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__ orovisions it could do nothing about aggression by the

~ ‘onditions, it cannot even talk about aggression by any of |. 4, those powers,

Co THIS 1S-a slim beginning. The peace of the world is{ 1 ~ not likely ta be threatened by acts of aggression from San.

Salvador or Luxembourg. + ;

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7" ways that it must almost have been a shock, to. the * American army when they found Adolf Honnert of Saar- - bruecken. For he was the first of all the thousands of Ger-

~ eame right out and admitted that he'd been a Nazi when being a Nazi was fashionable. > a

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INDIANA TALKS ABOUT PEACE

Tis week Indiana became the first state in the nation _ to observe a period officially dedicated to a study of world affairs. In the World War Memorial here this evening, and elsewhere throughout the state during the week, able speakers will outline what is being done to attain lasting peace and, we hope, large audiences will join in free-for-all discussion of the issues. We should have that discussion because there are issues and there will be disagreement on them. Right now we are offered a compromise peace. Maybe it is the best comprosnise that could be made at this time. Quite possibly it is tne best compromise that could have been made at any time. But it holds no guarantee of lasting peace. And in the minds of many Americans it means the sacrifice of the

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WAR BEGAN in Europe to block the conquest of free nations by force and by intimidation and to prevent the domination of the continent by a ruthless dictatorship. It is ending with the conquest, by force or coercion, of those same free nations and by what seems likely to be domination of the continent by a ruthless dictatorship. Is all this five years of struggle and all this blood and toil, then, to be wasted? Has the war been fought for nothing? > ~The sole good that might have come of this tragic sacrifice; it seems to us, is a world system that would make another war forever impossible. Such a system can be established only by a world organization of nations able to create—and to enforce—world order and world peace. Out of such a body of law in time might come justice to the peoples of Europe who today see victory without hope.

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THE STEPS toward development of a world organization are far advanced. The major points have been agreed apon between the major powers in a series of conferences at Tehran, at Dumbarton Oaks, at Yalta. The outline of this organization will be submitted to the united nations next month at San Francisco. We will become part of it, if twothirds of the members of the United States senate approve. Quite logically, since this is its own program, our national administration is making every effort to sell this plan to the people and to win that approval As so far evolved, this ‘program falls far short of perfection. At its beginning, at least, this new organization will be no more than a debating society along’ the:lines of

‘the former League of Nations, which it very closely re-.sus virtues of eapitalism, their interest should be con- ~ 3embles. Tt could halt aggression if the aggressor happened

:o-be a little nation, like Guitemala or Monaco. By its own

United States, Great Britain, Russia, China or France— “mless the aggressor nation joined in the action against ‘tself. Except ina limited way and under circumscribed

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But it is a beginning. Out of this tiny bud of world jon may grow, in time—perhaps in a very long y‘Sturdier plant of world order. As such it has value. As a present protection against another world war it has Jone—and it would be only a tragie delusion if the people “of this nation accepted it as a completed guarantee of peace. There can be no doubt that the people of this state, and arobably of this nation, strongly favor participation in a world organization to prevent war. There is much dissatisfaction with this present plan. But it is the only plan we aave. . . And there, ultimately, is our choice. Between a. peace program no stronger than the one that failed us before

~—and no peace program at all. : This week of study and discussion in Indiana has done its part in making clear the issues that are drawn and in making us understand that peace is a goal toward which the whole world ‘must work painfully during the next 100 years, and not something we can have next summer by a few signatures at the bottom of a treaty,

KEEPING HUBBY HAPPY

MADAME, may we interest you in this protective cream "our bazooka-shooting and flame-throwing soldiers are using? Seems the warriors rub it on hands and faces to Jrotect them from burns. No, on, lady, we are not insinuating that you will have to use it—not even after the second martini. We're thinking of that far-flung club made up of Awkward Husbands. Almost every household has one. He goes down to tend the furnace, looks in and—poof! Off come his eyebrows and his face is a sight. Or you ask aim to look at that pot of heans on the stove; he seizes the lid and—ouch! His hand is so scorched he cannot dry the dishes that night. Or he lights a log in the fireplace and =-you knew you should have done it yourself, In the balmy days of peace, the burn-preventing cream probably will be available to all. Now, madame, soon as he gets home, rub him with this, turn him loose and—well there will be a lot fewer excuses for dodging household chores. You're welcome. —

ade coccinea

HONESTY and naziism have so long gone {fieir separate

man civilians that the Americans have come upon who

Not only did he. confess, but he repented. And in the ® of his unusual honesty, that repentance may well have sincere, : gli Shes SA cannot n if there was rejoicing among the

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By Edward. J. Meeman x

ALTHOUGH WE have had “capitalism in theory for a long time, we haye departed from the theory so often that we cannot truly claim ever to havé had a capitalist society,

What's Cookin’?

