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Tut, Tut, Mr. Halleck /*RER. CHARLES A. HALLECK of Indiana, majority leader of the United States House of Representatives, came to Indianapolis to make a speech last night ip behalf of William H. Wemmer, Republican candidate for Mayor in next Tuesday's election. Personable, powerful and persuasive Charlie Halleck is a big-time campaigner, He is good enough at it to have been the head of the GOP congressional campaign committee in the last national election, charged with laying the successful strategy in many tough fights over the country which resulted in victory for his party at the polls. But Charlie overheached himself a bit last night when he discussed “the basic issues involved in the election next Tuesday and in 1948.” And he went too far, in inference, when he said that “the Republican party is not the party that the New Dealers, Communists and fellow-travelers seek for refuge as a vehicle to overthrow our republican form of government.” “That is why we are Here tonight,” said Charlie. “We have a historic job to do. The American way of life-is under attack, both at home and abroad. Our job is to repel that attack, And let there be no mistake about it: In many respects the enemies within our borders are more dangerous than those without.”

» mw » ” Now Charlie, don’t you think you might he a little bit out of touch with the way things are going here at home. Don’t you think that the word buncombe is a pretty accurate description of those high-flown phrases. We do. There is no national issue involved in this election. One reason that is true is that the legislature passed a skipelection law so that cities could hold their local elections on the basis of local questions — the efficiency of the police, garbage and ash collection, maintenance of streets, health protection, traffic control, et cetera, The tariff, the Commies, federal taxes, national deficit financing, the “American way of life,”” Mr. Truman's belief in the New Deal doctrine of “spend, tax and elect” — none of these has anything to do with this election, Charlie, and you know it. So, at the risk of offending a congressman we admire —as a Congressman and a national political leader—we say that Rep. Halleck is raising strictly phoney issues. His oratory will not confuse the voters of Indianapolis. When these voters go to the polls Tuesday, those who vote for Mr. Wemmer won't feel they're striking a blow to repel an attack on the American way of life by enemies boring from within, They'll vote for Mr. Wemmer beuse they believe him to be the man best qualified for the b of Mayor of Indianapolis, And those voters who vote for Al Feeney won't feel that they're aiding anyone to bore from within or that they're joining with “New Dealers, Communists and fel-low-travelers” to overthrow the government. They'll vote for Mr, Feeney because they believe him to be the man best qualified for the job of Mayor of Indianapolis. » » LETS not be Kidded into mjxing national {sues with local ones, 9 Whichever man is slotted, we will have a good mayor. " But let's decide on the basis of quafifications and affiliations, not phoney Commie scares and attacks on the man in the White House,

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De Gaulle Gets Going : THouGH the Gaullist movement apparently did not do so well in the Sunday runoff and smaller municipal elections as in the larger cities the week before, the dour general has re-established himself as the principal political figure in France. : The Reds are responsible. Creation of the new Communist International to which French Red leaders are more loyal than to their own country, and Communist strikes to wreck the wobbly French economy and to sabotage the Marshall self-help plan, have embittered increasing numbers of Frenchmen. They want to prevent Red control and they are afraid the numerous existing French parties are not strong enough for that job. So when De Gaulle steps out of retirement and calls on them to save the country from communism and chaos, they rally to the extent of about 40 per cent of the population, We welcome this, even though we do not like De Gaulle's record, We do not forget that when he was in power before he gave the Reds a favored position, he played Russia against the United States and Britain, he put nationalization and French imperialism above financial reform, and he was so high-handed he turned against his own political aids and party. Nevertheless we welcome the present popular swing toward him because he is the only French leader today with the courage and capacity to rally the sorely divided French people. Without unity and faith they cannot withstand alien penetration and wrecking tactics, or rise to the selfhelp program so essential to their survival as a free people. Whether De Gaulle will be equal to the task of leadership we.don't know. Whether he has learned by past mistakes, only the future can tell. But it is with this hope that Frenchmen are turning to him, and that is a good thing. They are not seeking him as a dictator but as the alternative to dictatorship. The fact that most Americans do not like De Gaulle is unimportant. What matters is whether the French like him. It is for them to make thejr own choice, just as we reserve that right for ourselves here. 3

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MES. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH recently arrived in New \ York from France. The French Line sent out a news hse announcing the sailing. And how did it identify her—as the distinguished writer, or as-the wife of one of Shia country’s most popular heroes whom Frenchmen as well almost tore apart in wild adulation? No, was identified as “daughter of former Ambassador

