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that Mr. Truman is correct in judging can people burn with desire for the kind of action he urged them to help him get—namely, action by congress on his program of domestic legislation. “Indeed, we suspect that con gress, by its inaction on some of the President's proposals, has shown itself better "aware than Mr.” Truman of what most of the American In our opinion, they do not want a lot of news laws, ‘no matter how loudly these are demanded by left-wing labor and its sympathizers, which might take the country further into economic experimentation and federal | bureaucratic control. i The action they want is on the production front. ] THEY AGREE with Mr. Truman that 1946 is a year af decision, and that America’s future will be affected for | generations by the progress or lack of progress made this | yam toward the goal of full production and full employ- | muni and toward defeat of both inflation and deflation. © They agree emphatically that first among the obstacles tw sunih progress are labor-management disputes. Butt fo most Americans, we believe, it is obvious that filiis country has an unparalleled opportunity right now to | auhiewe fill production and full employment, to prevent inAnd that what is needed to make the most of that op- _ purtumity is not more experimental laws, but more common _ gemse, not more tinkering in Washington, but more goods pouring out of the factories of a thousand cities to supply the demands of hungry markets. . "= Mr. Truman argued persuasively for the fact-finding ‘procedures, which he first proposed early last month and which he still believes can go a long way toward meeting the problems created by great strikes now assuming such ! a . : ; 3 3 : » » ¥ . he, himself, has weakened public faith in that by asserting that fact-finding in wage controversies concern itself with employers’ “ability to pay”—an ga which, we believe, would lead to endless trouble for employers and workers alike if congress sanctioned.

5 = . - » MR. TRUMAN spoke of “must” objectives, but to his “credit, he acknowledged the right and responsibility of congress to formulate measures of its own, if it does’ not approve of those he recommends.. Congress should not We think, however, that the domestic objective which __ most deserves to be called “must” at this time is the corof unwise administration policies which are so

““fargely responsible for the menacing labor-management

~~ ' We believe that what the American people most want ~ from congress is thoughtful, careful, fair legislation designed to hold organized labor responsible for proper use of the enormous power that government has helped it to attain. And we regret that we do not find in Mr. Truman's program anything that would serve that purpose.

A CASE FOR. UNO ECRETARY OF STATE BYRNES and Foreign Minister Bevin are trying to prevent the Russian-Iranian dispute from coming before the United Nations Organization assembly, which opens next week. Their theory is that this is something for the Big Three to settle. - We think they are making a mistake. For one reason because the Big Three have tried for many weeks to settle it and failed. For another because Russia, as the alleged aggressor, cannot fairly adjudicate a case against herself. For another reason because this dispute is breeding war in the Middle East, and to let it drift is perilous. And finally because effort to prevent a UNO member from getting a UNO hearing is pretty close to sabotage of the world

~ peace and security institution,

g . a» LL ALTHOUGH not all the facts about this case are known . fo the public, some are clear. Moscow began by putting pressure on the Tehran government, which was considered too pro-British, That was followed by an armed rebellion “in the northern province of Azerbaijan, led by Communists

the corn doctoi I remember best, began canvassing our neighborhood for business, ‘At any rate, it was during the pontificate of Amelia, the hired girl who came to us from Teutopolis and about whose love affair I was telling you the other day (last Wednesday, if you must know). ’ “ NE ‘ ' » remember Doc’s first visit as if it ‘were yesterday ¥

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report that Amelia's father and Mr. Holzapfel weren't on speaking terms, all on account of some argument about the fences between their respective farms.

Kept Out of Letters

BOTH items surprised Amelia mightily because nothing in the letters from home had mentioned either subject. After that, Amelia always depended on Doc's annual visits for news from home, notwithstanding the fact that she was in weekly communication with her folks. The reason Dr, Ichabod Swain knew so much about Teutopolis may be attributed to the fact that he came through there every spring. He started his annual pilgrimage somewhere on the National road in Southern Illinois and worked his way through Teutopolis and _Teire Haute scarifying and gouging.whole town- | ships in a single week. E 3 He never started his pilgrimage until winter was over, That sticks in. my memory because I remember his telling me that he always waited until people got done wearing rubbers. A long winter with everybody wearing rubbers will produce a bumper crop of corns, he sald. p:

. It was on the same occasion, too, that Doc enlight- . . ened me on the subject of tight shoes. Speaking excathedra that day, Doc said that it was a great mis- oOoSsler Oorum take to believe that tight shoes are the sole cause of corns. It's just the reverse, he sald. A snug- «CHURCHES SLAPPED BY fitting or even a tight shoe will not produce a corn cau ADS ON BUSSES” nearly as quickly as a shoe a size too big. Doc said | it was an over-sized shoe that produced the four-inch |By M. W." Allen, 1399 E. 46th st. case-hardened corn he met up with between here | For many years I owned several apq Terre Haute, He said it took him three hours to | shares of Indianapolis Street Railpry it loose. And there's no telling how long it might | stock. An mber of times have taken had Doe not been equipped with the latest [vas a rd ts Go t and most modern tools. I! have helped applican Be om

' | ployment with this company. How-

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Saw Corn Operation {ever, I am not a stock owner at this

I GUESS Amelia wore shoes a size too big, too. time. Several years ago the comOtherwise ¥ wouldn't be possible to explain why she pany made many changes in order always had a couple of corns when Doc came around. to reduce ‘operating and mainteOnce, but only once, I saw Doc operate on Amelia. | . ope 8 Perhaps, I shouldn't mention it. ‘It's one of those |PaNCe costs. The two-man operated sacred things between Amelia and myself, the sharing cars were changed to the one-man 2 whieh nobody's business. I'll say this, though: ‘operated cars which meant a big! Amelia’s case very delicately. He charged her 25 cents a corn, T remember, saving in operating cost. Next came | -BUSSES AND TROLLEYS the busses and trackless trolleys|SgOULD BE INSPECTED” which eliminated many miles of , ,.. 4 1 geerts 417 N. Gladstone track which meant less track up-| ave keep exp Y" All of these were! I'm in full agreement with S.E. H.

improvements and hetterments as In your column of Dec. 26. Isn't

usses {there a safety council or similar es ang trackless trolleys San arrangement to check each bus and load and unload at the curb which | trolley as to its capacity such as we meant much more safety for the have on elevators? If not there passengers. {should be! One of these days a

WORLD AFFAIRS— Then about t%o and a half | wreck costing many lives will occur, ago on seems a Tag Yee then someone will undertake a so-

Fallen ‘God’ en Oo | pany went into the beer advertising called “investigation.” Why not in-

1 i ole ofe . | business and placed beer sign: vesiigate now? And while theyre SH By William Philip Simms |Sisiness and placed beer signs or

* The biggest single operation Doc ever had around here, he once told me, was the case of an old ‘man who worked in Balweg's box factory on Madison ave. He had 13 corns (on both feet), and he preferred to suffer in silence, rather than have anyone but Dr, Ichabod Swain relieve him. The fee was $2.75. Doc sald you had to be liberal in such cases,

its cars about it they had better get some | busses and trackless trolleys. With 1a%s passed concerning passengers i: WASHINGTON, Jan 4 — Far | this method of advertising, the! riding in luggage compartments of from "being crushed by his sudden company seems to be operating a over-crowded buses traveling over oop So Shinto Sey to the huge perambulating beer advertis- the state. ” evel of an extremely sweaty | ing outfit. Whet . be humanity, there is good reason \ Ing L. her this was done]

: : to to i “ AS BEEN believe Emperor Hirohito may be seerelly pi encourage and promote drinking “THIS ROAD 234 HAS BE

- One of the favorite themes of fiction is that of a ore and hesvies 3 is cuployees| AAT WAY AaLwars crown prince who hates to mount the throne be- land one-half years the company P’ ¥- R- Echels, 4083 §. East st. cause he preferred the simple life of ordinary folks. |has had plenty of crack-ups and| It Was good to read in the paper Possibly the Jap emperor was such a prince.

