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CELEBRATE—BUT SURVIVE \ IN oBODY was killed by: the atom bomb that exploded on "July 1. But if today is like past Fourths of July, its celebration will kill hundreds. ~~ Carefulness kept the deadly bomb from taking human lives. Carefulness. can save many lives today and make it a glorious occasion. Enjoy fireworks at the scheduled celebrations but don’t try to set off displays of your own; these explosives are pever safe in the home or in the hands of inexperienced individuals. Drive slowly and courteously. Swim safely. - Be alive and uninjured tomorrow,

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TOO MANY PREDICTIONS : ##--(OHESTER: BOWLES: has: labored earnestly to. be L$ 4 affective leader of the fight against inflation... We are .. sure of that, though not so certain that his pbliges and’ methods have been altogether ‘wise. : ; But now that Mr. Bowles has resigned as director of economic stabilization, we think he might, also do well to. tetire for a while from the prophet business. After a conference with President Truman, he predicts an immediate increase of 756 per cent in many meat prices as a result of OPA’s demise. This, though a little more startling than most, is only one of many dire forecasts from Mr, Bowles and his OPA associates as to what would surely happen unless price controls were continued exactly according to their specifications. : : And he may be right about meat. We certainly can’t prove otherwise, although it does seem: fairly sure that a lot more meat will appear soon in the butcher shops, and it won't be surprising if the prices rise for at least a while Hg such figures as a great many people have been payi . » . .

in the black market. . = . UR hunch, however, is that neither Mr. Bowles nor anyone else really knows what will happen to meat © prices or any prices in this period when the economy is not controlled and not free but suspended in a state of uncertainty because nobody can be sure what congress will or won't do. . : , Furthermore, Mr. Bowles has not shown himself an infallible prophet. Last fall, he was sure it would be necessary to protect wages and prices against a disastrous deflation in the immediate future. He shared the fear of other government officials that at least 8,000,000 people would be unemployed by spring. He went overboard for the fallacious theory that OPA could hold prices down, while industrial wage rates were forced sharply upward. Right in the same category comes the awesome statement by Wilson Wyatt, the governmant’s housing expediter, that a discard of OPA will wreck the nation’s housing program and have effects “so bad it just can’t happen.” And the statement of the federal bureau of labor statistics, issued last Monday evening, that living costs had risen 3.7 per cent that day, the first day without OPA, Mr. Wyatt gave no facts to support his prediction on housing . . . which is not strange considering that he could hardly, at this stage, have accumulated any facts pointing either way. The bureau of labor statistics, which ordinarily is months behind in compiling living cost indices, obviously was only guessing, Monday evening, patently could not have had reports of such price increases by then even if they had occurred. We may well bear in mind that all these prophets of disaster are employees of the administrative branch of the federal government, which has conducted a long and vigorous campaign of propaganda in favor of keeping OPA without the slightest reform in its functions. There are enough such federal employees, many with impressive-

Senator Homer Capehart took the trouble to analyze the first batch of telegrams he received in support of an OPA revival . . . and found that one-fifth of them had been signed by Indiana employees of OPA, = Scaring the public won't help a bit at thid stage-of the game, A buyers’ panic, induced by forecasts of skyrocketing prices, would be one of the surest ways to make prices go higher than they might otherwise. It would “benefit only the profiteers and handicap honest merchants and manufacturers who are smart enough to use selfcontrol. A moratorium for a few weeks on predictions of doom might. be an excellent thing just now. There is danger,

these prophets actually hope for a runaway inflation to

government controls.

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We repeat those schoolroom facts in connection’ with talk that the Union soon may add Hawaii or Alaska as states. That would mean an additional star for each state. ; And where to put the stars? Pardon us while we try 3 to control our testy temper. But it burns us to hear this talk about rejiggering Old Glory to make star room-—group stars in the silhouette of an eagle, form them in the

