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Wednesday Evening, October 6, 1954. THE fHAIOS-TKIBUNI FKOGRAM FOR lOGANSPOn 1. An Operative Planning Cemmituoa J. Adequate Civic Centtr 3. An AdtquaO Sewerage and Garbage Dtipoul System.

Suffiicent Parking Facilities Car Victims At one time a factory worker injured on the job could get no immediate redress except by suing. And if it could be proved that he or a fellow employee were partly to blame, he got nothing. Workmen's compensation laws, setting up a fund out of which payment can be made for industrial injuries, have changed all that. 'Why is not a similar arrangement instituted for automobile accidents? Judge Samuel H- Hofstadter, for 20 years on the New York Supreme Court, asks this question in the New York Times Magazine. He would require car owners to pay into a state fund, from which accident victims would receive compensation.

They would not have to go to court to get thei; just dues. This would take care of the many cases in which the guilty party no insurance. It would also clear the court dockets of the log jam now caused by thousands of accumulated traffic cases. Nowadays, the victim of an automobile accident cannot ordinarily get redress in less than three years. Not always then, for witnesses may have died or disappeared.

And with the legal maneuvers and delays frequently used by attorneys in accident cases, many cases are dragged on indefinitely. Such a state of affairs is a stain on our Administration of law. If such a plan were set up so that drivers who had no accidents paid little or nothing of the expense, then the plan merits consideration. Politicians Are Pals Politicians of the two opposing parties may be bitter antagonists on the surface, but" many are bvothers under the skin. The latest instance comes from Philadelphia, long known as the home of corrupt politics.

In an effort to cure the situation, a new charter was adopted, forbidding, among other things, political activity by city employees. This must have done the trick, for there now is a concerted effort, in which both Republican and Democratic leaders join, to repeal this provision. The plan was to submit an amendment to the city charter at a primary election when attendance was likely to be light, and the machines hope to push it through. The Committee of 70, a good government organization which put the charter through and helped elect an upright city government two years ago, is fighting the change. So is the city administration- But what a commentary this alliance is on the simplicity of the regular party voters who always vote a straight ticket, and think the opposite party something with which no.

respectable citizen would have anything to do! IN THE PAST One Year Ago Robert B. Miller, 47, of 913 Jefferson street, was fatally injured early today when the car he was driving was struck by a Pennsylvania freight train. Mrs. Elizabeth Gilsinger, 74, expired at her home in Harrison township, Pulaski county. Harvey Summers, 83, succumbed at Peru.

Carl Smith, 56, a farmer, died of a heart attack at ils home on route 1, Kewanna. Ten Years Ago Leland Scott, 34, of the third armored tank division, was killed in action Sept. 13 in Belgium, according to information received by his wife, Lois, route 2, city, from the War department. The two-room Clinton township school was sold at public auction Friday afternoon for $780. Death claimed Louis Wentz, 72, retired Pennsylvania railroad engineer, formerly of this city.

Fourteen of the seventeen Logansport and Cass county selectees who went to Indianapolis for their pre-induction physical examinations were accepted for service. Mrs. Marie James of Burlington was notified by the War department that her son, Cpl. Myron James, had been seriously injured. After seven innings of play, the St.

Louis Browns were leading the Cardinals, 6 to 2, in the third game of the 1944 World Series. Twenty Years Ago Mrs. Alice R. Seybold, widow of George R. Sey- oold.

founder of the Dry Goods company, died at the residence, 715 East Market street. Geraldine Kivett, of 321 High street, and Herbert Rearick, Logansport, were married. Mrs. Mary Esther Bridenbaugh Fllnn, 29, of 16 Center street, passed away. The Logansport Red Devils crushed Plymouth, 12 to 0, before a crowd of more than 1,000 fans at Berry Patch.

T. J. Flanegin will serve as the general chairman of the annual Red Cross roll call in November. Gilbert L. Stitz, formerly of this city, died at Lakewood, Ohio.

Fifty Years Aao The Kn'ghts of Columbus will give a dance at the A. R. hall tonight. Mrs. J.

