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Telephone PL aza 5551 Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

$10,000 for Everybody? AVE KAPLAN, staff economist for the Teamsters Union, predicts that by 1975 wages of $10,000 a year for skilled’ workers will be common and the average factory worker will be drawing $7500. ea 2k We hope he's right, and we rather believe he . In 1943 the average factory worker he is talking about drew $1538.16 for a year’s work, as reported by the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 1951 that same average factory worker got $3366.48 for a year’s work. Thus in the last 10 years his pay has gone up about . 120 per cent.. If it goes up at the same rate for another 10 years Mr. Kaplan's average factory worker would be drawing $7410.63 a year by 1962. If it went on increasing at the. same rate until 1975 he would then be getting, not the: modest $7500 Mr. Kaplan predicts, but around $18,000 a vear. So, on the basis of recent experience and trends his estimate is a very conservative one.

THE ONLY DULL SPOT in this Steryis rosy ictus t the average worker today isn't living twice as we 9a $3366.48 a5 he lived in 1941 on his $1538.16. It just won't seem to buy twice as much. In fact, some of Mr. Kaplan's associates at the Teamsters Union have been insisting that his 1952 pay buys even less than his 1941 pay bought. The federal statistics don't quite bear that out, but they do show that prices have gone up almost as fast as wages during the past 10 years, and a dollar today won't buy much more than half what it would buy in 1941. So the wage earner, while he is handling more dollars since his pay was doubled, actually isn’t getting much more for his work than he got back in 1941. ; If that trend continues, too—and if one does the other must—the factory worker's $18,000 wouldn't buy him much more in 1975 than his $1536.16 bought him in 1941. It might even get him less. Taxes have been going up, too. They have gone up faster and farther than either wages or prices since 1941. And taxes are collected on a percentage basis, so that even if rates didn’t change in the next 20 years, they'd take a bigger bite out of a bigger dollar income, no matter what the dollars were worth at the corner grocery. If taxes #0 on rising for the next 20 years as fast as they have risen in the last 20 they'd be taking considerably more than half the worker's $18,000 by 1975—and he'd find himself then with a buying power equal to about a $1600 income today or to about a $750 income in 1941.

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THAT'S NOT WHAT we meant when we said we hoped workers’ incomes would rise. We hope they rise in terms of real buying power, and not just in flexible dollars that leave him no better off. Factory workers’ pay in this country, for as long as records have been kept, has been 161% per cent of the retail selling price of the things they make. We don’t know why it should be that, but it is. It hasn’t varied half of one per cent from that ratio in-good times or bad, over the last 50 years, and neither union pressure, nor government wage and price “controls” nor anything else has been able to change it. se % a pl i Workers have earned incomes though, that have : steadily increased and that have not been canceled out by rising prices. They have done it by produting more goods —by their own increased skills, and by better ‘methods and " machinefy, and by investment of more capital in equipment. That's the real “gain” that has made American workers _by far the highest-paid workers in the world. It has amounted, on the whole national average, to about three per cent a year over the last 50 years, more than that in some vears, and less in others, of course. It could conceivably be stepped up to four per cent, or even five per cent a year in the foreseeable future. At three per cent, though, just what it has been so far, it could give Mr, Kaplan's “average factory worker” a real income in 1975 of $5545.24 with prices no higher than they are today. At five per cent a year it could give him $7069.60, still with prices at today’s level. : So perhaps he isn't so far off in his estimate, at that. Assuming, of course, that we don't let some reckless government skim it off in taxes to be squandered to make

prices go higher.

The Issue Is Liberty

HIRTEEN ARAB and Asian nations have joined in asking the United Nations for a hearing on charges they have brought against French rule in Morocco. "A similar hearing will be requested on charges against France made by leaders of the Tunisian independence movement. ph : Both complaints allege the suppression of civil liberties and democratic rights. The United States opposed giving these petitioners a hearing at a previous meeting of the Security Council. That position should be reversed when the next vote istaken. The United Nations is the court of last resort for these two countries. If they are denied a hearing their only recourse will be open rebellion—which could lead to r: - President Truman and his Secretary of State have been giving a great deal of lip service to the cause of civil liberties, both at home and abroad. They also pretend to support the doctrine of self-determination. How then can they vote to deny these rights to the natives of North Africa, who are seeking the very things we fought for in 17767 ; France has had ample opportunity to put its "African house in order. and has failed to do it. Indeed, the French

government itself has been unable to agree upon a plan

of settlement to be proposed to the Tunisians. But whatever France may do, the United States cannot afford to

remain in the untenable position of denying the principles

enunciated in our own Declaration of Independence.

