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108 of Service to the Community THE PHAROS-TRIBUNE PROGRAM FOR LOGANSPORT: 1. An operative Planning Commission. 2. An adequate Civic Center. 3.

Proper maintenance of streets and sidewalks. 4 An adequate Sewerage and Garbage Disposal system. 5. Sufficient Parking Facilities. Old Hickory Andrew Jackson, born March 15, 1767, was one of the most colorful figures ever to win the presidency of the United States.

His early fame was won as a soldier in the Indian wars and his victory over the British in the War of 1812 brought him to national attention. Historians often criticize Jackson for some of his acts as President. He was quick to reward his followers with political office and just as quick to remove his opposition. But historians generally concede that his administrations were successful. Perhaps the high point of Jackson's service to his country was his firm stand against the doctrine of nullification.

Several states maintained that simply by calling federal legislation null and void a state could be absolved from obedience to it. Jackson quelled the doctrine of nullification so thoroughly that it did not "become an issue again for many years. Perhaps the best remembered of all Jackson's utterances was his toast at a dinner attended by a number of advocates oi' nullification. The speeches had all favored the doctrine of state rights and it was wondered what Jackson would do when he was called on for a toast. When the time came he rose, lifted his glass and said in a voice that brought every man at the table to his feet: "Our federal union; it must be preserved." Communists Dropping Off The Communists themselves admit that their number is diminishing.

The party enrollment throughout the world has dropped by at least 1,000,000 in the last three years. This news comes right from the horse's mouth, Pravda, the Klemlin's official order. The information is indirect, it is true, but it is there. Pravda states that there are now 24,000,000 party members in the world. In 1950 the Russian press figures gave the number as 25,000,000 or 26,000,000.

Of these 24,000,000 Russia contributes 7,000,000, and China 5,000,000. The next largest enrollment is in Italy, where 2,000,000 Communists are claimed. North Korea 'is stated to have 1,000,000 members. Three-fourths of the Communists came from Communist states. This would leave only 6,000,000 for the rest of the world.

Not only did the figures show a decline of 1,000,000 since 1950, but actually it must be more than that. Both Russia and China are known to have increased the party strength of late. That must mean that elsewhere the number has dropped far more than a million. Depend upon it, Moscow is worrying over these 'figures. Eisenhower Opposes Compulsory Medicine a WASHINGTON Eisenhower spoke out today against compulsory or socialized medicine with a pledge that his administration will not try to be the "big poobah" of the medical profession.

In a brief, extemporaneous talk, Mr. Eisenhower told the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association that he doesn't like the words "compulsory" or "socialized." To him, he said, the words "seem to be a step" toward the thing the nation is spending billions to prevent. He said the system of free enterprise must be safe-guarded. Mr. Eisenhower expressed faith that the medical profession can care the health needs of the nation better through cooperation and friendship of the administration than by government dircc- tion.

"This is our pledge," he said after promising that the administration has no desire to be a "big poobah" in the medical field. Mr. Eisenhower began his brief remarks with a statement that he had "no prescriptions to ofl'er." He said he was sure the physicians will make decisions that they think are best for the American people as a whole. Mr. Eisenhower appeared before the AMA group one day after he submitted to Congress a plan to establish a cabinet-level department health, education, and welfare.

The AMA group also heard an extemporaneous speech by Senate Republican Leader Robert A. Taft of Ohio who urged AMA support of the President's plan so the administration can "clean house" in the FSA. 200,000 Articles Lost On Railroads Recovered NEW YORK than 200,000 of the 250,000 articles lost on America's railroads this year will be returned to the owners at a cost of 81,000,000, according to lost and'found statistics. The Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference said the percentage of returns would be even higher if Americans had more faith in their fellow riders. Many persons are just too cynical to claim lost valuables.

The conference pointed out that railroads pride themselves on spending months and even years to trace ownership of the 32,000,000 worth of goods lost on their lines each year. A fraternity pin recently was returned to an owner who had lost it 16 years before. Finders are keepers only when articles have been unclaimed 90 days, so investigators work with this deadline in mind. Logansport In The Past Year Ago Dr. William J.

Roberts, retired Pennsylvania railroad examiner, died at the St. Joseph hospital. Death claimed Mrs. Mary E. McDowell, 77, of Royal Center.

