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he British

, ‘which he approves, not as a panacea, but as “a

test—and a very important test—of our intentions and |

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leadership.”

This observation by one of the most respected of America’s elder statesmen, a man who has had a hand on

the world’s political pulse for many years, is found than might appear at first glance.

far more pro-

At its inception an economic measure, the British loan ‘has become a straw in the political wind, presenting us ‘with a decision which must be made and which can have

far-reaching consequences.

Deep apprehension prevails throughout the world because of the ideological war which has divided mankind. Smaller nations are on the anxious sea, watching for something to suggest to them which way to jump. One

and all seek security, and if that is not possible,

then the

next best thing is to be on the winning side, with the desire for survival outweighing all other considerations.

DESTINY has put us on the spot, and there is no retreat. We hold the advantage in this psychological war, but we can lose that advantage, by losing prestige, by showing

ess, and by acts that can be interpreted as bad faith. To the world at large, the United States and Great

Britain are partners, as well as allies and old friends, with a common language and tradition. In a large measure our standing in the world is based upon general acceptance of the solidarity existing between our two nations. It is one of those intangible things too easily ignored, ~~ yet an element of utmost importance. If we refuse Britain the credit shé needs and asks of us, our action and our motives will be misunderstood. To a jittery world, it will be regarded as a plain case of desertion. It will appear that we have walked out on a friend. . We will be regarded as an ally of questionable value. If we approve the loan, it will assure the world our leadership can be trusted and that our co-operation in international affairs is to be a continuing thing and not merely

BLOW AT BAIL RACKET R years, a seldom-changing group of furtive-looking characters has been hanging around the police station and the county jail, making a living off persons arrested |, nim (the chiseler) to “eat it

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and held for bail.

Judge Joseph M. Howard of municipal court 3 struck a blow at these brethren and in favor of the decent citizen who gets entangled with the law when he scrapped the old bail bond plan insofar as his court is concerned. It is hoped Judge John L. Niblack will follow suit in the other munici-

pal court affected.

Reputable persons charged with minor offenses will be “0. R.'d,” or réleased on their “own recognizance,” under

Judge Howard's order.

“From now on, I don’t want any defendant assigned

. to my court placed under bond signed by any professional

bondsman until after the defendant has appeared in my court,” wrote Judge Howard to the chief of police. Reputable persons, by the judge's definition, are those whose local identity or residence can be established or who are properly vouched for by someone who will assure their

appearance in court.

The bail bond racket has flourished since the memory |

of the oldest police reporter runneth not to the contrary, and it always has been unsavory. From time to time, some policemen and court attaches have been charged with steering bewildered citizens into the hands of the bondsmen, who made $5, $10 or perhaps more by putting up security

that the prisoner would be on hand.

It isn’t a pretty situation. Judge Howard's order is |

a first step toward cleaning it up.

MAY AND 'PHONE RECORDINGS

A COUPLE of days having passed since we mentioned the matter, we'd like to repeat—and we intend to say

it again and again until something is done about it—

Rep. Andrew J. May should go, or be hauled, before the or cost of living. With subsidies, we would at least have relief from

Mead committee of the senate, to testify under oath.

On the record spread before that committee, Congress-

man May has a dirty nose. When bur: nation was at war and he should have been serving the public interest as chairman of the house military affairs committee. According to the testimony of high army officers, Mr." May devoted a large part of his time to promoting munitions contracts for a group of shady characters who pyramided a letterhead into a “paper empire” of Illinois corporations—not even

Kentucky, mind you—which grabbed off $78 million worth

of war contracts

In statements to the press and in a speech before the

house, Mr. May has declared he did not make a penny’s

, from any of these deals.

What he has said to the the house floor, Mr. May

should be required to say as a sworn witness, and take the

consequences, if any,

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» $A VING again said what we think of Congressman May : ’

we would like now to take on the army and the war |

department, whose witnesses have

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: it been producing before | Senator Mead’s committee sound recordings of the con-

gressman’s telephone conversations with army , officers. people have become accustomed to talka telephone as on a street corner, or in without fear of being overheard or transcribed. | become of our cherished liberty to shoot off our ‘when we please if what we say is to be soundto be produced later before a senate investigating

» Whatever happened, and whatever is recorded transcriber, there is no way the army can on Congressman May's back. The army | | the army was making the contracts, r. May's “influence,” | award or to make a y smeared itself in a’ will cleanse it.

