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prompting in such

th spineless pattern of behavior!” The Wabash faculty is one of the outstanding in the country, well-equipped intellectually to keep pace with the | arrangements could be made wherefast tempo of business which Dr. Sparks introduced in the school over at Crawfordsville,

SCRIPPS ~ NOWARD

DEATH IN TEXAS CITY

WO appalling aspects of the Texas City disaster stand # out. The first is the extent of loss of life and the number of injured. Estimates of the dead, as this is written, range to 700 or more. The second is the fact that it comes in the category of those indefinable “acts of God.” ole is too early to assay the disaster except in terms of previous happenings of such nature. earthquake of 1906 took a toll of 452 dead, the Iroquois theater fire in Chicago 575. The worst explosion in U. S. history occurred in 1865 when a Mississippi river, boat blew up killing 1405 persons. : “ When the recent Illinois mine blast brought -death to

THE WABASH WAY

HE current issue of Reader's Digest carries an article called “Man With a Big Idea” devoted to Dr. Frank H. Sparks, businessman who became president of Wabash college because he decided at the age of 40 that he intended to obtain an academic education and become a college president.

educational institutions of the country. With its enroll ment limited to 500 picked students, Wabash has more |a day. Don't you think you are begraduates listed in Who's Who than any except 13 of the 850 colleges which are larger than “the Athens of Indiana.” The depth with which ‘Dr. Sparks believes in free | make more? So we say, piease don't enterprise is illustrated by his answer to the request of a congressional wartime committee which asked how much . money Wabash needed to see it through the lean post- : war years. When he said “None,” the businessman-school- | man added, “Too many citizens and organizations have de- tine io "veloped the habit of running to the federal government for | and fight and strike while the iron succor at the first sign of troubled weather. . . .-Our col- |is hot. That was the way America are supposed to offer leadership in example and ant for it . . . what a pitiful plight if we fall into the same | won; as

a like sum to Soviet satellite states.

dencies Russia is showing, R.» 8

reasonable Soviet demands.

Italy’s economy.

The San Frincisco

Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

111, a nationwide strike was called to memoralize the victims. But there is no such recourse in this case. * Here an intangible, unforeseen horror struck a quiet community unarmed for any sort of retaliation or ability to impress the nation. Seemingly there is no one to blame. This time the government cannot be called to account. Only the mercy of man can assuage the wounds. Even before the series of explosions had ceased, a mobilization of relief forces was under way. A network of amateur radio operators was talling for help. The Red Cross, the airlines, the army, coast guard, navy, public health services and private citizens were responding. It is comforting to know that our people require no a disaster as this.

ily circle,

of Hoosierdom. .

(IT'S OUR BUSINESS . ... by Don F. Daman ~~ ‘Too Many Hoosier

HOOSIERS ARE mighty fine people, but they're all-fired slow about welcoming others into their fam-

And folks of the Calumet region are a bit fed up with being treated like outlanders by the rest

We've been boisterous up here in the northwest corner in other years, while we were building an in. dustrial empire in the sand dunes other Hoosiers had

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the state. They sing about the Wabash, they recall the past glories of the Ohio as a river highway of i commerce, but they overlook the vast importance of Indiana's Lake Michigan frontage. fa “Of the four states which touch Lake Michigan” Walter Havighurst writes in “Land of Promise” (Macmillant 1046), “Indiana is the least ‘conscious of its lake frontage. Michigan Oity, at the terminus of Indiana's old Michigan Road, was once t. greater

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Editors.

Editor's Note: Don F. Datisman, managing editor of the Gary Post-Tribune, Is guest columnist today for Donald D. Hoover, who is in Washington for sessions of the American Society of Newspaper

port than Chicago, and Gary is one of the vital ports of today. But these realizations rarely enter the mind of downstate Hoosiers." Gary hasn't just one lake harbor, it has two, both man-made. And during the 1947 shipping season theyll handle 10 million tons or more of lake car-

scorned for a century or more.

mills and oil refineries. Lake County Ignored

mills and refineries). recognition as Hoosiers, first class.

lives in Lake county. second city in the 1950 census. rations. niversary this year.

roads led to Rome. roads led to Indianapolis.