John Sink, 68, of Flora, succumbed. Approximately 3,800 farmers and their families from Cass and surrounding counties attended the an- nual'Farmers-Merchants program in Berry Bowl Friday night. Ten Years Aqo Charles Samuel Brugh, 48, landscape artist, expired at his home, 1706 Clifton avenue. Francis Knarr has resigned his position as chief of the Winamac Eire department. Frank D.

Gibson, 69, of Walton, died at the St. Joseph hospital fol. lowing an illness of a week. Mrs. Dorothy Biackburn, Twelve Mile, has been appointed supply pastor of the Twelve Mile and New Waverly United Brethren churches by Dr.

B. H. Cain of Warsaw, conference superintendent, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation her husband, First Lieut. R. H.

Blackburn, to become an army chaplain. Frank D. Gibson, 69, Walton, died at the St. Joseph hospital following an illness of about a week. Mrs.

Ida Davidson Todd, 73, first president of the Carroll county Home- Economics clubs and first GOP vice-chairman in Carroll county, died at her home today after a long illness. Two unmasked bandits held up the Brookston Farmers State Bank i Monday afternoon, making their escape by auto with a sum estimated at $1,500 to $1,800. A bill introduced by Rep. Ned Lowery, of this city, providing for substantial increases in the salaries of the mayor, city clerk, city attorney, and city engineer, today had been allowed to become a law without the signature of Gov. Henry F.

Schricker. "You FeDows Heard About Pearl Harbor Yet?" 50 Years Ago George W. Steele, late congressman from this district, left Friday night for Arizona to inquire into mining enterprises. H. T.

McElhaney and Nora B. Lape were licenses to marry. Martin Ganter, Panhandle engineer hurt in the Cincinnati yards a few weeks ago, will return in a few days. Miss Mary Norris won the prize at the Central school Thursday as the best speller. Mrs.

Kate Treanor, Brooklawn farm, has returned from Star City where she was called on business. Miss Carrie Moore has returned from Norfolk. where she spent the winter. John Keesling and John Eckert went to Kankankee today to- hunt ducks. Drew Pearson's Merry-Go-Round Drew Pearson says.

Defense Chief reverses self on budget cuts; 40-page catalog costs services sabotage $4,000,000,000 saving effort. of De-1 plete the entire catalog. fense Charles E. Wilson went into I a complete, though secret reverse com, mx KINO TEXTURES SYNDICATE. IM, WORLD BIGHTS RESERVED.

Alcohol Tax Division Head Says Berkley Had Two Officials Switched WASHINGTON E. Avis, chief of the federal alcohol tax division, said today tax officials in Louisville, and New Orleans were switched" in 1949 after former Vice President Alben W. Barkley interceded, Avis told a House Ways and Means subcommittee investigating tax scandals that, as it was explained to him, Barkley insisted on the transfer of Howard D. Taylor from Louisville because Taylor had refused to cooperate in appointments and had made" a "substantial contribution" to the Republican campaign fund. Previous'witnesses testified that Taylor, then supervisor of the alcohol tax unit in con! tributed to the senatorial campaign fund of Sen.

John Sherman Cooper (R-Ky.) in 1948. Avis said of Barkley's intervening that he knew only what he had been told by Carroll E. Mealey, former deputy internal revenue commissioner in charge of the alcohol tax unit. Avis said Mealey got his information from George J. Schooneman, then commissioner of internal revenue.

"The only difference hunting and fishing you get the license BEFORE the victim is captured!" State Soldier Bonus Deadline Set June 30 INDIANAPOLIS (UP) World War II veterans who have not yet filed application for the Indiana bonus have until June 30 to do so under a new law signed today by. Governor Craig. The governor also signed into law three administration measures for appointment of a state director of traffic safety, replacing the four-man highway commission with three men, and increasing authority of the adjutant general. Other bills he signed create a commission to plan a new state office buHding, allow ill persons to vote by absentee ballot, license horse-drawn vehicles, and prescribe duties of a fair employment practices commission. last week.

