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far enough to be effective, but not so far as to areasonable, unjust or destructive to labor's freedom anized strength. ; retains the Wagner act guarantee of the workers

And it offers workers, employers and the public urgently ‘Deedec protection against irresponsible abuses of the privileges and powers which the government has helped ‘and their leaders to attain. ) “" » ® ALF the senate’s Democratic members, as well as ©" all but three of the Republicans, supported this bill. i The feeble Democratic opposition was led by Murray of n. Montana, Pepper of Florida, Wagner of New York, Kilgore “1 of West Virginia and" other survivors of the once-potent bloc that always resisted corrective labor legislation, however needed and however mild. ~The senate vote that overwhelmed them yesterday, 4 like the 308-to-107 vote by which the house passed a more § drastic bill last month, demonstrated the strength of public demand for action. J . That does not mean, however, that two-thirds in each branch can be counted on to override any veto. It is most doubtful ‘that the senate would override veto of a measure _ that went much beyond the one it has passed.

" » - 0, we velieve, the wise course for the Republican con- : ‘gress is to discard the more stringent provisions of the '* house bill and send President Trumati the better, fairer Senate bill in substantially its present form. i If that is done, Mr. Truman should sign. And if he gr does not. sign, congress should pass the bill over his veto.

IT’S UP TO CONGRESS

this session of congress acts on universal military training and army-navy unification congressional lip service to the Truman-Vandenberg bipartisan foreign policy can be dismissed as so much eyewash. * We can’t have a strong foreign policy without the force to back it up. Brave talk alone will fool nobody but ourWe neither have nor want a large professional army. But the only adequate substitute is a trained civilian reserve which can be built up only by compulsory universal training, ip : ye ’ : Pear] HarBor'demonstrated the niigcMief disunity cin do in the armed services. We invite another such disaster by maintaining rival and jealous army and navy establishments, each with its independent air force. : Congress is evading the training issue by waiting for the report of the President’s advisory committee. The committee has been disappointingly slow. - But that does not absolve congress of its responsibility. It should face up_to the issue now. \ : Even the excuse of a delayed committee report cannot “ be found for the reluctance to act on merger legislation. Ex- ~ haustive hearings have been held, and every member of congress has had time to familiarize himself with*the provisions of the President's unification bill. : We have had enough talk. Let’s have some action.

LIMITATIONS OF UN

“HE economic commission for Europe, meeting at Geneva, has made almost no progress on plans for cooperative action to deal with major post-war problems. Russian strategy has forced postponement of all important decisions. Unless there is agreement soon it will be impossible to get budgets and programs approved by the United Nations this year. Meanwhile: Britain is living on American and Canadian credits, which will be exhausted in a few more months. Germany is on semi-starvation rations, which have provoked rioting and sharply cut Ruhr coal production. France desperately needs more coal. Italy and Greece are living from day to day on shot- , in-the-arm financing by the United States. : Europg's highly integrated economy is sinking into chaos. : One theory at Geneva is that the Russians want to keep the economic commission marking time until next year, when ratification of pending peace treaties will make. Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland members. These nations, with the Scandinavian states which are inclined to vote with the Soviets, would give Russia control of the commission. : Whether this explains the Soviet filibuster is immaterial, however. One nation, the Soviet Union,’ is blocking

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a " » =» 3 a ~ JJNTIL the United Nations is released from the Russian * = strait-jacket which ties it hand and foot, an eco- . noniic council for free Europe is needed to get on at once with the task of rehabilitation. We are doing the United Nations a disservice by pretending that it is something it is not. Under its present rter, with the provision for the bigipower veto, the Nations cannot deal effectively with any problem in- | clash of interests between the Communist bloc free states. Until this serious defect is remedied, ‘Nations’ limitations invites an inevitable | m I the idea of: collective secur- |

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or governor, or senator, etc., so that if he is merely an errand boy for the machine without a mind of his own they can work to get a good man whom you can trust to attend county committee meetings and fight for the kind of candidates you want the odds are that you will get the kind of better candidates you

