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“THE ATOMIC BOMB—AND AFTER

nations may and probably will improve on that, just as

- Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,

_ shameless grafters ever to own a city government; who

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WE read the fantastic figures—power equals to 20,000 tons of TNT, 2000 times the destructive power of the British blockbuster—and our lay minds simply can't comprehend the atomic bomb. Yet this miracle of terror has been wrought by the human mind. The brains of many scientists, working’ together, have loosened atomic energy, and the brains of industrial engineers have put it to work. Surely this marks a new epoch, comparable to the first use of metal, the discovery of the wheel principle, the invention of gunpower, the use of electricity. : How lucky we are that our scientists and the British jointly won this race against the Germans. If the Nazis’ long research had produced this bomb first, where would civilization be and where would we be today? , Now it can speed victory over Japan. By so doing, it will save countless numbers of American lives. If the mad militarists of Tokyo had any doubts of the outcome before, the great blast that descended from the skies upon their country last Sunday must have seemed to them the proof of doom. Now they know what President Truman meant when he said the only alternative to unconditional ‘surrender was prompt and complete destruction of Japan—annihiliation literally.

and let it go at that. What we know today, the world will know tomorrow. Secretary of War Stimson says that even before this atomic bomb was launched, we were working on an improved model “several fold” ‘as powerful. Other

others will advance the rocket bombs that span oceans. + From here out there is only one safe way for us and for the world. Civilization could not survive another war of bigger atomic and rocket bombs. Either man’s progress in harnessing constructive forces of world security and peace will outrun his genius for destruction, or the lights will not go on again next time. Either we make the United Nations organization work, and work progressively better—or else. Scientists have liberated an unbelievable force. Statesmen must use it for good instead of evil.

- ” » (FROM LOCKSLEY HALL —By Alfred, Lord Tennyson—-1809-'92)

Fof 1 dipped into the future, far as lluman eye ‘could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;

Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew Prom the nations’ airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle flags were furled In the parliament of man, the federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapped in universal law. : So I triumphed ere my passion sweeping through me left me dry, : Left me with the palsied heart, and left me with the jaundiced eye; Eye, to which all order festers, all things here are out of joint. Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point: Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly dying: fire, Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns... Comes a vapor from the margin, blackening over heath and holt, Cramming all the blast before it, in its breast a thunderbolt.

—GOES MARCHING ON | LETS forget Hiram Johnson, the isolationist. (The atomic bomb put another period to that era of political thinking.) : Let's remember, as California always did, the greatest fighting progressive governor any state ever had. Let's remémber the prosecutor who sent to jail some of the most |

threw out one of the most corrupt political machines ever to dominate a state. Let’s remember the governor who led the way, in an

REFLECTIONS—

a Globaloney

| By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Aug. T7.— Con=gresswoman Claire Boothe Luce of Connecticut is among the. latest -of the more than 100 members of con- ; gress who have endorsed the Mur-ray-Patman Full Employment bill, and behind that is

‘| one of those strange coincidence stories, Mrs. Luce's

husband, Henry, is publisher of the Time-Life-For-tune group. Life magazine has come out in favor of the Full Employment bill, while Fortune has opposed it. - When this inconsistency was called to Editor Luce’s attention, there was a big luncheon pow-wow of the two conflicting editorial boards. Shortly after that Mrs, Luce asked to be included as a supporter of the full employment idea. Office of Defense Transportation Director J. Monroe Johnson found out the war department was speeding up its schedule to bring the soldiers home from Europe through an accidental telephone conversation, Johnson says he had called up Maj.-Gen. Charles P, Gross, commander of the army transportation corps, to ask about something else. They chatted pleasantly till Gen. Gross mentioned casually that the speedup in the redeployment program was going well, Johnson asked what speedup and Gross told him the speedup that was to bring the boys back in 10 months instead of 18. That was the first Johnson had heard of it. He immediately started chopping off ‘Pullman service and the transportation crisis dated from there,

Report on Charter Meeting INTERESTING detail of the senate foreign relations’ committee report on the United Nations Charter, which Sen. Tom Connally of Texas presented with such fine oratory and pride, is that it wasn't written by any one of the senators nor by any member of the committee staff, which consists of one clerk and a couple of secretaries. This staff obviously isn't adequate to do the job and the senators didn’t have time. So the report was written in the department of state at the senators’ request, after the foreign relations committee had held its hearings and heard all the favorable evidence presented by state department spokesmen, As the Charter was the department's pet child, the department surprised no one by writing a favorable report. : Members of the senate war investigating commit» tee who held hearings in the European theater of operations earlier in the summer are just now getting the last of their records back in Washington. The six senators under Harley M. Kilgore of West Virginia split up into three subcommittees. Three shorthand reporters went with them to take testimony, but when the load got too great, extra stenographic help had to be borrowed from the army. ' The senators then wanted to bring the stenographers back to Washington so the testimony could be transcribed at once, Army said the help couldn't be spared, so the senators came home with no record of what they had gone after.

