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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

IF THERE IS TO BE A REAL PEACE

(ONCE more the administration evades action to save the ~ Atlantic Charter and Dumbarton Oaks league plan. When the Republican leader Senator Vandenberg comes

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Plastic Dilemma By James Thrasher

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FOR A TIME it seemed that the end of this war would usher “in am era which some already were calling the .age of plastics and synthetics, : By and large it promised to be quite an era, filled with light, -. durable, inexpensive comforts and . conveniences “achieved through wonderful new feats of alchemy. Even before the era arrived we could imagine archaeologists of some distant millennium beginning a new subdivision of man’s history at about 1£50. (They'd probably =all it the age of plastics and synthetics, too), a They would consider the date significant ag marking man's abandonment of the quaint old notion that the edible fruits of the field were-useful only as food.

Inventors Overlooked One Thing IT WAS THEN, those distant archaeologists- would

forward with nonpartisan constructive proposals that give |”

the country new hope, administration spokesmen damn him | Chairman Connally |

with faint praise and object to action. | of the foreign relations committee, after a White House | “gession, objects not only to action but even to further senate | debate on the subject pending a Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin |

meeting. This is The same old run-around. For six months thé administration blocked congressional resolutions to commit | this nation formally “to.a democratic international security | organization. After the "Tehran conference, the President | refused and still refuses to share with congress or the | public the facts of the negotiations And more of the same | since. ; Sr | ss 8 : 8 Be ® } ALONG WITH THIS has gone a vicious foreign propaganda that Britain and Russia could not count om.gcongressional co-operation for international organization, a equally untrue administration propaganda that so-called Republican isolationists are to blame. The facts, on the record, are that congress has committed the United States much farther than any other nation has gone, and that Senator Vandenberg and most of his Republican colleagues have tried time and again to speed international organization. : We do not question the sincerity of the President, in insisting on one-man rule and secret diplomacy. But-that method has stimulated if not produced, the Russian-British | power politics and the Big Three disagreements which are | so rapidly undermining allied unity and the chances of any democratic world organization. Roosevelt needs the help | of congress and public opinion in this and other countries, | help which is blocked by his silence and secrecy. “ ek

: ss & = SENATOR VANDENBERG'S inspiring defense of the Atlantic Charter; his appeal to our allies to stop their | unilateral and bilateral actions and turn to a world security | organization now; his urgent call on the President to sign | a treaty now to disarm and police Germany and Japan, so that Britain and Russia will have nothing more. to fear from those sources—this program is the most positive that has come from any responsible Ameriean; and it is from a Republican who speaks for the Republicans of the United States senate. | And this whole-hearted proposal for a, united America in foreign affairs is brushed aside by administration spokes- | man Senator Connally with “let’s not talk about that.” | No, the American people mustn't talk about the enduring peace they're fighting for! Even the senate should | . not talk—the senate which has constitutional responsibility | to advise and consent to treaties, the senate which has beenfalsely blamed of standing in the way of making a pe that will stick. | It’s just some more of “Let Papa fix.” But the trouble is Papa can’t fix a peace that will abide through the years. | Not even Papa Roosevelt and Papa Churchill and Papa | Stalin combined. A lasting peace can be made only by the | governments and the peoples of the world.

THE ICKES THEORY

R. ROOSEVELT has said that he wants no more public controversies between members of his official fam- | ily—that -the man who starts one had better write his resignation first. Which apparently had been forgotten by Interior Secretary lckes when he told reporters that TVA Chairman Lilienthal is— L _ “One of the busiest propagandists the U. S. A. has pioduced.” : z . | This because Mr. Lilienthal had written an article advocating new area power authorities, modeled after TVA, outside the interior department. : But Mr. Ickes’ lapse of memory was brief, for he | hastened to add: “What is a controversy, anyway? I feel that when a fellow drops one of these bombs otr another fellow, it isn't a controversy unless the fellow who is hit squeals. I'm not starting a controversy, am ] So, according to his interesting theory, if Mr. Lilien- | thal doesn’t reply there'll be no controversy. And, we suppose, if Mr. Lilienthal does reply, he'll be the one who starts the-controversy. Smart man, Mr. Ickes. Brave, too. #

