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.- THE BIG THREE AND SPAIN

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NE piece of unfinished business before the Big Three | is Spain. All Europe is in a bad way because of the war's aftermath. But the Spanish situation is especially dangerous, for there the Fascists still are in power.

Frapco is trying to change his axis spots without | s

success. His latest cabinet: reshuffling was only hocus- + pocus. Though some Falangists were dropped, others were added. : | ! He hopes to rescue the unpopular Falange dictatorship by resurrecting the monarchy as a sort of front, His pronouncement of a week ago was surprisingly, frank on this point. He told the Falange National Council that he would continue in power until the establishment of a monarchy which would perpetuate Flinge principles and totalitarian rule. - However, Don Juan, chief Stender to the throne and a favorite in some English circles, would not take this bait. Knowing how insecure Franco really is, the heir<presumpcriticized the Falange and demanded that Franco resign. 5 ‘the dictator is now shopping around for another puppet elit on a throne which does not exist. And Don Juan

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TT ‘natural reaction of the average American or Briton to all this is likely to be a hands-off attitude—let the Spaniards settle their own internal quarrels. We agree that the Big Three has no ‘business meddling in legitimate domestic affairs of Spain. ‘But Britain and the United States are deeply involved.

Franco has been able to survive only with their support, especially economic. If they pull the plug he will go down

the drain. :The question is how long the two democracies

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will continue to act as indirect partners of that Fascist regime. ; 2 Unless the Big Three can agree on a joint policy, there may be a repetition of the British-Russian rivalry in which London and Moscow backed opposing factions in the Spanish civil war. That was the prolog to World War II and, if repeated, could cause another world war. . The alternative to a joint Big Three policy probably is separate Russian action to encourage a leftist revolution and a satellite regime, similar to those in eastern Europe. A precedent already has been set by the San: Francisco Conference in blackballing Franco Spain from membership in the new United Nations organization. "The Big Three _ should agree on a two-fold policy pf ithboling all support " from Franco and of allowing théSpanib. people to pick their own government Semocraticly NESE .

'MORGENTHAU'S REPORT ‘HE average citizen, beset by shortages, taxes -and other : wartime headaches, may find some consolation in the report made by former Secretary of the Treasury Morgen"_thau as he left office..

True, this has ‘beet history's most costly war. ‘It has

been taking half of our national product for three years. |

It eats up 95 per cent of all Federal Government expendjtures. We've spent over 325 billion dollars on it. The | public debt has increased by 211 billions. World War I, by contrast, took only one-fourth of our " national product. Taxes were lower. Yet the citizen’ dollar buys more today than it did in 1918. Mr. Morgenthau points to raw material prices that are much lower now than they were then. 3 We have financed the war by taxing as much as Congress thought the people were willing to pay and borrowing the rest. One principle of the borrowing program was that the money should be raised in a manner to minimize the risk of inflation. The small investors in War Bonds put 51 billion dollars into the pot to help finance the war, keep down-inflation— and, incidentally, maintain the buying power of their own dollars. So far, they have cashed in eight billion dollars worth. of bonds and still hold 43 billion dollars worth. The Liberty Bonds of War I were subject to market ups and downs. After that war the biggest issue sold for 83 cents on the dollar. This time, War Bond holders can get their money back at fixed values-what was paid for ‘them, plus interest. It has been no small accomplishment to finance such “a monumental war bill without more serious disruption-of our. economy.

THE COURSE OF LOVE

TRUE love follows its accustomed course in fre news these days. Cupid was plinking away for dear life in Paris, substituting jeeps for his wings. A G. I. would get a jeep, somehow, and a date was easy. Things were blissful in a big, "Parisian way for days and nights. Then the M. P.’s soured. ‘ Said jeeps were for war, not woo. ‘M. P's spent a day stopping jeeps on the streets, yanking out choice morsels of French womanhood and sending the jeeps disconsolately back to the garage. Now hardly a jeep scurries the bouleCupid again must get around by his wings, and goodness knows that's pretty

Then ‘there's Mike, the Bengal tiger mascot of Louisiana State University. Mike was put in a’ cage at Jackson, s., with Desdemona, tiger belle of the local zoo. This fas done with delicate and lovely intent.. But for three : Mike and the lady either E igtiored each other or snarled.

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REFLECTIONS—

Hays Office

By Mildred Koschmann

The M.-P. P..D. ‘A. has nothing to do with the OPA, the WPB; the FHA or: the ODT. but it’s .one of

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| : their blazing show titles from: “Red Hot Romance” or “Why Men Forget” to. “Wuthering Heights” or avid Copperfield.” ‘Religious, educational, sonal’ and military organizations also added their influence through the

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hy ucers and Distriputors of #America—more commonly known as the LYS office: : Reading Raymond Moley’ | latest book, “The Hays | Office,” you learn that using {the scissors on a piece of celluloid is only one of the hundreds of". Jobs of the well-known motion picture. governing group.

