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PAGE II. THE INDIANAPOLIS STAB FtBEUARY 10. 1951 Let's Round Out The Job! The Indianapolis Star Fair Ami Fint mm. vj 5 INDIANAPOLIS NEWSPAPERS. INC.

307 North Pennsylvania Street Indianapolis 6, Ind. 1 EUGENE a PULL1AM, Publuher HUB Of TKM ASSOCUm HMM to HUM tmttmmH MUM a Mr iwatttnM CIMlM MMm VMitM MM WJMf tool Kiwi Sim--i i We Leave Our Gates Wide Open To Spies This is going to knock holes In the padded expense accounts of un of the current spy rings romping through this gracious nation of ours. I don't know hat the boys are charting old Joe for their services. But if he's paying more than $1.75 as the going spy rate for detailed information about key "harbors and terminal facilities volume and type of commerce handled and other Items of interest" in the guts of our ar machine, Uncle Joe must think he's Fort Knox. That buck 73 is what the Department of Defense is charging for a recently revised, no lets, 2u7-page report on every bit of vital data in and about Detroit You don't even to be a spy by mail.

You can telephone and they'll send it And this is to inform the defense officials that they already have sent it to certain people who shouldn't have it or any-think like It tor transmission abroad. Lrt ti peopla Amow tA facta and the country trfl be taved." Abraham Lincoln. 1(1 iVTW.VI I CAUSES 91 WELFAPP AGENCIES our rm andyiiidufe WHICH if Ufl-NSE Fff PROGRAM So now we know that the accommodating Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense, has pinpointed, for all comers, the strategic location of piers and railheads where thousands of workers are congested and can be injured at one time. And at a moment when the Army is dispatching its people to every classified plant in the nation to warn executives to keep just this sort of facility under flood tights and electrical alarm system every night. But before you sputter at the rivers and harbors officers.

Just wait for what I've got for you on the Coast Guard, which. I presume, is supposed to guard the coasts. Or am I being presumptuous? However, remembering what accidental explosions did to hundreds of good working people in Texas City and South Amboy, I'll chance that The People Speak Looks Forward To The Dawn Of New Day In Agriculture Taking A look Around At Indiana Rural Life By David I. De We have rejoiced In a reading and a partial re-reading of the popular new book called "Better Known As Johnny Appleseed It ws a charming diversion for the coldVt days I have ever experienced, exactly 23 1 below zero on my front porch. The warm human narrative of one of the warm human, and strange, characters of our Midwestern history, the tale of the life and labors of John Chapman is more than worth reading by all present-day Hoosiers.

The book is by Mabel Leigh Hunt, the well-known writer of Indianapolis, published by J. B. Lippincott Company. New York, and should be found in everybody's favorite book store. As in every book.

It has Its high and low points and what seemed the high points to me may appear to be low in literary altitude to you. But the average readability is as high as any Hoosier writer has brought forth in several years. I was especially pleased with a chapter that made real the opening days of the American Revolution and a later chapter dealing with Jolyiny Appleseed and a showboat incident at Mt. Vernon. Perhaps, the latter is due to the fact that I know Mt.

Vernon and Posey County so well. Up around Fort Wayne in the old Johnny Appleseed country where the patron saint of Midwestern horticulture died and ia buried, ths book should be on every table. It will be quite a while I believe before there will be much more needed on the life of this unusual man. Thii "23.1 below" business was not, as my readers are aware, limited to my front porch. Extreme temperatures spread all over the nation from coast to coast.

In the wintee market gardening regions, the farmers and truckmen took a terrific wallop, and everywhere traffic accidents and traffic tie-upe filled the newspapers. Away back 30-odd years ago I recall a wild stormy night when the reading was 16 below. A few years afterward. I got off a crowded Washington Street car at Pennsylvania one early morning in Indianapolis. The therrvvn-eter at the Odd Fellow Building amazed me with the tidings that it was 18 below, But we can forget now those little frigid Incidents.

In 1951, on ground hog day In the early morning, the cold day to end all cold days became an actuality. Over Indiana, as usual, nearly every farmer's thermometer had a different story but all showed well under 20 below. The crop of cold weather yarns Immediately circulated. In Plainfield and in Plainvjlle the same story substantially greeted me upon arrival. A farmer's wife had left her broom on the porch in both Instances.

