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“recently had been members of the coalition war cabinet.

_pective new Labor government and the Conservatives had |

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. . Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

T THE BRITISH ELECTION ‘FHE change in British: policy will not be as complete as the sweeping election returns ‘indicate. Not even the personalities will be new, for the Labor party leaders until

If we were to belieye the charges and counter charges made in the heat of a very dirty election campaign, then | we would have to conclude that England is in for little short of revolution. The Conservatives were painted as reactionary exploiters of the worst order, and the Laborites were described by their opponents as Redd ready to set up a| secret police state. Actually, however, the British Tories | on the record are rather New Dealish and the Labor party | is most moderately Socialistic.

Thus the change in domestic policy between the pros- |

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‘they returned to power, will be a difference in degree rather | than in kind. The state’s responsibility for full employment, higher living standards, better housing, adequate

"health facilities and the like, is recognized by both parties |

but the tempo. will be faster under a Labor cabinet. | Even so, however, the innate moderation of the British | people of all classes is such that extreme measures are im- | probable. Mr. Attlee and his Labor colleagues are cautious | men, seasoned by long experience, and responsibility: in|

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COR TOWN— © Bare Facts By Anton Scherrer" EVER SINCE Indianapdlis wom-

én took to exposing their midriffs in pablic, I've been collecting my

thoughts. I am ready to report. My thesis is based on the discovery that the period I picked to live in will go down in history not as the :Machine Age, as I and everybody else had thought, but as the period marking the gradual and progressive revelation of the human form divine (woman to you boobs), For the first 20 years of my life there was a general belief, subscribed to by everybody in Indianapolis, that the more clothes a woman wore the better she would look. The better she would feel, too, for the belief embraced the idea t complete ness of covering was ah outward manifestation of an inner rectitude. Women even gloved their hands when they appeared in public with the result that nothing was left exposed except possibly their face (if unveiled). ’ ! Indeed, I knew so little of a woman's anatomy that I spent my entire boyhood no better off than Sir John Suckling who, way back in the seventeenth century, ruefully lamented:

“Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light, ...”

If I remember correctly, it was around the turn of the century that things began to pop. By that time skirts were so long and Kicked up so much dust that somebody on the City Council introduced a resolution to regulate the length of skirts in Indianapolis.

All in the Interests of Health DR. GEORGE D. KAHLO and Dr. Frederick Heath, two ardent sanitarians, supported it, I remems= ber. And so did Mrs, May Wright Sewall and Mrs. John L. Griffiths, but whether it was for sanitary reasons I don't seem able to recall. Chances are it wasn’t. Come to think of it, Mrs. Sewall was always among the first in Indianapolis to show the kind of stuff women are made of. Isaac Cleaver, who did the buying for H. P. Wasson at the time, was enthusiastic, too. “I believe such a measure an admirable one,” said Mr. Cleaver. “All outdoor skirts from now on will be cut from 1% to 2 inches above the ground.” C. A. Shaffer, head of the ladies dress department of L. S. Ayres (and who was held responsible for the

_ government. They are nét the kind to go off half cocked.

IT is a tribute to Mr. Attlee and his associates that the | Leo "ie point entirely, but proved to become the

| “Ayres Look” at that time) wasn't so sure about it. | He pointed out that the City Council might as well

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British voters have more faith in them than in Mr. | prize non sequitur ever delivered in Indianapolis.

_ Britain, that basic foreign interests and diplomatic policies

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.Churchill—at least in domestic affairs which were the issue | in the election. The electorate lacked faith, apparently, |

in Mr. Churchill's ability and vision to meet post-war | reconstruction problems. He is old and weary, because he | has given so much. ; Of course this vote does not detract in any way from Britain's high regard for Mr. Churchill as a war leader. No man in our time— perhaps in any time or in any country —has ever achieved such a position. If any one man can unify and save an entire nation in peril, that is what he did in those dark days which will never be forgotten by civilized men. There will always be a special place for him in the hearts of Britons and of all allied peoples. » » » ” » » THE first question which Americans ask is what effect will the election have on British foreign policy? Very little, in our judgment. “It is true in any stable nation, but particularly in

do not vary greatly. In this case they probably will vary even less than usual.” For Mr. Attlee as a member of the recent coalition cabinet shared the diplomatic decisions | during the European war period; he was a delegate to the San Francisco conference, and he has been meetirig with the Big Three at Potsdam. So there should be a minimum of delay and difficulty in the. shift from one administration te another.” la, The Labor party is committed to the complete defeat | of Japan. Tts general poliey for a democratic world is akin to that of the United States with which it desires the closest co-operation.” - . _

