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tn" Give Light ond the People Will Find Their Own Woy BALANCE SHEET GINIA’S Senator Byrd has recalled Bernard M.

yea, statement: “Before we decide on domestic and foreign problems confronting us, we must get an overall of the balance. sheet of the country—a kind of inventory that would show the facts.” ‘The senator suggests that if the President asked Mr. Baruch, to compile such an inventory it would clear the minds of millions of Americans who are asking, “where are we going and can we pay our way?”

one else in whom the country has great confidence. But we don't agree with Senator Byrd that action on the GreekTurkish aid bill should be deferred until an inventory is completed. The Mediterranean situation is too urgent to wait,

= * » ME BYRD'S figures show present overseas commitments | of nearly $16 billion, and the $400 million proposed for | Greece and Turkey won't break us if we're not already broke. But the balance sheet should be prepared at the earliest. In addition to the necessity for maintaining our own solvency, there's another cogent reason for taking a long, careful look at our foreign commitments, We should make certain that we aren't financing both sides of a war. Yugoslavia wouldn't be menacing Greece today if we hadn’t financed-Marshal Tito’s war machine by the illadvised support we gave him through UNRRA, All relief, loan and credit programs proposed in the future should be | examined to make sure that they won't promote totalitarian communism anywhere, in any way. . ® = = . . (CREDITS to Hungary, for example, might well be held back until there is some assurance that that country won't be taken over by the Reds. Proposed aid to Austria raises ‘a somewhat similar question: Will it be confined to the American zone, or will it be distributed throughout the country, including the Soviet zone? If our money goes into the Soviet zone, where the Red army is living off the land, we will be making an indirect contribution to Russia. And if the Russians stay in Austria our chance of getting any of our money back will be nil. Until that issue is decided at Moscow, we should be wary of Austrian commitments outside the zone we occupy. Every American program abroad should be thoroughly consistent with the Truman policy of discouraging aggression,

FORMULA AYBE the rebirth of Democratic hope betokened by

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We'd like to see this job done, by Mr. Baruch or some- |.

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agree with a word that you | will defend to the death

your right to say it." — Voltaire.

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With Blood, Sweat

By Richard R. Speitel

"We Earned Every Bit of It ;

and Tears"

Jr., 29 N. Beville ave.

In answer to Mr. J. 8. H of Greenwood, Mr. J. 8. H. has asked

why the G. L is in so much need of finance? Could it be because he gave up several years of his life to fight for his country? Or that he wasn't quite as fortunate as Mr. J. S. H. and was taken into the service of his country before he had a chance to make a good start in life? As for many G. 1's that got married without making plans for

the future, I'd like to remind Mr. J. S. H. that a lot of these kids had no future to look forward to, just the present. I think all of us can sympathize with their eagerness for just the present. The

marriages might not have .shown good and sound judgment or the planning you would prefer, Mr. J. S. H., but I think many of us can and do. understand the G. I's and his sweethearts feelings during the war period.

those exultant cheers for President Truman at the: Jefferson day dinner in Washington will prove premature. | Many things can happen between now and November, | 1948. But some of the same wiseacres who demonstrated conclusively a few months ago that Mr. Truman was a washout now are hailing him as a -super-smart politician, a keen student of human nature, a crafty strategist who is making monkeys: of those Republicans. Our hunch is somewhat different. The President, we think, is still a plain and humble Midwesterner who has changed in only one important respect. A while back, we suspect, he quit worrying about who | liked this and who liked that, wondered where was the fun in being President if he couldn't be himself, and started making decisions according to his own lights and his own * version of common sense. Meanwhile, a number of Republican leaders who have been straining to make records for the next election have made no great hit with the country.

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. . S we say, we don’t believe Mr. Truman ‘planned it that " way,” but perhaps he has come up with a pretty smart political formula after all. That formula seems to’ consist of acting directly and * candidly for what, as he sees it, are the country’s best interests and not giving a hoot whether some pressure group calls the action radical or reactionary, pro- -labor or antilabor, or what have you. That, in our book, is the old-fashioned liberal attitude. The: term “liberal” has been perverted to many uses, includ- | ing those of the Communists, but what it used to connote is our idea of what America likes. If, incidentally, Mr. Truman gets himself re-elected it may prove something rather profound—that, despite a lot of evidence to the countrary, the American people don’t | really insist on being kidded or bought. | ; That may be a useful thought for the Republican ma- | dority. in congress. ; ;