After telling a Senate commit tee he could make no real cuts in the defense budget, he ordered the Navy to cut by two billions, the Air Force by two billions, and the Army by a quarter billion. Reason for the reversal was determined desire on the part of Budget Director Joe Dodge to chop expenses, plus realization that in the armed forces there's the greatest fat. Here is some news which may help Dodge and Wilson. A little over a year 4, column reported in detail how the Army, Navy, Air Force overlapped, duplicated, and competed with each other in buying supplies. In such a relatively simple item as carpenter's squares, for instance, a carpenter's square for the Quartermaster Corps cost 65 cents, for the Navy $2, for the Army S1.90, for the Signal Corps S2.10, for the Army Engineers SI.48, for the Air Force $1.40.

Furthermore, even within the Army itself, there is no standardization carpenter's squares, so that the Army catalog "contained six separate specifications for squares the signal corps', ordnance's, transportation's, engineers', chemical warfare's, and quartermaster corps'. On top of this, Air Force has to have a seventh number, and the bare cost of reprinting Army catalogs to add the Air Force's 7th number is about 31,500,000." Last year also, a subcommittee spearheaded by Congressman Carl Vinson of Georgia, and Eddie Hebert of Louisiana performed extensive research on armed services duplication, finally passed a law requiring the Army, Navy, Air Force to compile one catalog from which they all would order instead of competing against each other through separate catalogs. That law was passed on July 1, 1952. Since then, the Defense Department has had 300 people working full time in Washington, plus 3,000 people working part time in the field to compile a joint armed services catalog. Finally, after' spending $87,000,000, they have produced the first catalog on "subsistence" or Memo As a result of this dilly-dallying, Acting Defense Secretary William i Foster in the Truman administra- I lion sent a confidential memo to his Republican successor on the day before Eisenhower took over.

This column has obtained a copy of the confidential memo, which reads: i "You will recall that I touched briefly on the subject of the cataloging and standardization program and my concern as to its effectiveness. Attached is a copy of a memo to Mr. Sheridan, defense management staff, recommending action I believe to be appropriate. Foster enclosed not only his recommendation for the use of outside civilian experts to cut Army- Navy duplication, but he also enclosed an amazing memo from Edward J. Sheridan in which the defense management director admitted complete failure by the armed forces to get together on a joint; standardized buying program.

According to the confidential memo, the 40-page catalog for the purchase of food, referred to above, "does not include information on each item needed for supply operations such as size, weight, cubage. This means that the subsistence catalog which covers the simplest catalog of items existing in the military supply system cannot be used in supply operation." In other words, after spending 587,000,000 of the taxpayers' money and eight months time, even the meagre 40 pages of standardized cataloging aren't worth using. "It would appear," continues the confidential memo, "that if this practice is followed for the remaining 73 groups of items to be cataloged, the intent of the Congress will not be met and that a single cataloging system will not be developed. "Further the subsistence catalog, first published in November, 1952, is already at the printer for revision and inclusion of 300 additional the boys forgot. "One million new items have entered the supply system since the Korean war started," the memo continued, "and represent a tremendous backlog of work.

"The rate of nev. items coming into the system is greater than the rate of cataloging," confesses Mr. Sheridan. "This means that we have undoubtedly spent needless time, money, and effort in cataloging items which were obsolete." When'Congress passed the law for standarized buying it was estimated that the elimination of compet- 40 pages: ji Army-Navy warehouses, dupli- In contrast, the complete pur-; cate warehousing personnel, dupli- chasing catalogs of the Army, i cate books, cataloging, would Navy, Air Force fill one room. So i save the taxpayers four billions, at the rate of $87,000,000 for 40 Instead it has cost ex- pages, it will take billions com- tra.

Four billions is about the De Luxe Service Conn. (UP) Police here provided alarm clock service i when an ice storm crippled power lines. Without power, electric clocks stopped. The cops accomodatingly telephoned more than a SCOM of I- workers and awakened them in time get to their jobs. i THE PHAROS-TRIBUNE Dnlly SOc per week by carrier, (15.00 per year by carrier.

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This may be one way to do it. Navy has ordered 14,500 copies of the 40-page new catalog on food, the Army only 50 copies, the Air Force none; which indicates that the latter two don't intend to use the new catalog but will go their own way. Mail Bag General Brownell used a justice department truck license No. 4764 to move his personal effects from the Lee House to his new home. However, he explains that he left the arrangements to someone else, and found at the last minute they had sent a government truck.

