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Light and the Peop

: W AND COURTS * SD; Fas something of a red-letter day for law Fand order in this country—

, John L. Lewis obeyed an order of the and called off a coal strike against that he had scheduled to start April 1. SHerman Talmadge bowed to a decision of © sunreme court, picked up his hat and

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of the governor which he had seized | by force last Jantiary.

That doesn’t mean we have heard the last of John and | Herman. Far from it. os "Before coal mine owners regain their ipropeitios they “will have to negotiate a new contract with the ‘United L “Mine. Workers, and Mr. Lewis has lost nore of his cunning “at the bargaining table. Mr. Talmadge has announced that come next election he will bl.on the ballot for governor, and-if political history of the sate is any guide “Humman” will be better than an also-ran. But their actions yesterday do mean that Messrs. Lewis and Talmadge, going their separate ways—there’s nothing in common between the two except their previous attitude of definance—have decided to abide by the rules. Which is a gain for law and order.

BLOOD, WATER AND HISTORY

ay (QFPOSING Canada’s right to participate in drafting the i peace treaty with Germany, Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet delegate, admitted the dominion’s contribution te victory, but added: ’ “More blood flowed in the Soviet Union than the water in all the rivers of Canada.” Beyond underestimating the flow of Canadian rivers, Mr. Vishinsky assumes mistakenly that bloodshed is the only yardstick to be applied to a nation’s right to sit at the peace table with the Big Four. Canadians were in the trenches, far from their own | shores, fighting German aggression at a time when the | Soviet Union was a Hitler ally and supplying the Nazi war machine to the limits of Russia's capacity. Canada went to war as a matter of principle. Russia became an “ally” only after she was attacked. That was long after Dunkirk, fall of Paris, German invasion of Yugoslavia and defeat of the Italian army in Abyssinia. It was three months after President Roosevelt signed the lend-lease bill under which the United States became the “arsenal of democracy.” If Hitler had not scrapped his Russian treaty, the Soviets abjectly might have backed the Fascist cause to the end of the war, whatever that end might have been. Had | the final result been the same, as it might have been, Russia today would be in an even more dubious position that the much-reviled Franco Spain. Russia’s contribution to Germany's defeat, after her position was reversed, is not to be discounted. But it ill | becomes the Johnny-come-latelys to try to exclude nations | from the peace talks which earned their right to be there - while the might of the Soviet Union was on the other side.

CONTRADICTIONS IN POLICY (CONGRESS is"confused because of apparent conflicts between two administration foreign-policy programs: The $400 million proposed for economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey, and the previously recommended $350 million relief appropriation for various European countries including Poland and Hungary. It is regarded as inconsistent to embark upon an antitotalitarian campaign ‘in Greece and Turkey while encouraging communism in Soviet-dominated Poland. Obviously, if one program is sound, the other isn't. Hungary is in a category somewhat different from the _ other Balkan states, however. If its provisional government continues to yield to pressures from its minority Communist bloc, it will of course be swallowed up by the Soviets and become another Poland. But if the integrity of majority rule is re-established, the situation can be saved. Hungary then would be eligible for our suppert, under the terms of the new Truman doctrine: Congressional critics likewise find fault with eur Communist appeasement attitude in China, which exists because Mr. Truman moved to put the world’s house in order , before adjusting policy in our own -state department... Aha department's Far Eastern division" is: notoriously leftist in its views, and its operations distort the American position in all ‘areas under its direction. This condition will not be corrected until the division is reorganized from top to bottom. The President can and should harmonize all these situations by applying the principles of his Greek- Turkey policy to our position everywhere.

INOTHING TO HIDE : ROGER N. BALDWIN, director of the American Civil | : Liberties union, is going to Japan and Korea at the. in‘vitation of Gen. MacArthur's headquarters for a two months’ survey -of civil liberties under the American military occupation,

seeking to introduce the democratic way of life in the areas

jture is going to close its {high school groups. If we

The fact that Gen. MicAriiar has issued such an in- | vitation is a convincing demonstration of his sincerity ine

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Hoosier Forum

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will defend to the death

your right to say it.” — Voltaire.

