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Give Light and the People Willi Fina Their Own Way

MR. MORGENTHAU AND MR. VINSON ENRY MORGENTHAU Jr, having served longer as Secretary of the Treasury than any other man ever did, has resigned. Mr. Morgenthau holds many other records. He has borrowed more money than all his prédecessors combined, and paid out more, and used more red ink on the treasury’s books. He has been the biggest tax collector in the world’s history,. He is the only Secretary of the Treasury who was ever—though briefly—first in line of succession to the presidency. He has just reported the only $100,000,000,000 year of spending ever achieved by any. government. And he , has just headed the most successful war bond drive. Yet Mr. Morgenthat is not, in our opinion, a great financial genius. We have often disagreed with his policies. At the same time, we have recognized him as one of the most loyal men we have ever seen in government. His devotion to the President who elevated him to the cabinet more than 11 years ago has never shown a sign of faltering. We believe he has been very much the kind of treasury secretary that Mr. Roosevelt wanted.

” = » s » ”n THE PRESIDENT’S announcement that he will ap- " point Fred M. Vinson as Secretary of the Treasury will be widely applauded. : Mr. Vinson has had long and varied experience in the legislative, judicial and executive branches of the government, He has intimate knowledge of the nation’s fiscal affairs. He enjoys the confidence of congress. It is an appointment the senate will confirm readily. « The President's plan to delay the appointment until after he returns from Europe is, in our opinion, a mistake. The President should send Mr. Vinson’s name to the senate immediately. Secretary of State Byrnes will accompany Mr. Truman on the trip to Europe. Should those two men be killed on the trip—and that's a possibility not too remote for imagination—under present law the presidency would pass . automatically to the Secretary of the Treasury. That would mean it would go to Mr. Morgenthau—a man whose resignation from the cabinet has already been accepted— unless meanwhile Mr. Vinson is appointed and confirmed.

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A STILL etter way to solve the presidential succession problem, we think, would be enactment of the legislation ‘Mr. Truman has asked and the house of representatives has approved. That would run the list of succession, in the absence of a vice president, directly to the speaker of the house. We think the senate should approve this bill promptly. In the absence of senate action on the legislation, the President should send Mr. Vinson's name to the senate today, for quick confirmation,

RUSSIA MOVES WEST RUSSIA'S demands there is no end. Her latest move is toward Tangier. That is a little spot on the map, but it is big in strategic importance and carries a lot of diplomatic dynamite. Located across from. Gibraltar, it is at the jugular vein of the British empire. ~All western nations are concerned because control of the Mediterranean is involved. “ Russia is not one of the eight members participating in the Tangier international zone. ' But she now claims the right to join in determining its future. This has broken up the Anglo-American negotiations with France for the moment. De Gaulle is suspicious of Britain, however, and sides with Stalin. “The British probably will be forced into line in the end. Russia’s effort to get a hold on the Mediterranean is not limited to Tangier. She took a big, though unsuccessful, hand in the Spanish civil war. With the coming fall of Franco and his Fascists she counts on an extreme left swing there. She has done even better.td date in the central Mediterranean, with Yugoslavia her satellite and with Communists holding the domestic balance of power in Italy. Already Russia has taken over the Baltic. She took strategic Finnish bases. She annexed Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. She acquired part of East Prussia, and reached west through her Polish sphere. Now she has occupied the Danish island of Bornholm at the western entrance to the Baltic. In all this there is nothing surprising—except perhaps the speed with which Russia is moving. Other big nations have played the same game in the past. If Europe is to return to the old system of spheres of influence and balance of power, Russia as the strongest is bound to control—for a while. The United States, through President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull, tried to prevent restoration of that system. But they failed when Winston Churchill agreed to Russian dominance in eastern Europe. Churchill hoped that a British bloc thereby could maintain a central and western European and Mediterranean, sphere of in- , fluence. It isn’t working that way. \ Maybe President Truman at the cwonlig Big Three meeting can persuade Stalin that this system is as dangerous for Russia as for others. Bit that is a long shot at this late day.