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will defend to the death

From Higher Costs

By G. C. Lowe, It seems one of our Indiana U

for a‘ watermelon.

warm over an article that has no

he opposed subsidies and, among

the senator no doubt is becoming a bit tired and famished from tell-

yourself,” he decides to really do something about the hungry gnawing at his vitals. Picture him meandering into a nearby grocery where he knows he can get sustaining food at a fair price. He swaggers up to the butcher's counter, well filled with meats of all kinds, and, oh yes, butter too. He asks the price of round steak. 8ix-ty-five cents. Not so good. T-bone, 70 cents. By this time, our hero is really boiling. Undaunted he asks about sirloin steak; 75 cents. That does it. “Eat it yourself,” he exclaims. Remembering his old grass roots days, decides maybe after all bean soup used to do the trick, why not now. Seeing a bag of nice clean white navy beans nparby he walks over, examines the price tag attached. Twenty-three cents. Near{ly 300 per cent increase. Beans [from community grocery (name and location can be given if required) and he is no chiseler. There . is obviously not enough nutritious food, milk, eggs, meat, butter and canned vegetables, the lower price of which was supported by subsidies. Who pays subsiCies? well from federal taxes. Who pays federal taxes? Income groups whose

a few other minor reasons. Who

have dependents?

therefore pay no income tax.

the added cost of living.

incomes exceed $500 less exemptions) they may have from dependents or

"Subsidies Would Give Relief

of Living"

1624 Asbury st. . 8. senators (not the purged one)

grew very indignant at what he termed a “chiseler” for asking $2.40 Note the blistering and scornful reply to this socalled “chiseler.” Quote, “Eat it yourself.” That my friends was really telling him off. The point I want to make is, the senator waxed

more food value, and is no more

essential to daily living than a crutch is to a cow. Our. senator stated other things, thought the country press. was doing very well since demise of OPA. And he believed the people in refusing to pay excessive prices are “wise and patriotic.” Now since

election time. Come on, readers, let's have cheaper watérmelons. Who cares about meat, eggs, butter, milk" and beans. Cheaper water melons I say. Write your congressman, Deo it now.

Editor's Note: No one escapes paying taxes, whether he pays directly, or in the price of things he buys, or both, and on the average taxes today take more than onefourth of everybody's Income. “Subsidies” paid to producers do not reduce prices, but only pay them out of tax money, and are paid eventually out of the income of every man, woman and child.

had risen, and were still rising under OPA, are rising and may rise

symptom and not a cause of infla-

its peak in this country. ® & =

“18- YEAR-OLDS WON WAR, CERTAINLY NOT SISSIES” By A Gold Siar Mother, Indianapolis

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everyone agrees most—dependents ever read burned me up as much | of you instead of making life more are among low income groups, who as his letter did. I want to say here ee But and now that our 18-year-olds are a 0» loss of subsidies puts an added bur«|not mama's boys as he wants to | den to their cost of living as well as put it. As a matter of fact, it was {income taxpayers, who by the way these same boys that won the war, that {pay both with no lowering of taxes not our older men who should have

Reducing any government expense eventually will reduce taxes. Prices

still further without OPA, afe a

tion which may still be far from

In answer to N. L. of Indianapolis who thought our 18-year-old boys

| 1 have read the Hoosier Forum I think most for some time, but nothing I have

!been there, but 18 and 20-year-old boys who fought and died across land no braver or finer boys ever Homer, my boy, you have some-| fought for his country. 1 think they thing there by telling them to “eat did a wonderful job and they it yourself” and I predict you will|couldn't have done it and been hear much more about this come sissies.

“FOOD BEING USED TO FURTHER CAPITALISM” a

By R. Sprunger, Indianapolis Much has been said about the socalled food shortage and bungling of “famine relief.” It seems that following world war I there was a “food relief” program that became a smelly scandal revolving around little “Herbie.” Much of it was kept secret until recently but the news was “smothered” by the “capitalist After such a scandal isn't it odd that “prosperity-around-the-corner Herbie” has his fifigers in “famine relief” again?’ A “master of nowe-you-see-it, nowsyouedon't hocus pocus, In my opinion, food is being used for political purposes. For instance, a certain Nasi-trod-den “democracy” has taken food given it by UNRRA and sold it and pocketed the profits. A radio report stated that the food program was successful only in Greece. The British used armed force to establish a government suitable to the British crown representing capitalists. Of course, the British “life line” through the Mediterranean has nothing to do with it. The British plutocracy are masters at making suckers of the people. A soldier on occupation duty in ftaly recently wrote that men are being paid to operate bulldozers to plow under growing wheat there. Reminds one of “Moses” Roosevelt causing pigs, wheat, cotton, etc, to be plowed under to create artificial seareity to raise prices for the benefit of capitalism. Hungry people should be fed but without “strings” or subtle methods to tie them to decadent eapitalfsm. The mad race of commercial rivalry is on with the private capitalism of the U. 8. and England versus the state capitalism of Russia. Food is an attractive balt to lure hungry followers into the respective camps. Commercial rivalry of capitalism means war, Think of the. atomic energy possible to make a “shadow”

abundant.

