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Give Light and the People Will Find Ther Own Way

Gary's : Ta tal

THE city of Gary has a proud reputation for its work in the field of race elations, a reputation enhanced when segregation was abolished in its schools effective with the opening of this school term. Comes now, a group of dissident school children at the combination Emerson grade and high school with a “strike” Undoubtedly this so-called strike is inspired by adults, for it is from adults that children learn prejudices and hates, Left alone, children will get along well until they learn from grown-ups that pigmentation or religion sometimes are a basis for prejudice. Invoking the anti-hate law passed unanimously by the

last legislature, Lake county authorities have arrested one]

parent who was addressing a group of pupils and urging them to continue their protest. It is to the lastihg credit of the city administration and the school authorities of Gary that they are not retreating from a position adopted after long and thoughtful study. Most of the churchmen of the steel city preached sermons Sunday urging parents to order their children to return to school, Jt is Gary's shame that a small group of hate-mongers has befouled its reputation for community unity,

Don't Shoot Statisticians

OME 600 delegates, representing 55 countries, are in Washington for'a 12-day international statistical conference, This news reached our desk as we were reading a copy of “The Westmoreland Observer,” published at Greensburg, Pa., in which an outspoken editor sounds off as follows : ee “It'll be a hell of a relief to the American people if all the professional economists, statisticians, estimators and co-ordinators were taken out and shot. The whole kit and kaboodle of them are a left-wing, designing lot who would regiment and collectivate this nation into a state of brainless robots, with themselves occupying the king row.” We do not, let it be added hastily, agree with our Greensburg contemporary. His proposal is certainly too drastic. His conclusions would hardly stand up under onlm analysis. Leaving economists, estimators and coordinator s aside, for the time: being, we would say that in the overwhelming main, statisticians are a fine and useful set of people. Without the facts and figures they assemble, without their tables, graphs and charts, the policy-makers of government, labor unions, business enterprises and other institutions would be even more hopelessly lost at sea than a lot of them seem to be now. And the fact that so many

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will be only 29 million tons. The amount needed to maintain present subnormal rations. is. 2%. million tons. The exceptions to bad harvests seem to be in eastern Europe, where Sovietcontrolled statistics are unreliable. Both Russia and her Yugoslav satellite claim bumper crops. If they have exportable surpluses these will be used for political ‘purposes. and” pressures, if the past is a criterion. The world's. greater need puts an added burden on the United States. The effect of worse food shortages on the ing the coming year than in the grim Marshall ‘plan and. all other -efforts at ed i : : European reconstruction is obvious. Minyear which preceded this harvest. . Iv ers and facfory workers do not produce

"x » v . ol ici dita , more on empty bellies. ART of the crop damage is due to the biggest ally of Bolshevism.

severe European winter—the worst in 50 years. The big freeze was followed by floods. Then came the dreught—in some countries the-longest in a century. In Europe the grain harvest is only 58 per cent of prewar average. Especially serious is the decline in the world’s major food surplus countries. In Canada the wheat harvest is down. In the United States the corn crop has taken “such a weather beating that Secretary of Agriculture Anderson says there must be

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The latest report of the United Nations food and agriculture organization shows that the world’s grain harvest is disastrously bad. This blow follows European reports of lower coal production. With food and fuel the twin necessities of all foreign relief and rehabilitation, these shortages mean the world will suffer even more dur-

A MONG sev ara) lines of action to meet the world food shortage; three seem to us imperative. Americans, Canadians, .Argentinians and Australians must consume less and share more. Export surpluses must be regulated more carefully,y with priority given to the people who:prove they can stop the leaks. Britain is one of the few countries without a flourishing blackmarket in food. The American zone in Germany is one

“ing and analyzing statistical information is evidence of the

seriousness with which they take their calling. If the ever-rising tide of statistics is failing to carry us where we'd like to go, it isn’t fair to blame the statisticians.

export guts. Though it is too éarly for crop estimates from Argentina and Australia, the other two grain surplus countries, the United Nations agency predicts that total

of the worst examples. Thirdly, preper allocation of the limited export surplus should be made to save dwindling dairy herds-and animal brood stock and to provide more seed

Most of thém, though not of course all, do their work with | scientific detachment. Few occupations contain a larger | - percentage of men and women determined to seek the truth, and nothing but. The trouble with statistics is not the fault of those who gather them. It's the fault of the big| group, including entirely too many of us all, which insists on regarding statistics only as things to be used for prov ing whatever 1t 1s we happer to want to prove.