It was a pioneering job and it took tough guys, with a devil-may-care spirit, to transform wasteland into cities, huge steel

BUT THAT JOB has been done (though millions more are being spent right now in expanding the And we think we're entitled to

After all, one out of every 10 ‘Indiana residents It's the secofid most populous county in the state, the only one with three secondclass cities. Gary is confident of ranking as the state's

We have our roots far back in the past, too. Pere Marquette traversed the Calumet on his early exploCrown Point is more than a century old. And Hobart, which once sawed logs for infant Chicago’s corduroy streets, is celebrating its 100th an-

Back in Caesar's day, it was the saying that all Too much, in Indiana, have all , accept us on a basis of full membership in

Too little have Hoosiers turned their attention to the northwest region of seriously. &

IN WASHINGTON ‘oe By Marquis Childs | Has Wallace Ended Political Career? ~~ |

goes. Millions of tons more will .be handled at Indiana Harbor. It was Lake Michigan that made possible the development of the Calumet's steel industries, now the equal of Pittsburgh's in the vastness of their production. The Hoosier state reaps a profit from the Calumet's busy workshop. One of the county’s chiéf exports is tax money for Indianapolis. Some of it comes: back, but not enough, the Calumet is con : There might be greater willingness to chip in for other areas of the state, if the Calumet felt that it J was accepted as a genuine part of Hooslerland, not Ld regarded as a troublesome stepchild.

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Secession?

IF DOWNSTATE HOOSIERS would consider more thoughtfully what needs to be done to keep pace with the Calumet’s still rapidly growing population, they ‘might’ understand better why Lake county wants to spend more of its own money at home, The general assembly, on several occasions, has talked jocosely of letting Lake county secede and join Illinois. If downstate Hoosiers don't want to the

family, that secession talk may be heard right

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WASHINGTON, April 17.—~If Henry Wallace had

any political future left to him when he departed

campaign for re-election. A public repudiation would also. serve their purposes, since it might breed a

Hoosier

say, but |

Forum

"I do not agree with & word that you

your right

will defend to the death to tay it." — Voltaire.

And Help Us Fight

some words to ship your way.

the board of trus- | profoundly for all the good things

That is dangerous leverage to be trusted to a nation of the aggressive ten-

”. . WE HAVE poured 8700 million into Italy since our forces - invdded that country in 1943. Yet the Italians will need credits amounting to $300 million to meet their day-to-day needs in the last half of this year. Obviously, they are unable to pay reparations from their own economy. | § ~ And if they pay Russia with borrowed money, it will be our money. : The deal was a bad one for us when the treaty was drafted, subject to senate approval. It is an indefensible deal now, since we have found that our “peace-at-any-price” attitude bought no peace, but only encouraged more un-

\ ITALIAN TREATY SHOULD WAIT INAD senate action on’ the Italian and Balkan peace treaties should be deferred, in view of the present dead- | American way. lock on German and Austrian settlements, until the Moscow conference of foreign’ ministers ends. ; ' Because it was assumed that the Italian agreemen would be part of a general European settlement, American delegates made conssions to the Soviet viewpoint which |away, and I say you ought to be they would not have made had they known that understanding with Russia on the German and Austrian issues might prove impossible. The situation has been changed in another important respect by Russia's threatening gestures in the Mediterranean area. There will be little point in protecting Greece and Turkey from Communist aggression if more strategi- |are always brave cally vital Italy is to be left to Russia's tender mercies. The pending treaty awards Russia $100 million in Italian reparations, payments to be made over seven years (sin and temptation wherever you beginning two years-after the treaty is ratified. It awards |5°_Better it is to teach them how

Side Glances—By Galbraith

The Russians are insisting on a $10 billion damage award from Germany before they will even discuss other pha of the German settlement. Germany can’t pay a of that amount. The alternative—a practically Russian mortgage on the German economy— even more dangerous than the pending mort-

can't agree with Russia at the Moscow conferhave to adopt an entirely new approach to | |i eAll' peacé problem. The Yalta, Potsdam | is, having been voided by Soviet should be considered binding

us it pays to be honest. In a word,

‘They say Rome was not built in

ing impatient, about our sinful way? You have made progress. With patience, don’t you think you could

go, but stay! : My neighbor says the trouble is over sending your children to our high schools. I think you have something there. You have . now

Now should be the

right In America, you know.

by you could give your children religious instructions in our schools. Our schools do need moral attention and the job will never be done—if you run away. That is not the American way. So again and again, and yet again, I continue to say, please stay and help us build in the

Now we have finished with part one. In part two I am again going to make it a point to say only what t I mean. In part two I am going to “bawl you out.” You say you are going to run

ashamed of yourself, because that is not Christ's way. You say you are persecuted. You don't know what persecution is. You should read about Hitler or Stalin if you want to Fearn of persecuted people. We don't persecute people in this land. This is the land of the free and the home of the brave. If you here you cannot be persecuted here. And you are running away. ! You and your children will find

