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‘WORDS ARE NOT ENOUGH SECRETARY HULL'S reaffirmation of the “bases” of United States foreign policy is admirable. He does not ~~ retreat from the neglected Atlantic Charter and the Mos- .+ cow four-power declaration for an enduring peace through a just settlement, enforced by democratic international organization. ’ Unfortunately, however, his statement does not dispel the growing concern and confusion which is its avowed purpose. . No generalization, even as’ noble as this one, can do th Mere repetition of the Atlantic Charter and the Moscow Pact at this late date will neither make disagreeable facts " disappear nor solve the problems they multiply. Woodrow Wilson learned that when he repeated his 14 points in vain. Marshal Stalin's policy toward Poland and eastern Europe seems to be in violation of the Atlantic Charter and Moscow Pact. Prime Minister Churchill's agreement with that Russian policy, and his own British reservations and interpretations of allied pledges, seem far removed from the Hull statement.

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» \ a ” ” . WHAT CAN the United States government do about that? Not enter into a long distance verbal battle with our allies, certainly. That would only make the situation worse, by playing into Hitler's hands and undermining more confidence among the allies. But our government can negotiate with our allies, using our great bargaining power for the practical application of joint pledges more effectively than that power has been used hitherto. It should not assume that our allies are any less anxious than ourselves for a lasting peace. But it should insist on our right to share in far-reaching decisions, which Moscow and London are now making on their own. And it should insist on consultation with the smaller allies, as pledged. : There has been much loose talk about the alleged . + unwillingness of Americans to co-operate fully in international organization. Congress in, the Fulbright and Connally resolutions committed itself and this nation, just as the big four governments at the Moscow conference committed the executives. The failure is not American.

” J 2 ” s s OUT OF ALL this disagreement, two things at least should be clear to all—to our friends and our enemies. One is that the United States will fight until the final defeat of the axis. The other is that the United States will underwrite no settlement, and participate in no international organization, based on balance-of-power and domination of small nations by the large. In all fairness and honesty, our government must make that clear to our allies at once. To take only one of Secretary Hull's many generalizations, ,which must be applied: ’ “As the provisions of the four-nation declaration are carried into effect, there will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, for balance-of-power, or any other of the special arrangements through which, in the unhappy past, the nations strove to safeguard their security or to promote their interests.”

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STASSEN SPEAKS OUT

NE of the things we like about Lt. Cmdr. Harold E. Stassen is that he speaks his mind. As the progressive and energetic young governor of Minnesota, he never left the people of his state nor of the nation in any doubt

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Embattled State

By S. Burton Heath 2s

WEST DUMMERSTON, Vt, March 22—Diplomatic relations between the state of Vermont and

very strained. The : danger of armed hostilities has passed, but Vermont is prepared to resist in every legal way what she regards as federal encroachment upon her sovereignty. This is no lurid dramatization, but a true reflection of the bitterness aroused by Washington's plan to dam the West river just below this little hamlet, submerge two villages in whole and several in part, and back mountain waters over most of the best farm lands in the West River valley. :

While army engineers were m surveys, the embattled farmers obtained a legal opinion as to their rights against ‘trespassers. Only the circumspection of the engineers is credited with averting a shooting or clubbing by some wrathful landowners.

Sister States Support Vermont

BOTH MASSACHUSETTS and Connecticut, which between them would get 90 per cent of any benefits from the dam without suffering any of the hardships it would entail, are supporting Vermont's fight against the project.

After’ the New England flood of 1936, it was apparent that there must be flood-control for the Connecticut river. Studies were made’ and tentative plans worked out. Most of the dams and reservoirs would be in Vermont and New Hampshire on tributaries of the Connecticut, but it was agreed that 50 per cent of the benefits would accrue to Massachusetts and 40 per cent to Connecticut.

At the suggestion of Washington, the four states formulated an interstate compact which all the legislatures ratified, Vermont's first of all. Committees in both houses of congress reported favorably on it. “ Then the administration, which had inspired and encouraged the compact while expressing doubt that one could be achieved, suddenly turned against it— not against the terms of the compact as drawn, but against its own fundamental idea of voluntary interstate co-operation for flood control. President Roosevelt announced that only the national government must handle such matters. The compact died in a congressional pigeon-hole.

State Willing to Co-operate

THIS DID not necesarily kill flood-control. All the states still weré for it. Under a 1936 law, Vermont was willing to co-operate with the federal government by acquiring the land and permitting the United States to do the work. Then Senator Barkley maneuvered an amendment permitting the federal government itself to condemn land in any state, and to take full title without so much as asking the states if they were willing.