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of standing on their own feet. At beyond the square pants stage. + Apparently their mamas don’t

gress into eliminating 18-year-olds “mama’s boy” category. And it’s not just the 18-year-olds who are mamas’ boys, either. The older ones who served overseas and made a laughingstock of America by caterwauling that they “wanted to come home” weren't mature adults. If they had been, they'd have met an unpleasant task with the minimum of squawking, just as any really grownup person does. They were examples (or victims, if you want to put it that way) of a system of upbringing in which there's too much feminine influence. Fathérs in this country have foisted off upon their wives the job of character development in their children. Papas are too busy to be bothered. And our schools, because we're too penurious to pay salaries that will attract malé teachers, are staffed with more women. No wonder we've got a generation of sissies instead of men with backbones. The poor suckers from birth on are swathed in cotton wool by a mess of females. If there were some way we could pry up the clutch that women now have on the development of the young, maybe the male children might have some chance of turning into mature, responsible citizens instead of mewling infants; a. 8 : “WE MAY NOT KNOW WHAT IS GOOD, BUT WE WANT OPA” By L. F. Indianapolis . Just to see what he had to say on the OPA mess, I tuned in Monday night on a radio commentator noted for the obtuse perversity of his viewpoint. As usual he was arguing on tangents, carefully skirting the point in issue. His main idea seemed to be that OPA was a bad thing anyway and ,the people who wanted it were just misinformed or ignorant. : Well, in a democracy what the majority wants, good or bad, is what is supposed to prevail. When.

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By N. L.,, Indianapolis The recent hullabaloo over the drafting of 18-year-olds emphasizes ¢| the fact that we have in this country a whole generation of infantile males, firmly anchored to their mamas’ apron strings and incapable

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dividuals at an age when they should have been heaved out of the bassinet. Well up on the list of pressure groups that intimidated con-

from the draft were the organiza-

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as- the, recalcitrants in congress, sets itself up in defiance of the will of the majority, democracy makes its exit. Polls have shown a demand by 80 per cent of the U. 8. people for continuation of OPA. To ignore that demand is to flout the basic principles of our government. It is interesting to note that it is a greater percentage of the Republican congressmen than of the Democrats who are eager to ignore the public will. Is this the pattern the Republican party plans to follow if it is returned to power? ” » » “NEW RUSSIAN TENDENCY TO CO-OPERATE IS NOTED” BY E. R. Egan, 701 Markwood ave. There is cheering evidence of the receding ‘nationalism complex in the face of the staggering effects of the nationalism as exemplified in war and its aftermath of destruction,

destitution, starvation, and stagnation rampant in Europe today. Mr. Molotov, not so intractable, reflects the increasing confidence among nations of so divergent ideologiés—necessities — the paramount international necessity of friendly co-operation. The most fanatical internationalist would scarce deny the God-given race characteristics or the natural pride in their achievements, but it is with growing satisfaction a decisive tendency to co-operation is noted both in the Paris and New York conferences and this is but the beginning of negotiations long since due for adequate reconstruction and production, also long overdue from the viewpoint of consumer as producer, and it is not too much to say more depends upon a just and lasting peace and United Nations Organization for production than any individual national political policy aside from the acknowledgment of-international co-operation within the recognized national

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‘| By Byron V, Miller, 2024 Park ave.

“TRUMAN COMES TO LIFE, WINS PROGRESSIVE AID” By Bull Mooser,” Crawfordsville Three months ago we progressives were jumping on the Republican band-wagon. Bob La Follette's chgnge of band-wagon was symbolic of what was happening tb the thinking of all progressives. We were fed

up with the F. D. R. coalition of P. A. C. radicals and Southern Democrat reactionaries. The two legs of this coalition were too far apart to ever get together on a constructive program of reconversion. The whip of F. D. R. was gone, or at least President Truman could not use it. The public was in dire danger from lack of a national administrative program. We took the only course open to us to save the nation from a domestic disaster. We joined the Republican hoping to make that party, once again, progressive and representative of the desires of the great American majority. Three months ago I wrote in the Hoosier Forum that Mr. Truman was hopeless as a President—that he was smart enough to know the answers but hé didn’t have courage to. fight for his convictions—that he would be badly defeated if he was nominated for President.

Today I apologize. The situation has changed. President Truman has come to life. I had underrated him. His courage in fighting both his own party and the reactionary Republicans for the public interest in his stand on strikes and OPA is something that we progressives must salute. In the last three months he has stood out like a light in the dark against the background of string-haltered minds and conniving self-seekers that surround him in congress. The efforts of the old guard Republican political’ opportunists to discredit the courageous stands of Mr. Truman during the past three months will not be supported by progressive Republicans. Their depraved propaganda will only boomerang back to smear them with their own dirt. It will convince all progressives and all intelligent Americans that there is no Republican party to ‘turn to—that those men in congress who pose as Republicans are only political opportunists who would sell out the public interest for any bit of underhand gossip-mongering that promised them a back-door entrance to their old seat in congress.

