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THANKSGIVING? | THE halfback was 20 yards out in front. The radio announcer was in high excitement. The halfback slipped and fell in a puddle, The announcer reached the stuttering stage and delivered himself of this: “He—he~—he’s a victim of self-tacklization!” That's what the United States of America is a victim of on this Thanksgiving day, 1946. We're doing dire things to ourselves. Although we have all the ingredients for the greatest prosperity in world history—productive power, capital, industrial know-how, mass purchasing capacity and desire to buy, a vast wear-out crying for replacement, and al] that—wse have slipped in a mud puddle. We have tackled

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» Thanksgiving proclamation sticks in our throats, and Thanksgiving editorial necessarily is written with contongue in the cheek. f of existence in America has been tougher than it is today, if that's any comYort. That is, up to now, the future not guaranteed. it was not a case of brownout in Boston ago. It was a problem of even attaining illuminaeould be described as brown. In those days they pine splinters or indulged in what was known as the t, made at home by soaking dried reeds in melted

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volumes have been written about how our anlived in America the hard way. Those accounts cover 621, the first Thanksgiving day following the first on through the rock-ribbed agriculture of the wars with the Indians, Valley Forge, '49 hunt, Virginia City, Denver, Pike's Peak or A ing of the West, and on to the era of elec- , inside toilets and steam heat. Reading that story of how our nation grubbed its standard of living upward may give us today a little misery-loves-company sort of hope that “we did it once and we'll do it again.”

BY” realism calls for recognition that we don’t today have the pine splinters, the dried reeds or even buffalo chips with which to warm ourselves in the winter of 1946-47, We couldn’t buy 'em if we owned the RFC. We're dependent on a mechanized power plant that runs to coal. And even if we burned oil or Big Inch gas we still would be dependent on coal, because ultimately it runs the electrical contraptions that keep that kind of fuel flowing. Unless this intricate and mighty and perhaps Frankensteinian machine can continue to operate, our way may prove a harder way than that traveled by Oh! Susanna! With her dishpan on her knee. And Thanksgiving, 1946, may be looked back upon as a more dangerous period in our history than that which prevailed on the first Thanksgiving day in 1621,

It is up to us to extricate ourselves from self-tackliza-

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there's nothing in the situation that can’t be cured if the country will go back to work.

CONSERVATION CONTROVERSY

THERE has been a lot of confusing discussion about the action of Governor Ralph F. Gates in supporting the state chairman of his party in the recent squabble over patronage in the conservation department.

As we see the picture, the governor could not have taken any other action with propriety. And he cannot be criticized for it, in fairness. The department does not now have an adequate merit system, and it has operated in the past on a patronage basis, : As we see the picture, it is logical that the patronage be controlled by the party in power, so long as qualified candidates are recommended to the head of the department by the state chairman. That's just sound politics.

We are for a merit system, as we have said so often. But let’s not confuse the issue by attempting to create the phony issue of the merit system being at stake in the change of heads of the department. The conservation program in Indiana is too important —while it has been outstandingly successful fit has many challenging jobs ahead—te permit personalities and politieal squabbles to hold it back. John Nigh, chosen by the governor to succeed Milton Matter as its head, should not be handicapped by sniping at his operation before he has had a chance to prove as head of this important department.

THEY SHOULD STAY HOME

I’ was a wise decision of the Kilgore committee not to rush over to Germany for an on-the-grounds investigation of

: If there is anything wrong with our occu tion forces which the senate wants to investigate, the Dl an affairs committee should do.the investigating. If there's anything amiss in our foreign policies, that’s in the jurisdiction of senate foreign relations committee, The Kilgore comttee was created to investigate frauds and wastes. in war hditures, and has plenty to do at home on a Happy Hooligan “I'll-help-youse” time when our government is engrossed in difficult atio problems and engaged in delicate negotiations y | Russia and other nations of Europe. thing about the Kilgore committee vote strictly along party lines—six Democrats blicans for. They had nothing more to go

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

"We're Thankful in Our Home For Being Together About Fire"

By Grateful Grandmother, Guilford ave. I'm so tired of all the complaining. Why can't we just be plain silly-happy for one day, forget our worries and be thankful?

