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| that, on reflection the mornsd his glorification of a Russian spy ‘geems to be letting his reported that: “Russia in self-defense has every » seek atomic bomb secrets through military excluded from such information by her former 5. Such exclusion is by inference hostile.” avies will not be shot for such a crack, as he he were a Russian inviting American action country. Fortunately, all that will happen is fellow-Americans in the future will not be apt t him where Russia is concerned. : "For a man who once dabbled in diplomacy, Mr. Davies is somewhat rusty. If he had been reading the newspapers, he would have known that the Moscow government which he never challenges—has accepted the United Nations atom bomb control plan. Under that plan, the security council, of which Russia is a part, is to have the bomb information as soon as the United Nations is strong ‘en to control it, and as soon as the international

organization can provide effective inspection of armaments in all ; . j oy | ss =u = . a =

: BUT even a person as ignorant as Mr. Davies knows that oY Russia, which refuses to permit foreign inspection. - Mr. Davies knows that the United States has given Russia scores of military secrets, and received from Russia virtually nothing, i 5. Kind. Mr. Davies knows that, while Russians roam our country at will, our correspondents and “diplomats in Russia cannot move about freely. 8 .the gall to talk to Americans about exclud- ~~ “But the most shameful part of his statement is that ussis is acting in~“self-defense” against America’s alleg“hostile” policy. We cannot believe that Mr. Davies, as he is'in his propaganda wallow, understands the usness of that charge. And inference that Russia prepare to defend herself against American aggressoisonously vicious at the very moment Russia \ pledges to the United States, and in eastern e, the Near East and the Far East, sowing seeds

4 Davies ds right in fearing the drift in Russian-

her lawlessness. That is the road to destruction. If he as good a friend of Russia as he professes to be, he will

MEN, says. Lady Astor, need a rest. Lady Astof, the men chorus, has something there. The youngest man of the house wants a rest from ~ mother’s discipline, ,ear-scrubbing, table manners, school work—and how about some pie instead of carrots? , © A somewhat older segment wants a vacation from discharge points, military monotony, masculine companionship, homesickness and saying “Sir” to brass. In another group, distinguished by baldness and _ paunches, they cry for a holiday from mortgages, rising prices, taxes and winter weather. From shortages of white shirts, underpants, socks, tires and Scotch. From filibusters, morning shaves, rush-hour traffic and strikes. From monthly bills, the neighbor's radio and jokes about Missouri. From early rising, sugar substitutes, dentists, stock market tips and the price of steel. From the sight of _bobbysox, peasant scarves and sloppy shoes. From women . who make up their lips in public, smoke in elevators and form nylon lines. ; Men want a rest. . But they don’t expect much of one.

GOOD APPOINTMENT I nominating O. Max Gardner to be undersecretary of

senate will confirm, we think, without dissent.

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- espionage -agents or attaches, and . | constantly gathe: data about conditions in the United States. Army and navy general staffs of évery nation are concerned constantly with defense of their nation, Planning defense requires intimate knowledge of the potentialities and intentions of the enemy . . . and every bation is regarded as a potential enemy regardless ‘of the words of peace and good-will she utters. in several theaters of

Top Posts Held by British PROOF of that fact is evident in the fact that Gen. Eisenhower ‘chose a British assistant chief of staff for intelligence in the “Torch” operation for invasion of North Af American opposite . number, or what really amounted to administrative ant, was an American colonel . . , his chief was a major-general. When that officer left, another British intelligence officer was brought in, with an American colonel as his assistant. And when Gen. Eisenhower went to London to plan the Normandy invasion, this British general was on his staff while the American remained, still as assistant, to another British officer brought from the 15th army group where he had headed intelligence activities with an American assistant. In Italy, the top intelligence job also was held by a Briton.

