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RESEARCH FOR PEACE AR has forced the federal government to go in for scientific research on a vast scale. After the war, we believe, the government must continug to do a great deal more about research than it did before. National security calls for a large and steady flow .of new scientific knowledge. So does public health. And public welfare—in terms of new and expanding industries, better products, plenty of jobs, good wages, rising living standards and sound prosperity—depends on research constantly pushed forward. Efforts are now being made to determine government 8 proper part in supporting and encouraging peacetime research. Senator Kilgore's committee, for example, offers a thoughtful report. Several other members of congress have put their ideas into bills. : We think the wisest advice comes from the office | of scientific research and development. This federal agency, created to mobilize civilian scientists for war research, has done a splendid job. Dr. Vannevar Bush, its director, has just submitted a report, prepared at the late President Roosevelt's Yequest, on future use of Sientisic resources.

» » Dk BUSH Droposes that congress adogt a acional policy for scientific research and education. This policy would be carried out by anew agency—a national research foundation—independent of any other government department, but responsible to the President and congress. The foundation, itself, would not conduct research. It would finance . basic research of all sorts by universities, medical schools and other non-profit institutions. It would promote military ‘research by civilian scientists. Also it would seek: to fill the war-created gap In the ranks of young scientists by offering 25,000 scholarships and fellowships to talented high school and college graduates. The program, Dr. Bush estimates, would cost about 33

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million dollars the first year, and about 122 million a year,

after the first five years. This would be in addition to the cost of direct research done by other government agencies. Dr. Bush insists on scientific freedom for those who teach or conduct research under federal grants. -He: stresses the point that members of the National Research foundation should receive no salaries, should understand the" “peculiarities of scientific research and education,” and should not be connected with other government agencies. He believes that government funds should supplement— not substitute for—research spending. - More nearly than any other, we believe, the Bush proposal points a way for government to foster research-and

Drege on

TELLING THE JAPS Nor being experts on that twisted thing called the Jap mentality, we can’t guess the results of the latest official broadcasts explaining unconditional surrender to the enemy. But they should be effective. Since they are prepared by Capt. E. M. Zacharias of the navy and others in Washington who know Japan best, there is some reason to hope that these morale bombs are hitting the target. In trying to persuade the Japs to give up, this “official spokesman” uses several arguments: First, “Japan has already lost the war.” Presumably this is one fact at least that the average enemy soldier or civilian is beginning to realizé from personal experience. | Second, “irresponsible leadership” of Japan before and | during the war is to blame. There are signs that the Japs are beginning to. realize this also.

REFLECTIONS

‘By James Thrasher The first question put by an English-speaking Jap officer to members of an American boarding , party inspecting. a Japanese hospital ship was: “Is Babe Ruth’ still | alive?” It was a natural question about an athlete who at one time was a great hero to the Japanese

people. " Ruth's reputation preceded him-<to Japan when

players in 1934, The Babe lived up to his advance notices, and he was trailed by cheering thousands wherever he went. The Japs were great baseball enthusiasts, whether for love 6f the game or because of their desire to emulate and equal American accomplishments in every field. At any rate they practiced the game with a rather amusing seriousness. Many of their players achieved through his diligence a considerable proficiency in the mechanics of the game. But it was a case of “good field, no hit.” ' They Jpst didn’t. have the physical power to hit for distance.

No Home Run Kings

AND SO, to them, Babe Ruth was not only a hero, but a symbol of that combination of strength, ability and audacity whichstheir best players could never hope to attain, They may have shouted “Banzai” when Ruth hit one out of the park, but they must also have felt a deep envy. Watching him, the more perceptive may have realized that, in other fields besides baseball,’ Americans could do things better and more easily than the Japs, for all their striving. . Two years before Ruth visited Japan he performed perhaps the most audacious feat in baseball history. In the third world series game between the Yankees and the Cubs, he sfepped to bat, pointed to the center field bleachers, deliberately took two strikes, then | poled the next pitch precisely where he had indicated it’ woud go—into the bleachers for a home run, Japanese fans surely read of that feat and marveled at it. And recent events may have recalled it to their minds. For Adm. Hilsey has stolen a page out of Ruth's book.

