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RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENTS ‘PP HE Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers conclud ~* its first post-war session in Indianapolis yesterday, with the challenge to reach into every community until there was no parent not reached by P.-T. A. ~ . This is a commendable objective, and one which will help not only our schools but which also will awaken in ‘many parents the realization that welfare and character building for their children cannot be left solely.up to the schools. The eight-point program of the organization calls for improvement of child health and greater preparation for family living. It seeks to revitalize teaching, work for more adequate school finances and recruitment of qualified teachers. And it urges greater spiritual education in the community, broader interest in political affairs and knowledge of national and international problems. \ That is a comprehensive program, and one which should receive wide support because of its. general and constructive appeal.

REPORT ON PALESTINE : BITTER attacks by both Jews and Arabs meet the report of the Anglo-American committee of inquiry on Palestine. That was to be expected. \ : We are not wise enough to know the answer. From what we do know about the problem, it seems to us the most nearly insoluble in the entire range of international affairs. For it has all of the elements of conflict—religious, racial, cultural, economic and political. Christian interests as well as Jewish and Moslem are involved. Not only rival Arab and Jewish nationalism is a factor, but also clashing British and Russian imperialism.. And, to cap the confusion, even the Jews are divided between Zionists and antiZionists. : Under the cireumstances, we believe the committee of inquiry was on the right track in recommending international control until an independent and democratic Palestine can exist without civil war threatening general war. “But much more is needed than a mere change of name from _ a British mandate under the League of Nations to a British _trusteeship under the United Nations. There should be more self-government without discrimination, and the - trustee authority should be really international rather than British alone. Such a trusteeship should begin, rather than end, with the economic and social reforms recommended by the committee of inquiry. ; Regardless of disagreement over the long-range Palestine problem, all men of good will should be concerned over immediate relief of the desperate refugee situation. This newspaper has long opposed the British white paper restrictions on immigration. We ‘congratulate the committee—and especially its British members—on recommending admission of 100,000 European Jews into Palestine. That figure is not beyond the absorptive capacity of the country and does not endanger Arab rights. Arab threats of violence, and of turning to Russia for help, should not be allowed to prevent such regulated immigration. But even if the British government agrees to the migration of 100,000 refugees to Palestine, there still will be an estimated million Jews trying to escape Europe and its bloody memories. Until the United Nations individually practice the non-<discrimination principles of their charter, and until they make more immigration efforts on their own, the Palestinian debate will continue to be befogged by political hypocrisy.

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RE-ENTER: CLIP SHEET N old acquaintance with a slightly altered name—the clip sheet of the board of temperance of the Methodist church—was in our mail again this morning, after a long absence. Memory harks back. There was a time when Bishop Cannon, the Anti-Saloon league and the Methodist board of temperance, prohibition and public morals had the government almost as thoroughly buffaloed as Sidney Hillman, Philip Murray and the C. I. 0.-P. A. C. do now. In those days the clip sheet, crammed with items about the evils of alcohol which we were invited to reprint “with or without credit,” was a constant visitor. Now it has emerged from an extended retirement. Bishop Wilbur E. Hammaker has become president of the board, but Ernest H. Cherrington still is executive secretary, and Deets Pickett still is editor of the clip sheet. The items about-the evils of alcohol are still plentiful, and the invitation to reproduce’ them still stands. “It is obvious that the repeal of prohibition settled no problem,” writes Editor Pickett, explaining the clip sheets revival, There is, he asserts, more drinking, more drunken 1 driving, more juvenile delinquency, more crime, and alcoi! holism has become-“our fourth greatest health problem.” The remedy advocated by the clip sheet and its sponsors he adds, 15 “knowledge and understanding.” Certainly both are needed. Certain] much abuse of strong drink. Certainl education is essential. But we are reliev not misled—to find no claim in the cli problem would be solved by a return of n

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‘ PATHER, I REMEMBER, subseribed to three Indianapolis newspapers, one of which was Der Telegraph, a German daily run by Adolph Seidensticker (the present postmaster's father). Grandmother, whose

