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Give LAght and the People Willi Fins Ther Dwn Way

Fair Time Again DAY marks another gala opening of the Indiana state fair—combination entertainment afid educational spectacle of the year. Of course it's “bigger and better” than ever before, and the record crowd predicted each opening day again is expected to attend during the nine days the fair is open. Our fair is as Hoosier as any institution in the state, and attracts exhibitors and visitors from every part of Indiana. You'll be missing something if you're not among those who see this exhibition of agricultural and industrial products and who savor of the varied forms of fun offered for your pleasure,

Shades of NRA

T'S been a long time since NRA's Blue Eagle expired under the ax of the United States supreme court, away back in the "thirties. -

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Fact is, we'd nearly forgotten how the federal govern- | ment was going all out, in those days, trying to get the

prices of things to go up. That, we were told, would be prosperity. Well, nobody can deny they've gone up. Last word we had from Washington the federal government was trying to get 'em to go back down again, So it was like a whisper out of the past, this week, when Indiana's ABC told a lot of retail liquor stores to put their prices up, and began talking about minimums and such things. All perfectly legal, of course. Before that Blue Eagle died it had laid a few eggs. Some of them hatched. One into the Guffey coal control law, One into the fair trade practices law. And so on. All carefully designed to meet the specifications of the. supreme court and still attain the result that looked so attractive to so many people about NRA-—namely, to get prices up, and make 'ém stay up. * In effect the fair trade practices act enables a manufacturer to set the retail price of his product and make the retailer sell it for that price, regardless of competitive or other conditions. Competitive conditions in the retail liquor business around here had induced some retailers to lower their pricés. ABC merely told them to get those prices back up, the way the fair trade practices act said—or else. Well, anyway it's nice for the manufacturers.

Britain's Plight

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Automobile Drivers Should Be

Especially Careful of Children

By A Mother, Ruckle st.

School time is practically upon us, and I would like to make a re-!

quest of auto drivers to’ be especially careful of our children. The police drive against accidents should put a part of its effort in the school districts, and motorists who drive recklessly there should be punished severely. You drivers shouldn't forget that children act spontaneously lots

of times, without thinking about what they are doing. Sure, it's wrong |

for them to dart into the street after a ball or to ride their bicycles across the street in the middle of the block. But there are going to be those who do it, so long as there are children. 80 I make this plea to everyone who drives—be a’

fall and winter| months. If it's not bicycles, jtg centuries, nor do we cherish their

little bit more

PRIME MINISTER ATTLEE'S super-austerity program for Britain is even more severe than expected. It comes as a shock that a people who have sacrificed so much and so continuously during the past eight years must

That they will go on and bear the added burden, neither they nor anyone else doubts. That is their reputation and their glory. In a way, also, it is their danger in this crisis. Habitual acceptance of the old truism that “the British al-

devilment, it is the happy irrespon-

ways manage to muddle through” can produce a kind of inactive fatalism. The “unbreakable” British morale is in fact beginning to sag. So, while the British will carry on, they may come to do so in a defeatist attitude.

them victory in war and peacetime. This is more important | . | than the cut in the 20-cents-a-week meat ration, the two

all the rest,

. v ” . » » HAT the British need, more than food or the amenities | so long denied them, is hope. hungry this winter, they will not starve: they will be cold but will not freeze. But unless they have something better

0 11919 stated, “We If that happens, they will |for‘ane language and that is Eng- | have lost the fighting spirit which so often has brought |Ush, for we intend to see that the

polyglot boarding ounces of tea a week, no pleasure gasoline or travel, and Americans need but to note the

(of a people in this God's country.| : Even though they go [We as a nation became great We- BY our Ignorance, it is fitting that {cause of the one and only lan- We ask her some questions, {guage that created in every for-| Does she know that America owes (eigner - entering our

sleds. And the burden of caution Ancient customs and century-old) gq..."

{ hatreds, or their armed boundaries, ost 3e 48 a S9US ecuuse u8 that created the disunity that today ence with danger as well as with | Prevails. We want progress on the safety. American plan and the unity only My boy is a member of the safety patrol, and he often tells me how a hard it is to restrain youngsters he! goes to school with. That isn't How About It,

Lady Astor?

By M. E. T, Cig I feel sure that many Americans were shocked as I was by the recent pronouncements of Lady Astor concerning our country. This nativeborn Virginian who renounced her

Americanism.

sibility of childhood.

Room for Only One Language in America

By N. Y. PF, Indianapolis

Theodore Roosevelt in a letter allegiance to-Asherica to become a'

read dt the All-American Festival British subject is annoyed with us.

have room bul! we. ove 100 many foreigners, “too many people in New York who don't belong anywhere—they have no roots,” the lady complains. “There are thousands of people in New York who don't know who Jieorge Washington or Thomas Jelferson was” is her further indictment of us.

