Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 18 October 1946 — Page 2

POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1946.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT & Democratic weekly newspaper representing the ©einocrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 10th Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County. Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the Post Office at Muncie, Indiana, under Act of March 3, 1879. PRICE 5 CENTS—$1.50 A YEAR MRS. GEO. R. DALE, Publisher 916 West Main Street Muncie, Indiana, Friday, October 18, 1946 A Big Three Conference Vs. Voting Blocs The unresolved deadlocks in the Paris conference continues to demonstrate the extremely pressing necessity for a fresh attempt by the Big Three to reach a longrange understanding on their mutual world policies and purposes. Almost all the statesmen warn of the danger of an East-West division. Mr. Byrnes, Mr. Molotov and Mr. Bevin all warn. But that does not produce the understanding which can rebuild co-operation as against division. Some of us have been quick to rejoice over the voting victories of the West. Thus, as recorded by Alexander Kendrick in The Sun, an American senator at Paris was jubilant one day recently. “We really mowed them down, ,, he said after a session when, in 53 roll calls bearing on Trieste, the West had defeated Eastern Europe on every disputed question. He seemed as happy for the moment as if he had been witnessing the World Series instead of a peace conference. More specifically, he was thinking of the victory in the conference as like a victory in Senate roll calls. But on reflection he was less happy. The votes, clearly, hadn’t settled Trieste; the issue was still there. And, whatever the votes henceforth in this advisory conference of 21 nations, most truly key issues will remain until the Great Powers begin to get together. XXX Marshall Smuts, the elder statesman of the conference, is one who sees great danger in the division. He is not despondent about the conference; it had, he said Monday, made definite progress on important issues. But its great and alarming revelation, he said, was the consistency with which “the Slav group” and “the Western group” had voted against each other. He appealed movingly for leadership to “take counsel” in order to dispel “the fear of our splitting into two camps.” Negotiations are what we need; searching negotiations among the Big Three, rather than hollow victories in votes by the West— or hollow, intransigeant pronouncements such as that of Mr. Molotov yesterday in favor of a one-sided Yugoslav victory at Trieste. A part of the preparation for Big Three negotiations ought to be an attempt by all concerned to create a new spirit and atmosphere for them; and certainly to avoid new grounds for suspicion. X x x Yet our Assistant Secretary of War Symington has announced, without prior agreement by the President or final agreement by the State Department, that the Army plans to send a fleet of B-29 bombers around the world to test the long-range striking power of the American air arm. He asserts rather plaintively that the Air Force, like the Navy, “would like to be considered an instrument of foreign policy.” There is nothing wrong, per se, in a test flight of bombers at proper times and under necessary circumstances. But the present time seems the opposite of inspired—and so did Mr. Symington’s language in announcing the flight. There have been recurrent indications that a new Big Three conference may indeed be in the offing. Let it be soon! Preferably, the delegations should be headed by Messrs. Truman, Attlee and Stalin. At all events, it should not be left to the same men who have been wearing each other down daily in dealing with the details of treaties at Paris. A fresh viewpoint—on the over-all issues which transcend all the specific ones at Paris—is needed. Such men as Former Ambassador Davies might prove invaluable in assisting Mr. Truman in such a new approach. Miracles must not be expected in any initial effort. But, to the extent that basic fears and suspicions between America, Britain and Russia can be allayed, settlement of all subsidiary issues will become easier.—Chicago Sun. Wise Americans Are Not ‘Firsters’ or Tasters’ Out of the ashes of World War II rises the heir of one of that war’s unmourned casualties—the America First Committee. The heir has a new name, “American Action.” But the purpose is the same. And the chairman is the same, Gen. Robert E. Wood. The same, too, are the money bags behind the scenes who financed America First until Pearl Harbor made rabble rousing for reaction an unpopular pastime. At the other extreme, the “America Lasters”—the ICCASP «and other Communist front outfits for whom Russia is always first, America last—are fooling quite a few people. So the old “America Firsters” figure it is time for them to try a comeback. XXX In one sense we are glad American Action has barged into the open: It will make much clearer to the American people how important it is to steer between the two extremes—reaction on the right and Soviet totalitarianism on the left. The “America Lusters” — beg pardon,