mishaps. Only a few | someone to tell off the state highI was in Japan when Hirohito became pied ae Sly os taially mud on| way. This man is right. I have regent in place of his father, Yoshihito, then senile. | Fairfield ave. There laid the woman. | driven this road 234 for the last That was in 1921. At the time official circles said he Also there were several cars lined | 10 vears and it has been that way was far from happy over the prospect. Some went {up. There also were these beer always. I can name some more just So far as to suggest that he had no taste for the |signs stating there is no finer beer.| like it, some other places too. This Job. That he was a plain, quiet, near-sighted, unam- | uy guess 1s that the beer the | fall ‘on ‘rainy days the road men bitious, studious sort of person who would much rather operator and the streetcar will all} Would make a trip over their section write poetry and tinker around in a biological labora- | be exenerated And it was merely| And do nothing. Then when the tory than be emperor. ’ : lan accident. Never in my 70 years| slick weather came they did not i | hav h cind and sand to Poohed-Poohed Deity he Ss i Pile willy mee ig ie way #t should WELL-EDUCATED Japanese privately admitted, church-going people in the face as| have been done. When they are out even back in those days, that neither they mor the Lhas this Indianapolis Railway Co, Of the necessary material they have prince regent took any stock in the official legend |in this beer advéitising venture, to drive long distances to get it concerning the emperor's deity. The masses loved | Intoxication is plain and simple and then they haul a couple of It, however, and it was the most effective of all in- {paralysis and any man or woman| Wheel barrow loads in their big five struments in the hands of those whose business tt | dead drunk is totally paralyzed | yard trucks. Did you ever see a state was to run the country. | And too often these helpless peopie | truck with side boards on it like So, whether he liked it or not, th “modern-minded |attempt to operate cars, autos |the other gravel trucks have. They Hirohito—the first of his line ev make a trip | busses, locomotives, airplanes, etc.|can haul twice as much as they do around the world—had to take up the three sacred (and as a result our killings mount| when some of them have to drive symbols—the niirror, the jewels and the sword—and {upward alarmingly. | so far to get it. carry on the make-believe. 5 ATR In conclusion, let me say if this! What the state highway needs is The whole business of mikadoism was purposely |street railway company is in this|an old truck man for a boss over kept far removed from public view, but Hirohito is |beer advertising business in order| these men and forget politics. We sald to have read a good deal of occidental history {to obtain revenue needed in the/can tell you what roads to stay off and to have been impressed by the British system. (operation of their transportation|of in the winter and what roads to If he had to be an emperor, said some, he would [system, in that event and’in that|drive on Sometimes we will drive have preferred to be a 20th century one like those {event only would I suggest a higher| 10 miles out of our way to get on

: and Moscow agents and protected by a large Russian army bs of occupation: The Russian army not only refused to allow he “Yeanian troops and government representatives to enter | ‘the province, but also turned back official ‘American inves: ~ tigators. * | Shy As a result, Russia is charged with violating several of her international pledges, including the UNO charter, and the Tehran declaration and the Soviet-Iranian treaty guaranteeing Iranian sovereignty. The United States is involved because Russian troops are in northern Iran under an allied agreement, and because President Roosevelt was party to the Tehran agreement. Britain is involved for jar reasons, and additionally because ‘she wants to ran as a sphere of influence on her empire life-line

» ” ” » . ” IASHINGTON’S proposal to withdraw Big Three Jan. 1 was rejected by both Moscow and London, ) troops got out anyway. When Big Three negotiations failed, the recent Byrnes-Bevin-ference in Moscow “tried again—also without

he cirouinstances, this appears to be precisely 8 which should come before the UNO assemalibi that the first meeting of the assembly will : organizational matters evades the obvious that such a body lives only by doing. Ome

| men” after the “Manchuria incident.”

| can happen.

of England, without pretense of being a “son of | fare. a good road to make it into town. heaven.” - i

Especially, Japanese liberals insisted, was Hiro- | ¢- 1 hito irked by the military bullies. Himself a liberal, Side Glances —By Galbraith they sald, and opposed to violence either at home or abroad, he was happiest when the anti-war liberals | 1 Zl ST ————

were in power,

Named for Peace

THEY pointed out that when he became emperor in 1926, he “deliberately named his reign “Showa.” meaning “radiant peace,” and that the theme of his poetry was always peace and calm, for example: “What a calm morning it is in the sacred garden. “I would like to find the world as calm as this garden.” } Kenzo Adachi, minister of home affairs, told me in | Tokyo in 1936 that Hirohito was “the unhappiest of How true this was I wouldn't know. But it does fit inte the pic ture of a simple-minded man, the last of a line of emperors who, century after century, had been prison ers of the Shoguns—emperors who had to. do as told. It may well be, therefore, that Hirohito is genuinely tired of the long masquerade. He may be glad the time has come to unmask. Stranger things have happened even than that he should some day beooms | a Christian, He has removed Shintoism (meaning “the way of gods”) as the state religion at Gen. MacArthur's behest, and has proclaimed himself mor tal like the rest of mankind, ‘After that, anything |

