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even good-tempered arguments among the interna- | tional Big Three, now contend that the Polish boundary |

settlement isn’t worth worrying about. Says the well-informed, usually thoughtful New York ! Times, for example: “In our judgment the settlement of the Polish border problem made at the Crimea conference | was neither unfair nor unreasonable. . of some new territory in the west and Torth the settlement | provided ample space in which a sturdy Poland can live and prosper.’ Perhaps it is the stability of national boundaries in | North America, and this country’s massive impregnability |

and our generally fine relations with. both Canada and | Governor Warren, Mayor Lapham and- Alger Hiss | future. Mexico, that caused the Times (and others who agree with |

. i agi A. ; ie ® he ri of justice; that the United Sa had been overrun by a military alliance of which Mexico was a member, and had been liberated by Great Britain and Canada. ‘And suppose then that Canada cast sheep’s eyes at a strip along the northern boundary of the

-it) to, overlook a 2d parallel.

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United States—a strip that took in Boston, New York, R

Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Twin Cities, Portland, Seattle and way points. Suppose, since we were defenseless and owed our liberation to Canada and Great Britain, that they met in Montreal and decided to give this strip to Canada, but to “compensate” by permitting us to take over an equivalent area of enemy Mexican territory. We should then be as big as ever. We should have

the |

So the people kept right on standing in the aisles. And when people whose view was cut off by the standees yelled, “Down in Front!” who had been standing in the aisles sat in the aisies.

'Little Men on a Great Big Stage’

sisting.

WHEN EVERYBODY finally got put to his own |

issalisfaction, it was possible to climb on your own

| see where all the noble words in such dull speeches ! were coming from. A kind-hearted lady loaned her opera glasses and looking through them, away down there about a half mile away, it seemed, were little | mer on a great big stage. The program said they were Secretary Stettinius,

and they. probably were, but’ you couldn't tell eyen wilh opera glassés from behind Row L., Anyway, the ! four little men on their four mustard-colored chairs 1. locked lost in Yall that space. “The

the people |

{any difference whatsoever in their { lives. | Neither my family or I have ever {eaten bacon and I'm glad to tell lyon that our morale is as high as | any good American's should be, no matter what is scarce during this war. Do you think for one minute {that a fighting man wouldn't fight

. With the accession | ang other people's tiptoes, peer over a lot of neck |the enemy because he hadn't had napes and bald heads and funny hats and hairdos to

bacon that morning for breakigst. { No doubt many of them have done without bacon and a great many things for two or three years, but is their morale low? If it were, you who kick about the shortages at home would have no hope for the! If you, sir, are in" such

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| poor health because of the bacon| I see .in the paper where OP shortage, you have a good imagina- |

tion. “Why - don’t: you raise your]

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can be used from day children within walking

to day

ste ‘the children playing in 8’ 8 ” “WHERE ARE WE TO GO?”

By Mrs.

| Wise, Indianapolis

Area’ Ren} -mut h, say's a. tenant

fiing was real | | own bacon or, beter git; a Cn to-kacate, 4 house that in

logis. odk “carpet and back&ivg, 1 PP DRE Boi br Ye HRY Roc cal ray! dr) Dest SOI, But, “Rat he did

ored square columns separating three banks of -15 United Nations’ flags, and 20 servicemen anti women in uniform standing before the flags. You couldn't | see a delegate any place, and the four little men | looked lonesome. | Comes the new world ord®w us second- balcony pioneers will have to see to if thiags are arranged | ‘different.

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Mutual Aid

By Wm. Philip Simms

more good.

can people as a whole, it would take | (a great deal more to lower their { morale, Never let it be said that! the freedom-loving people aren't! more than willing to do without as long as need be. The main job now

gripe about shortages. = » ~ “SPEND MONEY WHERE IT WILL DO MOST” By F, M., Indianapolis Let's do first things first!

| That would do one's health a lot 58¥ waswhere these

is to work for victory and not to|

Mr. | Brown of the city park board wants

to. go wher they do vacate,

I think, speaking for the Ameri- | | where they could find a place t

| move.

| TI personally have tried for- QV three months to find a place

move but because of a three-year-| old daughter, they refuse to rent

to me. Yet this child's father overseas fighting for these

| people who refuse to rent to us.

