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‘NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY! The employees of restaurants shouldn't tell fibs about butter—and then get caught! A customer in an eatery on N. Pennsylvania st. queried the waitress when the buttered toast she had ordered came up minus butter, The waitress crisply informed the customer that they were out of butter. And she also declined to subtract

“It from the check when the woman protested that

she'd ordered “buttered” toast. The climax came when a male employee entered, unwittingly opened the ice box door directly in front of the irate customer, and let her have a view of a top shelf piled with quarter pounds of that precious dairy product. It ended with the customer paying for the uneaten toast and departing. . .. The telephone directory at first looks as if a man whose name ends in “O” is listed in the ‘“I’s.” It turns out that Earl C. Townsend Jr. local attorney, in some way lost the first Hence he’s still in the “T” section but his name comes out “ownsend, Earl C. Jr.” « « «+ Fickle fame. We note that I. U's recently returned basketball coach has a series of speaking engagements in Indiana. Some of the towns that will hear the coach, Branch McCracken, are Indianapolis, Columbus, New Albany, Kendallville, La Porte, Dunkirk, Ellettsville, Washington, Nappanee, Kokomo, and Shelbyville. One of the towns that was missed, ironically enough, is Anderson, home of the '46 basketball champs.

Something to Think About WATCH THAT last step! That's the thought that popped into our mind when we gazed up at the scaffolding on the top of the Peoples Outfitting Co., 145 W. Washington st. A ladder of about 10 rungs hangs down from a scaffold. And there's about a tenstory drop between the last rung and the street. . There ain't nothing sacred. Mrs. Caroline Junemann, 1808 Singleton ave., policewoman in the juvenile aid office, returned to work after a two weeks’ ‘absence because of illness—and discovered someone had stolen her handcuffs during her absence. ... Some of the people attending the concert Sunday wondered about the identity of the tenor, second man in the last row. The unknown singer had a big voice and was practically leading the rest of the group. . The army has robbed our town of one of its favorite piano men. Ray Hildebrand, a warrant officer formerly with Shep Fields’ band and now an occasional entertainer at the Liberty Bell cafe, has decided to give up his music to enter an officers’ candidate school at Pt. Harrison. . . . Kites aren't the only things up in the air these spring days. Some gas model plane enthusiasts, at least a half-doZen of them, had models flying out. around Butler university Sunday. They're probably boning up for the annual contest.

Inside Indianapolis

.One Needs Wings

“Going down!” . .,. That last step is a big one.

Homeless Pooches

EDGEWOOD residents also are up in the air, although that's only figuratively, Some people moved out of a house at Summit and Dudley sts. (Don't drop the paper and run, the house has been reoccupied), and they left behind a mother dog and seven puppies. The dogs are orphans now and they just wander the neighborhood. But what stumps the people in the neighborhood is that the dog pound can't come pick them up, because they have “no gas.” The answer is that the pound has spent its gas fund and is left helpless until they get a new appropriation,” Mrs. Leona Frankfort, superintendent of the dog pound explains. They've now decided to use .a small emergency fund to feed the dogs and buy some gas, but as soon as that's exhausted the pound will be as powerless as it has been the past week. .. Frank Stumpf, 3225 S. Meridian st., comes back from a week-end at Shafer lake with reports of seeing another fisherman catch 10 good-sized bass from a roadside spot, using worms as bait, Fisherman Stumpf’s catch consisted of three crappies.

Formosa Scandal By William H. Newton

TAKAO, Formosa, March 26.—American military officials here have protested against confiscation of private property of Formosans, open robbery and looting by Chinese military forces. But their ‘protests largely have been ignored or rebuffed by the Chinese occupation authorities. A Chinese air force colonel commented that the protesting Americans “should be driven off the island with bayonets.” Without exception the Americans on the island are disgusted with the widespread graft being practiced by some of the Chinese occupation officials. Although American foreign policy calls for repatriation of the Japs in Formosa, Chinese occupation officials are planning to keep 100,000 Japs on the island on the threadbare excuse that they are “tech ricians.” The real reason is that they will provide slave labor. The Chinese admit they have no intention of paying them wages. America is providing ships to transport Jap soldiers.and civilians back to Japan. But here is what is happening:

Compelled to Pay Graft

JAP FAMILIES moving toward cities in compliance with the repatriation order are compelled to pay graft at almost every turn of the road. Chinese government truck drivers force them to pay fantastic fares before they will permit them to board the government trucks for the ride to the ports. A whole trainload of Jap civilians destined for repatriation from Kiirun was halted milrs from the docks and the Japs forced to hire horse-drawn carts at enormous sums to complete the journey. Here in Takao the entire community of Jap civilians has been assessed five million ven for a fund “to pay for damage caused by American bombing, since

