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VELCOME, TO THE ARCHBISHOP THE MOST REV. PAUL C. SCHULTE today became ~ & archbishop of Indianapolis in ‘impressive ceremony at 8S. Peter and Paul cathedral. : The archbishop comes here from Kansas City, Kas, with a reputation as a churchman interested in worldly as | well as spiritual affairs. As adviser to the three dioceses "which with the archdiocese of Indianapolis comprise the of Indianapolis, he will have great opportunity for public service. Our reporter who visited Archbishop Schulte at Kansas | City when it was announced he would succeed the Most . Rev. Joseph E. Ritter here, reported that the tall softs spoken prelate was known as an able administrator who took as active a part in civic affairs as his heavy duties would permit. He was known, too, for his understanding of the rural community and its relation to the urban one, a quality that will be especially useful in his new mission. Archbishop Schulte places emphasis on the responsibility of the home, the high ideal of’ family life. And he is a firm believer in the efficacy of prayer and obedience to the Ten Commaridments as a certain cure for the world’s ills. Indianapolis welcomes the new head of the Catholic church in this state, who succeeds another archbishop who was strongly entrenched in the affection and respect of his fellow-townsmen.

GEN. BRADLEY'S MESSAGE ) M and courage shine in these words of Gen. Omar ~~ N. Bradley: - “The American veteran is first of all a citizen of the United States. He is, thereafter, a veteran.” Twice in a week—to the American Legion at San Francisco, and to the American Federation of Labor at Chicago —the great soldier who heads the veterans administration has spoken with deep sincerity. The veteran of world war II, he told the Legion, faces a fundamental choice. : “He can think of himself primarily as a citizen, and he can employ his veterans’ benefits for his own best interests and those of the nation. Or he can think of himself primarily as a veteran, and he can employ his numerical strength for special privilege at the expense of the nation. The choice is basically one between national welfare and special interests. The veteran will find that the opportunity to work, earn and prosper as a self-reliant Ameriean citizen far outweighs the special benefits granted him as a veteran. I refuse to believe he will do anything to endanger the

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is needed. So in order to hold his openly, in our land of the free. You are a privileged character, Mr. Barber, because you carry a title which could bring about a national strike if you were released. You can dd anything you wish, say anything you think and if you should do enough to be thrown in jail there would be hundreds of C.1.0.'s demand your release or else not work. “Remember Mr, Mueller

country for which he fought.” ; And to the labor meeting, Gen. Bradley said: . “We dare not benefit one group of the American people at the expense of the other. When veteran and non-veteran, business and labor, view their -intérests in the light of national welfare—then will we find our real productive strength.” There are those—too many of them—who disagree. For one, the Legion's retiring commander, John Stelle, who seems to regard the ex-serviceman as a veteran first, and then a citizen. But Omar Bradley, the soldiers’ general

from Pittsburgh?” But if anyone would sign his name to an article such as the one you have reference to, he had better lock his doors and pack bag and baggage. Mr. Barber, don’t blame that individual for withholding his name for he doesn’t have the backing you have. He has lost some of his freedom. If you believe the C.I1.O. and Communists are so far apart please tell me why can Mr. Wallace get both of them to pat him on the back? He surely satisfles their longings; they must both have fhe same appetite.

"Old Union Was Peaceful Until

C. I. O.-Type Organizer Came In"

By 20-Year Union Member, City Mr. Barber, perhaps you ‘would be interested in the unknown reason in The Times and refused to sign his

end of your letter when you made

the statement that if there had been a signature the party in question would be released. That is absolutely special effort to find that person, not only C. I O. but also to see that in a short while he will be released from

true. The union has made a to release him from the

Perhaps he is a man who is head of a family and his financial aid

job he cannot express his feelings

him first cast a stone at her.”

With the “batting average” that

the city of Indianapolis enjoys of unsolved murders and wave of crime that is running rampant and unchecked, it appears to me that the individual who wrote the above mentioned editorial had to sweep the floor to find a subject.

