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G. 0. P. LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM THE state legislature which will assemble next January

doubt that the G. O. P. leadership—and particularly Governor Ralph F. Gates, who also is Republican-riational committeeman—will control it completely, The Republican members of the new general assembly meet here tomorrow _for their first legislative caucus, ~~ Governor Gates will have a number of major political headaches in the next general assembly, ranging from carrying out his pledge to get liquor out of politics to coping with the increasifig demand for a direct primary. Also related to the liquor question will be the push of the dry forces for a local option law. He has announced that he will seek a law outlawing the ku-klux klan and similar hate groups. This should be passed.

Of particular interest to Marion county are the dis- |.

tribution of the gasoline tax, on which many observers feel the county is being short-changed, and reapportionment of representation. Legislatures controlled by both the Republicans and the Democrats have failed to carry out the constitutional requirement of reapportionment. The result is that Marion county has less representation in the legislature than it is entitled to have. The direct primary issue, forced into the spotlight by ‘the bossed Republican convention this year, will be another hot potato. Many Republicans agree with the Democratic platform demand for nomination of all candidates in the primary, as opposed to the convention method of choosing U. S. senatorial and state office nominees.

If the Indiana State Bar association carries out a project recommended by its committee which investigated nonpolitical selection of judges, a measure will Be presented to the legislature making the first step in this direction. Remedial legislation certainly should be sought by the bar association to increase the caliber of the judiciary and to encourage better men to seek judicial office. - -

THE legislature will be asked to extend the merit system ~ to raise the caliber of state employees. . Politicians like the present system where the party in power gets almost all the jobs. Many civic groups feel efficiency of government would be increased if there were not a general turnover with each change of administration, and if definite standards of qualifications were established.

Question of a veterans bonus will be another live issue before the legislators. There are many among the veterans who oppose such a bonus—the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars are on record in favor of it. Republican national leaders predict a 20 per cent cut in federal taxes, and elimination of much of the bureaucracy and many of the horde of federal employees. A demand for economy in Hoosier state government undoubtedly will reach the legislature. However, administration leaders take the positioft that either new taxes will have to be added or else some state functions curtailed or eliminated. One appropriation that should receive wide support is that to correct the archaic system of caring for persons who are mentally ill. The present system is marked by understaffing, inadequate pay, poor working conditions and other factors that can be remedied only by spending tax dollars. That money should be spent, even at the expense of less necessary state activities,

MONOPOLIST LEWIS

CALLING John L. Lewis all the hard names he deserves will not save this country from a calamitous coal strike.

| - The time has come when we must recognize Lewis for what

he is—the most ruthless, most absolute and most dangerous monopolist in our history. The government has made him that, and the government must now undo what it hasedone. Yesterday’s injunctive action was a step toward a firmer policy. Lewis has achieved complete and arbitrary control over a commodity essential to the life of the American people. He can permit or stop the mining of coal. He can

force the price of coal upward, as he pleases. He can paralyze industry and transpertation. He can say that the pub-

lie must go jobless and freezing through the dead of winter. And that is what he does say now.

His present strike threat is aimed directly at the

American people. It is a threat that he will ruin them un- ‘Carnival —

less he is allowed to have his way. No man, however good his intentions may have appeared, ever should have been permitted to acquire such power to rule or ruin in America.

No man-——certainly no man whose intentions have so repeatedly been proved—can be permitted to keep such power.

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abused at the expense of all the people.

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The question here is the right and ability of the people | as a whole, acting through their government and their courts, to protect the general welfare. Lewis is the worst enemy of the rights of labor, for the | | course he is following will, unless he is stopped,: end in| | their destruction. We want those rights to be preserved. - But if they are to be preserved, they can no longer be per-

oe Lewis is the most conspicuous abuser of monopolistic . power, but the government has conferred the same power on many others, and it merely happens that their daring opportunities to abuse it are somewhat less. This sort of power is no safer in the hands of union leaders than in the hands of business buccaneers, In any hands, it will be

the name of all the people and their paramount 0 work and live, the government must withdraw this

as much as it once did. But we a dollar as we once did.”—Ben

Hoosier Forum

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

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"Agriculture Cannot Survive the Ny EY STANDER By MW. H. Edwards, Gosport