However, even an. emperor can move too fast for his subjects. And just as Jap- war lords have been able to use the institution for eVil in the past, it is now. the turn of the. allies to use it for good.

onal peace and justice undér its charter a bish the UNO than any number of nts; Foun

the Iranian case ag such, L the UNO will be only ‘power domination like the late concern every friend of

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To The Point —

CANADA produces 20 per cent of the world's cured fish—not counting those produced by ‘some oil stock salesmen, :

7 hae » . » a : > - ; ocr or J : is = . h i hy ) This coat really didn't cost a cents—it comes to exactly the same IT'S HARD. to convince eighbors that man and . \ i f | av "no his wite Are one when they sound like a Gowen. 4 amount we'll save oh this year's incomd tax reduction! dn

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

your right to say it.”

“U. 8.~NOT STATE—SHOULD CONTROL UNEMPLOYMENT”

By Walter C. Galick, 1114 Southeastern ave.

I note that Governor Gates deplores the fact that President Tru-

man vejoed the bill returning the

U. 8. employment service to the

states. Why should it be given to the states? It seems to me that more. publicity should be given to federal control. The federal government furnishes the money to pay salaries of employees. It furnishes the money to pay the rent of the building in which the service is housed. The employment security division is also housed in the same ouilding, but is controlled by the state, . Ask any claimant or veteran who is now three months or ‘more late on all payments of unemployment benefits if they haven't all they can handle now without the employment service. Unemployment is a national issue. During - the other depression the federal government had to pull the states out of the hole. In my opinion we are again headed for fedthe war the U. 8. employment service did an excellent job on a thankless task of stabilization. The public agreed that the employment service should be federal during this pereiod of emergency. An emergency still exists—an emergency of unemployment.’ It is just as essential that the employment service should be federal during the reconversion period as during the war years. And fo go farther, If it is better during the war years and during reconversion, why not for all time? 4 Politics should not enter the pic~ ture. - : : eo x “BAD ROADS WHILE TAXES ARE MISUSED”

By F. H B, Indianapolis While others are on the subject

of bad driving conditions on our streets and roads, I wish to add my voice. I, too, am a taxpayer and have seen those taxes thrown away

know, But I'm getting tired o driving to my work every day on the obstacle race known as South Emerson ave. Every worker at the Beech Grove railroad shops is hardly able to do a good day's work after negotiating this slippery road. Leaving Emerson and Washington, if we have crossed through a broken unoperative stop light, slid over two sets of railroad tracks, we arrive at the stop sign at English ave~I sald stop sign—try and stop, Now we come to the, real one. Have you tried to get through the underpass at the Pennsylvania yards? If you haven't, go down and

{see what fun you really can have. There's plenty of ice, water and

holes. I wish I could tell you how many of our cars have smashed into the abutments and into each other, If you have successfully gotten through this ahd on out to the turn in Emerson, you find a little relief — for someone has finally spread some cinders under the .Big Four tracks and on the hill. What I want to know is, how long are we going to put up with this I'm speaking for every man that has to drive this road and pay the gas tax to maintain it. I can hear the city and county men saying right now: Give us the labor and we'll take care of it. Next year it will be: Give us the money ‘and we'll take care of it. Weil, if they can get the money now and can't get labor, where will this money be spent next year when the labor can be obtained? You

-|guess—while I'm sliding merrily out

South Emerson, :

DAILY THOUGHT

I INDEED baptize you with water unto repentance: but He that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall Baptize you’ with “the Holy Ghost, and with fire. Matthew 3:11.

IT 18 never too late to turn from the errors of our ways; . He who repents of his sins is

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almost innocent.

—Seneca.