POSTPONEMENT ONLY EVERYONE can appreciate and sympathize with the bitter disappointment which results when soldiers are transferred from the Europedn to the Pacific theaters of operations without visit: or furlough home. | But it is encouraging to believe that this dark cloud has its silver lining. While no official guagantees may have 7 given, the supposition seems justified that, on the hole, the first to be sent into the Pacific will be the first nln And when they return, they will remain. For , it will not be merely a pause between battles. ; about -all that can be said to those who are disapis: Try, to be | tient, In the vast majority of

| By Ernie Hill

ARGENT INE WAY—

A Night in Boca

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CDN) ~The Argentine family insisted that a night visit to the Boca was important. The Boca, a word meaning mouth, is the tough riverfront section at the mouth of the 2s de la Plata,

Enrique Rogers, the head of the family at whose home I was eating dinner, ‘Tampico or the Bowery. It is like Chicago.” Rogers-is an Argentine movie director and is well acquainted with motion picture versions of Chicago. The big freight boats dock along the Boca waterfront. The meat packing plants are located there. Its dives are notorious. .

It's a Real “Tough Place

THE CHARLESTON cabaret was chosen by the Rogers family: The taxi driver asked if we were carrying knives or revolvers and suggested both might be needed. He said he was risking his own life in taking us, The Charleston, it developed, had recently taken on a uniformed doorman, a United States Negro who greeted us: “Yes, sah. Come right on in, folks. The show is about to start.” When we entered, people turned around from all the tables to look us over. We, in turn, looked them over. Strangely enough, most of the women wore silver fox furs and fashionable Florida Steet) creations. The men were well dressed, too.

to see the Boca hotspots. The other fourth was composed of the Bocaites. “A few wore leather jackets and denim trousers but looked anything except sinister, “This has been turned pinto a tourist joint,” sald Rogers. “I know of another place up the street ‘that is the real thing. Let's go.”

Not a Murder All Evening

THE INFAUSTO, meaning unlucky or fatal, was less on the gaudy side. But there wasn't a murderer in the house. ’ In despair, Rogers admitted that Buenos Aires had changed since the good old days. Perhaps, after the war when more ships were making port, violence would return to the Boca. It was 2 a. m. and the party was ready for a midnight snack, The snack turned out to be porterhouse steaks with French fried potatoes at one of the nicer uptown restaurants, It was jammed with a late show crowd. We relaxed. From the back. of the restaurant, came a scream, A woman carrying a bottle of acid ran through the crowd and out the door. The police rushed in. Acid had been thrown in the face of a woman at a table. It was the usual domestic triangle. The man in the middle of the triangle was waving a knife although it was not clear whom he planned to slash. The police caught the woman, The man, it developed, was a packing plant employee in the Boca district. He objected to arrest because he had to be at work in five hours. Rogerts said that the war and high wages had confused the strata of life in Buenos Aires. He suggested we go home,

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WORLD AFFAIRS—

Big 4 Rule By Marshall McNeil

WASHINGTON, July 7. — The Big Four will not govern Germany as though their separate portions of the country were air-tight compartments, but they will co-ordinate all policies affecting the Reich as a whole. Even so, this four-way rule will add up to as tough a series of problems as ever confronted the science of government. This is the view of the mar who has spent years planning for the occupation of Germany, Maj. Gen. John H. Hilldring, director of the civil affairs division of the war department. His explanation of. plans to dovetail the ‘German rule by U. S., Russian, British and French occupational forces was made while the senate’s war investigating ‘committee was complaining about the lack of such co-ordination.

Top Control Is in Berlin

THE COMMANDERS in chief of the military forces in the four zones of occupation are the members of the allied control council, which will sit in Berlin, : The U. S. plans for administration of our southwestern zone of Germany provide for a deputy to the

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GETS $700 TO BENEFIT VETERANS”

By Letty M. Wickliffe, chapter, Delta Indianapolis

Proceeds from the Philippa Schuyler recital held at the Murat theater on April 24, 1945, enabled Chi chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority to present to Wakeman General hospital the sum of $700 for the purchase of a voice - recording unit which will benefit - 3000 wounded veterans. We wish to extend to you our sincere thanks for the part you played in making this, our first effort, such a great success. Because of the interest evidenced by your co-operation, we are sure you rejoice as we do that our community has been able to render this service to our servicemen. ” ” s “COME EARLY OR YOU'LL MISS THE FIGHT” By “Shanty Irish,” Camp Atterbury

