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Ge Light and the People Wilk Fima Thew Uwn Wey

Johnny, Elliott—and Vic (NCE, not so many years ago as time gallops on, the state auditor of Ohio spotted an item on the expense account of an official who had made a trip to Cleveland. It was. 35 cents for one baked potato. It was disallowed. In those cheaper days, 85 cents for one potato really looked big. The disallowance stirred up much publicity. Out of it came a label, a slogan, a governor and a U. S. senator— “Honest Vic.” - When, after the potato episode, Vic Donahey, the auditor, ran for governor he won. Then he was re-elected. He later ran for the U.S. senate, Won. He never was défeated. He retired from public life voluntarily. That 85-cent potato started it all.

» » » HE sisaton we retail the story is not to build up Honest Vic as one of history's great statesmen. tather, to make a point relative to the expense account of good time Johnny Meyer. It's hard to think in millions, billions and trillions. But we the people can visualize 35 cents, and in these much more expensive days, items such as those appearing on Johnny's list. So, while millions of our taxpayer money are actually involved in the whole Hughes aircraft investigation, it is easier to savvy: $11—Dinner, drinks, etc. Faye Emerson (Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt) entertained by John Meyer. $24—Champaign, Mocambo club. $115— Liquor for apartment. $78—Dinner, Leon and Eddie's. $50—Payment to Chick Farmer to stop publicity of Roosevelt in New York. $20—Maid tip for four days, Morrison house, $18.45— Entertainment by John W. Meyer, invoice from Parisian florists, glads for A-C Col. Elliott Roosevelt. $5—Stork club, tips only. . $576—Entertainment by John W. Meyer, hotel bills, Waldorf-Astoria, New York. Rooms and miscellaneous charges for Col. Elliott Roosevelt. $25.90—Seven round-trip tickets to Hyde Park. $20—Tips to Hyde Park servants. $132—Gift of nylon hose for Miss Emerson. And so on. We the people can also even encompass the grand total of this Elliott Roosevelt account as reported by the senate war investigating committee—$§5083.79 for the years 1941 to 1046. That ain't hay, of course, but it is easier to keep in focus than 40 million dollars. . As to the political implications and repercussions of all these statistics we refer you to one more figure. It is— 1948,

Another Republican View SENATOR TAFT did fot discuss the United Nations, nordid he mention Russia by name, Agother Republican leader has done both, and most pointedly—Chairman Eaton of the house foreign affairs committee, writing in the American magazine, Mr. Eaton called for a showdown with Russia within the United Nations: The United States either must stop Russian expansion immediately or fight her later, in his opinion. “We can stop her by asserting our leadership of the Big Five group and of the smaller nations who aspire to our democratic ideals,” wrote the veteran New Jersey congressman. ; “We must tell the world what we stand for, and that we mean to insurt the freedom of people everywhere, and | invite others who believe as we do to join us in a combination against all totalitarianism in whatever form it emerges, voting out of the United Nations any member who practices it. ) Sos “We must implement these high-sounding promises with action. Then it will be up to Russia. She can go along with us, and I rather think she will... . If she doesn’t’ give in and behave like a civilized nation, we must read russia out of the United Nations and proceed without her. “I think we can still block Russia with psychology; if we don't, we must defeat her by force of arms. It is time we told her so... our freedom and security are in jeopardy. Why must we wait until virtually all is lost before we resist?” This statement by one of the most respected members of congress points up Senator Taft's more judicial appraisal of American foreign policy. It presents in a nutshell the stark realism of the Russian question. Surely it cannot be said that the Republican leadership in congress is showing any disposition to ignore the hard facts of international life.

There's Ire in Ireland WHEN Russia vetoed Ireland's application-to join the h United Nations because the Irish hadn't fought the Germans, Bremier Eamon de Valera took a look at the record and let the Kremlin have it. He recalled: “That world war II began one week after the MolotovRibbentrop pact was signed which has been interpreted “by everyone as giving Germany a free hand to go ahead” and attack Poland. That Russia didn't enter the war until she was attacked. Ireland was not attacked, so remained neutral. But, Mr. De Valera continued, Ireland didn't attack any -other nation, which was more than Russia could say. . “If Russia, which attacked Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, can be regarded as qualifying as a peace-loving nation, it is difficult to see how a nation which has kept the peace and scrupulously fulfilled all its obligaas a member of the League of Nations can rightly regarded as not qualifying.” Anyhow, Mr, De Valera d in a closing salvo, Russia has made the United Nater of such “dangerous intrigue” that Ireland t in such company.

