1.1 PL PA -4. de -c Leader Tribune Editorials- The Commercial Jet Age Marion; Indiana, Leader- -Tribune Nov. 12, 1957 The rocket and age has so transformed our ideas of speed that we're hardly in the frame of ind to appreciate the big advance just over the horizon in commercial aviation. With "Sputnik" and, "Muttnik" racing 18,000 miles an houta and, missile traveling thousands of miles an hour. a speed of 600 doesn't sound impressive.
But as an accomplishment for scheduled commercjal flying, it very definitely is. That's about the race the big jets will keep when they beg flying American. and world airlanes in It will represent a jump of more than 20 miles an hour above the present top spect possible in DC-7's. Flying westward eith the wind, the longrange jet transports how on order will go coast to coast in some four and a.half hours. The Atlantic crossing will take around six.
But to illustrated tow people have been conditioned to fantasti speeds, one man who heard this projected Wans-atlantic pace mentioned said: "Six hours? Isn't that kind of slow? I thought it would ground four." A tr 4 He wasn't too moved when told the present crossing time is 12 hours. The speed advances that will be made with will do as much to accelerate flying schedules as has been accomplished in all the history of commercial aviation to date. No, what the airlines will be doing 1 will be quite remarkable, however modest it may seem when set against "Sputnik" and "Muttnik." But even they know that they must i indeed begin planning now. for still greater, speeds in the future. C.
R. Smith, president of American Air. lines, which wants to spend another 200 million dollars for new jets on top of those already ordered, says it's doubtful there will be much point in trying to add a mere 100 miles or so of speed to the performance of the 'jets now on the way. "The next plane we get will have to break the sound barrier," said Smith. That means speeds of 800 to 1,000 miles an hour.
And until we're ready for that trip to the moon, maybe that's good enough, even though the Soviet "moons" would still go by us as if we were standing still. 4 pound hostile shorelines with their 20-inch guns. But today they have been superseded by the super-carriers which give the Navy a more mobile striking power. Nevertheless, the battleship will be missed. There was drama and glory and stirring naval history bound up in this complex, floating fortress.
The engines of war may grow deadlier and more efficient as time passes. It is unlikely, though, that there will often again be anything so spectacular as the sight of a big battlewagon carving its way through the seas or rocking to the massive recoil of its great guns. Where Thee Are No Parking Problems Adjacent to American automobile factorles there are always big parking lots. And these, lots are loaded with cars belonging to the workers. But, as Williard Henry Chamberlain points out in a Wall Street Journal article, there are no parking problems around the auto factories of communist countries.
The reason is found in the wage-price relationship. As an example Che cites the principal George Sokolsky Sax 'There Is No Or Ability Last of the Battlewagons Steadily the look; the modern defense establishment change We've all known for a long time that this battleship as a naval device has largely catlived its usefulness. There has been a kind of sentimental attachment to these super dreadnoughts, however, and up until now the Navy has not put them wholly out of services But it announced recently that its last active battleship, the U.S.S. Wisconsin, will be mothballed in York. Possibly this will' be the Wisconsi last trip.
No farther back than the Korean war the big vessels still could be used effectively to car produced in zsawa. At its the average to buy one, if 'earnings for price is way price. This is what the masses of National Monopoly Building Of Satellites out warning or notice because she was weary of her private associations and decided to leave town. Another told me of the failure of employees to accept any responsibility at all, doing just enough work not to justify dismissal. Such stories, are accepted as normal these days.
But that is not the spirit that produces the Sputnik. Recently, I listened to some youngsters who went into various ROTC's and all were discouraged because the terms of enlistment, of service. of promotion are constantly being changed. so that nobody can tell from one vear to another where he stands. arbitrariness of such changes discourages many young people from joining the services because they are more willing to take a chance on not becoming conscripts when the dividends for putting in four years of bard work during college years are so uncertain.
This weakness in our military organization is not limited to the ROTC. It runs all through the special organizations which are doing scientific work. where the pay is meagre the continuance of I work uncertain. Scientists and tech- T.M. Reg.
"George won first debate at college- -says his clincher argument avas that women must be dumb, look at the lapes they marry!" 2 -i. -4 Communist Poland, the state-fixed price, it would worker five years to earn enough he put aside every cent of that purpose. And the below the going black market total government does workers. 1-1 4 On Brains -4. is not that they are unpatriotic it is that their government regards them as secondary persons, One of the problems that every school.
every home, every er encounters is the lack of respect, of self in most young reople. It is to be noted in dress, In speech, in attitude. It often borders on insolence and when, insol-. ence is regarded as a mark of freedom and individuality, it is dex to social decay. The Russians have a term for it.
