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FIVE YEARS FOR PRIVATE WEBER

REFLECTIONS —

Woman of Spirit

By Harry Hansen

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ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ ‘President Editor ° Business Manager

“(A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER)

Tiday, February 16, 1945

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her convictions; uality. Miss Ferber also pays reing reviews of ‘her books and

laughter ai their expense. Recently she spoke

at the Book and Author luncheon at the Astor and

Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

views of “Great Son.” This novel has had a very mixed reception. Miss Ferber has enjoyed the reviews, most of which, she said, missed the point. She quoted from several reviews—a favorable one from the Boston Post and an unfavordble ane. frem the New York. Sufi; another

MANUAL'S ANNIVERSARY HEN Manual Training high school was constructed 50 | years ago, it was an imposing building—nothing more, | Its-modern plant was one of the finest in the country, but | co i" from the Herald Tribune and one less fav=

: A > oF wan | orable from the. New York Times. She wondered 1 —only a site where the young men | ora x ‘ it was not yet a school—only | why the reviewers didn't get her point that the

and women of Indianapolis might come to learn to use their | young meh of. today are fighting on new frontiers,

hands and their heads - | 1iké the pioneers who dared the wilderness 100 years ands . : “Today that fine .new building of 50 years ago iS | ¢ cir way of living. These are the great sons. Most cramped and outmoded. Yet its weathered, ivy-covered | of the reviewers, said Miss Ferber, missed the point bricks represent a school that is great in gvery sense of | and reviewed the scenery, of which there is plenty. the word. It 18 a school now, as it was not 50 years ago, | Reviewers Are Professionals because it has been a part of thousands of lives, because | 1 yAPPEN not only:to be a reviewer but a reader through the decades it has shaped character, because it | of reviews: I enjoy the play of readers’ minds over

. en hur 337 nd ins riration. | a book and get a great kick out of divergent opinions, has freely given opportunity and guidance a d I however mistaken. “Some reviews are biased, some

Located both symbolically and literally at the fork in the | 5 political in tone; some dre ‘plainly inadequate,

‘3 ; re carri ut ou 0ss-secti eviews an author will roads, it has sent out sons and daughters who have carried | but ot t of a cross-section of reviews get a pretty accurate idea of where his novel stands.

its influence to all parts of the city and the nation. PR re oils themicives and have .The years have made Manual Training high school— | pride of workmanship. So when an author complains the vears in which the traditions have grown-about it like that many reviewers didn’t get the pois, 1 wopder the ivy. ‘Each student who passed through its halls has | Viger pe Se a bjame Re a left something of himself there and has taken even MOTe | that they didn't get it because Miss Ferber didn't away. Every teacher has left a mark not only on the | make it the mainspring of her Sry. Sie talked hool. ‘but oliant lives and developing minds—and | about it and around it, but to convince reagers you school, but -on ph ES : t | have to do more than that o vho 8 sav where that influence may stop? ~ | There is also evidence that someone who had the who shall say 1 88 « | fortunes of Miss Ferber's book at’ heart became apA : rick : | prehensive before publication that the theme of THESE ARE the things that Manual Training high | “Great Son” might be missed. Therefore the house of school is celebrating as it observes its 50th anniversary this | poubleday, Doran sent reviewers a letter saying week-end. ~ During 50 years, Manual has thrown a long Sogn HEve Soe at is rom 5 many Ss ow 4 > . A te ta 3: about Edna Ferber's new — at is it about?” shadow across the life of Indianapolis. On this birthday » ILS Then followed a long paragraph directly quoting iendships reach far back ‘through the | Miss Ferber. Here, then, was advance notice of what

| ago, and that they are challenging us to take stock

memories and its fr

years. ; . aps . | have missed it? No wonder Miss Ferber is puzzled. This is a particularly significant ‘anniversary, too, | The answer ‘is simple: we do not review an aucoming as it does when.pMns have been announced for a | thors intentions. We review performance. Thank you.