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. Hope U. S. Will Awake to Need Of Strength to Preserve Peace By Thelma Arline Mitchell, 2131 E. 44th st. . "1 just finished redding an article in the August issue of Cosmo-' politan titled “What's Happening to Our Air Forces?” It certainly is enlightening and proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that we Americans have a perverse notion that it's smart to give the enemy a running start and then beat him hands down, but would it really be very smart if, for once, we didn’t beat them? 1 believe that every G. I who

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feuds, tila arucie will be Juse a sturdiest dnd most courageous indi fi . . tile sick to Its stomach, O {vidualism.” To this I say that

course, the stupid civilian, of which! {Europe needs. them and not us. our congressmen seem to be the | . chief members, Why add to Europe's tragedy by

wouldn't seem to [taking its best element? Keep them understand why any G. I. should where they can do the most good get green around the gills about | for humanity this article. The article, in short, | : says that our air force today]

” ” » couldn't lick Tom Thumb with a Only Production battle ax. But of course why should |

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it be able to? We're working toward | peace. I just wonder when these {#7 Coavower, Folin when Voi ‘pi same super-stupid people are going fF. bnion ’ pay to wake up to the fact that we $11 for a ton of coal that cost can never have peace unless we can $8 a year ago and $6.50 or less three keep the rest of the world scared years past, give three cheers for of us. And we can't do that un" | John L And when you buy a new less we keep our army, navy an 2 air forces in tip top and above aver- SR oo $139 oF wiih oud age condition. So strong that not ve three large whoops for Reuther one would dare attack us. Now | 2 and his union boys. watch people ‘accuse me of being Union men are crying for lower 8 War-monger. When really I'm | prices while *doing their best to Reace Ierger, as some One else increase them. The general idea is quipped not long ago. 1 had a to make the farmer the goat as husband in the last war (world WAI po was after the first world war, 1D and 1 have three boys who will} when half of them lost their farms. probably get roped into the next (pai is needed is sanity, not hysone, so I'm certainly not 8 WArit.., Make a dollar worth 100 monger. I'm only hoping against cents, not 40 cents. hope welll wake up in time to| gow can any producer make longprevent the next one. That isn't|time contracts at greatly increased too much to hope for, now is it? |wage costs and still reduce prices?

ah Only foolish people believe such What Is Behind

things. Only greatly increased pro- . duction per man, or a financial The DP Question? P By John Hendrickson

crash, will reduce prices. Ba. I wonder what is behind the DP . iy The human tragedy an.| What? No Miss gle? Well, that covers a lot of terri- | Indianapolis? tory and people in Europe. If the |, Mrs. B. C. M., W. Washington at. DPs whom we want to let into this| whos Miss Indianapolis? It country are the “pick of the crop,” might be well to consider who are we not adding to the human. ,iq possibly serve as Miss Indiantragedy of those left behind? apolis in 1948. Would not these most desirable Since Indianapolis has been comof the DPs be of far more benefit|plimented as the noisiest, the dirt$0 humanity by staying in Europe jest, the wickedest city on the and alding In its reconstruction? map, I would nominate Madam Europe needs them and the need Lena, the Hyena, for the most fit. {1s particularly great among all of| Her charming pictures should be those unfortunate DPs that we don't placed in every show window of the {want and who have no religious city. | organization to bail them out of| Who will second the motion? Europe. If you wish to commit a crime “They showed that, far from be-|of any kind just bring it to this fair ing weaklings and trouble makers, | city and you will most surely get as many congressmen suspected, the by with it.

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"lI 40 not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." —Voltaire.

