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ET THE PEOPLE KNOW y %7E hope President Truman's expected statement on the '¥ Greek crisis will take the American people fully and into his confidence. The situation obviously involves a crucial decision for this country. It concerns much more than temporary relief for Greece.’ The public is entitled to know its facts and its implications. And the public must know, we believe, if Mr. Truman wants strong, bipartisan congressional support for whatever steps he is about to propose. "The problem, according to some Washington observers, is this: If the Russians should take over in Greece when. the British pull out, the Soviet Union would become dominant ir the Mediterranean. Turkey would be. text to fall} Then there wouid be nothing to prevent the Red tidal wave “from engulfing Italy, France, Spain and Portugal in one direction, and Egypt, Palestine, Suez, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran in the other. To prevent this, the United States is invited to become a Mediterranean power by assuming * pesponsibility for outposts the British empire no longer can defend. : If this analysis is correct—if the real issue is. not Greece, but Russia—Ilet’s face up to it with frankness and

eourage. : : sn» 4 5 . = 8 J_ET'S have the truth about it, all at once, now. : Light also is needed on the relationship between the Greek situation and the 40-year alliance Secretary Marshall will seek at Moscow. 1s this another “final” attempt to do business with Stalin? : If an agreement can be reached with Russia, Mr. Marsays, “it will clear away many existing difficulties and

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shat % a more objective approach to the others.” It might do that, but it might do just the opposite. Anxiety for-an understanding with Moscow should not blind us to the fact that previous agreements with the

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Kremlin have been binding on our side only. The Greek problem has been dumped into our lap as the direct result of 3 bad deal we made with the Soviets at Yalta when we consented to a division of the world into rival spheres of

RE are Democrats in congress who wouldn't be above

Republican legislation. And there are Republicans in the country who are disappointed because congress, in the first two months of G. O. P. control, has not repealed the entire New Deal, reduced taxes, “put labor in its place,” and done various other things that over-exuberant party campaigners promised last fall. But if Republican popularity has declined, as the Gallup poll indicates, we think it's ehiefly for reasons other than that little legislation has been passed thus far. In fact, the Republican congress has done about as much law-making as any new congress ever did at this stage. And its start was necessarily slow because it had to go through a complete reorganization, under the La Follette-Monroney act, before it could get down to work. : It deserves praise, rather than criticism, for taking | time to explore the difficult and complex labor problem before enacting new legislation in that field. It needs more information than it yet has had time to gather before it can safely cut taxes. Its efforts to trim the budget have, if anything, been 'too speedy rather than too deliberate. The country wants and expects economy in the government, but we don’t believe there is popular demand for the sort of job that would be done by surgeons operating in the dark and without a careful diagnosis to guide their knives. When he charges the Democrats with “delaying” tactics, however, Senator Taft ought to blush a bit over the | part he and.other Republicans liave played in the matter | of David E. Lilienthal’s nomination for chairman of the | atomic energy commission. A Republican-controlled senate

Here, to be sure; a Democrat—McKellar of Tennessee— wanted to stall. But the Republican committee majority stretched “senatorial courtesy” to the limit to let Senator McKellar produce a flood of irrelevant and phony “evidence” against Mr. Lilienthal. And Senator Taft was one of the Republicans who joined the McKellar vendetta and an- | pounced, midway of the hearings, that he already had judged the case and would oppose the nomination.

WE NEED FOREIGN TRADE ; HIGH-TARIFF Republicans who contend that: the recip-

rocal trade agreements act is bad for business will find no support in studies made by the commerce deThe act was passed in 1934. Between 1984-36 and 1938-39—the last two years of prewar normal trade—our exports to countries with which we had made reciprocal . agreements increased nearly 63 per cent. Imports from the same countries increased only 22 per cent. - it 80 the act did not flood the country with “foreign

the trade balance in our favor. The gain in

exports to non-agreement countries was ow Which would suggest expanding the not abandoning it. od -making by log-rolling and backA : in subsidizing some commodities ge of the consumer; and closing some foreign an goods, That would favor the few, but hurt how the Smoot-Hawley tariff operated,

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theater the finest program for the entire family that I have ever witnessed. Not a single scene from any feature eould deserve criticism. “Song

“Blondie and Dagwood Even the other features were the type children would benefit by seeing. {

the Indians theater. of Indianapolis certainly have a friend in this theater manager— and I don’t even know his name.