I WISH THAT every member of congress would read “One World or None,” a study of the atomic bomb by a distinguished group of scientists and other authorities. I hope that many citizens will read

it also. The thesis of the book is to be found in its title. There will be either a world united in peace or there will be no world at all I hope that the reader will not think me overly vain if I remark that the book is a documentation of those things which 1 have been saying in this column ever since the first bomb was dropped on Aug. 6. I have said that the world has reached the point where it can no longer afford the luxury of war, that a war fought with atomic bombs would destroy civilization, that there is no defense against the atomic bomb, and finally that there is no basic secret

~to keep other nations from independently developing

bombs of their own. Finally, I have said that the discovery of atomic energy is the most important achievement since the discovery of the use of fire and that in the peaceful development of atomic energy lies the possibility of the most amazing advances of civilization ever

dreamed of.

Battle Goes On

YOU WILL find these beliefs documented in “One World or None” by Dr. Albert Einstein, Dr. Arthur H, Compton, Dr. Irving Languir, Dr. Harlow Shapley, Dr. J. R. Oppenheimer, and others. The book is particularly valuable in the light of the battle in congress against the McMahon bill for the control of atomic energy. _Although President. Truman has declared himself in’ favor of the bill's provisions and has stated his view that control of atomic energy should be exclu-

My Day

LOS ANGELES (Monday).—I cannot help being amused by the excitement over Secretary of Commerce Wallace's speech at the Jackson day dinner, I may be wrong but it seems to me that the doctrine he is preaching has always been accepted by any: member of any political party who held office. How could there be any effective party organization if those holding office did not subscribe to certain principles and to a party platform which has to be implemented by the passage of certain bills in

‘ order to carry out'the program?

This does not mean that anyone becorfies a slave: It simply means that, when you play on a team, you accept certain things as a member of that team. If

_certain objectives have been decided upon, you take

direction to achieve them. If you don’t want to be on a team, but want to play a lone hand, then you must run for office as an independent and must accept the fact that, as an independent, you will have no organized support. If

“svery member of & team insisted on his right to play

the game in his own particular way, the chances are that the game would be lost.

| Team Play Doctrine Not Old

BUT, OF COURSE, if you find at any time that the team you have chosen to play with is no longer to your liking, you can always resign. I don’t think Mr. Wallace meant anything differ-

ent from this, and surely this is no new doctrine t i . :

it imposes a special penalty on a few rather than on the entire nation.” Jap self-government officials were told to collect the money. They collected a million yen and then refused to have anything further to .do with the project. So Chinese occupation officials took it over —and as a means of forcing the Japs to pay they threatened to hold up their repatriation by American ships. A municipal official told me that the money has been sent to Chungking.

Seize Personal Property

AT TAICHU Chinese authorities ordered Japs who within a few weeks were scheduled to be repatriated by Americans to assemble in a public park to “practice” the processing. While they were at the park, Chinese officials entered their homes and seized personal belongings. This occurred on Feb. 28 and is traceable to the San Min Chu youth corps, to local officials of the Kuomintang party and to the Chinese ministry of agriculture and forestry. No one knows the value, as reparations, of Jap properties thus seized and that taken in many similar occurrences throughout the island. The Jap government probably will claim—and legal authorities say it has the right to do so—that millions of dollars worth of private property thus taken over by the Chinese should be considered as part of Jap reparations payments. Fewer than 65 officers and men remain here and a “third of these are scheduled to return to the United States within the next few weeks. Head of the American mission is Col. Loren Pegg, graduate of West Point and a competent, hard-working officer.

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By David Dietz

sively in civilian hands, the battle against the bill goes on. In part it takes the form of an attack on the scientists who made the bomb. It is said that these men were great authorities on making a bomb but that otherwise their opinions are not worth listening to.

