Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1946 — Page 18

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Give Light and the People Will Pind Their Own Way

THE ROAD TO PEACE °

FT clear terms, Secretaries Patterson and Forrestal Warn. d that America must remain strong if world peace is to be | maintained. Their briefs for adequate hational defense, published in The Times today, are logical and concise. Despite other differences, the army and navy are united oh this overshadowing issue. They hold that, to preserve peace, the United States must be strong enough to fight— "if necessary—for the ideals that make peace possible. “Weakness is the short, straight road to war,” says ga Secretary. Patterson, pointing up. our problem. Weakness invites attack. ' Strength deters those who, if they dared,

would make war.

ir » - ® | PARADOXICALLY, the American people's love of peace a threat to peace. We dislike war and all that

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is now goes with war. dered, we yearned to lay aside our arms r again would they be needed. . ER yearned—and Bo we believed and behaved— after the 1918 armistice. . For a quarter century we ignored cold, hard facts, And so came 1941, and hundreds of ‘thousands of. young Americans were killed or mangled. America cannot afford to fall back this time on William Jennings Bryan's comfortable philosophy” that in case of war “a million men would spring to arms between. sunrise and sunset.” Untrained men springing to arms in a future war would be useless. The need would be for

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Remember th Remember: the I'M OLD ENOUGH, too, to remember when $2 ,| bills were in general circulation around hére. They | were ‘considered Jonahs, and I distinctly secall that most people, including myself, always tore -a little piece off the edge when they -had the hard luck to receive one. That was to remove the curse, It didn't do much good, though. Seg ‘I have reason to beieve that it didn't do much good for 1 remember the time I picked up a $2 bill in the Illinois gt. tunnel that used to run under the railroad tracks of the old Union depot (station, to you). I'm old enough to remember the old tunel, too. The old tunnel was fun no matter whether you went through it on a streetcar or on foot, Seated in a streetcar there was always the excitement of watching Stiffy Elkins, the boy who hitched the third mule to the car. Without Stiffy handitmg the mule, it. wouldn't have been possible to pull the streetcar up-the steep incline. And on foot, you always had the experignee of listening to the strange echoes .which, for somé reason, had & more hollow sound than anywhere else in town,

Ghostly Sound THERE WAS ALWAYS the ghostly sound of drip- | ping water, too. It came from somewhere in the | ceiling and, no doubt, accountgd for fhe. ghastly | green color of the lights and, maybe, tne sour smell | inside the place. Indeed, the old tunnel had every- | thing that made for adventure, and I often wondered why a setting so perfect in its details had never produced a good murder, What'ss more, I never ran across a4 storybook murder with a- setting half as good as the old: Illinois st. tunnel. ¥ Well, to. .my knowledge nobody ever stdged 4 worthwhile murder in the tunnel, but it was good for some minor adventures—such as the finding of a cursed $2 bill, for instance. i I was coming home from “turning school” one | evening when, all of a sudden, on the floor of the tunnel I saw a.water-soaked $2 bill. The moment I

KANSAS CITY, Oct. 23. — President Truman's prestige has suffered here in lis native state as

men trained in the highly skilled art of atomic and rocket and electronic warfare, and for adequate modern weapons kept constantly abreast of scientific advances. In planning for the future, our military leaders do not

Hoosier Forum

“| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to ‘say it." — Voltaire.

everywhere else, and this almost surely will result in losses in congress. na

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stray from the basic concept of a nationdl defense consist- . ent with historic Arerican jdeals—a regular army and navy supported by a civilian reserve. Their plans call for a strong core within the regular establishments, backed by universal military training and by a comprehensive pro- _ gram of scientific and technological research. Nor, in this matter, can America afford the luxury of short-sighted economy. Preparedness costs money, but | war costs infinitely more. The staggering bill for world | war II, which we are now paying, would be as nothing begide the bill for a world war 111. Spending to prevent war | is wiser, and far safer, than spending to win a war that weakness could invite. Modern armies and navies, as we have learned by painful experience, do not come into being in a day, a month | "or a year. As Gen. MacArthur said, when he was chief of