WAA Inquiry Neetled

RKED by a series of personal experiences with. the war assets administration in its disposition of surplus war materials, the state council of the Reserve Officers association is sending letters to Hoosier members of congress

_ requesting an investigation of that agency.

Many veterans have found that they received little real consideration from the agency, and feel that the needs of the individual veteran are not give thoughtful attention. Veterans who counted heavily on béing able to obtain have been sorely disappointed. range from men who wanted to open garages to young attorneys who needed officedequipment.

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It is to be hoped that Senators Capehart and Jenner and the congressmen from Indiana will support the request

of the reserve officers group.

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Myths About Chivste TIE

UCH has been printed about what is wrong with the Chinese Nationalist government-—denial of civil liberties, oppression of the poor, official corruption. Most of those criticisms have been written or uttered by who have never been inside the Communist areas of China, but have fallen for the propaganda that happier conditions prevail where the “agraraian revolytionists” are in control. So we hope you read the dispatch on Page 2

H. New Se - 0 ewton, Scripps-Howard Far Eastern correspondent, | ure and the future of the coun.

Newton has talkéd with 8ol- | try, and will at the same time re-

from China's war zone. Mr. diers who have fought on both sides, and with peasants and villagers who have lived under both Nationalist and Communist rule. His dispatch explodes some of the more prev- | alent myths about. the Chinese Communists, and explains

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“When the Communists take a town the people flee. And when the Nationalists take it back, the people come] home again.”

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“IT'S” OUR BUSINESS . er . "By James Thrasher;

THERE HAS BEEN MUCH TALK about how much the “Marshall plan” is going to.cost the United Sates, OF Tuthier how. Jueh corgi Will be willine to appropriate, There has been considerably less discussion of how much the plan is going to cost this

ll country in production.

. Certainly many of the billions of dollars to be lent

under this plan will be spent in the U. 8. They will = doubtless be spent, and spent heavily in the first

year or two, on such things as food and clothing, and machinery for farms and factories. This might place something of a strain on our productive capacity, unless America’s ability to supply is as carefully inventoried as are Europe's needs for recovery,

Those Reds Again

RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA has tried to break up the Marshall plan before it gets under way by two accusations—that the plan is an instrument of American imperialism, and that it will be used to dispose of vast American surpluses and thus stave off a major depression in this country. The second charge is as senseless as the' first. With manufacturers trying vainly to catch up with the demand in many lines, ‘there seems little likelihood of our having to dump industrial or agricultural surpluses on Europe in order to Keep the farm and factory workers busy. In fact, the Marshall plan may present American industry with its biggest peacetime challenge to date. And it might be that the main burden of meeting it will fall upon the farmers and steelmakers. America's agricultural population has been declining steadily for the past hundred years. But the productive capacity of our farms has steadily increased. During the war, while millions of young

gy workers were in the service or in factories,

=IN WASHINGTON . = Here's a Fish Stery

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—With vacations over: for most people, it's the open open season on fish stories ahout the big ones that got away. And, following the trend of everything in Washington, it appears that fish stories are now being centralized, too.

