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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

THE RUSSO-CHINESE PACT THE Russian-Chinese agreements are a victory for the good neighbor policy. Unless those nations pull together there will ‘be perpetual trouble in Asia and the Pacific, probable civil war in China, probable efforts to revive Jap militarism, and possible American-Russian conflict. These dangers explain the Chinese conciliatory attitude and Russian restraint which produced the new accord, and Washington’s joy over it. Of course, treaties in themselves are only pieces of paper—as the world has been reminded so often in these bloody years. ‘The Russian-Chinese signatures of friendship are worth no more, and no less, than the continuing determination of both governments to co-operate for peace. We can only hope that in the future, when they are no longer exhausted from war as today, their mutual urge for peace will remain as strong. This applies especially to Russia, because of her superior military might, her old expansionist ambitions, and her relations with the Chinese Communist

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» » tJ N the new pact, China comes off much better than expected. As provided in the American-British-Chinese agreement of Cairo, to which Russia was not a party, Chinese sovereignty is restored in Manchuria. China retains Sinkiang and Inner Mengolia. Presumably the Cairo pledge of eventual Korean independence also stands, Russia agrees to deal with and aid the Chinese national government, and not to interfere in Chinese internal affairs. If Moscow actually refrains from backing the Yenan Soviet regime and army, China can overcome the disunity which is now her gravest menace. Concessions granted Russia in the new accord are more moderate than had been expected. Outer Mongolia is to have self-determination, which means nominal independence within the Russian sphere; but that has been its status for a generation, so China loses nothing there. Russia gets joint control of the major Manchurian railways for 30 years; but there are to be no Russian military guards or territory along the right-of-way as of old. Russia gets the two warm-water outlets for 30 years; but Dairen is to be a free port and Port Arthur a joint Chinese-Russian naval base. Thus the concessions to Russia are limited. We congratulate Premier Soong on his success in fathering this accord, and Premier Stalin on his realistic choice of Chinese friendship and American confidence as more valuable to Russia than territorial grabs.

HITLERIAN ECHOES OVER RADIO TOKYO

fore domestic broadcasts to the Japanese people may be said to be quasi-official in character. Which makes particularly interesting the recent broadcast, reported by Federal Communications monitors, in which a Japanese woman commentator urged Nipponese women to sfudy their nation’s history and “pay more attention to politics and the trend of the world at large.” : She further admonished them to remember their “mission”—which is “giving birth to and bringing up good children and increasing the population.” Sounds innocent enough until you recall that Japan's history is one of expansion and conquest, pegged to the

HENRY W. MANZ

By Anton Scherrer

cults, and the first thing that strikes you is their appalling lack of originality. There isn’t anything really new in any of them—certainly nothing that we didn't know around here when J was a kid. : I bring up the subject because of C. K. Ogden of Magdalene college (Cambridge, England) who, at last accounts, was also the director of the Orthological institute over there. Prof. Ogden has a notion—God bless him—that you can say everything worth saying, (at least in the English language) with a vocabulary of 850 words instead of the 20,000 or so the average person handles today, or the million or so the pres-ent-day ad writer has at his command. Prof. Ogden has progressed sufficiently with his idea to give it the name of “Basic English,” and all that remains now is to put it across. He couldn't have picked a better time. With the British empire and the U. 8. A. now in control of the better part of the world, it is imperative that we have a common language if for no other reason than to understand one another. To understand one another means, of course, that eventually we will have to correspond, communicate and travel. All right. The English travel in prams, trams, tubes and lifts, the Americans in baby carriages, streetcars, subways and elevators. See the fix we're in?

