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Give IAght and the People Will Find Ther Own Way

Fiorello La Guardia E was born on New York's lower East side, son of an immigrant from Italy. Into nearly 65 years of life he crowded an amazing number and variety of activities and achievements, His childhood was spent in the army outposts where his bandmaster father was stationed. He worked several years in Italy ag an employee of the American consular service. He studied, and practiced law. He served with distinction was elected to seven terms as a member of congress. He became New York's mavor, first to serve three consecutive terms, and for a time, held simultaneously the post of national director of the office of civilian defense in world war II. After that war, he tried his hand at directing the United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration. He became a radio commentator and a newspaper columnist when there was no other immediate outlet for his bounding energy and ceaseless flow of ideas. A completely fair appraisal of Fiorello La Guardia's gervices would be difficult. He could rise -to heights of public usefulness, he could and did fight effectively against graft and corruption, but he was capable also of petty and vindictive actions for. which it was difficult to find excuse. Anything he did was likely to be spectacular and controVersial Te Win Rim SA tH aa ROP par tays oy equATY "enthusiastic critics, But his was, certainly, a remarkable carcer—one that could hardly have been possible anywhere but in the America he loved.

Russia Howls USSIA'S attack on the United States in the United Nations assembly was new only in the sense of being more shrill than similar smears in the past. Vishinsky accused America of fomenting a third world war against Russia and of threatening to wreck the United He Accused us of dividing Europe into two hos-

base for our imperialistic aims, of dictating to independent nations, of using relief to enslave the needy, of making the Truman doctrine and Marshall plan weapons for world domination. He charged we were blocking arms and atomic control and conducting an armament race. Of course in almost every case these are precisely the things Russia is doing, and has been doing since Stalin began breaking his international agreements—of Yalta, Moscow, San Francisco, Potsdam and the rest. We do not discount this attack, however fantastic. Lies repeated often enough and loud enough are believed, especially in totalitarian countries where the people hear little else through the censorship. Vishinsky's propaganda will be accepted not only in Russia but to some extent in all the satellite states of eastern Europe. It will be given credence by a minority even in western Europe, where frustration, jealousy and neuroses spawn anti-Americanism. But we doubt that this blast is good propaganda among

the majority in the wide whrld which is still happily free from the Red brand of the police state. wv ~ . ~ » ”

USSIA is more clever when she tries to split America “and Britain. Vishinsky clumsily linked us and the Brit- | ish together in many of his charges. Likewise it seemed inept for him to use a meat-ax, instead of a rapier, on the Marshall plan. After all, 16 — European nations—all except Russia and her stooges-—are begging the United States to help them help themselves as | proposed by Secretary Marshall. In indicting us, he is indicting all the others. Isn't he swinging too wild there? Moreover, didn’t he almost knock himself out when he rejected all of the proposed United Nations reforms? Since a large majority of the 55 nations in the assembly favor] them, it might have been better strategy for Russia to damn some but stall on the most popular proposals. The fact that the Kremlin reply-—Vishinsky had to] wait an extra day to get his detailed orders from Moscow | —was even less convincing than usual is a 1 ibute to Secre-| tary Marshall's devastating indictment of the Soviet record. |

The Marshall speech to the assembly on Wednesday hit Russian aggression where it hurt. Voice in the ‘Wilderness ACK in the 20's, preachers used to rail against. the im-| morality of short skirts. But it is doubtful that they! got the public approval that a Washington, D. C., minister received the other day for his attack on the current fashion of longer skirts,

“They are immoral,” he said, “because they waste the! material that is desperately the world’s suffering people.” Women, he added, are humiliating themselves and making a mockery of theircurrent emancipation | by “following these imbecilic fashion changes like a herd | of ludicrous cattle.” We have little hope that the good pastor's words will stem the tide. -Still, there is some encouragement in the thought that, if the world must become more serious, at

least some of its members are becoming more sensible.

needed by

Only Part of Story | ‘A BABOR department tabulation last week showed, in the entire nation, only nine strikes involving 1000 or more workers each, The department's conciliation service reported about the lightest load it has carried since the war ~-134 strike cases, involving 52,000 workers. | Whether this comparative industrial peace is because ‘of, or in spite of, the Taft-Hartley act is beside our present