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The delight, therefore, with which I greeted the le announcement of “Another Part of the Porest” was not so much a tribute to that excellent, if depressing, drama as it was an expression of heart-felt gratitude for the opening up of a new quarry for names, the stage directions from Shakespeare's plays. The possibilities are endless, and the paragraphs practically write mselves, Consider for a moment the open lines of “Julius Caesar.” It begins, as you will or will not recall, with the direction, “Enter Flavius, Marcellus and certain Commoners,” followed by Flavius’ speech, “Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home!” and closes, after some apologetic debate, with another direction, “Exeunt’' all the Commoners.” That scene should be remembered, It is not, I think, often quoted, and yet, in a way, does it not epitomise the history of society? It has been enacted so many times since the day when man first learned to clothe himself in skins and hold converse with his fellows, as many times, indeed, 4s the “commoner” has presumed to obtrude himself upon a stage already comfortably peopled by his self-appointed betters; and nearly always it has prosaically proceeded to its intendea climax @) abashed obedience. The exceptions, the rare occasions on which dismissal has been answered by defiance, we call revolutions; and even then, after the first delirious moments of happy chaos, a new Flavius has always appeared and + + + “Exeunt all the Commoners!” ~FRANCIS H, INSLEY. * © Your jaws generate electricity when you eat. Just dine at any expensive restaurant and you'll notice the charge, * © 9

PUMPKIN FACE

Gee! I'd like to be a pumpkin face With great hig goblin eyes! I'd rather be a pumpkin face Than a dozen pumpkin pies,

I'd sit upon a high-up post All draped with sheets so white, I'd make big eyes at all the boys Until they'd shake with fright!

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OCTOBER

Bing not to me of June This is October Praise not the folded bud I am a lover Feasted with amber grape Apples of earth's own shape Ripened October,

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 30-~When a group of Amerlean officials got hold of the working papers which served as the basis for drawing up Marshall plan requirements of The Netherlands government; it was found that the figures were completely unrealistic. The aid requested under the four-year plan drawn up at Paris was obviously greater than needed. This over-estimate was called to the attention of the Dutch foreign minister. He admitted that the demands were high, He explained that he had tried to persuade his government to put in lower estimates, but had been voted down in cabinet, The attitude of the cabinet was that all the other governments in the 16-nation Paris conference for European economic co-operation would submit ine flated demands. If the Dutch did not do likewise, it was felt they would be at the bottom of the list and would therefore look bad. This story is typical of the Marshall plan criti cisms which are now piling up in Washington. They are all going to spill out on the floor of the House and Senate in the coming special session of Congress,

Europeans Hoarded Billions

ANOTHER FLAW TO BE FOUND concerns the hoardings and concealed assets of the European people. Jean Monnet, French economic planner, has estimated that at least $2 billion in gold and Swiss francs may be hidden by frugal Frenchmen in their socks and mattresses, This may be a conservative estimate, . The reason the French people now bury their wealth is that they have no confidence in the value of their currency. But the problem this hoarding raises for U, 8. congressmen—why should they ask American taxpayers to foot the bills while there is all this hidden wealth in France? Other reliable reports in Washington indicate that French agriculture will present a whole series of problems, This year, the French planted only enough acreage to yield three million tons of cereals. Peasants chose, instead, to put their land in pasture and

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edion Some Bugs in the Marshall Plan

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The British problem is sized up quite differently by these same authoritative sources, To increase Britain's basic coal production, mere mechanization and introduction of American mining methods are no longer considered sufficient. Britain's basie trouble is said to be”lack of consumer goods. There is nothing in the stores to buy. So the miners work less than their full week and speni the extra time in the country trying to find an extra egg or a few ounces of butter. And the U. 8. is asked to supply the extra coal the British don't mine.

The possibility of surplus Russian wheat being thrown into the political balance next spring, when Europe's food supplies will be at their lowest, clouds the whole picture.

Will U. S. Dollars Enrich Peron? ##

ARGENTINE WHEAT at $5 a bushel is another complicating factor. The Argentine government pays its farmers only $1.20 a bushel but will sell to Europe at not less than four times that amount, pocketing the profits. And President Peron’s government is expecting the U, 8. to provide the dollars for: this holdup. The political resurrection of Gen. De Gaulle in France presents a whole new series of problems. De Gaulle is now talking about a larger army, just at a time when the French government is trying to cut expenses. Will the U. S. be expected to pay for that? All these vicious criticisms should not be misunderstood. Few congressmen and no officials of the Truman adminfstration want to write off the aid-to-Europe job as impossible. They realize that Europe must be rehabilitated or there will be chaos. As ohe congressman puts it, “Aid to Europe is a gamble that the United States has to take.” Doubts about the four-year, $20 billion aid program are largely expressions of determination to produce a plan that will work. Machinery will have to be set up to guarantee that the aid goes where it is intended. There is insistence that the mistakes of UNRRA and lend-lease must not be repeated.