"Wallace Wasn't Crazy. on Corn, Probably Isn't on Other Things"

To those of us who are acutely conscious that* if it hadn't been fOr} 0 ooo to cnend the day. We had Henry Wallace's ‘hybrid seed corn there ‘Wouldn't have been any corn | crop in Indiana this year, the attitude of The Times toward the man sort of disturbing. I did not read nor-hear his New Y had the text and read me excerpts from one idea expressed that was debatable. to feel the same way. although not with some of your interpretation of the With his general opposition to this policy of getting 'sia, I agree entirely. derstand the idea, whic prevail “in the press, but not it seems to me elsewhere, that it is a

By Alma Bender, Zionsville

ork speech. One of my friends bus didn't come until 9:30 and it. She thought there was only not wanting to roam the streets I notice Mrs. Roosevelt seemed after dark, we decided to go to Personally, I agreed with what she read me— the Y. W. C. A. When we got there same passages. tough with Rus- [empty so we went in_and played &

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h seems to|kicked in the teeth for making that piano. We hadn't been down there statement. 1 would like to have the more thin 15 or 20 minutes when He a girl came down and asked if we least be barred from were cadettes (some girls that en- |

As elsewhere in the country, Republicans are making the Truman administration the issue, and throwing in for good measure the New Deal, with which they also tie up Harry Truman.

|“¥. W. C. A. SHOULD BE {OPEN TO ALL GIRLS”

| | fellow Missourian. [ | By

Teen-Ager, Indianapolis Last week my girl friend and I

{came up to Indianapolis from out

Democrats Run on F.D.R. DEMOCRATS DO NOT MENTION or defend the President. They are running on Franklin D. Roose- | velt and the New Deal which, with them, becomes a bright and shining symbol of improvement in the condition of the people generally. Missouri is a border state, therefore sensitive to political upheavals, It should serve as a good index in this® election. During the Roosevelt regime it turned in gradually diminishing majorities, beginhning with 64.5 per tent in 1832°and sliding to 51.5 per cent in 1944. It elected a Republcan senator, Forrest C. Donnell, two. years ago despite a thin margin for President Roosevelt. The other senate ; seat is held by a Democrat, Frank C. Briggs, newspaper publisher and former state legislator, appointed to the-vacancy created by the election of Harry Truman as vive president. Mr. Briggs is up for re-election.

gone to a show and when we got [out it was about 8 and dark. Our

{the recreation room downstairs was.

{few games of "ping-pong and the

POLITICAL REPORT .. . 8 G.O.P. Gain Seen in Truman's State

They are voting in the congressional elections. on’

: i ies i ici ing i ight | bright idea staff: “Armies and navies in efficient being give weigh bo | h Spruille Braden was much | writing for Scripps-Howard. He also | tertain servicemen, I guess) or if the peaceful words of statesmen. Feverish efforts to create [4 Seo for talking tough to Ar- (said the Red Sox would Win the|we belonged to the Y, and when), them once a crisis is imminent simply provoke attack.” face series in a walk-a-way. After the we said no she made us leave, say- »

gentina. We fell flat on our

{boy for a sand lot team. All the | themselves get picked up by fellows. | | teams in the A. L.-N. L. and the Well, you sure can't go to the Y | : | i 11/to get away from it. They always ? ou afraid he association are in there fighting a g 3 3 3 Rey alae 2 it 1 the time. That's baseball. And when told me, “Go to the Y, they have | ldn't think there would be any | the Cards have their backs to the | lots of nice things for girls to do.” shouldn't thin {wall, I think théy are the hardest|Ha. Do you think they will throw

A STUDIED attempt is being made to hitch the political danges o thee } Janey LOM Bye beat. I think the other teams|us out of the Y.M.CiA.? I think was Yight when 6 52 | think 80, too. I could say more about ! I'll try it. |

fortune of Albert C. Magenheimer, Republican candidate for county sheriff, to the rising political star of Judge |ican people want mediocrity in the |," e’ nats the use. And, whatever he may

i ing | idency. Judson L. Stark, the party's candidate for prosecuting |pres! : | NE - 4 be, Henry Wallace isn't mediocre.| bo 00 ne WONDERS WHEN

of nations? And why are you out to destroy

our freedom. DEFEAT MAGENHEIMER

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Editor's Note: The Y. W. C. A. sports arena is open for non-mem-