We have been wrong on this issue antl we should get

ONE FLAW. . . By Peter Edson

lke’s Advisers Get ‘Peace’ Plan

‘# WASHINGTON—In their search for a new foreign policy issue or formula that would have great popular appeal and win them many votes, Republican strategists and advisers to Gen. Eisenhower have been listening to any sugges-

tion that seemed to make sense, as well as a.

lot that didn't. Recently an “expert” came in With a plan to end the Korean War. It looked as though it had everything. In brief the plan was this: Let's announce that' we are pulling our troops out of Korea. If the United States pulled out, all the other United. Nations would also pull out, convinced that it was a hopeless war that nobody could win. Announcement of the decision to pull out, however, would be made in such form that it would not be a complete surrender.

Use Atomic Threat

1T WOULD be accompanied by a statement that if the North Koreans or the Manchurians ‘or the Chinese Communists or the Russians advanced one inch below the present battle line, the U. 8, would drop the atomic bomb on Peking, Moscow and/er any other designated Com-munist-bloc cities. 5 It was figured this would be a brake to prevent any further aggression any place in the world. The plan sounded so good that some of the people who heard it wanted to try to sell it to Ike right away, and then announce it. But the man who had thought it up just smiled and said they shouldnt do that, because there was one big catch in the plan that made it unworkable. Maybe the reader would like to stop here and try to figure out for himself what that catch is, before reading the next paragraph. The catch is that to announce this plan as U. 8. policy would mean abandoning completely the American and other United Nations prison ers of war now held by the Communists,

Wisecrack Riddle

BIGGEST Democratic strategy riddle of the campaign is whether Gov. Adlai Stevenson's wisecracks and sarcastic needling of the Republicans is winning him votes or backfiring to help Gen. Eisenhower, Opinions differ sharply on this. They usually seem to reflect the previous political leanings and prejudices of whomever is expressing the opinion. Thus. Democrats seem to think that Gov. Stevenson's jibes and his oratorical style are wonderful. Gen. Eiseghower fans, on the other hand, think Gov. Stevenson’s humor cheap and in bad taste. They make out that these epigrams are helping Gen. Eisenhower more than they help Gov. Stevenson. On this basis it would seem that Republicans should be encouraging Gov. Stevenson to make more of these sallies. But political reasoning never seems to follow the usual rules of logic. President Roosevelt was pretty good at kidding his opponents. Al Smith was a master of the dirty dig. Calvin Coolidge’'s dry, New

- England wit tickled nearly everyone in a nice,

polite way. Will Rogers’ taunts, administered on a strictly nonpartisan basis, provided some real belly laughs. But satire and irony are hard commodities to get across to the general public. Slapstick often succeeds where subtlety like Gov. Stevenson's can be a complete flop.

Newsmen Divided

NEWSPAPER opinion on the Stevenson style of campaigning has been divided. “People like to think they take their politics seriously, and they like Ike’s hard-hitting style better than Stevenson’s flippancy,” according to Ed Smith, veteran political reporter of the Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel. To this, Editor Ed Meeman. of the Memphis Press-Scimitar adds, “You never know when one of these wisecracks will backfire and prove fatal.”

From the Irvin 8. Cobb and Alben W. Bark-

ley country, Sen. Tom R. Underwood of Kentucky, who is also editor of the Lexington Herald, sums it up this way: “The expressions that Gov. Stevenson should not make wisecracks at the expense of a 5-star general may boomerang. While his comparisons are graphic, nothing’ Stevenson has said vet is funny enough to disqualify him for the presidency, Also, there are many who fear the exaltation of a general or a president beyond criticism.”

What Others Say—

ALL I can say now is that after my fifth wife I just seem to have gone haywire.—Six-teen-times-married Francis Van Wie, “Ding Dong Daddy” conductor on San Francisco streetcars.

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MANY young women think of the Army as being dull and regimented. They don't realize that there are about five fellows to every girl. ~4WAC Capt. Barbara Jane Smith.