"hooliganism." and the social offense is1 punishable as it should be. A good spanking carly enough or a clip on the jaw later, might not altogether cure could avert disaster. What happens to a society of uhaisciplined individuals is that there is a substitution of values, a vulgarization of taste. When Sputnik II was orbited. Ingrid Bergman.
an actress. announced a return to Hollywood. Some newspapers equated. these two items as equal value, although Sputnik Hi is probably the most revolutionary event in history Land Ingrid Bergman was just a press agent's blurb. fact.
if Sputnik did its nasty business, there would a be' no actresses, no and no me. For, what Sputnik eventually can' 'do is to throw a beam upon any part of the Earth; and destroy whatever The beam strikes: Imagine what can happen with a dozen Sputniks orbiting, the Earth or bombarding the moon or bombarding each othr up in the distant yonder and what will "that do to us? So while we ponder that! we are also supposed to wonder about the relations of an actress to A husband who has been violently advertised as having gone astray in India. I have, I hope. a sense of the humorous and the funny. but there is nothing funny about Sputnik.
To the undisciplined mind, anything is good for a laugh but nicians take these jobs because they want to be in on the ments but as soon as private try calls, they answer the call. Published Daily Except Monday CHRONICLE-TRIBUNE SUNDAY LEADER-TRIBUNE CO. PUBLISHERS Terms of Subscription. City Edition. by carrier.
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1954 Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson put on his big ports. to get rid of rigid price supTwo vears later the Eisenhower administration produced its billiondollar soil bank plan to buy the farm vote. It succeeded on the presidential ticket, all right, but inthe farm belt west of the Mississippi, the GOP lost congressmen. Underlying purpose of both programs was to cut down the production of farm surpluses. (This year the soil bank has cut cotton and wheat production a little.
Surpluses might have been far greater, of course, if the soil bank had. not been in effect. But greater flexibility on price supports doesn't appear to have cut production at all. For this year's yields will be among the three greatest in U.S. history.
The most disturbing possibility overhanging: the elections is that there will be record surpluses of all feed grains corn, oats, barley and grain sorghums. This year's grain sorghum production may double last year's, competing heavily with corn. The supply. of feed grains available in relation to livestock and poultry numbers is at a record High. The normal corn-hog ratio is said to exist when 100 pounds of hog will buy bushels of corn.
This year, due to depressed grain prices, 100 pounds of hog have bought as much as 16 bushels of corn. In such a situation, farmers naturally raise. more hogs to fatten on the cheap grain. But this is normally followed by a big drop in hog prices. If that happens when next spring's pig crop is sent to market (next fall, just before the elections, the result in the farm belt could be politically disastrous.
Foreseeing A similar situation, developing last fall, Secretary Benproposed a new corn program. It called for ending corn price supports and dropping corn aereage allotments. Its purpose was to reduce corn production by a free market price. The plan appealed to some farmers. But others feared that they would lose more money without corn supports they would gain price, higher prices on a reduced corn crop, the plan failed to win thirds majority approval in a referendum vote.
Congress was then asked to put the plan into effect law. But A Democratic House majority killed it. So the new program was never given a trial. And, the situation got worse. Farmers were even given for corn raised on acreage not under a allotment.
There are no clear indications as yet on what the administration proposes to do about it for next year. One plan being considered is to lump all feed grains together under a new flexible price support system. The secretary of agriculture would be given broad powers to set prices that the food value content of all grains would be equally If this prise support was set at around 60 per cent of parity in place of the 70 to 77 per cent levels now in effect for feed grains, the theory is that production would be' cut down to bring it into balance with livestock demands. Reducing the supply would theore tic ally raise feed grain prices and bring the corn hog ratio back to normal. If this succeeded.
a political upset in the farm belt might be avoided. But nobody really knows if the theory would work. In his recent speeches, Secretary and Benson has been repeating emphasizing his old demands for more flexibility in the price support system. If granted that, he promises to take further steps to expand distribution so that farmers can sell more than they. can when production is held down by allotments.