Discount Efficiency

SUGGESTIONS are dropped that many of the scientists are “reds”, that they want to give the secret of the bomb’s construction to Russia—something which no scientist proposes—and that they are generally visionary. Another line of attack is to discount the efficiency of the bomb after the fashion of Maj. De Seversky. Oh yes, the bomb blew over the huts of Hiroshima but what would it do against buildings of steel and concrete? For an answer to this last question I recommend the reading of the first chapter of “One World or None,” written by Prof. Philip Morrison of Cornell university, one of the Los Alamos scientists, who went to Hiroshima to investigate the effects of the bomb for the war department. In it he tells you what might happen in New York City if an atomic bomb dropped on -it. Yes, many of the buildings of steel and concrete would remain standing. But all the people in them would be killed by the heat, the blast, or the outpouring of | lethal radiations. Incidentally for graphic description, this chapter is one of the most exciting documents I have ever read. The rest of the book will convince you that the | scientists are neither ‘reds nor visionaries,” but hard-headed thinkers who are trying to save the world from destruction. “One World or None” is published by Whittlesey House. in paper covers at $1.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

It is a very old one—one to which almost all po-| litical leaders have always subscribed. Yesterday afternoon, I drove out to the Junior | Auxiliary Jewish Home for the Aged. This home is | for both men and women. They have a small hos- | pital, a very charming dining room and auditorium, a small synagogue, and pleasant living quarters,

Gift Has Sentimental Value

THE OLD Jewish people there seem to spend most | of their time in prayer. So it was fitting that they chould hold their short but moving ceremonies of welcome to me «in their synagogue. In these ceremonies, they remembered my husband as their friend and presented me with a gift which will always have value because of the sentiment attached to it. I could not help. being thankful that, in this country, these old people could find a sanctuary in their declining ‘years. A happy contrast to the sad old people that I saw in a Jewish refugee camp in Germany. Later in the afternoon, I saw Dr. Temple, who told me something ‘of the successful program of the Los Angeles Health association. They are hoping that the methods that have been so successful here may spread to other cities. They have inaugurated a “prevention of Disease Week,” and they have made the fight against disease on the basis that it knows nd racial or religious barriers ‘and therefore must be fought by all the people of the community on equal terms,

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SECOND SECTION

THE STORY SO FAR MONA SHANE, at her mother’s insistence, acodpts an invitation te RUSSEL BRETHERTON'S dinner party where she meets JAY CAMERON. The Shanes are at their Carmel beach cot-* tage—where Mona's father, PATRICK, really enjoys himself. He has invited MIKE O'BRIEN to breakfast the next morning.

CHAPTER TWO ALL the men but Jay Cameron had brought their wives. " Most of them had been hunting together a few weeks previously, and Mona was forced to hear the tiresome details which ordinarily would have bored her. Tonight she was grateful for the completely masculine conversation that "left her {free to pursue her own thoughts. The girl, a good many years younger than the other women, toyed through the various courses, leaving the wine in her glass untouched.

Mona had been in Russel’s house

.| before, but tonight it seemed dif-

ferent. There was something new and exciting about the comfortably furnished rooms; the half circle of dogs dozing before the fire; even the wrinkled, impassive countenance of Wong in his starched, white coat. Why was this? How could the presence of one man, a stranger to her only a few hours earlier, lift the familiar setting into the dramatic background of a dream? » » ” SHE suspected that Jay felt it, too. Although he was seated at the opposite end of the table near the middle-aged wife of an office executive; although he joined in the laughter and conversation, his eyes sought Mona's with understanding and promise. She had an opportunity now to observe him, and his features were not strange to her. The smooth, dark hair, the dark eyes, the wellshaped nose, the lips full, sweet and generous, - proclaimed him the man for whom she had been waiting. Now she knew why the admiration and flattery of boys her own age had never moved her. Why she had been able to laugh at

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BERLIN, March 26.—

integrated agriculture.

vita] supplies. The Russian zone and lands ceded to Poland produced 55 per cent of Germany's bread grains, Add the fact that with peak production Germany was only 85 per cent selfsufficient in food, and the American zone only 75 per cent self-sufficient. » s ” THEN CONSIDER that the prewar population of the American zone has been increased from 10 million to 17 million, with an anticipated influx of an additional 21; million Germans from Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and it is

have by the tail The situation is even more aggravated in the highly industrialized British zone, for the American zone does have a well-organized

easy to see the kind of bear we)

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TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1946

STARTING A THRILLING NEW TIMES SERIAL—

MAYBE IT'S LOVE .