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regular reader of Die Tribuene, the German daily run by Philip | Rappaport. (Leo's father), : It was one of my daily chores to circulate the two papers. Every noon when School 6 was dis~ missed, I called on Grandmother and asked for her copy of the Tribuene of the previous evening. On my way back to school after dinner, I again dropped in on Grandmother, and, this .time, I delivered our copy of the morning's edition of the Telegraph. All of which puts me in the rather enviable position today: of recording what I remember of early German journalism in Indianapolis. The two papers, I recall, were very serious. Grim is the word. Only once a week—on Sundays, of all days—was there any sign of humor. On that day, Mr, Rappaport ran a column called “Plauderei,” in the course of which he permitted himself to poke fun at

-{ people in general. And, sometimes, in particular. On

those occasions, his pen went skittering across the surface of sense, like a stone across water, leaving ripples of laughter. '

Humor on Sunday Only MR, SEIDENSTICKER ADOPTED an altogether different course. To convey the idea that the Sabbath is a day dedicated to mirth, Mr. Seidensticker didn’t confine himself to a column, but turned his whole Sunday paper over to humor of a sort. He even went so far as to give his Sunday paper an entirely different name. And he couldn't have picked a prettier or more transparent one, The Sunday edition of the Telegraph was called Der Spottvogel (The Mocking Bird). Probably because of the limitation of humor to one day a week, I remember the two papers mostly because of theif grimness. Their forbidding aspects were no more alike than their éditors. Mr. Seidensticker, for instance, was more or less a conservative; enough, at any rate, always to ‘put his money on the status quo. Compared with which, Mr. Rappaport

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert

; . = "1 do not ~ Hoosier Forum "Congress Lets Bills Languish And Die Just to Get Some Votes"

By Theo. B. Marshall, 1114 Tecumseh st. Our public officials seem to be foundering in the muck of indecision and vacillation. ‘ This is especially noticeable among our congressmen, who seem to be clear on only one thing, to get back home and start slinging mud ‘at their opponents and praising to the skies every action of themselves and party; of course, they only remember the outstanding legislation, if any, that has seen for the good of those to whom they speak. The same bug scems to have bitten our state department officials and the UNO. Every time either one of them or both of them get their guns primed for the big; bad Russian Bear, something seems to hap-| were sincere in their belief that pen and the bear escapes without|they were acting in the best inhaving his hair creased, after hav-|terests of the United States and ing put up with a great deal of ver-\ our form of government. Neverbal and written insinuations and|theless, they were called all sorts accusations that seem to have had|of bad names, and as I recall the a very slippery foundation. mildest epithet ever used against The Russian statesmen by with-|them in public print was that of holding words until they really have|«jsolationist.” At that time cersomething to say have our states-|tain groups in the country were men at a disadvantage by placing|conducting a well organized propthem in environment with which|gganda campaign to the effect that they are unfamiliar. we should enter the war because of Both houses of congress are load-| humanitarian principles, if for no ed down with bills for the same|,ther reason. The strongest argupurpose introduced by individual| ment made in favor of intervenmembers which aim at -the same ton was that advanced by the late purpose—vote getting, After these ns. Roosevelt when he stated that: bills reach the proper committees|«we could not do business with a they are permitted to languish and|gitier - dominated Europe.” The die, their sponsors having no fur-|, int there was that the products ther interest since it's on the record |,¢ Hitler's slave labor would underthat they introduced such bills and|, ine us economically in the world they can go back home and tell the market. ?

voters about it. . : This is especially true of vet- The isolationists contended that erans’ legislation. Some will be the interventionists were not realfooled by such tactics, but not istic, and that it was impossible to many. Such action serves neither reconcile all the conflicting habits, the nation nor organized groups, religious beliefs, and opinions of mankind, and that there would al-

but it does hamper the work of our legislative bodies and adds cost to|Ways be war in Europe or Asia for one reason or another, and that our

the overburdened taxpayers. Now they are gunning for the better course would be to not beOPA in the hope of receiving large come involved. campaign contributions from the] The war has been fought and National Association of Manufac<| Won. The nations of the world have turers and other financially: strong|Sét up an organization to insure : peace and - international justice.