new building in‘another location. In a sense, Manual itself | Kathleen Missed Something

is about to graduate. The old building that has meant so much to those who studied there soon will join their memories of the past. But the things that the school has stood for will live on; its traditions will be a part of an even greater Manual. -

WORLD AFFAIRS—

ROME, Feb. 16—The Vatican displeased with the results of >. Crimea: conference. Vatican sources dp not say this itright. Nor does the Vatican swspaper, Osservatore Romano, yme out editorially in blunt critism of the decisions reached at ‘alta. But, to those acquainted ith the ways of the church and ersed in reading between the “nes, it is evident that the Vati-

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ing notice of her reviews and talking back. Practically every author reads his reviews and comforts himself with the most favorable ones, but some profess not. to. You'd be surprised if I told you the name of a first-rank author who used to say he never read a review and then sent me clippings of favor- ‘ | able reviews from out-of-town papers anonymously. THE SAN FRAN CISCO DELEGATION { The other day. 1 was assured by a publisher that fe : . ‘ _ a Miss Kathleen Winsor has not read any of the rei ; isely cre- | ) HE President has acted wisely in naming former Se views of her novel “Forever Amber.” This in spite oftarv of State Hull and members of congress on the the fact that she is appearing all over the country : : . on book programs and inviting publicity. American delegation to the San Francisco conference of | 4 ticany a calamity the united nations. Americans have high hopes for the ed as Za Sony all tese wiseeracks . . : out her book get under her. skin?” conference, and these appointments have given them a lift. “Yes, of course they do,” replied. our informant; Mr. Hull is the elder statesman of our diplomacy. It is | “she is a very sensitive person.” . : ha ecovered “from his leng illness I' am? a” little skeptical about her attitude toward good news that he J as recovere : 2 : | reviews, since most of the digs have appeared in reenough to plan on this return to national service. His eX- views But if the lady hasn't read them she not gnly perience and his reputation, both in this country and abroad, foesnt know the talk ha fe own, but she has missed - . 3 : Seagal IX some feverish prayers-for her sou] will be of great value to the conference. * / & - Congressional representation is important. The President is conscious of Woodrow Wilson's «costly error.in failing to give the senate sufficient part in the Paris’ peace" V ie vo . negotiations, and is anxious to avoid a repetition. So hels atican fa chon providing for congressional delegates to the Inter-Ameri- ; ve in Mexi ity this month, and also to the : : d can conference, in Me ico -City By Richar Mowrer San Franciseo meeting. : : ; : Of course the members of congress are .chosen from both parties. In addition to the Democratic committee chairmen, Senator Connally and Rep. Bloom, the Republican spokesman, Senator Vandenberg, and Rep. Eaton, were § named. Whether Cmdr. Stassen can or cannot represent the Republicans seems unimportant in view of the others chosen, and the fact that he is an able person. The fact that the two parties worked so closely together during the Dumbarton Oaks conference, and that’ Senator Vandenberg has since carried forward the plan for : : : . -ca eS not re 1 ‘es international co-operation in a manner praised by both , .. = Tain ot regard the result .of parties, gives hope that the San Francisco delegation will] The that the Osservalore has come io be not only of excellent caliber but united on. American hinting at the Vatican's reaction to the “Big Three policy : Confab,” is a suggestion in an article ‘reviewing the fips ‘alta’ decision, that American public opinion would

Y ; age preferred to have the whole question of Poland's { future boundaries settled at the peace conference.