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primary day and rushing full Wength: to vote at general elections, every voter should exercise his

on primary day when he ing Shi candidates to select from. If he does his duty on primary day and sees to it that a good candidate is ‘nominated, he can safely stay home on general election day—for the machine will do the job that:day. Of course, none should ever miss an election if it

"Voters Should Give Heed to

Primary, Precinct Committeemen"

By A. J. Schneider, 504 West Dr. Woodruff Place Too many of our voters fall victim to a common fault of human beings—that of wanting to have something in comman with the big-shots. And this expresses itself in many weys. With some it is simply doing a lot of talking about the candidates as if they were bosom friends, in other cases it is active canvassing and work at the polls for certain candidates—sometimes for a consideration. ! But we humans have an unhappy faculty for putting the cart before

for precinct committeeman, than they do to the candidates for mayor

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should say undressing) and walking the streets nearly naked. We were downtown a few days ago and I was shocked to see what anyone can see. We walked behind two girls so dressed you did not have to use imagination and following them were three men, middle-aged. The girls were strangers to them but were very friendly. And again we Joined up with two young girls, quite small and about 12 or 14 years old, and they were making dates with much older men. All were well-dressed and seemed to come from good and well-to-do families. We do not understand ‘just why young girls of that age are allowed on the streets dressed as they are. It is ‘most shocking and shameful. Not only that, but the number of

can be avoided; but if there is any choice, the primary day should be, preferred. - : The same holds true in our na-| tional elections: If we sélect ‘good national committeemen, we will get the kind of candidates we want. But if we .are satisfied with machine horses who are being rewarded. for

the voters, then we cannot hope for improvement. We must always remember, that our professional politicians are humarr, and politics is their business. Therefore, if we insist on top-rung candidates who will deliver us from the machines, and insist on it sufficlently to exert ourselves about it, the politicians will deliver the kind of merchandise we are willing to buy. And because we have been satisfied with shoddy merchandise, you can see what has been delivered. ” n ” “SHOULD HAVE CLOSER SUPERVISION OF GIRLS” By City Ladies, Indianapolis This committee of ladies met to discuss activities of the good and better class of our citizens, and we find that some class of our people need changing very much. We refer to our young girls dressing (or I

women being attacked is increasing terribly every day. Just why? Get busy and do some thinking as I did and you will find that the girls are to blame. : »n » . “WALLACE-BUCK NOT ONES TO RUN THE UNITED STATES" By C. J. Greskamp Jr., 2321 N. Broadway My dear Mr. Nash, do you feel alright or have you just returned from a “lost week-end”? Your letter would lead one to believe that maybe you are in the wrong country, or have been reading the wrong sort of books. ‘ For most God-fearing and true Americans, just the idea that Henry Wallace was once vice president is most irksome. . The people of this country made the mistake of electing him to that office and it didn't take our late President long to amend such a mistake. Surely you do not ask us not only to make the same mistake twice, but a far greater one. And just because Pearl S. Buck helped her husband “bring them back alive” is no sign that she has a full understanding of human beings and politics. Maybe you, like so many others, have forgotten there is still a man called Gen. MacArthur,