The tactics of men that the newspapers credit as leaders of the Republican party leave progressive Republicans with their faces red. Only Maine and Vermont can afford to support the present Republican. leadership. Progressives = are forced to back Mr. Truman, My prediction: a Democratic landslide in November. o » ” “HERE 18 COPY OF OUR RENT INCREASE NOTICE”

. For your information as to what is happening. since rent controls have been removed, I am sending this copy of a notice from our landlord concerning an apartment for which we have been paying $11 a week, The apartment is three rooms, which are livable but not desirable. The following is an exact copy of the notice I received Monday night at 10:30 o'clock: “Mr, and Mrs. Miller— This is to give you notice that starting this Friday, July 5th, your rent is $20.00. If you do not pay you ‘have one week in which to move, Owners—Marjorie Alversqn Clifford Alverson” I know that through your news= paper you are making an effort to help eliminate this,

DAILY THOUGHT

For because ye did it not at the first, the Lprd our God made a breach’ upon us,’ for that we sought him not after the due order.—I Chronicles 15:13,

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IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . By Donald D. Hoover ~~ Fourth Is a Time for Rededication |

LAST NIGHT, I was feading “Citizen Tom Paine” and was impressed by a description of Philadelphia in 1775. : A “There was discontent, yet there was enough con tent. War was in the air, albeit vaguely, but people did not want war; freedom was in the alr, too, but most People didn't give two damns about freedom.” That ‘was the quotation. And on July 4 of the next year the continental congress meeting in Phila«~ delphia signed the declaration of independence.

Are We Forgetful?-

WE HAVE JUST WON our greatest war, a war ‘as significant to the world as was the revolutionary war, But already, one day less than a year after the Japs were declared defeated In the Philippines, a large part of the public appears to have forgotten that last war and what it was fought for, I am reminded of a jingle written by a soldier of the Duke of Marlborough about 250 years ago, which ran: 3 “God and the soldier we adore In time of danger, not before; . The danger past and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.” " The forgetfulness of yesteryear is the same today « + » When veterans find it almost impossible to find a home, when decent jobs are difficult for them to obtain, when they are frequently penalized for their service. . © And the religious and emotional dependence on divine guidance . . . a factor on’ which Gen. MacArthur leaned so heavily . . . seem to have been lessened, too, although many feel a sérise of Insecurity.” . So wiso0 is the apparent weakening of faith affecting our.social and economic life.’ With victory in war

BERLIN, July 4—"We didn't object to the Russians’ coming, for we saw war looming and they

| promised to protect us,” said the big. Lithuanian cap-

tain. “Then they communized, We lost our land,

homes, business; everything went to the state and our real government was banned. : “We were bitter, for we had loved our democracy. S80 when the German armies were on the march we rebelled, fought the Russians and welcomed the Nazis who had promised our freedom in exchange for our help. Then the Nazis said, ‘Why, you have np rights, no property, We find your property belonged to the Russian state, and what was Russia's is now ours.

People Always Losers

“A NAZI COMMISSAR—he had been a butcher— went to my father’s farm ‘and took over. My father and mother, as a special favor, were permitted to live in one room in a cottage and my father worked for the commissar. an “It is hard to be a little nation.” “The Nazis had the great Elizabeth bridge mined,” the captain said as we looked down on the crumbled steel in the Danube at Budapest. “They didn't know how much TNT was needed, so one afternoon, when the bridge was jammed with people, trucks, and motor cars, they blew one section—just testing. “The charge was strong enough. People were blown to bits, burned, drowned. Our leaders protested. The Nazis shrugged their shoulders. They had to test the charges, they said. That's how.much they thought of the Hungarians.” "Twas wiy back in 1918 that Count Michael Karolyi,

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NEW ORLEANS, July 4. — My old friend, Fats Pichon, a keg-shaped Negro gentleman who can bat a piano into a state of nervous.exhaustion, has unwittingly betrayed his native city: to the Damyankees. The .most popular song today in the French quarter is an old maudlig melody called “The Whiffenpoof 8ong’—a Yale drinking ballad previously confined almost exclusively to the north.