Few Basic Words Are Plenty

IF PROF. OGDEN needs any encouragement to put across his idea he can count on my support and, indeed, on my help for I was brought up on Basic English long before he ever thought of it. Maybe even before he was born. Fact is, I was just a little shaver when I learned that a man’s stock of words is no guaranty of his ideas. And I guess I was only a year or so older when I became acutely aware of the fact, mostly by way of my father, that a man of few words usually packs the biggest punch. Of course, I was no exception, Everybody of my

Prof. Ogden to know what we could do with a small vocabulary, especially in the way of verbs. I'll bet we didn’t use more than 20, none of which was made up of more than four letters. It didn’t cramp our style at all, for we always knew how to help out in a pinch with a liberal use of adverbs, prepositions and nouns. You have no idea how it made for a picturesque language. For example, we never used the goldtooth word “irritate.” We simply said “to make mad” and it was more than enough to convey the meaning. It was that way all along the line. I guess if the truth were told we said everything worth saying with the verbs “get, give, go, come, make, let, put, keep, seem, take, do, be, see, send, will” and possibly “may.”

Good Old Sturdy Verbs

HAVING THESE we could express all the necessary nuisances and, if you don’t believe it, allow me to point out that the robust thing known as “American slang” is nothing but a survival and extension of our simple use of sturdy verbs. “Put me wise,” “Put me next,” “Get wise,” “Get busy,” “Put it over,” are all healthy upstanding examples of the kind of language we kids were brought up on, which (I repeat) was long before Prof. Ogden thought up his Basic English. I also note that Prof. Ogden doesn't make any distinction between “shall” and “will.” Neither did we. (Maybe you've noticed it without my telling you). We even said “ain’t” and gloried in it. Something very precious went out of Indianapolis when people stopped saying “ain't” and substituted the sibilance of the word “isn’t.” At any rate, something horrible came in. Almost immediately we had two classes—those who lined up on the side of the Nice Nellies and those who went right on saying “ain't.” The split didn’t do the town any good, because just as soon as the smart guys learned how to hiss the word “isn’t” effectively, they began to show off. Chuck Connors sort of sized it up at the time when, speaking of diamonds, he said: “Them as has ‘em wears 'em.”. ni 0 > The Spoken Language™ WE HAVE something of the same thing going on right now in the ‘Hepartment of noun-verbs. To “contact a man” makes some of us wince.” On the other hand, “to ground a plane” sounds all right, in fact elegant. The confusion, which is precisely that of “ain't” and “isn’t,” suggests the possibility that, maybe, English usuage is peculiarly a matter of ear. In support of which I cite an experience of E. B. White who, in my humble opinion, writes some of the best-sounding prose today. Back in the days when Mr. White was a newspaper man, his editor sent him to a morgue to get a story on a woman whose body was being held for identification. A man believed to be her husband was brought in. Somebody pulled the sheet back; the man took one agon-

excuse that the increasing population needs “breathing space.” Therefore what Radio Tokyo really is telling Japanese women is to think of Japan's past glories and raise lots of babies. Babies now mean future manpower, with which to go after more “breathing space”—at the expense of neighbors, of course. To us, it all has more than a faint echo of Hitler's prewar build-up for Nazi conquest—the emphasis on Germany's ancient glories and the demand for more and more “lebensraum.” And, incidentally, it ‘makes one wonder how long the “defeated” Japs are going to be allowed to get away with propaganda broadcasts that completely ignore defeat?

HOW MANY HOLIDAYS? E celebrate Armistice day on Nov. 11 in commemoration of the ending of World" War 1. Certainly V-E day, May 8, and V-J day, Aug. 14, will be as worthy of future observance. : i“ ; Will we have three holidays to celebrate victories, adding two to those we already have? ; Those we have heard discussing it are divided in their opinions, - Some say we should observe them all, Others favor dividing them into two holidays of different character, one a holiday fot celebration, military parades and a good time, another, on a designated Sunday each year, to be ‘a spiritual observance with prayers of thanksgiving for victory and of hope for future peace. =