It being the right of every American male to commit suicide in the way he chooses, I am this day challenging 4-F “Sugar Ray” Robinson, well-known fighter, to a boxing match, This match is to be held at Camp Atterbury, Ind. in any building at any time . . ". just so the show is a& late as possible and in some building that I have never heard of. ; Even when the date for the “battle” is at last arranged for the world’s sport fans, I tell you quite frankly that I will not mind one tiny bit if the bout is postponed a few (or éven numerous) because of rain, Hail, or because of | some other bad-tempered display on the part of the elements or (if it must come to that) even because of ‘extreme cowardice on my part Ordinarily, I would not think of

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supreme commander (General Eisenhower) under | whom will be set up the 12 staff divisions. The head| of each of these divisions, in addition to acting in the | U.S. zone, will be the representative of this country on the comparable staff divisions organized under the control council The 12 staff divisions were described by General Hilldring as follows: ON Three military divisions, army (ground), naval and air,. will deal with the demobilization. of German armed forces and the disarmament of Germany. : TWO—Transport division will deal with’ the traffic movements, supervise railway, road and inland water transportation systems, THREE—Naval division, will coastal operations. , FOUR—Political division will deal with foreign affairs, domestic political matters, American interests in Germany and will advise other sections dealing with control of public information services in Germany, reporting of political intelligence, and public relations. FIVE—Economic division will deal with such problems as food, agriculture, fuel and mining, price control and rationing, public works and utilities, internal and foreign trade, conversion and liquidation, This division will see that the Germans are forced to exert all efforts to feed themselves, and also to insure that the liberated United Nations are given first considera~ tion on essential commodities. SIX—Finance division will deal with public finance, foreign exchange, currency, and accounts and audits. SEVEN—Reparations, deliveries and restitution division will supervise the execution of policies established by the reparations commission dealing with reparations and restitution questions as well as handling property control and supervision of monuments, fine arts and archives.

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Supervise All Internal Affairs

EIGHT—INTERNAL affairs and communications division will supervise public safety, including control of civil police forces, public health and welfare, postal, telephone and telegraph, military communications, civil’ services, and local government, education and religious affairs. NINE—Legal division will give legal advice to the various staff divisions and exercise control over allied military courts, German. ordinary and military courts, and prisons. » TEN—Prisoners of war and displaced persons division will be responsible for care and. repatriation of United Nations displaced persons. and prisoners . of war found in Germany.» : ELEVEN--Manpower division will deal with problems of labor relations and allocations, wages and labor policies, housing and labor reform.: This division will be charged with dissolving "the notorious

normal growth of democratic labor organizations and’ practices. ; TWELVE—Intelligence division ‘will maintain’ gen-

erdl> supervision over the entire denazification pro-- | gram ‘and provide a continuous survey to.the end

| that underground activities may be prevented and

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throwing my muscular power against the puny Sugar Boy. But the other day when Mr. Sugar Ray was placed in 4-F classification, I, {being 1-A, felt the blood run red through my veins and I determined that now was the time to make my first million. Who in 1-A wants to work for a living when all he has to do for thousands‘of shekels is to beat the pants off a 4-F? I only ask one thing of the Sugar Boy. If my trick knee goes out of place during the bout, I request that Robinson please spend the time needed for treatment in waving at some cutie in the audience or he might even do a little shadow boxing. Or, if he really desires to ‘please me, he might even “help me put the damn knee back in place,

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ber. One, with a tWo-inch curvature of the spine, but 1-A, will handle the towel; I mean — the towels (he will receive two weeks’ instruction on how to hit the center of the ring with the towel in the quickest time possible); one, with 20-800 vision, will look after the water and do his best to keep the bucket filled at all times; all I

ask of the other two. (trick knee

and lame back) is that they keep track of my mouth piece and of any part of my body that happens to fly out of the ring during the fight; encourage me with pep talks during the rest periods and to argue me out of any contention I might obtain that Sugar Ray has his entire family helping him and three referees besides. To you fans—the charge: $3.75 for balcony, up to $10 for a box seat . ... and none of you will have ever seen a murder any cheaper . or as I first stated . . , a suicide. But sure to come early or

{you'll miss the fight.