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will defend to the death

"Take a Definite Stand for Destroying Liquor Traffic"

By Rev. Charles 0. Carnes, Ellettsville » There is only one way to deal with an evil that is affecting ‘society, such as the liquor traffic is affecting it, and that is to destroy it at its source. You can not compromise with the liquor traffic any more than we could with Hitler. Suppose the American people had courage enough to deal with the liquor trafic as we are dealing with the military forces

ditions must be rather bad when a man's wife and children can aot walk | on: the streets without having their lives endangered by drunken thugs and auto drivers.

American relations. He is wrong in encouraging Russia |

Mr, Hess seems to know the source of evil that is causing the moral and social conditions, but he

people like Mr, Hess might do. When America becomes once again a’ liquorless nation, then and only then will Mr. Hels, his wife and children be able to walk the streets of his city without being run down by a drunken driver, or thugged some drunk. Take a definite d with me, Mr, Hess. ; # . ” “INCREASED BASEBALL COST HITS MANY FANS”

By Bob Withers, Indianapolis I for one agree that Albert B. (Happy) Chandler is right in regard to the higher prices to better

baseball. We, as a people, have taken what we had and said nothing

.|case with stupid games such as

“HANDBOOKS ON HORSES SHOULD BE LEGALIZED"

By D. F. Davis, Indianapolis I find no satisfaction in remain-

ing quiet in the face of the police drive against so-called “gambling,” hence offer this comment. I am writing solely about handbooks and am not concerned with dice games or other forms of wagering. The writer is a fairly experienced race-goer. If anyone takes up racing seriously, he comes to the conclysion that success at it takes plenty of brains, which is not the

dice, ‘etc. Racing is a business, as respectable as any other professional sport or business. It provides huge tax receipts for every state where it is conducted. The governor of Rhode Island recently admitted that his budget would be in the red without it. It has also contributed far more than any other sport to bond drives, charities, etc. Unfortunately, despite national interest, there are only three cities in the U. 8. operating winter tracks and not more than 8 or 9 simultaneously in the summer, What is a racing fan to do if no one is to share in it except the inhabitants of the cities where physical plants operate? Racing is legalized. Anyone who enjoys playing races has a constitutional right to do so. The

the treasury the President has chosen a man whom the

only way a non-resident of a rac ing center can do so is through a bookmaker. The bookmaker charges no admission, pays exactly the same as the tracks. Considering the thousands of handbooks, wire

about it. Now, when everything else is piled on the common people, even the clean sports are going to pe made hard for us. They have nad a capacity gate all the while. Why eliminate the little man or

He has had wide experience in government. He made a fine record as governor of North Carolina in the depression years. He understands business and fiscal problems. He is an old-fashioned type liberal, one who knows arithmetic, and therefore does not take to the theory that debts and deficits are a blessing to the nation, As chairman of the advisory board for war mobilization and reconversion Mr. Gardner has intimate knowledge of the inflationary pressures which threaten our economic system. If more of his reconversion advice had been ~ taken, the administration wouldnt be in as much trouble as it is today. i With Secretary Vinson taking on new world-financing responsibilities, in connection with the Bretton Woods instiSutions, Ji. wil be good to have a man of Mr. Gardner's common inistrative capacity watchin the treasury department, y 8, ver

HERE COME THE BRIDES ELI , brides from England. Nice to have you. We like your sense of fitness—your singing “There'll Always

Be An England” as you sailed, then our national anthem

in sense. Well, come right in. People wi - a . ple with com love the Statue of Liberty you passed in the harThe cities with their towering masonry. The trails ; westward over gentle mountains to the midwest In t midwest you travel countless miles past big barns; past woods that dream in the pulse with the growth of food, ™eople barriers of the Rockies, where beauty to your throat. They .ove the ] forests in the north and #he' south, that incredible south he sea.

take money to enjoy a little of the world’s most popular pastime. wages and I really do not see why

we should be the goats for such a move,

Carnival —By Dick Turner

the, New York pier. Understand you girls are strong | .