Mr. Magenheimer vent along for the ride as a candidate of a citizens’ group believed to be interested in building another machine around the nucleus of the city hall crowd, which had been at outs with the Bradford-Ostrom faction. The city hall politicians and their committee sought to absorb the vote-getting Judge Stark.

|wasn't crazy on seed corn, He prob- [going to be built, We have heard ous of their high reputation, and it |ably isn’t on other things either, | trom officials in the school board is possible a new volunteer might

sw { have inquired about “Teen-Ager.” “SPORTS WRITER WILLIAMS [at the land has been bought and EW 8

” the plans are being made up. Many |, k . [SHOULD BE BARRED | peopie on _the South side have! STREETCAR COMPANY By Milton Martin, 515 Sanders

| thought that the construction should DOESN'T PLAY FAIR” 1 have been a reader of The be done, but as you can see by driv-| By Cc. W. §., Indianapolis a . { i , Madison ave. nothing has| : ! . “ow 33 \Times for a good many years. I ing down Ma g | Notice please, patrons of IndianEST our silence on the sheriff's race be misinterpreted it" best because It shoots Deen started. Many of those who ,nolis and riders of one of the most

as indorserfient of Mr. Magenheimer along with Judge... from the shoulder Now | Lave enue Sgacal . Sr argued about streetcar companies : its : 3 now. tha and when the school i, America, using your sense of Stark, we now make our position, clear. here is what I am beefing about. |is constructed the attendance will sight and a little horse sense, where

We believe Judge Stark, with the experience as a chief | There is a guy that calls himself (be about twice its present atten- ine local streetcar company puts its

in the Bums wanted the National league because they held its own against other city rr were both afraid to meet the: Red schools. With this new school the Mr. Magenheimer. |Sox in the world series. For a sport | pupils of Manual can go ahead if e death several |#8 square as baseball, he should be given a real chance. |

| Side Glances—By Galbraith

think that the people of Indianapolis should agree to grant an increase in fares to a company who doesn't play fair with its patrons | Are we, the people on the South | side, not good enough for part of the new equipment? Or do you know the types of equipment that| go on different lines? Give Central some of the busses Beech Grove

enforcement agencies and undesirable elements community. _ «We cannot say the same thing about "Mr. Magenheimer became sheriff on th months ago. of Sheriff Otto Petit. Our position against the Petit administration is well known. here has been no fundamental change in the operation

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of t heriff’s office since Mr. Magenheimer took over. | os ‘ ’ Sauan | | | patrons ride on and visa versa—also Substdntially the ‘same corps of deputi¥€ of whom we were | | (y ; | [puteons fideo critical in the past continues on the public payroll. There | Nn | You're going to have to change a | has been little change in policy. S——r* Qs |lot of things, including out service , "2 » "a on all lines, and an impartial dis-

tribution of the new equipment, if | your company expects us to swallow | -lyour 8%ec holdup. | | - An out-car on each line every | hour after 12 midnight sure would {be something to beat" our chest] about, Mr. Reid. Let's see you back| up what you bragged about in the papers, . | ” ” " “NOT WRITER OF LETTER ON VETERAN BONUS”

Hy Joseph C. Wallace, altorney-at-law, ,1009-1031 Security Trust Bldg.

I wish to call attention to the | fact that, although I am a veteran of the last war, I am not the same Joseph Wallace whose letter on vet» eran bonus was published in the Hoosler Forum '®olumn of The Times-on Oct, 17, 1946. |

DAILY THOUGHT

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen

HE Democratic candidate for sheriff, Lewis O. Johnson, | is a former policeman and senior officer in the Indianapolis police department whose pérformance’ when he was in those positions demonstrated capability and relidability. If Mr. Johnson were elected, we believe he would work closely and in non-partisan manner with Judge Stark. And there would be an important additional factor. | With two good men of opposite political parties in these two 2 key law enforcement jobs, it would be pretty hard for either to play politics. Judge Stark and Lewis Johnson are both | t good men. They would make a team that would put real |

