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4 KOtCOMO (Ind.) TRIBUNE Saturday, Dec. 10, 1955 SOMETHING DANGEROUS IN THIS EMBRACE! Capital Notebook: Back to Reality The United States apparently is abandoning the high hopes for a better world relationship which were murtured when President Eisenhower met the Russian bosses at Geneva. That is the indication of Secretary of State Dulles' address of Thursday, night in Chicago, when he said that the free world must bolster its alliances and maintain "selective retaliatory power" to meet the Soviets' new challenge to our security. It's a sad thing to concede that these hopes have as good as disappeared, but that is what happened and it is best to be realistic. If the United States is now squaring away for an "eye for an eye" policy against Communist designs, the fact ought not be surprising.

What else can the United States do? Our President to Geneva and made a direct appeal to the Communist bosses to aproach peace in a new spirit. The Reds gave some lip service to the idea and then rejected it all. They opened up with new tactics, trying to swing Asia against us and now experimenting with new to elbow us out of Berlin. All this is deeply disappointing, but it is better that we meet the challenge squarely and not take those worldwide jabs lying down. We can continue'to work for peace, but we cannot forever -back away when and wherever communism needles us.

needles us. Secretary Dulles that our capacity to retaliate must be massive in order to deter all forms of That means offsetting Russian offers to aid the development of underdeveloped areas, and it's a hint that the Eisenhower administration will ask Congress to step up foreign aid rather than reduce it. Some critics of the administration have been seeking to discredit it by asserting that it gave the country a false sense of hope' following the Geneva "summit" meeting. But neither Mr. Eisenhower nor Secretary Dulles had any illusions about Soviet intentions.

They were hopeful, but "not confident that Russia would change for the better, It didn't work out that way, but the President and Dulles certainly are entitled to for trying. The political sniping that they misled the country into unreasonable hopes will not impress the people. The fact that America tried, and tried hard, to dissuade the Soviets from their aggressive designs will be the thing that most impresses Americans. Inflation Clouds Some sage economists say that the danger in this age is no longer a catastrophic depression like that of the 1930's. They say it's inflation instead.

And there is concern that it is returning for another visit. We had a long postwar siege of it which finally tapered off in 1951. From then until now, conditions have been relatively stable. But a good many business factors suggest the days of the "even keel" may be passing. For one thing, a new wage-price upward spiral appears to be in motion.

To add to the price pressure, demand for such staples as steel is extremely heavy. Shortages are developing, and in the rush for limited supplies prices are moving still higher. Whereas the big talk in 1954 was of unemployment, today shortages of skilled workers are becoming a worrisome matter. A tight labor market is bound to increase prospects for further wage hikes. What all this comes to is that the United States, with certain exceptions, is producing at near-capacity and using its trained manpower to the hilt.

Since it takes time to enlarge industrial capacity and develop new manpower resources, this situation cannot thus be eased quickly. The only adequate checks on these inflationary pressures, therefore, are those which can be placed on credit. The government has shown its awareness of the problem. Recently the Federal Reserve Board, keystone of the American banking system, tightened credit again. This means other banks in the system can't lend as much money to businessmen, corporations, state and local governments, and consumers.

Agitation continues, too, for some kind of curbs on the nation's installment buying, which is mounting steadily to record heights. Thus far, however, there is no sign of early federal action in this field. Yet if the efforts to curb the money supply through the banks fall short of halting the inflationary trend, then a lid on installment purchases may be a necessary next step. Somehow, the demand for men and materials must be brought into better balance with available supplies. If it is not the result could be costly to all of us.

Against Federal Aid Arguments of other editors for arid against feedral aid to education have been presented in these columns this week. Today we reprint an anti- federal aid analysis, by Clifford Ward, editor of The Ft. Wayne News- Sentinel. The education problem, says Ward, becomes a state problem only after the community has failed and a national problem only after the state has failed. Noting the pressure to extend federal funds schools, he writes, "Federal money is nothing but money from local taxpayers, except that the dollar paid in to the Treasury and sent back has usually shrunk about 50 per cent." He continues: "It is a temptation to many local communities to take state money on the false theory that they are getting something for nothing and an equal temptation on the part of states to take federal money on the same false premise, but it ought to be shunned.

