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Fateful Assembly

N fairness to the United Nations assembly, which began its second regular session Tuesday, we must not expect We can look to it for frank debate of charter violations and deepening world crisis. We have a right to demand that it register an aggrieved public opinion and an aroused public conscience. That is what it is for—a world

miracles.

forum.

As such it can create the atmosphere and impose the moral pressures which should make ‘solutions easier, in itself it cannot settle the major problems. It has neither the economic, political nor military power of enforcement. But it is a fact which must be ac-cepted-—until by orderly processes more power can be shifted from the security council to the assembly, the democratic organ of the United Nations, where it belongs,

That is unfortunate.

N addition to its functional restrictions, imposed by the charter, this assembly session starts with ‘other handi-

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RECIPE FOR IRRITATION

OU PULL UP to a busy stop street, shift into low and wait for a break in the traffic so that you can get’ across and be on your way. You look to the left, of course. There's an opening coming up. You look to the right. It's clear at the moment, but there are a couple of cars a blotk away that will be a' little too close when the near. lane opens up. You might gkin through, by straining the old bus and making somebody jam on the brakes, but you are not.that kind of a driver, You relax and walt for another chance, Then it happens. The man behind you thinks you should have-tried it. He gives you a couple of sharp, offensive honks. : What do you do? 8it there, boiling mad at the ill-mannered oa! who wants you to risk lives and property to save him a few seconds? I'll tell you what to do. I've just tried it; it works. The next time this happens to you, pull on your brake, get out of your car and walk slowly back to the car behind you. Be perfectly calm; don’t let your tormenter ‘see how sore you are. Smile politely and say, “Pardon me, were you signalling me?" Is anything wrong?” Ten to one he won't say a word, He will just sit there with a stupid look on his face. Possibly he will have sense enough to say, “Why didn't you go ahead?”, or “You are holding me up.” ‘In that case you say mildly, “Oh, is that what you. meant? I'm really awfully sorry. The traffic has been so thick that there hasn't been a good chance to get through.” In the meantime there have Been a lot of good openings, and he sees them and is beginning to get a little purple. Just before he explodes, you smile again and saunter back to your car. Take your time in waiting for the next chance to cross. He won't honk again, ~ROLF KITTERING.

caps. One is the lack of major peace treaties,

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HOW'S THAT AGAIN! °°

Burprises do greet me, As sure as you're born; Here tis a gem sefene, When I thought 4t was corn, ~—OMAR HEAVENLY DAYS, ~ ~ - ‘Instead of calling them presidents or premiers, many heads of states in this postwar world should be realistically labeled “receiver in bankruptcy.”

A ® »' FAITH IN COMMUNITY ODERN BOCIETY may have weakened {itself more than it realizes because it is no longer made up of genuine local communities, As our cities continue to attract people from the country side and the small town, community life which is the backbone of the republic Is injured, Present day society ii many of its expressions violates the laws of human nature in discounting man’s dependency for nurture and satisfactions that inhere in being respected as a person by the unit of society in which he lives. The absence of this feeling leads to frustration and to the demoralization of personality. People try to gain this sense of community by belopgg to organizations of all kinds—made up of professions, labor groups, spectalized interests, cults, political parties, classes and races, Too often this is done to gain some selfish énd or to marshal corporate strength to dominate some other group. In contrast with this pattern the true community unites cross sections of citizens in working together to provide the best possible life for all its members. In the doing of this all citizens gain a sense of being identified with the same segment of society, which is what gives the human being a real sense of security, Group sentiment plays a large part in the derivation of lasting satisfactions, The disorganization of true community life for

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brought about ethical issues of life. Each day in the name of conscience decisions are made for a national interest, for the ‘sake of science, for some deep prejudice of a class, for a fashion, for the thought control of some selfish group, for some theory of psychology, for a system of hygiene, for a profession, for a labor group, or for a political party, but not truly for the general good of all the people. In this way we have helped to undermine our standard of values giving a wide ‘variety of meaning to such good words as liberty, authority, justice, truth and democracy. fi Churches, schools, clubs, industrial groups and political parties can do nothing that will help more to rejuvenate the American way of life than to work unitedly as builders of the natural community in which they find themselves, =

~HOWARD J. BAUMGARTEL,

|. U. MEDICAL SCHOOL?

