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ALLIANCES VERSUS LEAGUE

UR British friends, in their legitimate desire for a maxli-

mum of

post-war security, are not content with a world

peace organization. They are trying to build up a set of separate military alliances. If they are not careful, they will defeat their purpose. Separate alliances could easily ruin the new league like the old one, and at the same time provoke counter-alliances and war from which Britain would

be the chief

victim,

The latest London move for a British-dominated bloc of Western European nations will stimulate Stalin's desire for Russianized puppet states in Eastern Europe. If history means anything, such a division of Europe would lead to economic weakness, political conflict, and war—with a revived Germany holding the real balance, and playing one bloc against the other to her profit and their destruction. The United States is not apt to be a party to such shortsighted British and Russian power grabs. As Secretary of State Hull explained when Britain and Russia signed the Moscow pact with him, that agreement was intended to replace the old system of spheres-of-influence and balance-of-power with a new system of democratic international organization. Churchill and Stalin cannot have it both ways, by giving lip service to the united nations plans while actually dividing Europe into two imperial spheres.

NOTHING COULD be more phony than the excuse that these proposed British and" Russian blocs would be regional organizations like the Pan-American and others contemplated by the Dumbarton Oaks plan. Certainly regionalism can aid a solution in Europe, as in this hemisphere. A European federation, built on economic unity and political collaboration, could do more than any other ‘system to achieve continental prosperity and peace in general and to dissolve the German menace in particular. But division of Europe into British and Russian spheres is the opposite of a united free Europe. It would be comparable to dividing the Western .hemisphere between a United States bloc and an Argentine bloc, which would make this hemisphere & cause of major wars as Europe always has been. Not only would a revival of the bloc alliance and counter-alliance system be disastrous for Europe and for the world, it could destroy Britain. Gen. Smuts last year in proposing British control of Western Europe, which Churchill is now attempting, was very frank in his “reasons.” He thought France was washed-up as a strong and independent nation, and therefore would have to join Britain—along with the smaller Western European states —in some form. of union. Second, he argued that Russia and the United States would dominate the world against a weak * Britain, unless she became stronger through a British

European bloc, . We think he was wrong on

both counts. So do Cana-

~ dians, apparently.

ACTUALLY, a puppet France is no barrier against Germany, but a weakness rather than a strength to Britain ——as Hitler proved. Only a strong French democracy can be the core of a free and secure Europe. Such a France will not be a satellite of Britain, or of Russia,

As for

the Smuts idea that Britain must prepare

against Russia and against the United States, we had supposed that Britain's best bet was to work with her two stronger allies.- We had supposed that was the purpose of the 20-year alliance which Churchill signed with Stalin, and of the unwritten pledge of Anglo-American post-war co-

operation.

We had supposed that the chief purpose of the united nations declaration and the Dumbarton Oaks plan for an international security system was to keep the allies—and

particularly

the large powers—working together for peace

after axis defeat.

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ARCHBISHOP RITTER ELEVATION of the Most Rev. Joseph E. Ritter to the

rank of

archbishop of the newly created archdiocese

of Indianapolis is fitting recognition for the accomplishments of a churchman who has earned the respect of all i

faiths in this city.

Indiana

also gains in stature in the Catholic church

through the establishment of the archdiocesan see here and the creation of two new dioceses in Evansville and

Lafayette.

Since he was consecrated as auxiliary bishop of Indianapolis and titular bishop of Hippus in 1983, the new archbishop has had a notable career in his church, - One of the youngest Catholic bishops in this country, he brought to his responsible position vigor and deep religious resources. In the past decade, he has administered the affairs of the diocese with judgment and vision that have greatly . strengthened the position of his church in the community, With his ‘elevation, he now has a similar opportunity as spiritual head of all the Catholics in Indiana.

MAIL IN

NOVEMBER

ONLY 31 more shopping days before Christmas. And you'd better not let many of them pass before you do your shopping—that is, if you want to be sure of finding what you'd like to buy and getting it delivered by Christmas day. :

giving, and

For this Christmas is likely to be a record-breaker for

many stores have fewer salespeople than they

need, and the postal and express services are already heav-

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tomorrow while some lonely, obscure man may be

pArime; t Yet he promises extraor-| dinary a woacie what I expected to be the heaviest Christmas mail in history, and to deliver gifts pn. time, if— k * You, and you Eo delitar gifts gh. lit are willing to act.—Dr. Carl J.

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Rewards of Genius] § By John Ww. 8

Hillman

“TOC LITTLE and too late” is a phrase that too often clouds the © career of an artist. For it is characteristic of genius to. be ahead of its time-and that usually means that it also is behind in its rent. The artist starves in his garret, the poet to an unhearing world, the inventor is scorned and . the philosopher drinks hemlock. That is the irony of fame. For those who most deserve it, the reward is too little and the recognition too late.. Art is long and ‘time is fleeting, but a demand note on posterity will not pay the grocery bill, Perhaps thats not so now, Perhaps the research foundations and the expanding interest in cultural pursuits have smoothed the way for those who create in science or the arts, But can we truly say that this is so? Isn't it possible that the widely heralded celebrities of today may be the forgotten names of

the one the world remembers a hundred years from now?

