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a Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Woy INCREASE TEACHERS’ SALARIES FPHE Indiana State Teachers’ Association again js being ~~ % gorced to plead its own case in the cause of more adequate salaries for school teachers. This is a just cause, particularly in Indianapolis. : Acting on the theory that school leaders have the responsibility of informing business and industrial leaders ; farm and labor groups of matters concerning the future of the schools, the association calls attention to the “critical” shortage of teachers in Indiana. | "Only 1158 possible graduates from teacher training will be available this spring, according to the association, which ventures the estimate that 40% of these quite likely will be drawn into other occupations by more attractive conditions of employment. And one ‘of the most attractive conditions of any employment quite naturally is the compensation. Some 1615 teachers have indicated their intention to retire. Enrollment in the junior, sophomore and freshmen years of teacher training doesn’t offer much of a barYier, either, to a continued decrease in the number of available teachers. “ = A major teacher shortage within the next few years is predicted. Means of alleviating it include a better sysships that will make teacher training more attractive and, above all, higher pay. ° . The teachers’ state association says the median salary of Indiana teachers was $1791 last year, That's a mighty Small sum to live on, even if one disregards entirely the importance of the job done by the school teacher. ** If every Parent-Teacher group in the state really went ~ * to work on the mission of presenting the facts to those who make the decisions and who help to pay the costs, we feel Indiana's deplorably low salary scale would be corrected. Other organizations undoubtedly would join in the Ed for fairer treatment for this group, to whom the future of our children is entrusted. ;

JUVENILE CONDUCT

‘RE not talking about juvenile delinquency when we i label Prosecutor Sherwood Blue's .conduct-as juvenile in causing issuance of wholesale’ subpenas for the Indiana university professor who criticised him. for Jaxity in preparing cases against defendants charged with drunken driving and minor traffic accidents. : Dr. R. N. Harger, Indiana university medical school professor, traffic crusader and inventor of the drunkometer, has been annoyed with repeated subpenas requiring his _ presence in court as an expert witness. And merely becaues he dared criticise the prosecutor... 1 It is pertinent to observe that Judges Niblack and. Howard, of Municipal court, have said that they see no necessity for Dr. Harger’s appearance in court unless he is called as a material witness. ~~ That is hardly the mature approach to law enforcement one expects from the prosecuting attorney of In-

diana’s largest county.

KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY

THE UNITED STATES has shifted to a firmer foreign policy in the face of post-war world troubles. Secretary of State Byrnes, following similar blunt statements by Senator Vandenberg and John Foster Dulles on’ returning from the United Nations conference, has challenged Russian violations of the charter and of treaties. Congressional and public comment leaves no doubt that our . country favors this policy. ; But the charter cannot be.saved by words. It must be backed by adequate military force, as therein provided. We have promised to contribute our share of that force. At the present rate, however, there is serious question whether we shall have the troops to meet the rather large quotas which Russia is said to be planning. Meanwhile, our failure to replace with a post-war army and rapidly demobilizing veterans has weakened us in world councils, Bal: The America which applauded Secretary Byrnes’ vig-

licized statement in the same speech of the need of military

tem of guidance for graduating high school pupils, scholar-|

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IT'S OUR BUSINESS... . By Donald D. Hoover British Loan Part of Our War

IT'S OUR BUSINESS, because the future of the

United States is so-closely related to that reat Britain, to support the proposed $3% loan to the United Kingdom and the credit of ,000,000 to

enable her to pay us for leasé-lend stocks now on hand over there. 2 :

If the war was worth winning, it certainly is worth

that made Gen. Eisenhower's a winning team. Within | my experience, there was only one instance of lack |

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Effort

of co-operation . . . and that sprang from persons | ality antipathies that had nothing to ‘do with | nationality. - > ; : I have served under, with and over British officers, |

} and in both U. 8. and British headquarters . . . and adding that sum (even if we didn't get it back as we I have an unswervable conviction in British honor have every right to believe we will) to the $317 9-10 and integrity. In other words, there is no element billion we spent on materiel if, by so doing, England “of risk in making the loan. And for the sake of the will be preserved as a first-rate power and devastat- record, it should be pointed out that the British did ing economic rivalry can be avoided. By comparison pay on their debts of the last war until President with the total estimated cost of $1154 billion in dol- Hoover's moratorium. lars and ‘22,060,000 military and civilian deaths, for Won" ve . all powers, it really seems a small sum. : ‘Won't Make Living Easier So does the $2.5 billion which France is sending a MAKING THIS LOAN will not upset the economio mission fo the states to borrow, to be used for ma- Picture at all... at least that is what I'm told by a chinery, raw materials and foodstuffs. We are in the representative of the department of state, which position to be the world’s banker . . . and it is a part r80kly is campaigsing for it. But it will be a life of our responsibility to help our international friends Saver to the only other great power that really bee back on their feet when we can do so without danger !leves in democracy and on whose co-operation dee to our own economy. pends the winning of the peace.