» point. That point is that government strike statistics, how-

ever accurate, don't tell the whole story. “Probably no agency—not even the government—could compile a complete statistical account of the total- cost of a strike, indirect as well as direct, in idleness, loss of | wages and loss of production. But that cost certainly is 80 huge that none of us can afford to feel complacent when such statistics as are compiled show that strikes Jre, at

east Soponatil, fewer and Bd than hey have been

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WE WERE NOT SO GOOD

ANY respectable men of 60 were not really good boys from 8.0 16. They were- vandals. Their Halloween pranks were works of devastation. They stole tobacco to learn to smoke. They had a strongly predatory attitude toward fruit, watermelons in particular. They played sadistic jokes on each dther. They teased and bullied the weak and unfortunate, A more highly civilized condition of life has made acts of juvenile delinquency more conspicuous, and has resulted in making more things unlawful. Pifty years ago ahout the only law one could violate in the use of the highway was in driving faster than a walk gver certain bridges— over which at that time all boys drove on a trot or a gallop to make the planks rattle louder, 80 for the boys of today--at a setting, “I, for their careless thoughtless sakes, Wad here propone defenses, Their donsie tricks, their dark mistakes,

haun Their failings and mischances.” © untngly

Home Ties.”

Acts of juvenile delinquency are given more publicity and attention than they were in the past. That may be partly because’ they: were so common in the past that it was not news, and partly besause we are determined today to stop delinquency. We work at it as a problem to be solved We do«not merely shrug our shoulders and say,

as ‘they did in the past, “Oh, well, boys will be boys travel new paths, Juvenile delinquency is another of those prob- their own hattles lems deserving scientific approach. * . .

I'll have more to say about this the next time the conductor of this column lets me get into it,

~JOHN HOOSIER.

==NYRA AHLER.,

| JUSTAMERE-JOTTINGS

THANKS fog which has come to life hand-in-hand with the popularity of the “pressure cooker,” a rich veifi of interest to the -public., However, it is easier to manipudate the cooker with its explicit directions for usage than it is to join the “Contributors’ Column,” for one is mindful that ideas do not flow until the pulse goes above 80, and must keep on going, if more than one idea is produced

the “Contributors’ Column”

both tapping

BACK TO YOUTH-Bince we are standing today on the doorstep, of college life, faced with The coddling time is-over, like the birds who throw their young out of the nest to try their wings, so likewise the mother must encourage her boy and girl to be self-reliant, think for themselves and choose for themselves. in the home is absolutely essential if education is to meet the challenge of life. This frontier upon which our ~young people stand today is not an easy one to explore.

mothers are the picture—' Breaking

Co-operation

It is

a bewlidering world which they face, for they must

build new shelters and fight Yet when have we had a great-

er promis# of leadership in the church than those we see. in the present generation? “We are born alone, we must die alone.”

~~ECHO.

Finally Got What He's Been Asking For

In Tune With the Times + + * + + + + + VORACIOUS HORATIUS

There was a young lad named Horatius, Who was more than a little voracious. He ate all he could, Three times more than he should, While his mother said, “Dear me, oh gracious.”

HOOSIER HEY-DAY R. S8EVITZKY'S recent article in “In Tune ‘With the Times” reminds us how important it is just now to be a Hoosier. : For many years, Indiana has worn a literary crown for producing a host of authors, poets and journalists. But soon our enterprising state will enjoy additional] literary distinction for Indiana is to be the setting of forthcoming literary works written by authors from many other sections of the country. With the emphasis laid on Hoosier folklore, it will soon be more popular to say “plumb tuckered out” and “clean over te Indianapolis” than to play basketball or to be a Hoosier sport fan. Perhaps it will encourage Mr. Sevitzky to learn that those of us who are natives of this country also find it difficult to keep up with the American language. A well-known New York author told me this summer that he was so infatuated with “us Hoosiers” that he plans to make some rural Indiana community the setting of a future novel However, he added honestly that he came out here chiefly because he liked our beefsteak. What has walking a million miles for one of mammy’s smiles got on us? As a loyal booster of bur great commonwealth I am pleased that there is some natural incentive for the nation's leading literary lights to come here. But the Hoosier 4-H club girl had better be careful or some handsome but hungry eastern author will want to marry her for her heifer.

=Ruay STAINBROOK BUTLER.

» » If you think you can write better poems than this column has exhibited wr

Why just keep in mind that every one of 'em has been contributed, ANOTHER GNASH.

