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@1ee Light and the People Will Find Tht Own Way N IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS ) significant state conventions were held this week, Indiana Federation of Clubs at French Lick and Indiana League of Women Voters at Lake Wawasee. The serious attention paid to matters of public interest at these conventions js a reflection of the growing influ- & of women in all matters which affect public’ welfare, te sll af the i the usual questions with which women have long

: Be es, at the French Lick meeting deplored lack of ational leadership. As one of them, Mrs. Oscar Ahlgren, Whiting, observed, as a nation we cannot make decisions. _ She pointed to congressional stalling on military training | and labor legislation, and concluded that “the nation is completely and totally selfish.” Others at this meeting emphasized the need for em‘phasis on character education and elimination of anti-social tendencies, urged greater attention be given to the state's traffic problems and to community school boards. The e of Women Voters likewise heard meaty discussions ranging from atomic energy to strengthening of the state merit system. Dr. Ford P. Hall, Indiana university professor of government, told them at the closing y ay! : “1 would like to see the public so well-acquainted with merit system and so thoroughly back of it that no litical leaders would dare to tamper with it as they have done in the past.” ® During the next two years, the league decided, it will work for strengthening of the merit system, revision of court procedures relating to children, and improvement J g ‘election and legislation processes, among other things. t also J; tpenesiay the need for rewriting the state con-

x ep not ops have an important place in public but also that they are filling it to a great extent.

VETOES "PEACE

he foreign ministers agree to meet in Paris again on 5 is mot particularly promising. thar ‘Anything else, all Os mate. time is needed to study or investigate the n; All of them have been examined exly by the several meetings of the foreign ministers; ve been before the continuous sessions of the fers’ deputies. Actually the Big Four are , than when they started these negotiations

Such being the case, the only fair alternative is for the Big Four to turn’ over the business of treaty-making to all | the 21 allied nations who were active military belligerents. ~ That was the proper course in the first place. Belatedly, this now has been proposed by Secretary of State Byrnes. But it has been rejected by Russia, at least for this summer.

R nine ‘month, Russia has vetoed Big Four agreement on peace treaties for. Italy and the eastern European memy states. For mine months, Russia has refused to the Big Four even to discuss draft treaties for Gerand Austria. "And now she denies the right of the allies, who helped win the war, to help write the at this late date. © Moscow's sabotage of peace should surprise nobody. longer she can postpone peace, the longer she can keep r two millions troops in central and eastern Europe. There théy can live off the land while others hunger. There they nt er to cher dictatorship over most of the continent. hag ther Shey are in military position to threaten western

Ha is bright spot we can see in this black picture Is that the American and British governments at the Paris ‘conference did not let Russia bluff, blackmail or bully them into a burial of democratic principles. We are proud of the record of Secretary Byrnes and Senators Connally and | Vandenberg.

§ DON'T YIELD ON THIS “N° taxation without representation!” Once that was an American war cry against tyranny. It needs to sound again. For a modern tyrant now seeks to impose taxation without representation on the American people. That is the meaning of the John L. Lewis demand for a seven per cent levy on the coal operators’ payrolls. : The public would have to pay this tax. in higher prices for coal. : But the Lewis demand would give the public no say \bout the amount of the tax or the sizé of the fund it would lace in Lewis’ hands. There would be no public accounting ? the money. The public would have no control over its _penditure, \ Lewis says -the revenue would be used for miners’ . Mth and welfare. But he could use it as he pleased. And tond doubt he would use it to increase his own power, ~ ady far too great for the nation’s safety, If health and: welfare benefits actually were paid, he i withhold them from critical or rebellious union mem- _, and so tighten his iron domination over thé union. ‘ould spend millions in politics, on the ground that it A promote “welfare to assist the politicians who

i the miners most; » ” .

HER the levy would give Lewis Bore « or less than : 0 ‘million a year, is not now the vital issue. He £ seven per cent this time, and might settle for four , But next year he could ask 10 per cent, order and settle for seven. And the year after is per cent, and perhaps take 10. unions—many of them, like the controlled by one man or a few ilar -demands. ations have broken up again because § other issues until he gets his his own terms. But, even ‘to end as Lewis makes it should not be ruman should exert no pressure ving that he would put a stamp that is. dangerous,

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Rhoads and County Clerk Tilson for

opposition to him when he was nominated for United States senator.