Just inadvertently like, the broom handle was next to the thermometer. The mercury plunging downward In the brittle tube had such force the bottom broke off and the red liquid ran down the broom handle. In both cases, the farmer took his slide rule and figured the reading to be "around 22 below." Not long ago at the Bourbon Beef Show, Louisville, the Donald Stotena, senior and Junior, of Golden Dawn Farms near Carthage had black steers among the winners. The owners and feeders of the calves rate congratulations. It all came about because of Donald Jr.

being up to his ears for years In 411 work. Watching the work, the whole family became interested in beef cattle. A 35-cow herd of Aberdeen-Angus was started, headed by a worthy son of an international champion. We recall that Donald was also named In 194? the national 4-H achievement winner. He is now senior in the School of Agriculture at Purdue, also taking ROTC War or no war we hope to see him among the nation's leading food producers and In all probability that will happen in the days to come.

"We've been having a few calves on feed regularly ever since the close of Don's 4-H work," explained the senior Mr. Stoten recently. "Last year we had five head that were dandies. We took one to the International in Chicago. Shown in the carcass class he took seventh prize.

The other four, as you know, were In the Bourbon Show. The steers to get In this show must have been fed a ration containing at leait a pound dally of distillers' grains. "This feed must be used during the six months preceding the show and sale. We gave our steers the required amount along with a ration made of 1,600 pounds of corn, 300 pounds coarsely ground oats. 200 pounds of a 32 per cent cattle concentrate, and a small amount of good timothy hay.

The corn was half shelled grain and half was In the form of crushed corn and cob. The steers were dry-lot fed." Frank Moore, nearly 70, takes great pride In the fine appearance and hlf(h production of hie 465 New Hampshire Red hens. This makes the 34th winter he has taken eggs to market on a small commercial scale. In January this year he sold nearly 600 dozen. "At regular Intervals we hear much about there being no money In market eggs," he told me this week.

"Just don't believe it, I've made money in eggs from the beginning. My advice is to get a good strain of chicks, feed them on a good starter and grower, cull out closely. My flock was culled from 600 chicks. Follow the best sanitary practices. Then work hard.

Too many people have gone Into the poultry business to escape work. That's a terrible error. There's lots of work to do. And it must be done right and at just about the right time." We've noticed a lot of wildlife dead from the extreme cold weather. Noticed three doves in a corn crib frozen stirf.

Starvation helped kill off the birds of various kinds, all the feed being snow-covered. However, little loss comparatively of domestic animals. Fred Norman, north of Yin-cennes. had a red sow to farrow 11 pigs when it was 20 below. One pig only was lost.

A. Smith on Ind. 3, Blaine Harmon on U.S. 6 and E. O.

Warner, a few miles off Ind, 1 reported lambs in good shape. Warm stoves and electric brooders of various typA saved the pigs and the lambs, hundreds of them. To tht Cdilot Tht Star: In Sunday's Star, recently, there was an article about farm prices on which I would like to say a few words. 1 am a student at I "hation High School where I am taking vocational agriculture. Am a member of the Lebanon F.A.

chapter, also a member of the Center Champions 411 Clubs. Let me state the first line of our Future Farmer creed: "I believe in the future of farming." Is there a future to farming? I wonder, with ail thse well-established farmers leaving their farms and moving to the city so they can get a lot more money making war materials instead of farming. In these times a farm er Is Just as Important as the tank manufacturer. No farmer? Well then what is that tank manufacturer going to eat? I ask an explanation of why the farmers gft low prices for their goods. They must pay much more for things to grow these products with.

Yes, that first part of the first line is the most important part of our creed. But here is the entire first paragraph. "I believe in the future of farming, with a faith born not of words, but of deeds achievements won by the present and past generations of farmers: In the promise of better days through better ways even as the better things we now enjoy have come up to Bluntly, the Coast Guard is permitting the very sailors it has thrown off dff sea ships as dangerous security risks in this Korean War, to sail down our coasts, through the Panama Canal and across the Frisco Bay to Hawaii. If these suspicious seamen are too dangerous for tran-ocean shipping, why are they not too risky in the handling of oil tankers? Why are they not too suspicious as characters walking through two miles of oil storage tanks to their vessels at piers loaded with huge stocks of inflammables? I'm asking sensible questions. Let's have sensible answers.

What's happening is this: The Coast Guard screens a sailor. It rules him off an Orient-bound ship Says he can't be trusted. So the National Maritime Union officials pick up his union book. The seaman squawks. He wants Mi book back and gets It because the Coast Guard permits him to sail coastwise.

