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Truman and the United Nations RESIDENT TRUMAN, in his address to the Brazilian congress, stressed our government's determination. to
support the United Nations through thick and thin. emphasized this same policy in his earlier speech to th inter-American defense conference.
This ig a noble resolve. It is equally -realistic. If th
United Nationstexperiment fails, world organization fails As an advocate of collective’security, the United States has no ‘choice, It must fight to the end, whatever the odds, to preserve and
with it—at least in this generation,
strengthen this international structure,
That obligation, however, shbuld not involve wishful thinking as to the security now provided by the United Nations. Neither should, it tempt us to compromise on
principle in order to save the shell.
We must continue to trust our own armed strength > unless and until international military and atomic security | is a fact’ instead of an aspiration. United States military | preparedness today, and in the foreseeable future, is no less |
essential to world security than to defense of this country
American possession of the atomic bomb now seems the And that insur-
insurance against world war 111, ance is short-term,
only
~ ~ r MN EANWHILE, the United Nations cannot be strengthThat
ened through evading the cause of its decline. cause is known to all.
Russia is killing it—deliberately, relentlessly, 1er|
weapon is the veto, Unless that weapon is taken away, or at least made more difficult to wield, there is little hope.
This newspaper is aware of the difficulty of curbing
Soviet veto power. Even before San Francisco, we warned that extension of the veto to cover charter amendments would make future improvements and growth almost impossible. rr : Nevertheless, there is still the power of publie opinion. There is still the United Nations general assembly to register world conscience, The overwhelming majority of nations oppose Soviet sabotage of the assembly, and particularly Red misuse of the veto. That will be made clear by _ the assembly meeting this month, we believe, If President Truman is to be effective in his effort to fave the United Nations from Soviet strangulation, the
United States government must lead the fight in the
general assembly,
Too Big a Job J MIL RIEVE, president of the C. I. 0. Textile Workers Union; made quite a speech to the New York state C. L 0. Council last week. ! Among other things, he opposed formation of a third political party at this time, holding that it would only insure election of a “reactionary” Republican president. And he advised labor to stop talking about defeating all members of congress who voted for the Taft-Hartley act. That, he said, was too big a job, though something might be done by concentrating on a 1948 effort to retire 12 senators and 100 representatives. Since Mr, Rieve is a national vice president of the C. 4. 0. and a director of its Political Action Committee, his words may carry some weight. Anyway, it's certainly true that other union leaders are biting off much more than
they can chew when they threaten to drive every Taft-| written by Rupert Hughes.
Hartley supporter out of congress. That would mean beating more than three-fourths of the present members, in-
» . | cluding well over half the Democrats in addition to, more | usually . .
than 90 per cent of the Republicans.
~The acid-test vote for the Taft-Hartley bill, on the !not there. —overnding of President Truman's veto, was 331 to 83 in the
house, 68 to 25 in the senate.
Whether Mr. Rieve himself takes in too much territory | noticed.
~~whether, that is, labor can defeat a dozen senators and 100 representatives who supported the Taft-Hartley act— is another question. Its answer will depend, we believe, on what the country thinks of this new labor law along in the summer and fall of next year. And that, in turn, probably will depend on how the act operates, not on the present outcry fiom union leaders who call it a “slave law” and at the same time assert that it can't prevent them from ignorng, by-passing or defying its provisions.
‘Sharing Atomic Benefits ANY of us find it hard to understand even the simpli-| fied explanations of what isotopes are, and how they are produced inthe vast atomic plant at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and why scientists call them the most important aid to] medical research since the invention of the microscope. | But all of us can rejoice that ‘instruments of life and | health are resulting from America’s success in releasing the atom’s energy, And we
can be glad for President Truman's announce: ment to the International Cancer Research congress that our | government is now ready to make supplies of these isotopes | available to the laboratories of other nations. The few conditions. attached to the offér de designed only to insure the freest possible world-wide interchange of all new knowledge gained through experiments. As Mr. Truman | said ; |b { “The sharing by and among all nations of both the means and the result of cancer research will reduce the logs of ie and human suffering from disease throughout the world,” ; In addition to the carbon isotope, which holds such great promise in the study of cancer, there are many more. They offer mankind new hope for the conquest of other afflictions, for the building of stirdier human bodies, perhaps even for the prolonging of human life. There is no possible direct military use for the isotopes, and so no risk to’ national security is involved in sharing them with the world, ‘But their distribution will be a token of America’s willingness to share other secrets of
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"I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." —Voltaire.