Record Is Typewritten GRADUALLY the record got typewritten.. Then army gave the copy to the American. embassy for transportation home in secret diplomatic pouch. The records then sat in the embassy for two weeks waiting for army transport. After they got to Washington, army again delivered the records to state department where they sat a few days more waiting for delivery to the Mead committee. Now the senate is adjourning and there will be a further delay in publicizing all the red hot stuff the committee uncovered. Department of state administrators have been trying to get out a new directory of the organization for over a year, so that everybody could tell where everybody else belonged. But every time the thing gets set, somebody comes along with new ideas for reorganization. The department got its first big reorganization in January, 1944, ang another in December. Copy for a directory was completed in April but was held up. One thing it would have shown was that the office of Secretary Stettinius had a staff of over 80. Secretary Hull used to run it with a staff of- six. But the new secretary, James F. Byrnes, wants another reorganization. The directory editors have about given up, °

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Set-Backs

By Wm. Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—~Europe, according to reports, is in for one of the most terrible winters since the Middle Ages. People face death by starvation, freezing and disease. With this prospect in view, the new council of

‘foreign ministers will hold its first meeting in London

on or before Sept. 1. Yet America is being warned that unless she extends immediate aid, the council’s decisions may come too late, Europe's desperate millions may plunge the continent into a bloody shambles beforehand. The “immediate . important task” ahead of the council, the Big Three said at Potsdam, is to draw up treaties of peace with Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland. Among United Nations envoys here there are those who say its first job should be to avert the threatened disaster.

Necessities the Immediate Need

FOOD, FUEL and clothing seem to be the immediate need, not peace treaties. According to some,

age when there were strange, radical reforms, to passage of a child labor act, a mother’s pension law, an eight-hour | law and a minimum wage law for women, prison reform, | a free state labor bureau, workmen's compensation, blue | sky law, civil service, and other fundamental reforms. Let’s remember that dramatic, figure who led Theodore Roosevelt delegates out of the Republican national convention of 1912 to a rump convention which organized the | progressive party and named Roosevelt and Johnson to head its ticket. Let’s remember the man who made that fight saying “We are not bound to win, but we are bound to keep the faith.” By 1916 the Progressive party was through in national | politics. Hiram Johnson, pronouncing its valedictory in| San Franeisco said, “Progressivism, resting upon the basic idea of humanity's rights, exists today as in the past... .| It will continue striving and expanding until both the Democratic and Republican parties have been, in fact, made progressive.’ The Hiram Johnson of those days still lives and always His progressivisni lives and will live.

will,

—————California-cotld never forget-its brilliant, fiery, young

crusader, Thirty years later neither its politicians nor its newspapers could bring themselves to reject him, even though he had come to stand for an international policy his constituents did not accept, Such is the strength and power and glory of that spirit Hiram Johnson said would never die. r

coal—as winter approaches—is particularly important. Thus, it is said, unless the United Nations ships 6,000,000 tons of coal across the Atlantic in the near future, we shall be to blame for untold misery. At the same time Interior Secretary Ickes testified before a senate committee that unless the army

Thinderclap

BH * ; ooSslier “LET'S HOPE CITY GROWS WIDER-—-NOT TALLER” By Muriel Sweigart, 1115 Windsor st. I see that my old home town has just had itself another skyscraper tragedy. Usually the victims—suicides—pass into oblivion one at a time, and voluntarily. This time it was different. Suicide was probably farthest from the thoughts of that poor kid from Massachusetts who was piloting the plane. If he'd been a New Yorker, he'd have avoided the city like a plague. Flying as low as 1000 feet he'd have known he had not only the Empire State to smack into, but a choice of the Chrysler tower or the RCA

—TI've lost track.