{By Randolph Churchill

| vexatious minor problems awaiting

ROME, Jun. 4.—One of the most

apicg selutian is the future of the = Polish army in Italy. Recruited, trained and equipped by Britain, the Poles. fought with outstanding distinc, talian can and" rendered notabie allied cause. What' is to become: of

nominal” establishment of this fine A is 86,000. But Polish refugees a ns g them and the ration-strength allowed them by the allied forces headquarters today is 10,000, In fact, their true strength is somewhat above 135 080 - With Britain and the United States demobilizing

Trickle Back to Italy *”

I talked to a British observer ‘who accor ccompan the first train to Poland. He told me the ante government was making serious mistakes in theiy

id, They are subjected

to propaganda talks, which have as their main

|-object the. denigration of Gen. Wiadyslaw Anders,

the gallant and respected commander these Poles fought for the last three ie om when she first Poles: Were repatrie agreed they should take their arms with them. To prevent, their selling them en route to the Italians or exuberantly firing them out of the train, the arms were crated. The Polish governs ment managed to make a grievance of this and’ suge gested: that the British military authorities were not

carrying out their undertakings, Some Still in Scotland

IN ADDITION to the Poles in Italy, there is stinn asother large group in Scotland. The proportion of these willing to retum to Poland is higher than in Italy, but certainly does not amount’ to half," It ‘ig clear that the Poles eannot be indefinitely maine tained in an army. “It ts clear, also, that it would he highly dishonorable to compel them to go to Poland against their wishes. . \ Meanwhile Polish governmental anda afe fects to believe that the fact that pagan _— ernment still is providing these Poles with rations is proof of British determination to maintain perma nently a Polish army, hostile to the present Polish government. . This is patently absurd, but it is obYous at fhe British government must speedily make up m what their is to be in ‘Ull= happy affaif. poley "yr Britain declared

war on Germany six years ago

because of Hitler's assault on Poland. Throughout the struggle, even in the darkest moments, we never

New Jobs

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 — The lineup of the new, bigger and better state department organization is gradually emerging under Assistant Secretary in Charge of Admin- : istration Donald Russell, formerly of Spartanburg, S, C., where he was a junior law partier to Secretary Byrnes. Late in January the department will go before congress with estimates of what it's going to take to run a’/modern office of international affairs, worke ing as energetically for péace as it worked for war, Tentatively, the blueprint will. show how an expanded foreign service, an increasingly important division of economic affairs,’ new: information and intelligence divisions wili be fitted into the purely political divie sions which have in the past done most of the U. 8, government's business with foreign countries. Because a lot of new jobs have been dumped In its lap, the department of state, which in 1939 had

and wasted. What will it profit me in writing ‘this, letter—well, .I i than 4700 employees and in 1945 had 10,600 em

ployees, will, for the fiscal year 1947, require at least 15,000 employees, maybe more. Its budget, which in 1939 was 18 million dollars and In 1946 was 76 million dollars, will, for fiscal 1947, be in the neighborhood of 150 million dollars. To a lot of ‘state department critics, a complete ree organization of the old dump is necessary before this country can have an effective foreign policy. Mr, Assistant Secretary Russell doesn’t feel that way about it at all.

Office Maze Is Amazing

SOME of the things that have been found uncoe ordinated about the state department are almost unbelievable. For instance, it was found that cables coming into the departmeny fiom all over the world might be referred to .127 ifferent offices. Messages took days to code and decode and deliver, and no wonder some got lost. The department was 30 days behind in its duplicating and printing. , Files were in terrible shape. Employees weren't getting paid promptly, and their war bonds weren't delivered. Everybody had ‘the reorganization jitters. Worst of -all, the growing department was scate tered in 27 different buildings, branch offices of the same division frequently being lost in three or four different locations. It was wonderful confusion and no wonder. . . Pt Gradually, some of these things are being core rected. The number of offices getting cables has been cut to 17. A new message center has been set up under three young army officers who ran message} centers for Gen. Eisenhower and know the importance of speed in coding, decoding and delivery.

Congress Gets Tough Job THAT'S principally what reorganization of th state department is going to amount to, It isn’v goin | to be any drastic reshuffling of everybody all at thei same time. Early in the new congress, legislation will be in troduced to expand the foreign service personnel, pay] it better and remove present limitations on age d employment so that ced men can be moved into. key jobs. Similarly, new legislation will have be introduced to set up the new intelligence service expand the cultural relations and information pro grams, ; Decision has not been made on how the civilian government organization will be set up to replace military government in: Germany. This is a tempo rary job. Eventually it will be liquidated, as will be the remaining functions of the foreign economic ad ministration, disposal of surplus property overseas and some of the wartime work done by the overseas office of war information, office of Inter-American affairs and office of strategic services. . oie Bringing home and demobilising all this ow

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war agency personnel is no small reorganization job

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