South Bend Mirror, January 26, 1945

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REPUBLICANS SUBSTITUTE
JENNER FOR MORRIS:
The G. O. P. national committee in
session at Indianapolis, evidently decided that Bill Jenner, as candidate for
short term senator, had done more to
put Indiana at the top of the Republican
Snap, than had Ernest Melvin Morris
(South Bend), state national committee-
*tnan. Jenner was made assistant national chairman, and unwilling to give
Indiana too much prominence, the national secretaryship went to Mrs. Dudley
C. Day, of Detroit.
Herbert Brownell, Jr., has a free hand
to run the Republican party for the next
couple of years. The national chairman
laid his chips on the line and emerged
with almost unlimited authority over
personnel, program and policy. He had
behind him a vote of confidence. Despite a considerable amount of individual grumbling in the Republican ranks
about Brownell's close, association with
the defeated presidential nominee, Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, only
minor opposition voices were raised regarding his Detention of the chairmanship.
Senator
Sogrum
Says:
THE reason t-faere is so much
Republican woodpeckering
^ about Blaze, and that A
priority, is that the three soldiers
"bumped off" at Memphis, were
the same three soldiers that
voted for Dewey in the November elfiCtion. They're as keen for
those three soldiers as Roosevelt
is for Wallace. Campaign debts
must be paid.
Most members, reviewing the closed
sessions in which mationai committee
voiced their sentiments freely, said a
new sort of harmony appeared to have
grown up within the party. Obviously
some of them did not like to see Dewey
keep even a "second-hand grasp on the
party reins, but they had no single
Standard bearer around whom they
could rally.
Brownell obtained blanket authorization to expand the committee's paid personnel to a limit of $320,000 already in
the treasury and the additional amounts
that may be raised by a campaign for
"modest contribution" among the 22,-
000,000 persons who voted for a Dewey-
Bricker Jtioket.
Beyond that, he was told by the com-
BRiS&tree he couid implement in any waj^
he chooses the "militant opposition" program he laid down,—copying PAC-CIO
tactics as an anti-labor party.
BES PAPER COLLECTION
COMES NEXT SUNDAJT:
An interesting possibility *rn the waste
paper :drive Sunday, Jan. 28, it is pointed out, will be public disclosure of those
persons and homes which appear to have
little or no feeling for the American
boys who are fighting in foreign lands
and little or no patriotic sentiment.
This disclosure will come through the
absence from the street curbs of the
piles of waste paper for which those in
charge of the waste paper drive are begging almost on their knees. This absence has been noted in the past and
probably will be noted more than ever
Jan. 28 because publicity has made it
such a conspicuous absence should barren curbs appear in front of homes presumed to have waste paper in basements
or elsewhere which ought to be given to
the collectors who will do the work
without remuneration except the satis-'
faction of doing something to help win
the war.
Collectors in previous drives say that
most of the waste paper comes from the
more modest homes and that occupants
of most of the best homes on principal
streets take no part whatever in these
drives. What they do not do shows by
the absence of any waste paper on curbs
in front of their homes. The welfare of
these occupants is being fought for by
(On Page Six)
Chances for Mishawaka Hospital Look Brighter
(From Page One)
Lack of opposition at the hearing
came as a complete surprise although
it had been known' that support for
the institution has grown by leaps
and bounds in recent days. The silence of the opposition known to exist left a fear of false security among
.proponents of the hospital.
Charles L. Egenroad, Tribune reporter covering the assembly, registers this version of the situation:
MR. MORRIS LEADS
HOSPITAL DRIVE
"E. M. Morris, of South Bend,
Republican national committeeman
for Indiana, spearheaded the drive to
locate the hospital in St. Joseph coun -
,ty with a detailed discussion of steps
already taken in the county to provide   for  crippled   children.    Morris
 Bonds	
Over America
UNIVERSITY SPRING
A covered spring at Chapel Hill,
N. C, reminds students of the University of North Carolina that General "William R. Davie, "father of
'the 'university," selected the site of
the -first state university in America
•at that spot in 1782. Close by on
October 12, 1793, Gen. Davie laid the
.cornerstone of Old East, the first
•university building. The first student walked 170 miles through bitter
winter weather to enroll at the opening January 16, 1795. Similar determination dominates every Allied
•lighting man in the war today. The
t: edition of America's first state university and its first student should
inspire the purchase of War Bonds
ixn: the protection of the Nation's
educ?":ional freedom. -
also explained the function of the
Children's Dispensary in South Bend,
which he pointed out is financed by
the community with physicians furnishing staff work without charge.
He also pointed with pride to Health-
win hospital for tuberculosis treatment, which is operated by St. Joseph
county and told of his personal plans
to establish a school for crippled children in South Bend after the war in
Tippecanoe place, 620 West Wash
ington avenue.
"It was Morris' contention that .a
promise existed in state institutional
planning that when the state Tuberculosis hospital was located at Newc
Albany the next hospital was to go
to northern Indiana? He tempered the
financial problem by dec-laring that
the northern institution could -be
started with perhaps half of the requested million and a half dollars
with more to be added when needed.
