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~% trols on appeared today to bear out the predic- ' tions of scarcity Indianapolis men in the meat business "warned would follow such a step. About 5000 hogs a day have been coming to market "here since OPA went out of business July 1. Yesterday - 1000 hogs arrived. Cattle receipts, too, were down yesterday to about one-fifth of the number that has been coming in daily. And still further decreases were anticipated. Meat packers were beginning to lay off workers for whom they had no work. In a few days, at this rate, market shelves here will again be bare of meats, as they were before OPA was temporarily suspended this summer. We may expect to hear again, as we heard last spring, that all this is a part of a stupendous plot of the greedy “interests” to starve the poor customer into submission of an uncontrolled market. The simple truth is, however, that no way has yet been found to induce farmers who raise cattle and hogs to sell them for less than they cost “to produce. And the same order that undertook to force the price of meat down forced the cost of producing meat up by taking off ceilings on grains on which cattle and hogs are fed. The restoration of subsidies, of course, has nothing to do with the price of meat, but only with whether we pay the butcher or the tax collector for it, For that matter ceilings set by OPA appear to have had little relation to the ‘price of meat, either. According to estimates by OPA : as much as 80 per cent of all meat was being sold through the black market; where there is no ceiling price, : while OPA was still doing business last spring. The black "market died with OPA. There seems to be no assurance that it will not be revived with OPA. ~The meat supply, on the hoof, in this country is by a ‘very wide margin the largest in this country’s history. There is no shortage; at the source. During the six weeks

iit appeared in ample supplies at retail prices that would ‘bring it to store counters, prices that had leveled off, after an initial flurry, and had ceased to rise further. |. If new ceilings to be set now are lower than that level, of course meat will not come to market. If they are as

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~ need for ceilings. - It would, indeed, be a happy state of affairs if by vernment decree we could all enjoy high incomes and at same time pay low prices for the things we buy. If, in _ short, two plus two could somehow make five. 4 Nothing in human experience indicates that it ever will:

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g fed th here would be vigorous in its condemnation of com‘munism and Communists in the United States. The Legion ~ is composed of men who have offered their lives in defense of American principles and the American way of life. The Communist party is dedicated to the destruction of these principles and that way of life, and exists for no other e. It is, as Legion speakers pointed out, impossible to justify the presence of a Communist party member in any governmental office, or at least in any governmental job * that requires an oath of allegiance to the United States and the constitution, since any Communist, of course, gives his first allegiance to a foreign nation and is pledged to the overthrow of this government and constitution. ; We rather doubt, though, whether any good would come of a red hunt on the campuses of Indiana colleges, such as some enthusiasts have suggested. In the first place such investigations rarely turn up any Communists, or any conclusive proof of party membership of suspects. On the contrary, they usually turn a spotlight of suspicion and unsubstantiated charges on men who are not Comsmunists at all, or even fellow travelers, but just good sound Americans of liberal views who have perhaps been outspoken in defense of civil liberties even for people with whom they disagree. The Communists love that. They feel, no doubt, that if they can manage to get a respectable citizen tagged as a Communist in the public mind a few other respectable people may thereby be convinced that communism, after | all, isn't such a bad thing. The alternative program of the Legion, which is the positive teaching of Americanism by precept and example, | seems much more likely to produce the results in good citizenship toward which their effort is directed.

MEAT FOR MASTIFFS J, LLIOTT ROOSEVELT has written a book and early chapters from it just published in Look magazine clear up one of the war's minor mysteries. We know now how the young man, who began his military career as a full-blown captain, managed to turn up at so many international conferences in 80 many places. Elliott was called in to serve the drinks. «. However, the real point of the book seems to be peace. With some pride, the author describes the job his parent did in selling Winston Churchill, the Tory imperialist, on the Atlantic Charter, neglecting to mention that Mr. Roosevelt Sr. brought back neither a signature nor an exhibit r the archives, Peace has not been won, Elliott writes, because of the own in Big Three unity. But for the whys and fo of that breakdown, his readers are given the vie serial treatment—they must wait for the next

‘. sw ’ ®" 8 =» PS Elliott will draw some parallel between .the of Big Three harmony and the exploits of plane-riding bull mastiff. The heavyweight Blaze, pealied, once was put into a pen with Fala, the : White House Scotty.’ But for the presence Fala would have been devoured by the

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the muddled course the city council has taken on this meter question. The traffic problem is one of the city's: really serious problems. In traffic handling, we're still a hick town. Let's make a start by either accepting parkifig meters and seeing whether that helps the traffic situation, or rejecting them and then bringing in

Be ho dT Bd our local SO-vAIMEq™ (raflic enme don’t know what to do about it.

