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Give LAght end the People Will Find Their Own Way

Mediterranean Offensive TALIN has chosen the Mediterranean-Mideast area for his latest political offensive, He is moving along a broad front from Italy in the west, across ‘Greece and Turkey, Palestine and Egypt, and on to Iran. This is not his first grab in that region, Its strategic importance is so great that it has been high on his priority list from the beginning. But Stalin is too good a strategist to ‘make continuous frontal attacks. He is a master of strategic retreat and change of pace when other methods fail. ’ In Iran he moved too fast at first. baijan before he had consolidated his position there.

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and his puppet government in the stolen province was so weak it had to flee the moment Russian troops were withdrawn. Now, however, after many months-of underground activity in Iran, Russia is moving again for the coveted prize of an oil concession rigged for political and military advantages. In Greece the new Soviet obstruction moves ard to counter American gains, The inefficient rightist regime in Athens has given way to a coalition government under the respected liberal leader, Sophoulis. This new regime has passed an amnesty law which is causing desertions from the Red guerrilla camps. If the large anti-Communist

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TEVE NOLAND, editor of The News, once expressed to the writer his. opinion that he (meaning mé) was more nearly a columnist than an advertising man-- : And right back, with trigger ;like quickness, came the highly original retort—"1s that good or is that bad” : . As a matler of record the writer is no stringer to column-ing-—-having appeared right here in this very publication—however, thie seismographs at Loyola and Fordham failed to note any‘ vibrations of the earth's surface at the times of publication, But mighty glad 1 am (herewith I leave the editorial “we” of the opportunity, Long have I yearned to burn up newspaper people and fellow columnists (ahem)~—for the snide, un-funny, uninformed way they treat Men's Fashions, They pick up most any stray wild hair, anything for a laff--or talk seriously about what some arbiter or dictator decrees, : There are no such male animals, The closest approach we ever had was a comely young man named Edward, who became thé head of an Empire--married a Baltimorsel (Times Editor:— Please note the Winchellismi, and lost his crown-kingly and sartorial. And there was a fellow named Uncle 8am who-—in a dire emergency dictated cuffless trousers and vestless suits Esquire doesn’t create style nor does Henry Jackson in Colliers—they report it. Gosh, here I expected to tear the newspaper people apart—to give the facts on the fascinating stbry of Men's Styles—even to the: lowdown on the short pants story that men are pantsing for ~and the “arbiter” says 250 words Do I get an additional column temperamental and say

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We ‘like the thittker who always thinks Even as you and I; Disturb us not with thoughts that put Our little world awry. ° . Makes us believe that all {5 well Since he and we are well; Holds us content. and smug and snug Within our rose-hued shell.

~MYRA AHLER.

~ first responses to.our invitation to send’ us contributions for this column was a request from a ‘veteran, who signs himself M. T. O,, for the words to the German song “Lili Marlene,” which was so popular with our troops during the early stages of the Mediterranean campaign. Can anyone accommodate him?

The high prices of liquor have meant less for Others still get soaked.

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Office Sourpuss— Better try the palm

Many fall styles have simple figures, say de- . but they're not talking about the

ATOM FEVER

The atom bomb, though small in size, Is everything Its name implies. Because of it man counts his days In new, entirely different ways, And out are methods as we've had ‘eta: It's one quick jump from Eve to Adam.

~RALPH SCHWAB,

Never Underestimate Power of a Woman

majority in Greece can be united, that would reduce thel —.

Communist’ plot from sa menace to a pest. Russia by a double-veto—her twentieth-—has worn out the patience of the security council, As a result, the issue of Soviet undeclared war on Greece, through puppets Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, is now being taken to-the current general assembly meeting by the United States. In Italy Stalin has chosen the moment of that counLry's restoration of sovereignty, under the new peace treaty, to call out more than two million farm and factory workers on political strikes. The Red minority is determined 10 overthrow the legal government. Though the Com-

munists are well-armed and disciplined, their shrewd

; Stalin-trained leader, »Logliatti. "thinks ; a, -soltening-unl “perioa of RIrIKes” 1s edd heTore armed vevoll, Te has["

picked a good time, for high prices and shortages have produced widespread discontent among Italians who are not normally friendly to communism.” ’ What happens in the United Nations assembly during the coming six weeks, what happens to the Marshall plan for European reconstruction through self-help, and stopgap American aid to Russia's potential victims during the interim, will have powerful effect upon the success or failure of the latest Stalin offensive,

