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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Woy

GOOD FRIDAY, AND EASTER 00D FRIDAY finds Indianapolis in a sober and reverent mood today. The sacrifice of the Savior holds a new | and deeper meaning for those who themselves have known the agony of Gethsemane, the suffering of ‘those who stood at the foot of the cross. And on a thousand Golgothas | around the world, men are dying that others might have life and have it more abundantly, | As it was in the beginning, so is it now. And the! words, across the ages, still ring true with faith ‘and | courage: “Not my will, but Thine be done.” Yet from the darkness comes light, from death life. | ...That is the immemorial message of Easter, symbolized by

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....... the coming of the daw, Dy the refiowing earth in sprit time. And on this Easter, hope shines clear. The end of | ~—the-ordeal seems-not-far-away—Theearly-opening-of the! “buds is renewed testimony of the Resurrection and the

Life.

So when Indianapolis: greets the Easter sunrise with the traditional! service on Monument Circle, it will he a | ceremony of fervent meaning, a pledge enduring faith. Many have drained the .cup, many have been | wracked by anguish through the long night. But the dawn |! is near and with the day comes comfort and reassurance, | The hope of Easter still is the hope of the world.

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SECRET DEALS AT YALTA THE White House now admits that a secret deal was made at Yalta concerning big power votes in the proposed | league assembly. Stalin demanded three Russian votes, instead of one, to balance Britain's six—one each for herself, the four dominions and India. Mr. Roosevelt agreed to support the | Russian demand at San Francisco” in return for Russian | and British support for three United States votes. Churchill | and Stalin agreed. This, of course, would increase big | power control over the assembly, in addition to big power | veto rights through the league council. Whether this is or is not a legitimate voting ratio | is open to difference of: opinion—which we shall discuss later. But, good or bad, the underhanded method used to get it is a severe blow to the San Francisco conference and

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” = - ! SIX WEEKS ago administration leaders were insulted | by the suggestion that Roosevelt and Churchill were not entirely frank in their glowing descriptions of the Yalta agreements. The idea that secret political deals were made was supposed to-be Hitler propaganda. Now that the press ‘has cracked open one secret setup, fhe' public and 40-odd smaller nations will assime that there are other things | under the Yalta bed still to be revealed. | « This revelation comes at a bad moment for public con- | fidenge and allied unity. For Moscow has just broken the | Yalta agreement that the San Francisco conference would be on the foreign minister level. Now Moscow says its am_bassador in Was ington, an admiral junior diplomat with- | out any real authority, will take Meolotov's place at San Francisco. Obviously Stalin does not rate the first political | conference of the united nations, charged with establishing | a world security organization, as very important. ~ 7 "Nor is this the only Yalta agreement which is failing. The joint Big Three guardianship of representative govern- | ment in the liberated areas, which was. supposed to take the place of Stalin's grabs of territory and creation of | puppet regimes, has been blocked by Moscow. Since Yalta, Stalin has made and remade Romanian puppets without | consent of the Romanians or of London and Washington. | His Yugoslav regime has not been made broadly representative as pledged.

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» 2 » “ » » - i STALIN ALSO has refused to accept democratic addi- | tions to his puppet Polish regime, proposed by the AngloAmerican rhajority of the Big Three commission on Poland | set up by Yalta. And there are more such cases of non- | co-operation, including Russia's conduct in Bulgaria and Moscow's obstruction of UNRRA. i We happen to be among the large number of Americans who think close co-operation of the United States, Britain and Russia is essential to future world organization and peace, as it has aided victory over naziism. We are proud | that America has co-operated in good faith with Russia, | despite basic ideological differences. But co-operation is a two-way street. Nothing the United States government or people can do—even if they were willing to underwrite Russian domination of Europe and of the proposed league, which they are not—can sustain co-operation that is one-sided. We hope that Stalin will vet live up to. his Yalta agreement regarding representative government in Europe. And we hope he will send Molotov to San Francisco, pre- | pared to abide by the majority decision of the united nations on voting rights and every other question con¢erning a lasting peace.

PAPER SHORTAGE. HE reading publie will be fascinated to know that volume three of “Federal Power Corimission Reports” has come off the government presses in Washington. :It presents the commission's opiniong and decisions from Jan. | 1, 1942, to Sept. 30, 1943. It is a stout volume of 1180 pages. Be sure to save every scrap of salvageable waste paper. Maybe some of it will find its way into “Federal Power Commission Reports, Vol. IV.”