New York’s skyline started on its career of altitude records around the turn of the century. It's said that back in 1902 (I wasn't even a smile then so I wouldn't know the date first hand) a man named George Fuller erected the Flatiron building where Broadway crosses Fifth ave. Although only about 22 stories high, it was considered a skyscraper in those days and attracted lots of attention. Not long afterward the Metropolitan Life put up its handsome 50-story tower, which the company still uses as its trademark and which for awhile enjoyed being the world's tallest building. The skyscraper trend should have ended right there, but didn’t. Woolworth’s T70-story job {put the. Metropolitan's little 50{story strip of masonry back in the | shade. {of .the Metropolitan tower's popu- | larity, the owners weren't too happy lover the way things were going. Swarms of sightseers came daily

to view the city from its observa-| monsters also tend to dwarf into science has so united and bound tion” platform, as sightseers will |ingignificance the sometimes attrac- nations that national entities will [And sandwiched in among them tive buildings around them. Many's be maintained only by their signifi|there would every 50 often be some- the time I've been thankful for the cance, their contribution to world body who was bent on hurdling the|pleasant skyscraperless views here|commerce and achievement.

railing and taking a swan .dive to

the street far below. This naturally | Joking east or the Circle one can apparent at once, without losing

| went against the grain with the life

insurance people who were deeply the church on the corner, the at- sirable. We as Americans, the fusion

building, as well. Maybe others, too

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Empire State, Chrysler, and Radio | City towers in close succession, For my money, the Woolworth still |gives you the best round shoulders land the worst nightmares because [there's a direct drop from the balcony near the top to the sidewalk |some ‘60 to 70 stories below. The /more recent buildings.are cutbacks land you can look straight down |only to the nearest roof that juts {out, As for the once famous Flatiron building, nobody gives it a tumble any more for now it is just one of dozens of buildings of similar height. 1 agree with the Indianapolis {architect who says that building height should be regulated hereafter. Aside from the publicity achieved, there isn’t much to be

However, during the height. gained through building architec-

tural whoppers. For one thing, it’s dificult to rent all their office space higher up, and whole floors stand vacant for long ‘intervals. These

lin For instance,

Indianapolis. {realy enjoy the peaceful beauty of in the

[tractive cleancut detail

So they closed stonework of the. Columbia Club {the most progressive and powerful

land . other buildings, the historic |scenes so vividly portrayed by the Monument’s statuary, with a warm {glow of unobscured sunlight over lall. It was with real satisfaction

quickly releases coal miners, the United States is in | perhaps for some 6 ‘the “pigeon that I read in the paper several

for the coldest winter of the war. Deputy Fuels Administrator Charles J. Potter said that unless 30,000 miners .are soon furloughed from the army our steel mills will have to be cut down to a four-day week and reconversion will be given a. set-back. Without reconversion our soldiers will return home from the war, jobless, and there will be chaos or worse here at home. As Senator Ferguson (R. Mich.) pointed out, there is plenty of coal in Europe. There is coal in Wales,

the Saar, Holland, France, Belgium, Silesia and else- |

where. Nowhere, according to testimony on Capitol Hill, are these mines producing more than 50 per cent of capacity.

Too Many Playing Politics ONE TROUBLE. is that many European leaders are playing politics instead -of trying to stave off freezing, starvation and pestilence from their people. There have been political strikes in some of the. coal mines. Some are busier planning how to take over the government than to restart the national economy; Senator Hart (R. Conn.) who is also an admiral and a shipping expert, says that approximately 700 7000-mile voyages would be required by our best ships to deliver the coal to Europe. Others testified that it would take 130 Liberty ships six months to transport the required 6,000,000 tons. Those with’ whom I have discussed the matter feel that we should do our utmost to help Europe. But she should also be encouraged to help herself. There

THE ROYAL NONESUCH E see where the office of defense transportation warns civilians that they won’t be able to buy civilian jeeps, now in production, on the basis that they're automobiles. ODT says that a jeep is not an automobile; it is a truck. Therefore you must-have a truck priority to buy one. We rise in medium high dudgeon and take umbrage. The civilian jeep, according to the handouts, digs post holes,

plows, harrows, paints barns, sprays bugs, derricks hay, |

and even flies.” No’ truck can do that. Neither, of course, As p is

Stein would say, a jeep is a jeep is a

are seven or eight million Nazi war prisoners, for | example. <The K Nazis forced Americans to work in coal mines; why, it is asked, shouldn't the Germans be combed for. miners, and why shouldn't they be put to work for their own, and Europe's good?