THE PROFESSOR, noting drowsiness among his students, lapsed into a spot of double talk to trap them. : “And finally,” he droned, “amputate the final section of the desiderata of fendered gamboge and saute until the antepenult is rosy in the key of G. Take caution not to overheat the ergs and drought the simplicity, Take whom out of the centrifuge at 3750 rp.m. and fwengle each one twice, then saturate the dingbat. Specific gravity the integration fawdoodle until 'sanctimonious fanods. Any questions now?” “Sir,” came a sleepy voice from the rear, “what do you do about the quellsome residium?” ~G. L JOE. ” » ” “Too bad some of those talkers who speak ttraight from the shoulder can't speak from a little higher up,” opines some sage.

OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer

+= #-%° ++ + Donald D: Hoover

millions of people in Europe and America has disagreement about the

HEADLINE HIGHLIGHTS | ted Him’ the Teen-Age Killer Cried. $4 In Hoosier Week-end Violence 4 Men Died. , | ‘GOP Asks Midwest Bloc in "48. : Rickenbacker Warns Against “Too Little & Too Late. Car Thieves Caught Red Handed; Two Confess. If Prices Are Too High, Says Taft—Eat Less. Billions Needed to Push Marshall Plan. 200 More Reported Dead in Pakistan, Sales Hit New High; Stocks Steady; No Declin Arabs Vow to Fight to Death for Palestine. U. N. Delegates Convene; 55 Flags Unfurled. Assembly to Discuss What's Wrong with World, ~POOR RICHARD,

x = %® WE ARE deeply appreciative of the response of those who were invited to write for “In Tunas With the Times.” All of our readers are Wels corfie to contribute . . . 250 words is the maximum, You may write on any subject, in any literary style,

n - - GOD'S SMILE . The clouds rained down their tears for days and days, - : The earth was filled with gloom. But God’s own smile broke through this mern’ , , The sun was in my room. i ~LOREITA BRANSFORD, |

OLLEGE COSTS C .. THE other night we were reading “A . Tour Through Indiana in 1840,” which is the journal of a young traveler of that date edited by Kate Milner Rabb. Here's what it cost to go to college then. Ace cording to the diary, tuition at Wabash (where Caleb Mills then was a member of the faculty) was_$7 per term, room rent was $3 for the same period, and board was $1 a week. At Asbury cole lege (DePauw), tuition was $12 per term, otheg costs about the same as at Wabash,

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Bachelor and His Accused Maid

General Lie and Secretary of State Marshall have pointed out, the purpose of the United Nations is not to make the

peace but to maintain peace.

From the beginning we questioned the wisdom of separating these two parts of the peace process—of leaving ~..bhe treaty writing to She. bie powers and, rubber-stampl.

peace conferences, and then expecting t

intended.

The cause of this vacuum and the second handicap of the assembly are the same. . It is the split of the one world envisaged by Roosevelt and Churchill into two worlds. The INALAY BRAK Axaaties have not been written, and the United Natiohs eannot operate #s=plarmed, because of Soviet obstruction—deliberate, resistent, ruthless sabotage. velt and Churchill at Yalta thought they bought Stalin's co-operation—at a high price in compromises of the Atlantic charter—but he welched on the bargain. So the overriding issue in the assembly, as in virtually every other international conference large or small, is the How can the peace-seeking world live with an aggressive Russia, or without her? Certainly costly experience has shown that appeasement is not the answer. We are convinced that the firm, frank and positive policy which Secretary Marshall promises to carry into the as-

same fateful enigma:

There is no simple or easy answer.

sembly is the proper approach.

Red-Blooded—Or Just Red?

AUBREY WILLIAMS—remember him ?—is baek in the We hadn't heard much about him since 1943, when congress finally pried him loose from: the federal payroll by abolishing the national youth administration. As head of that costly New Deal depression agency, Mr.

news.

he United Nations to maintain such a treaty structure however impracticable. But it is too late now for might-have-beeps. We must face the fact that most of the problems to be debated by the assembly are created or magnified by the vacuum left by no peace settlements with Japan, Germany and Austria. Until a state of peace is established with the major ex-enemy countries, the assembly cannot function as

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Williams fought to perpetuate it in wartime, although any |

usefulness it ever had obviously disappeared. he has been dispensirig his peculiar ideas without benefit |

of a government salary, and he hasn't had much public Few Americans Know Stress and others, he has OF European Living Today

attention, But now, with Henry A, Wallace

sew Hoosier Forum

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in a South side boarding house.

|adjoining in which he slept. One night; having “undressed beloresexs = the open fire in the parlor, he wound his watch and placed it with its chain on the mantel piece. Attached to the chain were two heraldic - ornamented seals and an intaglio ring incised? with a fancy crest. The jewelry appeared to confirm a detail of

store. the ring wis gone.