Editor's Note: : Candidates opposed by The Times in the primary election will not be supported in the fall general election. Regarding Mr. Schricker, The Times believed and believes him to have been a good governor. He was not supported for United States sendtor because we did not agree with the national platform with which he was identified.

~ ” » “LET'S LOOK FORWARD TO A YOUNG VETERAN MAYOR” By 6G. M., Indianapolis Now that the hub-bub of the election has died down, it might be a good thing for all concerned to think of our next mayoralty election. I'm non-partisan but I think the Republicans have an excellent man for prosecutor and certainly we'll do better with the Republican nomination for sheriff than we're doing with our incumbent. 0. K,, then, I'm for Judson Stark for next prosecutor and Al Magenheimer for sheriff because I think the county will get a new deal in law enforcement, What I'd like to see now is a young, capable mayor for the city of Indianapolis—not one who looks back into his memories but ohe who looks into the future and does something about it. Let's get a young veteran on the | ticket—I care not if he’s Republican or Democrat, I'll guarantee he'll make a better mayor than our incumbent Bob Tyndall or his predecessor Reg Sullivan. With a young mayor at our helm, I think ‘the city can go places—in law enforcement, in budget balancing, in civic improvement such as cleaner streets, better garbage and sanitation facilities and lots of! other improvements. But I'll be | telling you more as. the election | rolls around.

"How Can Times Oppose Men in Primary and Support Them in Fall ?"

By George Larson, Greencastle : Many of us who are readers of The Times and are independent voters would like to know how The Times can support Juvenile Court Judge

re-election? We recall the campaign

-|The Times made against the machine candidates during the recent priER Big Four conference has failed. The fact that mary campaign, and you stated editorially Monday night that these machine-backed candidates lad been renominated. Maybe The Times is acting in reverse this election—that is condemn It.is more of & |in the primary and support in the general election, in contrast to your great praise for Henry Schricker when he was governor and then your

“NO DIVORCES IN THE OLD-FASHIONED HOME” By John Moore, 135 N. Noble st. Three cheers for The Indianapolis Times, It is sure helping wake up the people all over the state to a better way of living. You can tell this by reading the Hoosier Forum section. In the Forum of several weeks ago, a bobby-socker wrote an article with words that were more valuable than gold. If our spiritual

this bobby-soxer, the homes of Indianapolis would begin to clean up morally, It is a sad and shameful state of affairs, And if some strong influence doesn’t shock us and wake us up we are rushing headlong into total paganism. I am about come to this conclusion, that genuine, oldfashioned religion cannot function in this modern environment. If so-called modern religion is really functioning for real Christianity, why is it that whereas 15 suits were filed in a day a year ago, now the rate has risen to more than 40 in a day? And these awful tragedies are happening every day right here in our own city. And I will guarantee that there never will be a divorce in any future home that really lives and practices “the religion of grandmother's day.” This is the way our grandparents kept harmony and lived in their homes—as soon as the family would arise, father would pick up the old family Bible and he and mother and all the children would place the kitchen chairs around the old

good old-fashioned song and the] entire family would join in singing the good old sacred song. After] which we would al] kneel and father would ask the Heavenly Father for his blessing and guidance for the day. Old-time ministers used to (demand this in every home. about all you can get out these modern ministers is a weak suggestion,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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“THIS ISN'T SUCH A BAD WORLD AFTER ALL, IS IT?” By Realist, Indianapolis The world really isn't such. a bad place. '

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WASHINGTON, May 17.—1s this where we came in? It looks familiarly like the early 1920's after the last world catastrophe, Was it for this that so many died, and so many lost qves and &rms and legs, and so many suffer still In our hospitals? Is this the end of valor in

Jungles and on beach heads and fighting from house to house in French and German cities?