One Way to Save Money N ALL states and cities the high cost of food is creating a grave budget problem for hospitals and other public institutions, just as it is for private families. New York City's welfare agencies, according to a report just submitted to Mayor O'Dwyer, could make a “considerable saving” by substituting margarine for butter. The commissioners of health and of hospitals are recorded as

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saying that margarine has just as much food value as butter and costs less than half as much. But the change can't he made because a state law prohibits use of margarine in public institutions. : | There are similar laws on the books of many states-—! Indiana is not among them—put there through the influence of the dairy industry for the purpose of protecting butter from competition. | The dairy industry has not been able to prohibit use! of margarine in private homes. do that, But so far it has succeeded only in getting federal and state governments to pass unfair tax laws that make margarine more costly and more difficult to use than there is any sound reason why it should be. hE Millions of families have learned, in the period of wartime and post-war high prices and butter shortages, that margarine is a wholesome, palatable and relatively inexpensive food. One way for these families and others to help bring down their living costs and their bills for the support of public institutions is to demand that congress and state legislatures repeal every law .that discriminates against the use of margarine,

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Whose Experience? | NE of the network commercials keeps dinning into our ears: “Experience is the best teacher.” We don't find these éxact words in our book of famous | quotations, : We do find (by Carlyle): “Experience is the best of! schoofmasters, only the school-fees are heavy.” (by Heine) : “Experience is a good school, but the feés are | high.” And this, our favorite version (by Benjamin Franklin): “Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.” The gist of all three-is: “Profit by the experience of others.” Ancient kings, knowing that, had official tasters to| sample their food and find out if it was poisoned. ° The wise motorist ponders the experiences of other| motorists who maim or kill, or get maimed or killed, and! then does what is necessary to avoid such experience him- |

self,

. \ . ! The fées of Teacher Experience are indeed high. We |

are foolish to pay them in any subject when we have free | access to so many lessons bought and paid for by others,

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He Doesn’t Mean Maybe | AS A MODEL for anyone who really doesn't want to run, we submit the statement made by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz when told that a “Nimitz for Senator” club was. being organized in his home state, Texas: “This is the first intimation I've had of this. I am| not available as a candidate. And, if 1 were available, I| have no political ambitions and would not accept the nomi nation, I request that all efforts in my behalf cease at once.” She :

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“ Ed 9 * * %* * * * ' SPENDING WITHOUT REVIEW HE CHARTER under which the civil city of Indianapolis has operated for many years is based on the plan of the federal government with some changes which were made to strengthen it for local purposes. It creates an executive department consisting of the mayor and his appointees. The legislative powers are vested in the cofhmon - council. There is also a city clerk whose powers are defined. The power to appropriate money is vested in the common council, elected by the people. The ordinance gppropriating money for all city departments has under the charter been prepared by the city controller and sent to the council. The council has. power to reduce the appropriations recommended by the controller but has not power to increase them, thus differing from the federal plan, During the present city administration, the legislature has given the sanitary board the right to make its own budget and fix its tax rate, without limitation, and this budget and rate is not subject to review by the council, The legislature has also given the board of park commissioners the budget which is, not subject to review by the council although the council may lower the rate,

original theory of our city charter, The experience of government in she United States and elsewhere has taught us that the legislative body, elected by the people, should make all appropriations. Boards appointed by the mayor are not elected by the people. If all of our city boards and departmént heads were permitted to write their own budgets, without review by the council, then we might have, within a short time, a tax rate which would destroy the community. The next legislature should give the common council full power to review all budgets, ~—THE OLD INHABITANT.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—The thing to do with Big Steel's prediction that the American shortage of steel products will be all over in a couple of years, is to file it away for just that long.. Then along about Labor Day, 1949, dig it up and see how right

THis prediction is worth remembering because it is sb like the predictions that were ‘heard around Washington from the same source in 1940, '41 and’ '42, Some of the long-haired boys, visionaries and planners, were then predicting there was going to be a steel shortage and somgthing had better be done about upping production,