“I'RAFFIC DEATH TOLL DRAINS COUNTRY'S LIVES" By T. M. McGuire, 1126 Eugene ol. At a time such as this when the world is standing out from behind the eight-ball again and our view

is clear and unobstructed by hatred, murder and fear, 'twould seem we should seek fair play, mercy and equity in all of our own dealings

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with one another. Jealousy and envy should not be counted or cultivated between men, cities or states for commercial or other purposes. Small towns’ financial security should not be jeopardized by diversion of their wealth | to the larger cities. | ‘The America of today has strayed | far from the day when Samuel PF. | Morse tapped out his famous mes= | sage on the infant telegraph: “what has God wrought?” In these days of self«glorification we take all eredit to ourselves for winning the war, inventing the atomic bomb and in having very superior intellectual attainments as compared to the rest of the world. Haven't we the humility to see the devastation and war wreckage in other lands and say to ourselves, “There but for the grace of God lies America.” The toll of death and injuries on our public roads is by far too great | & drain on_the lives of our people to be tolerated much longer, Hogwash and lip-service promises are only incentives to carelessness and no remedy at all for the headlong speed with which we are traveling down the road to perdition, || Let's help to keep each other from behind the eight<ball and from under headstones,

DAILY THOUGHT

“ For to him that is joined to all the living there is hape: for a living dog is better than a dead

I'm your caddie,

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IT'S: OUR BUSINESS . . , By Danald D. oowe A : Little Popular Interest in World Affairs

THE ADULT POPULATION of Indianapelis, in common with that of the rest of the country, is far from being alert to the vital issues of American relations with foreign countries. ‘That is the conclusion of a current study by the Council on Foreign Relations on “Community Education in Foreign Affairs” in 19 cities . . . 4nd is borne out hy my own observation since return from Japan. We lack the Interest in othér countriés that I have seen in the eager questions about América . , . Notth and South . .. from people in Europe, the Near East, Middle East and Far East, In foreign countries, almost everyone over the age of 16 is interested , . . and I've heard much more intelligent comment on world politics from a 14-year-old boy in Algiers than 1 have from many supposedly well-informed adults at home.

Small Organizations Mere Carry Ball’ + . BUCH ORGANIZED INTEREST as there is here is confined largely . to discussion ‘in “high level” groups. |, p : The greater population is seldom reached, even though the members of these organizations would be classified by public relations experts as “leaders of thought” whose thinking affects many others. And in the schools of Indianapolis, according to the study, instruction in international affairs is sporadic, too. In the early stages of making foreign policy, it is of course removed from the scrutiny of public opinion. Put there comes the later stages when public opinion is important and when, if that opinion is informed, it can affect foreign relations. I had believed that veterans returning-from all parts of the world would have been deeply concerned with such matters . . . but most of them are too busy trying to get a roof over their head and solve the other problems of readjustment to have time for the broader interest that surely will become evident later,

Lessons on Exp

WASHINGTON, July 13.—Over in Paris they have agreed to hold a peace conference, and from now on you will have to be reading a lot more foreign news in place of straight OPA. It will be fuh to get back on a straight diplomatic diet again. It should take the mind off the heat and the inflation, : : It will be fun for the experts on foreign affairs, too. That's nice work, if you can get it.

