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Give IAGAS and the Peobie Willi Find Thew Uwn Woy

Prisoners of Prejudice WHEN newspapermen.in Warsaw told our ‘ambassador that Poland should have first priority inthe rebuild-

ing of Europe, he replied aptly: “There is no question of priority. All Europe must

be reconstructed together.”

Until that simple fact is understood and accepted, the|

economic outlook for Europe will be dismal indeed. France, for example, objects to rebuilding German industry, yet demands a larger share of Germany's coal production, which will not be increased until the miners are better fed. That can be accomplished only by a general revival of German economy. We can’t be expected to feed the German miners while they dig coal for the French. Nor can we be expected to finance Polish recovery if the Poles refuse to co-operate:

with the British, Austrians and Greeks, as well as with :

their associates in the Russian bloc. Success of the Marshall plan depends in large measure on a revival of German industry, particularly in the Ruhr area. Even more, it demands the birth in Europe of a new spirit of mutual understanding and co-operation. Poland and France were easy victims of aggression in the recent war. Both had to be libérated by a combination of other powers. Yet neither seems to have been liberated from the petty nationalistic thinking that has cursed Europe through the ages and brought it such untold woe.

Don't Want to Go Home

HE United States has become “the center of worl re“action” and “the common man more and more looks to Russia for ideas, help and inspiration,” according to

“Henry A. Wallace. oe

We do not know by what authority Mr. Wallace speaks for the common man. But we saw a letter from one of them published recently in the “New Leader” magazine which didn’t square with the Wallace view. ~ . » » ” » HE writer was a Russian citizen, living in a displaced persons camp at Landshut, Bavaria. Many other Russians are at Landshut, and he said that according to a survey less than 1 per cent of them wanted to go home, “All others expressed their intention to live anywhere else in free countries or even to remain in Germany,” he added. These people have wives, children, parents in Russia. Few of them speak any other language. Most of them have no relatives elsewhere to rely on. But they do not want to return to their homeland, and the writer told why: “The first reason is the general policy of the Soviet government ; the reign of awful terror, oppression, fear and lies, no trace of any freedom, no justice, forced labor, constant hunger. The Nazi atrocities are no worse than what

“Every one of us has personal experience of living in Russia with its system of justice, and everyone knows what a cordial reception those unhappy ones have -had who reached the Soviet camps. . . . The huge camps containing hundreds of thousands of human beings, citizens of the ‘most free and democratic country of the world,’ are inclosed by barbed-wire fences. All personal belongings of the arriving people are at once confiscated, including clothing received from the allies. . . . Only persons younger than 18 are sént somewhere in the east, nobody knows where; others are shot without delay or sit there starving on 200 grams of bread and some soup daily. . . . Nobody who has heen. ahrgad. and. seen a hetter lifa is ta be permitted to-re-late his experience. . . . If this is not ‘true, why doesn’t the Soviet government permit an investigation by American correspondents?” That is the testimony of a citizen of Mr. Wallace's country of “ideas, help and inspiration.” If Henry doesn’t like this “center of world reaction,” as he calls America, this man and many others eagerly would trade places with him,

Good News for You

“JOR COMPENSATION, mileage and expense allowances due and unpaid to members of the house of representatives, 79th and prior congresses, $83,879.22." That inconspicuous item was in a big appropriations hill passed by the hpuse last week. The real purpose of the $83,879.22—though this wasn't mentioned in discussion of the bill—is to reimburse house members for money they lost in a bank managed for their convenience by their sergeant-at-arms, Kenneth Romney. The house set up this bank, but for many years failed to check adequately on the way it was operated. As a result, when the Republicans came into control last January a $121,000 shortage was discovered. The sergeant-at-arms has been fired and sentenced to prison. A bonding company has made good for part of the shortage. And now, if the senate and President Truman concur, the taxpayers are to have the privilege of putting up the balance and relleving the honorable representatives of any loss. . If you're a taxpayer, that ought to make you feel just ne.