Dr. Edwin. P. Jordan SaysSearch Continues For Cure Of Rheumatoid Arthritis One. of the most serious and as vet unconquered diseases is rheunatoid arthritis.
This is responsible for a vast amount of suffering and economic loss. Although it remains 8 most discouraging problem to patient and physician alike. a great deal has been learned about it in recent years and the increasing research and interest in rheumatoid arthritis are encourag. ing. A single specific cause for rheumatoid arthritis has yet to be uncovered.
Likewise, there is no single for the disease but this is not to say that treatment is useless A great many different methods produce tempor31V improvement in the disease and. indeed. remissions frequentlv occur without any obvious reason. Today it is believed that since rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disease. emphasis should be on the long term treatment.
A recent article on this subject stated that: such a basic program should least eight items: psychological adjustment, a balance between rest and activity. diet and bowel management, correction anemia. cautious removar of foci of infection, measures aimed at relief of pain, corrective and 1 postural exercises, and prevention and correction 'of deformities. Each of these needs the intelligent cooperation of the physician land his helpers as well as of the. patient.
I cannot go into these questions in detail, but one of them may serve as an example. The patient with rheumatoid arthritis frequently feels better with the knees bent; if allowed to maintain this position for a long period, however, the knees will remain permanently bent. and thus. confine. the victim to a wheel chair.
This complication 'can be preventmuch more easily than it can be corrected after it has occurred. In: addition to general long-term measures of treatment. there are a large number of special measures which can. be employed for some patients and under some circ*mstances. For example, some victims of: early rheumatoid arthritis often: respond well transfusions of crdinary fresh blood.
Some appear to obtain favorable effects from carefully administered injections. cf gold. A small number improve with a change of environment to a arv. warm climate. Most obtain temporary improvement from cortisone or its relatives.
but frequently these carry' side effects and. generally. the good effects are not lasting. They do, however. have their place in treatment.
These are only a few of the treatments which are currently being: used studies are continuing with these and many other dures and drugs. 1: ELECTION NEA Service, PUTTING AN ELEPHANT IN FIRST MOON WE LAUNCH" FCC Probers Check On TV Advertising WASHINGTON Chairman John C. Doerfer at the Federal Communications Commission is trying without much luck to discover whether scientific city ers have been sneaking subconscious advertising messages invisibly onto America's television screens, The idea is to pop a slogan across the gigantic (21-inch tube so quickly that the human eye doesn't see it, except unconsciously. Then the owner of the eye hops out of his chair. as if hypnoand does whatever the tizeden ad tells him.
J. This was tried out a while back in a movie. The inessage said, "Drink soda pop" and "Eat and the management was delighted to final the audience going almost en manse to the lobby follow orders. Television obviously. is the next step, but how can you investigate an advertisem*nt you can't even see? The chairman, as I say, isn't making much progress.
About all he knows for sure so far about thise mysterious business is that the three major networks deny emphatically using any such derhanded method; The trouble is he never did interview me. 47 Some unusual urges have come over me lately, and the only planation is that somebody's been subjecting me to subconscious advertising. Only the other night a TV spieler, was smacking his lips over of tea he'd personally brewed with a four sided tea bag. An unknown force caused me to rise in the middle of this and cook a cup of coffee. There can be only one explanation: a South American that tea coffee mAn program was with sabotag- ining visible ads.
I was looking later at a wrestling match, featuring The Great Scott crunching the bones of a Germanic gentleman with a ed mustache. Justi as the Great One yanked these handlebars a little man in cartoon form strolled on the screen to peddle beer. There must have been' an unseen advertisem*nt there, too, because. an unknown something caused me to snap off the set and shave myself with the only electric razor that will remove the fuzz from a peach. There you are' for a starter; Chairman Doerfer.
The last few days I've had and almost uncontrollable desire to buy a 1958 model. sedan with power, air springs and, if possible, room for 8 my feet All I need is money. Now, Mr. Chairman, what if some sneaky auto dealer puts on invisible ads urging me to a bank? Who's responsible? The Federal Communications Commission or bank robber Othman? What if the sunbathing people the rest of us to go naked during December? How about the canned soup folks forcing us to eat chicken gumbo on the rocks for breakfast? The possibilities, Mr. Doerfer, are horrid.
