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and P-5ls and. the thutidereus B-25s and even a lumbering black cat buzz the beach for fun, at prac‘tically no altitude at all. And you get a feeling of ; yt mastery, such as the Japs must have had in ‘the days when the Greater East Asia Co<Prosperity Sphere had ‘a going-concern value —back -thére before Guadalcanal and Tarawa, and before those many ‘year-long ‘months of the New Guinéa campaigns. Back before Pearl Harbor—began to be “avenged in the Coral sea and off Midway and in the Bismarck. sea. And long before Leyte and Manila and Iwo Jima and the Ryukyus. i . Way back,- when the Japs owned the air and the water and most of the land in the Pacific, and were creeping down the Kokoda trail onto Port Moresby, and the Australians were preparing for the worst, and the tools of MacArthur's strategy were a shoestring and a vengeful resolution and a corporal’s guard of heroes. * You lie here baking, just outside the combers’ teach, in a sun that #s gentled by the cooling breeze, ‘and you watch the Lightnings with “their deceptive purr and the sprinting Mustangs and those loud and lethal Billy Mitchells. And here where the Japs were in control as lately as last January you close your eves and doze as unconcerned as though the enemy were not still clawing desperately in his trap a score or two miles away. The’ Smell of Victory HE MAY fight on for a long time before his empire and his homeland are completely taken. He may fight an even in the full knowledge that-nothing is to be gained thereby but a lengthening of the death throes of his gaudy dreams. A great many fine Amerjean boys—and the more you see of them out here the more respect you have for them—may lose their lives before the Japs conclude in their unfathomable
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
1 NEVER FELT old until yesterday. The ‘town= pound bus had no seats left when, sleepy-eyed, I dragged aboard out in Broad Ripple. Claude Rich and I stood in the back end of the bus, clutching a stanchion and yawning. We were standing in front of “a couple of 9 or 10-year-old girls,
bound for St. Joan of Arc school:-
The girls eyed Claude and me sur= reptitiously and whispered a bit. And then they got up and gave us their seats. Made us feel quite elderly. . . . That aerial junket of the Pacific battle front. on which Mickey McCarty of the. News is a guest of the navy secretary is a newspaperman’s dream. Oddly enough, before he set off in a navy . plane for probably 15. or. 20,000 : miles by air, Mickey never had taken an airplane ride. At least, that's what I hear over at the News. Suppose he had started out and discovered he didn’t like flying? He would have been out of luck. But that didn't happen. He wired back from Frisco that he thought the airplane is here to . . After 15 vears with Indiana Bell, Art Shea has disconnected. He went with the Harper J. Ransberg Co.’ which manufactures a device for -applying
paint, enamel and other coatings with an electrostatic -
process. . . . Dr. Willis Dew Gatch, dean of the I. U. school of medicine, usually does—at least around the school—what bawling out is done. But Tuesday, he was on the receiving end. The eminent medico started acroés the street.at Ohio and Meridian. A whistle tooted and one of the military policemen signaled him back with an admonishing remark. The doctor meekly stepped back to the curb,
Around the Town
A GIRL WHO formerly worked at Murphy's phones with the probable solution of the puzzle of the young woman seen carrying a well-worn purse with “the price tag still hanging from the handle.” Ttsathe custom. at. Murphy's for employees to check their purses during working hours, For identification the purses carry regular price tags, bearing the owner's clock number, attached to the handle. . ,. The loud speaker at the baseball park last Sunday blared i >
America Flies
IT'S BECOMING quite plain that the drive for our share of post-war international air commerce will be conducted under the American competitive system whereby any qualified domestic airline able
to justify its application will be licensed to operate : an international airline under, the watchful regulation of the proper authority. The relationship between the American competitive system and regulation by, government author« ity requires a little analyzing to "be sure we all agree on what we are talking about. 2 Competition is not only the basis of the American way of life, but also it happens to be one of the fundamentdl laws of nature: _ The motivating principle of all human progress is man's eternal dissatisfaction with his let. This means effort to. change his lot for the better. The comparison of effort eventually means ambition to excel, Long since we learned that competition had to be regulated in the interest of orderly society and of “certain inalienable rights” inherent in every: human being. Unrestricted, unregulated competition means a return to the law of the jungle, destructive of everything except - monopoly.
