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"PAGE 16 Friday, June 22, 1945

FRIDAY DIES TELL

POLITICAL SCENE—

REFLECTIONS— Bo ie Ealing Hannegan

Triumphs

3 & - : y ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE ' HENRY W. MANZ B 1 wills . 3 President Editor Business Manager Y Joe /ullams z ” By Thomas L. Stokes ~<! House Co ar (A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER) NEW YORK, June 22.—Enthu- WASHINOTON urs at Bod + : = : ak tic and emoti a y ' : - Owned aud published Price In Marion Coun- igi on) oe 0% ae Hannegan, the big, affable Mis- = Un A sourian, ‘did the, unprecedented .at § * WASHING"

iy Hone put on for lke, veteran experts on a Week i such matters insist it’ reached no d See higher note if, indeed, as high, as the one the neighMail rates in Indiana, | bors put on for the’ chunky daughter of an obscure $5 a ‘year; all other states, 10th ave. butcher back in 1926.

daily (except Sufiday) by Indianapolis Times Pub- : lishing Co., 214 W, Mary- . { land st. Postal Zone 9. -

last summer's Democratic. National Convention when he moved tonom- ? inate his friend, Harry Truman, as vice presidential

candidate. It was unprecedented, and highly uanortlandges, hae

new house u committee de « ism” and out ducting inves persistent ru

Member of United Press, U. 8. possessions, Ganada That was the time the neighbors almost tore up a j Sosa gcrippsiHoward Newspa- and Mexico, 87 cents a | the streets and pulled down the. buildings by way of a einral among candid fra s ¥ per Alliance, NEA Serv- month. saying “hi'va, Toots,” to Gertrude Ederle whose con- mittee is supposed to be neutral among candidates. Tesign : It showed a, certain frankness and boldness in Mr. The commit

Shi tributions to history had nothing to do with liberating. ag ae © RILEY 5551 slave people or winning massive battles. But she was one of the neighbors’ children and she had swim the English channel, the first of her sex to do so and she had swum it faster than it had ever been swum

Hannegan, such as he had exhibited in Missouri poli- | tics. He wanted to see his friend vice presidential | candidate, so he set about it in a business-like- man-

ner. is Though he did not know it at the time, Bob Han-

house as a 's replace thc committee, hi about - six mc

ice, and Audit Bureau of Circulations. Give Bight and the People Will Find Their Own Way

1 ; ; ’ V IST SPAIN before. . BLACKBALLING FASC } negan also was making a President of the United apr States. ‘When fate elevated Harry Truman to the icy declaration

presidency, Mr. Hannegan became the political gen- The commi eralissimo of the Truman regime. He got the cab- mula” on w inet post which often goes with thal party position, Americanism postmaster general. definition sug ings institut search organi; ‘an inquiry by

i THE United Nations have blackballed Franco Spain. By And This One Just Happened i y Dé Francisco conference commis- I HAVE been checking the files on the Ederle : i UBaNIMOouS vole the San : bor show, for it was one I missed, and it was all.the more ¢° gion on membership has decided that no government born | emarkable because it was more a /pontaneous ex-

: with axis military aid shall be admitted to the new league. plosion than a formalized thing, although plans had | v 7 od . ’ . y been made for a moderate sort of official greeting. i < Ww DP | The motion by Mexico was seconded, we are happy 10 1 New York World of that date (Aug. 2D. said:

Strict Organization Man

report, by the United States. So vast was the throng and so magically did it form,

~ This should mean the-end of Dictator Franco. The] United States, Britain and others still maintain relations with the Fascist regime which Mussolini and Hitler put in power. But this action at San Francisco can only be taken as a warning that the international appeasement of Franco: is about over. : As a matter of fact, official and press reports indicate that Franco has had no substantial support within Spain for many months, Several of the reactionary groups which once backed ‘him are said to be looking for an out. He has been able to hang on partly because there is no agreement on a successor, but chiefly because of foreign diplomatic and economic support. Withdrawal of the latter would