I'm glad you're investigating the situation and that you've assured an assortment of worried Congressmen about your interest. There's trouble: I did talk! to of: one of your. scientific underlings and Mr. Chairman -he laughed. He was an engineering type and he said by the very.
nature of television transmission, with a spot of! jumping 'rapidly across the screen, hit is physically a impossible for put unseen ads ion TV screens. Fire that man, sir, or he'll ruin an elegant investigation before it even starts. cowS aren't contented, "according to W. Schein of the Louisiana State Experiment Station. After studying a herd of (163 dairy cows for a year, Dr.
Schein said they fought. 5,000 times. The fighting included 800 buttings and 400 actual head to head bati tles. Main Street Reporter Good morning The weather man' is forecasting a bit of a let up in cold temperatures for today. Which will suit this corner of the paper if it doesn't the others did you notice the fellows working on the new sign ion the American Security Building no framework connected with the project at they just raised up the workers in a basket similar to those used in oldtime, Halloon ascensions and away they went it was enough? to make the sidewalk superintendents open their eyes frustrating too because 'not one of them had a' suggestion as to how to do the job better this sort of thing has to cease Tom Elrod, tossed a remark at one street corner conversational debate group that was insulting he wondered who they were "skinning alive" at the moment lit was so disconcerting there wasn't one of that could think of' a but good the enough opportunity remark to vanished toss just not quick enough on: back at him; we can the comeback, we agreed and Tom strolled on across the intersection confident that he had scored a verbal Victory and he had just because the courthouse and other.
governmental offices were closed in observance of the holiday the building escaped from labor Judge Robert Monday didn't mean that the people who usually occupy Caine spent part of the day trying to rake up all the, leaves around his house there was no report that he hart com- alpleted good time of the year to check up. on a fellow who the job. but he intimated as much this is; ways a such claims because the night breezes always makes bring down more leaves to cover up your 1 efforts 'of the day before. Did you say frog cold? in it frozen was which is the reason he was sport in his part of the country as cold as were the words up around here. last summer pool those of one member of the local party that attended the football game.
Don Opsahl took one dot our at Ohio State s(adium last Satur- scouts up on ride in; the afternoon one fellow and Flying Club's new Tri. said Max Parker was supposed Pacer plane and convinced to go along on the him on what a cond aircraft it backed out after looking 'at the, was it cruises near: 110 thermometer reading Saturday per hour and. the 'scout -P aLl .1 '1 4 morning Police Chief Charlie. Rodgers decided. he.
had enough at halftime of the game and retreated to the car on the parking lot to listen to it on the radio Willard Chambers said he purchased a cup of hot chocolate at halftime and part of the boiling liquid spilled over his hand and he didn't even realize it "It just seemed to warm my fingers up to the freezing point," he said Jerrv Pence is back in town for a few days. but not for any in racing fact in there outboard hasn't been any for motorboats a while in this it part of sounds the so country quiet the reason on Sundays is not because all the doors it is just too cold for the and windows are closed enthusiasts to get on the river to test out the speed limits of there the wasn't motors much 'of that particular Jerry, said learned that the acquisition of the new plane has sparked Interest among the members there is lots of flying time aVailable these clear fall 3 let's hope these clear days continue not only for the flying enthusiasts but for all of us enjoy them right here on the ground. Along about next January of the end of December will mark the 20th anniversary of Conservation officer Bill Johnson in that part of state service Bill wAs on the job yesterdav and picked up a couple of fellows who wantea to hunt without putting down the required fee for a hunting Jiasked it her planned censeunting this season (Bill said he hoped to a rabbit or two todav the rabbit season opened yesterday Sunday to be exact Wartake his fixed to developindus- It -r ON THE LINE- Everyone Showed Up For Flight From Prague To Soviet Capital 1 Let us look at it anoiger way: there is no national on brains or ability. It' is raquestion of the will to achieve. will to survive, the belief in' the purpuses of collective and indie dual life.
The Sputniks a product of Marxism or of but of the knowledge, Espabilities and application of a gre of men to an obiective to threnbiective of national pride and national survival. a That has been so the history of mankind. built great nation not by but by endless. labor labor mind and of the body. It is "not only that counts but the capacity sacrifice and subordinate oneself: a a a purpose.