Halsey—Sultan of Swat

THE ADMIRAL pointed the guns of the 3d fleet at Japan as boldly and confidently as the Babe pointed his bat at the bleachers. He told the Japs where he was going to hit, and proceeded to deliver. He dared them to stop him, and they couldn't. So there is dismal assurance to all Japanese ball fans that Babe Ruth and the power and ability that he represented are still alive. With nations, as with ball players, power and ability don’t develop fully over night. But they are potentially there to start with, The Japs must know this. And even though they still have some turns at bat coming, they must also know what the final score will be.

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Peace Bid? . By Wm. Philip Simms

- WASHINGTON, July 24.—An early, formal peace-bid from Japan -weuld mot greatly surprise United -Nations circles here. Last Autumn, after it had become apparent that Germany had definitely lost the war, rumors were current that Japan would seek the first epportunity to liquidate her part of the conflict’ before she was completely ruined. Her aim would be to save something from the wreckage. ; But, always the .opportunist, she would have to watch heér.chance. The psychological moment from her point of view, it was said, would be between -the European war and the speed-up of the war in the Pacific. Or, more specifically, when the United States began in earnest to shift its forces from Europe to. Asia.

Aimed at American Emotions

THE ARGUMENT advanced at the time went like this: - At the height of the shift, there would be literally hundreds of thousands of. servicemen in transit and on leave in the United States. Families and men would then face one of their most trying emotional ordeals: A second wartime parting. Hard as it was the first time, the second goodby to boys safely home from the first war would be infinitely more painful. © Assuming, therefore, that Japan had come to realize her cause was utterly hopeless, and that the quicker she got out from under the better for her it would be, she would have everything to lose and noth-

| ing to gain by waiting.

To save face, according to this thesis, Japan would doubtless put her peace bid on a lofty, humanitarian basis: She might urge it to save further “useless” slaughter. It would, of course, rate vast publicity. A

But those facts aré not enough. Germany held out | long after she knew she was licked and that her leaders had | bitten off more than they could chew. The Japs have | proved in battle that they are far more fanatical than the Germans. » » » » O our “official spokesman” has to Exriors te main Jap | propaganda myth that unconditional surrender means the end of Japan. He cites more facts. America in the past has been kind to her defeated enemies. The Atlantic Charter and the Cairo declaration pledge destruction of aggres- - sion and conquest but protection of the peaceful rights of peoples. President Truman has announced unconditional surrender does not mean enslavement or destruction of the Japanese—if surrender comes quickly. This last, which was stressed by the President in his VE-day warning seems to us the chief point. It is Simply that unless Japan does surrender soon she will be utterly destroyed-—not by our peace terms but by our military might. ; Unconditional surrender soon. or extinction. That is | the only choice. If we can get that across to the Japs, they are not likely to let a personal suicide complex or anything else drive them to national extinction,

THE “IMPORT MYTH” RE? AUGUSTUS BENNETT of New York, whose baili- | wick includes some woolen mills, has recéntly undertaken the debunking of the “import myth.” He traces our snobbish preference for imported cloth to colonial days. There was an excuse for that preference 200 years ago, he says, but not today. Mr. Bennett points,out that, in many instances, English and American weavers use identical material. He ‘maintains that American skill and American machinery. are ‘a8 good as any. And while he dénies any intent of boycott or “commercial chauvinism,” and admits that much good fabric does come from abroad, he does resent the opinion, prevalent in some circles, that, unless cloth is imported, it is inferior. His point seems well taken. Few Americans are as y as the well-dressed man we heard of who even imported Connecticut-made shoes from a London bootery, it the “import myth” does exist. It is inconsistent with lity of American workmanship and the accomplish" of American industry. In fact, it's downright silly. 't gloat over the misfortunes of war which en incontestibly the best-dressed, people |

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free ‘press and radio would carry every word. And the Japs might reason that, if it were shrewdly timed, the allied governments would be subjected to considerable domestic pressure. If "the Japs were really thinking in ahy such térms

| as these eight or 10 months ago, their brain cells

today must be undergoing vastly accelerated ferment. Germany offers a horrible example of what will happen to them if they don’t surrender, and soon.

‘Nippon Is Doomed, Unless , . . WHEN THE intensive bombing of the Germans began, the Nazis were spread out all over Europe. High priority targets were scattered over some 2,000,000 square miles, an area approximately two-thirds the size of the United States. Today, the whole might of America and Britain is being concentrated on Japan alone—mostly against Japan proper. And Japan is only 148,000 square miles in extent. She is scarcely more than half the size of Texas, smaller even than the single state of California. Japan, therefore, is doomed. And her leaders know it. Either she will be burned and bombed to dust or she must quit the war, The allied terms, as always remain unconditional surrender. But Japan knows that there are terms

he went there with a group of other American ball.