men, you are welcome here; you |

rooms, etc, undoubtedly more is bet in handbooks than at tracks. Why don’t our ambitious politicians puf through legislation legalizing handbooks and thereby secure a revenue therefrom commensurate with that taxed from the tracks?

more of his hard-earned

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“WHAT ARE OTHERS DOING IN HELPING FEED WORLD?” By Cpl. James Smock, Indianapolis The other night over the radio

we heard about the new restrictions on food because the United States is sending great amounts to various parts of Europe and while we all agreed that we in this country are not starving, we were wondering just what other countries besides

the United States were doing to help. : Even in wartimes, while a great many of us were in Europe, we read of great quantities of meat and sugar unrationed in South America. We saw pictures of well stocked store counters and heavily laden tables in cafes of Brazil while at that time our own people were rationed heavily. Now the idea of this letter is this: What are the other countries, besides ourselves, doing to help? Why must it always be the people of the United States to be the Santa Clauses to the entire world? Or are we? I think a great many of us would like to know if, how, why not, or how much, are the other countries, not war torn, are doing to help out at this troublesome time. A series of articles in plain everyday language and figures would greatly help to clear our minds of the thoughts that our leaders are letting us be used for the grab bag of the world. If these thoughts are wrong, tell us; if they are right, tell us, so that we can do something about it. After all, the deepest wells sometimes run dry.

Editor's Note: Statistics showing what other countries are doing to help feed the world are not immediately available. The U. 8. is providing an estimated 75 cents out of every dollar spent by UNRRA, Argentina is not a member of UNRRA. So far as we know she is not helping the starving matiohs materially, nor does any other South American ecduniry make a heavy contribution. Ours must be considered as an investment to keep peace in a world in which many persons are starving as well as a humanitarian step. We are in a better position than mest, also, since the wheat crops outside the U. 8. and Canada are almost a total failure. So are the rice crops, and we again are called upon fo bolbr the world’s food supply. #" ” - “THOSE AT HOME SHOULD COME BEFORE BRITISH” nl orm Serviceman Reader, Indianap-

I was very much interested in reading about how nice Indianapolis is being to our very good allies, the British. I think it is nice to give them any surplus that may be obtainable, but I think it also isn't very American to see our wives and loved ones do without while someone has something great, by a gift to an outsider, when our folks are left out. There are several radio programs that are always giving away the things which are essential to the average American home, yet there are never any on the market for the average American worker, which represents a large group. It seems to me that they should show at least the same consideration to our American women, which are by far the best in the world, and give them a chance to have some of these lux~ uries which some of these business places seem to have for the purpose of publicity. No, I am not thinking of myself, as my family did without while I was away in the U. 8. marines for over three years, but I, as an Amerfcan citizen, think we should give at home first.

DAILY THOUGHT

Defile not therefors .the, land ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel. — Numbers 35:34.

I HOPE to find my country in the right; however, I will stand by

The British frankly regard our intelligence officers

REFLECTIONS . « » By Robert

NEW YORK, Feb. 21.—We are a people without much sense of humor. Our showoffs got that way because they didn’t have much:fun when they were kids. Some people are never satisfied with

anything, but on the whole, Americans are healthy, psychologically, and ‘it looks as if we might muddle through in pretty good shape. We know all about you, America, since a small chat with Dr. Alfred J. Marrow, field collaborator of the research center for group dynamics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Broken down into ‘words that even I can understand, this means that Dr. Marrow is a ‘psychiatrist who specializes in what's biting groups, rather than individual people. Dr, Marrow carries psychiatry right into his home. He says that when he gives a party, he always throws a couple of slugs of Southern Comfort at the guests, “Southern Comfort tastes innocent, but it's 100 proof,” he says. “Before the guests know it, their higher levels of sensitivity are broken down, inhibitions are gone away, and everybody is having a fine time.”

