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AHP 18 a lovely thing to walk in the woods. Sunlight makes a finer patterned design for my fect than any out of Persia, and butterflies a winged garden to delight the eye. Every view is bathed in a soft and restful green light and & great peace-

quietest place I've been in for many’s the day.” Perhaps it is when the sun is up. But I went to walk In the woods the other night, and pow 1 am not so sure. The moon was full, and 1 walked across the meadow and up the hill. My woods didn’t have the soft green inviting look it has in the aMernoon. The trees were dark themselves and darker still beneath them. Somehow

Soviet Hate Campaign : (GROMYKO'S attack on United States policy was the

high point—or is “low” the word ?—in the Soviet smear campaign. The occasion was the meeting of the United

Nations atomic energy commission.

charges into one ball of mud and let go. Our government is trying to run the world, to grab

off economic privileges, to monopolize power, to destroy

the sovereignty of other countries. Such in brief is doing. Gromyko knew, of course, that he was not impressing the United Nations commission. He knew that, although the. Amerioan press would report his slanders at length as becomes a free press, he would win no converts among

But he did not limit light himself to that subject. He rolled all the familiar Kremlin |

the | sweeping indictment-—accusing us of the things Russia is |

| would not have been

| I sat down on ¥ the giant beech,

ment which my coming had halted began agair. A bat banked in and out amongst the trees and I could hear the beat of its wings. Gradually sound was added to sound until the woods were alive

In Tune Wit

fulness wraps me and I think “surely this is the

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und it tke § tossed pebble. Small fect patteres a little way off. Once there was a rush of black ey Sr 38 3 ligh SN 4): Due terror. Hunter and MR. CHAIRMAN: It is my understanding hunted in the dark, but there was that we are now meeting as a Committee of the death in that thin ery. : Whole, and that informal discussion, is in order. I cleared my throat. Everything stopped. Then We are considering the Public Good and how It began again. a Mttle here, a little there. I was we may best project that Public Good into'the suddenly convinced that this wasn't just exactly future of our commonwealth. the best place to relax, so I stood up started Mr. Chairman, we know by experience that down the ravine. Tt was a dignified At least when children come to the stature of young manuntil I caught my foot in a grape vine and dived hood and young womanhood they will insist upon a few feet down the hill into 4 patch of brambles making their own decisions. This is as it should My wife was washing the dishes when I chme be. Thus is progress best served. We are not in. ¥ think she started to ask about the scratches ourselves to make all the blueprints for the future; on my face, but she ed to think better of it but rather it is our business to build that charBut 1 don't think I'l walk in the night woods acter and understanding within our children again. They are so peaceful in the sunlight. which will enable them in their day wisely to care «BOB HOLLINGSWORTH. for the Public Good ' n,n» In this business we nied to act together as a 3 community. . . Love has the fragility markable institution organized a year and a half Of a silken cord, Mo 1 Indissapolis Maton SOM. This And all the bright endurance the Bible, under the law of our state. Four-fifths Of » tempered sword. of the children in the fifth and sixth grades in The silken cord was broken Marion county were this last By carelessly; 5 spring receiving such instruction. The BIGOT “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisThrough eternity dom.” Character, both private inf ghd : pends upon a sense of responsibility ~DOROTHY LYON. God. { Therefore, Mr. Chairman, in the interest of the

AE SE “MR. NOVAK" is confused about the Marshall

(newspaper) in Prague, and his quandry was reported by Gene Dawson of Indianapolis, interna-

, tonal president of the Aviation Writers associa-

tion, who has just returned from five weeks in Europe, He went first to Czechoslovakia to attend

a consultative conference of international airlines.

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Publio Good, I move that this Committee of the Whole of Indianapolis and Marion County give all needed support to the Week-Day School of Religious Education, -. ~ROY EWING VALE. . - . IF YOU enoy reading what others write, you'll get an even greater thrill out of seeing your own thoughts in print. This column makes its bow with the gracious help of folks who were requested to contribute in advance. Here's YOUR invitation

American readers. Why, then, did the Kremlin, whence comes Gromyko's | orders, consider it good tactics to put on such a show? Why lie when everyone knows you are a liar?