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[early every morning fast in the front parlor.

Hesitated Accusing Maid

larceny.

said-it looked mighty bad for the girl. exactly the way it turned out, too, for when the case

six months,

IN WASHINGTON . . . By

addressed a rally in New York's Madison Square Garden,

and won the hearty approval of the Communist party's]

publication, “Daily Worker.”

Where as Mr. Wallace denounced “Red-baiting reactionaries,” Mr, Williams, according to the Communist paper, | He ‘proclaimed that, “at precisely this point we must take our stand and defend the rights of |

“went further.”

any Communist to be an employee of the government. To take any less position than this is to throw overboard such!

primary rights as the freedom to think and to hold what- Incidentally, they insist on repaying jus with packages of books, the only

ever beliefs one chooses.” The “Daily Worker” comments: red-blooded American talk that late.”

has been

stantly is being dinned into American ears. It i8n't Ameri-| left them with sapped vitality and —— \ A . a shabby or worn-out wardrobe "ey § BEL y -y » $ ) : can talk. Freedom of thought-and be lief in no way depends | qq, are not starving. no, but se on any “right” to be an employee of the government. And/| vere rationing has meant that those who think in the ideologies and believe in the totali-| everyone in Britain has ® little, : : while nobody has quite enough for ae oy 'Q $y "0 ay x y : “0 y tartan doc trines of a foreign power—-those whose real| .,mrort and health. allegiance 18 to Soviet Rudgia-—-have no right to be em-! Much of Britain's present food K p ployees of the United States government. crisis is, of course, due to her

If Aubrey Williams is unwilling or unable to understand that elementary fact, a great majority of the American people fortunately understand it clearly.

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Hear Gen. Mark Clark

"TONIGHT, an observance in commemoration of 160 years of American freedom will be held in the Murat | temple, with admission open to the public without charge,

“This is the kind of|

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

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. — With Chicago cash | wheat above $2.75, and corn above $2.40, the gamblers

By Indianapolitan

lare again flocking into the grain pits. It's having [the effect, not only of raising the cost of living, but lalso of reducing the quantity of European food relief. | ~ Speculation isn't confined to the -big commodity worried exchanges in Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City or New

|G. O. P. Congress ‘Wanted High Prices

By D, V., City | I am wondering if you,

Having received many letters from English friends and American housewife, voted for these sky high York. Every farmer who holds back on this year's

relatives now traveling in the British Isles, I find.it impossible {to believe

{ statements in the letter headed “Shift Focus to U

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The constitution was signed Sept. 17, 1787.

Gen. Mark W. Clark, hero of the Italian campaign and until recently commander of occupation forces in Austria, will be the prineipal speaker at the constitution day meet-

ing this evening.

ance,

A Gourmet’s Extravagance

NYONE who buys butter at a dollar a pound, with mar- | garine selling at less than 40 cents, has only his own | persnickety taste to blame for that part of his*high cost

of living.

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The Indianapolis symphony orchestra will present a program arranged specially for the obsery-|Br Mr. Walter Haggerty, R. R. 6. City ’ There are poor timid saints who 4 aint at This meeting is well worth attending, both for the ex-|those who are ashamed at being cellence of the program and for the significance of the |

American constitution in these turbulent times,

if

i Needs.”

tremendous loss last year of cattle, grain vegetables and avable lapd-in the lever known, ‘common knowledge Very lived under such distressing condi- { tions as beset all Europe today. We can all small share of our food and clothINR to our neighbors across the sea, who get hungry and cold, just as we do And if we do, we shall form good friendships, of which nobody have enough in this world,

Believes Short Skirt Style to Remain

born, come to think of it there are those living among us yet who think short skirts are a sin and a shame to skirt is here to stay, Modern women tried 80 convenient, sanitary and sensible they are not very eager to cast them aside for all the extra material to press and keep in order. Just be. {cause some stylist and others eonnected with this racket wants to change things is no reasom for the

progressive to

professors, teachers, etc

S., "Not Foreign Such letters spread false ideas on a situation about which many American writers, newspapermen, congressmen and soldiers have recently told us the exact opposite of what the Forum correspondent says. The letter seemed to express the jaundiced views of a professional British-hater. > My family has sent more than 60 packages of food and clothing | to Britain in the past two years, and more gra

teful people than the recipients would be hard to find.| — ——

follow think the progressive type will have thing they have to send in return. more sense All these people are career folk, writers, norie would ordinarily have to be { helped, but seven years of strict raOn the contrary, this is the kind of Red talk that con-|