Americans should have no concern over the results of

the friendship of the two peoples, so essential to world

LAST CHANCE FOR JAPAN HE Japanese now know what unconditional surrender | means. $ : President Truman, Mr. Churchill and Generalissimo | Chiang Kai-shek have laid out the terms in clear language. | They have given Japan a last chance “to end this war” and | save herself from “prompt and utter destruction.” . The terms are not what in their various “peace feelers” the Japanese have'indicated they would like to be offered!

and today the surrender ultimatum was rejected. [y

But they are the only terms the Japs will have an | opportunity to consider. For the chiefs of the three allied | powers have said: “We will not deviate from them. There are no alternatives. We shall brook no delay.”

Japan must lay down her arms, disgorge her conquests of 50 years, kick out her militarist rulers, yield up ‘her | war criminals for just punishment, dismantle her warmaking industries, and submit to allied occupation until! she has established a peacefully inclined and responsible | government which respects fundamental human rights and | freedoms.

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HE terms would enable Japanese soldiers to return to their homes to lead peaceful and productive lives. They “would permit the maintenance of industries to sustain a peace economy. They would give Japan aceess to raw materials, and eventual participation in world trade relations. They would permit the Japanese people eventually to choose their own government and lead their own lives —on their home islands. ” Let us hope there remain in Japan responsible elements with the vision and the strength. to s¥ize this last opportunity to conclude this bloody war. They cannot hope by Delay can bring on Japan only more death, more devastation, and harsher terms. ~The allies are ready to end the war on the terms outlined, But the Chinese have not suffered all those years of Jap aggression, the British have not endured all their privations and indignities, and the Americans have not gone : all the way from Pearl Harbor, to stop anywhere short of a

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| what is technically. known as a woman's midriff.

I don’t seem to remember whether the City Council passed or pigeon-holed the resolution. However, I have a vivid recollection that, as a result of the agitation, the merits and advantages of Mrs. John Candee Dean's “rainy day skirt” were again discussed, Mrs. Dean invented the rainy day skirt as early as 1893, but never got anywhere with it. It called for a garment ending three inches below the knee which was altogether too revolutionary and immoral to be entertained at the time. Nevertheless, Mrs. Dean deserves a niche in the Hall of Fame. Considered historically, her invention. was the first milestone (well, anyway, the first 16 inches) in the revelation of the human form divine. Considered culturally, it was just another contribution submitted by one who had the misfortune to be born 50 years too early.

The Girls Out-Strip City Council BY 1910, without any further help from the City Council, the skirt had reached the top of a lady’s high shoe. That same year the automobile self-starter was perfected. That settled it. Up to that time, automobiles had to be cranked by hand, a trick a long-skirted woman couldn't possibly do; at any rate, not without making herself look unladylike. With electric self-starters, the automobile people suddenly woke up to the fact that their market might be appreciably increased by persuading women that they could manage automobiles without the help of men. As usual, the automobile people guessed right. © Women took to driving cars only to discover that their skirts .were still too long to’ manipulate the pedals. From that minute on, skirts began to shrink, Every day showed progress until finally the knee plus ultra stage was reached. ’ The gradual and progressive revelation of the human form divine worked. from the head down, too. This phase started with the shirtwaist (circa 1900). | In the beginning the shirtwaist looked as if it never | would reveal anything. It had long sleeves that | overlapped the wrists and a choker collar so high | that it tickled the ears. Gradually, however, the collar was discarded. revealing the throat and, gosh, | it was pretty. When the sleeves were shortened, it | disclosed the fact that women were born with elbows. Finally, somebody hit upon the idea of puncturing | a shirtwaist with a lot of little the most part to a woman's arms and chest. vention was called the “peek-a-boo waist” up to its name. The two forces—one working from the and the other from the head down—have now met in |

took practically 50 years to accomplish it. that it is here, it isn’t worth a second look.