Reduced to a System vOU PAPER THE WALLS of your den with big maps. Then, once a day, you put on a blindfold, grab a pin, revolve rapidly three times, until disay, and stagger into the nearest obstruction. Your pin is held outstretched in the right hand, like a lance of sword avenging, ‘spearing hot-dogs or justice. Wherever the pin strikes, just keep your right indexfinger on the spot. Ari, lo ahd behold, there you have a situation. What's more, it's a situation fraught with peril to world peace. You're always bound to be right, too. No secondguessing necessary. And nobody dares call you wrong. Why? Because you have certain confidential sources of information. : 86 you begin your daily analysis of world affairs. If you want to get this down to a system and thus savé time, make out a form with blank spaces which metely need to be filled in with proper names of the places where your pin and finger collided ‘with the walk You may use your left hand to take off the blindfold now, though it really isn't necessary. The form before you should read somewhat as follows: “Confidential sources in —— were today inclined to believe that the situation in —— is still fraught with peril to world peace.” Paragraph two is always intended to build up the reader's confidence in the writer's familiarity with the whole subject. It reads like this: “Official spokesmen in Downing st, the Vatican, Quai d'Orsay, 1600 Pennsylvania ave. (cross out any

WORLD AFFAIRS -. . . By Sid

TARLAC, July 13.=This is the heart of the “Hukbalahap” country of the Philippines, where a rebelllous movement has been threatening peace, rehabilitation and agricultural progress in the granary of the new republic. - There have been a few skirmishes hereabouts but there is no civil war raging. But it is the constant threat of war, the nightly raids by the Huks, the forcible “recruiting” to the Communist cause, kidnapings, burnings and slaying by the renegade army that continue to strike terror to the hearts of the peasant people and prevent them from working.

Communists Lead Movement

APPARENTLY THERE WILL BE no peace and no work in central Lugon until this menace is removed by force.” Mediation and compromise are bound to fail because the Huk leaders dare not eome in for conference. If they did “they would be held responsible for the wave of murders charged to them.

—— The -Huk-movement—apparently-had its origin in

the unrest caused by the plight of the peons and the government's lack of interest in reforms. This year the movement was taken over by Communists, Then, after defeat of the Communists in the national elections, the Huks degenerated into mere banditry which is its present status. According to Gov, Angel Tadeo, of Tarlac province, there are probably 10,000 Huks operating and well armed. Lately they have engaged in an intensive recruiting campaign. This consists of appearing like night riders at outlying farm houses, and forcibly taking away boys of 14 and 15. In the process, the Huks seize food and anything else of value. Many

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By

MADRID, July 13.—It's just four months since I was last in Madrid, These four months have witnessed a remarkable transformation in the Spanish political scene. The Franco regime, which In March seemed extremely wobbly, is now more secure than at any time since Franco seized power. The carefully constructed coalition of monarchists, generals, liberals and modérate republicans, which was actively planning the removal of Franco and the restoration of the Spanish monarchy, has fallen apart. And today there's no active movement against Franco at all.

Argentina Another Example THIS REMARKABLE CHANGE has been brought about solely by the clumsiness of Franco's enemies. In the same way that Gen. Juan Peron of Argentina was helped by the ham-fisted diplomacy of Spruille Braden of the American state department, Franco has been firmly propped on his tottering throne by the folly of the Polish and, above all, the French Communists. ? i

erect a statue of Mr. Braden in Buenos Aires, and Franco would erect two in Madrid—one_ of Dr. Oscar Lange, Polish delegate to the United Nations security council, and one of Maurice Thorez, French Communist leader. . Spaniards have always reacted violently against foreign Interference in their affairs. And they have particularly bitter memories of French Interference under both Louis XIV and Napoleon. So the fact

by France was especially unfortunate. And the addi-

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tional fact that the.only support for this foreign inervention came {rom Russian and Polish Commu-

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If there were any gratitude in politics, Peron would ~

that foreign opposition to the Franco regime was led’

The Oodunell on Foreign Relations, in that part of its survey , lists four local groups specializing international affairs. These ,are the Indiana Committee for Victory, which “has about & thousand members of whom not moré than 50 take a very active part’; the Poréign P6licy association, which is “newly organized, has an outstandifig group of sponsors and directors, and not as yet a large membership”; the Indianapolis Oouncil on Foreign Relations, & part of the stirveying group which, like the others, is small in numbers, and the Ihterna« tional Relations club, which has not Been active oft broad scale, . There seems to be a slackening interes important fleld, in line with the Te ’ est In winning the peace , . . after victory most folk thought the war was over. They don't particularly care to think too deeply row about the impHeations arid responsibilities of that vic However, as Booth Tarkington said of the Indiana Committee for Victory, thete is even greater need of such iritérest now than during the war, if that be possible,

Survey Lists Two Action Groups THE STUDY REPORTED there were two orgasii« zations in the city “doing something about it.” These are the Committee for Victory and the League of Women Voters, both of which conducted educational campaigns about the United Nations charter and the Dumbarton Oaks conference. Their programs are continuing despite decreasing in although how long they will be able to compete with apathy is dubious. Speaking of Dumbarton Oaks, the survey report shows that in a small random poll on that conference, (made by Times reporters, incidentally) only two out of five persons knew the purpose of the conference, Where would your answer have beén tallied? .