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‘WHERE DOES THEIR LOYALTY LIE? THAT crowd of fellow travelers meeting in San Francisco ™ to drum up public sentiment ‘in favor of withdrawing | few American marines that remain in China will not | even the right to a respectful hearing until they first some concern about the much larger Russian forces |

me comfortably able to say by

Missouri's congressional delegation is almost even-

y divided, seven Democrats and six Republicans.

| There seems no question of a state-widg Republican

au» Brio | that time, and it seemed to me very | Cards won We wna, he says the $3 We (Werel} Slloded Som Tore | majority in November, It's just a question of size PRUDENCE demands an investment in military prepared- embarrassing. Anyway, you don vives! Jet hug Ee oy, de te re TY WCA for? They are; nC Dow 1 will react in changes in congress. Com . : 3.3 : . | by talking tough to your 4 yy 5s : v.21 serva stimates ¢ ha Le 1 i All ness proportionate to the risk of living in the world as akg ng Why ® on it bring For a sports writer this guy Wil- always criticizing the teen-age girls | Se a Ean wl Ae ay oy pst ev : | . " . : Hine | senator and gal h house seats. it is today and to the value we place on our possessions and peace to talk tough to the family liams wouldn't make a good bat for getting into trouble, 1ettng| oor estimates are more optimistic for the Repub-

jcans, ranging from four to five gains.in the house, n addition to a senator. Prospects certainly indicate election of a “Repub-

‘REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark ‘Mr. Roberts’ Best Book on the War

attorney. As a matter of fact, he is probably bers such as the “Teen-Ager” who ia . , ; hd . . : : | . 1 ” i NEW YORK, Oct, 23.—The soundest antidote I We have a particular interest in this maneuver, because another Thomas Edison or Wilbur NEW MANUAL ‘WILL BE BUILT” oi. (he foregoing. The basement .. 1. v of for the popular eatin of befogging : ] 2 { i he field of ideas By a Manual Graduate, Indianapolis of the Y. has been used exclusively A ants 4% ecawmn . Sorin AE y t su rter—and ori inally the only Wright, only in t fo 5 ¥ the character of the average ex-serviceman with The Times was the firs : Ppot K's fight Es bossism |and intangibles instead of mechani- | Since my brother and I are grad- as a USO lounge and girls who spurious re tmersiality and false nobility, is to be major supporter—o Ju Be Bris be g ih “leal things. People always think | tes and my sister is now a stu- entertain servicemen there wear ¢,,,,4 in a book called “Mister Roberts,” by Thomas In this fight, he whipped the Bradford-Ostrom machine when [that kind ‘of man is crazy while he| Le have been won. |Padses of admission, The cadettes poo. : i i y is . : vide this public-spirited ET tm sree. ore the hexlcelior Hote w udiated by Republican voters at the polls. is developing his ideas > (Who prov t The book is going great on the bestseller lists, so it was rep y P Well, Wallace has proved he | dering when the new Manual 18'community service have been jeal- i qs ro indorsemerd to spur its and makes

that it ould be read

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can afford the price,

Accurate Presentation

| about “the boys,” as they were nauseatingly called

by a lot of male and female old maids with a penchant for overdramatization, has been a mass of angled melodrama. The serviceman has been portrayed to date as a superhuman type with an automatic aura of nobility and heroism. The combat stuff was pretty heavily tinctured with Frank Merriwell,

7 i r . |a sports writer, He calls himself | dance, so they must build a newer, g re sav the deputy prosecutor, sucessful prosecuting attorney al |Our Joe. He is a lousy bum if I|bigger and better Manual® so it can ce ey Shall ve sa) hone We who got sucked ‘into that recent fracas have perior court judge, will clean up Marion county. We be 18Ve uyer saw. one. He made the state- uphold its standard that it has ¢rolleys go either on Meridian or been idealized in print to a point where some Of us that he will put a stop to the alliance between county law [ment that neither the Cards or made in the past. As all former|central. Why, Mr. Reid, do you °° still liable to regard ourselves as demigods—sired to win the playoff in | pupils know Manual has always 4 aa : : ' bv selective service and mothered by an uncontroll-

able necessity, but demigods nevertheless, and glad to trade on our status As a refutation of, the ingrained belief that people cease being -people when suddenly pressed into khaki “Mister Roberts” is the best and most honest book about the recent war. It is the first completely accurate presentation I have read “Mister Roberts’ deals with the me nt who staffed a navy supply ship, called the U, 8. 8. Reluctant,