» » - “PRESS SHOULD PRESENT LANDLORD'S SIDE IN NEWS” By Robert Selmer, Plainfield, Ind. The press should never have the nerve to voice criticism of our political demagogues for their catering to the masses after the strongly, partisan attitude it has taken on the landlord-vs.-G. I.s-and-tenants controversy. Examples are first-page write-ups about veterans with little children or aged couples with arthritis being gouged by rent increases or evicted by heartless landlords. As if there were no aged couples with arthritis dependent for a livelihood on rents that have steadily shrunken in purchasing power over five years with no blanket increases allowed. Or as if~the butcher, the coal dealer, and the clothing merchant would reduce his price or give what he has to sell outright to veterans with small children or . old couples with arthritis. Why, indeed, with all the political sops being handed to these classes anyway, should the landlord be singled out to bear alone the load of what should be public charity. In almost all the cases in question, the press has given space and prominence to the tent's side of the controversy, with usually a brief mention, in closing, of the landlord's reason for eviction or rent increase. Acthally, evictions were usually for good reason, such as damage to property or non-payment of rent, and unreasonable increases were made, as they always hava been, as the surest and most con-!

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‘ Well, I see where the city is going to start “technical testing” of bx : 2 : several kinds of parking meters next week. I hope they arrive at some without interference with prices or its free flow to market, | Anal conclusion and either install the meters or drop the subject. I for one am tired of the controversy. It's just like so many other actions

government—Ilots of discussion but

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venient means of getting rid of an undesirable tenant. The press, like the politicians, probably realizes that there are more G. Is and renters than there are landlords reading the paper and thinks they enjoy reading about the wicked landlord being brought to justice. However, it shguld be [remembered that such te-u

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it seems that these groups to be hard enough to satisfy and deal with, without being mollycoddled and incited on by sympathy of the press and public. If that is what is meant by freedom of the press in this country, we would be better off with less of it. » = » “HOUSING FOR VETERANS HITS DEFICIT BOGEY” +» By L. Burkett, 1428 Park ave, Veterans’ proposals that instead of barracks the city provide veterans housing of a permanent type which can later be utilized to rehouse displaced families when the city slum clearance gets under way once again brings up the old bogey that public housing runs up a deflcit. These dire things happen when government invades the domain of private enterprise. * Take the case of Ida B. Wells Homes, a low-rent housing project operated by the Chicago Local Housing Authority. Some 1650 families with an aver age income of $14.54 per week (the top few earning $1100 a year) had been provided with decent shelter who once lived in filthy hole-in~ the-wall squalor. But after 18 months of operation the management was in a hole, financially speaking. Statisticians tore their hair. Another altruistic failure. Another proof that public housing didn’t pay. Then the tenants heard about it and the tenants held a party. They raised the money to bury the shameful deficit. Oh, the deficit? It was $156.40.

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“ON-THE-JOB TRAINING PROGRAM NOT UNIFORM” By W. R. §., Indianapolis In reply to “On-the-Job Training Program for G. 1's Damaged by Congress Action,” I would like to state my views which might enlighten this “Interested Employer, City,” concerning his recent item on the on-the-job training program. When the vice president of a large company or corporation can be set up on-the-job-training for the objective of president of this company or corporation and draw around $500 or $600 a month while another man is working for 60c an hour as an apprentice automobile mechanic, what is fair about it? Or if a man has to train for three years in a state in the east to become a clerk and a man in a state in the midwest only trains three months, then .it is high time to set up some sort of standardization which will be fair to all and will, at the same