hasten his end. : The real danger has not been that such a blatant axis

aide could survive axis defeat: in Europe, but that others |

that 1t overwhelmed the police who had been prepared for something much smaller and less emotional. There have been crowds for Joffre, crowds for Pershing, crowds for the Prince of Wales, crowds for marching soldiers back from war, but Trudy's crowd sur= passed them all—and in its ranks marched for the first time since the war men and women under flags of German societies, some even in German costumes.” The World account continues: “And in way of curious contrast, the tenement house where Trudy sought. rest while crowds, thrust. at the fines of police outside and shouted unabatedly, ‘we want Trudy, is little more than a block away

different humor, pressed against police lines for ‘a chance to look at the face of Rudolph Valentino, dead movie star.” The Edérle home-coming was not without discord. A city magistrate, one Charles Oberwager, head of the Federated German societies, which organized the reception, was designated formally to greet the

from the Campbell funeral .parlors on Broadway, 2 where forty-eight hours before similar crowds, in af

HE HAS been bold in exercising his power. Bob

Hannegan is an organization man. He believes in

the use of patronage to maintain a party organiza tion, in rewarding organization men with jobs, in distributing jobs to political friends and those who have been helpful, which is no new theory. He is very busy doing this. It has been overdone in the past to the detriment of good government. Some who have watched

Missouri move into Washington recently under the

direction of Mr. Hannegan and have seen organization men get their friends placed are of the apinion that Mr. Hannegan is using a free hand, some think too free a hand. Mr. Hannegan's power carries tremendous respon-

sibility, Fittifig deserving Democrats into office, or

those who have helped the party in one way or another, is not quite the same on the national scale as it is on the Missouri scale. There is a big stake in | national government. There are always people around | who know this, who are watching for the opportunity | to get on the inside, or get friendly persons on the inside, for purposes which may not always be apparent to a politician whose eyes are rather on the |

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Interferer It would t committee sai in seeking to constitution b those prescril tion itself. It can to ifiterfe ministration o It would be spire “secretl; government, w constitutional would be un-/ ‘to co-operate group or gove detrimental rights of U. 8. “the establish ment of tH$ U ing to advance al interests “ the United St

again would meddle in Spain's internal affairs. MoscOW | 19-year-old butcher's daughter. It seems the magiswants a Red regime there, and a British Tory group wants | trate bore down hard on purely German virtues. If . . : nv it was courage it was “German courage’; if it was the pretender, Prince Juan, to restore the monarchy. 4} 01 it was “German honor’; if it was ambition, The big powers should act jointly. They should give ii was “German ambition.” Finally, Dudley Field

political effect. { Government is- big and complicated these days, | Six 1 and there are economic interests more important than political interests. : In the past, some appointments have been made

The commi the following

“l wholly disagree with what intends to fol

you say, but will defend to the

Hoosier Forum

diplomatic and economic support only to provisional gov- Malone, wip as Prien 58 the girl's business : : i : agent, angrily demanded, “cut it out.” death ah yn» : : : tions: ernment representative of all non-axis parties pending hg] ; ; eath your. right to say ut. too hastily, with the result that a President has been : Pp ’ At this-point the magistrate concluded by referring embarrassed later by something that a political hench- 1. The com

will be “to d

man has done. far as possibl

prompt free elections. There they should keep hands off. | to her simply as “a New York girl.” “FREE ENTERPRISE HAS (Times readers are invited |“AMERICAN COMMUNISTS «you bet that's what I am,” Trudy said, her BEEN NO GOOD FOR 50 YEARS" | 44 express their views in LOYAL AMERICANS” :

: Announcement of such a joint allied policy would do more _ Cos a R | : than anything else to encourage a peaceful transition from iy trem > en » joy Je Walter, Rusgrenne Inbal t' these columns, religious con- {5 An Aer ious Indianpuis Job Shift Has Been Rapid sive un-Ameri . Z . : . ’ ece tion Ss A e ot =] 16 Americally alc 2 | _ troversies excluded. Because I. AtChman, the Tree FOU BIC | nr sry i ny ow sad UV WI sIY NY Al i nd : recommend leg the rotten dictatorship to a democratic Spain of the people's p Y re : what they. think and are paid 10r| of the volume received, let. | barking up is nothing but a totem SHIFTING OF JOBS Has gotie oti rapidly in the out. THE WORLD adds: “Mr. Malone, who financed ceived, let- | new administration, and with evidence of too casual 2. “The ec

what they say because they can| ters should be limitéd to 250 | pole and all the horrible things YOU | inquiry into the complete background and viewpoint dence onl 3 nly an

substantiated.” “proved and th willingly recei 3. All prosp be examined | to see If the