They have found being 'y a slave to some silly fad never got » ‘anyone very far and sister, if you fall for these boogie styles and long skirts, you may not be crazy but as

tioning of food and clothing have the saving goes, “it helps.” in,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

prices. If you voted the Republican harvest, refusing to sell because he thinks the price ticket you help to bring us these Will go still higher, is in his small way playing the

high prices. I heard President, oh

Truman say in a radio address that Big Traders Profit

he started months before OPA, ex- | " " pired to get congress to extend price| AS AN EDITORIAL in “The Farmer” of St. Paul

control until we were more ready quotes one northwest wheat grower, “Let the specu{for it to end but’ cohgress wanted lators go to it. All they're doing is raising the price these high prices to favor big busi- op my crop.” That seems to be the spirit of the ness so we all have to suffer for it./¢jmes. The highest in the history of the, wheat, corn and barley margins required were nation ‘and you who pay taxes on|reised from 25 to 35 cents a bushel, Oats was raised our homes compare your tax re- from 12 to 17 cents, soybeans 40 to 65 cents. Brokers ceipts with what they were in 1944 handling accounts for the amateurs—the little fellows before this G. O. P. took over here yh, like to take a flyer—usually require higher in Indiana. Our taxes are $50 high-|,.,0in Most brokers now require 45 cents a bushel, er in the two years they have been qh, in advance on cornsorders; But at today’s high market prices, a speculator with only a nominal $450 to gamble can “buy” 1000 bushels of corn actually worth $2600 or more. For the professional traders—the big fellows with

suit and I

worst storms the country: has

That is, or should be,

few Americans have ever

well afford to send some

can

the sight of blood and

behold. The reasonably short

them and found they were

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{pi meee ut tem. tet PAT. OFF,

"Did you let it out around the neighborhood that | used to be a government of the two major parties. Cleavage is carpenter? I've got two calls tonight from people whe say

they can't hire a man to do ‘a few little jobs"

say $100,000 to gamble—at 30 cents margin requirement on wheat they can control over 300,000 bushels worth nearly a million dollars. Brokers, of course, have to carry their customers

ATHENS, Sept. 17.—~While all Europe reels toward the gravest economic crisis, this extreme eastern projection of the tragic. continent may be lost sight of. The fact remains that it is here in this trouble center and here alone that the U, 8. is committed .to direct intervention, How are we doing in Greece? The answer must be: Not too well. But given the circumstances, this should surprise no one.

Hope British Force Remains | FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT is the time element. The. program the American aid mission is now attempting to carry out is based on information (supplied last December and January. Since then conditions have greatly deteriorated. Guerrillas in {the hills are expanding the area they control. The |economic condition has. wersened.

'sending the aid mission with relief, there came {another delay.” Nearly two months after arrival of {Mission Director Dwight Griswold stubborn leaders lof the Populist party on the extreme right were unwilling to share power with the Liberal party. on) {For a fortnight Greece” had no valid government. | “Now, forma week -Greece has had a coalition

deeper, since the two major parties disagree tund mentally on the form of government. The liberals,

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I WAS ABOUT 10 years old when I first heard the story of the bachelor living in sumptuous lodgings

As nearly as I recall, the lodger had the run of |two rooms—a parlor on the first floor and a room

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the story—namely, that the bachelor boarder was a German baron who, for some unrevealed reason, had accepted a bookkeeper's job in Charlie Mayer's toy

Next morning. whlien the bachelor-baron got up, The fact that he was a’ light sleeper left him no alternative but to believe that nobody but the hired girl could have taken the ring: The deduction was all the more plausible because of iT Sia seagbment. to lay the table for his break-

THE SERVANT was so nice and neat, so gentle; pretty and well-conducted that he hesitated accusing. her; but the moral certainty that she was the guilty party, together with the great value he set on the ring, determined him to conquer his scruples. The accused girl was quite put out when charged with the crime. And so was the landlady, who backed up the girl's integrity. Indeed, the landlady abused her boarder in such a manner that he, in turn, got mad; with the result that, in no time at all, everybody was fighting mad. This moved the boarder to bring the thing to a head, which was why he went to the police station and charged the girl with