“TODAY IN EUROPE .-. . By Rendol Atom Bomb Secret Prolongs Peace @ = #

NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—One of the arguments used by those who are -anxious to hand the atom bomb

over to Russia without making proper arrangements

to ensure that it will not be used to make aggressive war, is that the few remaining seqrets of its manufacture are so trivial as to make t less in a very short space of time. suggested that a -gesture of this easy way of securing Russian good will, There is an obvious absurdity in this. in fact the sécret is Russians be gratified

Difficulties Remain

IT 18 TRUE, of course, that in one.-sense there is been known in world for the last 25 it wwas ‘theoretically possible to make an

no longer any real secret. It hes nearly every country in the years that atom bomb. And as over Hiroshima, e that it had become a practical proposition.

wut. there remain extraordinary difficulties in the way of actually manufacturing the bomb, and it is 1d take Russia at least

reliably. estimated that it wou

heir retention value1t. is. therefore kind would be an

Fordvhy, if virtually valueless, should the » at having it passed on to them?

soon as thef first one exploded in. public very scientist in the world" realized

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than silver!—Proferbs 16:16,

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T.seven years from flow to produce one of her own. And it is further estimated that, if the secrets of the [ American engineering technique were to be published, that time would be reduced from seven Years to about { ive. This cannot be dismissed as a negligible difference, Since it is clear that as long as ‘the United

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picked it up, I tealized that I'was headed for “rbuole, * The signs were unmistakable for the bill- had all its edges frayed, showing that pérhaps & hundred pecple . before nie had tried to remove the curse, * The only thing for me to do, of course, was to get rid of the hill as soon as possible, For this purpose,

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I picked a boy who lived on Chestnut st. He and’ I . cuts. 2 had been negotiating foe some time over the possi= Other deve bility of my acquiring his collection of fancy pigeons, 1 labor sc but we never got anywhere because he wouldn't a NE: An a cept my collection of Sweet Caporal cigaret picture Lewis, bac

in exchange. My collection, I don't mind saying, included the photographs of Della Fox (in tights) and Amos Rusie (in the uniform of the Indianapolis paseball team). The boy was mighty stuck on my col-

a national cc to grasp leac win new wage government c

lection, but he held out. for an additional $2 cash : to clinch the deal. Cg . o_o i Well, here’ was the oppor inity that knocks but T. W. A pile

once in a lifetime. I not only acquired the pigeons, hut persuaded the boy to help me bed them down for the night. Next morning when I went to the barn to gloat over my bargain, every "pigeon was gone. A search proved that all were back in Chestnut st, at the home of their original owner, 1 SuSpected, of course, that the boy had lured them back with anise seed Jhich was a common enough tiick in those days.

Curse at Work

THE WAY. THINGS turned out; however, the boy didn’t have anyjhing to do with it, It was’ ihe curse working. I'm supe of it because I' remember that the boy wasn't a bit better off than I was. He invested my evil $2 in a pair of weasels, and. the next thing to happen was that the weasels at up all the pigeons. The curse went even further. The man who sold the weasels spent the $2 for a hound and, believe it or not, the dog bit the man. 6 It proved to be the most talkerd-of case of blood poisoning on the South Side. As for the cigaret pictures that once belonged to me, they were consigned to a bonfire by the boy's mother in one of her annual and purifying spring housecleanings, There's no telling what might have happened next had not the government stepped in just about then and removed the curse by calling in all $2 a |