Says Problem Could Have Been Postponed

THE - ARTICLE tells its readers that, ‘whereas, Curzon line will define. Poland's future eastern frontiers, territorial compensations in the north and only be decided at It adds that, “according to” American public”opinion.” “-the whole - problem could have been postponed for the peace eonference,

THE case of Pvt. Henry Weber is making the army's

court-martial system look pretty absurd, it seems to us.

the

Pvt. Weber, a member of the Socialist Labor party, ... ...

believes it's wrong to kill, even in war. His objection to

fighting seems to be based on political rather than reAs a political power the Vatican seems at present to be on the defensive and its position vis-a-vis the war has been the butt of Russian barbs. This week Catholic paper II ‘hict 1g to students of Vati¢an affairs; is 1 accurate barometer of Vatican sentiments, minced no w

ligious grounds, and so he was drafted. He refused to drill with a rifle, although he said. he was willing to serve in a

non-combat assignment. Two weeks ago a court-martial at = the Camp Roberts, Cal., sentenced him to be hanged for dis- % obeying his officers. . That caused protests in congress, and Senator Wheeler demanded an investigation. The court-martial reduced the death penalty to life imprisonment, Then a review board reduced that to 20 years.’ And row, on.recemmendation of Maj. Gen. Myron C. Cramer, judge advocate general of the army, that also has been reduced, to five years, “to equilize the sentence in accordance with war department policy.” It isn't likely®hat Pvt. Weber would have been hanged, even-if there had been no protests in congress, since courtmartial death verdicts—except for murder, rape, mutiny, desertion or acting as an enemy spy in time of war—must be reviewed by many authorities including the President. But if war department policy regards five years as appropriate punishment for Pvt. Weber's crime, what was the sense of allowing a court-martial to sentence him to death | in the first place? : Maybe the idea was to scare other soldiers who might wisi poli Nr ra oor bé tempted to'commit the same crime, but even that purpose | in the war, had tried to save Mussolini and prevent can't be served very effectively by a threat of punishment | the . democratization of Italy, that the Vatican's

; i : : | anti-Soviet campaign on the Polish question was 80 Sifrome. Tons it has to be scaled down as fast as this | being carried on by Catholic press in ‘England and een. America-and that the Vatican's policy in Italy was - taken as a precedent for expanding it to Germany, Austria and farthér east over Hungary and Poland.”

accordir

{ in Rome toward Soviet Russia. In an article entitled “The Pope the War"

the Soviets, and the paper accused Soviet Russia of having brought on the .present war by signing the aggression pact with Germany in August, 1939 “Moscow favored the war and found itself by chance on the side of justice simply because at a given time it was attacked (by Germany)” it said “The Valmy of the new Europe is not Stalingrad but London,” the paper added “It is well not to forget this.”

Ideological Spheres of Influence

REFERRING TO the Big Three. cofiference, the editorial stated:

of the meeting of the ‘three’ to realize that Stalin's +Russia considers that regions of Central and Eastern

but its ideological ones as well. - Early this month the Soviet army’ organ, Red

I TO BE SNEEZED AT YORK store advertises handkerchiefs frome $25 That puts them right up in the unprocurable

Austria, Hungary and Poland. What does this mean?

| struggle does not frighten her,” - - 33 : "Copyright, 1845, by The Indianapolis Times. and be yg The Chicégo. Daly 5 Tne. . a

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'_____EDNA FERBER is a woman of spirit; when she has something to say she expresses. herself in direct statements that may be |. the result of her early newspaper training. When she writes .a povel she makes it square with thus her books have the stamp of her individ- |

viewers the compliment of read-

es « RILEY 5551 ; sometimes indulging iy gales of

shared with the audience her reaction to the re- |

we were supposed to find in the novel. How could we |

AS I INTIMATED, I respect Miss Ferber for tak- t

This is |

the peace conference. |

Side Glances=By Galbraith

Quotidiano, |

rds in stating the position of Catholic circles |

non- |

“It is. not necessary to await the practical results |

Furope not only its political spheres of influence

«| For 20- centuries the church -has fought, and the-

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

Forum

“you GOT IT FROM A PROUD HOOSIER” By WO9TG, Franklin In your columns of Feb. 1, Raymond E. McOrmand Jr, Connecticut man, admits ignorance {about the origin of our nickname, | i “Hoosier,” and jumps at wrong conand on all we of native “Hoose” was improperly dehim, error.

