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ALL-OUT PEACE OFFENSIVE

“ENATOR ALEXANDER WILEY (R. Wis), has intro“duced a resolution favoring a “United Democratic States of Burope"—excluding Russia and her satellites. Senator Fulbright (D. Ark.), urges a federation, to include

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pil Winston Churchill and many other statesmen view gome form of federation as the only hope for Europe's peace and recovery. But the road is blocked by Russia's attitude that any action toward European unity is an effort

to form an anti-Soviet bloc.

Yet, if Europe is to survive, the continental nationals together.

and Britain must learn to live and work

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against foreign aggression is sound, as far as it goes. But it is a defensive position against war. It will not, of itself, relieve sick and faltering Europe from unbearable burdens of armaments and fear. A broad, dynamic peace offensive is essential to save Europe and the world from

economic chaos and disintegration.

The United States can do much to open the way for an era of good will and co-operation. We are the world’s banker—the only great power that is solvent and able to

give substantial aid to other nations.

That position entitles us to demand that Europe put her house in order, live at peace as we do among our west-

ern hemisphere neighbors.

The Truman doctrine can be made a positive, winning program by our announcing that we will support nations which are willing to co-operate with one another, and withhold all aid from those which are disturbing the peace or contributing to economic stagnation. We are, in fact, backing into such a position now when we deny grain to Yugo-

slavia.

But what is needed is a dramatie pronouncement that will command world attention and respect. This is where

the project of a united Europe comes in.

.council of Europe be plan.

Not all nations would join at once in such a program. But given firm support, the movement's strength would be

cumulative. . . . o 2 s » ”

WH the world divided by ideological conflict, many *V¥ peoples are on the fence, wondering which way to jump. The choice between a system backed by our produective capacity and genius and Russia's tottering, low-stand-ard economy would seem inevitable—once we demonstrated

that we meant business.

Russia? When Moscow besomes convinced that mot reparations exist in devastated Germany to meet the demands of Russia's hungry people, the Soviets may see that their: salvation lies in working with peace-loving nations in a common reconstruction program. Relief? Some will be necessary, for a time. But the bulk of our money should be invested in self-liquidating enterprises, helping only those who are willing to help themselves. If economie unity brings a United States of Europe, well and good. But the first essential in Europe is for

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people to get back to work. GRAFTERS IN UNIFORM

JFOR a full week the city administration and the heads of police department have had authentic information of wholesale bribery of policemen. Information backed by sworn evidence of men who paid the bribes, and from a disinterested third party who actually watched a bribe paid.

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The mayor has done nothing. The board of safety has done nothing. The chief of police has done nothing.

Not one of these men has been dismissed, or suspended, or even, so far as any one can learn, given a

called on the carpet to explain.

PROMPT JUSTICE

HE jury at Columbus which found the two 17-year-old youths guilty of killing a state trooper is to be commended for the quick return of a verdict of guilty. And the life sentence imposed on the killers by trial Judge

George W. Long was a just one.

_ These young men, William Price and William Johnson,

. were no mere juvenile delinquents. They prison bars, where they now are. Their two girl companions, 15 and 16

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held on first degree murder eharges and their trial is to | begin April 21, It is probable that the charge will be reduced. Jurors are notably reluctant to impose the death ~ penalty on young defendants, as was demonstrated in the

Price-Johnson verdict.

+" The trooper, Herbert W. Smith, was slain Dee. 5 in a The youths had . persuaded the girls to run away from home and they were to Louisville, they said, to be married. lomew county has shown that it knows how to lo such flagrant violations of the law and that its imposes a sentence eommensurate with the offense. 8 murder case should not be considered as a reflee-teen-agers as a group, Rather, it ig a reflection on produced the warped characters of who were a party to the

‘roadside shooting north of Shelbyville,

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Truman doctrine of protecting independent states

piecemeal treatment which remedies fingers and toes but |get good American momey; whose overlooks heart and lungs. Rehabilitation, to succeed, must | money it is he does not care. That be on a continent basis. We should insist that an economic formed to draft a general recovery

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arguments of higher-ups for making When will it awaken to the real

this profiteering is going on is evidenced .by the complain these countries that the charged them for American are so high that inadequate. In short,

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had in Paris for $6 when our own meat cases at home were full of ox tongues, pig tails, and other offal causing us to wonder as to the whereabouts of the rest of the animal. Also workers in auto faetories shortly after these loans were made began to see entirely many right-hand drive cars the assembly lines,

to have what he produces by | work? - Now do those begin light who havé been fed on ments that these gift loans are necessary to purchase peace and good will, to provide employment and prevent depressions, to revive

reprimand or Tr trade (if you must give a man

"Workers Need Not More Work, But Right to Buy Their Products:

By Laurel Elson, Mooresville : How long will a stupid and docile public continue to believe the

countries are in need of all things, but their industries are disorganized : and their resources depleted. That makes an ideal situation for the : Europe's highly integrated economy will not respond to American profiteer if he can use influence to see that these countries

foreign loans that are never repaid? purpose of these loans? Foreign

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“SEGREGATED SCHOOL SYSTEM IS GREATEST TRAGEDY" By Miss D. H, B. 17th St Racial segregation in all of its many subtle aspects finds its basis in the fundamental concepts of fascism or naziism. To say that an individual is to be set apart or shutoff from his fellowmen solely because of race, creed or color is a stinging insult to the human dignity

It is never equal. In a recent report made by one of our local papers, expenditures for the education of

colored students at Crispus Attucks

high school were less than those for other city schools. Our segregated school system is the greatest tragedy that ever happened to Indianapolis. Isolation in any of its phases is to be avoided. Whenever peoples of various racial groups get to know each other, false fallacies of race superiority rapidly disappear. And during this atomic age, we must learn to know and respect each other. This is after all one world and we must share it together as members of one human family. How can America point the way toward a democratic life in Greece and other parts of the world when racial segregation prevents all of her citizens from such a privilege at home? Let colored people have their own hotels or theaters if they want them, but

g neither should they be denied the

right to enter any public place just because of their race. Indiana has always been a liberal state. It has a civil rights law forbidding discrimination in public places solely because of race, creed or color. Recently #& passed th anti-klan bill. Let us continue work for democracy for all mn state and nation, » » » POLICE DEPARTMENT NEEDS SHAKING UP By A Reader, Prospect st. Just a few words about our city. I have lived in the city 36 years and we have had one real mayor in

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:|that time—Lew Shank. He looked I after the sity affairs, he didn’t have

his nose stuck in the police de-

‘| partment all the time like some do.

He looked after the mayor's office, let the chief of police take cdre of his office. At present the police department needs a good shaking up, discharge about 75 police. What has become of our man Stark? He made a good start, but has laid

it. We heed a good man for mayor like Al Feeney, one that is strictly honest: and a law-abiding man. Our present mayor may know how to handle soldiers, but one thing ocertain he doesn’t know how to handle city affairs. This has been proven. There has been confusion ever since

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passed on to Hoosier readers.

DAILY THOUGHT

‘Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask they father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.—Deuteronomy

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their procedure. No loud talking and harassing. It seemed more like a board of directors meeting of 35 members. I ventured to.say I was a Repub-

tween a Republican and a conservative Demoorat. It would seem that these observations may well be

YOU have the a for your anapolis, with a link running

. SATURDAY MIDNIGHT is the deadline for filing of declarations of candidacy for mayor, city clerk and city councilman in the May 6 primary. : There continues to be more interest in the

caliber of candidates on the part of those with a

selfish interest than on the part of the rank and file of citizenry.

Questions for Candidates

AFTER FILING TIME is over, the candidates can be expected to get down to serious campaigning . .. with the G. O. P. organization choice for the mayoralty nomination probably being William H. Wemmer, war veteran president of the local bar association. The choice of the Democratic regulars, Joseph G. Wood, withdrew today because all factions of his party would not support him. : Anti-orgdnization candidates are Roy Hickman, who resigned as city controller to seek the G. O. P. nomination, and George 8S. Dailey, who aspires to the Democratic nomination. There are other candidates, of course, but at this time the races appear to be between Hickman and Wemmer, as a candidate backed by the organization and between Dailey and Al Feeney, who is running without factional support. G. O P. leaders claim they would back the candidate who was best qualified to give a good administration . « And are conscious that the record of the Tyndall administration will be a handicap to whoever is nominated for mayor on the Republican ticket. There are several basic points on which candidates for nomination for mayor should be pinned down for specific commitments . . . ranging from programs for the future to an answer as to whether any of them is accepting money or other support, directly or indirectly, from any gamblers or others who would benefit by lax law enforcement. The question is not an embarrassing one to a candidate who isn't . . but I'd-like to see open disavowal of any support by

letter charged with indignation at American commentators who write about Britain's “dying empire.” It is from a woman in Coventry who«says, “Publish my letter ana show that you have that democracy left anyway.” ‘ She suggests that the United States is trying to kill the British empire—which will sound strange to Americans who are attempting to face up to responsibilities being dropped in the American lap.