"Don't Run Away From Indiana; Stay

By Maurice L. Donnellan, Mooresville, Ind. An open letter to the Rev. Enoch Habegger of Berne, Ind.: A .neighbor has told me you are going to leave the good state s ; _ | of Indiana. So it-is I have tied my horse fo the fence and set my‘Frank Sparks, outstandingly successful Indianapolis | self down on the beam of my plow, to take up my pen and carve out | industrialist, did just that, starting at Butler university, | obtaining a doctor of philosophy degree from the Univer-| ,. much and we are grateful for sity of Southern California—and selling tees of Wabash that he was the man who could help bolster free enterprise through education.

The new president took over one of the outstanding | You have taught us what faith can

We are sorry you are going to leave us fol

for having known you, and that is why we grieve so that you must| go. You have taught us how to be good farmers. You have taught

{tinue to plow in the good state of

for the Right"

vironment, be it of the American private brand or the Russian state

your teaching. Yes, we thank you you have done. We are better off “god of war” by ments of streets. ‘This is an admission that |

to handle sin and temptation, rather than to teach them always to run away. You will find sin and temptation in the South, in the North, in the East and in the West. Please stay. II we were not Christians we say, please go. But we do not say go. We say stay. So now I untie my horse and con-

Indiana.

ys» “NOT CRITICIZING ANYONE, BUT CROSSING SIGNAL” By Miss F. T., Sumner ave. i to Mrs. James B.

Graham's article which appeared in| the Forum on April 5, she misunderstood my article of Feb, 18. It was not my intention to criticize anyone. My reason for writing the article on the Shelby st.-Pennsylvania crossing was to show the need of a better signal system at this cross-

“EARTHWORM WILL LAUGH AT STUPID HUMANS" By R. Sprunger, Indianapolis it does here at home,

Truman Want Be 'Pushed'

humanity.

paid to One sometimes called the ks. You have taught Prince of - Peace. On Monday,

The hypocrisy of capitalistic en-

is not new. to audiences in this country. Against the foreign sounding board, the emotionalism of his utterances seems even more irresponsible and exaggerated than

+! these shores, his performance in England would certainly have put an end to it, here at home are very sharp, there is a deep feeling against carrying our quarrels to a foreign jury.

While our divisions

What Mr. Wallace is saying on his European tour It is just what he has said repeatedly

PRESIDENT TRUMAN is not likely to be pushed

kind, is a blot and disgrace on | Into “replying” to Mr. Wallace, nor will he repudiate

On Sunday, April 6, homage was

April 7, homage was paid to the; parading “instru- | death” through the | talk of peace is a farce and war is | inevitable as long as capitalism | exists. President Truman, the present head of the capitalist political state | by his request for “aid” to the] Greek police state, has placed the | United States on the threshold of | a march to world-wide imperialism and a clashing of interests that will lead to war. Greece is not a democracy. tary service is compulsory for all | men between the ages of 21 and | 50. Service is for two years in| the army followed by nine years in | the first reserve and by eight years

The Greek army has’ 100,000 ‘men | and 30,000 are to be added. In| addition, British capitalism has a force of between 8000 and 12,000 troops which is the remainder of a much larger force used for “military and police purposes” at an expenditure of about $192 million. | Since workers who protest exploita-

ing. While Shelby st. has a good! signal. service, Windermire st. (the, first street south of the crossing) does not have the signal service.

Anyone entering Shelby st. from Windermire st. with the intention of turning north must watch both lanes of traffic on Shelby st. and also for trains as you have no signals. This is because the signal on the south side of the tracks on Shelby st. extends beyond Windermire st. Mrs. Rooker, who died at this . crossing last February, i entered Shelby st. from Winde: e but apparently did not see the train because of a snow storm which was then in progress. I hope this statement not only corrects our misunderstanding, but that it may lead to a better system of signal lights being installed at {the crossing mentioned above, so that people might see the lights from all directions and thus prevent

another accident from occurring in the future.

