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The President's Message -

need for European aid was.impressive.

it clear that this must be supplemental to the larger,

soon.

become self-supporting. In this great humanitarian undertaking the sharing by our people with others of food, fuel, steel and other basic materials, many of which are in shoit supply here—we also

are acting in self-interest, for, as Mr. Truman explained; “We lave learned by the costly lesson of two world wars that what happens beyond our shores determines how we live our own lives , , . the best way to prevent future was 15 to work for the independence and well-being of all na-

tions.”

Soviet opposition to our aims and methods will not prevent us from working with and for those who want to remain free and become self-sustaining again. ” . » un ” ”

though far less costly than a third world war which we hope to prevent, is not cheap. If involves self-denial and the risk. of -more-inflation-here.—Andas--the President sald, inflation already has becomé a grave menace to foreign aid and domestic welfare alike,

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He gave over the greater part of his message

eretionary power to bring back consumer rationing of scarce cost-of-living products; to put price ceilings on such products and those vital to industrial production, and to impose such wage ceilings as he may consider es: lain the price ceilings. ¥ We do not share Mr. Truman's confidence that “selective treatment” of a relatively few danger spots in the pricewage situation would prove adequate. Piecemeal price controls have been tried, and found wanting. Wartime experience showed conclusively, we. think, that trying to hold down a few prices, with all others left free to rise, just can’tdwork. : : The President, however, is realistic—as Mr. was not at the start of the wartime price-control effort— when he recognizes wages as a production cost which, in sonie cases at least, would have to be Testraine od. . nn » . x % = OST cf his other requests are less debatable. Government controls over consumer credit, for instance, should not” have been allowed to lapse, and should be restored promptly. Power to restrain inflationary bank credit seems an obvious need.

ential to main-

tion on the commodity exchanges could serve a useful purpose, Allocation” authority over scarce commodities which affect living costs or production appears essential in the present situation, In the same class ave proposals to

strengthen export controls and transportation controls. And

certainly there should be a further extension of rent controls. : How Mr. Truman would induce marketing of livestock

and poultry at weights and grades representing efficient use of grain, we don’t know. That, [or encouraging farm conservation practices and food production in other countries, call for fuller explanation,

Born 30,000 Years Too Soon

SCIENTISTS of the Smithsonian Institution, digging in southern Nebraska, have found evidence that men lived there 20.000 to 35 So far they have unearthed no human bones crude implementsmade—of-stone—hit wandering hunters whose camp sites may have been the very first

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,000 years ago. only belteve—the they have discovered These early tlers seem to have been around just before the lust

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ice sheets came down from the north, Nebraska's climate probably was pretty bleak—as it still i and in other respects our aboriginal pioheers certainty missed a lot, Having no money, they knew nothing about mflation, A cave, to them, suggested no more than a place to sleep in, not a refuge from atomic bombs, They never spent a pleasant evening wondering what Soviet Russia would do next or discussing the influence of Communists Hollywood, They got their exercise by hunting animals, instead of

dodging automobiles. The mail carrier never brought them a pile of past-due bills or an income-tax blank. They didn't have any Marshall Plan or. Taft t-Iartley act to argue about, and they couldn't pick up a newspaper and read accounts of ~trouble in every part of the world. Senate investigations, agenda. They were denied the privilege paying $5.75 for a tough steak; if Paris decreed a “new look,” their ladies couldn't find out about it, and it was utter ly impossible for them to turn on the radio and get

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t Frank Sinatra, a by a Congressman, Yes, looking back from the vantage point of 1947 A. D,, it's plain to see that the times around 80.000 B. C. must have been plenty tough for the first families of America.

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Production, More: Produciion -

BY laying end to end all the -milk produced: by Yhe count: try’s 26 million cows last vear, the milk industry foundation envisions a river of milk 3000 miles long, 40 feet wide and three feet deep. That's the conventional almost classi-

ments. To us, it's more striffing to think of suck production being achieved entirely without the use of stand- by. cows of Reasher-bedding practices, - - | wl

PR ESIDENT TRUMAN'S statement to Congress on the The facts he presented as to that need cannot suc cessfully be challenged. While he discussed only interim aid in detail, he made longrange Marshall program which he will send to Congress Immediate help is needed by France, Italy and Aus“tria, whose food and fuel supplies will not Jast the winter. The four-year plan is to aid these and 13 other nations to

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~ InTune + With the’ Times Donald D. Hoover DIALECT IS O. K.