The time has come when newspapers, politicians and such like should look after the “home fires’ and stay out of situations that they have no control over whatsoever. Yes, the incident was a most dastardly act and the guilty parties should certainly be brought to account along with these degenerates and reprobates who are allowed to roam the streets of Indianapolis murdering, molesting and beating both men and women at will. Before you start out to evangelize the state of Georgia I think there are others who will agree with me we had best clean our own yard

“BE ON GUARD AGAINST THEFT OF OUR FREEDOMS” By Mrs. Carroll Collins, Indianapolis To people who believe the Russian Communist party is a thrill or Godsend or a Utopia I beg them to read an article, “The Scared Men of the Kremlin” by John Fisher in the Harper's magazine or at least if you value our America take time to read a condensed version in the Reader's Digest of October. “The political police. or Cheka. OGPU and NKVD has enjoyed a highly privileged position. It gets the choicest food, clothes, cars and ballerinas. It can demand access at all times to files, safes, letters,

with no nonsense about privacy. It dossiers record the most intimate details of the lives of everybody.” This reminds me of a good old American scene I. witnessed the other night. Two drunks standing on a corner talking about religion,

on friendly terms, each going a different direction. I said to my husband, “where else but in America could that happen? God bless and keep America just a nation for the people.” May we always enjoy the freedom of speech, press and radio, the right to a private home, the right to vote for the man we like. Wake up now America and go to the polls and vote regardless of party affiliation. Let no special group W. C. T.

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DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CHIEFTAINS are jumping on Republican Senator Robert A. Taft for his forthright criticism of the Nuernberg trials of Nazi war criminals as a violation of American principles of justice. ' . ? Senator Tait had the courage .. . despite presi dential “ambitidns and probable knowledge that his statement would be wilfully .misinterpreted . ~. to say that the hearings “violate that fundamental principle of American law that a man cannot be tried under an ex post facto statute.” : In layman's language, that principle which was made a part of our constitution meaps that a law can't be passed with retroactive effect, reaching back to punish a crime that didn’t exist when it was passed.

No Alibi for Criminals,

SENATOR TAFT DIDN'T SAY that he felt the Nazis who are scheduled to be hanged a week from yesterday shouldn’t have that fate, as the Democrats imply. Here's the cheap political double-talk from the head of that party’s speaker’s bureau, who describes Mr. Taft's statement as “the best break that’s coine our way in a long time.” Says Rep. Sparkman, who holds that job: “I think that Mr, Taft was really expressing what was in the heart of the Republican party. But it is certainly out of step with the thinking of the American people.” ; And the party's publicity chief chorused “I wonder what our 11 million G. I1.’s think about Taft's speech.” Cold énalysis of what Mr, Taft said simmers down to the fact that he said he felt the trials were not properly conducted. Last Thursday ... at a time when the results of the trial were being acclaimed because here at last was punishment for crimes without parallel for their vengefulness in all history . .. the subject of this column was “Nuernberg Method Smacks of Nazism.” I took the position then . + «

Monopoly Gives

PORTLAND, Oct. 10.—The Pacific Northwest is prosperous and full of hope, and justly so. It seems on the way at last to realization of its aspirations for an industrial empire of its own. Everybody is 4n high spirits here for the picture is so different from what had been expected in some quarters,

Business Continues to Flourish

THERE WERE VISIONS of war plants closed, of workers who had come here from many parts of the country stranded and jobless. There was, of course, a temporary shutdown and lull. Shipbuilding has” lost out, and the airplane industry was curtailed. But it didn't happen here. Many war industries are going right ahead now with peacetime production, well booked with orders, of which aluminum is pernaps the most notable example. Some workers left, but a large number remained, and unemployment is not serious. 3 They found jobs, some in reconverted war industries, and many in a host of small new industries which have sprung up out of war experience and ingenuity of businessmen. Aluminum fabrication is responsible for many new small enterprises. There are others. And they are finding national markets through shrewd salesmanship. Principal handicaps to a glowing boom are shortages in materials ‘and skilled labor and engineer shortage is found in airplanes. Theré was no particular problem during the war when the Boeing plant near Seattle was turning out B-17's and B-29's in assembly line process. But new business for commercial airlines and new military-type planes is a custom job. Different customers have different ideas. There is much experimentation. This requires engineers and skilled labor. Boeing has lots of orders. After a temporary shutdown, the plant started again and employment is

IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . By Donald D. Hoover” Democrat Hypocrisy Over Nuernberg

11,000, is expected to reach 16,000 in a few months and level off. That's an example of what's happening.