MR. LIE IN HOT WATER ; | YGVE LIE, secretary-general of the United Nations, |

i T is being accused of packing the secretariat of the Bal- | kan investigating commission with persons having a pro- | viewpoint. Commission. employees are charged with

‘with official documents and altering dates on |

controversy. iis most unfortunate situation, we think, Mr. Lie full responsibility. He could have selected the 's staff from nationalities in no way involved |

As 3 mere error of judgment. head of the commission's secretariat, a personal . Lies, is the principal target of the present The ecrefary-genersl certainly should have

's oi activities have not reflected the objec: 1 of a than in his position. Now the integ-

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letters in efforts to strengthen the Soviet side of the |

kan dispute. It is difficult to dismiss his failure

he has organized is being chal- 1

Mr. J. S. H. says he knows 10 G. L's in his neighborhood and he Ja heard a complaint from

future was so uncertain. These hasty |

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DANIEL M. KIDNEY G. O. P. Chairman Carroll Reece considered the Chicago mayoralty election a straw in the wind for 1948—until the Democrats won. Now he thinks it's just chaff. # =

Franco has made himself mon-

arch of Spain. Maybe he should be

referred to as the royal four flusher. 2 = =

Mr. J. 8. H, for a commanding officer never worries about being |

able to control his men as long as they are griping about this or that; but he does get worried when they are quiet and have quit griping. I'd like to know also the truth about when Mr. J. 8. H. worked for $24 a week. My father did too,! but it was during a time when! a family could live. on that amount. Not now. Yes, Mr. J. 8. H, the G. I. knows Uncle Sam is through taking care of him. He found that out V-J day. Uncle Sam did take care of us while the war was going on, and as good a job as anyone could except under the circumstances— but just the same my buddies and I went hungry for many a day over there. We weren't hungry for steaks, chickens or something that was scarce. We were hungry for just something or anything to eat. (I approximately a hundred | names and ‘addresses of buddies that were with me, and can prove what I say). So don't try and make the care that Uncle Sam took of us sound like ‘a pension or relief |

of talking turkey.

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Times are Dealers that Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. called at Tammany Hall » 2 2 The French have invited Henry {Wallace to visit them. They. want to appear as brave as the English.

“IT'S A STINKING SITUATION, WE ENOW” By Gene W. Oakes, 110 N. Sheffield ave. I want, with the sanction of Voltaire, to let the semi-anonymous Mr. J. S. H..of Greenwood know that"I think he is complacent and self-satisfied. Most veterans have come fo realize that the enthusiastic support given them as soldiers has dwindled to utter indifference now that the menace of a Japanese or German occupation of this country has been removed. Most of us- (except those who are slackers by their very nature) are busy trying to get back on our feet, but you must realize, Mr. J. S. H,, that it is taking us a

Molotov must be learning by now! | them. Dont let silence fool you, that Gen. Marshall is never afraid

so tough for New|

“WHAT WOULD GREAT MEN OF PAST SAY TODAY?” By R. B. H,, Indianapolis A radio speaker gave me a

thought the other day when he spoke of what Washington might have told President Truman, if Washington. were here, on how to meet the Greek problem. Let us add a few more names of the great men of the past and vision what they might say about our

present day events. Patrick Henry, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine and Abraham Lincoln. There are many more, of course, but let us think of these men and what they might say today. What would Patrick Henry say to our congress today?

to say to the world? What would Thomas Paine have to say to the people? These men that looked on those that have greed for money or lust for power. as puny men. Patrick Henry might tell congress, right and liberty and justice are simple thing if they would forget politics and give them a fiery speech as of old. Pranklin was wise, level-headed and considerate of other people and their ideas, and thought in terms of the world. I think we had such a man of Franklin's caliber in our late President Roosevelt, so we have a pretty good idea what Franklin would say and do. Thomas Paine might tell the people the simple truths of the rights of man, and make this answer many of our problems today. Lincoln might challenge some heads of nations that are opposed to democracy. He might ask this question: Mr. Molotov, you are one of the heads of a great and wise people, why not let our newspapers circulate freely in your country, then your people cofild find out more quickly for themselves that we haven't a sound doctrine. He might ask Molotov to let Ameriacns, and other UN representatives, circulate freely in Russia so we can find out their needs, so the people of the. world can help them, and then they would not need to take reparations from beaten foes that cannot afford to pay. Lincoln might tell Molotov that he is wanting revenge as much as he wants reparations, I believe we have men throughout the world that are in "high offices

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for we earned it every bit with|little time to accomplish. that in today that are willing and able to

these hands you spoke of, Also| with blood; sweat, tears and prayers. In closing let me say that it is

! with great pleasure and pride that |

I sign my full name and address..