1 REMEMBER GOD’

When all of this and all of that , , . is over with and done . . . and whenthe stars hide in

the sky . .. and dark clouds dim the sun , . , it's then I always reminisce . . . about the days gone by . .. and live again in memory . the

times when hopes were high . . . 1 turn back pages of the past . . . to golden days of yore « +. and for at least a little while , ., I relive them once more.. . . and In this way 1 gain the faith . .. to face the days to be . . . and I ask God above for help ... and know He'll answer me . . . because as in the distant past . « when stars faded from view . . . my God gave me the faith to try .. . the hope and will

IN INDIANA . . . By Charles Egger

Not to Mention the Slogan-Kill the Umpire

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U. S. Is Stockpiling Blood Plasma Supplement, New Life Saver

WASHINGTON — A blood plasma supplement which could save thousands of live in an emergency is in large-scale production in Indiana today, mostly for stockpiling by ‘the Defense Department. . This new boon to mankind _ is called Dextran. It was developed by the Agriculture Department’s Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry, in co-operation with other government agencies, universities and private concerns.

Dextran, which is injected into the veins, is being made and stored for emergency use only. It’s not regarded as a substitute for blood plasma. Nor are the scientists working on it completely satisfied. They're still going ahead with research and testing—trying to find a perfect product. ‘But Dextran is being stockpiled in large quantities because the scientists agree that it could be used effectively in a major emergency — when enough blood plasma would not be available, a Rh NE. = . DEXTRAN ALREADY has been clinically tested and found to be satisfactory in thousands of cases. It isn’t available commercially. What isn’t being stored By the government is being used experimentally by hospitals. 2 G. E. Hilbert, chief of the chemistry bureau, says the new material has some advantages which blood plasma doesn’t have. Dextran, for example, can be stored indefinitely. And

it doesn’t require refrigeration. Mr. Hilbert emphasized that Dextran can’t be regarded as something that would do just as well as blood plasma. But he said it could be a valuable supplement. In the event of a bombing raid on one of our big cities or a major, catastrophe such as an earthquake, for example, it could be a life saver. Casualties suffering loss of blood and shock could be given injections of Dextran which would circulate freely through their systems and provide the energy they needed. The Dextran injections could be continued, if necessary, until blood plasma was available. » ” s THE GOVERNMENT is buying the material for about $8 a pint. It's injected in about the

same proportion as blood plasma. Dextran itself is nothing

new. It’s been around for years but only as a nuisance. It's a colorless, gummy material elaborated by bacteria and often shows up in sugar cane refineries and food processing plants.

That generally means a

clean-up job because the stuff retards the easy flow of solutions. : Through the years, the refiners and processors set aside samples of the unwanted substance for #se in future reséaréh work. “Several years ago, Mr. Hilbert. says, the bureau began looking for a use for the stuff. It's thought, for example; that it might some day be used extensively as a thickening agent in food

“(as it is now to a limited ex-

tent) and in the manufacture of paper. However, the Korean War held. up these possibilities. When the search began for something to use as a supplement to. blood plasma, the National Research Council, the chemistry bureau and other agencies started working on Dextran as the possible answer, . The bureau's research workers began screening bacteria the bureau had collected, in an effort to find the one that would be most effective.

2 ” o THEY FOUND their answer in a Peoria, Ill, root beer manufacturer's problem. Back in 1943, ‘he had gone to one of the bureau’s research laboratories with a complaint that a rosy-looking material kept forming in his root beer. The manufacturer was advised that his root beer had not been pasteurized at a high enough temperature to kill off the bacteria. That solved his problem—and gave the bureau another strain of bacteria for the huge collection it keeps in its refrigerators. That strain led to the development of the Dextran that now can be used to supplement blood plasma. They do it by growing the bacteria in a cane sugar solution. The bacteria produces

- Dextran in a thick, syrupy, so-

lution wWhIeW da ss « curr 30: get the pure Dextran. After important chemical treatment, water is added to it.to make it thin enough for easy‘injection. This summer the Commercial Solvents Corp. Terre Haute, Ind., began producing the material on a large scale.

