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: REFLECTIONS—

Silly Stuff

By James Thrasher.

ONE OF ERNIE PYLE'S columns from Italy told of the death of Capt. Henry Waskow. It was" one of the best things Pyle ever wrote, and one of the most moving

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POLITICAL SCENE—

Remember By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, May 30.—This is the day when we pause to remember and honor those who have | diea in our country’s wars. i This year, as last year and the . year before and the year before that, we think par-

land st. Postal Zone 9 | Literature of this war. No one who read it could very | ticularly. of those who have died in this war that

is still going on. For the graves are fresher—in France and Germany and Italy and on the islands of the Pacific—and many hearts are still heavy from recent grief. re wie The honors are done so frequently with the noisy fanfare of military pomp. “Glory” is mentioned often | and idealized, when ‘there is really no glory in wav, ‘weary hours of marching down endless roads

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day's battle. » Ernie told hew the men who had loved Waskow fave ¥%, one by one 0 Joo 3 Hm for ne last ee | “waiting alone in a foxiole~or in the stinking me, He inkl wha) Wey Saifi=sbriel, awRwaiy. griels : / | tropical wilderness, with death rising up suddenly tilled pnrases, wrung from theny by sorrow and by S$ q |

THE STETTINIUS REPORT AY APES A > ~ TATE QTETET y ro . AIEPY ii. ! i g AK | i . Y . % ' 2 ECRETARY OF STATE STETTINIUS was very enthusi- | vier ‘hatred: of the war and_the enemy: that had yr - } 4 F Be jo ook you in the face or smite you down astic in his report to the public Monday night on the robbed them of another friend. (Fe ‘ No Day to Speak of 'Glory' Some of his optimism | 'One of Those Rare Pieces’ © THIS is no day to speak ‘of “glory,” with all its IT WAS INEVITABLE that this story, which Pyle connotations, i told. so beautifully, would be incorporated into the This is the day to .ponder the death of those

~e cory St ) hap forthcoming film ‘based on his writings. And it was : tar au : hy they Similar propaganda technique in selling the Dum arton “cqially inevitable. that the dialog should be taken who died so young, and to think again of why they . tought, to remember for what it was they lay alone

draft and the Yalta agreement as near-perfection only back- intact from the original, story. which happened to sid : : Br.aon + : Q Francise b harder The real be one of those rare piéces of prose .that can't be | in the midst of battle waiting for the advance, for fired, and made the San Francisco job harder. ve Foal oe Oe tons tei pot | what it was they jumped from their refuges and task is not to sell the San Francisco charter to the people | ap yight and proper, so far. But then the blue 1eoed he inerepeey Sorsenl.of eel, ala ig : : . " . eta Rd f is is ay p i now, but to keep it sold after critics begin exposing its | nose of the Hays office intrudes itselt and tells Lester ! once li the PH Ase y ne a8) pine ighis nesses. The safe and fair way is to give the people | Cowan, the film's producer, that it cannot approve Bw ’ om y v Tights weaknesses. The safe and fair way 1s to give the people |; picture because it regards some of the dialog in| they enjoyed—the right to go to a school where all the facts, so they may he prepared to accept a half | (;. capt. Waskow scene as expressions of profanity. | . yo j By § they could learn to think as they pleased, to say | As we recall the story, three G. I's used the| = 72x : what they pleased, to go to what chcurch “they : { z pleased, or not go to church at all, to read what

loaf as better than none. | 3 . Baie ok : {| word order ot a profan rase 1voke God's pun- | Wor ¢ ¥ p Pp they wanted to read, to go to work at the job they chcose, to walk in the streets without the quick

. . a am, : : ; _|'1shment. upon the causes of the grief ‘which they felt | ON THE PROFIT side, the big achievement to date of | so profoundly and expressed so ‘simply. They were | hecre, fo. Wak § ihe susels Wino he GUE . “Ww. . N . : a: . . . 1 % - . : : i a ar 1 . y , > af this conference and Chairman Stettinius is that it finally | soldiers, not eulogists. "And considering the circum- De It was these simple things for which they fought,

. . a, : : | stance and ‘intent of their words, it seems a little | met despite obstruction by ‘some; and that it hrs Tot been blasphemous of the Hays office to brand those words . : : “though thev often never stopped to think. It was somerhing deep inside.