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"Charlie Wright Served Overseas"

- | By A Citizen, Indianapolis

Good work., You did a nice job taking Charlie Wright apart. The kid is dead now, so you newspapermen can tell the public how bad he

was. That he was no good to society and what have you. You stated in your paper that Charlie was first arrested Nov, 9, 1941. He next was arrested Mar, 4, 1946. In between that time do you know where he was or what he'd done? Well, you guys always print the sad things about people and nothing good, so I'll tell you. He spent 4 years in Uncle Sam's army, 3% years of which were spent overseas on islands in the Pacific fighting Japs. I just thought I would tell you honest citizens. of the press that the next time a kid makes a mistake and is killed by police, and you can tear him apart, why not put the good things he done during the war for guys like you and I? I was 4F during the war and I've known Charlie for a long time and I'm one guy who appreciates what he did. overseas. #

Intolerance Is Out of Place

By Joseph M. Kelley Intolerance is out of place in a

true democracy. Yet in this country there have been those within its borders who have used intolerance, hate and prejudice to gain their selfish ends.

The subtle Communists know these ancient prejudicé§ and hates that have divided and blinded men to reason. They have been -using intolerance and hate to confuse and divide the ranks of iabor; to spread hate and violence between the races; to pit one sect against another by renewing old controversies; and by creating hate and discord between capital and labor, We must stand together against the menace of atheistic communism, and work together. We must turn a deaf ear to those within our rinks who are aiding the red Fascists by the stirring up of old, and by the creating. of new, animosities. If we live in the spirit and the love of God and His commandments and love for our fellow man regardless of race or creed, intolerance will disappear.

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‘Will Be Out of Style

By Helen M. Diebold What has happened to the designers? I think the styles they are putting out are terrible! Why don't they move forward with their designs instead of backward? If they want women's clothes to be longer, why don’t they put them all the way down to the ground instead of that horrible length? It makes legs look awful. Some of us girls have talked about it and we have decided we won't wear them unless they are completely down to the ground. So I guess we will just have ta be out of style. »

Wanted: Rosso for High Cost of Living

By Bess Lawler, Colfax, Ind. We hear over the radio that they want debates on what is the first cause of the high cost of living so we people would like to hear dif-

{BACKGROUND . . . By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—A foreign policy for a major world power is no good unless it has military force to back it up. : Nok While the President and the war and navy departments presented very definite blueprints of what they considered necessary for this program, only a start was made toward carrying it out in congress. Unification of the armed forces was approved. A science development and research bill passed. That is dbout as far as it goes. : dh

Beginnings on Stockpiling Made REQUEST for universal military training was turned down. Budget requests for $9.2 billion appropriations were trimmed a billion by the house, though raised about half that amount by the senate. Gen. Bisenhower testified that the American army of one million men would be no match for Russia's five million. He does not rule out the possibility of war in 1048, though he does not consider it probable. Chief reliance is still placed in “the bomb,” the atomic energy commission having been given a full $500 million appropriation. On mobilization of resources to support military operations, the congress also made only a faltering start. . Said Bernard Baruch at the graduation exercises for the first class at the armed forces industrial college: “It is not enough to mobilize the nation’s mili‘tary strength. There must be mobilization of her full economic resources--agricultural, industrial, financial. We must not again make the mistake of n&® being. properly organized in case another war is thrust upon us.” Then he outlined a 16-point program that should be placed on the statute books, ready to function. It included universal military service with a work-or-fight clause; taking unfair profits out of WAT; prevention of inflation through price and wage regulation; intelligence and information services enlarged

| far beyond present proportions; retention of war | plants and building of new ones in underground lo- | cations; stockpiling of critical materials,

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert Mr. Ali Finally Gets

TUNIS, Tunisia, Aug. 5—This is 8-day in Tunis . satchel day. Mr. Mohammed's suitcase has arrived. : In case you do not know about Mr. Mohammed's suitcase, I will toss in a refresher. Mr. Mohammed Ben Mohammed pushes a taxicab in New York. He has a relative named Si Ali C. Moustapha C. Ali, which seems a little repetitious but is accurate, who lives in Tunis. When, in rash moment over a year ago, I intimated to Mr. Mohammed that I was going back to the land of his birth, he asked me to take a. few gifts to his cousin, Mr. Ali C. Moustapha C. Ali Those dew gifts turned out to comprise a big black satchel. ;