This one’s told by young, good-natured Dr. Robert R. Miller, who earns his keep as a biologist for the Smithsonian Institution. He's strictly in the Izaak Walton big league. Fishing now is his Job, instead of -his- favor;ior sporty asi it seed ito Be;

Gruesome But Toothsome

DURING A RECENT junket to some of the best fishin’ *holes in South and Central America, Miller claims he hauldd in, all told, about 50,000 fish. His best catch was made at Lake Yzabel in "Guatemala. It was a giant fresh-water sawfish named “Big Tooth.” Miller gave it that name last yéar when the rare specimen defied his best efforts to bag him. This year, however, Miller went down equipped with a 125-foot gill-net which did the job. A gill-net is one with many-sized holes which snares almost anything finny,

After Miller got all the scientific data he needed from Big Tooth, he cut off a large steak -and ate it. Miller ,says it tasted mighty good and that there wasn't a trace of the crifter's ornériness in the steak. He saved the saw-tooth part. . His toughest catch was a four-eyed affair he finally had to land with the aid of a neta .22 pistol loaded with dust-shot, and a lantern. It was the first like it he ever caught. The fish swims at the surface with two eyes under the water and two eyes just above it. would- do the trick after several days of trying, so he took a tip from the Guatemalan natives. He went out’ at night with a lantern. This attracted it to the surface and blinded it when the two top eyes got above the water. The natives used torches and drive the fish to shallow water.

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‘there was an actua), improvement ‘in Americans’ dlet, At the time American farmers were able to make major contributions of food to our principal allies, "There are several reasons for this. But probably the two most important ones are the development of farm machinery and an improvement in the knowl= edge of how to maintain and enrich the soil. The first steel plow was made 110 years ago. Three years later came the discovery of how .plants feed, which laid the foundation for modern soil science and the chemical fertilizer industry. Since then the remarkable advance of scientific and mechanical aids has. permitted fewer and fewer persons to produce more and mere food. This has freed an increasing number of . workers for other fields, and has had much to do with making the United States the industrial nation that it is.

Internal Conflict Is Threat

THE TREND AWAY FROM THE FARM was ac= celerated by the war, and the coming of peace did not reverse the migration. “Some 2 million who went from farms to other jobs did not return afterwards, Yet this situation need not be alarming unless pro duction slumps and selfish factionalism increases.

Class consciousness and a philosophy of every man for himself among farmers, industrialists and workers could play havoc with our domestic stability and wreck the Marshall plan. But if labor, agriculture and industry—especially steel—will eo-operate in full knowledge of their interdependence, there is no rea= son to fear that the combination of Ameritan skill, productive capgcity and continued effort cannot win the peacetime battle ahead as it did the more dif ficult battle against the armed oppressors of mane kind.

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then picked it up with his net. He caught several this way. He ate one which he reported wasn't as good as the sawfish steak, but was stifl very tasty, The natives consider the four-eyed fish a great deli cacy. The four-eyed fish was only about eight inches long, while the saw-tooth one measured six feet, not including the saw tooth. The Smithsonian Institue tion attaches great importance to the fact that the

siour=eyed fish “bring -forth-their-young-alivesh mmo

Dr. Miller's work was a fish survey under the joint

auspices of the Guatemalan goverhthent, the state

department, the U. 8. fish and wildlife service, and the Smithsonian. Part of the effort was purely sci« entific, and part of the job was tosget information for game and commercial fishermen.

A Man Who Likes His Work

IT'S NOT PART of Dr. Miller's work to eat the fish he catches. He just likes fish and enjoys cooking them. He estimates that he’s tried between 40 and 50 different species, including shark meat, during his career both as an amateur and professional angler. Sawfish and four- -eyed delicacies notwithe standing, Miller says his favorite is still U. 8. trout,

He likes them either baked or grilled and with a little .

lemon juice. He says they tasté better if ‘your ent them in the open. Another fish that makes mighty good eating and which every seafood lover ‘ought to taste at least once before he dies, according to Miller, is the Guatemalan catfish. They aren't the same as the catfish caught in the U. 8. which few people eat. They're more like sunfish, and have a very distinctive flavor. The only thing Miller doesn’t like too well about being a scientific fisherman is what he calls the “un-

fair methods you have to use to catch the fish." .