Russia's failure to live | as blasphemy. For the enemy would deny all these and make man “into an automaton, the supine creature ol a ruthless state, not the free spirit that God made him

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[ - San Francisco security conlerence. is justified. Standing alone, however, his one-sided report |

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wrecked by European explosions. up to her Yalta agreement regarding Poland and other ‘This Could Be. a Hint' liberated Jcountries, the dispute .over Austria, the Trieste IT SEEMS tous about time that interpretérs of TNT, fhe Big Three disputes-over occupation of Germany; the Hays code be allowed to adopt a more adult at- . : So aviary tx fitude, that the code itself be cliangéd to permit still seriously strain the conference. But a charter is In metween tasieliis or valgarity sight. : :

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| 'Day to Remember the Unhappiness'

YOINe md strong words uttered in a moment of deep emo- THIS 1S the dav, too, to remember the.unhappiness that some of them had, the hunger sometimes

! . : : | . A : Ch] Lis is the second recent. instance in which the ; ids” oh ; some San Francisco amendments, already accepted by the Hays office has behaved as if this tragic world were Wl al ay AY : y {for food for other things, the poverty they en- > Cg NY > dured, the dingy walls, cracked and stained, at which |

Big Four, are a genuine improvement on the Dumbarton- | a Hollywood set. It’'has objected to a “damn” in | they stared in the night, the exhaustion from tramp-

, \ o & : ‘ film dealing with the Nazis’ mass murder of Rus: | a plan. - that we should be thankful. a film dealing with : Yalta pian. For fiat we shoul ian civihans. Yet, if memory serves, it permitted | ing the streets, looking for a. job where: there was none.

One of these gains, as he said, is the new emphasis . “gamn® by Clark Gable somewhere in the inter- | . i . : Hoosier Forum For we have had that in America, Loo.

on settling disputes in early stages before war preparations | minable footage of “Gone With the Winer ; erica bbe : : . : 4 | Two major film producers, Warner ros. an This i¢’ the day to remember that they died to . ] . , t J : begin. . Ancther is the increased strength and scope of the | a “MEN OVER 38 SHOULD ‘BE RELEASED”

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: | “1 wholly disagree with what - vou say, but will defend to the { United Artists, have lately -left the Hays fold. This death your right to say i. They fought, too, against the greed for power in

. to the guardians of movie morals high places, against the ambition to conquer other

social and economic courcil to deal with such cases of war. | could be a hint Still another is the stress on promoting human rights and |

(Timés readers are invited - | "WRONG CONCEPT

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- freedoms—a valuable provision even though it lacks teeth. | ” NM " - - = o 5 AS TO THE tentative agreements reached.on two! fssues of -vast importance to the United States—-the Pan-, American regional security system and the future of Pacific | bases—Mr. Stettinius expressed complete satisfaction. But | these compromises are nothing to dogmatize about. Assuming a co-operative attitude of the security | council, and-particularly of each one of the Big Five having | general veto powers, the compromises will work. But lacking that spirit-—as it is lacking in Europe today—there could be disastrous interference with the traditionally effective Inter-American peace systent and with our necessary bases jn the Pacific. We should get better safeguards if possible | later, if not now. The secretary was even less frank in reporting -on the | basic American policy that the league must have the clear right to review any war-breeding peace settlements and to amend its own charter in the light of experience. In fact | he virtually ignored this whole field, making one unclear | reference to the first and none to the second. : - LJ = n n » HE REPORTED that the assembly had been given | ®sweeping power to recommend measures for the adjust- | ment of any situation which is likely to impair the general | welfare—and this includes violations of the purposes and | principles of the organization.” But, according to other | official statements, the assembly cannot make such recom- | mendations on security questions being considered by the | gouncil—which nullifies the assembly's right because of | big power control in the council. : : This is only one of many points—including peaceful pettlement of controversies and authority to investigate disputes—where a big power under the present proposals can block peace efforts. The United States should accept almost any compro- | mises to get a world security organization, provided we are | not required to underwrite unjust unilateral peace settle- | ments and provided no single nation is given a veto on |

progress through review and amendment. That was official American policy at the start of the conference, and it will | be the test at the end.