Anyone who gives aid has a right inherent in his aid to say how his aid shall be used and when he starts saying how his aid shall be used, the extension of control is much broader. The fight against federal aid to schools is a fight for personal liberty in its final analysis. "There are no bankrupt states in the United States, There are poorer states and richer states, but some of the poorer states are doing more for education than the richer states. No federal aid law is going to provide what well-wishers ask for it, namely a restriction of aid to those states that have inadequate schools and. are unable to pay for adequate schools.

The politician stays in business by considering votes and votes are where people are. Any benefits that ara made available to the poorer states will also be made available to richer states, because in the richer states are probably more voters than in the poorer ones. "What is wanted by some advocates of federal aid is more and more power over the nation's educational system, so that they may grow fat as a result of the centralization of control that will result. Bureaucracy is the only living thing that grows by eating itself. It needs more and mora of itself to grow.

interest that the federal government is now taking in the nation's education can only be justified if it limits itself to being an impartial chairman for discussion among the states of a problem which is essentially local. It ought not be calling the shots or contemplating the calling of them." -O- Working Judge The fact that jail sentences alone do not help alcoholics is not new. What is new is the attempt to give the inhabitants of "skid row" the kind of help they need to cure themselves of their addiction to alcohol. Judge Hyman Feldman, in charge of Chicago's "Skid Row Court," exemplifies the efforts being made today to reform the old system of dealing with alcoholics. Before he assumed the bench of this court last year, alcoholics were usually sent for a month to a prison farm, then released to the streets where they resumed drinking and were arrested again.

This cost Chicago some $5,000,000 a year. Community History In the Making Items Culled from the Columns of The Kokomo Tribune of Seventy-Five, Fifty and Twenty-Five Years Ago--Recalling People of Earlier Generations and ihe Things They Were Doing. 75 Years Ago A rate war is on between, the railroads. The fare from Kokomo to St. Louis now is $3 by either the Panhandle or Lake Erie and Western.

r6ad. John Sullivan has sold his stock of groceries to Tom Coblentz and taken position with Block and Thalman'e store. John T. Stringer of Kokomo has been re-elected president of the Indiana Tile Makers, holding their state convention in Indianapolis. 50 Years Ago The annual Lodge of Sorrow of the Elks lodge was observed Sunday with a service at Main Street Christian Church, the pastor, the Rev.

J. H. MacNeill sneaking. Exalted Ruler H. C.

Davis was in charge. Special music was by a voice octette made up of Mrs. D. P. Ward, Mrs.

H. C. Davis Misses Alice Mahin and Mary Shirley, Messrs Eugene Laymon, Harry Madden, Will Dotterer and W. E. Rauch.

25 Years Ago Kokomo and Hbward County officers of the law joined in a search for the five bandits that staged a holdup of the Farmers State Bank of Frankfort. Nellie Keeler, the Kokomo midget, has gone to New York where she has an engagement for the winter in Barnum's museum. She spent the on the road with the Barnum circus. Jonathan J6hnson of the firm of Dixon and Co. is confined to his home with a badly sprained ankle, the result, of an attempt to pkate on ice, donning skates for the first time in 25 years.

A building at Washington and Walnut Streets occupied by the Samiiel'Lowry family was partially destroyed by fire that started from a defective flue. The Citizen's Association in a meeting at the courthouse, reorganized by electing W. D. Ward president and T. J.

Hanna, secretary. W. T. Merrill and A. L.

Sharp were appointed a committee to select a topic of discussion for the next meeting. Kokomo is interested in a proposal being made to produce' electricity for this area by building a series of dams in the Tip- pecanne River in White County near Monticello and harnessing the power there. Leslie and George Sailors entertained a company of young friends at dinner at their home in West Walnut St. The Included Misses Nellie Tarkington, Bessie Zehrlng, Hallce Stanbro, Idabelle Ford, Lenore Ford, Sarah Strayer. and Neva Ellis; Lee Hlte, Lloyd Cooper, Lee Pedigo, Russell Me- gulre and George Kohls.

