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DIRTY POOL DOESN'T PAY

THE 8-to-1 confirmation vote for David Lilienthal ‘Was, among other things, an expression of something which runs deep in our country—the spirit of sportsmanship. It shows up at a prizefight, a tennis match or a bdll game as well as in the higher ethical reaches. A lot of skulduggery gets by in our country, but not when there is an audience. Even a gangster will yell “foul” when a boxer hits below the belt. | ‘When Mr. Lilienthal was nominated the selection was generally acclaimed. © Then Senator McKellar, Lilienthal's ancient enemy, | entered the scene. McKellar had been gunning for Lilien- ~ thal on this pretext or that for years. Reason, the senator's inordinate craving for patronage. He had become increasingly bitter about his inability to muscle in on" the vast project which-would have provided rich harvest in political |

spoils. * He had knocked many a time and Joudly ; but Lilien- | thal had not “opened that door.” Fundamentally, patron- |

age and politics are what all the shooting has been about. | The oft-frustrated McKellar saw what he thought was. | a new opportunity when the atomic_ position was offered | Lilienthal. He was able to suck in Senate Majority Leader | White, who even submitted to McKellar for approval his anti-Lilienthal announcement.. Later McKellar was joined by the then though not now so mighty Taft. McKellar dragged out the overripe tomatoes, the aged eggs, the ball- | bat, the custard pie, the rolling pin, the water bucket and | whatever else he could lay hands on. He hurled them all at Lilienthal.

» FTER 43 days of this performance the senate atomic | energy committee which had to suffer through it all, | because of senatorial courtesy or some other similarly strange not to say voodooistic custom, has voted 8 to 1 for | Lilienthal. The one is Senator Bricker of Ohio who, playing | footie with the over-eager Ohio presidential aspirant, Taft, now limps in with what he described as additional evidence. | Bricker thereby boxes the compass, having in a statement | March 5 last defended Lilienthal on the red-tinge charge. Anyhow, 8 to 1 “ain’t hay” when you consider the qual- | ity of the committee which voted, including as it does, Sena- | tors Vandenberg, Millikin, Hickenlooper, Kriowland, Mec- | Mahon, Connally, Johnson and Russell. | All of which adds up to the fact that, lapsing again into the jargon of sports dirty pool doesn’t pay. As pertinent to the whole subject we repeat what | Author Milton MacKaye said regarding the Lilienthal | affair: “I am no world thinker, but as an old-time police reporter 1 know a frame-up when I see one.”

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AMERICAN DOCTRINE |

Hoosier Forum

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

"Area North of Eair Ground Is

Cut Off From City Conveniences"

" By Genevieve Sherrill Heckman, 4225 Ralston ave. The little neighborhood which lies between 46th st. on the north,

{42d st. on the south, Keystone ave. on the east and Ralston ave. on

ithe west is a forgotten community. Forgotten as far as city conveniences are concerned, but never at {election time or during all the drives for beneficial funds which depend jon public hand-outs. There is ogly one street in this area which is paved and has curbs. | | Bight streets run north and south, five streets run east and west. There! are no sidewalks. All pedestrians must walk in the streets, except. on on

|“SOCIAL RIGHT, DECENCY | CALL FOR SACRIFICES” {By Henry J. Richardson Jr. City

Man's disrespect for the dignity

‘of man is man’s curse on civiliza- |

tion. It has bred all the. wars! throughout the ages, engenders hate, greed, selfishness and exploi- | tation. It has made minorities dependant and defenseless by circumscribing them. ? The story of dependant minorities |

is a bitter tale of man's inhumanity |

‘to man, of a social and economic |

‘| it got on my nerves; to such an

land south of 42d st,

46th st. Ga

The Indiana state fair grounds,

! occupies several hundred acres of and the Indiana state school for the deaf is located to the west of Ralston ave. The school also required many

{acres to fulfill its purpose. Conse-

| quently, these two establishments | completely sever this community {from the continuation of city streets and alley-ways; however, 1t {is still within the city limits, and ruled by city officials. Transportation on public convey-

{ances of the residents from their

HE international-trade pattern most conducive to free enterprise is one in which major decisions are made, not by governments, but by private buyers and sellers under conditions of active competition.

