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The Truth About . Our School Budget

NINFORMED and irresponsible attacks on the Indianapolis public school system are, we suppose, the privilege of anyone who cares to make them, whether or not he knows what he's talking about. We do feel, though, that they ought to stick to facts, at least on figures that can easily be checked and verified. Just to set the record straight, the published statement that there were 62,200 children in the public schools here in 1934 and are “less than 62,000” now is, shall we say, in error. : The official records show that in June, 1934, a period of rather extraordinary crowding, there were 61,528 children in school, and in June, 1952, the latest comparable date, there were 67,242. Accurate census of children who will start to school during this year indicates the figure will be about 70,000 by next June. » . .

» - ” THESE PHONY FIGURES apparently were supposed to “prove” that fewer teachers taught more children 18 years ago, and hence there are too many teachers now— especially in what is represented as “administrative” jobs. “There are more teachers now. There are 6000 more children in school now. (Indianapolis population has grown more than 60,000 since 1934.) One whole new high school (Howe) with 1700 students has been opened. © There are more teachers per 1000 pupils now, which makes possible better teaching. In 1934 there was one teacher for approximately each 33 pupils, a ratio far below any accepted standards even then, and purely temporary. Today there is one teacher for approximately each 29 pupils, better, though by no means ideal even yet. Both figures include all “administrative” and supervisory personnel, of course. .

” - » THE LATEST PHASE is this long-continued campaign against our school system came in praise of the county tax board for “reducing” the school budget by cutting down on “administrative” personnel in the school staff. Even there it is (shall we still say?) in error on the facts. : The tax board did not cut one periny from “administrative” costs in the budget prepared by the board of education. It did cut six cents off the tax rate the budget orig-

_..._inally required.. Three cents was. cut. bythe school-board

itself when it managed to save some money by a good buy on the year’s fuel supply, and learned that certain funds not previously available would come in. : The tax board cut three cents more off the rate—not by reducing in any way the proposed expenditures, but by reducing the amount of the current operating reserve fund. That last might turn out to be a costly “economy” if it compels borrowing to meet current expense and paying interest during part of the school \year, but maybe that won't become necessary. We are sure the school authorities and the parents. of this city will be glad to hear any constructive criticism of our schools. ; So long as it sticks to the truth.

~The Right fo Boo the Umpire

™ BASEBALL, the umpire “calls 'em as he sees 'em.”

" Mostly, he’s right. Sometimes he’s wrong. "Regardless, any ordinary ¢itizen who plunks down his cash for a seat in the ball park has the right to disagree— long and loud—with the umpire. . An Arlington, Va., circuit judge had to decide a few months ago whether certain residents of his county could hold Federal jobs and be members of the County Board, too. He called ’em out at first base. The law forbade them to “serve two masters,” the judge ruled. The minister of an Arlington church disagreed. He said-the decision made “second class citizens” out of a lot of fine people who happened to work for the government. And, he added in his Sunday sermon, he thought there was politics mixed up in the eourt’s decision. His idea was that anybody who pays taxes, votes at elections and stays on the good side of the law should have the right to boo our legal umpires once in a while. For “booing the umpire,” the Rev. Ross Allen Weston has been found guilty and fined $100 and costs. The fine was suspended, but hangs over his head.” And the conviction stands as a warning for all. Mr. Weston's church plans to pay for a defense up to the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary. We hope he wins.

Scratch the RFC

HEN W. STUART{ SYMINGTON set out early last year to clean up the scandal - ridden Reconstruction Finance Corp., one of his first chores was to lay down a new basis for making -loans. He booted out all the shaky kind of business which got the RFC into trouble—loans to get-rich-quick promoters and others who were tapping the taxpayers for ready cash they couldn’t raise elsewhere. But one of the “penalties” of Mr. Symington's reforms has just been revealed by Scripps-Howard Staff Writer James Daniel. With less business, the cost of processing a single loan

- has gone up. It now costs the RFC about seven times as

muph to put through a loan as it does an average commercial'bank. Even though the RFC doesn’t pay taxes'and gets some of its money without paying interest on it. But that's the usual way with a government agency. One of the reasons for the high cost, of course, is that the RFC, now that the floss and recklessness have

been taken out of ifs lending, has a bigger staff than it

needs. : : So Mr. Symington’s successor as chairman, Harry Mec‘Donald, is out trying to drum up more borrowers.