groups who wish to enrich themselves at the expense of the genera While the nations debate, Russian public, . communism has been consolidating its ill-gotten gains, and now controls most of Europe and Asia. The slave labor of Stalin has supplanted that of Hitler, and we are preparing to do business with a Stalin dominated Europe and Asia. Stalin has crushed and swallowed up little democracies and.gleprived the people

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» » » “WAR HAS MADE LITTLE CHANGE IN DOMINATION” By B. F. W,, Indianapolis Prior to our entry in world war II certain of our thinking men called attention to the fact that we could not hope to further the ; cause of democracy by participa- of their fundamental rights. tion in a war whose apparent| Aside from the fact that power purpose was to determine whether has been transferred from one the Communist or Fascist form of despot to another, the war seems to government would prevail through- have wrought little change in the out the world. Most of these men | habits and customs of man.

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“ARMY FOOD WASTE MUST BE STOPPED” By Mrs. Walter E. Bland, 801 Locke st. I've read The Times quite a long time and enjoyed all the pros‘ and cons on every subject. I've. never written in myself, but now I'd like to comment about an article I read. : In these times When men, women and children are starving in the world, that is time to stop this everwasting of food. 'I think’ there should be a committee appointed in every state to investigate not only the army but other places that handled large ‘quantities of food. We the housewives don’t mind sacrificing meatless days or breadless days, or cutting down on eating so much. This wasting of food is

people are crying all over the world just for a crust of bread. Three cheers for Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and his special nine-man food study committee. In the near future I hope this group investigates conditions in other army posts, » » 2 “ALERT STREETCAR MAN POSSIBLY AVERTED ACCIDENT” By Bud Kaesel, 2432 Central Ave. I would like to give a few words of praise for one Indianapolis Railways supervisor who stands at the corner of Alabama and Massachusetts ave. Sunday morning I was waiting for a Central trolley. I got on the trolley and was seated. some-other people were still getting on. All of a sudden the supérvisor called the operator and told him he had better put all of us on an-' other trolley because the wheel on the back of the trolley on the righthand side was almost off. What happened is that somebody in the railways shop was careless and forgot to put all the bolts back on when he changed tires. The supervisor'’s name is Mr. Butcher—that is all I know. He deserves some praise for alertness. and being on the job. » n ” “IF DRAFT IS STOPPED SEND 18-YEAR-OLDS HOME” By Mrs. Barton, Rushville I am a mother of an 18-year-old boy who is on duty in Germany Why should the draft be stopped now? I think that is not fair to the 18-year-olds that have been drafted out of high school and sent over there. Why should the draft be stopped now? If they stop the draft in May it is only fair to send all 18- and 19-year-olds home. My son has been overseas one year. He was 18. Why should my neighbor's boy, who is 18, be left home while my son is left over there? Mothers, write your congressmen and tell them if you are in favor of sending all 18- and 19-year-olds home, especially the ones who have served one year overseas. If they lare going to stop the draft, then

Jal v: SOY as e—" I want my son home, too. He has ud 1 Ke done his bit, Let some of these 1 ® by TL rr college boys do theirs. . 2) Oh 4 4 . " (vote mets RY Wi “MAYBE I'M A SOFTIE, N\ “ h BUT SORRY FOR STARVING” > $5 \ 7 | — J By M. L. Indianapolis p { 0% \ . Thank God all people don't think (! like Mr, Lesher, 8a let all the peo-

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A Requisiti : equisition NEW YORK, May 3—When I die and go to Heaven, as will undoubtedly be the case, I do not wish to listen to a lot of angels being dreary with harps. I want to spend eternity listening to a Spaniard named Vicente Gomez play a guitar. This is by way of warning Mr. Gomez that, if his life is not so exemplary as mine, he had better mend his way. I want no confusion with him ending up in one place and me in another.