North and South Blend

A COUPLE OF YANKEE OFFICERS nostalgic for Yale taught M. Pichon the song during the war, and he began to play it in his current house. Now all New Orleans rocks with the weepy refrain about the little sheep who have lost their way, baa, baa, baa. Unreconstructed citizens are apt to grow a trifle tart when they learn that their theme song is the product of a bunch of young Yankee bloods become suddenly sentimental over bathtub gin in the lost southern colony of New Haven, Conn. Since the death of Fats Waller, a really great jazz pianist, M. Pichon is my personal nomination for the man best suited to succeed him. The living Fats has the same wonderful bawdy quality to his pounding, although he received most of his musical education in a northern outskirt of New Orleans called Boston, Mass.—in, as a matter of fact, the New England conservatory® However, there is nothing of the chill north in Fats’ piano. He can. sit down and hack you out a hunk. of Debussy or Grieg, but somewhere in the middle his left hand gets away from him, and you are suddenly immersed in chords fit to scandalize a schoolmaster. Fats works six days a week. He sits down at the piano at 8:30 and he gets up at 3 a. m. During the evening, he will belt out about 300 songs, ranging from Bach to gutbucket. There is no way of telling how marily hundreds of thousands of servicemen have listened to him, as they passed through New Orleans on their way out to the wars. But it is safe to say that half a million men went to battle with one in-

PARIS, July 4.—At Bikini, the United States is continuing the research which followed the atom bomb test, to discover its effect on warships. In New York, the United Nations atomic energy commission is seeking to devise political methods to prevent some criminal or some fool from blowing the world to bits. Here in Paris, the foreign ministers of Britain, France, Russig and the United States have been trying to agree on drafts of peace treaties which can be presented later to a peace conference of 21 nations. There's certainly plenty going on.

Really Won't Face A-Bomb

WHILE THESE EXPERIMENTS ‘and discussions are hitting the headlines, there exists another problem which, though far less publicized, may well be pregnant with more trouble for the world than any of these front-page stories. While admirals experiment at Bikini, diplomats argue in New York, and foreign ministers reach a stalemate at Paris, a revolution is imperceptibly being brought to pass in the bread-and-butter politics of the whole world. : If the atomic energy commission of the United Nations cannot work out a plan to place all atomic

‘will happen is that the United States will inevitably continue to hold her pre-eminent lead in this sinister field of human endeavor. And if the foreign ministers continue to wrangle unprofitably here, Europe will have to settle down as best she may without benefit of any formal peace tfeaty and, willy-nilly, make the best she can of a bad job.: "But all these three possibilities are matters of high politics. However diligent the ordinary citizen may be in reading his daily newspaper or writing to his con'gressman or member of parliament, there is in reality nothing he can do to alter. the course of world events.

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picnics and fireworks. We scoff at the old-time Fourth of July observances, with their speech~ making and patriotic appeal. But perhaps those celebrations had more of the patriotic spirit than is evident in the United States now, Granted they were natlonalistic, sometimes to the extent of being jingoistic. Still they kept alive the realization that patriotism is not something to be scoffed at by the sophisticated and the lazy. I can't help but compare today with wartime Fourth of Julys . , . the “long week-end” the federal employees will enjoy next Monday and the '42 Fourth when it was just another work-day. The '43 Fourth, in torrid Tunis waiting for the Sicilian D-day that was to come six days later. The ‘44 Fourth in italy, when war still wasn't won in the Mediterranean. And the Fourth last year in Manila, when in the midst of a war-torn city we worked on our plans for the Japanese invasion. : i

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* Veterans Alive to Future

OF COURSE THE WAR is over, and demands are different. And on the bright side of the ledger are the 12,000,000 men and women who were in the serve ice, and the millions who saw in: other countries just how better off we were in our America than were the people of any other land, ; 4 These men and women are back now, with an | appreciation of that phrase where the signers of the declaration of indeperidence sald they were “appealing | to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude | of our intentions” And mutually pledged: “our Lives; - our Fortunes and our Sacred Honor” to the new | government that was to develop democracy to its — — woth