Present Not .a Pretty Picture

18 THIS WHERE the trail of blood ends? This— Intolerance, That happened before. Cringing congressmen refusing to face the facts and give us an adequate army and other things necessary to uphold our hands so that we may exercise the leadership we have. pledged and complete the ‘victory we have so dearly bought, That happened before. : Selfishness to grab and gorge ourselves while millions of our neighbors starve, That happened before. A labor leader who slows up the economic machinery of a nation, single-handedly, and not only deprives those whom he is supposed to represent of their just dues by" his arrogant display of personal power, but also injures workers everywhere. That did not happen before, because labor was not organized as now. Industrial and business leaders who would seize the opportunity created by the arrogance of a John L. Lewis to penalize all labor, It did not happen exactly that way before. Some acted without such excuse to crush labor. : Industrial and business leaders who are so eager to amass profits that they would tear away the last vestige of controls in a mad frenzy for something they call “free enterprise” but which isn't that at all, which isn't liberty, but license. That happened before. The tucking in of our: borders and bullding a wall against the rest of the world, slowly and surely, for

REFLECTIONS

NEW YORK, May 17.—Across ‘the river in New Jersey, which is in the throes of a hot campaign for the’ Republican gubernatorial nomination, a lot of hard words are being tossed back and forth in Alfred E. Driscoll's campaign against ex-Governor Harold Hoffman. The primary is set for June 4. Without concerning myself with the merits of the able Mr. Dristoll and of Mr, Hoffman, something bhabbed up at a Driscoll rally—something that we are apt to hear too often and too frequently during the next 10 years or so. And this is the business of a politician using his military service as campaign fodder. .

I was in a drugstore the other | day. After I made my purchases, | the clerk was counting the change |

full of packages, when I dfopped one. He stood stockstill while I}

made awkward efforts to hold on to | what I had and retrieve the object | from the floor. + He was so very remiss, being a man much younger than I, that I was embarrassed for him. There was a time, I recalled, when young men stooped to pick up fallen objects for elderly women. Then I went out and got a street car. It was crowded and not a man rose to give me a seat. I have white hair and show that I'm a grandmother. Finally, I did get home, weary from standing and juggling packages. My mood was just what you would expect it to be—disillusioned, on the edge of bitterness. I had no sooner opened the door,

into my hands, which were quite | a

than a neighbor came running over. Her husband had been in a lawn- | mowing frame of mind and had de- | cided to cut my grass as well as his own. In fact, he had algeady mowed and trimmed half my back yard. Before I could get my hat off, another neighbor down the street telephoned to say, they had butter and hamburger at the grocery that morning. She had taken a chance on my wanting both and had bought them for me. I needn’t be in any hurry to reimburse her, she added. I heaved a sigh of satisfaction. It takes all kinds to make a world. Ours really isn't so bad after all. » » » “BROTHER, I'M SEEING RED ON THIS CITY TAX” By Battery Inspector, Indianapolis 80-0-0-0! It's come to this. Our great municipal wizards have finally reached tHe point where they can't |stuff their budget figures any

longer. They've reached the end of the road. So what do they do? They now suggest, according to your reporter Richard Lewis, that a 1 per cent tax be placed on wages, etc. Brother, I'm seeing red. So what it Toledo snd Philadelphia have the tax? Hoosiers always were better people than the Quakers. or the Buckeyes. At least we're more thrifty. Sure, let's get our budget balanced, but let's do it by intelligent planning at City Hall, not by saddling another tax on the working man,

an N “RENTERS MUST BAND TO FIGHT EVICTING TENANTS” By East Side Renter, Indianapoliy

and fight for your home and family. Stop being evicted from your home by selfish greedy persons who are using old antiquated laws of the dead past to throw you into the street. This is the most critical time In American history and the answer is not throwing good American people into the street with no home to move Into. You are in .the majority, Mr. Renter, - Sixty million families are renters, and -the foundation of a democracy to majority rule, so fight. This is election year. Write your senator and congressmen and demand that’ no evictions shall ‘be made until comparable living quarters are provided.

DAILY THOUGHT

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disrupter of this world? had not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? —Corinthians 1:20.