He's Good Even in Nightclubs MR. GOMEZ IS ONE-OF five Jeading ¥irtuosos of the guitar, which can, under ‘the .correct treatment, be employed as something other than an ‘instrument used b; illies to torture the public.’ In the case of Mr.YGomez, the guitar can be a thing so wonderful that even a nightclub audience will stop brawling and sit silently spellbound. Under the fingers if this madrileno, who looks like a plump Charles Boyer, with hair, the guitar becomes an orchestra.” And the patrons of the nightclub where he is appearing, do him .the unusual honor of complete attention. r “Was so in the army,” Mr. Gomez was saying Between shows, “I do not think, that the men will like Bach. I play them Bach and they go nuts. That response I must have or I cannot play. I am too close to the instrument. What goes into the guitar is me. It is not like hitting a drum with sticks.” Just released from the army, after three years, Gomez has re-embarked on a. career which places him, together with Andres Segovia, one Russian woman, a young Cuban and an old Spaniard who lives in England, among the handful of masters of

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WASHINGTON, May 3.—In the field of foreign affairs, chief attention is concentrated on the big figures in world diplomacy who move about the major stages of the United Nations in New York and the foreign ministers’ meeting in Paris, busy with immediate problems of: the peace. But there are other things going on in the corners, 80 to speak, in conference rooms here and there in the world. Some of them are just as important to future peace as the more spotlighted affairs, because they go to the economic origins and consequences of war.

Is Haven for Financial Net ONE IS TAKING PLACE here in conferences among representatives of the United States, Britain, France and Switzerland in what thus far has proved a vain attempt to get real co-operation from the Swiss in ferreting out and disgorging hidden German Nazi assets which found refuge in Switzerland in one form or another. The Swiss government is proving obstinate, even though the yielding up of these assets formally was ordered months ago by the allied control council and their distribution was arranged at the Paris reparations conference, This involves a basic issue because it goes back to how Germany started this war and how she might start another. Switzerland was headquarters for some of the most powerful of German cartels, including “aluminum, pharmaceutical, electrical appliances. There, too, was headquarters of I. G. Chemie, as it is known, holding company for the mammoth I G. Farben Industrie

WASHINGTON, May 3.—As relentlessly as the unfolding ot the plot of a Greek tragedy, the United States and the British commonwealth are being driven into precisely the sort of “fraternal association” envisioned by Winston Churchill in his speech in Missouri. : Russia is notoriously hostile to the formation of any such bloc. Yet, by her own actions, she is making it inevitable. Not only is she steadily ‘Building up a ‘Soviet bloc reaching across Europe and Asia, but every utterance of Soviet leaders indicates (1) the Kremlin has little or no faith in the United Nations and (2) it intends to make the Russian bloc into the most powerful military .force the world has ever

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Russia's Policy Is Defined GENERALISSIMO STALIN IS setting the pace. He has made only two public speeches in recent inonthswon Red army day and May day—and both took the same slant. On Wednesday, he declared that “International reaction” is “hatching plans for

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didn’t care a whoop about: the status quo. Indeed, he advocated the most outlandish things in the way of social reforms; with the result that Mr. Rappaport’s editorials were the cause of Father's most violent bursts of temper. ‘ Father, I recall, always picked the supper table to say what he thought of the Tribuene. And it always ended . with Father's 'bfanding Mr. Rappaport a “socialist,” than which thete was nothing worse in his opinion. Beforé disnfissing Mr. Rappaport, however, Father always dragged Grandmother into it, too. He said she could keep her revolutionary old sheet for all he cared. : The amazing thing about the whole affair was the fact that Father lived long enough to see most of Mr, Rappaport’s ideas enacted into laws. Even then he shook his head and wondered what the world was coming to. . On one point, however, the two editors agreed. They ran the same kind of advertisements. For the most part, they were grim, too—even on Sundays. The ads that intrigued me most, I remember, were always in the first column of the last page. The column was labeled “Hebammen” and consisted of a series of little one-inch ads incorporating, in every case, the name and address of a person. Not a thing more to tell you the nature of their business; not even an illustration or an emblem of their trade as was the custom of more imaginative advertisers 60 years ago when I was a little boy. (The German undertakers, for instance, always had the picture of a horseless black hearse in their ads, and it did a lot to help a kid hungry for information.)