Commies — claim to have about 100,000 party members in the U. S., and “ten for one” in fellow travelers, sympathizers and \ misguided liberals who will follow the party ] line. That makes, say, one million on the | extreme left. j We doubt that the “America Firsters”— | beg pardon, “American Action”—can claim j that many. But assume they can. That still leaves 138 million Americans who want neither reaction nor Communism —but the kind of liberal, middle-road humanitarianism of Franklin Roosevelt. XXX It is the job of liberal newspapers like The Record to see that those 138 million are not fooled by either side. The America Firsters cry' that the America Lusters are against democracy and for Communist dictatorship. The American Lusters say the America Firsters are against democracy, for distatorship by reaction. BOTH ARE RIGHT. In fact, the two extremes have much in common. They were both isolationist in* 1939, 1940 and much of 1941. They both cried “The Yanks Are Not Coming.” They both opposed aid to Britain. They both fought Lend-Lease. The America Lusters are all for appeasing Stalin. The America Firsters were all for appeasing Hitler. Forewarned shonld be forearmed. Both sides are going to spend a lot of money—yes, the Commies have plenty, too —to try to make American suckers for either the extreme right or extreme left. Both the ICCASPers and American Action will work overtime, spread propaganda, hold meetings and try to get respectable people to front for them. But the liberal way is not the way of either of them. Wise Americans will not be either “America Firsters” or “America Lasters.” Philadelphia Record. * We Learn More of Arctic Flying The real significance of the 9,500-mile flight of a B-29 from Hawaii to Cairo, Egypt, via the North Pole probably will be revealed in short takes. It was a spectacular flight— that much we knew before the Pasucan Dreamboat landed. Its value will be determined by how well and how soon aviation applies the lessons learned on the trip. The first thought that comes to mind is a military one. Would it be possible for a plane to carry a bomb load that distance? Col. C. S. Ervine, pilot of the plane, says “yes.” The new B-26, he says, was designed to carr ya bomb load 10,000 miles, while the B-29s have a 7,000-mile range fully loaded. But what does a bomb load mean in modern terms ? Are we talking of pre-Hiroshima bombs or atomic weapons^ From what the public has been told, one load of atomic bombs would do the work of thousands of demolition bombs. Certainly, we have known for many months that true isolation is nothing but a beautiful dream in this age of rockets and atomic power. So the true contribution of the Pasucan Dreamboat to military men is ungnown to us. The non-military side of the flight is more interesting and more pleasant to discuss. If, as enthusisiasts declare, the flight proved that trans-Artie aviation routes now are possible, then, indeed, the flight has proved something. When the globe or a map of the world is spread out by aviation, the shortest distance between many populous points is a line which lies across some portion of the Arctic Circle. Crewmen said regular communications were distorted in the Polar regions, but that a few low-frequency radio stations in that portion of the world would make regular land-to-plane communication possible. Naturally, much of the information acquired will be an Army secret. We are told of special equipment that was tested for the first time. We are told the de-icing equipment was discarded in order to allow more fuel to be carried, yet the plane survived severe weather conditions. Laymen have much to learn. Aviation, human progress and civilization in general will have gained when the Arctic region not longer is an obstacle to transportation. We can only hope our knowledge of that portion of the world will advance through peaceful research instead of the desperation of war. — Journal-Gazette.

Cox and Talmadge at Work The forces of Gene Talmadge and Gene Cox were in charge at the Georgia Democratic convention last week. Representative Cox pontificated passionately about the wick^ edness of the C. I. O., which was to be expected from a never-failing servant of the interests who run Georgia’s poverty-stricken economy. The convention as a whole tried to rob Representative Helen Douglas Mankin, an enlightened progressive, of reelection. Mrs. Mankin received a clear popular majority in her 5th district primary. But under the country-unit system a reactionary got the greater number of unit votes. The former state executive committee agreed that both her name and her opponent’s would go on the ballot as Democrats. The Talmadge state convention overrode the agreement. Whether the convention will get away with this is another question. Legal technicalities, to be clarified first by the attorney general, may place Mrs. Mankin’s name on the ballot. If not, it is expected that enough Atlanta voters will write in her name to give her a fighting chance for re-election. But the maneuvers of the convention show the lengths to which the Talmadge and Cox machines go to frustrate the popular will. — Chicago Sun.

