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ROY WwW. HOWARD . WALTER LECKRONE President Editor

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Freedom Not Universal

\W HEN Americans go abroad it is well for them to know that they leave freedom of speech behind them if they pass behind the Soyiet iron curtain. Stephan Thuranszky of Columbus, O,, fact and the oversight almost cost him his life, Back in his native Hungary, representing the International Harvester Co., Mr. Thuranszky denounced communism on the street of Balassagyarmat. He was arrested under a law which provides heavy sentences for making statements in any way critical of the new “democratic order.” In jail he was beaten and tortured. Mr. Thuranszky was lucky enough to be rescued by an American diplomat, just as the political police were about to remove him to an unknown destination, His wife saw the police making away with him, screamed an alarm. Mr. Thuranszky smashed his guards aside, using his handcuffs as a bludgeon, and managed to scramble into the car of an American diplomat who had been interceding in his behalf. It is significant that normal displomatic intervention had failed and that Mr. Thuranszky's rescue was largely ac- * The unnamed legation official was equal to the emergency, driving away with both Mr. and Mrs, Thuran: szky before the surprised police could act, Such cloak-and-dagger incidents are not an every-day event, even behind the iron curtain, but fronting for Uncle Sam in far places has come to mean much more than attending tea parties. It is often dangerous business. - An American passport is as likely to incite an attack as it is to provide protection, and all too frequently our officials on the scene can be of little help to the citizen who gets into difficulties. ‘ "Travel should be restricted to friendly territory wherever possible. But when visits to the Soviet stooge states are necessary personal safety dictates a taboo on politics and an earnest endeavor to “do as the Romans do.” Mr. d A. Taft or even William Z. Foster to his heart's content¥When he gets’ back in Ohio. But he should understand by now that | Communists do not allow free speech when they are in the saddle, as they are in Hungary.

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Issues for a Solomon

GYPT has asked the United Nations to order Britain to move her troops out of Egypt and turn over control of the British-Egyptian Sudan to the Egyptian government, Shades of Rudyard Kipling and Kitchener of Khar-

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Two distinct i issues are involved, of which the Sudanese | Yars« very

question is the more complex. British troops are in Egypt under a British-Egyptian treaty of alliance signed in 1936. It still has nine years to run. Egypt contends this treaty was signed tinder duress, which Britain denies. Negotiations on revision of the pact have reached a stalemate. But British:troops have withdrawn from Cairo and Alexandria into the Suez canal zone. Protection of the cang is one of Britain's major concerns. Underlying that is the fear that if Britain pulls out of Egypt the Russians will move in and obtain their longdesired foothold in the Middle East. Access to oil is involved as well as wate® routes. neither party to the dispute stresses this, The Egyptians appear. to have the best side of the argument with Britain, insofar as Egypt proper is concerned, whateyer may happen after a British evacuation, The Egyptians contend British occupation contradicts the principle of the United Nations charter, that troops of one country not | be permitted to remain in the territory of another in time | of peace. ) The British contend it-is for the Sudanese to choose

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their own future. Of the two Sudarese political parties one | has a slogan of “Sudan for the Sudanese,” the other favors |, local autonomy under Egypt, United Nations has its work cut out for it to decide this dispute. tion.

We Have Spivs, Too

The British say it doesn't.

HE silver lining to Britain's dark cloud is the promise | bedroom apartment | month for a two-bedroom apart- portional representation that made

that the “spivs’ are going to be put to work. The definition of a spiv, as supplied by ister Attlee's speech, is a drone— “serves no useful purpese’’ and. in all kinds of dubious ways.” The name is new to most of us, but the breed isn't. Over here, the spiv's counterpart is the Broadway Wall-

-a human creature who | “contrives to make money

_ingferd, the con man, the race track tout, the zoot-suiter,

the drugstore cowboy or the gentle grafter of the O. Henry school. During the war he was the draft-dodger, doubling in a bit of black markefing, However identified, the spiv is a devout believer in

; the single creed that “the world owes me a living.”

We're sorry Britain is having to learn aboyt spivs the hard way. An economic crisis of empire-wide proportions |

is a high price to pay for a refresher course in the simple |

virtues of honest toil. Perhaps we over here have something to gain from Britain's experience with the spivs;. We wouldn't want to share her plight, but we ¢an profit from her re-discovery of a truth that harks back to the biblical admonition, *if any would not work, neither should he eal.”

Should Try Sunglasses

EMPEROR HIROHITO, wearing a cream-colored suit aud a hard straw hat, saw his first baseball game the other day. He took his wife who wore a lavender kimono and

was bare-headed.