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over the years since 1941, "the unpleasant things of today seem small by comparison. : Everywhere I went then, people asked: “Don't you know there's a war on?” Now the tune has changed to: “Don't you know there's a coal strike on?” or “What about Communism, the atomie bomb, high prices, etc.” Well, we're thankful at our house whether the old fuss budgets like it or not. My husband's going to be home all day and the children will have a holiday from |

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school. We can’t afford turkey but “MANLY PLAN WOULD I'm going to cook a veal roast with WORK IF MEN GOT TOGETHER” a savory dressing and serve vege-'py C, C. Barrett, Indianapolis tables and fruits I canned from In regards to the readers of the our garden. { Hoosier Forum, I noticed that a We grieved when a storm felled (reader had a very interesting article our big tree last summer. But'!in the Forum the other night on the we'll get a lot of pleasure from the Manly plan. And I feel the same Thanksgiving fire made with the|way as he did. I feel that somelogs. thing can be set up on that system if The neighbors will drop in for lall district directors of labor and some good talk by the hearth and management and union representawe'll be mighty glad to see them, {tives of locals would get together. especially Johnny, This time two| As to the last raise that was years ago, he was reported missing granted of say 18 cents. Well, most over the Pacific. But he turned all management raised their prod- thi up safe and sound. I always said ucts to take care of that and then 3 Johnny would. He lives next door cut out the overtime and the raise|'’® and works in the filling station at didn’t cost any more but they were the corner. [making more money than ever. Yes, we have our troubles. - The| So if the extra money they have children are wearing some: out- | made in 1946 above what they were grown clothes, We need a lot of making if they would set down with | unist. things we can't buy. And there & labor committee and are other matters. .,", . Every fam-

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Communists

“FEPC WAS SPONSORED FIRST BY COMMUNISTS” By A. J. Schaclder, 504 West Drive, Wood-

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Several days ago a Mr. Willard B. Ransom, who I believe is an attorney, took issue with Mayor Tyndall's| . ‘Maybe I'm a sentimental, doting mother and wife, but as I look back | Femar ks that there is already suffl- > {cient legislation on our books to make the vetoed fair employment practice ordinance un-

statute

Mr. Ransom will no doubt concede that in our congress there is perhaps: an over-abundance of legal minds, some at least in the equal fof his own, as also in the many legislative halls throughout our nation; and all with the possible exception of New York state have taken the view that the proposed legislation will not accomplish what it purports to do, is of doubtful conand principally because it has been urged to accomplish a hidden purpose not stated in the bill. It would seem that this evidence arrayed against our city council should be sufficient to cause them to be cautious and respect the

The specific hidden purpose of originally sponsored by and outlined in the Daily Worker almost 20 years ago, is that it would prevent employers’ inquiring whether or not a prospective employee is a ComOf course, it would also pay that in | Prevent employers from inquiring a bonus for 1946 to offset the raise | Whether the prospective employee ily has its own. {in the living cost; as to whatever the 2 a Democrat or a Reublican—but But we're thankful just the same. Worker had to buy, and with a good /°St employers What more could we ask—home, Production in 1947, might mean in-|2P0ut such adherences. But they children, neighbors, a good dinner stead of another wage raise I beljeve |27® 8l€rt about communistic ad-

{ : {herence; which is as it should be. {almost all locals would sign - ’ : s oon When Mr. Roosevelt failed to jam

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“GO UP IN PERRY K. BUILDING | keep down ahother strike. For if | this legislation down the throats

{my John Malone, Beecher st. i Every time I read of the comic! bonus, and it would cut down absen- |