A friend recently told me of a young lady who came a good job. one for which' she would be over-paid, if merit were she standard, but who would the because of the reattement of working half a day of Saturday That interfered with her Social life. Her ancestors worked than that to build a com (in 'a free society, on told me of an instance in which trustca employee walked offa job with- 2 4, By BOB' CONSIDINE MOSCOW (INS) weren't any "no shows" when the Sputtering loud speaker at Prague airport announced the departure for Moscow of Flight 06. Seventy of us crowded to the gate in the dreary rain. A lumpy Czech girl in uniform struggled with the group's names.
which were printed on cards. "Delegation Cambodia," she called out, there was a brief cry of joy and relief from the little brown'- faced. communist group from that remote and lovely land. "Delegation Sudanese," she said, and our ranks parted to make way for that group. "Delegation Hearst" sloshed to the rakish Russian jet.
Comrade Tupolev built himself beaut when he turned out the TU-104, It is a little smaller and slimmer than the Boeing 707 but has the same slight droop to the swept wing and the same raffish tail. But the most impressive part of the Russian which ha's been in: regular airline. opera tion for more than a year, is the power it' generates from its two engines. 1 The engines -fit snugly against the cabin where the wing joins it. The nascelles which house each engine are conservatively 30 feet long and the power plant itself seems to fill most of that space.
Judging from the vast size of the air intake these turbojets need a colossal amount of air to breathe. The Russiansiwon't say how much power this type of engine develops but common gossip plane circles is that they are in the I brief pounds test of them an hour earlier thrust league. During they shook the airport and ground around it, with gruff and vehement exhausts The 70 of us went aboard via two sets of steps. a first front: compartment of 20 class, "sieasta" type seats, then a rather extensive galley and finally a 50-seat section which is more like an American touristtype arrangement: a "narrowish aisle and seats arranged in rows of three and two. Bill Hearst is a pilots and dike all of them would, he instinctively looked lat sweep of his wristwatch as we started to roll down the strip.
To me it seemed an intermin-. able run and even Bill' made! the little gesture of pulling back on an imaginary stick as the second went pasti 1.40-second mark. But then well were off, inches only, but off: "There wasn't muchileft of that runway," my pilot friend said. We had ridden together in the 707 the day it flew from Seattle to Baltimore, in three, hours, 48 minutes. and everything the 104 did this day was an item comparison.
For. example. when we leveled off at about 30,000 feet Bill tried to stand cigaret on. its edge to test the plane's Jack of vibration. It worked briefly, but each time he tried thereafter the cigaret fell over on its side.
"Only Russian cigarets stand up on. the Tupolev," Frank Conniff: said grimly. Through The Tribune Files. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO One of the first steps to be. en toward pavement of.
state road 21 from Marion to Peru will be the opening of bids on Nov. 22 for nine miles of paving immediately southeast of Peru, the state highway commission yesterday Marion and County, like the rest of the Middlewest, yesterday. was held wintry grip that brought snow and freezing temperatures to most' of Indiana and adjoining states The temperature reached minimum of 26 degrees above zero at 7 p.m. yesterday and at midnight remained at this same figure, according to the thermograph of the Indiana General Service Co. Observance of Armistice: Day in Marion was confined yesterday to special programs, in the schools, a celebration sponsored, by the American Legion and its auxiliary, and the closing of city land county offices.
Banks were not opened TEN YEARS AGO Organization meeting of the Marion Community Christmas Council has been scheduled for 5:15 p.m. Monday at the Young Men's Christian Association club rooms, Lloyd M. Wolfe, chairman, announced last. night Three programs have been scheduled at Marion schools today in observance of National Education Week Overcoats, anti-freeze and fuel supplies became. topics conversation in Marion and' Grant County the Winter season recorded today 'as the first hard freeze of last night RU 'C.
Cole, Purdue University conservationist, will be the principal a meet. ing of the Granti county, soil conservation bf supervisors today Representatives and dealers of Frigidaire: appliances from eight cities including Marion will meet lat noon Thursday, 'at the Hotel Spencer, it was reported here last night. FIVE YEARS AGO Mrs. Victor Selby; Fairmount. has been named vice chairman of the Indiana 1952 Crusade for Freedom, 'it was announced yesterday by the state chairman, Eugene 'C.
Pulliam, publisher of the Star; and the Indianapolis: News Achievement program of: the Happy Hoosier Girls 4-H' Club was held recently at the Indiana' and Michigan Club rooms Guy Harris, Grant County Agriculturi al agent, the history of the Acre Corn i Clubs in the county during the luncheon meeting of the Marion Rotary Club Tuesday at the Marion Hotel a few weeks ago the organization decided to sponsor the corn I club His 'year. Are.