E. Sanders and A. F. Leiss have organized a company for the manufacture of aprons and hose supporters. Dr.

J. H. Ross is presidont of the new concern; W. A. Russell, vice president; A.

F. Leiss, -secretary-treasurer; E. E. Sanders, general manager and Harry Walker, superintendent of the factory. Members of the local association of mail carriers and their wives were entertained at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Lewis Lamm. The carriers elected officers for the corning year, naming R. A. Purvis, president; Dwight Leonard, vice president; Lewis Lamm, secretary; Garfleld Hankins, treasurer; Ben Boughman, collector; Russell Hooker, sergeant- at-arms.

Meeting at the Howard County Hospital, members of the, Howard County Medical Society elected officers, naming Dr, W. R. Morrison as president; Dr. R. A.

Craig, vice president; Dr. W. J. Marshall, secretary-treasurer. Following the business meeting, dinner was served to 41 doctors and- their wives and Mrs.

Julia L. Davis spoke on the Oberammergau Passion Play which she witnessed last summer. An unemployment survey is being planned by the local committee on unemployment relief, headed by Paul Johnson. Pythian Sisters meeting in Castle Hall elected officers for the coming year, naming Mrs. Bertha Hall most excellent chief.

Postmaster 0. A. Somers has completed a count' of the pieces of mail sent out at his office in one week. It shows: letters, postal cards, newspapers, magazines transient printed matter, books, 847; merchandise, 27; total, 10,908. Lewis Stevens of Jerome came near freezing to death while walking home from Kokomo.

He was rescued by Bud Fairchild from a fence corner where he had lain down. Julia Jackson has been elected worthy matron of the Order of Eastern Star of Kokomo. Members of the local Masonic Lodge have named John F. Campbell to be worshipful master for the. coming year.

A. L. Spangler will be high priest of the RAM chapter. Frank Harter and Mrs. Casper Butler received diplomas from the Sherwood Music School at a recital given at the First Congregational Church.

i a Council, Pocahonlas Lodge, has elected Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens to be Pocahontas for the new term. Herman R. Weibers has been elected worshipful master of Howard Masonic -Lodge for the coming year. Kokomo's Wildcats lost a hard fought basketball game, played in Frankfort, to the Frankfort team by a score of 34-15.

Judge Feldman introduced the revolutionary, but simple system, of trying to help the men brought before him. He called in members of Alcoholics Anonymous and the Salvation Army to give counsel and aid. He personally helped some of them find jobs. A Mayor's Commission Rehabilitation of Man was reactivated. It found funds for establishing a "pilot plant." The city recently authorized a 35-bed ward where alcoholics can be treated.

Such measures, though inadequate, are a start. The success of Judge Feldman brings new hope for the alcoholic, who is a sick person in need of psy-. chiatric, help. But it also shows what one aroused, dedicated man can. do.

Sheriff Own Victim ROSE HILL, N.C. Deputy Sheriff Bertis Fussell carried a pistol for 19 years and never had to use it. Then he accidentally be- Jcame the first victim his pistol. It happened after he received a call to investigate a disturbance. As he picked up the pistol from his desk, he dropped the weapon.

It discharged and the bullet struck htm In the calf of the leg. The Kokomo Tribune FubtUhK) bT Th. Kolomo Trlbun. Munbw of Associated Pros. The Howard County Medical Society held its annual election of officers, naming Dr.

E. K. Friermood of Gteentown for president. Mrs. Mary H.

Planner, poet and reader of Indianapolis, provided the entertainment for an afternoon party given at the West Sycampre St. home of Mrs. M. F. Brand in honor of her sister, Mrs.

John A. Bechtel, visiting here from Pittsburgh, Pa, J. R. Morgan has been elected president for the coming year of the Kokomo Real Estate Board. 0.

Drinkwater was named vice president; R. D. Robbing, secretary-treasurer. Announcement has been made that the King Kennedy Clothing Company, Kokomo's oldest'retail clothing store, will go out of business early in the new year. The business nearly 70 years old, having been established here by the late David Friday.