Fo 1 Ea FER EN we AI ye TAF

of capitalism, rather than placing the blame where i

most destructive war it has ever known.

which runs the state.

than the diseases of capitalism.

Capitalism Must Have a Market TO WORK, capitalism must have a market.

can buy goods and services.

ployment.

not to the extent that the dividends have often been taken. The workers should share in the prosperity of a business. They should share in it by the setting up of employment reserves, so that when trade falls | off, business can afford to continue them on the payroll and they can continue to spend money. Laws should be passed to make it possible for employers to set up, without tax penalty, cash reserves specifically earmarked to maintain payrolls during business slumps. The purchasing power of workers, managers, and even capitalists has been reduced in the past by shoddy goods, adulterated food, and high prices. Laws have begun to cope with such cheating, Savings were formerly dissipated through worthless stocks and bonds until President Roosevelt got the truth-in-securities law; and through bank failures until Senator Vandenberg put through the law guaranteeing bank deposits up to $5000.

Tariff Is Chief Inconsistency

THE CHIEF inconsistency in the practice of capitalism has been the tariff. Capitalism depends on a wide market, with gobds flowing freely over national boundary lines. But we have built high tariff walls that stopped the flow. We must buy products of other nations so they will have money to buy our products. Capitalism can work on no other basis. In the old days most capitalists thought of capitalism as something for their benefit. Workers were just employees—something to be used. If they weren't useful, then turn them out. Is it any wonder that workers didn't always see the virtues of capitalism, that tHey sometimes turned to quack remedies like communism and fascism? The workers of the world today are awake and on the march. Where they want to go, we will all go, for they are the controlling majority. If capitalism is honestly and intelligently ‘practiced, it is the best system yet- devised for the good of the workingman. -Since it is the working people who must be sold on

sidered first in making any business decision. If that is done; noe omy the workers but managers and capitalists will have a prosperity such as we have never before enjoyed. And it won't end in a depression. If workingmen see businessmen practicing that kind of capitalism they'll run the Communists out of the unions so fast it will be funny to watch. Capitalism has never been really tried. Let's try it. Let’s move toward plenty for all—and peace. Let's not make the rich poorer. But let's make the poor a great deal richer. : .

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SCY WORLD AFFAIRS—

In consequence, people have condemned the theory

belongs, on the failure to practice it consistently. They have rushed off into the madness of communism and fascism. These new systems already stand condemned in theory and practice, for they clamped tyranny on the world, and then plunged into the bloodiest’ and

Society can’t do without capital, which is stored wealth and the means of producing wealth—mines, factories, trade and money. Communism and fascism have not been able to do without capital. Under communism the capital is owned by the state—and the state is run by a gang. Under fascism, the capital is nominally in the hands of individuals and groups, but those individuals and groups are bossed by a gang

Yet something has been wrong with the practice of capitalism or people would not have turned to communism and fascism—remedies which proved worse

The owners of capital should get a good return so they The managers of business should get good salaries so they can buy goods and services. The workers should get good wages so they can buy goods and services, and they must be employed continuously, if the market is not to break

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down. Workers have not been assured of steady em-

The owners who take a risk should be rewarded by a capital dividend for their creative enterprise. But

-trest fought for and are fighting for

Hoosi --F100S81er “WHY RUIN THEIR WEDDING?” By Pauline Addison Darnell, Anderson The following letter is a duplicate’ of one I mailed today to

Mayor Tyndall. In regard to the story contained in today’s Indianapolis Times per{taining to the arrest of Cpl. Alvia

{DuRee and his bride and bridal |

party Saturday night, let me say that I am heartily ashamed that {any Hoosier city. policeman would {be such a cheap sport in a case of this kind. Why didn’t he let | them go with a bit of admonishing? Why ruin their wedding—a G. I. Joe and his girl? It may seem that since I am not a resident of your city ‘it is none of my business, but let me tell you a

their business if they turn out to be representative of the treatment our SOI aS dz8 Sores te get. > The article above mentioned quotes you thus: “We don’t expect to please everyone”—and of course you couldn't, but it does seem to me that you might try a little more to please the G. I. Joes than anyone else. After all DeRee and the

you and Patrolman Euliss as well as the girls they come back to marry, if they are lucky. Next time we hope the corporal will get a better deal—and he wears the purple. heart. Shame on you. = = ” # ’

“NOT A SYSTEM WHICH

lot of people will make these things|

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“RATHER BE FROZEN THAN STARVED OUT” By A Big Beef, Indianapolis If those swivel chair Washington

boys who plan our economy are as dumb as your paper infers, isn't it ongceivable that someone has to hold and guide their hands when they write the wordy statements they is- | sue so often? Take this case of the packers having to have 50 cents on the 100 pounds. Wonder if the packers weren't pushing the pencil? (John L. Lewis is just camping out). Have you heard of a packing executive running so short of profit that he {has had to close any of his estates, change his annuity plans. or in any

to’ retain’ their servants, go when and where they please and have

“I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the

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your right to say it.”