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“PRESENT COLUMNISTS MEET WITH MY APPROVAL” By Mrs. M. K., R. R. 8, Indianapolis Mr. H E M. seems to be pretty much bored with the columnists of his favorite paper. Why doesn't he do something about it? Here's your golden opportunity, Mr. H E M. You have a splendid idea, but don’t expect someone else to carry it out. Take your spare time and go out into <he open. Enjoy the clean, fresh air you speak of. At the same time seek information: get acquainted with those close to the soil, then you can express the philosophy of the farmer. Start a column all your own. and make if interesting for others who enjoy reading your kind of literature. The present crop of columnists is okay. They write about the things they are familiar with and what is interesting to a large number & readers. Ruth Millett has some very good articles. I don't always agree with her, but that never worries Ruth any. There's usually so much work to be done on a farm one hardly has time to get a good breath of that fresh air. I lived on a farm for two and a half years. I didn't think so much of the idea of getting up at 4:30 a. m., milking two cows, feeding and watering chickens before breakfast. I walked about a mile to get my school bus, so I had to start at 7. I did enjoy the gatherings we had. People were friendly “and you could always count on plenty of laughs. I thought it was fun when I raised a lamb on the bottle, but when he'd knock me down and I'd spill a bucket of milk about a half dozen times a week, it didn't strike me as being funny. He became twice as strong as myself. When he insisted on coming into the kitchen in spite of my talking and pushing, we just sold the stubborn thing. A few months later the old mare died and left her baby colt to our mercy. I got out the bottle again and it wasn’t long till another nuisance followed me around. He was worse than the lamb and of course nothing in comparison to size. We sold him too, but not until he almost swallowed my arm trying to get my apple. : When Vie and our dog Spike practically tore down the wood shed to get a rat, I kept my distance. Vic pulled up his gun and aimed at the rat but shot poor Spike instead. We were all sick over that. One "Sunday afternoon while the folks were enjoying a good nap, we slipped down to the woods to pick some blackberries. I saw a little pup (that's . what I thought). “Vie,” I called, “here's a little pup under these briers, let's catch it and take it home.” Vic came running.’ “Stay on this side and I'll go on-the other side and we'll catch him when he comes

We stood eagerly waiting. All at once Vic yelled, “Run for the house, it's a skunk.” : Believe you me we wasted no time Betting over the rail fence, » ~ » “ “PUT DAYLIGHT TIME TO VOTE IN 1948” By Ferum Fan, Indianapolis It seems to me that the daylight vs. standard time question has brought on so much heated discussion that it ought to be put to a vote of the people before the time set to turn the clocks forward again in the spring of 1948. Why not let us vote on it in the forthcoming municipal elections next fall. It might prove to be an invaluable aid in bringing out a record vote. 3 If this could not be done, then each or at least one of the candidates for mayor should pledge himself to permit the citizeris to vote on this question at least 30 days before the time to set the clocks ahead in the spring of 1948 and

This is the only way to settle this time question and it should be

DAILY THOUGHT For as the crackling of thorns under a pot,.so is the laughter of the fool Ecclesiastes 7:6.

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sitting in an open carriage. In his right hand he held a red slice of watermelon. On the seat beside the driver was a whole unsliced melon, just in case he'd run short. Upon completion of the successful fast, and after eating his first watermelon, Dr. Tanner handed down the classic nifty: “My whole body feels like a hive of bees.”

Well, shortly after Dr. Tanner showed the way, an

WASHINGTON, May 14—If it were not for the food and manufactures produced in North America, the whole world would be in a state of famine and chaos. Measured against the enormity of the need, what we are doing seems small. Actually, it is a miracle of production and distribution. The amount of grain now being shipped overseas surpasses all records. It is well to be reminded of what this country is doing if only to offset those who, like Henry Wallace; are bound to put-us in the worst possible light. : The total of grain and flour sent out of the country in-March was 1,552,000, tons. U. S. ships tn that same month carried 7000 tons of Canadian flour and 38,000 tons -of -Canadixh grain. ,

Allocations Will Be Met

WHILE THE April figures are not all tabulated, it is likely that the total for last month will be larger than the March record. Although grain reserves are at a seasonal low in this country, the department of agriculture reports sufficient stocks on hand to meet May and June allocations. The average for the two months is expected to be around 1,600,000 tons. Significant, too, are the shipments of coal In April, in spite of the two-week mine layoff following the Centralia disaster, 2,504,400 tons of American coal were shipped to Europe alone. That is 200,000 tons more than was shipped in March. Speaking about coal shipments is, of course, tempt-

if he calls a strike after June 30, when the mines revert to private ownership. : ; If grain shipments are on schedule through June, the grand total for the year ending July 1 will be more than 14,000,000 long tons. That is one-third

NEW YORK, May 14. — The turbulent heavings which have been going on inside. the movie business for the last few years have nearly subsided, but out of the works have emerged a couple of new barons. These two fresh faces come pretty close to representing a new deal in the business, which for 30 years was more or less the private property of the old nickelodeon kings. Certainly the new boys—J. Arthur Rank and Robert Young—are a distant yelp from the formal concept of the movie mogul with the permanent tigar and the 9000 relatives. Mr. Rank is the second best, if not the bestheeled man in England. He inherited his money from a flour-milling business. He got into moving pictures because he is a feryent Sunday schoo] teacher, and was looking for a new medium to impress godliness on the minds of the young.