I also know another servicemen'’s who has

wife (he is also overseas) received an eviction notice. S

| has three children, So if they won't | rent to me, with one child, what |

about her with three children?

distance. | ® It is a crime to go about the city di in the underprivileged districts and the streets for want of a better place.|

‘Director C. R. Guter-| has . three | derstand the danger of inflation in

tenants were

| several brakes on inflation, but it |is vital that it is one of the brakes. | With all its faults, OPA has kept | prices down and given us a fair dis- | | tribution, Without OPA, Prices would be twice as high and the | distribution unfair to the persons | with the smallest pocketbooks. | Without OPA, we wauld have the! zzy spiral of wages and prices | going higher and higher — this] would be inflatién. What goes up | must come down. The deflation [later would be worse than the war. The need for OPA in the postwar period until supply gets closer to demand, is hard to understand, 5 but this realization is necessary. {Tbe need for every citizen to un-

by

| the "post-war period is urgent. no; Now, MY Evans may be hengry: for § pork ent while 8 year geo. wey or|all ate almost nothing but. pork, o| When our farmers flooded the mar{ket with pigs. It's really a minor

er

to rations in a foxhole,

Anything as big as OPA is bound to have faults, the wonder is that | price control has been as well done | as it has. | With pressure groups in Wash- |

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same |

OPA, we are in danger that con-| | gress will weaken OPA. We need [informed citizens speaking up to strengthen congress, to bolster OPA, at this critical time.

he!

| discoriifort compared to eating R- .

ington wanting exemptions from |

By Ned Brooks

POLITICAL SCENE—

‘Cannot Be Done With Words'

THERE ARE many differences here, and there must be much reason and mutual understanding, not among just & few men, the leaders, but among all those gathered here, representatives of small as well as big nations. It cannot be done with words; as President True man pointed out. It cannot be done in impressive plenary sessions, It must be done around the table in committee rooms by men of good will, determined to achieve success despite all the handicaps, despite national rivalries and jealousies which already have begun to crop up, as they do at all such conferences, They must “rise above personal interests” as the President said. In making his appeal he made it in the name of “a great humanitarian” who was called away before this conference, but who, as Mr. Truman put it, “surely is with us today in spirit.” A symbol, though no one seemed to notice it, wag

a 3-year-old youngster, clutching his mother with one chubby hafid and holding in the other a huge wooden |

pistol. It r ANS rea ago with the Big Four. of that day confronted by 8 youngster about the same age wearing the label “Class of 1040.” There must be no class of 1965:

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4 he Indiana olis Times REFLECTIONS — Hoc n P INticche. DEAD PAGE 18° Friday, April 27, 1945 Pi loneering Mi ssing gd FL |” brother of ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ : " President Editor Business Manager By Peter Edson By Thomas L. Stokes Den & n (A SCRIPPS-ROWARD NEWSPAPER) SAN FRANCISGO, April 37.—They : SAN FRANCISCO, April 27. — Airs : ; . got the 1320 delegates and advisors Something is missing from tended Owned and * publisned Prin Marian Coin squeezed into the 1300 seats on the United Nations conference here. | fled “a daily (except Sunday) by _ty, 5 cents a copy; deliv- ; ibl ft employ nd ered by carrier, 20 cents main floor of the opera house for > §: It strikes you forcibly so- often, plant in Indianapolis Times Pu ar . the opening sessioh of the United like the remembered gesture or the the army lishing Co, 214 W. Mary- Nations conference all right, but things were differ- tone of, voice of someone gone forever. It comes upon shipped o land st. Postal Zone §. Mail rates in Indiana, | ent nine flights up, behind Row “L” (for last) of the 4 | T © I. you suddenly in the midst of all the bustle and ex= He was 28 : $5 a year; all other states, | second balcony above.the dress circle. : 0 citement in® the hotel lobbies here, the buzzing Besides Member of United Press, U. 8. possessions, Canada That's where the 1200 members of the press corps whisper as some international figure moves swiftly are his pA Scripps-Howard Newspa~ and Mexico, 87 cents a | overflowed. to when they couldn't all get into the 500 across the thick carpet surrounded by a covey of Goldshy, per Alliance, NEA Serve month. seats for which there must have been issued 1500 protective secretaries and assistants, in the solemnity ters, Mrs, pes and Audit Bureau of : : tickets. -- of formal convocations. Circulations. Pee RILEY 5551 It was more fun. You couldn't see what went on What is missing, of course, is the lifting spirit of Hiskama down below, but the acoustics were perfect and the Franklin D. Roosevelt,. who was identified so closely nd the People Will Find Their Own W @ive LigM a y won Way company was swell. People like Gracie Allen and «not only here but all over the world—with the fight gy TERT " Madame Genevieve Tabouis and Charlie Michelson for freedom against Nazism and Fascism, and with , Bedf THE BARGAINING BEGINS and Countess Austine Cassini and Bill Gunninghar the effort to create an international organization t@ ohare : a and Ernest Lindley and nearly all the high-powere . HE United Nations conference yesterday started out | yingits of the Fie press got shoved pig this keep the peace. : Ln. with a deadlock. At the public session all the chiefs of | second balcony and didn't like it a bit. If they write 'Trappings Were All at Hand nll . : : : nasty pieces about what went on, you'll know why. IT WAS ticularly noticeable at the opening " the Big Four delegations made speeches pleading for unity par y 583, lost } and berating “But they had just come from a secret | '|lt Was Pretty Detached Up There’ session of ‘the confererios, witich 16 hud. plasmed 19 Jima whi : f 3 ; : attend in person. The trappings were all a marine di session which had been anything but friendly. They couldn’t BUT SHUCKS! They should have relaxed and The scene was well prepared in the war memorial A grad ~~Teven agree on the easiest questions of organization. enjoyed it. After the proceedings got started, a lot opera house for ‘the much-advertised. opening. - A school, Cp : : : Yvidd large crowd had gathered outside long before the Prest-0-L This split was between the Americans, British and | of people just sat down on the floor, with their backs. El Bt toro toa tor the few Fro. certain smaller nations on one hand and Russians on the | to fre gh snd Shey jung eRerviing over Be loud seats available for the public or at least for a look ta 3 ” y v y w speakers just as well as ey ada staye ome, at the celebrities, other. The plan—which every body assumed would be ac- | 3, oor ‘their shoes and listened to the radio. The background inside was like that furnished oi cepted without argument—was to follow the usual custom Only one correspondent in the world had a better hy Hollywood for one of its musical. eXtravaganzas— Qe, of making the host permanent chairman of the conference, Yaliage point oat Wali Dorothy THA who a sky-blue backdrop, in front of which were three eat | ividi ’ i i i Seems experung uhis con erence rom london. garish, orange-colored columns, with the flags of the and dividing up the ‘committee chairmanships among the | 5 ov, tial's goirig Where You can get a good Perspective ta A I returned : larger delegations. But Mr.. Molotov blocked that plan, and | and detached view. tron, ‘of the stage, four gilded chairs, These were then wes also a compromise offered by Mr. Eden. So organization of But it was pretty detached up there behind Row L not, “as we supposed, for the Big Four, but for Secree : Besos the conference had to be postponed of. the second. balcony, too. Some distinguished for. "ary of State Stettinius, Mayor Roger Lapham, Gove Marilynn ne co . eign-iooking gent who had come early to get a good ernor Earl Warren and Alger Hiss, general secretary . | Ris. seph 2 a a : an seat, but didn't, brought along a book to read while of the conference. ep WE DON'T pretend to know why