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a BE Give Light and the People Wil-Find Their Own Wey REDUCED COUNTY TAX RATE

# cut in the county tax levy for next year. The reduction’ was made by pruning the budget submitted for the various agencies of county machinery, and is in contrast with increasing tax levies for all other units of government. : as : If at the end of next year it is found that the reduction did not affect the efficiency of county government, the g on indeed will have a feather in their cap. 3 oe i ; x Iw obi ise ‘ tiwag nea it

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plan and act now to avoid repeating blunders of shortsightedness, inefficiency and incompetence, confusion and duplication of effort, if it becomes necessary to fight another war, ers : And, under present conditions, our best assurance of peace is to have every possible foreign aggressor know that at all times the American people will and can defend themselves. These are the sound conclusions of the senate’s special committee to investigate the national defense program. The committee, headed first by Senator Truman of Missouri and then_by Senator Mead of New York, has been on the job since early 1941. Its fifth annual report, just issued, s bluntly of errors in the recent war effort. But it speaks constructively, to the end that dearly bought experience may be a guide to future safety. And its recommendations, we believe, are wise. Our national defense today, the committee holds, calls for: ONE: A highly trained armed force, with emphasis on quality rather than quantity, equipped with the most mod-

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insure that the best qualified men, regardless of age or seniority, rise to top positions of responsibility. THREE: An industrial mobilization plan, constantly revised, ready for instant adoption on any future M-day. FOUR: A plan for government production controls, free from the duplications and inefficiencies observed during world war II, also kept up to date and ready for use. ~ FIVE: Stock-piling of raw materials which, in another war, we would not be able to obtain from our own resources. SIX: A feasible program for acquisition or use of strategic overseas bases. SEVEN: A more efficient intelligence agency, in both - military and non-military fields, than we had before world war II. EIGHT: More business-like administrative methods in the armed forces. We all hope fervently, as the , committee says, for enduring peace through international agreements. But today it obviously is not safe to depend too much on that hope. Nor is it safe in any degree to count on time for “muddling through” to victory in a world war III.

BUT WE CAN HOPE, CAN'T WE? THE United Nations security council is in session at Lake Success, N. Y. So far, any resemblance between - the name and the achievement is purely. coincidental.

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NOT SO STRANGE “HE Gallup poll reports that 51 per eent of this country’s ~ voters can’t tell the meaning of the phrase, “balancing the federal budget.” Maybe that’s not se strange. : Not for 16 years has anybody in this country seen a balanced federal budget. Few citizens now below the age of 35 or so were taking any interest in the subject when the federal budge} was last balanced. Millions of voters can remember budget balancing only as an‘annual promise, not as an annual performance. And, for quite a while, it ceased to be even a promise. New Deal economists told us that, after all, unbalanced budgets needn't cause worry, and the quaint idea that the government should live within its income went out of fashion as well as out of practice. No, it’s not strange if more than half of the voters ‘don’t know what “balancing the federal budget” means. But another Gallup poll finding seems more hopefiil. Of the voters who can define that phrase correctly, nearly three-fourths believe that it is more important to balance the budget in the coming year than to cut income taxes. In other words, when voters understand that a balanced budget means that the government spends no more money than it takes in, most of them are strong for that. And they're right. :

HE'S NOT ON THE TICKET : HE New York state Democratic convention was some- ~~ thing of an-all-Roosevelt show, with Eleanor Roosevelt g keynoting, Faye Emerson Roosevelt serving as.an alternate delegate, the band playing “Happy Days Are Here Again,” and all the orators extolling the virtues and policjes of the | late President: Harry Truman's name was scarcely men-

That would seem to indicate a Democratic strategy of _ trying to make the popularity of Franklin D. Roosevelt the dominant issue of the campaign. 1t‘is not a strategy likely to succeed in this time of new personalities, new es and new issues—that is, unless the Republicans the mistake of trying to run again against F. D, R.

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A. V. C. feels that as the rank and the responsibility = commensurate with it increases, the punishment dealt to defendants should be greater. It was only after public exposure that the army even considered bringing the officers in charge to trial at Lichfield. The greater responsibility for these atrocities lies with the higher ranking officers, who in most: cases have received sentences much less severe than those of the enlisted guards. A. V, C's veterans affairs platform adopted at our recent national convention calls for a drastic revision of the army court-martial system. We feel that the conduct of the Lichfield trials has dramatically demonstrated that a full dress congressional investigation of the army court-martial system should be made which will make impossible any repetition: of the inequities shown in the trial of the Lichfield

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“QUESTIONS STATEMENT ON REMOVAL OF SPLEEN"

“I By Herbert C. Lewis, 1008 Lemeke Bldg.

