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this generation the name of Lloyd George was.-some-] thing out of the history books, or perhaps it represented |” an 80-vear-old man who married his secretary. But to | “ those who fought the first world war, he was a hero. | ' What Churchill has done in lifting and leading a | united Britain, Lloyd -George did in 1916 and on to victory. In that war there was a phrase for it—Britain “Sees It | Through.” The prime minister then, as now, the | symbol of that spirit which is the pride of Britain's friends and the envy of her enemies. But his wisdom at the Paris peace conference, after, was not equal to his wartime leadership Americans found his career particularly interesting because it was poverty-to-power. The orphan of a humble teacher, he picked up a little law and his oratory put him in the house of commons. There he staved 54 years until, last New Year's eve, he received an earldom, He is dead at 82. We are glad the statesman, contributed so much to earlier British reforms and helped gave Britain in the last war, lived to see the dawning rays of 1945 victory.

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NO WHITEWASH | F THE house follows the lead of its rules committee and | ducks a broad inquiry into operation of the veterans | administration it will be taking on a heavy responsibility. | The rules committee, which is a sort of traffic manager, | gide-tracked the Philbin resolution for a wide investigation | of the agency, and instead recommended the narrow and | mild inquiry proposed by Rep. Rankin. Mr. Philbin says | he wants to investigate reports that wounded veterans are | “being treated by third-rate .doctors, using: ‘outmoded | methods.” Mr. Rankin would investigate the “efficiency” of the veterans administration. The kind of investigation Mr. Rankin would conduct was tipped off when he announced, in advance, that “Gen. | Hines (veterans adriinistrator) is doing a splendid job | under difficult conditions.” Moreover, Mr. Rankin indicated before the house rules | committee that he was mare interested in investigating | those who were criticizing the veterans administration than |

he was in examining the administration itself., . FA a x » =

“ WELL, IF Gen. Hines is doing such a splendid job, why head off a real inquiry? Fending off an investigation always raises the smoke that makes people suspect the presence of fire,

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Congress owes it to “the thousands of veterans whose | affairs are being handled by the veterans administration to |

let the country take a look at it, and the broader the look, | the better. | If the house refuses to permit a real investigation then it must accept, together with the veterans administration, responsibility for whatever conditions exist in hospitals | operated by the agency. That might turn out to be a heavy load.

If things are as bad as Rep. Philbin charges; they won't | por

‘stay covered long. Such conditions nev er do. The word gets around. And the public is not likely to be mild tempered if conditions are anything like as bad as Mr. Philbin charges. The public is deeply concerned about its war heroes. 1f the house does favor the Rankin inquiry we can suggest a simpler way than holding hearings and calling witnesses. Just hand Mr*Rankin a whitewash brush.

GOOD ADVICE

HE senate’'s Mead committee has given the govern- | ment good advice about the disposal of surplus properties. It criticized the disposal organization as having a surplus of confusion. The government is always well Stocked | with that. Surpluses- have accumulated without regard to deterioration, the committee found. We have heard that story too often, The treasury recently disposed of some bolo gcabbards from world war 1. The scabbards probably didn’t | deteriorate a great deal in those 25 years; but they certainly accumulated a long time. The committee recommended unifprm rules for disposal of surpluses, care in choosing personnel, wide publicity, open sales and a single information center. More than a year ago the Baruch-Hancock report | recommended :’ “The business of all the surplus war prop- | erty disposal agencies should be conducted in goldfish howl.” The Mead committee reiterates that. The surplus property board ,can't complain about a dearth of good advice. And the public will measure the board's performance by the standards suggested by the | Baruch-Hancock report and the Mead committee.

CHILD LABOR DANGERS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has sai id {15

individuals examined for selecfive service might well be termed illiterate.” About 40 per cent of .all registrants lacked more than eighth grade schooling. A senate com- | mittee recently reported 40 per cent of more than 8,000,000 | ‘men between ages of 18 and 37 were called physically defective by selective service. Attorney General Biddle says the justice department expects an increase in crime after the war. Now let's look at some statements made hy the department of labor: Almost’ 3, 000,000 boys and girls 14 through 17 are employed at full or part time; one of every five boys and girls 14 and 15 is working in this third year of the war, compared to one of eight in the second war year; high school enrollment dropped 14 per cent between 1940 and 1948; migration of boys and girls to war industry centers is aggravating the problems of wandering youth, ‘Aware of the potential perils behind these two groups of facts, the U. S. children’s bureau is urging a nationwide endeavor to eliminate child labor immediately after the t seems to us that the bureau’ s : Dn is one step