H. ALLEN SMITH, in his new book, “Lo, the Former Egyptian,” has come forth with another side of a current argument, a side which needed to be presented, It's all about thie frowns. directed against dialect writing. A good many .editors today, and writers, too, for that matter, are afraid to put dialect on paper, lest somebody be offended.

events, and the following quotation 1s lifted bodily out of a 40-line paragraph out of “Lo, the "Former Egyptian”: > . Everyone, 1 suppose, is aware of the current agitation among groups of liberal writers to do away with all dialect writing. Today, if you quote on Italian-American precisely, or a Negro, or a Jew, or Dodger fan, setting down

their phrases and sentences, you identify yourself - with the forces of PaSecist reaction; you are looked upon as a narrow person, heavy laden with ine tolerance. In other words, when a writer inter= views Joe Louls, he should go back to his typewriter and set down the thoughts and opinions

Carried to its logical conclusion, this movement would eliminate from American lNterature such performers as Roark Bradford, Arthur Kober and Ring Lardner. If restrictions are to be imposed

on dialect writing, they must’ cover the whole field; you can’t very well say that one dialect is permissible. while: another is not. It looks to me as if we ate headed for our own little Burning f the, Bocks, and that the bonfire will have to include the writings of Bradford, Kober, and Lardner, along with much of Mark Twain, and

Finley Peter Dunne, and Octavus Roy Cohen, and Erskine Caldwell, and some of John Steinbeck, and our old friend James Whitcomb Riley, , .. It is .my opinion that the people who are agitating against the use of dialect are short-sighted, even”

though their motives are good. . . .” » ; : —~PAUL FLOWERS. 4 oH = In one month in New York--the American;

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals handled 10,108 dogs. A beautiful chance to make 10,108 kids happy. i bb

> CATS 'N' KITTENS! I had a Maltese kitten

Are You Listening | Up. There?

After a time . .-, she was a cat, And thén oné moin she gave me 1X kittens in Pop's old hat! Then later in the attic In a cushioned antique chalr, Tabby somehow found an entrance Left me .. . nine more kittens there! And in the summer kitchen Once behind the cellar door In a basket snug and cosy She gave ‘me , ; . seven more! Way high up in the woedshed In a box all safe from harm I tratled Rer and I found Eight more’, .". all snug and warm! pe I've worried and I've wondered Till T am no longer fat, What shall T do with all the kittens When every Kitten +. . Is a cat? ~—ANNA E. YOUNG. Pe bb : The first and best reply to those who want te argue about politics is “Did you register?” «> 2

WHEN FALL COMES ON

When fall comes on, I love the trees A'changing of their summer leaves And putting on their pretty gowns Of reds and yellows @nd the browns.

OUR TOWN

LIKE AS NOT I don’t have to tell you that, a century and more ago, a French Catholic missionary by the name of Edward Sorin showed up in South Bend, and in that vicinity founded what later turned out to be Notre Dame University, It's dollars to doughnuts, though, that most people are laméntably ignorant of the fact that, eight years later, the same Edward Sorin turned ‘up around here with another idea—this time to start a university in Indianapolis. Legend has it that he had it all fixed to call the new school “Holy Cross.” - Less legendary is the documentary evidence that Pr, Sorin had a flawless title to 10 acres of ground in the heart of Indianapolis to show that he meant business. I don't know what went wrong. Fr. Sorin’s Indianapolis property came to him in 1850 as a gift from the Most Rev. Maurice de St. Palais, bishop of the Diocese of Vincennes. Bishop Palais, who, in turn, had inherited it from Bishop Celestine Reni Laurent Guynemer de la Hailandiere, the original purchaser in 1847. (Right here I might add, parenthetically, that the original purchaser never went to the trouble I did—he signed his name “C..de la Hailandiere,” and let it go at that.)

The iron-weeds tall with purple veils Stand on the hills and in the dales, While corn and sorghum turning fast, Remind us that the summer's: past.