Straight Talk Look at these figures for a moment; There are 435 Representatives in the House; 239 of them are Democrats; 192 of them are Republicans; two are from minor parties; two seats are vacant. There are 96 Senators; 56 are Democrats; 39 are Republicans; one is a Progressive. When you look at these figures, you will arrive at one inescapable conclusion — the Democratic majority in the House and Senate is too close for comfort. The Republicans need to win only 26 seats to control the House; nine seats to control the Senate. , * ygrtJI ‘ It is not necessary for us to state here that Republican control of the House or Senate for the next two years may well mean the end of progressive legislation in America. The 79th Congress has already given us a foretaste of the postwar Republican obstructionist tactics. The Democratic Party must elect a larger majority to the 80th Congress than it did to the 79th. And there is only one way that this can be done. There must be a large vote. A large vote, of course, is a Democratic vote. Past elections have shown that the more people who go to the polls, the greater the Democratic margin of victory. This single fact is all the evidence that is needed to prove that the Democratic Party is the people’s party. For the people believe in the party which believes in the people. You can be sure that any Republican appeal for a large vote will be made very softly and quietly, so that the least possible number of people will hear it. For the Republicans, although they do not dare to admit it publicly, want a small vote. If there is rain or a blizzard on November 5th, there will be a great rejoicing at Republican headquarters for they will hope that many Americans will stay away from the polls. The Republicans do not like the full-throat-ed sound which comes from the united voice of the American people. They prefer the rasping whisper of a select clique of selfish reactionaries. They fear, and for good reason, that their program will be rejected by the average independent American voter. For the Republican Party distrusts the people and the people distrust the Republican Party. That is why the Republicans fear a large vote. Your vote is more important in this election that it has ever been before. Many Congressional elections depend on the outcome in one precinct or ward. And the results in the precinct or ward can hinge on a mere handful of votes. And one of those votes is your vote. If a few Democratic voters should not bother to vote in a close district, a Republican might be elected. If this should happen only 26 times, we would have a Republican Congress. This is why all Democrats must get out and vote on November 5th. We must not only hold our present majority in Congress, we must—and will—increase it.

Freedom and Responsibility People who shuttle back and forth between their homes and their jobs, often forget what a rich and varied land America is. They see toto little of it at any one time. Yet while they grumble, argue and fall into black moods, this country stretches out like a vast Eden. It possesses almost every kind of natural resource. It is dotted with churches, schools and colleges. It is not overpopulated. It is the dreamer’s dream of

plenty.

Whatever ails America now is the fault of its people. We think they are doing a pretty good job, but not as well as they

should be doing.

Somehow they seem to lack the basic qualities of faith, of unity, of co-operation. A nation is greatest when it believes that it is working in some great cause, when every citizen feels that he or she is part of a gigantic whole. There was a time when the people of the United States felt that they were architects and builders of a great free, society which would be a model for all the world. There was no notion that this country would ever force its ideas on anybody else, but it was hoped that others would imitate our example and profit by the imitation. Today that essential faith and that spirit of unity seems to be lacking. A selfish materialism is crowding in upon the old ideals. The result has been a kind of chaos which is interfering with our rightful progress and

prosperity.

Everyone is calling today for more production which will overcome inflation and supply the goods which the people of the United States need and want. Yet industrial conflicts and a stubborn refusal of one group to get along with another have continually slowed down our great industrial

machine.

When other countries look at us they are not impressed by our squabbles. They think we are not a little foolish to throw away such excellent opportunities. And they are

right.

advancement of the general welfare. On the opposite side of the shield of freedom is engraved the word responsibility. Some people never seem to read that. It is high time they did.—Journal-Gazette. Move The National Capitol? A writer in the New York Times magazine raises the question as to whether the capital of the United States ought to be moved from Washington, D. C. to some

more central location.

The present capital was located in the days of Washington, Jefferson and Hamilton. It was Jefferson’s idea. At that time, even the most far-seeing statesman could not realize what the United States of America was to become. The Louisiana Purchase had not yet been made. The great western part of this country had not been settled. Washington is now a beautiful city, which it was not in the early days. It is a clean city. It has one great drawback. It is as hot as a blazing furnace in the Summertime. However, air-conditioning is making it more endurable for officials who have to spend

the Summer there.

It is not likely that suggestions about moving the capital will be taken very seriously, at least for a long time. The Government has a tremendous investment in buildings. The city is rich in traditions. Its distance from the rest of the country has come to mean less in the day of fast trains and airplanes, and quick communication by

radio, telephone and telegraph.