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«+ WORLD AFFAIRS—

\ New Line By James Thrasher

IT WASN'T surprising to learn . that the American Communists have switched back from a “politi4 cal association” to a political party. The change had been expected ever since a French Communist attack orf Earl Browder's wartime policy of capital-labor collabora- | tion set the stage for the American party’s repudia- | tion-of its veteran leader. Si) The American C, P.’s plan for revolution here seems as hopeless as ever. In spite of grievous inequalities in our society, which can and should be corrected under our own system, the American way of life and standard of living surpass anything that the Communists can offer to the great majority of American citizens GE Yet the American C. P. probably figures that this is a ripe time to getbagk to the party line. And there are reasons to support this conjecture.

Russia Doesn't Need Us

FIRST THE defeat of Germany ended Russia's | Rreat war crisis, And since American Communists’ |

allegiance is to the Russian government, they can |

resume their diversive and subversive work here without being concerned -with its effect on | cution of the Japanese war, . : Second, the American people realize that the need | for close and friendly relations with Russia is of the utmost importance today. Because of this, ' cause of admiration for the Red army, many seem to | have the idea that any opposition, or even criticism, | of American Communists is unfriendly to the Soviet | government, even though the American Communists’ avowed goal is the overthrow of our. capitalistic economy and the government under which it' functions, Third, we are.néaring the end of a great war which has thrown our economy out of gear and strained our tempers as well as our resources, The American C. P. undoubtedly hopes that the readjustment and temporary. unemployment which are inevitably . ahead will produce the ferment of discontent in which. class

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“WHAT 18 WRONG WITH U. 8.2. NOT VERY MUCH” By Veteran df '18, Indianapolis : I see that Mrs. Walter Haggerty wrote in today to reprimand The Watchman (whoever he is) for only using part of a quotation; and then proceeded to make a quotation herself from the late President Roosevelt, which had to be corrected by the editor. Well, that's Sister Haggerty for you. Sure is a rabid New Dealer. Only last year she was writing every week, and sometimes two or three times a week, that the United States ought not to have any election—just let Roosevelt go right ahead.

Mrs. Haggerty?

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

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

“No-Election Hagger- ville, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and other ty” wasa good name for her. Makes points of coral, volcanic ash and wish to be permitted to inform the you look kinda silly now, doesn't it, jungle in the Pacific area, not t0 readers of the protest to be careful She must be on mention -the boundless ocean and in accepting such news as accurate

the Communist - payroll or some- the continents on all sides of it.

thing the way she praises Russia.! The voice still asks adherence to| i ‘ Why is everything the United States the ancient shibboleth of “uncondi-| pn a does wrong, and why is everything tional surrender,” no matter hOW to arouse the sympathy of - the Russia does right? Why don’t the many more lives it may cost. It has American public for the downtrodHaggerty's and everybody who are been stated over the radio that itigqen people of Macedonia ‘and to so crazy about Russia move over can be revealed that Japan did present the false impression that Sure have, my make an offer to stop if they could| Greek Macedonia is inhabited most- | %- have their homeland and their em-}y py Yugoslavian and’ Bulgarian Now, what is wrong with . the ‘peror. Some of our high-ranking gheaking people and he, being the United States? Not very much as officers were for accepting, but Gen.| ai servant of the Russian dreams {T can see. . We have a representa- {Marshall thought they should stick 2 wm : and to the Casa Blanca battle-cry. Of course, the boys had nothing to say.

there and live? consent.

tive form of government, everybody, including idiots over and people who believe in communism, fascism and anarchy, have the right to vote.

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But another voice cries out of the wilderness of senatorial lethargy.

In Russia only Senator Capehart, following in the

four or five million people of 180 steps of Senator Wheeler, has asked million belong to the Communist more than’once that something be

party, and they V The rest -do the working and] fighting and dying. The

ernment, and wanting

or law from Europe, where same |

do all the voting.|done to stop the slaughter,

Those with boys walking against

main [the bullets will no doubt agree with holes, confined for [trouble with this country as I see him. But those who are childless, The in- {it is there is always somebody sit- and the economic, religious and poand lived [ting around on. themself yapping litical dictators who have something ‘at our Ameérican way of life, our to gain by prolonging the mess will ground up | traditions and our form of gov-iyowl for its continuance. to bring not afraid of the Nips if they come 1t | in some old, out-worn, out-moded| down Main street; so give the boys And now {and uphappy system of economics | a chance. x