"Conduct of Legislators Was

Disgusting; Reaction Is Bad"

By Van Buren Township High School Students, R. R. 3, Brazil

During the session of the Indiana legislature, our class visited the general assembly to see it in action. We were shown about by our representative, Mr. Greenwood, who extended every courtesy. The class had looked forward to this visit to the legislature ever since our government teacher had proposed the, {dea to us. : Our disgust is hard to put into words. We had studied government! and we thought we had some idea as to how our laws were passed, but upon viewing the legislature, we were forced to change our minds. Instead of a dignified law-making body we found confusion everywhere. While there were a few who were there to conduct business in the, correct manner, the majority knew very little of what was going on.| When one of them decided to leave the room, he did so regardless of committed. I am declaring - th what was being done. : irl should not serve & day in an, On the same day we were there, institution. I have the highest re-| several other high schools were also spect for each and every prospective represented and they too seem to juror called and dismissed because viewpoint. rumor that the legisia- ment. We cannot judge each man | doors to for his crime, since we will all be were they judged some time. we would close our doors, too, for] What a ghastly picture of a! it is quite evident that they take beaten face of a 17-year-old boy | no pride in their work. If they and the curt denial that a third | close their doors, it will only be to degree method was used. Possibly hide from thé seeking eyes of the not, but never print one of a 17-| (public, the way they are accom- year-old boy who has been the plishing little for the time they recipient of a third-degree goingspend there. Thes2 men elected by over. the people of Indiana to make In-| It is extremely bad that a fine diana a better state are shamefully officer like Officer Smith was killed falling down on the job. We be- in line of duty, and if the killer lieve that if the taxpayers could was a hardened criminal I would | see how the money is thrown away say give him all the law could exact to pay this so-called working body, as he had probably lived and knew they would demand a reform. It life as it made it. iis true-that. some of these men go| yr = to our legislature with ‘he idea in “STASSEN HAS NO CHANCE mind that they would like to ac-| WHEN PEOPLE DON'T VOTE” complish much, but they have very! py john Whitcomb, 1506 E. 18th st. little chance to do so because of Goodbye, Mr. Stassen. It has been

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ln legislature needs some! changes made. |nee for President of these United WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO | States. if the voters had an opporABOUT IT? tunity to select their standards = = bearer instead of the meaningless

“GIRLS SHOULD NOT BE HELD IN POLICE KILLING”

By Times Reader, Greenfield I have read with utter contempt the article written by Elmer Woods and published March 11 in The Times.

privilege of selecting delegates to a national convention, where those delegates are. instructed by professional politicians, under threat of death to their petty political ambitions, who to designate as the man for the people back home to I am forced to first 25k Mr. Woods | elect as their chief executive, a lot if he is the father of girls or boys of people would probably vote for of teen-age. Am I? Yes, they you, perhaps enough to elect you, now have attained the ages of 22 but like Wendell Willkie, you have years up to 27 years of age. At the spilled the beans by revealing that tender ages of 14 to 17, they were | you have too much respect for humy small children. | man rights to be the man for the I am not attempting to tell any- job, in the éyes of those awho pull one that the hays, (Price. and Jokn. thks son) should be freed for the crime! Stassen.

Side Glances— By Galbraith

“SORRY TO READ COMMENT ON RACES IN SCHOOLS” By E. 8, E. Raymond st. I am sorry to read your recent | comment in The Times ‘hat you think white” children should go to the same schools and mingle with Negroes. It left me with a cold! feeling, and I hope such action will | never be enforced here. Political action to influence voters or subscrib-

|ers sinks low enough without in-

| flicting such methods on poor, little kids. The better educated Negro does not want to force themselves on the white race, and the lower type will never gain much glory (trying to, they only defeat their | ‘cause by such action. 5 tJ ” “WE'RE HEADING FOR WAR WITH RUSSIANS” _ By Homer Gibreath, Anderson

I left my wife in 1941. For what? |

We have he was opposep to capital punish- | You guessed it, to serve my country.

{ To help keep the Japs and Germans back where they belonged. And |

| now the same thing is happening | again. When, I don't know. Where, |

I don’t know. But fellow veterans {and countrymen, we are going again, not with the Japs and Germans, but with Russia, the same people we have fed and clothed, gave them our money, raw materials to thrive on until it was over, and now where do we stand? -We are at war with them and don't realize it. Some people say what can I do {about it. When you voted for your congressmen and senators the last

and all the rest of us. better think it over this time and help straighten our country out. Your vote can do this, by voting for | the right man. The men we have | now representing our government think nothing of a war. They don't fight it. We do. The one coming

one—the poor mau and his family will do it. The late FP. D. R. said no one will prosper in this war, but who did? Senator Bilbo and his likes didn’t, did they? Henry Kaiser didn’t. Yes, he was going to make a car for the veterans’ pocketbooks What's it selling for now? Think it over, fellow veterans, I vote right | this time, Me, I'll vote against any man | holding office now because they are all a clique together, . ; 8S. 8-8" \ “MY HEART IS ACHING FOR PETER HUBBELL'S PARENTS” By A Mother, Indianapolis

