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: -_— ... DEATH AND THE FOURTH JDEATH takes no holiday on the Fourth. It's his busy day. | The circumstances are just right for him: A holiday running into a week-end. People prosperous enough to go places. Old autos with bad brakes. The Fourth of July week-end is long enough to tempt _ you on a long trip. It's short enough to make you drive too fast to get there and back. It's a dangerous combination, just as the Memorial day week-end was. As predicted, some 500 Americans died iri traffic accidents then. We can expect the same for the Fourth. What happens to you and yours is largely up to you. Retter study the conditions, then decide whether the risk is worth it. Millions on the roads, even if you stay at home. Your car will make one more. Two out of three aute accidents are caused by mistakes of drivers. The commonest mistakes on a day like the Fourth are: "Driving too fast. : Driving where you shouldn't, such as passing on curves or hills or darting out where you haven't the right of way, Maybe you do it, maybe the other fellow does it. But the result can be the same for you. Perhaps sudden death, or lingering death, or painful wounds. Is it worth it? Certainly not. There are so many other days when you can go places without bucking holiday traffic. The Fourth is a good day to stay home, or to enjoy an outing where you don’t have to drive far or fast. * Your chances of getting killed or hurt are much greater on a holiday like the Fourth. Think it over. If you must drive—be careful. —————————

"THE REAL-ESTATE LOBBY RESIDENT TRUMAN, signing the bill to extend federal rent controls for eight more months, termed it the lesser of two evils and called on congress to investigate the “brazen operations” of the real-estate lobby. The bill is now law. If it proves to be as bad a law as Mr. Truman fears, its Republican sponsors will be blamed. But there's a great deal of evidence that the rent controls which it modifies and the controls over building which it lifts have tended to discourage the construction of rental housing. The law's advocates contend that it will encourage such construétion. We hope they're correct. Meanwhile, various Republicans in congress are taking violent exception to Mr. Truman's remarks about the realestate lobby, which they consider a reflection on their own integrity. Among them, however, is not Senator Taft of Ohio. He observes that he wouldn't mind doing some investigating of that lobby himself. : © Mr. Taft speaks from personal experience. He has been the target of bitter and unfair attacks by real-estate lobbyists because he is one of the authors of the Taft-Ellender-Wagnee housing bill. One of them—Herbert U. Nelson, head of the National Association of Real Estate Boards—threatened recently to “take Senator Taft's presidential nomination delegation away from him on this issue of socialized housing.” The real-estate and home-building industry, in our opinion, has mighty little right to yell against “socialized housing.” That industry in all its branches—capital, management, labor—is shot through with restrictive practices and antiquated, inefficient methods. As a result, for many years the cost of home building has been kept unduly high and the volume of home building far below the country’s needs. And, a8 another result, there is great demand, to which the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill is one response, for government aid in the building of low-rent housing. Senator Taft, as director of a searching investigation into the reason why private enterprise can’t build enough decent low-cost housing and the steps necessary to reform and modernize the industry, could do the country a great service.

SOCIALISM IN THE RUHR HE United States and Britain have been deadlocked for’ six months over plans for controlling. German coal output, largely centered in the Ruhr. Coal is vital to all western Europe. But production lags because of the uncertainties corfcerning future controls. : A British desire for #ocialization of the mines is the principal obstacle to agreement. Our government, Tot being committed to the general socialization of industry, as is the Britain labor government, opposes the British demands. : It seems to us the question of ownership of the mines should be deferred until a responsible German government has been established, when the people themselves can choose the form of economy under which they are to live.

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the British on the subject of socialism. We have been generous with them in the division of occupation burdens, and will spend much more money than they do in the economic rehabilitation of Germany. But we must object to having our money used, directly or indirectly, to impose Bwptialst system upon another people while we are supporting ourselves, and much of the rest of the world, by a ‘free economy. ; ~The immediate problem is to get the German coal mined and distributed. Let's get on with that and let the ideolog_fcal issues wait for their proper time and place.