These are just additional reasons, if any were needed,

for getting the government out of the banking business.

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"NATO ROUNDUP. . . By Jim Lucas

Turk Morale

Thrills Pace

WASHINGTON—Army Secretary Frank Pace is back from Europe, convinced that the gloomy stories about failure of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are exaggerated. It’s true, he says, that NATO won't reach its 1952" goal of 50 divisions. But Mr. Pace says he's always believed that divisions make a poor yardstick with which to measure a fighting outfit's worth. J “That's over-simplification,” he asserts positively. “The term ‘division’ is a loose one. It means one thing to us and something else to our Allies. A Yugoslav division, for instance, is half the size of ours. A paper division doesn’t mean anything unless$ it has the arms, equipment and spirit to make it fight.” . > oS MR. PACE—whose 26-day trip took him te Greenland, England, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Germany and Scandinavia—says he's deeply impressed with NATO’s “intangibles” — its guts, its capabilities and its pride in taking difficulties in stride. But, as he talks of NATO's fighting heart, it gradually becomes clear he’s talking principally about its two newest members-—Greece and Turkey. And if he had to choose between the two—a decision he wouldn't like to make— Frank Pace undoubtedly would take Turkey. Like every American who has been to Turkey recently, Secretary Pace came home cone vinced he'd seen a miracle. If it weren't disloyal to his own Gls, Frank Pace might even say the Turkish soldier is the best in the world. > @ 2 MR. PACE credits much of this to the quality of officers we've sent to head our missions in Greece and Turkey. He says the Turks and Greeks are “our kind ef people.” We like and Nowhere on earth, he says, do we have more co-operative allies. “In Greece,” Secretary Pace. says, “I saw division and corps maneuvers—the first exercises ever held on that command level in that country. And they went off remarkably well; you'd have thought they'd been doing it all their lives, “In Turkey, I saw well-trained, hard-fighting non-coms, the first non-commissioned offieers thes Turkish Army has ever had. And they were good. “But -most impressive, I saw these tough, hard-fighting, Russian-hating armies adapting themselves to American methods and techniques. I saw how much they've learned, and how well they've mastered their lessons.” ee SD THERE ARE OTHER armies in NATO, of course, and Mr. Pace has a good word for them. The British Army needs no press agent—the world knows what it can do. The French are “making progress.” Evén the Italians can be praised—their Alpine Divisions in the North are “every bit as good as ours.” % Naturally, there are weak points. Not as

much progress has been made in training lead-

ars as in training soldiers. It's easier to train a good private than a lieutenant colonel. And there’s been public resistance to two-year conscription. Even so, Mr, Pace says, most NATO nations have at least an 18-month service period. In all these armies, Mr. Pace says, American methods, arms and equipment are being made standard. American techniques for moving mu- . nitions to the front—on time and in adequate juantities are being applied. American communications are being used.

Invariably, however, Frank Pace leads the.

~conversation back fo the Turks—the guys who get 21 cents a month and turn out to be fine fighting men. “What a soldier,” he says.

What Others Say—

I AM particularly concerned about the present inadeqtiacies in the social security law and feel strongly that the law ought to be extended to presently uncovered persons.—GOP presidential Womines Dwight Eisenhower, * * WE MUST provide ourselves with the military power commensurate with our world responsibility.—Gen. Omar Bradley. “bb WE ARE still ready to talk with Russia and we shall not be prejudicing the possibility of Four-Power talks.—British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. : ¢ ® . . ‘THE BASIS of mutual aid is that no country iz self-contained or self-sufficient.—~Australian External Affairs Minister Richard Casey. * @ I AM a private in the ranks and am doing what they tell me.—President Harry S. Truman. . * & I FIRMLY believe that the (Democratic) Party is united 100 per cent for the first time in 12 years.—Former Democratic National Chairman Frank McKinney.

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I wish to praise an average man . . . who drives around our town a man whose job it is to laugh . . . and smile instead of frown . . . he must be a psychologist . . . this man of whom I speak . . . for he must know his passengers . . . and help the sick and weak . . . his job is very interesting . . . because of folks he meets . . . for many are the different types . . . that rest upon his seats . . . then too he travels near and far + + + in each and every way , . . and sometimes he is called upon . . . to speed and save the day . . . and so it is I sing his praise « « + this necessary man . . . whose cab Is used to take a ride . , . and for a moving van. —By Ben Burroughs.

