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of this interest has grown the support their state associ- . ation is giving the bill, now before congress, for a federal’ grant of 300 millions td the public schools. Ca ; They have nothing te gain by its adoption. Neither teachers nor schools in Indiana will derive the slightest beoefit from this federal handout. Nearly all of the 800

and given to a handful of southern states which have been usable, or unwilling, to bring their public schools up to the standard of ours. But Indiana teachers have everything they cherish in their profession to lose by it. If the federal government pays the bills—or even helps to pay them—federal bureaucrats will run the nation’s schools. Indiana teachers and "their leaders are well aware of the evils of federal control of education. They know what federal control did to the public schools of Germany, for example. Their leaders hope laws can be drawn with safeguards against it which

will still get the federal cash—a sincere hope, but a vain one.

MM » . n . » can't be done. In every field—and there is no exception ~federal cash in a local picture has swiftly been followed by federal dictation of personnel and. policy, and no legal safeguard ever has been devised to stop it. And it was inteesting to note, in the senate debate yesterday, that it was southern Democrats, senators from states which would get the money, who fought the suggestion that it must be used to provide equally for Negro children and white children in the public schools. The senate has done well in sending this measure back to committee, and will do better if it is allowed to die there. For all the fine intentions of .its proponents, it threatened a remedy worse than the ill it sought to cure.

WISHFUL THINKING ABOUT JAPAN

QUR British allies persist in the wishful thought that Japan will be a pushover as soon as Germany is knocked out. Since Prime Minister Churchill's blunder in announc"ing the British plan for partial demobilization when the - European war is won, London officials have been careful to stress their determination to see the Pacific war through to the end. But they still think it won't take long. . Marshal Smuts of South Africa is the latest to express this hope. Speaking as a member of the British war cabinet at the London Guildhall he made two points. ; He said the United States, as the “freshest and most i potent newcomer” in the field, might have to play the "decisive part in the western European invasion. : After that defeat of Germany, he added, the fall of Japan may very well be sudden and cataclysmic. : s a 8 F ) PR A FEW: hours after the Smuts speech, Joseph C. Grew, our former ambassador to Tokyo and our government's chief expert on Japan, warned America against the falla-. ‘clous notion that Japan will be easy to mop up after Germany. Even when we can turn our entire attention to Japan there will be a long, hard war ahead, he said. Unlike Marshal Smuts and the British, American authorities figure the Japs can hold out at least a year and perhaps several years after, Germany's collapse. If Russia later came in our our side—and nobody professes to know what Stalin will do—that could shorten the war, of course. . The great danger in Britain's wishful thinking is that it may play into the hands of the Japs when they attempt their compromise “peace” trick. Just as the Germans have been trying, without success, to get a separate peace with Rusisa, so the Japs have been trying to buy off China. Japan after the fall of Germany doubtless will offer the allies a compromise deal which will look nice to the war-weary. : That could be very tempting if, meanwhile, we had fixed our minds on an early peace rather than on the neces- - sity of unconditional swirender and complete destruction i. of Jap military power.

THREE YEARS OR VINFUNNY FARCE

it were not so grimly important, the mess at the Brew- - Ster Aeronautical Corp. would have aspects of comedy. It is hard to convince oneself that all this bungling, goldbricking, brawling, waste, insubordination, incompetence, intimidation, sabotage, etc., etc., could actually have happened to

a single coporation except in the imagination of a writer of Broadway farces.

. But this is no play. This is a realife situation in pect

‘which the manufacture of combat planes for the navy has (been scandalously delayed, and in which it now Soa that man sympathizers on the Brewster payroll may have iberately cut vital wires on some of these planes, with bly fatal results to naval aviators. Try and find funny in that. s oF A house subcommittee under Congressman Drewry of pinia is investigating the Brewster situation. It is doing lalse Agnes E. Meyer exposed some of the Brewster | An article in the Washington Post—an article ‘have precipitated the navy’s decision to Kaiser into the presidency of Brewster in a results,

fy has been dealing with Brewster for three unsatisfactory years distinguished A of | Navy Forrestal calls “poor

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pointedly exempted union agents and man-hunters, many of them working on a commission basis. The administrative personnel and manners of the Wagner act have changed markedly since a congressional investigation disclosed some of the more outrageous, and totalitarian practices of the early days. However, the old, original idea yields doggedly, for the labor relations board still insisted in the current case that the employer could not speak freely, in accordance with the constitution, because the workers were dependent on the company for their Jobs and were under compulsion to liSien to its arguments even though they might have preferred not to.