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OLD-TIME PRICE CEILING

I" was rather surprising and most encouraging to learn | that in a recent poll of auiomobile owners, 76 per cent of | those questioned said they would not buy a new car if postwar prices were 25 or 30 per cent above the peacetinie level. After repeated predictions by economists and others, | a lot of us had taken it for granted that the release of war-' time savings would start a buying spree that would exceed healthy bounds and make price control necessary for a long ‘time after the fighting had stopped. Maybe those controls will still be necessary. In the automobile field, for example, the controls should exceed the supply for some time to come. And yet, if this poll is repre- ~ sentative, it appears that already the average citizen is conscious that this wartime monetary honeymoon won't fast Sorever, and is beginning to feel the twinges of thrifti-

Anyway, it's good to hear again that old pricksesilin order that went like this: “I'll be dog-goned if I'll pay it It's the sort of order that bysiiessmen have a way of com-

WITH CAESAR ~~

| ahead for the Japs from another

| could be compined with oil .to “make tires. for his

| automobile, and that in another bears have devoured

| of today it looks as if the age of plastics and syn-

| a place of specia: situations

| the picture as clearly as we might, but the aggregate [armed forces,

Shortages More Specific Than General

say, that our semi-primitive 20th century ancestor found that the grain which he ground and baked to ease his hunger, or distilled to ease his troubles,

land journeys; and: that the humble bean he fed to his animals and occasionally to himself could “be | cooked and pressed and mculded into vehicles and other useful objects. : But it seems now that such a chapter in man's history" may never be written. For our inventors, though full of wisdom and ingenuity, had overlooked one thing, They forgot that the race of man shares this earth with some old and highly respected inhabitants who still maintain the uncomplicated idga that something to eat is something to eat. Period. And thus, before the age of plastics and synthetics is even upon us, we read that in one place dogs have eaten the soybean license plates off an

a set of synthetic rubber tires with SpParent relish,

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SAP- JUMP TO ‘A PEACETIME

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Only a Question of Time’ _/

= [OT MANY years ago a man traveling Siberia in a tfoika ran the chance of having both his horses and himeh sone by ravenous wolves. Joday the. horses an ~dleds are disappearing. Modern cilivization is moving=in on those frozen Russian

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

wastes. ~~ But at the rate things arésgoing, it will only be Lert JUST DOESN'T a question of time before the Siberi motorist starts | " dreading the thought of having wolves spring upon | SEEM RIGHT his running board and go to work on his soybean | By An Indiana Vet, Indianapolis tonneau, dashboard and steering wheel, sparing him | I've been reading the Forum for only long enough to make sure that they have {sometime and had never thought

their quota of plastic proteins. : Perhaps discouragement is premature. that 1 might ever ask to have a

But thetics had struck an impasse. Man thinks he has here I am king you to publish a discovered something to make human existence more | veteran's views en certain defense attractively human. The animal kingdom stubbornly ! SS : z Lo . is plants, production and, management. persists in believing that man has simply whipped | Just recently I was “discharged

{| up a few new recipes. | :

J ; | af i re Ss, an came For the time being we shall forego both plastics alter serving ov Tea de 2 4

and judgment. But we shall] watch developments | LO oF ¥ iow

with “what w = ; : the largest plant here in town and’ H What We lope an fevaln § detached infenenk | assigned to the third shift on piece | work. . There's where the rub comes

lin. I'm a machine operator, skilled,

WORLD AFFAIRS— : yet I can’t produce. The reason is

Optimistic View

must ready things for the first shift, By Henry ‘J. Taylor

and we draw one-half their pay because there are no parts for the third shift to run, and because we operate machines strange to us, at a basic rate of 77 cents per hour, when we could earn $1.40 if only we {had enough parts to run. I just : . WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—The wanted to ask if plant: management k “8 outlook for world recovery is much | throughout this area all follow the ’ | brighter than appears on the same pfocedure when hiring vet- © 7 G8: surface, in the opinion of Will |erans. It hardly seems fair to give ih BH. Clayten, new assistant secre- |us the worst hours with little chance 4 : tary of state. to make the same pay the others ¥ This optimistic remark was get. Or tell me, is this to be our made during: a pause while we !lot—the scraps others don't want? caught our breath, for Mr. It just doesn't seem right, we had Clayton is in the process of |it tough enough- without giving: us moving from the RFC building, ‘the “crummy” jobs when we come where he was surplus property |home. Seniofity? We had ours and administrator, to statelier ‘halls. won it in Hell. So what about deThe urge for experimentation | cent~hours for us? being what it is, he and I gave his desk a little | 'P. S. I'm quitting soon to look test by a concerted heave-ho, followed by a bilateral | for better hours—11:30 to 7:30 in the shove. la. m. “aint” funny! I can tell you that the new assistant secretary | Hn jas heavy equipment for a heavy job and if he «ARg WE FIT ENOUGH o y i Hangs onto it nobody this side of Ajax is going to TO MAKE ARMS?”