: "8 8 “FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS

RIGHT TO DIRECT RELIEF” By W. C. Reese, Shelbyville I see in the papers where Governor. Gates calls for the immediate return. of the unemployment

service to state control and asks that uhemployment compensation

‘tax collected by the federal gov-

ernment be returned to the state. This may. -appeal to the politicians, but local control of funds provided by the state and federal governments is not always admine istered .in the way that does the most good. Local prejudice stands in the way of just compensation. I would rather that such funds be administered by the federal government as they would have a much better chance of reaching the people for whom the money was intended. The federal government having the combined strength of

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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your right to say it.”

tHe state and nation is in much better position to grant relief, There are states which do not have the population of Indiana and these states could not take care of the demands for unemployment compensation in the manner that the federal government can. I saw this point and I am sure the governor has not realized that since; he is governor in a time of prosperous conditions. Local®communities which are asked to assume the control do not in ‘most cases ‘care to assume the task of paying the bills and all sorts of excuses are

else. The state of California wanted to bar from its borders the poor until the supreme court of the United States ruled that poverty was not a disqualification for citizenship. We have in Indiana a law which permits the township trustee to deport poor persons who have not acquired citizenship. I was called upon at one time during the depression to represent 15 families who had such proceedings pending against them in a justice of peace court. These peoplé were good citizens. I made an investigation of the Yederal funds flowing into that community and found that over $25,000 was coming from the federal government in -the form of federal aid. If it had not been for such funds these people would have been driven about like cattle and I did see one poor woman hauled out of the township in a cattle truck with her few household effects to be removed to another community. It is all right for Governor Gates to seek the return to the state of certain funds, but during the depression governors were going to Washington begging for funds to tide the state over. I hope that day will not return, but the chances are it may unless we build up a reserve-in the form of federal funds which could be made available to the state governors for the purpose which I have just mentioned. There are certain matters which as a matter of right belong to the state, but as Judge Cardozo pointed out, the federal government has a constitutional power to aid and direct the problems of public welfare. If I were governor, I would be glad to pass a great many of these problems to the man‘ down at Washington. I am sure that Indiana under such conditions would not feel the drain upon her citizens to supply taxes for all the needs that plague a governor in times like we went through before the present war, . ” 8 o

“LAWS MAKE CRIMES EASY TO COMMIT”

By Mrs. Waller Haggerty, Indianapolis. If crime doesn't pay, lawyers are wasting much of their time trying to make it pay by making laws by which a crime is easy to commit. When a traffic cop gets out early in the morning to spy on.a poor workman, carefully and cautiously (winding his way to labor all day in a sweat shop, to hand him a ticket: for committing a little error, he is robbing his neighbor and rendering no worthwhile service to. those who have put him in their trust.. If a policeman is required to bring in a certain number of arrests to satisfy his stiperior officer, they are making it their business to make crime pay. Crime doesn’t pay and I fail to see why money paid

| for crime profits anyone but law-

yers. A mistake is not a erime

{|and when paid for with nioney affects whole families and children. {| They wouldn't actually steal the

baby's milk. The, whipping post in

| the public square was horrible but : | one sure thing, only the guilty were ! | punished. °

There should be a law passed

| | making it a crime to pay out money for a crime which would be

a sure way. of making LXime not Bob | pay.

DAILY THOUGHT We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren, He that loveth not his ‘brother abideth in death. ~1 John 3: 14.

I Love GIVES Tie lselt, but 1s got : ht.— Longfellow,

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POLITICAL SCENE—

Honeymoon

|By Thomas L. Stokes

: MACKINACISLAND Mich., July 7.—President Truman i§ enjoying,

| at least for the fime being, the }

cordial favor and good will ‘of the Republican Midwest, according to reflection of sentiment by governors of that section who attended the ‘annual governors conference here,

It is ‘an interesting psychological phenomenon. It®

seems to have little to do with Mr. Truman's policies. Instead it stems fargely from the quiet, businesslike personality of the man, himself a product of the ‘Midwest and therefore understandable‘to the people. Primary, perhaps, is the fact that he isn't Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Midwest, in its regional character, is. generally skeptical of miracle men, preferring a more prosaic pattern. The former President was popular generally in the Midwest in early New Deal days among many: classes, including farmers,

To the end, he held the loyalty of people in the

large industrial areas, the rank and file, which provided the margin of victory in such states as Mich jgan and Illinois last year. But he had lost out with a majority of the farmers and smalltown people who still set the design of the Midwest as a

region.

