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An Interpretation Oi American Foreign Policy

McNUTT IN PLEA New York.—Paul V. McNutt, American ambasador to the Philippine Republic, told a World Trade luncheon here today that the nation’s businessmen should adopt a policy of “economic statesmanship” in relations with the countries of the Far East. Economic statesmanship. McNutt explained, should lead businessmen “not only to seek profits, but to seek profits where they will do the most good for America and for the causes in which America believes.”

U. S. Policy Now Has Obligated Self To Furnish Men, Money and Armament To Support Any Government That Pledges Itself To Fight Communism - This Will Revive and Strengthen Fascistic Elements Throughout the World—Stage Is Set for World War III With the Battle To Be Be-

WALLACE FEELS POLITICAL OATS

His Swing Across Country Appears To Be Whopping Personal Success

ECHOES FROM CAPITOL HILL

NORTH VERNON HAS FIRE North Vernon, Ind. — Damage was estimated at $150,000 today in a fire which destroyed four business buildings and threatened nearby homes before firemen from four cities controlled the Officials said the blaze broke out in the Eberts and Brothers’ flour mill yesterday and was carried by a brisk wind to the Eberts office building and ice plant and to one building of the Miller Lumber Co. Firemen from North Vernon, Seymour, Holton and Vernon fought the flames. Charles Betram North Veflnon, was injured when struck by a fire hose.

Washington, May 23 — Henry

tween Clerical Totalitarianism and Com-

mimism.

C. L. ARRINGTON

We win wars, but always lose the ideals for which we fight. Democracy is ignored. Fascism is revived and strengthened. The stage is set for World War III. The battle will be between clerical totalitarian-

ism and Communism.

From April 1917 to November I

CITY EMPLOYEES STRIKE Belleville, 111. - Three burial, have been postponed and citizens

1918, America sacrificed hundreds 11AI A I I JIAT OAljUjA of thousands of her best y° un g j ff flLLMlin uMlllU

men and billions of dollars to fight World War I. The ostensible purpose of the war was to end all wars and make the world safe for democracy. We won the fighting war, but failed to realize our ideal of a world free from war

IN POPULARITY

are complaining that their garbage cans are overflowing because of a strike of 29 city employes here, police reported today. The postponed burials were scheduled for the city-owned Walnut Hill Cemetery, whose workers are on strike and have established a picket line. The bodies were held in undertaker’s

morgues.

ARAB ARMORY DISCOVERED Jerusalem—Two explosions at Jaffa today exposed what police believed to be an Arab underground armory. First reports on the explosions were light and did not make clear the results or the purported connection with the Arab armory. Arabs were reported to have salvaged a quantity of trucks, arms and ammunition before police and military authorities ar-

rived.

Sources close to the Jewish underground organization Hagana said a refugee ship named Ghetto Rebels was spotted near Palestinian waters by the Royal Air Force. The ship was reported carrying 1,500 Jews. o WALLACE LAUDS STASSEN^ ‘ Seattle, Wash.—Henry~ATWallace, praising Harold Stassen for not being a piker when it comes to European relief, moved into the northwest today to continue a figh against a “Truman doctrine” which has become law. Wallace arrived for a threeday speaking tour of Washington, after telling 6,000 University of California students at Berkeley that Stassen’s European relief proposals would amount to $10,000,000,000 a year. o STUDENT INJURED Chicago—A University of Chicago student rested easily today after being shot in the abdomen by a Negro gunman who attempted to attack him and his fiancee on the back steps of the school’s

chapel.

Charles Murphy of Dayton, O., threw a lighted cigaret in the Negro’s face after the man sneaked up behind Miss Marjorie Firth, 16, of Minneapolis and clamped a hand over the girl’s mouth.

CHANGCHUN EVACUATED Nanking—A U. S. Army plane evacuated the wives and children a fight against a “Truman docsuls today from Changchun,, the Manchurian capital besieged by Chinese Communists. The Army transport took off for Peiping carrying: Mrs. Edmund O. Clubb, wife of the A*ierican consul, their daughter, three American women consular employes, the wife and two daughters of the British consul and some U. N. R. R. A. employes. ■! - o- - TAX AND DEBT REDUCTION Chicago.—Rep. Harold Knutson (R., Minn.), says the nation can have both tax reduction and debt reduction. Kuntson told a Midwest Industrial conference sponsored by the National and Illinois Associations of Manufactures last night that the Republican party’s promise to cut taxes while balancing the Federal budget is ^‘well on the way to fulfillment.” “It has been said that we must choose between tax reduction and debt reduction and the people have been told that it is one thing or the other,” he £&id.

