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4 KOKOMO (Ind.) TRIBUNE Saturday. April 23, 1955 One Grain of Truth RELEASE OF ANOTHER SHOCKER! Somebody said the other-day that a lot of us are more concerned with who is right instead of what is rigfit. In other words, that there isn't enough passion for the truth. Human rivalry seems to grow ever more intense at all levels of our life. The jockeying for advantages leads many to ignore or trample upon the truth.

In the public realm, government becomes increasingiy secretive, cloaking its errors, seldom conceding it is wrong. Politcians talk as if virtue were wholly partisan. The opposition must be evil because it is the opposition. 'In our private worlds the situation may be better, but even here the quest for truth and the regard for it are not what they should Be. There are many causes for our mounting toll of broken homes; not the least is the frequent failure of, husband -and wife to face the truth about each other and about themselves as individuals.

The notion is abroad that individual survival in a highly competitive age compels a man to don protective armor 'even against those closest to him. But too often it serves as a shield that deflects the truth. The competition is real enough; and so is the uncertainty it breeds. Uncertainty naturally makes' many of us feel insecure. We like to be able to count on the sure, the knowable thing.

Too many times we cannot. But shutting out the truth, or refusing to look for it, will not actually contribute to our security. More likely, it will only heighten uncertainty and feelings of insecurity. Most successful marriages, according to the experts, develop when two people are able to face their own personal shortcomings and each other's, but decline to be defeated b'y the reality of human frailty and strive instead to make a workable partnership out of the materials at hand. Perhaps surprisingly, in the public sphere there are politicians who are not afraid to acknowledge mistakes, to concede the wdrth of a sound argument no matter who makes it, that problems can have more than aspect and more than one solution.

These well-adjusted fellows on the' whole do well at the political trade. In fact they often do better than those who believe their only safety lies in presenting themselves encased in impenetrable armor, and surrounded by legends of their own eternal Tightness and invincibility. truth is frequently hard to come by, sometimes impossible to find. But when it lies within grasp we should seize it, and if it can be dug out we should unearth it. There is more peace of mind, more feeling of assurance, in knowing and accepting one grain of truth than can be found in all the suits of armor from here to "China.

Danger Shifts to Asian Area Later tharj usual, President Eisenhower's foreign aid proposals have been put before Congress. And they show conclusively how the focus of danger has shifted from Europe to Asia. Most of the proposed $3,530,000,000 sought by'the President for the year starting. July 1 would be funneled into-Asian lands. Europe, for the most part back on its feet, would get relatively little.

The program will not satisfy gome Americans who want 'a more ambitious effort to lift up the less devel-' oped Asiatic countries. Last year the then Japanese premier, Yoshida, suggested four billion dollars might not be too much for economic and technical assistance to the area. The proposal struck a responsive chord in some U. S. quarters.

Mr. Eisenhower asks for $1,717,000,000 for military aid and'direct support of military forces; $1,000,000,000 for so-called defense support, and just $712,500,000 for outright economic aid. These are overall totals. Certainly these sums are far from niggardly. As always they reflect compromise, not only between, men of differing views on how much Asia needs and can handle, but between liberal and conservative spending attitudes toward further large scale economic outlays.

Mr. foreign aid message made it plain, that his government understands how vital the economic effort is for struggling Asian peoples. With one or two possible it is unlikely any of these nations could in the foreseeable future hope to build self-sustaining defense establishments of any real worth against a Communist aggressor. Their need now is to find a way out of poverty toward a plane where they may day. really stand on their own, enjoying a decent standard of living.

The President rightly sees this as a long process, even without the slowdowns caused by Communist interference. But he views it as a crucial process. Alaskan Frontier It is ironic realize that the United States, made great by extending its frontiers outward, has turned its back on one of the few remaining. Congress has always managed to find an excuse for refusing statehood to Alaska, the one real frontier left to the United States today. Currently it is fashionable to cite military factors as the reason for this inaction.

Alaska is of the very stuff from which the United States was built. It comprises an area as large as 21 of the smallest states, has a river 2,000 miles long and a coastline of 4,750 miles washed by two oceans and a sea and a temperature range wljich at its high peak compares to that of Palm Beach, and at its low drops to 75 below zero. Its largely undeveloped resources appear to be unlimited. Its territory embraces huge timberlands, large fisheries and extensive supplies of minerals, gas and oil. Like other Americans, resent 'treatment as inferiors.