Nothing Socialistic THERE'S NOTHING socialistic in this kind of répulation. Tt wasqregulated competition which offset
My Day
WASHINGTON, Wednesday —From a number of sources I hear that some of the men in the services are worrjed about the $10,000 government insurance policies which they hold. : : They have discovered that the present insurance will expire in November, 1945, and they do not know whether: the policies will be extended. “On making inquiry, I find that a hill to extend these policies will be sponsored by the veterans administration, ‘which has not the slightest doubt it will be passed. The policies apply to both enlisted men and officers, and I think that _every man holding one should see
to it that his policy is extended
and that the deductions from his : pay continue. I have been get- . ting a number of letters from servicemen's mothers and widows who were dependent on the men and who. need their insurance. : For ohe reason or another, in many cases there seems to be a long delay. Of course, it occasionall happens that a boy tells his family he is insured, but then neglects to take the insurance out. ’ I wish, very much that some kind of automatic fnsurance could be worked out whereby every man _ entering the service is automatically insured for the benefit of his next of kin. , ~~ ~~ gi Ne Joa; be SUpIeR.I6 Sun it this way, and would ‘fequire people veterans’ bureau tham at present. I have wondered exactly why this atitow
Upper Hand
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wisdom that their sufferings have adequately expiated
SYA Si U8 3 Ta us « ls . : =. i : ! the worst blunder in the history of mankind, and ee ; . — - that surrender is preferable to extinction. ‘ But here along this tropical strand the smell of
SECOND SECTION THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1945. Lightning ila for a routine rus to the China coast THEY NEVER ONCE THOUGHT NAZIS COULD DEFEAT RED ARMY—
and back. There is little tension among those dainty
one pilot who has turned his back to.scribble something and has missed the instructions about where to By TOM WOLF ACY TE wa hE IEE . head in case of trouble. wr . : © NEA Stat Wriber ; N A % d br Si y FS: Ee Ge eh dR Wh : AST OF THE ELBE, Opposite NE ; : i / "Torgau, May 3.—Sr. Lt. Gregory ° 3 Michelov is probably as close to “typical” as any of the young Rus-
dreds of miles of ocean and hostile shoreline. sian soldiers and officers the Yanks “The chances. #long here are damned seldom,” says| met durihg the’ first days of the the briefing officer, pointing to a sector strongly held juncture. > 2 ’ by the Japs. The pilots pay attention, but they've : : a! been through this before. The other fellow may get| Lnerefore, who he is and what . knocked off, but not I. The B-25s are having some he thinks is pretty important to rough times, but this is easy for us. z everyone who believes the allies Maj. George Lavin, San Antonio, Tex., who is at- must live and work together after tached to group headquarters and not to the squadron : at all, decides suddenly at the briefing that he'll go| the War. fa % along for the ride, and hops into a jeep to get his| - First of all, Cregory is a handgear, He already has four Jap flags painted on his|S0me Muscovite, 25 years old P-38, ‘and -a patched-over flak hole here and there. I-think the thing which impressed He doesn’t have to make this long, cramped, lonesome | Americans as much as anything trip. But there is a gleam in his eye. : else about the Russians is the high No, these fellows are in a different mood from|Percentage of “Russkis” who could what must have been that of the pilots on Bataan|have stepped out of Hollywood hero and Java and Australia and New Guinea in. the roles. early days, when the Japs had the whip hand and | # & =& : a Saat is Se every mission was a desperate one. : | BY AND LARGE, they are a “ Flying still has its dangers over these waters, but well-built, clean-cut bunch of men. today the assignment is to exploit a growing victory Gregory wears two big Red Star rather than to risk greafly in last-ditch defense. medals, each of which indicates that {nought the allies had given Russiajested in how the Americans were; TI