SENATOR CROOK
ENTERS DEBATE
Senator Thurman C. Crook,
South Bend Democrat, who served
on the legislative commission which
chose the Mishawaka site, charged
that if "'Indiana treated its'dumb animals as it has humanity, the Society
for the Protection of Dumb Animals
would haul us into conast."
"His talk," says Egenread, "was
built around the lack of fertilities at
Riley hospital in Indianapolis to care
for all cases in the state, charging that
Riley hospital could not care for the
328 infantile paralysis cases in Indiana in 1944 to say nothing of thousands of other -cases of crippled children who need medical attention.
"Crook attacked the system which
permits only paupers to obtain Riley
entrance, leaving the state with no institution to care for the unfortunates
of families who can pay all or part
of the costs. He declared southern In
diana needs a similar hospital .and
pledged the support of the north to
such an mstitittian in the future.
"South Bend's senator claimed ttr
indigent requirements at Riley have
forced doctors in some instances to
falsify financial reports about their
patients in order to obtain their 'entrance into Riley hospital.
FT. WATOE SENATOR
RAPS RILEY METHODS
"Senator Charles A. Phelps, Fort
Wayne Republican, who introduced
the appropriation bill along with
Crook talked both at the opening at*d
closing of the hearing.   At the open
ing he submitted to the hearing committee, of which he is a member, a
shtaf of petitions for the hospital
which he said represented over 100,-
000 persons in northern Indiana.
They were sent to him by various organizations in many northern cities.
'In his closing arguments Phelps
told of a Fort Wayne wife of a soldier who was forced to give up $400
in war bonds and $326 in cash .sav-
"ings to classify her as an indigent that
she might place her afflicted child in
.Riley hospital for intsiediate treatment of polio. He claimed that unless state consideration is given the
crippled children problem 9,000
youths are doomed to handicapped
lives.
"Senator Paul Kerr, Elkhart Republican, a volunteer witness, told of
©Udhart's three-year-old crippled children's society discovering 47 unrecorded .cases of -crippled children who
-need care in Elkhart county and of
several cases on the way to self-sus-
teaaffice through the efforts of the"
South Bend Children's Dispensary.
"%ev. Wilbur E. Allen, pastor of
the First English Lutheran church in
Mishawaka, gave an impressive talk
on his experiences as a youth worker,,
first in rural counties between Indianapolis and the industrial north and
more recently in the northern fringe
of counties and declared that he was
faced with more cases of crippled children in one year in the industrial
north than-he would meet in 20 years
in rural areas.
"Louis Hammerschmidt, South
Bend attorney and a director of the
National Society for Crippled Children and Adults, gave a factual discussion of what he called the most
important long-view legislation facing the present general assembly. He
said the prospect of caring for crippled veterans of the war prompted
his society last month to change its
name to add the words 'and adults.'.
"He said the state could not build
a hospital large enough in Indianapolis to care for the entire state and
that existing hospital facilities are
wholly inadequate to meet the needs.
Miss Mary Paxton, Indianapolis, acting secretary of the Indiana Society of
Crippled Children, told of the need
for convalescent cases and emphasized
the hospital need by declaring there
are 3,200 cases of cerebral palsied
treatment now on record in Indiana,
representing only one of many types
of handicapped children types.
James McEwan, South Bend,
president of the Indiana Industrial
Union Council, endorsed the bill and
told how a South Bend union had
given up its option on Tippecanoe
place so that Morris could buy the
property for the proposed crippled
children school. He blasted the belief
of many that Riley hospital is a state
institution, pointing out that it is an
endowed institution and McEwan
said labor would oppose endowed institutions unless they are operated
without such -restrictions as those exercised by Riley.
"W. W. French, of the Mishawaka Chamber of Commerce committee
Working for the hospital location
there, said such an institution would
be a monument by Indiana to huma-
nitarianism."
A score of others from northern
Indiana appeared before the committee. It isn't exactly a cinch yet but
looks some as though it was being
cinched. Of course, the senate proper,
has yet to vote on it.
&  SHIPS AMD THE FARMER
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Our record farm crop
would be of little value
to thewar effort without
ships to carry it abroad to
our troops... nor even exist wftkout ships to bring .
farm a fas sacbas fertifizexsj
unseetioides. to the US.
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Our Merchant Marine^ v
yearly brings m/fffons{
of pounds of nitrates,
phosphates, pgnefkrum,
rot en one, red squiff, binder
twine, fibers, jute andburfap
to America.     _     --Zf-%,
PERCENT OF LEADING U.S.
CROPS EXPORTED IN 1936
^TOBACCO b'bi,
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ftCOARSE &p*WS   26«
£5j$RE:M> GRA.HMS     24
SHARE OF PAR»A PRODUCE
IS ALU U.S. E^POKTS
IN SAtAE Y EAR WAS 26%
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COPYRIGHT     1944    J. V.  CLARKE
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withe assured of a strong
Merchant Marine able to
advertise American products
m foreign\ markets and
transport them abroad. > . 7
Information fouriesy of Amencart\
Merchant Marine Institute, Man York.