Midwest Understands Truman People in this last category understand a. man such as Harry Truman, They like him instinctively. He gives them a feeling of comfort and they turn to him with a sort of relief and go about their business satisfied that they won't be disturbed by a sudden,.dramatic shift in policy. Other factors cited by the governors are President Truman's consideration for congress and the way he has invited Republicans to advise him, giving a co-operative complexion to his administration, This is a political technique familiar to them, A feeling was reflected among Republican governors, whether valid or not, that President Truman was going to check what one governor called “the top-heavy labor domination of the Roosevelt regime.” A persistent impression from talking with Midwest governors was their hope that President. Truman would swing conservative. - This seems to be an influential factor at this stage in their thinking about him and his administration. Growing perhaps partly from this is an interesting paradox in Midwest reaction to the new President. This is the fact that his endorsement of the Roosevelt policies, with which so many have disagreed so heartily, does not seem, for the moment, to disturb the Midwest or its kindly feeling toward him. This may reflect a ‘belief that ne will not. press too vigorously for measures he inherited from his predecessor, or that congress will block him, or both.

Personal Hostility Is Missing One thing that does seem certain, however, is that no matter how hard President Truman might press for the Roosevelt objectives, he would not arouse the bitterness that President Roosevelt stirred up. That went beyond the measures and centered on

Mr. Roosevelt, himself. : There was an interesting reflection of this dif-

'| ference in attitude toward President Truman and his . predecessor at the governors conference here, Among:

the governors, for instance, there is an almost gen eral resistance to President Truman's proposal for a compromise federal-state unemployment benefit system to replace the present state system for which the governors have fought and Yor which they will

sind firm. Yet there was no personal feeling ex~

hibited against the President on this account. You would not have known that he had a different view. Nor was there any personality bias aroused over President Truman's indication thai many war controls will extend into the post-war period, although many governors here felt. that they should be shut off as soon as the war ends. The Midwestern’ kindness toward President Truman cannot be translated, of course, at this early stage, into terms of votes in 1948. Many people who like Mr. Truman now, and may still like him then, will nevertheless go right ahead and vote the Republican ticket—because they are Republicans,

IN' WASHING TON—

G. |. Buyers Limit

By Roger W. Stuart

WASHINGTON, July 7.—The Surplus Property Board's plan to help servicemen get started in business has been in operation less than a week, but already it has whipped up a storm of protest. It is the veterans themselves who object. They say ‘the program, instead of helping them, actually “penalizes” them for being veterans. Demands from American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and other service groups have been made to the board to permit veterans to buy more than $2500 worth of surplus goods on an A-1 priority, the present limit. In addition, they've asked that the right to be given them to buy goods for resale. Even in face of the latest and bitterest denunciation of the program, made by the American Legion, the board insists the plan is “quite satisfactory and fair as-it is.” given a fair trial before any changes are ordered.” Caught in the middle of the differences between the veterans groups and the Surplus Property Board is the Smaller. War Plants Corp. The latter agency has been charged by the board with carrying out provisions of the new program. The corporation buys surplus goods ‘and resells them. to veterans. Thus the servicemen are able to take advantage of the corporation's preferred purchasing privileges as a government agency. ¢

Says Rule Defeats Own Purpose BUT THE property board's regulation, according to Ralph H. Lavers, director of the American Legion's national employment and veterans preference committees, “defeats its avowed purpose.” Moreover, he declared in a letter to Guy M. Gillette, retiring chairman of, the boar, it “contravenes and nullifiies” the veterans preference section of the surplus property act of 1044, Mr. Lavers listed four objections to the regulation. Under its terms, he said, a veteran— ONE—Can’t purchase enough surplus property to be of any real assistance to him. TWO—Can'’t,go into competition with established civilian business by reselling the “trivial amount” of surpluses he is allotted. THREE—Can’t buy even this small amount ($2500 worth) “unless the Smaller War Plants Corp.’ finds that his purchase will strengthen the competitive position, not of his own business, but of all business —including those civilian businessses which already have the advantage over him.” FOUR—Can't buy the $2500 worth of surpluses “unless the Smaller War Plants Corp. decides not only that he ought to have it in his business, but that ‘business conditions and other economic factors’ in his community fit the pattern decided upon by some planner. in SWPC.”

Gives Veterans Small Preference THE BOARD'S regulation, Mr, Lavers asserted, “not only gives the veteran little or no preference, but . . . actually operated to preserve and maintain the economic handicap which he suffers by reason of his service to his country.” The only limitation placed upon the veteran's right to buy and resell government property, he said, ought to be that which is “inherent in the surplus property. act, which - limits veterans preference to ‘small’ enterprises. The SPB’'s regulation defines a

small enterprise as one with an invested capital not

in excess of $50,000.” on the letter, the board's

businesses of their own, .Thé board had estimated, he said, that Approxi-

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