Poe Is the Classic Example

CERTAINLY THAT has been true in the ‘past. The classic example, of course, is the career of Edgar Allan Poe. The tragedy of his life is recalled by the news that a few days ago the manuscript of his famous short story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” sold at auction for $34,000, That is more money than Poe made from his writing during an entire lifetime. And, to add irony, it was this particular story which established the pattern for the murder mystery, a literary form which has been keeping up the payments on penthouses and Connecticut estates for Poe's imitators ever since. . When Stephen Foster died, his pockets contained a few cents and the-scribbled words “Dear friends and gentle hearts”—which the incurably romantic Alexander Woollcott theorized might have been the genesis of an unwritten song, but which we suspect might more likely have been the salutation to a “touch.” And Foster's songs, like Poe's products, have since pald off handsomely, though not to the author.

Reverse Is Not Necessarily True THERE'S ALSO the case of Poe's first collection

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of poems, “Tamerlane,” which no one bothered to read at the time, and which is now worth from $100,000 up if you happen to run across a copy 4n your attic. Don’t rush out and start going through the second-hand book stores, however—we've already looked there. } But justsbecause many geniuses have been unrecognized, it does not follow that any artist who is

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

unrecognized is a genius—though many of them seem to think so. . We've learned that the hard way. As a poetry reviewer for years, we religiously saved all the hundreds of first volumes sent to us, in the hope that we might be harboring a contemporary “Tamerlane” somewhere on our shelves. But to date, none of our long shots has come home. If some of those poets don't become famous in a hurry, we'll either have to start throwing away or buy a larger house. Jt seemed a good idea at the time. But apparently, like being a genius, it's no way to get rich,

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Chinese Disaster -

By Ludwell Denny

. WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.~The latest military disaster in China is confirmation of Gen. Stilwell's warning to Chiang Kai-shek that only speedy and sweeping reforms in his command and organization can stop the headlong Jap advance, Current losses involve not only Chind but America. They partially offset American victories in the Pacific and the Philippines, They prolong the war, . By capturing the Liuchow net= work of alrfields, the Japs have taken the last base of the 14th U. 8 air force in Eastern China. Six such bases have fallen in the past three months. Except for twa distant small fields, our air foree is driven all the way back to Kunming, 400 miles west of Liuchow.

Deprived of Most of Air Support

NOW THE inadequate Chinese ground troops In the southeastern area will be depriyed of most of their American air support, which has saved them s0 often in the past. i Three Jap armies are converging on the last Chinese held strip of the Manchuria-to-Canton route, They may soon extend this all the way to Singapore, giving them a north-south inland route the length of Asia from the equator to Siberia. i That would prevent our Pacific forces from come pletely severing Japan from her Southeast Asia cone quests by liberating the Philippines and the South China sea. Though the cutting of those sea lines would be disastrous to Japan today, she can survive if Chinese military weakness meanwhile permits her to substitute a land supply route, Loss of Liuchow also reduces the co-operation between our China-based bombers and our Pacific forces, American bombers from China, besides blasting Formosa, have been counted on to help win the battles of the Philippines and South China sea. Hitherto they have been especially effective against Jap shipping.

Would Leave No Place to Land CONTINUED JAP ADVANCES on the mainland

would leave Nimitz and MacArthur no place to land, |

wher they complete their long drive across the Pacific and reach the China coast. In that case they would be forced to duplicate Eisenhower's amphibious as sault on the beaches of Normandy-~not across a nar-

By R. 8, Indianapolis

DESTROY FASCISM” With the resurgence of the struggle of the Spanish anti-Fascist forces to free their country from the Fascist yoke of our continued recognition of Franco lengthens the duration of the war by providing the Nazis a source of war supplies and a base for future Fascist plots. There is no justification after the liberation of the Mediterranean and France from the

Franco by sending him supplies which not only help him to keep fascism in power in Spain but also to furnish material to Hitler,

ican neighbors in particular that we have a consistent foreign policy based upon aiding all those fighting for democracy. . . “LET HIM MAKE HIS OWN PLANS” By Lt. C. J. Baillie, Army of the U. §. When your boy in service comes home on furlough, I've just got one plece of advice: Bure you're glad to see him. 80 is everybody else in town and so is your boy glad to see all his friends. Here's an idea: The first night or so he’s in town, invite all his friends and relatives over to the house (after. dinner) and let them sit and talk to your boy. Then you can have him for yourself the next couple of nights, but after that, let him make his own plans, There may be some persorial calls he'd like to make. Chances are he’s got his best buddy's mother

Nazi-Fascists to continue appeasing|

Today we can help destroy this|

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or wife to look up. He wants to do that alone. He might want to take a long walk by himself sometime. he may want to sit in his room himself, with the lights out and think and pinch himself to see if it’s real that he’s back.