SENATOR BYRD of Virginia, who led the-fight against +. the first Knutson tax cut bill, has promised the Rear 7 cans he and enough other Democrats will vote , br the d Knutson bill, which makes the lower tak rates effective Jan. 1, next. he e fax cut date from July 1 would meet the President's

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wo . " To Combat Juvenile Delinquency By Jean Beymour, City Juvenile delinquency has been discussed and is still being from | every affle and yet nothing seems to curtail its progress. To curtail it is a slow growth. We will have to start back from the embryo state as everything passes through this stage. So let's go back say 50 years ago and see if delinquency of juveniles was so much in the foreground. (It has always existed and always will in all ages to come.) Half a century ago all marriages nearly resulted in rearing a large family, thus | giving the parents pleasurable work to raise the family. When years of maturity came upon the parents, they could look back on a well

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spent life, both feeling they had given to the promotion of posterity. The parents are both physically and mentally fit for years of usefulness, : Let's look into the major part of marriage today. In many cases they are for a thrill or to keep the girl from being classed as an ol maid or from working. During the war many marriages were solemnized with the main objective being the monthly allotment. You hear many saying, “I don't like children, they keep me too close,” hence & dog. claims the . child's place to greet the husband when he comes in from a day's work. In many instances men of today have not any hope for the perpetuation of his name. More often he becomes disgruntled and seeks outside consideration. The wife feels she has the same right and soon a divorce is pending. When Amelia Earhart was being famed as the female of the species of aviation, some one congratulated her husband on her wonderful adventures, ‘The papers, in bold print, printed the remarks coming from him and I quote boldly, “I'd much rather have a baby." The state for women to become leaders has started, yet we are unaware of it, for they are wearing pants, smoking, swearing, visiting night clubs thus hardening themselves for public service. When maturity creeps upon a childless couple, they began to. search for someone else's child to adopt. : If the couple is an intelligent couple the adopted child has a good home, yet the childléss“couple never fully understand true parenthood, Therefore they are less able to instruct a child in the basic way of life. It

fore we would note the decline in juvenile delinquency, but we must watch the early stage of each child, watching carefully not to emphasize Fmoney and fame -instead-of -a-good

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. » ” “CHIEF SANDERS SHOULD DISBAND AUXILIARY COPS” By V. F. 8, Carrollton ave, Chief Sanders is on the right track when he says he will Investigate these auxiliary policemen. What right have they to “patrol” the streets, carry guns, drive around in their “cruisers”? The auxiliary police weren't any good even in the war. They were a bunch of officious, bumptious .vigilantes who would be the first to join “up vigilante committees as strikebreakers, Shooting at -children, arresting youths, carrying guns to a teen age center. It's the lousiest deal I ever heard of. Where is Gen. Tyndall or does he countenance such goings on? I'm sure Chief Sanders will throw them out—he's for law. and order. I don't mind facing constituted law and order, but mot a bunch of vigilantes. If Sanders doesn't put them on the carpet, he should be run out. If I ever meet up with any ‘of that gang of hoodlums, Sanders will have another report to work on—and the injured party will not be the writer. » . ” “FIX UP CREEK BANK FOR PICNIC PARTIES, BEAUTY” By P. J. R., Bancroft ave. Why doesn’t the county fix up

drive-in? They did a little patching up of the road but there are holes

big enough to wreck a car. I know because I drove over them recently. That is a very beautiful drive but the road is going ‘to pot fast under the able direction of .our county commissioners. Also why in ‘the {world don't they fix up the creek bank—put in some picnic tables, cut the grass, beautify things a little? That is what makes Indianapols«a. first-rate hick town and

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“EVERY HOME SHOULD HAVE | AT LEAST 2 ACRES OF LAND” | By Thomas Lloyd, R. R. 6. Box 487 It is encouraging that our government at long last has come to recognize that inherent right of

each and every one to own a part of “God's earth.” And a place they can call home. But a mere reminder without an elaborate plan means nothing, for any plan based on present housing plans would be retrograde and just future slums and a national calamity. Future homes must be built on an evolving plan for today, tomorrow, next day and the day after that. From the middle class down every family home in a potential future project should have at least two acres of farm land and that calls for the much needed (all share the land) reform program and that is the gateway to a newer and better life for all. For this subsidized landlordism of today with its foreign dumping depots to insure a scarcity and high prices will be fascism tomorrow or sooner, We stand today between two opposing powers intent on the destruction of our American way of life, namely communism and fascism. Laws will be ineffective. Only the, noble cause of share-the-land will save us and make their power impotent and protectors of them within our borders who are against present conditions. T suggest we put to a vote in the next general election a share-the-land program, 2