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thing the like of which no other Suigeneris is the word for it. : eg Ne When other sections of Indianapolis ran to the papers with news of the arrival ts {of the first crocus, the West side. pointed with pride to the alliga{tors basking in the sunshine on the shores of White river. The alligators out there always announced the arrival of spring at least A week before the crocus did. The best the South side ' could do to announce the ad- : re vent of spring ahead of the crocus was to point to the arrival of the little German band: !
The West side, I remember too, had the first plece of radium in Indianapolis—the one belonging to Dr. Eisenbeiss, To say nothing of Tom & Jerry, the two horses stationéd in engine house 6. One terrible hot afternoon Tom & Jerry answered a thirdalarm fire at Cornell ave. and 17th st. Immediately upon their return home (533 W. Washington st.), they received a ring to hurry to Illinois st. and McLean pl. That same afternoon they ran to 950 S West st., and before 8 p. m. that-day they were called to Torbet and Paca sts. Total distance covered that afternoon was 17 miles. Next day they looked as fresh as daisies, '
The Black Ghost : »
IT WAS THAT WAY with everything else on the West side—even when it came to ghosts. The best the South side had to offer in that line was an orthodox white ghost, Well, believe it or not, the West side had a black ghost,
I can’t remember exactly when the black ghost | first turned up, but I have a sneaking notion that it
PARIS, Sept. 8.—An Arab-Jewish war is inevitable if the United Nations approves partitioning Palestine, in the "opinion of George Hakim, Greek Catholic bishop of Galilee. The bishop, who is special envoy of the Arab supreme committee of Jerusalem and a personal friend of the grand mufti, called the plan proposed by the United Nations special investigating committee “irrational,” He declared the Arabs would never accept such a proposal. 2 With a hand more accustomed to bestowing blesslings than warnings, the bearded bishop traced on a map what “he termed the unworkable boundaries of {the two Palestine states proposed by the commission.
Cill Congress Back to Consider UMT, Europe Aid and Living Cost
By B. §. P., City
President Truman call a special session of congress for the consideration of the universal military training program. ’ -
| important subjects, one on the world front and the ottrer here on the | home front, I refer to quick actfon ©% ‘The Marshall plan and some | assurance to other countries that the congress is in sympathy with the | Marshatl-plan, which.is necessary because every nation knows that | cabinet members can't commit congress and the rest of the country | to any program. And I refer to the mounting prices and lack of full production here in the U. 8. |
now has an unhappy record insofar YOUr right to say it.” as a descripand could erase some of the stain|VEUus' book “On the Mind"—and caused by its inaction in that field More widely, to the freedom of ex-
if it would pass the universal train- Pression in general. I do not think,
and seem to realize better even| Voltaire used these words verbatim! than our lawmakers how serious #hd should be surprised if they are| our need is for such legislation.
and let them take action on these Words in the “Essay on Tolerance” — |
Ing person must realize are basic €nJjoy the privilege to do so, too.” |
and tragically important’ to our \ a un .» country, ‘Terminal Leave . 8 P | . tt ay Not a Bonus | Question Voltaire $ | Re Yo 09 Covington st : Freedom Statement |- I have read several advertise-
Fhomas A. Gibson, 2838 Carrollton ave. + : | In reference to the quotation at days asking veterans to spend their
the- head of the “Hoosier Forum’ ‘bonus dollars” with them and this letter to the editor published make them stretch farther. in the Aug. 2, 1947, issue of “The What bonus are the people talkSaturday Review of Literature’ ing about? If they are by any [ might prove Interesting. pay, terminal leave pay is overdue army pay and the United States government, not. the state of Inhandled this “veterans
| Sir: The noblest thing Voltaire {ever sald, he never said. This most famous, most quoted. statement is! diana. blandly referred to as bonus.”
|included in his letter to Helvetius. mx cw Le. A casual glance will show that it is Hope Vv. F. W. Meeting Gets Good Publicity
The mystery of the authorship \ = impartial Veteran, City :
was solved a dozer years ago, but Being a member of two veterans seems not to have been much
pen-name of 8. C. Tallentyre. Her in these days of world. turmoil and In 1935, Harry Weinberger of New lar biographer of Voltaire, Miss E.
given a full account of all happen- | Beatrice Hall, who wrote under the
follows: am very proud of them for such. I have your letter of June 12. I Both in thelr aid to the veteran and have not a copy’ of my book ‘“Fhe
Friends of Voltaire” with me, but I believe I did-use in it the ‘phrase, “1 wholly disapprove of what you
formed on current events This month the other veterans
{found in any of his works. They are |jq 1 say call the congressmen back ther & paraphrase of Voltaire’s qemocracies are distinctive mani-| forces of com- |
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Atomic energy when all nations are: willing to join us in firm assurance that they shall be used only for beneficial Purposes May that time come soon. -< .., .