STATEHOOD POSSIBILITIES ECENT suggestions that Alaska and Hawaii be elevated to statehood should tend to revive interest in a subject “which has been proposed and discussed at various times in the past. Perhaps it is premature to predict that this admission to the Union of states has been brought nearer because of the proposals. But no particular foresight is involved in the prediction that, sooner or later, both of these great territories eventually will become states. Both possess many of the qualities of statehood now.: Hawaii is larger in area and population (land area 6441 square miles; 1940 population, 426,654) than a number of states. Alaska's area of 586,400 square miles is more than double that of any state, but its population of 72,524 is extremely sparse. However, there is no questioning the fact that Alaska could support a much large population. Nor does anyone question the certainty of a much larger population for Hawaii. ~~ True, there may be considerations—one of them being national defense—which make it advisable to defer state-

i hood for an indefinite period for one or both of the terri tories. - But, if advisable, that period will come to an end

some day and, as surely as tomorrow's dawn, Alaska and - Hawaii will be added to Uncle Sam's family of states.

izing look, and cried: “My God, it’s her!” When Mr. | | White reported this grim incident, the tone-deaf | | editor changed it to “My God, it's she!”

“THE FLYING FISHERMAN—

Instead of Hands By Andy Anderson

BARKSDALE FIELD STATION HOSPITAL, SHREVEPORT, La., Aug. 29.—I've always wanted to know how it feels to be gn inventor and now I Know. In fooling around the “hospitals trying to teach Uncle Sam's boys how to occupy their time fishing, I went to work on some gadgets to help kids who had lost their arms, to fish. It was one of those trial and error jobs. I had an idea. The foreman of the composing room had some tools, so the gadgets or attachments were knocked out in a pretty rough manner. Then came the day when they were to be tried out to learn if they would work: Talk about a thrilll But let me tell you about the “test cases”: I went fishing with two upper extremity cases— Pfc. Dick Grasser of Kenosha, Wis., and Pfc. Howard Batzel of Cleveland. Dick lost a left arm in Germany, and Howard's right arm was knocked off by a German 88 near Luxembourg.

Each Needs Personal Gadget IT TAKES separate gadgets for each” case. For | instance, Grasser could grasp the reel okay with his right hand, but he had to have some sort of attachment that would allow him to hold the rod with that working hook on his left arm. So we fixed up an aluminum band with two catches. This was placed on the fore part of the rod butt. The hook opens and grasps it, holding the rod steady and allowing him to land almost any size fish. We had to anake a leather belt and sock to fit around his waist also, and it worked swell. In the case of Batzel it was more difficult. The hooks are clumsy, especially in grasping something as small as the spindle of a reel handle. the spindles off and replaced them with a flat disc bent so that the “working hook” would lock into it. And’ it worked. Grasser expects to get discharged soon. “First thing I'm doing .is to go up to Minnesota for a fishing trip,” he said. He plans to call on his friend Whitey Lewis, sports editor of the Cleveland Press, when he gets out, and make Whitey go fishing with him. Gee—it's great to be an inventor.

To The Point—

THE CURB on photographic film has been lifted. My gosh, we still may have to use up our “ohs” and “ahs” on vacation snaps. -

ONE PLANT suggests that its ‘girl employees get jobs as cooks. Will there be enough can openers? WHILE old tires are popping, an*dmportant question is doing likewise—" When can we get new ones?” » . Ll .

THE MOST important step in the average father’s life is the baby's first,

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| By Mr, I. Public, Indianapolis

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“‘NUTS’ IS MY ANSWER TO THEM WHO SAY SO”

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Cab drivers slug soldiers. Cab driver rolls soldiers. Cab drivers are ex-convicts. Nuts is my answer to them who say so. Now the Legion and the Safety Board are going to put a stop to something. And in all due respect to, our soldiers and our exsoldiers, and to the Legion's national judge advocate, Mr. Gregg, let me tell you and the soldiers and the public something you all know and participate in, yet seem to ignore, in fact are responsible for. First, who is the public? Everybody, including myself. Who sells whisky to the cabby to sell again at a profit or just/so and true. Because all are not to get a cab bill? You do, Mr |soldiers some are Legionnaires and Public. Who asks the cab driver to/the Mr. and Mrs. Public. break laws just to satisfy them.- | Now, Public, or should I say

Ives? i selves? You, Mr. Public. !Public Enemy No. I, who put your

own check, just one out of a cityisafety council in office?

a You did, of drivers), (1) “I'm awful late, for Mr and Mrs.. Public.