Fatty Arbuckle Helped Start It

TWENTY-THREE YEARS AGO thé movie” busiL ness was-in the midst of industrial chaos. In 1921 the high point Tn unfortunate “publicity was reached. Comedian Fatty Arbuckle was being tried for the death of Actress Virginia Rappe after a riotous party at which Arbuckle “was the most conspicuous figure. . rug Customers resented the huge wages of showmen. Merchants and professional mex. struggling to earn a few thousand a year, began tgscurse the “pretty boys of the screen who received’ much in a menth or a week.” Their wives criticized the “dough-faced

enough to get a fortune for being clothes-horses.” | Finally the pioneer Cochasnt Marcus_ Loew, Samuel ' Goldwyn, Sam Warner and William Fox, asked Postmaster General William H. Hays; a native Hoosier, to become their Jeader at $100,000 a. year. Hays, couldn't make up his mind about the deal. . One day he heard his son, Bill, and his two nephe arguing about who should play’ Cowbay Bill Haft. If this was so important to thes? youngsters, he thought, the movies must be important We millions of children and grownups. . oe Thus the beginning of the Hays office. N ;

Chosen as a Typical American MR. HAYS, soon to be known as the “cat's whiskers” of the industry, was described as a “human flivver, the most characteristic native product . . . .good for more miles per gallon, than apy o other, make of man , . . a sfandard of ‘measure: ‘anid of value himself . . . the 100 per “cent. American we have all heard so much about, Not until 1924 did the To atey 5 ‘agree “to submit scripts. to the Hays ‘office. Ih 1926, however, the beginning of sound pictures and conflitts with the Authors’ League over scripts caused the. setup to collapse. h “don'ts” and 26 “be carefuls” but adder this system it was possible to produce the most Sgutrageously offensive picture and still obey all the rules. : In was in 1930 that the real production code was born. The moral principles observed dn drafting the code go back to the Ten Commandments. The code suggested that motion pictures were, to be regarded primarily as entertainmgnt, that they couldn't lower the moral standard of those:who saw them, could not present crime in a way to throw sympathy against the law, ete.

Catholic boycott threatened the inHustry. Then movie producers agreed to let the M. P. P. D. A levy a, $25,000 fine for every violation ‘of the-code. a The biggest to-do in recent years about the action | of the Hays office was in confection with. a picture shown here and abroad, Noel? Coward's “In Which We Serve.” -

The Battle Over 17 Words IN 1942 the Code Administration demanded the omission of 17 words scattered through the picture. They were 10 “damns,” two “hells,” two “Gods,” and three other such terms. A compromise because of | the mechanical difficulty in deleting all the words was | reached finally and sonie. of ‘the objectionable phrases | remained. a Other movie making provems arose besides those pertaining to morals. Complaints from .a number of hotel men in Atlantic City arose when pictures seemed to stress | that “Atlantic City is the place to take one’s sec- | retary for a week-end.” The protestors said they | “would appreciate it if wives could be brought to Atlantic City once in a while.” Studios are cautioned against the use of names | of specific hotels, magazines, shops, newspapers and | other establishments. | The Hays office also keeps its eyes open in rela- | tion to intra-industry and foreign relations, arf and | propaganda, mechanical matters and casting. Mr. Moley has described the 23 years’ effort of | the motion picture industry to produce better pic~ tures by self-government and by public co-operation. In this history he has dealt with detailed recitation of facts and figures and undoubtedly has dug into the records of more film organizations than you'll ever remember.

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Labor Rule

By Wm. Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, 2-to-1 landslide . by

July .28.—The which labor |

unquestionably cause a sensation | in every "quarter of the globe. But | nobody here looks for England's heavens to fall or the empire to be rent asunder. : Yet that is what most people™ especially British

Donald, the Laborite, first succeeded the Tory prime minister, Stanley . Baldwin. Instead, MacDonald proved to be just about as conservative and as peaceminded as either Baldwin” or Neville Chamberlain, who respectively preceded and came after him. Maj. Clement R. Attlee, Prime Minister Churchill's successor, is not likely to be vastly different, either in his foreign policy or in his handling of the British Empire, He has shown no such signs in all the time he has served in the coalition government, as deputy | prime minister, . The - British-American-Chinese ultimatum to Japan, for instance, issued at Potsdam Thursday, will almost certainly stand with no change. While Mr. Churchill signed the surrender-now-or-be-destroyed proclamation before leaving for London, Maj. Attlee was present for the express purpose of giving continuity to British policy in case he should succeed Mr. Churchill,

Change in Approach

TOWARD Spain, Greece, Belgium and other lib- | erated aréds of Europe, as well as toward Indo- |

be a change in the general approach rather than in actual policy itself. At times, it may approximate | self-determination of colonials. ~ . -™~ China may find it easier to bargain for the re- | turn of Hongkong. obstacles at London if, and when, she sets about reestablishing herself in the Middle and Far East.