vob sei ThE_fhvsterious disappearance of va ANENgS. So. pax robes Sree: os Hubbell brings” back. 40: ‘the ‘minds of many Indianapolis

residents the somewhat similar disappearance of 9-year-old Henry I. Metz, Jr., who was lost just four

under his military control. Roger Baldwin isn't one to pull : his punches, and he is certain to be eritical of any ‘policy or |

liberty. Obviously the general is willing to be corrected if he 1s | His desire to have Mr. Baldwin come in and look" not reflect the autocratic military dictator his | paint him whenever he gives the cold shoulder nist intrusion. Certainly Mr. Baldwin hasn't had ns to Peek Under the iron curtain, And it's

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years ago this past December. As | with the case of little Peter Hubbell, there wasn't anyone around when Henry Metz Jr. disappeared either. There was, however, but one clue |to the missing Metz boy. His school lunchbox and one glove was found on the bank of the canal near the | 29th st. bridge. It was on Dec. 18, 1942, that the Metz boy evidently fell in the water, and was found fifty-two days later, on Feb. 9, 1943. Mysterious telephone calls, reports of all description, and even a ransom note were received by the parents of the Metz boy. Some people, for some reason or other enjoy tormenting and adding to the anguish of such grieving parents -—a8 again they are doing to the parents of Peter Hubbell. While many others, extremely kind in every respect, are willing to do their utmost to help and comfort the parents at a time when kindness means so much, My heart aches, as undoubtedly {many others do, for the parents of

‘| Peter Hubbell during these difficult

‘and trying days. And may their {anxiety soon come to an end—and | by the grace of God may little Peter {be found, one way or another,

DAILY THOUGHT

| For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: Ke woundeth, and His hands make whole.—Job 5:18.

; HEAVEN is not: not always’ angry. “when He strikes, 4: | BL most chastises those whom

ITS C OWR BUSINESS . vr By Donald D. Hoover Ly

~ NONE oF THE CANDIDATES who so far has announced he will seek the job of being mayor of Indianapolis for the next four years has captured much of a segment of the imagination of the voters . and that applies to the undeclared, but “receptive” aspirants and dark horses as well, The same lack of voter appeal is present in the list of men and women mentioned as possible candidates for the nine city council posts . . . each party will nominate six candidates in the May 6 primary, when the mayoralty nominees wil} be chosen. A city clerk will be elected also . . . with the incumbent, Frank J. Noll Jr, having filed for re-elec-tion and being the probable G. O. P. nominee.

School Board Chosen in Fall

AS A MATTER OF FACT, relatively little attention is being paid yet by the average voter to the primary or to the. fall elections. Five members of the Indianapolis board of school commisisoners will be chosén in the fall, without necessity of a primary since these positions are non-political Most voters . . . and Incidentally you're not a voter if you're not properly registered, and thousands of local citizens are not . . , are sitting back without much Interest until they see who are the candidates indorsed by the two major factions of the G. O. P. and of the Democratic parties. Roy Hickman, city controller, will be the city hall candidate. The regular machine candidate to be backed by Henry Ostrom, Republican county chairman, has not been selected. Mr. trom is wisely sitting back and looking the field over before giving anyone’ the nod. It is entirely possible that the recipient of that gesture has not yet announced. Most interest to date has been evinced in the candidacy of Earl Buchanan, West side businessman and

REFLECTIONS

NEW YORK, March 20.—It is just about this time of year when I would dearly love to’ be back in the {sports writing business, for nothing on this dismal globe is as beautifu] as baseball in its vernal season. "The thing about hope springing eternal was carpentered strictly for baseball in its preparatory stages. There is no possibility of gloom in March— even the Philadelphia Athletics, which lack both players and managerial brilliance—feel that if things go right, it could happen that the A's might struggle home. In the case of the Athletics, that “if” clause {would probably depend on seven other American league clubs being destroyed in a trafic accident. Traveling is pretty risky today, and who knows? An odd sort of madness creeps into the skulls of the managers in March—a madness which leads them jto believe, the impossible will happen. Every cunnythumbed ‘pitcher who straggles into camp from the deepest bushes takes on a temporary Walter Johnson aura. The ape-armed hifters who will undoubtedly ibe toiling in’, Sanford, Fla, come June 1, slug the ball {out of the lot, and the managers and coaches look wise when they say: “If Joe Blurp there can just learn to hit a hook, he will be greater than Ruth.”