Keep the Bonds

WwW LLHOUT coe dissenting vote, both branches of congress passed the bill to permit G. I. war veterans to cash their terminal furlough bonds at any time after Sept. 1. Despite the treasury’s objéction that this bill might have inflationary affect, we hope President Truman will sign it into law. It is a measure of simple justice. Officers were given in cash the términal leave pay due them when SY loft the armed surviom, but the G, L's had to take.

OE Boise thal all vhteraas who sostibly sail hold on to their bonds until they mature. The bill permits : ‘are a sound, interest-bearing investaa bors diate 33 keen the be

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I also saw “The New Moon” twice

My suggestion is this. Why events, and that one price be 50

want to take their dates to any but

it should be a rule of first-come-first-served. There> should be no discrimination. And a 50-cent top price would bring more customers. The stage could be moved back and probably the gate would be just as large. Whether it was or not, it would enable more people to attend, and the affairs really would be “pop” In the truest sense of the word. : Oh, “yes. There's another “pop” touch I liked about the program Sunday night. “That was the audience participation in a song, a practice which apparently is to be continued. We Hooalers like

Ahatli. rsort of thing, and it. builds up ‘a sympathy between the audience

and those who are entertaining them.

Legal Gambling Is Answer to Problem

PLA, J. Schneider, 504 W, Dr., Woodruff

Further about the subject of the problem of gambling in our fair city, referred to in my letter “in Tuesday's Forum, I should like to pose a few pertinent questions to the | advocates of intolerance on this matter, ..Do_you.or vour snnoarters af the proposed anti-lottery ordinance, believe enactment of this measure will stop gambling to any considerable extent? If you are honest and the answer is No, why do you advocate cluttering up the statute books with legislation doomed to failure? This being purely a moral issue, do you believe that it is possible any time to legislate morals? If this measure is passed, do you believe it will free the half of our police force now engaged in snooping for petty gamblers, for more important police work such as solving some of the unsolved murders, curb-

city?

"'Pop' Concerts, Summer Opera,

Should Have 50-Cent Top Price"

By Music Lover, N. Delaware. st, I've just come homie from a thrilling evening of Gershwin music, at the Butler bowl, where the “first 61 the “pop” concerts was presented.

and intend to hear all of the other

presentations this season at the bowl

not make these affairs one-price cents plus tax. Then more people

could attend, particularly young folks who because of pride might not

the “best” seats or who don't realize

there are low-price seats in the bowl. There shouldn't be any “best” seats reserved. Part of the financial support for this program comes from city taxes, as I understand, and

measure will relieve our police department, from the top down, from the temptations of the pay-off and other corruption? And do you believe this new plece of legislation will facilitate pringing to justice the big racketeers. in gambling? I you cannot answer yes to most or all of these questions, it would

of wasted effort, and the minds mand talents of all responsible could be better directed. On the other hand, in areas in

art gr i and. dued and controlled by heavy taxation and regulation, it is’ remarkable that their crime records are not nearly so foul as the local situation. The entire police force is freed for police duty. And the revenue from the tax has had a tendency to reduce the tax bill otherwise—a goal much to be desired

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Truman Tax Veto ‘Was Just Politics

By O. H, E, Washington bivd. Senator Jenner was talking straight

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seem that the legislation is a lot

Williams’ Fight Story Was Unfair -

By Miss Marie Gilbrech, 506 8. Warman ave.

I wish to rebuke Joe Williams for pwhat J eonsider-an unjust rendition of the Graziano-Zale fight in Thursday night's Times. Mr. Williams intimated that only the determination to prove his ability and his physical advantages over Zale won the middleweight championship title for Rocky, This may be true, but by what authority does Mr. Williams express these views? I have always been under the impression that it is unethical fora public servant to allow personal opinion to flourish in his work. It has always been a good idea when judging a man, as I gathered Mr, Williams was doing, to weigh his good points with the bad. In recalling the bout of over a year ago, Mr, Williams failed 0 allow Rocky room for improvement. Perhaps in that and other encounters he was preparing himself for a return match. I am not saying that this is. true, but it might be, and that Is the benefit of the doubt that should be given