To The Point WE'VE SOLVED the Juvenile delinquency problem, Children won't mind parents who won't mind children.

MAYBE CLOTHES do not make a man, but many a man owes # lot to his tailor, . . 5 “ -. XR -

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. A NICE round figure is very helpful—in the bank. al ’ . . ; “ : EVEN THE OYSTER-gels a four-month Vacation,

| population, if they like flying that | far up. The Woolworth tower maintained its height supremacy for quite a while before being eclipsed by the

‘days ago of the city’s intention to | buy more property to the north and | spread out. Let's hope Indianapolis | wi always grow horizontally rather | than vertically!

side Glances=By Galbraith

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Sweaters

“Now here s a lovely one—thi¢ is really super-sloppy!”

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

your right to say it.”

“JAPS AND GERMANS MUST BE TAUGHT TO LIVE IN WORLD” By E. R. Egan, 701 Markwood ave. With the practically universal acceptance of the economic and security phases of the United Nations Charter, it would appear to the ordinary observer that occupation of either Germany or Japan, could, indeed, must be, reduced to the necessities of acquainting the Japanese and German leaders with the fact that to live in a modern world any - nation, every nation let us say, must Somply—bring its political and economic philoSophy and bring its’6wn financial international policies into line with world practice—modern outlook, which.indeed they are entirely familiar with, Even the most naive of their people by this time are equally jaware that the sort of racial ego their politicians have carefully cultivated to lead them into the aggression, which is now their undoing, is nothing to realize upon either for profit or prestige. This and the police foreg to in{sufe compliance with world economy, and this does not mean spend{ing from 78 per cent to 98 per cent tof the national budget on military equipment or the international budget let us say. Unconditional {surrender must include these provisions and as inevitably all the |medieval flummery of the Japanese | tradition of divine origin is likewise taboo, even as Hitler's pure Aryan stock, as carefully cultivated for the identical purpose to im|pose “the militarists dictum upon [the nation, and as much of the rest lof the world as could be overrun. { As inevitably this overrun terri[tory must be evacuated: Militarism |is an anachronism in a world where

This can be made, indeed will be {race characteristics if that is so delof all races, and at the same time

nation the world has ever known, would seem the answer to race prejudice—which we hold to be unAmerican. And to make it clear, we hold to our convictions and commitments in the world Charter. In self-defense we must make loans and extend financial aid to the nations who are committed to the policies of co-op-eration, reciprocal trade, etc., and this to insure secure investments. Both Germany and Japan have it within themselves the extent -of

"|gallons of cheap gas to put on a

post-war policing as Japan has the prolonging of the hostilities which {will insure their freedom. { n » » | “EQUAL RIGHTS—WHY CAN'T WE RACE MIDGET AUTOS?” By O. W, Polk, Indianapolis Hundreds and hundreds of cars went by my place of business on their way to the air show. Thousands and thousands of gallons of gas and oil were consumed to put it on. Their wear and expense ran into thousands of dollars. The select few were well entertained. Everyone had a good time and used up their A stamps. Our midgets are made by hand out of material at least 7 years old. One car would consume about two

show, Our tires are old and recapped and cannot be used for any other purpose. I was under the impression that the war was being fought for equal rights for all. If you can't print this letter maybe you will print why we cannot run our midgets. £

DAILY THOUGHT

For false Chilsts and false - prophets shall rise, and shall shew

"| ‘signs and wonders to seduce, if it |

POLITICS—

In the Fog

By Thomas L. Stokes

. WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.~Newsper correspondénts who were perer lh access to the vicinity of the Potsdam conference—and it was & restricted list—led a sort of shut-

rivileges. od P They couldn't even see President Truman play

he's chief executive. And, when he was vice presis.

at the National Press club canteen, the center of & happy throng of soldiers ‘and others who happened to be areund, and Lauren Bacall sat on top of the piano to add her bit to the merriment. Photographers recorded the scene for

lection, $ The correspondents were only told at Potsdam that the President played the piano. At that, it turned out to be the biggest story they got.. For the communique announcing the results of the conference was not released to them, but to correspondents here, in London and in Moscow who had to take only & short walk or taxicab ride to get the big news.