2: 5 As a disabled veteran of the first world war, with a son in the second,|” -|I object to the propaganda of this|-

| {By Mrs.

Hoosier

“WE DEMAND TO KNOW WHO IS THE WATCHMAN" By George C. Smith, Indianapolis Let me quote of Saturday's Times. “Full, free expression of all points of view is the essence of democracy.” You also state all letters must be signed.

man or agent of the Nazis who signs his articles The Watchman. I demand, as an American who has suffered and bled for our country, that you publish the name and the organization this Watchman | represents. Any person Or persons who advocate dissension or hate or try to cause a war with our allies— a war in which he will not have any physical part (he certainly wasn’t in this war)—has no place in our country, He should be sent back to where he came: There are too many people wanting war whose only part is making money out of them. Therefore, I again demand as one who has suffered the curse and horrors of a war that you publish the name and business of The Watchman. We, the readers of this paper, want to know who and what he is; and why you let anyorie write such articles of hate, without signing his name to the articles. Of course, as an out and out American who has suffered and still is suffering from the efforts of his war service, I don’t expect to see this letter in print in your Forum. = » »

“MARINES AND NAVY HAVE NO DISCHARGE POINT SYSTEM” C. Vernon Myers, Indianapolis. . In regard to the article printed! about point system for servicemen | yesterday, I disagree with the! writer, Mr. Reger. . He writes that the>army and marines have the use of the point system and what about the sailors that get no credit. Well now, my husband is a marine, with ribbons that include the purple heart and presidential citation with one star, ete and in all if he were an army man he would have at least 125 points. But the marines absolutely do not have point system advantage either. Even if my husband was in the army, I'd still feel that the government is unfair to the navy and marines. In the fist place, marines are a part of the navy. If anyone knows even one reason for the army getting the better of the deal so far as discharges, please

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“MARION COUNTY NOT WILLING TO SHARE CITY'S TAXES” By Etta Vorhies, Indianapolis . The recommendations of the Citizens Postwar Planning Committee certainly should be deeply - studied by the people of Marion county be.fore such drastic changes are made in our government as consolidation

of various government facilities, county-city office buildings, etc Everyone knows that the city will not pay for all this. The people of the county will be required to help pay, and please note the amount. The Indianapolis tax rate is $3.045— the tax rate for Perry township (one of the high township rates) is $1.25. The people of Marion county would be helping Indianapolis to pay its debts, its police protection, its many schools, its enormous social welfare problem, etc. The big social welfare expense is in the city. Indianapolis has tried different schemes whereby to get people outside the city to help on this; so she has now hit upon one scheme whereby the county will cer{tainly have to pay. The people. of the county certainly aren't willing to do all this. Our servicemen will come home to find they have a government established without the consent of the governed—tactics .of 1776. They wii! find that the many thousands have died in vain for a free, liberty-loving democracy. ”n

'|“HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN

ELECTION IRREGULARITIES?” By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, Indianapolis Have senators Ball and Stewart settled the election irregularities between themselves and decided to let the ‘public forgive and forget? We shall appreciate the Editor's note.

(Editor's Note—-By last rpports from Washington Senators Ball and Stewart have apparently decided to

make yourself known.

forget, if not forgive.)

Side Glances=By Galbraith

even though military capitulation is complete. The Germans

Foch in 1918, after which he told them the terms. !

Italy surrendered unconditionally in this war, the terms‘ have not been unduly severe. therefore, might also feel that, if they quit soon enough, they, like the Italians, may be able to save at least a little.

Yet

So They Say —

THE AMERICAN merchant marine which took more than 70 per cent of our troops (overseas), will bring them back: in the manner and style to which they are entitled, —Frank J. Taylor, president, American merchant marine institute,

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WE DARE NOT say that there will be no more wars. Fallure to provide universal training has always constituted an- open invitation for aggression on the part of militarists—Dunlap C. Clark, U, 8.

Chamber of Commerce: *

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LETTING every boy and girl feel he is doing part for the militaty campaign abroad will help keep waste paper collections at high levels during the summer, Salvage division, war Jroduction board.

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CWE MUST find toil spies and get them move ing before the end of September or the (fuel) situ-

«| ation in Europe will be appalling this ‘winter. ~-Official |

of European coal organization. WHEN lawnmowers ate dh on the matket there'll be & graff rush to buy them. to let the raat i ow under ‘ete fou):

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“1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the

your right to say it.”

