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(A SCRIPPS- HOWARD NEWSPAPER)

Farewell By James Thrasher

HAVING a log cabin for a bjrth»we;place used to be considered quite a political asset to any ‘American of- , fice seeker.

Price In Marion Coun- | ty, § cents a copy: deliv. | ered ‘by “carrier, 20 cents a week.

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“from such humble surroundings usually mentioned land st. Postal Zone 9.

Mail rates in Irdiana, | the fact in the course of their campaigning. But $5 a year; all'other states, | the implied praise was for the office-segker, of course, - U. 8. possessions, Canada | and not for the log cabin, |, and Mexico, 87 cents a month.

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a cabin started from several yards behind scratch. His advancement was shining proof of the opportunities which . American democracy offered. But

ADEE. G5 © RILEY 5551 | = though the campaigning politician may have recalled | the scenes of his; childhood with tear-choked emo-

Give Light and the People Will Fina Their Own Way | | tion, he didn't go so far as to recommend the log |

2 AFTER OKINAW A dwelling as an ideal, year-round residence. HE hardest battle of the Pacific to date is almost won. +The Cabins Are Still With Us

We have paid a heavy price for Okinawa in lives and in | | THE PRESENT GENERATION of politicians has

few log cabins in its. background. But the cabins are still with us, along with one-room farm shacks that are as bad or worse. And the reason that we don’t recruit our Presidents and legislators and other leaders from these surroundings any more is that the odds today are just too great. “Rural slums” is what housing experts call such | farm dwellings., And though it may seem odd to | think of Abraham Lincoln as having come from the slums, that's just what they are today. Congress is shortly to be asked to do something bases. - 6 | about them. A plan, framed by congressmen and : 2’ ¥ » a 8 wn ; housing authorities, would allow the department of OKINAWA, HOWEVER, can hasten final victory. | agriculture to buy up submarginal farm dwellings, From its fine harbors and airfields we can tighten the | replace them with modern houses, and lease them | at low rents to tenants and share-croppers anxious strangulation blockade of the enemy’ s home islands. We | | and apparently able to be their own bosses. can invade the nearby China coast. We can invade Japan. Good and Necessary Plan And meanwhile we can step up the fire-bomb raids, which |

THERE'S MORE to the plan, of course, but that iMready have laid waste most of the industrial areas of her | is the essential idea. It is a good and necessary six largest cities and ports.

| plan, and we hope that it won't be balked by bigThe timing is right. Gen. MacArthur's brilliant Philip- | City congressmen who might believe, along with their ine campaign is coming to a close.

| constituents, that only big cities have slums and solated.

The East Indies are | that the country life is necessarily the healthy life. In southeast Asia the enemy is on the run. For| Fresh air is wonderful, but not when it sweeps in : : § > . ive | wintry blasts through the chinks in walls and unhe first time, our Chinese allies have begun an offensive | Tits Ter oh lie Sok Cader VEE vhich they.are strong enough to sustain. Large allied | tables in abundance are wonderful, but thousands einforcements from Europe are on the way to the Pacific. | of farm families don't have them.

It will determine the war, the Japs said when the | American invasion began. But they said the same thing | about the Philippines and Saipan and Iwo Jima. They were | right, in the sense that all of these victories have been necessary steps on our relentless march to Tokyo. Though Okinawa itself, no more than the others, will end the war if the Japs want to go on fighting from their remaining |

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\nd the continuous home bombing is putting a terrible train on Jap production and morale. Indeed the military picture is so bright that some mericans here at home already think the war job is about ‘one, and that we can safely turn to peace-ways now.

s = 8 " 2 J THERE 1S our danger—our only danger. That is ‘recisely what the Japs are counting on. This probably is the severest test we have yet faced. We had to fight after Pearl Harbor—there was no oice. Now that Germany is defeated, and most of the ‘cific is cleared, it.is not so plain that we are still fighting » survival. We have to use our heads—not much but a tle—to figure out that a wounded rat is the worst. Secretary of the Navy Forrestal was speaking: from ne Okinawa record when he warned Annapolis graduates that it will take America’s full power to force unconditional surrender of Japan.