asked Gregory if he had heard Ours isthe mood now of veterans at victory. Which, he has killed 20 Germans. with lend-lease. treating Germans. . |German propaganda to .the effect to be sure, is appropriate in a fighter group that has| Gregory's fatiter—a farmer—| At first he misunderstood the| He beamed with pleasure wher we | that war between Anglo-Ameri-destroyed 677 Jap planes, > was killed in fighting in 1919. His| question’ and answered, “I think told: him that Germany's 'cities| cans and Russia was inevitable in! : mother raised him, sent him. 10 that England and America have were flat—propably as flat as Stal- the post-war future. He said he| school in. Moscow, and later to tech-| gone half the wirming of .this war.” -ingrad : had. , nical school, from which he grad-; when .he finally understood Turning question - to EE nn ed used as 4 mechanis 5 original question, he replied, “We him, he replied, “If a German “BUTE” he continued, “We know .He went into the army. as a pri- have seen and used lots of your soldier surrenders * before. ‘he has ; 1 vf ko {vate in 1940, and. went to. officers’ yrucks and jeeps. They're good used up .all his ammunition * we how to deal with Goebbels es; } {school in 1943. | “As to the rest of the lend-lease’take him prisoner and ‘treat him thing thay Americans are freedom He has seen all the fighting from material, T don’t know. I have never | well. land peace-loving people. So are) watch and would give § $10 reward for its recovery:|the start. |seert any American or British tanks| “But if, for example, a sniper we. {fires his last round—we can tell by | “I don't see any economic contra-|
In a short time, there was another announcement: a 2 8 lor guns.” : The watch had been found by Harold West. of the oN THE purely military side of, #8: 8 {looking at his ammunition belt— dictions between your needs and FROM what I could see it was in|and
West Bakery. He authorized payment of .the reward the picture, Gregory—like his com- | then tries to surrender, we ours. So frankly I don't see any| to. the USO. ... The newsreel showing President |, ,hiohs—ovérflows with confidence.! trucks and vehicles that the Rus-!feel we have the right not to ac-|possibility. of such a war.” Truman's initial speech to-congress.showed a senate] pe cays the hardest times were sians were shortest. cept his surrender. : | Sr. Lt. Gregory Michelov' was well |
page Sending Hl. hebide the president, The od the battles before Moscow and Stal-| . The original link-up patrols were i 8 # . {posted on world news. When 1! was chewing gum With -such-vigor that many In-teiyyprgq, riding motorcycles, horses and bi-| “WE ARE not fighting this war . y ras | audience snickered. . . . C. W. Appleman, an attorney f grat he .sa a f ghting avs asked him Nf Jie knew Who. was
ca 4 } | cycles, but large motorized vehi- against German civilians, but|President of the Unit States he in the Union Trust building, evidently is an easy man |, qo pt, |cles were conspicuously absent, against Nazis and Hitlerites. So replied Ee hin a moto please.: He has a couple of neat gold-lettered signs| «pygsia could never be beaten| As for weapons, Gregory was an after-victory I think we will let ments hesitation, on his office windows--visible from the street. One|, the Germans,” he says, with an exception in that he carried athe bystanders ‘go. .1 As a mattér of fact, Gregory sign spells his ‘name “Appleman”—the other, Ap- air of confidence which ‘indicates pistol.rather than a tommy gun| “But I think we ought to ‘take was pretty well ® informed about pelman.” . . . Patrolman George McAllister reports hat doubt never crossed his: mind with which almost every Russian all Germans and put them to work America generally. His numberthat of all things, a Standard Oil. Co. truck (not 84, this subject. ; | was armed. {to restore the war damage of one post-war objective is a visit tank truck) ran out of gas the other day and Stoppe I asked him how much aid hel. Gregory . was. extremely inter-| Europe.” ito the United States.
right in the middle of the intersection of Washing- |. : . : hr . ~ ARE WE CODDLING PRISONERS: OF WAR? . . . By S. Burton Heath
Army Gives Lowdown on Italian POWs!