© . T B d . R . L 1" rowing ax puraen; Kevise Law | The Basil Manly theory of an in- | | dustrial armistice has received wide | By Joe Rand Beckett, Secretary 1929 Tax Study Commission, and 'gttention and favorable comment in| ‘ Member Marion County Plan Commission. |the press, and among the people. Counties containing the larger cities of the state face bankruptcy And Dorfhld Richberg's letter in of the rural areas due to school costs of the suburban dweller. Agri- The Times of Nov. 13 partly ex- | culture in these areas cannot survive the growing tax load. This condi-|plains why labor leaders will re- | tion comes about because people employed in the cities are moving fuse to accept the Manly proposal. outside of the corporation limits to rear their families. “Fortune” maga-'But neither Mr. Manly nor Mr. zine says this movement has only started, as a recent survey discloses Richberg explains why the other-] 61.8 per cent of the people in the cities desire to live outside of the wise excellent proposal will be re-! corporation limits. It therefore concludes that people will move to such! jected. : { rural areas as soon as building is possible. When this happens, taxes| In our national theory of political | ! on agriculture will become prohibitive and will destroy the economy of and economic government there are | | farming unless a change in the — “three basic materials governing all! property tax structure is made im-|pankruptey to rural areas within the other government and economic| { mediately. For example: Tax per counties containing the larger cen- policies. Government—in theory—! acre now in Marion county, where ters of population. The state can- is for the protection of the people] {there are more children per acres inot allow this catastrophe to be- against private greed. Sound eco-| lis $2.68; in Hendricks county, ad-| fall its economy. - { nomics, in theory, is for the produc- | | jacent, where the land and markets 2 2 2 tion and distribution of the three are exactly the same, the tax is “DON'T SHRUG OFF CANCER |escentials of life: Food clothing and! {only 77 cents per acre. Comparing OF THE KU-KLUX KLAN” | shelter. : | the taxes paid by a farmer in Mar- gy, poy Wynne Sigel, Lawrence | Because those three named ar{ion county, and an industrial work-| por what have we fought a war? ticles are essential to continuance |er who lives in the rural area, both Not to see the rebirth of the ku-|of life they are the key to all other |of whom make $3000 a year, the klyx klam, where every man is an| policies political and economic. Nei- | | farmer pays $804 annually vhile Aryan and hate for Negro, Catholic [ther of the three may be violated | the industrial worker pays $18.50. 'ang Jew is the password. The In~ by private greed or blundering gov|There is no reason Why like In-|gianapolis newspapers are to be'ernment without bringing on sericomes should not pay equal taxes congratulated for their spotlight ous unrest among the people, to support schools. treatment of this insidious move-| Tn 1940. when the dark clouds of | To correct the present fax in- ment, We cannot shrug off this war first began showing faintly equity and save agriculture, tWo cancer to bur democracy. We can- above the horizon ‘the wise specubills should be introduced and pot let this evil seep into unthink- | jators began buying u P : A p rentals passed in the next session of the ing minds too sluggish to remember | within industrial cities and immedi- | legislature. {that in this war just past, and in | ately raised rents, long before vents 1. A bill for an act repealing the the one before it, and far back | were frozen They bought up vast | authority to levy on all property into the beginning of our history, | {reacts of fariiland at high prices to! within the counties, containing 35,- all bloods ran red together for the y, developed later into housing! '000 or more, for local school pur- greatness of our country. Did we | projects | poses. {thén say, “This man may not die | As real estate and rentals mean | 2. A bill for an act whereby the for us, because he is-not native- chaite# one of the keys of economic \county would raise money for the born, Protestant, white?” life, that single key upset the none{support of the schools by a with-| " 2 = too-stable balance in all other mar- | keting channels. So once again we|

{holding tax on personal incomes “HERE ARE TEN POINTS

with no change in the present OF LIVING PHILOSOPHY” are, it seems, in for a boom, de-| school administration: (a) School By w. H. Warren, Indianapolis pression and misery, | budgets would be made up and Ten points—they cost so little, | Around and within all of our