They want equal voting representation in Washington. They want statehood. Evenually they will get it. Long delay doesn't look very sensible. -Calculated Risk To some outsiders it might appear Prime Minister Eden had done the foolish thing when he called for a new British general election on May 26, less than two months from the date when he succe'eded Sir Winston Churchill.

By this act he risks his new povfsv, while otherwise he could continue in office until October, 1956," since British law permits the winnig party at the last election (1951) to serve a-full five years. Jn fact, Eden and his Conservative Party have shrewdly calculated the prospects and concluded that in an election held now the odds would so. strongly favor them that it would be more foolish to wait than to act at this moment. The Labor Party, long torn with factional dissension, is particularly ill-equipped to meet electorate this spring. Signs indicate the Conservatives are infusing their ranks with new blood and promising leadership material, but the Laborites still are depending on the same wearying men who bore the load of government from 1945 to 1951.

The Conservatives for four years have given the country vigorous management. Labor can point to little' but tattered slogans that seem hardly to fit the decade of the 1950's. Nature Still Rules Apparently nowhere in the grand Communist scheme is there a place for the unexpected workings of nature. The Soviet, pressed hard for' food and grain, has begun purges among agricultural officials. In a drastic recent move, 30,000 of Russia's 90,000 directors of collective farms were ordered replaced.

Such sweeping condemnations indicate the degree desper.ation the food problem has produced. Last week two state farm directors were fired and ordered to make good a loss in cattle that died, it was said, from neglect. Although the extent of the losses was not disclosed, the wild winter storms of Russia take'tens of thousands of livestock every year. Comrade Citizen is supposed to believe it was not the prolonged.icy blasts, but men deliberately persecuting the people- who want only killed the cattle. The agricultural purges may help 'reveal the fantasy the Communist bosses have long beerr-weaving to the Soviet people.

Blizzards and storms and nature's cold are things all Rus. sians know. To blame men for nature's caprices may seem to many a peasant and comrade a wcrd of straw in a Moscow-made' wind. Peter Survey Surprise: Red Threat Doesn't Faze Americans Community History In the Making Items Culled from the Columns of The Kokomo Tribune of Seventy-Five, Fifty tfnd Twenty-Five Years Ago--'Recalling People of Earlier Generations and the Things They Were Doing. 25 Years Ago Good Friday services were held in the churches of with the union service of Protestant 'churches conducted at the Main Street Methodist Church.

The sev- speakers were the Bevs. Floyd Maurer, H. E. Biddlecum, Charles J. Lewis, A.

J. Haworth, W. Pearce, J. A. Stinebaugh and L.

C. Bentley. The official report of the 1930 census of Greentown, the first to be reported in Howard County, shows a population of 1,021, which is a loss of 142 since 1320. Miss Marguerite Massoth, a senior in Kokomo High School, won first prize in a state essay contest sponsored by the Indiana Stale Bar Association. The honor carries with it a gold a cash prize of $300.

Leo Bolinger and Glen S. Goldsberry have been added to the Kokomo fire department, to take the places made vacant by the retirement of Clint Draper and Milton McRea. Dr. and Mrs. J.

W. Potter, who are leaving Kokomo for Iowa after his five years of service as pastor of Grace Methodist Church, were guests of honor at a dinner given at the church. Local grocers. advertising specials for the Easter table are: J. E.

Williams, Walter Remy, Workman, Floyd Ellis. Mason Fruit and. Vegetable store, Fritchey Anderson, Garritson, Kollmar's Market, Buehler, DeLong A. City Fruit arid Vegetable and Wirick. Nine past commanders of the American Legion post in this city were present with jeweled emblems at a supper for Legionnaires and Auxiliary members in the social room of the First Congregational Church.

Two persons, from Kokomo are being held by state health officers as suspected of being afflicted with leprosy. Officials of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company announced that the local plant of the company will suspend operations about May 1, with no time set for its reopening. With warehouses- full and the market slow, the officials of the company decided on the suspension. Easter fell on April-20 and was observed in all the churches of the city with special services of music and sermon. The promise of the weatherman for fair skies was not kept but many went to church in the rain.