ush Mr..Clayton around. ; ' {By George Sheghan, Indianapolis Comes From Generalizing Too Much’ { I have made predictions, not. as

" “IT SEEMS to me some of the discouragement

letter™p blished therein; however,| .

| Drew Pearson has, over the radio, |

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{ for military service, then a

{enough to help make arms? {| There are many young fellows lying in shallow graves that were drafted into the army. If they had refused, prison-bound they would go. Myself, just 30 years old, phys-

fight for the great democracy. ” ” ” |“WHAT KIND OF A PLACE IS INDIANAPOLIS?" | By Mrs. H., Indianapolis ” { I wonder how many people were

{in the downtown restaurant last |week that I am writing about. I]

{hope the civilian who started fit | will read this. | A young fellow In uniform with | five service bars and a 5th air force |insignia ‘on his sleeve walked into a downtown restaurant with his girl. While eating, a young civilian made several insulting remarks to {him about the fellows overseas. {What kind of a place is Indian{apolis to permit this to go on?

“THAT IS THE IMPORTANT FACT”

By A. J. Schneider, 504 West dr., WoodPlace

ruff There has been much discussion of the OPA repudiation of the food ration stamps; but in my humble opinion most of the writers have missed the moral of the whole act.

When a. great London newspaper—the Economist — whose publisher is very close to the Harry Hopkins of the Churchill administration, -can make the world-wide assertion that the confidence of the world is shaken by the doubledealing and geceitfulness of the Washington inistration, it is a very serious indictment of the activities of the powers that be in Washington. But that is in regard to our treatment of the outside world. owever, when the personal

age of the President, appointed

| that if our

i valid, the benefits ically fit and morally fit, unfit to tive and subsequently “that same

rst makes the promise le do not use up all while they are be cumula-

by him;

their ration sta

agent repudiates that mise, without any interference by President, dent's own act. Just the latest ex-| ample of the dishonesty and “deceitfulness of the Washington Ad‘ministration about which. we’ heard | much discussion during the cam-| {paign but which so many refused to admit. That is the important fact. When our President and leaders, in the midst of a great war, become 80

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dissolute and dishonest that we can {no loriger “trust them, what are we {fighting this war for? That is the | $64 question—what are we fighting {this war for? | Of course, this point-of-view was | explored very copiously during the {campaign; but those “l-am-more-

rcw.cf friends | , These soldiers returning have | patriotic-than-you" pathetic souls but to a close circle of my friends.| go ont to their limit. And now they, Who were too cowardly to change

about rehabilitation,” he said, “comes from general- | A few months back, the 4-F's Were! ... home to fight a bigger battle horses in the middle of the stream,

izing too much. ‘Fake Europe, for example. There catching all the jeers of most of

|sack to health, and any person not

now have their privilege to pay

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is no Europe in an operational sense. The economic the public. I.had to laugh to my-|g, wing respect for them should be [for their cowardice. And, you will

problems and prospects are diversified beyond all self, I was a 4-F, but everyone average impressions. The first world war increased didn't know about it, just my draft Europe's nations from 25 to 35 and supplied 6800 board and myself. Four-F beeause miles of new boundaries to. defend, I had made a mistake in my life. __ “Viewed in terms of comprehensions, there -are |Yet I wrote to wall armed force dctually four Europes: (1) the economic, (2) the |heads, to our congressman, and Mr. social, (3) the political and (4) the military, Inter- |President himself, related as they are, -the economic Europe remains |big NO. Boy, oh boy, what a demoThe black spots for |Cratic nation, where all men are post-war economic recovery can have the effect of equal. blanketing the bright spots so that we do not see | The drafting of 4-F's into the

of the bright spots for post-war economic recovery, 10 Work in war plants, will not raise as they look to me on a one-by-one basis, outnumber the production power of America and outweigh the black spots. That is why I am |much. They were put in 4-F—unfit