submitted as at the present to be they are worth so much. (1) You large cities, rents, already prohibi- | reviewed by the county tax ad-|cannot bring about prosperity by! tive, show tendencies to go much | Justment board; (b) After the bud- discouraging thrift. (2) You can- higher. Recognizing that tendency, ! gets “have been suubmitted and not strengthen the weak by weak- |will ‘unionized labor, even under | totalled, the auditor would fix a ening the strong. (3) You cannot | government pressure, surrender its | flat rate to be applied on the next help small men by tearing down | power of the strike? year's individual incomes, which bjg men. (4) You cannot help the| I am not a member of any labor | would raise the needed money. (Inipoor by destroying the rich. (5) lunion; but am a sufferer from the | {the sanfe manner’ as the present You cannot lift the wage earner continuing battle with unionized | | property tax is fixed); ¢(¢) Thelpy pulling down the wage payer. {capital, both industrial and agriculmoney collected would then be paid | (6) You cannot keep out of trouble tural. A mere innocent bystander to the school authorities in the by spending more than your in-|taking the “arrows” from both (same manner that it is now paid; come. (7) You cannot rfurther the | sides. {(d) This act should be mandatory brotherhood of man -by inciting! 2 = = {in counties containing 35,000 popu-|class hatred. (8) You cannot es- | “SMOKE PROBLEM WON'T | ation or over and optional in coun- tablish sound security on borrowed | BE SOLVED BY WORDS" ties of lesser population, - money. (9) You cannot build | w The seriousness of this situation |character and courage by taking| 1 w fin Indiana can easily be seen, if away man’s initiative and inde- i { one will acknowledge that the costs pendence. (10) You cannot help jAncke Ina l fous in l {of schools are sure to rise and that men permanently by doing for them |y heard a talk over the radio a yi {there will be an adjustment of| what they could and should do for ing the smoke question was ay {| farm prices downward. It will spell’ themselves. 3

Hany | settled, and right then a smoke! By Dick Turner

, Indianapolis I would like to write concerning,

Billow was flowing over the city like a giant rain cloud. Before the smoke question will be settled, there will have to be a code specifically made, and all equipment inspected to see if they are in accord with the code. - And with the proper supervision the city will soon be almost free from smoke. However, it will not be stopped with merry words. You will have to have action. » 5 - “WHY NOT USE ATTERBURY FOR VETERAN HOUSING?” By John Jr. Proffitt, 700 Martin st. Here's a. question to all veterans: Why don't you get together and ask the government to furnish you some houses? I've read in the papers that veteran familes had to group up in one small house. Well, Camp Atterbury has lot of empty barracks. Why can't they live in them?

DAILY THOUGHT

Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, ‘nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy.~I Timothy 6:17,

‘| MAMMON, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, ad- . dg miring more : i |The riches of heaven's pavement, fe : trodden gold, | | Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd

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ISAGA OF INDIANA . . . By Wiliam A. Marlow

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Fur Trade Lured Son of Pioneer

HUMAN TASTE, human nature and human affairs, down the ages, crave the spice of life, This'is something that grips the individual, plumbs the depths of human nature and shapes the course of human affairs. America was discovered, in large measure, because the new rich of northern Europe craved the spices and luxuries denied them when the Turks took Constantinople in 1453, and cut the trade routes from the Orient to Europe. A

Adventurer Is Born OF THE SAME piece of cloth is the fact that the United States smoked 323,610,538 cigarets in 1044, and that in the early 1930's the world produced 2,486,732,500 pounds of tobacco annually—all for a fag, a smoke or a chew. Inscrutably, all these are somehow to human nature a fleeting spark of adventure. Down in old Vincennes, while Indiana was still a fledgling state, a young Hoosier caught a whiff of all this as the fur trade of North America shifted from the Appalachian mountains across Indiana to the Rockies and on to the Pacific coast. His name was William H, Vanderburgh, born in Vincennes in 1798. His father was Henry Vanderburg, for whom Vanderburg county was named. The father was born in Troy, N. Y., in 1760. , He was a lieutenant in the Revolutionary war, He came to the Northwest territory in 1788; was appointed probate judge of Knox county by Governor Arthur St. Clair, and served as judge of Indiana territory from 1800 till his death in 1812. In 1807, he became a member of the first board of trustees of Vincennes university. ; Out of this environment and background came the younger Vanderburgh, lured by the adventure of

J the fur trade of the unexplored far west of America.

._ Something of the essence of all this adventurous

west, 50 alluring to’ Vanderburgh, boils down to this: A land where the white man swaps a trinket, which he himself values lightly and the Indian highly, to the Indian for a fur, which the Indian values lightly and the white man highly, , = re To young Vanderburgh, all this was a lure and a thrill irrestible; 8b by 1823, six years after he tasted a bit of West Point, he had drifted west to heart of the fur country in the Rocky mountains. He plunged at once into the danger and lure of the business. As a captain of the fur traders of the Missouri Fur Co. he was a member of Col. Henry Leavenworth's expedition against the Aracara Indians on the upper Missouri river not far frem the Canadisx ne. From the Missouri Fur Co., Vanderburgh switched to the American Fur Co. one of the great fur firms ox this far western fur-trading era. Here his business was to camp on the trail of Rocky Mountain Fur Co. men to spot the best trapping country in that section. This was a difficult, dangerous job, but Vanderburgh tackled it wth poise, confidence and high enthusiasm.