DEAR BOSS . .

| { | | WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Nothing makes mav- | erick politicians more regular than to put them in office and promise to keep them there if they adopt the old copybook slogan “Now is the time for every

man to come to the aid of his party.”

Twas reminded of this truism this week when Senator Homer E., Capehart, who is now as regular a Republican= as Senator John Bricker, came to town. In talking about prospective candidates for the G. O. P. presidential nomination in 1948, Senator Capehart said that Dewey and Taft are out in front, as of now, in Indiana and elsewhere. He made no choice between the two but he took the opportunity to heave a verbal brickbat at former Governor Harold FE. Stassen of Minnesota. —At the moment Stassen wasin New York souriding off for a special session of congress to implement the Marshall plan. Being the only avowed Republican candidate, he has opened his own headquarters here (a block from the Republican national headquarters) and has taken off on a solo flight in. which he discusses all issues at the drop of his campaign hat LRAT el

Breaks Formal Rules”

AT ONE TIME. Senator Capehart himself was something of the sort. There is a story about his pre-cornfield-conference days in which he was undecided whether to enter politics as a Republican or Democrat. But he came in with a bang on the Republican side, beat the organization of his own district and the state and now is sitting pretty in his senate seat. And you couldn't find an irregular {blot on his partisan voting record with a naval observatory telescope.

Donald D. Hoover

CO-CREATORS

Men of vision search and grope, To find a name for a washing soap, While God takes care of little things; - Lae turning Winters into Springs. —“INTEGRITY."

ONE ON THE PREACHER

THE young people had gathered for their oyn session before Sunday night preaching. They were ahead of time, so one little lady mounted the piano stool and began “sending” with the most torrid -woogie.” The pastor came in about that time, and reflected that such was not the proper way to keep the Sabbath holy. - Finally, he eased up to the piano, and tapped the performer on the shoulder, . “Young lady,” he asked, “are you familiar with the fourth commandment?” “Without missing a beat on the keyboard, she looked up at him, smiled, and replied: “No, sir, but if you can whistle a few bars I'll try to piek it up.” : ~ ~ .

WAITING

A flower unblown; a book unread; A path untrod; a house whose rooms Lack yet the heart's divine perfumes; A landscape whose wide border lies In silent shade ‘neath silent skies; A wondrous fountain yet unsealed; A casket with its gifts concealed— This is the year that for you waits Beyond Tomorrow's mystic gates —HORATIO NELSON POWERS. - ~ ” What she United Nations needs is to emphasise that first word.

. By Daniel M. Kidniy

Stassen Not ‘Regular’ —Capehart

So, going back and picking up that brickbat he heaved at Stassen, he said he didn't like him because

_he (Stassen) wasn't on the team. In other words,

the Minnesotan is playing his own game dnd breaking the formal rules which seem to require Governor Thomés E. Dewey of New York to be Slauifke and

Senator ‘Robert A. Taft of “Ohio ws talk: ROL

Another point the former maverick, Eaton Caper hart, raised against Stassen is that he appeals tp minority groups for votes. He leveled the same charge against President Harry 8. Truman. “I think that to be a statesman you shgild be above minority group appeals based on purely selfish political interests,” Senator Capehart said in putting into words what he considers his own philosophy of politics. “Perhaps-the Republican-administrations of the past were too apt to be weighted in favor of business, particularly big business. I feel sure that throughout the Roosevelt administrations we had nothing but a labor government: In my opinion that isn't the way the government should be run. Ido not favor a business, labor or farmer government. E do favor one that will act in the best. Aniasesh of all. That is what T medn when I say I am a any candidate’ who caters . to minority groups Re votes.”

Hoosier Senator Now Regelor

WHETHER THE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY in the first session of the 80th congress hung up that kind of record is a matter of quite hot debate. But whether it did or not, Senator Capehart was right in there voting “yea” to the G. O. P- policy makers program. He is regular now. DAN KIDNEY.

BACKGROUND . . . By Walker Stone

Recovery With Us or Red Reprisal?

