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CHALLENGE FROM MOSCOW RUSSIA has forced Finland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and all her other captive states to boycott the Paris conference on the Marshall plan. Whether this latest Soviet “victory” has real substance is up to us more than it is to Russia. Some’ of the satellite nations had risked Moscow's displeasure by accepting bids to Paris. This means that their need for help must be very real, if not desperate. If they could get aid from Russia, they would not have dared to look to the west under present circumstances. We can now be surer than ever that the new Soviet “empire” is held together by not much more than barbed wire and bayonets, The captives, we know, are restrained by force and fear, And that knowledge offers the American people a great opportunity if we can and will grasp it,

. . ” MOSCOW nas decreed two worlds—its world and our 4 world. The challenge of the totalitarian dictatorship ip to democracy and free enterprise. Production can win for us if, by our inspiration and know-how, we can get western Europe back to work. But for that, unity of purpose will be required, at home and abroad. The Marshall plan is a statement of broad principles, put forward as a basis for future relations between the United States and European nations in need of our help. As yet, however, it is by no means a firm policy. It has yet to win the acceptance in this country which it must have to fulfill the promise it implies. Those nations that are free to take part in a common recovery program are meeting this week in Paris. They are discussing a pooling of interests and resources upon which to base an application for our financial support. Here at home, there is urgent need for a similar meeting of minds on the scope of -our contribution to the program. An agreement among the leaders of our government is a first requirement. = But if we are to see this job through, the American people must understand what is expected of them and their enthusiastic support must be enlisted.

THE FREE WAY IS HARD . A DELEGATION of food processors and distributors went to Washington last week to ask for government help.

Millions of cases of canned fruits and vegetables are left over from past seasons. This, the delegation spokes‘men said, was a “dangerous surplus.” It hurts the market : for this season's crop. So, they told a congressional comf° mittee, the government ought to subsidize export of a 4 lot of those left-over goods to hungry people in Europe. Committee members, we're glad ‘to note, were cold to that idea.’ They pointed out that canned fruits and vegetables contain much water and would take too much costly shipping spacé. Some of them suggested that the _canners and distributors get rid of their surplus by cutting prices here at home, 2 ca apie Well, that's a hard way. If prices of the left-over goods are cut far enough, we imagine American consumers will ‘buy them eagerly. But that’ may mean that the canners and distributors will have to sell them below cost. We can undérstand why they don’t like that. prospect. After all, though, the law of supply and demand— instead of the government-—is now supposed to be regulating prices. And that law can't operate if, when supply gets ahead of demand, the government comes along with a subsidy to keep prices up and save producers and sellers from losing money. pri ~ American businessmen, including food canners and distributors, say they want free enterprise. They say they want a free’market. The number of them who run yelling to the government for help in situations like this— for, in that respect, the canners and distributors are far from unique—casts great doubt on their sincerity. If they really want free enterprise, they'll have to prove it the hard way. They'll have to accept the penalties, as well as the benefits, of doing business on a free market. Along with the chance of : profit, they must assume the risk of loss. If they keep asking the government to protect them from that risk by holding prices up at the bottom, millions of consumers surely will demand that. the government hold prices down at the top.

WHERE TALK ISN'T CHEAP

HE government printing office at Washington is running low on. paper for printing the Congressional Record. This brings congress smack up against a dreadful dilemma: Either the senators and representatives are going to have to make shorter speeches or it may become impossible for . their deathless utterances to be printed. : _There is little hope, we fear, that the congressmen will curtail their oratory. But they might, at least, cut down on the volume of miscellaneous matter, having little or nothing to do with legislative proceedings, that gets published daily in the “appendix” of the record, at a cost to the taxpayers ‘of $71 a page. \ Example: The other day Rep. W. Howes Meade of Kentucky put in 18 solid pages of “Statistics on Veterans

payers about $923. And it serves no useful purpose that we can imagine, since the statistics could have been made available to the limited number of. persons interested in them at no such cost in cash and paper.