“REMEDY FOR GRAFT IS GOOD SLOT-MACHINE” By Carrell Collins, Indianapolis

Packer, has written an article for

__sommittee’s hearings on that nomination dragged along | a 4 aE 5 — did the com ithoe Sopot. produced, in sptie of progress an

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"We Like to Criticize; Now Here Is an Opportunity to Commend"

By Mrs. Walter L. Caley, President, Indianapolis Council, P.-T. A. When some undesirable factor enters into the life of Americans they whoop and holler. They charge against large organisations like a mad you do something about it?” life come peacefully their way they lie back with complete apathy—as if no comment or action were necessary. What's on my mind you ask? It's this. "When a rotten picture was billed with an outstanding children's picture recently a large group of

and demand “Why don’t But when the good things of

t parents cried out, “Why

doesn’t the P.-T. A. do something! emotional drive into other chanabout it?” The P.-T. A. did act and : : : the undesirable was eliminated. Not * what Senator Taft calls a “deliberate attemp ” to stall | or ough letters of appreciation were! sent to the theater manager, however.

Now, all on its own the Indiana management has arranged

picture.

It seems to me

Boys and girls |

A big British ex-gambler, Bdwin

them and annoy them. He speaks of the man who likes to flutter every day. Then he gives this trenchant analysis: “Our industrial civilization has

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ence, a sense of boredom and fiustration in the common man .. . 8

‘roll tax could be eliminated, gross

1 old feud between the old guard and

“UNIONS DEMANDS NOT DEMANDS OF ONE MAN"

By Charles C. Funcannon, Financial See- | retary; Earl tary,

Local’ No. 4o64, T. H.W. of

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The membership of Local Union| No. 4064, United Mine Workers of America, Terre Haute, Ind, have! heard on the radio and read in the press that one man is asking for the shorter work day, shorter work | week and higher wages, referring to John L. Lewis. Such statements |

are untrue. The membership . through their duly elected delegates attending the! national convention instruct hat|

nels.” ’ In other words, wear and tear of machine industry on individuals, is so great that they must getaway from it all. . “If the limey couldn't put a shilling on the British Derby we would

national scale committee as to what we want, i We are looking forward to the {international scale committee to get us a shorter work day, shorter work week and better working conditions inasmuch as we are putting in 12 hours a day getting to work and returning to our homes. We are also looking forward to higher wages to meet the increased cost of living as we have received | very little wage increase during the war except the pay received for: additional overtime worked so the! war could be brought to a quick rsuccessful end. These demands are not one man's demands. They are the demands of the membership of the United Mine Workers of America submitted to the national convention in resolution form which were adapted. » ” = “ROSSOW IS MERELY UPHOIDING THE LAW” By Elmer Woods, Shelbyvitle After reading the articles about William Price, I wonder what some people are thinking about when they uphold guys like him and blame the law officers for brutality. Col. Robert Rossow is merely upholding the law and protecting his officers, and that is as it should be. He was not in. office at the time and would not know anymore than

wonders how he will make his income cover his outgo. Yes, the pay-

income tax stopped and men would stay honest in high public places because they would have no way

and give the sucker an even chance, » » ” “LILTENTHAL SHOULD BE CONFIRMED BY SENATE”

sonal views on the Lilienthal squabble. It seems like it is an

new deal. About all the good argument that can be proven is that he is an ardent new dealer, appojnted by Mr. Roosevelt. Just one he should be retained as

printed. If people like them are going to uphold guys like Price, our

head of the atomic commission. Sumy is song to hell. It looks * sgn predicting his spnoiftment like these people are trying to get wil soon be TatifiéG #7 Set there [the public sympathy oF willie Kina

. of gangsters. They wanted the people to see Price's picture in the

restriction on gambling in any form may merely serve to direct the

- (paper. Why didn’t they also put Trooper 8mith’s picture in after he had undergone their punishment. But some people can see only one side of anything, so let them come

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

{down around Shelby county and

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Choose School Board Members Th

IN DISCUSSION of selection of a mayor for In-

dianapolis this year, we should not lose sight of the fact than another important election is to. be held in the fall . . . that of five members of-the board of school commissioners. .