FLUSHING MEADOWS, BSept. 20.—After the | fireworks of this first week of the United Nations assembly has subsided, it will become more apparent | that the Marshall plan for the economic reconstruc-

{tion of Europe and the new Marshall political program to keep the peace are off the same bolt of cloth. The secretary of state himself has not linked the two, and the open expressions of the U. S. delega-

Hoosier Forum

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

Sororities Are Like Caste Plan of India ;

By Worried Mother, City We are now in the middle of the great college {posed to be the home of the brave and the land of the free. and yet hundreds of voung people are having their hearts broken and their self-respect being taken from them by a group of Greek Letter Societies 'T know girls wHo do not want to go through “rush” but they do not | dare refuse and allow themselves to become “independents.” On “independent” is supposed to be a creature who is so undesirable that

“rush.” This

no sorority will take her, On any coed Shrpus the question is, “What {is she? If shee is unorganized the. answer is, #She. isn't anything | What a travesty on our democracy. A great many people talk about the unfairness of it,. but no one. does {anything about- it. Two girls enter and gaiety., She fairly oozes selfithe ¢ ampus together equally good confidence and satisfaction. She has looking and J equally intelligent. a sorority pin. And what a shock Ohe gets a pin _and is a superior when she gets out in the world being and the other because she and sees all the wonderful things the has no pin is a kind of cutcast. “commons”. gre doing. ‘No matter Talk about the caste system of how kind she is she is hemmed in

India The sorority girl has a by her little lovely home and a Place for dances forgets how it

“clique.” SHe soon feels to be on the

Side Glances—By Galbraith

"Dorothy i © she s the boys at school are twice as hopeless as the ra : ones at home!"

4 Aa 2 - 2 Lisa ivy

very disappointed in her first impression of college— |

|outside.

Everybody is worrying about the minority groups and the

tion here doubtless will not. But in the Republicancontrolled congress, fed up with America’s Santa Claus role, and in the crystallizing opinion of the American public, beset by high prices caused par/tially by large shipments overseas, the two Marshall proposals will quickly merge as one. And the American attitude will be: Take both, or you get neither.

i {underpaid and the under-privileged . ~ {but no one comes out against this Nations Must Decide Soon

anywhere

{refined form of torture. Believe me]

THE DELEGATES OF SOME of the European

it is s0 real that some college girls countries that hope to gain most in American aid

tion give up thelr college career.

‘8 SUP" away from home facing the situa- under the Marshall economic plan, have been coy

in their response to the secretary's bold proposals ‘of

To an outsider that seems exag- political action.

gerated but talk to the girls on

any campus if you can get their confidence. pagan, = re ”

Theory of Socialism

Never Really Tried

By W. H_Edwards, Gosport

The British -and French, among others, have yet to state how far they will go along, for instance,

It is unnecessary and with the United States in protecting the territorial

|integrity and independence of Greece. So. have the Dutch, the Belgians and the Scandinavians, whose | sovereignty resides precariously not-too-far-west of Europe's iron curtain. It is believed the Latin American countries will stay with us. And Canada and Australia ahd South Africa. And the Chinese Nationalist government,

® Referring to the forum letter of Also the smaller countries, which by the. fortune of

Charles Ginsberg (Times of Sept. 5),

geography are farther removed from the threat of

it seems that he takes the spout- Soviet expansion.

ings of E. F. Maddox much too

seriously.

Sometime before this assembly meeting is many

Agreeing with Mr. Gins- weeks old, the decision will have to be made in each

berg that Maddox appears to get delegation—and it will be a hard decision in the

some of his information

to come from darkest Africa.

It is true, as writer Stpshere IN WASHINGTON .

Reshuffling the Railroads

states, that socialism Is a theo

that has never been tried Sy oy The nearest approach to a socialist government is that Zealand, yet even there the effective keys to real socialism, ! the initiative, referendum, and recall, is not used, and without those including the recall of ju-| leaves government towards

government,

of New

three, dicial decisions, with only an socialism. :

approach

from delegations of European “Mein Kampf,” some of it seems

countries—whether their

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WASHINGTON, “Sept. 20.—Application of Chesapeake & Ohio Railway's cocky Chairman Robert R. Young and its President Robert J. Bowman to sit on the New York Central's board of directors may be merely the opening round of a long fight to determine who will control U, 8. railroad policy and what that policy is going to be. Involved also is the future of a long-range inter-