J. Ayres and her daughter, Mrs. Ed Griffin, are v'sit'ns: relatives at Coving'on, Ohio. John E. Barnes and John Gingery have been granted the contract for erecting the resident of 0.

Harrington on Fifth Street. A daughter was bom to Mr. and Mrs Edward of the Northside today. Marriage licenses have been Issued to Hiland Kistler and Grace B. Henderson; Henry C.

Allen and Ethel Mary Painton. The funeral of Silvia Laura Mellette was held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the residence Drew Pearson'i MERRY-CO-ROUND HEAR! HEAR! Drew Pearson says: U. S. backs revolutionary liberal regime in Bolivia; Bolivia land reforms may set pattern for Latin America; What happens to Bolivian tin affects every American housewife. LA PAZ, Bolivia Sen.

Allen Frear of Delaware was attending an official dinner party in Bolivia not long after the national revolutionary government of President a Estenssoro had put across its sweeping land reforms. "Mr. President," asked the Delaware senator who happens to be a farm co-op leader and farm banker, "what about this socialist program you've started to divide up the land?" "I have found," replied President Paz, "that the best way to combat Communism is to give each man some land of his own. A man who owns land doesn't become a Communist." And the president continued with such an eloquent- explanation of his reform of Bolivia's feudal land system that Senator Frear remarked: "I withdraw my question." The point that Senator Frear explored was what makes Bolivia the most important country in Latin America right now. For what happens to Bolivia's plan of dividing up the huge landholdings among hitherto landless Indians may set a pattern for other South American countries.

It may set a pattern first for Peru and Ecuador, which, xlike Bolivia, have large Indian populations. And it inay set a pattern for countries like Venezuela and Colombia, which have small but unequal economic opportunity that tends toward Communism and makes some governments sit on kegs of dynamite. If, on the other hand, the Bolivian experiment fails, Communism is almost certain to engulf that nation which is our only important source of tin outside Communist threatened Southeast Asia. N-othing, of course, could please Moscow more than to have the tin areas of both Southeast Asia and Bolivia come under Communist control. All of which is- why what happens in Bolivia is vital to every American, and why delegations, plus Assistant Secretary of State Holland, are visiting Bolivia today.

It is also why I am reporting from that country now. Tin Barons Ruled To get the true picture of what's happening you have to go back to the days when Bolivia was controlled by three great tin barons and 1,000 ruling families. Of the tin barons, only one, Araraayo, was one, Hochschild, was German; and the third, Simon Patino, became the second wealthiest man in the world, took up residence in until his death, watched his grandchildren win headlines with their international divorce and custody brawls. In contrast, 90 per cent of Bolivia's population is Indian, cannot read or write, and lived under a feudal system whereby they were required to spend three to five days a week working on their landlord's hacienda in return for the right to cultivate a patch of corn and potatoes. The Indian was paid no wage, nor was his wife, who was required to work as a servant in the home of his landlord.

It was a system of peonage pure and simple. And while Bolivia's first thousand families sent their sons to Oxford and Harvard, they sent their Indian tenants on occasion from Cochabamba to La Paz, a distance 300 miles, merely to mail a letter. Furthermore, out of Bolivia's nearly 4,000,000 population, only the property permitted to vote. Against this backdrop of Bolivian history it is easy to understand why Bolivia has experienced approximately 129 revolutions in her 129 years of history and why in a sometimes turbulent South America she is the most turbulent country of ail. Such was the economic status of Bolivia until a dynamic ex- professor of economics suddenly came out of exile three yaers ago to ride back to La Paz and the inauguration of the most reforms Bolivia, and probably no other Latin-American country save Mexico, has ever seen.

The new president, of course, was the same man who was questioned by Senator Frear Victor Paz Estenssoro. What he did first was seize the tin mines of the Big Three and nationalize them; initiate universal suffrage; and divide up the land among the Indians who had worked on it. Since then Paz has put across various other less sweeping with the direct help of the United for instance an agricultural small loan hank to finance the Indians on their new land, a plan worked out by Peoe Hudgins, formerly with Nelson Rockefeller's Inter-American Corporation. President Paz has also given the United Nations the green light to draft a new civil service law for Bolivia. Naturally these reforms have not been accomplished without some unjustice, some violence and a great deal of bitterness, not only at the new regime but against the United States which has officially backed the "National Revoluton- ary Movement." In Cochabamba, for instance, I saw President Paz and Eisenhower's Assistant Secretary of State, Henry Holland, being acclaimed by several thousand Bolivians who held up signs which read: "We are not Cmmunists, but we are true Revolutionaries." As far as I could ascertain, this is a fact.