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‘Comics Bad’ # By Hiram Lackey, Martinsville, ' Happy for parents that'the Forum letters upholding fiendish comic books, bad movies and radio programs are not all that good newspapers have

published on this subject. Last summer during the police convention in Indianapolis, The Times gave a square foot of front page space to police turning “thumbs down” on such blood-curdling comics as “The Purple Avenger” and “Green Ghost.” Police

Chief C. W. Senn and Police Chief Chris Keisling

were among those condemning such Primers of crime, that so confuse the minds of youth that youngsters don’t know right from wrong, Donna Mikels was reporting, 7 Again in The Chicago Daily News, Wednesday, May 8, 1040, we have a literary authority, Sterling North, condemning “the completely immoral publishers of the “comics’-—guilty of the cultural slaughter of the innocent.” The evil of vicious comic books is too well known for adults who love to read such trash to defend. And this brings us to the real problem of adults who buy these bad comics—not news paper comics—and leave them around for im~ pressionable and imaginative youngsters to read, Mothers of high school girls are complaining also about high school girls passing around little sex books demonstrating the perversions of degenerates. Where do these high school girls get such

books? 1t is bad enough for trashy minded, lust~

ful adults to buy, read and leave such harmful literature around to fall into the hahds of youth. But when adults attempt to defend the evils that destroy the best in the innocent and send the defense to a newspaper forum that prints all views, it is time for any person with one decent instinet to swing into action. The reason that bad comics, movies and radio programs make for crime is because of the psychological law: “What gets our attention gets us.” We can't rise above what we think. Everybody is mas-

tered by something and we are mastered by that

to which we pay attention, ‘St. Paul understood this centuries before man ever head of psychology. So St. Paul tells us to think on the beautiful, lovely, pure, honest, virtue good reports and praise, If this is necessary for us adults, how much more is it neceSsary for the plastic minds of innocent children? eo Bp

‘Production Still Is Answer’ By Richard A. Calkins, 1031 Security Trust Bldg. How are we going to pay for aid to Europe— through higher taxes or by reducing governmental operating expenses? If Truman and his inherited bureaucracy—which in large measure defeated the Republican Congress’ attempts to cut expenses— have their way, it will be taxes, That means another round of wage-increases to meet the taxes, This, together with the abnormal export demand, will only chase prices higher and higher. Of course, Truman has ordered executive depart ments to trim their requirements, but it is generally expected that the only result will be a plea for increased budgets based on the fact that operation costs have increased. If expenses are to be cut, Mr. Truman will have to replace some bureau and department heads with efficiency experts, who will quietly prune out the unessential services, expenditures and personnel Certainly he cannot leave it to the present bureaucrats, who operate a huge, tax-support-ed propaganda machine and direct their jobholders to press for continued bureaucratic growth. Production is the only answer to our present day problems. Why then continue to support in ndn-productive government service those not essential, when their addition to the productive efforts necessary to meeting the abnormal ex« port demands is essential, and would effect a gov« ernmental saving that in turn could offset the cost of foreign aid? Will'Mr, Truman act along such essential lines? Not unless an aroused and loude voiced public opinion makes him aware that such action is politically expedient. No more appropriate opportunity for reduction of government is likely to come our way in a lifetime. Tell him. * oo ©

‘Won't Give Up Our Eggs’ By An Ardent Reader, City : In regards to Mrs. M. H. Wiseman, 1128 N, Bancroft, my husband was in this last war and he wouldn't give up an egg on Thursday or his meat on Tuesday for them. If they want food let them work for it, that's what we have to do or we do without. Good Old America fed them good, get them on their feet and then back our boys will go to fight them again.

But the good old U, 8, Army % Ne'eg_before threw in the towel ~BEN FOSTER.

By MARQUIS CHILDS p LONDON, Oct. 30--The first step in the socialization of Britain's coal mines was taken a long time before the present Labor govern ment came into power. Most people failed to Jinderstand that early

step which lead to nationalization, which took place last year, In 1930 the government passed a coal-mines act fixing production

industry.

in operation uneconomic mines that should have been modernized or closed down long before. Under the umbrella of the law, high-cost mines survived because of a price fixed high enough to make a profit possible. Anyone who wants to find out’ How monopoly control, finally

study the mining industry here, The National Coal Board, which took over the mines under an

Chairman of the national board is Lord Hyndley, who was managing director of one of the largest coal companies in the country before

Liberal and Labor alike, has honored him, director of the Bank of England.

report which proposed changes that would have meant going halfway toward national ownership as an intermediate step.