“IT WAS A CHEAP STUNT” , By M. Cron, Indianapolis

I'd like to state my opinion about the sour puss policeman who gave stickers to the soldier and. his bride on Monument Circle. I think it was a cheap stunt. That boy gave his all for this country and what's a few minutes of noise if he derived any pleasure in making it? They're young and love life. Where this boy came from, the noise, I guess, is appreciated—where our timid officer can't hear it, but can enjoy the benefits of just such lads as this one who are hearing it 24 hours a day. I haven't any sons in service as my. “sons” are girls, That is the one old enough to be in service. But I do have about a dozen nephews and a sister-in-law in service, and I'm sure if one of -them were to

get. anarried and made a ligtle extra

noise I certainly would “be there tooting the loudest. The should be glad to see this boy and his bride happy in such terrible trying times as these. More power to all our boys and girls as I have five growing children and I'm sure if they get married I'll toot. if I'm able to crawl to the car. 2 = F 2

“SOME DAY I

maiiner tighten his belt? They seem| HOPE TO RETURN"

By Shanty Irish, Camp Atterbupy It has been said that “travel is

Late Ally

' By Wm. Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, March 29.— Recognition of Argentina by the United States and the rest of the

Now that the coming critical

CREATES CONFIDENCE” By C. D. C., Indianapolis

food shortage is be- , we are hearing

more abeut black markets in food;

American republics is expected as soon as she conforms to the act of Chapultepec and other inter-American commitments

and as food seems likely to become more scarce, it seems quite probable

enough gas left over to drive their (probably one) junior and the “refugee” they are keeping for Lord and Lady Bigtalk to private school and {home twice a day, to music and {dancing lessons, to doctor and dentist, to swim, etc. They still have

the deep freeze full of meat and{brating my second anniversary as a

broadening. ,sAnd anyone who has spent at led$t-24 hours on a day] coach will testify in behalf of the veracity that crowds such a state- | ment. It was a short time ago that the army, observing that I was cele-

vegetables and fruit from their|pfe, decided in benign fashion to

the whole thing will be a national | farm,

of Mexico City. At the same time she will doubtless become a member of the united nations and receive an invita-

scandal as many legitimate food| dealers will either be compelled to

Cigarets and Scotch are

given to them. We suckers love to That, truly, may not be the exact

reward me with a trip to Florida.

shower favors on the already rich— reason I was sent to the Southland

tion to attend the San Francisco conference. Diplo-

go out of business or become black | who knows, the plutocrat might give market operators.

matic relations may also be résumed between her and the Soviet Union. Argentina's declaration of war against the axis is

After all, very little criticism is offered against the man or woman who loafs on the job and draws a

us a job when the depression comes.

interfere with their leisure, which

Of course a lot of progeny would sponsor such a claim.

but at any rate, the measuring stick known as time allows me to

It was raining one Friday after-

of -tremendous importance to the western world. It comes while the air is thick’ with rumors that Germany has eollapsed but that does not lessen its import. If anything, hemispheric solidarity is more vital in the uneasy days ahead than during war years.

Can Contribute Greatly to Peace PRESIDENT FARRELL and his regime are well

full day’s pay.

lions by making as possible,

the same in all

Neither do we hear

so much said against the cost plus war contractor who cleans up mil-

a job cost as much

Human nature seems pretty much

walks of life as far

aware that the conflict in Europe is about over, that

as money is concerned. About the

they evidently use to good advantage swinging deals. However, someone has to furnish the boys to fight their wars. So why do the fourth estate, the G. L's, the government, and the rest of us get out the branding iron and scream “murderers” when the

noon (this statement is made for the benefit of Hoosier state visitors —a native knows enough to take such description for granted) when we boarded the train and prepared for a jerky jaunt down to Jacksonville, Fla. And we were not disappointed. The train acted as though

miners ask for enough money to|it were a fat man in a conga line.