The Bolivian government is vigorously anti-Communist, but it is also vigorously revolutionary. Th story of how the Eisenhower administrtion, a conservative regime, has thrown its full weight behind this liberal, regime, is an important one which must be reserved for a subsequent column. Sufficeth to note at this time, however, that the Paz government has remained in power longer than any other regime in 30 years, and if it falls Bolivia is almost certain to go Communist. Angelo Patri Teach Child Good Manners Toward Elders give me a bunch of carrots and a head of lettuce, Mr. Furio," "Here you are Bub, and call me Joe.

That's good enough for me, Who're you kidding?" "Thank you Mr. Furio, Joe," and Charlie took his paper bag full of vegetables and hurried home, his ears burning. "Mother, I called the vegetable man Mr. Furio and he made fun of me. always make' me say, Mister or Misses So- and so.

Now I get laughed: at." "I'm sorry you feel so bad about it but I still want you to be a good mannered boy so people will like to have you around." "Mr. Furio didn't want me around. He looked as if he hated the sight of me." "Now, now, nobody hates the. sight of you. What Mr.

Furio says does not matter to you. Does it? Do you really care? For a minute he made you feel you'd said the wrong thing. But you knew you hadn't. Why should you call him Joe? That isn't his name anyway. His name is Benito, and it ought to make him better mannered at that.

"Now listen. Children, young people, with good manners, never call their elders by their first names. It is not done. They say Mister or Miss, or Father, Mother, Auntie, and the like. If you want to live and work and play witJT pleasant people you have to cultivate good manners.

Mr. Furio may have teased you a bit but, believe me, his feelings were not hurt by your calling him Mr. Furio. He will remember that and speak well of you some day. And that counts." It is not easy these days to teach children good manners.

There are so many people.saying, "Call me Joe," in so many ways. There are even parents who teach their children to call them by their first names, though why they do so is more than I can tell. There are those who rush to the heed of the line of waiting people; those who jump into a taxi someone else has called; those who keep their seats when a woman is standing; those who chew gum while talking to important people like the clergyman and the family physician; those who like to show their familiarity with important people by calling them Bad manners are no passport to any place worth going to and the sooner the children, and many of their elders, learn that, the better off we in this country will be. Too many remarks are being made about our bad mannered children to allow us to overlook them. Imitation is the children's way of learning.

They take what their elders say and do as the pattern for them. They will copy good manners. You should never tease a bashful child. Dr. Patri discusses why children are bashful and tells what to do about it in his leaflet P-9, "Bashful Children." To obtain a copy, send cents in coin to nim, this paper, P.

O. Box 99, Station New York 19, N'. Y. (Released by The Bell Syndicte, Inc.) a Nevada Vote Up to Court Nev. Democrats to fight back in court today against a Republican attempt to keep Nevada voters from choosing the successor to the late Sen.

Pat McCarran before November, 1956- Led by State Chairman Keith Lee, Nevada Democratic officials were expected to appear before District Judge A. J. Maestretti to a vigorous legal battle against the Republican move. The gop strategy was spearheaded by Reno attorney Clel Georgetta, who Monday asked Maestretti to order the county clerk not to list the names of Republican and Democratic candidates for McCarran's post on the Nov. 2 ballot.

Georgetta asked for a temporary restraining order, to be followed by a permanent injunction. If. he succeeds in his attempt, it will leave newly appointed Sen. Ernest S. Brown, an "Eisenhower Repuhlican," in office until Dec- 31, 1956.

But if he does not succeed, Brown will have to fight to hold his post in the Nov. 2 election. His Democratic opponent would be Alan Bible, 45-year-old former attorney general and McCarran protege. Democrats are eager to have the issue decided in an election. They are confident they can win it.