ANOTHER CORKSCREW TURN T is important to remember, whenever the Communist party line in the United States switches direction, that such changes are never made for an American reason. The engineers of the latest turn think they are doing what Mr. Stalin wants them to do. Their reason is Russian. Just as their reason was Russian when, after Hitler attacked Russia, they ceased to sabotage and began to co-operate with the American defense and war efforts, to oppose strikes, and finally even to flirt with capitalism and free enterprise. Now they have gone into reverse. The Communist Political Association has announced a return to MarxistLeninist revolutionary tactics. It has condemned Earl Browder’s “opportunist errors” in following the line now abandoned. Comrade Browder, sensing that he has besome candidate for a purge, has hastened to explain that he considers it merely “premature” to begin denouncing our ‘struggle with Japan as an “imperialist” "war. * Plans to increase activity in the C. I. O.’s big industrial unions ‘oreshadow new outbreaks of Comrhunist-fomented strikes n war plants. s £4 ” on = » MR. STALIN is neither uninformed nor stupid. He nust know what his toadies in this country are doing, He must realize that they are putting’immense- difficulties n the way of American sympathy and good will for the Russian people. We do not say.that he, personally, is lirecting their obnoxious activities; but we know that he ould stop them with a word. For the sake of America, and Russia, and the future yeace -of the world, we wish he would say that word.

NO CEILING ON ENTERPRISE _LTHOUGH seldom quite sure that we understand what Secretary Wallace is talking about, we venture to comnent on a statement he has just made to the house comnittee on small business. It will be “unfortunate,” he said, f returning veterans try to start more than 500,000 or at nost 700,000, new business enterprises. If Mr: Wallace means that the risks of starting new usinesses are great, that is true, If he means that many nterprising veterans are likely to meet failure and disapointment, that is true. hould be urged to look carefully before they leap into yusiness, and given all possible help in weighing the hazards ind sizing up the chances for success, that is true. And vhile he says that the same precautions should be observed n making business loans to veterans as to civilians, that

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8 #'s : a 4 BUT IF HE means that this must be a land of limited |

pportunity—that when 700,000 veterans’ businesses have i ed the doors should be closed, lest the field become crowded, the competition too keen—we doubt the appeal f that notion to men who have risked their lives to win his war. ; Nobody knows how many veterans may be ambitious 0 enter business for themselves; but mighty few, we think, vant to find a ceiling on enterprise when they come home ~even a ceiling proposed by the Secretary of commerce n all his'wisdom. It isnot that kind of a country they are fighting for,

BACK TO WORK - ALMOST half of congress is away from Washington. ~ Important legislation is being delayed because so many legislators are absentees. Vital measures ‘are receiving attention from only part of those who ‘were elected to ‘consider them, while senators and Tepresentatives ‘travel in this country and abroad. In most cases we can't imagine any other business,

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The log cabin has ceased to be a symbol of equal opportunity and-has become an _ecoriomic anachronism and a drag on the American: standard of living. It's time we bade it a dry-eved farewell.

- WORLD AFFAIRS—

| Soviet Role By Wm. Philip Simms

SAN FRANCISCO, June 8.—The fate not only. of the Golden Gate i conference but the future of the new league of nations rests largely with the Soviet Union. According to the best informed sources, the United States senate is prepared to sustain almost any organization agreed upon here—probably by well over the necessary two-thirds majority. Britain, France and China feel the same way. While as for the little nations, unless completely flaunted, they will go along.