erans in institutional , training a higher rate of pay and at the same time pensions for all veterans are raised by 20 per cent. The present cost of vocational rehabilitation will run our government somewhere near $6 billion, which is more money than it costs to run all pther departments of ‘the government combined. If you want inflation, then continue under the old on-the-job training program and let these men draw down these high salaries, if not then let's make the game fair for all concerned. I am a veteran with 4'; years active service in the U. 8. navy, 34 months of this tour of duty being overseas, I am sure that all that I want is the chance to make my own way in this world and not a free handout from the government, and if I do cash in on what the government promised me, I want. just the same benefits as the next fellow and I am sure that this bit of legislation was enacted for this purpose. s ” » “PALESTINE ISSUE IS A PURELY BRITISH PROBLEM” By J. E. R., Indianapolis Truman's announcement on the 16th that he would admit European refugees into America is, in my opinion, a new all-time low in presidential stupidity. A horde of aliens flooding into our country carrying the bankrupt ideologies of bankrupt Europe, competing with. our own native citizens for jobs and housing facilities, are about as welcome as a plague of locusts. The Palestine issue and the Jewish refugees are purely an English and not an American problem. We are neither morally nor legally obligated to take any part whatsoever in it. America is the garden spot of the world. Let's keep it that way by keeping the foreigners out!

Editor's Note: Fortunately for America, the policy J. E. R. advocates wasn't in effect prior to 1800, or subsequently, ~ » » “BLIND WORKERS REQUIRE SIGNS AS TRAFFIC AID” By West Side Resident I have lived on W. 30th st. for several years, one block from the broom factory which employs only blind people. Not only my family and myself have noticed how hard it is for a blind man or woman to cross 30th st, but other neighbors have noticed and would like for something to be dong about it. You would think 30th st. was a race track, thé way people “drive. It is my wish and that of everyone .else near the factoty that someone put signs from Illinois st. to Northwestern ave. for drivers to slow down so these blind people can crgss the street.

DAILY THOUGHT

For do I now persuade men, or God? or.do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.— —CGalatians 1:10,

4 4.4 To what. base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals wrg'd fhrough sacred

IT'S OUR BUSINESS . .

AN INTERESTING SIDELIGHT on the thinking of German youth is contained in the opinion of youngsters in this enemy country as to who is the “greatest man in world history.” i ¢ + The German youngsters selected Franklin D. Roosevelt for that mythical title . . . reflecting a quick and perhaps dubious ersal of all that they had been taught in their Nazi schools, where Mr. Roosevelt ‘was’ depicted in the blackest of terms. The forthcoming issue of the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology contains the results of the survey conducted by Psychologist Donald V. MecGranahan of Harvard university,

Soldiers and Politicians Preferred FROM FIRST-HAND CONTACT with the ple of France, England, North Africa, Italy, Austria and the Philippihes, I know that the late President®

Japan, that recognition on the part of the common people went to Gen. MacArthur, and reports I had seen from Germany make the Harvard scholars findings most surprising. ) His anonymous poll , , , taken in two cities . . . gave the following order of preference: Mr. Roosevelt, Bismarck, Frederick the Great, Hitler, Gen. Eisenhower, Charlemagne, President Truman, Caesar, Alexander the Great and Napoleon. From these selections, Prof. McGranahay concludes that “in psycho-analytic terms, the German seeks to be a father and a son, but not a brother.” In attempting to establish a comparison with American youth, the: researcher found in a nationwide sampling test that Mr. Roosevelt rated as “greatest” with them, top. Abraham Lincoln was second, with Jesus Christ . . , whose teachings have been funknown to this generation of German youth

RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES of Myron Taylor has revived speculation as to whether he will go back to the Vatican, where he has served as the President's “special representative.” Mr, Taylor has ostensibly returned to the United States for a vacation visit. Were it not for the agitation against the U. S. mission to the Vatican, it could be taken for granted that his stay here would be short. _Most important pronouncement against Mr. Taylor's mission was made by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, which speaks’ for almost all American Protestants. Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of New York, the former DePauw university president who now heads the council, en= gaged in a bitter newspaper debate on the subject with Cardinal Spellman, The exchange showed the intense feelings on both sides of the question,

Diplomatic Representation Vital in War PRESIDENT TRUMAN, himself a Baptist, replied to the Federal] Council that he does not intend to keep a representative at the Vatican after the conclusion of peace. There is logic in the Protestant contention that a nation like the United States, in which church and

Editor's note: Mr, Humphreys, a meniber of The Times staff, was with the allied control commission in Italy for 30 months, returning to the United States last June to be discharged from the army. He was decorated with the Bronze Star for his services with the commission.