This is directed to your attention in hope that it may correct what I believe to be a gross (but not intenttonal) misstatement. —In— “The Doctor Says,” the M. D. is quoted as saying that removal of the spleen is the indicated treatment for jaundice caused by an enlarged spleen which in turn destroys the red blood cells. While it is true, that in perhaps some isolated cases removal of the spleen corrects the condition, in the experiments of Dr. Minot, who discovered the use of liver extract as a corrective for pernicious anemia, more than 30 spleens were removed. The jaundiced condition disappeared for a time. There was an apparent balance temporarily in the blood cells. However, of 30 patients whose spleens were removed, some lived only hours, others 10 days to two weeks, months or years. In no case did a patient live to exceed 30

“Lichfield Trial 'Whitewash' Indicates Further Inquiry Needed"

By Irwin Katz, Executive Secretary, The American Veterans Committee, Inc.

The American Veterans Committee condemns the fining and repriern weapons and capable of rapid expansion in an |mand of Col. James A. Killian, Lichfield commander, as a “whitewash” and feels that the conduct of the trials indicates that a further probe TWO: An army and navy promotion system which will [of the army court-martial system should be made by congress. There is no doubt that the Lichfield treatment accorded American prisoners”was sub-human beyond all concepts of justice whether mili. tary or civilian. The sentence of Col. Killian, the officer ultimately responsible, is extremely mild and can only be interpreted as a whitéwash of the horrors of Lichfield which have shocked all thinking Americans.

months without his spleen. (Authority, “Nelson's Diseases of the Blood Stream”). : There are literally hundreds of people in this city who are chronic sufferers from jaundice caused by an overactive spleen who would or might be deceived by the erroneous statement quoted above, and it is the hope of the author of this note to forestall any hasty rushing to the hospital of any patient—for an operation that he or she may never live through or who, at the most, may enjoy only a brief extension of life which offers only much postoperative misery. ” » w “VETERANS WANT THOSE ' IN THE WAY TO GET oUT” By Shirtless Veteran, Indianapolis. Mr. Maddox, I am not going to jump down your throat about your article in the Hoosier Forum, “Veterans Keep Your Shirts On.” “hat I would like to do is to enlighten you on just what we veterans want and don’t want. So that in the future when you want fo ‘see your name in print, and want to use the too much pushed around veteran to do it, you will save your advice for someone who will use it. Just what shirt do you refer to? That old O, D. shirt we came home in? That's all we have that didn't cost us nine prices to get. Then why is.the veteran tearing up his only shirt? Because we were promised so many things we now have to fight to get. Mr. Maddox, here is what we want, and here is what we will get. And if you or anyone else is foolish enough to believe we will not get it, just take a look at the old-line politicians taking a. back seat in favor of veterans. No fuss, no fighting, no ballyhoo, and very little gun play. Just voting. We want everything

that has been voted to us by the congress of the United States, And

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we want those who are standing in our way to get out. Plus a cut in red tape it takes to do it. We want a government of the people and by ‘the people—not one to suit the political party in power. We want decent homes, and at a price we can afford to'pay. We want home loans for veterans on small incomes. We want a bonus to give us back the money we lost while on G. I. pay. Very few of us wanted to-fight. The government made us go. We do not want a stone monument built ander pressure and with ‘our bonus money and building material.