NET FOR DOPES . . . By R. H. Shackford

Reds Hint ‘United Front’ Drive To Entice Leftists, Fence Sitters

LONDON-—Evidence accumulates daily that the Kremlin is préparing an important change in tactics -for Communist parytes in the Western World. This evidence points toward efforts to return to a modified version of the. old ‘popular front” or “united front” technique, which in the past helped weaken non-Communist resist-

to do. ance .to Communist policies. SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith SMe. AR Hy NEA Seryon, ban &¥) Hy . 9:22 "Young people don't seem to take an interest in their jobs nowadays—that new man doesn't even smile at

5 " the boss's favorite stories.” i

This time it would try to entice into a “united front” all dissenters in the Western camp —Bevanites in Britain, neutralists in France, leftist and neoNazi opponents of rearmament in Germany, and fence sitters in Italy and elsewhere. The Red goal—to intensify opposition to NATO, German rearmament, ete. Guessing about the Kremlin plans lis not usually wery profitable. But every once in a while, bits of evidence fit together, as they: seem to be doing now, to indicate another shift in Communist tactics.

” ” “ RESULTS of the ChineseSoviet talks in Moscow, the Communist Party Congress in October and the much ballyhooed world peace congress in Vienna in December probably will reveal the new line. The united front idea long has been an on-again-off-again Red tactic. The seventh world congress of the Comintern—predecessor of today’s Cominform-—in 1933 adopted the united front with social democrats and liberals as the policy for world Communists outside of Russia. The French popular front of the 30s was part of that program. The united front technique was continued in East Europe after the war. until those

“united” were gobbled up or

liquidated. In the West Europe Communist strongholds of France and Italy, the united

_ front was held in an unsuccess-

ful attempt to get political control; the non - Communist parties—upon ‘American yrging —ousfed the Commies from

cabinet coalitions. In Septem-

ber, 1947, the Cominform was created Warsaw and the united front tactic officially was abAndoned and Communist

partis were told to resume the

teChniques of the 1020s. Now that seems to have

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run its course with the igno-

minious failure of the antiRidgway riots in Paris last spring.

What evidence is there that the Kremlin may switch technique again? Here's some: Deputy French Communist leader Jacques Duclos was arrested and jailed during the anti-Ridgway riot, After Duclos was released from jail, there was an upheaval in the French Communist Party, with severe criticism for Ridgway riot “mistakes.” Ailing Communist leader Maurice Thorez is returning to Paris from Moscow to administer the “new line.’ Pietro Nenni, left-wing Italfan Socialist leader and Communist collaborator, returned home from a conference with Stalin in Moscow with the “offer” of a non-aggression pact and a lot of trade with Russia if Italy would abandon the West and become “neutral.”

» n . ANDRE STIL, editor of the French Communist paper L'Humanite, also arrested and subsequently released for his role in the Ridgway riots, is under fire from the French party's central committee. In using violent language to stir up party faithful, Stil {s accused of forgetting that the small shopkeepers and middle classes are needed in a united front and must not be scared away by extreme revolutionary techniques. Stil is repenting and promising to mend his ways. The Vienna world peace canThe Vienna world peace cone sizing efforts to include nohCommunist participants: Pre-

« vious congresses included only .

commies, fellow travelers or dupes. “ East German Communist

leaders are reported to be in Moscow for instruction in new techniques for luring West German opponents of German ree armament into the Communist

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Hoosier Forum “1 do not agree with a word that you

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Ike Did Say If

MR. EDITOR: The incident of the ill-suppressed “damn” ute tered by Gen. Efsenhower over the radio the other night at Butler Fieldhouse is a good illustration of the power and inclination of certain elements of the press to distort the story of events. It also shows to what extent Gen. Eisenhower has surrendered to the umsavory influences around him. The Eisenhower of old would have made a manly admission of the slip, and his reputation hardly would have suffered.

The New York Herald-Tribune (which; incidentally also supports Gen. Eisenhower) carried a markedly different version of this incident than did the Indianapolis Star. When questioned in Washington about the use of the word “damn” over the air, Eisenhower said he hadn't “the slightest recollection” of saying it, but that he wished to “apologize to any one who may have been offended.” The Herald-Tribune closed its description of the incident with this significant paragraph:

“While reporters who heard a recording of the speech felt sure it was the General's voice, Eugene C. Pulliam, Indianapolis publisher, who was sitting close to the speaker, said the exclamation came from a radio technician.”