FOOD AND THE ONE-FRONT WAR - | NE of the predecessors of Rep. Clinton Anderson in the new double-barreled job of agriculture secretary and | war food administrator made a rather puzzling statement | upon leaving office. | Marvin Jones, retired WFA head, said that since the! European fighting has ended, there is no need for a separate war food agency in a one-front war. He doesn’t say why. We have recently been promised that American food | stocks will hit a wartime low in August, with few reserves | in sight for winter. And it's apparent to anyone who eats that the food shortage is getting worse, not better. We sincerely believe that the whole problem of food production and distribution should be under one céntral control, and that the move to put it there is long verde. But we can't see that a one-front war was needed as an | excuse, or that it has a great deal to do with the overall | difficulty. a

THE SENATE IS WISE (CONGRATULATIONS to the U. S.. senate on rejecting, | 43-10-9, the ill-timed and tricky proposal for a $2500 | tax-free salary increase, disguised as an expense account, | to each of its members. And on turning down other proposed senatorial pay raises at this time. The house, which has already voted the $2500 boost for its members, is not bound by the senate's action. But we |! hope thé house will now reconsider and wait a while—until it is no longer necessary for the government to hold down | other people’s wages, and until congress adopts a real plan to improve its own efficiency. Then a frank, adequate congressional salary increase will be in order, :

ONE TOUCH OF RETICENCE . A CCORDING to one of Hitler's secretaries, the allegedly - late fuehrer once described the late Heinrich Himmler, butcher of ~ You can put that one down in the hook statement that the old master of hysteri

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that the time has come to wake up and grow up.

WORLD AFFAIRS— : { Trade Shifts | By Peter Edson

SAN FRANCISCO, May 28— With from four to five, times as

many cargo ships now operating in | {about a year ago just prior to the;

the Pacific ocean as before the war, one of the big riddles to West coast shipping men is how much traffic there will be to carry after the defeat of Japan. The first few carloads of hemp from the Philippines came Into San Francisco recently, to miark the beginning .of restored U. S. trade in the Pacific, but this was only a token. Most freighters hauling war supplies to the Orient still come-back light because there is nothing to carry. Foreign economic administration has several missions in the Pacific making preliminary studies. But thus far no reports have been made public. First difficulty is that none of the big raw materials producing areas of the Pacific has as yet been liberated. And how much of a scorched-earth policy the Japs will carry out as they retreat can’t be measured. :

Synthétics Helped Shortages: THERE IS an American demand for what the Pacific can, produce which may take several years to fill. . Tin irom the Netherlands East Indies and Malaya, rubber from the same areas, vegetables, palm and coconut oils are needed. Wartime America has been able to get by without the usual supplies of all these things which the Pacific used to furnish. Rationing plus synthetics of these substitutes may mean a revolution for Pacific ship= ping when the war is over ; What, for instance, is going happen to -the once profitable silk trade with Japan? Will China or the Philippines get it? of nylon and rayon put them all—and the silk worm —completely out of business? And how sucessfully will synthetic rubber be able to compete with the natural rubber formerly® imported from Indonesia by the million tons?

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In for a Major Reshifting WILL THE resumed import of vegetable oilg formerly produced in the Pacific put a to warincreased U. S. production of peanuts and soybeans on American farms? There are a lutions in that The of Pacific trade major reshifting in just such fashion as this Not only that, but what happens at the Francisco conference -and at the peace conference afterward, with regard to disposition of Pacific islands formerly mandated to Japan, may ‘have imon post-war trade routes.

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Germany made a good thing out of those islands |

when they belonged to her. Japan didn't allow

| their resources to deteriorate, though no one really

knows what the commercial resources of those islands may add up to. Some have rich phosphate beds which will increase the Pacific supply of fertilizer Saipan had big sugar plantations. But will Hawaii and the Philippines stand for their development as competitors on the U. S. market? And how will

Louisiana and the beet sugar areas of the West like it? |

Challenges Met With Energy uncertain future to West coast shippers who are meeting them with characteristic energy and initiative. Openly discussed are plans for refrigerator

ships which will build up a trade in frozen foods | produced in the temperate zones for sale throughout

the tropical Pacific. Passenger “traffic immediate future the Pacific want desperately come home, marily of the people who have had to stay home throughout the war want to go places. Here the greatest imponderable of them all-how many passengers will want to go by air and how much of a competitor to the slower ocean<going ship is the amplane going to be? Anyane who can answer all these riddles has a

steady Job waiting for him in the traffic departments of West coast ‘shippers.

