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and Stay Out! 10 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1952 Editorials What of Your Child's School? Education is the development of Ameri-ca's greatest resource of all its youth. And the problems of today's schools are the problems of all who seek to hold the line for freedom and to build a better nation and a better world. That these facts are being appreciated by more and more citizens is attested by the widespread lay interest in this year's American Education Week, being observed now under the sponsorship of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, the American Legion, the United States Office of Education and the National Education Association. It is estimated that 12 million parents and other citizens will visit their community's schools this week. There they are seeing firsthand the problems that the teachers face every day in the year.

Not only the responsibility of guiding children into mental and social adjustment, which varies with every individual child, but in far too many cases, the handicap of overcrowded or otherwise poor classroom facilities. If our public schools are to serve today's children effectively, they must be equipped with enough and thoroughly qualified teachers. They must be equipped, at the same time, with enough classroom space in adequate buildings so that the teacher will not have to deal with pupils as an unwieldy mass. In Indianapolis, fortunately, a wise program of construction is keeping abreast of the growing school population. This be continued.

In some communities adjacent to Marion County, however, and in many others over the state of Indiana, the shortage of school facilities is a serious problem. In these communities, overcrowding deprives the individual pupil of the attention to which he is entitled. He is being shorted in his preparation for the opportunities of life. It is intolerable that children should thus be bypassed. In this state, school administrators are receiving needed interest and support from other organized groups, such as the Indiana Farm Bureau.

In his 1952 annual message to that organization at its annual convention In Indianapolis this week, Hassil E. Schenck, the farm organization's president, stated: "One of the major problems with which we will be confronted in the years ahead is that of school building accommodations to meet the needs of a greatly expanded youth population. The problem of financing this program is one that merits careful consideration. It is highly questionable, under present construction costs and under constitutional limits, whether or not needs can be met in many municipal units throughout the state. It is our responsibility to work constructively toward the" solution of this problem." Education is a national problem, but it Is a state and local responsibility.

In many communities, township consolidation would solve the problem of inadequate schools, and ease the financial burden as well. The remedy should come, not from the outside, but primarily from local will and independence to see that each community's own children are properly educated. The National Education Association states that the danger to our national freedoms comes not only from subversive groups, but also "from those who, through highly centralized governmental plans, would place policy-making and decision-making remote from the people." If our public schools are to continue to be one of our best weapons in fighting the Ideologies which would destroy the very foundations of our free government, they must be supported as bulwarks of our security. If they are to continue to inspire and prepare our youth to win new victories for freedom, they must not be permitted to become second-rate, institutions. Every American child today is entitled to be taught not only the "know how," but also the "know why." THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Local Council Pays a Last Tribute to Philip Murray as a Great Leader, Dedicated to a Noble Cause To the Kditor of The News: The following is the text of a resolution adopted by the Indianapolis Industrial Union Council-CIO: "Whereas, at the national convention held in 1940, Philip Murray was called to lead the Congress of Industrial Organizations as its president ana has given inspirational leadership to our Union for 12 years, dedicated to the purpose that 'we must devote our lives as trade unionists toward the upbuilding of a better life for Americans, and we must pledge only one national allegiance and that allegiance to our own country, the United States of America.

Iranic Is The Word HOOSIER HOMESPUN Sour Puss There' not rnnuth money In hot or cold climr, To make me feci funny Before breakfast time. Facetia Such Little Things Question: It is amazing what secrets are reealed when summer's leaves have fallen. The naked tree exposes the fact that it held occupants, whose identity we would have refused to believe. But there, hanging from a mere twig, at the outer edge of the huge maple, is a tiny basket of dried Trass. Seeing it against a sky made brilliant by the setting sun, we can even discern the strands of grass which go up and over the tiny tree limb, in such a way that we know it is not a nest dislodged by the wind.

The little brown basket is still topside up. Does any bird but an oriole weave a hanging nest? We have exhausted the information in our huge tome on birds. The only data that seem in apply concern the nests of orchard orioles, which are as different in construction as the contrast in coloring between the giddy Baltimore and the dusky black and brown of his rarer cousin. We know that last May we. had more visits than ever before from the gay and noisy oriole, but we never once saw the orchard species, or recognized his musical song.

The little nest hangs almost over the much-used path to the mailbox. Yet never once during the early summer were any of us aware that a stranger shared our shade. Since the oriole rarely visits the ground, but feeds aloft on the pests that infest an or-chard's blooms, we could very easily have missed seeing him. And as this nest: seems to us too small for any oriole, the question still remains, just whose nest can it be? M.B.B. Burlesque shows could make effective use of exposure meters.