It being Washington's Birthday he could not get a private truck, so paid the government for the use of its truck, also for the drivers time. Correction Undersecretary of State Bedell Smith informed me I was in error in reporting that John Foster Dulles suspended Alfred H. Morton, head of the Voice America in New York during the McCarthy investigation, only to reinstate him next day. General Smith says that he, not Dulles, suspended Morton. Glad to make this correction.

However, if General Smith, a close friend of Anna Rosenberg, who knew how she was crucified I by McCarthy and who knows Mc' Carthy's methods, can get as jit- i tery as he showed himself in the Morton incident, then the state department is really going to pieces. National Council of Churches, New York Congressman Velde who wants to probe the churches was elected with the heavy financial support of the gambling and liquor fraternity around Peoria, considered one of the worst crime spots between New Orleans and Chicago. Navy Yard Worker, Philadelphia The Brazilian-midshipmen who brought radios, TV sets, and electric fans aboard the training-ship Duque de Caxias purchased them in Philadelphia stores. There is nothing illegal about taking these articles out of the U.S.A. Tax Emancipation With taxpayers sweating out the income-tax deadline today, the bureau of internal revenue received the following tearful take-off on the Gettysburg Address: "One score and seventeen years ago our fathers brought forth upon this nation a new tax, conceived in desperation and dedicated to the proposition that all men are fair game.

"Now we are engaged in a great mass of calculations, testing whether that taxpayer or any taxpayer so confused and so impoverished can long endure. We are met on Form 1040. We have come to dedicate a large portion of our income to a final resting place with those men who here spend their lives that they may spend our money. It is altogether anguish and torture that we should do this, but in a legal sense we can not evade, we cannot cheat, we cannot under-estimate this tax. The collectors, clever and sly, who computed here have gone far beyond our power to add and subtract.

Our creditors will little note nor long remember what we pay here but the bureau of internal revenue can never forget what we report here. "It is for us taxpayers rather to be devoted here to the tax return which the government has thus far so nobly spent. It is that from these vanished dollars we take in-, creased devotion to the few remaining that we here highly resolve that the next year will not find us in a higher income bracket. "That this taxpayer, underpaid, shall figure out more deductions and that taxation of the people, by Congress, and for the government shall not cause our solvency to perish from the earth." "Monday Evening, Mar. 16,1953 Broadway and Elsewhere By Walter Winchell The Broadway Lights Curtain Time: "Porgy and Bess" (Gershwin's glorious legacy) continues to enrich the theatre.

The revised classic transformed typewriters into musi: cal instruments. The critics trumpeted salutes for its tuneful wonders plus such dazzlers as Le- Vern Hutcherson and Price. Aisleman Chapman (News') acclaimed it as "a work of comedy named "My 3 Angels" was decorated with halos by a majority of reviewers. dissenters (ted by Mr. Atkinson the N.

Y. Times) regretted it failed to maintain the pace of its opening act. Critic Hawkins (World telly sun) blessed it with: "An entirely enchanting Rich- Get-Richer Joshua Logan is one of the ang-els oE "Wonderful Town." He is also one of the landlords of "Wish You Were Here" and "Picnic," also hits. Davis' toothache (which closed "Two's disclosed that the amusing show had only one losing week. Patrick's Eve reminder: Begorra! And Don't Forget the Big Benefit at Mad.

Sq. Garden Tomorra! Headlines at the Broadway Newsreel Theater: "Gen. Clark Arrives in Bradley Arrives in Armored Division Arrives in S. Plane Shot Down by Red Sees Peace Era!" The Cinemagicians: Leslie Caron is the dilly in "Lili," a feathery fable featuring fancy footwork and frisky fooling. Mutiny" presents familiar jungle bungle.

It shouldn't happen to a monkey. Back on Broadway" is a generally entertaining song-and-dancinema. Virginia Mayo is sexpertly supported by her torso "City Beneath the Sea" deals with buried treasure. The plot, however, is no gem. Stars Are Singing" a pleasant musical with Rosemary Clooney (as the singing Dollypop) making everything tooty-frooty.

of Venus" is duller than a butter' knife. at Sea" unreels a conventional British naval maneuver. Stout fellows keeping their upper lips starched. Canadian Rockies" has some pretty shots of mountains overlooking a molehill yarn. Is a gunsight view of soldiers fighting to make the box- office safe for H'wood.