Since she is

crucible turns our people out as Americans and not dwellers in a house.” We

trend toward the left and to the right, that unless checked in time will destroy the unity and progress ’ so much disturbed

shores the its greatness to the mixture of im-

to hope for, the weary are likely to accomplish less rather spirit of Americanism. Our fore-|migrants who sought these shores,

than more in the coming months. Instead of telling Britons they must eat less to produce |

[bears accepted it because it wiped many of them from the jails and)

out misunderstanding and distrust prisons of Great Britain?

by uniting every race or creed en-|

Has she ever read the inscrip-

more, there would have been more’ incentive if Mr, Attlee |'ering these shores. It was_.the tion on Liberty's statue “send me

could have offered them added rations for increased output. Britain's only out is through more production. That is no less true under a semi-Socialist system than a capitalist one. Labor ministers have been telling British ‘unions that, but without the response a Labor government expected from its own adherents, The Attlee cabinet inherited the causes of this crisis from a generation of mismanagement of coal and other basic industries and from years of war dislocation. Moreover it has heen the victim of a general post-war disintegration in Europe, and unprecedented blows from nature and the weather. But the Labor government was elected to deal with just such.a post-war emergency, and-it-has not done so, ; We do not doubt the integrity or ‘good intentions of | the Attlee cabinet—any more than do the huge majority of Britons who put it in office and who have continued to support it in by-elections since, Nevertheless it is doomed unless it can provide more tangible results. people can't live on blueprints. Socialization which spreads poverty instead of plenty is a betrayal. It destroys itself. ’

THE test is whether organized labor will produce more for a Labor government than for some other, So far it has not done 80. It is up to the miners and other workers to raise output for higher-home consumption and essential foreign trade, or suffer a steadily declining living standard. It is up #o their government, by leadership, quickly to persuade them that this is so. America will help in various ways, but that cannot take the place of self-help.

Quiet! RVING M. LEVIN, a San Francisco theater manager, has invented a noiseless popcorn sack, thereby earning a place among such immortals as the discoverers of the silent soup spoon and the celery muffler.

world. Maybe he, or some equally gifted benefactor, will go to work un cures for such plagues as the green.

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Such genius as Mr. Levin's inspires hope for a noise-

|language of those who created vour huddled masses yearning to rain is strictly a “The | “Petition of Rights” and those who | wrote our Constitution and who poor and opporessed of all her lands, drizzle or a downpour.

Magna Carta" and

the breathe free?"—in response to which summons Europe poured forth the

pioneered and created these 48 the slaves of overlords and the vicstates of ours,

We Americans want none of the!

tims of religious persecution, Out of this polyglot mass, Amer-

traditions prevailing in lands where ica moUTtied the greatest nation on one cannot cross a river or moun- arth, each individual contributing tain without discovering a changed the spiritual treasures of his native {eivilization, some dating back for land.

Side Glances=By Galbraith

‘Why Does Methodist Pa er Feature Stalin?

v. Daniel H. Carrick, 508 W. 31st st, In the July 20, 1047, issue of “Classmate,” a publication of the | Methodist church, we find Stalin's | picture and a brief biography of (him and his real name, which 18 Joseph Vassarianovitch Djugashvili, which seems-to show that “Stalin,” | meaning steel, is a mere cognomen

{by which the Communists know {him, The sketch of Him on Page 7 of the “Classmate” shows Stalin |with his military cap and his bedy 'clad in his dictator uniform. Jerome Davis is the author of {the above article entitled “Joseph Jerome Davis tells the life 'story of Stalin's zeal, power and | greatness. He makes it appear that | Stalin is a good example for our

Stalin's revolutionary activities and he says, “Stalin is a superb political strategist.” We wonder why an atheist, a dictator and a Communist should

have his pictlire in a Sunday school | -

publication like the Classmate. | Millions of boys and girls are | taught to admire Stalin's brave and | daring overthraw of Russia and {may be tempted to be an atheist and try some revolutionary activities here. Jerome must have had some hidden motive in mind, and there must be somebody up in “high | places” who allowed such an article to get in the Classmate. There are many Methodists who have complained about the Joseph Stalin article,

Nature Gives Us Lesson in Humility

C. C., Indianapolis Despite air-conditioning and electric fans, most of the people have |been uncomfortable most of the {time during this summer's long heat Despite the claim of a Kansas aviation firm that it has produced {rain four times in four tries with a new. cloud treatment, man-made rarity. In fact, [these aviators aren't sure when they {80 up whether they will produce a | Man has split the atom, but as yet {has released only a fractiog of. its power. He has protected himself from the elements, under ordinary {clrcumstances, but great snows, eines, or floods disrupt his way of ife, Wonderful as his accomplish. ments have been, man still is the pawn of nature, 8he can make him uncomfortable, withhold his food, and even destroy him. © This fact should be a lesson in humility. i

English Must Go to Work as Italians Did _

By + Morris St. rom a taxing ec le struggle from a distant past the last generation Italians have had a

. |three nights of Jan. 13-15, 1881.