HAT is something citizens of a democracy never can understand. To our mind it is stupid to use self-defeat-ing methods, Yet the Russians, who are not stupid, persist at every international meeting in solidifying opposition, and] = “= ret even towed Wino wish to fae With them for ex-| - pediency’s sake, Hitler demonstrated there is method in such madness. We laughed when he first laid down the propaganda law for his followers: The bigger the lie the wider its acceptance, provided it is repeated often enough. But Hitler proved this works in a dictatorship, where the only “facts” and - “news” the people get is what their censored organs feed them. a Undoubtedly Gromyko was speaking—as Vishinsky will be speaking in the next six weeks at the United Nations assembly—to the Russian and satellite peoples. Even dicta7 tors, or especially dictators, must justify their policies to i the people in the long run. And the Soviet's war-breeding policies today require a great deal of justifying. The dominant desire of the people in Russia and the satellite states now is for peace, peace at almost any price. The growing conflict between the Kremin and the democracies is too big even for totalitarian “thought control” agencies to cover up. The people are apprehensive, Stalin at all cost must persuade them that this threat to peace comes from the west instead of from the Kremlin,

Apparently this is the explanation of Soviet officials’ steady repetition of lies picturing the United States as a menace, Whatever the explanation, it is nothing for Americans to laugh off. A government preparing for peace does not deliberately day by day propagandize its people with ! hatred and fear of the United States. That is what the Kremlin is doing.

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1] 31 Strikes Prevented

NE brief section in the Taft-Hartley act has led to peaceful settlefnent of at least 81 labor disputes in the last |

again. Some heavy beetle buzzed importantly by

Hoosier Forum

The stingy man eventually

Guided Missile or Trial Balloon? , 9 —

gives himself away

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

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LITTLE BOYS et

Little boys are grubby things, Always on their knees, a ins. Sop,

y = = Item on the Sept. 9 dinner menu of the Danube restaurant: “Head: Lettuce With 10,000 Island Dressing.” Talk about inflation! At the same rate, we'll soon be having 30-in-One Oil, 200-Mule Team Borax and Heinz's 570 Varieties,

| WONDER—

Have you heard of the wonderful one hoss shay

We suspect it goes to illustrate : City hall may be slow and the horse, sedate We just wondered which was leading. ~POOR RICHARD.

~ » » Fast stepping doesn’t help a bit in keeping up with running expenses.

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—8till jubilant over their overwhelming victory in the eighth congressional district in Pennsylvania, Republicans here were

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Capehazt's saying that the be an issue in 1948. One of them explained that the senator had just returned to Indianapolis from Alaska and probably

was “a bit out of touch with things.” Republican national headquarters here went right ahead inviting speakers to be available, if needed, to invade the 10th | Indiana district and talk in defense of Taft-Hartley. ‘Tough' Reserve Speakers Ready | POR THE TAFT-HARTLEY SETUP was made an {issue in the Pennsylvania congressional contest. For once union labor united to make it a test case. They lost. And the G. O. P. high command believes the same result will come in the contest shaping up for a successor to the late Rep. Raymond 8. Springer !in Indiana. They point out that Mr. Springer battled the P. A. C.-C. I. O. in his last election and got the largest majority he ever received during his five terms here. All of the speakers sounded out on taking part in the Indiana campaign (if invited by the Republican state committee and 10th district organization) are tough pro-Taft-Hartley talkers. They were chosen to stump, if necessary, in such hot C. I. O. centers as Connersville, New Castle, Muncie and Richmond. The list includes er of the House Martin of Massachusetts, Majority House Whip Leslie C. Arends of Illinois, Reps. J. Caleb Boggs of Delaware, John Jennings of Tennessee, Clarence J. Brown of Ohio and Senator Raymond E. Baldwin of Connecticut. The latter recently gained considerable notice by publishing a scorching piece in the American maga-

Taft-Hartley law will not

WARSAW, Sept. 13.—In most of Poland's newspapers, a continuing barrage of propaganda fgainst the United States is carried. Much of this is a mere echo of the Moscow lines— monopoly capitalism, dol-

lar diplomacy, and other phrases shopworn stock-in-trade of communism.

