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it was thai made Mr. Churchill twice post-

world broadcast, and forced another series |

American conferences after the sessions at Hyde Quebec, it has left him very grim. ong ts the policy

the mood of his address yesterday reflects

he western allies—as it undoubtedly does—they are those 3pon

mot trusting to quick and easy victory through German internal collapse, or through air offensives alone, or through mpro mise deals with German or Italian generals, Instead, they are ready to fight it out the hard way and the final way, regardless of how long that takes and how much it

How They Got Photograph WELL, THERE is a picture of Curran and one

about the journalistic ethics of magazines,

% Speculation about the Européan war ending this year belongs to Luce and gets its ethical standards from

angers Mr. Churchill. He calls it “vain and unprofitable.” Although the war obviously has been Shortened by this ‘summer's allied victories in Russia, in the Mediterranean, in the Atlantic, and in the air over Germany, the prime minister is no longer talking about partial demobilization. after Nazi defeat as he was last spring. : He is apparently fearful that allied military successes’ are leading to over-confidence and letdown on the home front in England and the United States. He knows that is what Hitler is counting on to get a compromise peace. : 8 = 3 ) . =» HE second thing Hitler hopes i ig a split among the = allies. In any case allies are apt to stick together closest when that is the only means of survival, but to fall apart over selfish issues when victory.seenfs in sight. This danger, of course, is greater when the allies have conflicting traditions, ideologies and- interests, as with the western allies and Russia. So the Germans would be stupid indeed if, in facing eventual military defeat as they now must, they did not try to play the western allies and Russia : each other to Germany's profit. - Judging by the prime minister's address, he is more worried today about this problem of allied unity than thing else. Russia is very much in his mind. The ding British anti-Bolshavik before the war, he has been necessity the most vigorous pro-Russian since June, But yesterday he went even beyond his earlier butes in extreme praise for Marshal Stalin and the Rus“with the evident purpose of drawing the alliance

2, La . 2 - . » » fended the Russians’ demand for an immediate m front, and even their recriminations—he such a “second front” but not at once. . He dejtalin’s absence from Quebec, while admitting that *Roosevelt-Churchill meeting is essential. he stopped short yesterday of joining the Russian to the German people over the heads of the Nazi mt—a la Woodrow Wilson. Instead of the ex- : gun in British psychological warfare to ei German revolt, he stressed the hatred of Germany he victim cotintries— “scars which will never be effaced.” And his attitude toward the rulers of Italy was far nt from last month, when he spoke gently in the pp that Badoglio and the king would bow to public dend for surrender. Yesterday he damned the Italian 8’ “false and criminal guidance” for which Italy is “a terrible price.” i ‘Mr. Churchill's speech lacked the touches of wit which ve lightened most of his utterances since the turn of the b, and of course it had none of the last-ditch ion his earlier appeals, but it was just as characteristic of He is hard, and the closer to victory, the harder he 8. He knows this is a critical time. mR

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JSTRY LOOKS TO TOMORROW'S JOB |

LLING for immediate planning of public. works programs, Federal Works Administrator Philip S. Fleming asserted his opinion that this country must place on government its “chief reliance” for high employment _ There will be genuine need for many public works jects—federal, state and local—when peace returns. ought to be planned now. If it becomes necessary for it to provide jobs for great numbers of people > combat mass unemployment, useful public should be ready to start and go forward in orderly t haphazard resort to leaf-raking and

‘country’s best hopes for the post-war future |

ized, in our unless it can place its r high employment on private enterprise Lee. Ee y interested in the work ation known as the com-

agent, who used to handle Heywood Broun and still handles .the little magazine work that I do, and

tween the pair of us for $1000 each. :

holds barred. Broun and I were pretty good friends so we talked it over and decided to take on the job and, faithful to our undertaking, delivered the copy as ordered. There were no grimicks, fire escapes or slipknots” in the deal. The editor knew our styles and the quality of our stuff and this was a firm order, . 5 Nevertheless, a little later this guy sent both stories back to Bye and wanted them rewritten, suggesting” that each “of us get out the morgue ‘envelope on the other to enrich the copy with detail although we lived only .a few miles apart, had played poker together, maybe 50° times and had known each other since 1017, E Refused to Do Job Over