Beneath the trees, out by the hill, I like to go and sit so still, Where my mother was laid away On one early Autumn day.

Made Beeline for Indiana

BISHOP de la Hailandiere gets into today's piece because of the historical fact that it was he who persuaded the eventual founder of Notre Dame to come to America. Edward Sorin was a brother of the Congregation of the Holy Cross. Accompanied by six Just seems like heaven, when fall comes on. members of his order, he arrived in New York in STAN MOORE. 1841. Almost immediately after the customs auSo thorities had finished frisking him, he approacliéd The majority of us still aren't driving around the nearest policeman and asked the shortest. way worrying about Wrecking 1 A New Car, to Indiana, a state of wilderness which was destined

She loved those hills so peaceful, where You see the colors climbing there, Up toward the place where she has gone,

Some Help for Notre

. By Anton Scherrer

Dame

to be the field 6f his activities for upward of half a century. Fr. Sorin arrived in Vincennes in an ox cart. He got busy right away and founded a number of parishes in the Diocese of Vincennes which, at that time, embraced not only the whole of Indiana but spilled over into neighboring states. In 1842, a year after he landed, he laid the corner stone of Notre Dame du Lac. “It started as an Indian missionary station. I guess I don’t have to tell you what it developéd into. Which brings me back to his property in Indianapolis and the more immediate question what he did with it. He sold it. As a matter of fact, he laid his real estate holdings out in lots and, to this day, the people over in the Court House refer to those lots as belonging to the “Edward Sorin Addition.” What's more, Fr. Sorin baptized the streets surrounding his addition. To. get appropriate names for his purpose, he went straight to the Saints Calendar with the result that the north boundary was christened “St. Mary's St.” The south boundary was labeled St. Joseph's St.”

Help for the Irish THE OLD “ST. MARY'S St.” is now known as 10th St. As for “St. Joseph's St.” it still retains its original name—thank goodness. For fear that another segment of our Court House might topple—and this time, on my head—I haven't taken the pains to dig into the official records the way I should. Notwithstanding my lassitude, however, I'll wager that the house now occupied by the Hisey-Titus people, to say nothing of the synagog at 975 N. Delaware St., are built on ground originally owned by Fr. Sorin. Indeed, I'm so sure. of it that I'll even bet a 10-ounce glass of Michellob (18 cents at Stegemelers as this goes to press.) Nor would it surprise me to learn some day that the money Fr. Sorin took out of Indianapolis went into making. Notre Dame what it is today (seven victories, no defeats, at last accounts). |

Bringing i in Those Sheaves of Grain

WASHINGTON, Nov, 19 — Houston Harte, Texas newspaper

his San Angelo Standard and

publisher, sends in a report from | Times that gives the best picture yet of what's happening down | 1948, which is another tax vear. on the big wheat farms, The operators come rejoicing, bringing in | stored with wheat. the sheaves, all right. But they aren't sending those sheaves to market. First, in the hope of a price rise and, second, because they

want to beat the income tax collector. From-a-third to-a half of the wheat raised in the Texas Panhandle is still being held on the farms, say Mr, Harte's. reporters. The little

| belt, towh-ot- Vega Pex: —population 500, is sajd-to-berotling inr-dough: { elt

| would net them only about 25 cents income of the bushel. THe rest of the crop is being stored on farms or warehoused until Every empty building is said to be | Wheat-filled quonset huts line the railroad tracks. | Two big new elevators are being built in Vega to hold 75,000 bushels.

Half the Harvest Held on Farms THIS TEXAS SITUATION is apparently true of the entire wheat

right up to the Canadian border, | Montana, biggest U. S. wheat farmer,

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When Tom Campbell of | AS A MATTER

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loans of $37.75 million dollars on

1.5 per cent of this year's 1.4 billion bushel crop. government has made loans on 500 million and 600 million bushels,

Hoosier Forum " do not agree with a word that you ey, but | 2 will defend to the death your right to say:it

Military Training By E. L.) E. 59th St. hb)

From time to time ‘yoy can find Invone of Eleanor Roosevelt's ¢Qlumns’ expressed in the very

same determinedly lady-like language with which.