Shortly after World War I the stage was set for World War II, which started in 1931 when Japan invaded Manchuria and was given another boost in 1936 when Mussolini and his thugs and cold blooded murderers went into Ethiopia and still another when Mussolini and Hitler sent their air planes and troops into Spain to overthrow democracy and establish Fascism. In 1939 World War II broke upon the world in all its fury when Hitler and his Nazi murderers invaded Poland. Then came December 7, 1941 and Pearl Harbor and America was again engaged in another World War The ostensible purpose of this war was to defeat Fascism, everywhere in the world, to secure the Four Freedoms and the principles of the Atlantic Charter. Again, we won the war, but have already lost the ideals for which we fought. So far as the defeat of Fascism, everywhere in the world the Four Freedoms and the principles of the Atlantic Charter are concerned, our recent sacrifice and expenditure were all in vain. The Fascism which we declared we would defeat everywhere in the world still lives in Spain, Argentina and Turkey. Fascists collaborators are in power in Greece and are on the way to taking over in France, with American aid. The Four Freedoms and the principles of the Atlantic Charter have gone the way of Wilson’s 14 points. They have been ignored and

pushed aside.

At the close of World War I, President Wilson formulated a plan for world security and peace, through a League of Nations. The U.S.A. deserted the League and sat idly by while the world drifted into World War II. Near the close of World War II, President Roosevelt formulated plans for collective world security through a United Nations organization, but he died just before the plans were organized and set in motion. Shortly after his death' the first meeting of the U.N.O. convened in San Francisco. It was at that meeting that the United Nations made their first official compromise with Fascism by taking Fascistic Argentina into the organization, over the protest of Russia. Despite the disagreement over the question of admitting Argentina, the meeting succeeded in drawing up a charter which readily received ratification by all the participating nations. The charter obligated all member nations to cooperate for world peace and security and forbade any member nation to act unilateral in any int6rnationl disputes. On March the 12th, 1947 Harry Truman, President of U. S. A., went before Congress assembled and asked for a $400,000,000 appropriation for Greece and Turkey. The principal purpose of this appropriation was for military aid to both Greece and Turkey. (Continued On Pafe Three)

Success Of Meeting In Chicago Is Told Editorially By Chicago Sun A few weeks ago when Henry A. Wallace was in Europe on a speaking tour, some newspapers and radio commentators intimated that he had gone to the old country to speak because he could not get a hearing from his own people here in America. They predicted that when he returned from his trip abroad he would be much less popular with the American people than before he went. To believe some editorials and radio comments, one would have concluded that when Wallace got back to America he would be unable to get anybody much to listen to him. It has not turned out that way. Wallace is at present on a nation-wide speaking tour of America. It is reported that overflowing crowds are rushing to hear him. On Wednesday evening of last week Wallace spoke in the Chicago stadium, which seats about 20,000. It is reported that tickets jfor all seats were sold long before opening time. It is said that never before in the history of the windy city did so many persons show an eagerness to purchase tickets to hear a political speech. Following the speech the Chicago Sun carried the following editorial on Wallace and his doctrine for world peace. CLASH OF TWO DOCTRINES Henry Wallace is beginning to to make a dent. The remarkable success of his Chicago meeting will undoubtedly be closely studied in Washington. There will be those to say that he has only collected on one place all the Communists and fellow travelers, but unbiased judgment will conclude that there is more to it than that. Undoubtedly the most vociferous of Mr. Wallace’s present followers are those uncritical emotionalists who erroneously assume that he stands for blind admiration of everything Russian. These are the same characters who booed him at Madison Square Garden last year whenever he criticized the Kremlin. But Mr. Wallace is talking to other people than the slavish followers of a party line. He is talking to the great mass of Americans who are profoundly disturbed about peace. He is talking to the average citizen who knows the pitfalls of isolationism yet is appalled at the implications of a Truman-Dulles-Vandenberg version of “internationalism” which may help divide the world into two armed camps. He is talking to millions of plain Americans who have no use whatever for Communism but want a constructive alternative to the Truman Doctrine—and he has something

to say.

It is fashionable in some circles to brush off Mr. Wallace as an

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thousands of persons hollering that they want him for President in 1948. His swing across the country was a whopping personal

success.