Three of the new members will take office on Jan.

1, 1948 . . . the others in two years. Present mempers of the board are Carl F.. Brandt, Harry L. Gause, Clarence L. Farrington, Edgar A. Perkins Sr. and Mrs. Eldo I. Wagner. and Mr. Farrington continue until Dec, 31, 1948.

Citizen's Committee Powerful

The terms of Mr. Gause

SINCE 1921, determination, of the membership

"| of the school board has been on a non-political basis.

Preceding the election that year, the situation

in the school city had developed to such a point of inefficiency . . . serious charges were made . . . that a group of men and women interested only in getting a good school poard banded together and put over five new members on a non-partisan basis.

and in som quarters éven more

The group was not. formalized until subsequent

elections, however, and since 1929 it has been func. tioning as the'citizens' school committee . . . doing a commendable job. There are reports that candidates other than those indorsed by the committee will be placed in the fleld this year, but these candidates reportedly will not run with a political label. .

N WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs e

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Will Congress-Break Coal Monopolies?

. « WASHINGTON, March .11.—When John L. Lewis first began his performance before the senate lqbor committee, the spectator got the impression that he had grown old and tired. The supreme court of the United States had struck him down and he seemed in chastened mood.

This was a superficial impression. When the old

actor really got going, you realized he was in there pitching at the top of his form. :

This time it was a different role. Instead of Ham-

let, it was King Lear—the aging monarch who sees the evil forces of the world conspiring to curb his | freedom, confine him and finally destroy him. | great tragedian played it up to the hilt.

The

His voice, low and almost indistinct, rose to a

roar of noble emphasis. He threw out his hands in a wild gesture. A dozen flash bulbs caught it in a split second. committee room had come to hear and see just this —Lewis, the master of the public appearance, special pleader with no peer.

Owners as Well as Labor

The crowd standing packed in the

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE found it diffi-

cult or impossible to break through the barrage of John L.'s rhetoric. Senators Taft, Ball, Alken, Eliender and Sinith all tried it. f

Taft had particularly bad luck. He remarked that

Lewis was assumed to be the sole authority in the United Mine Workers union. Denying that he was an autocrat, Lewis leaned back, surveyed the senator ! from- Ohio and delivered himself of the following:

“There have been reports in the newspapers that

you are pushing the Republicans in congress around,

Senator, but I would not use those reports as a

| premise until I had discussed with you their truth | or falsity.” , :

This drew laughter and applause from the crowd. Grinning, Taft explained that you colild not order the 51 Republicans in the senate to do anything; it could be done only by persuasion. Sk “Methinks the senator doth protest too much,” said the old Shakespearean in the witness chair.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert

Mexico Now Out-Renos Reno

MEXICO CITY, March 11.—~Don't get me wrong. I'm not advocating that everybody drop everything and rush off to get a Mexican divorce.

But Mexico, as a locale for dumping the curdled romance, is growing so popular that the story ought

to be told.

There are some who say that Mexican divorces are slightly invalid across the border, but it does not appear to deter the American citizen from seeking If one is insensitive to snide allegations of bigamy, then Mexican severance grr quick, very i

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cheap, and extremely simple,

Mail Order Operation

ONE OF THE neatest things about shedding a spouse in Mexico is that it is not necessary to go You can sit happily in Brooklyn and let the airmail work for you. Two people who have decided to sta®t afresh, before they lose their tempers and massage each other with axes, may be

to Mexico ‘to do it.

sundered without ever meeting a Mexican.

settlements arid disposition of the kids, if any.:

| The Mexican has a way, too, of dealing with un

bliss.or a heavier hunk of mad

fot clinging to John. . :

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[talk to some people who know the ‘truth about the whole affair, t I think the law should make examples of them for the protection of our laws and law officers. | ” J ” “ .. YOUR WAY OF THINKING HAS STARTED WARS” |By Ap American, Indianapolis I'm white, Mr. Packham. I fought with Negro, Jew and American Japs. I have more respect for

them than you. me is the spirit of good-will to all

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| |attended school and graduated with the people you spite. I sat next to them, played with them and had fist fights; fights not because of color but for an infraction of

Hoosier Circuit Rid

IT WAS AROUND midnight. Three men with their horses resting at the muddy roadside were trying a | lawsuit. The judge was Willlam W. Wick, with attor- | ney Harvey Gregg prosecuting and attorney Phillip

Sweetser defending. The charge was trespass.