A Prayer Roses, you smile of God, Outside my window there. How generously you live, Freely your sweetness share! May I live beauty, too. May I draw souls to see Glimpses of Holy lore, The perfect Deity! Myrtle Haworth Robertson, Tipton In Days to Come As another Thanksgiving approaches we are reminded of turkey. This bird, once the headliner for that day and often for Christmas, is becoming more popular now for ordinary use and the breeding of smaller turkeys makes it possible to fry them as one would a chicken. However, that is only a step in the direction turkey culture should go.

If they can reduce the size until each turkey is about right for one person, then all of the argument over drumsticks, necks, backs, breasts and other parts will end. Every person at the table will have a turkey of his own, to accept or reject as he chooses. Gerry Cod's Army Cod's army may be small But all His men are wise, For when they cannot see their way They follow His kind eyes. God's army prays for peace. Let's all join them in prayer, As wounded brothers fall and die In rocky trenches ever there! You cannot rout God's army, His sword is love Divine! It does not matter if it springs From faith like yours and mine.

You cannot doubt God's power. His army may be small. But all the world could march in peace If men obeyed His coll! larle Franklin Baker, Kokome Leaves Are Valuable Leaves that fall ffom the trees and vines, at this time of the year, should never be raked until the following spring. Left where they are they will protect the roots of trees and form a blanket for shrubs, grass and vines when snow falls and when the period of freezing follows. Many of the leaves, if left to nature's use, will disintegrate and thus become organic fertilizer to enrich the soil.

Fred T. Cutter Hi, Skipper With my skipper gone I flounder around. Grasping at life's tidal wave; Throw your anchor ashore, let me grasp it once more. And then happy memories I'll save. Close Observer, Arcadia Indiana deer face death three days a year, but it is an everyday hazard for motorists and pedestrians.

T.S.E. 'There can be no difference in point of view regarding these phases of the situation. There should not be. There must not These were his words. who own larger cars.

Over-all, it is not a ta. reduction whatsoever it raises the average fee of $10.60 to $11. In whose interest is this tax "ree-nmmendation" made? In the first place, it proposes a hike in tax revenues; but it proposes to do this by shifting taxes from the big fellow's pocketbook to the little fellow's. (Isn't it a nasty business to still talk about a "little Plainly enough, a Cadillac luxury should cost no more than a small tin turtle. With the same tax logic, why not set a flat rate on domicile let the mansion and the hovel pay the same fee.

They're both places to live, aren't they? Such devilish and repugnant "recommendations" regarding economics should be watched, hunted down and waylaid by the new administration. They should not be allowed and there is the danger to take root and grow in ignorance or evasions and establish the "trend" for the program of the "great crusade." And the "crusade" people are the ones to be on watch and speak out because they have the plums and the power. Four years from now there will be another national vote counting and there will be another decision for or against the GOP offering of the coming four years. L. G.

MERRELL Morristown Now, Let's See To the Editor of The News: In answer to a letter from Daisy-dean Deeds in the Voice of the People, I am wondering if she can remember a little farther back than 20 years ago when the people were praying for a leader to help us save our homes and feed our families. That prayer was answered when Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected. And may I ask her what, was so un-American about the last 20 years? If eating well and having money in the bank is un-American, then perhaps she is right. All you Republicans have done is gripe.

Now, let's sec what you can do, hut let's not give anyone but the Republican press the credit for winning the election. A FAIR DEALER Danville None Like Hoosiers To the Editor of The "The most superstitious people in the world are from Indiana," says Charlie Brctney, "fi. in a recent issue of the New York Times. Bretney, who has heen selling sight, seeing trips in New York for 12 years, says all Hoosiers want a guaranty that there is a Hudson River before they will buy a ticket for a boat trip. He has traveled in 30 states, to Europe and South America, but has failed to find any people like Hoosiers.

Can this man lie right? FORMER HOOSIER Springfield, O. to win the war, and it has been the custom from year to year to have our parades in memory of that great day, November 11, at 11 a.m. Can it be that in 34 years the old-timers are being forgotten by their sons and their grandchildren? Did not the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, along with other organizations, march alongside the Civil War veterans, the Spanish War veterans, Why can't the boys of World War II take over and stage these parades and let us old-timers march alongside them? There will be stories told and retold today and tonight over that bottle of beer and that shot of rye stories of the battlefields and of buddies who were left to die of shock, more deadly than shot, since in those days there was no blood plasma for our boys. Yes, we jvill be reliving those memories of just a few years ago when we were in our prime. But today our stride is not like it used to be.