TODAY'S PIECE i dedicated to the that Indianapolis fell in love with the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan before it ever had a chance to see and hear the real thing. i In support of which there is the well-founded faét ‘supérficially noted last Monday» ! that the Indianapolis Light {antry produced a pirated version of “Pinafore” at English’s on the

This was a whole year before the

themselves with such success that the buying publie demanded a repeat. h

Contracts a Case of Quinsy» : . JUST BEFORE the date set for the encore, Soldier Williams contracted a bad of quinsy—of such alarming proportions, indeed, that for a while it looked as if the repeat performance would have to be canceled. At the last moment, however, a wire to Chicago brought Mrs. McWade (Ada Somers) to Indianapolis to play the part of “Josephine.” - Mrs. McWade's performance revealed the hitherto unknown fact that, maybe, “Gilbert and Sullivan khew their business when they incorporated the two sexes in their operas. The result was that when the Light Infantry produced “The of Penzance” (Dec. 8-10, 1881), the soldiers thought enough of Indianapolis girls to let them act, too. : Largely because of the Light Infantry's produce tions (together with the light opera furore sweeping the country at the time), Prof. Ora Pearson organized the Indianapolis Opera Co. This outfit lasted several years in the course of which it combed not only everything G. & 8 had com up to that time, but also the whole field of light opera. When it finally disbanded, it counted among its assets possibly two dozen well-trained voices capable of singing solo parts. These voices were gradually absorbed by other organizations, notably the Lyra, a stylish musical group under the leadership of Alexander Ernestinoff, .

On March 5-6, 1885, the Lyra produced “The

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—All the details of the extreme caution which went into the personal protection of Franklin D. Roosevelt during the war are now revealed. They're told in a new book called “Reilly of the White House,” the latest in the popular I-was-close-to-Roosevelt series. It's by Michael FP. Reilly, the Secret Service man in charge of guarding President Roosevelt during the war, as told to Wil liam J. Slocum. Here's Reilly's logical justification for what he had to spend: “I decided that if somebody or something killed FDR I would find very little sympathy in the halls of congress or from the American people if I alibied that the contraption necessary to combat the weapor, that murdered FDR cost almost $10,000 and I didn't want to waste too much of Uncle Sam's money.”

Special Transport WITH THE QUESTION OF COST thus neatly bypassed, Reilly swung into action immediately after Pearl Harbor. For a while the President only had on armored car, which was borrowed from the treasury and which was originally made for Al Capone. Then Reilly got two armored sedans and two armored convertibles, which were capable of withstanding a direct hit from

possible in a language that breathes. youth ‘0 follow, He tells the sloryig peayy-caliber machine gun. The fabric tops of the

convertibles were reinforced to repel a hand grenade dropped from a height of 250 feet. ‘When the President traveled by train, a baggage car with a special ramp cdrried the armered vehicles along. They could be unloaded in thTee minutes. At Reilly's request the Pullman Co. built an armored railroad car with bullet-proof windows three inches thick, with case-hardened steel capable of withstanding a ‘trash with any railroad engine without smashing or telescoping. According to Reilly “it will remain, intact if dropped from a railroad trestle and is impervious to projectiles short of cannon fire, and to dynamite charges placed on the roadbed.” The car is also waterproof, with battleship bulk-

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Along the sides were boxes provided with chairs and tables for lemonade drinkers. The customers in the pit (25-cent seats) had to get Song 2 best they could with peanuts and red pop dled by boy vendors, most of whom are pointed out today as the t, of y ; The Temple Co. opened its season with a pers

enabled the company to spend its entire summer in Indianapolis. Everybody patronized the place least once a week and had a grand time—everybody, that is to say, except a certain preacher whose name has conveniently escaped me, ' When Wildwood finished its Wirst week of “The Mikado,” this preacher picked the text: “A young man went down to Jericho and fell thieves” (Luke XXX:10). “How many young do you suppose,’ he asked, “started to go to devil last Week by going to Wildwood? Those went there were simply making of themselves s pigeons for the devil.” And, suddenly overnight, Indianapolis realised thas it-had a Gilbertian situation on its hands as good a8 anything imported from England.

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IN WASHINGTON + « « By Douglas Larsen : Fantastic Steps Taken to Guard FDR

heads for doors and three easily-reached submaring -

escape hatches, in case it should plunge into a river 07 be submerged. He reveals one suggested precaution, however, which was not taken because it would have been too costly: “Among other things . . . it was suggested thas the course of the Potomac and Anacoitia rivers should be changed. This last was not quite as silly as it sounds, because no camouflage of the White House is practical while the confluence of these rivers remains a mile from the Mansion. A pilot would find it quite simple to hit the White House by flying up either river and getting his ‘fix’ at the confluence.”