The Eight-Ball Boys

to lay a bat on a curve, and winds up as a cobbler’s assistant in Georgia, but at the time he is prettier than Cobb. The same may be said for pitchers, ° I remember once, a scout came into the camp at Orlando, Fla. with the biggest Cuban in the world shackled to his wrist. Senor Roberto Ortiz was

time you had faith in them. Now |! they have let you down. Yes, you | You had |

up now will be fought like the last |

labeled a pitcher. It appeared he was faster than {Feller. When he threw the beisbol, it ripped the {mitt off Rick. Ferrell's hand. Walter Johnson, old ‘but still healthy, was in town at the time, and he !made appreciative noises. Never, said the maestro, {had he seen such blinding. devastating speed. I often wondered what became of Ortiz. Recently I discovered him in Cuba. He is an outfielder, and hits pretty good, they say. Possibly the reason he is not still playing in the states, or even in Mexico,

SAGA OF INDIANA

BY A LOOSE mental and spiritual bowknot, Frances Wright will always-be tied to Indiana, and by the same token she will always be that kind of Hoosier. { The tie that binds her to the state comes from the social experiment at New Harmony—the colony

of George Rapp, but more especially the ambitious {attempt of Robert Owen,

Inherited a Liberal Mind

THE OWEN colony intrigued her by" its disregard of the Buropean organization of society, its broad |social aims, and its unusual educational plans. | One reason why this was so was because she |inherited a liberal turn of mind from her father, James Wright, a wealthy Scotsman of Dundee, where she was born, Sept. 6, 1795. 3 Since no underStanding of the daughter can be

[complete without a clue to the father, consider him:

He was not only the rich man of his town. He was {carefully educated at the academies of Perth and {Edinburgh, and at the University of Dublin. While young, his literary and scientific activities {attracted the attention of Adam Smith. In numismatics, his collection was so outstanding that it went

1to the British museum.

Her father died when Frances was- 2% years old.’ She. and her sister Camilla were brought up in a wealthy English home, that.ef her maternal grandfather, Gen. Duncan Campbell of Londgn. The home ‘was conventional - conservative, arid orthodox. But at all this the granddaughter rebeled. Finally

WORLD AFFAIRS .

Let UN. Take Core

WASHINGTON, March 20.—The United States is making a tactical blunder of serious proportions by its failure to lay the Greek crisis before: the United Nations, This seems to be the growing impression both in congressional and United Nations circles. For the most. part, these critics readily admit that the Greek situation might get out of hand if nothing were done until the United Nations agreed upon a plan of action. But, they say, that should not prevent the effort. Meanwhile the United States could, and should, proceed along the lines proposed by President Truman.

Similar to Austrian Case

FAILURE TO give the United Nations & chance, it 1s argued, mitigates “against both the new international organization and the United States. It (1) suggests that the United States lacks confidence in the Unjted Nations and (2) provides Russia and her vassals with anti-American propaganda which they

|best serve the purposes of world communism.

While the United States carries out the President's ‘plan in Greece and Turkey, its representative at Lake Success cquld be pressing the matter there. If and when the- United Nations caught up with the procession, it could take over. If it failed to catch

up, the United States would continue to -earry on.

There would be no lost motion. There would be little to lose and much<to gain. The United Nations is nearly two years old. When the League of Nations was three years old it per-

[formed an ‘excellent rescue job on Austria. Save for

the Red menace, the case of Austria was on all

fo with that of Greece, and the United Nations

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are already using wherever, in their judgment it will.

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[Public Still Apathetic to City Races

civic leader who so far’ has no factional support. On the Democratic side, there are two. avowed candidates. First to announce was George S. Dalley, former deputy prosecuting attorney. The organiZation candidate is Joseph G. Wood, attorney and onetime city councilman, announced today. There is a scarcity of hopefuls for the city council jobs . .. jobs which are extyemely important in determining what kind of an administration Indianapolis receives. Both parties will do well to support their mayoralt: nominee with a strong councilmanic ticket, Several powerful elements, politically potentin! are watching developments carefully without mak ing any dommitments. The veterans are not unite on any one. candidate in either party, nor are th labor ‘groups. Another element of doubt , ... whic! will not be felt im the primary . . . is the independ ent voter who won't vote until fall because he | neither Republican nor Democrat. It was this latter group which, with the aid © Republicans who crossed party lines because of th superior qualifications of at least two Democratic candidates last fall, elected a Democratic congressman and judge of the county juvenile court.

Independent Candidate?

THERE HAS BEEN some discussion among men and women who are seriously concerned over the progress of Indianapolis relative to seeking out an independent candidate for mayor if the major parties do not present nomindes to their liking. Whatever action these groups take in the fall, they should make it clear to the chairmen of both parties now that their support will go only to a

man they regard as highly qualified to be chief executive of this city.