y In some ways, Britain will be relegated to the status of a second-class power if we do not make the loan , . . which means in the last analysis that we are putting our best customer back on its feet. Without the loan, Britain not only would be unable to buy from us, but she also uld be forced to such strict measures to rehabilitate herself that world economy would suffer.

Eisenhower Example GEN. EISENHOWER sounded an injunction to

I have been in London and other parts of the | United Kingdom several times . , , during the buzz | bomb period, and when the first silent V-2 came | over, and the first night that street lights were turned | on in five years. I have seen the block after block of ruined buildings . . . the water reservoirs bravely | built in.the basements of blasted homes as protection | against fire. And the regimented utility homes and’| utility clothes , , . the paper shortage that forced | one to carry home the fish in his hands if he wanted | to buy fish . . . the signs “What Have You Salvaged |

Hoosier

"I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire.

Forum

By Mark Gross, Indianapelis

British “loan,” but seemed to agree

"Community Is Entitled to More Complete Data on British Loan"

The Times: dissented from Mrs, Mitchell's letter opposing the

“there should be no controversy whatever on the subject.” Those who believe in more controversy than much of. the press ‘tountenances these days might like your answers to these questions: 1. The Times has deplored the abnormal financial barriers to homes

“I KNOW ENGLAND NEEDS LOAN, HOPE SHE GETS IT” By James Grimes, Crawfordsville In reply to Mrs. Mitchell's sad story about the British loan, It seems to me that some people never look further ahead than. the end of their neses. I wonder if Mrs. Mitchell ever was in England or her Middle East possessions, I have my guess, and it's “no.” I'm a former G. I. Joe myself and on Aug. 28, 1942, I arrived in England. I lived and suffered with the

with her erroneous assertion that

his staff at allied force headquarters in the early Today” . . . and the closely-rationed foods, far bee days after liberation of North Africa that has always yond what was known in America. In France, too, I been in my mind when Anglo-American co-operation saw people living under difficulties wholly unfamiliar was discussed. to us. : : “In this allied headquarters,” he told his officers, This same sort of hardship will continue after “there is no such thing as a British officer or an the loan . . . we are not just- making living easier American officer. ‘You all are allied officers working for someone else. The proceeds of the loan will go for a common victory, and you are expected to work into factories and machinery and raw materials thag together.” : will help Britain become once more the country Now that may offend some of the super-national- which buys the most from the United States and ists . . . but ‘to everyone who heard him it made which provides the competitive balance needed for a sense, Because success could be attained only by uni- sound world economy. And the proceeds of the fication of purpose and effort. Despite the barrier of French loan, too, will be devoted to putting an hise a common language: which gave different meaning to torically friendly nation back on its feet. After all, the same words, there was that will to'co-operate we've already put $3.5 billion into UNRRA.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

World Peace Talks Urgently Needed

WASHINGTON, March 5—A new Big Three—or Big Five—meeting at an early date, a growing number of United Nations are saying, is imperative if further serious deterioration in relations among the great powers is to be prevented. Until récently, the little nations have not liked the way the big powers have met and arranged things. Most of the agreements have been at their expense. But speeches by Secretary of State Byrnes and Senator Vandenberg last week lead them to believe that at least an interim solution of major post-war problems might now be possible. By “interim solution” they mean an agreement to leave things more or less in status quo pending final peace-table - settlements. It is already clear, they point out, that a world peace conference is a long way off. Even the “little conference,” dealing with Italy, Finland, Romania, Hungary and Bulg

act to bring about a general peace settlement. There can not possibly be real recovery in any country until world peace is assured for at least a reasonable time, And the Russian masses, if only they could make their voices heard, are just as war-weary as anybody else. A prompt understanding among the great powers is all the more imperative because famine. is just ahead for a large part of the world. In Europe and Asia hundreds of millions face starvation and tens of thousands or even millions will die of hunger or pestilence unless aid reaches them before summer, ‘-

Allies Not Co-Operating THIS COUNTRY is doing its utmost. Herbert Hoover and other leading Americans are working with President Truman. American taxpayers have already contributed $3.5 billions to UNRRA, and a nation wide drive is now on to eat less and send more to

for G. Is. Does The Times believe them as worthy as the British Empire of U. 8. government loans at less than 2 per cent interest, after

_orous speech on foreign policy should note his less pub- |

2. Does The Times deny that these are the terms of the British “loan”?

3. Did The Times mean to camouflage that fact by asserting “England's credit is believed by the (government to be o. k."? Does it deny irrelevance of the. credit concept in a contract whose terms permit cancellation? Does The Times think our government a better authority on British credit than those Britishers who object to the “loan” because they feel it can't be repaid?

