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Times 'Can't Drink Coffee. Keeps Me Awake PVAIN T2LK Dulles Report Indicates Use of Atomic Weapons By DAVID LAWRENCE WASHINGTON What John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, told the council on foreign relations in New York, and simultaneously the nation by radio and television network, is more revealing as a statement of American foreign policy than anything said since the Eisenhower administration began. Column fUgion't Horn Newjpcpe Founded in 1908 by Sidmon McHie FublUhed Dailr Except Saturday and Holidays by The Hammond Publishing Company, In The enea Mldinf, 417-19 Fayette Hammond, Indiana. JAMES S. DeLAURIER, Publisher and Managing Director KENNETH V.

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For it tells why 11. tllS liy luc uiiiiba Ci. -11- 1. tL. MlHtara 1 Do You Agree? Thursday, January 14, 1954 435 The Hi budget is being cut and how the United States is embarking on a long-range program in he world that Is not geared merely to emergencies but to a definite plan for In the beginning: was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

St. John, I. curity payments, and not into the government's general operational fund. In fact, the latter place is just where this money does go, much to the concern of a great many people. Hence in actual practice, the government will use the added Social Security payments to offset the decrease in income tax revenues.

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Mr. Dulles says "it was Soviet-inspired action that pulled us back" into Korea. MR. DULLES mighi have added that, while the decision to intervene and to repel aggression in Korea was correct, the failure of the previous administration to provide in advance the military sinews for such a campaign in Korea and later its refusal to use maximum power which apparently now ia being sanctioned was responsible for the lack of military victory and for what is known as "the Korean mess." Reliance is placed by Mr. Dulles on the "strategic reserve" Idea, which means a mobile force.

He says it was never "sound military strategy permanently to commit U.S. land forces to Asia to a degree that leaves us no strategic reserves." He says, too, it was "not sound economics, or good foreign policy, to support permanently other countries; for in the long run, that creates as much ill will as good will." STATEMENTS such as these could not possibly be made today by a spokesman for the United States government if it were not for a basic decision to use maximum military power including all atomic weapons if Soviet Russia starts aggression. That is a fateful warning and one needed to be given. reproduction RIfhU Reserved Disruptions in Italy It had been expected for some time that Premier Giuseppe Pella in Italy would resign any day for good and not just to get a vote of confidence morally requiring him to remain. Hence, when he offered his resignation the other day, after five months in office, making a token excuse that he had quarreled with his own party but really expecting his dissenters to fall on his neck, the surprise lay in his remaining in office so long.

Italy just now is in considerable confusion, although without the confusion or instability or unreliability of France. De Gasperi had been an able and wily premier too able for Italy in its current restless mood. After Pella took over, unpleasant things began happening. The United States and Britain played tick-tack-toe about Trieste and steamed up that issue which De Gasperi had kept subdued. Yugoslavia began acting ugly about Trieste borders, and Italy got even more warm under its collar.

Meanwhile, Italy seems less interested in joining a six-Nation European Defense Community, is less of a NATO bulwark, and is beset with strikes and other internal woes." Added to all this is the increasing strife of the major parties and the ascendance of the Communists. Through all this, Italy has remained economically sound and for that matter so has France despite her bewildering Voice of the People defense for all purposes. MANY TEOPLE must have wondered how troops could be withdrawn from Korea now, why plans were being made for less American manpower in Europe and for substantial cuts in conventional military services. The answer is given by Mr. Dulles, and it is to be found in this paragraph of his address: "Before military planning could be changed, the President and his advisers, as represented by the national security council, had to make some basic policy decisions.

This has been done. The basic decision was to depend primarily upon a great capacity to retaliate, instantly, by means and at place of our choosing. "Now the department of de- fense and the joint chiefs of staff can shape our military establishment to fit what is our policy, instead of having to try to be ready to meet the enemy's many choices. That permits a selection of military means instead of a multiplication of means. As a result, it is now possible to get, and share, mpre basic security at less cost." THE SECRETARY of State isn't to be expected to disclose military measures, but the plain meaning of his remarks is that the United states is relying on the atom bomb and the hydrogen bomb and every atomic weapon in its arsenal to repel any military aggression that might come from the Communists in the future.