Now Wallace is speaking more freely of a third party. He is warning Democratic conservatives to jgo slow in the voice of a man who is confident he has some blue chips in the game. This week in San Francisco, he said: “The Democratic party must go liberal or by the next election we will have to have a third party.” That was a plain warning to President Truman to play ball— or else Wallace said no third party could start without the AFL, CIO and Railway Brotherhoods. If those are the conditions, third party prospects seem pretty dim. But Wallace is no political dead pigeon with or without a third party. He scarcely could be elected to anything himself, but he might damage Democratic chances next year with a oneman crusade of opposition. Wallace has a following and Democratic candidates will need votes to win again. Wallace’s reception on his speaking tour proved the following to be active and enthusiastic. Wallace spoke to overflow paid audiences right across the country. The crowds shouted for Wallace in ’48.” The record shows a paid capacity audience of 21.000 in the Chicago Stadium at prices from 60 cents to $2.33. The Progressive Citizens of America sponsored that meeting and most of the others. Chicagoans chanted “Wallace in ’48” for seven

minutes.

A capacity crowd of 3,300 filled a Cleveland hall for Wallace, with 1.000 standing outside. Prices were about the same as in Chicago. He failed to fill the Minneapolis auditorium, but had a paid crowd of 6,500 and another 200 at a $5 luncheon. University of Minnesota students filled their union ball room and stood around the sides to hear him. Austin, Tex., heard Wallace’s first free show before about 10,000 persons in the University of Texas gymnasium. His biggest meeting was in Los Angeles’ Gilmore Stadium Monday night. About 30,000 came, of whom 28,000 paid admissions ranging from 60 cents to $3.60. The richest left wingers in the United States live in Hollywood. (Continued On Page Two) DOPNAliONAL POLICY AND NAM

What The British Think of Americans The British, too, have their Gallup Poll. It is called “Mass Observation.” They recently published a poll on what: the British think of the Amencans. They have two opinions of us, one favorable and one unfavorable. The unfavorable opinion says we are “immature emotionally and intellectually.” We are "boastful and flamboyant, bad-mannered and full of intolerance to any minority group,” according: to the British. Our favorable qualities are: simple and ingenuous, impulsive and uninhibited, fHendly, kind-hearted, and geherous.” Obviously, we are not perfect iri the eyes of the British, however they give us seven virtues and only six vices. Therefore, they rate us one point to the good. No individual or nation can be counted wholly bad so long as his virtues outnumber his vices, even by one point.

Seitator Morse Intimates That GOP Permits NAM To Write Its Program Senator Wayne Morse, R., Ore., intimated that the Republican national committee had allowed the NAM to write its national labor program. He had an article which appeared in the May issue of the Republican News, an official organ of the national Republican committee, printed in the Congressional Record. Along side of it he had printed another article which appeared in the April issue of the NAM News, the official organ of the NAM. The Senator pointed out that the article proposed to speak for the Republican party. And then called attention to the fact that the article which appeared in the Republican News as the official labor policy of the party had been lifted bodily from the NAM News. Morse said, “I am sure it is unnecessary for me to draw any inferences.” The only reasonable conclusion to the Senator’s argument is that the national Republican committee had lifted its national labor policy from the NAM publication. The senator minced no words in letting it be known that he is one Republican senator who will not allow the NAM to dictate his labor policy. When the Hartley bill was under debate in the House, some representatives charged that the bill had not been written by the House labor committee, but by NAM lawyers, It appears that a few congressmen in both the Senate and the House are getting tired of being dictated to by the NAM lawyers.