4. In noting that Britain “did make payments on her loan of world war I until President Hoover's declaration of a debt moratorium,” did The Times want Mrs. Mitchell to believe the payments had been in the full scheduled amounts, or that the moratorium was more than a postponement which certainly did | not cancel the obligation,

5. Does The Times deny that much world trade is of far less benefit to American and world consumers than to the handful of president-makers who profit from import-export fees, curren¢y conversions and other techniques of financing world trade?

6. Does The Times think world trade as vital to the United States as to Britain?

7. Does The Times believe the! vast chemurgic research which has taught all nations to make more and more finished goods out of their raw- materials (including air, water, soil and weeds) indicates that world trade is growing more vital, or less vital?

five years at no interest, with the privilege of they can prove they can't afford to? .

paying \pack nothing if

Editor's Note: Since it would require the entire Forum for several days to answer your questions in detail, we'll have to give the following somewhat terse replies: (1) We do not believe there is any relation between the British loan and G. I. credit; (2) No; (3) No. No. Yes; (4) No, the moratorium did not cancel the eobligation; (5) Yes; (6) Yes; (7) Present status of chemurgic development hasn't changed the world picture greatly, and we feel world trade is growing more vital; (8) Local newspapers have carried articles on the question, with increased coverage as the hearings are held this week in congress. The Forum is a column of discussion, not questions and answers. We will be glad to print a statement of your position, but cannot use a lengthy essay,

“MANY FOREIGN BRIDES MARRY TO LIVE IN U. 8.” By Ex-G. I. Jane, Indianapolis

English people until Aug. 28, 1944, and I know those people as well if not better than I know our own

people, They're all right and my money is on them in any race for

reconstruction, education, importation, exportation, friendship and comradeship, and ‘everything else to get them back on their feet as next to America, a powerful peacetime nation, ‘ust as Britain was and always will be a powerful warring nation. I'd like to show Mrs. Mitchell the sights of England's towns and cities, London's blitz, Manchester's and Birmingham's ruins. The housewifes’ rations, children starved for better education, chewing ‘gum, candy, toys and ‘even clothes that were worn for over three or even six years. England went all out for the war effort (and her part of the war started in Sept. 1939) and with so few against the greatest of odds, thank God she held out. Now peace has come and America

bitty self, Mrs. Mitchell, Nor is our peace as hard as the peace going on in land, Over there I couldn't

In reply to an ex-G. I's letter) (who, incidentally, did not sign] his name) in regards to foreign brides. I sincerely believe any G.| I. who married one should be made | to live over there with them. | Don't be flattered, boys, the ma-

jority of them would marry any of|in

you for a chance to live in our good | Mitchell, it's a duty and we must| last August.

Most I have seen | to the

old U. 8. A are -not. equal

average | “American Miss” and certainly we |

buy all this much sugar, milk, but ter and for God's sake not the clothes I can buy here. Money and imports are ‘their two greatest chances of surviving

scheduled to be held at Paris on May 1, is almost certain to be postponed until June 1 or maybe longer.

the stricken areas. But these humanitarian efforts, like those of a

When peace treaties with .Germany and Japan will

didn't win the peace all by her itty-|"

be signed no one in authority has even risked a guess.

Prompt Understanding Is Vital INTERNATIONAL FRICTION is growing with each passing day. There are danger spots all over the map—in eastern, central and western Europe, the

Balkans, the basin of the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Far East. ever was under any of her czars, Soviet Russia is expanding steadily and systematically, making one

More imperialist than she

unilateral decision after another without regard either for weaker nations or her allies. The time has come, therefore, according to United Nations observers, to call a halt in the present dangerous policy of drift and appeasement! There are cataracts ahead. The Big Five should ‘arrange to forego any further fishing in troubled waters, then

political nature, are handicapped by a lack of unders standing among the allies. Take Austria, for example, Instead of being given her independence as promised in Moscow in 1943, this first of Hitler's victims is still occupied like an enemy country. For months, Russia has blocked action simply by refusing to discuss the subject. - ) Meanwhile, a Red army several times larger than the British, French and American forces combined,

‘is living off the country. This means, in effect, that

allied ‘relief—75- per cent of which is American—goes to feed a huge Russian force occupying a .country which should/be free. in : What is urgehtly needed, say many United Nations | leaders, is a world peace conference designed to let the earth's two billion inhabitants go back to work and quit lying awake nights worrying about “the next war.”