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clusion, birth. fined by so- his conclusions were in Must have been reading Zane Grey. True, cattle won't graze where | sheep are, and the old cattle- | men of the West didn't Hke sheep{herders near them. While Wis- | consin is known for its dairy prod- | ucts, there is quite a difference, Junior, in meat and milk cattle, and out here we don't milk sheep, either. So, my boy. just cock an ear and {we'll tell the origin of “Hoosier.” { Many generations ago my ancesters {made the trek through the Vir- { zinias, the ® Carolinas, Tennesseee and Kentucky. ‘Daniel Boone and some-otherd- down. thereon -wildery" ness road ran my folks out of there, because their names had a Mac at the front of it. Scotch was not then what White Horse is-now. but {somehow them folks down .there {didn't want to have Scotch mixed {in their mountain dewr |... My dncesters weren't web-footed, tand they couldn't live in the | swamps, so they thrived in the hills {of southern Indiana, and many {children were born to them. -Wil{liam became a favorite name of [the male babies and they grew up to be hill-billies. : | All was well till one summer a flock of New Jersey mosquitoes made a flight this far inland, and, no doubt, down over Connecticut they picked up a Yankee, ate him up, {and the skeeters got sick after they arrived here in the swamps. This | Yankee probably had tick fever and the insects developed malaria, Fwhich-was-transmitted-to-the-hill« billies who were “bitten by the mos- | quitoes. The likely reason this man hall tick fever, Connecticut was full {of ticks—watches and clocks made, the state famous | The first ack-ack crew a

was

Il Quotidiano commented that the Red Star wants | . to exclude . the Vatican “policy” from . Germany,

i someone,

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group of volunteer, expert native riffemen who shot thousands’ of these Joisey skeeters on the wing. Indian tribes came to the settlement to ascertain cause of commotion, frightening the kids, and when the elders succumbed to chills and ague and would come in trembling

as the. children thought, from fear’

—and fear was contagious even then—the kids would run for cover under the bed from where they would.-stick--out their: little heads and in tremulous voices ask, “Who's ‘ere ?”

It got to be such a habit, that |

long afterward, neighboring colocalled these little: ones the “Who's ‘eres” and the name stuck, but some New England schoolmaster, no doubt from Connecticut, changed the spelling to “Hoosier,” probably being unable to spell and punctuate the colloquialism So, Junior, out of the mouths of babes came our beloved nickname. The colonists in Indiana finally drained the swamps, the water ran down

nists

the Ohio and backed all the way |

up and when the Indians found- it, they called . it Mississippi, which might mean “Misplaced Water,” ac-

reording to your-sheep-story--logic.

You sound to me like a dad-blamed

radio amateur who don't care a

continental about the subject matter, but just wanted a rise out; of and you got it from a

proud. Hoosier. 73 from TG.

1 L | I would like to edge in a few]

{trolley riding. At present I'm just

to Wisconsin, and Minnesota, |

: . 2-16

i Hoke

"Sh! Not so loud, dear! He doesn't want to borrow anything this + time-he just wants to know if you couldn't coms ‘over and fix. :

our toaster!”

“EVERYONE HAS EQUAL RIGHTS”

By A Serviceman, Brookhaven Detachment, Brookhaven, Miss.

words on the argument on bus and]

an ex-resident so 1 may be sticking | my neck out. I'm due to get a furlough the last of this month. I'm] just wondering if I should come! home and take up a little space on! the transportation. system. off course my wife will be with me if I do and she, too, will take up a little space. I'm surprised that so far no one] has made any cracks about the] number of servicemen who have to! {ride busses and trolleys to find a | bit of recreation. A big percentage | tof them go to town every night.! Maybe you people think they should sit around camp and twiddle their | thumbs. 1 reckon Indianapolis is still in a free country and everyone | has equal rights. If that is so, then anyone who has the fare can ride! when they choose. The argument | in question is about the silliest I've| seen so. far. Let's break it up and find something about.