The Television Set: "There's Oiie in Every Family" (a new CBS bingocast) derives its zingo from human-interest touches NBC's DAR Attacks Army's Song BEATRICE, Neb. fUP) The new official song of the United States Army has come under fire of the Daughters of the-American Revolution. The song, "The Army's Always There" was criticized sharply at a meeting here Friday of the Nebraska society of the ADA. A resolution protested the song and attacked the author. Mrs.

H. C. Price, Beatrice, treasurer of the organization, said "the man who wrote H. is not and has not been an Army man, and was a native of Odessa, Russia. The song has no reference to either God or country, nor is the flag mentioned.

In fact, one listening to it cannot tell if it refers to the United States Army or a world police force." Mrs. Price said the general theme of the song is "go to the far corners of the earth and fight like hell. It is not inspiring." Corresponding Secretary Mrs. W. Roberts, Bellevue, said, "it is too much of a war type song with the emphasis on war.

It does not contain enough about unity and patriotism." sockumentary. "The City," deftly captLred the heartbreak and excitement of The Big Town Milton Berle's stanza was another walloping jestival. His star Tuesday night will be Dagmar, insurinj; viewers of a lot of fun Eddie Albert has a neat, easy-going way about him The upteen com- mershills that interrupt teevy films make the price of entertainment too for free Jackie Gleason's big-time laugh-provokinp is a must-not-miss The latest advance Nielsen teevy index (for WABC programs) reports the Sabbath Eve Newscaster is up from 14.1 to 14.8. (The only 15 minute program on at that time.) The competitors (Murrow and Rogers 1 have 30 minutes ill which to attract more viewers On Radio WAV still leads all 15-minute news-programs, thanks to Mr. and Mr.s.

North America and All the Ships Etc. Broadway Taffy: What price criticism? "Quo Vadis" (which got so-so notices) has grossed over S10 million. The number 3 of all-time movie money-makers The odd- title collectors can add the upcoming cinema named: "The Twonky." Inspired (one assumes) by Twonky- Dolley. (Oh. leave me alone!) Jane Russell's announcement: "Sex- appeal is like chemistry." Honey, it's more like boyology The movie paymasters are not too impressed with awards.

Academy and otherwise. One actress who was oscar'd only 2 years ago is 110 longer making films Not all Hollywood people have severe cases of anxiety. Ty Power, frinstance. starring in a Broadway hit, "John Brown's Body," is also starring in "Mississippi It will net him a mere three-quarters of a million bu'x Janet Leigh's reply to gossip about her private life was a defense of free speech. She said: "The public has a right to talk- about me because I have given that right" She means George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and their many friends and fighters did Toots Shor's $500 check (for tomorrow night's Big Show at the Garden) came with this: "This is a new world! Me helping cops!" The Story-Tellers: Quick's cover is brightened by a colleen-darleen.

The emerald never had a prettier sparkle Time mag (which never blunders) sneeringly notes that poor Science Digest was caught with a piece titled: "Why Stalin May Live to 100" U. S. News- World Report reveals that in 1939 a mere salary of $10,000 per annum left after taxes. Today's it's 57,900 But the price of supporting democracy is never so high as the cost of losing it A Jersey politico's attempt to suppress an upcoming Satevepost article (exposing an alleged marriage between mobsters and had the customary censorship re- percussions: The story landed on the Front Pages Nick Kenny need not brood (as reported) over the profile about him. When you're in the brick-tossing business (a? the crack goes) you must expect to get hit by one now and then.

Quotation Flirtation: Balzac: If we all said to people's faces what we saj' behind their would be impossible E. Bagnold: Red-hatred Autumn Oliver W. Holmes: Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all L. J. Burke: Being a husband is like any other job.

It helps if you like the boss. Petition PSCI to Buy Bus Service Franchise INDIANAPOLIS Service Express Vevay, late Friday petitioned the Indiana Public Service Commission for authority to purchase a franchise for service between Madison and Cincinnati. Charles D. Pratt, owner of the firm, said he wished to buy the franchise from Indiana Greyhound Lines. which has not over the route for several months.

Greyhound also has petitioned the PSC for permission to end service permanently. Residents along the route have protested the proposed abandonment. Copr. King Features Syndicate, World fights reserved "Just a minute, there, Mr. Canadian Nickel!".