[oPers: actions ~ of “his so-called |, ger bonus for the worker that is|

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IF YOU WANT TO SEE SMOKE” the product was raised the worker ©! ® docile Democratic congress, he

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teeism. The way to do ‘that is a (ical working is already history. y . Also the proposed legislation at-

| smoke inspector, it gives me the always on time and misses the least |eMPts to reverse natural human

laughs. Here's where he can see days. all the smoke he wants to. Go up| Well, {in the new Perry K. building on US8U0D. Kentucky ave. and look toward the every day. Two mornings my sieck] | Union station. |gines outside of the train shed at|the union since one time. On a clear, cloudless day held an office two or three

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{government employees, { : If anyone doubts me, go take a!executive board and if the members | Sufficient teeth in it to eliminate

(tendency; which only courts failure until such time as humans can be 1 have been where I am poured back into the molds and since 1919 and I have been on time MAde over again. : If the mayor erred in his reI counted 14 en-|card said 7 o'clock. I have been in| Marks; it-is probably in respect to | {the fact that. existing legislation times and | might be amended and expanded

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look any time from 9 to 10 a. m. attend their meetings they have a Political favoritism and other dis-

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ng for you. ,Also these engines passed and won't get in a corner|, on the Belt railroad are a disgrace and talk about the way things are to any country. ‘run,

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tJ G. 0. P. LAWS FAVOR MILLIONAIRES” By Mrs. C. M. B., Indianapolis In reply to Mr. Cash's letter to Mr. Cash, you said that it anyone knew of any law that the Republicans ever passed in favor of the working man with | the exception of the raliroad law, {you would like to hear of it, husband was a railroad man over

40 years and he says he never heard of any law they ever passed to help this railroad man, or anyone else. The laws they pass are always. in favor of the millionaire. out how much they helped the working man from 1921 until 1933 when we had nothing but bank failures, and people lost their homes and farms and their money in the banks, and men walked the streets hunting jobs. There was no housing shortage then for they could not pay rent and had to break up their homes and move in with relatowns were full of And now they are tired of 14 years of prosperity and want to go-back to those days, and they will not always have an able wan like F. D. R. to pull our nation out of such a mess, EN

DAILY THOUGHT

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against Him, and hath prospered ?—Job 0:4,

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SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By Willam A. Marlow Flatboats Opened New Era in Indiana | mus:

MAN'S ADVANCE in civilization is & marvelous thing. Beside this, its speed is pitifully slow, halting, and cautious. A simple reminder of this is early Indiafia’s decision to go to market in New Orleans. The date was Jan. 17, 1820. : On that day the general assembly of the new state, in its fourth session, passed a bill to prepare a way to get the surplus products of the state to the New Orleans market. This was comparable to the ploneer’s clearing a patch of forest to plant a first crop of corn. The assembly's bill was mersly to clear the little streams, largely of southern and central Indiana, of obstructions to flatboats,

Boats Were Pioneers’ Answer THESE BOATS were likewise a cautious advance of the eanoces and dugouts of the Indians. They were the pioneers’ answer to the assembly's move to clear the small streams of the state for navigation for small boats. On a limited soale, they became an Indian landmark, The response and the results were marvelous, as of thely day. The pioneers went all out to clear these little streams under the assembly's action in 1820, This was especially true of the Wabash and White rivers. By 1838, for example, 1000 flatboats floated into the Ohio river from the Wabash in one spring. Every year at least 1300 or 1500 boats came down the Wabash and White rivers on their way to the New Orleans market. The cargoes of these boats are a revealing glimpse of early Indiana folks—what they ate; the clothes they wore; the things they reised to sell, largely to southern plantations and New Orleans city folk. On the boats going down stream to market, for example, were live hogs, fat eattle and chickens; geese, corn

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28—The man in the center of the spotlight this week is T, (for Thomas) Alan Goldsborough, associate justice of the district court of the United Btates for the District of Columbia. What he does to or for John L. Lewis will make labor history. : It was before Mr. Justice Goldshorough that attorneys for the department of justice appeared, seeking a restraining order to prevent the United Mine Workers from breaking their contract to work under government seizure of the mines. Justice Goldsborough granted the order,