But always, a

larrested, questioned, and ‘turned |

over to the army and shipped direct {to frontline battle. | ” o »

|“I HOPE MR. LUDLOW

{CONSIDERS HIS LETTER”

{ By Mrs. Christy, Indianapolis

In regard to T. 5th Gr. W. C. | Moyer’s letter, I wholly agree with

| him, and I know my hsuband who

if - they do not go|is overseas now would, too. I don't

Ba | believe we need peacetime compul-

{sory military training. I hope Mr | Ludlow considers his letter,

encouraged. | “There is more accumulated buying power in some places,” Mr, Clayton continued, "than seems generally realized. In cther places the outlook for’

Side Glances = By Galbraith

good crops, and the large harvests, are a source for rejoicing and indicate that at least in some areas the awful scourge of famine will not immediately cover all of Europe as it did after the last war,

“THIS DOES NOT mean that there are not now | ‘ : | and will not be severe shortages in many sections, | but my guess is that they will be more specific than |

general. . Further, there is more of a disposition—a | détermination—for. everyone to work together than | may appear on. the surtace.” | Mr. Clayton's long experience in the world's cotton | trade, thtoughout our country, Brazil, Egypt, India | and elsewhere, and his governmental responsibilities | since he came to wartime Washington apparefitly | enable him to take his new job. in stride. He +has | an easy way of saying “yes” or “no”. and a facility for.making his own views plain... When he is talking | he sticks to the subject until he is finished, and you get the idea that he is able to do so because he knows what he is talking about, “I suppose the problems in this new appointment of mime,” he said, “are something like the old French story of the bundle of fagots. They are unbreakable as a punch, but they are not impossible to break if

you take them one by one.”

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notice, the double cressers could not even wait for the official beginning of the new term to, rub in and gloat over their “victory. The continuance of the present administration in Washington was the best aid the enemies could hope for from our people. And they got it, n LJ ”

“] THOUGHT THIS WAS A DEMOCRACY”

By a Reader, Indianapolis { see in the paper where Paul V. Brown, superintendent of parks, is

to build an ice throne at Riverside park. I, for one, am willing that he do this, provided it will not use any extra gasoline, or deprive anyone from preserving their food next summer, or require any manpower that could be used to a greater advantage in winning the war, As I understand. it, the ice manufacturers make ice in the winter and store it for the summer. And that they don't always have enough help for that. Now I can't criticize too much for the simple reason that he might take a wheelbarrow or pushcart and haul the ice himself, I don't think he would think of asking anyone else to help him. As long as his

| government wants all of us to work

at the most essential things to win the war, I would like to suggest that #t be built on the state house 1 lawns, so we can all see it without driving to Riverside park. That would save a lot of gas. Anyway, I always thought this was a democracy and nothing should hold the title of king or queen.

DAILY THOUGHTS Then said the Lord unto Moses, bread from

“Behold, I will rain : heaven for you; and the people

||. shall go out and gather a certain

rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in law, or no.—Exodus 16:4.

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it becomes the Presi-?

trying to procure 100 tons of ice|

POLITICAL SCENE Soul-Searching By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, -Jan. 13—Th Republican party is going through a period of soul-searching and self-analysis characteristic of political party that has suffered another defeat. en “ The thinking out Joud'is hear in various: quarters, among members of congress here, members of the nafional committee, and party workers, all of whom have the Sia ENoses. Sore blame the pitcher —the candidate. Some blame the manager—the national chairman. or other of the players. B. Bodie Mane o8 Governor Dewey is the victim of th or stove league, with the querulous al in he take my advice?”, the “Why didn't he do this instead of that?” from which Alf M. Landon and the la Wendell Willkie also suffered.