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EVEN MORE MYSTERIOUS was the fact that all names noted under the cryptic connotation were those of women—at. a time, mind you, when women were supposed to be at home and, surely, not in the advers tising columns of a newspaper. Finally when my curiosity got the better of me, I remember taking up the subject with Mother. She said the advertising women were nurses which was, more or less, the truth, but certainly not the naked truth. The naked truth came out later when, in the course of my enlightenment, I learned that the word “Hebammen” is the German-equivalent for midwives. It was the only time I can recall that Mother tri to fool me.

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the concert git-box. master. . “In Spain,” Mr. Gomez says, “everybody plays a guitar. There are two schools--one is the popular, like boogie-woogie, which you call guitarrista flae menco. You know, plenty fire, much dash. The other you call concertista. “There is big clash between the two. They say a flamenco player cannot learn the classic guitar with out espoiling his art. They say a concertista cannot play the gypsy music without ruining himself. Is not true. I do it.” - He came to America 10 years ago, on the eve of the revolution in Spain. Before the war he was much on the air. He gave concerts, made records, and wrote.a fine score for a picture, “Blood and Sand,” in which he played his own stuff. Although as a Spanish citizen he could have avoided the draft, he spent three years under Uncle Sam’s managership.

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MR. GOMEZ USES no pick. The long nails of his right hand provide bass, with the thumb; his index and middle fingers make harmony and counter- - point, while his little finger handles the melody on a six-stringed guitar. His left hand, shortnailed and calloused, is busy with the fret. And out of that instrument come dancing gypsies marching feef, muted trumpets, Moorish wails—the sight and sound and smell of Spain. “I must watch the hands,” Mr. Gomez says apolo=getically. “When I fall, I try to fall on my chin or my nose. And if I don’ practice at leas’ three hour every day, a person who knows the guitar can tell. Is a hard profession. Was lucky, though, in the army, Only one KP I have to do.” . >

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Telling Nazi Assets

which conducted I. G.-Farben’s foreign negotiations, It is well-known now how the Nazis used these car= tels to build up their own war machine and also to hamstring preparedness in other nations, including our own, through contracts with leading industries that restricted development of critical war materials by us and other countries. These cartels likewise proved useful adjuncts te her spy system. In the regular course of their business, the Germans got information as to purchases by our army and navy and thus learned about our own military and naval programs. The Swiss government made a cursory check-up, using seven investigators. They claimed there were

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Big Business Opposes Inquiry THE MEETING HERE began March 19. It has dawdled along. It is evident that the British and French are not pressing too hard. Both have a stake in Swiss markéts, There also are indications that big business interests in this country, which still are in« fluential with our state department, are none toe anxious to see this Swiss business pried into. We can lose this war, just as we discovered we los¢ the last one, if we don’t get results in the conference rooms tucked away here and there where the real causes of war are the issues,

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Nevertheless—probably because of this weakness on the part of the rest of the world—Russia is al= most feverishly consolidating her spheres of influence, There is an excellent chacnce, therefore, that all Europe will be engulfed. . In Asia, Outer Mongolia is now inside the Soviet bloc and Chinese Turkestan (8inkiang) is being readied for swallowing. All North China, including Manchuria, has been, or is being, "taken over by the Chinese Communists in direct vio« ‘ation of the Sino-Russian pact. And qualified obe servers on the spot express grave doubts regarding Korea. : Today, therefore, Russia is in a fair way to dom= inate the whole of Europe and Asia. What is left of China—if the Soviet-supported native Communists take over—will not be able to resist. Nor will an independent, but weak India. And-—as in the case of Germany--the Japanese may go the way of the rest of the Asiatics when the Americans pull out.

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SUCH, AT LEAST, IS the conviction of more than one of the United Nations diplomats who have been observing developments through Dumbarton.Oaks and San Francisco down to the meeting” of. the security eoncil in New York and the Big Four foreign min« isters in Paris, As they see it, Russia is creating a nost-war world to suit berself. Already she is well started on a bloc comprising more than half of the hahitable globe along with two-thirds of the popula= tion. Outside chiefly are only the Western hemis= phere and part of the British empire. Despite thems

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