~ ” “LARGE TRUCKS INVOLVED IN VERY FEW ACCIDENTS” By William Shea, 110 W. Arizona sf. “I'd like to answer in a few words the letter sent in to you by a Mr. Gregory, regarding these “Tarzans of the road.” If this “gentleman drives,” as he says, 2000 miles a month, he will have a deep gnawing In his conscience because he (knows as well as a lot of other people who drive the road that these “monsters” are involved in very few accidents. "I myself drive on an average of 2000 miles -per week (last week, to be exact, I | registered 2347 miles) and in eight |years I've had one serious wreck {and that was when a man like Mr, Gregory, a traveling salesman, ran a stopsign and was hit broadside. We were both injured but he was slated for running this sign. — —- I sincerely hope that at sometime or another I have the chance to be a service to you as I have others— a flat, or you may be in a ditch as I have found people who get weary] and leave the road. I. think, Mr. Gregory, that this-may change your mind about the boys of the road, although you've probably had a chance to meet one of us at such a time. Tiny I don't know where you got your ideas, but ‘you're far from right, which I believe a lot of people who drive over these same roads will tell you. I don’t think that Tm alone on these words ‘of opinion. as many people will agree fully with me. A ; ~ » LJ o “WHERE DOES JENNER GET WAR WITH RUSSIA TALK?” By Dealer in Facts, Olty Is Bill Jenner telling the truth?

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court in the face of a Republican trend last November . . . hold the Balance of power and will detérmine who the next mayor will be. : There won't. be the same complete discussion of candidacies of the two men who seek the job of city clerk . .. and it isn't particularly important which is chosen . . , or of the twelve men and women who are running for the nine councilmanic jobs. Those latter

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AT SEA, July 3.—There was a scuffie and a clatter and a commotion in the crew's mess. “Sounds like somebody ran a knife into somebody,” I said.

“I hope so,” the junior third assistant engineer replied, seriously. “I'd like to stick a couple back there, myself.” I hate to keep harping on my own background, but when papa went to sea there was a certain camaraderie between the officers and the men. 1 learned a lot of things from my mates. We weren't buddies on the ship, but ashore we were equals, and on the 12-to-8 watch, when I was rassling the wheel, the second mate and I were conversational chums.

Sailors Have It Easy : THERE 1S LITTLE TODAY but anger between the men who supervise the ship and the men who work for the supervisors, Contempt, really, is a better word than anger. To a man—the master, with 45 years of sea experience; theschief mate, with 15; the chief engineer, with 19—the officers aboard the 8. 8. Express say that the non-licensed personnel who go to sea today are the most incompetent, distinterested, highly paid, best fed, most luxuriously quartered, and plain no damn good of any seamen -ever to sign on a ship. They say they are worse than in the war, when the waiter went sea, and the shoeshine boy went to sea, aiming af’ high wages and good living and exemption from the draft. Much of what used to be regarded as ship's work today is overtime. The mechanical aids to seafaring are so numerous now that there is very little hard work aboard—none of the back-breaking toil of as little as 12 years ago. Yet there are instances of deliberate slowdowns-—instances where eager youngsters get the old take it easy, sonnie, from the sophisticates, Take it easy or else.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By

WASHINGTON, July 3.—Words have a tyranny of their own. There ‘are smear phrases which are like old tin cans to be tied onto an ‘individual in order to discredit him. One of them is “Wall Street banker.” ios Targa togi 18 Ta AIL TS It is a tin can used by Middle West isolationists and by the extreme left. You tie it on and then you don't have to do any more thinking. Robert A. Lovett is now formally taking over as undersecretary of state, replacing Dean Acheson. He is a Wall Street banker, but whether intended as a smear or merely as a description, the label is: fat’ from adequate. /

Knows World Is Changing THERE ARE VARIOUS kinds of bankers on Wall Street and on Main Street. Mr. Lovett is one of a growing number who logk realistically at America’s responsibilities in a swiftly changing world. He knows that we cannot impose our will and our ideas on the rest of the world either by dollars or by arms. He also knows that if we let the world go to pleces, Soviet Russia will pick up those pieces. Mr. Lovett is an enlightened capitalist. He has a strong sense. of the responsibility which goes with wealth and power. The old public-be-damned exploiters of another era of American capitalism would not recognize him as one of their kind. : Mr. Lovett was in France when that country fell to the Germans in 1940, and he came home with a deep awareness of how alone the United States was— alone and defenseless. He came to Washington as an assistant to Henry I. Stimson, who had been drafted out of retirement to be secretary of war. In world war I, Mr, Lovett had been a, navy flier with what was known as “the millionaires’ unit,” largely out of Yale university. In world war II, he

air force. When President Roosevelt named him assistant secretary of war for air in 1041, we had only 2000 planes and not enough pilots to fly’ them. By