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one of Hungary's great landowners, renounced rights to his property and deeded it to the tehants who had farmed it for him for years. Hungary, he argued, needed land reform. The count was named premier, then president of the new republic. But the other great landowners weren't so fare sighted or human. They hated the count violently, led the monarchist forces against him and he wag | forced to flee. . ” 1 Old conservative Adm. Horthy became chancellors, | Hungary continued to export one-fourth of her food | crops while three-fourths of her people were underfed. Then he led Hungary into Herr Hitlér's parior. Last month Count Michael Karilyl returned te Budapest and was given a welcome no king ever gob, The people were hysterical with joy. The count is 80, but keen of mind and has been made an adviser te the government. When the Russians and Germans were fighting ia | Budapest, some of the fiercest close-range warfare

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IN MIDST OF that terrific machine gun and mor- | tar battling, the Nazis forced the Hungarians to ge into the street, dig up the big paving stones and * build a barricade. When it was finished, the Russkys | beat the Nazis to it, drove them back and Russian | tanks shoved the barricade “aside. Then the Russians forced the Hungarians to ree build the pavement, : You can't win!

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sidious song—"“I Want a Big Fat Mama,” pounding in their skulls. M. Pichon's musical desire is for a big fat mama; as opposed to a tall skinny mama, to tell his troubles to and/or set his heart on fire. I heard !/ it first in early 1943 and it still rattles around in my | head.

The same might be said of a ribald chanson called “Git Some Cash for Yo’ Trash,” and some other numbers whose lyrics are a tosich too gamey for repetition, but wonderful on the melodic side. Fats is a rotund, brown gentleman who sticks his lower lip out like Chevalier when he sings, and who wears an expression of enraptured incredulity thas 3 such sounds should come from him. He races his vocal chords over about 2000 sets of lyrics weekly, bus he never sounds hoarse. He is one performer who can't function unless his audience is leaning on the | piano, arguing with him about the title of a song, or breathing down the back of his neck. The north and money beckoned M. Pichon a couple of years ago, and he put in a few weeks at Cafe Society Downtown and the Blue Angel in New York. Fats didn’t like it, and it showed in his playing. He wasn’t close enough to his people, and playing about nine songs a night was his idea of a shameful waste of fingers and ivories.

Fits Into New Orleans Background

HE HAD A GO at traveling, too, sleeper-jumping around'the country, but the trains made him nervous and he never had any friends in the audience so M. Pichon said goodby to the large money and came back to New Orleans, where he has been playing 27 years, and where he knows 50 per cent of the cuse tomers on any given night. Personally, I hope Fats stays on in New Orleans, because his music doesn’t sound. right unaccompanied by steamboat whistles, and the shouts of rowdy drink ers in a French quarter bistro. Fats is an artist and, like most artists, he has to have the right garret to work in, i :

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up. Decision does not depend on him. He must just take pot luck with the rest of the human race,

Curiously enough, though the human race is daily invited to contemplate the possibility of its.oblitera~ tion, life goes on much as usual. Human beings, for the most part, shut their eyes to this grisly possibility and carry on exactly as they have done for thousands of years. In this they are wise. If they were to ac= cept as gospel truth predictions of some of our most gloomy publicists, no one’ would plough his field, educate his children, or bother to turn up at the factory. While awaiting the word from Bikini, New York and Paris, the life of the world must go on. That it does is a tribute to the inherent dynamism and life thrust of the human race. Despite dire predictions with which we are daily assailed, human beings refuse to be discouraged. They will raise children, till the soil, build houses, and hope for the best.

Still Want Breakfast

FOOD 18 STILL the primary consideration of the 2 billion bipeds who dignify themselves with the name of human beings and who inhabit this unimportant planet—a planet which revolves around one of the smallest suns in one of the least significant solar systems in the entire universe. Whatever statesmen may decide or fail to decide, 2 billion people are going to wake up each morning and want their breakfast. They still want it even if they believe— which -they don't—that the world: is going to end. on the day after tomorrow. Henry Wallace, when he was the American secretary-of agriculture, coined ‘the striking aphorism: “Food will win the war and write the peace.” Tapia Unless . the world blows itself .up in the near future, food and the politics of food will soon be writ as large in the headlines of the newspapers as it 1s already im the bellies of the people. : 2

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