Hoosier Judge in Like Case THERE ARE A NUMBER of cases in which the reputations of federal judges have been made by important labor decisions. Included in the list are Kenesaw Mountain Landis of Chicago, Albert B. Anderson of Indianapolis and David C. Westenhaver, who sent Bugens Debs to the pen for 10 years. In the eight years Justice Goldsborough has been on the bench in Washington, he has been pretty unpredictable. He's a rugged character of pioneer stock and has plenty of courage... He is over six feet tall, a shrewd, smart, small-town courthouse lawyer who served in congress for 19 years before Roosevelt appointed him to the bench. In the 37 years he has been around Washington he has found out what goes on in politics and all the facts of life. The record of cases he has heard shows he has a fondness for trials in which there is a lot of public interest. He doesn’t mind hullabaloo and headlines over his decisions. Lawyers who have argued cases before him differ in their appraisal of him, but they seem to agree that if he thought John L. Lewis guilty, he would just as soon put him in jail as look at him. He is utterly fearless and a match for John L. in color and personality any day.

NEW YORK, Nov. 28—We have, apparently, passed the point where the year-long absence of an arrow in the ribs is sufficient excuse for breaking out the festive board. Nowadays the turkey is a term applicable chiefly to unsuccessful theatrical productions. But at the risk of being condemned for overaccentuating the positive, I should like to place a benison ‘on the day, and list our blessings one by one. I propose ‘to be thankful if it kills me.

Those Buttons on the Radio I AM THANKFUL for instance, for John L. Lewis, because he has taught us tolerance. I am proud to be a member of a society which refrains from throttling Mr. Lewis with his own eyebrows. The fact that Mr. Lewis is allowed to exist at all demonstrates our broad ability for turning the other cheek; our saintly tolerance of a thorn in the seat of the national pants. Let us give thanks for the atom, that dandy little bundle of fretful energy which has served so happily as a synonym for “important.” The English language was penned in a dead-end until the atom came into vogue, opening up wide vistas of colorful description. All hail the army, loud cheers the navy. Let us bow our heads and be grateful for the fact that many of us, incorribly civilian. at heart, no longer work for either. Especially me. Let us revel in the title, “Mister.” and know in our hearts we aré as good as MacArthur and Nimits.

SHANGHAI, Nov. 28. —America’s effort to strengthen the Nationalist government of Chins against the serious threat of communism in this part of the

world is making little progress. China is sinking deeper into economie trouble, partly because of the unrealistic arid wasteful policies of the United States and partly because of the selfish opportunism of some highly placed Chinese who have political connections at Nanking. Any further reduction in the miserable standard of living in China's 460 million people will add to the threat of communism in China. The superior military strength of Nationalist forces, alone, cannot stay the red tide.

Wealthy Families Enriched MOST AMERICAN aid to China has not served to rehabilitate her economy or to provide her with the means for starting factories and relieving unemp nt, how at an all-time high. - plore net effect of a large portion of American aid has been to enrich China's gwup of Yeslthy families, rather than to help her national recovery. The sale, gh extension of credit, to China of U. 8. army and navy surplus materials on the farflung islands of the Pacific has served as & convenien and perhaps politically expedient means of unloading vast quantities of material which was rotting. But it is doubtful if any appreciable wi of the 1 serve to meet China's basic . Bo the items: 140,000 mirrors, 750 brassiers, 71,000 bottles of hair tonic, 75,000 boxes of cigars,

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edeon John L. Lewis Contempt Case Judge

and kegs of lard; barrels of pork; beeswax, and and then a shipment of 3600 venison hams. aw In exchange for all these products of pioneer Indiana farms, came barrels of Indiana “New Orleans”