President Truman stressed that point in urging support for the reciprocal-trade program as one of the essen- | tials of a lasting peace. In the same speech he joined freedom of enterprise with freedom of speech and of worship.

That was basic American doctrine.

Championship of free enterprise should be made the keystone of our foreign policy. It is the best answer to the challenge of totalitarianism. It may be because we have ignored this truth that so far we have been losing the battle. Upholding free enterprise at home, we have been pulling it down abroad by letting our resources be used to foster communism in Europe and Asia.

When we conditioned further financial aid to China upon the formation-of a coalition government in which the Communists would have substantial representation, we were not promoting freedom of enterprise. We were opening the door to communism. And that was a typical, not an isolated case.

Our relief funds have been used to erect Red barriers against us in Poland and the Balkans. Some of our loans have been similarly" employed. We should turn away - from the short-sighted policy that has permitted Ameri- - can: money to be used -agginst American: interests. : It is encouraging that the state department is cool to ° a Yugoslay request for 100,000 tons of grain.’ Tito's gov- | ernment has been waging undeclared war on Greece, in the Community drive to dominate the Mediterranean. We will be doing our part if we succor the victim. It is no part of our duty to underwrite aggression which is retarding recovery throughout the Balkans.

Our food should fight for peace. Our wealth, produced by free enterprise, should work to extend free enterprise everywhere. When we compromise with that stand we weaken ourselves and strengthen the enemies of the principles in which we believe. The President is on the right track. We hope he goes all the way.

GIRL SCOUT BIRTHDAY

DAY is the 35th birthday of the Girl Scouts, of Amer: * jea, an organization that has a particularly excellent record of community service and character building in Indianapolis. The slogan for the observance is “Better Citizens Build” 8 Better World.” Anyone who has followed the developments of scouting—among both girls and hoys—knows how truly these organizations exeniplify that slogan.

and directed by 1470 adults and 40 active commembers. ‘ Thesq numbers are much too small in 1 h the potantin of the organization. : to the problem of extension is that of

|lishments in the district.

Zl here are some 5130 members-of the 271- Brownie, : intermediate ‘and senior groups of the Girl Scouts here,

homes to the business district in downtown Indianapolis requires 45 | minytes to one hour and busses run (sometimes they do not) every 20 or 30 minutes. This amount of time is. not required because the distance is six miles. It is required

| because the bus must criss-cross {through other sections of the city

to serve residents who also have

two or three other transportation ! lines besides this one to travel on,

There is not even one United States mail box in the community. The mail arrives earlier now than it did. Thanks to the Civic League's

| efforts.

There are several business Professional men having offices in this area one cannot find. There are two or three however, who have established residence there.

Residents of this community have banded together after years of city snubbing, and have formed a Civic League through which they hope to make known their complaints. There is no school and only one church. The children must walk in the streets fromm four to fifteen

blocks to aang a school, no school

bus. These ' people find 4 difficult to ‘bea Small town community w within a--Jarge. city. ~ They - cannot

they they would have if they were a

givesmeanoipyerything ~to them. themselves the tonverffehce which houses are fot: ‘nice Pages trwHieh