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THEATER-BAR . . . By Frederick C. Othman Popcorn Magnates Ponder Menus For Public's Dinner at the Movie

WASHINGTON — The theater owners of America are in convention here assembled and what do you think is jamming their exhibition hall; stuff to eat. That's what, Not one photo of Hedy Lamarr in the joint.

Booth after booth they've got of candy bars, licorice sticks, ice cream in the shape of chocolate bonbons (hard to dribble one of those on your necktie in the dark), popcorn in the raw, popcorn cooked, corn-popping machines, noiseless bags for popcorn, Ike and Adlai popcorn boxes, and the great, new invention of the

Super Display Corp. of Milwaukee, Wis.

This corporation, according to Gene Kilburg, its general manager, originated hot buttered popcorn. His statement caused me, as an -old popcorn fancier, to protest. ‘ Mr. Kilburg said he meant it originated hot

buttered popcorn. for movie theaters. Quite -a-

milestone this was, too. All these years the popcorn magnates, who operate movie theaters in conjunction with their popcorn machines, have been flavoring .the product with salt, vegetable oil, and artificial yellow colqring.

No Smudge, No Sludge

THEIR IDEA was not to cheat the customers, but to keep grease spots off the carpets and/ or the shirt fronts of the clients. Came the Kilburg and Co. with the urge to upgrade the business. Popcorn had been a 10-cent seller; their idea was to improve it and raise the price, “We first tried bigger popcorn boxes,” Mr. Kilburg said, “but that just put the extra popcorn on the floor. Our researchers indicated the

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popcorn by weight and no more. Then we thought of buttering the popcorn with genuine butter at 20 cents a pafkage and our success was instantaneous. 4

“Charles Skouras, the big theater man, was

a long-time holdout, on the theory that people

would spill grease on themselves and his theaters. We proved to his satisfaction that people are neater than that. They've all got handkerchiefs and they can protect themselves. Now Mr. Skouras is one of hot buttered popcorn’s biggest boosters.” Selling hot buttered popcorn is trickier than you might think. The ordinary pasteboard popcorn box is no good, because it absorbs a lot of the butter that should go on the popcorn. Mr. Kilburg uses a waxed-paper container, which is impervious to butter. To get the butter on the popcorn, his salesmen hold each cup under the nozzle of a glittery yellow-colored machine, push a lever, and out sprays on the popcorn exactly two cubic centimeters of melted butter. That's hardly enough

butter for a movie patron to grease his mustache,

Three Squirts

“IT IS a matter of psychology,” said Mr. Kilburg. “We give every cup of popcorn three squirts of butter. We could achieve the same result with one big squirt, but with three little squirts, the customer feels he is geting a generous measure.” / Fair enough. Now let's look at those icecream bonbons. Pat de Cicco, the Hollywood movie man, was in Italy a couple of years ago at a tennis match, where the peddlers sold mouth-sized bites of chocolate-coated ice cream. No mess, no smear; just ice cream where it belonged, inside the mouth. The idea he brought to the States, where theaters all over now sell five bites of ice cream in a package. for a dime. They look like choco-late-coated cherries and, according to De Cicco’s man, Nat Lighberg of Los Angeles, they have made ice cream practical at last for movie theaters. Very little chance of an unwary patron sit-

HUMAN CHAIN .

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+ . By Albert W. Colegrove

We Notify Kin of GI Casualties But Reds Ignore Such a Policy

WASHINGTON — Six days ago, an American infantryman fell in Korea, badly wounded by a Communist bullet. Today, his wife back home will receive the news by “telegram from the Pentagon.

Furthermore, {if his wife

writes for details, she will get"

them—if the Pentagon possibly can obtain the answers. About 30 people there are assigned to reply to inquiries about Army members, Few will argue that the GI

and his family shduld not have -

this humane, efficient service. Yet this service itself is one reason of many why our Army —man for man—has fewer fighting soldiers and more