The Kok'omo igh School Orches Ira, John S. -Caylor director, won first honors in a district contest held at Muncie and the right to participate in the statewide contest. A report has been received here that the Union Traction Company is seeking authority to discontinue operation of its line between this city and Logansport. It also asks to be allowed to abandon its Marion and Wabash line. The company is in the hands of a receiver.

50 Years Ago Reorganization of the local city government under the new cities and towns law for Indiana has begun, Mayor Macy Brouse has.an- nounced the 'appointment of Will H. Arnett to be city comptroller and C. A. Dolman, D. P.

Davis and Jacob Bergman as members of the board of public works. The new stats anti-cigarette law went into effect April 15. Loca! dealers had reduced their slocks in anticipation of the new ban so that none was caught with a large number on 75 Years Ago Affliction fell heavily on the family of Christian Snavely in Ervin Township. The day after two children died of scarlet fever, the house' was totally destroyed by fire. Neighbors rallied to the aid of the family and began work on a new house.

Mrs. Crowley and Mrs. Jane Turner of Kokomo organized a branch of the WCTU at Greentown. Mrs. Avis Elliott was elected president; Miss Belle Wolfe, retary Trustees of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church this week purchased the.

Ashley property in Webster Street, 'between Walnut and Mulberry Streets, for the church parsonage. The price was $4,800. Joe Bruner and Joe. Jay of this city have just been graduated from Purdue University in the pharmacy school. Bruner tooK class honors.

He has taken a position as pharmacist in the Will I. Scott drug store. Mr. Jay has purchased the old Bates drug store at Main and Mulberry Streets. The new state automobile license law went into effect this week.

Official estimate of this approximately 2,300 cars in the state only' 286 have obtained licenses to date. Republicans of the city held ward conventions to nominate candidates for councilmen. Nathan Picfcelt was the choice in the Ward: J. B. Ellis, Second; Dr.

W. Mavity, Third; Harvey West and George W. Price, Fourth. The marriage of Miss Minnie Ellis and A. B.

Bernard took place April 19 at the home of the bride's parents, ME and Mrs. V. D. Ellis in East Mulberry the Rev. J.

H. MacNeill performing the ceremony. Easter fell on April 23 and was a day of blue skies and warm sunshine. The marriage of Clarence Mannering and Miss Nellie Brown, both of Greentown, took place April 19 at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Barney Brown, the Rev. J. Hammer Ellis officiating. Much dissatisfaction.is being expressed the cost of operating the city under the newmunic- ipal law passed by the last state legislature. More than $10,000 has been appropriated to run the local government until June.

critics are proposing that an effort be made to disincorporate the city. Charles Hollingsworth, 16, of Center, received a badly mangled hand when it came in contact with a saw at the Hercules Bros. Lumber Mill where he was working. J. A.

DeLon of RussiaviUe is asking a franchise of the town of Greentown to put in a small waterworks plant there. Lulu, four year old child of Mr. and Mrs. William Usher, southeast of Hussiaville, choked to death in a grain of cottee with whifh she had been playing, sucking the grain into her windpipe. A family gathering was held at home of Mr.

and Mrs. Sol A. Pennington in honor of Dick Peninngton who is here from Colorado to visit relatives and old The M. E. Church was crowded Sunday morning to hear the first sermon of the Rav.

A. Retts, the new pastor, who made an excellent impression. C. Parker Byrum, 55. pioneer resident of Ervin Township, died April 20 of typhoid fever.

Howard County Republicans held a delegate convention at the'court- house to nominate a ticket for the fall election. Chosen were: N. R. Linsday, representative; John E. Moore, prosecutor; David C.

Spraker, treasurer; James W. DeHaven, sheriff; Dr. J. C. Wright, coroner; George Ingels surveyor; William F.

Gordon, commissioner first district; George P. Pitzer, commissioner second district; Isaac Reed, commissioner third district. A double weddinS took piace at the home of the Rev. H. Rayburn, Miss Stella P.

Johnson becoming the bride of Albert P. Moore and Miss Ana-Johnson being married to Thomas Gillin. The brides are sisters. The marriage of Dr. James B.