{this mess you people have made of our .country: while we were gone. We - know it's a stinking situation and we don't need to ‘be told about it - >

Side Glances— By Galbraith

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follow in the footpaths of the great. I do not know what these great men lof the -past would say or do, of course,” if they were here today, but I know if they were here we would want to meet them with a Clear. conscience. ” n ” | “WHAT HAS DELAYED "THESE ELEVATIONS?” By George M. Hooler, 917 Woodruff Place The problem of south side track elevation has been. waning and waning for countless years in our {fair city. At least 15 years ago the (residents in the neighborhood of |the Pennsylvania railroad crossing {at Oriental and Southeastern ave.

| were assessed an amount to promote the rack elevation and grade crossing at that point. I'm sure other neighborhoods wefe similarly taxed. What has delayed these elevations? What has the city done with the money. paid to it in good faith by the ‘propetty holders? This money certainly has accrued con= siderable interest during the years it has lain in the public coffers. Has the plan been abandoned? If so those taxpayers should receive a refund with interest.’ Come on, taxpayers, the only way to snap our councilman out of their lethargy is to show them we care

-|and demand decent Streets and safe

railroad crossings. Indianapolis sHould nang its head Inf shame because of the deplor ble railroad crossings and the ot spread by “locomotives. If - you've (ever waited (and who hasn't a long freight train chugs slowly | past, meanwhile spewing you with cinders and soot, then when the tracks are finally: clear, to bump

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J REFLECTIONS . . ao gy Robie c. Rue Ji - : Nothing but Gloom, Sinister Watlings

NEW YORK, . 8—~Maybe enced by the coal troubles, the Moscow conference, the telephone ruckus afid a nasty touch of flu. But if I were a man who believed in signs I'd say that somebody is warning us to take it easy, or else. Seems like there has been Jeca NOWinS but gloom, a: warnings, and indications impermanence all around us lately. Out in California, a man built an intricate machine to make him more comfortable. It tipped over one day and strangled him. At a safety convention here, T7000 experts in preserving the life of man asserted darkly that the imminence of the jet and atom age guaranteed only one thing—a. vast rise in the rate of accidents. New. cuts, new bruises, are

The toy atom-gun, with a “genuine fission-rate indicator,” soon will be available to little brother. Little sister may buy a special chemistry ev which will allow her to concoct her own “fatal National Selected Morticians, Ing., has announced that funeral services for those who succumb to atomic rays must be revolutionized. The morticlans must wear lead-lined clothing and masks. A bulletin adds: “Remains that are not too highly radioactive may be viewed by the public if visitors file quickly by the casket instead of standing before it for any appreclable length of time.”

Transplant Dear Departed IN PHILADELPHIA, an advertisement sppéared

“1to the effect that a4 graveyard was about to be’

pought up by a realty firm. It hinted delicately that the lot owners should transplant their dear departed as soon as possible. Nothing, it seems, is permanent any more. Word seeps in—by the usual, earthly communica tions channels, of course—that it won't be along before a telephone which can talk t4 the other world is perfected. A British physic researcher, aided by the shades of Alexander Graham Bell and Guglielmo Marconi, is one jump away from perfection. He says that an instrument which will let you gossip with great-grandpa will cost no more than $20.

Split Control Blocks

* WASHINGTON, April 8—With authority divided between the states and the federal government, no one bears the final responsibility for enforcing mine safety. That is why tragedies like the Centralia coal-mine disaster can occur. This is the conclusion of those who have studied the careful, unemotional report which Secretary of the Interior J. A. Krug submitted to the senate committee investigating the disaster at “Centralia. That disaster took 111 lives in a mine that-had been repeatedly reported for safety violations. Up to the time that the federal government seized the bituminous coal mines on May 22, 1946, the report points out, federal authority over mine safety was limited to recommendations which the mine operator might or might not accept. The bureau of mines in the department of the interior had 180 inspectors to cover the 2300 mines which the government took over.