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choice. her Channel swim, went down the bay carrying with | : him offers of contracts for $900,000. ‘Of course,’ he afford it. Some of these are Mrs. words. Letters must be |see are nothing but the carvings! and the possible effect on national policy in 8 case THE ONLY REAL ANSWER said ‘mot all of them are from reputable people. But | Roosevelt, Clare Booth Luce, Walter| signed. Opinions set forth lon it. Your big mistake is’ that Of Wo. ’ : : : I can Say she has one offer for $100.009 and another Winchell. Drew Pearson and West- here are those of the writers, ~|you don't know what form of gov- | For exampie, it was learned in the senate after HE national war labor board, refusing to attempt In- for $120,000 Jor wach He BE rea): en 'brook Pegler. I'm like Carroll Col-| and publication in no way |ernment Russia has. It isn't com- the nomination of W. Stuart Symington, St. Louis : . sy 3 : . r a 0 ~ 5 s se Ball : 0x I op : it 3 0° i phusinessman, to the important post of chairman of terpretation of the selective service law, has left it t0| and 40 next. And I am, in negotiation with the |ling, if you don't believe as we do,| implies agreement with hase SUBIR, te souisham, you "| the surplus property board. that, Mr. Symington had | Opinions by lhe Himes. 8 5 ne wor oy | been involved in business activities that were held

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. the courts to decide whether job seniority rights of return- | Philadelphia Sesquicentennial for her appearance we don't charge anything, and we, 9 1 aah “is worthy of : i . there".” . a | ? ee : imes assumes no- responsi «i | ov a fed toh listic in desi Thi orvly ing veterans rank above those accumulated by home-front mat a have a free press. Well, don't we?| pan NII vod're saving is that the state | DY ¥ federal court io be monopolisiic In; design. 1/Hs (publi The ironical part of this is that practically none bility for the return of manu- } saying is that the state | = fat ’ , public) hear : p as p . The above mentioned all believe in by : department doesn't have brains was discovered by Senator O'Mahoney (D. Wyo), a Ch foe of monopoly, when the nomination came before airn

workers under union contracts. : of the offers materialized and if the first woman to scripts and cannot enter cor- | t difficul If there is a shortage of jobs no court or board or Swim he SO, icky, Soho Cane i i (1) freedom of speech; (2) press; | .respondence regarding them.) ® Oe ion iy oes ok the senate military affairs committee of which he is a :. 3 : ‘ : : on her tremendous triumph a she di get | (3) free enterprise, which has been : “| member. The nomination rdingl 1d seniority system can give any satisfactory answer to this | OR Ae re than peanuts, as the fellow says. “I CAN SEE NO CAUSE hampered by the war department | b mination accordingly was held up

4 The comn the spirit” of

| for an investigation. but does not t

os , . . Ns {no good in this country for 50 years. . d avis and som f it w | vexing problem. Arthur Brisbane was doing the thinking for the | y/o oie and there's a sad a [TOR WAR WITH RUSSIA” whe mer a Because of the importance of this post, it would | herence to the It concerns not only workers now employed and vet- jnasigs ;m Yiiose days, and he batted Out =n edi» | coming, when it says “goodby” to Bare M: Wue, BiRSE General fight Russia.” Which also ac-| oom natural that the committee would explore Mr. Gon is “practi torial acclaiming Trudy as the No. 1 American i Et Symington’s background and his business” philosophy | 5. No comr

| the wealthy for they don’t know| In the June 16 edition of The counts for th 5 -y | 3 | { PCH, r the 15 and 16-year-old | o.. carefully, despite the tendency of the party in | make any pub!

erans who want to return to jobs they left to go to war. | 2 "ond as he got his wing loosened up and