"Assumes Paramount Importance’

WHAT RUSSIA will do, therefore, assumes paramount importance not only here and now, but hereafter. To say that she has everyone worried is understatement. Acute anxiety is more nearly -the phrase, for the impression is growing that Marshal Stalin can be, and probably has been, overruled in Moscow, The marshal, of course, wields an enormous influence in his country. But it is not necessarily decisive. As he grows older, more “conservative” and more convinced that what Russia needs for the next 25 years is peace and time in which to consolidate, he has to consider the Red army—young, vigorous and enormously confident after its victories. Then there is the powerful Politburo, made up mostly of leaders younger than the marshal, It, too, has ideas of its own. These factors, some able diplomats observe, may account for what happened after Yalta. When Marsha] Stalin made certain commitments in the Crimea .and-dfterwards seemed to go back on them, many believe he really did* nothing of the kind. Instead, the Politburo and the Red army may have over-ruled him —on Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, the veto and other issues which he, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill sincerely believed had been definitely settled.

"If Roosevelt Were Alive’

HERE AT San Francisco one hears every day that if President Roosevelt were alive, all these disputes over Poland, the veto and other fruits of Yalta would never have arisen. That is the Soviet argument. The Russians. claim they are sticking to the Yalta formula and the Anglo-Americans aren’t—not necessarily by design, but because of faulty interpretation. The trouble with this thesis is (1) that Mr. Churchill is still on the job and (2), before Mr. Roose*velt died he made a pretty fully report to congress. The veto, he admitted, was quite complicated—too much so to spell out in a speech—but the whole business, he promised, would be made plain “very soon.” And so it was. Four days later, Secretary of State Stettinius (who was also at Yalta) tried his hand at it and three weeks after that Acting Secretary Grew elucidated it still further, Both, of course, acted under Mr. Roosevelt's personal guidance. What is worrying many potential members of the new league of nations is whether Russia has more of these surprises in store for the world. The course of the new organization depends in large measure on the answer to ‘this question.

'Stories Circulated of Anti-Soviet Talk'

MEANTIME STORIES are being circulated internationally of “anti-Soviet” talk in and around the conference. . I have encountered no such' talk—no

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more, at least, than “anti-British,” or “anti-French” or “anti-American” talk. There has been criticism, of course, of Russia's position on this or that, but this also applies to the Unitea States—some of it vicious. To characterize this as “anti-Soviet” or “anti-American”. is like calling everyone who disagrees with you a “Fascist.” I have attended many international conferences and nowhere have I observed more deference to an

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So They Say—

IT (UNITED NATIONS CHARTER) opens the ‘door to the promised land, Whether or not mankind wishes to enter the door and turn his back on a third world war depends not upon the charter, but upon the people.—~Clark M. Eichelberger, director, American Association for United Nations, » " » . IF WE do not recognize that man is a spiritual self ‘within a body, regardless of color, it will be the Marxists and materialists who will be tilling the soil we should be tilling.—~Rep. Charles M. LaFollette, Indiana.’ % : » . . \ " OUR PEST judgment is that we can defeat Japan quickly and completely with an army which a year from now on will be 6,938,000. —Adjt.«Gen, James A. Ulio, xy personnel Jazeelon. FN SINCE the tragely of Bataan and Corfegidor, our armies have never suffered a serious defeat, ~Gen.

George ©. Marshall. : Lin ptt " *

BOYS SHOULD " encouraged to get as woes |

sedutation as posible before they go into baseball. ~Baseball JOommissioner A 3 Happy) Chandler.

“lI wholly disagree with what vou say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.”

| “STALIN

Hoosier For HAS NEVER HAD ANY QUALMS” By Charles R. France, Maywood I would ‘like to take “issue now in behalf’ of The Watchman. 1| Of the volume received, agree with film 100 per cent on the conduct of Russia. It seems that Russia has been hampering the peace issue ever since the end of hostilities and since she has been in control of ‘Berlin, she has been pretty cocky. Now she is going to kill 51 persons for the misdeeds of every guilty German. ° Seems to me that we got rid of Hitler just in time to let

another of his ilk take over. would have hopped on Germany Mr. Burton and Mr. Bennett gave ij) after Germany had eitlier won the Watchman the devil for being| pn, war or Jost it, and would have anti-Russian. I think that both of | 'helped her right along. Another them are pro Bolshevik or they | thing, if it hadn't been for the would not have taken issue against western Allies, Germany would him. Russia has always been fa-inave had all of Russia by this mous for her “blood purges” and|me go 1 don't see what Russia | Stalin has never had any qualms pac to be so cocky about.