Necessary Visits Impossible

OBVIOUSLY, THEY could not visit every one of these mines with sufficient frequency to insure that a condition of “imminent danger” did not exist which would necessitate an order closing down the mine. Under the safety provision agreed to by the coal mines administration and the United Mine Workers, all reports on inspection were to be sent to both district. and national offices of the union. Clearly, Krug told the senate committee, even minimum safety could be achieved only through the full co-operation of labor and management. On Nov. 4, 1946, the CentPhlia mine was inspected by Krug's inspectors. While a condition of “imminent danger” was not found, the inspectors’ report listed 61 items .of non-compliance, of which 19 were con sidered of “major importance.” On Nov. 25, the coal mines administrator directed the operator of the Centralia mine to comply with the inspection reports. These reports were posted at the mine. They were sent to the United Mine Workers district office in

SAGA OF INDIANA

PLANTING THINGS is one of the fascinating touches of the world. To plant a tree that brings fruit or shade; to plant an act of kindness that grows into an enduring friendship; to plant a hope that becomes a great achievement—these are the achievements of life, But planting a university that may span the stretch till its nation dies, or indefinitely, is a thing that comes but seldom to a nation, and rarely to any man.

Did His Own Thinking YET IT DID come to David Henry Maxwell, who planted Indiana university. This is confirmed by Dr. James A. Woodburn, one of the authorities on Indiana university, and long one of its able teachers. He says: “In the establishment of institutions, it seems that the life and services of some one man are paramount and essential. In the establishment of Indiana university, Dr. David H. Maxwell was the essential man.” = Maxwell was born in Garrard county, Ky. Sept. 17, 1788, a county or so east of where Abraham Lincoln was born nearly a quarter of a century later. The Maxwells were a sturdy Scotch breed, who did_their own thinking, the king of England, or any-

‘body to the contrary. notwithstanding.

This story stems back to the first constitutional convention of Indiana that met at Corydon, June 10, 1816. At this convention, Maxwell. was the ablest man of the Jefferson county delegation, serving with Nathaniel Hunt and S8amuel Smock, Jefferson county officials. At 18, he had gone to school at Danville, Ky. a pioneer educational center, where he became especially versed in mathematics and English classics. He

NATIONAL AFFAIRS .

WASHINGTON, April 8.—Townsend planners, who haven't had a national convention since 1940, will meet in Washington the last week of Jfine. Eighty-

year-old Dr. F. E. Townsend, founder of the movement, hopes to be there. One day of the conventich will be devoted to lobbying congress. Fifty congressmen have already come out in support of the new Townsend plan bill, introduced by Republican Homer Angel of Oregon and Democrat J. Hardin Peterson of Florida. Townsendites have now dropped the flat $200-a-month pension idea. Instead they want a 3 per

cent tax on all but the lowest incomes, the proceeds ‘to be divided among all people who voluntarily retire:

at 60.

Carrier to Bar Reporters WHEN U. 8. A CARRIER Leyte goes on its ‘Mediterranean NTttre cruise, present plans are to allow no U. 8. reporters to go along. One ref son given is that navy doesn't want an or ren incident. Reference is to the story Howard reporter William H. Newton, who as permitted to actompany 8 navy courier vessel into Daren, ‘Manchuria, as representive of oinbined

American press. "When Russian port authorities made she U.S. hip. leave port after expiration of {ts permit, Newton re-

That made the

‘The. inventor says Mr. Bell and Mr. Marcon! have been most co-operative about giving him handy hints. I presume an earthly walkout will not curtail this new service, but I shudder, simultaneously, at the thought of what a collect called from the land of show might cost. Maybe the rates would be cheap~ er on the stroke of midnight,” though. Upset by the state of the world, Playwright Liam O'Flaherty suggests vehemently that Hollywood and New York he burnt flat to the ground. A thorough sort of fellow, Mr.- O'Flaherty also believes it would be a good idea to wipe out all the women, too. In Collier's magazine, Author Stuart Cloete kills off everybody but himself in an atomic explosion timed for next Oct, 5. In the shambles of Radio City, Mr, Cloeté battles with minks as big as polar bears, while eagles huge as Constellations nest in the offices of Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborne, I haven't understood, yet, why Mr. Cloete and the kingsized minks were permitted to live, but we will find out in the next issue.