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IT WOULD be an even greater disaster for the United State after this war to commit its military forces to the preservation'of an international order

in which it,'lvad abdicated its moral leadership. —Rep. Samuel A. Weiss, Penhsylvania. Ji * - . *

just as tough as the Germans.—Gen.- Courtney H, Hodges, U. 8. 1st army, ort return to U. 8. . i . » - HE > g a

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ALL THESE challenges offer an exciting though |

more | I'hough all the fighting men in |

THEY. (FHE JAPS) are tough fighters—l'd say

MY GREATEST aim is to inculcate a new Chris-

| By Mrs. A, I believe that the war department ruling that men over 42 years of age are to be released from service jupon application is a step in the right direction. However, I believe { that all men over 38 who are fathers should be released upon application. Many of

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these men were drafted

ruling that men over 26 were not {to be drafted unless absolutely { necessary. It is a well known fact that these older men, who are now

rover—38 do not-make-the-bestsol--

diers. Most of them have families | with adolescent boys and girls who | desperately need the firm guiding {hand of a father. Their wives are approaching the age when they are not able to go out and work to aid { their families financially, and take jcare of ‘their homes, and also be fully responsible for these boys and girls to keep them from becoming { part of the vast number of juvenile { delinquents. : | {already gone through one financial depression causéd by one world war, and if they are hot released’ soon and given a chance to reestablish themselves economically, in a few years they will be regarded as the “old men” of 42 to 45 years, and be refused employment when

{ there are a great number of young-'

| er men to employ. One sees young able-bodied men, | some single, or married with no | children, in all communities. These men are far more physically able to be soldiers than these “fathers over 38 years of age, and their families would not suffer the hardships and real" sacrifices that older families have had to-endure. It is utterly foolish to say that {these younger men are indispensaible and cannot be spared” from their jobs. It has been proven time and time again that no one is indispensable. When death claims a so-called indispensable person another steps iftto his and the world moves on. Therefore, let us not say that this man or that man is indispensable, Three or four years taken out of the life of a young man is not near-

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ly so serious as that same number

‘of years taken out of, the life of a man 38 or 40 years of age.

Surely the war department, or

to express these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, let ters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication. in no way implies agreement with those » opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

whoever has- anything to ‘do with the demobilization of our servicemen will see the justice in releasing all men over 38 years of age, and especially fathers, along with those

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:.OF A DEMOCRACY”

By C. D. CC, Indianapolis When our fathers gathered to-

gether to write a constitution and

“found a new government; they were’

guided largely by the fact of the! great evils which had been para-' mount in the dynastics of Europe. Accordingly they divided our gov- | ernment into three branches: The to ‘make the laws; the! to enforce the laws, and the judicial to interpret the laws. The idea was to make it impossi-

thle for any-dynasty to ever achieve

a dictatorship in this country. The, Constitution, therefore, is in all probability the greatest document for human rights that was eyver/devised, except the Bible, and under | it we have enjoyed more freedom than has ever been given to any other people. LE

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However, a great many people have the wrong concept of a democracy. Under constitutional gov-| ernment, while there may be gov- | ernment by the majority, neverthe- | less the minority are -also given! equal protection in their ' rights. | While this is theoretically correct, nevertheless it has been abused by both minorities and majorities. {| For instance, following the first | world war, a small minority abused | their constitutional: rights by get-| ting special privileges which almost wrecked our entire national econ-! omy. This was possible only because! the majority voted for it, however. After the late President Roosevelt | |Became chief executive, in all duel respect to his memory, he was not | only given, but also assumed more | power than was ever given to any| President. Now, I believe that only a very small minority objected 10] {most of the reforms in government | which he was trying to make, | The real reason for the “Roosevelt haters” was because of the fact that in order to gain these objec- | tives he sometimes bulldozed a rub-| ber stamp congress into submission | and intimidated the supreme court. This was not democracy but au-! tocracy. ! | Due largely -to these facts there are among the great masses today people who believe themselves to be liberals, but who in fact are “totalitarian liberals,” which is a polite word for either. Fascists or Communists. While their beliefs may |be liberal, they cannot see the great

whose combat service has so richly earned them their right to an honorable discharge. Every family of one of these older servicemen should write to their congressmen and senators to speed action on having the age for releasing - men reduced to 38 vears, especially if these men are fathers a2 =» “I AM REMINDED OF A MOVIE”

By Forum Fan, Indianapolis

The Forum will no doubt flood of letters expressing opinions about the San Francisco Conference, which is of course as it should be. However, I am reminded of a scene in a movie of many years ago. I think the title was “International House.” This scene depicted a reporter rushing up to some dignitary as he was dbout to enter the conference huilding. “What is your opinion of | this conference,” asked the reporter. “Worthless,” was the reply ‘You meéin this great gathering is worthless,” gasped the astounded reporter. “No,” replied the dignitary, I mean my opinion of it.” In regard to the reporting of the conference, I should like to commend the writing of Howard 'Vincent O'Brien. I have grown fond of reading his writings in the short time he has been featured in The Times. I hope The Times will .continue to print at least some of his material,