Center Shifting to Africa

“YOUR SURPLUS SHIPS are not sold to us because our trade might interfere with yours,” she says. “The prices of our food: are pushed up to the limit. We are very, very begrudgingly given a loan which we simply loathed having to ask for anyway. If the British empire does die, it will be largely the fault of the U. 8, and don't kid yourselves we don't know that. : to a New Zealander and am in a most of the people in our flesh and blood. The British fine example, of unity and democracy, which is more than can be said for the U. 8. If the pire die, Britain will still be a great nation, always, until the end of the world, because great and always will be. 5% “They are not soft, luxury-fed gangsters, but hard and tough, kindhearted, long-enduring. We have been in worse ‘spots’ than this before, my friend, and we still survive. It would neyer occur to us to give in under any circumstances. So shut your ‘trap, because there's life in the old dog yet and you'd be surprised how much.” ‘If the letter is somewhat violent, reflecting perhaps the influence of G. I slang, the point is never-

} NEW YORK, April 3.—There are a variety of reasons why :I should like to see the true relationship of Frank Sinatra to the boys of the mob brought out. One is to vindicate him as a youth of colossally bad judgment, who forgot that a man who sets himself up as saviour cannot afford to fraternize with the lowest of criminals, and whose sin was gross stupidity.

Gives False Leadership

THE OTHER POSSIBILITY might be that there really is no such person as the Frank Sinatra of song and story, the lecturer, exhorter to tolerance and clean living, great moral persuader of millions of young folk. Sinatra the. singer has the right of all free men $0 play with professional rats Mke Lucky Luciano and the hoodlums which swmounded them in Havana. His associates are nobody's business but his own—as Sinatra the singer. The mechanics of entertainment being s0 close to the dirty fingers of the racketeers, it is nearly impossible for some types of entertainers to operate without associating with these manicured thugs. But the Sinatra of politics and lecture platform, of inspirational movies—the part-time youth leader and idol of many millions of kids—that Sinatra performs a definite, social crime by’ openly playing with mobsters. You can see that in my mail: Scores of letters, there are, from children who say that Sinatra can be guilty of nothing . . . and what is more important, it makes no difference to them what he does. ] For instance: “Wherever Frank spends his vaca-

-ho-was|tion, and with whom is.na. concern of yours, Mr.

Ruark, youre"50¢ tha only one who shudders, for 3 shudder too when I think that our country is in the

“WELL,” MY LITTLE mannie, hasn't thee father gone to Canada with some Negroes?” The boy, wise for his age, pointed his finger at the man and called him a “wolf in sheep's clothing,” which he was, The boy was the son of John Charles, a Quaker of Richmond, Ind. The man, was & slaveholder from Kentucky, He was disguised in correct Quaker garb. He was hunting his runaway slaves, The Richmond where the Charles boy lived was a station on the Underground Railroad. Its passengers

‘| were runaway slaves from the South on the way

think it would be better if we did.” Both branches of their assembly are

north through the state to Canada and to freedom.

Three Main Lines in Indiana

THERE WERE THREE main lines of the Underground in Indiana, and four feeder lines. The three main lines ran from points on the Ohio river to Battle Creek, Mich. From there they ran by two routes to Canads at Detroit and Port Huron. The three main lines were: ONE: From Cincinnati through Richmond, DePt. Wayne, Auburn, and on to Battle Creek and Canada. The Charles youngster at Richmond, living on the route, was Wise to its ways, as he was

older. : with the slaveh through Columbus, Indi-

:. From Two Russiaville, Logansport, Plymouth,

, Westfield, a Niles, Mich., Battle Creek, and on- to

Canada. ; / . THREE: Prom Evansville to Vincennes Terre Haute, Bloomingdale, Crawfordsville, Darlington, Hols, Mich., Battle Creek, and Canada.

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a ! \ or Candidates the scummy elements which have helped to bring the police department into disrepute. Most sensational breach in law enforcement in Indianapolis is the bribe-taking minority of policemen, who for some reason, Mayor Tyndall and Safety Board President Remy haven't gone after with effective results. “Either some of the policemen are taking bribes or they're not. should be the first to determine the facts, punish the guilty and remove the shadow of suspicion from those who are earnestly trying to do a job , . . and who deserve public support. The voters are entitled to know what each candidate would do about it. ¢ Then I'd like to see a specific pledge of reform in the archaic traffic system, the disgracefully ine efficient method of handling garbage and ash col. lections, the continuing smoke nuisance, the reduction in number of employees and business-like opera-

tion of the municipal government, street maintenance

and annexation of suburbs.

How About Real Merit ‘System?

THE EFFICIENCY OF GOVERNMENT can be no higher than the efficiency of the men and women who go to make it up. Therefore, the position of the candidates on a merit system for all city employees is extremely important. They all should state their views clearly.