the Russians got Waling Jor igs 2 i arted ane we rh Se These-gentlemen were preceded on the stage by & Howe), . Xs | seen band played suc nappropriate music as over | : 3 y “ group of service men and women, 16 of them, sailors, Pte. J stiff- -necked over this. Certainly they have plenty of bigger | come Back to Me” and “All the World Is Waiting | Fdiers, marines, WACS, WAVES and SPARS, whe, . Plo, Jan Issues to worry about. [2 Spe Se ToL Nae Wis geubs Oo was, | filed in solemnly and lined up across the stage. Theg infantry, s > nd, “ionesrs an a New. Wor er.” ahyvody ever | tood there during the brief, half-hour ceremony. ’ . Since they already had started: conflicts over Pola | rE am the be Bort Sa To et ai | Stoo Users dufing | fon Germany and veto power in the proposed league council, and multiple | ;; v;, were. going to be stranded. behind Row L Hardly Impressive or Inspiring Son of * yoting privileges for themselves in the proposed assembly, | of the second balcony of San Francisco's opera house, THE OPENING session was dignified, but routing Bela, 3 oy vad : > i 4§ tell 'em, “Pioneers in 8 New World Order,” complete and hardly impressive or inspiring. President True jie mighrhiave saved some of their anunynition, with first aid kit and snake bite remedy. ‘man’s voice came over the radip loud-speaker, but it . Harp, 206] Nevertheless, the Russian attitude should not cause lacks any thrilling quality. Secretary Stettinius stil} going into other delegations to get excited and attempt retaliation. | ‘Things Were in Charge of the Ladies’ ie (he onbwoher a the LISIASRTAD ZVI § Wiig If the Russians are touchy, that is all the more reason for DOWN ON the main floor they may have been Pepost Jo 2 hoary of so ery you the Battle their American hosts to retain a sense of balahce and | trying to do something about the world order, but up ih ne turned to fairness. | inthe second balopny § was just pioneering, Any Franklin D, Roosevelt could have done much with A Ja : $4 4 A omy | journalist here could have written his story, put “I wholly di ith wh this half hour. 3choo:, Patience does not cost much. But it is obvious, even | journalist up & : . wholly disagrees with what. ! Worknd Io 1 : i te | head on it, “With Opera Glasses and Program you say, but will defend to the Yet, as it went-.on, there suddenly came the realie | this early, that we are going to need a lot of it to make this | & ™“ : ” i} . S Y | l l ] ] 1 Y, ) the i a cannot do the dob 30 be. dor years. conference a success % Ba lux Bis oat 1€ r death your right to say it. ako a \f Franklin D A had bees Besides y Io : ew . i ’ : survivors : The American public, particularly, should not take | cast it adrift in the nearest wash room, hoping it | “JOB NOW IS TO (Times readers are invited |“OPA HAS KEPT Spare] to De bets, le Sould oblY haw. olere hy Jean, 6, a deadlock : 1 At least not in the beginning. | wonid be carried by fair wind and tide to reach a | WORK FOR VICTORY” to express their views in PRICES DOWN" inspiring beginning. His absence emphasized t *hres OLbe these deadlocks too Serious y. : eas no in e deginnu g | friendly shore in time for first edition after the |py virginia M., Indianapolis | these columns, religious con- By Mary Alice Wible, 1215 N. Leland st.|. One commanding figure cannot do it all—for Woode ley of ok After all, a conference like this is essentially a trading | new world order gets established. If this screed ever | I would like to answer the letter! troversies excluded. Because | Having just read “OPA Is A Lot| TOW Wilson failed before—nor can a few fen do the OA enterprise. Not only the Russians, but probably others as | sees print, you'll know how it got out. written by Ernest L. of Blooming-| 0", = ved. le}. Of Bologna by Jov Evans, T would] WOTE 10 be gorie hefe, if 14 is properly one, sf Indian: i | The military police—the sissies—were all sta- | ton, who said that the scarcity of, © Ihe volume received, le g President Truman seemed to have an appreciae of indi an well, will take ridiculous bargaining positions. | tioned down on the main floor where they could |pacon was lowering the American] Tors should be limited to 250 [suggest that Mr. Evans should read | tion of this. He pointed out that differences are But we can't believe they plan to wreck the conference. | show off. But up on the second balcony things were | pegple’s morale. Never have I heard! words. Letters must be |carefully Frank Gervasi's article in| bound to exist between men and nations, that it is in’ charge of the ladies of the Red Cross in gray |of anything so absurd. It seems to signed. Opinions set forth | ine April 28 Colliers, “Danger Infla- | wholesome they do exist, and that, as he put it, “all uniforms and the girls of the Junior Red Cross in|me that it would be tragic if the here are those of the writers, |, » progress begins with differences of opinion and moves POLISH BOUNDARY middy blouses. dark skirts and bobby socks. And | american people were so weak as and publication in no way 5 onward as the differences are adjusted through ree : | they just weren't equal to the job fui i p nls . Price control may be only one of | go; and mutual understanding.” GREAT many well-meaning Americans, ‘eager to avoid | © you cant stand or sit in the aisles.” they kept in- | 2. J€¢ such a trivial thing make| implies agreement with those it 7 Q an tl sta § é y Ue) pL -