tion are thrown in jail, these large armed forces are needed to control the unarmed Greek : and not to fight a “few thousand armed men” as is claimed. All talk of “aiding” so-called " Greek “democracy” is a cloak of exploitation of the Middle ®ast and European resources by American capitalism. Russian state capitalism also has covetous eyes on the Middle East and Europe so that leaves one guess as to the results of such a state of affairs. Yes, keep the glorious “free enterprise” system and meet atomic annihilation where the lowly earthworm can't help but laugh himself” to death at the stupid humans that once existed. Then there will be nothing where there should have been peace and plenty. ‘ " ~ ® “CITIZENS SHOULD FIND ANOTHER SMEDLEY BUTLER” By B. G., City I wonder how many people remember the Philadelphia crime situation several years ago. The corrupt politicians and grafting police force were so bad the citizens drafted Smedley Butler, a marine corps officer, to clean it up. He brought along two companies

of marines. He really cleaned it up and in a few days had most of the city hall members and a large per cent of the police force behind bars. My suggestion is for the good citizens of our fair city to find another Smedley Butler. With some of our police force accepting shakedowns, it's time something was done. » » . “TIME TO DO SCMETHING ABOUT POLLARD CASE” By E. C. Bailey, Indianapolis It’s about time that something is done about this political Pollard case. It's been over a year since this crime was committed and still there is nothing done about it. What are they intending to do, let him get by with this like he did the rest of his crimes? It only. took the courts four months to convict Price and Johnson of their crimes. What do the courts of Indiana Intend to do, punish the children ‘land leave the adults go? What do you’ think of this, citizens of Indiana? Don’t you think it is past time something is done about the case? :

DAILY THOUGHT : Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find. it. after many

days—

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him. The feeling in the White House is that was done, and thoroughly done, when the former secretary of commerce was asked to resign from the Truman cabinet last September.

The request for his resignation came after Mr.

Wallace, in his Madison Square Garden speech, had attempted to deflect American foreign policy in another direction. Wallace's recent speeches, it is felt, would be merely to give him an opportunity for further sensational headlines. That is the last thing the White House wants.

To take any recognition of Mr.

Part of the pressure on the President to repudiate

Mr. Wallace grows out of party politics on the eve of a Presidential election. The Republicans can't help having a sneaking hope that Mr. Wallace will continue to be an embarrassment to Mr. Truman in his

NEW YORK, April 17.—The U. 8. navy, an or-

in the second reserve. Fifty thous- | ganization with which I have had considerable dealand “recruits” are called every year. | ings in the past, has just sent me a check for $50. I am inclined to view this with some skepticism,

not ‘to say suspicion. It-did not say in the envelope what the check was for. The last argument I had with the bureau

of personnel was about $50 they claimed I owed

them—not about any $50 they might have owed me. I gave up trying to collect any back dough from my former employers a long time ago. ,Now here comes this check for half a yard, panting on the heels of some sugary conversation.about how, you, too, can keep up your reserve commission, and make one of our nice little cruises. Oh, no you don't, navy. I am like the man who read the book. I have been to sea, and no mysterious 50 bucks is going to get me out of sight of land, at the mercy of the keelhauling and the cat o’ nine tails.

Two. Letters From the Commodore

THE ARMED forces are acting mighty mysterious of late. I have had two letters from that nice commodore who:runs the bureau of personnel, asking after my health. Old Randall Jacobs never used to ask ‘after your health. He just said get out of the country, you, for the next three years, and shaddup. Then there are those letters from selective service. We can find no record of your local draft board, they say, in a deceptively mild tone. Please tell us, they say, how you got into‘the war without our knowledge. That's for jne to know and you to find out, boys.

THE PRESIDENTIAL election of 1872 was a mudhole in American politics. . In Indiana it was just a muddy splash. Hoosier Republicans, Democrats and liberal Republicans emerged from it with none of them triumphant, licked or satisfied, 8 The regular Republicans taunted the Democrats with the cry that Greeley once said: “While all Democrats are house sieves, it is equally true that all horse thieves are mocrats.” To this‘ the Irishman replied: “Begorra, we Democrats sald some mighty mean things about old Horace (Greeley). If he said meaner th about us than we said about him, he is welcome to it.” On this level, in the®spirit of these quips, and on the basis of the whole 1872 presidential campaign setup, that campaign stands unmatched among the 23 previous presidential campaigns of the nation. 2 The core of this lies in the split in the Republican party. This centers around Carl Schurz, one of the outstanding controversial figures in American politics,

Born in Germany

SCHURZ WAS born in Germany, in Prussia at Liblar, a village near Cologne, March 32, 1829. He came to the United States when 23 years old in 1852. Lincoln appointed him minister to Spain in 1861. He resigned to become a controversial figure in the Ciyil war. He came out of the war a majorgeneral of vclunteers with a brilliant record and an honored standing as an American citizen. ~~ After the war, Schurz became the spark plug of

flash in America’s political sky. .

Schurz presided.