Japan is doomed and that Argentina, therefore, can

only difference seems to be that|keep their bones separated and their

contribute little to the war itself. But she can do

the black market operation is not

legal while other things that are

word when the packers strike? This

kids alive; and then say nary a having the burps.

Someone accused the engineer of

To start the journey, I settled

something equally important: She can. contribute greatly to world peace by joining the security pact entered into at Mexico City and making it unanimous and workable. One of the last acts of the inter-American conference was to place a candle in the window to guide the return of Argentina to the fold. She is and al-

morally wrong, are still legal. certainly not a system which creates! confidence in our government,

It is

Side Glances=By Galbraith

isn't the first time they have struck. Maybe there is a difference, but the ultimate effect is the same,

ways has been an integral part of the union of the American republics, said a friendly resolution, and f it was the hope of all present that she would soon find it possible to take her rightful place. It | further indicated that all Argentina needed to do was B to bind herself to the commitments to which the rest ? of the Americas were a party. The 20.American republics at Mexico City—only Argentina was absent—reaffirmed the Declaration of | Havana which made an act of aggression by any nonAmerican state against an American state an act of war against them all. But! they went a step further: They passed the Act of Chapultepec declaring that solidarity among the American states in the face of any menace on the part of any state is essential to the security of the continent.

Act of Future Solidarity ARGENTINA'S DECLARATION of war therefore, has greater meaning for the Americas than for Germany and Japan. -It i8-an act of future solidarity with her sister republics, rather than a futile and belated act of belligerency. . i. At Mexico City the case of Argentina weélghed heavily on every one present. When the conference passed a resolution unanimously “deploring that the Argentine nation had up to the present not found it possible to take steps that would allow it to participate,” every word of it was genuine, Every delegate | with whom I talked expressed more than regrets. There was something akin to anxiety within a family for an estranged member. Argentina is one of the leaders of this hemisphere. There has been talk of her heading a South American block against other American republics, including the United States. Such a course would lay the new world open to the same kind of balance of power wars which have cursed the old. The fact that the Farrell regime in Argentina is

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ol face. But we do know that he Bok demontatio 1s not expected 1 hold Up recopiion ’ The Yanks made him teria’ of American resolutions. Not all | -

| Georgia told me’ that she was hav-

: buy THOUGHTS ~~ ; helped every one his

back in a seat. to the rear of one of the coaches and began reading a book. Bumpy? One time just before we hit one of the rough spots, I was perusing a certain part where the hero and heroine were about to be married in Brooklyn, N. Y. Then we hit the bump and after awhile I fell back in my seat and discovered that my fiction friends had moved to Omaha and were the parents of three. It was rough going. The next morning a friend of mine on the trip asked one member of the train crew how long we would stop in Atlanta. The latter said, “Twenty minutes.” My friend replied, “Well, I guess I won’t have time.” The trainman asked, “Time for what?” And my friend told him that he “had joyfully anticipated stopping in Atlanta for hospital treatment.” a7, : But he made it to Florida allright. * In Jacksonville, & lady from

Ing quite a time—that it was the

many ‘Y-a-ankees.” I told her she ought to come up North sometime. : Jacksonville is in the northern part of Florida. But even so, that region of the state is nice and full of palms, stately pines, swampland and Spanish moss. Some day, when It is full of ball players in spring training, I hope to return. he

neighbor; and every one said to_ his iimiadhe good courage.

state, county and

| BEHIND THE FRONT— Engineers

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By Thomas L. Stokes

LUXEMBOURG, Belgium, March 29.—The engineers think they can do anything, and as a matter of fact they can and they have. You get .the flavor and the danger of engineering and railroading in war when ‘you listen to Col. Harry Hulen in command of B group in

over the other and talks about the engineers who landed on the beaches and trailed Gen. Patton across France—building roads, throwing bridges across rivers, and opening up railroad lines. His office is a French baggage car. There are other such cars for his staff headed by Capt. Charles L. Badley of Berkeley, Calfsand’ Lt, Arthur F. Tebbe of Fort Wayne, Ind. As the colonel talks, now and again exploding against red tape which he detests, he draws diagrams on a pencil tablet on his plain table, He points to his maps with notations in his own handwriting about latest projects to supply Gen. Patton's fast maneuvering 3d army. The whole atmosphere about his crude headquarters is informal. He receives reports from reconnaissance groups which are here and there in the forward area and he makes his plans accordingly.