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“Just because |-broke my ankls playing baseball is no sign I'll. get
hurt in footbali—I ride with you when you drive the car and
{He said the Jews were getting the fertile parts of the
of Foreign Wars of the United | country while thé Arabs were left with only deserts.
States, is holding its national con-!Claim Christian Support vention in Cleveland. .
It is this veteran's hope and wish, thgt all these same Indianapolis I believe the American Legion has a good idea in suggesting that newsnRpers will give the Sale: con fon and publicity to them For believe it or not, It would be a good idea for the same session to consider two other of - these _ two orgahizations is a member of the other, idle gossip, that due to the loca-! tion of the national headquarters [of these seems to get more attention from our local newspapers than the Therefore, in as much as| The congress which Is in recess S8Y, but will defend to the death many veterans will be watching the outcome, I am asking you to pubas national defense is concerned, U0n of Voltaire's attitude to Hel- lish this in your Hoosier Forum,
sider
other,
Under Democracy, You | ing law. People want such a law, 8nd I did not intend to imply, that Take or Leave Ideas
two organizations,
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By H. M. D., City
festations of three subjects, which every think-| “Think for yourselves and let others pyision and those The forces of compulsion in gov- | ernment comprise the machinery| and motive power from which is generated the totalitarian spirit— obstinate determination to rule the!
the of invitation,
nearly half
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CHRISTIANS IN PALESTINE, Bishop Hakim |averred, are 100 per cent behind the Arabs in opposing Palestinian partition. It is impossible for Christians to accept a Jewish state in Palestine, he . | declared. When I asked if the Christians in Palestine, if left alone with the Arabs, would not fear a burst of Moslem fanaticism against them, the bishop uttered an emphatic “no.” Oriental Christians who call on {foreign powers to protect them against the Arabs are [traitors to their native lands. Independence is a iblessing, he continued, and Christians should work hand in hand with Moslems to achieve. it. Msgr. Hakim said he had sided with Arab leaders in Palestine who boycotted the United Nations comjmittee when it visited the coumtry last month. Unity
{of action, he declared, is necessary between defenders’
jof a"cause that is right. He emphasized that members of the mission had ample opportunity to learn the {Arab point of view through talks with heads of varilous Arab countries they visited. - = | This’ point of view has not changed since the
It appears to me that Russia's British established & national home for Jews in Pales-. cology and that of the western tine gt the end of the last ‘war. Arebs demand full
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—Just when it looked like
masses by way of dictatorial and|they had Most of the bugs out of the armed forces
ments in The Times the last few enforced
restrictive processes
tion. It is a sort of overlordship.
But, interestingly so, the forces of invitation—those. inherent in the true democratic process, as mani- | It was chance referring to terminal leave: {ested by the administrations of the western democratic nations, in their simple nature rebound to the credit of men. What a great bless-| her that the order of precedence—protocol—would be
in| merger, some capital hostess had to foul up the Works matters of all-round administra-'in great shape.
The afternoon it was announced that John L. Sullivan, Kenneti C. Royall and W. Stuart Syming--ton, in that order, had been named head of the navy, army and air force under the new department of national defense, this hostess decided to invite them all to a party. When she started arranging the seating order of her guests, however, it dawned on
ing and high plane of liberality—| changed under the new set-up. The three new ap-
Just think of it!—there resides in| pointees wouldn't have the rank of cabinet members. [permitting an individual freely to! Where should they sit? accept or to reject the democratic! tion in a receiving line? cause, free of all duress and the forces of compulsion:
What would be their posi-
Hostess Resting Quietly
The freedom of choice and ex- SHE NERVOUSLY BUZZED the state depart-
constructing a
free!
i ’ i jot. the polite { ! pression in formulating or accept. Ment's protocol office for advice and go ! organizations, both of which Ting the kind of or “Pv | answer that because the merger wouldn't become think are fine, and very necessary wants to live und official until the new armed service's boss, James For- ! re edo. uld be unable to give nantly prime issues tn the deep | Testal. took the oath, they wo un g needed veterans legislation, I no- concern of York wrote to tie author of a popu- tice - Indianapolis newspapers. nave world.
an official judgment until then. The frantic woman then started calling her friends
The success, or failure of the [OF @dvice. But all she did was to leave .in her tele-
sion {n Keeping the general public edn- | goyery
The vote of our 80th congress to
[of invitation, or those of compulin matters concerning world |
ament.
organization, namely, the Veterans Children Hurt By Side ‘Glances=By Galbraith
— “School Lunch Cut
By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, R. R. dianapolis.