He'll get a mighty lot of satisfaction out of going to his pal Joe’s house and telling Joe's mother that he saw Joe recently and Joe is fine. Joe's mother will almost ery with joy that your boy is back home and glad to know that her son is well and sent her a personal message, I know. I went to visit an elderly woman whose son I had seen but two weeks before. Before I left she made me feel that I was the biggest man in the army. She told me the day of my visit happened to be her birthday and that was the finest present she could have received. “He (her son) is all I have, you know,” she told me “and I've added 10 years to my Mlfe by talking to you. God Bless You.”

» » » “I'M READY TO GIVE UP” By Tormented, Indianapolis Just a letter in regard to parents and children. Why do parents let their kids run wild? I think I know the answer, So they can keep their house clean.. Some put..them outside and keep them out all day. But what of their noise to the

‘row channel, but a wide sea. ; China's. importance as a land and alr base for | the knock-out blow against Japan has been stressed | publicly by our military and naval chiefs. What happens in China is of great consequence to every American, We can only hope for success of President Roosevelt's efforts to spur British action in Southeast Asia, te get more American supplies to China by air over the hump and over a regained Burma road, and to persuade Chiang Ka¥sshek to complete those Chinese military reforms without which American aid is ineffective,

So They Say—

ONE THING is certain—that from our enemies we may expect nothing but hell on earth if we lay down our arms Goebbels, ; ' 0» . 3 i

IN RECENT days we even had fresh meat because some of our cows have been killed by fréading

German land mines or by being put out of action by | | your (British) artillery—Netherlander of Schijndel. Js at Sle $i eT Ea THE * LEAGUE of 'Nations* did not” succeed politically because the governments did not want it to.

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Side Glances=By Galbraith

They dig holes in my garden, ruin

neighbors? Then they want a gang of kids with them, and maybe a dog or two. : Some parents spend most of their time in the taverns. If anyone com-

plains, they are cranks, and they are always right and never wrong.

my much needed rest. Oh, if I could only get a quiet place, but where? Then the “Soap Operas” all day long. These woman programs are punk. I got so I'm ready to give up. And I'll bet a lot of others would do likewise. If they would only practice the golden rule. But they don’t care or know what that

is,

“A DESPERATE CORNERED ENEMY” By Harry L. Smith, 2087 Hillside ave. The V-3 rocket bomb is a serious weapon. It could harm the morale of a nation or a number of nations. It could prolong the war for an indefinite period. If is killing many defenseless people. The people of England have no defense against this terrible weapon. It travels by far too high and too fast to be shot down by either fighter planes or anti-aircraft

can expect more of these attacks, We here in the U. S. are not safe either, If it is at all possible the Germans can be expected to use this most terrible method of warfare against us. Let us remember V-2 means vengeance bomb number two, perhaps vengeance against America! If it comes to this, and I believe it will, we Americans will not allow it to get us down. Prime Minister Churchill said, “There is no need to exaggerate the danger.” I disagree. I believe it 1s better to exaggerate the possibility: and be ready for any eventuality than to underestimate it and suffer the consequences. : Perhaps V-2 is incapable of reaching the U. 8., but there is the everpresent possibility that it can. Whereas if. it fails, V-3 might not. V-2 might also be shot from specially equipped submarines lying a few hundred miles off shore or by suicide squadrons of German bombers. It is a well-known fact that if V-2 had been invented and used a few months ago the Germans might have won the war, The longer the war lasts the more time the Germans have to perfect their rocket bomb. A few more months may be the deciding factor in this war, Germany is down but not out. There is still fight in the army of fanatics. Perhaps some time ago it was thought the Germans would give up when the borders of the Reich were attained. We know now they will never surrender until we have occupied every in¢h of

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 17--What might be called “the Fourth New Deal” is shaping up here in administration and congressional

It 1s not a definite design, all in one piece, but is made up of numerous measures, some spon= sored by the administration, some originating in congress without specific administration initiation or backing, some with support from both parties. None is brand new, * Some go back to earlier New Deal measures, as complements, such as extension of social security to cover an additional 20,000,000 persons, coupled with comprehensive and controversial provisions for exe panding federal assistance for medical care. In the same early New Deal category is the proposed expansion to seven - other river systems of the TVA-type regional development for irrigation, navi ‘gation and electric power in & giant national plan for conservation and effective use of water resources, as well as human resources, J Another phase, largely directed ®o the South, is embodied in the bill for federal aid to education to supplement meager local school tax revenues. Stilt another, exclusively for the South, is the bil to abolish poll taxes in election of federal officials and thus begin to extend real democracy to eight states which still impose such restrictions on the ballot.