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quarrel within the Democratic party which would : carry over into the contest next year. in The affaire Wallace in its European phase is, of 3 course, bigger than a mere partisan political issue. | Mr. Wallace is doing a deep disservice not merely to his own country but to the world. What we are attempting in Greece can be either good or bad. With the backing of men and women ~ | of liberal thought, who believe that our economic it power can be used to give new life and new opportunity to the forces of democracy, our aid to Greece can be a constructive example to depressed peoples § everywhere. The tragedy is that Mr. Wallace is help- i

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ing extreme reaction to give the program the worst +4 possible start. 8? 'Wallaceland'

THERE ARE American liberals with just as good claims to the New 1 inheritance who repudiate Mr. Wallace. One of thém is Leon Henderson, who has fought actively and valiantly for progressive causes, past and present. { In his trenchant magazine, Politics, Dwight MacDonald has a searching analysis of Mr. Wallace. He describes “Wallaceland,” the Wallace habitat, as follows: “It is a region of perpetual fogs, caused by the

warm winds of the liberal gulf stream coming in con~ tact with the Soviet glacier. Its natives speak “Wallese,’ a debased provincial dialect.” Buropeans should be made aware of how small is the number of Amer~

the liberal Republican party, a brilliant but temporary

1t started in 1870 in Missouri, where Schurz had become United States senator in 1860. At the party’s convention, which met at Cincinnati May 1, 1872,

Behind him in this bold political move, were some of the great Republican leaders of that year—Horace

icans who speak or understand this curious dialect.

aun. REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark ’ | What's Going on Here, Commodore?

But I got that old discharge. Hid out in the orchard, * too, and buried deep. {4 What is all this, anyhow? Are we preparing for 1 another war in which the participants will be treated Hd as human beings? 4] I tell you, I don't trust those people in the bureau A of supplies and accounts. When they start giving away money, even when they owe it to you, something's afoot. I don’t dare cash this check, naturally, for fear of waking up on Canton island. Not for Buster. Fifty dollars is a lot of money, but the last time I took any dough from those people IT wound up on the road to Murmansk, with a full beard.

Do Three Million Get Free Fifty?

IT HAS just occurred that this is a settlement of old obligation for a dime on the dollar. : Some time back I riz up and hollered murder, when navy was dunning me for $50 I didn’t owe, 2 when I was under the impression they owed me about 4 10 times that much in mislaid allotments. 4 If this is a compromise, you guys, I won't settle, i see? I still want that accounting-sheet of moneys 8 collected, moneys disbursed, and you've only had 18 3 months to get it out. \ 3 As a taxpayer, I would appreciate a short note : : from somebody telling me what this 50 fish is for. % There were over three million men in the navy, 4 and if they all just got a free 50, it is running into big dough and part of it I have to pay for. s Let us have the dope, gentlemen. Has your No. 1 disburser gone nuts, or are we once again at war?

SAGA OF INDIANA «o's By William A. Marlow

1872 Election Just a Muddy Splash

At the Cincinnati convention, Schurs strongly favored the nomination of Charles Francis Adams of Massachusetts, son of John Quincy Adams, and gjandson of John Adams, for president. fi ! But the convention nominated Horace Greeley over Adams by the close vote of 332 to 324. B. Grats Brown, governor of Missouri, was nominated for * vice president. These nominations posed a serious problem for the democracy of Indiana, The leading Democrats of the state debated whether the liberal Republicans could elect the president that year. They were confident that Thomas A. Hendricks could be so i elected. ! Facing this dilemma, the Indiana state central committee called 8 meeting of Democratic leaders at Indianapolis as early as Jan. 9, 1872, to discuss the matter. ; To this meeting came Joseph E. McDonald, Daniel W. Voorhees, Thomas A. Hendricks, John 8. Williams, W. S.7Shirley, Capt. John Kirk, and many other prominent Democratic leaders, After a discussion of the state and national situation, they postponed a final decision till the state convention met at Indianapolis June 13, 1873.

Agreed Upon Greeley . THE NIGHT before. the convention, district caucuses decided to ‘indorse the Cincinnati eonverition’s presidential nominees—Greeley and Brown. In Indiana, the Democrats elected by a narrow margin only Thomas A. Hendricks for governor, and Milton B.- Hopkins for superintendent of public . instruction. 3d At this election the vote for president was: t, Republican, 186,147; - Greeley, liberal Re 163,632; O'Connor, Democrat, 1417, . . In the November presidential election, the vote was: Grant, Republican, 3,597,070; Greeley, Democratliberal Republican, 3,834,079; O'Connor, Democrat, B48... Lo At is

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