Whatever Maestretti's decision, the losing side will immediately appeal to the state Supreme Court. Trucking Line Sued For Transporting Acid suit filed in Federal Court Monday charged the Ecoff Trucking, Fortville, of unauthorized transportation of sulphuric acids in interstate commerce. Twenty-five counts were filed against the trucking firm for transporting the acids last March and April. The government said' in the suit the acids were 'transported by motor vehicle from the plant of the National Distillers Products Corporation near Tuscola, to several places in Indiana without a permit from the Interstate Commerce Commission. THE PHAROS-TRIBUNE Copi.

19H King Fsaura Syndicate, Int, Woitd riglm roervri. "How come you lost if it was such a 'friendly little game'?" Reporter entnbllfthed Journal ntabllshed Tribune Mlnhll.xhrd 1D07 PnbH.ihed dully exceat Sunday and hollnara br Phnron-'l'rllinnr Co, Eniit Brondwny. I.ojciriiMport. Entered aecond mntter at tlie voat office at Ind. pnder the act of Marcb MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION AND UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION PHAROS-TRIBUNE NHtlonxl AdTerttxfncr RepreatntadTea ReprtarauitlTu Walter Winchell Broadway and Elsewhere Man About Town The J.

J. Astor marriage-crash. reason (after 6 weeks) is -well- known to the GaLs-About-Town crowd James i Michener, the! Pulitzer Prize au-1 thor, and Dorothy Sarnoff (last in "The King and I are rehear-1 sing "0, Phomisef Me" Red I Skelton' dropped I $20,000 on the Series' first 2 games Light-Heavyweight champ Archie Moore and Cleveland's rich Dolly Mapp are in an elopemental mood Johnny Johnston, the singer, tells pals the paternity- suit (by a show-gal in Washington) is An Old Grudge. (Uh-Huh) Debra Paget's most persistent pursuitor is Miguel Aleman, poor chep Sloan Simpson's hand-holder these nights is Arlene Whelan's former-husband, Hugh Owen, Paramount exec. Paillette Goddard's new beaumance is F.

Hartfield, Wall Vishinsky's dghtr Zinaida and her escort were given the brush at the El Morocco door A night spot on the East Side gives each male a "lucky" ticket. Winner takes home the attractive pianist. The Washington Wire: Brownell will test the 5th Amendment (as to its current application) before The High Court The White House instructed Army Secy Stevens to cancel all press conferences until after Nov. 2 Demos are readying a "Kefauver" into adv. outfits playing political favorites Justice Dept.

barristers will sock several labor unions under the new anti-Red law Fair-hairod boy of the State Dept: Douglas MacArthur, of Gen. Barkley's son-in-law The F. B. biggest worry (next to Reds: 'One the best undercover agents (in Ohio) is a bigamist. Ida Lupine's medics will demand immediate surgery.

She wants another 5 weeks Kyle MacDonald, after joining the Reno'ables, will wed a Maxon ad. agency exec the hit song, is having legal trouble. Big lawsuit upcoming Doug MacArthur's Waldorf-suite is the scene for high- powered pow-wows every day. Top 3 and 4 star civvies and go Artie Shaw, latest marriage faded, is sighing deeply with Doreen Woodward It's a boy for the J. Connollys.

Pop scripts the Amos 'n' Andy shows Are James King, Miami Beach bartender, and Josey Hood, oil heiress, Be.cretly sealed? The Cables: Raymond Pellegrin, the French actor (mending from an appen. op), tells pals he will marry Gisele Pascal in Nov. Gary Cooper almost did Aly Khan won't be a lover-bcv for a while. Blood presh over 200 The Alec Guinness' of the London stage and films are at the toe-tapping stage They suspect Barbara Hutton's reason for staying at her Tangiers a divorce Hugh Trevor-Roper (he wrote "The Last Days of will wed Field Marshal Earl Haig's dghtr, Lady 'Alexandra-Johnston That sound and fury irom Rome is Anna Maria Ferrero. Miffed because Vittorio Gassman pledged they'd be wed right after the Shelley Winters decree, which was soooo Looooong agoooo.