Down 1 the d tic scene. If labor carries out its program it will ‘nationalize the railways, stee!, coal, Bank of

| England and ultimately —in’ some form or other—the

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the movie marquees of the nation have changed |

M. P. P. D. A. to make the motion picture industry |,

phabetical asso¢iation. is the Motion Pic- |

girls who hadn't brains enough to act but were lucky :

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However, the code had n¢é® backbone until] a.

4 buried the Tories in Britain will |

Conservatives, expected in 1924 when J. Ramsay ‘Mac- |

Burma and the British colonies, there 1s likely to | the American attitude somewhat in the matter of | | Moscow may encounter fewer |

‘The change of tenants in the historic No. -10 Street, however, will have maximum effect on |

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; Be. ~[Times-readers are invited U:8..AS COMMUNISM”, dy express their views _in. By Wayne Morse, U. S. Senator from Ore- these ‘columns, religi us. con-

on, : troversies excluded. Because

I have been reading the series of articles written by Eugene Segal on| skate Yelune recaived Ja the Nationalist party movement. I| Hl e limited to- b think you are to be complimented | ode A Diy mist Ds signed. pinions set to hese are those of the writers,

on such fearless journalism because|® and publication in no way

I think the strength of the free] press should be found in its willing- | ress to print ‘the facts as it finds | implies a reement with those _|* opinions by The Times. The . Times assumes no responsisame principle of freedom of the 2 bility tor the return of manuDress is-available to those who ma , scripts. and cannot enter corwishto refute them, and I of courds| respondeice regarding them.) would defend their Tight to refute, them. *~ “As1 indicated in a speech on_ the | | FEPC .appropriation fight, I' think | [that democracy<is gbing to beitested | by the peobles of the world in: the aftermath: of this war “front” ‘the | | standpoint qf the degree to which | |it carries out in practice the great | principles of our bill of rights. Any | movement within our country which

| fails to exemplify ‘the ideals of de- | | mocracy as set out in the constitu- |

Hoosier Forum

them f Mr. Segal's allegations are AR arly respect, contrary to fact the

threatened to strike because the | proving grounds were dusty, This brings to mind several problems {confronting your union. Have any representations been made to the management ‘ concerning the. TEL- | LER mines which are scattered” all over Siegfried proving grounds? Has a vote been taken on a strike on |account of the quantity of German 88's that keep getting into the| tanks? Has a movement to secure | tion and its*bill of rights is just as | 20-hour day received any sup- | dangerous tq our truly American 'port? Particularly, I have been vay of life as is Communism. | wondering about a probem that : makes these proving grounds almost Ng 2.0 unbearable. That is the number “iF AYMAN WON'T WORK - of dead and wounded tankers that THEN LET.. HIM FIGHT" show up there. A little off the main 8 T-Sgt.-Dan” Pembertorr, Ried, Austria subject, but did you and.the 1est |, Herg lately I"hawe been reading a of the crew get paid overtime for | fot of afticles in different papers| the extra work you put in cleanabout somie of the strikes <back ing up the blood, that I threw all home in’ those ‘good; old United over the fighting compartment at | States. It kinda makes a fellow the Bastogne proving grounds?” | wonder at’ times if some of thesq/ Well gentlemen, that was a letstrikers wouldn't make better fight-\ter. from a man wounded in action |'ers. somewhere in the South; Pa- Aust outside of Bastogne, Belgium. | eific. They always seem to want to|Ag for the man that will walk oft | argue about: fo many hours or not hi~%job ‘and let ghe boys fighting { enough money. I'm; sure if they] ‘down, one sure cure for that is a were at “the front a few minutes nice Iong ‘boat ride to ‘the South they would change their minds but "Pacific. If a man can't work, then quick. < yllet him fight. I have a letter here that wis | . 4 8 written to one of my buddies fom | “CANNOT HATE WITHOUT an officer that was seripusty | DR: AJVING HATE FROM OTHERS” wourided inthe Battle of the Bulge | Hy Earl D. Hoskids, Indianapolis last January. I'm sure if -some- of | Just an answer to Mr. Meitzlep, these ‘strikers could have seen him |The Watchman, Voice in the Crowd, when we took him out of:that tdnk | et al.—I say I am an American for maybe they’ would think twice” be-|I was born here several years ago, fore walking off ‘the job just for4 served from 1913 to 1920 in the few cents on the hour.. Here is. (army, and I thought in view of an what the major wrote to Sgt. Nei- shgnorable discharge, character, exbauer. | cellent, it gave me a chance to “I read in -the Time magaziny| speak for my country, but I see March 12, that tank drivers at|from your chants only hatred and