His Field Is Broad

THAT WAS three years ago. Today Mr. Rank finds himself the greatest single figure in the entertainment world, I should think, with half-a-dozen movie companies to play with, and nigh ‘onto a thousand theaters in the United Kingdom and in other British possessions. Having taken care of one side of the world, he has cannily allied himself with two thriving new companies in America, thereby assuring himself of unstinted distribution over here. - Mr. Rank is a millionaire who still teaches Sunday school; saves string, and travels without valet or secretary. One associate here is Mr. Young, the railroad tycoon who cannot say the word “banker” without affixing a strong qualifying adjective to it. Mr. Young is the boy who has turned the railroad business upside down in recent months, starting with the widely quoted slogan: “A hog-can cross the country without changing cars, but you can’t!” As chairman of the Allegheny Corp. and reach-

WASHINGTON, May 14.—France’s recovery machinery has begun to turn again—still slowly, perhaps —but if her extremists will refrain from throwing ‘more monkey wrenches it is bound to pick up speed. Deliveries of American coal upon which French recovery so greatly depends, are increasing, according to Ambassador Henri Bonnet. As a result production figures soon should show a most encouraging rise: On top of this, officials of the world bank here announced a $250 million lodn to Frdnce and a comparabie advance likely will ‘be made next October. Altogether, this makes the best news that has come out of France in several weeks. But the’ country is far from being out of the woods. For one thing, because of the heavy freeze last winter, France is critically in need of wheat as well as the necessary dollar exchange with which to finance its purchase. Another big question is whether the Communist party and the CGT (General Confederation of Labor) will play ball. with Premier Paul Ramadier's new coalition government formed without Communist representatives, General Strike Rumored THE,.COMMUNIST-BOSSED CGT controls transportation, ‘communications and public utilities, and there have been rumors of a general strike. : At the moment, however, the crisis seems less serious that it has for some timé, It may be that ‘the Communists have just éxperienced something of

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OUR TOWN . . . by Avion Scharmer ~~ Yarn of Playing Loose With _ octogenarian living

ing fate. John L. Lewis can put an end to all that:

‘REFLECTIONS . .. By Robert C. Ruark es New Barons Emerge in Movieland

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NOW THAT I on the South side decided to we SoRiANy ae that thy: him one better. To pull a similar fast, he allowed lights out of us South: himself to be buried in a box, a dramatic touch Dr. from Dr, Tanner. Tanner had never thought of ; : < % Dy. Henry 8. Tanner was In the interest of historic truth, however, let me’; obsessed with the ides that hasten to add that It wasn't exsctly » biirtal. What could live 40 days and nigh really happened was that a box was lowered into a without food and, indeed, without grave, after which the octogenarian, aftired in a any nourishment. To nightgown, descended by way of a stepladder and laid he went to New York : himself down in the improvised coffin. That's as far - time at all found himself as the burial went which, of course, was the sensible front pages of all the thing to do. Had the performance been carried any of the oountry, including further, there wouldn't have been any way for us kids’ course, those of Indianapolis. watching the man’s condition from day to day. 3 For some strange reason (or, The first three days were terrible, I remember, maybe, no reason at all), the ladies were his most The “buried” man grew thinner and thinner; to such ardent admirers. They brough an alarming degree, indeed, that we gave him only’ music for him and as the a few more hours to live, After the fourth day, tried to kiss him. Indeed, however, he began perking up and, at the end of thing except things to two weeks, he actually looked better than when: They made up for he had started. After three weeks, a curious phenom. rolled around and Dr. enon took place. The buried box had the appear. living, the ladies piled ance of rising as if coming nearer the surface of the cluding cases of champagne earth ‘on which we" spectators were standing. It Nobody, however, thought of bringing him a made some of us uneasy; others, more articulate, melon. It was a serious oversight on voiced their suspicions. feminine because the way . out, Dr. Tanner had it all fixed to end The Gentleman Disappears eating a watermelon, even if he had to buy it THE OCTOGENARIAN had only 12 more days te’ 0 to equal Dr. Tanner's record when, one morning,

t, however, was the discovery that the whole bottom of the box was filled with discarded watermelon rinds. One strata of society that profits by what it reads in. the newspapers suspected that the man had been kept alive by a group of big-hearted South side women. .