In a Different Mood - PR THE PILOTS ‘seem more interested in ¥he report that a Mustang has accidentally dropped a couple of bombs at the end of the airstrip (the bombs didn’t
+ » » the thing which impressed Americans most about the Russians is the high percentage of ‘Russkis’ who could have stepped out of Hollywood hero r oles.” : :
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REP. GEORGE HENLEY, - Republican leader in the House, came to Indianapolis recently from his home in Bloomington and went to an oculist’s office to see about glasses. He sat in the waiting room a while and. then glanced at the woman sitting next to him, He gasped. It was Mrs, Henley. “Why, what are. you doing here?” he asked. “Well, what are YOU doing here?” she retorted. “Why didn’t you say you were coming here today?” asked George. Mrs. Henley tossed the question right back at.him. “It couldn't happen in any other family,” George remarked in revealing the incident. ,., If things keep on, world
The driver had to get out! and push it over to the corner. ASHINGTON, May. 3.—There has beet much criticism of liflerties that the army has granted to 1talian prisoners of war in this the ISUs are providing a million ing $8 a month—one-third of their | country. : man-days a month at critical points entire wage—in' cash, instead of These are in addition to and quite apart from the criticisms dis- in our war effort. canteen checks, plus the recreacussed in previous articles. ; They can .stop whenever they tional opportunities which have] They come -from persons who live near camps housing Ifalian choose, and go back to limited caused public criticism. | prisoners, and from soldiers who| tasks not directly connected with| They live in camps. They work have been told that while they | “OFFICIALS have declared flat- the war. | under supervision but not under] leaders are going to start worying every time they SOL. UCR GIF REUIS aie SePTIRS|lyS he says. Chat without the | iH. |armed guard. hear there's a special event on at the Indianapolis with Italian prisoners in the safety services of these men their ship-! PERHAPS some of these Italians! They can visit PXs, theaters and | Press club. Ever since my fellow columnist, John of the United States. ~ |ping schedules of critically needed are doing this work for love of chapels in camp. Hillman, became president of the club—five or six ‘ith reservations and subject | materiel could not have been met, this country or of democracy, or, They can have weeks ago—things have gone badly with world leaders | 0 their background, many. of these that bottlenecks could not have out of hatred for Germany. {friends visit ‘them.
on the days John has scheduled events at the club. Stories are true. |been overcome, that ppoduction| Most of them are doing it for ud The first social vent of his administration was a--Hci€ are the backgrounds and the could not
have been increased.”| the extra pay involved. talk by Claude Mahoney.. About three hours before reservations as given by spokesmen — the meeting, news of President Roosevelt's death was | for the srmy i rn | Fl 1 C ( / oe ft received. The second event, a demonstration of jet| - ” : / F ef Aff s propulsion, was held Tuesday night. That re] AS OF April 1 there were 50549 ying oione ! ree er by five hours announcement of Hitler's purported Italian prisoners of war in this} death. The next social event tentatively is scheduled country:
for 1ate this month. ! Approximately - 35000 of these| - : z were in special service units which | other ex-kriegie, whom he met to-| If they travel by special bus they are not under jurisdiction —of the| day, he found that he was more per- must pay for. it themselves—the! ~ . 7 v } 2 - provost marshal general's ang MOOSBURG,*May 2 (Delayed) ~|fectly physically fit than he had army does net provide it. 4
By Maj Al Williams vie looks. after all other pris-|Col. William.A. Hatcher, 021528, com- [ever been and was ready to face! Except that they get some in .
relatives and |
UNDER military escort, when “injvited, they can make limited trips [outside the camp, including at-! | tendance upon entertainments and ‘ : 2 Paties Jang by nearby ci-| . | villans—but only if the government | - 2 Years, Finds Life Good: the community by given its | 2 |
| sanction.
By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN
Times Foreign Correspondent
‘cners-except in theaters of warfare.| mander of the 351st bomber group, freedom, fortified by months of solid | cash, their monetary pay is no | The 15,000 not in such units are study in, which he had indulged for more than as if they were doing! treated exactly like the German want of anything else to do. {regular prisoner-of-war work. | prisoners of whom I have written. Bill had spent some time .n a rE. to crush our enemies. Regulated competition enables prio - : German PW tam pr p . A at Barth, near a people to ‘work at maximum efficiency. And since ¢ (omplailits center abou the Pp P
1p. ; i THEIR REAL reward is the priv-| Stralsund, on the Baltic, then had pri this is all so logically sound, we will have to apply | 57V'°® wis : | ileges mentioned.
¥ s one to the great German camp for Ss : : it to our international air commerce effbrt, We face | Bons re at Sagen am ne | For this, in many places, they a mighty competition for our share of this business.| THE ISUs are made up of Ital- : nac, France.