NOT SERIOUS YET = ih (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY reports that “Science of Man in the World Crisis” is outselling “Forever Amber” | at the university book store. But we shan’t write our edi- _ torial on The Changing ToT Generation until we hear ~ that charts and graphs or pious homelies have replaced the pin-up girl on barracks walls. , ° ’ . TOUGH SITUATION i WWE can’t understand all this excitement over porcupines eating synthetic rubber tires. After all, a lot of huA these days are eating tripe, which yield approximate-

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REFLECTIONS— Adjectives

By Anton Scherrer

I GET MOST of my knowledge of women and their behavior from . studying the magazine Vogue, . Last night, for instance, in the March number labeled “Lines for Spring” T ran across this arresting item: “Since every good coat is really polygamous and has many dresses to call its own, there is no attempt to pair them ofl.” The practice of endowing inanimate. things with human qualities was quite common before the war.

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to pick up a paper and learn that merchants were selling distinguished shirts, authoritative pants, cute culottes, smart frocks, clever socks, snooty pajamas, hospitable beds, snappy suspenders and so on ad infinitun, Vogue, it. appears, is prepared to take up from where we left off : Perhaps it's all right human interest story.

to pep up an ad with a If that were all, I wouldn't

{ mind. What frightens me is the possibility of revers-

Ing. the process with the result that adjectives will be bandied about regardless of whether they belong to people or things. When that time comes—and, goodness knows, we're heading for it fast—it will be nothing out of the ordinary to hear Alex Vonnegut described as “hospitable as a bed" .or Addison Parry as “distinguished as a shirt,” or Toner M. Overley as “authoritative as a pair of pants.” In that case, heaven help the lovely lady who happens to have the quality of a Vogue coat.

Interpretation ” INTERNATIONAL CIRCLES are pondering what in the world George Bernard Shaw meant when he

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classified the Yalta eonference as an “impudent, incredible fairy tale.”

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AN EXQUISITELY BEAUTIFUL painting labeled “Still-Life With Blue Jar” by Willian Kalf, a seventeenth century Dutchman (1622-1693), is now on view at the Herron Art museum (Gallery 11), Besides the jar, the picture embraces a silver tray, a cheese, two glass goblets, an orange and a partially peeled lemon, all of which are arranged on a marbletop table covered with a gorgeously colored cloth. The set-up has the appearance of an arrested ritual. At any rate, it looks as if the artist had stopped somebody in the act of compounding a “horse's neck,” a harmless drink consisting of nothing more than a pint of gingerale into which a mathe-

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matically treated lemon peel has been dropped. The trick of peeling a lemon with mathematical precision Was part of the equipment of every firstrate bartender when I was a boy (50 years ago). held the lemon in one hand. - With a paring knife

in the other’ he traced a curve winding round and | { round a fixed point which continually receded as in | | was stopped for thirty minutes on abstraction now known as a spiral than which there |

The result was the mathematical

is nothing more mysterious. It was an extraordinary skill matched only by masons able to carve the volutes of Ionic capitals and, maybe, by carpenters capable of accommodating handrails to circular stairways, The Herron’s 300-year-old portrait of a lemon reveals a perfect likeness of the wonderful spirals the old-time bartenders used to peel. Nobody, not even art critics, can say more: in praise of William Kalf. Chances are, though, that they will. : ” = 5 We : Eo "JOHN HILLMAN'S determination to use the word “we” when ‘he means nobody but himself presents a frightful problem for anybody who shares his column,

One of these days Mr. Hillman will avail himself of a columnist’s. privilege and mention his attractive spouse,

{ when things are going to pop, I'm afraid.

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| day, March 27, at about 5:55 p. m The police car parked ‘in front of | | the streetcar, that bumped his fen-

streetcar. There were also other! { war workers at the end of the | Washington line, and at other

| plages along’ the line, waiting for ftransportation to go to work on| a . i . a i : 2 {~ There are a multitude of desk distinguish.who is the worker and conflicting emotions. There was compassion, injured

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By Henry. J. Taylor

ROME, March 30.—Allied and Italian political leaders here challenge the idea that local or Mos-cow-managed Communist parties will Europe's governments after the war.

They point to |

the sharp difference between the Communist parties

here and in Yugoslavia, That difference is caused by Trieste, the politically explosive Adriatic city.

| Trieste is developing into an issue that may make ft

the Danzig of world war II.