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Gaddis Terrell been chosen superintendent of the Sunday School of Grace M. E. Church for the ensuing year. Through testa made over the weekend of the new deferrlzation plant at the Water Works pumping statioa: have proved that the water has been completely cleared of iron deposits. Kokomo Eagles have elected Adolph Pickett to be worthy president the coming year.

Hats in matches were blamed for starting a fire that destroyed the house Nola Hause, northeast of Kokomo. Kokomo carpenters union repre-. sentatives deny a report that they are demanding a shorter day and higher wages. The annual progressive dinner of the Senior Club of the First Congregational Church was entertained at the homes of four members, Robert George being host for the cocktail course, Mina Lou Carlston for the soup course, Richard and Barbara Schwartz and Jane Roemer for the dinner course and Richard Blacklidge for the dessert. With the need for relief greater here than in previous years, the Good Fellow fund to provide holiday cheer for the needy is growing slowly.

Robert Montgomery Wows Everyone at Gettysburg, Pa. WASHINGTON Robert Montgomery Is TV adviser to the President and flew in to Gettysburg from New York to help set up a suitable studio for some film-TV reports Ike will make soon. His presence caused a sen- The Alsops: Report West To Build Dam For Egyptians WASHINGTON The United States, with Great Britain and Egypt, will soon embark on just about the greatest engineering project since the building of the pyramids. A firm decision has has been made to build the great Aswan high dam on the Upper Nile. The dam is an exciting undertaking.

It will back up a huge lake three times larger than any other man-made body of water in the world. When it is completed -which will take 15 years--the dam will irrigate more than two million acres of now arid land, and it will supply cheap power for the industrialization of Egypt. will transform utterly the economy of the Nile Delta. The job will coast about $1.3 billion. The pay the labor costs in local currency, but will need between $400 and $500 million in foreign exchange to buy earth-moving equipment, dynamos, and the like.

The International Bank will put up some $200 million of this sum, while the American government will pick up the tab for most of the rest, with the British supplying some needed sterling, Answers Radi Thus the cost to the American taxpayer is not breathtaking. But the decision to go ahead with the project is highly significant, in terms of Eisenhower administration policy. The decision is a direct response to a Soviet challenge. When the Soviets made their arms deal with Egypt, they also made a vaguely worded but alluring offer to build the'Aswan dam, which worried American policymakers more than the arms deal. And although the International Bank was considering the dam project before the Soviets stepped in, there is no doubt that the decision to go ahead was spurred by the Soviet offer.

But the decision on the dam is also a part of a much larger decision. The dispute within the administration between the "Four-H Club" and The Young Turks" has been well-publicized. The "Four-H Club" members are the conservatives, who supposedly want to keep foreign aid at or below present levels. "The Young Turks" want to respond to the new Soviet technique of offering arms and money abroad by a new, expanded, and redesigned foreign aid program. In principle, at least, "The Young Turks" have won the argument.

The issue went to the President last week, at the National Security Council meeting. The President ruled that the new Soviet challenge must somehow be met. It remains to be seen, of course, how this presidential decision in principle will be carried out In practice. But it certainly means a hard new look at the whole foreign aid program. Dirt'Streets It is time for such a new look.

Take, for example, the sad, cautionary talk of the streets of Kabul, capital of the small, poor, but strategically important slate Afghanistan. The Afganlstan government had its heart set on getting the streets of the capital city paved with asphalt dirt roads were below the dignity of. the capital. But the American aid experts sternly ruled that there were no sound economic reasons for paving Kabul's streets, which were traversed largely by donkeys and pedestrians. Instead, they ruled, a dam should be built in the hinterland.

At this point the bitterly disappointed Afghans asked the Russians If they would help pave Kabul's streets. The'Russians instantly agreed, paved the streets, and threw in 'an asphalt factory Into the bargain. The Soviet investment In Afghanistan is a fraction of the American investment, and the dam certainly makes better economic sense than the paved streets. But the Afghans did not much want the dam and they did very badly want the paved streets. And Afghanistan is in real danger of becoming a Soviet satellite.