DR. THURMAN B. RICE of the Indiana public health department says: “I am more interested in adding life to one's years than years to one's life.” This statement gives a key to an understanding

ment points to the core of how be lived and worked. and how he died. : Defied Indiana Legislature AS ALFRED E. SMITH of New’ York used say: “Let's take a look at the record.” Morton Job in life was as governor of Indiana

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tion on the school board at the time it was organized, - and has indorsed high caliber candidates subsequently. 5 The new board will carry out an $8,000,000 building program and probably will be confronted with the problem of ending segregation in’ the local schools . . . a policy followed by the present board.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark Red Voice Strong in Maritime Union

There is no doubt that the Communist touch is heavy in the National Maritime union. At the end

-of each trip, a delegate from the crew is chosen to

§0 to the N. M. U. “leadership schools,” and they come back charged to the scuppers with Karl Marx. There is a gradual swing back to the pre-Russian alliance feeling—that it is hard to be a good union = man and a good American, simultaneously. The attitude seems to be, completely, a to-hell-with-you-and-hoorah-for-me ideology, and with small reason. I.doubt if there is any trade now which is paid so well for so little work, and which lives better, for free. The old grinding toil is gone. The brutality is gone. The lousy. living has been replaced by hotel food and service, and fine living quarters. I mention brutality. A few years ago, 1 saw a ham-handed mate bounce a seaman off the bulkhead for 15 minutes, merely because the seaman, with & heavy hangover, refused to turn to. The mate who strikes a seaman today is brought up on charges, and the union will refuse to man the ship if the company persists in allowing the offender to sail,

N. M. U. Strike Vicious

I MENTION A RETURN to the old feeling about Russia, before we became allies. That feeling was so strong and so general that the navy placed its own gunners aboard our ships. The merchant seamen could have fought and serviced those guns. It was not allowed because our leaders shuddered at the possibility that a change of relationship with the Russians might result in our entire armed merchant fleet sailing happily off to Murmansk, to join the Red brethren. We did not dare turn the guns over tothe sailors supplied by the N. M. U. There were hundreds of abuses of the working map at sea—abuses which have now been corrected with interest. It is my personal opinion as a former seaman and an observer today that the latest N, M. U, strike was a vicious, ungrateful insult to our people.

Marquis Childs

Robert Lovett—Enlightened Capitalist

the end of 1942, we had 30,000 planes and the crews to man them. go Mr. Lovett had a lot to do with that amazing achievement. He went to work on an 18-hour schedule, with the organizing capacity which is one of his qualities. /

It was Secretary of State George C. Marshall who persuaded him to come back to Washington this time, in spite of a recent ordeal with stomach ulcers. Both Mr. Lovett and his chief know that the new task is far more complicated. This Wall Street banker will work as hard as he worked before.

There are bankers and others who apparently would like to restore the kind of cartel controls that stifled competition and limited production.-We have seen how Germany gained by these controls and how, through them. the Nazis were able to get a big head start in preparing for war. :

Fear Helps to Explain Russia SUCH A ES, when they come to light, give real cause for fear that there may be a determination to restore the past. It is a fear that many Americans feel. They see how, in the pre-1839 era, a few men held down economic development for their own selfish interests. : ‘ That same fear is felt by many in Europe who are passionately resolved that power shall not be handed back to private cartellists. If we are realistic, we will recognize that their genuine fear of our intentions may explain, in part at léast, the suspicion of the Russians. It is above all the Soviet suspicion with respect to our occupation of Germany. a In the foreign policy of President Truman and Secretary Marshall, there is not the slightest suggestion of leniency toward the forces that would restore cartels. Undersecretary Lovett will be a valuable ‘aid in carrying out that policy. It is a good idea to look at the man behind the label before judgment is passed. ' ; i

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By William A. Marlow Boisterous Stretch of Indiana Life

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