state are divided, should not have diplomatic relations with the head of any church. - However, President Roosevelt's decision to send 2 mission to the Vatican at the time war broke out in Europe was based largely on sound political reasoning. The Vatican maintains one of the best diplomatic

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LITTLE THINGS can loom big in human affairs— a cinder in your eye; a pebble in your shoe; an inch added to the end of anybody's nose. Two minor incidents in presidential elections in the United States emphasize this. They concededly cost two men the presidency of the United States, the greatest political prize in the modern world,

Militarily Minor THE FIRST: Winfield Scott Hancockein the campaign of 1888, said: “The tariff question is a local question.” * Blooey went the presidency of the United States for him. The majority of the popular vote against him was 9464 in a total vote of 8,889,368. The second: A ministerial partisan of James G. Blaine in 1884 said: “The Democratic party is the party of rum, Romanism, and rebellion.” Right there the presidency for Blaine faded out. A change of 525 votes in Blaine’s favor out of 1,129,158 votes cast in the state of New York would have given Blaine a majority of just one vote in the state, and the presidency of the United States. : # The capture of Vincennes by George Rogers Clark was a little thing in the military world. A wooden stockade and two blockhouses were the only defenses. The British force was about 6Q British regulars and a few volunteers. Clark’s force was about the same. The weapons were some rifles and a couple of swivel ns. ey But in the larger view, the capture of Vincennes by Clark was a major event in the life of Indiana, and in the affairs of the nation. Three things made it so: ONE: It gave the Northwest Territory to the

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NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—1 wish I had a George Spelvin like Mr. Pegler has, to hang my average American bewilderment on, but lacking a Mr. Spelvin and not being able to think up a suitable synonym, 1 guess I will have to hang it on myself. Today Robert C. Ruark, American, sits in front of a typewriter and just will be damned if he can make heads or tails out of what goes on.

Inconsistencies of Victory

RUARK IS AN ORDINARY GUY who reads about the peace conference and Mr. Byrnes being a hero for calling Mr. Molotov a bum, which Mr. Molotov undoubtedly must be or he wouldn't act that way, unless somebody told him to act that way on purpose. Unfortunately Ruark was taught to read at an early age, a skill which leads him invariably into trouble, such as being acceptable to the armed forces when a war comes along, and, more latterly, of mak= ing him wonder just what goes on when a tinpot subdivision like Yugoslavia can get away with shooting up a couple of American atreraft which happen to be flying over a porscht-heaven which is currently Bossed by some gangster named Tito and will undoubtedly be bossed by some other thug «When the current string-pullers get sick of Tito and shoot the so-and-so. Who is this Tito, and who are we to let him rub out our guy Mihailovitch, who helps us win a war, and then tell us we can’t fly over his stinking little postage stamp? And speaking of that war, they tell Ruark, who was in-it for awhile and didn’t like any part of it, that the Americans win it easy, but if this is the way you get treated when you win a war maybe it is better to just quit before you start and make the victors feed, clothe and house you forever after. : ; “Lam a bewildered guy all my life,” this Ruark

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. . &s third. The others in top listing were George Washington, Christopher Columbus, Gen. MacArthur, Edison, Caesar, Benjamin Franklin and Gen. Eisenhower, It would seem our high school pupils didn’t know too much about history, ’ And a survey several months ago by & national organization which asked the same question of adults but confined the field to living persons throws further light on American thinking. Gen, MacArthur was first choice, followed by President Truman, Gen. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Mrs. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, Outside the top heroes, the German youths questioned listed also the Pope, Goethe and Churchill while the American high school youngsters included Mark Twain and “atomic bomb discoverer.”

Doubt Accuracy of Survey CONSIDERING THE FACT that Mr. Roosevelt is the only President (except Mr. Truman) that American high school pupils have read about as a contemporary .during their lifetime, his selection by them is not surprising. However, I cannot feel that the survey in Germany really reflects the genuine feeling of the coming generation. Had it been made in the Russian zone, it probably would have given Stalin top position. In the British sone, it would undoubtedly have been Churchill, as it would in the French area where no Frenchman could really be popular with the probable exception of Napoleon. The nationality of the man asking the question

of a defeated enemy has a lot to do with the top .