No Freedom of Speech

MEANWHILE, many workers have learned that they do not enjoy freedom of speech in union councils but may be expelled for disrespect for the ruling unjoneers and that they are under absolute compulsion Yo listen to the union boss and obey him. That, however is in accordance with the New Deal plan of “labor relations” and all proposals that these impositions be corrected by law have been resisted, most recently by Wendell Willkie. In the early days of the Wagner act one employer in New York was threatened with a citation for coercion because he had availed himself of the freedom of the press and of the United States mails to send to his employees copies of a newspaper article certain union practices. And the labor board's interpretation of the word “coercion” was such that an employer was forbidden even to inform his émplbyees or express his opinion that the union organizer was a Communist and thus a traitor or gangster with a criminal record. .

A Basic Freedom

THIS REDEMPTION of one of the basic American freedoms which the New Deal-Communist axis would have impaired was won not by any “liberal” individual or group but by a soulless corporation. Meanwhile, however, thousands of Americans, lacking the money and the initiative to fight as this corporation did, waived this freedom. I doubt that the same supreme court would have made the same decision four or five years ago. In those years, however, the subtle perfidy of the Wagner act and its hidden European political design have been convincingly disclosed ard public opinion has gradually turned against it. The. people may take credit for an assist on this play but five years ago they might have listened to an argument that it is possible to abridge the er ican’'s freedom of speech without impairing the right of all the rest, J

We the People By Ruth Millet |

LETTER from father somewhere In to his 2-year-old son: DEAR JUNIOR: . Your mother tells me she having a hard time finding - place to live, because of you. Land« lords take one look at you, or only hear that you exist, and turn thumbs down.

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pretended not to be, and I wonder if there isn't something we can do abot it; As I remember you, you Were quite & nice fellow—and I'm surprised how unpopular you seem to have become sinice I went off and left you, and mother had to give up our nice house. Maybe it will help some if I tell you what expected of small boys—by landlords and landla Then if your mother should be lucky enoug find 8 house or an apartment, maybe you two get to stay on in it. ._ Never, never, never touch the wall paper. that landlords are moré bitter about the who have left finger marks on their wall pa about the crimes of Hitler,

Don't Make Banging Noises DON'T DON'T, don’t ever cry. You are ~but the people in the next apartment understand that and complain to they can’t put up with living next

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: e " | The Hoosier Forum #eoity 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will : defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“1 AM UNHAPPY TO LEAVE INDIANAPOLIS” By Pvi. Fred Korotkin, Fi. Harrison My shipping orders came through Priday night. On Tuesday I will be on my way to'Duke university near Durham, N. C. Of course. I am happy to leave for the warmer climate since the cold it setting in. However, I am unhappy to leave Indianapolis. The people here have treated us men in uniform royally. The men and women in Indianapolis have been so sincere and kind, so unselfish to us, that I am not alone in hating to leave this city. The men in the barracks have said the same, ahd we hope that the warmth of feeling we experienced here will greet us wherever we go. I told a blue jacket friend of mine who is in traininig here that I am leaving. He too, mentioned that he hated the thought of going away from Indianapolis, and he will not leave until January 1, 1944. And each of us in service feels the same on this, I am really grateful to this city for its kindness and friendliness. I must say again that I hate to leave,

treats men in uniform, and which we truly appreciate. : se = =» “I AM ONE OF YOUR BIG BAD LANDLORDS”. By Roy Van Wye, Columbuid I am one of your “big bad land-

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