Jay stopped beside Mona to say, “Russel tells me you are spend-

ing the week-end in Carmel. home.” The words were pleasantly

I should like very much to take you

impersonal, but there was nothing

impersonal about his eyes, which gazed at her with a sort of

mocking, secret tenderness.

their advances and turn their attempts at romance into friendship. »” ” » SHE DID not want to be friends with Jay Cameron. She wanted to talk to him; yes, with an Intimacy she had never experienced before, she felt she could tell him anything. She could listen to anything he said without being bored. She would like to know everything about him. All the little things ordinarily unimportant. Such as where he had gone to school, whether he had played “football, the kind of books he liked, his favorite colors. Suddenly she realized that Ruse sel was addressing her. “What's the matter with you, Mona? You aren't eating anything.” “Oh, yes, I am,” she began, but before she could finish her sentence Wong had approached his employer's chair. “Telephone,” he announced la,conically. ” » s MONA had not heard it ring, but she listened idly as Russel answered. His hearty “hello” boomed above the chatter of his guests but his voice was immediately

two Articles)

By PARKER LA MOORE Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

When Germany was cut up into four arbi-! trary, and in some respects rival, military zones the powers overlooked tne all-important fact they were dealing with a country with a highly

Each area was dependent on one or more other areas for certain

dairy industry that the British zone lacks. Less is known of the situation in the French zone, but reports aren't good.

moved in and began living off the country — which our occupation forces never did. Besides that, the French have shipped foodstuffs and livestock from their zone back to the homeland. The French zone ration is well below American and British levels, and lately the French have been crying for us to give them grain. - IN THE prewar period the Russian zone and the Polish strip shipped 400,000 tons of grain, sugar

Like the Russians the French |

lowered into cautious monosyllables... “Yes? Why? No! No, I tell you. It will be impossible. I have guests for dinner. What do you mean by that? Okay,” he added. “But it will be plenty iate.” He was angry, but he had agreed to whatever the unseen voice demanded. Mona was amused. Could it be that the mighty hunter, the hearty sportsman, who boasted that his favorite companions were dogs and horses, also had his lighter moments? Was it a woman who insisted upon seeing him in spite of the fact that he was giving a dinner party? She felt sorry for him When he returned to the table. That he was both annoyed and disturbed was obvious. » ” o HE SAID to her in a discreetly lowered voice, “Will you mind very much if I send you home with someone else? I've a . . . a business deal coming up Monday and my lawyer insists he has to see me tonight.” It was not easy for him to le. The effort to do so stained his rugged features a deeper red, but Mona accepted the explanation gracefully. “Of course I don't mind, Russel.

ALLIES’ ZONE SYSTEM DISRUPTING AGRICULTURE—

Changes Needed Or Germans Will Starve

what is now the American zone | and the Ruhr. Nothing comes out {now and unless the defficiency can be supplied the answer is eventual |starvation. Scientific seed production was far advanced in Germany. Seeds for crops particularly adaptable to various sections of the country were being produced and distributed annually. Most of these seed farms are located in what is now the Russian {zone. Unless this pipeline can be reopened deterioration of crops is inevitable.

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” PRODUCTION will drop this fertilizer. [Every foot of suitable land will be in production, say officials charged with agricultural supervision in the American zone.

from what was observed in the writer's crisscross tour through the zone.

year in any event, due to lack of |

This would appear to be true

But there is available only 35 per

Only I shouldn't like to take any of them out of their way. Aren't most of these people from San Francisco?” “Yes, but some of them are stayIng all night. Others are spending the week-end in Carmel.’ I can get you a ride with someone.” . w w

MONA’S heart was fluttering with the hope that Jay Cameron would be the one chosen; that at least he would be in the same car. Fate was with her for later as they sat about the fire, Jay stopped beside her chair to say: “Russel tells me you are spending the week-end in Carmel. I have reservations at a hotel there and should like very much to take you home since Bretherton has to go to the city.” The words were pleasantly impersonal, but there was nothing impersonal about his eyes which gazed at her with a sort of mocking, secret tenderness. His eyelashes were thick and curly. She had never seen such eyelashes, , , . “He's beautiful,” she thought, confused and bewildered by a surge of emotion which made her conscious of every move he made. His brown, shapely hand upon thé arm of her chair: His careless grace as he sauntered away. » » ~

“HE KNOWS how I feel” she told herself. “And he wants to be with me, too.” What a break. What a perfectly marvelous break to ride together through the fog-drenched darkness of the valley. And because she was so grateful, Mona was sweeter to Russel Bretherton than she had ever been before. But as she put her hand in his to say goodnight, she saw the old Chinese servant standing in the doorway of the kitchen watching them with such a malignant expression in his beady eyes that she was startled. She had known Wong long before he came to work for Russel. He had cooked for a friend's mother in San Francisco. And he had been invariably patient and kind even when the little girls, led by Mona, had mixed mud pies in his spotless kitchen. LJ ” . WHY DID he stare at his present employer with such undisguised dislike? Or was it because he did not approve of Mona's being sent home with another man? Whatever it was didn't really matter, Mona thought, accompanying Jay to his car. Just the same she was surprised to see old Wong looking like that,