Thereupon the federal government shifted plans for West river flood control from tributaries, where only waste lands would have been inundated, to the West river itself, and moved the proposed site down gradually to below this village. In this process, the proposed cost mounted from about $5,000,000 to about $30,000,000. That was when Vermont begah to grow angry. Its resentment arises from two considerations—first because Vermonters do not concede the federal government’s right to seize title to lands in this state: second, because a flood-control project that would have done little local damage has been converted into a hydro-electric power project that will destroy a beautiful valley and put one of the state’s most historic regions under about 300 feet of water.

Basic Issue Is Defined

SUPREME COURT decisions made it apparent that the project cannot be defeated in the courts. So Vermont must appeal to the sentiment of her 47 sister states. And Vermonters are aware that sympathy is not enough—that they must convince other states, as they are convinced, that the precedents involved in this case would destroy the last vestiges of states’ rights. Beginning in early October there has grown up, with the spontaneity of the old New England town meeting system, an organization that calls itself Freemen, Inc. Its appeal to other states can be summarized thus: ‘ “If the federal government can seize West River

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The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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“MOTORISTS VIOLATE PEDESTRIANS’ RIGHTS” By A Safety Minded Individual, Indianapolis

As a safety minded citizen I have been crossing at the corner, waiting for the green light and in general trying to obey the traffic ordinance 100 per cent. There is only one complaint that I have to make about this safety program. Motorists consistently violate the pedestrians’ rights by driving into the intersection and stopping across the crosswalk. In this case, it is necessary to walk around in front of the car, out into the intersection, or it is necessary to walk back of the car and weave through the cars waiting for the green light. Both of these practices are very dangerous. There has been comment that the red caution light should be changed to amber, the national signal for caution. The red ¢aution signal means “Stop Now,” hence motorists may stop in the way of the pedestrians at the crosswalk. . Lives would be protected if motorists would obey the law and not stop over the crosswalk.

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valley, against the will of the state of Vermont, it | can seize anything we own. “It it can take anything that little Vermont owns, | it' can take whatever its wants from Texas or Alabama, New York or California. “This is a test case. The West river dam is the first step toward a New England TVA that we do not want. If the federal government can get away

{By A Mother of Four Sons, Spencer

The letter of Mrs. Roy Irwin in the Forum of March 13 doesn't change my mind in the least on

(Times readers are invited to express their views’ in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, let ters should be limited to 250 words. letters must be signed, - Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsi bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

rented from them we were warned not to talk or no house. So, that was better than the streets. It lasted all night long... Well, what can you expect when there are neighbors that have these parties as well as their liquor? You can’t tell them to move and you can’t move yourself because there isn't any place. We have taught our boys to take care of other people's things and they have their first window to break. That is quite a record. We could always furnish references. But you couldn't even get a chance. As soon as you say yo have four children . . . well, there isn't anything else to say. As

raising boys in the city. I was not able to attend church every Sunday |

with this, then states have no longer any slightest vestige of sovereignty, and the Bill of Rights is dead | and ready for burial.”

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as to where he stood on any important issue. That policy of forthrightness was expressed again in | the statement to Secretary Knox in which he cleared the | air on his position regarding the Republican nomination for President. That statement is both frank and admirable and certainly should not diminish his stature in the eyes of the voters. “I do not seek and will do nothing personally to secure the nomination,” he said. “If, notwithstanding this position, I were to be nominated, 1 would consider it to be my plain duty to accept and would do 80, requesting inactive duty for a sufficient time to discuss with the people the issues and problems of the future. “I wish to make it equally clear that I will make no statement on political issues while on active duty, that I do not wish any publicity of my activities in the navy to be used in a political manner, and that no one is authorized to make personal commitments on my behalf.” Anyone who has followed the career of Harold Stassen knows that he means what he says. It is apparent that he considers his first duty to the nation. And he leaves it up to the nation to decide where and how he will serve. His words are clear, and they are the words of a patriotic and conscientious American.