selection. The next highest choices of Bismarck, Frederick the Great and Hitler are probably more

accurate in reflecting the real opinions of German youth,

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Sexson E. Humphreys Mission to Vatican Useful to U.S.

partment with exceedingly valuable information regarding the conditions in Hitler's continental fortress. It also made the negotiations easy when Italy decided to surrender. Sound political reasons still exist for keeping Mr. Taylor in Rome. Throughout western Europe, the Catholic church has established political parties, The laymen who are the leaders of these parties look to the Vatican for advice and guidance. ; Under one name or another, the Catholics have the strongest party in France, the strongest party in Italy, the strongest party in Austria and the second strongest in Holland. - The Vatican considers itself as Europe's chief bulwark against communism, Each of these Catholic parties favors a program of such reforms as are believed necessary to prevent its respective nation from going over to,the Communists. It is not the business of Mr. Truman or of Mr. Taylor to decide whether this political anti-com-munism is a proper, attitude for a Christian church. For them, the important fact is that the Vatican is a political force in the world. Few of the heads of state to whom we send diplomats are as potent politically as Pius XII. And Mr. Taylor is. concerned only with political matters. 4

Taylor Talked to President Direct THE RECENT ITALIAN ELECTION has also stressed the political importance of the Vatican. Italy no longer has a constitutional king, and there are many Italians who look to the pope as almost the king of Italy. . A great many Italians and American soldiers as well have considered that Mr. Taylor was similarly the ‘U. S. amabassador to Italy. Because he is the “personal representative” of the President, he can phone the White House directly, while Ambassador

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SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By William A. Marlow Vincennes Capture Helps Tip Scale

United States of America. This is amply attested by the negotiations at the treaty of Paris in 1783 that ended the revolutionary war. I The best historical judgment is that without Clark’s victory at Vincennes the Northwest Territory would have gone to G Britain. That means that Indiana today would probably be part of Canada.

TWO: It probably tipped the scales in America’s favor in the final stretch of the revolutionary war. This is how: Back of Hamilton's attack on Vincennes was a plan, with Vincennes captured, for a British force to sweep from the Mississippi river in a wide swath on both sides 6f the Ohio river to Pittsburgh. With Pittsburgh captured, the British force there, co-operating with an east Pennsylvania army and the forces already anchored at Charleston and Augusta in the south, would close in on the American army, probably in Virginia. This would end the revolutionary war in a British victory.

Clark's Feat Made History AND THIRD: Capsheaf of this plan, in reverse, was an idea born of American victory, It was the idea of a national union of the 13 original states, plus the states to be formed from the Northwest Territory. This satisfied the states who claimed portions of the territory, and calmed the fears of those who had no such claims, Thus the capture of Vincennes by George Rogers Clark and his little band of American pioneers that February day of 1779 became one of the basic things

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REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark

Our Winning War?’

centerfielder of the New York Yankees if I ever felt like I was walking around in a dream before. “I am in that Italy in 1943, and my old roommate who was my best man gets blown to dust at Salerno, along with & lot of other guys with low draft numbers and a good hunk of heroism, and I will be a black marketeer if I don't pick up the paper and see where the Italians say they won the war against Fascism in Italy. “They keep hollering about the 18 months of cobelligerence, which is a word that is supposed to mean ‘fighting along side of’, but about the only thing the Eytie army ever got belligerent with after they quit to us was a dish of spaghetti or maybe a dame.” ; Mr. Ruark, American, hollered for another rye and beer, and brooded into it for a spell before .he said as follows: ; : “And while I am on'the subject, I used to think that when you win a war you are the boss for awhile, especially if you got sole rights to a handy little gadget like the atom bomb which nobody else has got and which can argue harder than anybody else's words. But it seems now when you win a war you .apologize to the tramps you've licked and you let a starving relative like Russia eat itself fat on your food and strut around wearing your gat which you have bought and paid for and threaten you and low-rate you in your own parlor. x

Taxes Still the Same “lI AM TIRED OF DIGGING into my pants to feed a lot of bums we just finished kicking the tar out of, and lending dough to everybody who puts the bite on you and paying taxes at the same rate as when we were beating these bums, “Maybe I don't understand the full implications of these global things, but I do understand I can't buy a new car or a decent suit and if this is the way to win wars then I say to hell with it and let's try to lose this next one which I gather is on tap.”

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