(To Be Continued)

I UAW Soon Will By Vida Hurst

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Get Around to . “pe : National Politics By FRED W. PERKINS ATLANTIC OITY, March 28-— National politics, in which the C. 0. 8 3 is being nege« lected in the big, uproarious hoard walk convention of the United Automobile Workers—but only tem« FOLLY: the r 2000 delegates get through with their fight, now ap proaching the climactic stage, over Walter Reuther's attempt to dis place R. J. Thomas as the union's president, they will resolve on national affairs, including President Truman. They will be cagy and questione ing on the Truman subject, They and other C.1.O. unions are not getting from him the kind of presi~

dential support to which they have been accustomed.

» » MR. THOMAS and other leaders have been saying publicly that Mr, - Truman didn’t follow through ef. fectively for them in the wage dise pute with General Motors. The stage of the convention is back-dropped with big pictures of political and union leaders. The place of honor is given to a crepe« draped picture of President Roose velt. Mr. Truman's picture also is there, with the same rating as Philip Murray, C. I. O. president. The present living political hero of the auto union, and most of the C. I. O. is Henry A. Wallace. His picture isn't up but his name may appear in the proceedings before they end. »

» » CLOSE TO the convention hall are exhibits of various C. I. O. sub= sidiaries. One of them represents its political action committee, Among the legislators there cone signed to defeat this year, by CO. I, O. calculations, is Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich.) Senator Vandenberg recently spoke in the senate on the theme, “What Is Russia Up to Now?" Yet the auto workers seem to be mad at Mr. Vandenberg more for his stand on domestic issues. All the ultra lefters seem to have concentrated on this convention, The outcome is clouded by Mr. Thomas’ claim that “the Socialists” are moving in to control his union, But he is being supported by the Communists. » » he. MR. THOMAS is an old-line labor leader. Mr, Reuther is more age gressive. Mr. Murray has given an indirect endorsement to Mr. Thomas, The opposing forces—quarreling over who won or lost the fight with General Motors—keep on fighting today. Both Messrs. Thomas and Reuther seem likely to be re-elected to their

and other foodstuffs monthly to, cent of the fertilizer needed for |

potato planting. Ample potash and | nitrogen are expected for next year but the phosphate outlook depends

dustry. » » » MILK returns are at 85 per cent level but further progress is hampered by lack of milk cans which are manufactured in the British zone. The British and Americans are operating a joint fishing fleet but have no refrigeration cars for distribution on fresh fish. No barrels| can be made because wood for staves is found only in the Russian zone. Cheese made here is spoiling because tinfoil in which it must be wrapped is made only in the French and British zones. At the moment the crying need in Germany is fats. The number of hogs in the American zone has been reduced 50 per cent during the war and a further decline is inevitable if the grain supply is not stepped up.

{By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D,,

MOTHERS who thought

edies again, as colds can develop at any time of the year, from the | poles to to the equator.

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drop in outside temperature. Ordinary fluctuations in temperature do not seem to have any effect on colds, but changeable weather al-| ways brings out more of them. Colds, as the name

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Spring Colds Are Among Worst.

March Is the "Pneumonia Month”|

| CERTAIN respiratory infections

they | of the upper respiratory passages are more sérious in the spring, and | had seen the last running nose this spread from the sick to the well, March has always been known as | year have had to get out the rem-|and it is most prevalent following a|the “pneumonia month.”

This {more than coincidence, and until |seasonable weather develops certain | health precautions should be observed. Loss of sleep, fatigue, overwork,

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RADIO" EDUCATION LEADERS TO MEET