For many years, dating back prior. to world war I, |

the slogan, “Trieste for Italy,” has rung in the Italian mind with the same intensity, although for different reasons; -as-Pearl-Harbop'rings.in.the minds-of -Amer~ icans. . & . . » Communists Champion. Nationalism THE FOUR PARTIES represented in- the present Italian governme: 8o0~ cialist, apd the Action party (Republicans and Monall Trieste must remain Italian. One of the Italian Com. munist party's appeals for popular support is championing of this nationalistic goal. Yet what is the situation in Yugoslavia where Tito dnd his. Communists are slowly extending their control toward Trieste and where policies admittedly are dominated by Russia? Tito and all Yugoslav Communists proclaim that Trieste must be Yugoslav In Rome it is generally admitted by cabinet members that no Italian government could stay in office without:-the support of the Italian Communist party Also it is admitted that the Communists themselves could not hold their present position if they should reverse their position and urge that Trieste be given to Yugoslavia Italian Communist

t—-Demo-Christian, Communist indorse the people's determination that |

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leaders went to Belgrade, atcompose this disunited front in the European Communist movement. They urged Tito to cease his public remarks about “Trieste for Yygo- | The appeal$ were flatly rejected and thats where the matter stands today. ’

Ideal Port for Russia

MEANWHILE, THE TRIESTE issué bobs up in British-American-Russian affairs. Trieste would be | an ideal port for Russia. It is close to European

Russia, will -be “amply protected by the prospective | Russian domination of Romania, Hungary and Yugo-

army than any warm water port on the Persian gulf, So Soviet insistence on a warm water outlet has now. shifted from the Persian.gulf to Trieste, This change is important for future British-Russian relations, The Persian gulf and the’Indian ocedn areas lie athwart the British sphere of influence and across Britain's transportation lines to India and the Far East, i | Against that situation, the alternative solution for | Russian demands for a warm .water port—Trieste— would not clash with British interests in any such | degree. : . | Some Communists say that the securing of Trieste | i That leaves the Ifalian Communists with an ap- | parently unsolvable dilemma. - They cannot gain national favor in Italy if they knuckle to Tito’s de-

“HOW ABOUT IT, | | By Henry W. Reger, 1900 N. Talbott “ave contrel—most of continental

{ship, IT would only grant member-

all others being barred. Let's have my : If anybody can look for a just If membership to the Legion is|peace out of the present setup, it's {left to the politically minded, many more than I can see—but at a later deserving individuals will be over-|date, I looked and fgnored, while scores of Churchill's and Roosevelt's knuck-

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“A POLICEMAN I8 express By A War Worker, Indianapelis Due to a two-bit dent in a police | car fender, streetcar transportation |

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the W. Washington car line, Tues- : signed,

der, for 30 minutes not allowing him to move it. There were about ten more streetcars, hauling war workers who were hungry and tired, after working all day in war plants, stoppéd at a standstill behind this

night” shifts. This took place Washington st. and Belmont ave. |

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Hoosier Forum

(Times readers are invited their these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 Letters must be Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. Times . assumes no responsis bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter gorfespondence regarding them.)

{ Legion for political gain and the j £0 | organization. will’ become one of P€8K rush hour, which is from 12

| cheap political ,nature.

“I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your: right to say it.” “CONGESTION IN EATING PLACES” By Mary Studebaker, 1811 N. Meridian st For years there has been an increased congestion in the various downtown eating places during the

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years, I have observed, made mental notes and discussed this situation with many business people who are employed in the downtown disrict.

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Retribution By Thomas L. Stokes

ALONG THE RHINE, March 30 ~Traveling in the conquered areas ; of Germany and along the Rhine, beyond which the American armies § are moving, is a memorable experi- . ence for one who previously has watched the war roby maps in the newspapers at home—until twa weeks ago. Impressions are piled in dizzy succession, so different is this world from the one -you left behind, even in such a speedy trip as that provided by an army jeep. It is all sharpened by the dramatie clatter of the great forward movement now going on, I shall try to tell in a few columns about the things that stand out to one so fresh from home who Is thrown suddenly into the midst of it.

Like an Exciting Overture - MY TRIP began with a visit to Gen, Patton's headquarters. It was like an exciting overture to a Wagnerian opera, for about the headquarters is an exhilaration that quickly gets into your blood. The 3d army has gone into-action again. You have been reading about it in the newspapers. There is tenseness and a greediness for any news of the developing action. But there is also an abounds ing confidence, almost cockiness, Out of the excite ment there rises the dynamic figure of the man, George Patton, one of those legendary military figures who becomes real, and at the same time more intriguing, ‘when you get close to his base of opera= tions. He's in the atmosphere, permeating it and dominating it. This was the introduction to the great drama of war, Then, in the bouncing jeep, there was a trip later through the German countryside. The wap has passed on beyond here, although the trail is still fresh. The German country is beautiful. It was a rolling country through which we rode, with hills of comfortable contour, and long vistas.where the rivers and streams cut through and wander among them, The neat farms are turning green again. The farmers were busy with their plowing,