The radio technician has not been heard from, and, though his professional training would seem to preclude the likelihood that the unwitting profanity was his, his silence apparently has been solicited for the sake of political expediency. , This causes one to wonder what else is being covered up and how sincere is the General's promise to let the public know what is going on if elected. It is perhaps natural that campaigners who don “crusader’s” clothes and parade with pseudoreligious fanaticism their hatred of corruption,

would want to disassociate themselves from their involuntary cusswords.

It is doubtful whether a man who cannot control his own profanity could control such a heterogeneous administration as Gen. Eisenhower would have. Certainly a man who is not sure whether he has said “damn” or not and has to have a newspaper publisher tell him, can hardly be Sure of anything else he has said, and with milar sclaimers could avoi Bima avoid carrying out Perhaps, since he did not mention Sen. Jenner by name, the General is not sure whether he has endorsed him or not. It is sure that a man of Gen. Eisenhower's stature, in stooping 80 that men like Sen. Jenner and-Sen. McCarthy i hang on to his coattails, has risked a ser8 curvature of his litical A never walk erect again. ig Spine. Re ray —By Richard Griffith, 2153 N. Arlington Ave, ” o ” Editor's Note: Repeated check of nonpartisan recording shows beyond question Gen. Eisenhower, under extreme provocation and certainly unintentionally, did say “damn” into the microphone . . . probably sincerely didn’t recall doing so, lust as sincerely hoped afterward he hadn’t offended Nice Nellies who may still believe soldiers never swear... won

Hie sympathy, not blame, of those who heard m.

About Party Records

MR. EDITOR:

You shouldn't try to wear the Fair Deal coat, Comrade Maxwell, especially if you don’t think you are getting the right kind of a fit. After all, there is just as much greed and selfishness among some of you New Dealers who were on relief back in 1932 as there is among the millionaires that live on Golden Hill, If there wasn't, you wouldn’t keep voting to send your boys and other people’s boys to the slaughtering pens to fight these useless, futile Democrat wars, just so you can get‘those filthy, blood-stained dollars that any fool can make in wartime. : : You ask the question if I think the Republican Party is $e poor man’s party and I can tell you definitely I don't think it is or should be. I think any party should be for both rich and poor alike and if either party ever becomes a poor man’s party without any opposition we will have exactly what they have got, in Russia to-

shows it is the party of peace while the record of the Democrat Party shows it is the war party. : Furthermore, Comrade Maxwell, you may never before have had it so good. Well, there are some of those boys over around Bunker Hill right now that never had it so bad. Incidently, a young married woman told me today she had just received word her husband had his arm shot off and I know another who has just made the supreme sacrifice. And don’t blame me for what Hoover did because I certaisly never voted for him. The people that did ‘vote for him got exactly what they voted for and if past history is any criterion to go by, if Adlai is elected, the ones that vote for him, too, are going to get just what they vote for, another useless, futile Democrat war, ”

—Regular Reader.

Socialized Medicine MR. EDITOR:

In an address in the Mooresville Methodist Church Sunday evening before the Morgan County Medical Association and invited guests George Craig, candidate for governor, agreed whole-heartedly with the Democratic platform on the question of socialized medicine. Namely, both Mr. Craig and the platform are against it in any form, During the question and answer period, Mr. Craig stated he was confident that with our oresent training program, in a few years we would have plenty of doctors, perhaps even a surplus. However, Mr. Craig must not be able to 1dd| very well or is not well acquainted with the facts. He would need only to check with the State Board of Health, the medical registration board and Indiana University Medical School to find the following:

Born 1930 Born 1950 59,407 94,203 Population 1930 Population 1950 3,246,000 3,921,215 plus 100,000 babies

Number doctors licensed in 1930 was approximately the same, that is around 225 (new Joctors): Number students in training in 1952 If we are training and licensing the same number of doctors now as we did 20 years ago, but twice as many children are.born and there is a shortage now, how can we expect to have a surplus of doctors? : In further discussion it was agreed that no loctor should charge for a delivery unless he were present, only for post partum and ante partum services.

~By Rebecca Hardin, Mooresville,

‘Quite Different’ { MR. EDITOR: =

I appreciated your including my letter in your column of the Hoosier Forum of Sept. 12. However, one sentence was in error, either my own or the linotype man’s. It should have read: “Just look at its (Republican party's) record in Congress. Everything against the working man.” It read.as above and not “everything for thes working man.” Quite different, don’t you - * *

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