The Indiana Association for Education by Radio will present a round table discussion on sound | equipment at its meeting Thursday at 8 p. m, in the D. A. R. chapter house. L. C. Larson, consultant in audiovisual aids at Indiana university, | will lead the discussion. Members

indicates, | chilling of the body surface, and ex- lof the panel include Merrill Lind-

were once thought to be caused |cesses of all kinds may lead to low- ley, FM and television engineer of

by atmospheric changes, now know that they are due to a| |germ or virus, Those which develop in the spring and summer are among the most distressing, Stuffiness of the nose, sneezing, sore throat, and headache are the result of a virus cold, Usually there is no fever. Untreated, a cold lasts about a week. » » AFTER the virus old runs its

course, there is a tendency for the nose and throat to be infected by

fasts two or three weeks, arid the nose discharges thick, yellowish material, - This stage may be compli-

cated by sinusitis. The most common spring malady

ing, congestion, and watery discharge are also present in an aller glc nose, and there is great similarity between the effect of a common cold and an allergic reaction in the nose. “Rose cold,”

or ‘rose fever,” is

fever. Allergic reactions in the nose

‘Imay be present the year around,

and then the condition is confused with chronic colds or sinus infec

tions,

other germs. The second infection |

resembling a cold is allergy. 8well- |

the same condition which later on | in the summer is known as hay |

of the lungs by germs from the nose and throat, Even though th: weather is mild, it is advisable to go to bed with a cold in the spring, and to stay there until the acute infection has subsided. Modern methods of treating pneumonia are superior to those of the past, but prevention is still more important than cure. Spring hay fever may be the cause of your so-called cold, and if you suspect this to be the case, consult your physician for special tests and | treatment,

Dead Hero Aids Red Cross Fund

WASHINGTON, March 26 (U. P.).—An American army corporal at besieged Bastogne in Francé more than a year ago heard of a tornado in the area of his home. He sent to the national Red Cross headquarters here a $10 bill and a note: “Please use this $10 to help somebody hurt in that disaster. A tornado must be awful.” The letter arrived here yesterday. Across the sender's name on the envelope was stamped: “Deceased.”

but we ering of resistance and to invasion the William H. Block & Co. who

will speak on “FM in Indianapolis”; ‘and ‘Carroll Long, sound engineer, Van Sickle Supply Co. on “Sound Equipment for Schools.” C. E. ' Sunthimer, principal of School 20, will talk about “The P. A. System in an Elementary School”; and Gayle Wilson, University school, Bloomington, on “The Audio-Visual Program at University School.” A business meeting also will be held at which time the nominating committee will report. Dr. H. J. Skornia, radio director, Indiana university, is president of the association; Mary Jo Woods, central library, vice president; Mary Connor, Broad Ripple. high school, secretary, and Evelyn Sickles, centrail library, treasurer.

ROTARIANS NOMINATE NEW ALBANY MAN

FRENCH LICK, March 26 (U.P.). --Jesse A. Mischler, New Albany, was nominated for governor of the 156th district of Rotary Interna{tional at a district conference here | yesterday, Mr. Mischler won a close election from Dr, Andrew Speers, Brazil dentist, for nomination to the office

on what happens to the steel in- |

old jobs in the union, president and vice president, respectively,

We, the Wome

Why Should We | Dictate Morals to

Men Overseas?

By RUTH MILLETT THERE 18 a big hullabaloo now over the report that German girls are allowed to “live” with American army officers in their bachelor quarters at Frankfurt, To smooth over the situation, the army says it will probably investi gate the reports and tighten up on regulations. Isn't it about time the folks back home stopped trying to reform the morals of the men overseas? Actually, there is nothing the people here can do about the matter. ” » » NOTHING THAT civilian proe tests or resultant army “cracke downs” can do will in any way change the morals of the individual men abroad. That is something each man decides for himself; it is part of his own character. Sure, the army might be able to enforce a “no women in bachelor officers’ quarters” rule. But then the men who have been bringing German women inside will just meet them outside, so why the big uss here at home? The home folks are. completely helpless to affect the problem of morals overseas, so it is a waste of emotion and effort for them to get worked up over any reports of laxness, It is the kind of meddling that accomplishes nothing, except that it makes the wives of absent soldiers unsure and unhappy. » . ” IF AMERICA really wants to help the morals of men overseas, it had better ship over in a hurry the wives and flancees who are wanted over there. : Talk and criticism and insistence on army investigations don't change the situation a bit. After all, the soldiers aren't kids. They are men. And al] their lives—not just while they are in foreign lands—their morals will be a matter of their own choosing.

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Stamp to Honor

Service Badge

AUSTIN, Tex., March 26 (U. P.).—Postmaster General Robert Hannegan, here for the Texas - postmasters’ convention, an_nounced that a new “discharge ‘button” postage stamp will be issued in 30 to 60 days. ' The new stamp will be a 3center. It'is to be used to in t in discharged veterans. e stamp design will picture a cigs button and will have four stars. Three of the stars will be for branches of serve ice and the fourth ' those killed in line of duty.’

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The first stamp will be, issusd at the White House, ie io said. fo