We want jobs that will pay us enough to live on. -Not a small salaried job working for the very ones who took our ‘jobs when we left for war. We do not want to be criticized ‘because we so. choose to draw our $20 a week rather than take a job we can’t get by on. And we do not want you to give us advice. We* are voters, we are the most educated army, navy and marine corps the country ever put into uniform. We are getting organized by the thousands and millions. And if you think we do not mean it, just check our pieces of uniform as we go to vote. And now, Mr. Maddox, as I take off my shirt, and go to bed while it is laundered, let me remind you that one of our famous Presidents once said, “He who is good énough to shed his blood for his country, is good enough to receive a square deal afterwards.” » ” » “PUT WAR PROFITS BACK TO WORK FOR VETERANS” By Mrs. Hi W. Shea, 5018 Madison ave. We read again in an article by Mr. Maddox, on the very bad Red communistic boogieman and all his evils, how our own G. Is should ignore all subversive propaganda and keep their. shirts on.” It's a good thing he said shirts, for they lost all else and shirts are all they have left. | But let's see. He said the reason they had come back to the land of milk and honey and found the honey all gone was that it had been drained off to.pay for this war they had just won. : Well, who did we pay? Where did all the money go? Not to the enemy, we defeated them. We loaned our allies (Great Britain) what they got. So it must be hoarded up in the bank accounts of our own war-mongering munitions industries and those who furnished supplies for this war. Then why can't these same profits be put back to work for the peacetime prosperity that will give these lads who fought so gallantly for a decent America to come home to, with food, clothes and homes. In accord with the promises they got when they went away, and in all decency with .what they deserve. Properly feed, clothe and house them, and we need have no fear of any “isms,” Red or otherwise. Let's quit playing pelitics with food, house building materials and all the other things necessary for his decent living and we can drive this big, bad wolf from our midst, Give these G. 1.s what they have fought for and keep America for Americans, and let the imperialists whose possessions and empires create all wars settle their own diffictilties. Let's rebuild® our own America as it was. And let all others do 'ikewise. Our forefathers braved an uncharted sea to get away from this

brave an uncharted economic future and create our own worlds? Free from war, greed and paganism,

let it destroy itselt-in quest for possession, gold and power. These are the creators of wars. And as long as we are among their seekers so long we cannot find peace and just so long we will have wars,

“DAILY THOUGHT "Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. Job 14:1, :

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1 WISH I COULD TELL YOU Mr. Blank's real name, but I just can’t. For two reasoms:.(1) because

I propose to keep; and (2) because of Mr. Blank's wife. To say nothing of the children, Mr. ‘Blank says his wife and children simply adore him and that if they ever discovered the skeleton in his closet, they'd pack -

of course, is the last thing I would want to; happen, notwithstanding a malicious rumor circulated by my critics. that this column has - no other purpose than to stir up family quarrels. It, therefore, behooves me to be as circymspect as possible and write today’s piece in such a way that not even Mr. Blank's wife (nor the children) will recognize him. It's going to’ cramp my style considerably. : The skeleton in Mr, Blank’s closet is the Twelfth U. 8. Census, the one staged in 1900 when Mr. Blank was somewhere around 25 years old. Old enough to know better, he says. © 4

What Possessed Mr. Blank?

‘ MR. BLANK WAS ONE of the 200 census takers at the time, in charge of Vincent G. Clifford (his real rey NE WY NTE FRI ST TR CIYN VT ii Tdbunetly remembers i k.4 ROL 2H cents for each name reported, provided the interviewed person Was in possession of all his faculties. The names of persons. defective in sight, -hearing or speech brought 5 cents apiece, And for every horse, cow, sheep or goat found within the city limits, the enumerator got 20 cents apiece. A census taker lucky enough ito get a district sprinkled with enough goats could. make as much as $7.50 A day, says Mr, Blank. However, Mr. Blank never made more than $4.75 a day. That was because he was given the aristocratic district consisting of Meridian, Pennsylvania and Delaware sts. (on the North 8ide, of course) which had a fair allotment of horses (and physically intact

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Parker La Moore ~~ Typical Sneak Attack on MacArthur

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—The stab in the back given Gen. MacArthur by an anonymous person in the state department has been repudiated by the department, but the incident illustrates again how the department. operates to cut down to size people who do not belong to the lodge. Gen. MacArthur has diplomatic as well as military responsibilities, and in-that role he can expect to be a target for continuing attacks.

State Department Jealous HIS AREA OF THE WORLD comes under the Far Eastern division of the state department, where Communist sympathies have been so strong that the department continues to straddle the fence between the Nationalists and Communists in China. The leftist influence there is reinforced by an important segment among the career diplomats which resents the presence of any outsider in a post which might be filled by one of its members. The Far Eastern division apparently was the source of the MacArthur attack, for it would be there reporters would go with their queries when questions such as the general's statement concerning the political situation in Japan are raised. When Pat Hurley was ambassador. to China and was working to keep China in the war, he was constantly harassed by. this same influence. He told his story after he resigned, but no one in the government seemed interested in ascertaining the facts. But the record is in the ‘files for anyone to read who can break down the barriers of its secret classification.