It will be recalled that Gov. Ralph F. Gates vetoed

the house bill which set up a commission to, study personnel methods for Indianapolis and report to the next session of the legislature. Since the governor scuttled that bill , . . backed by the entire local delegation in the legislature . , . it will be impossible to make much progress toward a genuine merit system without the sincere support of the next mayor. Glittering generalities won't be enough for the voters . . , they will want facts and specific pledges this time.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs Death Oration for Empire Premature

WASHINGTON, April 3.—From England comes a

theless well taken. ‘Funeral orations over the British empire are premature, even though news out of England continues in terms of disaster and calamity, Important to remember is the fact that British policy-makers have traditionally shown great ingenuity and perseverance in developing alternatives. The fact is that the empire is being reoriented, with the principal bearing shifted to Africa. Shifting the bearings of an empire and foreshortening its circumference is a precarious undertaking, particularly in time of vast uncertainty and conflict. For Great Britain, in this period of: transition, all the accidents of ill fortune seem to be occurring at the same moment. In foreign policy, outlines of an alternative are clearly evident. - The left wing of the British labor party will be critically watchful of the moves we make in Greece and Turkey. The London Daily Here ald largest labor paper, began taking an admonitory tone from the first, even though the labor government had asked the U. 8. to give help to Greece and Turkey. If we should fail in our endeavor in Greece, these left-wing laborites could then be expected to enforce their alternative, close co-operation with Russia rather than with this eountry,

Too Early to Count Britain Out

WE OUGHT TO FACE that fact in taking the risk—it is a- big risk—in Greece. We should not be shocked that Britain does have an alternative. We ourselves should think in terms of alternatives British Minister of Agriculture Thomas Williams calls the floods in England “a disaster of the first magnitude.” Britain's foreign-exchange position is probably even worse than it appears on the surface. But it is much too early to count Britain out as a power and an empire.

REFLECTIONS... By Robert C. Ruark Sinatra Menace to Adolescent Welfare

hands of people like you who jump $0 wild conciwe sions. Frank isn't posing as a strong social influence, he is, and a very good one, I might add.” Another: “Whatever Frank does is all right with us.” . This being a cross-section of resentful mail, I would propound the following theory: It #s perfectly all right for children to associate with killers, dope runners, sellers of women, and gamblers, since Frankie does it, even through choice or necessity. It is all right, that is, if in your spare time away from the party or the gambling casino, you prowl the country making fine speeches about the brotherhood of man, and dabbling into the Henry Wallace brand of political issue—when your profession is lowing into a microphone. It is fine for children to admire a man who beHeves he needs to wear a gun. Everyone knows that a spreader of peace on earth, good will: to men, needs a gun, except possibly in wartime when the common folks are packing them, from necessity. It is all right to live a He—t0 pose as a one-man ¥. M. O. A. while openly enjoying the company of

gunmen and racketeers. 3 is all right, parents, :

because Sinatra does i. O.K. ¥ Frankie Does I

THAT 18 HOW IT STACKS, to date. Perhaps Sinatra 1s a singer who has stumbled into the greatest -publie-relations-hoax-of -the decade, and does not exist at all except as framework around which the legend was built. Or else he is a tough operater who likes association.with hoodlums and in that ease his pulpit pose is a phony. - 2.5% In any event he is a menace to the mental and morale welfare of several million adolescents, a great long as thelr idol indorses

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By Wiliam A. Farlow Hoosiers Aided Underground Railway

New: Albany and Leavenworth, both running to:

Salem, and on through Brownstown $0 Columbus, where it joined No. 2 from Madison; : Evansville to Salem. This was not a well-estab-lished line; Brownstown #0 ingdale, connecting the feeder line from New Albany and Leavenworth No. 3 at Bloomingdale, This route also was not well es-

Thi routes of the Underground Railroad in Indiana and other northern states on the borderland of slavery are a revealing touch in the entire slavery picture of the nation. In the South, as slavery spread from the Atlantic seaboard, it became increasingly more profitable, and thus more valuable. The lush cotton crops of the 12,000-square-mile delta of the Mississippi was largely responsible for this,

High Values Scatter Families

AS SLAVE VALUES-increased, slave families were sold and scattered as the planter found most profitable. This redoubled the efforts of the slaves to escape to freedom in the North, It stirred the planter to implacable pursuit.

In the North these refugee slaves fleeing $0 free-~

.dom pressed home to thousands of people the idea that slavery was wrong. Even the’ children along ~these Underground Railroad routes caught the idea, and were indelibly impressed. The Charles lad at Richmond is an example. John Brown, as a boy at home in the Western Reserve in Ohio, is another. There were thousands of such children along these routes in the North. Co All this prepared the ground and pointed the way

: for the ultimate abolition of slavery in the United States. It stirred the implacable demand of William Garrison, for example, that siavery inthe

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