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BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

IF our spring editorial is a little late, blame the weather. In Indiana, spring editorials have a way of getting winter-killed along with the too-hopeful lilac buds’ and daffodils. And despite what the calendar says, a day when you slither to the office on ice-glazed roads or breast ‘a minor league blizzard on your way to lunch is no day on which to write-a rhapsody to spring. Your heart just isn’t In it, and your readers are likely to say, “What spring 7” T he artists portray spring as a sprite, lightly clad and feminine. And spring in Indiana truly is as capricious as a woman. Like a colt in pasture, it must be gentled. Pursue it, and it flies to-the ends of the earth; ignore it and go about your business, and it soon is nuzzling your shoulder, bidding for attention. It's a system, we are told by those who have tried it, that works as well with women as with horses. But we wouldnt khow about that. Nor can we ignore spring. For the sap is stirring, the blue birds are back, the wheat is turning green, there are young lambs in the barn-lot, and we approve of spring. We hope it’s here to stay. ER »

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We The People

By Ruth Millett

IN TELLING a reporter about her wedding plans, Mrs. Louise Atwill boasted that the gown she was to be married in cost $14.75. | (There wouldn't be anything une | usual in that except for the fact | that the wedding gown she wore when she married Douglas MacArthur cost $1500). The bride's explanation for her changed ideas about what a woman ought to spend for a wedding gown was: “I've got better sense than I had in formet days and I'm much more in tune with the times.” ‘ She's in tune with the times, all right. For the girls who are being tarried today aren't trying to make a big social splash out of their weddings,

Fancy Trappings Are Out

THEY ARE so busy following their men around the country, so worried about whether or not the groom's leave will be canceled at the last minute, so concerned with how much or how little time they'll have with their husbands before they are sent overseas that they can’t be bothered with the trappings of marriage. All they want and all they ask is just a chance to marry the man of their choice before an ocean separates them. The bride who went from a $1500 wedding dress to a $14.75 one must be aware of that, The $1500 dress didn’t bring her happiness—for the marriage ended in divorce. And. judging. by her remark about- “having more sense and being more in tune with the times,” her $14.75 dress ought to bring her better luck. For those are things a bride needs far more than an expensive wedding gown. : .

So They Say—

WE MUST realize that in all parts of Europe now dominated by Germany, democratic institutions, have

been abolished. Somehow we must reftore the funda- |

mental that every citizen is responsible for the government.—Jean Monnet, commission er-at-large, French Committee of National Liberation, : * » ® THE RATIO of casualties to the weight of bombs dropped is steadily falling despite the fact that the

meal, so most of my Sundays were spent cooking.

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as that was the only day we were | together and really enjoyed a nice |

But, nevertheless, my two oldest boys never missed Sunday school. But, since this awful war has fallen on all of us, and the wages are larger, can't anyone see the “carrying on” of old as well as young? As for taverns as she spoke 8f—I have never set my foot in one and that is not all. I never will!’ I don't believe in raising boys among beer and whisky botfles and cigaret smoke. Of course, I never had much company as I wasn't in that class. Take, for instance, the place where we once lived. The other double was what you call these poker clubs. The boys could hear them and their money and I had to fake stories so they wouldn't know, because when we

| By Mrs. L. A. A, Indianapolis

I said, there are nice people in Indianapolis, of course. But there are t6o many disadvantages in the city for them. 2 s » “CHILDREN GET

START IN HOME”

I disagree with the mother from Spencer in March 4th Forum. I am | the proud mother of three sons|

who have grown to manhood and] were reared in the city of Indianapolis, of which I am very proud as it is the city of beautiful homes. It is not the city that causes boys to go wrong. They get their start in the home. When you train a dog you have to'know more than the dog. The children of this city are no different from any other. It is not the children’s fault their parents can't find homes to rent. It is their parents’ fault for not teaching them right from wrong

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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Ran . REC. V. 8. PAT, “We'll give Dad some dye and & bunch of eggs—he 5 won't oven think to ask the

and not to destroy things and not to rip and tear around in neighbors’ yards. The street is no place to raise children. I lived in the same house twenty years with three small sons and never destroyed it. Mothers with children should not work but stay home and be a mother to them. Destroying the home will not help the war effort. Children from 10 to 15 years need their parents more at this age than when younger. I taught my sons not- to destroy, to be honest and truthful and always consider the

‘jother fellow and my teaching has

not been in vain. They won't forget. Of course there are slums in every city which should not be tolerated in this day and age. The late Gov-

-{ernor Marshall said once the Boys'