Steel Short During War

BUT - THE - INSIDERS fought it off: — It had reached a record monthly ‘production of six and a half million tons in October, 1940. At th end of the year, Ernest T. Weir was saying, “There is no need lo expand plant facilities. Next year (1941) we will have a capacity of 85 million tons.” | Average consumption in the depression decade,

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three million tons and foreign orders not more than {10 million tons additional. Weir, and éthers, “couldn't | possibly see any shortage.” Yet by September, 1941, there was a government program to increase capacity to 99 million tons a year. By June of 1942, War Production Board Boss Don Nelson was Owing a shortage. By February, 1943, the Senate Truman committee reported, “We will barely be able to produce sufficient steel in 1943.” The committee blamed the steel companies, WPB and the armed services for underestimating requirements and resisting expansion. By June of 1933 Nelson estimated the shortage at 26 per cent of requirements, in spite of stop orders on production of hundreds of civilian items like bathtubs, washing machines, automobiles. The fighting stopped two years ago and the steel

| SHANGHAI, Sept. 18—On the eve of Gen. Albert

|C. Wedemeyer’'s return to the United States from -

{his fact-finding mission to China, friends of this strife-torn country are hoping his report to Presi-

dent Truman will be more constructive than was his parting shot at the Chinese National government. With Communist armies in control of" most of

Indianapolis Is Behind Times In Regulation of Its Traffic

By a Confused Motorist, Indianapolis

' [Toe Much Talk

About Sex Subjects

By I. R. L, City

Manchuria and great areas of North China, the { United States government.shortly will have to make {up its mind whether it intends to carry out Presi'dent Truman's policy of stopping the spread of com-

Something must be done about munism or whether it is more interested in reform-

For the past 15 or 20 years I have traveled over Indiana, Kentucky, sex crimes. But, to my mind, it ing China's moral code.

It probably would like to and parts of Ohio and Illinois. Of all this territory, I must admit that isn't the

the most confusing traffic regulations exist right here in my home town, They say the state controls speed limits of 20 m.. p. h. in business sections and 30 m. p. h. in residential sectiogs of the city. How do they! explain that at one time there was a speed limit of 30 m. p. h. on the! south side of E. 38th st, while on the north side there was a 50 m. p. Later these were changed-te 30 m. p. h. on both sides to the intersection of state road 67, which covers roadway where no one lives and where theré is nothing but open space. In direct contrast to this there is a 40-mile limit at the south -

section of Madison ave., where the rates of any in the country,

district is thickly populated. my own observation I know that They had a 30 m. p. h. speed i), cities and states where less accilimit on Capitol ave.; Illinois’ st. dents occur the automoble driver is etc, but decided to put up speed signs of “20 m. p. h. enforced.” They made several arrests, and

then decided that you could have been driving 20 m. p. h. without violating the law. Jt was decided to take" down the signs which said ‘20 m. p. h, enforced” and put up anapolis. signs which read “30 m. p. h. zone,” -

to left-hand turns. In short, they

poor morons who do these things who are altogether to blame, does not have the

There is almost no possibility of doing both within e near future. The National government “simply power to institute political reforms

but those who continually harp on clear down to the grass roots as Gen. Wedemeyer the subject of sex and keep it con- | insisted it should.

tinually in their minds,

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or paper these days without being |

THE GENERAL REPEATED the usual generalities

confronted with a sex story, quiz|about “incompetent and corrupt” government officials. psychological advice, naked girls,{He didn’t name names and it is.a safe bet he would

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city has one of the highest accident etc. That is enough to make the be most embarrassed if the Chinese government From best of boys or men, not to men-|should ask him to do so. sex

Despite his six-week “fact-finding” mission, it is doubtful that the Wedemeyer mission has any

What is gained by all this any- evidence of official wrong-doing which would stand

safety zones, at a rate of 35 m.p. h [know something he doesn't know,| in the greater part of the residential let him consult a- clergyman ‘or in China's government. sections, Traffic is not held up due doctor as they did years ago. For our own safety as well as officials for the past 2000 years, all have more lenient traffic regu- that of our children, we should as much a national custom as gum chewing in Amerilations than we have here in Indi- begin right now outlawing all dis- ca. cussion of sex any time, any place. !

allowed to drive on-both sides of way? When anyone feels he should up in an American court.