While at college his favorite pastime was fly-casting in. a good mountain stream. He says it just isn't sport when you have to use .22 pistols, gill-nets and lanterns,

. By Lee Casey

‘Ernie Bevin Overlooked Denver Mint’

DENVER, Sept. 9.—It seems strange that Ernest Bevin, who wants some of the gold at Ft. Knox

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Dumping Animals or Trash on Country Road Is Thoughtless

By Josephine Buck, R. R. 1, Westfield

habits of people relative to our country roads. be losing their thoughtfulness for general good. I've been noticing trash dumped by the roadsides deliberately. appears people have one thought in mind; from their own property any way they can. of junk along one's fence. - Would you call t Also, how about the stray cats and dogs dumped out along the our taxes have roads? Many become wild and prey. upon chickens or eggs. { wild ALimals enough of a problem ‘themselves?

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and that-4o get rid of trash! {do these days.

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the dogs ourselves. The animals clothes for ourselves in three. themselves are not to blame.

We are supposed to be rulers and than ever. before. I don't know! to a foreign nation, By ET. O. Veleran trainers of animals in our care It what we're going to do if things | distressed it ‘may be. Put me down as being in favor we have too many young born we don't come down soon.

I've just come back from the Living in a rural district has brought to my attention the appalling | grocery store, my week's allowance

To me, people seem to gor 00d is practically gone and I'm blessed if I know what a family Tt with "a medium income is going to; My husband has a It isn't funny to find a pile! job which. pays him only a- little hose dumpers good citizens? more than it did before the war, increased, and alAren't the most everything we own is wearing We haven't bought a stick of | been less, than a billion. |dogs enter our feed bins and saw! furniture in seven years, or any new

| here in Denver.

Ft. Knox has bullion worth $12! billion. It's the greatest store of gold in all history, since the

{time men began placing a fictitious value on some-

thing you can't eat or drink and actually isn't good for anything except ornaments and to fill your teeth with, Here in. the Denver mint we have a tidy cache of $5 billion worth. That figure is five times the assessed valuation of all Colorado property, mines, factories, farms, office buildings, homes, oil wells—and ‘this includes the mountain of molybdenum over at Climax.

‘Colorado Earned Its Gold

IN: THE DENVER MINT, which hundreds pass daily with little notice, there lies more than five times as much gold produced in Colorado since the day William Greene Russell found flecks of gold in his pan on the banks of Cherry creek in 1858. Through all the bonanzas, with all the toil and hardships and privations endured, the yield of gold

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of universal military training for should destroy thenr at birth rather off” isn't enough. Prices will have 18-year-old (young men of the than to wilttlly cast them upon to come down or we'll go further into debt every Say.

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tomorrow, They will be better citizens and be more representative

of our country than were some men

Side Glances- — By Galbraith

of draft age in this past war. I'm referring to the thousands of men who were of draft age at the

under the sun to their, own hides and their little selfish interests by deferment until such a time as they

did everything protect own

{over, Their 18-year- old sons of today,| entering upon universal military

| prepare themselves for their own!

{deem their family name, Of course there were some justifiable cases, everyone knows that. But it's the others of whom I speak, {the guilty ones who will readily iredden about the neck and ears as But then 1 guess

|science to bother them. There was a time when I was] opposed to universal traihing, and| I stated so emphatically when the| siibject was broached a -couple of

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each one the opportunity to become a man, prepared physically, rye I have my doubts “about ever getting a And a good citizen, u know I'd look & fright, in.one of those house dresses!" - r Eat hal ' ~ gd - hl

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Colorado got its gold the hard way. "I'm not at

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There is” no logical explanation for the fascination WORLD EVENTS .

u. S. Not Telling Its

ISTANBUL, Sept. 9—The Turks want more from the United States than protection against Russia. They want education. To get American pennies for Turkish education,

| however, seems practically impossible, though getting | millions . of dollars for Turkish defense, first under | lend-lease and now under ‘the Truman bill, has been

easy.