It must necessarily mean that all plans to outlaw atomic weapons such as Soviet Russia has been proposing have been abandoned and such a ban will never be accepted unless there are such foolproof safe-guards as to insure no possibility of an aggression anyhow. This means a system of inspection and an assured method of preventing aggression which, of course, the present rulers in Moscow are not likely to approve. So, for all practical purposes, the United States has decided on a retaliatory defense a defense that doesn't require massive land armies to win an objective but enough Striking power from the overseas bases by our air force as well as from aircraft carriers of the Navy to m-'-s sure that the enemy will not inch an attack in the first pi j. MR. DULLES points out that the policies adopted by the Truman Acheson administration in Turkey and Greece and through the European recovery plan were good but that America was obliged to fight an "emergency action," when it is of the utmost importance to develop a program for the long range.

He declares that the "long-time" factor is of critical importance and he hints that a strategy must be adopted by America which can be judged adequate not merely because it wards off "immediate danger" but because of what it accomplishes over what the Soviets call "an entire historical era." The secretary says it wasn't "sound military strategy to commit our army to fight land battles in Asia," and that this was our decision prior to 1950. Incidentally, General Eisenhower participated in INSIDE WASHINGTON Demos. Irked bv Charges, Plan Counter-Off ensive (Special to Central Tress) WASHINGTON Democrats, smarting under the spy-case attacks made by Attorney General Herbert Brownell and the charges of "bungling" hurled by New York's Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, are preparing a counter-offensive.

The fight-back plan is expected to inject a great deal more partisan controversy into the 1954 session of Congress than was We Grow Too Rapidly The necessity for men of long vision on city planning boards and the difficulty of knowing what's ahead of a rapidly expanding community are shown in the recent resoultion adopted by the Gary City Council requesting the Plan Commission to undertake a revision of the city plan. Gary's present zoning ordinance and land use plan were adopted in 1933 but the council decided they had been outgrown and are now obsolete. The resolution recommends that consultants be hired to work out the proposed revision. This is practically the same situation as Hammond faced several years ago when it was decided to adopt a new master plan and make some changes in the old zoning and land use set-ups. The trouble of course is that such revisions are not limited to development of new territory or mere adjustment of the old sections so the new areas may be more easily integrated.

Too often drastic switches in classifications of property are effected and residents or owners of affected property take too little interest in what is going on until it is too late to protect their interests. They suddenly learn that their side of the street is no longer restricted to residences when house movers or wreckers start work on the place a couple doors away to clear the land for a garage or bakery or something. Their own property loses value for residential use and to hold it for future sale at its new classification might be out of the question. It is particularly hard on elderly folks who have spent most of their life in a home and they are reluctant to give up the spot. So we see those occasional decrepit residences hemmed in by business buildings no nearby neighbors just a sort of seclusion.

It would seem that our city planners could look ahead farther than 20 years so that residential neighborhoods could remain intact and take on some of the charm that we find in older sections of cities which have not had such a hurried harum scarum growth. The Deductions See-Saw Among other things visited upon Americans on the first day of January is a juggling of withholdings from salaries for federal income taxes and for Social Security benefits. The income tax increased passed by Congress in 1951 automatically ended January 1. This termination provides a cut of about 10 per cent in income taxes. However, there is now an automatic increase from 1.5 per cent to 2 per cent in each employe's contribution to Social Security with the employer's contribution also increasing.

These two actions, now in effect, constitute a paradox. About 50 million persons will make a "profit," a favorable difference between the tax cut and the Social Security payment gain. Most of these are in the large income brackets. However, 10 million persons who now pay just a little or no tax will lose on the two-pronged deal. A worker with three dependents who earns $50 per week will pay out 25 cents per week more on account of these changes.