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Peace Prize

CONTESTS have come a long way "since the days when the back pages of the Sunday-school papers were dedicated to advertisements urging-you 1o ‘find all the faces in the picture and win a pony. ‘That was kindergarten stuff, and are in the post-graduate stage. > - There are big

today contests

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Index of American Popular Opinion IF ALL the entries agree on the major. points at our delegates will have a reliable index of American popular opinion and desires. After listen- | ing. to a few free-for-all discussions of the peace set- | tlement on the street cars and in other forums, however, we doubt if there's any danger of any ing with anyone else on anything. There's another potht about the contest that to be mentioned. Entries must not exceed 1000 ang if you can draft a plausible peace treaty | those limits, a $2500 prize will be little enough. We k For a thousand words (counting

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. WOR A AFFAIRS —

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At Odds Over 'Straits Question’ BUT, DURING 3 reminded Turk in Europe and these changes counting. For upward of 200 years Rus: and Turk to mention Britain, France and the rest of Europe— have heen periodically at odds ov Sevéral wars have .been’ fought Dardanelle Russia -has for from the Black sea to the of the Mediterranean, in time of war peace, and new she aims to get it. Washington's interest in the matter is only keen than London's, The future peace of the world is involved. England and France fought Russia over this and it ‘was largely to. put a stop to the iser's Berlin-to-Bagdad aspirations that Br tered the first world war, The British empire is still sp: the h globe. The line through the Mediterranean and more so thar ever since the pla Turkey, . astride the Dard middle of that line. Obviously. any than Britain which supersedes itself aver Near East. will be in a position British life-line more or less at will, In line with the legendary

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Invincible By Thomas L. Stokes

LE HAVRE France, March 27.— Ab this now teeming port at the mouth of the Seine and at Rouen, 30 miles up the Seine, you get the terrific impact of America's war machine, its strong young men and the products of its factories and fields. America moves through here, the best of her, In the restoration and utilization of these two ports and in the goods of all sorts that are unloaded day after day, night after night, there is the pulse of her mighty industrial machine, You can almost feel the heart of America beat here, as it pumps its blood of men and munitions to the front lines 300 miles alead. It is inexorable and so is the casual young American soldier on duty at the dock who was bawled out by the officer escorting me because he wore his sweater on the outside of his blouse, which is strictly non-military. ;

What a Free People Can Do THE YOUNG American soldler is casual and yet at the front lines he is invincible, something even our own military men, particularly the West Pointers, find hard to understand. It is unfathomable to the peoples of Europe, both allies and enemies. Yet when you see what our people are doing here, regular army officers and troops. trained in the business «of supplying war and civilians who were not so trained at all before they got into the army, then you no matter how casual they seem. : They can organize to fight“and they can fight,

| much as they dislike it.

You get an. idea of what the army service forces and all its comporients, its jacks of all trades were up against when they moved into these ports behird the armies by looking ‘at the acres of hlasted, holicw

buildings, the piles of debris, thé great vacant spaces

{ right in the center of these two cities.

| blasted.

This the allied bombers did. They uprooted twothirds of Le Havre in two hours late one April afternoon, and all along the Seine at Rouen where the ships must come and go, a path was razed and bridees This’ made a hard place in which to be#ln

| | work.

ou sa oath (Times- readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious can, troversies excluded. Because of the volume received, lefters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no sway implies agreement withthose opinions by -The Times: The + Times assumes..no responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot safer corresponden

Hoosier Forum

Are we worthy tq welcome them | home—those that are -fighting for |

safety-and future security? Do we | have to fail our soldiers, sons; bhe- | tray them, their dreams and plans? | Ve will unless we remember that | men do not “live by, . nor die for!

Weé have made ‘fine. post-war plans. But-we have failed one very important consideration. That is to make America and ourselves a | better people. Without this we are not worthy to welcome them home. Only by purging our national life id LASTING PEACE {of greed. materialism and corruption | IQ can we justify ourselves before grit N: RECOMPENSE us returning heroes. 3. sc Zwicky, 3p N. Hlinois St. ® Th ; Jhe war hiniEurope seems to be Are we Seeing to it that they shall | rearing ‘thé end if no German come back to a whole and Whole= | jcounteratt tack is forthcoming with!

sonte land, to a land spiritually | feansed. and ‘a land that is a rea- in’ the—mext few days. The lack of and

fa of the land they strategic reserves air power makes such an event well

csi mile dream ot of the one they

themselves defending. Or

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nigh impossible.

{ going to let them return to the old |

| selfishness | slap politician, of | is now |ru

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Turkey and |

r will of Peter the Great, | the Russian-czar-in-1863-set-about-taking the Balkans | | He failed because Britain | Today .

Marshal Stalin is in complete control of’ Romania,

Bulgaria and Yigos lavia and ‘if Greece is momentarily

outside the Soviet sphere it is because of the marshal’s |

consent, Now, at last,

comes the turn of Turkey and the | Dardanelles. It may be, of course, that the Big Three |

discussed the matter at Yalta—or perhaps Stalin and:

Churchill did. But if so, nothing seems to be known of it here. Between now and San Francisco, however, the world may hear more,

To The Point—

* Early to bed and early to rise may be okay, but look at the owl—he sustains his Tepiitaiion for wisdom, | remains ih hed all day.’