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes Sharing Will Create Understanding

WASHINGTON, March 5.—The voluntary food &nservation campaign to help feed Europe, which President Truman has entrusted to the leadership of

Herbert Hoover, can do something for us and the rest of the world beyond its immediate essential aim,

| if we so will it.

This can be simply stated by saying that sharing

with others helps to create sympathy and understand-

ing. And at no fime since the war ended has there

the greatest destruction ever| been such. a need of this all over the world. For

make that obligation as quickly as | possible. The American government will

wrought Ipon 056 Erighsh oi swashbuckling nationalism is rampant in a way that Eg Yeopies, not charity, Mrs.| oo could even imagine when the guns ceased firing

The spirit with which Americans undertake the saving of food is what will count and can count.

upstairs and tell them to make themselves at home and get into these clothes. And you may be sure, too, that she would fix up something extra for dinner. Everybody around that ‘table would quickly be friends. : A

Plain People Don't Want Wars AND YOU CAN be sure also that none of these imaginary people who have come into our homes, ‘no matter from what country, has any more desire than any of us ever to go to war against anybody. - They would shudder to think that the little ones about the table, when they grow up, would have to go to war, These are not the people who start wars. They are started by the deification and glorificas tion of a nation as an entity sepgrate fromthe indie vidual peoples who make it up. The nation becomes

There is, of course, no question that we can save a great amount of food. It is plain to anybody who sits down at a time—at home, in restaurants, in hotels —that there is shameful wastage. Nor is there any

a. person and a symbol unto itself, a sort of godhead, with its own peculiar attributes. It becomes an ob= ject of self-worship.

bestow it on some “war orphaned” child or children here in the U. 8. Incidentally, I have two years service to my credit, a son and a

8 Does The Times believe this

Strength, and Secretary Patterson's warning at the same meeting. The secretary of war said the surest way of kéeping out of war was to adopt these basic features of military poliey: (1) A single unified defense department; 2) Universal military training on a civilian basis; (3) gram

An adequate national guard, and (4) a sustained pro

of scientific research and development. : While other world powers are keeping their powder dry, we must do the same. That is essential to save the United Nations, and for our own security,

R SERVICE FOR VETERANS THE PLAN announced by Gen. Omar Bradley for the Veterans Administrat 2 like a move for more efficient and more effective service, __.. One of the principal obstacles to proper veterans service in Indianapolis has been the fact that the offices and agencies serving them were scattered all over town, with e or no contact with each other. The veteran, as Victor revealed in a recent Times series, has been shunted office to office and from agency to agency, until too L he gave up the whole thing in disgust. » Efforts to establish a “one-stop” service center for vet‘by the non-governmental agencies—of which there e nearly a score in operation—have been blocked by the

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needs—and still does not have—one

[an Indianapolis buildifig to house all the | ] offices here under one roof, sounds |

and self-interest of some of the agencies conSefer himself has paid for that “dog |

“loan” than it has had to date?

| Coalon of the proposed British | |

h when | wa

Carnival —By Dick Turner

s a schoolboy a LL my seat!’

100 per cent American “husband, so

community entitled to more detailed | vou see it isn’t jealousy.” ! and comprehensive ‘editorial dis-| Apparently you men don't think|nation such as England is good.

{ much of “the foreign men. How

about it, gals?

nd someone put a‘tack on

| u u ” | “PROHIBITION RESULTS {IN MORE DRUNKENNESS” By Walter L. Hess, 2544 N. Delaware st.