Doesn't it

‘work; ‘to catch train, to catch -bus, seem strange the driver knows so

. {late for a date, or sfayed out 100: myc ity. - ’ IL ch about our city. - 1f-they would ; late, speed it up and I'll fix you up tel] all they would ie va Mr. | Peace ‘was nigh while overhead the

with a tip.” You, Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. Public, look awfully silly. Public, ask this. But to pay a fine, Besides, the husband who would no, I've never had that stated. If shoot three wives and vice versa. you don’t speed then youre every-| There would be a revolution. Or thing but a man. (2) ‘Where suppose, Mr. and Mrs. Public, the can I get something drink.” That was asked 15 times !'do or think, isn't supposed to know between 1 a. m. and 5 a. m. some anything, would take his job serimorning. Sure, I've told them ously enough to put you in the where. And later on I'll tell why. middle. You, Mr. Public, wouldn't But remember ‘it was you who want to be caught doing something asked, Mr. Public. (3) “Say, cabby, | against the law or just playing where can I find a date?” There house on the next street over. You is no limit to the times a driver is| wouldn't want to be caught buying approached by that question. But|whisky or beer after hours. You

{I dare say he won't tell you or he wouldn't want to get caught buy-

can't. Remedy—Mr. Public, ask ing baseball tickets, playing cards, yourself, you're the one who asked. |playing horses, or just ordinary (4) “Where can I get in a poker! playing. Or you, Mr. Policeman, dice or blackjack game, driver?” A |wouldn't want to be caught drinkcabby generally knows. Or for his|ing on duty, though the public sees cab bill and a tip you can play all it.” And ‘you, Mr. Sheriff, you night. (5) Soldiers say take us to wouldn't want to be caught mopthe —, we want to dance. NO ping for breaking the law, by not stags allowed, theyre told. But enforcing it. h . . . that’s all right, say the| And I state again, the cab driver soldiers, we’ll grab one on the way {knows so much, why don’t you, Mr. in because women are allowed un-| Public, you, policeman, you, sherescorted. Consequences—drinks|iff, you, newspapers? I'll tell you with a strange girl, not too good; why (and I'm sticking my neck out out - at ‘closing time into .a cab; [saying i#), because a driver doesn’t and then, do you know a hotel, inquire into those things if he cabby. Of course we do, or should wants to drive. It's the old story we take them to the Legion hall of who knows who, and where, and or refuse business when we are how, and how well, and how much. innocent of it all. * But it all seems | Isn't that right, Mr. Public? Well, they remember going out in a cab, | what are you going to do? Blame coming back sometimes remember |it on the driver or put the blame the driver. But the girl with his on our city? We have stood by you money was a blond, pretty, but I when you were wrong, and when don't know the name. That is all | you were right. We are right at

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when he proposes by mail? I've got a bet with the postmaster!” . -

Such as, (and I know this by my governor, police heads, sheriff, |

to cabby, the guy everybody can say, |

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

your right to say it.”

times, and we are wrong at times. But to add it all—clean house at home; and I think then that the cab drivers can work as well and the cab company can enforce and run the clean and well organized business that it strives for. Purely for transportation purposés. Only in doing this will undesirable help be eliminated by their own deeds. All city transportation could function to make service and goodwill among - the public. Any public servant has been told to use discretion at all times. With it (and sometimes it’s impossible) drivers will have a deaf ear to the public's gripes, business and Indianapolis propaganda. » » » “RULERS NOW HAVE ATOMIC JITTERS” By Si Moore, Indianapolis ! Between the meeting of the kings, {to barter for the lands and slaves, ‘and stopping of the whining shells, [there’s_ lots of time to fill more graves. “Still ‘time to die,” one