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paper handlers than the Russian Army. When a Russian soldier fell in battle during World War II, there was no telegram home. No letter, either. Nothing. When a Russian private was missing in action—and some 3.3 million were—his family was not notified. But for us: Let a GI be killed, wounded, missing, seriously injured, or critically iil in Korea and we get the word back—in six to nine days, usually. » " M THE HUMAN chain of information which links the U, 8. front lines with the family parlor runs like this: Take ‘a typical names are fictional. It started on the Korean central front when a sergeant reported to his platoon lieutenant: : “Jones didn't come back from patrol tonight. We got into a fire fight’ with a gook company and had to drag out in a hurry, Jones was up ahead when it started. Nobody saw him after that.” The platoon leader reported to the company commander, When daylight came but no Pvt, Jones, the word went up to Battalion Headquarters. There, a check was made by personnel clerks, Had Jones turned up somewhere along the front? Was he hurt and in the battalion aid station? No. So the word that Jones was missing went along the chain —to regimental headquarters and thence to division. 2 8» = AT EACH echelon, another check was madé. The Division Adjutant General's staff, for example, had reports from all hospitals inthe area. And ‘there were places Jones might be other than behind enemy .limes. There was the chance,

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too, that he might stagger in,

worn and dirty but unhurt. For these reasons—and to avert unnecessary heartaches back home—Division Headquarters held up for 72 hours the report on Pvt. Jones.

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word, the casualty report went to Eighth Army Headquarters en r iti PI hl i sn

in Korea and then across the Sea of Japan to Tokyo. A final, exacting check was made. Then the facts on Jones were consolidated into a report on all Korean casualties for the day and radioed to the Pentagon. Now, in the Casualty Branch, competent hands began “processing” Private Jones’ case. ¥ 8&8 & IN THE FILES was the name of the person—his wife, in this case—whom Jones had designated many months before as his “emergericy addressee.” This was sought out. Other data was gathered and put on Jones ‘Battle Casualty Report.” Copies of tHis report were dispatched to many places, including: The FBI, whose extensive fingerprint files might help later to solve the mystery of the missing soldier; The Quartermaster General, which would check the record against future unidentified dead in Korea; The Army Effects Bureau in Kansas City, Mo., which would see that Mrs. Jones receives her husband's personal effects; The Army Finance Center at St. Louis, which would assure Mrs, Jones that her allotments were to continue; and The: Public Information Office in the Pentagon, which would release the news to the press affer Mrs. Jones was notified. : ” » ” BUT LONG before all these agencies received notice, one copy of the casualty report was sent through the Signal Corps to Western Union. It was, in fact, only two hours after the report was completed that a young man from Western Union rang a doorbell in a small town and handed Mrs. Jones a telegram. Its words—which will never leave her memory--began: “The Secretary of the Army has asked me to express his deep regret that your husband, Pvt. John Jones, is missing in action , . ." ad Our costly, complicated, but humane chain of decency again had reached from the front line to the family parlor. iw ;

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z "ldo not agree with & word that you § say; but | will defend fo the death your £ right to say it. R aoa ” ey A Farm View MR. EDITOR:

I have been reading the articles in your paper on the high cost of living, and as a farme er's wife, I would like to explain the farmer's “gide of the story.” I am referring to the article entitled “Wives Charge Farmers Get Too Big $1.00 Cut,” Sept. 2, 1952, We have been farming for six years, and in that time the price of bread has risen from 11 cents to 20 cents a loaf, while wheat has gone up only a few cents a bushel Besides, not many farmers in this southern Indiana area have any grain to sell, as this was a drought year and farmers are all buying grain—at high prices—to keep some of the stock on the farm and to keep in business. ¢ oS RIGHT NOW egg prices are reasonable—51 cents a dozen, grade A large eggs. But try to pick out your large eggs and get 51 cents a dozen. You'll sell them for current receipt price which is much less, if you can get rid of them at all. All spring and most of the past year, eggs were 30 cents and 31 cents a dozen for grade A large eggs. But we sold several cases of grade A large eggs for 28 cents a dozen, Where does that price difference go? The difference between the price we sell and what you as consumers pay, you as housewives be the Judge. : ¢ Another instance is on fryers. They were quoted at 34 cents a pound on foot. But when we had some to sell, the buyer said there wasn't any market. Since fryers won't stop growing when there isn’t 4 market, we sold one coop for 25 cents a pound. Soon afterwards, dressed fryers were selling for 62 cents a pound in some storés. Now where did that profit go? It is all very misleading, the prices quoted, ete. Also .on hogs—when hogs are 24 cents a pound, pork is “sky-high” but when they drop to 19 or 20 cents a pound in a few weeks, do the stores drop the prices as fast? I'm sure all housewives know the BNSwer to that, too. + 3 BEFORE I WAS married, I worked in an office for over five years and lived in the city for that time. I know what city housewives have to contend with, but I think more should be written to enlighten them on the subject: Mainly that farmers are not making fabulous profits. I was much impressed by an article printed in your paper by one housewife who didn’t blame the farmers for the high cost ef living. She said her husband owned a farm and she knew what it cost to operate one. She mentioned that the stock was sold to pay for the cost of feed. . That is exactly right in our case. We sell a vealer, or a steer, maybe several hogs, and buy feed to keep our cows giving milk or to keep the young pullets laying. We natice this especially this year since our corn crop is less than half what it is other years on account of the dry weather we had all summer. One housewife mentioned that “farmers are living off the fat of the land.” I'm afraid she doesn’t understand farming. She doesn't know tha to take off a crop of corn you must put on expensive fertilizer; lime, and manure from stock fed on the farm. If that isn’t done every year, “the fat of the land” will soon be gone and we will“have land Uke Oliser countries have. <*