| After Mr. Evans reads the Gervasi article, I wonder if he will still prefer a pork chop to OPA.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 27— |t5 purchase Broad Ripple park at| After the fancy opening conference [an original cost of about $150,000— speeches here are done with, one of land no doubt will spend another the first and liveliest debates will

80, Mr. Gutermuth, you have told us how we must vatate when the| three months are up. Now perhaps

counted in the billlans of dollars. Losses were inevitable under the 4 system of issuing polices, but thelr size is just beconte .

plenty of room. We could move the population from’ our | lost northern area into our new acréage south of the Rio |

Grande; and build us up a new United-States. » » ” o o » YOU SAY that couldn't happen? True enough. Yet that is exactly what is about to happen to Poland, and some Americans can't see anything wrong with it. A nation isn't just so many square miles of. land, to be jockeyed geographically at the whim of stronger powers— or is it? This war is in defense of democratic self-deter-mination, and the right of small nations to live their own ives without fear of aggression from bullies—or is it? We are no more eager than the Times to pick a quarrel vith Russia over Poland or over anything else. Perhaps ve have no option but to permit Russia to do as she pleases /ith Poland. But we do have the right to disapprove, and ) argue—don’t we?

AN CONGRESS CO-OPERATE?: AUCH ‘has been said about President Truman's desire to co-operate with congress. Much needs to be done

yout the ability of congress to co-operate with President ruman.

Successful full des, but it calls 1%

partnership calls for good will on both It doesn’t mean that

Bo than that. _ither partner mustyyield meekly to the other when honest |

ifferences arise. It means that each partner must be repared to pull his share of the load and carry his share if the responsibility for gelting necessary things done romptly. - In crucial times of swift, momentous change a congress Il equipped for its job tends inevitably to become either a cubber stamp or an obstacle to action. In either case it : damages its own prestige and weakens government by law, We feel sure that Mr. Truman, himself Jong a senator, has “no wish to usurp congressional functions or see the legislative branch subordinated to the executive. - He is entitled

to a congress that can co-operate in the truest sense of the |-

, word—a congress both willing and able to #ct with him for the country’s good and the world’s peace. The La Follette-Monroney committée of senators and representatives is now in the midst of hearings and studies : ich it is Sop. ‘will lead to great improvement of the tery and .methods of congress, - Thé work of this

: come over mutual aid alliances and | how to At them into the world organization, France in particular is perturbed over the fate of her new treaty with the Soviet Union. It contains no provision whatever for bringing it into line with Dumbarton Oaks, yet the United Nations are going to insist that it be brought in somehow. The British-Soviet pact of May, 1942, was the first of this new series of alliances. Evep® so, it went to considerable pains to reconcile its provisions with the then budding idea of a new world organization. The two countries declared their “desire to unite with other like-minded states in adopting proposals for ' common action to preserve peace and resist aggression in the post-war world.”

France Wants Maximum Help

the event of aggression, they specified that this pledge would lose its validity ‘whenever, “by mutual agreement,” they recognized it had been superseded by a world organization Neither the Russian: treaty with France, Czécho- | slovakia nor ithe recent pact with the provisional regime in "Warsaw contains. any such clause. This would seem intentional on the part of Russia. Apparently it was the British who asked that this be Inserted in their particular treaty In any event, {t was deliberately omitted by | Fran Three times within the memory Frenchmen, France has been invaded by Germany. What she wants now is a maximum of help, in case of attack, and she wants it in a minimum of time. Russia can give it to her. So France is now agking herself, will the Dumbarton league of rations be able to act as promptly?

Quick Action Necessary i

IN THE Dumbarton draft there is a clause saying, “No coercive measure should be applied’ by vir ture of regional arrangements or by regional bodies without the security council's authorization.” The French fear this will impair their treatyswith Russia. If one of them is attacked, and they must first obtain the security council's authority to comply with the ternds of the alllande, the French say, delay might prove fatal. 8o they propose this amendment: “An exception to this rule should be made when it 1s a matter of applying emergency measures pro-

by members of the organization and duly : Houpey to | the security council” | Such local understandings, however, might easily set off an explosion. Bo the problem will not be an easy one to solve, ‘But on one thing Most are agreed. The new

ons hut us dnivinty

lease must be capable of quick ant deciuve sotin |

THEN, AFTER promising to help each other in |

of living |

vided for by: the treaties of agsistarice concluded

{$100,000 to improve it I believe that this money can {be spent to a better advantage. The {north side of Indianapolis now has beautiful Holliday park and Washington park which are not, used to the extent commensurate ‘for their | cost of upkeep. Fall Creek park] from Keystone avenue to Fort Har- | rison also fills any further need. I believe that what Indianapolis needs is more play grounds in the

the city, In locations where they

you can tell us where we service- | 4 uw men’s wives are to go with our chil-| the Housing FROM OUR LAND”

dren. - Did you say Center? Don't make me laugh.