“AIR AND NAVAL BASES MUST GUARD DEMOCRACY” Bp E. R, Egan, 701 Markwood ave. Considering that boundaries and bases are the business of the peace conference and not primarily the Potsdam conference, President Truman’s declaration “we do not seek territorial aggrandizement” must be taken at face value, but must not be

construed by anyone, least of all Japan, that we will overlook the strategic value of say permanent possession of so commanding a position for air and naval bases as Okinawa, which when adequately fortified, are of supreme importance as an impregnable gateway to the Orient, and the convincing evidence

{that the San Francisco conference

was not just an aftermath of warweary ebullience, The peace terms must of necessity be based upon the conclusions of this conference, which with the Bretton Woods economic contribution forms the background of a reconstructed war-torn economy and peace. The post-war developments of the first world war emphasize the necessity of a treaty with “teeth” in it, and these figurative “teeth” must be in a swift—mobile is the word—police force to enforce the so evidently necessary terms of settlement however much the militarists object to them, and to prevent the usual attept to re-establish their domination and this must apply to the petty wars now going on in Europe. Post-war commercial airways inevitably will determine air bases, which will in turn be governed by international commerce economy. This must and will supplant huge military establishments — military forces. And this inevitably will determine the political setup—personnel of all post-war policies, There is no other course possible, humanity the world over has had a post-graduate course in world politics. Small" nations by intelligent policies can be as powerful as large nations. Territorial expansion, the only stock in trade of the medieval feudalists now in evidence in nationalism, is abolished: by the scientific development Which eliminates distance. In the interim air and naval bases must protect democratic processes— progress.

» » » “COMMUNIST PARTY HAS NO PROGRAM” By Charles Ginsberg, Indianapolis Mr. Geiger is quite right in his criticism, July 16, of The Watchman. The Watchman seems to’be lacking very much in a knowledge and understanding of the subject he is grappling with. In his letter of July 13 he states, “Communism 1s, of

course, a world-wide revolutionary organization.” Communism is a system of society where everything is owned in common. It is a goal to be attained through a revolution. It is not the revolutionary organization, a means to the goal. A Communist party would be the revolutionary organization, a means to the goal. Al-

though Russia has oeen called Com- |

munist, in reality it is not Commu« nist; it is state -capitalist. The Communist party is not a true partly to communism. It is an opportunist movement with no program. It is not “Marxist” but antiMarxist, with only a small following, but is given much advertisement by the capitalist apologists and redbaiters to keep it alive that they may have something to brand the working class of whenever they demand an increase in wages or go on ; If And now for a $64 question. Isn't

lit a fact, Mr, Watchman, that Rus-

sia is by far better off today than under the czarist rule? . wy

DAILY THOUGHT

He hath filled me with bitter. ness, he hath made me drunken {3 we Wormwood, - Lamentations 13:1

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[To The: Point—

POLITICS—

Mr. Windsor By Peter Edson

WASHINGEON, July 24¢.—H. R. H., the Duke of Windsor, erstwhile Prince of Wales, erstwhile ‘king of England, Ireland, etc, came down to Washington for lunch the other day, and under, peculiar circumstances, Real purpose

| of the feed, it was explained, was to -give Eddie &.

little first-hand information on American post-war planning for full employment, reconversion and all that stuff, Guests at the luncheon were a score of U. 8. sen«ators interested in these things, plus a number of top administrators of government agencies hananig post-war projects. Host was Hugh Fulton, New York and Washings ton lawyer and formerly chief counsel for the senate’s war investigating committee, back in the days when President Truman was a -senator and its chairman. News of the affair got a little fouled up at first because it was arranged rather quietly and imme= / diately a lot of gossips started imagining things. First rumor to-spread was that Hygh Fulton had. been retained as the duke's lawyer to get him a di-

pvorce from Wally. Definitely NOT so. The brilliant |

young cx-chief investigator for the celebrated True

,| man committee has a number of good clients—in-

cluding such American industry royalty as Henry, Kaiser and Andy Higgins—but the Duke of Windsor and/or the former Wallace Warfield of Baltimore are not among the clientele.