Broad Field of Further Reform

ALL OF THESE measures make up a broad fleid of further reform in elaboration of the New Deal, program has been given impetus by the re-elece tion of President Roosevelt and renewed emphasis on the New Deal, and particularly by the part played by labor in that election. For labor has manifested keen and active interest in this expansion of New Deal philosophy. \ ‘ It is therefore natural to expect, in the next congress, another renaissance along the domestia front akin to that of the early years of the New Deal, especially- after the war is over. Sponsors of these measures will start the spadework in the new congress opening in January, They look for ine creased public support at the end of the war, For the return of service men will stress the need of all expanding economy to provide additional employ~ ment opportunities. President Roosevelt has just restated his strong support for the river-system development proposed for the great Missouri watershed. He favors a'Missourl River Authority, similar to TVA, rather than development through co-operation of two government agencies, the irrigation and reclamation bureau and the army engineers, which has been worked out at the capital-as a means of staving off the independent authority, Its proponents will seek to amend a pending rivers and harbors bill to this effect.

Dewey Backed Social Security Extension

IN PRESSING for an extension of soéial security, its sponsors will have henceforth the effect of the backing given by Governor Dewey, who stopped short, however, at the federal medical-aid features of the pending bill which have been denounced by medical associations as “socialized medicine.” Highly controversial also is the bill for federal aid for education which provides for $200,000,000 for war emergency payment of teachers’ salaries and $100,000,000 for distribution among the states to be spent under their control. An aggressive advocate of this measure, Pr. Frank Graham, president of the University of North Carolina, who hag been on duty here with the war labor board, defended this measure as constitutional in a recent speech here, and urged i as essential to help the South, : Poll tax repeal is a perennial in congress, hitherto blocked by southern members. It has the backing

of C. I, O, which is getting stronger in the South.

IN WASHINGTON— ;

Payroll Votes By Charles T. Lucey

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—To what extent were the federal gove ernment’s 3,000,000 employees an instrument for the re-election of President Roosevelt? ’ Very impoftantly, say the Ree publicans. They don't claim all federal jobholders were proe Roosevelt, but contend that enough of them were convinced that returning Mr. Roosevelt to office meant continuance of their own pay checks to go out and do something about it. The Hatch act supposedly kept them from: active campaigning, of courSe, but the G. O. P. contention is that it was possible for a suffi. cient numper of federal workers to carry their fame ilies’ votes with them to make the difference between President Roosevelt's voté and Governdr Dewey's in some states. This could have been so, they assert, if even half the federal workers in these states swung two or three family votes to the President's side, .

New Dealers Dispute Theory

NEW DEALERS say it's not so; that most workers are now protected by civil service and hence are more independent of the party for jobs than in other days, The number of patronage. jobs which pay off in elec tions, they argue, is quite limited. The figures show that in at least eight states car« riled by Mr. Roosevelt, there are more federal eme ployees, including civilian army and navy workers, than there was vote difference between the President and Mr. Dewey. This was true in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Nevada, Michigan, Massachusetts, Maryland and Idaho. The Republicans are citing Michigan .and Mary. land and Pennsylvania as especially upholding their contention that Mr. Roosevelt can be kept in office by the “federal machine.” ’ In Pennsylvania, latest figures (without the soldier vote) show Mr. Roosevelt won by about 50,000. Tha state hhs 48,000 federal employees even without army and navy workers; with them the total is about 197.000. Mr. Roosevelt's Michigan victory was by aboud 20,000; in this state there are 24,000 federal employees not counting army and navy workers, and the total is 53,300 if they are included. The Roosevelt margin in Maryland was 16,000, and this state has 16.600 feds eral jobholders exclusive of army and navy workers, and 53,000 when they are counted. These three states add to 63 electoral votes. :

Comparative Figures on Pivotal States

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states carried by Mr. Roosevelt: ir

"1 New York, which Mf. Roosevelt carried ‘by the . | comfortable margin of 326,000, has 207,000 federal

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Excl. of Roosevelt © Total Fed. = Army-Navy Stats Margin Employees Civilians Arizona’ ......y.ee 21,000 18,700 7,700 Connecticut ..... ~ 43,000 . 12500 «= ' 8,700 Idaho FHr acres 7,000 9,800 4,500 Nlinols .......... 142,000 128,000 61,000 Massachusetts ... 90900 * 114200 26,000 | Minnesota wradens 51,000 18,800 5 16,500 i Missouri LEE ERE A 33,000 - * 50,900. 25 : i Nevada viverases 23,000 6,100 iim } New Hampshire ,, 10000 = 4,000 ‘2700 New Jersey PIII =a 83,200 - Ho oregon, .......... 21,000 18,700 10,500

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