Did Turkey Sell Her Sovereignty For A Small Gift, Is The Question Senate Passes Labor Bill 68 to 24 On Tuesday of last week, the ( Senate passed the Taft Labor bill by a vote of 68 to 24. The Republicans 47 for and 3 against. The three dissenting Republicans were Danger, Malone and Morse. The Democrats were equally divided with 21 for and 21 against the bill. Most of the Democrats supporting the bill were from south of the Mason Dixon line. The three Republicans who voted against the bill were all from the far west, N. D., Nev., and Ore. The bill which the Senate approved was much tougher on labor than was the bill which was sent to the Senate by the Committee. This 'ivas due to several toughening amendments which were added to the bill while in the Senate. A Senate-House conference will correlate the two bills and make one final bill which will have to receive approval of both chambers before going to the President’s desk. It is believed that the bill which will finally emerge from the two chamber conference will be still tougher than the Senate bill. Many observers and some Senators and Representatives have predicted that the President will veto the final bill, and that if any considerable anti-labor portions of the House bill are included in the final bill the Senate will sustain the Presidential veto, and leave us without any labor legislation. President Signs Bill Outlawing Portal-to-Portal Pay The first real test bewteen the Congress and the Executive came last week when the President signed th Congress bill outlawing portal-to-portal pay for union workers. In signing the bill the President pointed out the fact that it contained some features which he did not like, and recommended that the Secretary of Labor keep a close watch to determine if it in any way interfered with the efficient workings of the Wage Hour Act. If it is found that it does so interfere, the President- recom mended that remedial steps be taken to prevent such interference. He also recommended that the minimum wage be raised from its present 40 cents per hour. It is reported that the Secretary of Labor and several of Truman’s advisers had urged him to veto the bill. Union labor, both the A.F. of L. and the C.I.O. had urged the vetoing of the bill. -Most'of labor had given up the idea of suits on any large scale to collect back pay for portal-to-portal travel time, but objected to the bill on the grounds that it would scuttle the Wage and Hour Act. It was also contended that the time limit - set for initiating complaints on the part of the union was unfair and discriminatory. Some interpretate the President’s signing of the bill as an effort on his part to fulfill his promise to cooperate with the Congress. Others see it as paving the way for a veto of the labor bill when it finally reaches the President’s desk. Fair Amendment Rejected The sponsors of the anti-labor bills jn Congress have contended that the present labor laws -under the Wagner Act are bias and loaded in favor of labor and detrimental to the employers. They have argued all along that they wanted to remedy this and put through a bill which would be fair to both employers and employees. The other day they were put to a test on this proposition and demonstrated that they are not willing to have a bill which would treat both employes and employers with the same respect. The test was made by an amendment offered by Senator Taylor (Dem. Idaho). The Senate bill contains a section which prevents union representatives from making any final decision on propositions offered by the company. It provides for a secret ballot of all union members to be taken under the direction of the NLRB to determine whether or not the employees wish to accept the final offer made by the company. Senator Taylor contended that this “carries the suggestion or implication that in all cases the employees, or those who represent the employees, are the adamant parties and always in the wrong.” The Senator thought that if union representatives were going to be deprived of authority to make final decisions for their constituents, it would only be fair to deprive the representatives of the stockholders of the authority of making final decisions without the approval of the stockholders. Therefore he offered an amendment which would jiave required the NLRB to take the union’s proposal to the stockholders and let them decide whether or not they wished to accept it. He contended that there had been cases where the representatives of management had turned down proposi-

School Board Member To Be Named By Council

MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAM HERE

Harry E. McClain 10th District Chairman Named As Local Speaker Harry E. McClain, tenth district chairman and former state insurance commissioner, has been named as the speaker for the Memorial Day ceremonies here in Muncie next Friday. Mr. McClain is a veteran of World War I and is also past president of the Elks and president of the Indiana Insurance association. He is an orator of note. The committee in charge should be commended for having obtained such an outstanding speaker for this event. The honorary color guard, recruited from local patriotic organizations, will lead the parade. There will be represented Women of the Relief Corps, the auxiliary of the Grand Army of the

Republic.

The parade will form on the

north side of the court house and man be selected to succeed Shroymarch south on Walnut street to er as a third member to the school

Second Term of Ora Shroyer Expires Next Month and He Will Not Seek Reappointment — Women’s Civic Council Urges Appointment of a Woman To Succeed Shroyer — Mayoralty Candidates Holloway and Geliy Also Advocated Selection

of a Woman On the Board.

A matter of chief importance facing the Muncie city council at its next regular meeting on June 2 will be the appointment of a member to the city school bdard. The second term of Ora T. Shroyer expires next month and he has announced that he will seek reappointment. The remaining two members of the school board include William T. Raymond and John C. Banta whose terms do not expire until next year

and 1949 respectively. Last Monday night a meeting

was held by the council school and library committee headed by Councilman Kenneth Raiser, A represetnative group of the Women’s Civic Council met with the committee and urged that a wo-

Charles and then out Charles to the cemetery. More than 20 local groups are expected to participate in the parade. They are the two American Legion posts, 19 and 165, and their auxiliaries; the Veterans of Foreign Wars and its auxiliary; Chapter 44 of American War Mothers; Benjamin Davis Circle 73 of the Ladies of the GAR; Parish Martin Camp of the Spanish American War Veterans; the Muncie school boy patrols; Son of the Union Veterans auxiliary; the 40 et 8 club; Order of the Purple Heart; the Boy and Girl Scouts; Fraternal Order of Police; firemen; Navy mothers; Red Cross and the Muncie Boys’

club.