When the wehrmacht throws rogant labor | We our opportunity the |Duild good will, coupled with stern {justice; is at hand. In the American zone of occupation, the AMG establish just conditions Civilian population and thus|

cupidity, the swine and | up

the ar sponge, the. heartless ithless business rival. - Té return ssured job, no daily quart of | 6 Kesufanve Shas SHE is to be {Cal Tthe century [of tHe Conon mm; the. no bonu ve made promises, just like!

boss,

employer,

Courses~in popular government and In the first world war, | int erpretat ion of our American conwere promises made to our Stitution should be given to* the men. What did these cH freed fram dictatorsip. amount to? To bread Our and soup lines, no security, [will do more no homes, no jobs. That will be again if you and I don’t keep our our way These promises mean nothing unless they are kept. . . . The -best thing wes can hem is to get ourselves, pers nationally, worthy of th

before. there ng

promises impressive military

consider military - prowess as| the criterion of success in virtually field of endeavor. Neverthea substitute for naziism must | needs be de ‘veloped immediately v h the elements hostile to that philosophy will be given an opportunity to develop constructive leadership.

promises still do for ever} onally {1€8S eir crifices So far as post-war planning 1as gone we have traveled only the t mile; we intend to throw each y soldier an economic sop,| It up ‘to our military same time continuing our ernment to support indulgent dog-eat-dog way {in the population sincerely striving t not only our bounden |10T “better relation among the naour glorious opportunity [tions. Sweden abandoned war as with a homeland of national policy | 1e people even better than was $0 heartsick for by the Russians on Charles XII | ich of battle.’ ad it would not be surprising that | men are proving the horrible results of this disasat both physically and trous war will make Germany once y are worthy of our na- more the land of poets and artists They are dying for she once was. Only a lastwe living for them? ing peace can recompense us for are we worthy to wel- o1 huge sacrifices in men and

ir come them home? material wealth.

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record | than anything else |to convince the German public that of life is superior as they

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y, but will defend to the your right to say it.”

“YOU CAN'T TELL BY | LOOKING AT A MAN By Percy Vere, Indianapolis | When Doctor Watson first met | Sherlock Holmes, he was ‘amazed, Ihe said, at the latter's store of spe- | feialized knowledge. On further ac{quaintance, he equally amazed at. the sleuth’s utter | ignorance of certain other matters which he, the doctor, considered an integral part of every man's edu- |

however, was

| | | ! {cation. Informed that the earth went around the sun and turned on its! laxis, Holmes was not interested. “Now that I've learned it," pe “1 shall promptly forget it again. I haven't the time to clut-| ter my brain with useless informa-

I ell {tude of indeed

that seems to be the atti-] the average person, and there is much to be for it. What does it “matter to a| termite, busily {whether U#’sill is an isolated piece of wood or part of a house in a city full of other houses? Or that at great distances’ are other cities and houses, where Other: termites, | {exactly like himself, are busily eating door sills? Any termite who | stopped eating" to speculate about! {such * matters would certainly “bei |regarded as crazy .by.the other termites—and rightly 80. * | Yet some will exclaim, “But {that's what distinguishes man {rom (the termites!” {| Don't you believe it. You can't tell by looking at’ a man whether he's ‘contemplating the marvels of the solage system or wondering | where he can mooch a drink. Plato tried to distinguish man] {from the other animals by saying | man is a two-legged animal with- | out feathers. But it happened that | his home town at the time was full |of wiseacres who specialized in! | repartee. True, their repartee would | {be considered corny today. They {hadn't -got around to such bright, modern comebacks as “Oh yeah,” | |and “Sez you.” But anyway, it wasn’t long until somebody held a plucked chicken aloft and said, “Behold Pics man!” ” o

said |

eating a door sill, |

“I SAY GIVE THEM A BONUS” By Mrs. I wholly agree with the service-| men—they will need the money on their return to civilian life more

than they will an unnecessary building. After all, many of them gave up their homes to go into the service and on their return home| it is going to cost plenty to begin | all over again. I have a brother in the army in Mississippi, a -brother-in-law in the army in England and a brother-in-law in the South Pacific fighting for peace and a good cause. Why should Indiana refuse to give these boys a helping hand “when they come back, instead of showing them a building. Some of our boys will never come back and their families should be considered .in the matter. ‘We have one war memorial and it stands to remjnd all of us of one war, Many of us will not forget this one s0 soon. How could we when some of us have loved ones who will never refurn and their wives and children are .left here among us. If Indiana wants to do something for her servicémen, then I say give them a bonus to start life

George King, Indianapolis

[anew and not a butlding sto look at. Take the politics out of it and|-

show our boys on their return home that we can still do things the good ole "American: way-—and not with useless buildings.