which racketeers in gambling ares. ‘Rocky, Both" Graziafio. and Zale

ee made TD

were ‘Well aware of WHS&( Was [ii store for them. If one had such a great handicap over the other would the officials have permitted the match? Graziano’s vouth has been held as his main weapon, yet isn't it that very youth and inexperience that evens up the score with Zale. I think we all agree pugilism in as much a matching of wits as it is. a crashing of fists. Tony proved his experienced pow. er of concentration when he continued to rile his opponent by hitting him in what he knew to be his weak spots. I say that it is unfair to recall

ms OUR BUSINESS . oo , ByEdwardd, Mesrian No Man Too Big to Be City Cros

CHARLES P. TAFT, Cincinnati lawyer, is a son of a President. He has not received as much attention as his brother, Senator Robert A. Taft, but he gets i in an article by Jerome Beaty in the current American magazine, Title: “The Other Taft.” There could hardly be, a better example of what an American citizen should be than Charles P. Taft. He served his country in the armed forces in the first world war and in the state department in the second. He continues to serve in peace, in all ways in the ethical practice of his profession, in civic work, in his church, and finally, and most important, in his responsibilty as a citizen by taking a non-political part in politics. :

No Politics With City Manager WE READ SOME RECENT NEWS of this “other Taft” in a newspaper of his home town, the Cincinnat Post. A columhist, “Cincinnatus,” writes: “Cincinnatus thinks the charter committee honored itself in nominating Charles P. Taft as candidate for city council. And Taft's willingness to be a councilman suggests a character that doesn't feel too big for its britches. “In Taft's life lately there have Geen happening things which might cause a man to feel he is too important to be just a councilman. “As president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ he has become the nation’s leading Protestant layman. “The correspondents of three leading magazines have been here in recent months to gather the life and works of Charles P. Taft and to report him to their readers. In John Gunther's new book, ‘Inside the U. 8. A’ he is called Cincifinati's most distinguished citizen. : “None of this flatters. Taft with the idea that being a city councilman doesn’t fit his big status in

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the world. He accepts somiation for sly council. ‘Cincinnatus te Taft

hopes his city will apprecial HSH 48 Ne is appreciated usage No man is too big to be a councilman in an American city, if that oy has council-manager gov‘ernment, as Cincinnati Under this form of ye ual government, a man does not have to leave his business or profession to

serve his community. ‘The actual administration is

in the hands of a professional city manager who has made a lifetime career of mastering the problems of city government. The councilman does not find himself by the compromises of politics, for there is no politics in council-manager government practiced in accordance with its principles, Our national democracy greatly depends on how democracy functions in our cities, Few cities will long be without a machine of some kind. It can be either a politicians’ machine, like that of Pendergast in Kansas City, Kelly in Chicago, or Hague in New Jersey, or it can a people’s machine such as the people of Cincinnati have in their charter commit. tee.

Obligation of Citizenship IT IS NOT A GOOD THING that there should exist machines like Pendergast’s or Hague's to affect presidential and vice presidential nominations. The

alternative is the people's machine, which. operates

local government and leaves responsible public opinfon and decent party government free to operate national affairs. If council-manager government makes it easy for a leading citizen to be a councilman, it is also true that it will not work unless the lading citizens will serve. Charles P.”Taft, ih accepting the nomination for city councilman has set an example, For the position of coungilman is hig enough for anyone, and no one is too big for it.

. By Robert C. Ruark

Visit to a Palace of an ‘Arab Pririce

TANGIER, Morocco, July 22.—I have been walking in and out of the Arabian Nights of late—on two levels. I have taken tea in a palace, and have been served by slaves, and I have nibbled almond cookies with the young wife of an old Arab. It was the first time in her life that her unveiled face has been bared to a European. I met a young Arab nobleman named Mokhtar Menebhi, the son of a late knight commander of the bath who received his title from Queen Victoria, for some shenanigans that turned out nicely for the British. Moktar's pappy was war minister under the old sultan.

Home Is Intimacy MOKHTAR—THAT MEANS “the chosen one"—

and I got to be buddies, because his Spanish is just -

as bad as mine, and it was the first time in our lives that either of us could understand anybody else in that tongue. Mokhtar is slim and dark and his profile is straight out of Persian art. And he lives in this palace on the hill, overlooking the sea. When 1 say palace I don't mean bungalow. This thing has a couple of huridred rooms, at least one of which is the size of Yankee stadium. The fancy carving on the ceiling took four years, in just that

‘ohé room.