We old-timers must quit kidding ourselves. We arc not as young as wc once were we are old, and when you get old nobody cares. We oldsters are the ones who sit on the sidelines of our various veterans organizations, guiding these youngsters who, in time, will be oldsters like ourselves. Perhaps our poor old legs and backs just can't stand the gaff any longer, and that is the reason for no parade today. And perhaps we should say, along with that great general, Douglas MacArthur: We old soldiers veterans of World War I don't die; we just fade away.

Plainficld GEORGE A. TIPPS Watch Out, Little Man To Iho Editor of Ih Newi; Amidst the ambiguous pleasantries of the GOP victory, we come (at least on the state level) to something concrete and solid the "studies" and "recommendations" of the Indiana Tax Study Commission, dished up for the 1953 Legislature and comfortably reported and presented in the November 10 News. One "recommendation" of this "tax study" group and I make nothing but a guess as to its partisanship would place a flat bounty of $11 on all automobiles. This would mean, quoting The News, "increases of $1 to for 15T of Hoosiers who own smaller cars." And it would mean tax decreases for "16 to 25" of Hoosiers No greater pledge to ideals can be spoken, no greater devotion has any man shown than that of our illustrious leader. His zeal for the cause of all workers and Americans was inexhaustible.

His determination to pursue the cause of justice was untiring. His love for his people knew no bounds. President Murray's untimely death grieves all of the world deeply. His loss to cur cause seems unbearable. His place within our hearts can never be filled.

"Now, therefore, be it resolved: That the Indianapolis Industrial Union Council-CIO humbly expresses its appreciation of a great man whose life was devoted to a great job well done. "And be it further resolved: That we redodicate our lives and efforts to the continuation in his memory of the task which he so eminently had begun. "And be it further resolved: That this council unanimously express through this resolution our deepest heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Philip Murray arid to his son Joseph. "And be it further resolved: That we intensify our efforts to the early completion of the Philip Murray Riley Hospital Research Fund which has been so nobly begun and dedicated to his honor and to his memory.

"And be it finally resolved: That copies of this resolution be transmitted forthwith to the 14th annual convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations to be held in the city of Los Angeles, beginning November 17, 1952." MILES H. LOYD JR. President, Indianapolis Industrial Union Council-CIO Indianapolis Beginning of the End To the Editor af Tht NtwM Today Armistice Day is the day that we oldsters of World War I have always celebrated, marching arm in arm down streets and avenues, but today there was no blaring of bugles or thumping of drums. And inside of me, I was sick. I am wondering if this is the starting of the forgetting of the veterans of World War I.

We men of today, who were the bo.v of yesterday, marched off to war with smiles upon our faces and a will to win. We left our mothers and sweethearts My Window By Myrtie Barker What Better Path to Peace? THE BIRTH of a magazine the offspring of a mother's love. That's Pen-Prints. It's an international publication. And its creation is as natural as the cradling of an infant against a mother's breast, the noiseless steps to a crib to tuck the covers in at night, the prayers of every parent.

I had wondered how magazines were started. From whence came the first faint spark of an idea? And how was the spark fanned into paper and ink, and printed potions? Now I know. I have heard the story of Pen-Prints, of its conception and birth here in Indignapolis. It has been related to me by Mrs. Carolyn M.

Cordcs, one of the associate editors of the new magazine. It begins with a mother's devotion to her son. Certainly, there must be millions of mothers like her. She is Mrs. Joseph L.

Ashman, 1806 Northwood Drive, Indianapolis. And the boy, 12-year-old Lloyd Ashman. The horrors of war are not reserved for those in the front lines, or for their nearest of kin back home. The mothers and fathers of little boys and girls wince before reports of bombings, new weapons, casualty lists. Years pass swiftly.

Is death on a battlefield the destiny of their son? That little tot, taking his first steps; the tousled-headed kid astride a bike; the tall, straight boy, marching up to a platform to get his high school diploma are the agonies of ar to be his fate? YEARNING FOR a world at peace, where her son and the sons of others might live normal and constructive lives that was the dream of Mrs. Ashman. That was the spark that kindled Pen-Prints. Believing that all men are brothers under the skin, that they only need to know each other better to love each other more Mrs. Ashman proposed an international, magazine.

She shared her idea with Mrs. Cordos. The Indiana Poetry Society and other friends were made acquainted with the plan. Gradually, it began to take shape. Mothers and fathers were stirred with this new possibility of establishing peace among nations.