| remained until that camp wa |work 58 hours .a week—sometimes Puy . ‘ x ‘ British Are Preparing He stepped into
jon VoD SR yew of the changed 8 t evactated recently : {plus another eight hours of orien- ; status o eir country now a co- : . ; tation, training and drill—at an SO THE RUSSIANS sat in Canada while we and | belligerent against Germany, havela jeep, the first He had not been partitularly ye the British and a lot of little fellows held a ops lumens to waive certain pro-|car in. which he
has emerged into the great, free outside world - for the figst time since New Year's sp eve of 1943, when his Flying Fort= ress went down in flames near Cog~- §
mistakes of judgment and produced the weapons
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would have been desperately off if | OF Japan or their North Italy Fasit had not been for the sensational|CiSt countrymen, except actual comwork of the . International Red | Pat or the handling of explosives. Cruss in furnishing foed parcels. | “They are the, lowest paid class 3 » {of workers in our war effort,” about which so : Played Baseball | Gen. Lerch says. . : many people keep complaining, was| He “was -étill perplexed -at--the uu The British want our air transports and refuse out the prohibition upon combat|a pretty wonderful place. {amazing amoynt of knowledge of to negotiate for American landing rights on airports|duty thus offering to fight for this| Bill, whose parents live at 15708 his personal. and official affairs] THEY WEAR American army built-by-Americans-in-their-eolonies:The-British-are, country, but. these have noi been Woodland ave, Dearborn, Mich, |that the Germans had exhibited |Uniforms, usually Class B, with combining the rail, steamship and air interests in a |taken up on that offer. [and whose wife and two daughters WHER he Was eaptired, But his Plain. bone butions. instead. of the mighty drive to control international commerce of all] Maj. Gen. Archer L. Lerch, pro-|are living at 1078 S. Wall st., Spo-| predominant redction to the whole regulation military button. types. % |vost marshal general, says that kane, Wash. had nothing but de- mess was that, being over, it was| A shoulder patch, easily readable In short, the British are readying to meet their | these Italians are used exclusively |testation for the “goons’—Germans, pretty darned funny, in many re-|d! some distance, says “ITALY.” only. big league compétitor, the United States. to.supplement American civilian la-|in the language ‘of the “krieges,” as spects,-and that it was just about |They are permitted, under the The fiercest phase of this struggle will develop bor where an acute shortage has| American prisoners called them-| the. funniest: thing in the world | Geneva convention, to wear in. in thé fight for the Central and South American threatened to disrupt operations selves, | to be wandering around in a jeep, Signia of their ranks in the Italian
| abused, but agreed that prisoners | thing needed to help beat Germany air conference in Chicago. The" British told how and |visions of the Geneva convention. had ridden since why we ought to dispose of our merchant marine—in | . All have signed agreements per-|being. put into the the interest of other nations. A’ Dutch deal just ex- | mitting their employment on direct |sack, and opined posed provides the Dutch cargo vessels under lend-|war jobs that we cannot legally|that this world, lease, while the British build cargo vessels for Por-| ask prisoners to do. tugal out of lend-lease materials. : A few, in signing, have scratched
Mr. Storieman
markets, In Mexico, the British own 42 per cent of the railroad mileage and 70.per cent in Argentina. What kind of competitive rates will American shippers receive on this British-controlled rail network? To meet this kind of competition we'll have to build our own rail-steamship and air facilities into a real team.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
matic, universal insurance has never been favorably considefed. .
I was very much interested in the announcement
the other day that the congress was considering cer- | tain amendments to the. G. I. Bill of Rights, * It
seems suddenly to have been discovered that the passage of legislation does not automatically mean that the servicemen get the benefits intended. I. am glad that discovery of various mistakes in the. legislation has been made now, before a greater number of men come home. There are two weaknesses, not widely mentioned, which I think are most important. First, there is
the educational limit which makes that portion of ||
the G. I. bill of rights apply only to people under 25. -A man over 25 'may need a refresher course even
get it under the educational provisions of the bill Secondly, there is the two-year limit for obtaining a loan to enter a business or buy a farm. It ‘seems to me quite evident that, as long as the war is on, it will be very difficult for any veteran to engage in a new business successfully. , ° ‘many cases, it would ‘be better for. him to acquire more experience in a business which is already funétioning.~-But if he must take his" loan immediately’ of forfeit it; he is naturally forced to take it now. ai ’ : These faults in le on are not the only weaknesses in the bills. A tremendous organizing job,
‘however, needs to be done to implement whatever. legislation is passed. Saaspow 1 shenlq Mes Jo Jak
more than a younger man, and he should be able to| |
essential to the war effort.