Mokhtar’s big brother, Abd’erachman, was wearing his company djellaba, and he presided at the tea table, after first shooing all the ladies away. Big brother is a handsome, serious gentleman who wears beautiful Arab clothes and does not believe that visitors should go snooping around the nursery and the harem. 'I don't imagine Mokhtar would mind, because he wears Spanish suits and drinks whisky, but brother is head of the house and Mokhtar is very junior in a family of 10 boys. Call me callow, but I do not get served tea by slaves every day, and I find it thrilling to step out’ of a taxi and spin backward a couple thousand years in time. I can be poised in the Stork club, but surround me with crooked guns and curving knives and Nubian slaves and fancy fretwork and foot-thick carpets, pd. I am apt to gawk.

SAGA OF INDIANA,

Paris C. Dinpinic- —Horiored Hoosier

FOLLOWING IS AN article under “State News,” published in an Indianapolis newspaper Monday, May 12, 1884: “Ex-Governor Paris C. Dunning, who suffered a stroke of paralysis on Wednesday (May 7), died at Bloomington on Saturday and was buried yes-

terday in a private lot adjoining the cemetery. The services were conducted by Rev. J. C. Brant, and brief remarks were made by Dr. (Lemuel) Moss (president I. U), Elisha Ballentine (professor of Greek, I. U.), and others.”

tespn tha shoulder when he. said. DAst. Angtances, that max.e.havel Tar So Daddt age the - subject of the QBpateh; is

President Truman's veto of the tax- bill was pointless. All this talk about foreign policy being involved is just to cloud the issue, which was whether we could be sure of having our taxes gut next year. The G. O. P. leadership in congress met his objections to making the cut July 1, and then the President showed his hand when he vetoed the bill which would have enabled us to plan better. He just wants to stall it until next summer, when he can

ing the burglaries, and eliminating|take credit and bolster his candithe hoodlum gangs infesting the|dacy. It was a political gesture,

and a political gesture only. Acts

Do you believe enactment of this'like that don't build confidence.

Side Glances=By Galbraith

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‘marked: Rocky with a streak of yellow and to remind the public that he comes fron. the slam district of New York. It is not the district that now holds the middie weight championship. of the world, it «is Rocky Granziano, and if ever anyone needed public understanding, I believe that it is he. I have no personal interest in the fighting pro. fession or Rocky Graziano, but I was surprised and a little angry to think that one human being could publicly pass sentence on another of equal rights.

Riders, Taxpayers ay for Lawsuits

What is the transportation system coming to? The Indianapolis Railways came out first for eight tokens: for 55 cents and the 2-cent transfer. A short time later it was raised to three for a quarter and 2-cent transfer, assisted by a temporary injunction which was finally made permanent. The public service commission handed down a decision of three tokens for a quarter, free transfers and S-cent fare for school children.

and a white receipt given for the 2 cents. Doesn't the public service com-

By John J. Corecorgn, 2219 N. Harding st. 1

one of 37 men who in more thdn a century and a quarter down to 1947, have been governor of Indiana. A Frenchman once pithily said that the English people reminded him of a glass of their own beer— froth at the top, dregs at the bottom, and a substantial middle class in between. In large measure, the outstanding men of the American nation, its public men especially included, have been from that class. Paris C. Dunning is a typical instance.

Born In Greensboro, N. C. GOVERNOR DUNNING was born May 15, 1806, at Greensboro, N. C. The town is only five miles from Guilford court house, where the British (about 2400) under Cornwallis defeated Americans (about 4000) under Greene in one of the late battles of the revolutionary war. Who could say with finality that his early contact with this nearby spot.of American patriotism may not have prompted Dunning, a Democrat, early in the civil war to join in the fight against slavery and its oppressive bondage? On Feb. 14, 1823, with his widowed mother and an older brother, Dunning, then 17, came west to

WORLD AFFAIRS .

