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Nehru’s Daughter Supports
Birth Control Idea In India
ried woman, other women often ried ten years and have only two Nehru’s report acted merely as
approached her when she was tray- children they are amazed. They a basis for the Congress election
eling. think me some sort of Goddess or manifesto. In the final draft all
“Very few know who I am,” she magician or I do not know what.” reference to birth control or family
explained. “They only want to Whether or not Nehru’s plain planning was scrapped. But it re-
know how long I have been mar- speaking will show immediate re- mains an important part of the
i'ied and how many children I have, suits is held debatable by many Indian government’s five - year
When I tell them I have been mar- interested Indian citizens. plan. |
By J. C. GILLIAM
Bangalore, South India —■ Aug.
30—• (A’)—tPrime Minister Pandi
Nehru’s demand for an Indian birth
control program has received
strong support from his only
daughter, herself the mother of
two children after ten years of
marriage.
few individuals in India,” Nehru
had said, “this has become one
of the important issues before
the country and it seems clear
that the state must encourage
this family planning or birth
control.”
Black-eyed Indira Gandhi back
ed her father’s stand, especially
from the viewpoint of an Indian
Our women just do not have the WO man. She predicted, however,
stamina to bear five, six, or more
children,” said Mrs. Indira Qandhi.
She was commenting on her
that his fight for planned families
will not be an easy one.
“There is always the religious
father’s support of birth control as orthodox Hindu block to beat down
a means of checking India’s grow- my father on this issue,” she said,
ing population and solving its prob- “There is also this fanatic desire
lem of recurring food shortage.
Prime Minister Nehru support-
for sons among Indian families.”
On the latter question Mrs.
ed family planning and introduc- Gandhi explained that an Indian
tion of a planned system of birth must produce a son.
control for India, both in his re
port to the All-India Congress
Party conference in Bangalore and
as chairman of the commission of
India’s five year economic plan.
“From being a fad of some
Battalion Editorials
Many of our people still do
not like having daughters,” she
said Thus the wife, even if she
bears six or seven children must
go on bearing if there has been
no son. She must produce a son,
or produce until she dies.”
Mrs. Gandhi says there are many
snags to planned families.
Artificial contraceptives in In-
Page 2
THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1951
A Shortage of New Cars?
Old Cliches For
New, Or, New
Similes Wanted
iTHERE’S much talk of a new car shortage
these days. The National Automobile
Dealers Association, which may or may not
have anything to gain by a new car shortage,
expects a shortage within the next few
months.
After a study of car registrations, popu
lation, and production records, the associa
tion concludes that the expected decrease in
car production, increase in demand for trans
portation by defense workers, and- increase
All the level of employment will cause the
shortage.
The way we look at it, the NADA is right
when they say there’ll be a shortage of new
cars. But it won’t be a very noticeable
shortage.
With the cutbacks in steel allocations for
new cars, with the employment of some auto
manufacturing capacity for tanks and guns
An educator suggests that the av
erage American has forgotten how
to read—as if he ever kneiv.
And Now, Mr. Nehru
UyO ONE can blame our State Department
1 ^ with being irritated at the refusal of Neh-
;tu’s Indian Government to take part in the
■•Japanese Peace Conference. They have sent
"regrets because they don’t like American
"ideas of how to insure peace and security in
the Japanese home area,
b Irritation at Nehru’s fuzzy attitude is a
'mild way to put it. Most Americans, frankly,
bare fed up with the line taken at New Delhi.
bNehru makes a great show of being “neutral”
‘;js between the Soviet bloc and the West.
*;But he wants Formosa handed over to the
Chinese Reds, he wants the Ryukyu and Bon-
-in Islands returned to a defenseless Japan
and he demands that our troops get out of
Japan itself. He wants, in other words, a
perfect setup by which Communism may
-take over in Japan. That is being “neutral”
‘against us with a vengeance.
‘ If Nehru were openly pro-Communist, it
Jwould not be so hard for the rank and file of
Americans to take. He probably doesn’t
honestly know where his sympathies lie.
• Certainly he has no idea where the true in
terests of his own people lie. But the down-
•right maddening aspect of his stand is the
-bland and even unctious way in which he
-cloaks his indecision with pretended moral
"superiority. It is bad enough to find your-
-iself in a fog; it is stupid to make a sacred
cow out of that handicap. —(Dallas News.)
The big netvs does not always make
the headlines.
By CYNTHIA LOWRY
AP Writer
What this country needs, among
other things, is a new set of pop
ular similes, or—to be more exact
—a modernization of its compara
tive cliches.
This thought occurred during a
recent conversation when the per
son under discussion was referred
instead of cars, and, with the slow (if any)
increase in production facilities, a shortage
could develop. That is, assuming demand re
mains constant or increases.