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and now . ; . that the trials were as arbitrary as the propaganda shows staged in the name of justice by Hitler, Stalin and Tito; that they were.-in violation of the Anglo-Saxon concept of justice. : It was suggested that the criminals should have been tried, instead, undér existing laws of countries in which their crimes were committed. sot, I don't presume to speak for any segment of the “11 million G. I's” that the Democratic national committee wonders about, I do know that many

G. 1's read this column, and that I have received(fl

many calls and comments of agreement with last week’s column. Numerous lawyers, too, agreed that writing the rules as you went along was repugnant to justice . , . as well as in violation of our own jurisprudence. And I don't believe that the Democrats will get very far in an attempt to wrap the American flag around the kind of political pap they seek to feed to veterans , , ., if this latest instance is an accurate reflection of the party's policy on world affairs.

Winner Wipes Out Loser? IT 18 NAUSEATING TO SEE that kind of treat-

“ment of a basic question . . . whether in international

law we should follow procedures in jurisprudence which we prohibit at home as being unfair, Thomas E. Dewey's swift moving into the picture with his “approval” of the death sentences was another phony of political intent. As a contender for the Republican presidential nomination, he seeks to impugn Taft's motives and thus harm an opponent by dirty tactics, Taft didn't at any time condone the conduct of the Nazi war criminals, Speaking again from a layman's standpoint, it would seem that the basic principle established by the Nuernberg trials , . and I wish to make # clear I speak of method and rot guilt of the defendants . + . was that the victor can liquidate the vanguished under whatever laws he chocses to write after viotory.

POLITICAL REPORT . . . By Thomas L. Stokes

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dustries. Now they are off on their own steam. While war provided the basis, there were so many other developments, often overlooked that prepared the way—projects initiated in years past by forwardlooking men. They were often called dreamers, some in politics and government, some in private industry. Cheap power is the key to new development here, and public power is the key to cheap power. It is proper to recall the late Senator Charles McNary of this state, long time Republican senate floor leader, and his legislative activity on behalf of Bonneville. Back beyond all that, the two Californians who pushed through, with much bitter opposition, the giant Boulder Dam project in Colorado, the late Senator Hiram -Johnson and Rep. Phil Swing, both Republicans. . As a result of that pioneering, the power potential was here when the war came, ready for use and further development. Now it is available for peacetime projection. It is well, too, to recall the fight through the years against monopoly, notably, as far as this area is concerned, that to break up the Aluminum Co. of America monopoly. Back in the 20's, the late Tom Walsh of Montana started that. It was taken up later by the Roosevelt administration, finally cul minating successfully through the justice department.

Past Fight Goes On

TODAY THERE ARE NEWCOMERS in aluminum. In this area, the Reynolds Metals Co., the Kaiser

interests, as well as the Aluminum Co. breaking of

the monopoly made this possible, made possible an expanding industry under free competitive enterprise. It is well to recall these fights of the past and the men who made them. For the fight is still going on. It will take the same sort of men, with the same sort of courage and vision, to carry through and realize on the great possibilities. This fight is deeply involved in politics out here this year.

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By Wiliam A. Marlow Early Law Molded to State's Needs

dier-general in the Continental army. He was a

men who made the first 10 laws to govern what is modern Indiana. Arthur St, Clair, governor of the Northwest Territory, and William Holden Parsons, a judge of-the same territory, were the other two. Judge Varnum was of a distinguished Massachusetts family. The first Varnum, George, eased into America about 15 years behind the Mayflower, in 1635. This was in Massachusetts, where Judge Varnum was born at Dracut, Dec. 12, 1748. When Judge Varnum helped to make Indiana's first 10 laws,

member of the Continental Congress at intervals from 1780 until 1787. : He was an original member of the soclety of the Cincinntai, composed of officers of the Continental army, of which George Washington was the first president, who in turn was succeeded by Alexander Hamilton, and the proud Pinckneys of.South Carolina. It is not only the fact, but a natural thing, that a man with such.a background should be the dom-

who proved himself a devoted leader in war, is a better guide in peace than any of the lobbyists and special pleaders who seek advantage by urging the veterans to place their interests above the nation’s.

‘then talk about the neighbor's. At|y, church federation, better busileast the FBI, so you stated in your ness or ¢hamber of commerce take editorial, is still on the Georgia|our American rights away. This is case. Can you say the same about| america, the land that gave birth the WAC who was murdered in the ty, the word freedom and human hotel? The nurse who was mur-|rights, where a poor man can be dered in the hospital? The man|top man, where justice will never who was, found dead under the pe plind-folded nor deal with a bridge? : sword.