Want Center of Stage a,

. THE DOCTOR, a good-looking chap with a patrician nose and a mustache, has just returned from Hollywood, where he has been observing wild life with an interested, but not wholly professional, eye. The doctor intimated that a week is not long enough to psychoanalyze Hollywood. It is possibly a lifetime job for a stout yeoman with a strong stomach. Without directly quoting Dr. Marrow, whose scientific pronunciations are a little hard to corral with a blunt pencil on the back of an unpaid hotel bill, we gathered that the people of Hollywqod are that way because of what happened to them when they were little brats with ruriny noses, They were misunderstood. . ;

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—One of the influences hardest to combat in trying to stave off inflation is that of representatives of special groups, some selfannointed, some hired by the. year, who infest this city. Chester Bowles, new stabilization director, pointed out this danger when he said, after diagnosing the current speculative fever: \ “The lobbyists and profiteers are licking their chops. It §s going to take firm and decisive action. It is going to take teamwork and support on every hand if we are to hold this country on an even keel.” Mr. Bowles was speaking of the great rank and file, cataloged into groups because of how they make a living, but at the same time are deeply affected as citizens and consumers. He was warning against their professed and professional “leaders” as well as against themselves. He knows that the fight against inflation can only be won if people act for the welfare of all, subordinating individual and group interests. That is going to be hard. It is an occasion that easily could be exploited by representatives of special groups. :

Must Pay for Truce THERE 1S EVIDENCE now, as there has been in the past, that those we call lobbyists don't always represent the best instincts or best interests of their particular. groups. Sometimes some of them seem to be playing a game of their own, set off here far trom the folks for whom they profess to speak. Yet they swing their weight around here, for over their shoulders they carry the shadow of voles.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-Joseph E. Davies’ dic= tum upholding Russia’s right “to steal our military secrets,” as one cohgressman put it, fell on Wash« ington like an unexpected bucket of icewater, Many

agreed with Rep. Gwinn (R. N. Y.) that it wes a “shocking invitation to. espionage” which foreigners generally will not be slow to acoept. The Davies thesis that Russia has “every moral right to seek atom bomb secrets through military espionage if excluded from such information by her former allies,” it is pointed out, ‘has & corollary. That is if Russia possesses any such right, all of our allies have the same right. Furthermore, it they have a right to the atomic bomb they also have a right to the blueprints of any and all’ of our secret weapons. And, finally, if we fall to keep our allies posted on future improvements, we thereby become “by inference hostile.” Russia, it is remarked in congressional circles, has been and remains a closed book to all foreigners. She even refused to permit American or other allied officers to watch her military operations. American taxpayers spent billions of dollars for tanks, planes, trucks, guns and other war materiel for Russia, but when Washington ‘asked authorization for American officers to observe this equipment in action, Russia -turmed it down, .

Thinking Not Consistent IT WOULD HAVE SAVED many lives had Amerjoan experts been permitted to watch newly designed equipment under battle conditions. But Russia ree fused to trust us. Yet if Mr. Davies regarded this secrecy as “by inference hostile,” he is not on record as having said so. : Our former ambassador to Moscow, it is recalled,

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IN WASHINGTON . « « By Thomas L. Stokes id, Special Interests Are Inflation Ai

has long held Russia in high esteem for the manner gh - to Moscow” were his

Not Enough Experts . * IN THE Pacific-Asiatic theater,

business. f gathering intelligence, too . . . invitation » war to do so. President Truman

) indicated in his discussion of the new intelligence authority that existence of such an agency would have helped to avoid Pearl Harbor. It is“time we joined the ranks af countries which spend real effort and time on planned

gathering and development of intelligence in peace.

C. Ruark

Misunderstanding Root of It All

When a guy lets his hair grow, picks fights in nightclubs, stands on his head in public, or marries eight women, Dr. Marrow says that he is merely attracting attention to himself to make up for a lack of parental attention when he was a nipper. Children, says the doctor, have a rough time anyway. “They are confused by the law of gravity—by the fact that things fall down, instead of up,” he says, dpproximately. “They have a lot on their mind, but they can’t talk.. Adults are strange to them. Papa comes home sore from work and paddies junior, and junior doesn’t know why. If a kid doesn’t get attention, he will try to attract it when he grows up.