{reduce the appropriation for schoo
{lunches struck a vital blow to th [future of America, {as well as mothers who attend these
—the forces!
el Many teachers|
ings preceding and during the re-united Nations wil { phonic wake ‘a sort of chain consternation, which answer was published .in The New cent American Legion national | which of hese oo eperd Divs since grown into mass hostess-frustration. The York Times Sept. 1, 1935, and ran as convention in New York. And I "latest report was that the poor woman had to call : {mand the upper hand Po
| off her party and is now resting in a Maryland sanitarium. But it still leaves the problem unsolved. Up until now the order of social precedence has been approximately: The President, foreign ambassadors, chief justice, speaker of “the house, secretary. |of state, ministers of foreign countries, associate su- | preme court justices, cabinet members, state governoys, senators, chief of staff, chief of naval operations, five-star generals and admirals, representatives, charge d'affaires and then lesser officials. It has never been settled as to whether ambassadors or the I chief justice comes after the President with the re-
|P.-T. A's know there are always
sant ive wt Shaping Jap Thinking Long-Range Job
{at school. - Maybe the parents are to blame but this is beside the point, |
TOKYO; Sept. 8.—It will take at least 10 years
the fact remains many children go to lay a solid foundation for the reform of Japan's hungry.
Of all the little, lowbrow, penny- such reform has really taken root.
{pinching, chiseling, damnable pieces {of legislation, this strikes | bottom!
educational system and at least 30 to tell whether
That is the conservative estimate of American
the educators charged with setting up a free-thinking No one cares, who voted|democratic school system to replace one that taught
|against or for this rotten mess, but|plind obedience and the glory of war.
(we do know there were eno 'to take the food out of our children’s
mouths,
Lucky If Barking ; Only Disturbance
Is | By Daily Reader
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lington Blvd, article on the barking J |of dogs. In a way I agree with him
Have just read E. 0."J.'s of Wash-
[wen we are sleeping to be suddenly awakened by. their bark still I | wonder if he knows the protection {they give homes, when the occupants {are not able to have, police pro-
| tection.
It seems to be an era for in other peoples yards. I
‘wonder if he wouldn't rather have [the occasional barks of dogs than! [the loud blares of radios and loud
laughing, profane language far: into
the night, Maybe his neighborhood
our city if this with 2
{is quiet except the barks of the
You are a lucky resident of is all you eontend
ugh voted
Less optimistic than some of their military bosses, these educators point frankly to the many problems confronting them in their attempt to overthrow the
“Told system and substitute a new one completely alien
to the Japanese mind.
Compulsory Education Extended SOME OF THE PROBLEMS are purely economic. Although the Japanese government has been liberal with “school funds, there still isn't enough money to finance the program outlined by occupation school advisers. Another obstacle is the shortage of paper for textbooks, ! : . But more important than any of these matérial problems is the human factor. More than 500,000 teachers must make the adjustment from old suthoritative: methods of classroom democratic methods. * : A majority of the teachers. chafing under the restrictions imposed. by the militarists, are restless and eager to adopt American methods. : But some, especially die-hard principals, are reluctant to change. ; ” In addition, the reaction of teachers and students to democracy has been In’
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management._{o “new tend
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was sometime around 1893, the year of miracles and the Chicago world’s fair.” Of this I'm absolutely sure, however; it was the
any improvement ‘had the scare of their lives. an dressed in black stood silently at the and gazed covetously info the sick room. . As long as the watchers by the bedside remained “quiet, the figure would stand motionless, too. Soon as one started for the door, however, the ghost would disappear down the alley. The ghost turned up re- © peatedly and, on several occasions, Mr. Heimbo's frien ased it, but they never caught up with it.
Explanation Too Factual NOR PID THE POLICE ever catch up with the black ghost notwithstanding the fact that they ree ceived a hurry-up call everytime the apparition ape peared. Nobody ever tried to explain the phenomenon, On one occasion, to be sure, two men appeared at police headquarters with a story that the West end ghost was a real-for-sure woman. In fact, the same woman they found wandering along the banks of the canal one terribly dark mid-summer night. When they asked her what she wag up to—so ran the men's story—she told them that she has thrown her baby into the canal and that now she had reconsidered her rash act and wanted to retrieve it. The story didn't impress the West side worth a cent. They demanded something more reasonable, Indeed, they wouldn't accept any theory unless based on supernatural grounds. To the best of my knowledge, Mr. Heimbo recov ered.
WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Paul Ghali ~~ Arabs Hoping for Catholic Support
independence for their country and evacuation of British troops. They are ready to ensure fair treate ment to Jews according to democratic principles, the bishop declared. Jews who are now trying to “invade” Palestine, he added, are not the descendants of the original Jews who came to Palestine, but mostly offspring of Euroe pean converts to Judaism, Msgr. Hakim was to return to Palestine after have ing explaified 16" the Pope, dnd “the French and Bel gian governments the Arab thesis on ‘Palestine. Two other members of the Arab delegation, Mohammed Afifi and Dr. Yacoub Khoury, accompanied him on his mission, The pope, who deplores violence and terrorism, the bishdp told me, had shown great concern regards ing the Palestinian question. What action the Vate icah may be considering remains undisclosed, but it can be recalled that the Catholic Latin American countries have an imposing number of voices at Lake Success. : > France's attitude and hospitality toward Arabs has more than pleased the bishop. A high French diplomat promised that France “would not take a position against the .Arabs when the Palestthian problem comes under discussion.” | During his conversations here, he said, several hints were dropped that France would help the Arabs at the United Nations, if the Arab league puts a stop to its anti-French campaign in North Africa,
World Politics Involved
“WE CANNOT BUT HELP our brothers in North Africa who wish to obtain their independence, bus naturally if France is friendly toward u$ on the Palestinian question, it will react favorably in North Africa,” he remarked. Premier Spaak of Belgium was somewhat noncome mittal in a “friendly way”. said Msgr. Hakim. He asserted that he knows little about the Arab side of the Palestine. question, but that he would do his best at Lake Success to obtain peace in the Holy Land,
IN WASHINGTON . . . By Douglas Larsen * Merger Snarls Up Capital Protocol’
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sult no hostess asks them to the same party, Another problem is what to do with the new sece retary of national defense at social functions. It is established . custom that the newest departments should get last social precedence. The war depelte ment as always had second precedence after the state department in the cabinet rankings. And it is guessed that the new cabinet post will command that old spot at the festive board. But it isn't offi cial. - The person in Washington most eager to get the correct key to the whole puzzle is Carolyn Hagner Shaw. She publishes the “Social List of Washing‘ton,” a sort of unofficial but highly regarded social register. - Her current edition .is due to go to press in a couple of days. And she wants to have the right answer for her readers. A guide to the order of precedence is part of a regular feature in her
~ book. Her only comment is:
“After talking to almost every agency and author ity in town, I'm still completely at sea.”
New Dinner Companions? : AMONG THE EXPERTS, who have calmed to the point where they can discuss the’ thing coherently, it's agreed that it narrows down to whether Messrs, Royall, Symington and Sullivan will sit at dinner or stand in receiving lines to the right or the left of charge d'affaires. If, like this writer, you didn’ know, charge d'affaires are sort of vice-ambassadors, They officially represent a nation when the ambassa« dor is out of town. Only Mr, Royall, who is now a cabinet member, would get socially demoted under the new arrangement. For the other two men, this new proximity to charge d'affaires is a theoretical improvement. If the final decision sandwiches the new. positions be« tween the members of the house of representafives and the charges it will probably bring welcome relief to both representatives and charges to have somebody new to talk to at dinner, :
BACKGROUND . . . By Keyes Beech
seams with the spirit of democracy, have attempted to take over.schools and fire teachers they didn’t like, In other cases, teachers have against principals. A military government i visiting one school found all the students dismissed and the teachers sitting about having tea. <M
When the principal was summoned; explained she was powerless to do anything, because if she did the teachers would fire her. .’ ; But despite these problems there fs considerable
progress to report. ; : Basically, the most important step was enactment by the diet of what is now called the “Magna Charta® of Japanese education. #1 This measure, in theory at least, eliminates dis« crimination and inequality in education. It alse protects the schools from political influence and “emphasizes that education is broader than the schoolroom.” nl : : Under the old Japanese system compulsory free education was limited to six years. Only 12 per cent of Japan's children went beyond the sixth grade and less than 8 per cent reached college. Today compulsory free education has been exe ed from six to nine years, although the program will not be fully realized until 1950. {oe ’ Stimulation to Learn B 1 : IN ADDITION, the artificial bayriers ‘which pre vented all but a privileged few from entering college have been removed, at least on paper. ‘Perhaps the most encouraging aspect of the en education picture is the urgent desire of
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