. « By Robert C. Ruark

Baseball Blossoms in the. Spring

where he was before, is that his throwing arm ty

"sort of weak.

A baseball writer can be a wasp in June, a shrew in August, and flame-belching dragon in September, but in March and early April his typewriter keys are coated with honey. He is. meeker than a husband

with a guilty conscience. Many things enter into .

his benevolence: he is warm down south while others shiver up north, the office is far away, and the expense account is elastic. He honestly believes—at least I did—that some splay-hoofed fugitive from the plow is going to oust DiMaggio, because in the spring the bums all look beautiful while “the professionals resemble a girls’ softball squad. Always the hero of spring-training is a busboy who staggered out to the field while seeking a tray of vagrant crockery. The goat is the pitcher who eventually strides into Octobet with 22 won against 6 lost, or. the hitter who folds the year with a nice .345 average.

Proving the Rule

THERE WAS one exception—a kid named B8id Hudson. Sid ventured into the Senators’ camp in 1940 from the Class D bushes. He shaped better than anybody Easting =f much so that Bucky Harris, now the Yankee manager, insisted on giving him a whirl at the big stuff. By the end of June Hudson had dropped 9 and won 2, and was headed back to the leaky roofs. Then he blossomed. He threw a one-hitter, which should have been a no-hitter, against the hottest club in the league. He threw another one-hitter later on. He wound up with 17 won, to place fourth behind Bob Feller, Al Milnar and Buck Newsom. And all the time Sid was working for a seventh-place club, and losing things like 13-inning, 2-0 heartcracke to Mose Grove, because the shoemukers behind him couldn't buy him a run in 12 innings. The Hudsons are few, but the nice thing about spring training is that al) piteMers look like Hudsons, and all batters.like Ted Williamses. It is a bit of pleasant myopia which is harmless and vastly more entertaining than the appraisals of the current spring-training festivities abroad.

By William A. Marlow Early Attempts to Emancipate Slaves

the Wright in her prevailed, and on Sept. 3, 1818 she landed with her sister at New York to catch a full breath of America. From then till she died in Cincinnati, O., Dee. 18, 1852, a little over thirty-four years later, she was an American by adoption and in spirit. She was, too, a reformer, a free thinker,” a challenging spirit in things that are fundamental. By a strange quirk of Fate, Frances Wright was drawn to the New Harmony colony of Indiana through slavery. She had discussed the problem with Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. She had seen Edward Coles of Virginia free his slaves on his way down the Ohio river to Illinois in the spring of 1819, three years later becoming a governor of the state. Then as she was pondering the slavery problem herself, Robert Owen of Scotland, addressed congress at Washington, D. C., Feb. 23 and 27, 1825, on New Harmony. That gave her the clue to. her slavery problem. In the spring of 1825, she visited New Harmony. . She delved in the heart of Owen's proposed regeneration of the world.

Established Her Own Colony

AS SHE sifted his plans, her own Nashoba, Tenn., colony to emancipate the slaves of the South was born. The colony was.established early in 1826, and winked out late in 1829, © UMl'&’ second visiy So dtew Harmony in 1828, Prarcis Wright dug: deép- into New Harmony. Some of i Imgered with her until death came. - ~

. By William Philip Simms

of Greek Problem

Soon after she was proclaimed a republis, Austria found herself facing bankruptcy and starvation. From the allies, including the United States, she borrowed $72 million.

Immediately the Austrian question was taken up

by the finance committee of the league. This was in August. By December, the league had a rehabilitation plan ready and accepted by the Austrian parliament, By January 1923, a new national bank was functioning in Vienna, inflation had been halted and other reforms set in motion, To carry out the league plan, a “super-parliamen-tary” government was formed in Austfia, composed of 26 members. Included were the chancellor, vice chancellor, cabinet members and léaders of the principal parties. ‘The real ruler, however, was the league's commissioner general, Dr. Alfred Zimmermann, of The Netherlands, He gave the orders and the “super-parliamentary” government saw that they were carried out, !

Call Moscow's Bluff

THUS AUSTRIA was put back on her feet. Dr. Zimmermann retired from the scene. Austrian independence. remained unimpaired.The Soviet press and fellow travellers-are making a great toflo over the way the United States is “bypassing” the United Nations. Many féel that the United States should call Moscow's bluff. Not only

should ft ‘take the Greek case to the United Nations, -

but demand quick action on it. If Russia stalled, as usual, the world would see who was doing it. Russia. could thus be made to fish or out bait, United Nations would either reveal its power or show that

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