Russia is not a socialist govern- state commerce commission plan to merge eastern

ment; over the many; site of all socialist ideals, has a labor government,

ideals. The socialist - theory

oppose the

teachings of Christ,

does not churches; rather its ideals follow strictly the

it is a dictatorship of a few railroads into.four major systems built around Baltidirectly the oppo-

more & Ohio, New York Central, Pennsylvania and

England the Chesapeake & Ohio, Nickel Plate, and, regardless .of newspaper propaganda, uses a scarce few of the socialist

Young Has No Merger Plan

IN THE TRANSPORTATION ACT of 1020, this consolidation of U, 8. railroads into a limited number of competing systems was declared national poljcy. In 1932 I. C. C. came up with its big plan. In the depression years, however, the railroads were all so broke they couldn't even buy each other. * So

The socialist theory is “A Gov- in the revised transportation act of 1940 the idea

ernment of the People, People, for the People.” expressed by

true ideal of socialism.

| DAILY THOUGHTS

But thou, O Daniel, shut up the |

| ‘words, and seal the book, even to ¢ the time of the end: Many shall

{ run to and fro, ghd knowledge |

| shall be tnerensed Daniel 12:4 um

by the of a government, merger plan was eliminated and That ideal it was left to the railroads to do their own merging. Abe Lincoln is the

| . A few switches have been thrown to connect | some of the weaker roads with the main lines, as [the IC. C. had originally planned. Pennsylvania | now controls Norfolk & Western and Wabash. | 0. & O. merged Pere Marquette. B. & O. took over

|a couple. But by and large, consolidation was side- -

| million. This represents a six per cent interest in

edge H is the aphassed| Y. C. and is the largest single halding. 4 exsesnce of bums

holding entitled this road to a N, YS: yang ot Wires.

This big C. & a

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healthful fmulu ot

hope of peace and recovery in going along with America outweighs their fear of reprisals if they fail to line up with Russia. Do they ‘trust the United States, or fear Russia, more? Can théy show the same enthusisam- for enforcing peace as they have shown for obtaining American aid. In his latest bid, to enforce peace, Secretary Marshall has behind Rim, in a greater degree than he has ever had before, the support of the Republican congress. The key man on the delegation under Mr. Marshall is John Foster Dulles, who was a special target of the vitriolic attack made Thursday by the Russian delegate Vishinsky. Mr. Dulles’ views are known to be in exact accord with those of Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, the senate's Republican wheelhorse of foreign policy. He is a close confidante of Governor Thomas E. Dewey, at present the leading Republican candidate for President. And when the once isolated-minded Senator Taft spoke out the other hight for a more

internationalist point of view, it was recognized .that

he too was lining up in the Dulles school. Even if Secretary Marshall were inclined to compromise, to make decisions easier for European nations who fear Russian retaliation, he couldn't go beyond what the congress and the American people will permit.

G. O.P. and Democrat Views Same

THERE IS NO INDICATION that Mr. Marshall wants to compromise. He speaks with the authority and approval of President Truman. And really, if you tried hard, you could scarcely drive a razor's edge between the foreign policy views of the Democrat Truman and the Republicans Dulles and Vandenberg. Moreover Mr. Marshall was general of the armies and chief of staff in the greatest war America has fought. His only reason and justification for giving up the retirement he earned and returning to public

‘life is to keep the peace he won.

Peter Edson

But the I. C. C.. has a policy that it will permit railroads to have interlocking directors only if it

can be shown that the railroads involved should |

eventually be part of the same system.

Therefore, if Young and Bowman are permitted to become N. Y. C. directors, it will. mean that the

I. C. C. is approving eventual merger of C. & O. and .

N. Y. C. That would ‘mean abandonment of the foursystem plan for a new three-s m plan in the east. . Young now contends that C. & O. and N. Y. C. are supplementary roads. C. & O. is primarily a coal road, originating much tonnage that can feed into N. Y. C. territory. Purthermore, he says that the mefged C. & O.-N. Y. C. would be approximately equal in trackage, tonnage and employees with the Pennsylvania-Wabash-N. & W. system ‘ Young now has no plan to submit to the I on merger of the two roads. If he is 0 Ne s sit as a director of N.' Y. C, however, he may be counted on to move in' and try to take over control of the big road.

His Needling Healthful

WITH THE New York Central under Young's control, he would be in a position to move against the American Association of Railroads, from which he recently withdrew to start a rival organization. A. A. R. is where U. 8. railroad policy is made. 1 Young is despised by all other railroad executives. The feeling seems to be mutual. Young is constantly attacking the managements of other

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