HAIL THE SPWHNSAFS! :

A MAN we know is organizing the Society of Persons ~ Who Have Not See Any Flying Saucers. It bids fair 30 become #8 exclusive group, with a dwindling membership. T from

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W. Michigan st. the operators had much difficulty making that turn. There are no more lights till the one at the boulevard is reached. This straight-a-way stretch of good smooth pavement is surely & speedway. It is very dark around this street at night, A crosswalk was painted from the Ball Residence to the other side of W. Michigan st. but it has never been repainted. It never slowed up traffic anyway, people drive just as fast. - 1 was advised by the police department that traffic signals are Jnstalled, judged by the number of accidents on the- location. If they think a street has had sufficient accidents, that corner will be granted a trafic signal Why do so many people have to be injured or killed first? Why can’t measurés be taken to avoid this? . The nurses are afraid to cross the street here of evenings t6 catch a bus home. Speed traps have been laid out there, - three , officers - ats time. Many tickets are passed ou Still we have a speedway out here,- If anyone doubts my word let them investigate. I think a lot of this could be avoided ‘by a traffic signal at this point. Zz Let's have fewer contests about safety and more action. Not so much publicity and a little more doing. How about it, City Hall? » # = “DO WOMEN FAVOR LONGER SKIRTS?" By a Working Girl, City Do the women of the United States actually favor the longer skirts predictéd by fashion leaders and now becoming prevalent in the leading department stores? The

"W. Michigan St. Traffic So Heavy More Signals Needed"

By Mrs. Lucille Lipp, 432% Lansing St. I hear there is a safety drive being organized to prevent accidents on our highways ‘We have plenty right here in town, too. a petition to the Accident Preven. [OW

One hundred and nine people have signed this petition, among those names were a lot of nurses at the Ball Residence. There is one traffic signal at Blake and Michigan which I understand was obtained by Indianapolis Railways. Traffic is so fast on

younger generation have never worn skirts much below the knee. Why start now? For many persons, longer skirts are not a question of brazenness vs. modesty vs. fashion. There are those who cannot afford a complete change of wardrobe. Obviously - this is what the designers are “endeavoring to bring about. Persons with a ljttle foresight are not buying unneeded articles of

prices; therefore, manufacturers and designers are trying to bring about frenzied buying in order to be in style. wr : The whole matter is trivial in a way. Yet, if the public wants one thing, it should not let itself be bullied into doing what a certain group desires for its own selfish interests. So let's have the opine fons of some other women on this problem. » » » “WILL SOMEONE HELP KEEP THEM TOGETHER”. By Mrs. BR. K, W. McCarly st. 1 am writing this in hopes you will

Then perhaps some one *will come to this girl's aid. 8he is a widow with four lovely children. She is very neat and clean and the children are not destructive. The trustee will pay her ‘ip to $25.00 per month. The house she did live in was sold and she and her children were forced into the street. : I have only four small rooms and eight in our family. That's why I can't keep them here. They are

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“PRODUCTION DEMANDS A MARKET, FOR PROSPERITY” By Del Mundo, Indianapelis I have before me a list of statements which have been made by several of the leaders of government, finance, industry and labor all to the effect that a full utilization of increased efficiency of production plus hard work on the part of the people to achieve full production will bring a high standard of living to all the American people. Such statements are grossly misleading in that they are in-

plete. The fact is that, under our free enterprise system of economics no industry can long continue to operate unless there is an adequate market for the products and commodities produced by farm and factory. And there will never bp an adequate market for the products and commodities produced by lsber until is a sufficient distribution of purchat power in the hands of all the people to create thet adequate market. =o Suppose that an adequate sufficiency - of production were created in the United States to meet all the reasonable requirements of the American people, for a good and sufficient standard of living and, at the same time there would exist an insufficiency of distribution of purchasing power in the hands of the people to enable them to buy that production what would be the result? The result would be unemployment, poverty and starvation in the land of plenty, exactly as it

ciples of nature. on the part of the ruling class of the United States. Take your lesson from the depres sion that followed the crash of 109. That crash did not destroy one

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of people around here at the time who pooh-poohed the idea of electric cars, basing their argument almost altogether on the claim that never in the world could they be made to work except, maybe,

Chinaman’s chance. ; All of which, of course, contributed to Stiffy’s security, Indeed, I'm firmly convinced that up to the very last, Stiffy was absolutely sure that when it came time for a showdown, he and his mule would be called upon to help haul the electric car up the viaduct and out of its predicament. Well, at 4 o'clock on the afternoon of May 10, .