But factors work to reduce demand. One
factor is the tough credit restrictions on pur
chases of cars. Another is higher taxes.
Another is the high, and rising cost of liv- to as “dull as dishwater.” Maybe
ing. There are other factors, but these are j. 1 ? ? e °i d days of homemade soap
a few of the main ones. would say that dishwater is about
So, unless, wages and income rise at a pwsTreJsTp
noticeably quicker rate than taxes and the mountains of phony foam, gives
cost of living can drain off the increase, a beautrSeatlenf ItTiTtken
shortage of new cars is likely to be scarcely over the old-fashioned chores of
noticeable rinsing and drying.
* . 1 A hasty and incomplete run-
through of our fixed phrases —
^ those trite ones which rise irre-
sistably and effortlessly to the av
erage tongue—indicates that most
old favorites just don’t stand up
under modern living.
Some of them are pretty much
without meaning. “Straight as a
die” is one of these. I’ve looked
carefully through my desk diction
ary and fail to find any definition
of “die” or “dye” which would
show straightness. “Slick as a
whistle” is another. Somebody said
‘My Blue Watch’
66JAMES, lay out my dinner jacket tonight.
And I believe I’ll wear my watch with the
midnight blue dial and blue suede band. And
James . . . Tomorrow I’ll wear my dark gray- that probably comes from the hab
nin-strine to the office so lav out mv 2’rev ^ ^ country boys to make.whis-
pm-sinpe io cne oxnce, so iay oui my grey tleg out of fresh cut wi]low WQod>
watch to go with it. . . And, James! This These, when stripped of bark, had
time bp sure to wind it ” a sli PP er y> moist feel to them - This
time oe suie to wma It. T wouldn’t know, on account I don’t
Now most of US don’t have a valet, know my willow whistle makers.
Neither do most of US have the kind of Many, modern pipe-stems aren’t
plain; pins aren’t particularly negt.
money it takes to buy a different color watch Hedge - fences aren’t homely in
to match each ensemble. But those who these days of , floribunc,a . rose s, ev
ergreens and even privet. Old
don’t have to “watch” their pennies can put Croesus and his kingly wealth
their pennies into watches of seven colors, probably wasn’t hall as rich as a
1 modern industrial executive even
They’re green, blue, gray, two shades of red, after taxes. I know a couple of
very unsober judges.
black and white. And they range in price
from $71.50 to $250. A well-known maker
of timepieces is manufacturing them.
These watches are made for men and
women.
Most of the popular similes con
structed around the animal king
dom have been disproved by mod
ern research or we’re just assum
ing things to be true. Who says
though I’ve heard of alcoholic cats
and dogs. Beavers don’t seem so
eager to me, and I’m sure that mice
Some women, according to infor- 03 i en d . um b ? Owls aren’t so
,. „ ; , r. i • wise, they just look that way. I ve
mation from the manufacturer, are buying never encountered a tight tick, al-
three or four watches at a time to go with
their different ensembles. The colors are
bright for sports, subdued for office wear, aren ’ t P 1116 ^ , In these days of ex
terminators, church mice are rare,
and of course, ultra-correct for formal I understand that elephant’s mem-
events. ory has been vastly overrated, and
m . we have materials which are
the manufacturer is hailing these van- tougher than its hide.
colored monitors of time as the new fashion Larks may sound happy, but a
, , competent psychiatrist undoubted-
trend. And though a new venture, these ]y could find some sad, maladjusted
many-hued time-tracers, the company appar- °, nes \ Swans are graceful while
,, . . .. „ floating, but they are awkward and
ently expects milady to dish out quite a few bad-tempered on land. Bats, I un
shekels for the novelties. For glamor, they derstand, are not completely blind.
Say, and for smart costume-coloring . their rating as a fertility compar-
But we predict that the fashion in watch- isori , ar >d fIeas do i um P-
, , , . ,i - -n , • . i Perhaps we might quietly drop
es, at least in this area, will continue to be
plain old gold ... whenever anyone can afford
a watch, that is.
Eh “watch”, James?
some of our monetary comparisons.
Gold is still good, but much of the
•world has abandoned it as a stan
dard. Exactly how sound, I’d like
to ask, is the dollar?
Bigness is not a crime, even in busi
ness, but rascality and fraud are,
whether called “trade customs” or
something else.
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dia are almost impossible to get,
and only the wealthy can afford
them. There is a lack of birth con
trol clinics to educate India’s wom
en. Ignorance and fear were the
biggest hand - in - hand stumbling
blocks to India’s family planning.
Says she:
“At first our women are fright
ened to use contraceptives. They
do not know what will happen to
them. Later, when it is all right,
they are happy.”
Ignorance on the subject is ap
palling, she added. To illustrate
Mrs. Gandhi stated that as a mar-
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