The Polés have their own concept of America as

Six weeks, ¢

The section says that, if the new federal conciliation service can't bring the disputing parties into agreement in a reasonable time, it shall propose a voluntary secret ballot among the workers on whether to accept or reject their employer's last offer, Workers and unions are left free to turn down such

The admiral, like many. other

particular Taft-Hartley provision would lead to “slavery.” Rule originated with Christianity.

But many of them objected to it anyway. They said it was insulting and foolish to suppose that workers, voting secretly, would’ accept offers which their union officers and negotiators had refused te approve.

as you do by your own.”

to do to you, do not unto him.” Zoroastrianism (1000 B. C.): as you would be done by." Buddhism (600 B. C.): “One So far the plan has been followed in about should seek for otheré the happiIn 31 of these the workers voted to accept their |ness he desires for oneself.” employers” last settlement offers, and in 25 they voted not! Confucianism (550 B. C.): “What

RANG Ba . ’ you do not wish done to yourself, to accept, The results of the others haven't vet been re- do not unto others.” e

ported, | Onristianity (30 A. D):

Well, since the Taft-Hartley bill became law, the con-' >

ciliation service has been proposing secret balloting in stubborn disputes.

30 cases

“All

This geesn’t mean, of course, that the Taft-Hartley ‘Mins whatsoever ye would that act's autl hav Rs v {men should do unto you, do you acl s authors have discovered a panacea. It does strongly even so to them.” suggest that they have provided a method which, in many| Mohammedanism (622 A. D) instances, can help to prevent strikes and bring about set- “let none of you treat your brother tlements on terms satisfactory to a majority of the work- , re or he. himselt, Youle dislike

to be treated.” . It 18 not swprising that our It also suggests, we think, that there wasn't much morals ie hoy ep Duis i " : hh : i ; . material progress, for e bui { ee a rw lon leaders said against this particular of ein differs widely from the ruey provision. And that, quite probably, experi- building of machines. After a few ence with the new labor law will prove that there isn't

expert much merit in their violent objections to practically all OW Jarre Saitaln naw) ~ of its other provisions.

forces, even a moron can easily

ers concerned

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the machinery that harnesses these |

that the people who must build | {character (parents and teachers) | {should know something science has!

Chivalry Wins in Warrior took his wife to visit the revealed about the hunmn mind. |

A CITIZEN from Gadsden, Ala. A . | nearby metropolis of Warrior last week end, overcome Without this knowledge, they can-|

| by affection or something kissed her twice in front of the wit a Jighast | Jupeess | Warrior drug store. He was, promptly,

with any child, and will’ fail com- | arrested, haled pletely with certain types of before Mayor L. A. Bowers and fined $27 : of “indecent conduct in a public place.”

50 | children. ma charge) We havé always tried to control {human conduct by the only known | If that were all of the story, method —promises of rewards and, to conclude that sout / 'mingly, | Punishments, Because many of ® opciude that uthern gallantry has ebbed alarmingly, | these promises could not be fulat least in arrior, Ala. However, we are pleased to learn! filled, this method has not been a that several Warrior residents chipped in to help pay the! fine of the Gadsden man, who left town without giving his name, and that one of them— Alderman Robert Gillsepie— explained; : i “We felt he was being mistreated.