Remember that garment centar man named Levin (we 'item'd about recently) who got $15,000 to 51,000 the Giants would win 4 straight? He settled for half after Game II Toni Harrison, dghtr of cab mogul Danny Arnstein, flew to Mexico for a quickie from her Washington groom. She next weds W. Weintraub, jr. of the ad clan The 52nd Street joints were raided again. Instead of handing out summons to they were handed to doormen, charged with practically dragging servicemen inside "PaiJama Game" cutie Mary Eocie is fighting to get back alimony totaling' $2900.

Goes to court today One of Broadway's top glamma photogs is begging for a visit from the gendarmes. Uses the touch-system while posing the models One of the new Hippos in the Circus has been affectionately named Elsa Maxwell. Wall Street Inside: We reported (over the air) that Westinghouse would add a 75e dividend to its regular half-dollar divvy around Oct. 27 G. Loeb of E.

F. Hutton (he has written books on the stock market) was informed "some guys thought it would open big and they sold short, etc" The authority sent the following over all F. Hutton wires: "I feel very strongly Westinghouse Electric ought to have a good up. I suspect some folks who are not so smart sold it on the Winchell story, and if I am any judge, they are going to find out Mr. Winchell knows more than they do." Ralph Meeker will leave "Picnic" to make a film for United Artists.

This will give him more time for Patti Boss, recently in the Versailles show The Bahamas wealthiest bachelor (Roy Solomon) was finally lasso'd. His bride is writer Beverly Bryee Nancy Kelly and Theater Guild exec Warren Caro cancelled plans for a merger-. Melissa Hayden, Ballet Theater ballerina, and her mate Donald Coleman (the stage mgr.) expect their image in Nov Mary K. Wells, the teevy (he's director Don Richardson), will see her Renotary Nancy Reese (with Life's adv. dept in Philly) weds John Poillon of Brides Magazine Nov.

20th Jean Harrington, of the Stork Club glamour-set, has established residence for another divorce at Delray Beach, Fla Intimates allege Rubirosa's secret "love potion" is a rare Japanese mushroom brewed into a tea. Dusty Rhodes' homeric feats Ironic another who scaled the same heights not so long ago. Bobby Thomson, now an ex-Giant Bowz-Biz Dept: Times Square now has only one closed movie. theater (Holiday) compared to five in the area a year ago Biggest chunk of "The Boy Friend" is owned by angel Tony Farrell. Over $11,000 Tom who' annotates Libby Holman's "Blues, Ballads and Sin-Songs" album, is a' Member of Parliar.

ment and a hot music man 20th Century-Fox director" Edward Cohen (handles all Latin-American films) weds Brazilian heiress Lucia Luna Strugo here on the 9th Erin ConskTme, dghtr of the movie producer John Considines (the for- mer Carmen Pantages), becomes the bride of teevy producer Bart. Ross Oct. 9th Ed (Int'l News Photos) Novitsky and Jackie Mayer were wed Sateve "Star Is Born" must gross ten million to break even. Sonja husband Winnie Gardiner (haven't they been sec-. retly unlatched?) was lohengrin- ning at Beth Coppe in DeBeaujo- lais.

Pals expect them to merge Gretchen Foster (niece of Loretta Young) and Jack Haley, jr. are That Way Rita Hayworth can't be so worried. Just took out a 5200,000 policy on her gems and finery The sociatoot Buzzy Warburtons (Marjorie McKcon) are imaging, again Why was J. DiMaggio so anxious to contact G-Man Hoover the other night? The Belmont-Plaza changed parents'Sept. 30th They say Q.

Lewis and Penny-Morgan will make wedlines any morgan A Fisk Univ. teacher-is wearing a diamond gift of ex-King Farouk The district attorney's biggest Wall Street story, yet: Several top firms involved in phony promotion deals Perez Prado, who kicked up a storm at the Waldorf recently with his mambo noice, is back on the coast looking for next week Memo to Betty Hutton: Judy Garland felt the way you do a few years ago and look at Judy now corn, im. XIKC rtATOUi imvxn. ucm 4 hero.ofJSVprldJVar_U just.had a tooth.