be allowed to drift aimlessly much longer, Second, if there's enough time, the long-delayed joint Western policy for the Middle East must be formulated. * Third, a misplay by the West now may hand over Iran to Moscow by default, giving the Russians their long-cov-eted Persian Gulf warm-water

port, and putting them on the

road to the Mediterranean. If Iran went Communist the Iron Curtain would extend from the Arctic nearly to the equator, thus really dividing the: Northern Hemisphere.

Barbs—

MOVIE folks who entertain our forces know that not only the show, but the country must 80 on, ” » » 1952 MAY be a break for the young girls, but it's just ane

other leap year for peédese trians,

” » os THE ‘WAY of a man with a maid often depends on whether or not his wife is in the imme-« diate vicinity: 1 * x =» DESPITE thé times, keep your shirt on—unléss some old swimming spot beckons.

” - . WE'VE read a number of hot dog eating contests this summer. A grilling sport. - » ” » WHY IS IT that there's never any static on the radio during the bédtime storiés?

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