3 ” 1 ior 5 . i then what to do with it. It's in-{Times, one of your well-known con- draft, tight restrictions - Jt concerns williohs Who.sre ar wil be without sewiority | vases Sore ie fer Sal be Sl 108 38% cing fo easter wl istutiny of options tn the Forum sien restrictions on AMET! | power in the senate not to question presidential ap- [SRY mitiee work rights—veterans who had no Jobs beiore ey went to war; wondering out loud in 12 point full face type, how Eighty years ago Abraham Lin-) wrote that Ihad evaded his “$64 little fraternizing between soldiers. | pointments too closely, especially in a new adminis- permission by : ype, tration. The senate shares the responsibility of ap- | 8. The com

with the feder

veterans who want different jobs than they left; workers | : : : | eoln said: “These dead shall not question,” because I stated “if there Do you bl "| tra J y ! wonderful her children were going to be and what a quesuion cause 1 s { 0 you blame Russia for not €o-| , i tments with the President through its power of |

displaced from war industries and seeking new employ- | potent force they, in turn, would be in redeeming | have died in vain.” Today political are any Communists in the U. 8. operating when we make Iriendly! L.aomation ation and al . . . ys y . much of a decadent civilization { glamor says the same thing. What army, I have failed to meet any”; | moves with one hand and hold a BUR, : 5 ut 8 and all ment; young people, never employed or in military service, : 14 Lincoln sav today it he cod eo x ow ri Ng | The Symington appointment is an example of gaged In the h 4 il ter th : b ket th h Xi None of these things came to pass for Trudy. would Lincoln say today if -he could therefore, if there is a war between knife in the other? | what may happen, and what often has happened ns American and who will enter e Job market as ey reach working age. v . ra 7" | see the advanced improvement in Russia and the U. 8. I can't an-| I , ery : L may . . y ] g ag About all she has to ‘remember of that day—the same I ussia al e U.S, 1can | have every reason to believe quick shifts of officials, particularly when there is Committee

said Hart a p« "road Democraf his post becau the pressure o fully. 3 duties.” s .- Hart himself ment. At pres committee's ir edly subversiv pared by the ( New York Cit;

y : 3 i i 1 v we i —1 warfare to kill, and the poor excuse swer which “side” they would ht | that } y . The only satisfactdry answer is enough jobs for them | sort of day we just gave Ike—is a set of bad ear | '"° = = oT e 3x seuse swer Whish “si e" they figh hat the American Communists emohacis on the political aspects as there seems to : ; i : 3 i drums and .her clippings. The last I heard of her she » have made for world peace? on because I've never talked to any. would stick to America in such a : all. And that answer is possible if business, industry, labor | = : | “Government of the people. by the Ev : oy ; be with Mr. Hannegan. 4 ¢ t noloheariediy re bi was working in a war plant at or nearby LaGuardia | 1 4 it of the people, by the I can only reiterate, that up to crisis as you predict because they Other shifts in important jobs are in the offing n overnment co-operate whole-ne y to make e : people and for the people” is what now, there is no cause that I can'are no "<br t § 8 1 , s hy a g Pp : field, her fame and feat forgotten. 8 t in accord with the Russian 4 Mr, Hannegan's course will be watched cares

most of the great oportunities for abundant production and | ~ Yesterday's cheers fade quickly, don't they? ~| Abraham Lincoln said, and. that is see for having a war with Russia. government. employment ; - what the people want and if we with their help we have crushed| In case you don't know .it, the ; WORLD AFFAIRS—

are too lazy minded to still listen one of the consistently belligerent Russians have held public elections IN WASHINGTON— LINE OF SUCCESSION

to political glamor, talking de- powers in Europe, and my belief is in the territory which he has ocE hope congress will act promptly on President Tru-

mocracy out of one corner of their that Russia with her vast lands and cupied and that is a more demo-

: {mouth “and - “free enterprise” raw materials has no territorial de- cratic step than either America or ; eague alns (money control) out of the other, signs on any, country, but if people, | Britain has taken—and we claim O ege | Ba . .

we will find our youth again dying like “Tise Witehnian,” persist in| democracy.