Indians Cut Career Short BUT WHILE thus engaged, his career was tragically ended. On Oct. 4, 1832, he was killed by a small party of Indians in ambush on a tributary of the Missouri river, about 50 miles south of Butte, Mont. Thus at 34, Vanderburghs’ career as a fur trader was lamentably cut short. He already was an oufstanding figure in the fur trading era, one of the most adventurous and colorful times that America ever knew. Indiana cannot very well forget that William Henry Vanderburgh was born on her soil,

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes

x » > . Senator Taft in WASHINGTON, Nov: 10.—It is becoming increasingly clear, as Republicans make plans for taking over management of congress in January, that Capitol Hill will become a principal arena in the battle over the G. O. P. 1943 presidential nomination.

There party policy will be mapped. That may have much to do with the sort of platform on which Republicans go before the voters in '48, and also the type of candidates that will be picked.

Can Outshine Rivals MOST SIGNIFICANT just now is the way Senator Taft (0.), a forceful figure who already is running for the nomination with almost unseemly haste for so dignified a gentleman, is stepping forward boldly to try seizure of party reins in congress. He has been helped immeasurably by the decision of congressional leaders to adopt a joint house-senate legislative program, with frequent conferences between the steering commitfees in each branch. That will give the senator an opportunity to exert his influence also in the house. He is recognized as a far more strong-willed personality than Rep. Martin (Mass.), who will be speaker. Senator Taft is chairman of the senate steering. committee and presurhably will retain that powerful behind-the-scenes post, rather than accept the front job of floor leader. Typical of the Ohio senator's quick assumption of power was his blunt notice that he intended to direct formulation of a labor regulatory bill, which will become a major issue in the new congress, in co-operation with Senator Ball (Minn.), and Smith (N. J). This trio in the senate last session rewrote the Case bill vetoed by President Truman. The Ohio senator failed to include in his plans

Good Political Spot

Senators Aiken (Vt.), slated to become chairman of the senate labor committee, or Senator Morse (Ore.), also high on that committee, This is significant because Senators Aiken and‘ Morse aré¢ in thé more progressive wing’ of the party. It gives a clue to designs of the conservative wing of the party, to- dominate the new congress. In quest for ti® nomination, Senator Taft has a rival in his own state in John W. Bricker, who will sit with him in the senate. Taft plans to outshine his fellow Ohioan in the senate, which he is in a position to do because of his experience and prestige. Senator Taft is in a position, too, to outshine other rivals for the nomination who will sit in the new senate, perhaps with one exception, Senator Vandenberg (Mich.), president pro tem. Others include Senators Saltonstall (Mass.), Lodge (Mass.), Baldwin (Conn.) and Martin (Pa.). Chief rivals out of the senate are Governor Dewey Harold Stassen, and a dark horse prospect, Governor Warren of California.

Conflicts of Viewpoint THE MIDWEST INFLUENCE is predominant in the new congress through occupancy of key posts. There is likely to be continual conflict on party philosophy. Ranged on one side would be this Midwest influence with its conservatism on domestic policy and its narrow coneept of internationalism, particularly as it relates to tariffs and foreign loans. Prom the other side would come the more progressive domestic policy and expanding internationalism, represented by the outside contenders for the nomination, Messrs. Dewey, Stassen and perhaps Warren, as well as by some of the contenders in the senate from New England and the east.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark The Flying Flivver Is in Our Laps

NEW YORK, Nov 19.—I guess we all might as well sit down and face the gruesome fact that the winged Sunday driver is practically in our laps, and that a couple of years from now anybody who isn’t racketing around in his own flying flivver will be regarded as an old fuddy-duddy. Meet an old fuddy-duddy. The advertisements for easy-to-fly, not too expensive civilian sky-scooters are trebling each month. Half the people I know either have acquired light planes or are putting pennies in the pig with the idea of buying one soon.

An Ace in Three Easy Lessons

THE SKILL OF flying smallbore stuff seems to have been simplified to a point where a Mortimer Snerd becomes an ace in three easy lessons. The new-

| er, private planes have had so much of the excess

gadgets knocked off that they are thinking, soon, of dispensing with the wings. For years before the war the glossy magazines were full of pictures of something called airparks, glorified golflinks designed at sitdown spots for the flivver pilot. They have become an actuality, now, and are popping up all over the country. A well heeled young guy named Richard Gans has just bought the Donovan-Hughes airport in Staten Island, and is up to his ears in a project to stretch a string of duded-up small airparks across the country, all identical, like Howard Johnson restaurants. He calls this venture Richmond Flying Service, and proposes to incorporate into his chainstore airfields all the functions of the valet, secretary, chauffeur and grease monkey. Looking down the throat of the flying business man, Mr. Gans figures to fly him into New York in a small seaplane, handle! his baggage, find him a hotel room and square him away for a show, if he so desires.

