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Red Star Over Indiana
BECAUSE of the pressure of more: important matters (and what isn't?) we've neglected to report to you the views of the Communist Party of Indiana (Room No. 81, 29 S, Delaware St.) on what Congress ought to do, ‘as expressed in a letter to members of the Indiana delegations to House and Senate, the other day. Maybe the oversight isn't a serious one, though, since the program of our Hoosier commissars appears tosoffer little that is sensational or even new. It has nearly all turned up before in the political programs of the PAC and the CIO, and even in part in the message of President Truman to the Congress. It calls upon Indiana Senators and Representatives to set up price controls and rationing (the usual Communist totalitarian state); to change tax laws so somebody else will pay all the taxes (the customary Communist soak-the-rich line) ; to drop the Marshall Plan and hand over, in-
- stead, 10 billion capitalist dollars in a convenient form for
* their use in expanding Soviet enslavement of some more suffering nations; plus a few minor errands, like repeal of the Taft-Hartley law and some laws to make the government quit bothering Communists in their efforts to sell out the United States to some foreign power they like better,
At the last general election 1,324,097 Indiana citizens |
voted and of these 871 voted the Communist ticket. We feel sure Indiana Senators and Representatives will give due consideration to the sentiment of Indiana Communists to the extent to which they represent the wishes | of the people of this state, ;
_ Politics in Foreign Aid the Senate has passed the emergency foreign aid bill | almost on time, But in the House the Republicans have failed to pro“vide the speed so essential if the measure is to serve its purpose. The Foreign Affairs Committee has now restored | all but $67 million of its earlier cut from the authorization | for France, Italy and Austria. The entire $597 million | requested by the administration and Sen.. Vandenberg | should be provided. Finally the House Republican Steering Committee has | agreed to let a bill come to the floor this week. Speaker Martin thinks it may be passed by the end of next week. What Mr. Martin and his associates fail to understand is that this delay is playing into the hands of the Kremlin. It is encouraging the Communists of France and Italy, | whose mass strikes and violence are aimed directly at the American relief plan and at the Paris and Rome governments which co-operate with, that plan. The administration shares blame for the delay. Part of the time consumed by Republican maneuvers is explained by the administration's stubborn refusal to include Chinese relief in the bill. We hope the administration will not continue to ignore the Far East emergency. The daily press dispatches on | led army successes and the sag in Chinese morale should prod President Truman out of his do-nothing policy.
Mr. Truman on UMT PRESIDENT TRUMAN, we're glad to say, has made it clear that he intends to renew his appeal to Congress for a universal military training law, He considers such legislation a “must,” Mr. Truman told champion National Guard recruiters from the states and territories, who called on him at the White House. * He added that he would send Congress a strong message on the subject in January. > On this matter, the President's record has been consistently good. More than two years ago he began urging the adoption of universal military training as a measure of preparedness and national security. Meanwhile, the distinguished Compton Commission, appointed by him, has reported its “clear, unanimous and strong conviction” that UMT must be an essential element in a program for the protectiof of the United States and of world peace. And, at Ft. Knox, Ky., the Army’s experiment with training of the kind proposed has now been in progress for a year. It has demonstrated that such training has great value in preparing young Americans both for peacetime citizenship and for military service if war comes again. Congress, however, so_far has evaded its responsibility. Mr. Truman's new appeal will get to Congress at the beginning of a campaign year, and there is grave danger that UMT will be made a political football. That should not he allowed to happen. IHhere is an issue upon which, it has become increasingly plain, the President deserves strong, determined and non-partisan support.
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Yonsoril Tidings
ALD-HEADED men have found a champion in Councilman Robert J. Wilkinson Jr., of Huntington, W. Va. ile has introduced an ordinance to limit the price of their haircuts to 25 cents, plus an additional charge, optional, of 10 cents for dome polishing. (Yep, Mr. Wilkinson is bald.) | Meanwhile, Leonard C. Wojkowski, a contractor at Cheektowaga, N. Y., has achieved total conservation of shaving time and expense. In 1936, Mr. Wojkowski tweezered a few hairs from a dimple on his chin, and found they didn’t grow back. Over the next three years, he put in 468 hours plucking all the hair from his face. Since May 28, 1929, he has never needed to use a ravor. Occasionally a light fuzz does appear on his cheeks, but he just singes that off with a match, :
Side Bet
THE Encyclopedia Brittanica says flatly you can't beat the bank at roulette. Two college boys are trying it at Reno. They ran an original $300 stake up to $13,000, dropped back to $8000, and at this writing are taking a breather. Our two-bits’ worth, figuratively, is riding with |
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MAH OL' HOUN' DOG
Mah ol" houn’ he’s jes’ like the He's gitttin’ mighty slow His teéth are done, his eyes are dim He.cdn't run trail no mo’, He follows me aroun’ all day He stays right on mah heels Sometimes T think dat ol'sdog knows Des 'xactly how I feels.