WE BOTH got sore and told Bye to ask the guy if he was going“to keep his agreement or. welch ‘on it. Anyway neither of us was going to do thé job over and we didn't. : Meantime, like a dope, not knowing as much about fhe Luce outfit as I do. now, I let them. send a photographer up to my place, which Time calls an “estate”—and if you think that is an estate you ought to see Luce's palaces and his Pied A Terre in the Waldorf tower—to get some pictures to dress the story. They took some of Heywood, too, at his lake. 8o, when the guy welched on his order I demanded the pictures back and he hedged, first saying that the pictures were the business of another department, which is an old dodge of the Luce outfit and later that I had no interest in them and no right to demand then back. ~ ; I “insisted nevertheless that the pictiires - were obtained only on my understanding that. they were to be used to dress the story which he had ordered and then refused to pay for, and gave him such a contest that eventually he sent them back and the original films, too,

Another Photo Shows Up

BUT I knew they weren't on the level down there so I kept an eye on them, and, sure enough, after ‘a while, when I might have -forgotten about the pictures, one of them showed up, not in Life

of me and I don’t know where they got Curran’s | | but the way they got mine is another of those stories

Several years ago an editor of Life, which alsa | him, got in touch with George Bye, the writer's | proposed an old-fashioned dirt-road gut-letting be- |

He was to write about me and vice versa, no |

Shoo “REMAKING THE WORLD IS EVERY MAN'S JOB" By F. L. H., Indianapolis

My father, in his teens, was a"

link in the underground railroad of the South. Before he became of conscript age, he ran away north to join the Union army, because he believed in the cause of the North.

“My mother was a strong Abolitionist. After the Civil war, they settled in a Quaker community, where white parents taught their children to respect the colored families who resided there,

I have worked from one end of

have had cause to believe that a man is any-ess a man because the climate colored his skin. I think we would do well to leave the line of difference where God has placed it, between the good and the bad, instead of "between the white, and colored, Knowing humanity as I do, I'm certain that {f I were a colored person, I would prefer living in the colored section, where my children could associate with those of their own _race. “The colored people have been victims of political propaganda in the past. I hope they will not be temptéd to listen to the siren voice of communism. Those who would tear the world to pieces, and then put it back together to their own liking, would encounter difficulty, unless the golden rule were more generally practiced. . We are bamboozling ourselves if we expect some politicdl leader to wave a magic wand and bring heaven to earth. Remaking -the world is every man's job. With the variety of methods we, have of remaking

but ir* Time. There is nothing to be gained by protesting to such people so I let it go. Anyone who would” do such a thing in the first place cant be | reached by an appeal to journalistic ethics. { - ‘Then, this week, opposite Curran’s picture they | ran another one of those that they held out when | the guy pretended to give up the batch obtained as part of the Broun deal. I know it is one of that batch, but I didn't know it there would be a giveaway in cutline under the picture which says “Pegler, on a lake." Now the picture is just a head against a blurred background and you can't tell that the background is a lake but they know it because it was taken against. a lake and the whole picture shows a shot of the water, ul You are helpless in dealing with such people and you can protect yourself to the extent of having nothing to do with them, but to hear Luce sound oft you might get an entirely different idea,

To We the People By Ruth Millett

the world. today, our best hope of

{relief is to wait for the sweet

chariot to swing low! ¥ ie ” “ .. THEN WE HAVE AN AMERICAN EMPIRE" By Civiticus, Anderson

~ Mr. Ryan wrote quite a lengthy, antagonistic letter regarding Britain and her world-wide interests, but,’ with malice aforethought, he made no reference to France and her empire, the Netherlands empire, the Belgian empire, the Russian empire and the Chinese empire, or thie Italian empire. Mr. Ryan fails to credit the five principal countries with the British Commonwealth of Nations Canada, Australia, New. Zealand, Union of South Africa and the Eire as being independent, sovereign nations on an equality with Great Britain in the British Family of Nations, paying nothing in the way of tribute to their mother country: Literally, the word empire sug-

The Hoosier Forum = | 7 I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Veoltaire. |

(Times readers are. invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded, Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words, Letters must. be signed. Opinions set forth here are-those of the writers; aid publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times.