about shooting anyone that did not| pony ever say I didn’t warn you

agree with his way of thinking. So (nat if we ever give Russia a chance why be in favor of one and nct the the U.S. A. she would grab it

(Times readers are invited to express their views in ‘these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because letters 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 be The Times. The Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

“STALIN SEEKS TQ DIVIDE AND CONQUER” By The Watchman, In this article I am going to define Russia's policy and attitude toward other nations as I see it. We have been told that Stalin] was wary of joining in "a security | conference, or organization, and that as a price, or inducement, to get him to agree.to come in: the

organization for enforcing peace, Mr. Roosevelt had to agree to the veto power for aggressors. Let's get this fact plain, the very words used | in reference to the-veto power that Stalin demanded wére that an “aggressor” could veto action against himself. Stalin has vetoed the right

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Simms: “Discussion without the right to investigate is little enough. But without the right of discussion, {the new league would be a complete travesty on ordinary justice. For the big powers it would provide immunity, even from criticism.

other. 0 quick it would make your head] Hitler had the habit of shoot-| Du The best thing we can do is

ing 50 hostages for every one that|i, yeep qur eyes open and powder was guilty, regardless of who they| gy were, even children were included. | If we had listened more’ to- the! Now Stalin is adopting the same {rij about the Nazis we would | {method, and the Russians are SuP- have had an easier time of it in this posed to be democratic—are they? War. I say no. | : 2 Russia has disagreed with every- “IS THIS THE ES OLT thing that the rest of the world OF EDUCATION®” wanted. She has set up puppet] govefhments ip ‘several small toun-|BY Bystander, Indianapolis tries. It seéms She does not want | As we listen to the radio and a security league to keep the peace.|read the newspapers, the top Nazis So, be your own judge as to -What|,ngq qujslings who were responsible! Russia is thinking about. It doesn’t | the tori d_ deat} take a lawyer to figure it out|iOF the torture and deaths of mileither. (lions of people are getting their full] I don't forget that a few years punishment either by ending their back the Communists had quite a|)jves or by being shot through a following in the U. 8S. What do you! military court. suppose the reason was? Was it to | be democratic or was it that Mos-| It seems that sooner or later (he cow would like to dominate Wash. joriming] is caught in a net from ington, D. C.? You guess. {which he can ‘never escape. Of| Of course, maybe Poland did grab oy 'se those human lives that sere off a piece of Russia. Have either | one of you taken the trouble to look | murdered, burned and smothered

at a map of Pofand about 300 years in a crematory will never come to ago. Please do so and read the his-|life again. ‘Their lips are sealed [tory of the grabs that Russia has| forever. The world will never know {taken at her at different times.|what agony they went through be-

that “the colonel’s clique” attacked even in the dark ages worse atrociRussia and grabbed a nice chunk |ties were committed than the recof land that was Poland’s in the |ords of the Nazis prove. first place—a little boy jumping on| Is this the result of education a great big man. ‘that we boast so much about? Is Russia is as adept at infiltering | it necessary to build universities, her doctrine into other countries as | lcultural institutions .of learning so Nazi Germany ever was and she we can produce inventors of inhas had more experience. To my | struments to be used to torture way of thinking, Russia never human beings?