Italian Can Or take the story of a certain district in Italy, during the elections a couple of years ago. As a sort of test case, especially large amounts of American aid were poured into the district, with a maximum of hoopla. The sudden injection of money upset the economy of the area, and the hoopla was apparently The Communist vote was higher than ever before. This is not to suggest that foreign aid is useless. On the contrary, the President Is right that the Soviet challenge must be met, and the Aswan dam Is an excellent start.

But the United States has got to stop acting like a stern governess, who always knows what is best for her small charges, and who expects sation second only to lie's being here. Kids swarmed around him for autographs. Waitresses got tongue-tied when he sat at their tables. Shoppers ogled him in the streets. He takes it all in stride.

Works like a beaver with the TV cameramen and technicians making sure lights and mikes are just right. Jokes with reporters. Appears to really know the TV production business. Meat Balls The meat ball routine in Washington is getting out of band. Now you can't even taste the hamburg.

Seems every embassy here wants to add a special flavor. At a private party for Pakistan Ambassador Mohammed Ali and his wife the other evening, meat balls were all over the buffet. In Pakistan this dish is called kofta. They served them three ways yet. Spiced, dry or in sauce.

Baby Sitter There's serious doubt in aviation circles that the Reds invented the first airplane, as they claim. But there's no denying that they've come up with a pretty historic baby-sitting idea in this town. At the Czech embassy, at least, members of the staff can bring their kids to parties and park them upstairs under the guidance of a nurse. This could defect the nurse to democracy, but it suits Lt. Col.

Franticck Tishler, military attache, and his wife. "Greatest social advance in years," he claims. Cuff i i Fashion notes: Michigan's Gov. G. Menuen Williams dazzled the dames at the Women's National Democratic Club when he addressed them the other day.

It wasn't his speech. He wore gold cuff links the size of a silver dollar stamped with the seal of his state. Shopping Bulletins from Hie Christmas shopping front: Vice President Nixon is going to get something special in the way of neckties. His wifa Pat spent a half hour in the men's tie department-of the most exclusive department store in town and walked'out without making a purchase. She couldn't find anything to suit her needs, she said.

Secretary of Treasury Humphrey and Secretary of State Dulles are waiting until they get to Paris to buy for their wives. They'll be there for a NATO conference just before Christmas. For most of the cabinet it will be Christmas with the kids. The Wilsons will be in Detroit with their six children and IS grandchildren. The Brownells will be here with their four offspring.

The Bensons will have four of their children here with them, but two married ones living in the West can't make it. Haydn Pearson's Country Flavor FLAME KEEPER No man need be lonely if he enjoys tending a fire. There is something about the multi-colored leaping flames, the cheerful crackle of i wood and occasional explosive sparks that appeals to many. The subconscious memory of an open fire goes far back in-' to the ancient history of man- when be tended his i before the opening to hia cave home. Fire tending is a fine art and not all men master it.

It calls for the virtues of a philosopher who realizes the frailities of a man but who also appreaclatcs his virtues. A good keeper of the flame is tolerant of ashes: he wants a deep bed of them for his backlog. He builds his fire carefully and with plenty of dry kindling Each countryman has his favorite Oak and maple, beech and black birch arc solid heat givers thai burn steadily and throw a constant warmth for a long period. Gray birch, if put under cover as soon as cut, Is a quick-burning, generous heat giver--a favorite wood for summer use in the kitchen range when Mother wants to make a batch of supper biscuits. Hemlock and spruce are the extrovert-orators of the hearth; they snap and shout, crackle and orate and punctuate their points with orange-red sparks that fly onto the rugs.

Cherry has a beautiful flame, a blending of blues and golds, reds and steel- grays. Elm has golden-russet flames, and when it has given Itself to the sacrifice, the ash log is a distinctive- pattern of gray- while squares and rectangles. There is more to fireplace tending than merely regulating tho heat. A fireplace gives a man a chance to dream good dreams, a chance to get caught up with himself in a world too much with him. He who delights In tending fire knows that the glow on the hearth also fosters a glow in the heart.

to be thanked for telling them. The purpose of foreign aid is not sentimental, or even economic, but political. This is a lesson the Soviets do not need to be taught. It is a lesson a lot of American administrators and experts badly need to learn, now that the SovieU have directly challenged us In an area we had always thought was an American monopoly..