{Harlem ‘to the other, and I never | gests supreme control, but the term.

{now is obsolete in $60 lar as its orig{inal meaning is concerned, but as |a generalization, as all components {of the British family of ‘nations have home rule—much as do our [states - and govern themselves { through their own legislatures, | It would appear that if “supreme | control” constitutes an empire, then {we have an American empire, com|posed- of our ststes and outlying possessions scattered over the face of the globe; Alaska, Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, together with Panama Canal Zone and numerous island possesions in the Pacific ocean and the Caribbean sea.

/ » ” » “ONLY ONE RIGHT STAND —FOR GOD AND COUNTRY” By Edward Fr. Maddox, Indianapolis <i%s an honest, patriotic American

my country by pointing out the great menace to our liberties and our American heritage of individual freedom from totalitarian-minded alienism agents—Socialists;, Communists, Nazis and Fascists, and I want to stress the fact, here and now, that unless the congress of ‘these United States wakes up and official= ly outlaws these totalitarian political organizations, this nation cannot and will not survive as an independent republic! Now get this straight—each and ‘every single one of these alienisms {is equally dangerous to our peace jand safety and to the security and general welfare of our people! Each one of these subversive po- | litical movements is seeking, by any {means possible, to undermine and | eventually destroy our American political and economic system by creating unrest, dissatisfaction, class | hatred, and revolution! Oh yes, I

{and there is a murmur of “revo{lution”. in. the -air--now Don't be Qutb clucks”; every one of these alienisms — socialism, communism, | nastism, ‘and fascism are agitating {and working among the colored

American citizens to create hatred,

fan old fires, and precipitate a civil,

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citizen I have done my best to serve, LIFE FOR FIREMAN'S PAY?"

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centratipn of power we have ever seen in this couns try—the and economic power in the administrative: branch of the { government. \ 2 It proposed to destroy monopolies, but the result has been the creation of the greatest monopol our history—a monopoly of labor. It promised to restore the balance between hig

race, and class war in this man’s

The Communist strategy and slogan is, “Turn the imperialist wars into civil wars!” And, of course,

that the Nazis and Fascists are seeking to use the poor colored people as cannon fodder to disrupt qur war effort! There is only one right stand a real American can take now, and at all times, white or colored, and that is for God and country and in firm opposition to- all of these treasonous, -totall-

sive agents! No : And so, as the friend of all true Americans, white and colored alike, I urge you and ask you all to repudiate the evil and dangerous advice, propaganda, and incitement to hatred, rioting, and if not -avoided by cool, wise counsel of both white and colored patriotic Americans, these alien peddlers of European political poison hatred will surely bring our people to the samie kind of bloody slaughter which they have duced in other nations who dumbly fell for their poisonous agitation! Socialism is the road to hell! My fellow Americans, listen to your friends! Never follow the advice of an enemy! “There is a

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pletely totalitarian or fail completely in rccomplishment, FOMORBOW: Need of the Future.

Our Hoosiers By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 “Maybe Wendell Willkie will cover, too late, that it is a fatal error to ignore the .. ‘This comment is . an article entitled “Willkie Goes §

| of -a road with his own corn on both the right and

lett hand, maybe the Hoosiers already know “the

Mr. Stokes propounds the question, ‘and by alone will tell. ely 3 HE How Mr, Willkie, following his 1940 presi lent! defeat, fell out with G. O. P. leaders and -now