Kirkpatrick of Tampico and Miss Kate Longfellow of Kokomo took place Thursday, April 22, at the home of the bride's aunt in Forest. Miss Lida Banta and Lewis Sellers were married at the home of the bride's mother in this. city. About a third of all cancer deaths in the United States could have been avoided if the cancer had been located and treatment begun before it started to, spread. The Kokomo Tribune Published by Tho Kokomo' Tribune Member of Associated Press Tho Associated PTOM ia delusively entitled to the use for publication of all news diflpatchcu credited to It or not otherwise credited in ttfil paper and nisi? tho locpl BOWS published bcrcin.

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Tribune and Dispatch Founded 1930. In the spring a young man's fancy. A father we know, speaking of his son's clothing bills, says the young man is fancy all the year around. The American Legion opened its Spring Exposition in Park Avenue with many visitors in spite of raw weather. Local 'merchants and manufacturers have displays and there is a variety of entertainment features.

The new club house.at the Kokomo Country Club, about half completed, bids fair to be the subject of legal action. The contractor has thrown up the job and the man whose name appears on the contract as bondsman has declared he never signed it. By carrier in city of Kokomo per week 35c. By mail in Howard. Tint on.

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By mail in Indiana outside above territory, per year payable in advenco $9.00. By raacl outside Indiana, per year payable ic advance. S15.00. No mail subscriptions ncceptcd ID towns where carrier delivery service ia maintained. WASHINGTON Much to their surprise, two highpawered national survey outfits have discovered that the American people aren't very worried about the threat of communism on the one hand, or the loss of their civil liberties to re- Stewart AIsop: Politics Is Creeping In U.S.

Policy WASHINGTON Maybe there ought to be no connection between domestic politics the cpsls in the Formosa Strait. But there is. The connection is very much on the minds of politicians -in both parties. At least in part because this is so, intervention, in case of an attack on the offshore islands, which looked very probable a few weeks ago, looks much less so now. Instead, an all-out attempt by the Administration to extricate- itself from the Quemoy-Matsu dilemma is looking more and in th'e cards every day.

The attempt could take the form' of the kind of Anglo-American deal recently -described in this '-space. Or it could be a simple warning to, Chiang either to evacuate or to prepare to fight alone. Extrication quite conceivably the purpose of the sudden visit to Formosa by Assistant Secretary of State.Walter Robertson and Arthur Radford, a pair it would be hard to accuse of appeasement-mindedness. At any rate, one thing is certain there is strong and growing political' pressure on the Administration to avoid a fight for Matsu and Quemoy. The Democrats are clearly to see the Matsu- Quemoy issue as, potentially, the "gut issue" to use against the Administration that they have so far lacked.

And many. Republicans fear they may be right. Award of Peace Issue The Democrats are bitterly aware that the. "peace issue" has been used effectively against them by the Republicans in the past. Many Democrats believe that the Quemoy-Matsu crisis may provide them with a golden opportunity to seize the "peace issue" for them-' selves, meanwhile hanging the "war party" label on at least a section of the Ropublican party.

In fact, politicians in both parties sense or think they sense a strong movement of opinion against intervention to save Quemoy and Matsu. Congressional mail on the subject has not been heavy. But it has been steady, and anti-inter- Vehtion by-a wide margin. The press has also been surprisingly anti-intervention. And experiences like that of Minnesota's Sen.

Hubert Humphrey have impressed other politicians. Humphrey recently invaded California, home stamping ground of Sen. William Knowland, chief 'advocate of. the view that the offshore islands must at all costs be defended. Humphrey made a whole series opposing inter-, vention.

He even committed the near-sacrilege of proposing that Nationalist China should be re- placed.by India on the United Nations Security Council. -Humphrey has reported to fellow Democrats that he was enthusiastically received everywhere, by audiences he had expected to havo-Knowlandish views. This sort of thing leads politicians to suspect that they have found that pearl beyond price--a winning issue. It has also led many Democrats to complain privately that they made a terrible mistake when they did fight the Formosa resolution, as former President Truman urged when the resolution was being debated. For the Formosa resolution makes any effective exploitation of the issue difficult.