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . 3 ‘Early Judge Was

JUDGE JOHN CLEVES SYMMES, an uncle of the Capt. John Cleves Symmes who amused colonial America with his theory that the earth is hollow with a hole 2000 miles in diameter at each pole, was of a colonial family ‘long resident in New Jersey. He judged the law in the Northwest Territory as ong as it was part of the Northwest Territory until 103.

Judde Symmes was born in Southold, L. I, in 1742, the son of the Rev. Timothy Symmes. He taught school, farmed, fought in the Revolutionary war, and became judge of the supreme court of New Jersey while he lived in Sussex county. . He moved to Morristown, in the adjoining county of Morris, in 1785, where he becamd .a member of the ‘Continental congress at Philadelphia.

Had Indiana Jurisdiction HERE CAME TO HIM Ma]. Benjamin Stites, of New Jersey, with tidings of a great land out west in the Ohio country between‘the Big and Little Miami rivers, rich and red-ripe for colonization. To Judge Symmes” this was a clarion call to found a great colony beyond the Alleghany mountains in the new Northwest Territory. ©

associates in the venture; -he contracted with the Continental congress to buy 2,000,000 acres on the north side of the Ohio river between the Big and Little Miami rivers. This tract lay directly west of the recently formed colony at Marietta, O. From Aug. 20, 1787, when Judge Symmes submitted to the Continental congress s plan to buy this land till he died on Feb. 26, 1814, 24 years later, he was in alternate. hope and despair over this pur-

PARIS, Sept. 6.—Russia Is determined to undermine the United Nations and to split the democratic powers. That was the two-fold purpose of her move in the foreign ministers’ council meeting here Wednesday night. She failed, but it is clear that she will go on trying. , Deputy Foreign Minister Vishinsky, in requesting a meeting of the Big Four, acted on. orders of the Kremlin, where Foreign Minister Molotov. was called to meet with Stalin and the political bureau. The fact that Mr. Vishinsky was not ready to discuss anything except his proposal for a second postponement of the UN assembly shows how Moscow fears that world organization. It apparently indicates that the Kremlin strategy meeting was. having difficulty deciding whether the time is ripe for a big explosion in the Balkans and the Middle East.

Using Stall Tactics

RUSSIA'S REASONS FOR WISHING postponement of the general assembly are well understood.. She never wanted UN established in the first place. Finally she permitted it to be formed onlyeon the émasculating conditions that she have absolute veto power, that she have three votes instead of one like all others, and that the organization have as little democratic freedom as possible. . Since, she has tried

or discussing her aggressive acts and policies. : led UN assembly can talk. -This is

Even a shack a particularly bad time for a world, forum to meet UN charter all over

because Russia is violating the the lot. Moreover other nations—as shown by their temper at Paris conference—do not like Moscow's

war threats.

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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Ludwell Denny Russia Hoping UN Will Not Succeed

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"One day, indeed, Mx. Blank didn’t make more than |

"$1.75. That was the memorable day he rang the bell of the Girls’ Classical School on N, Pennsylvania. st.

He stated his business and was ushered into the front

parlor. A few minutes later, he was received most graciously by Mrs. May Wright Sewall, the preceptress

of an institution which, at that time, was generally |

regarded as the cénter of culture in Indianapolis. To this day, Mr. Blank doesn't know what possesseq him “to do it. All that he remembers is that he wa

. seized with a shameful desire to take advantage of his

‘official . position. when Mrs, Sewall walked into the parlor. He demanded to know her name and age; whether she was white or colored; whether she could read and write; whether her eyes, ears and tongue were functioning properly! whether she was subject to epileptic fits, and many other embarrassing questions equally ‘out of order under the circumstances although they were all asked for in the census questionnaire. : Mrs. Sewall tolerated the questioning as jong mm she could, which is to say that she protested. when Mr, Blank asked whether shé harbored any goats on the premises. Indeed, she declined to answer which,

of course, made Mr. Blank all the more eager to serve -

His country. He told Mrs. Sewall that he was entitled to an ‘answer ‘whereupon the president of the Intérna-

tional :Council of Women gave him a piece of her ng as ik rr nan ‘Wishes He Hadn't Done ft :

‘ MR, BLANK LEFT THE PREMISES of the Giris’ Classical School, but he distinctly remembers that he had the last word—someéthing to the effect that he "had met a lot of women in his life, but never one who was less of a lady than Mrs. Sewall. Mr. Blank now wishes that he hadn't said it. The memory of it haunts him day and night. He says that time and time again, in the course of the last 40 years, he’s been wanting to make a public confession, but never could figure out a way with a wife and children on his hands. That's why he welcomed my suggestion of handling the thing anonymously;

.. President Roosevelt did not trust many. of the career diplomats in the state department, and often said so. Unfortunately, instead of reorganizing the department, he resorted to the expedient of circumventing it in an effort to protect himself against leaks.