* against the law, that I know of, to downtown corner here.” :

we should he compelled

now know a method in which the’ rewards and punishments are ab-/ solutely certain. This consists of developing a sensitive conscience in the child. ; He who builds a sensitive con- | science, builds a moral character. I1f most parents and teachers could be brought to realize the tremen-

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It's never been! kiss a woman on a

“Golden Rule’ Is Common to All Great Religions, Not Only One

By L. A. Jackson, Box 43, Vernon In a recent address Adm. Yarnell said “The material and scientific POEM, to me was a knockout. development of man has far outstripped his moral development, which seems to have progressed little, if any, since the Golden Rule was given

proposals, so union leaders could hardly charge that this to: the World nearly two SHoUSand_ Yeats ago; great religions expressed this principle as follows: Hinduism: “The true rule is to guard and do by the things of others

Judaism (1300 B. Q.): “Whatever you do not wish your neighbor

scientists have discovered

{learn how to do his part in building |.

forces. But we have recently learned |*

success. But thanks to science, we

Are

By L. W. Heagy Barton

people, seems to think the Golden| But history tells us. that the seven

dous importance of this work, they| here

'Happy Hour' Poem Likened to Riley's Pogue's

Scanning the Saturday Times and without a care as to whose poem it might be, I read it hurriedly. Each {succeeding verse proved more interesting in mirth, cheerfulness and {rollicking manner. {mind “Old Swimmin’ Hole,” 7Out to Old Aunt’ Mary's.” I thought it |was cadged from (Honest) Riley, until I looked at the heading. A “Jim Riley” 2d, I hope.

{DAILY THOUGHTS the prisoners. rest to-

‘a great, rich, favored country—and, yes, a generous country. Memory of Woodrow Wilson and his championship of Poland's cause goes down fairly deep.

Say U.S. Favors Enem “Happy Hour" | UT ONE LINE OF ATTACK is bound to be | effective with Poles of whatever political opinion. That is the charge that the United States intends to build up Germany and, what is more, give German reconstruction priority over Polish reconstruction. When you see the careful, scientific destruction that the Germans wrought on this city and when you begin to take in the extent of their monstrous barbarism directed against the Polish people, you have some idea of the hatred that exists here. . Scarcely a family, rich or poor, that does not have a tale of the cruelty that. befell one of its members. Small wonder, then, that the government, dominated by Communists in key positions, is hammering on the propaganda theme that the U. S. is favoring

It brought to

would begin an intensive study of gether; they hear not the voice | Germany to the neglect of Poland. Jakub Berman,

the literature on child training. of the oppressor.—Job 3:18. be

This, I believe, would do more in|

one generation to improve man's] HEAVEN will

| key government figure, went so far in an interview with me as to say that the underground in Poland inherited by aimed against the present regime was, given direct

morals than has ever been done by every man who has heaven in his/ assistance from the American zon€ of Germany.

all other agencies. soul, wenn <li

~—Henry Ward Beecher.

Perhaps there is nothing we can do to counter

this propaganda. But it does seem to me that we might try a little harder, : For an American official facing the attacks here

Side Glances—By Galbraith

{day after day, and with them the continuous frus-

‘BACKGROUND . . . By Hal

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WARNINGS of Europe's: desperate plight have assumed a new tone of dismay and fright. Lingering doubts as to the reality of its needs vanish as the reports pile up in Washington, \ « Obviously, the timetablé for extending help from America must be revised, with congressional action on the Marshall plan in November instead of January. By January, the situation on the continent might be completely out of hand,

Result More Costly Than Help IF NO FUNDS have been appropriated by congress until February or March, the damage to American interests and to our prestige throughout the world will be irretrievable. Months ‘of desperation will be January and February, as they were this past winter. That means almost immediate action. We are pledged to provide the food and the materials to carry Europe through this winter. It would be folly to try to carry out the pledge after the people who expect it have endured starvation and cold during a long debate over ways and megns of providing it. 4 American observers have. looked into every part (of western Europe and all agree that the situation ‘will explode unless the ships carrying supplies are ‘en route across the Atlantic this fall and early | winter. Just what is meant by “explode” is left to

this

DEAR BOSS . . . By Daniel N. Kidney

Capehart Off on Taft-Hartley Issue

zine saying that freshmen Republican senators received no consideration on the policy making levels, That this would not hurt him in Indiana was pointed out, because both Senator Capehart and Senator