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jor stay out,

an official muzzle to keep them—in {case of aggression—{rom crying out loud ...” That's what Stalin de- | mands. Well for crying out loud, can’t {our President, our congress, our |state department, Mr. Churchill and | the British and the American people see the wily .game Stalin is playing?

of discussion, so, says William Philip |

| POLITICAL SCENE—

Challenge

By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, June 8.—Nothe ing President Truman has done has stirred so much fuss within his party, or in congress," as his forthright advocacy of a permanet fair. employment practices act to keep down dis« | crimination in industry on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin or ancestry. It took political courage. It was af open challenge to the Southern wig of his party, still powerful in congress—a challenge immediately accepted by the southerners, The southern Democratic bloc not only has fought federal anti= discrimination legislation, but also had led the movement to kill off the wartime Federal Employment Practices. Committee, created by executive order of the late President Roosevelt, by depriving it of funds. The : FEPC was left without funds in the war agencies appropriation bill now pending.

‘Orange Blossoms About to Wither! THE PRESIDENT'S demand for a federal .FEPC act was his second challenge to the southern .conservative branch of the party within a few days. The first was his request for a federal unemployment compensation law for reconversion to supplement inadequate benefits of state laws. This is being resisted’ again, as it was last year, by conservatives, both southerners and Republicans, It begins to look as though the orange blossoms and magnolias which_ symbolized the honeymoon of the new President and his southern political leaders are about to wither. At the same time, Mr, Truman has solidified himself with the New Deal wing of the party by his championship of minority rights and

ities which are potent politically in big urban ceriters of the East and Midwest. Political effects of presidential acts .are always analyzed and weighed here. But it must be remembered that the President is making no new departure, He was a champion of FEPC when he was in the senate. He has carried his convictions with him to .the White House.

‘Went Directly to the Issue’ THE PRESIDENT went directly to the issue. Not only did he call attention to failure of the house appropriations committee to provide funds for the current FEPC, but he revealed that the bill to create a permanent five-member Federal Employment Prac

| tices Commission was being bottled up by the house rules committee.

| southerners on. that powerful committee, which has §

For the little nations there would be...

Stalin is maneuvering to bind the | Western powers into such an ig

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{compel them to give him an ne

restricted permit to engage wholesale aggression, of the ro {already functioning in Poland and | {the Balkans, to tie the United Nations hand and foot, gag them and force them to agree to co-operate with his program, and put it down {in black and white at San Fran|cisco, and“sign and seal the license for wholesale aggression, for that |is exactly what his veto power and

(his refusal of investigation and dis- |

cussion add up to. Where is Senator Vandenburg? And Stalin's wily plug for independence for colonial people is just a cunning knife in Britain's back,

'in Syria and Lebanon. Stalin wants

Then Mr. Burton goes on to say fore they died. I do not believe chat |Britain and France to lose their

{hold in the Near East and India so he can take over. And the game will be the same in Asia, Stalin has an overweening ambition for world power. If the Western powers and China don’t want to be completely strangled by the @Gommunist octopus they had

which gives no immunity to any aggressor, sign it, and let Stalin come in on honest and just terms— All known aggressors should be barred from the United Nations until they renounce aggression. Stalln seeks to divide and conquer the Western powers. " o ” “MAY ALL OF YOU BE SPARED THIS”

By Mrs. T. L: L., Indianapolis

Recently I saw an article in the paper where 120 foreign brides were to arrive in the United States. My only wish for them all is that they have intelligent in-laws. Because if they aren't, they'll have the same kind of squabble ‘I've had. You see, I was born in Indianapolis to parents of Italian nationality. I've lived in the same neighborhood all my life. I married a very good and understanding fellow. But his people are always throwing rocks at people of Italian nationality, and finally they threw one too many. This one was at-my kid brother wha is in the armed forces. “80 over nationalities we've became strangers. My one wish 1s,

may all of you be spared this kind of trouble which comes - from pure ignorance.