In regards to the great sum of money the C. I. O. has gotten for our workers, if you recall correctly it was the strike they pulled in the winter of 1946 beginning with the steelworkers that has caused us to need all we ever got and much more, I could save a little before that time but I do darn good now to

NEITHER STEAKS NOR STABILITY

ER we have steaks this week or the week after, says OPA Chief Paul Porter, is less important than achieving stability for the entire economy. But the country is achieving neither steaks nor stability. : The meat shortage, despite President Truman's contrary opinion, has become a meat famine, The cabinet has canvassed the situation and, according to the President's secretary, no angle has been overlooked. Mr. Porter gives his assurance that “we are working on it.” Yet, with 52 million beef cattle on the range and im the feed lots, the government obviously does not know how to get meat into the butcher shops at OPA prices—this week, next week or any week soon. That does not indicate progress toward economic stability, It points to a condition of chaotic instability, a disruption of trade processes and customs, for which government controls offer no remedy. We believe Eric Johnston voices a general conviction when he asserts that “price and wage controls are collapsing,” that their remaining effectiveness is “hardly more than a shadow of a shadow,” and that— “The only sensible course is to recognize this fact and act accordingly.” ; | He holds that the wage stabilization board, of which he is a member, is-dead-and needs only to be buried; that without wage controls there can be no enforceable price | controls; that prices—except rents—should be decontrolled at the earliest practical moment. We are compelled, by the facts, to agree.

EXTRA! EXTRA! CLE SAM rubbed his eyes and looked again, to " make certain of what he saw—a black-ink entry on his treasury’s books where nothing but red had appeared since Jan. 1, 1931. There it was. The figures for the first three months the current fiscal year showed:

~~ Expenses ............$9,331,039,544.98 Receipts Meret sane ‘ 9,450,345,803.05 4 Surplus .............. 119,306,258.07

don’t cheer yet. This first treasury surplus in 6 years, though a welcome little stranger, wasn't very long. It was due to large income-tax payje last half of September. But treasury officials » pent will end the fiscal year next pse .to President Truman's revised 00,000. Sella, standing at $265,768,495,039.32

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make what I've got last till I get

some more.

I joined a union some 20 years ago and everything was very peaceful until some organigers entered the picture who were branded as “Reds.” Soon they managed to cause labor trouble and broke up our labor union and organized one of their liking. After a few years they changed their name from “Reds” to C. I, O. and people fell for it more easily, But the old “Red” organizers started it all. » » » “CLEAN UP OWN TOWN BEFORE HITTING OTHERS” By E. 8. Hughes, 1200 N. llinols st. After reading your editorial entitled “Georgia Lynchers Still Free,” (Oct. 7) I cannot help but think of that wonderful verse of scripture, which I quote in part: “. . . He that is without sin among yom, let

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his family had been in America 153 years.

“CONSUMERS NEED RALLY POINT AGAINST THE OPA” By Cecil W. Ross, 400 E. 48th st. 1 recently sent the following letter of protest to the OPA at Washington! “Meat no longer is supplied to the stores in my neighborhood. The fact that meat was available only during the period in which OPA was inoperative leads me to certain conclusions, Can you explain why OPA is so determined to upset the national economy? Please send me the address of the black market serving my area.”

I received this reply: “Relet 20 present shortage nat-

OWN RULES OF CONDUCT” By Robert A. Hogan, Indianapolis Being enrolled in Tech's Veterans’ school, I thoght maybe a veteran's views on the competence of Mr. C. L. Gilbert, director, might be heeded. Those narrow-minded few who say an organization hasn't the right to enforce rules and regulations that were transcribed a year ago cannot possibly be United States citizens, because any citizen should know that any large organization has to have a governing hand or body, and laws must be obeyed. Would you tolerate a person committing murder because “he was at Salerno”? No! Then why criticize

Covered Fundamental Things ,

THIS MEANS THAT he knew his America and the new Indiana proportionately as well as a modern Hoosier knows modern America and his own Indiana. This is vitally important in a clear understanding of how Judge Varnum touched Indiana in a tender spot when she was newly born to help her grow old on the solid foundation of American law. And the law’ that Judge Varnum helped to make for the state was as American as.a law of his day could be. The first 10 laws that he helped to make for the. Northwest Territory attest this. These laws covered only vital, fundamental things—military -protection, still needed in Indiana 158 years later; courts —no civilized nation of any age in the 6000 years of recorded history has been without them; punishment for offenses against the interests of human society, which plague mankind in an endless stream; marriage—a foundation stone of every civilization;

a person that tries to govern his small community in the same way? Sure, he steps on people's toes, but

ural consequence heavy marketings in August when meat prices were

uncontrolled plus present incentive

I say more power to him. for feeding of livestock. These fac-

tors combine to make supply of meat for immediate use very short. Decontrol of meat at this time if