G. ls Lost Sense of Humor

DR. MARROW thinks that very few men have nerve enough to sock a dame in the nose because it's just a hangover from the old days when women were a tender commodity to be cherished. With her slack. pants and cigarets and jobs and the vote, maybe mama should be eligible for a poke in the snoot, and I gathered that Dr. Marrow was vaguely regretful that more mamas were not getting same. He says the average G. I. has misplaced his sense of humor, because of the regimentation of the war, but will regain it in a couple of years, when the sergeant's voice has become a memory, and a fellow no longer doubletalks when he sees stars on a fat man’s shoulders. He feels, too, that a great many people are unhappy because they are never satisfied with what they achieve, and continually lift their standard of achievement. The desire for recognition; apart from greed for money, might be a factor in strikes, he thinks. That's also why ham actors want to play Hamlet, and why stripteasers write books. = 4 Dr. Marrow did not expand the subject of whether stripteasers could read books, He wasn't in Hollywood that long.

The fight against inflation is made harder by elections staring every member of the house and a third of the senate in the face. It is a great temptation to play upon selfish interests for votes. The nation is at the éritical point where it can either stand hard to this line or go off into a dizzy chase, led by what Mr. Bowles called the “now I want mine boys,” each group demanding another chunk to get even with some other group.

Time for Individual ‘Thinking : FOR EXAMPLE, even before Mr. Bowles had a chance to explain the new wage-price program, Senator Bankhead (D. Ala) piped up to predict an organized movement to protect farmers from “the burdens” put upon them in higher prices for the things they have to buy. Could the senator have meant an organized movement by farm organization leaders, and not necessarily by farmers themselves? The farmer is 8. new t thrown into the picture. Mr. Bowles-talked to lslior over the heads of some leaders and warned that ® further increase over the new wage-price progimm’ “would make economic stabilization impossible’ He also paid his respects to business interests whicli want to take the lid off prices, with particular: Sektrenoe to the hierarchy embodied in the Natiohsl: Associgtion of Manufacturers. Pima Xn d This seems to ‘be & i for ‘farmer, worker and businessman to think for himself, and not let the professionals lead hin stray Into what might prove a bleak wilderness. ~~ ’ >"

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms Davies Ideas on Russia Are Muddled

applied to herself. In November, 1041, soon after the Nazis attacked Russia he says he fell to wondering why Russia hid no’ s. And so, he wrote

in the American Magazine, he began to dig back reports to When, said

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through- his Moscow diary and his, the state department to find the re he: Leg NN iy Ld . “Suddenly I saw the picture Pe fl should have seen it ‘at the time In‘ Rus of the world construed the famous. ot : ‘ purges from 1935 to 1938 to he of barbarism,’ ingratitude and hysteris; Bu’ i now appears that they indicated the amasing far«sightedness of Stalin and’ his close associates. vi

"Inferential" Hostility THUS THE SCORES ‘of old line Bolsheviks, mili~ tary leaders and industrial heads whom Stalin caused to be executed as traitors were gullty as’ Prosecutor Vishinsky charged, ‘Mr. Davies says. “In the light of present facts,” Mr. Davies concluded, “and after an examination of the record, there can be no doubt that these deféndants were, directly or indirectly, in the employ of the German and Japanese high command.” This thesis of Mr. Davies, therefore, would also . seem to have a corollary. And it is this: Any nation that wishes to safeguard its national security must have ithe “amazing far-sightedriess” of a Stalin to crack down without mercy on any espionage and treason—whoever commits it. Presumably the ‘Nazis believed Russia's failure to reveal the secret of her most potent weapons—as Mr. Davies seems to think the United States should | now do—was “by inference hostile.”. Therefore they d had “the moral right” to steal the secret for them selves. But Marshal Stalin dissented, and the “fare sighted” purges recounted by the author of “Mission answer, .

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