The Emperor stayed through-the game but reporters thought he understood little of what was going on. There was a home run and Hirohito tried to follow the ball but it in the sun. Now Hirohito once claimed he was the

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| veterans, is $40 a month for a one- Since Dr, Hermens came from Ger-

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Don’t Let Monopoly

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. — Howard ed that only 152,000 pounds of air cargo - ‘Hughes looks younger than his 41 years. - a year could be transported on the same There's more than a totich of Texas in the - route. way he speaks—the short, terse sentences, . “1 believe,” Marvin said, “that if the the twangy voice. Typecasting by, Hollywood would put Gary Cooper or James" - Stewart in the park The contrast with the senators sitting on the other side of the table could hardly be sharper. For one thing, it's the contrast between youth and age. That is an important element of the drama which has hung the standing room only sign on the senate 8 sauces room,

airlines which have been granted international certificates by the government _ devoted as much study, time and’effort to ¢drgo as they. have done during the past

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N the duel before the nate investigat- , ing committee, Hughes stands for new ideas, for experiment, adventure. He has repeatedly risked his life in backing his own ideas. The ‘aviation industry is one place where new ideas should be welcome. In twenty-five years it has grown up from nothing. Yet there seems to be a strony desire to scale it down to the restricted, “monopoly pattern. Not long ago, another young man appeared before a senate committee with a new and bold idea. That was Lt. Comdr. Langdon P. Marvin Jr., who, out of his experience. with the naval air transport service during the war and his researches since then, has become an authority on air

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cargo. Young Marvin talks about the “new sea” and its vast potentialities, for freight,

Appearing as a private citizen before : an.aviaion subcommittee, he testified that his estimates showed 3,000,000 pounds_of air cargo could be carried on a profitmaking basis across the Pacific each year. Marvin estimated that this would bring in $2,600,000 in revenue for the airline, or airlines, carrying the cargo. He based this on a careful commodity-by-commodity study. His estimates are in contrast to those Pan American airways officials gave the civil aeronautics board. In arguing against granting a certificate of operation to another airline, Pan American estimat-

Hoosier Forum

Gamblers Organized to Protect Their Business, Public |s Not

By Samuel Sofnas, 45 Hendricks pl. tion yet offered to the problem. To P. E. J. of N. Alabama st., who infers in a letter to the Hoosler | Even Cincinnati, since one of its Forum that the fact that $9,000,000 a year is spent on gambling in | crackpot minorities got into the Indianapolis shows that a majority of the people want gambling, I want | council there and only the astuteto say this: | ness. of Charlgs Taft saved the day, You must think it takes over 200,000 people to spend $9,000,000 a | has begun to study the Indianapolis | year on gambling. To use the gambling term, I'l ,wager that a system South Bend has adopted it. small minority of the Indianapolis public spend that $9,000,000, By having a council of nine memnd that's much too many. As usual, in cases like this, the majority bers, and letting each party nomips powerless because the small group at the head of thée rackets hate only six, you guarantee that no is swell organized (that's-their business) and the majority of the. public {party will have absolute control. By isn't. I don't approve of legalized gambling; | that's not the answer to|Daving a two-party system you the majority who don't want gam-|

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

DEAR BOSS .

troversial in political science circles. The Indianapolis council system is the simplest and most practical solu-.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. — Politicians sometimes ‘seem to be persons suffering from a severe cultural lag—particularly if those politicians are senatorss This point was proven dramatically this week when

Elliott Roosevelt took the stand before the senate war investigating committee. Perhaps Elliott's personal escapades only can be defended by the apology that the late John Barrymore used which was this: “Virility is seldom conventional.”

Not Peculiar to Any Party BUT THIS UNRULY SON of a great sire really hit the bullseye when he lashed out at Republican senators for ‘using him as a whipping boy for his late great father. From that point on both subcommittee Chairman Hemer Ferguson (R. Mich.) and committee. Chairman. Owen Brewster (R. Me), Teaned over backwards to disprove this point. In the end Elliott himself confessed that they had been entirely fair. The fact remains, however, that Senators Ferguson, Brewster and other G. O. P. politicians still lové to rap a Roosevelt. That is where the cultural lag comes in, For people are smarter thax partisans think. They know that Republicans never won an election until two years after F. D. R. was dead. And unless they drop the subject, he may defeat them next year. For most independent voters still have a profound respect for’ President Roosevelt's memory. This cultural lag of the politicos is not confined

eee |guarantee that no minority will be been shortened for some — To (able to stall the machinery. Divid- ’ them it now says merely, * ‘Do unto | ing the city into councilmanic disdishonest anyhow, be it legal OF yong» tricts, with a candidate for. eséh illegal. T do, however, approve of, At the same time that this infla- | party in each, simply provides for an ordinance that is sure’ to stop | tionary plan was presented, a plan geographic distribution,. which. ‘is gambling, an ordinance such as the | which called for non-profit opera- | | popular -and probably-helpful, as racity council quietly brushed off the [tion of these facilities as presented | | cial minorities, for instance, tend .to table the othér day. What are they by a vet's organization, the A, V. C. | bunch up in-tertain districts and{ waiting for? To date, all they have received for | can probably be more easily elected ” {their troubles is a very cold govern-|if the candidates are distributed.