I am glad to see Rev. Charles O,!

|Carnes’ answets in the. Hoosier] | Forum, even if he doesn't agree en-| tirely with me that only the strict-| |est law enforcement can cut down | {the .rate on accidents caused hy {drunken drivers. , Positively 1 would not be afraid to be called a prohibitionist, when |T only would. see any solution in | prohibition. In my opinion, liquor |traffic never can be destroyed by prohibition. Just the passing of any prohibi[tion law would start the worst rush] {of liquor manufacturing in basements, hidden places in town and » On country. roads, liquor composed | of ingredients much more worse.and | {stronger as anything put th legal |liquor. Ome bootlegging place would fight the other to the bitter and {bloody end,, people” would kill each

| to help.

other to get illegal liquor, and {drunken driving would not be {stopped at all. The period of pro{hibition in the past is proof fdr my { opinion. | My definite stand in this question

|is: Only the strictest law enforce-| ment can ‘cut down the rate on ac-|

| eldents caused by drunken drivers— and drunken pedestrians. too,

DAILY THOUGHT For the.law made; nothing per fect, but -the brifiging in of a better hope did; by ‘the which we draw night unto God.—Hebrews 1:19, Sd

“

i OUR human laws are -but the copies, mole. or less imperfect, of the eterni? laws, so far as we can read them.-~Froude, ;

question of the willmgness of the American people

Atound the Dinner Table

BUT OUT OF IT all can come more than that. This might be illustrated by imagining that these

hungry people came in and sat down with us, in our

homes, and shared the food that goes to waste. Their present desperate plight would touch us to the heart if they walked into our homes. You may be sure t.at, after just one look mother wuld hurry off to get together that dress that she needs no longer, that old suit of father's, the jacket and trousers that brother has outgrown, adress that sister. no longer wears. She would herd these people

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By Randolph Churchil

. Its agents are leaders who somehow merge thems selves into its identity and operate on a sphere all their own. “They play a game of their own, forgetful of the people below. Nationalism seems to be spring« ing up again,” all over the world, There is a lot of throwing out of chests. The big powers are indulging in the plain /people all over the ‘world? thinking 6f them, as individuals? # Perhaps the “moral leadership” boasted can be restored somewhat if, as we share our food ‘with others, we think of ourselves sitting about a table together, just human beings. The swash« hucklers preening themselves in the streets do not really represent them, nor us.

it. But what about Is. anybody

of which we

Britain Utilizes Their Career Diplomats

WASHINGTON, March 5.—When Lord Halifax is replaced by Sir Archibald Clark Kerr as British ambassador in Washington, the post of ambassador in Paris will be the only one in Great Britain's foreign service not held by a professional diplomat. It is true

[that .Alfred Duff Cooper, who has held the Paris post

since the liberation of France, started as a professional diplomat, but his appointment to France was essentially a political one. Forces are now at work to remove Duff Cooper from the Paris embassy. Part of this agitation comes from extreme Socialist members of ‘parliament, ‘such as Konni zilfacus, who would like to see Duff Cooper removed merely because he is a conservative. Other forces working against him are those inside the foreign office who, while they do not object to the Paris post being held by a conservative, think a professional diplomat should have, the job, .

Empire's Long-Distance Interests : THEY WERE delighted when Sir Reginald Leeper, whom, grotesquely enough, they regard asa fascist, was removed as ambassador to Greece but they were horrified when he was assigned to Argentina. Appoint‘ment of -Sir Alexander Cadogan, permanent undersecretary in the foreign office, to be Britain's permanent representative in United Nations Organization

also aroused their ire. And they were even more dis-

pleased when Cadogan’s job in the foreign office was taken over by Sir Orme Sargent. : Sargent, a diplomat of the old sghool; undoubtedly Js somewhat old-fashioned in his-outlook.

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FLpases

' to have ’ consultations with near

agitation. Knowing full well that loyal service from

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The left-wing desire to see Britain represented abroad by Socialists is based on the naive, untutored view that there should be no éontiruity in foreign policy. These Socialists would like to implement what they describe as a “progressive” foreign policy, based essentially on cooperation with other like-minded ; countries. What these political babes in the wood fail to realize is that the permanent long-term interests of the British empire do not change ftom day to day but require essentially the same policy for defense, whatever government may be in power.

Foreign Service Rates High FOREIGN SECRETARY Ernest Bevin, to his credit, realizes this, He knows there is no_short-cut to the establishment of world peace—that it is a cause which must be worked for over many long months, and years. Bevin ou Tow peers 0 ip 7 an foreign office for seven months a representatives abroad. Almost without exception, he ‘has been satisfied with their capabilities and is cone vinced they are loyally carrying out his policy. Therefore he is turning a deaf ear to ex 4 mist

subordinates can be obtained only by similar loyalty

the unity and traditions of wma service -which, whatever its faults in the eyes of Zillincus, is regarded by nearly all foreigners as being unsurpassed in the : : el

world,