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lican house in November. A real sweep here, which most expert ‘analysts can't foresee as yet, would forecast & ‘Republi¢an. senate also, but that would be well-nigh. a ‘miracle, ... The Republican senatorial, candidate is James P. Kem, conservative lawyer, former chairman of the Republicdn committee of Jackson county, in which Kansas City is located. He has never held elective poljtical office. Democrats are bucking discontent against the ads ministration, particularly OPA and strikes, both reflecting in the large farm population and in the cities as well. Outside speakers called in to try to mollify the voters, Speaker Sam Rayburn: (Tex.) and Senate » Democratic Leader Alben Barkley (Ky.), appeal to “give Harry Truman a Democratic congress to uphold his hands.” Secretary of Agriculfure Anderson lent his presence to opening festivities here of the American Royal Livestock and Horse show, The house members most definitely marked for defeat are Reps. Carnahan in the eighth district and Sullivan. in the eleventh in St. Louis. Rep. Clarence Cannon, chairman of the house appropriations committee, one of the party leaders, also is having a hard fight in the ninth district. Republicans may recapture the 13th &istrict in St. Louis, represented for many years by Jack Cochran, who retired. ‘His former secretary, Frank M. Karsten, is seeking to succeed him.

Truman’ Intervention Test

ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING contests is that in the fifth district here in Jackson county Democratic since it was created in 1933. It was here that President Truman Interceded in the primary— and won—aon behalf of Enos A. Axtell, against the incumbent Rep. Slaughter. This race attracted national attention, mostly because of the President's” intervention in a primary contest.’ ‘ Mr. Axtell's Republican opponent is Albert L. Reeves Jr.,, Pacific war veteran. ;

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The men on the Reluctant fought the kind of war that most of us experienced, a maddening retrace of boredome, red tape, loneliness and brief terror. ; On the Reluctant you had enlisted mien who were something less than paragons of virtue, and a couple of officers who were pretty good at their jobs. You had a skipper who was a mouthy jerk, but you had some enlisted personnel who got out of line, too. Members of this crew fought among themselves, They hated their captain, who continued to exist despite flagrant incompetence because the average skipper tan always get by on the sweat and skill of his subordinates.

Recalls Bad and the Good WHILE I WAS reading the book I got a letter from an old gunner's mate of mine, a man I haven't seen in three years. > Se “Remember the biggest overgrown problem child you had on the Eli Whitney?” he wrote. “Remember the one who started right out in Jacksonville by being bent all out of shape, and carried on through New York, London and Casablanca, where he made the brig? The one who borrowed the beer from the icebox in Gibraltar, which was paid for by an officer named Mr. Ruark?”'. . . I'll say I remember him, But I can also recall the sureness with’ which he and the crew worked when there was a little necessary shooting to be done. It's because of people like Guns that I'm so high on this book of Heggen's, He gives you your war, with its profanity and proficiency, its incompetence and apathy, its selfishness and stupidity, its cast of good and bad and dumb and smart and brave and cowardly people.

Randolph: Churchill

The same optimistic’ people who advocate the 3 ; ] pooling of all information on the subject also hold a that the United States should immediately cease fur- § ther production of the bomb. This suggestion is even 4 more foolish than the other and, if adopted, would do as much, if not more, to jeopardize the uneasy: peace we flow enjoy. Exactly: how many bombs the United States possesses is a jealously guarded secret, but there is good reason to believe that there are now more than § a thousand in the stockpile. America therefore has a seven-year start on Russia, plus at least a thousand bombs. In -ease no. international control plan should be achieved, by the time Russia‘ succeeded in .producing one bomp, America would have many thou- » sands. of far more deadly ones and, in addition, would certainly have perfected a quicker and more economical method of production, ~ :

Abotiit Permanent Peace : THE HUGE STOCKPILE of these improved bombs © which the United States would possess by. the time = Russia had produced a single ope might well prolong our period ‘of certain peace from seven years to 10: Surely, this is not a thing: to be’ lightly cast aside. To argue; as so many do, that the present policy: gives no guarantee of permanent peace, is dishonest. i There is fio method yet devised by man that. can-do = that. And half a loaf is better than no bread. This being So, it is quite certain that we must. follow the course of action which will ensure the longest possi-. ble time to devise some more permanent method of weuring world peace. To a Ho \ i, Se