In each city, he plans td take office space, in order to“give the hovering pflot local office facilities including secretarial service. Whether he will run a matrimonial agency at 10,000 feet is not known. The peculiar thing is that he actually will have a market for his chain of small flelds. A surprising number of business men .are adopting the private plane as the solution to short-hop transportation. I know one sedate, starch-collared grain broker in Philadelphia who gets in more flying hours in pursuit of corn than the average transport pilot. He claims his two-placer has paid for itself about four times in the last year. The business of providing a place for the amateur pilot to light is catching on all over the country. Down in Wilmington, N. C., an old schoolmate of mine named Chicken Dunn has hacked out an airpark that is intended to fulfill most of the pressing needs of the transient amateur. ~ Mr. Dunn will sell you a plane, teach you to fly it, give you permanent locker space for your flying clothes, put you on the bus for town, service your aircraft, sell you a meal and walk the dog. Even in the infancy of the park, he has amateur fliers from all over the country dropping onto his real. estate, even though at last count it was listed on no air charts.

Mechanized Brooms Clutter Field A SUFFICIENT NUMBER of these private-plane-fields will lift considerable nuisance from the big airports, which already have sufficient headache getting the big babies in and out, without being cluttered with Cubs and other mechanized brooms. This, I suppose. is the bright new world we have been hearing about so long, and the air will be soon filled with flying farmers and lady shoppers. It is a prospect. that drives me ever closer to the bicycle.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

Democracies Seek

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Many people have an utterly false impression™of the ideological struggle now going on in the world. They believe that while Moscow is trying to impose communism, the western democracies are seeking to force their way of life on other peoples. Nothing could be further from the truth. So far, at least, as the democracies are concerned. All the democracies are trying to do is to arrange for the peoples of former axis, satellite and occupied areas to be free to have the governments they choose.

Individual Dignity Basic THERE 18 A TREMENDOUS difference. And spokesmen for the democracies are doing their own cause a serious disservice when they fag to make this difference plain, What Russia wants is a totalitarian world in which the vast majority jump to the whip of a few. What the democracies desire is an atmosphere wherein the people concerned are free to choose for themselves—to decide, in free elections, on their own governments and their own way of life, They are merely seeking for others some of the human dignity which every man, however poor, may enjoy under our bill of rights. What the individual does with this precious privilege, within certain bounds, is for him to say. In fact, that is one of his privileges. This dignity of the individual—this vital question of the fate of man, as man—in the peace-making now in progress, was studied by the Catholic bishops of the United States here last week. . Their findings have been made public in a statement signed by Samuel Cardinal Stritch, Chicago! Francis Cardina} Spellman; New York; Archbishop Murray, St. Paul; Archbishop Mitty, San Francisco; Archbishop Rummel, New Orleans; Archbishop Cushing, Boston; Archbishop Ryan, Omaha; Bishop Gan‘non, Erie; Pa; Bishop Noll, Ft. Wayne, and Bishop Toleda ;

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Freedom of Choice

The words of our Declaration of Independence, these learned churchmen say, express no new doctrine. But they are the basis of Christian civilization: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed. by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, pn 5) sald the bishops, in our society we hold that the first obligation of any government is to its citizens. “The state has a just claim on the cooperation of its citizens for the common good, but not to the point of coercion in violation of their political, social and religious rights.” Thus, they agreed, we have no right at the peace table to approve or abet on the. part of another government abuses of the rights of the common man which, in our own country, have been forever outlawed. The bishops feel that “the menace to man, as man, looms large” at the peace table. It hangs in the background of the conflict between Russia and the west. ‘Already some agreements designed to safeguard these basic rights have been repudiated by one of the victors. And these repudiations are tolerated by other nations, parties to the agreement,

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WE FOUGHT IN DEFENSE of these freedoms against Nazi-Fascist totalitarianism yet, declared the bishops, “the aftermath of war has revealed victorious Soviet totalitarianism no less aggressive against these freedoms. , . .” : The bishops conclude that before we can hope for a good peace, there must. be an agreement the basic question of man as man. : Most” certainly there cannot be the slightest hope for a just or lasting peace unless the major powers can agree that peoples everywhere—outside Russia, at : be free to govern themselves ~ ° . )

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