Precedent Set 50 Years Ago

THE COAL BOARD that Hyndley now Reads is a national corporation with autonomous powers. The precedent for such a public corporation goes back 50 years to the Port of London Authority, In the same pattern is the broadeasting industry, publicly owned by the British Broadcasting Corp. " Still another example is the British Overseas Airways Corp. which operatés all of Britain's civil aviation beyond the home shores. The new thing about the coal board is that for the first time the government has put a basic industry under a public corporation. It happens also to be an industry that had degenerated into a kind of economio slum, with low standards of pay and low standards of technique. Against those handicaps the coal board is now struggling. his own efforts in industry, Hyndley has achieved a mod est fortune and a He is 64, an age when most men like to think of letting down a little. Yet at a scarcely half of what he could get from private business, he has taken on a terrific job that demands 12 to 14 hours a day of his time. His motive is a sense of duty. It is this same sense of public obligation which, through the years of Britain's world suprem-~ acy, put men of capacity inte responsible public office. It is one of Britain's assets today in this gravest crisis. attack in the Conservative press is that tdo much is centralized in the National Coal Board in London. Actually, the nationalisation act, every effort was to give autom-

made the eight diviional boards, which are similar in

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quotas and minimum selling prices for the entire industry. That act | of Parliament removed the last shred of competition—the working i of the law of supply and demand-—from a chaotic and mismanaged |

‘raise livestock. But failure to raise all the grain possible puts a further strain on U. 8, ability to meet Europe's stated wheat requirements.

It brought some order to coal mining but at the cost of keeping

sanctioned in law, prepares the way for socialism should come and i act passed last year, is now trying to bring the industry up to date, |

socialization. . Every British government during the past 30 years has | turned to him for advice on coal, and each government, Conservative, | At one time he Was a |

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It is only by constructive criticism that the bugs are going to be DDT-ed out of the Marshall plan, and a healthy, ‘practical program evolved,

Coal’s Nationalization Side Glances—By Galbraith «wmess. Climax of Long Trend 1

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for spending up to $200,000,000 for opening new pits and modernizing old ones,

limited. Members of the coal board have five-year contracts and they cannot®e fired short of some improbable public misconduct. The new fuel minister is Hugh Gaitskell. He replaced Emanuel

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De Gaulle a Bonaparte

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WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS na WASHINGTON, Oct. 30—France today faces one of the gravest crises in her history. Under violent attack from the Communists, on one side, and

| Gen. Charles de Gaulle on the other, the present government

headed by Socialist “Premier Paul Ramadier would seem to be short-lived. “ If the present government falls, and the nation splits into Communist and De Gaullist camps, Premier Ramadier warned ‘a specially convoked assembly, “There will be civil war and i¢ will be the ruin of France.” : Gen. De Gaulle demands immediate dissolution of the assembly, revision of the constitution and greater authority for the president. Communists charge that both De Gaullist and Socialist leaders are “traitord” Premier Ramadier has listed both Communists and

| De Gaullists among the “enemies of the republic.” Winter Brings Test

IT I8 UNLIKELY that France can weather the political and social storm until next May—earliest that national elections can be held under the present constitiition. Neither Socialists, De Gaullists nor Communists will be able to work with the others. At the same time, the nation faces a ‘winter of cold and hunger; The Reds are threatening a general strike, widely wdmitted to be

§| the springboard for civil war. The aim of any Communist revolt is | establishment of a dictatorship. Both Communists and Socialists

accuse Gen. De Gaulle of aspiring to a dictatorship of the right.

| The Socialists’ executive committee spid his “real intentions” were

in the “pure tradition of Bonapartism.” . Prince Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of Napoleon I, first got himself elected deputy, then president of the republic of 1848 and, three years later, by a midnight coup d'etat, restored the empire. He mounted the throne as Napoleon III. Roughly speaking, the situation in France from VE-day, down to the present has been somewhat like it was from 1848 to 1853. There’ was much social and political unrest. A left wing was going to “abolish poverty” by organizing the workers. Peasants were disgruntled because of land taxes. The middle classes were dissatisfied because business was at a standstill. The government was not functioning effectively. There was fighting in the streets, efforts to overthrow the regime and general chaos. * =» ! It. was this that brought & Bonaparte back to power—not ability on the part of Prince Louis. He had been something of a Joke after his efforts at stirring up revolts among the ‘garrisons at Strassburg and Boulogne: : A Gen. De Gaulle's followers, however, compare him not with

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