He gets back on a tanker through the hiring hall, which has a rotating list of men up for jobs. And he doesn't have to sabotage. AH he rw-d do is keep his eyes open for stuff we're loading, and then report back to his parly chiefs. That's why the Communist party on the West Coast is shoving its people right back into waterfront jobs when they want to quit In fear of having their party records exposed by the Coast Guard screenings. The party won't let them quit the sea.

It says to ship coastwise. Wait to get thrown off. But stay. So you find lots of lefties in something called the Murine Cooks and Stewards. This is a union kicked out of CfD.

This is a union led by Hugh Bryson, recently eulogized In the Soviets' world labor monthly magazine as the hero of American labor. This is the union with 5.000 book members; 2.000 trip carders (men with just a card permitting them to take one trip to seal. This Is the union covering 281 ships, every one leaving the West Coast. This Is the union which has attacked the United Nations' efforts to preserve decency in Korea. Nobody's accusing the thousands In this union of spying or sabotage.

But nobody's saying this union loves its country. We are saying Its people are on every ship, and know where they are going. And those ships may be carrying your G.L boy one of these days. Uncomfortable thought. Isn't it? It would be nice to get some answers from the man with power to end this, just as the Atomic Energy Commission ended lefty unions in Its installations.

That man Is Adm. E. L. Cochrane. Maritime administrator.

Okay, mate, administrate. Listen To Hoover's Warning Last night former President Herbert Hoover again warned the American people and Congress that VS. foreign policy must be changed if world freedom, which depends on VS. security, is to survive. He emphasized again that only by air and sea power can America hope to be strong enough to prevent a Russian attack In the West and to defeat Russia in a possible war.

He said we should aid other nations that are "doing their utmost to defend themselves." He proposed "no retreat, no withdrawal" In any part of the world, and the rigid fulfillment by the VS. of its obligations under the Atlantic Pact. Mr. Hoover says we should not now send more troops to western Europe, because Europe has not yet built a strong enough defense force to make a successful stand against Russian troops. This, it seems, is the chief bone of contention between the former President and Mr.

Truman, who wants to send as many troops to Europe as he wishes as soon as possible. Mr. Truman is making the claim that, with VS. troops added, the proposed western Europe force could defend Europe. Mr.

Hoover says that 40 or 50 divisions cannot possibly hold back the massed armies of Russia and her satellites and that U-S. troops, in such a fight would be sacrificed in the attempt. We believe that Mr. Hoover's assertion that VS. troops and the planned European divisions cannot defend the East-West border Is correct.

But we are inclined to agree with Gen. Eisenhower that a few VS. troops sent to Europe under his command would late European nations to rearm quickly, would inspire confidence throughout the continent and would de-vebp the impetus in Europe to build a truly powerful and united army quickly. If Gen. Elsenhower is right, a few VS.

troops in Europe might prevent Russian occupation of Europe without having to fight at alL Congress can compromise the vtewg of Mr. Hoover and Mr. Truman by making use of its own power of the purse, A strict limit on the number of VS. troops to be sent abroad should be imposed according to a ratio, to European troops, as suggested by Gen. Elsenhower.

This would prohibit the commitment of a mass VS. Army. By resolution Congress should again slate that the United States will honor its obligations under the Atlantic Pact by striking with all our air power against Russia the moment Russia attacks in Europe. We should plan no large-scale tend war in Europe or Asia. That, as Mr.

Hoover said, is what Stalin wants. We should supply munitions to all nationsable and willing to defend themselves. We should demand that western Europe Include Spain, Turkey and Greece in the Atlantic Pact. We should demand that the U.N. Impose economic sanctions on Red China and Congress should pass a resolution telling the President to set Chiang Kai-shek free to Invade China when he is ready.

Congress should cut all non-military expenditures In the budget and concentrate almost entirely In building air and sea power and radar defenses on the American continent. It should also serve notice on the President that Its members intend to recapture the power to make war if war becomes necessary. It is clear that Mr. Truman is the captive of the disastrous policies of the past. He is intellectually Incapable of revising U.S.

foreign policy to meet the challenges ahead. It is therefore vital that Congress force those changes upon him. A Century Of Sen ice Deserved tribute was paid the Illinois Central Railroad yesterday at an Indianapolis luncheon in honor of the line's 100th anniversary. Although the I.C. has operated inside Indiana a little less than a half-century, it is one of the great American railroads which In the 19th century did so much to change middle America from a wilderness into one of the richest economic empires on earth, and with a speed unmatched in history.