The resolution committed the Democrats in advance to rely on the President's judgment--the more partisan de- -clare. that they were "mouse- trapped" approving whatever the President 'might do. Facing Criticism Moreover, if the 1 Democrats adopted an outright party position against intervention to save the islands, as some Democrats' now urge, the party would certainly be accused of softness on communism. It would be accused, with more justice, of extending to the Communists an open invitation to attack. Yet if President Eisenhower subsequently decided "not to intervene, his hand, would be strengthened, and Democratic criticism forestalled.

In this political dilemma, the most effective' formula seems to be Adlai Stevenson's charge that Administration bungling has given the nation a "choice between another humiliating retreat or else the hazard of war unleashed not by necessity Neither retreat jior unnecessary war is particularly popular politically. All this is not to suggest for a moment that either Democratic criticism of the Administration's Asia policy, or the Administration's increasingly visible tendency 'to back away from intervention in the face of this criticism, are wholly politically motivated. There ore honest arguments, which have nothing at all to do with domestic (Continued on actionary forces fighting communism, on the other hand. Less than 1 per cent of the people interviewed in these twin public opinion polls said they worried about communism. Less than- one half of 1 per cent said they were worried about losing their civil liberties.

Only 8 per cent of people interviewed said they were concerned about the' international situation or war. When the interviewers followed this up with question like: "What do you think about world affairs--are you concerned about them?" 20 per cent said they guessed they were, but, that's all. These scmewnat astonishing results were based interviews made by 500 Gallup and University of Chicago -investigators all over the country last May, June and July. The Army-McCarthy' hearings were going on in Washington at this time. Most Americans magnetized in front of their television sets.

It would be natural to expect that people would be more concerned about communism and civil liberties then than at any other time in their 'lives. But they weren't. This survey was made for the Fund for the Republic, a Foundation-endowed a group. Its head was originally Clifford P. Case, now Republican senator from New Jersey.

Present head is Robert M. Hutchins, former president of Chicago University and Ford Foundation. The results of the survey will be published in book form this month under the title of, "Communism. Conformity and Civil Liberties." The text was written by Dr. Samuel A.

Stouffer, professor of sociology at The purppse of this survey was simply to learn truth about American attitudes on these controversial subjects. The fund's directors feared that American freedoms were being endangered by a wave of reaction that was near to fascism. But it wanted to get the facts. What it will do about the facts now that it has them is the next question. One point of view is that since less than 1 per cent of the Arnerj-.

can people are concerned about communism and liberties, there's nothing to bother about. The other point of view is that since the American people are so little worried about these things, there is need of a great educational campaign to awaken 'them to the dangers of the international situation and loss of freedom. What Wories Aro But what is perhaps even more interesting than this is the discovery by the opinion surveyors of what the American people really are worried about. What the Fund for the Republic's opinion survey found as a kind of by-product it never'intended to discover is human nature. People are most interested in the things that touch them personally.

They are concerned over the prospect of war primarily by whether a son, a husband or a father or brother will have to be drafted. There is one chapter in "Communism, Conformity and. Civil Liberties" which reports on the subjects the American people are most worried about last summer. Forty-three per cent of all the people interviewed volunteered the information that they were mist worried about personal business or family economic problems. Twenty- four per cent were worried about health.

Here, ia condensed form, are typical answers: "How to make a living for rny family. The weather and my crops. Security: The mortgage The baby Paying bills My job My health I worry about my pension I've been laid off three months. My marriage. My children's future." If this is a-correct gauge, there is a lot more political mileage in- social security, employment pent-ion plans, health plans, housing and such things than in the much discussed international situation.

So They Say Football is almost up with hockey now, and when football gets even with hockey, there'll be plenty of gridiron talent above the Canadian border. --Coach Peahead Walker, Montreal Alouettes. I have often said that anyone in public life who says he' would not be gratified and flattered (by presidential nomination) is not speaking honestly. Gov. G.

Mennen W'V liams We are happy'Sir Winston win remain among us. He will remain the dominating personality of this chamber (Parliament). Sir An-, thony Eden. 1C he's (Jackie Robinson) got any complaint he ought to coma and see me instead of going to the press. --Walt Alston.

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