Of course, if it were located in the central part of the United States, more citizens would not be required to travel so great a distance to visit it. But the visitors do pretty well as it is. The American people have become inveterate travelers. They like to get away from home and see other parts

of the nation.

With bomber ranges being what they are and travel over the North Pole an accomplished fact, it does not appear that the capital would be any safer if it were located, say at Denver, as has been suggested. Washington is one of the show places of the world. Many improvements have been made in it since 1920. Among its points of interest in addition to the capitol, the White House and the beautiful Government buildings are Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, Arlington Cemetery, the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institute, the famous cherry trees around the basin, the Rock Creek Park. Mount Vernon,

George Washington’s old home, is not far Epsie B Lamb away. " '

It is our best guess that the national capital is destined to remain on the Potomac in all of the foreseeable future. And a splendid capital it is, too—one of which every Ameri-

can citizen can be proud.

Journal-Gazette

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VETERAN’S FRIEND

MORE ON-THE-JOB

INFORMATION

Q. Can a veteran student who was barred formerly from receiving the payment of a subsistence allowance because he was engaged in full-time employment not a part of his course now receive payments under the amendment A. Yes, providing his income is within the $175 and $200 limits

set.

Q. Will it be necessary to reconsider all “on-the-job” and apprentice training programs in effect on August 8, 1946? A. Yes. Q. Who will be responsible for defining apprenticeship in the State of Indiana? A. The approving agency. Q. Who is responsible for granting credit for previous experience which a veteran brings to on-the-job or apprentice training? A. This responsibility rests with the employer-trainer. Q. Who is responsible for determining whether a wage scale submitted as a part of a training I

program is the acceptable going wage in the community. A. This responsibility rests with the approval agency. Q. Who is responsible for investigation of an application for one-the-job or apprentice training? When will it be made? A. This is the responsibility of the approving agency. Investigation will be made prior to appro-

val.

Q. The law provides that each trainee shall be furnished a copy of the training program by his employer. When should this be furnished? A. At the time the veteran enters training, or if a veteran is now in training and does not have a copy, one should be furnished at once. Q. The law requires that provisions be made for related instruction for the individual veteran who may need it. Does this mean that every program will have to provide for related or supplemental instruction before it can be approved? A. Yes.

Legal Notice

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS

No. 21327

State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss:

Maggie B. Patrick John W. Patrick.

In The Delaware Circuit Court

September Term. 1946 Complaint: For Divorce

Notice is hereby given the said defendant John W. Patrick that the plaintiff has filed her complaint herein, for divorce together with an affidavit that the said defendant John W. Patrick is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless he be and appear on

Legal Notice

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS

No. 21319

State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss: Claude McGairk

vs. .

Rosie McGairk

In the Delaware Circuit Court

September Term, 1946 Complaint: For Divorce

Notice is hereby given the said defendant Rosie McGairk that the plaintiff has filed his complaint herein, fot divorce together with an affidavit that the said defendant Rosie McGairk is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless she be and appear on Tues-

Tuesday the. 10th day of December, 1946,. day the 10th day of December 1946, the the 86th day the ne?tt term of said — - . - ~

Court, to be holden on the 1st Monday in September, A. D., 1946, at the Court House in the City of Muncie in said County and State, the said cause will be heard and determined in his absence. WITNESS, the Clerk and the Seal of said Court affixed at the City of Muncie this 9th day of October A. D., 1946. (SEAL) Jesse E. Greene, Clerk John J. Dodd, Plaintiff’s Attorney.

Oct. 11-18-25

LEGAL NOTICE

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS

the the

Performance Counts

If anything ever served to explode theory that the Republican Party is friend of the farmer, it is the figures recently released in the latest Federal Reserve

Bulletin.

In an article entitled, “The Balance Sheet of Agriculture, 1946,” evidence is presented to show that the nation’-s greatest industry, agriculture, has almost doubled in book value

since 1940.

The actual increase was from 53 billion dollais on January 1, 1940 to 101 billion dollars on January 1, 1946. In other words, the farm plant jumped 48 billion dollars in six years. Along with this, in the past year alone, the farmer reduced his debts by 700 million dollars, while increasing the value of his hold-

ings almost 11 billion dollars.