At yesterday's luncheon, attended by business and Civic leaders, the 1C. presented Governor Schricker with a medallion symbolic of the excellent relations through the years between that railroad and the state. The Governor in turn lauded the line's contributions to Indiana's well-being and observed that it had provided taxable property which had supported schools and government. Some two-fifths of all the railway mileage of the world He within the continental United States. Without the rapid development of this mighty network in the 19th and 20th centuries America today would not be a dominant world power and the arsenal of freedom.

The Star congratulates the Illinois Central for the role It has played In the last century and ishes it another century of even greater service and progress. Needed Moral Indignation Months of Investigation by the Senate Banking subcommittee have revealed a scandalous story of ln'rigue, of political favoritism, of dishonest misuse of government funds by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The subcommittee's report charges that the "Influence" racket reaches right into the White House. Donald Dawson, presidential assistant, is revealed to be the top dispenser of RFC influence. The chairman of the Democratic committee is said to have tried to influence RFC officials in behalf of political favorites.

Merl Young, whose wife is a presidential secretary, and who once drew a fat salary from the ill starred Lustron outfit, Is also involved in charges of favoritism and White House Influence. President Truman angrily called this Senate report A Lenten Meditation By REV. CHARLES P. KOSTKR St. John's Catholic Church Topic: 'The Mission Of Jesus Text: "Th Spirit of the Lord i upon me, bwotwe Lord hath anointed me: He hath tent fo preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a relewt to the captivea, and deliverance to them that art ehut up." Uaiah, us from the struggles of former years." We all know that the farmers have made some great strides in the past years, but It looks as if those steps are going the other way.

The rising sun of our emblem (F.F.A.) stands for the dawning of a new day in agriculture. That new day is coming and my opinion is that it will be the day when farmers are organized and prices are established so the farmer will receive fair pay for his hard work. DEAN GWIN. Lebanon, R. R.

6. Some Needed Laws To the Editor of The Stor: Ti next few das are crucial days in the life of the General Assembly. All kinds of schemes are now In the hands of our lawmakers and more will be introduced in the hope of getting them rushed through in the last few days, if the members are not alert. There are a few things that. In my judgment, are of prime importance.

To summarize, I say: 1. Don't raise any salaries. 2. Open the books on Welfare transactions that the taxpayer may know how his money Is expended. 3.

Give each county equal protection from gamblers and racketeers. A. L. GARY. Rushville.

Worthwhile Articles To the Editor of The Stor: It is doubtful if any magazine ever published surpasses in value the issue of "This Week" magazine, which accompanied the Feb. 4 issue of The Sunday Star. The condensation of Edvrd Everett Hale's 'The Man Without a Country," and Howard Whitman's "The Truth About Patriotism" make It worth pre-serving for future refere.ice. If the turmoil of these present days lead Americans generally to a thorouRh understanding of the princinlcs set forth In these two articled, and to a full appreciation of the meaning of American symbolism, the tension which we now endure will have hen trn'v worthwhile, and the U.S.A. will wmr to heights still undreamed of.

New If. E. CONN. Needed fn Washington To th editor of The Star: May I suggest that Mark Pur-cell, the Rushville weatherman, be sent to Washington. He seems to be the only one who knows what he's doing.

BOB "TINY- WILLIAMS. Wabash. Divine nature, without which the mission could not have been accomplished. That mission was the redemption of fallen humanity. During this holy season of lnt we are asked to recall to ourselves the tragic events by which we were redeemed; we are asked by our own pei-sonal penance to share, as it were, in the passion of Jesus.

Let us, as we do this, recall aIo in paraphrase of Isaias, that God Himself has come and saved us (35, 4). Prayer: God, Who oy the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Thy only-begotten Son has given light apd life to the world, look kjndly, we beseech Thee, on Thy servants who by rnnnce seek Thy kingdom. Grant that we who thus share humbly the Passion of Thy Divine Son may one day know the triumph of His Resurrection in the eternal bliss of Heaven. Through the same Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

Our Blessed Iord, by the Divine authority of His Word, has told us (as recounted in the Fourth Chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke) that these prophetic words of Iwiias are to be applied to Himself. He It was thst was to preach to the meek and to bring deliverance. There could be no greater. Isaias made ttwt clear also, saying (9, 6): "For a Child is born to us.

and a Son is given to us, and the government is upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called, Wonderful, Counselor, God the Mighty, the Father of the World to come, the Prince of Peace." The mission of Christ, therefore, was not a human vocation merely: it was commanded by God; it motivated by man's need for God and God's mercy towards man; it was accomplished by God become man. It ts up to us to recognize In Christ both His Divine and His taff-A-Dav i As The Day Begin i Still, Shaving Is Not Only Worry In Korea Looking Into the mirror as I shave this morning. 1 am thinking of a recent dispatch from the battle areas of Korea. It said, as I remember it. that a commander of an American regiment ordered his men to let their beards grow.