Bomb-Proof Shelters

THE FIRST BOMB SHELTER, Reilly reveals, was a remodeledwvault under the tréasury building with a zig-30g connecting tunnel from the White House, The zig-zag was to stop a bomb fragment which might fly right through a straight tunnel. Of the next one, built under the White House grounds, Reilly says, “Knowing the material that went into its cone

struction, I feel for the contractor who is ever

charged with removing or changing it.”

A part of the defense plans included the following; “There were troops always ready to defend the White House against Axis paratroopers,” 10 secre places near Washington for presidential residence in case of bombings, and a perpetually ready airplane to speed him inland in case of invasion.” : Other protective devices employed by Reilly and his men included tiny microphones, seeing-eye doors, pocket-sized radio senders and receivers. An armored’ speaking stand, with a sheet of steel which would shoot up two feet above the President's head, was built. A Geiger counter was always kept near the President to warn of radium. These are just the physical safety props that were used. In other chapters Reilly reveals all the elabore ate planning and investigations which went into proe tecting the President, Co

REFLECTIONS . . . ByJames Thrasher

A RECENT CARTOON by the Englishman David Low shows three acrobats performing a balancing trick before President Truman and Secretary Marshall. The acrobats are labeled “Ruhr Coal Talks” “German Industry -Talks” and “British Dollar-Pay-ment Talks.” Mr. Low captioned his cartoon, “All Belonging to One Act.” His acrobats look confident and smiling, but it is evident that if one of them loses his hold, all three will go sprawling. Mr. Low could have been more accusgte by picturing Mr, Truman and Mr, Marshall as performers rather than spectators.” For, as representatives of the American people, they are definitely and inescapably in the act. :

U.S. Faces Challenge

| THAT ISN'T HOW the post-war European act was planned. Tt seemed two years ago that the {United States might provide some financial backing and friendly co-operation and advice. By division and delay, by obstrueting almost every European move toward unity, stability St PrUCReritY. the ‘Soviet Union has changed the role from that of onlooker to that of bottom man in a human pyramid. ; The bottom man can't walk out without the whole structure coming down. The balance of the Buropean partners on his shoulders is unsure. But the man on the bottom has no choice but to stand firm and offer the best support he can.

Support Britain or Let Reds Dominate

The British are having all they can do to keep

their economy alive. , They may have to pull out of *

Germany as they did out of Greece, unless theig money and manpower troubles are eased. Surely it is

one, and to help her domestic recovery as the prine cipal bulwark against communism in i The Ruhr certainly must be utilized. Europe cannot be expected to help itself toward recovery until its greatest industria] section is more than ones third productive. Whether the Ruhr's resources arg to be used by France or under control of an intepe national group remains to be worked out,

We're in Europe to Stay -

AS POR GERMAN ‘Industry, it seems now that it must be revived and carefully con This isn't the way things were originally planned, either. But again Russia has changed the picture, Germany's big food-production region has passed into Russian hands. So until western can produce and export enough $0 pay for its own food, much of that food must be bought with American money, There has been much talk of our bipartisan fore eign policy, which is an excellent thing. But what also seems to be needed is a bipartisan, national realization {hat the United States is in Europe and has Sot to stay until recovery and stability are reali 08. ve ¢

WORLD AFFAIRS . .. By William Philip Simms | Congress View on Marshall Plan Eyed

LONDON, Aug. 20—A “working economy” plan for Europe as suggested by Secretary of State Mar-

Instead, according to a diplomatic source, if is likely the United States will be presented with

d/London Questions U.S. Motives

WHILE IT MAY NOT BE as bad as that, Ameri

weltactary to ogres Lo \ production put.

sense for the U. 8. to try to keep Britain on the job there as a partner, even if a weal *°

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Marion count; selected by judg County show products at the Those who Ww hibits in the Misses Janet ( Joyce Mitzner,

Roberta Yorger In the bakin be exhibits by | thias, Celia ¥ Kathleen VanC ette Hoff, D Pleyte, Dianne Jane Maxwell Elizabeth Ann man, Alice We Martha Miller, tricia Kafoure and Reilly. Canning ex} by Misses Ma on Selech, No Abbott, Julia hart, Judy He Alice and Wav ner, Curtiss an Miss Betty resent Marion dress revue Becker will re

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Margare Miss Caroly Whitcomb ave. for members club and their Honor guest Schuh, a for Harry Smith bott also were

Visiting Mr. and M and their da Short Hills, N Smith's paren G. Stayton, 13 will also visit Mr. and Mrs, landon. ean