There is no doubt but that there has been graft There 'has been up and {down the line from counties to provinces to national Graft in China is

It starts with-every house boy and goes right

even though this was against the state law and yeu could still be go-

Side Glances—By "Galbraith

ing-38 miles per hour without vio-

lating the city ordinance. ? “AL aa. Q - On Washington st, between East mr and West sts, they put up “No \ Parking” signs whiclt- applied be- “R-—

tween certain hours. Tickets were given out to all violators, and then they found out that this had been a mistake and no one should have received these tickets. Speed traps have, been. set up, extending for approximately 150 ft in the 30-mile zones in which you are actually entitled to travel 39 m. p. h. without being arrested, So the careful driver travels around 30 to 35 m. p. h, and when approaching a speed zone, in order to avert a collision with someone who has pulled out from a side street, he kicks his speed up a little and is arrested because he enters the speed trap too fast. The speed regulations in Indianapolis are being changed so rapidly now that when I am away from the city for two or three days I have to

any speed laws were changed while I was away. It is my understanding that the

DAILY THOUGHTS Touch not; taste' not; handle | not.—Colossians 2:21, : BE DEAF to the quarrelsome, blind to the scoiner and dumb to the inquisitive, ~~ ~—Aughey.

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| ATHENS, Sept. 18.—Reports of troop movements in the north, coupled with the rumors of an armed {uprising in Athens, this past summer sent the rich lof the city scurrying to the waterfront to buy their | way out of the country. | They paid 50 gold sovereigns—$1500 in American | money at legal rate—for option on a seat in a sailing |vessel, They agreed, if they took up the option, to | pay an additional 150 sovereigns. This, mind you, | for merely a place to sit in a small boat that would presumably make Turkey or Egypt. .>

Long-Range Help Needed

THIS IS THE MEASURE of the fear and uncertainty that hang like a cloud over troubled Greece. It's estimated a billion dollars of Greek capital is in safe haven abroad, and American aid director Dwight | Griswold frankly admits he's not sure any way can '| be found'to compel the owners of the money to re[turn it to Greece. Here Griswold and his staff come up against their | greatest single handicap—that deadline on June 30, { 1048. Informed Greeks know that unless congress ‘takes further action, the paid program will be wound | up after that date. e | ‘Greeks keep telling themselves it can't possibly ‘happen. Most Americans feel that only the smallest ‘beginning will have been made by that time. A member of the aid-mission staff, with two years | experience in Greece, described the program sar- ‘| donically as a “breadline with guns.” It's more than | that, of course. But Americans here and at home | should understand the very narrow limits of what undertaken.

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CLEAR the atmosphere of extraneous mate ters for the 1947 municipal campaign and {

ing forward especially to the 1948 national referen-

dum, those who would mould public opinion should

now be content to leave it to posterity to decide whether the United States, from 1937 on, made, or

should have made, any real effort to discourage

a second world war er sought, or should have sdught, to evade participation in it. Necessarily or unnecessarily, our country is in the midst of an international mess and the way out will not be found “in the frequent use of such epithets " as “isolationist” or “nationalist” which paid such heavy dividends to some before and during the last ‘war. . ’ Has it become obsolete in the United States only for one to love his country and to seek the best for her? We can recognize that no one race has all the virtues; no one land all the beauty; no one nation all the achievements, and yet insist that our national existence be conservéd with a fierce patriotism... We should all strive to make our nation worthy of our love by making ourselves worthy of our heritage and by recognizing the obligations that flow from our privileges, An old proverb has it that a fool has his eyes in the ends of the earth, The true ideal is not a hazy, eénervating internationalism of cosmopolitanism. We wish our nation to be a good neighbor but we wilf be wise if we #ecognize that only insofar as we have a distinctive, national life and remain free and strong, can we make a distinctive, worth while contribution to the fami of nations. That ideal is not “isolationism.” Is is common sense, ~IVES, © » » ”