His appointment of special emissaries, reporting directly to him, wasn’t a real answer to the need for safeguarding vital information, for most of their reports eventually found their way into the department’s files. The presidential runners then became open targets for the officials who stand between the misgiong abroad and the policy-makers at home. These “in-between” officials draft minor directives and instructions, and know how to-use that weapon to whittle down a major policy. They also have access to reports and other communications denied to the press or general public, and can sift out such.infor-

mation as they desire and pass it on td friends in the * |

press in garbled form, or out of context, and make a foreign mission appear in any light they ‘thoese.

Tactics Weaken Foreign Policy

THE DEPARTMENT'S official press section is

powerless to correct this condition, and leaks and anonymous comment constantly confuse our position abroad. It is only on rare occasions that such comment is so completely out of line with policy as to draw an official rebuke. Half-truths usually are passed over, and their effect is cumulative, :

y William A Marlow : a Pioneer Promoter

chase. He was in trouble with congress over land titles, money and boundaries. He was entangled with his associates in the deal. He was in controversy with settlers over land titles, payments on their

land, and its exact location. In all these contracts he,

seemed by turns intriguing, dishonest, and . loyal. Brushing aside details, it was for him one long 24year headache. In striking contrast was his experience as a judge of the court in the Northwest Territory. He served in this court for 15 years, from Jan. 16, 1788, to March 1, 1803, when Ohio was admitted to the Union. Altogether nine judges, three at a time, with them he rode the circuit to hold court at Marietta, Cincinnati, Vincennes and Kaskaskia, with Detroit included when possible. The court had immediate jurisdiction over Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, as of modern times, and nominally over the entire

Northwest Territory. The four states immediately

under their jurisdiction covered 192,000 square miles, an area more than twice the size of Great Britain and northern Ireland.

Hoosier by Claim IN THE OVERALL VIEW, Judge Symmes stacks “Up about so: Some of his colony oozed over into Indiana to become good Hoosiers, and some of these became great ones. As one of the first nine judges who both helped to make the law and judge it on Indiana soil, he merits the gratitude and respect of Hoosier folks. ; So at least by stretching the blanket a wee bif, we might bid him our welcome, and bed him down as a good Hoosier,

UN's apparent ineffectiveness, probably would lose their little remaining interest and faith in it. But Moscow failed to get an agreement to push aside the general assembly so it was necessary to give a new twist to an old trick.- Hence Mr. Vishinsky's double-barrelled proposal for the assembly to adjourn until early November—when the peace conference probably would be over—and meet in Paris or Geneva. Foreign Secretary Bevin countered with a suggestion that the assembly meet as scheduled, but deal first with budgetary and other routine matters. If at the end of that time the Paris conference had finished, the assembly could proceed with its political agenda or hold a second session as it preferred. But Mr. Vishinsky hotly opposed this. Real point at issue, however, was made by Secretary of State Byrnes, supported by both Mr. Bevin and French Minister Bidault, Mr. Byrnes reminded Mr. Vishinsky that the UN is the most important world organization, its progress has priority, it is its own master—not subject to dictation by the Big Four or the 21-natiofi peace conference. Only objection Mr. Vis y could offer to the plan for concurrent sessions was that Russia lacks enough diplomats and experts for both. It is notori-

ous that Russia uses many more than other nations, -

with enough left over to supply’ its satellites,

Reds Seek UN Bankruptcy IF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY is postponed until November, UN will have serious budgetary and other organizational difficulties. - The more Secretary-Gen-eral Lie has emphasized this primary fact, the mor:S anxious Moscow has been to force UN into a position of bankruptcy—financially as well as politically and morally. { ; Big Four relations are so tense that not a single ‘one of the many critical problems other than the UN

meeting was raised at the session of the

foreign minfy isters where postponement was discussed

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