If he earns $55 to $70 a week, the changes will just about cancel each other out. In beautiful theory, the money paid out by workers and employers goes into a reservoir fund to be used only for Social Se Slow Mail Delivery Voice of the People: 1 agree with R. J. D. R.

and the "Pony Express" article, but he did not cover it completely. The public was led to believe through a recent story in your paper, that the postal workers got fat on the overtime they earned at Christmas. It ia not true. The Post Office Department Issued an order, whereby all regular employes were to be given overtime to work the Christmas mail, as the department felt they were more efficient than the temporary employes. It did not work that way in the Hammond office.

Between Dec. 16 and Dec. 25, exclusive of Saturday and Sunday, a total of nine hours overtime was all that the clerks received. All we heard was that they were out of money to pay overtime, while other offices in this region had money for many more hours than what we are paid. Why? Other offices paid for time worked on Saturday, Dec.

12, and Saturday, Dec. 26 but not in Hammond. We had to take time off for these days. It also stated in your paper that all the mail was up and delivered on Dec. 24.

We challenge that statement for there was mail in this office that. four to five days old before it was delivered on Monday, Dec. 28. The same condition existed over the weekend of Jan. 1 and 2.

I ask the same question as R. J. D. Where was supervision? Who is responsible for this sad state of affairs? Where does the trouble lie? Perhaps we should revert to the old fashioned, and then reliable Pony Express. Hammond.

D. D. Safety in Prison The man who assassinated Leon Trotzky in Mexico 13 years ago apparently has decided that if he is to live much longer he should stay in prison. His sentence for the Trotzky murder was confinement for 19 years, six months. He became technically eligible for parole under Mexican law, however, about six months ago.

That Communist "trigger man's" failure to file a parole petition is attributed to fear that he will be murdered by Communists. A report is that he is afraid of "Stalinites" as well as of any surviving reds who remain loyal to the deceased Trotzky. In other words this man who committed a murder to serve one Communist faction does not trust any Communists. His wisdom may be unquestionable. WORD-PLAY (Kansas City Star) Returning prisoners of war, victims of brainwashing efforts, have called attention to a new Communist attempt to subvert the good old American language.

Those who appeared to fall fof the Red "progressives" and those of sterner stuff who resisted were termed "reactionaries." "Progressive" has had a long and favorable usage in our political life. It connotes change and improvement under democratic processes. We refuse to accept this devious attempt of the Chinese Reds to redefine the word. If progress means communism (and reaction means democracy), then black really is white. Let our teen-agers have their fun.

Greet their current linguistic deviations, in which "cool" and "crazy" mean "good" or "superb" and a "square" is a person of dubious attainments, with amused tolerance. We'll survive all this as a passing fad. But when the Reds start monkeying seriously with our language we're ready to take the soapbox and shout. the case in 1953 when President Eisenhower and the Democrats enjoyed amicable relations. Adlal E.

Stevenson, titular head of -the Democrats, will guide the counter-attack strategy but probably will refrain from front-line political combat. AMMUNITION will be supplied to such well-known orators as Senator Robert S. Kerr, Oklahoma; Senator Estes Kefauver, Tennessee, and former Vice President Alben Barkley, who is expected to seek a Senate seat next November. The Democrats also are grooming some able newcomers for forensic battles. These include Rep.

Richard W. Boiling, Missouri; Rep. Harrison Williams, New Jersey, and Rep. Samuel W. Yorty, California.

MEANWHILE, Brownell is to continue his attacks on the Democrats. He reportedly has ordered his top Justice department aides to dig up new espionage charges to hurl at the opposition party. Sources close to Brownell say that he will bring out the additional cases to fortify his argument that Congress should approve legislation authorizing use of wiretap evidence in court and giving immunity to co-operative witnesses asked about Red activities. Brownell is said to be enxious to show that more spy cases can be prosecuted if his proposals are approved by Congress. He wants to make the need for such laws very clear to the legislators and believes that case histories of unpunished espionage is the only way to, do this.

ONE POWERFUL figure in the current farm, policy squabble is carefully avoiding being too closely associated with the group demanding the scalp of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. This man is the one most people think will take over as agriculture secretary if Benson goes. He is Rep. Clifford Hope (R-Kan), chairman of the House agriculture committee. Hope is straddling the fence in all his public statements.