HE who has once been very fool-

Come on you renters—wake up| -

"'igh will at no other time be very wise. Montaigne. :

Some Candidates Capitalize It

AFTER MR. DRISCOLL had finished speaking at a rally, a Mr. Albert C. Jones stepped: onto the floor. d was accorded an ovation which dwarfed any previous one. Mr, Jones, a former major of engineers, is an independent Republican candidate for a seat as freeholder, or county officiak Mr. Jones pulled all stops. He did a play-by-play on his war record, and then asked testily where his opponent—"and he is nine years my junior’—was after Pearl Harbor. Mr. Jones, a former freeholder, said that he had sought, unsuccessfully, organization support for his candidacy. He said he had been sleeping ifi foxholes, and when he got out of the army, the Burlington Republican committee said he couldn't have his job back. I sort of hate to contemplate a couple of decades with politicians pulling that “where were you when I was bleeding and dying” routine. It's a cheap one, at best, akin to men in uniform picking fights with civilians in bars. The word “4-F,” during the war, finally became not a numerical designation for a man who was physically unfit to fight, but a swear word meaning weakling, coward, draft dodger and molester of servicemen’'s wives. I don’t like the idea of it sliding over into the peace.

WORLD AFFAIRS ‘Food Rationing

BERLIN, May 17—Food rationing in the United States must come, Col. Hugh Hester, food director for the American military government, declared yesterday in connection with the new ration cut for the U. S. occupied zone of Germany, which becomes effective May 27. Hester challenged Herbert Hoover's view that the food crisis in Europe was a short-term affair and said that to meet it intelligently, “We have got to ration at home; Australia has got to ration and Canada has got to ration.” The chairman of President Truman's famine emergency committee has said in Washington that he was not too concerned about the need for rationing breaking out in the grain field. He added; however, that “if I were running things, I'd want to study the possibility of the need for meat rationing some time in the future,” because the increase in grain ceiling prices will make it more profitable for the farmers in America to sell their grain for human food instead of livestock feed.

Farm Families Still Eating Well HESTER SAID . THAT HOOVER probably saved more people from starvation after the last war than any man alive, but that it was a mistake to take the view that the wolf would be driven away from the world’s door after this fall's harvest. *“He will only be driven away temporarily,” Hester said, indicating that drastic measures must be applied fore the crisis is licked. The German ration cut from 1275 to 1180 calories a day for the normal consumer means that approxi-

TODAY IN EUROPE

PARIS, May 17—Before the war, there was no other country, with possible exception of Switzerland, to which tourist trade was so important as to France, It was not only the money that the visitors spent in France which made the tourist trade an important

factor in French economy, Tourists acquired a taste for French wines, spirits, perfume and clothes - which built up-an extremely valuable luxury export trade,

Seeks to Regain Old Position IMMENSE DIFFICULTIES NOW beset France in attracting tourists. Apart from obvious difficulties of ‘feeding her guests, the whole life of France has been so disorganized, first by German occupation and then by liberating armies which swept across the country, that she i in no condition to cater to the millions of visitors who used to come here annually from all over the world. Realizing, though, how important this business is to her prosperity and prestige, France already is making a gallant attempt, even at cost of considerable domestic inconvenience, to put her house in order and to re-establish her position as the world’s greatest and most civilized host. It's unlikely that any great number of Americans will be able to come to France this summer, TransAtlantic shipping space is a serious bottleneck. But arrangements are being made so that some 30,000 or 40,000 visitors from Britain éan be suitably apcommodated in the next few months. Last week, eross-channel car ferry. service was |

IN WASHINGTON . . . 8 Thomas L Stokes Selfish Craving for Power Marks Us

that. is. what is happening. Beh|nd it quarreling among ourselves over such wealth—enough for all— as no other nation in the world knows. That happened before. A nation pointed inward, instead of facing out< ward with hands offering ready help. That happened before. Diagnosis of our state of being in the United States today might be boiled down to a mad craving for power. That is what personal selfishness essentially is, power to have everything cne wants without thought of others. It is a disease that attacks the individual as well as public figures. It makes for rigidity, for stubborn refusal to sit down and conciliate differences. So many people are disturbed by what is going on. They have the will to think of others, But enough of us are selfish today, it seems, to make for this rigidity that keeps us from realizing our great potentials, at home and abroad. Our democracy is under test. can not function is futile, This means all democracy is under test, for ours is the symbol of hope for the whole world. A democracy can only act if all those in it are willing and able to act, for unlike other forms of government it operates at the will of separate individuals. That is its weakness and its strength. It is the form of government which requires the highest individual intelligence and the greatest ability for personal sacrifice.