The culprit was a possum, which had been caught after crossing the path of these attorneys near Amity, | on the road from Columbus to Franklin, Ind, where

| they arrived about daylight.

To make the record complete, Judge Wick found Instilied within | the possum guilty of malicious trespass, and pronounced a verdict of 39 lashes. This was the r'~~dard days. This incident is a revealing -touch of the life of the men of the three learned professions—theology, law and medicine as they eased out of the Indiana

| punishment for a horse thief in Indiana plone.

picture in the 1850's.

as in the end they all did.

‘| Lived Out in Country * ‘THE CIRCUITS they rode were as muddy and as tough to ride, as the one Judge Wick, Sweetser, and | Gregg were- riding from Columbus to Franklin that

night. :

try, as almost everyone

‘present board to dealing with a growing demand that

They have a local lawyer draw up a power of attorney and mail it to a Mexican divorce lawyer, after having it notarized and sanctified by the nearest Mexican consul. The power of attorney is accompanied by the marriage certificate, or a certified copy. Also included is a simple statement that John hates Mary and vice versa, and, that they both desire freedom and have agreed on such things as property

Then comes the most important document, a money-order for $100 U. 8, to cover fees. Seal, stamp, mail and in 10 days, the postman rings once and you are single again. If you have a reasonable lawyer, he ‘won't bill you for more than $300 for the service.

reasonable mates who are holding out for posing money. Say. that JohHi“i¥ 8 saturated with domestic difficulty that he wishes to lose Mary, but Mary has her own reasons

John serids his lawyer all. the dope - mentioned

They were the circuit riders who led the Indiana pack of their day. At some point they touched the life of every Hoosler who prayed, quarreled, or died,

Yet they were as immune to all this as men could very well be. Most of them lived right out in the coun. in the Indiana ‘of their day

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. Xx . is Fall + It would appear that in the fleld of running its schools, at least, Indianapolis has determined to select those officials on a non-political basis. The new school- board will- have many difficult

tasks ahead of it . . . ranging from the $8,000,000 building program which has been approved by the

segregation be ended in the schools, The board has authority to end segregation if it so desires. Parents and taxpayers should give particular attention to the selection of members of the school board. That is remarking the obvious , . , but: all too rarely does anyone pay attention to candidates for the five school commissionerships until after filing date. The candidates will not be voted upon in the primary, but their names will appear on-the ballot in the fall . ., at the same time a mayor, eity clerk and nine councilmen are chosen.

Wide Scope of Duties THE BOARD of school commissioners exerts a most vital influence on the community's most precious asset, its children, and thus reaches into most homes. It levies taxes, employs teachers, locates and authorizes construction of schools, establishes nursery schools and is authorized to provide recreational facilities “in school buildings and grounds for both children and adults, Ry Yet, there is comparatively little interest in who these people are. They should be the best the city cam offer, :

All of Lewis’ rhetoric could not conceal basic facts in the coal industry—facts which apply to many other industries. Concentration of control over ownership has been matched by concentration of. control over labor. The industry-wide union has grown up as a counterpart of the industry-wide owners’ association. - ¢ The end of that process of concentration is government control or even government ownership. It is the real explanation why the coal mines today are under at least nominal government operation. Talk about the government wanting to take over the mines and keep them is the sheerest' nonsense. Mischievous nonsense at that. Government operation grew out of pressure of opposing forces solidly aligned on each side of the fence. Government seizure of the mines was forced in interest of the public, as the so-called New Deal supreme court clearly recognized in its decision. The same pressure may eventually force permanent government control. Lewis exploded in indignation at. the profits of the coal operators under government operation of the mines. But if he had been honest, he would have said that at the same time the miners, under contract signed with the government, get benefits that they never had before. One beriefit is the health and welfare fund which the U. M. W. has been

seeking for years.

islation Must Be Fair TORS EVEN NOw_ protest they cannot sign a contract under private operation including this benefit. With the Republican congress behind them, they may decide to sit it out after June 30, when the law covering government operation expires and mines pass back into private hands. The question the labor committee must answer is ® tough one. If they break up the monopoly of the union—by forbidding industry-wide bargaining or in some other way—will they also break up the concentration of control in industry? In writing new labor legislation, the committee will have to display the wisdom of Solomon and the patience of Job.