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|it resulted in any more meat would mean less supplies at later date. Expect fall runs of livestock to begin "in very near future which will alle|viate present shortage.” (Signed) “Arval L. Erickson, Food Price Division OPA.” «

In this I recognize the work of ' {the OPA propaganda machine. I know that the meat famine is the direct result of OPA control. Adding insult to injury, OPA sent this reply to me by Western Union Telegraph night letter at government expense. Nothing short of the end of OPA will satisfy me, therefore,.I did not expect a satisfactory reply. But to send this- propaganda ‘message to me by telegraph instead of mail finds OPA guilty «of *¥xtravagance as well as deceit. I could wish that some person or organization would become the rallying point for®us harassed con-

~ibe welded into an implement of force that would be felt in Washington.

DAILY THOUGHT

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. — Psalms 92:12.

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minor things that tie in with all these. Judge Varnum was well equipped to share in a job like this. He was of powerful physique with the drive and force of a master. Expelled from Harvard university for some minor offense, he graduated from Brown university in Rhode Island. He was an orator. George Washington commissioned him a briga-

NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—One of the grimmest facts in Europe today is that the Russian army of occupa~ tion is 10 times as numerous as those of the United | States, Britain and France. This harsh reality is seldom referred to in public. But it is never absent from the minds of the military and political leaders of the Western democracies. When it is remembered that Russia could reinforce her European army far more readily than could either Britain or the United States, and thereby achieve an even greater preponderance, it is easy to understand the anxieties for the future freedom of Europe which weigh .upén the minds of all informed people.

U.S. Strips Armed Forces

OUTWARDLY, THERE WOULD SEEM nothing to prevent the Russian army from rolling forward, in a matter of weeks, to the Atlantic ocean and achiéving a complete occupation of Europe. Must we then conclude’ that the freedom and safety of Western Europe has no other safeguard than the benevolence of Josef Stalin? Not at all. There is another safeguard more potent and reliable than the benevolence of the great dictator. It is the fact that the United States possesses a monopoly of the atom bomb. 1f Henry A. Wallace could have his way and the production of atom bombs in the United States were to be discontinued, and. if his_more extreme friends, who would like America forthwith to destroy her stockpile of bombs Ofeg00d faith, could, have their

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inant factor in making the first 10 laws to govern the territory that included what.is now the state of Indiana. In the overall view, Judge Varnum'’s contribution to Indiana and its Northwest Territory in the field of law came from the horse sense he used in bending old English law to the new conditions and needs of a raw, new American west, Instead of sticking with pin-headed precision to the- English inherited laws of colonial America, as he as a judge was expected to by the Continental Congress, and urged to do at times by Governor Arthur St. Clair and Judge Parsons, he cut through to the needs of a new western America. : :

Short Cuts to Results HIS ATTITUDE AND ACTION in" all this was, and 158 years later in 1946 still is, the dominant spirit of the nation. Private Alvin York who tramped into an American army headquarters guiding singlehanded a long line of captured Germans in world war I is an instance. There were many comparable instances all over the world in world war II. Basically, the same spirit, in all essential ways, pervades all America. Thus in the law, James Mitchell Varnum pointed Indiana to a niche that is basic and still sound in modern America.

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By Randolph Churchill A-Bomb Monopoly Safeguards Europe

What is this mad project of stripping the United States of her great power before some international agreement has been reached which could effectively prevent the use of this terrible weapon by others? The United States has demobilized her armed forces at a prodigious rate, but her monopoly of the atom bomb enables her to be the effective guardian and trustee of Western civilization. Some people argue that it is wrong for one nation to have such power, But certainly there is no nation in whose hands the world would rather leave the bomb. . During the whole 19th century, the liberties of Furope were defendea and advanced by une overwhelming power of the British navy. Britain in those days was the trustee of freedom and civilization. And on the whole, most fair-minded people would conclude that she discharged her trusteeship well. . 7

Trustee of Freedom THE UNITED STATES TODAY is in the position that Britain occupied in-the 19th century. And there is every reason to suppose that she will use her great power no more selfishly than did Britain. Against this background, all thinking Europeans have heaved a sigh of relief at the departure and discomfiture of Henry A. Wallace, and are glad that the safekeeping of this frightful instrument of destruction is” still in the experienced and sagacious hands of Bernard M. Baruch, chief United States

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