'Meager Spending on Information

THIS IS JUST ANOTHER American foreign pol{icy mystery to the European observer. To him it appears that the Ameritans are determined, regardless of how much they “lend,” to avoid making any

| political impression on the people of the country

being benefited. Depending on his individual feeling

| toward America, this seems to him either tragic or | comic.

The efficient and smooth running wartime United States information service's office in Istanbul key political city of the Balkan Middle East, has been cut down from a healthy and useful arm of American policy to a weak skeleton. Economies as foolish as the lavish extravagances carried out by American loans elsewhere have been committed here, just at the moment when the Strategic importance of the Middle East is being recognized. ¢ The information service has moved ‘out of its

large, busy location on the main street of Istanbul obscure building of empty chairs and

| suspended services. Just when congress under the Truman plan Was voting $100 million to the Turks, some other committee on appropriations decided ‘to swing the ax here. Most nations would have quadrupled. their information services, in order to get the most from the good will of this gigantic gift. . To get the budget down from about $100,000 a year—§1 of ‘information’ for every $1000 of arms—to

that gold has excited in the minds of men through the ages. And there is, of course, a special paradox in the gold situation right now. Frank Vanderlip said that -anyone who devoted intense study to the monetary question eventually goes crazy—and he made the remark before we went off the gold standard and added another complication, Gold may not be sold, save to the government or for commercial or scientific purposes. Only the government may coin it, and the government hasn't been doping that for a dozen years. Possession of a gold certificate, as was demonstrated during the Lindbergh kidnaping, is unlawful. What's the reason for the hoarding? Well, I guess Mr. Vanderlip gave the answer. Nobody quite knows. When Gen. Mark Clark was trying to make his famous African landing his frail craft capsized and the general lost his pants, his shirt and 750,000 gold francs. What was he carrying that god for? ballast.

A Universal Tongue

ACTUALLY THAT GOLD was a part of a bigger load used by American officers to bribe their way through Africa and for the winning of a continent. The Arabs who knew no English coveted those tokens, because gold speaks every man’s language, Ther. The gold that ‘Gen. Clark didn’t lose“Wwith his pants helped win the war. I don’t believe that, worthless though it may be by current statutes, the hoards at Denver and Ft. Knox will be tossed lightly away,

. By George Weller

Story to World

$60,000, Washington fired five out of seven members of its American personnel. For all the hundreds of inquiries that come to - the. information service in the Turkish capital of Ankara, -there is just one American to answer; for the lively, chameleon newspapers of Istanbul, just one more American; for the two far- -sepgrated universi« ties, one American librarian. During the war USIS built up a splendid news service in Turkey, with” interesting features played

throughout the Turkish press. Until Aogust it was

getting the unheard of percentage of one-quarter of its offerings printed. Today the feature service limps along, but there is no American money for the even more popular daily news service. The photographic service, which gained much per«suasive space in the eyes of this heavily illiterate country, has been closed. Photographic files, perhaps the. fullest in‘the Middle East, are idle. By this bold stroke Washington saved $1760.

Purdue Instructor Popular - MOST. POPULAR COURSE at the University of

Istanbul last year was.American literature and world : humariities, given by Dr. Herbert Muller of Purdue.

Muller was swamped with students. This autumn there will be no course and no teacher. Turkey is still willing to pay $4000 and travel expenses for a “professor, tops in Turkey, but the U, 8. cannot find another $4000 to fill out the salary:

The American post at the University of Ankara °

isqalso vacant for the same reason. The Turks have requested other professorships in technical subjects like medicine. The answer is the same. The Turks also would like scores of younger’ Americans to teach high school English. They are willing to pay standard Turkish salaries. But the U. 8 government has no funds to fatten the stipends out to American

standards. , Millions for was bit nothing for democratic teach ing: 80 it is here today.

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