repugnant the idea of one-man rule is to Mr, Truman is |,» will be, in the new organization whereas, up to

. . : : children to fight another war? Do| that SS is to world once; it / 7 | / revealed in his statement that in a democracy the chief | now, it has merely been a signatory of the Briand- y | that Russia is a menace w ice; it gives you a much better| ,i,,t the net result. The benefit to the country in

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mans request for legislation making the speaker of B Wm Phils Simms for our ignorance. ; saying and thinking that we will] What is the difference whether B R WwW St + the house next in line of succession to the presidency. Y . P 1 sev Bs “with malice toward eventually have to £0 to War With|you sénd your social criminals to a| OY "\03€r VV. uar RA t 3 1 v n , K nany others desir only | R11asi thev wi y RR. aor ve Such a bill was introduced by Rep. Mike Monroney, SAN FRANCISCO, June 22.—A | 0° ve si sia, thigy Wii] not only graft 1% concentration camp or the front, WASHINGTON, June 22—It's school time for shortly after the need for it was highlighted by Mr. Roose- cross-section poll of top-ranking for an honest iv Ine : aT year-olds, os Hyer s as well, hes 2 we Have Gone | members of the army's occupation forces in Europe. MEAT—Red iy : : Ar: delegates here reveals that the new | dW SB 8 E alevljas-a matte: of self protection. Io ier, if you think socialism | pjans are being formulated here to enroll thousands 3 I velt's death, which placed Mr. Truman in the White House world-security charter, now vir- |*¥ 8, We have the best govern-| How would we feel if the Russian stinks, why don't you investigate of them in English colleges and in universities on the ng : and left the vice presidency vacant. . tually complete, exceeds their ex- re i Ae *ord, i et pre 5s headiiried 2 Siemens i nal saplaiigm} You "are taking al continent. 31. - bd We agree with the President that the present law— | pectations. These witp whom 1 lajked npreed thes for Td ouaged 1s oreeh ns wars before there No van) Delatis aze yet lo be revealed, Many have Statteq Aug. 31. V2 thr : 5 i it is much better than Dumbarton Oaks and that Uj." ration Wes Tusk 1 1s 14 » ; id good will. In fact,| studies in after~duty classes. Those stationed in Ital running the line 6f succession to the secretary of state, | .onstitutes, in their opinion, an improvement on both | war, whieh Hite na 107; Was Jueky tocould be world peace ” That, in I would.go so far as to say that| who are taking courses at the a ay on a : : } dnt | survive, ow long will it be before reverse, is what » Hearst news-'y . \ -OUrse: SIT) secretary of the treasury and on down the cabinet—is | the old League of Nations and the Briand-Kellogg |, “yo eople’ will I ine SH I op more to create than| may he numbered in the hundreds. The same situa- pound of wast i ' pact outlawing war. : kate : nt Pha re ha er : pd . : 0 | tion—but on a larger scale—soon will be duplicated unsound. For a cabinet officer is chosen by one man. How For one thing, they explained, the United States is, | strive on to bind up the nation’s| Karl Vin Weigand, is advocating | Looking for a little good might| i, Germany France, other countries P SUGAR—St: ) wounds” and start training our! now. Adolf Hitler, also, contended help your attitude. Just try it] war department officials here are enthusiastic pounds throug! |

] ; y g 2 you think these kids are always| security and prosperity, along with sense of accomplishment than the . executive should not: have the power to choose his suc- Kellogg pact. While against aggression, the pact was going to be led by ignorance or are his other beliefs of German supe- bad does. | the years,ahead, they believe—as well as to the indi- able at ration “ : " : never Amplemented hence was without power. As for |. 0" i 0 to “take the lead?” I, riorits h h vidual veterans themselves—will be enormous. 13 in Book 4 m cessor. “Insofar as possible the office of the*President | pymbarton Oaks, it left many major problems ii: ne [Plority, and Gyernan Hight Of CON CHARGES HATRED O The idea of offering members of the armed forces i application fo . E : ’ | ' I ow them, est by / rE A J should be filled by an elective officer.” dangling in mid air. ; . Some people oy ad to onl Cath ig en question, “Mr.| INVITES ANOTHER rs UssiA academic and specialized training is not new, Hun- § All applicants The speaker of the house is the official in our govern- a poisied or ace: hal elite! Lie |the war on sin, but ignorance is a| Watchman,” is this: Do you think By Henry K. Newton, Sullivan, dregs of SholERds Sheaay Rave Saker gi bility for can: hay . 1 Se nl? : |sin: some of us are relieved of all| Hitler is half right, all right, or all| Saying out of one cor ge courses in 4 Wide valigly of Sbjed 9 CANN ment “whose selection next to that of the President and | oaks did .much, if anything, to rid the world of |\\.0 0 occerting “I didn't start| wrong? In f Vig, 8 Jabi or sh} Seving om ot he ‘potter of his by the Armed Fosees Institute. Millions have studied Hid NED . A \ : : 1, “No, I don't want war with in locally organized classes in various parts of t —