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WASHINGTON, July 14.—There is a long-standing gag around capitol hill that goes like this: “The reason they call the senate the upper body is because it ups the appropriations made by the house.” That was true under the Democrats and it seems to be equally true under the Republicans. For instance, Rep. Noble J. Johnson, that thrifty Republican from Terre Haute, is chairman of the house appropriations subcommittee charged with bringing out the supply bill for the legislative branch. He and his cohorts took the budget estimate of

by the house. Now the senate has increased that by $701,903 and brought in a bill for $55,596,908. A Case in Point

OF THE NET INCREASE $100,000 went to the legislative reference service of the library of congress, It was the personnel of this service which was widely challenged by Chairman Johnson during the house hearings. The result was that Jerry Klutz, government columnist for the Washington Post, devoted a whole page of the Sunday paper trying to prove that Mr, Johnson and his G. O, P. colleagues were conducting a red-baitisg witch hunt. This Mr. Johnson promptly denied and said the cuts in this service made hy his subcommittee were based on the fact that they kept a staff there to aid committees which already have ample staffs of their own. One of the men criticized in the questioning was Dr. Jack Levin, who had co-operated with able Rep. Estes Kefauver (D. Tenn.) on a book entitled “T'wentieth Century Congress.” This book suggested that despite the reorganization’ congress still is back in the horse and buggy days in some of its methods and offered plans for improvement—such-as installation of an electric push-button roll-caller.

TANGIER, Morocco, July 14—Sodom was a church picnic, and Gomorrah was a cohvention of

movie about Tangier, because it would be accused of coking up the script even if the truth about this town were underplayed. : 2 Tangier is pronounced “Tangee”—and it is a beautiful town with fine hotels, a lovely beach, picturesque people and a good temperate climate, It also contains more thieves, black miarketeérs, spies, thugs, phonies, beachcombers, expatriates, degenerates, operators, bandits, bums, tramps, dipsomaniacs, politicians and charlatans than any place I ever saw.

Free-Booters' Last Stronghold _IT IS THE FOUNTAINHEAD of the Buropean black market and the gigantic operation in manipu« lated currency. It is a haven for the people who can never live again in their native larids—Fascists, Coinmunists, Vichy French, Royalists—decadent counts, political fugitives, hopheads, American society

gler, from spanking new ‘cars to cut-rate currency. Cigarets are priceless in Europe. Here they cost less than in New York. : People of every stripe come to Tangier because it is the last stronghold of free-booting in the’ world. Practically nothing, including murder, is against the law. Any man committed for a crime that demands more than a two-year sentence is remanded to his government for handling, and if the government is cynical the man merely is sent away to some other place. Murder often does not even make the papers, because it is regarded as a business between killer and killed. : Tangler is an international settlement. You don’t

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- VIENNA, July 14—Russia’s eastern European family snubbed the Marshall “plan” because the Soviet Union offered them a Molotov plan, it is believed here.

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DEAR BOSS . . . By Danil M. Kidney Why They Call Senate ‘Upper House”

Mr. Johnson centered much of his fire on Dr. Luther H, Evans, librarian, and Director Ernest S.

Griffith of the ve, service. He indicated to coll bec Dr. Evans had

from government service and is making it unacceptable to many whom we need during these difficult days,” Mr. Kefauver said. . “My experience BS both tat De: wns Griffith have secured capable a De of congress who are rendering splendid members of congress. Their exercise speech and individual thinking and not made the basis for grueling inquisitions.”

Fight Still Ahead

THE PRINTED TEXT of the hearings, which despite provisions of the reorganization act still are held in executive session, sometimes hit a bit of unconscious humor. When the “Manhattan project” was referred to by one witness, Chairman Johnson asked “What's that?” : = Sui he:

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WORLD AFFAIRS . .". By George Weller Reds Ready to Spring ‘Molotov Plan’

Since Mr. Marshall has handed full powers to the European states, these explanations are

regarded as symptoms of strain and the pull of

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