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above, with the exception of the mutual consent clause. The Mexican lawyer thinks up a good ground, like incompatibility, adultery, abandonment of home, insanity, or cruelty, and takes his papers to court. In absence of mutual consent, the judge makes out a paper containing the charges and a short ques tionnaire, which is answered by your empowered attorney, always the way you'd like it. This is published in fine print, then nailed on the" courthouse wall of the smallest, most remote village people can . think of. . Thirty days elapse, and if in that time Mary does not come scurrying down to read the specifications and contest the divorce, old John is as free as nonlegal advice. In order for Mary to protect herself in the clinch, she would have to be a mindreader, because she is probably swabbing down the kitchen in Canarsie while the man is tacking papa's good-

bye message to the adobe wall There has been a lot of speculation about validity of ‘Mexican divorces, especially since people like Laraine Day, the adored of Leo Durocher, was smacked down by a California judge with a bigamy accusation. Actually, a mutually-desired Mexican divorce is about like a Reno operation—legal until somebody wants to contest it in court. The mallorder jobs are shakier than the ones in which the principals set up actual residence.

Bigamy But No Cowboy Suit DIVORCES PROCURED AGAINST the will of one party can generally be shot full of holes and ‘voided in American courts. But that, sadly, too often is true of any divorce obtained outside the divorcee’s own state. The whole picture of divorce is so cloudy and’ - suspect at the moment that a lot of unconscious bigamy is being performed by subjects who have rearried. In that case, a Mexican-type bigamist is... "Apt 10 be just as sesené as a Keno OF Lak Végas-typd bigamist. - And: in addition, it is not necessary to wear a cowboy suit and fall off horses while sweating out the decree. * ‘

By William A. Marlow

sre of 1850s + .°

+The pioneer training in theology,.law and medicine was largely homemade in the Indiana of this period. In the professions, it matched homemade bacon and maple sugar; jeans pants and cowhide boots; log cabins and farm wagons, By and large, it was all cut from the same piece of cloth—necessity. Thy injunction to the professions of the Indiana of this era was like the farmer's parting shot-—‘root, hog, or die.” The preacher, broadly speaking, was not trained. Like Topsey, he just grew. As he grew, he had to support himself and family and pay his expenses as he traveled the circuit. So he farmed. He taught school—did any odd job he could find. On _Bunday, he might travel 20 miles or so on horseback, preach two or three sermons, and hold prayer meetings during the week. ,

Few Had Diplomas - LAWYERS WERE TRAINED by the apprentice method in a lawyer's office. They read law—basically Blackstone and Chitty, with a finishing touch in special flelds—Harrison’s chancery, Greeley’s evidence in equity, Heytheusen's equity draftsman and Story in equity pleading. * : : Few of the doctors had a diploma from a medical college, They read a course on medicine in the office of some doctor. He guided them much or little as he knew how, or had the time todo, * . / Prom there on out, both the doctor and the fledg-

things are possible unto Thee; | did. ay ling improvised. When they didn't know, they guessed. take away this cup from Me: Even down to 1850, the population of the state When they administered, they hoped. When the pa- , nevertheless not what I will, but | Was 955 per cent rural The rural folk of that day tent survived or died, they took the credit or the ; j N : what Thou wilt—Mark 14:36. umbered 93,000 with the townspeople trailing with blame, a little pay, and—well, they had done their SERVICE, NC. 1. M. R80. U. &. PAT, OF. sulerl Lf TO pray . . . is to desire; but it is| In this Indiana, people prayed and were buried, The professions of the 1840's and 1850's were on I - to desire what God would have us| : level of their times, Their counterparts of 100°

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