0 MUCH; 18 Wer about the checks the

government hands out to the farmers for soil conservation. In our years of farming we know exactly what the government has helped. We have received some payment on lime (about one-half of the cost) which in our case wasn't very much, and at the end of the year we received a cheek for $30 or thereabouts for soil conservation and the farm we live on really needs conservation. We have terraced, farmed on the. contour, planted trees, improved pastures, and we have much more to do. We know what high cost of living is too. We must pay outrageous prices for farm machinery. But to operate our farms, we must pay those prices and go in debt for several years to pay for them. I notice most people adjust themselves to the cost of new autos. You seldom hear anyone complain about the cost of a car. We can get along with an old model car if we want to, but who does nowadays? But when it comes to the cost of food—something we all must have and do enjoy—then plenty is said. It seems as though the American people want too much luxury and don’t want to pay for the essentjals like food. —An Interested Farmer's Wife, Corydon.

Slaps at Brownson MR. EDITOR: Congressman Brownson says he voted simply to “decrease the power of the Speaker and increase the power of the Rules Committee . . .” He refers to His vote to repeal the “21 Day Rule.” What Mr. Brownson stated is not true, The 21 Day Rule did not affect the power of the Speaker in any respect. The issue was simply this: There are 19 House committees. Eighteen hold hearings and recommend bills to the full House. The 18th is the Rules Committee. It fixes the terms upon which bills shall be debated before the full House, after approval by a legislative committee. The Rules Committee is the “traffic cop.” It may direct traffic but not stop bills and say, “I don’t like you so you ean't pass this intersection and go up for consideration by all the people’s representatives.” Yet, the Rules Committee, long ago, arro~ gated to itself the power to do exactly that, Clvil rights bills were always pigeonholed in the Rules Committee, > o> &

80 IN January, 1949, the“81st Congress adopted the “21 Day Rule,” It provided that if the Rules Committee refused, for 21 days, to pass a bill on for consideration by the full House that the chairman of the committee which approved that bill could then call it up for consideration without the consent of the Rules Committee, At the second session (January, 1950), certain Republicans lead by Charlie Halleck and Dixiecrats lead by Gene Cox (Ga.) tried unsuccessfully to repeal the 21 Day Rule. In the 82d Congress (January, 1951) Mr. Brownson cast his first vote to repeal the 21 Day Rule, and it was repealed. It was repealed by a combination of Republicans and Dixiecrats. ‘ Mr: Brownson knew the effect of that vote, He had discussed it with, me at Kirshbaum Center in late October, 1950. He understood the issue clearly. He made great capital of the fact that this committee was dominated by Dixiecrats, which it was and is. > & BUT IT is also true that every Republican on the Rules £Lommittee consistently votes with these Dixiecrats. - Therefore, Mr. Brownson knew he was voting to restore the Rules Committee blockade, which is the House version of the Senate filibuster. He also knew that in doing so he was committing labor and civil rights legislation to the tender mercies of Cpx, Smith and Colmer (Dixiecrats), and Brown, Allen and other Republicans who had always bottled up civil rights legislation. What I haye stated regarding the House version of the filibuster, and Mr. Brownson's understanding of the issue, is the exact truth, And it was only to put that exact truth before the public that I have written this letter. © ==Andrew Jacobs, City.

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