A Millstone in Traveling IN IT WAS CIGARETS and candy and fountain pens and ink and chewing gum and Lord knows. what all. It weighed 40 pounds for a starter, but it is considerably lighter, today, as I hand it to Mr. A.C. M. C. A. » We have had, to put it briefly, a devil of a time with Mr. Mohammed's black bag. We have lugged it faithfully, from New York to Tunis, and I would like to list the itinerary. Re The bag went from New York to Gibraltar by ship. It was taken into custody. From Gib it went to Tangier. Leaving Tangier, it was the first thing the Spanish police glommed onto as we entered the Spanish zone, The presence of the chewing gum infuriated them, evidently. We were forced to drive 75 miles," round trip, to Tangier for additional papers. Somewhere in the struggle four cartons of ‘cigarets and two one-pound boxes of candy got, shall we say, lost. Compromise is the essence of international trade. Mohammend’s gift horse then rode past the French customs outside Casablanca, in French Morocco. It received a fast fan from the customs at Oudja, where

Allies Shoot at U.S.

SHANGHAI, Aug. 5—Uncle Sam is doing tho work and paying the bills, but some of his Pacific allies don't like the way Gen. MacArthur is writing the ticket for economic stability in the Far East. One of the bitterest ironies of war is fast emerging in the Orient, as it has in Europe with the development of the “Marshall plan”: The United States, under spur of the threat of Communism, is out to rebuild the enemies we crushed.

We Carry Occupation Load WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT, America has embarkéd on a program of creating ‘“co-prosperity spheres” in Europe and the Far East. Centhal figures of this plan are to be the revived “workshops” of’ Japan and Germany The Chinese and Muistralians don't like it, just as the French and British don’t like the “Marshall plan” to rebuild Germany's industrial power. But, since our allies are unable to get on their feet, even with some large loans, the U. 8. is planning to use former enemies to help stabilize the world’s economy. The kickback in the Far East is sharper because here the U. 8. alone is calling signals for Japan. Australians charge MacArthur's policy towards the Japs is “too soft.” They raised a big fuss over Japan's whaling fleet which the Aussies demanded in reparations. MacArthur refused, saying that the Japs need this if they ever hope to feed themselves again, Many Chinese are bitterly critical of our occupation policy. They charge that domestic reforms by ‘the Japanese are “mere camouflage” and that we are rebuilding Japan for “a new imperialist march and economic conquest of the Far Bast.” There is no evidence these charges are justified The U. 8, which single-handed licked the Japs, now is single-handedly bearing the brunt of peace and reconstruction.

HE SAID: “Often I would find myself as evening came on a long distance, perhaps 15 or 20 miles, from “Where 1 was living. The horse would be tired by the travel of the day, and it would be midnight or after before I reached home.” He ‘also said: “I felt an imperative necessity of some mode of conveyance that would be superior to a horse for road travel. I was not looking for something that would be faster than

a horse, but I wanted something that would not tire out, and that would be just as fresh and good in the evening as in the morning. All T did was to adapt the engine to the propulsion of a vehicle.”

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WORLD AFFAIRS . .. By Lee Hill 2 putt

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By Wiliam A. Marlow Elwood Haynes—Hoosier Trail Blazer

On only the last item has a start been miade. in 1946. Nothing in 1947. To finish the job will take What has not registered is that the United States is now a have-not nation.. Its oil and iren are run-

are gone. Its agricultural p world, but it is exhausting the years of good weather may not ure might set back the whole world's, 8 Says the new secretary of war, Kenneth ©. “Seventy-three per cent of U, 8. imports are sities. If 10. per cent fail to get through, & tie up the " Lm sd AR In the light of talk such ss this, the great for peace which everyone welcomed so is when the United Nations charter was adopted at two years ago, now seems dim. =

No Strong Support for UN pan ONLY IN THE next to the last week of the ses-

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by-passed in solving the problems of the Balkans and the rest of Europe. :

Creation of a world police force has been debated

atomic bomb has been debated for a year with no conclusion. : Meanwhile, atomic scientists warn repeatedly that there is no defense against the atomic bomb, and that if war breaks out and atomic bombs are used, they

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French Morocco stops and Algeria begins, Tt got the frisk again in Tunis. ? & All the time it hung round my neck like an iE albatross. It got to be a point of pride. Sacrifice i everything else, I said, hut Mohammed's suitcase must go through. And what do you know? When