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Story of a Bull and 13 Bears

Industry hasn't caught up with shortages yet. The steel industry leaders still say there is no need to expand capacity, because they hope to catch up in two years more. The scene in Washington at which this doctrine

of non-expansion was revealed is one to remember, . 5 I PVA Raat ig ;

lican Senator Edward A. Martin's Small Business subcommittee to investigate the steel shortage were 13 of the nation’s biggest steel makers. : Senator Martin made a speech about how he was all for free enterprise. He repeated that idea half a dozen times. None of the steel masters differed

with him on that. An observer might have expected -

that, in this great showing of the benefits of fres enterprise, there would be some manifestation of intense business rivalry, of the cutthroat competition that is supposed to beat down prices and give the consumer what he wants. But all was brotherly love and 100 per cent agreement on everything. Just leave it to “business as usual” and everything would be all right. : : Kaiser Says 'Keep Growing'!

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no business disputing the word of these experts, however. Maybe they're right. But Henry J. Kaiser has been in Washington, preaching an entirely different doctrine from thas of the 13 Big Bears. His line is that America doesn’s have enough iron and steel producing capacity; thas the country is still growing; that the shortage of steel isn't going to be met for four or five years; that U. 8. steel production capacity has increased an average of 1,600,000 tons a year ever since 1900, and it should keep on growing. Instead of 95 million tons capacity ~—with four million tons capacity abandoned after the war — American steel production today, says Kaiser, should be 120 million tons! The doctrine that “Bull” Kaiser preaches is the doctrine of a still-growing America with a constantly expanding economy under full employment,

BACKGROUND . . . By William H. Newton Wedemeyer Makes China Enemies

up the line. And as the Chinese are too polite te

say, it is not entirely unknown in the United States

Gen. Wedemeyer's statement here—the only one he has made abotit- his China mission to date— offended and embarrassed the National government, It most certainly did not win any Chinese-Com= munists to the American view. Net result of his blast was to lose friends for the U. S. Chinese Communists, as Gen. Wedemeyer knows, have no intention whatever of stopping employment of force. They already have seized the most proe ductive region of China—Manchuria—by force and are trying to seize many other areas by force. The question seems to be whether the U. 8. is going to carry out its announced intention of stop« ping spread of-communism. It can only do this by immediate, caréfully supervised material aid" te the National government forces in the form of mide tary supplies and equipment and, if necessary, ine structors to teach their use. Reform Only One Issue TIME IS RUNNING OUT. Poorly equipped National government troops in Manchuria, where they hold the key rail center of Mukden, are dangerously over-extended. Stocks of ammunition are low. Once they are withdrawn, it is doubtful if China's gove ernment ever again could regain control - of. hep northeast provinces. Control of Manchuria. would make the Come

munists, and eventually the Soviet Union, undisputed

masters of the Orient. ; The mission of American policy, according te President Truman, is to stop spread of communism. Desirable as political reform in China would be, # is by no means the.only thing at stake here.

‘WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs

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$800,000,000 was spent on Greek relief by UNRRA and other agencies.” No one could argue, however, that spending $400,000,000 annually has checked deterioration and started the nation back to sore thing like a normal existence. This can happen only when the Greeks theme selves begin to believe in the stability of their coune try. Only a long-term agreement for three, four or five years can bring that about. That kind of commitment, signed and sealed by congress, would start a current of confidence. It would begin to bring about investment of* Greek money by Greeks in Greece. : Of the $300,000,000 mission budget, roughly half was committed to rehabilitation and reconstruction, Compared with the needs of a country broken by war and revolution, it's ridiculously small,

Economic Transfusion Vital THERE ARE small hopeful portents, and Americans snatch at them. The Greeks themselves have improvised a voluntary system ‘of road-building, Measured by need, even the original road-building program. now in the beginning stages, is pathetically small. ' sperate lack of transportation is one reasom for high prices and the black market, : “Greece is bleeding from deep wounds hardly apparent to the visitor, who sees only the noisy bustle of Athens,” said a Greek who has lived, and lived heroically, through the Greek tragedy of the past 12 years. : The economic life-blood of Greece has been al but drained away. The American program can per haps stanch the flow and stave off ban)

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