“THIS QUESTION MUST BE SETTLED” By Voice In The Crowd, Indianapolis } If Mrs. hop, skip and a Jump election Haggerty can be enlightened on| the plan for a skip election in In- | diana, this is for that purpose. Thinking people who believe that local conditions can best be hahdled by local government, and who have not yet submitted to the idea of an| all powerful federal government | that rules without regard to local] conditions desire the election for | our state. officials - to be removed from the issues of a national elec- | tion =

¥ 2 % |

| It has been proven several times | {that in the fervor of a national] election, people lose sight of local! issues, and anyone who has any idea of what is going on should wel- |

come the separation of state afd]

national elections. Mrs, Haggerty's 1944 plan of not | to have a national election was something entirely different. The nation is better off and the world is better off that they saw this great ination abiding by its institutions. | We had an election; 25 million voted | {the way Mrs. Haggerty wanted them | to and 22 million voted against Mrs. Haggerty. So what! Mrs. Haggerty? The nation took the national elec- | tion in its stride, and there has-not been a single evidence in these columns that the 22 million against lare not standing shoulder to shoul--der with the 25 million for and | fighting the war with equal fidelity. Why rake muck when there is so | much snow to shovel? About the only important issue

By Thomas L

| Britain, Russia and the United States.

worth while fo argue

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POLITICAL SCENE—-

Open

Stokes

WASHINGTON Feb. 16.=, There are encouraging signs that henceforth our diplomaey is fo be : more open and, as regards relations with our major allies—Great : Britain and Russia—better = co= ordinated. ’ It is none too early. Although Woodrow . Wilson's | ideal of “open covenants, openly ' arrived at,” Which he never achieved, is perhaps still beyond realization, a number of develop= ments connected with the Crimea conference indicate" progress in that direction,

Communique Was Full and Explicit

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT and his advisers seem | finally to have been impressed with the ceaseless. came | paign in the newspapers and in congress for more information on important international matters, tor | bringing congress into closer touch with diplomatie | negotiations, and fer more consultation with our allies | about the necessarily swift and unpredictable sequence | § of events in liberated countries. i The communique issued by the Crimea conference was full, detailed and as explicit perhaps as was possi= | ble on most issues treated there. For this helpful dee! parture from the three previous Big Three confere! ences, which might almost as ‘well have been held on! the moon, newspapermen here, are giving credit to, Steve Early, the Ptesident’s press secretary, himself a § veteran newspaperman, who was on hand to advise in 1 its preparation, : Outside of having American newspapermen, theme selves, on the spot, which Mr. Roosevelt vetoed, this was the next best alternative. Also it can be said] that there will be further direct reporting, by Amer« jcan correspondents, in relation to the Crimea cone ference and its aftermath.

Byrnes Supplies Further Information

FOR ANOTHER THING, James F. Byrnes, warl§ mobilizatfon director, who sat in the conference, held

a lengthy press conference promptly upon his return § to Washington to enlarge on the formal ‘announces : nient.- This helped to satisfy the desire of American newspapermen to get such additional information from American officials without having®to wait, as@ previously; for a report to the house of commons by® Winston Churchill. “Mr. Roosevelt undoubtedly is-get« ting a little sensitive about the Washington gag tha Mr. Churchill “sgoops” him, whith is all to the good. The President, himself, is expected to make a$ report either to congress or to congressional leaders, Perhaps nothing nas been so satisfying to cone : gress, and probably in the long run more helpful tq : the President, than -the announcement that Repub-$ lican senate and house leaders on foreign affairs areg to be included in the American delegation to th united nations conference in San Francisco, April 2 to complete the plan for an international organizatio The President obviously is trying to avoid the mise take of Woodrow Wilson in refusing to take Repub-g lican senate leaders with him to the Paris peace con-i ference. Some have gone so far as to say that might have saved the League of Nations, A