Housing: Everyone Talks, mental shoulder, AS both nominations and elections » %

No One Does Anything Our City Council are at large—every voter having the

| right to vote for candidates from By Jud Haggerty, city | every district the practical effec of The housing situation is a lot like! System Is Sound -

[the districts is not great. The colinour foreign policy—everyone talks By Mrs. E. B. Bender, Zionsville cil is elected from districts not by but no one does anything. For a

I want to call”your attention to’ | districts. I think it is a good system,

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rip Aviation Indusify’ By Marie Ohds,

many years to sengers, they ‘would discover for themselves that there is perhaps twice as much business to be had in the international field as a now anticipate. "wo u IRLANE thinking, it would seem, is in terms of the past rather than the future. It takes boldhess and imagination « to project fleets of cargo planes across the new sea That happened, as Marvin pointed out, during the war. In fact, the ‘war could not have been won without the fleets of army ‘and navy cargo planes that . brought rare materials from the four corners of the earth. This was particularly true of the vital radar and radio program. The army air transport ‘command and the naval air transport service carried millions of pounds of mica, quartz crystals, tantalite, statite and other strategic raw” materials from India and Brazil,

The customary answer is: Well, of

at government expense. ‘But the figures that Marvin- and others have compiled show that a similar air cargo operation is practicable in peacetime at a profit. A realistic examination of air cargo rates, both within the country and on the international routes, would probably show that they are too high. They are fixed for scarcity instead of expansion. - WH must understand that this counts for more than mere profit and loss. =n healthy airplane anutgeturing industry is essential to nationa security. As young Marvin pointed out in his testimony, a fleet of cargo planes for peacetime use could be converted almost overnight to carry wartime cargoes. The same can not be said for passenger planes. ~The young are often brash and foolish, They are given to taking risks that often trip them up, but by taking such risks this country has become great, Monopoly and restriction meah old age and sennescence. That should hot occur in an industry still in its swalddang Clogs.

By Daniel M. Kidney

Politicians Show = ‘Cultural Lag’ -

"out at former President Heybert Hoover and only lately has President Truman made use’ of the unquestioned ability of the man. Here again the people were Bot deceived. They may have hated Hoover during Roosevelt's first compaign because .he personalized for them the great depressjon which had fallen on the country. That hatred passed away long before the Democratic politicians realized. They were sharp-shooting at Hoover when they should have been using him. Nobody now believes that he was personally to blame for the depression. They credit it more to his inadequate predecessors—Harding and Coolidge—and the fact that in mid-term he was confronted with a hostile congress—a Democratic house and a Yeraicte trant senate. The latter was iinder the leadership of tober Senator “Jim” Watson of Indiana. held Hoover jn contempt because he was not, like h If, a lifeJong, professional politician.

Public Sometimes Unresponsive BUT WHEN THE DEMOCRATS continued . to carry on the “hate Hoover” campaign long after the people had. taken a sober second look at the record they were illustrating the point which I started to prove viz. that politicians often suffer a cultural lag. The net result of this is that they only make themselves into somewhat corny characters in the eyes of the people. Sometimes the result is that the people become irate, instead of merely amused, and rise up and toss them out.

while, though, it looked as if some- {ine fact that'it is nine members ot | I think Indianapolis people ought [to any one party, of course. Democrats long lashed DAN KIDNEY. thing might be done with the Ft. = i tor whi n [to “point with pride” to it. ProfesHarrison facilities, Something that the city-council for whom each voter | gona) political scientists, I find, are ‘ any would at long last give the vetergn May vote next November. There are considerably impressed by its merits. ‘WORLD AFFAIRS . . By Keyes Beech :

what he wanted most—economicalinine members to be elected, and the

ie SOIREE HOusing. : voter has the right to indicate which | ncilities, at the fort were pur-| o.oo |

‘chased by government funds, which | : The party nominates six, but the!»