These gains over recent years are not a wartime phenomenon. The whole history of the Democratic Administration reflects a steady rise in farm income, farm prices, and

farm prosperity.

In the 13 years of Democratic Administration, American agriculture has climbed from the depths of its worst depression, to the heights of the greatest prosperity farmers

anywhere have ever achieved.

The average farmer in 1945 had a net income not two or three time, but seven times as great as he had in 1932. Agriculture has progressed from near collapse to a position in which farm assets today are approximate-

ly ten times as great as liabilities.

The charge that the Democratic Administration was wedded to “scarcity” is completely exploded by the fact that farm output from the year 1937 on through 1944 set a

new all-time record every year.

In the light of the true story of the progress of agriculture under the Democratic Administration, what would the Republicans do to change the.situation? Would they do away with the soil conservation program? Or the loans to marginal farmers under the

Farm Security Program?

Or would they junk the Rural Electrification Administration or Federal Crop Insur-

ance?

The Republicans should have learned by this time that the American farmer goes by the record. He can measure the Democratic Administration by the unquestionable rule of performance. If the Republican Party claims to be the farmers friend, they have yet to

No. I0499-S

State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss:

Leroy Grover Lamb

In The Delaware Superior Court

September Term, 1946 Complaint: for divorce

Notice is hereby giver the said defendant, Essie B. Lamb, that the plaintiff has filed his complaint herein, to gether with an affidavit that the said defendant is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless she be and appear on Thursday the 28th day of November 1946, the 70th day vhe present

86th day the present term of said Court, to be holden on the 1st Monday in September, A D., 1946, at the Court House in the City of, Muncie, in said County and State, the said cause will be heard

and determined in her absence. WITNESS, the Clerk and the Seal of

said Court, affixed at the City of Mancie this 4th day of October, A. D, 1946. (SEAL* Jesse E. Greene, Clerli

John J. Dodd, Plaintiff’s Attorney.

Oct. 11-18-25

Legal Notice

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS No. 21336 Orville W. Thomas

vs.

Rosie S. Thomas

In The Delaware Circuit Court

September Term, 1946 Complaint: For Divorce

Notice is hereby given the said defendant Rosie S. Thomas that the plaintiff has filed his complaint herein, for divorce together with an affidavit that the said defendant Rosie S. Thomas is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless she be and appear on Tuesday the 10th day of December, 1946, the 86th dfty the next term of said Court to be holden on the 1st Monday in September, A. D., 1946, at the Court House

' - * V4CX.V V / icrtliuci , -TV. A-/., -ILJ’AYJ, d t UltS XXVJIACjC term of said Court, to be holden on the I in the City of Muncie, in said County Second Monday in September, A. D.,)and State, the said cause will be heard

1946, at the Court House in the City of Muncie, in said County and State, the said cause will be heard and determined in her absence. WITNESS, the Clerk and tne Seal of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie this 28th day of September A. D.,

1946.

(SEAL) Jesse E. Greene, Clerk Gene Williams, Plaintiff’s Attorney. Oct. 4-11-18

and determined in her absence. WITNESS, the Clerk and the Seal of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie this 9th day of October A. D., 1946. (SEAL) Jesse E. Greene, Clerk John J. Dodd, Plaintiff’s Attorney

Oct. 11-18-25

The average home has mOTe than 150 locks. The world’s lock factories produce more than 50 million locks yearly to keep belongings safe.

Satisfactory tests have been carried out in Sydney, Australia, of a radar plotting screen for air traffic control in all weathers. Bees trained to pollenize red clover will increase seed production from the usual one to four bushels an acre to about 12 bushels.

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We could stand shoulder to shoulder to | P r0ve it to the American farmer,

win a great war, but when peace came we began to fall out and quarrel among our-

selves.

Blocs and factions are getting a greater loyalty than the common cause of peacetime production. The short-sighted view has more adherents than the long-range pol-

icy.

Americans are still free to make mistakes as well as to do the wise thing. But it is never intelligent to use freedom to block the

A sharp increase in the number of voluntary enlistments has enabled the War Department to cancel all draft calls for the remainder of 1946. The action was the result , of a rapid upswing in enlistments during the last 10 days of September, which brought the total number for the month to more than 61,000. The War Department gives the number of enlistments for the last 12 months as

an astonishing 992,648.

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