Saw Sacred Potsdam Precincts AFTER THE Potsdam conference was all over, correspondents who remained were taken on & sights seeing tour of the sacred precincts where the cone ference was held. They saw the table about which the heads of states sat and heard the amusing story about. the protocol problem as to how, and at which doors, the various individuals comprising the Big Three should enter the meeting room. That also was a good story, showing the mumbo jumbo that still lingers after the most tragic war in history was fought to save and extend democracy,

of the Potsdam conference, despite the shoving around the newspapermen got while it was going on. Presie dent Truman undoubtedly was responsible for this good news. He went away from here with a promise at one of his press conferences to try to open up to newspapermen the various countries from which they thus far have been barred. These largely were nations under the influence of Russia, the Soviet satellite states. He kept his promise.

Pledges Are in Communique FOR, SPRINKLED through the 6000-word coms munique, are such pledges. The communique, for example, says that repre sentatives of the allied press “shall enjoy. full freee doth to report to the world upon developments in Poland before and during the elections” that are to be held there in keeping with the Yalta agreement, The word from Potsdam is good news; for news papermen have not been able to go into Poland. The communique also says that “the three governs ments have no doubt that, in view of the changed conditions resulting from the termination of the war in Europe, representatives of the allied press will enjoy full freedom to report to the world upon dee velopments in Romania, Bulgaris, Hungary and Fine land.” . Not exactly definite, but hopeful. More restricted are the privileges in Germany ite self, where freedom of the press is to be permitted “subject to the necessity for maintaining ‘military security.” This, of course, might mean anything, any sort of censorship, when you know how broadly that phrase “military secufity” can be, and has been, interpreted. But this is all a gain, and President Truman is due credit and thanks. ?

IN WASHINGTON—

Food Plan

By Earl Richert

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7—A bill to provide more food for 18,000,000 low-income American families will be considered again this fall by the senate agriculture committee. Designed as a post-war measure,

demand for farm products. It proposes to accomplish this food stamp .plan under which low-income families would be able to get enough food for a minimum ades quate diet. It is estimated that cost of the program would range from $750,000,000 in times of prosperity to $3, 500,000,000 in times of depression. The bill was introduced last year by Senators

ings were held, at which most of the testimony was favorable. But because of the uncertain duration of the war no action was taken. .

Is Revised Proposal THIS YEAR, with the end of the war nearer, the two farm state senators reintroduced the bill. They expanded its score and eliminated some of the features to which objections were raised last year.

are reported to be supporting it. The Alken-LaFoleltte plan

per cent of its

minimum adequate diet. So, it proposes that the government make up the difference—issuing enough stamps to provide a family with a minimum adequate diet and charging for the stamps only the 40 per cent of its income the family would pay ordinarily for food.

Operation Is Explained HERE'S the way it would work: : Suppose the cost of the minimum adequate diet set forth in the bill is determined by the secretary of agriculture to cost $15 per person per month at pree vailing prices. . ; The head oi a family of four, with an income of $100 a month, comes in, He should have $60 to buy food for the four people in his family, according to the bill. - So, the government would issue him $60 worth of food stamps and charge him only 40 per cent of his income for them, or $40.

would be charged $50 for $60 worth of stamps—40 per cent of his income again. Or, if he had an ine come of $150 a month, it would cost hin $60 (40 per cent of his income) for $60 worth of stamps. 80 there would be no reason for him to participate, A family of five with an income of $150 a month, however, would be able to buy $76 worth of stamps for $60.

For Farm Families, Too . THESE stamps would be handled in groceries just as cash, $60 in stamps being accepted for $60 worth of food. The grocer in turn would get cash for them at his bank, The government would pay banks a fee for handling the stamps. In no case, regardless of how small’ a family’s ine come was, could stamps be issued at less than 25 per cent of their face value. An employable man could,’ under the bill, be required to register at an employ "ment agency before becoming eligible participate, Participation would not be limited to people in cities and towns. The bill has special provisions for f

But there was some good news for the press ous z

the bill has & | two-fold purpose: To make an adequate diet. possis | ble for every American family and to increase the

by a nation-wide |

Alken (R. Vt) and LaFollette (Prog. Wis). Hears |

If the man had an income of $125 a month he |

out and barred-off existence without even keyhole b } the piano, though that's possible here, even now: that ,

dent, he sat at the piano one Saturday afternoon |i

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Chairman Elmer Thomas (D. Okla.) of the senate | agriculture committee says he is for the measure, | Many other farm state senators and representatives |

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