Ode to a Father 3 Who Quit Drinking -

Sober Sam, Indianapolis Tt would be wonderful, don't you think, if there was less booze for Pa to drink? The children then could all say grace, if milk and bread should booze replace. { Then Ma would wear a smile, you see, ‘cause Pa ain't drunk, like he used to be. Ma and the kids would respect his plans, if Pa was sober, like a man. ; The family then could go to Wed, Yd Ely oh free from worry, fear and dread. Sub-Leaders Sensitive to Criticism Awake each morning with a smile, IN THE QUIET ATMOSPHERE of his ivory tower withofit Pa’s “hang over” to defile. on the sixth floor of the Dai Ichi,*which means No. Ma does her work without rebuff | One and is, in fact, Tokyo's most handsome building, since Pa no longer drinks’the stuff.|the supreme commander leads a sheltered life. The children meet him at the door,| Here ,he is protected from unpleasant facts by a Pa doesn’t stagger any more. host of lesser brass, includinggnany of his old buddies Now when Pa’s holiday is through from the Philippine days, Tor whom the general and people ask him, how are you? has intense personal loyalty. Then Pa replies, I feel quite well,| “Gen. MacArthur has’ never met. many key -men sir, though he hasn't had his Alka- of the occupation, who by reason of their positions Seltzer. . {control the economic and political destinies of Japan. Army red tape insulates him from irreverent civilian occupation officials, who have a higher regard for success of the occupation than for army protocol. Chief among the men around Gen. Magis

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were contributed by you and me. | The war cepartment decided the voters may vote for nine, Your vot-

| fort was no lofiger needed for mili- [Ing machine is set so that yeu may | | tary use and housing for veterans Make any combination of individ- | | was what it could best be ‘used far. {uals you desire, from the twelve can-

TOKYO, Aug. 9.—It is inconceivable that a man of Gen. MacArthur's greatness and proven integrity should deliberately present a falsely optimistic picture of the occupation of Japan. It is almost equally inconceivable that a man with every source of information at his disposal does not

know the facts of life in Japan. And yet, unless Gen. MacArthur is the most magnificent optimist of all time, the latter seems to be the case.

along came a group of businessmen | [choices from third parties: who propose to take over and oper-| The idea of the system is to seate these facilities {cure majority rule, and at the same Their price, prohibitive to most time have minority representation. and $60 a many and told us that it was procomfortable housing? Eco-|it possible for Hitler to secure. his| this question of majority definition. [rule along with your minority repIt seems that the golden Tule has resentation at all has become con-

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Calls Wage Control High Price Answer *

9 By Harold A. Wilson, 652 E. 424 ot. * The high cost of living atyihe present time is brought about by ex- | cess profiteering. Everybody, manufacturers, merchants, farmers did laborers are profiteers when they seek something for nothing. : The somthing-for-nothing atfi-

tude seems to be the order of the’ geronaut, with his gaunt form, his weatherbeaten face y

Higher v year ‘and piercing hawk-like eyes, with reverence and awe.

prices higher profi It was 1908 on a race course at Honandieres near gher the and igh ple, | Mans, France, about 131 miles (airline) southwest of Paris. Thus, Wilbur Wright, Hoosier born near Millville, Henry county, on April 6, 1867, had electrified these modern Frenchmen. For their first time, ‘a man fly through the air like a bird. or the world it was a great occasion.

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is Brig. Gen. Courtney Whitney, former Manila cor= poration lawyer. An old buddy of Gen. MacArthur's from Manila days, Gen. Whitney reputedly has his chief’s ear more than any other man in the occupation high command. Presumably because he is a lawyer, Gen. Whitney was made head of SCAP’s powerful government section, charged with giving Japan a new constitution and rewritifig its laws. Criticism of the occupation is inevitably interpreted as criticism of Gen. MacArthur as-a person. “If only somebody around here would admit that everything isn’t perfect,” one minor SCAP official sighed wistfully. Lt. Col. Donald R. Nugen, v. 8S. M. C, a veteran of 52 months overseas service, is head of SCAP’s civil information and educational section, probably the most important branch of the occupation from a long range standpoint.

Next Generation Is Test C. I. AND E, which controls schools, motion pictures, radio, newspapers and other propaganda media, is often criticized for not doing.a more aggressive job. Col. Nugent, who lectured in a Japanese business college before the war, points out that he is dealing in intangibles and that the success or failure of his mission cannot be measured except in another generation.

But two years later on “et. 5. 1905, the final trial flight of the airplane in a still doubting world came at Huffman field, Dayton, O. On that day Wilbur Wright, in a circular flight of 24 miiles in 38 minutes and 3 seconds, solved the problem of equilibrium in turning. On May 22, 1906, the ‘Wright brothers received

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