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{danger of giving the chief executive the power which creates dictators |and incidently there might be either | |a good dictator or a bad one, | Harry 8. Truman is now Presi‘dent, and in a very short time has| done much to restore confidence in { our democratic form of government. | He has fired some of the palace |guards and others seem destined to receive the axe in the near future. |He has also narrowed that great | gulf which has too long existed for {ne good of democratic government {between the chief executive and congress. It seems likely now that _|the government bureaucrats who |have no place In a democtacy will | also soon be kicked out. A few hours before this was writ- | |ten, President Truman asked the congress for more power which he . | says will allow him to streamline [the executive branch of the govern{ment and make it work better. I do not know the nature of the pow{ers he has requested and therefore will not comment. While we have [a great respect for President Tru man, it seems that ‘congress should scrutinize these requests quite closely before delegating any more power to the President, because while it is ‘quite likely that his intentions are of the best, the price of democracy is eternal vigilance.

, DAILY, THOUGHT _

Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house. _=~Proverbs 24:29. ; A

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peoples and make other peoples into the image of the

| conqueror’s docile followers, which is-what our enemies

thought to do. There are people among us who would do the same with other people and other peoples’ lives. They fought and ‘died to change all that, too. They came from “the common people and they fought for the corhmon people everywhere against those who would push them around, those who would taint and poison their minds. They fought against a’ state of mind as much as anything else, and that state of ‘mind is not peculiar to any country, though it has been carried to a national fanaticism among our enenties, so that we had to fight, finally, to destroy it before it destroyed us. This ‘is 4 day to look into our own mirrors.

‘The Wounded Look Alike" _1T_1S A day, too, to begin to separate the people from those who would push them around or make them into mannikins. The wrong was originally at the top, though the fact that it could hypnotize {he peuple at the bottom showed there was something

| wrong there, too, something we must iry to trace

down to its beginnings and {ry to correct, with understanding and sympathy. . Human beings are fundamentally everywhere. The wounded young men look alike, for example, when they lie, row on row, drawn of face, in a hospital, such as the tented hospital I visited in Normandy filled with German prisoners. When we got outside the colonel .with whom I was traveling blurted out: = : “We must not have sympathy with them, Remember, they are our enemies, We must remember that.” ™* ee It had hit him. Nobody had said a word. He was a hard-boiled regular army officer, 32 years in the service, : : The instinct that showed itself there, basic with human beings, can be directed into something worth-

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IN WASHING TON—

Clear. Report

By Edward A. Evans

WASHINGTON, May 30.— Thanks to Chairman Krug of the war production board for a clear, sensible, hopeful report on reconversion. Here is its gist: . Government controls. over industry - will be used to insure the full output of weapons needed to.defeat Japan, but not lo curb the “initiative, imagination and resourcefulness’ needed to insure post-war prosperity The controls -are being and will be removed as soon as their war purpose is served.

Future Prospects Are Bright THE WPB will not try to lead or drive industry through the transition period. It it did, “we should be lost in a myriad of rules and regulations. We should get in the way of reconversion rather than speed”it.” Choice of what.and how to produce, buy and sell, after war work is done, “will be left to the decisions of manufacturer, wholesalers, retailers, farmers and consumers rather than to government agencies and officials.” - .

Future prospects are bright. War production must

go through 1945 at above nine-tenths of the 1944 peak

rate; but a year hence industry can be turning out durable consumer goods at a rate more than twice the present and 30 per cent above that of 1939. Fewer than seven million war workers’ jobs are likely to be directly affected by munitions cutbacks. For them and for returning veterans job opportunities can be created by the huge pent-up demand for civilian goods. . " Mr. Krug no doubt speaks for the administration when he promises that wartime controls will not be used to shackle peacetime economy. Here is a challenge to free private enterprise to do Its stuff. And he adds an impressive warning.

Can't. Proceed Without Jolts RECONVERSION CAN'T proceed without Jolts

and jars. War-contract cutbacks ure bound to mean unemployment in some areas. Local businessmen

and labor leaders may urge special government meas-

ures to relieve these situations. “We must be. pre‘pared to meet such emergencies when they are real; but we must also be prepared to resist the pressures when they would only delay necessary readjustments.” , President Truman had the victims of tliese situations in mind Monday when he asked congress to

close “a major gap” in the reconversion program by’

providing more adequate unemployment benefits for war workers and federal employees whose present jobs will disappear as war contracts are cancelled. Congress. should give careful study to the benefits proposed. Most Americans will agree with Mr, that ‘the transition war to peace is part

nd parcel of the war, and we cannot. shirk our obli-

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