Side Sn —By Galbraith

| disease of immorality. To truly re- | spect the dignity of man, one him- | self must get to know and feel the prejudice from within of scorned minorities and feel the sharpness of the hurt of man's inhumanity to! man. New acquaintances often treat minorities in a peculiar way— either too brusque or too polite. Most liberal members of the majority are too timid to accept at! ‘once the idea that social right and! {decency must be fought for and] | sometimes paid for by personal sacNICE PLACES TO LIVE” rifice. It is.clear that democracy By M. Williams, Morgantown is indivisible, though some members I beg to differ with E. E. Adolph of minorities try to bolster their | of 3221 Adams st. All taxpayers are OWN status and swell their own ego not owners of homes but every citj- bY trampling on others. zen in our state must pay his taxes Liberals in America are doomed on food, on clothes, and. perhaps to “second-class citizenship” unless on dogs. After a man gets too old they organize and fight on comman to hold a job his earnings are used. ground. Program of" all liberals up. ‘should include fair employment This is when he must ask for old practices commission, anti-poll tax, age assistance. It is not nice to anti-lynching laws and a prohave to ask for it but it is necessary [ram of feeding all who are that he eat to live. So no matter hungry “to the limit of our rehow old a man is he did at some- sources” with additional support for time in his life pay taxes. There-~ nations in .which individual liberty fore it is the duty of our state to exists. take care of its aged or give them In spite of our winning the war, a job that they can earn their liv- the infection of Naziism has re-| ing. ivived and accelerated the malignant | + Most of these aged own wheir own fever of anti-color and anti-Semit- | homes and are receiving as much {ism in the world. help from their children as the’ A hopeful ray is this. THe reacchildren can spare. These old peo- tion to persecution of citizens of ple receive $12, $13 to $20.50, not Japanese descent has swung toa $30 or $40 as is said. No one around | fresh and hearty acceptance of that here receives $30. The lady re-|group "of Americans. - In spite of; ceiving the $20.50 is 77 years, owns many economic set-backs and fet-| her own home and lives by herself. | ters of personal indignities of} If our country can lend billions! | shocking proportion, the Negro, lo foreign countries, give millions to our aged. [tion, is slowly but steadily realizThere are two sides to every | ing fuller rights and opportunities | story. These old ,people are too] 'for higher achievements in Amerold to come up there to plead their ica. 7 :ases, but ‘I am sure you will give | 8.8 9 pace for this: article.. Their homes | “HOPE YOU CONTINUE Poor | UNITED NATIONS NEWS"

small town or village because these’ things must come from the In-| dianapolis city council. Civic League members have carried petitions through this area, seeking signa-| tures of property owners in order to improve their neighborhood. They are building a- community house, slowly, of course, because the work must be done by the members in their spare time, amd fic nanced through their own efforts. = = "-

“POOR HOUSES ARE NOT

By Olive Beldon” Lewis, Indianapolis

aid live. = I want to .express my -apprecia-|

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“I'm not really as sick as Emma.

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~hanksting. for a checker game like we used to have when. over my store!”

‘tion of the new column, Vnus Nations News,” . by James | Eldridge. It is well written and by

someone like myself who likes to] keep such information for future | | reference, it is quite practical. am always searching for the ect working of a commitment, the correct names or dates. It also uses | the space to much better ad- | vantage than some of the column|ists who. attempt to be funny— {maybe I fail in keen sense of humor, i but knowing the reactionary attitude (and unconcern with world affairs of many Hoosiers, I am glad to see you include his column and Hope you will eontinue it. » n “JUST TRYING TO BE HELPFUL”

{By Leonard RB. Hill, Indianapolis [ I have just finished reading your article, “A Trip to the Moon land Back.” I have noticed that you use a jet-propelled plane for your rocket, According to our scientists, there is no air in the void of space. { Therefore a jet plane could not "| travel in space as its fuel is part | oxygen and most of it is gathered from the air it files through. Please understand I'm not being oritical, just trying to be helpful.