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I’soldier cried ‘whem: Hotifled that

rockets screamed, and on all sides |grim death whizzed by. “Still time [to die” for those who fight, while {those who send the cheery word that peace is being talked about meet around the groaning festal (board. “Still time to die” in many lands and on the rolling | ships at sea until a day has | come to earth when crowns and | Kings no more shall be. For every Iman desires to live—is his right— {though rulers cry: “The common | herd shall fight the wars, it is not | time for us to die.” : | But the rulers now have th atomic jitters, for they have found |out that they cannot hide away un|der the protection of others of their own ilk, as they did of yore. They {know that one of those scientific Imarvels that some of the common | herd concocted, while they clanked |about at smelly watering spots and in the silken boudoirs of the earth, can blast them right out of the | biggest city or the deepest shelter lin any capitol or palace. For cen|turies. it has been the custom for despots to kill or imprison the scholars because they feared their knowledge, which they were too lazy and dumb to absorb themselves. Hitler, Holy Joe, Bloody; Franco’ and other such parasites have gotten rid of the best brains in their lands. But the meek shall inherit the earth, for the sword rattlers are too dumb. to . fool around ‘with ..anythiag more complicated than a bottle. And the cartel salesman better not carry any in their overnight bags. ” s ” “WATCHMAN, I'M IN LOVE WITH YOU NOW” By An American, Indianapolis Excuse me, Watchman, for saying 1 wasn't wild about you. I had not carefully read your articles until the Communists'started saying they were so terrible. This caused me to conclude that they were a new kind of atomic bomb, so I got interlested, and yours of Aug. 22 was a ‘crackerjack’! I'm in love with you. Hope you are not a woman for I have a wife. Mrs. Haggerty and her gang will be flabbergasted now. After Mrs. Haggerty's skip-stop plan about ‘election, some of us kindly souls tried to dissuade her from staying in the columnist fleld; but she has a head of her own, and has at last made herself the laughing stock of all Indiana, She thinks she has ‘a controlling interest in The Times because she contributes 20 cents a week to Its upkeep. She sent in a petition to have the paper reconditioned. Listen, Mrs. Haggerty, I don't. like My Day, but I know some like you do, so I haven't said anything. I think in fairness to Mrs. Truman My Day is due to stop soon; but I'm not the only one who reads the paper. z 2 Is your goat still at home now, Mrs. Haggerty—or have I got it?

DAILY THOUGHT As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you— Isaiah 66:13.

BUT now I am past all comforts

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Henry VIIL

Happy Hills -

| By Roger W. Stuart

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. — It won't be long Yiow before local committees from all points of the compass start bombarding the United Nations with demands that their A own little necks of the woods be chosen “world capital.” ; Severa! places already have been reggested. These include, among others, Washington, Philadelphia, Geneva, But only one band of advocates, so far, has grown really excited about it. : That's the Black Hills World Capital committee, with headquarters at the state capital in Pierre, 8. D. This group, headed by Governor M. Q. Sharpe, definitely means business. A preliminary invitation to make their region the site of the United Nations capital was presented to delegates at the San Francisco conference. But the committee by no means stopped there. . A formal invitation, according to the committee's executive secretary, George A. Sterling, now is being prepared. It will be in brochure form ‘and will be submitted to both the preparatory commission and the United Nations assembly, he says, “at the proper time.” :

ready is well under way. x

-4.The High Pressure Begins

AFTER CHOOSING a committee with as many important names as possible—including those of the governors of Nebraska, Wyoming and South Dakota, various and sundry congressmen and a wide assortment of former legislators from the west—the group rounded itself up a high-powered staff. Photographers, copy-writers and a map-maker went to work. They snapped pictures all over the Black Hills. They prepared a map demonstrating

consulted the records to discover the height of hills, the purity of air and water, Then they made a note of all the kinds of bugs, trees, animals and minerals found thereabouts. Finally they got down to business on their illustrated booklets and the brochure which is to be presented to the proper officials at the proper time. But even that wasn't enough. At the suggestion of Governor Sharpe, a four-page, single-spaced mimeographed “statement” has just been sent to hundreds of individuals in Washington, including the press. It includes a lot of the dope destined to appear in the fancier books-to-be, but in more abbreviated form.