The courtesy of an Arab to his guests is something of which I'd heard, but never seen. For two hours, I was a visiting prince in the house of a prince. . You cannot describe an Arab palace, anymore than you can describe a sunset. But the appreciation of living 'is so great that Mokhtar’s old man spent a fortune on his delicately carved ceilings, merely because he wanted the view to be nice when he was getting in a little sacktime and was staring straight up. And the lacy carvings of the plaster have an unusual sheen . . . because the plaster, my friends, was mixed with the whites of hundreds of thousands

of eggs.

The Arab, right down to the miserable beggar, be-

lieves a house is something more than shelter—that it -

reflects the personality of the man and-shotld be kept from the rude eyes of the public.’ It should be as much of a work of art as a painting, to delight the soul of the owner and keep his women happy at their tatting. Mokhtar's pappy’s palace is a place like that. For the most intricate tilework and inlays, workmen came down from Marrakech, where they are expert at such stuff. It is furnished with the handiwork of cities of .the outside world, as well as of Africa.

On to Marrakech

THERE ARE ROOMS to dine in: rooms to dance in; rooms to sleep in, have babies in, take baths in, chase the servant girls in; pray in, entertain Christians in, dress in, fight in and die in. The Arab is a

precise man, and he likes plenty of space: for his family functions. «We saw no beautiful dancing girls in .Mokhtar's palace, but I was given to understand that 8idi Mo-

hammed, El Menebhi—another brother of Mokhtar’s .

who lives up in Marrakech-is the man to see about that. Sidi Mohammed draws a lot of water in Marrakech, and I've got a letter to him from his little brother. I hope I get a chance to use it, because I sure would like a dancing girl of my own, to while away the dull evenings in my palace on East 54th st. in New York.

. By William A. Marlow

Kentucky and on to Bloomington, Ind, then a village of about 300. "He had been educated at the academy at Greensboro. When settled in Bloomington, he taught school; studied medicine and graduated from the Medical college at Louisville; began the practice of medicine at Rockport, Ind.; switched, with the freedom of the American frogtier, from medicine to law, and settled down in Bloomington to study it under James Whitcomb, who became governor of the state in 1843; Tilghman A. Howard, Whitcomb’s law” partner, and Judge Craven P. Hester. In

where he served three years in.the house. and four years in the senate. dent of the senate.

Governor In 1848-49

DUNNING'S OUTSTANDING political service in Indiana was as governor of the state, Dec. 26, 1848Dec. 5, 1849. He succeeded James Whitcomb, who had been elected United States senator. As president of the state senate in 1863, he was a second time within one step of the governorship, as Morton was then serving as governor in place of Governor Lane, resigned. Governor Dunning was twice married; to Sarah, daughter of James and Sarah Alexander, July 8, 1826. She died May 19, 1863, and on Sept. 7, 1865, in Evansville, he married Mrs. Ellen D. Ashford, daughter of Dr. Daniel 8. Lané, cousin of Henry 8. Lane,

formerly governor, and thén United States senator’

from Indiana. Fitting into the significant details of his life here sketchily outlined, Paris Chipman Dun< ning emerges as an honored Hoosier and typical American.

. By William Philip Simms ,

Russia Fears Competiion } in Free World

“ PARIS, July 22.—Russia’s boycott of the Paris

conference, according to an European diplomat with long experience behind the iron curtain, was due to Moscow's realization that Soviet Russia was unable to compete in a free world.

The only alternative, therefore, was to make a fight for domination from within the vast entrenched camp from which insiders were forbidden to leave or outsiders to enter.

Kremlin Surprised THE MARSHALL PROPOSAL,

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No. 1 aim henceforth will be to gather as much territory as possible while the gathering is" good. Russia is aware that in the long run the Far East perhaps is more important to the United States

~than Europe is. The Far East likewise is vital to

Russia. She always has looked in that direction. The U. 8. therefore should keep its eyes on Asia, Half the population of the world is in Asia. These huge masses are mostly ignorant, underfed, restless and on the move without knowing where they are going. The situation is made to order for-a Com-

munist appeal which, in its simplest form, is to

take from the rich and give to the poor. And in the Orient R

In 1863, he was elected presi-.

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