DAILY THOUGHT

A new commandment ‘1 give unto you, That ye love oné another; as I have loved you, that |. ye also love one Anuther John , 13: “. fi :

told you on the phone, Doc—st |

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it ¢an surely one-tenth of the American popula- |

+4 of strategic -materials. : was so packed with. dynamite that Rep. Paul” Shaler

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I RECEIVED my copy of the World Almanac this morning, and the first thing I did was to comb It

to find the missing husbands of Indianapolis. For the last 10 years (or as long as I've been A subscriber), the. Almanac has taken considerable pains, td say nothing of paper, to tell the world that Indianapolis has 88411 wives and only 87756 husbands. This piece of news turned up year after year with such monotonous regularity and apparent finality that

Alarming degree, indeed, that I° devoted a good part of every spring to go In search of the missing husbands—if for no other reason than to reduce the weight of the Almanac. I looked everywhere, with little or no results. The missing” husbands weren't in Nevada or Florida or Honolulu or any other good hiding place. Nor were they cruising in the Caribbean. They were irretrievably lost, which always left me to brood on the awful corollary of the ghastly set of statistics—namely, that Indianapolis has 655 wives who don't know where their husbands are or who, for some reason, aren't telling.

A Disgraceful Affair

WELL, this year, to my great surprise, the World Almanac blandly dismisses the subject, leaving me no alternative but to believe that the missing husbands have been found or, what is more probable, that the Almanac has washed its hands of the whole disgraceful affair, In either oase, it still leaves me brooding. This year's Almanac also leaves me. wondering

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(‘about other things connected with Indianapolis. Time

was when, year after year, it pointed with consider- ! able pride (or so I thought) to the unassailable fact that a citizen of Indianapolis stands less chance of. dying of cirrhosis of the liver than he would if living | in California, for instance. And as for succumbing to alcoholism, the good old Almanac always brought me to my knees, thanking my stars that I didn't have to live in Arkansas or,

1 for tha® matter, any other place outside of Indiana.

For some reason, the whole departnient heretofore

IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, March 12.—Because of an unfortunate accident of timing, the confirmation of Gordon Clapp to be chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority has-been treated as a kind of sideshow while the David Lilienthal row holds the interest in the main tent. HK the Clapp appointment had not come up until the smoke of the Lilienthal controversy cleared away, I'then it would have been seen -in its true colors. In any objective light, it must be seen as the advahce- { ment of a loyal and capable public servant.

Oppose Public Power

| MR. CLAPP has been with the TVA since its inception in 1933. Since 1939 he has been general manager. The record established by TVA during the war | is essentially Mr. Clapp's record. ‘A vote against Mr. Clapp is in reality a vote against TVA. That was more or less clear in. the | statements of Republicans and Democrats on the | senate public works committee, who voted 7 to 5 | against his confirmation. Several of the opponents, in explaining their stand, { said that while Mr. Clapp had a good record, they were opposed to anyone in favor of public power. | This is a little tough on a4 man named to administer i 4 public authority created by act of oongress, one | function of which is to develop power. | If the Clapp appointment had not been woes the | Lilienthal shadow, it would undoubtedly have gone through in routine fashion. Senator McKellar could have been counted on for his red dervish dance, but | that would have been routine, too. Thanks to antiLilienthal propaganda, directed in part at least against TVA, Mr. Clapp suffered by indirection. The Communist smear is ridiculous on the face of

REFLECTIONS . U.S. Has Fingers | In

NEW YORK, March 12.—A man who travels constantly gets out of touch with the news, as I have found on returning to base after a couple months’ vagabondage. It appears that things of great moment have occurred, while I was off playing with hoodlums and sailfish, crooners and bullfighters. For instance, 1 see where a man out in Colfax. Wash., has equipped 4000 hens with eyeglasses, col- | ored bright red. This is because hens are cannibalistie, and are prone to devour a sister who has nicked herself in the fence and is bleeding a little bit. Man { figures if hens see red all the time they won't be able to notice a bleeding sister. And he will save 250 fowl a year. That's what it says, anyhow. Things are desperate in the open-wider league. Dentists say there are 500 million aching cavities in the U. 8., with 112 million new ones added each year. Dr. Harold Hillenbrand says there are only enough | dentists to take care of half the new cavities.- This leaves the immense backlog of old ones to ache and ache and ache without surcease.