Twenty-four Hours From Everywhere THE BLACK HILLS, you are given to understand, is within 24 hours flying time of the capital of every one of the United Nations. Moreover, it is in truth the very center of the world.

Thiss you may doubt. But, as the “statement” hastily explains, when you take into consideration

divided by their political organizations and boundar-

tation that it really is. So much for location, attractions. The climate is temperate. There's no humidity, smoke, dust or gasses. Winds never blow strong. There are no storms or hurricanes, Beautiful indeed are the forests, and altitudes varies from the plains of about 3000 feet to the top of good old Mt. Harney, which reaches up to 7242. After describing the prairies, hills, plateaus, moun= tains, valleys, lakes, streams, rocks, wild game, soils and minerals, the statement” gets right down to brass tacks. It confesses: “Here are practically all the varieties of those dee sirable things which can be found anywhere.” No large cities to absorb the identity or individuality of the world capital. No distractions. And on top of all that, the Black Hills states are highly civilized—they rank “among the first eight in the nation” as to literacy.” . : ck One ‘thing is certaln. Befoté ‘tHe sh¥w 1s over, the Black Hills region, whether or not it becomes the world capital, is going to be well known to a lot of folks. 2

IN WASHINGTON—

Rent Lid

By Ned Brooks

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Decision of the office of price admin=

Now comes the physical

ent: controls brought a charge from ganized real estate dealers today

ori on to continue government

gogic” appeals to defend his position. The National Association of Real Estate Boards in its weekly bulletin to members challenged Mr. Bowles’ statement that servicemen's families and other tenants have been made victims of “trumped up, heartless evictions.” The exchange reflected the heat of the dispute now in progress both over the retention of the rent" " and the continuation of restrictions against new home construction. Not all of the disagreement is between the governs ment and -builder-landlord organizations, Federal agencies are arguing among themselves, The office of price administration and the national housing agency are urging the retention of regula tions on building as a method for keeping new con struction in the low-priced fleld and easing the pressure -against rent ceilings. The war productio board and the new construction co-ordinator, Hug Potter of Houston, favor an early lifting of all con struction limitations. The dispute has been laid be fore Economic Stabilization Director William H. Dav for mediation.

Limits on New Houses

UNDER EXISTING rules, new construction limited to homes costing no more than $8000, wi rent ceilings fixed at $65 a month. OPA Rent Director Ivan Carson, in a memorand to WPB, said removal of the limitation might result in an inflationary rise in rents. Builders, he argued would enter the higher-price field, thereby leaving the demand for low and medium. priced rental proper ties unfilled. Most of the higher priced homes would be built for sale rather than for rent, he predicted. Mr. Bowles has served notice that rent controls will be retained “until tenants have the opportunit; to bargain.” ; : # The real estate boards retorted that Mr. Bowles “fell back on a demogogic appeal in defending con tinued rent control.” Leading real estate men, the organization sald were “furious” over the accusation.

Realtors Slap at OPA

“THEY FELT,” said the association, “that OP, again was capitalizing on half-truths, The agenc; still has given no indication of recognizing the far that its own rent control policies are forcing owne " to sell and causing the great majority of evictions. “Also, reports from the industry now indicate that sales and evictions have materially fallen off: sinc the end of the war.” . The organization also accused the OPA boss of initiating an extension in the period required fo evictions “even before his rent control division had chance to complete its negotiations on the subjec with ‘the industry advisory cominittee on rents” " Tenants now have 90 days of grace before they can be turned out of their homes following a sale Mr. Bowles proposes to increase this period to six months as a move to curb speculative buying. On the construction front, builders have been give to understand that the WPB limitation order, desig nated as L-41, will be retained no later that Sept. 30 despite the opposition to revocation by other agencies. Release of a billion board feet of lumber by the army and navy and the prospect of still more supplies these sources have removed a major obstacle building,

to resumption of

Meanwhile, the hoopla and the horn-tooting al- |

that theirs is the exact center of the world. They}

“the way the land mass of the world is located, with} reference to its water and the way the nations are

jes,” you'll recognize without another moment's hesi-§

that Administrator Chester Bowles is using "deme