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we finally delivered the thing, Mr. Mohammed's The. snnoy cousin didn't even look at it. He just grabbed my ments and wife, and patted her, and then he kissed me. On. gi) “highlight tod: both cheeks. 5 bi Mr. and Mr Evidently our arrival was the biggest t since ’ a oss]! Abd El Krim got loose. Mr. Ali ip hire Syne 8s wd tion, and it was going to last until October. That's gagement of 1 right. October. We were to live in his villa. We Ellen, and Jol were going tos attend an Arab wedding. We were 34th st. going to visit the bey in his palace. We were going Fe weddin to meet Mrs. Ali and all the little Alis, and see Christ the K Carthage, and visit the special city of Sidi Bou Said, The Rev. Fr and tear the Casbah into bits and pieces. y read the vow Mr. Ali was desolate when he was informed that 4 morning French bureaucracy in low places had robbed us A Mrs Robert of all but a biti of our stay in Tunis, and that the tron of honor time which might have been spent cavorting at to include Mi Arab nuptials had already been wasted in a boatless Miss Prances joust with: M. le Prefet, back in Algiers. : Mr. Griffith Mr. Ali said there would be no peace in his home groom ‘and for a long time now, because we had been expected and James Ar for days, and a fiesta had been in the making, and Mr. and M Mrs. Ali had on her best bib and tucker. > honored the ¢ Deferred Celebration : terday at ti BUT WE HAVE PROMISES to return again, . Son 14, in the spring, and that was when I got kissed for the Two howe second time, on both cheeks. J for Miss. Walk Mr. Allis the nicest man I have met recently, ] DY. Miss Tyrie but I am sort of a shy type, and the next time I take * Floyd Tyrie, : a package to a relative of a cab driver, I hope'the E. 85th st. relative lives in Brooklyn. In this Tunis-New York Mrs. Albert axis there are too many headaches between the ‘bon 3 Wain at ber voyage and the welcoming embrace. : The prospec , . son of Thom: ‘and Mrs. Kin TAME ' 5 pn : The engage ny . - garet Wilson Far East Policy 7 Sis d . and Mrs. Jan 3 : : ille, Japs, like Germans, right now are $300-million-a« The weddin year relief clients of American taxpayers. We are the Wilson hi spending another $250,000 to keep the Koreans from follow at the starving. All this in addition to the tremendous cost bridegroomss | of occupation. : ; 5 Charles Britt The British commonwealth is supplying about 20,- The couple 000 occupation troops in southern Japan. Not one of - the prospect our 10 Pacific allies is spending one dime to keep § ‘and sister-in Japan and Korea off famine, China, Russia and other Wilson Jr. allies refused to send any occupation troops to share oe the load. The British empire is fast reducing its small Miss Jane forces. > . . The program of making Japan self-supporting is Will Be Bri aimed at getting the Japs off the backs of American A wedding taxpayers, just as it is in Germany. ] planned by | Japan cannot feed itself. It must export and im- 8 David C. La port, or die. For years it has been the workshop of i Mich : the Orient. It fabricated raw products of Korea, Man- i . churia; China, Indo-China, the Philippines and other. & The ceremo countries and sold back finished products in return. { chapel at Bt for food. ' : | Donald Dun American leaders fear that unless Japanese econ- | omy is stabilized on some minimum, self-supporting LYRdbgt Be basis with light industries, its starving 8 millions will i Miss Howe fall easy grey to Communism. They also contend Gerald Purd; that Japanese production is needed to stabilize thé + of honor, and industrial nations of the Orient. Above all they want be Mesdame a co-operative Japan as a western bastion of de-" Stout and Th mocracy. 2 Jean LaVin Demand Results for Aid : : best man. THE U. 8. ALSO HAS TAKEN the responsibility The bride-t of seeing that Japan never becomes a potential ag- of Mr. and gressor nation. MacArthur is confident that this job 7014 Rockvill already has heen done thoroughly and insists that | pective bride rigid controls be maintained for a generation | Mr. and Mr The new U. 8. policy in the Orient seems to be tc i Grosse Pointe

demand results for money spent—to stabilize, extend democracy and contain Communism,

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