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Congresswoman Sumner said to

was a failure, and where the peo- get the army out of Europe if we

ples are so unhappy all like to move over here and suffer under our way of doing things where everybody with any git-up and git has -an auto, radio, bathtub and plenty to eat. n ~ “DO AMERICAN SOLDIERS NEVER GET A BREAK?” By Si Moore, Indianapolis. The war is o'er,ithe boys are dead, | the shouting ard the “Huzzahs” fade, the body politic’ lies down to lick the wounds its dumbness made. And a voice cries from the tomb in answer to the blood that is crying from New Guinea, Saipan, Bougain-

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want to get,along with Russia. And why should American boys be cimpelled to fraternize’ with peoples who have been steadily propagan-

|dized to us as unmentionables. And |

the boys are working for them at hard labor. Do!" American soldiers The big shots are at long last riding at the head of their troops, as they go under the triumphal arches in Berlin and

other smelly spots. And we pay for

the glamor as well as the powder that is still burning. boy will pay for the emperor, who is religious head and protected by the Atlantic Charter for that rea-

son.. Why kick a stone wall?

Side Glances=By Galbraith

“MACEDONIA, PART OF GREECE ~IN SPITE OF COMMUNISTS” By William Zilson, State Secretary, Order of AHEPA

In your paper of recent date a protest by Gen. Tito of Yugoslavia was published accusing the Greek guards at the .Greek-Yugoslavian frontiers of shooting at people across the borders at the Yugoslavian territory. ‘This dispatch which came from the headquarters of Communist Tito, the paid servant of another Slavic nation, received a prominent place in the American press, without comment from its editorials, Commenting on the protest of (sen. Tito, whose intentions were

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{of a Pan-Slavic nations embracing all of Greek Macedonia with the city of Thessalonica as their southern sea port, as the new United Balkan States of Com tic Union. “For the information of.the good American public which never .let Greece down in the past and from which people Greece expects moral support against the new dangers, I wish to say that the official statistics of the last census taken in Octo~ ber, 1940, show that Macedonia is inhabited by .1751,997 people of which 28,310 are Slavs, 10,374 Viachs and the rest. Greeks and Jews, and a few of other nationalities. Historically Macedonia has been part of old Greece for 2500 years. The Greek people of Greece and the Greek government ‘believe that the good peace-loving - people of Yugoslavia do not share the desire of Gen. Tito, and we faithfully |trust that the good and amicable |relations of the two peoples, the Greek and the Yugoslavian, will not be disturbed. ~But the Greek people, as our good Yugoslavian friends know, shall not and will not hesitate to again defend ifs land from any invader, no matter how powerful and how cruel. Greece never thought of interven ing herself in anybody else's territory because its people love peace and respect other peoples rights, Macedonia is part of Greece and shall remain such. The American people will never stand to see Tito and his Communists disturbing the peace in Greece,

” “SHIP WAR PRISONERS HOME TO MINE COAL” By Oliver Thornberry, Indianapolis Now about this coal business. Every time you pick up the paper you read ‘where the dear old U. 8. A. is sending something overseas. Who pays? The poor people. I know and you know that the big shots have coal and plenty to eat. In fact; every time you hear of a conference you also hear of steaks.

ter than the country he represents. The prisoners over hére have to drill every day in ‘order to keep in shape. Why not ship them over there and let them mine the coal instead of keeping them here and treating them better than our owh soldiers, This would not only save food and. fuel, but also be a big help to the moral of our returning veterans, who think they. will never be sent back. I know, I've, had sonal conversation with a thousd or more veterans. ‘ P. 8. It's getting about time someone thought of our country,

elm————————————————— DAILY THOUGHT Tt is better to dwell in a corner ‘of the house top, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. ~Proverbs 21-9, or

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Sen. Wheeler By Thomas L. Stokes WASHINGTON, July 27.—Perhaps the most encouraging thing about the sengte debate on the San Francisco Charter was the I speech delivered by Senator °° Wheeler (D. Mont.), This is‘because he is the spokes< man of the down-in-the-heart and down-in-thee mouth opposition te international co-operation. The case he made on which to base the future

co-opération—which is his purpose—seems to leave little to fear, It can't be very convincing to the

l-,..The Montana senator performed one public serve ice. He" finally lét the cat out of the bag. He res .