have been there fifty times or more. | {Did you say rental agency, etc.? 2 Another laugh. Why don't you, Mr. |

| Gutermuth, try to find a place

“LIVING COMES *

1g, Thomas Lloyd, Indianapolis An obscure news item reads, “Bill would make Filipinos citizens.” Do to| We love them so that we would con-

live with children (and they are fer this favor? Or would it not

| well-trained children too). if you would only how the situation is, you or o

more thickly populated sections of mayor or governor would do some-

thing about the situation.

I think serve the big land barons about as try to realize |

” well as the proposed farm labor stave law that would imprison a farm laborer for two years and add

Side Glances 2 Galbraith

a $10,000 fine for quitting his job? The significant fact is only farm labor was included in this bill, With the increase of absentee landlord-

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{ism there is a determined effort to {have - serfdom labor, either by law (or necessity. We are now confronted with a condition just as real, just as vicious as they had in Burope. The stage is all set for the public to pay a handsome profit to these land barons on an inflated land value and assortment of costly equipment. There will be no argument, Production will be controlled and prices fixed to suit the land barons. Hunger ar the threat of hunger is a mighty force. There is nothing that will save us as a free people but a drastic restrictive land law that will put our farms in the hands of owners and operators of family size farms. Bixty million jobs at good wages is only in the talking stage. The Atlantic charter won't change human nature, Our living comes from our land and there is where we ‘should look for it. That is the only security we. oan hope for. Let us have a homestead land reserve for the poor man, rescue him for farm labor serfdom.

DAILY THOUGHT Some therefore cried one thing,

and some. another: for the assembly was confused: and the | more part -knéew not wherefore they were come. jlogeiterThe |

1 ll never ses anviting. uni | hell of I

"ing apparent, The casualties of an Iwo Jima or rh Normandy dead heavy blows to the 130-billion-dollar insurance busie ness bedause the premium paid by the G. I. covery only the death risks of a policyholder leading a nore mal life. Uncle Sam assumes all the costs of exe cess mortality due to the hazards of war. A billion dollars of next year's $2,700,000,000 ape propriation for the veterans administration is eare marked for insurance system losses. Earlier approprie ations for the same purpose have totaled $797,700,000, And Administrator Frank T. Hines says next year’s bill may be a half-billion higher than the billion appropriation, depending on the casualty rate. Some 14,000,000 past and present members of the armed forces, including women’s branches, are now covered by National Servicé Life Insurance. The gove ernment will be in the underwriting business for years to come because the present five-year term policies are convertible to ordinary life; 20-payment or 30 payment policies at premium rates lower than those offered by most commercial companies.

Average Coverage is $9100

ABOUT 95 PER CENT of servicemen and women have taken advantage of the government's offer, Theip average coverage 15'89100 (the limit is $10,000) and the 1300 billions represénied in government policies is only about 10 billions less than the total insurance now carried on the books of all commercial firms; Gen. Hines has estimated that 239,000 death claims will ‘be filed during the fiscal year beginning July 1, representing total obligations in excess of. $2,100, 000,000. . This estimate, “involving the uncertain factor of war casualties, was arrived at by computing the death rate at 2'% times the normal mortality rate of ine sured civilians, On that basis, Gen. Hines estimated that the “extra-hazard” claims—the loss which the government must absorb--will be $1,661,000,000.

called upon for a deficiency appropriation to supplee ment the billion dollars Just ‘voted. Thus far the veterans administration has received about 200,000 death claims and has settled 330,205 fog a total of $1474,000000. :

So They Say—

1 WisH we could quit. fighting for a little white. and be friendly. I'm tired of staring at German sour

ermany "YOR, SHEER ihysical

Busses «Pte. Richard Jnettompt of New York, in

If the loss reaches this estimate, congress will be

wh

D and: suffering one tfyl than the gi :