she admires the autumn. foliage and wishes she could understand Mr, Vishinsky, a statement that is most interesting and revealing. Such is the case with a.recent column, Mrs. Roosevelt is in favor of compulsory military training, but she has admitted that she does not see the absolute military value of such training. In her own words, she has “never been quite sure that in the atomic age it is quite necessary to have what is known as basic training.” Her reason for wanting universal compulsory training is her same old dream about (quoting again from her column) “every man-—and every woman, too—in a democracy giving a year of service to their coun-

When Mrs. Roosevelt begins talking in this way I get her picture of the staté as beginning with a capital “8S,” a vas!, beneficent Mother giving to and taking from us all for the good of all —which is different from my own picture of the state as an association of myself and people banded together for ease in living with each other. But that is beside the point; my point is thas there is no possible democratic claim to justify compulsory training except absolute military necessity. Many of our military leaders support compul-

sory training as a military necessity. There are -

other military authorities who believe that =a highly mobile, highly trained, better-paid, professional Army, minus the Court House Lee trappings, costing no more and probably less than the training program, is the real answer to our national security need. The fact remains that conscripted service is essentially involuntary service, and has no business in a form of government where the people themselves decide what to do with their lives, except for the life-or-death preservation of that government. ?

‘ots of Talk’

By R. A. L., Southport Recently the President has been quite vocal about the stock market gamblers and manipulators influencing the prices on the wheat, corn and other commodities that go to make the Ling of the masses of people: As I see it, the government should oie he general public from the horde of chiselers, manipulators, gamblers and speculators setting the prices on food and cléthing. Federal and state governments hedge the railroads and utilities, so they can’t. do as they please with the public, If the government can do that, it. can put a quietus on gamblers in the stock markets, trusts, monopolies and what have you, who set the prices on the very living of the geneyal public. It seems like the law of supply and demand

“is out of date.

Does it not seem like the gamblers and manipulators are dictators who hold the lives of ‘the people in their Brenly hands? Why not stop them? We are now on the road to another depression. Seems like we can't learn.

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Doubts Lauren's Motives

By Mrs. A. C. M.. City Was Lauren Bacall trying to gain publicity by her small talk about our government's investigation of Communist activity? If so, I believe she has failed. She is telling us to fear our government instead of communism. Since there are so many Reds in Hollywood, why hasn't she and others said anything about the situation? It is almost beyond comprehension to try to understand why some of the people in Hollywood can be Communists. Would these people make money in Russia in the amounts they make in the United States? Living like the Russians is a drab and monotonous existence, with everyone possessing the same or less. And why? Because everyone and everything belongs to the government. A Communist, if he is an American, becomes highly insulted if told -of his subversive activities, although true. He even regards those in official positions with scorn and repudiation, This must not be tolerated. True, this is a free country, but not to the extent of allowing * ‘lsmg” to disrupt our way of life and trying to overpower our government. God grant that our Congress does everything in its power to free us and our children of all such attacks and to preserve the way of life which is s0 precious to most of us.

By Peter Edson

20 million bushels of 1947 wheat. e a lot of money -and a lot of wheat, it is only In years past, the

13,000 loans made so far this year is for $2750

on 1581 bushels of wheat, obviously no big farmer operation.

| Big Operators Do Their Own Financing

OF FACT, the big farm operators are now so

well fixed financially “that they “don’t “have to rely on government They do their 6éwn financing, and thus save interest charges.

Eight families alone raised from 50,000 to 200,000 bushels of wheat apiece. Putting the average at 100,000 bushels, it represents a potential | he told President Truman that he was holding 600,000 bushels of | gross income “of $300,000 at today’s $3-a-bushel price. wheat. But, since ‘the income tax laws are so rigged that the most a The U. S. Department of Agriculture Crop Reporting Board says | man can Yor and show a profit on is around $29,000, these big farm = that, as of Oct. 1, over 628 million bushels of wheat—nearly half the operators are selling only about 10,000 to 20,000 bushels. This nets | 1947 harvest of 14 billion bushels—were still being held on farms. |

them maximum return after, taxes

Any wheat sold over this maximum

This is the latest report. available.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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political conventions and‘ John L. Lewis were not on their |

quiz contest, a jive band, a singing commercial or a speech | |

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These big farm operators, who are not selling their wheat now, | are, of course, playing a smart game. Planting. weather throughout the winter wheat belt has been too dry, which is bad. Next year's | crop may be much smaller than this year's allstime-récord high. | If the next crop is off, the price is bound to be higher. So, the-farmer | who holds has everything to gain and nothing to lose. It has been generally reported, and the belief is widespread, that it 1s the government's crop loan policy which is responsible for today's high wheat price and for much of the wheat hoarding on farms. | Commodity Credit Corporation reports indicate this isn't so. It is the , tax law-—not the farm loan policy—that is principally to blame. of ‘Oct. 1—again the latest report available—CCC had made