Home was filled with boys for lack of the rod. I say it was for lack of love and parental care. * » # . “BLEW ITS HORN AND KEPT GOING” By C. A. Yelton, Indianapolis When this present safety drive for pedestrians in our city started I knew 1t would only be a short time until I would be afforded an opportunity to send in an article very amusing, but not in the least funny. / I was prompted to write this after reading this part of the safety article on the front page of The Times of March 10. I quote “they (the pamphlets) warn drivers turning right or left to give pedestrians the right of way.” The article also said in a Boy Scout canvass 982 motorists were reported turning into pedestrian lines, This is where my story begins, I wonder how many police cars they counted in that bunch. Well, maybe, there weren't any and maybe there were; but I and some other triends did see one turn into a lane of about eight or ten of us just two evenings ago. The group of us were with the green light almost across the street when the police car turned the corner and

its horn and kept going. Since freedom of the press does not give us the right to say the things I am thinking at this point in my story I might as well end it here. L o ” 8 “NEITHER WOULD ANY OTHER MOTHER” By Lee, Indianapolis. All you see and hear is don’t patronize the black markets. Yet, sometimes it seems one is almost forced to do so. I know of a family having a baby who were refused additonal fuel oil to keep a warm house for that baby. . Would I live in a cold house and run the risk of my child dying with

patriotic I wouldn't accept oil from a black market? I would not, and neither would any other mother! ” - ”

“ESTABLISHED DURING HOOVER ADMINISTRATION” By A. Huston; Indianapolis In a recent issue of your paper Mrs. A. C. How in support of the administration speaks of having purchased her home through the Home Owner's Loan Corporation,

I seem to remember that this agency was established during Mr. Hoover's administration and has been proclaimed as one of the

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the past several years, . i

DAILY THOUGHTS

~ For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens. —Psalm 96:5, :

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“one of Roosevelt's achievements.”

- BUT THE cost of war cannot be counted in dole lars—never. “Only 12 bombers were lost,” yet with

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As Mr. Millett says, “Where in the world do get that word ONLY?” : : There are other glib phrases, too—phrases like, “Our losses were light,” In war, no loss is ever light, It is heavy to someone.

War of Easy Phrases and Statistics

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In the north woods, there is a sign along the ways that reads: “Whent timber burns, loses.” That is true of war, too-—everybody loses, some more than others but all immeasureably. There is no place in the tragic lexicon of war for the word “only.”

say, and mean it: “It must not be again.”

In Washington

By Peter Edson

what you make of it: . .. The American government through its secretary of state has just told Ireland where to get off, and a nice job it was, too, though jong overdue. The American President has

towards establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine, though this also was formerly a problem that was strictly Great Britain's. The American government is proposing to go into the pipeline business in Arabia, leading to gosh only knows what complications if the Arabs and Jews ever. to tangling in earnest. WN I SA ol pvt: the DHE empire—on Caribbean bases, in Newfoundland, across Canada to Alaska, in New Zealand, Australia, New Guinea, India. The American army is playing a leading part in the liberation of Burma, which in the old geography books was also part of the British territory the sun was never supposed to set on. American air forces in China are playing an important part in the liberation of China, and the American President has given assurances of the liberation from Japanese rule of Formosa, Manchuria, Korea. - The American: navy and marine corps, with an able assist from the army and air force, are knocking Japs off Pacific islands and atolls and setting up provisional governments thereon, under the American flag.

Spain Due for Come-Uppance THERE ARE American forces in Greenland, Ice-

‘land, Iran, New Caledonia.

The American government has told Finland to get out of the war or take the consequences, The American government is inching towards a showdown with Spain, employing economic sanctions in forcing Francisco Franco to maintain his strict neutrality by playing with the allies and not with the axis. The American government has refused to recog nize revolutionary governments in Bolivia and the Argentine- and is using every non-military force it possesses to push Germany-inclined Latin-American republics into a slant more favorable to the cause of thé united nations. . One American army, having aided materially in liberation of North Africa from axis domination, is now fighting for liberation of Italy. ; And finally, another American army is poised on British soil to strike for liberation of France—even Germany—from totalitarianism.

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ASK WHAT all this means of any plain-spoken, pre-draft-age child with an I. Q. higher than 50, and he will tell you simply that the United States today is coming closer to running this whole. cock-

eye world—Soviet Russia excluded—than has any

nation in history. = : So what! Is the United States gettihg involved in a lot of things that are none of its business? Idealists may argue that all this is meaningless, that the sole American interest today is to win the war and get it over with, then settle back in the old orbit. : i AE Jingoists may swell with pride and superpatriotism, g boastfully that sure, this country is now

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