He Has Moved a Long Way

ANY DAY he picks up and moves. He has moved a long ‘way and his train with him, including the passenger car which serves as his home. It has sleeping ‘quarters and a dining room. It was furhished him by the French government for repairing and opening up the bridge across the Seine in Paris.

is printed on its side. : Col. Hulen is a genial gentleman to sit and talk with. "And from what you hear he is a very plaintalking fellow when he wants to get something done. His superiors have found this out and seem to like it. He comes from Hattiesburg, Miss. He's an old army man. When he grins, it's as if the sun had streamed across .a heavily furrowed field, for his face is creased and leathery. The parent regiment of his command, the “347th engineer special service regiment, is known about France as “the hitch hikers,” with the insignia” of the upraised thumb. This started from the colonels exploit in walking on a ship in New York and demanding quarters for. his men and getting them at the expense of another: outfit. ‘The orders for his outfit to move came two months later, long after they were in France. That's typical of the colonel and the way he operates. He laughed slyly %s he told of a bridge he had built and how he'd submitted plans to headquarters. They had returned them a long time later with suggestions, and- he drew some more and sent them back, and on and on. “When they came back approved the last time, the bridge was .already built,” he said.

Dramatizes the Long Advance GROUP B which the colonel commands is composed of the 347th, the 389th general service regiment, a Negro putfit, and 333d engineers, a special service regiment. The 333d gained fame many months ago by moving into Cherbourg to clean out the mess

has joined B group. . The jump from Cherbourg to the forward area dramatizes the long advance of the American armies in nine months. Group B includes men of all sorts of talents and duties, and all sorts of equipment. Up in the forward area you get the feel of the part supply plays in the advance of the armies. They move into the battle line together. Col. Hulen's favorite job perhaps was the bridge across the Seine. His men moved in two days before the city was liberated. While the shooting still Was going on. iH. 10e)s Shara Se dgecti ont ‘away the steel debris left: by German sabotage” and four days to build the bridge. The colonel used an old tug, built in 1850, which he found along the river, as a base to swing the new links in place. French engineers who were observing said it couldn't be done. “My men captured 26 Germans and killed a number of them,” he said. “They'd tell me in the morning that they'd killed some Germans-the night before. I-told them they were lying. ' I asked them to save me one the next time. there he was.”

‘POLITICAL SCENE— New Sign By Charles T. Lucey

WASHINGTON, March 20.—The Republican party has hung.out a new sign which reads: “Open for business every day in the year." It is convinced that trying to deal election victory off the cuff with a 90-day spurt every two years—and nothing much in between— doesn’t “work. . Party fathers have laid $750,000 on the line to try out the idéa—and that's a record for spending by the G. O. P. national organization in an off year. ‘National Chairman Herbert Brownell has-overiauled the party machinery as his starting point.

Organization Comes First MR. BROWNELL says the party needs to produce a “constructive, inspiring, forward-looking program.” It will deal with “all the important national and international issues of the day, notably world peace, re-employment, provisions for veterans, taxation, progress in science and education, agriculture, honesty in government, social security and world trade.” The Republicans,

according to Mr. Brownell,

“want no part of antiquated or reactionary doctrines.”

He said part of this at a press conference, part in a recent speech. “It doesn’t do us any good to have a policy until we have an organization,” he said. “Once our organization is a reality and we inspire confidence in our elected public officials, then we're ready to tackle problems of policy that must be solved before the 1946 elections.” Mr, Brownell was asked whether it was a fair inference that there were to be some changes from past Republican policies. He sald yes—‘“we expect to grow and to progress.” : He cited the fact that G. O, P. congressional candidates in 1942 attracted 14,000,000 votes but in 1944 pulled 20,000,000. Now he said, the problem is to find a way to get those 6,000,000 to vote for G. O. P. men in 1946, when the party hopes to gain nine senate seats and 28 house seats.

Five New Divisions to Be Added MR. BROWNELL'S plans, approved by the executive committee of the Republican national committee this week, call for adding five new divisions to the Washington administrative organization. One will deal with war veterans; another with new (17-to-21) voters who will cast their first presidential ballot

| first. time she had “evel seen 50. in 1048; another will try to tie congress and the

party organization more closely together; another will meet problems of Negroes, agriculture, labor and business. » :-: “ : John A. Danaher, able ex-senator from Connecticut, will be the liaison man between national headquarters and congressmen. A national co-ordinator, to pull together all activities aiming at the 1946 campaign, is still to be named. The publicity department, will have a’ new boss and will be expanded, and the research staff ‘will be increased. A fund campaign is ahead, too. J HL One of the national committee's jobs is to get the story of what is being done Republicans in congress~where party policy is really made—to 200,000

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the forward area. He sits with one long leg thrown

He named it “Betsy” for his daughter, The name

left by the Germans and open that port. It recently

When I came down

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