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19—There is no use trying to conceal the ! seriousness of the differences that exist between the President and the { { | Congress. Beneath the surface of agreement over the general objective | of aid to Europe, feeling is bitter, resentments acute. Only a trace of it crept into President Truman's message to Con- | gress. He reminded the Congress of the number of warnings he had | uttered on the subject of inflation.

SPEAKING privately, Mr. Truman is much franker. He feels that Congress, in the adjournment, resolution adopted last summer, treated him with suspicion and something like contempt. In attempting in that resolution to reserve for themselves the right to return on their own initiative, the Republican majority, in Mr. Truman's view, Irespassee | on his constitutional prerogatives. In the events leading up to the call of the current session was another source of ill fééling. In his first meeting with congressional leaders in September, the President felt he had made the whole grim’ picture in Euripe just as plain as possible. He had hoped that Republican leaders would openly support the call. When they failed to speak up--Chatrman Charles A. Eaton of the. House Foreign Affairs Committee was an exception--the President went ahead on his own. That is how it looks from the White House. On Capitol Hill, leading Republicans grumble over what they insist was the President's | failure to consult with them over the cali of the Stergincy session. | They complain, rather childishly, that the President in his call put * domestic control of inflation ahead of aid to Europe. In proposing rationing of scarce commodities and price and wage

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Off the record, Department of Agriculture officials will admit

| frankly that the big wheat farmers are afraid of governnient loans.

What they fear is that the government might seize any wheat against which it has advanced money, by calling the loans before due date. . What the big farm operators really want is a return to the cer-

| tificate plan of May and June, 1946. Under this operation, farmers | who marketed their grain were given a certificate receipt. This cer- | tificate could be exchanged for cash on demand, at the market price . prevailing when the certificate was turned in. If the market price was =

up, the farmer stood to gain. If the pricé went down, the farmer was guaranteed as a minimum the price in effect when he surrendered his grain for the certificate. Furthermore, the Bureau of Internal Revenue gave its blessing to an arrangement’ whereby, if the farmer did not:choose to cash in his certificate until 1947, the income from the sale would not be- taxed until 1947. In short, the deal ‘was so rigged that the farmer had evervthing to gain and he couldn't possibly lose.” Arid that is appare ently all he wants now.

Congress and President at Odds 8y Marquis childs

He sounded, in his address, rather like an economics professor lecturing a backward and none too bright pupil. Jf politics and the resentments it breeds do not go too far, there is a hope of compromise. It was suggested by Sen. Ralph Flanders of Vermont in the report of a committee which is part of the joint Senate-

| House Economic Group headed by Sen. Robert A. Taft.

. The Flanders committee last week made many of the same rece ommendations contained in the President's speech. One can be almost certain tan, the voluntary method will not work.

Some Spirit of Compromise

IT IS significant that this reasonable comproitiise comes from Sen. Flanders. <He is a Republican and a successful business man. He has been one of the main movers in the Committee for Economic Development, an organization of industrialists that has consistently worked for reason and common sense in the: field ‘of. government and business. A member of the Flanders group is Sen. Raymond Baldwin of Connecticut. Like Flanders, Baldwin has shunned the yammering extreme; of partisan politics in favor of what: he believes to~be the good of the whol# country. . Here is a nucleus for agreement. The President can work with these men if his leaders in the Senate will make the effort. - Resentments and grievances of the past must be put aside. That may be asking a great deal when political rivalries are bound to be sharp. But neither side in the dispute -is_blameless, And both sides Hh See hax xo SEE ihe Gaited Wil in actuality detest any realistic plan To¢ Exopean fecovery. / ini,

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