He knows when I am feeling good He knows when I am blue Doan let nobody tell you Dat a dog doan know dat, too.
Sometimes it seems mah troubles Are jes’ mo’ dan I kin bear But dey seem a whole lot lighter When I sees him standin’ dere.
He looks at me 'nd wags his tail ‘N tries to let me know Dat he wants to share mah good times 'N he wants to share mah woe.
I know he’s ol’ 'n blind 'n deef But I ‘clare I never foun’ Another fren’ dats stuck as close To me as mah ol’ houn’, ~UNCLE REUBEN. 4 9 An Indiana man reports an electric light bulb that burned out after 17 years of use. We'll bet there are no children in his family.
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Jerry Lamkin, Seth's oldest boy, has flunked out of college an’ is goin’ to marry the banker's datter. Jerry's motter is, “If at first you don't succeed marry a rich gal an’ fergit-it.” ~-CATFEESH PETE. “ow 4 Americans are people who stand up for themselves, says a writer. And the streetcar company is doing a grand job of teaching them how,
eo © © TY IMMORTALI They do me wrong, that call me Death, And picture me with grewsome scythe, For I but liberate the soul, And all its youthfulness revive, Ah! Call me Birth, for I am Life— Death is but sleep—a dormant state— The metamorphosis souls pass through To their clay carcass's obviate. —H., LATELLE GREGORY. > © © - The. average American home used the telephone 301 times last year. That's about one call for the old gent.
> oo 4 A MYSTIC'S CHRISTMAS
I took myself and to church we did go, A Christmas tree to see, all trimmed in snow. Presents ‘neath the tree and more to spare, They looked at the lights on the tree But a greater light, none could see. Not even I, but the self in me, Could see the light that shone so bright Through the children’s hearts qn that Christmas night. «EARL J. STAUDACHER. ¢ ¢ An automobile company official says 1948 cars may rise 5 per cent in price. They'll just about take them from out of sight to out of mind.
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Stranger Cashes us Check! I ask myself how could one— In vain I seek the right technique To even cash a good one! ~-CLAUDE BRADDICK.
> * Kentucky officials took two backwoods families into court to try and settle an argument. Feud for thought. LB FOSTER'S FOLLIES (“WASHINGTON—Reece Attacks ‘Cop In
Kitchen’ Truman Control Plans.”) Truman's stop-inflation sallies; On the word of Carroll Reece; May soon make our homeside galleys, Favored havens for police. That perhaps may be a factor, Worthy of a second look, Though a copper at the back door, Has been known to please our cook!
eS , . The authorities can open up the regular roads and close the detours soon. Nice driving weather is almost over.
WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms
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OUR TOWN «3 + By Anton Scherrer Dance of the Swallow-Tail Coats
NOTHING GETS ME DOWN quite as much as the fit of swallow-tall coats, especially when they're on the backs of symphony orchestra conductors. I don’t think I can put up with it much longer. What's more, I don’t see why I should. To sit in the audience and see a conductor's swallow-tail coat behave the way it does is more than I can bear —especially at a time like this when circumstances compel me to carry all the burdens of the world in addition to my own. It isn't so bad in the adagio movements, but it's torture when it reaches the presto agitato stage. At this point the back of the conductor's doat behaves like a naughty muscle dancer and jumps up and down in a most unseemly fashion. It's especially emotional around the arm pits, I've noticed. The law protects us from muscle dancers—theoretically, at least—but, for some reason, it hasn't yet got around to include the coats on the backs of symphony conductors. Well, it's time. As a matter of fact, it’s high time. At any rate, that's the way I feel about it today and I know a lot of fellowsufferers who are just as bitter about it as I am. I know as well as anybody else that the job of conducting a symphony isn’t the cinch it appears to be. Indeed, I'm willing to admit that symphony conductors are confronted with a tough®assignment. It isn’t easy to steer something as dynamic as a symphony in a coat as inelastic as a swallow-tail. Just the same, they might do better, it strikes me. For one thing, they might discard the swallow-tail altogether and conduct in their shirt sleeves.
Just the Coat, No Farther, Please
OF COURSE, I WOULDN'T WANT to see the peeling of clothes—on the stage as well as in the audience —carried any farther than it is at present. However, if a little more nudity will alleviate a painful situation I'm all for it, y In support of which, I'll bet that most symphony rehearsals are conducted in shirt sleeves. I don’t want to labor the point unreasonably, but if there is any ‘truth in the rumor that most rehearsals are
Side Glances—By Galbraith
better than the scheduled concerts, there is only one thing left for me to believe—namely, that a conductor wearing a swallow-tail coat doesn’t help his musicians any more than he does his customers in the audience. I hope I have made myself clear on that point. It's difficult to collect myself in my present state of mind. Don't be alarmed, children. advocate anything as drastic or naked as shirt sleeves., I don’t have to, for I know something far better. It came to me some 50 years ago when Eduard Strauss, nephew of the great Johann, broug his Austrian Imperial Court Orchestra to Tomlinson Hall. Boy, that was something to remember.