Quarterly Meetings Are Important

IMPORTANT IN co-ordinating policy of the Bi Three and 4n avoiding misunderstandings was the de cision of the Crimea conference providing for quar terly meetings of ‘the foreign secretaries of Grea

(FETTER TYTN TPO Teo

These meetings of Messrs. Eden, Molotov and Stet tinius should fill the lack hitherto of machinery fo interim consultation among the Big Three, graph ically demonstrated a few weeks back when the’ allie got all crossed up over flare-ups in liberated coun tries—Italy, Greece, Belgium and Poland, Hereafter, the three foreign secretaries will try ta reach a common decision on policy in such cases—and thére will be more of them certainly, It is reported here that a sort of permanent secretariat probably} will bé set up to function between the regular quar terly ‘meetings.

IN WASHINGTON—,

Approaches | Lucey

Two App By Charles T.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Tw top Republican leaders, Gover nor Dewey of New York and Sena. tor Taft of Ohio, are proposin different approaches to a proble with which last yedr's G. O. P. platform was concerned—economi discrimination because of race creed or color. Senator. Taft was chairman 0 the resolutions committee of th Republican national - conventio which approved a platform favors ing a permanent fair employment practices commis= sfon. Mr. Dewey ran on that platform. Governor. Dewey's approach, reflected in .a bil proposed in the New- York legislature as the resul of #- study made by -a-special.commission he:appointed is for compulsory action when recessary to stop suc job discrimination. Senator Taft, ina bill he has jus introduced, favors the voluntary approach.

Punishable by Fines or Jail Sentences

THE BILL proposed in Albany would make di criminatory practices misdemeanors, punishable b fines of up to $500 or jail terms of up to.one year o both. But before compulsion would be used, the pro posed ‘state commission to handle problems of dis crimination would try to settle complaints by concilia tion. : The report of the investigating commission name by Governor Dewey, headed by Irving M. Ives, ma jority leader of the New York assembly, contemplate that the permanent state commission, by study an recommendation, would “provide leadership in com bating and eliminating prejudice and discriminatio in other situations.” The investigating group also contemplated “th organizing throughout the state of local group

for the moment is whether we

should devote most of our thought

and community councils which shall study discrims ination in all its forms and, through better under

now to ‘who gets a streetcar seat, | standing of the problems emerging locally, ma and who shops for what and when, | work effectively toward création of harmony.”

or if we should give a little (nore

thought to those young men who

Governor Dewey, in his annual message in ad-

| | vance of the Ives commission's report, said he coul

have left their homes, and families| not “too strongly emphasize either the importance o and opportunities to go abroad t0| the necessity for considered action on the recom

dig foxholes and sleep in their |

| frozen clothing. < This question must be settled by | the poor war worker who takes it | easy for a dollar plus and the poor mothers who Have to take the kids along. How can we have world peace without more streetcars.

' DAILY THOUGHTS

But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my .persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be greatly ashamed; for they chall not prosper; ‘their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.—Jeremiah 20:11. 4

OUR. peace must pe a peace of victors, not of the vanquished. —|

| religious feeling than any other method. Progress

mendations of that commission.” He called the need for action imperative- and urged that New York tak the lead in “the handling of this vital issue.”

Would Establish Permanent Commission

SENATOR TAFT would establish a permanent fair} employment practices commission to study discrime ination and means of ending it, disseminate reports on the subject, confer with employers and unions in formulating and executing policies to eliminate .dis= crimination, receive and investigate complaints and make recommendatons as to such elimination. T% would Have power to require appearance of witnesses and’ submission of evidence, but not to issue orders. In Senator Taft's view, compulsory federal legislation—and this presumably would apply to the New York proposals—would creaté more bad racial ‘and

against discrimination must be made gradually and -by voluntary co-operation and education with the en-. couragement ot a federal board, and “not by inviting}

| trol even of the FEPC itself”

thousands of lawsuits which will get beyond the con- & -

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