vice president can be most accurately said to stem from the | one of its most potent causes of war, namely the |. 0." Ac long as we claim to|to point out your inconsistencies, Russia,” while out of the other people themselves.” hows Suskons now practiced in so many parts of |, JT oo ev and have wars| “Mr. Watchman”; half your letter corner, hatred of the Russians drips world. ; 4 e glove. we are all to blame but our youth to the Forum was a bitter denun- and oozes, “The Watchman,” that| They Study 300 Subject T r Charter Hits at Propaganda who had no voice in our govern-| ciation of everything Russian, and anonymous successor in Indianap- ey Study ubjecrs DO IT NOW THANKS -TO government-controlled sources of ment, but were sent to clean up|everything Communistic, and the olis to Paul Josef Goebbels, accur- OFFICIALS decline to reveal total figures; but in s rein : cys : . : : . ‘ : 3 > "7" |the mess we made. There are re-| other half was a plea for peace on ately fits the following description| the Pacific, #laska, the Caribbean, wherever AmerAX legislation has been introduced to aid speedy recon- iermstion, bow comits and SO yrs grets but no equality of sacrifice. learth, good will toward men, of “American dupes of Hitler, fur-| ican soldiers and sailors are stationed, ambitious § version of industry for job-creating production of right. lies ‘o work -their ‘populations up to. frenzies nished by America’s foremost anti-| youths are studying in their off-hours such diversified civilian goods. It would release for early use certain money | of nate against their neighbors and other peoples. Side Glances = By Galbraith Fascist radio commentator and subjects as bookkeeping, English grammar, algebra, : ay : . gy itl 4 lled. devoted eat deal of newspaper columnist: “In the book, | history, psychology, genetics, botany, and some 300 which business taxpayers eventually will be entitled to gg 2 oa a : grote a Siva . Hitler's Words, the author gives| others space in “Mein Kampf” to the “art” of propaganda a : a. : recover anyway. ae li ait P was his No. } a least | us Adolph’s propaganda strategy | For a $2 fee, any enlisted man or woman may This legislation should be passed before congress starts | in the preliminary stages of war, while Goebbels-| for exploding allied unity and in-) enroll for institute self-teaching and correspondence . a Ee x ted that. th h tol of informatt h ‘viting another war. Amazing how | courses. The same fee applies to all personnel of the a summer recess. Tax authorities of the administration bogste A uF opraUThy many Americans have already fallen| navy, marine corps and coast guard. So long as the : . g . “cou ay on public emotion e an organ.” | 1 ; : 4 * | and congress agree that it is desirable. We have heard of 0 The play on PR ro thc delegates observe ite | | for it. Shocking how many chumps student does acceptable work, he may continue to : , : 4 | ar ti \ lal y , no sound opposition to it. But some congressmen fear that, | pride, proposes to do something against this war- are spouting his deadly venom to-| eiiroll for additional courses without further charge. | : : bred b T power. The inst t is Ch day. Bhameful that nothing is be-| _Not that G. I. Joe is a bookworm. Some devote only if they take up any bill to change wartime tax laws now, ee, Hise re: n . amen, . BD ing done to stop them.” an hour or two a week to their courses, others a : ‘ oi . er IX, dealing w e economic and social council, ‘ : there will be pressure to include incoime-tax rate cuts, which The Em blossoming of this council was "WHY Bont trey many as 20 or 30 hours a month. as President Truman has said must wait until Japan js | one of the surprises of the conference. Though the PATTON IN TAHEY ANY The other day Headquatiars | here Jecalved fe tol beaten. state department had been working on it a long time, Be VRil 3. Stas. (BrStrviceie lowire letter from an army officer Who n af T my Ll se, ‘ ‘ the Dumbarton Oaks plan barely touched it and rete at Vix-Nevvdeman), 183; ADO! here would be greater danger in delaying action on | ¢yen then only in hazy fashion. Here, however, it : “irs It's funny but T can concentrate best when I am : ; he ; ) A iam : : - Why doesn't Gen. MacArthur| driven into my hole by artillery fire and have to stay the reconversion tax measure, we think. That might make | grew and grew until some observers-now regard it . ' riven into my hole by artiiery e oll th 1 f business funds late to d x as equaling in importance the security council itself want Gen. Patton in the South Pa- | there for several hours. I keep my books and a types ie release of business iunas too late to do maximum good. cenerally considered the heart of the new league. If cific? That's one for the books.| writer in the hole and just start studying when the And by next fall or winter pressure for tax rate reductions | properly developed, it may well provide the ounce |“Old Blood and Guts” really showed | Shelling starts. . Many boys in my.platoon are : ‘ ’ y d oy ” almost certainly would be harder for congress to resist. | of prevention worth more than the security coun- (a way in Europe and could prop. | taking correspondence courses of some Kind. y cil's pound of cure. ably do the same in the Pacific. oi Wh WwW F Fl FN Just where does the War Depart- Textbooks Run to Millions il “IF 1 HAD MY WAY” Delegates Want Free Flow otf News ment come in on this? When I was| = THE TEXTBOOKS, work sheets and instruction THE CHARTER does not specifically say so, but .doing time in the last war, they had| pulletins which the Armed Forces Institute sends tc!