Packed With Dynamite

* PANDORA AND HER TOP- -SECRET BOX are back | in the news. Down in Washington, some representatives in the house armed services sub-committee ordered the munitions board to report on its stockpile

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| ‘WORLD AFFAIRS .

: German Peace Treaty Secondary

WASHINGTON, March 12. —World events are

zooming along At such a dizzy pace that, important

as it is, the German peace treaty which the Big Four

will try to frame at Moscow has been relegated to

second place, As Foreign Ministers V. M. Molotov, George C. Marshall, Ernest Bevin and Georges Bidault take thelr places around the conference table, the world is witnessing the collapse of old empires and the noisy rise of a new one. For no longer can there be the slightest doubt that as the British, French, Dutch, Chinese and Indian empires disintegrate, the Soviet empire is adding new pieces to her own, Germany, therefore, has become only a part of a vaster problem. While a decent and just German peace is imperative, what happens to Greece, in the long run, may be equally important,

Conflicts Over World

EVEN THAT, however, is only part of it. Conflicts are in progress in China, Korea, Indo-China, the East Indies, the Philippines and India whose population total as much as the rest of the earth put together.

peace—including the peace of the western hemisphere —no Tess than what happens in Germany. Agreement among the Big Four on world policy, therefore—not merely on the German peace treaty— probably would assure world peace for the next 100 years. If they can’t agree on a wider policy, nothing they do about Germany. will greatly matter. That is to say, the great powers must soon agree ‘on a general policy with regard to the territory and [ peoples of ie iE empires. Or sooner or

thoroughly to learn whether anything had been done

By Marquis Childs

Smear Against TVA Is Ridiculous

. By Robert C. Ruark

bon-coke with the neighbors.

In came the report, and it“ ny “ack. was Wrned” Tike your eye: oithis- coun

. By William Philip Simms

What happens in Asia, therefore, will influence world

' 20 years before. the charter was framed. - The pact

to fighting among themselves. ‘the policy laid down

|OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer The Case of 655 Missing Hosherds

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classified as “violent. deat” has been deleted in the 190 sagon, In its place is a chapter on the atom mb, Now that I Jook back, the World Almanac's tables dealing with expectancy of life used to be as promising and reassuring as the first crocus in spring. If I remember correctly, it was less than 10 years ago that ‘the good old Almanac held out a hope that a 50-year-old man residing in Indianapolis had a good chance of living 20 years longer, This was compared with thé man who made the mistake of settling in New York. They had only 19 more years to go. In the case of Indianapolis women who were 50 years old, the chances were even better. A woman lucky enough to live in the Marott hotel, for instance, was good for another 21 years at the very least. : In former years, too, the World Almanac always led its readers to believe that Indianapolis 18 the place where, in an average year, one person in every 15 gets arrested on some trumped-up charge--usually “vagrancy.” Where 6967 widowers and 10,367 widows live. Where 45 cents per capita per annum is spéht to hire private detectives. Where 85 cents p. o. p. &, goes to fortune tellers. Where 65 cents p. ¢. p. a, goes for fake paintings by old masters. Where gas is the most popular method of suicide, the majority stepping on it, as a rule. Well, this year the world Almanac is singularly devoid of keyhole observations and, indeed, of all statistical information that might lead one to believe that Indianapolis is a quaint place in which to live. To be sure, it still mentions our town. Indeed, it even attempts to establish our place in the sun,