REFLECTIONS . . . By Peter Edson

erting Peace Parley

not wanted, or add others to suit taste, such as 1634 Main ave, up one flight, over the want-ad countés and down the hall, third door past the drinking fountain on thé right), all agree that this new crisia is causing concern, and lights burned late in the secret code-rooms, where secret dispatches from seeret observers were being translated in seeret”

In paragraph three, and never later, drag in the

The government of —— is still considered a puppet bY. itohe In Whe know. Moscow really holds the and.” Following this come a niimber of sentence-starters, You finish them if they fit, cross them out if they don’t. More often than not, they will fit. To-wit: “It was recalled here in highest circles that . , , “Stalin and Molotov were kéeping their usual silénce, but . . . .” “How Truman, Byrhes, Attlee and Bevins would interpret this new development was indicated by . . .” “The fact that Ohiang Kai-shek offered no objections was taken to mean he. would agree unless . . . J

No More Mystery About It THEN, WHEN YOU'RE two-thirds through, you finish oft with the meanwhiles. Always there must be a meanwhile as you come into the homestretch. “Meanwhile, there was every likelihood the ime passe would have to be referred to the United Nae tions security council.” “Meanwhile, the French government resigned in protest, and M —— was to form a new cabinet. ‘Who would be given the portfolio of minister without portfolio would, naturally, have some bear ing on the future course of the conference.” Meanwhile, you see how easy it is to be a foreign affairs expert. N

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Organized Banditry in Philippines

times the recruits are not heard from again. The families are so terrorized they do not complain to the police. The Huks' great stronghold is Mount Arayat, a rugged extinct volcano in the Lugon plain. At present, it almost inaccessible to the government forces. There the Huks are reported to have the bulk of their military supplies including several field pieces, machine guns and ammunition. To reach this natural fortress they skirt through a circle of hills ringing the fertile rice country, travel ing by back roads to avoid the main highways under constant patrol of military police. They swoop into smaller “barrios” levying food and money tributes and frequently young sons of families and then retreat toward the hills before police battalions arrive. They apparently are acting on orders to use the hit-and-run method because they avoid open fight ing. Recently there were three instances when they were ambushed by Philippine M. Ps. The most se~ rious engagement lasted three days beginning July 4 and spread through the barrios of Mayantoc, La Paz and Concepcion. More than 100 Huks are known dead as against fwo M. P.’s killed and six wounded,

Huks Hate U.S.

GOVERNMENT FORCES now are beginning te use 88 mm. mortars which are effective against cone centrations. American forces are strictly avoiding this internecine struggle although they are in strong force at Clark field, 20 miles south of here. Nevertheless one of the principal tenets of the Huks is hatred of America. Hence there is constant fear that they will provide an incident in which we might be involved. ;

Randolph Churchill

Outside Meddling Arouses Spaniards

Anyone but a political half-wit could haye fore= seen the outcome of these maneuvers. Ninety percent of all Spaniards hate foreigners, Frenchmen and Communists. To wave all these three red rags simultaneously in front of the Spanish bull seems to have been the ultimate acme of political boobydom. The recent international attack on Franco was 80 ill-contrived that some cynics have suggested that the Kremlin, despairing of creating a Communist Spain, would rather have a Franco Spain than ons that was truly democratic, This point of view is not as far-fetched as might be supposed. The Communists have great need of Fascists. The Communist doctrine is essentially destructive rather than creative. It's founded on hate rather than love, But it's impossible to create an atmosphere of hatred in a vacuum. Therefore, it's natural that the Come

munists should attack Franco and say that he.is a |

“Fascist beast.” But if Franco were not there, they would call someone else a “Fascist beast.”

Stalin Likes Unrest

THE COMMUNIST VOCABULARY, though limited, 1s extremely flexible, and some one who is

today “an important friend of the Soviet Union” may

easily be a “revolting Fascist swine” tomorrow. Such

are the normally accepted amenities of, Soviet |

diplomacy. : Short of having a Communist Spain, it's very nice

for Stalin to have a man like Franco in Madrid. It's

the next hest thing. So long as Franco rules in

Madrid, it's’ impossible for France and Britain to | admit Spain into the western bloc. That's why it's |

freely stated in Spain today that Franco's best friend ‘is Marshal Stalin. This may seem somewhat odd, but one must alw

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