-of Sepelor. Hemer: Eowyn 1 Jenher are first termers. “Afi neither one

was in the inner-circle of the policy-makers, & group headed by Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Speaker Martin is no ball-of-fire on the stump, but he has an earthy way of emphasizing the obvious that oftentimes makes a hit, Coming from the Tennessee hill country around Knoxville, Mr. Jennings is one of the best droll story-tellers in the house. Mr. Arends is a close friend of Majority Leader Charles A. Halleck of Indiana, But Mr, Brown remains somewhat of a Halleck enemy; since he didn't win the house leadership. Both are good on dishing out the old-line G. O. P. gospel. Mr. Boggs is a freshman from the tiny state of Delaware and a world war II veteran. The entire list voted for the Taft-Hartley law and to override President Truman's veto of it. . Only Senator Baldwin voted for softening amend ments, G. O. P. headquarters was somewhat reluctant to reveal the list of possible speakers. They pointed out that in California they won a contest because the

Democrats dragged in so many national speakers -

that the Republicans raised the cry of carpetbagger, What, No Issue!

say that Senator Capehart’s saying it isn't an issue only will make sense by if they have defeated the Democrats so that they (the Democrats) will not want it - ‘DAN KIDNEY,

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs

Poles Eye Our Help to Germany

trating tactics of the government, life takes on a ‘grim aspect, Our former ambassador Bliss Lane, resigned in high dudgeon and wrote an angry article denouncing the Polish government, with emphasis on officials, such ‘as Berman, whom he regards as sinister agents of Moscow, ' Recently that article was read into the political trial at Cracow, at request of the prosecutor, as proof of American hostility toward Poland. Plainly the prosecutor, a government propagandist using the soe called court as a sounding board, regarded the article as a valuable weapon in the warfare against America. What is needed above all else is unending tact, patience, perseverance and judgment to apply. the propef degree of firmness at the proper time. These ‘are not’ common qualities, Our present ambassador is Stanton Griffis, a busie nessman. He is seconded by an able career diplomat, Edward 8. Crocker, who recently came’to Warsaw as counsellor. .

Effective Propaganda, Too ; HOW FAR the Polish government intends to push the political trials, no pne can say. They may go so far as to arrest and condemn that brave man, Stanise law Mikolajczyk. Mikolajczyk refuses to leave Poe land even though his position is daily becoming more tenuous and uncertain as his Peasant party is robbed of prestige, position and funds, | “Ald to Germany is the cat in the bag in the Marshall plan,” says the leading Socialist paper which hammers the anti-American line almost harder than do the Communist sheets. This js the most effective propaganda attack, coupled with the fact that Poland was denied relief by the U. S. That attack cane not be met by emotionalism. It will take more than we have shown thus far to hold our own in this dife ficult outpost. ‘ :

O'Flaherty

Europe Will Explode Without Aid

ment; financial upheaval with currencies losing value; extension of black markets and illegal trading. Over all will arise protest against the economic’ and political system responsible and a groping for other means of providing a living standard above the subsistence level. If such an explosion occurs, the cost to the U. 8. would be greater than any foreseeable expenditures on relief.

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The European conference of 16 nations Is come

pleting a report to be forwarded to Secretary of State Marshall next week answering request for indications of self-help in return for aid. This will outline immediate needs, probably with an appeal for an immediate appropriation of around $2% billion to carry the signatory nations through the early winter. Actually, the conference could not estimate needs in dollars for a period of four years without going into wildest guessing as to what food and materials. would be worth. Consequently, the problem will center on immediate needs, Extra Session Must Come a THERE ARE MANY intangible benefits in quick action. Greatest need of all Europe is for coal England cannot supply it. Ruhr mines must be called on to do the job. We can supply the Ruhr with machines and equipment if funds for

many ‘Only all of be

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