Appalling Discrepancy ; THIS YEAR, for instance, the Almanac fixes our location as that of latitude 39 degrees, 46 minutes N., and longitude 86 degrees, 10 minutes W.—a mathematical intersection which, when compared with previous editions, reveals & shortage of 11 seconds 4 -the case of latitude and a gain of 14 seconds in the case of longitude. The discrepancy is so appalling that it leaves me wondering whether the World Almanac has any notion of the exact location of Indianapolis. To tell the truth, the World Almanac is groping ° this year. In support of which I cite page 6185, in the course of which it is revealed that Booth Tarkington (16), author, playwright, died on May 10, 1048, in the city of Indianapolis, Minnesota,

it. TVA is an answer to communism. It is a demonstration of what government and private enterprise can do when they work together. This is the overwhelming impression carried away by hundreds of foreigners, particularly visitors from Prance and other European countries who have seen TVA at first hand. They have séen that government can be a partner without producing regimentation. The farmers of the Tennessee valley are not told what to plant or when to plant it. The twitter about communism seems so foolish and irrelevant when it is put alongside Mr. Clapp’'s record as general manager in charge of operations. Judged by any standard, TVA's record of construction just before and during the war is an impressive one. Those who are against TVA and who will therefore vote against Mr. Clapp's confirmation conveniently look around one very large fact. Without the power of TVA, the war effort would have been seriously crippled. Even if yQu are opposed to government partnership in developing a neglected area, it's hard to explain that fact away.

‘Should Consider Merit

THE CAMPAIGN against TVA has never ceased. Lately it has seemed to grow in volume, indicating powerful backing from interests that would like to kill this experiment in government. One way to do that, of course, would be to defeat Mr. Clapp, who is so obviously fitted in every way to take over the top policy-making position. The confirmation of Gordon Clapp is an important sue, of and by itself. Those who must pass on it" should consider it on merit and not 4s a sideshow to any other controversy.

Jam Jar Again

lar hell with the stock market.” Now, congressmen may read the report. But first they must cross their hearts and hope to die they won't tell nobody. Forecast of doom department: Senator Alexander Wiley tR. Wis.) has proposed a push-button government, to operate by television, if an atomic bomb knocks off the President and the cabinet—while the legisiagors are scattered all around the nation, fondlling their constituents. 4 A bill has been introduced in the West Virginia 3 house or delegates to force an offending woman, in divorce cases, to pay her husband alimony, contribute to the upkeep of the kids, and defray the court costs. A man in Syracuse. N. Y., has“invented an electric babysitter. It is a machine so sensitive the parents can hear Buster's breathing while they gip a bdur-

Invents Doorless Door

DAILY WE BECOME morezmodern. A couple of young bandits stuck up a store for $500, and then forced: the clerks to ‘take sleeping pills, A man named Leonard Z. Plebanek has invented a doorless door—an entrancing entrance which is just = hole in the wall. Cold and dust are kept out, and heat held in by air currents. But the man who walks through gets a touch mussed p. That, roughly, seems to b® what happened while

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in the Atlantic charter, there can’t be much hope for lasting peace. The. relevant principles of the Atlantic charter to which not only the Big Four but every other membey of the United Nations subscribed are these: “Their countries seek no aggrandizement, territorial or other--they desire .to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned—they respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live.” Most of the United Nations—including the Big Four now in Moscow—seem disposed to comply with this ‘pledge. Only Russia refuses. Only Russia has sought, and still is seeking, to take advantage of the present chaos to aggrandize herself territorially and otherwise. :

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Faced Similar Situation SHORTLY AFTER world war I, the powers faced a similar situation in Asia, Instead -of the Soviet Union, Japan at that time was on the make, seeking to éxpand at the expense of China. China was in the throes of disorder and civil war, much as it is Vv now. To prevent an international conflict there, a’ conference was called in Washington. At that conference the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Belgium and Fhe Netherlands promised to respect China's political and territorial independence while alding her insofar as possible to work - b out her own destiny unmolested. nN That was in line with the Atlantic charter nearly

saved the peace of the Orient—at least for as long as its principles were honored, War came only after Japan betrayed her pledge. If the great Yo SURI Jo bitjay thes Promisis ides the alle: charter, a similar result wil] be inevitable, EL