Although his own committee has been the source of much criticism of Benson, Hope himself has been keeping quiet. However, Hope's own position firmly on the side of high rigid price supports which Benson apparently doesn't like is well known among farmers and farm organizations. DEFENSE department officials are concerned over the small amount of titanium produced in the United States and are worried that a critical shortage may develop in this country in the near future. Titanium is a metal lighter than aluminum and stronger than Steel. It is ideal for using in making parts of jet engines because the metal will withstand extremely high temperatures.

Only 2,000 tons were produced in the United States in the past year and this was barely enough to meet top-priority demands. Since more and more jobs need the metal, a shortage is expected to develop rapidly. The defense department is trying to work out plans for getting several large corporations to boost production of the metal and also to increase the Imports from abroad. GUEST EDITORIAL To Bed Smokers Ky Clayton Rand LOSING THE SEVENTH WONDER (Kansas City Times) Most people know that there were seven ancient wonders of the world. But was it actually that number? A British natural scientist has suggested in the polite and cultured language of his calling that maybe one of them the Colossus of Rhodes was a fake.

Herbert Maryon has completed 12 years of archaeological research causing him to question the story that the famous statue of the sun god Helios actually stood with a beacon in its hands and one foot on each side of the harbor of Rhodes so that ships could pass underneath. From classical inscriptions Maryon has figured that the statue was only 120 feet high and therefore too small to straddle a harbor six hundred feet wide. He also concluded that it was made of thin bronze sheets and not solid bronze as advertised. Since the Colossus was tumbled by an earthquake about the year 224 B.C., it's no longer around for measuring. And if Mr.

Maryon doesn't mind too much, we'd just as soon go right on believing that the ancient world held seven wonders, not 6V4 as he implies. Candle Business Helped Voice of the People: Some group that studies business trends and comes up with a lot of interesting statistics should let us know what longer life has meant to the candle industry. Time was, when the average person lived scarcely half a century, that the sale of candles for use on birthdav cakes was The most effective sign I've seen was on the wall of a motel room in Cookcsville, "Rules and Regulations No smoking in bed as this endangers lives. No cooking in cabins. Positively no entertaining of opposite sex.

Fire extinguishers will be found back of office." strictly limited. But look at the Some Say This, Some That 5 ht American people now. Here will be a picture of a man, 100 years old, trying to blow out 100 candles so his wish will come true. And cakes with 75, 85 and 95 birthday candles are getting to be a drug on the market. All this has meant a brisk increase in the candle factories, more employment for candle makers and still greater profits for Uncle Sam to tax.

Lowell R.W.J. Tha fire department was called out in Seattle to put out a fire in a hotel room, in which a husband and wife had been smoking in bed. Eleven months later they did again, and three weeks later when repeated in the same hotel room, Mr. Mrs. Gus Lander both died from injuries suffered.

The National Fire Protection Association has just completed the first survey of its kind to show that during the past five years 1,490 persons perished in the United States while smoking in bed. Other forms of careless smoking added 1,310 deaths to the toll. Last year alone careless smoking and matches caused 116,000 of the nation's fires. The worst fire of 1953 attributed to smoking in bed was at Wor-chester, July 28, when five members of a family perished. A week later, three members of a family died at Darien, on a fire caused by a cigarette dropped in a living room sofa.

Several cities have imposed severe penalties for bed smokers. Hotels in Miami past warnings in room to bed smokers: "Inform the desk where to send your remains and leave a list of your relatives. By MARK DANA LEGENDS TRACE THE smoking of tobacco back to Sir Walter Raleigh's time, and at intervals since then more or less responsible medical men have blamed tobacco, especially cigarets, for a wide variety of ailments. Recently, there has been a rash of reports By ERICH BRANDIES from clinical researchers, them en. As things now stand, there's a new subject for emotional rather than cerebral argument in the land, with nobody positively sure about anything.

ALONE "They wandered in a solitary way." Psalms 107:4 "I walk alone," he said. Poor man! In all the years since he began His little life he could have made Friends who would rally to his aid But, no, he was quite well content To sit upon his fundament And plan ways to accumulate More goods and now when it's too late He longs for friendships, true and dear That could his old age bless and cheer. JULIEN C. HYER FORTUNATELY THE NEWCOMER seems to be housebroke. We kept him in the downstairs bathroom the first night.