Meeting Here May Bring Showdown

IT WILL ALL come to a head at the meetin of the national committees at Indianapolis Jan, 22 Judge from the letters to party leaders, may be a frank session. | Herbert Brownell, national chairman, who was hand-picked by Governor Dewey to run his presi dential campaign, may find himself on a hot spot Reports come in of ‘a revolt brewing about” hi particularly from the midwest sector. His continuance in. the job may be threatened. One ‘round-about means of ousting him that is being discussed by some of the discontented is ta insist that the committee have a permanent paid chairman on the job, day in and day out. Mr, Brownell. is known to oppose the idea. If the committee then! voted for this arrangement, which has some support, that would eliminate him. = There is some rumbling against the’ continuance of Mr, Brownell on the ground that he is too closely! associated with Governor Dewey. It has been a rule} that the chairman should not be identified with a prospective candidate. It is usually taken for granted that the New York governor, if re-elected, will be a candidate in 1948. oe” !

These Are the Usual Complaints

IN THE ELECTION post-mortems, there is heard as was the case with Mr. Willkie—that Goverrox Dewey paid too little attention to members of congress in formulating issues for the‘ campaign They are a sensitive lot. There is also the complain from some quarters that the party is dominated ; much by the East, that it has too much the New| York flavor, that the Dewey coterie is a ‘mite effete, mot down-to-earth enough for the Middl West, and also, incidentally, not sufficiently anti« New Deal. : These are usual complaints, It is never wise tg predict that Republican “revolts” are going to pan out as advertised, particularly in the national coms] mittee, for those gentlemen are practical fellow and will resort to all sorts of compromises to avoid a nasty quarrel. : % But the grumbling is going on, and accompa it there is some hard thinking among the more enlightened party leaders about the party's futur course, and its responsibility in these times.

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IN WASHINGTON—

Byrd's Return By Roger W. Stuart

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—The self-imposed silence which has surrounded the activities of Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd since the war began was broken | today. i

meritorious conduct” while in command of a special §

navy “mij laughing]

he has been active in both the European and Pacific theaters. The secret work. which has kept him busy is rated by the President and the navy as~‘ou standing” and of “great value to the government.” |

Just Back From Belgium oo

HALE AND HEARTY-his weight of 155 is same as when he played football at the naval academy, many, years ago—the admiral, at 56, was in excellen spirits. Heiwas, he sald, enjoying a breather in Wash ington before returning to the Pacific to serve wi Adm, Nimitz. He is just back from Belgium, where he studied the tactical support of ground -troops by aviation The hero of polar explorations made only one talk during his stay in Europe. This was given to Amer= ican troops just before the recent German offensive. “1 told those soldiers,” he said, “that this war is &

phatically repeat.that now.” a Many people, the admiral said with a smile, ap=

parently were afraid he'd been forgotten in the Ante arctic since the start of the war. “In fact,” he added,

insisting that I be brought pack, from ‘that bes country’ and given a job in the war,”

Exploration Still Is Main Interest

EXPLORATION, the famed admiral let it known, still is his abiding interest. But he prefe to say nothing now about any plans he may have mind for after the war. : “rve got my hands full, | achieving victory in this struggle. concentrate on for the present.” | Modestly, the gray-haired, youthful-looking he more about what his son an sons of Senator Harry Byrd © to discussing his o

as we all have, wit That's enough

|goreferred to talk nephews, and the Virginia, are doing in the war, experiences. "Richard Jr. duty in the Pacific, as is Sena also a lieutenant (aviation). Richard and Beverley, Senator Byrd's other. sons, are respectively, an arm sergeant in. France and a paratrooper. The latter was wounded on D-day but is about to re-enter active service, : Adm. Byrd's wife, the former Marie Ames, and his three daughters are in Boston, the family home,

So They Say -

I WOULD not like to associate myself with & partly artificial policy of dismembermen of Germany, | but the deceiving experience of Versailles ought not to be repeated... This time military disarmament must be accompanied by economic disarihament.—Belgian| Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak! i

kriockout, it simply medns that we have let ourf men down and set the stage for another war—a war their children will* have to wage.—Navy Undersecretary, Ralph A. Band, ee :

THE ALLIES have once more fixed over-optimistic victory dates. We know that they are doomed to disappointment. Such disappointments are likely to | increase-the already widespread war weariness in the

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Possessor of a new medal to add to his extensive | collection—the legion of merit, presented to him yes terday by President Roosevelt for “exceptionally | ssion . in the Pacific—the famed explorer & said he wasn't “buried at the South pole °

all that time, as some folks thought.” : |] On the contraty, as the award citation disclosed, 3

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