DAILY “THOUGHT

cd he said, Verllys say unto you. No prophet is Roepe in his own country —-L ~Luke 4

to create the kind of trouble now;

better get busy at San Francisco and write a world security charter

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poriad by reinforcements,” he

Hé thus disclosed the blockading ‘tactics of ihe

had the bill since February, as well as the lip serve ce by meny Republicans, though their party plate form advocated a permanent commission, Besides challenging the Republicans, his plea for a permanent law also is a challenge to southern liberals outside congress, They have followed the | general theory’ that the way to improve racial relations in the South is to raise the status of the Negro —and the white—by better paid jobs. This law would apply only to industry In interstate commerce and to labor unions in interstate commerce and to workers employed by those with government contracts, Its object is to protect Negroes, as well as other racial groups, in their right to jobs | and thus the right to better wages, It has nothing to do with social equality, Jim Crow laws, housing, education, voting privileges, or with domestic servants or help on small farms. It only affects employers of six or more persons,

"Primary Purpose Is Mediatory' THE PRIMARY PURPOSE of the proposed commission. is mediatory, to remove discriminations if possible by the conference method. If such is not possible, it may issue cease and desist orders which, however, are enforceable only by a court order, and thus subject to judicial review, like orders of other federal commissions, “The present FEPC, is entirely advisory. It has no powers of enforcement. It may cite cases to the President for his action through regular government agencies, Thus far only one case has been cited, the Southern Railway firemen's case. FEPC is a wartime agency, with jurisdiction only In cases involving government contracts, directly or indirectly. It loses its jurisdiction immediately when plants become reconverted.

IN WASHINGTON—

- Service View | By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, June 8.—It was proper training .of the crew that brought the battle-battered carrier Franklin back to port, according to Chief Yeoman Willlam L. Tyree Jr., Richwood, W. Va., one of the survivors. Sitting with two wounded soldiers and a marine at a luncheon here, Sailor Tyree joined them in urging that congress pass a post-war universal military training bill. Even while they were speaking, however, opposition was being heard by the house post-war military policy committee on Capitol hill. Most of it came from clergymen and organized educators. Some counselled delay, others condemned the idea completely, The servicemen were guests of the women's board of the National Citizens Committee for Military Training. Each told of his own experience and in advocating the training program asserted that it was his training that brought them through this war alive. Many trained men get killed in wars, but the better the training the more chance for survival all of them said. Untrained youths are the real “cannon fodder,” they said.

'Had to Fight a Defensive War’ “WE HAD to fight a defensive war until our mon could be trained," sald the Franklin survivor. “1 am sure that it was proper training which saved the Franklin. I should like to see a post-war universal military training program put into effect immediately after V-J day.” Staff Sergeant Victor L. Mapes, Orlando, Fla., who was flve years with the air corps in the South Pacific (two years as a Jap prisoner in the Philippines) urged that the U. 8. A. follow Teddy Roosevelt's advice, “Speak softly, but carry a big stick.” He spoke softly himself when he told how he left college to join the army in 1939 and was at Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. Twice wounded, he was on the first Flying Fortress in the Pacific. He saw Colin Kelly killed. His chest was covered with ribbons and stars.” “Training saved my life,” Sergeant Mapes said, “I was a Jap prisoner, which is the worst thing which can happen to an American, Remember there are 63 generals and thousands of enlisted men stil] prisoners of the Japs. I was on that Jap ‘Hell ship’ with other prisoners, when it wag fired on’ by “our forces and caught fire, She sank in eight minutes. I was in a hold 40 feet below deck and escaped by crawling up a pipe. Only 83 made it. It was the well trained who came through,

'Keep Well Trained Citizen Soldiery’

“ONCE IN the water, I saw the shore wes held

by Japs. So I swam out to sea. My leg was broken, but I kept afloat for 17 hours and then was rescued.’ Natives helped, but I cannot tell how until we finally win

. » * * “We keep a police force here to prevent trouble, Let's keep a well trained citizen soldiery, and not let outside interference ever upset our great American ideals.” Marine Sergeant William J. McSherry voiced his

support of the training plan as a veteran of thie” bats-

undoubtedly strengthened his position with minor |