| Chrysler tank arsenal recently | bigatorism has that right. A com-

Side Glances=By Galbraith

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

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rade was talking to me back in 1918 and when I turned to answer him only a grease spot was there, a 75 had made a direct hit. Then I changed and started living to aid others and to look for good in all things and persons. Yes, we have a dirty back yard, Mr. Meitzler, and it behooves us to clean it and then we can tell others how to sweep theirs clean. You hardly know anything about the poll tax so we'll skip it. Since you are fortunate in having your own home you wouldn't know about paying $25 rent and purchasing food for a family out of $45 monthly salary, when you are capable of a better job at a living wage but because of your color you can't get it. Perhaps with our associations with - the other nations, without looking for evil, good will come about. We sincerely hope and pray for it. But remember this, I can not hate you and expect you to like me also if it is wrong for you to hate me then I am wrong to hate you. Grieviously so, I was stopped lat the recruiting office from els ting into this one. » » » “PEOPLE WHO OWN PETS SHOULD KEEP THEM HOME”

Mrs. Maude Servies, 2307 Prospect st. Why so much fuss about Mr. Night Walker kicking the dog? And the poisoning of pets? We are supposed to be able to walk the streets - of Indianapolis ‘any hour of the night, but a dog, unless it is on a leash, has no business on the streets. ‘People who own pets should care enough about them to keep them off the streets and if they do not, they should have nothing to say about what happens to them This goes doubly for the cat and dog poisoning. . I do not believe anyone would deliberately poison an animal, but neither do I believe the owners of pets care so much about them If they let them roam around ‘over other people's property, upsetting garbage pails that have stood for weeks without being collected, and eating food unfit for them. If it were mine I would consider it my fault if it were poisoned. I certainly. wouldn't expect the police to spend their time and precious gas trying to find out where my dog or cat had been. They have plenty to do without that. ” » ” “ARTICLES BY SHERRER ARE MOST WELCOME” By Arthur 8. Mellinger, Indianapolis The articles by Anton Scherrer are most welcome in The Times. The one on July 18 was unusual and fnstructive, I like thé way he digs below the surface and finds real value in buried ideas.. Perhaps not many will take the time to write letters to say what they think, but I am safe in saying my sentiments are echoed by hundreds of folks about Indianapolis who try to make thls a better city to live in. The folks *vho do these things are too busy to say anything for the most part and do not care for publicity in what they do. This is illustrated in the life of John D. Rockefeller. When he would endow a hospital the “soap-box Communists” would get up and berate him. They would say he would raise the price of coal oil a half cent and make it all back and more. This kind of talk has borne fruit in a lot of hatred for rich people. There are good rieli people the same as good poor ple. The majority of our American folks are the best in the world. We owe our civilization to far-seeing individuals who created millions of jobs for those who work.

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POLITICS —

Under Spell

By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, Jyly 28.—An impression’ that persists from senate debate on the San Francisco Charter— A group of men, confused, but hopeful, under the spell of titanic forces far more powerful than they, which they cans not quite understand, dealing with an unknown quantity in the mechanism they are creating to keep the peace of the world. . All the tumult of the tragedy that spread itself over ‘the world, all the agony of suffering, the cries of the wounded and the white faces of the dead, the anxious and pitiful appéals that this shall not happen again—all of this beats in upon them. They feel puny and lost: in the aenitnde of the thing that confronts them—that is, most ,0f them seem to feel that way. A few, however, such as Senator Bitton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.) | profess to feel very sure about everything, to be confident that nothe ing much can come of what may bé done here. The humble attitude of most senators is hearten= (ing and encouraging. So is the it of hope that inspires them. So is their faith that the mystery of the future can somehow be solved. They are, in another sense, like a. board of directors sitting in the presence of an inventor with a dazzling new idea. Thé gentlemen about the table,

but hesitating at the urge of practicality, knowing it hasn't been done before. Yet, in the end, a ma= jority are willing to stake their money and their reputations and that ot the Sompany upon 1t, some what uncertain, but hopeful.