My wife put a couple of old throw rugs down for him, and first thing in the morning I went down to see whether he had behaved. He had. Then I took him out for- a little run. Beagles being hunting dogs, he shot out of sight and didn't show up again for 15 minutes. When I came back in, I saw an old ball on the floor.

The ball looked familiar. "That's Deuce's old ball," my wife said. Apparently she had forgotten my instructions of several years ago to destroy everything that reminded us of Deuce. But I didn't bring up the question. I understood.

YouVe Tellhm Me By WILLIAM RITT Central Tress Writer The Post Office department has just revealed that it saved on Christmas Day mail. Gosh, how many addressed, stamped but yet unmailed holiday greeting cards does that add up to? Leave your last will and testa- mcnt with the clerk. Live and Let Live Voice of the People: Everyone can't be friends but couldn't each of us try a little harder than we have? Thank heavens we don't all think alike. You and I most certainly would not be living in this great land if Columbus had thought as others. Still it would be wise to keep some of our opinions to ourselves.

Too many forget there are always some things better left unsaid. Too many have become selfish. We are not satisfied with tending to our affairs we must run the lives of those about us. Can we be naive enough to think the world will ever be at peace, free of strife and trouble, when we see everyone's faults and mistakes but our own? We are supposed to be civilized human beings, why not act the part? Live and let live. Remember the greatest psychologist of all time said "Judge not, lest ye be judged." Calumet City BETTY A Face Card in a Deal SIGNS CONTINUE to indicate that any marked concessions to be made by Soviet Russia at the Jan.

25 Big Four Conference may require a scrapping of the embroiling European Defense Community plan. The basic Schuman Plan pooled the coal and steel Our sports ed says that if the new Air Force academy has a football team it should be pretty good at the aerial game. (THAT'S WHAT we are going to call him if he stays) sits beside me at the typewriter. The clatter of the keys seem to be something new to him. He just cocks his head at the strange noises or because it's just that he doesn't like publicity.

I don't know yet whether "Butch" is going to remain. But right now we have a dog again for "grief and pain and promised joy." Copyright, 1954, King Features Syndicate Looking at Life ROBERT BURNS CERTAINLY knew what( he was talking about when he wrote "the best-laid schemes o'mice and men gang aft a-gley, -nd lea'e us nought but grief and pain for promised joy." Burns must have owned a dog. Some years ago when our little Deuce, which we had for more then 10 years, died, my wife and I both firmly resolved, never to own another dog. Deuce was the cutest little Sealyham I have ever seen and when he went to dog-heaven, or wherever little doggies go, it almost broke our hearts. When you have no children I guess a dog sort of acts as a substitute.

You give him all the love that's in you, and it does not seem to interfere one bit with the love you have for each other. WHEN DEUCE DIED I asked my wife 'to destroy all the things that reminded us of him his rubber bone, his leash, his collar. She promised me she would but I don't want to get ahead of my story. So now we have been without a dog for five or six years, and the hurt in our hearts was almost all gone. But "the best-laid schemes The other day there was a scratching at the door and we heard a little whine.

I opened the door and there stood a little Beagles not more than six months old. Before I could say "scat," he scooted into the house, right out into the kitchen and lay down in front of the refrigerator. My wife came out into the kitchen, and the little fellow jumped up on her, nipped her hand playfully and rolled his big, brown eyes at her. That did it! The little fellow looked pretty bedraggled, but showed every evidence of being a thoroughbred. She cleaned him up a bit and petted him.

I gave him a little milk and some bread and he thanked us by licking our hands. So, it seems, we have another dog and our troubles are starting again. But they are nice troubles, I think. Already our new "child" has shown some little traits that forebode trouble. He lies in back of my chair, chewing up the rug.