Everyone Got His Money's Worth
THE HANDSOME Herr Strauss (they called him “der Shoene Eddie” in Vienna) came on the stage, turned his back on the audience and started his concert in the orthodox way with a number that I remember as something by Waldteufel. At any rate, it wasn't anything composed by the Strauss dynasty. It was the same old stuff, delivered in the same old way, and just as disheartening because the swallow-tails of Emperor Franz Josef's reign didn’t fit any better than those of today. Indeed, I wouldn't have been able to produce today’s ecstatic piece except for my mother’s training which equipped me with the necessary patience to wait for the second course. The second programmed piece was his uncle's “Tales of the Vienna Woods.” Eddie started the same way with his back to the audience revealing for the second time the caf of his swallow-tall. He conducted 10 bars like that when, all’ of a sudden, he whirled around, picked up his fiddle, and played right through to the end with his men. It lifted the people right out of their seats. He played all the Strauss numbers with fiddle in hand and facing his customers. And I'm telling you, that everybody in the audience got his money's worth—not only because he played the Strauss waltZes as they had never been heard before (or since), but also because he spared his customers the sight of the coat he wore. Maybe it remains for me to tell you that there is less to the front of a swallow-tail than there is to the back.
No Hysteria Found 9
Among Rank and File
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—Neither fear nor hysteria over Russia
‘Hoosier Forum
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“I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."
‘Symbol of Freedom’ By J. F. Frantz, 756 Ketcham, City. * Concerning a federal law. to regulate the mode and manner. of fixing rent and to control the con duct of the individual: 5 Congress has no such power. It may be that private property is essential. A private and not a public’ object. The freedom of property is the essential characteristic of the individual's personal liberty—the visible spirit of freedom. The indi. vidual's right to be free to use his property as he may choose belongs to the individual. In our Constitution this right is in the same category of liberty and life and should the occasion arise to deprive the individual or to place him in bondage, this right must be found in the law as it is, for Congress cannot declare that the constitutional rights of the individual no longer exist. And cannot create new privileges or rights for the individual. To do so would be obnoxious. Our Constitution then would have no life, no spirit. Our finest and most sacred heritage would perish. ! “This would lead the individual to serious abuses
Constitution to enjoy life, liberty and property, which is the symbol of our freedom. : ® © © Urges Voting System Change By Richard E. Miller, P. O. 478, City. "Our system of -voting in this great country of ours is wonderful; however, I believe an improvement can be made. Let's make it. At the primary election it is necessary at the present time to make it known which ballot you choose to vote on. Why not eliminate that re~ quirement? I understand that it would be mechanically very difficult; but why? Why not seal each ballot to a ballot, or ballots of each opposing party, at one edge, or print a single ballot covering all parties? A complete set
‘then to be provided each voter on electigni day
in order that he might privately make his own selection of the party ticket, thus accomplishing the truly secret ballot to which each. voter is entitled. Ruling should be printed on each set of bal. lots providing voldance of the individual vote when more than one party line is voted on, or when any part of the vote is mutilated or destroyed. Voting machines might be adjusted to accomplish this same p! This might open possibility for scratch voting at the primary as well as at the main elections. Sounds good to me; how about you? oP
‘Can Farm Prices Come Down?’
By Mrs. Margaret Morris, R. R. 4, Shelbyville, Ind. To find out why prices are high read “When Will Food Prices Come Down?” in Reader's Digest, It is an eye-opener. For instance, it explains Uncle Sam is taxing us to the tune of almost two billion dollars to pay farmers subsidies. The farmer is making more money than anybody else and the farmer himself is taxed to pay on his subsidies, not counting the poor individual known as the white collar worker who is taxed beyond his means almost. If prices ever come down, can't farm prices be the first to come down just as well as anything else? No, the government investigates high prices and needs go no further than itself to find one cause. If eggd stand a chance of coming down our smart government will buy millions of dozens and let them spoil just to keep us from buying them a few cents cheaper. Same way with butter, potatoes or anything else. I ask you—is the government stupid or does it think we are? : ¢ © 4
Still Unsolved Crimes By Mrs. G. B. P., Indianapolis I am writing the sentiments of a few mothers of this city and have been here all my life and am just a little ashamed of the goings on. I guess you must commit a few crimes here before the police can take time off to solve them. If we had them walking the beats instead of resting in cars and beer taverns, we women might be a little more safe’in our homes. I think now we have a man in office who will clean things up unless he gets a push in the wrong direction, So we better get our Fair City a little cleaner. There are still a few unsolved crimes. Come on and see’ what can be done,
U.S. DILEMMA . . . By Marquis Childs Can America Find Price Spiral Answer?