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs ; Only U. S. Production Averts Chaos

more than the United States exported during the preceding..ysar with the help of the famine emer. gency campaign. The drive behind this extraordinary accomplish ment has come largely from the President's cabinet committee on world food programs. Chairman of that committee is Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson, No small measure of credit is due to Capt, Granville Conway, who has found box cirs when the railroads said there were no box cars and ships when the pessimists said there were no ships.

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American farmer. Estimates put the ue shipped abroad in 1946 as high as $3,000,000,000. Yet in spite of continuing want Europe, those purchases must very soon be

Running Out of Dollars

IN HIS Cleveland, Miss., speech, Undersecretary State Dean Acheson gave the most countries are speedily with which to buy what we grow and make The speech was intended to be, | sion of the Truman ddctrine. The thesis Mr. developed was that we of imports possible

This is the positive side of It looks forward to peageful is an ever increasing exchange

ing for working control of the New York Central rails road Mr. Young has a hand on a lot of the locoe motive throttles in the nation. As the moneyman in Pathe industries, Mr. Young bosses the American end of Eagle-Lion studios, a lusty contender which arose from ‘the rash of warborn independent producing outfits, most of which were. erected to beat the tax rap. Two of the independents emerged as fullblown studios—Eagle-Lion and International In three years International grew from a joke to such a potent producing outfit that it suddenly found itself merged with Universal, one of the old studios which had begun to crack at the seams. Universal International was born, with International's man, Bill Goetz, as boss of production and so actual master of the merged properties. .

Near a Monopoly Himself

NOW BY SOME odd coincidence Britain's Mr, Rank is the majority stockholder of Uriiversal-Intere national. By the same coincidence he distributes Eagle-Lion’s products abroad and Eagle-Lion’s dis< tributive facilities are Mr. Rank’s in America. The combination of his own properties with the up-and-comers over here has cast a completely new complexion on the movie business. It has, in cracking the old Hollywood world monopoly, come close to creating a fresh monopoly whose initials are J. A, Rank. . ; Mr. Rank is in America now to talk over his newly acquired empire with Mr. Young and with the sachems of Universal-International.~But before ¢loseting him. self with the tiny dynamo, Young, Rank had a little previous business. : He had to accept an award from the World Sunday School association. J. Arthur Rank may have stumbled into the role of boss coon in a vast industry, but fundamentally his first allegiance is to the catechism,

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . « « By William Philip Simms France's Recovery Machinery Turning

ment ify Frgnce would be difficult if not impossible. But the Communists would seem to have carried their pitcher to the well once too often. After tying the government's hands in the colonies and in other matters, they backed the Renault factory strike, When the Red members of the national assembly. voted unanimously against the government, Premier Ramadier asked for the resignations of their cabinet representatives. Hitherto, they had voted against the government and retained their representation in" the cabinet at the same time. The premier’s action no doubt surprised them. All the more, perhaps, because they had counted on the Socialists to maintain solidarity with them in line with their caucus decision.

Workers Vote to Return : AS A RESULT of the split, many believed the Communists would respond to a nationwide strike wave if not a general walkout, Thus far, nothing of the kind has occurred. Instead, the Renault worke ers—the immediate cause of the latest crisis—voted more than 12,000 to 6900 to return. Instead of a wage boost, they were, in effect, put on plece-work, This, it was exptessly stipulated, was not to be e disguised wage rise. At the same time it was a vice tory in part for the Communists. They have been striving for the adoption of the Soviet system for some time—the worker's pay depending entirely on his output. Thus the Renault settlemefit may become

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