The iea was that the beards would help the men recognize each other as friend instead of enemy despite sudden and confusing changes In the front lines. The Chinese and Koreans, this commander wisely noted, cannot grow beards as we Americans can. Apparently all went along very well with the G.I quite happy that one chore of personal grooming had been eliminated It was difficult and painful enough anyhow to "cold shave" in foxholei not provided with hot running water. Probably only the teen-age soldier, not capable of growing more than a fuzz of a beard, resented the order. But then suddenly the commander was relieved and another man took his place, immediately ordering the troops to shave down to something iess than a 5 o'clock shadow, Only speculation can provide a possible an swer to the failure of the beard order, or to the question whether it had anything to do with its originator being dismissed, for that matter.

One factor might have been the tool the beards may have provided, unwittingly, to Communist propagandists. We're gangsters In their eyes, remember, and a beard has a suggestion about it of toughness and sedition. The Germans attempted to draw that conclusion, at least, during World War II. Once during a truce amid deadlocked fighting at the Rapido River in Italy. Nasi news photographers snapped our bearded G.I.

in their dirty and torn battle clothes. German soldiers photographed at that time somehow had arranged to be neatly groomed and clean shaven. But perhaps a more logical reason for the Korean beard defeat lies right in the statement, "never underestimate the power of a woman." It may have been that the wives and sweethearts of these Far East warriors raised a wave of protest through the United States mails, admonishing the soldiers, and the commander as well, that "my man will have to answer to me if he doesn't shave off that terrible beard." Many veterans of the last war developed wry fine moustaches, carefully nurturing them into beautiful "handle bars or 'such like. Rut few of the brave heroes had the courage to wear them home to face the certain scorn of the girl they left behind. They shaved them off before the troop ship docked.

ft ltf- aslnine" and "untrue" even though all its facts are documented and the majority of those signing it are TWO WORDS A DAY By L. E. CHARLES INFINITE. Adj. The Latin verb finire means to fix or set limits to and our adjective -finite" thus means fixed or definite.

This la the opposite and signifies boundless, unlimited, endless, immeasurably great in extent or duration. In mathematics the infinite is of indefinite length or magnitude. In respect to God and His power the adjective denotes boundless knowledge and excellence. We stress the first lyllable of ln'-fi-nit, each i being as in MYOPIC. Adj.

We derive this from the Greek word for "shortsightedness" and that Is just what this adjective per-i tains to. Myopic vision is "near It Is readily seen how easily this term may be used figuratively, applying to a person who does not take a long view of affairs, whether of na tional or personal nature. In ml op'-ik the emphasis is on the second syllable, as in the first I is long, the final one abort. The Governor's Pay Madison Courier: More pay for the Governor of Indiana may be the right and proper thing as a proposed bill says, but up to now pretty good Governors have been secured when the greatest reward for taking the job was the honor and satisfaction of having done a good service for the state. If this job and the others which are Included in the bill to spend other people's money should be made Into Just common money-making propositions there would be a lot of glamour taken from Then the thing would be that the Governor arid his fellows in the state administration would be just another group seeking to fatten their bank accounts.

As it is, the job has been such that Governor Schricker was willing to repeat although the second time he had to live in the great mansion that he spurned the first time round. And many years ago infield T. Durbin was will-ing to take on for a second hitch but the people didn't see it that way and chose Tom Marshall Instead, i I members of his own party. The committee gave Truman every chance to clean up this mess before releasing the report The President refused to do so. He stubbornly reappointed the RFC directors involved.

There was a time, as Senator Homer Capehart said recently, wnen the revelation of graft and misuse of public funds "would have caused individuals concerned to be driven from public life." Under the Truman administration they are rewarded with better jobs and more influence over the public purse. But now that the people are being forced to pay more and more taxes, now that their living standards are being sharply lowered by the Truman adminis. tratlon, now that 30 per cent of their incomes is being taken away from them to pay for government, they may again demand an end to these violations of public trust Aa Mr. Capehart 'said, it is "high time that America had a revival of moral Indignation." These leeches, these parasites; these Influence peddler have no plagj In the governmenj of the United States. "P' w.

toy to lf. really shouldn't bay It but If yea Insist.