Are We Lost?

WE CAN'T let it down, for it is at its severest test in history. It must live in the atomic age, and it can't do this without singleness of purpose. It was just 10 months ago today that the world entered the atomic age with the explosions in New Mexico.

This can’t be the place we came in at a quarter of a century ago—or we are lost,

A democracy that

. By Robert C. Ruark

“Caunting War Service Is Bad Taste

There was nothing individually noble in going to war for America. Nothing markedly brave or rnusual. It was something you had to do if you fell into the age group and could pass the physical, and whether you jumped or were pushed was unimportant. Draftees died just as dead as volunteers. A few people were deferred as key men in government and industry, and many more as necéssary workers in war plants. A tiny percentage of Americans avoided the draft by lies or phenagling. A few conscientious objectors went to jail rather than fight. ' But by and large, so many Americans were caught up in the war that whether you were in or out is no longer a point to be kicked around in a political scrap. The draft was so broadly a democratic measure that most men were justly dealt with. If they dodged their responsibility for a time, they generally got caught and wound up in uniform. But you will continue to hear more and more of that “where were you” business, which carries the inference tnat the man who was not in uniform was dishonorably skirting his responsibility to his country, in most cases untrue. I know one man, personally, who could have been exempt justifiably as indispensable. But he allowed himself to be drafted “because he intended to go into politics after the war and wanted to make political hay. of his service.

Citations Don't Include Politics

WE CAN STAND a lot of new people in our politics, and in many cases they will be veterans. But I hope the smarter ones refrain from pointing the accusing finger at opponents who don’t own a ruptured duck. I'd rather have a smart 4-F rumiing my country or state than a cynical party politician with six rows of combat awards. And I don’t think the man who was legally exempt has any apologies to make to the ex-soldier. A Purple Heart is an honorable medal,

but it doesn’t necessarily include political superiority in the citation,

. By Edward P. Morgan :

Is Coming in U.S!

mately 7,000,000 persons in the U. S. zone will really eat about three slices of bread less a week than they have been. The reduction was limited to bread. Hester admitted’ that it was not a drastic reduction, but pointed out that they already were on what nutrition experts insist is a submarginal ration and, in those terms, the cut must be considered serious. He conceded that the zone’s 4,000,000 farm population was still eating nearly 3000 calories per person per day, “but, there is no farmer in the world who is not going to see his Yamily get enough to eat,” the colonel said. The remaining 7,000,000 of the zone’s approximately 18,000,000 total population are in higher categories as workers and will be less affected by the cut. Hester said he was confident that rationing would be invoked in the U. S, “The people are 75 per cent for it and they are getting madder every day,” he said. “They go out shopping and they are not getting the food. The only way to effect equitable distribution is to ration.”

Situation Improving Slowly OF 150,000 TONS OF WHEAT which the war department pledged to the military government for the U. 8. zone for the second quarter of this year, only between 45,000 and 50,000 tons had been loaded. Of that, something under 30,000 has been received in Germany, However, he thought the situation was getting

better and doubted that another zonal food cut would be necessary before the harvest,

By Randolph Churchill

France Primping for Tourist Trade

reinstituted, and it's now as simple as it was before the war to take a car from Britain to the Continent. Tourists are being provided with a generous petrol ration which makes it possible to plan quite extensive tours, There's much talk in Paris just now of lifting various price controls and rationing. The black market in numerous commodities has become so enormous that it's practically a free market. But the big blackmarketeers have got such a stranglehold on many forms of food and goods that they have been able to keep prices at fantastic levels. It's argued that the way to beat them is to sweep away all restrictions and allow commodities to find their own price levels,

Black Market Usual in France FRENCH PEOPLE SOMETIMES speak enviously of the British rationing system and openly admire the manner in which food, clothing and other goods in short supply are equitably shared in Britain, But they know by bitter experience that such a system would be unworkable in France, w Under German occupation, the black markets, which kept producé from the Germans and allowed some sort of existence to the French, seemed honorable and even patriotic, Therefore it has been found impossible to organize public opinion so as to break: black markets Every one despises the "operators, who have amassed huge fortunes, and every one would like to see them punished. But every one, rich “and poor Bitke, buys what they need from any avail‘able source,

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