I bawl him out, and he licks my hand as if to say. "I'm sorry, old man, but I am only a puppy." resources of six countries France, Grandpappy Jenkins doesn't agree the Constiution should be amended to permit 18-year-olds' to vote. He claims that's kid stuff. selves varying in repute, implying that the inhalation of cigaret smoke is among the causes of lung cancer. These reports, while restrained, indefinite and largely suggestive in nature, have provided a springboard for many long-familiar and new contentions, voiced by persons not at all restrained or temperate, that cigarets destroy character, motivate bad behavior, and are' harmful spiritually and mentally.

THE ALARMISTS about a smoking and lung cancer link admit they have proved nothing con-clusivley, yet of late cigaret sales have gone down. After the federal government forbade the large tobacco industries to share a new, broader research seeking provable facts, the industries now are starting tests by themselves. It is unlikely that they or anybody else can ever prove conclusively that cigaret smoke inhalation cannot cause cancer. One can foresee a continuation of claims and denials trying with feverish zeal to mould public opinion. As things are now, evidence is confusing.

Plenty of chain smokers never get cancer; many non-smokers do. In some cases, many ailments are attributed to nicotine, plus early deaths. Con-trarily, a great many heavy smokers reach their nineties and outlive warners. ONE PERSON will remind that nicotine is among the deadliest poisons; another will remind that the human body can build up counter-actions and tolerations for practically any toxic substance. One man stops smoking and claims to feel wonderful; his brother stop3 and feels simply awful.

Most doctors smoke; so do many clergymen; so do varied good, bad, healthy, unhealthy men and wom LESSON IN ENGLISH By W. L. GORDON That now celebrated bowl game football player who hopped off the bench to illegally tackle a touchdown-bound rival, gridder appears to be a prime example of how one can blunder into fame. How in the World Voice of the People: I overheard a woman say, "I just can't porch an egg without breaking the yelk." When I inquired whether she grew up in Southern Indiana she answered, "Why yes, I did, but how in the world did you ever guess it?" Black Oak PORTIA It's a sad situation but we fear some New Year's resolutions didn't last as long as did the Christmas trees. West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

The United States, backed somewhat casually by Britain, has been trying for wearying months to get all these countries to extend this economic set-up into a frankly military set-up, involving a joint European army into which would be pooled all of the defense forces of the member nations, with this joint army directed by all of them. WHAT THE U.S. wants is for these six Nations, in effect, to give up their sovereignity insofar as arms and defense are concerned, and to this extent become one large community state. This is something United States would never do with Canada, Mexico and other neighbors. Germany favors EDC because it would permit Germany to have an army again, even though pooled with This is the key reason why France balks on the pact.

Russia protests this unification of West Europe, a move aimed primarily against her, and such opposition is natural. The EDC plan states that the joint army would never be used in aggression, but the line between aggression and defense can be highly clastic. EVER SINCE the Foreign Ministers of the six countries signed the treaty in May, 1952, necessary ratification by their respective parliaments has been debated hotly. Washington has pleaded, and more than hinted of clubs and bribes via foreign aid and other favors, but the two key Nations Italy and France still dally. That is what Russia will bring up at Berlin, and there'll be more hints of clubs, bribes and of course international horse trading.

In New Zealand a 40-mile-an-hour wind blew Queen Elizabeth's speech right out of her hand. It was, no doubt, full of breezy WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, "This hat is no use to me." Say, "if of no use to me." OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Gala. Pronounce first syllable as gay, not as gall. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Glutinous (sticky). Gluttonous ((greedy).

SYNONYMS: Curious, inquisitive, prying, inquiring, intrusive. WORD STUDY: "Use a word three times and it is yours." Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: INEXPUNG ABLE impregnable; unconquerable. "Each of us should build within himself a fortress inexpungable to the darts of criticism." Birthday Cake Voice of the People: Grandma Marlene Dietrich, upon the occasion of her 48th birthday, was given a six-layer cake that weighed 400 pounds. Well and good, but considering her usual pose when she's photographed, wouldn't a cheesecake have been more appropriate? Whiting.

CINDY Grade schoolers who ignore their home work in order to watch television are "Surely guilty of skipping their A-B-Cs in order to-concentrate on T-V..