Inspired Hope WHAT THE PLATBOAT something more than a

work on the Lindbergh kidnaping case, Justice Golds- f borough told a witness, “I think you're s damned liar,” right before the‘jury. The court of appeals gave him a Serrible bawling-out for that, but his decision was upheld. 3 Justice Goldsborough's great-greai-greai-grandts-ther was a member of the Continental congress. It's that kind of revolutionary aristocracy that is his | heritage. 3 As a congressman, Goldsborough was a New Dealer, even though he represented the traditionally com- | servative, Democratic first district of Maryland. Ia 1938 he had his biggest fight when he backed Roosevelt on “the purge” and invited the President $0 “imvade the Free State of Maryland” and help defess Senator Millard E. Tydings.

Appointed as Reward 2 THE PURGE FAILED and Goldsborough's fight brought down on him the wrath of eonservative Democrats from all over the state. They joined forces with Republicans to defeat him, but when the votes were counted Goldshorough had won. His constituents liked the way he had represented them, and the way he had obtained a lot of New Deal money for their district. Goldsborough's. reward was appointment to the district court bench by Roosevelt, when congress authorized increasing the number of justices to serve in Washington. They really should be called “judges.” for the district court is on a level with state courts.

REFLECTIONS .. . By Robert C. Ruark Some Dismal Causes for Thankfulness

A round of applause for the moving pictures, and for Mr. Samuel Goldwyn and Mr. Darryl Zanuck and Mr. Louis B. Mayer. They will translate the ex;G. L 50 clearly that even a psychologist may understand him, they will give us nucleer fission in terms of Betty Grable’s legs; they and they alone may handle s-x in such a fashion that it is permissible in Boston. We thank you, everyone, for the blueberry piles, General Motors, the right to boo the Dodgers, the right to re-elect Bilbo, the right to keep the airlines flying, railroads running, the perfume pots bubbling, the nylons weaving—for all the things we were told we fought for. 1 oe thankful for the little buttons om radios, be--ause by means of same I may turn radios off,

Those Republicans and Democrats I MURMUR A WORD OF appreciation for the Republicans, the Democrats, the lefts and the rights, the pinks and the reds, the cults and the committees, for as long as we have them at each others throsts there will be freedom in the land. I cry for the shirts I cannot buy, apartments I cannot find, the car I do not drive, soap I eannot locate—because they stand between me and a teoheavy preoccupation with the things of the fiesh. Hit a gay not on the piano, Harry, and weep no more for OPA. 8Squabble, congress. Sing loud, Sinatra. Moan low, Miss Shore. It is the day of give ing thanks, and I propose te achieve On turkey, With cranberry sauce.

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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Wilfam H. Newton American Aid to China Goes Awry

and assorted ping pong, mah-jongs and backgammon sets.

There were more substantial items tao, such as sinks, bathroom fixtures, pipe elbows, brass bushings, and gaskets and 236 different kinds of paint. equipment, but gunn | have the materials to go with equipmen goth pet. be given credit to purchase 12,000 surplus heavy-duty trucks designed for the Burma road but too big and heavy for efficient operation in pentral China. The Chinese government board. of supply sold a few in Shanghal and they crashed through e flimsy bridges here. X oe brokers and speculators—some of them financed and backed by China's leading politicians— have obtained possession of American surplus materials, which might be of real importance and value. They used them for speculative purposes em the Shanghai black market instead of for rehabilitation of China's industry.

cy Dangerous Li Com Us CAN jeeps—by all odds the most - useful vehicle in China—are sold hers at & net prefit of $1000 in U. S. money-per jeep. They are sold through one of the quasi-governmental firms with important political connections. The most useful American surplus items have found their way .in the Shanghai speculative market instead of in the serious and desperately impotent business of rebuilding the nation. For this the Chinese have only themselves and their wealthy politicians to blame. The grave danger in the situation is any complacent motiom im the United States that we have really strengthened the soonomy-of Nationalist Ohina against the serious and ever-present threat of communism.

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