A Tragedy for These People RISING" TO THE TOP of some of the hills—it surprises you how they can cultivate so high—are the vineyards. They are not yet green. The country is so beautiful that you wonder why anybody who lives here would ever envy the country of another, a fleet ing thought and a tragedy for these people and the world. For a time the road led through such peaceful country it was hard to believe war had come this way. Then, suddenly, the signs rise before you-— wrecked German equipment along the roads, a dozen dead horses within a quarter of a mile, the wooden barricades thrown up by the retreating Germans across the roads to block them. Through the middle | of them a pathway had been cleared to permit passage | of our army, and always, there was a thundering, | never-ending procession of American army trucks going back and forth. The retribution which the German nation brought on itself is made graphie, too, in the blasted buildings and homes in the little towns with their narrow, winding streets. But the vengeance here is nothing like that in the eities farther north, some of them now almost uninhabited. There the awesome quiet of l‘death reigns over veritable fields of rubble. Everye« | where, too, are German prisoners of war. We saw & | small army of them, dirty and haggard and grim, hurrying down a hill from a camp at the top where | they had been processed, questioned and sent on their | way to be transportéd to prison eamps. | . - Study in Conflicting Emotions : WE SAW THEM standing, packed thick, in trucks we met frequently on the roads, : In one town through which four truckloads of them were passing the people came out of their houses to see them, one calling to another to attract attention to the event. , Sy : |* The faces of the fownspepple offered a study in

| pride and the effort to look cheerful. One old woman

| colonels, majors, etc, who. have either has small children with her | brought out a sack-of apples which she tried to pass

posed to help the war effort. no {received their commissions by po- or her arms full of large bundles.| up to the clutching hands of the men. “The truck

or any other citizen's car that got

.| litical intrigue. They have little | The worker, on his brief lunch hour, | started to move. The bag burst. Some of the apples , or no duties to perform. They cer- naturally,” has neither

spilled on the road. She scrambled about, a fat old

’ tainly haven't. es ; i 8 . s wi hal¥ Birnie ; n i E truck ve: bumped, the police would have had tain) haven experienced any of Such shoppers with their bundles woman, trying to pick them up The mo eq it off the tracks in less than five hardships of the war. They have land children take up spacés and on before she could get-them all Ss rilnutes, if 1 reould have found. {imply been on dress parade They | require as much time in consuming ‘That is Germany, with her apples slipping through ; ' . e haven't come within a four-day’sia sundae and a cigarette. with cokes dior hands, scrambling

backed it out of the way and teti traffic clear in less than-three 'min-! utes. But, of course; a policeman is too important a person to get out of the way for about three hundred war workers: f » u ¥

LEGIONNAIRES?” { membership

Some veterans of world war

pam Tide si-enemd free ea It would be an unpardonable blot ously {orl our democratic way of life if we full plate dinners let them take ‘over the leadership of | One-day I.took a pencil the American Legion. : X I, therefore, suggest | those individuals who have had deal. This survey is typical of combat duty and seen action against |the worker faces dav after d in armed enemy be granted Legion | Here are the notes I made on that I would hate to see|day: > the men who have been on dress | parade, while others have lain in/lunch room at 12:15. II foxholes, be admitted to the fight=|minutes for a seat.

—rfor-the little-ones assevetadvavens hungry workers devouring and paper {with me and made a survey of a that only {typical downtown lunch time orwhat

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Left office at 12 o'clock. Reached Waited ten Later neticed

are already clamoring for admit- ing man's organization known 88 two new arrivals take seats at erd tance to the American Legion. It the American Legion. How about it, | of counter. Immediately my wait-

is agreed by everyone that they are Legionnaires? entitled to admittance and they be!

granted that distinction and honor CRAY GOB I would, however, like to make ! CAN SEE

one suggestion in regard to indi- By Mattie Withers, Indianapolis

viduals granted Legion membership. If. I were drawing -up-the-stipula-| tions necessary for Legion member-

ship te those individuals who served Nothing.” I in actual combat. Those individuals | ments that to be given automatic membership; | piece.

one strictly democratic institution. |

hope

undeserving individuals will use the ling to Stalin.

Side Glances=By Galbraith

compliments

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ress rushed past me to clear off s for these two newcomers, shoppers with packages. These two received their- orders. Pretty soon two people on my left

time | hati, my hands. But off she flies with {the two orders. Much later I notice the first ' newcomers - mentioned above leisurely finish their snack and finally get up and léave. Our waitress at once rushes back down there to clear off. And at once a shopping mother and child take the seats, Waitress takes their orders.