Businessmen were eager to lend their support. A corporation was formed, manuscripts were solicitedand lo, a magazine was in the making. A few months ago the first copies of Pen-Prints rolled off the presses. A hope had been realized. Within the pages of this new magazine, parents could build a better world.

The goal of this courageous little publication which has gone forth the world over, acting as an ambassador of peace, is summed up in the words of Mrs. Ashman in the first pages of that first issue: "Pen-Prints is a magazine devoted to the purpose of creating good will and fostering understanding by helping nations to become better acquainted through an exchange of poetry, art, history, humor and philosophy." AN ESTEEMED group of men and women make up the editorial staff, art department and the board members. Besides those previously mentioned are Professor Eugene T. Underwood, William M. Chitwood, Carol Wilson, Susanna M.

Underwood, Barton Rees Pogue, H. Joseph Pier-son, Hazel Nixon, Parker T. Spinney, Rose Marie Cruzan. It is the plan of the staff to feature at least one country and one state in each issue. Switzerland and Wisconsin are the subjects in the magazine's first edition.

Already response has come from many foreign countries. Mexico plans to include Pen-Prints in its school curriculum. The deep desire to give youth a world united has brought forth a magazine dedicated to that end. An untoward event scarcely noticed in the closing days of the United States electoral campaign was Bolivia's decision to nationalize its tin mines, third richest in the world. The expropriation approaches outright confiscation from the foreign investors, 65 of which are United States shareholders.

The anti-United States administration of the extremist dictator, Victor Paz Estens-soro, has applied the formula of the Iranian oil steal to the Western Hemisphere. The announced indemnification provisions are far below the actual value of the properties taken over. Furthermore, there is the prospect that United States industry both civilian' and military may be held up if it is to continue to receive needed Bolivian tin, or even deprived of it entirely in a Bolivian deal with an unfriendly power. Edward Tomlinson, a Latin-American authority, declares flatly that "the nationalization was not only inspired by the most sinister influences at work in Latin America, but, in so far as these influences are concerned, was designed to handicap and cripple the United States in case of all-out war with Russia. The Peron regime in Argentina, assisted by the Communists and their fellow travelers in Bolivia, trained the wrecking crews that pulled the foundations from under the three big companies." The Bolivian action will be a setback to efforts to interest United States development capital in furthering economic progress in Latin America.

It adds yet another problem to those which must be faced by the Eisenhower administration. For Gallantry in Living It is an honor to The News, as indeed it is to all Indiana, that Myrtle Barker whose column on this page has been a shining window to beauty, light and gladness has received the "Who's Crippled" award of the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults. This national award is given in recognition for outstanding achievement in overcoming a physical handicap. Of all those who have shared the delight and inspiration of Myrtie Barker's warmhearted essays on her garden, her friends, her kitchen and on young beauty and old memories, probably few ever realized that she has lived gallantly in a wheel chair and on crutches since she was 11 years old. But anyone who knows Myrtie knows her courage needs no crutch.

She is living proof that the finest gold of character is refined in the flames of adversity. Using its prerogative to change punctuation, The News has edited the title of Myrtie's award to: "Who's Crippled?" Who's crippled? Certainly not one who walks through life, with her eyes on the stars, on the strong limbs of the spirit. Certainly not one who cheerfully carries the burdens of others. Certainly not one who can lift thousands of hearts. Certainly not Myrtie Barker.

Sitting This One Out It is difficult to believe that In-dianapolis citizens who contributed to the Community Chest last year have failed or refused to aid the current campaign. The needs of the Chest's 50 Red Feather agencieR are even greater for the year to come than they were for 1952. The ability to give Is evidenced by the continued high rate of prosperity. But the attempt to reach a conservative goal failed, largely because, for some Incredible reasons, thousands of persons are sitting this one out. Surely these citizens have the best Interests of their fellow citizens at heart.

Certainly they are ready and willing to aid whatever is best for the community in which they live and prosper. The campaign may be officially closed but the Community Chest always is willing to accept additional contributions. Now is the time for the to come forward and do their duty. INTERNATIONAL SCENE: Korean Campaign Issue Strengthened Russia By Clifton Utley OFF THE RECORD By Ed Reed Korean peace at almost any price. If they believe that, it is to Russian interest to be as unbending as possihle about Korea at the present time, and to continue to be equally unbending at least through the first few months of the Blisenhower presidency.