The police, when they heard the barons story, And that's

came to trial the hired girl was put behind bars for

| On top of the delay of nearly six months in

Five or six weeks later when everybody had fore gotten the girl behind the bars, her accuser went te, Anthony (Tony) Bals' bakery near the Union station to stock up on tid bits, as was his occasional custom (and, indeed, a habit of barons the world over), While he was pausing, deliberating between pure chases, the sun burst forth and shot one of its beams “Hlotig te oor, BITHEE 16° Het. § gleamed vividly in a crack of the floor. The inquisitive boarder, who pursued everything

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once his curiosity ,was ‘aroused, whipped out his

pocket-knife (a Charlie ‘Mayer item), inserted the point of it between the boards and, to his utter amazement, brought forth the missing ring. He hure ried home, consulted his diary (which, someday, was to be the basis of his memoirs), and discovered that he bad patronized Bals’ bakery on the evening -of the night that he was S robbed.

Did Exactly the Right Thing ’ AT THIS point the story went into infinite dee tail to explain what had happened in Bals’ bakery,

Seems that the chain containing the seals and ring had come in contact with the edge of the counter

ang (US Ieravted “one rg: Af Wich, of course,

it had fallen to the floor and been trodden under the feet of Mr. Bals' customers until, finally, it had been wedged into a crack between the boards. Thus, by a process of elimination, the bachelor-baron was compelled to believe that, maybe after all, he hadn'$ left his ring on the mantel piece. Stricken with terror, the bachelor-baron didn't know what to do next. However, the way things turned out, he did exactly the right thing. He hur~ ried to the jail and told the police his story. After which, of course, there wasn't anything to do bug release the girl. And that's where the story stopped when I first heard it. So far as we kids were concerned, it was an eminently fitting end, inasmuch as it fulfilled all the exacting conditions of dramatic unity. Five years later, however, when the story again circulated the South side, it had a different ending; This time the remorseful bachelor offered the girl his hand in marriage. They lived happily ever after, And right then and there, we kids had a hunch tha American literature had entered its plush period.

Peter Edson

u. S. Watches Grain Gamblers

with Joans on the unpaid balances. It is estimated that there are now over $100 million held by brokers in trust funds for their customers. That gives a rough idea of the amount of money there is kicking around in today's speculative grain markets. Last week, Commodity Exchange Authority issued a special call report on the Chicago corn futures market to show speculative holdings as* of last June 30. Of 4300 accounts, 3900 were shown to be speculative. In such a market there is, of course, tremendous risk. No market analyst can today foresee any possibility for a reduced demand for grains. The danger of a boom market always carries with it, however, the danger of a bust. The ‘last such collapse was on the cotton futures market in October, 1946, when a lot of speculators lost their shirts.

CEA Keeps Checks 1

THE ONE AGENCY of the department which keeps watch on the grain market gamblers is the commodity exchange authority, headed by J. M. Mehl, This agency can have no interest in whether market prices are too high or too low, beyond the point of determining that current quotations are not artificial and that they do honestly reflect come ditions of supply and demand. The authority stations officers at all the majop commodity exchanges. Their duty is to watch for, and prevent, market manipulations by exposing them, But CEA has no power to police or punish specue lators. Authority staff members say it would stil be possible for some wolf to eorner a market.

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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs

U. S. Troops May Go to Greece

with a, base in deep republican tradition, are opposed to a monarchy. The Populist party favors. a monarchy and runs from conservative to extreme reactionary. : : The real question is whether the honest amnesty offered by Sophoulis will persuade the rebels to surrender their arms and come ouf of the hills, Most Americans with a long background in Greece are skeptical of the outcome. So are Greeks of genuige democratic persuasion who believe that the former government alienated people by the arrest and exile of thousands who were not Communists at all but republicans with a hatred of oppression and symbols of oppression, Americans here hope British troops can be keps on. Yet Griswold has recommended that an American occupation force come in if the British, in aa economy move, do pull out their troops.

Would Be Tough Assignment THERE SHOULD BE no illusions about the difficulties an American force would meet. The northern border is 700 miles in length, through wild, mountainous country. Pressure would be great to get the Americans to seal this border as essential to security of the nation. These are the grim realities of our uncomfortable

position on the razor's edge at a point where east and west meet. ; .

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TWO YOU? Northwest C World Affairs tended last s in Portland, C day. : They were young Pulitze Spokane, Was train they r Park. They h then a swin i they returned That night from the ‘Mic gress. And, a were to meé States delegat tions, to pres lutions pasesd ings. They will sessions of t and will repo lege congress and learn on a memorable go to Washin

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