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Up Front With-Mauldin
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{ going where one pleased. | At Sagen, Bill" said, the prison- | ers had ‘really enjoyed their exist-| ence. In good weather they kept in the pink of ‘condition playing baseball and other gameés, and in bad weather, they indulged in intellectual pastimes with equal zest. _ Bribed the “Goons” | ‘They had an excellent theater, | built by themselves, and, with the | assistance of talented comrades, ran what amounted to a first-class uni- | versity. Bill had gone in: heavily for | Spanish, political economy and phoand had conducted =a
tography,
{course in army law and organization |
for other prisoners. As senior offi-| cer at Barth, he had kept busy | running the camp and keeping “the!
| kids" out of trouble with the Ger- |
American ‘prisoners, Bill indi-| cated, had foxed the goons in a] hundred different ways and managed to bribe’ the German guards with cigarets to get many unofficial favors. It was at Sagen that “the Chicagoland - Flying Kriegie Club” with appfoximately 180 members, was organized under the auspices af | Lt. John H. Palmer, U. 8. N,, 106412, 1330 E. 56th .st., Chicago. This | group held weekly meetings and re-|
{mained in existence until the camp
was abandoned. - Copyright, 1945, by The Indianapglis Times . and The Chicago Daily News, Ine. p PYLE MEMORIAL DAY LOS ANGELES, May 3 (U. P.).—| Mayor Fletcher Bowron has de-
'} |claréd May 15%.memorial. day for
‘| the late Ernie Pyle, war correspond.
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my. That is the army's explanation of why Italians, captured fighting against our men in North. Africa and Italy, are granted privileges
any country.
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unusual for prisoners of war in|
ent killed by the Japanese on’ Ie;
PAGE15 , - Labor - See Signs of Rightist Bent In President
By FRED W.” PERKINS ~~ Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 3— Watchers of President. Truman seeking signs of whether he will lean .more to the conservative side: than "Mr. Roosevelt did, think they have the first real symptom today R
“srightism.
The inkling was the President’s answer in a press conference that he was not familiar =~ with t 'h e Murray Mull employ= ment” bill, now awaiting = ; Hearings before the senate bank ing and currency committee. This bill has been assailed by conservative spokesmen us proposing a definite move to the left, toward more federal control of the country's economic sys= tem. ; The bill—backed by Senators Wagner (D. N. Y.), Thomas (D. Utah) and O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.), as well as the ultra-liberal Murray from Montana—was intrg= duced Jak: 22, when Mr. Truman was vice president and presiding officer of the senate. = © As he had not used abundant opportunity to become familiar ‘with the measure, which- has attracted much attention, observers figured today that he was “not hot for it.” » ” »
THE MURRAY bill would make it mandatory for the President to transmit to Congress early in each regular session an “employnrent budget” ‘for the year indicating wHRt proportion’ of the potential labor force is likely to be absorbed by the year’s public - and private employment, If a deficiency loomed in prospective employment, Se res ident would he req to recommend a program to encourage ~ non-governmental expenditures producing jobs, and, if necessary, a federal spending program to take up the potential slack. One critic of this program is Dr. Emerson P. Schmidt, economic research director of the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce. In a new booklet he writes: - “Evidently -this will require a somewhat higher order of economic insight into the economic process than we have ordinarily expected from our presidents or their advisers. . , . For a country as large and varied as the U. 8; the acquiSition of the investment and consumption expenditure plans of our three million business units, our six million farmers, our 135.000,000 people and 165,000 government units, wotld be a prodigious, indeed an: impossible, task.” : » » . ~ “THE NOTION that major economic events, in a ‘free society can’ be forecast is a pure delusion. In fact, if on the basis of a given set of facts an accurate forecast’ could be made, the people's compensatory and other reactions to the forecast will themselves upe set-the forecast.”
- > Dr. Schmidt also - deduced th:
; under the Murray bill’s plan mucq
congressional procedure would be .abandoned in -favor of more ad- + ministrative authority. In his three weeks as President, Mr. Truman has given much evidence of his belief in the legis-™ lative branch as a full partnerin the business of running the nation.
We, the Women— Housewives : Should Favor Social Security.
By RUTH MILLET IT IS a fault of most women's clubs that they dote on studying problems far from home and totally unrelated to the lives and problems of their members, instead of getting down to earth and digging : into matters that really concern the members as women and homemakers. One such down-to - earth ?# _.problem they © might tackle right now is the matter of social security for domestic employees. That is a problem housewives ought to be interested in. . » » THEY KNOW that the domestic. workers they have lost to industry are now enjoying the benefits of social security. And they can't help but see that they are going to be reluctant to give up those benefits to go back into domestic work, where they have no protection of any kind. If for nothing but the selfish