last-ditchers to ‘try to nullify the Charter when “legislation to implement it comes along some months hence. This legislation would authorize United States contributions of various sorts; including armed forces, to make the Charter effective, Now the people know what to look for from those who still would try to deny them the reality of in= ternational co-operation, for which the Charter is ! only the vehicle, Now they know, too, that the op= position drew in its horns temporarily, swallowed the Charter with a wry gulp, because of fear of retalias - tion from the people, themselves. Political expediency is mixed up in all this,

Sees No Hope in Charter :

SENATOR WHEELER protested too much. He overstated his case. He was a prophet of gloom and doom. Conditions in Europe are desperate and drear, as anybody who has been there can testify. But they

senator offered. He permitted no gleam of hope anywhere, “ Such an approach does not appeal to the American people. They are incurable optimists and have made a nation great by that attitude. They want to be up and doing, hopefully, not squatting in sack cloth, throwing ashes on their heads. % Senator Wheeler's speech was very {lluminating— as to Senator Wheeler. He resented “some persons ; who think they know more about what is in my mind than I do,” and yet a perusal of his speech, he re= plies to questions from the floor, seem to make fairly , clear what is in the Senator's mind, more so perhaps than he may suspect. He was an “isolationist” before the war, as 80 o many of us were, fair, but the Senator used “interventionist” in his speech in the same broad sense, so “isolationist” would seem permissible. All through his speech he was justifying his atti tude. He must be givan credit for sincerity in his original stand and now. He insisted he had been . consistent, ;

Plans to Vote for It

YET, AFTER criticizing the Charter throughout his speech, indicating he saw little hope, if any, in it, © he announced that he would vote for it. In essence ° the whole tenor of his speech was against it. He is, according to his speech, against the very principle of collective security which the Charter embodies. He challenges the heart of it, which is for our country to supply troops, in co-operation with others, to.put down aggression. A T His attitude is in contrast with that of Senator Johnson (R. Cal), who was against the League of Nations and is against the Charter. Isolationists who were recognized plainly as such fared badly in last year's elections. Other isolationists - in the senate now have kept their heads down, and ~ are ready to go along for ratification. There must be some influence at work. Perhaps it is the people.

IN WASHING TON—

Patent Probe

By Robert Taylor

WASHINGTON, July 27.~Patents on drugs, appliances and processes vital to public health and welfare may be opened to general use, under” a suggestion Now. being considered by government officials. The House Labor subcommittee on aid to the physically handicapped, headed by Rep. Augustine B. Kelley (D. Pa.) is adding power to the sugges= tion. ; The subcommittee d

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eveloped ‘evidence that many ( tents, necessary health products are covered by pa Holders of some patents have peen charged with using them to maintain artificially high prices. Committee members are considering means fo break the monopoly. They have the support of William H. Davis, war mobilization director and chairman of the paten§ study committee appointed by Secretary of Com~ merce Wallace, The committee will recommend ways of preventing patent abuses. Mr. Davis appeared before the committee in his private’ capacity as & patent attorney. Committee members asked him how he would cope with the problem of granting private monopolies, through patents, on items necessary to the public welfare.

Wants Compulsory Licenses MR. DAVIS suggested that such patents be opened to all producers, with compensation, probably in the form of .a royalty, fixed by the government. In effect, his suggestion would call for compulsory lie ing of patents. i i+ or #sn’t new. The National Patents | Planning Commission, now virtually superseded by Secretary Wallace's committee, proposed it two years ago. - 5 “The- cotnmission is impressed with the need of a degree of compulsion in certain fields, such as na« tignal defense, public health and public safety,” their report said. The commission recommended that the courts determine whether a particular invention is necessary to the general welfare and limit the patensg owner to “reasonable compensation” without prohibiting the use of the invention. i

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PRIZE CASE of patent control of a health product, as outlined to the house investigators, is that of Vitamin D patents. The patents are held by the “Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.” The Justice Department charges the foundation used them in violation of the anti-trust laws, to keep prices up and restrict their application. The Justice Department seeks a court finding which * would nullify the patent and throw it open to general use, without compensation to the patent holder, Wendell Berge, assistant atttorney general in charge of anti-trust cases, told the House subcome mittee the department has intervened in a private suit piought by the foundation, charging infringe ment of the patent. y “We are urging that the patents have been mise used, in’ violation of the anti-trust laws” he said, “Therefore the patents, under doctrines of the law that we believe are applicable, should not be enforce able as against alleged infringars because of the monopolistic misuse of the patents.”

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