We Refused Once Before

‘80° HAS PROGRESS come in the material things of this amazing mechanical world in which we live, Could it not come in the field of human relations? Could not, some way be found for men to live peace= ably with one another in what has come to be a very. small world? That is the gamble. We refused once before to take it. We are ready now. The restless spirit that prevails in the senate, thé brooding uncertainty, works itself out in varios ways. of J. It breaks out here and there in a sort of hysteria, in the babbling of high-sounding platitudes, in high school declamations, provoked by the nervous anxiety to make hope a- reality by saying so. Veteran senae tors, earnest and sincere, act like schoolboys trying to win a prize at a speaking contest. This is not said disparagingly. It is cited to illuse trate how practical men clutch for a star, desperately, In closing his speech, Senator Connally (D. Tex.), chairman of the foreign relations committee, the master of ceremonies, felt he had to reach for the heights, though he’s more comfortable and graceful in a lighte er role. . Recalling how a quarter of a century ago the

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League of Nations was “slaughtered here pn the floor,” he struck a Lady MacBeth pose—you could almost see the shimmering dagger—and pointed dramatically at the floor and around at the walls, “Can you not still see'the blood on the floor? Can you not see on the walls the marks of the conflict that raged here in the chamber where the, League of Nations, was done to death?”

Couldn't Recall the Author /.

IN THIS PERORATION he referred tb “the shot heard around the world” He couldn't recall the author. He whispered to the committee expert who sat beside him as he circled his big body in & ges=

ture. The name of Emerson came back in a stage whisper. The senator then gave Emerson the credit, Senator Barkley (D. Ky.) quoted lots of poetry,

‘| But, after a few lines of Shakespeare's “Julius Caesar”

he was unable to complete the quotation, and said “and so forth” and went on. ‘Senator Vandenberg, (R. Mich.) always: wo at his speeches, crouched low over ‘his desk at like a fullback about to plunge the line. Then he rises erect, gracefully, and’ Alig whole trainload of five syllable words wi ens of thé professional waiter gently sipping a whole stack of dishes on the table, each in its proper place, . He spent a good deal of time defending himself from attack by an isolationist newspaper, showing by his over-exertion that he’s still a bit self-conscious in his new role of internationalist, . . Only Senator Wheeler was cocksure @f himself, outwardly. But you thought of a man standing in_ front of his mirror, arguing to justify himself, and 4finding the man he looked at not entirely convincing,

IN WASHINGTON—

Wage Plans

By Allan L. Swim

WASHINGTON, July 28.—Four steady-work, steady-pay systems are being studied here and throughout the country by the post-war. job planners. as “One is the Guaranteed Annual Wage, under which an employer agrees in advance .to pay. ‘employees 8 definite sum during the coming year, regardless of the amount of work they may have to do. Geo. A. Hormel & Co, Austin, Minn, packing firm, operates under the Guaranteed Annual Wage, Employees get 52 paychecks of equal size.each year although they work more hours some weeks than others. The Guaranteed Work Plan--such as Procter & Gamble has had for many years—guarantees ems ployees a certain amount of work during each 13 months period. ‘Annual pay of employees under this plan. is not guaranteed. It may fluctuate consider ably as a result of job changes and the total number of hours worked per year.

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THE FLUCTUATING Annual Wage provides pay by ‘the year, but does not ‘guarantee eniployees - they will receive the same amount each ‘esr, “Usually the amount set._aside for wages. rises«and falls rise and fall of the profits or income“of the e oyer, Nunn-Bush Shoe Co., Milwaukee, Mis. has a Fluctuating Annual Wage. Employees receive a set portion of the firm's sales., Wages are paid in such a way that workers receive about thé same amount each pay period throughout the year. The fourth plan provides either work or pay guarantees for short periods. * A number of firms in the Northwest have ‘conti. nuity-of-employment” plans. They guarantee employees will receive 90 days’ work or pay for 90 days’ work after réceiving notification that they are to be laid off. Several industries in the Midwest give workers pay for a full month in any month in which they do any work at all—and then give them part pay for several more months if no work is available. One of the chief benefity to employers from all these plans has been low personnel turnover. . They have prevented workers from shifting to’ new jobs each time production slackened temporarily. Employees have benefited largely through stabi lized income and lack of the need to ehange Jobs frequendy,

C. 1. O. Backs 'Steady Work' Program

MOST ACTIVE advocate of work and steady pay is the C. I. O, which is planning a nationwide drive to establish the Guaranteed Annual Wage wherever possible through coligetive barganing.

listen, gradually convinced that it might work out,’ :