r [HE army and navy and air force should be a’ unit,” | Secretary of State Stettinius has made it part of 'the say as to avho went where or| al! areas of the world where troops are stationed total

Gen. Eisenhower told the West Point cadets. ‘If 1 had the record that the United States interprets the four { why. Now it seems as though the| millions. freedoms of President Roosevelt as encompassing all general in charge has the say and Investigations have shown that four times as

, : ’ fe my way, they'd all wear the same uniform. But 1 don’t | oper rights and freedoms. That is to say, the fun- in this case is afraid that Gen. Pat-| many complete their cotirses in the service—and re- - suppose that congress and the big brass would agree | damental freedoms of the charter include freedom of ton will beat him out of some| member, these are all voluntary—as do the civiliahs " r with me.” : “ speech, freedom of press, freedom of information and gay who register with leading civilian correspondence get 3 ’ : is freedom of communications. . So, I say let's send Gen. “Blood| gehools. ] “ I We don't suppose so, either. Countless tradifions,| under the new charter, therefore, pressure can be and Guts” to the South Pacific In| fn addition to the main institute at Madison, Wis. ? ih und

spite of Gen. Douglas MacArthur | 13 overseas branches have been established in Alaska Get the war over with. Yours for| gawail, Europe, the Middle East, Southwest square deal for all. and other areas. Students may send their papers { ; ibs | grading or obtain - additional materials from th DAILY THOUGHT | branch neaest da ‘ ne ratty SUAANG We pie ht For an te a wr he h pc the Lord vi wonder | sevice courts roped nem, A wal 3

rivalries, prejudices and vested interests would stand deter- brought against thé type of information blackout mined ly % against unification of all the nation’s military which alone made it possible for men like Hitler and orces. Yet it might have great advantages in economy MUS ane 0 many, Shienwise, \ibelligen | ectiveness. And a.few successful and respected| Nobody here, of course, claims the social council | di ders Gen. Eisenh na] ; can block this particular road to war, overnight. One Tae oy AH, oe of those who worked hardest on this chapter told me | way tha would rally y public opinion it- will {ake many years. perhaps generations, to LSE : the opp : : a press. a reality every~ | "All this junk inthe

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