Individual units in the parade may make their own detailed plans, according to Ray Babbitt, general chairman of the ceremonies, who presided at last night’s meeting. There is no known surviving veteran of the Civil war in Delaware county. George Robinson, the last known survivor, died three years ago at the age of 93. Time for the parade preceding the ceremonies at Beech Grove cemetery was set for 9:30 o’clock Memorial Day morning. Capt. C. W. Swank, marshal of the day, (Continued On Page Two) INDUSTRY HEADS TO STAND TRIAL

B i g Industrialists Are Brought To Trial As War Criminals

For the first time in history, the big industrialists who aided ip, a war are being brought to trial as war criminals. Brigadier General Telford Taylor, U.S.A.’s chief war-crimes prosecutor, has brought several German industrialists to trial for the part they played in the recent war. It is contended that the industrialists who furnished Hitler and Goering with funds and armaments are as guilty as the war leaders. Dr. Schacht, Germany’s leading war-time economist and financier has already been given an eightyear sentence in prison. Several I. G. Farben officials have also been indicted and are under trial for the part they played in the war. Since several American firms were tied in with the Farben cartel system, many are wondering if the Americans who had a finger in the Farben pie will be indicted along with their German brethren and partners in sin and crime. Some of the firms mentioned are: the Dow Chemical company, the Aluminum Company of America, the Standard Oil company of New Jersey and the du Pont company. The indictment intimated that these American companies had been parties to aiding Germany and hindering the U.S.A. and Britain in their war efforts against the Nazis. If what is sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander, the Americans who aided Hitlet by their connection with the Farben system will be brought to trial as well as the Germans who did the same thing. Many are waiting to see if justice is a sword that cuts two ways or if it is only a single edged blade which always cuts from those favored ones who stand in high places.

board. Five names of local women were submitted to the council committee for their consideration. They were Mrs. Dr. T. R. Owens, Miss Grace DeHority, former Dean of Girls at Ball State, Mrs. V. C. Jones, Mrs. Loren Winebrenner, and Mrs. John Gubbins. During the recent primary election both successful candidates for mayor, Lester E. Holloway, Democrat and Rex. Geliy, Republican, advocated the appointment of a woman to the school board. Such proposals could only be recommendations since city council members are empowered by law to make such selections. The recommendations for a woman by the mayoralty candidates could not be deemed binding to the present council but would be considered a full recommendation from the succeeding city administration providing a woman was

not chosen this year.

For a number of years it has been the opinion of many local citizens that at least one of the three school board members should be a woman. It is customary that the majority of board members be selected by the majority of city councilmen according to their political party affiliation. The majority of the council were elected as Democrats and therefore two of the three members of the school board have been of that political faith although politics is attempted to be removed as much as possible from

our school system.

Several names of men prospective candidates to fill the appointment have been mentioned including Fred Tuhey, former teacher at Central High and present employee at Warner Gear, and Norman Durham, local insurance agent. Both of these prospects are Democrats and considered quali(Cuntinued On Page Three)

STARVING SIGNS APPEAR IN RUHR

Food-Stocks In Western Germany Reach An All Time Low

Berlin, May 23—Ten thousand Germans in three Ruhr towns paraded with signs “We Are Starving” today while Gen. Lucius D. Clay announced here that food stocks in Western Germany had reached an all-time low. Clay said the food situation in the British and American zones would improve almost immediately. He credited the improved outlook to fresh arrivals of food from the United States and better collections from hoarding German farmers. The demonstrations in the British zone near Duesseldorf were orderly. All ended at 1 p. m. and workers returned to their jobs. Approximately 5,000 workers crowded in the city square at Rembscheid, east of Duesseldorf, with banners proclaiming “We Are Starving, Must Eat for Work.” Factories were shut and public transportation halted during the demonstration. Rallies also here held in two nearby towns. Clay reported that food reserves have shrunk to three and a half weeks’ rations for residents of the British and American zones. A week ago there was a four-week reserve. “The stock situation is now at its lowest point. We know we are not going any lower and will improve,” he said. The General said that increased shipments from the United States and improved collections from hoarding German farmers will boost the food stockpile. The livestock slaughtering program also had improved and “I (Continued On Page Two)

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$ / IN FLANDERS FIELDS By Lt. Col. John McCrde In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw'sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders Fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe; To you, from failing hands, we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high.i If ye break faith wjth us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grew, In Flanders Fields.