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pers on left finish and depart. The waitress clears their places. New-

: 4 COPR. 1945 BY NEA sevice. INE. YM. REC. U8 PAT, OFF.

“The boss has been very dignified for twe days, calling everybody

Miss or Mister, and for the life of us we can't mila hema hs fing o cave

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comers sit down and she takes their orders. Much later the waitress casually asks for my order, I am so floored 1 can scarcely gibber. Somehow I | wich, coffee.” By this time it is well on the way to 1 o'clock: By checking the clock above, I note it is 10 minutes later beforé my order arrives from the back counter, all of seven feet away. This 10 minutes, added to about 10 minutes required for consuming my insufficient meal, places the clock at just 1 p. m. By the time 8! reach my office I am 10 minutes (late. So citizens, this is the scene which greets the downtown worker during the lunch hour. I can't help but wonder why shoppers who probably leave home around 10 in the morning shouldn't eat a bite at home and then after getting downtown refrain ‘from getting their shopping snacks wuntil around 3 in the afternoon, If other workers have made some noontime notes on this matter, I wonder if they would care to give us their results, Wp

DAILY THOUGHTS

And- be not conformed to this “world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind;"that ye may pfove what is that good, and acceptable,sand perfect, will of God.—Romans 12:2.

TRUTH makes on the ocean of

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finished and de-| parted. Their places were taken by | Hurrah for the Watchman and|twe elderly shoppers. At once my

his" piece Ti your Saturday's Forum| waitress cleared off for them and titled “Give Everything and Take even took their orders at the same| from Luzon to Japan, too far for an invasion hold: the same- sentihe expresses in I would like to extend him|

I still clutch my menu hopefully |

More time passes. The elderly shop- |

manage to stammer “cheese sand- |

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Long Road

‘By Douglas Smith

supply bases, probably on the China coast, will have to be built before our army can invade Japan. That .is one reasof why the end of the war in the Pacifie | is still a long way off, > |“ The landings in France could not be made until | vast stores of materiel could be accumulated in England. That took many months, w [* It will take many more months to get ready for the {inal blow against the Japs, and there is as yet no friendly “England” conveniently near the Jap homeland. The Philippines are-too far-away-—it-is 1100 -miles.

convoy Assuiping that the Japs will continue to fight they can only be defeated by ground troops. Air- | planes are a great help, but _our bomber raids on | Japan have been only a drop inthe bucket compared | to the merciless poundings which. have been ads | ministered to German cities for more than a year —and the Germans are still fighting,

| Will Have to Start From Scratch

| JUDGING DISTANCES in the Orient is diffiguly for many Americans. It is 1000 miles from Hong- | kong to Japan; 400 miles. from Vladivostok to the | Jap mainland; and Shanghai-biggest Chinese port | before the war—is 500 miles from the Nipponese | homeland, ‘The strait which separates Korea from Japan is more than 100 miles wide. Iwo Jima is 750 miles. by air, from Tokyo and | provides a good base for bombers. But it is of little value as a supply base for invasion. When the army's transportation corps moves in to | build poris and bases recaptured from the Japs, ib | will probably have to start from scratch. There are | few railroads and highways in China and it is ase | sumed that the Japs will destroy them and the ports.when their capture seems inevitable, Before giving up the port of Manila, the Japs sank | moré than 300 wrecked ships in the bay to delay | Americans. Commodore Williams A, Sullivan, the navy's underwater salvage expert, said the Japanese | “port wrecking” exceeded that of Germans in thore | oughress. Shanghai and other China ports may be | due for the same fate.

Ships Must Travel Twice as Far ENTRANCE of the Soviet Union into the war would provide good air bases and enable .the alliés

sea routes to Vladivostok fun through Japanesedominated areas and land connections with that city are all but impossible, ©

ed out vecemtly that the transportation and supply problem in Europe “does not -compare in difficulty with the task of building from scratch the ports, railroads and highways necessary to support our forces in their operations against Japan.” Almost every article the army needs will have to be transported to the Orient from Afnerica, and the ships which carry this materiel must travel twice as fap as they travel to take supplies to Europe, he declared. ~~ : “Distance,” he Observed, “is one of the most ob

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WASHINGTON, March 30.—Gigantic American .

to hit Japen from both sides in the air. But the ’

Robert P. Patterson, undersecretary of war, pointe .

stinate enemies we must overcome in the Pacifio,