Cat Bites Owner. COSMIC RAYS, with which we are bombarded constantly, have been linked to the rate of onset of cancer in mice. * Doubtless disturbed by this news, a cat in’ Corte land, N. Y,, went mad. Pretending she was a setting hen, she bit her owner when the owner Wied to pull pussy off a clutch of eggs. Some people out in Omaha have started Proceeds”

“ings to ‘give ‘out their ‘three small children for wdop<"

tion, because, they say, “the children make us nervous." Despairing at all other efforts to argue the Russias

into reason, the state department has enlisted the .

aid of Benny Goodman, who will supervise a Soviete beamed jive program. A British Broadcasting Corp, survey indicates that hot licks fall more sweetly than culture talks on the Russian ear. The Fuller Brush people have just brought a brood of small airplanes to speed their salesmen to a new high in territory coverage. State income tax day is just around the corner, and this very minute I find I have run out of Kleenex,

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs

Mine Safety

Springfield, Ill, and to the national office in Washe ington, which is headquarters for John L. Lewis. A check on progress in the mine's safety prograny was made on March 17, and again reports were made to the union. A later check, according to the report submitted to the senate, indicated that misleading ‘information had come from the operating manager of the mine. Senators who have had an opportunity to examine the Krug report are impressed by the way in which authority is divided so that, even under federal op= eration, enforcement of safety regulations was exe tremely difficult. Mr. Krug can point out thas under government direction, the safety record improved ale shough the miners were at the same time digging a record volume of coal, :

Average Death Rate Drops DURING THE PAST 46 years there have been 71,030 recorded mine fatalities, an average of 129 deaths every month. The current fatality rate of 88 a month is somewhat better than the average of recent years. What must be faced up to is the fact that, at the latest, on June 30 the authority of the federal gove srmment ends. On that date the coal mines must ree vert to private ownership. Who is then to be responsible for enforcing mine« safety standards? Is all responsibility of government to be evaded in the void that exists between state and federal power? Senator Guy Cordon of Oregon, chairman of the nvestigating committee, has a high reputation as an ‘nvestigator. On the spot at Centralia, he should dig deep into the whole sordid mess. State laws should provide safety standards. ‘Those standards should be enforced by honest inspectors iivorced from politics. But if this is impossible, then ‘ne federal government will have to impose national standards and enforce them. That is the reality of the choice behind the false cry of “states’ rights.”

By William A. Marlow

The Founding of Indiana University

studied medicine under Dr. Ephriam McDowell, one of the most noted surgeons of his day. On Sept. 21, 1809, at 23, he married Mary Dunn of Danville, and the next year moved to a farm three miles southwest of Hanover, Ind. and settled down to practice medicine. During this period, he was a surgeon in the war of 1812 in the company of his brother-in-law, Capt. William Dunn. In Indiana's constitutional convention of 1816, Maxwell took an active part. The manuscript copy of the constitution on fille at the state library, in Indianapolis, is in his handwriting. But Maxwell's activity at the convention centered around article IX of the constitution. This was the famous article that provided for Indiana “a general system of education ascending in regular granduation from township schools to a state university wherein tuition shall be gratis and equally open to all.” As soon as President Madison designated a towne ship in Monroe county as the spot of this university, Maxwell bought a lot .in Bloomington, ‘and moved there in May, ‘1819. He rented a log cabin from Aquilla Jones, grandfather ‘of L. D. Rogers. Later he built a two-story house, the first brick house in Bloomington, on. N, " Callege ave, ‘of modern days.

Legislators Authérized School ON JAN. 20, 1820, on the persistently persuasive plea of Dr. Maxwell, the state legislature meeting at Corydon authorized "the establishment of a state seminary at Bloomington, For 34 years, till he died May 24, 1854, the life of Dr.-Maxwell centered in this institution. As presie dent of its board of trustees and as an outstanding citizen of Indiana, he nursed this school into what was to become one of the great universities of the nation,

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By Peter Edson

Townsendites Back With New Plan

ported the incident in a story that was used by nearly every U..S. newspaper. It caused a protest from Mose cow and a diplomatic exchange from Washington, And It put the navy in the state department doghouse, Post office department will now accept parcel post shipments to any country in the world except Portue guese Timor. JThat's the eastern half of a little island between Australia and Java; in the Dutch East Indies. The Dutch hold Timor’s western half, Most of Li natives live in grass huts and eat what grows wild a

Draft End Put Army on Spot END OF SELECTIVE SERVICE April 1 put army recruiting officers on. the spot to get 30,000 new rooke les a month—1000 a day. . Unless they succeed, the United States can't maintain a million-man army—e. lirgest peacetime military establishment this country has ever had. The answer won't really be knows till

-October, after a six months’ test.

A business recession with some reduction of ‘ome polyment might stimulate enlistments, but no one wants to pay that price just-to mairitain an. army,

“War department figures. it will really save money if it

gets enough three-year . The 18-month service of Arafted Tem feally gave only io Teoma of

active duty after training and before terminal leave, .

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