DAILY THOUGHTS Nevertheless we, according’ to his promise, look for new heavens and a. new earth, wherein dwelleth Fighteoysness 11 Peter 3:13.

And now without yout redemption all mankind

death and hell

| loaded

| and Puerto Rico—in the year from July 1, July 1,

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| pass on the way to the frent, { near

| 20,500,000.

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|By doom severe. —Milton.

| Blocked Harbors in Many Ways ‘ THE GERMANS had been fiendishly careful, to, as they left, for they blocked the harbors in many ways. This probably would have: discouraged any other people, but not the Americans. Today tae ships are coming and going regularly. Yéu see them at the docks being unloaded and the landscape is thick with huge cranes. You see improvised floating docks in the big basins here to take care of still more and more ships ) They have improvised everywhere to get.thifgs done : At Rouen they have installed a unique eontrol system so that you can go into a sort of shanty there and read at any moment on the charts what is being done at every hatch on every ship-that-is-being une A report comes in every hour from every hateh. This is American efficiency for you. Into Rouen, up the Seine, come Liberty ships from United British coasters, LSTs and MTs England bringing cargo and men. The sup-

the from

States

| plies are ‘transshipped to Paris and to forward areas

by railroads and barge lines. The barges are rune ning again, after a cessation due to floods in th

| Seine so heavy that the barges. could not get un es

the bridges.

They Are Across the Rhine Now ROUEN IS HANDLING more cargo every mon:h now than went out of all the United States ports to outlying possessions—the “Philippines, Hawaii, Alaska 1940. to 1941, when our defense program was getting under way. American the gateway

soldiers are still streaming through Le The ‘hills about Le Havre and

{ ‘beyond are dotted with camps through which they

In the staging area here 1 visited one camp, Lucky Strike it called. with a capacity of 55.000 men, a tent city that stretches for miles and miles until you are staggered. There are two others like -it, somewhat smaller. The them can handle more than 100.000 men. They may wear their sweaters over their blouses

three of

{-when they shouldn't, but they are across the Rhine

now, a long way from Topeka, Kas, and Lansing, Mich and Macon, Ga. and.-Cheyenne, Wyo, and Dallas Tex., and Eureka Cal. - 2 . Sc

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IN WASHINGTON—

War Babies

By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, March 27.—War | babies have boomed the normal birthrates so that peacetime census bureau estimates haye been upset | Officials are preparing fQ announce for 1945 the highest estimated population figuré in history. It will be 139,126,000, as compared with 131,600,000 in the census-taking year of 1940. The actual count is taken every 10 years. The: fext regular census will pe in 1950 Most .of the 7,500,000 galt uring the fives -year period is attributable to war years when marriages and births showed an unprecedentfd increase. But officials say the ‘fide's ebbing and will continue to do so.

Population of 163,500,000 in 1975

AFTER WORLD WAR 1 the birthrate increased, but dropped to new lows in depression years. The possibility of Uncle Sam's helping police the world to keep peace has caused a census study to be made régarding future“military manpower. - The war babies have upped these estimates. The study shows that the peak of men of military age will be reached in the United States in another 30 years. The number of men 18 to 35 is now about If recent trends continue, the figure will rise slowly to a high of about 23,000,000 in 1975. * If present trends continue, the total population of the nation will reach a level of approximately 163,500,000 in 1975 -when the number of men of military age has reached its peak. Commenting on these figures In relation to national security, Frank R. Wilson, census expert at the commerce department, cited France's sharp drop in birthrate as one of the causes of quick ‘capitulation\, in world war II,

Increased Suburbanization Expected “MILITARY SKILL may make up for much manpower shortage in modern wgrfare,” Mr, Wilsdn said. “But whether a nation could survive against one of greater manpower ahd equal skill is problemencal. “Our cities have never reproduced sufficientiy to keep up their population, They always have heen supplied from farms and small towns. Increased mechanization has made farm manpower less essential and that may eventually affect the rural birthrate. “After the war, I expect increased Suburbaniza-tion-and- decentralization-in-our already. great cities. “Transportation” will make - this possible. .The shorter work week will permit’ the suburbanite to grow mueh of what he eats.” All of this may not increase the birthrate, however, For as nations growinto. what they term ‘a more civilized culture’ their: birthrates decline and they finally decay and dis

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So They Say—

A JAPANESE victory and ‘the domination by the Japanese barbarians—as they have proved themselves —of the . .. land masses of Asia, the East Indies, and the Pacific, containing over one-half of the population of the world, wouldsutterly destroy world eivile igahon as we know Somebiavy Fotemesselary Ralph