This is the thing that Adlai Stevenson foresaw and frequently mentioned in the closing days of the campaign when be assailed Eisenhower's handling of the Korean issue, charging that the Republican candidate's action might delay the conclusion of Korean peace. In the heightened tensions of the campaign, it was necessary for Eisenhower supporters indignantly 10 deny the Stevenson charge, just as it was equally necessary for Democrats to support the charge, each group taking the position it did for purely campaign purposes, and without any regard to the basic facts of the case. But now that the campaign is over and we have returned to relative sanity, it is easy to see that on this point at least Stevenson may have been right. TIIKItE IS NO TKOOF. of course, that the Russians would have proved any more yielding If both parties during the campaign had been united on the Korean issue, and if the Republican nominee had avoided encouraging hopes that somehow he would find a speedy road to honorable Korean pence, There are valid reasons why the Russians might want to continue the Korean War indefinitely under any circumstances as long as it can be continued largely at Chinese expense, for as Winston Churchill pointed out in the Lord Mayor's banquet speech on November 10, "There is no douht that the absorption of so largo a proportion of American and I'nited Nations resources in the Far East is tn Ihe advantage of Moscow and the Communist movement as a whole." But for the moment, the basic point is that the nature of Eisenhower's campaigning on the Korean issue for the time being gives the Russians an additional reason for not budging an during the months immediately ahead, in Ihe hope that the Presidentelect, as a result of the nature of his campaign, will be under sufficient pressure to produce speedy peace to be compelled to yield to Russian de-mantis on the war prisoner question.

If this proves not to be the rase, Moscow can reconsider the situation in Hip light of the situation existing next April or May. 0 LET VS ALSO recognie that the military situation In Korea further encourages the Russians and the Chinese to stand fast at the present time. About midyear, in an effort to Increase the enemy's desire for ponce, the United Nations command fundamentally changed Ihe nature nf the air war in Korea. North Korean dams were bombed. The air war wan reoriented tn a substantia! extent along rather than tactical lines.

The change rente after it was recognized that in the year of truce negotiation stalemate, the enemy had rebuilt his ground army, and In thr hope that severe damage Inlllrted on North Korean installations that have fundamental long-ranee Industrial Importance Communist China, mlcht cause the Chinese, to acrca to peace. The new type nf air campaign was apparently decided upon because, with the strengthened position of Chinese armies, we were either unable or unwilling to mount a sufficient ground offensive to induce the enemy to want speedy peace. The enemy was unable to respond to the heightened U.N. air attack in kind cither because nf lack nf adequate air power on the Chinese side, or because of unwillingness to do so for fear of nn intensive Chinese bombardment of South Korea would change the war's ground rules and bring about 1 nited Nations bombardment of Man-cliuria, which the Chinese have thus far been able to avoid. JUT.

AS WE NOW KNOW, the enemy did immediately take steps to reply to our new air offensive through the menus by which he is best able to reply through a new ground offensive. It took the enemy several months io prepare this offensive, hut carlv In October the Chinese drive began. The drive is obviously not a major Chinese attempt to break through and end the war. Its purpose Is to knock us a hit off balance, to Increase our casualties sufficiently to heighten 1h American desire for peace, nnd to show us that enemy ground action enn apply force equal and opposite to any force we can apply through air power, and to convince us that we cannot win the ar. To Hate, Mm enemy has arhlevcd 1hi first three of these objectives.

It Is natural that he should want to wait a while and see. he ran also accom-tluh the fourth at well. ANDREI VISHINSKY'S statement, to the U.N. assembly that Russia "will not budge an inch" from its position that all Korean war prisoners must he returned has plunged the United Nations into intense gloom and has made the Korean deadlock as complete as ever. It has dashed hones that the Russians might prove somewhat more flexible after seeing the results of the American elections.

The hope was understandable, but was it not in fact extremely naive? Is it not to Russia's very interest to do exactly as she is' doing, and arc we not, at the present time, paying part of the price for the luxury of our political campaign? 1 OR Dt KING THE campaign Gen. Eisenhowei made much of the Korean issue. To employ the currently popular phrase, Mr. Eisenhower, if one reads the "fine type" provisions of his campaign speeches, never promised to produce peace in Korea. But he based a substantial part of his campaign on attacks on administration bungling of the Korean issue and on raising strong hopes that, if elected, he would somehow bring an end to Korean fighting on terms honorable to the United States and the V'nited Nations.

This won him many votes: some even think his Implied promise tn bring Korean pcare won him more votes than any other Issue. Consequently it is logical for the Russians to believe that Eisenhower, onre in office, will he under extremely strong popular prenure to produce "I wish you'd get over that sloppy habit cf going aroOnd with your shoes untied!" a.