He's Not Selling Anything, Either WHEN that was “exploded a rumor . started on Capitol Hill that this was a British propaganda. luncheon. The report bruited about was that the clever and subtle British were merely sending their star salesman of the empire—meaning the duke—to do a job of selling the senators on the United Na« tions charter or Bretton Woods or a new loan. That, also is one you can forget. Nothing to it at all. No one from the British embassy attended the luncheon

| and Senator Tom Connally of Texas, chairman of the

senate foreign relations committee, sent his regrets, Since the duke quit his job as governor of the Bahamas last March, -he has spent much of his time in Florida and New York. He has enjoyed his new freedom as a private individual, has met a lot of businessmen and talked to them at length about economic planning. if Several months ago he asked to meet Hugh Fulton because of Fulton's past work with the Truman committee and the committee’s early work on post-war planning. Fulton finally asked the duke it he wouldn't like to meet some of the senators who were actually orafting legislation that would govern U. 8, recone version. The duke sald he would and Fulton are ranged the luncheon. That's all there is to it,

Duke's Future Job Is a Mystery

JUST how the duke will use ‘all this .economie information he’s gathering isn't known. What his

Churchill has always been one of the duke’s supporters, bat relations with -the royal -family- may still be + a bit strained. : Owing to President Truman's presence at the Big Three meeting in Potsdam, the duke didn't have a chance to pay his respects at the White House. The . § two men have met, hgwever, It was during the first | world war, when the duke was a young officer ate tached to Gen, Pershing’s staff and Truman was a captain of.field artillery in the 35th division. Pershing inspected the 35th before it sailed for home. True man’s battery included a lot of pretty wholesome Kansas City Irish, and as Gen. Pershing and his royal aid were inspecting Truman's outfit, a rough and raucous voice rose out of the nowhere to cry, “What's the Prince of Wales going to do for the Irish?” That's the way Truman tells it, anyway. The way the duke tells it, the cry was, “What's the little so-and-so ong. to do for Ireland?” Only stronger. - Eo

IN WASHINGTON—

Aliens’ Tax By Henry J. Taylor

WASHINGTON, July 24. — The bureau of internal revenue is get- .§ ting after “guests” who have made hundreds of millions of dollars on stock market and other transactions without paying any taxes.. Some 250,000 non-resident aliens have taken abolit $800 million in profits out of the stock market—and have avoided about $200 million in taxes which American citizens would have had to .pay on a similar take, The refugees and some Swiss bankers have operated under terms of the 1936 tax law which granted a capital gains tax exemption

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United States. The house of representatives adjourned wittiovh taking action on a bill by Rep. James P. Geelan (D, Conn.) to eliminate the exemption. This left’ it to the revenue bureau to plug the loophole if it was to be plugged before the refugees departed with their profits,

Just ‘Who Is 'Non-Resident'?

REVENUE Commissioner John DI. Nunan has re. interpreted the term, non-resident alien, so that refugees who have been in this country on extended

Under that classification they become subject to tax ation. Prom here out the burden of proof for exemption will be heavily on the non-resident alien. 3 “1f we find,” says a revenue bureau spokesman, “that a non-resident alien accepted employment for as much as a single day, or in other ways profited by his sojourn here, we do not believe the visitor comes within the exemption unless he can give a special explanation.” The revenue bureau field agents have been ordered to obtain, from every non-resident alien they can locate, the following information: Date of arrival*in the United States, and whether members of his family accompanied him, Reason for coming here, and type of visa or permit issued. : What funds, securities, or other personal property he brought into the United States or transferred to his account, or held for his benefit directly or indirectly, prior to or after arrival, Whether he performed personal engaged in any other business here,.

How Much Profit on Stock Deals? COMPLETE disclosure as to capital gains from dealings in securities and commodities and an identification of the sources of all funds employed, Whether the visitor owns real estate here in his own name or that of a nominee, . If he entered on a temporary permit, how many times has it been renewed, and whether he has applied for or been granted an immigration visa or otherwise declared his intention to reside here. Whether the alien registered under the selective service act. All non-resident aliens will have to answer these questions satisfactorily - and settle up accordingly before obtaining a “tax clearance. p If any non-resident alien 'can be construed to have lost his visitor's status by the length of hig stay and have become, in effect, a resident alien— or if his activities can be construed as having ene gaged him in business, thus forfeiting his exemption the bureau will levy all taxes applicable to resi’ dent aliens. ‘Such taxes are the same as those paid, by American citizens,

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riext job will be isn’t known. It may depend a little. i on outcome of the British elections. Prime Minister -.

to non-resident aliens ‘hot engaged in business in 8. rp

visitors’ visas may be classified as resident aliens, ' |