TUCSON, Ariz, Dec. 3—Nothing is more important for Americans
grips the people of America, if those in 13 states east of the Missis~ sippl Just visited by the writer may be taken as a sample. Instead, I found a surprisingly calm, but grim, understanding
regarding the Soviet cold war against the United States and the rest | of the wgpld—plus a growing impatience to see more done to meet |
the danger,
After spending about five months in Europe, at Lake Success and
In Washington, I have devoted the past few weeks listening to the real voice of America—the farmers, little store-keepers, returned GI's and others in rural and the smaller urban areas all the way from New York to New Orleans. "
Before setting out I had heard or read alarming references by || the so-called “experts” to fear and “hysteria” among the American |
people. I encountered nothing of the kind.
Faint Praise—But Progress
I FOUND that the :average American is probably better posted on foreign affairs than the average citizen of any other country toe day. what it was 30 years ago. The average American, I found, knows little about the fine points of the Marshall Plan, but he does know its fundamentals.
He knows if-is aimed at helping Europe get back on her feet, provided
Europe does what she can to help herself. s He knows that Russia has been, and still is, systematically
blocking world peace which everybody else wants, And it ‘makes |
him sore.
He is keenly aware that Russia is behind the troubles in France and Italy and the Balkans and China. And that also makes him sore because he feels that-if Russia would only say yes, prosperity such as the world never before experienced would be possible and perhaps permanent,
He is neither indifferent to, nor in any panic over, the wartare
which Russia and her fifth columns are waging everywhere. But he does want Congress to take a firm stand without too much stalling.
Call U. S. Reds Traitors
HE IS particularly provoked by ‘American Communists who demand and accept this country's blessings while stabbing it in the back. fo be passed, and soon, to take care of them.
He dmesn't pretend to know all the ins and outs of everything, | but, he says he knows one Lhing: He sent his sons overseas 10 |
fight Brown: fascism ‘only to face Red fascism now Which is even more ruthless. And that rankles within him. 3 He has read of American seamen in Bordeaux and Marseilles making common cause with French Reds seeking to turn France over to the Soviets. He wonders how that sort of thing can happen
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"Yes, I'm feeding Joan before John gets home—since we're on the food-saving program, he eats half her baby food
showing her how goed it is!"
He may not know the remedy but he is convinced that one is necessary. Otherwise, he argues, if we get into another war, our own merchant marine, vital to the national defense, may be turned against us. ‘ 3 : : | He. thinks something went wrong with allied statesmanship, | especially our own, or Europe would not be starving. this long after | the war, He is inclined to blame it on too much appeasement, But he, does know that, thanks to these mistakes plus winter freezes, | summer droughts and Red obstructionism, interim aid and the Marshall Plan now seem imperative. :
perhaps more privations, he will come through if he is convinced in | will help. :
J bl mote *hysiotia® An Biope; wi Take Busse ant tere} in Washington than among the rank and file of the American people. ble dilemma that is now right.on the doorstep.
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today than to understand that the crest of the wave of prosperity is beginning to break. With knowledge and understanding, it may be possible to avert the bang and the smash that threaten if the wave itself topples. The trouble is that inflated prices conceal for the true picture. But even a glimpse below the surface actually happening, ‘ ‘ I want to report the views of the owner and manager of a chain of department. stores in the Midwest. He is a conscientious man who is concerned not merely about his own business but about the effect of high prices on the economy of the entire country. His buyers had just reported on their efforts to buy merchandise to sell next spring and early summer. What they reported was a series of new price jumps that would be reflected in retail sales tags.
Doubts Rationing Would Help BACK OF HIS worry is the fact that, for the first time since the beginning of wartime pr rity, customers are beginning to balk. They are\saying, “No, thanks, I don't think I care to pay. that much,” And they walk out of the store. If that resistance can bring about a much-needed “recession,” then it may be well to the good. But since costs of labor and mae terials are up on a high plateau, with the trend still upward, this businessman and many like him are afraid that the end will be a genuine bust, with all its devastating consequences. “What can we do?” he asked. “What is the answer?” I suggested that perhaps it was a return to rationing of those commodities in shortest supply. This might serye to keep down prices by insuring that the available goods were evenly shared. “Well, I'm afraid not,” the store owner said thoughtfully. “You know how it was in the war. Then we had all kinds of volunteers working for the OPA, They wanted to make it go because they had folks overseas. “But this is peacetime. Some people who think a little more than others about what's happening would follow the regulations. There aye a lot more who wouldn't see why they shouldn't buy things that were in the black market when they had the money to pay for them.” y
Stalin Waits Waichfully : : THIS IS the candid appraisal of a man who has been dealing with the buying public for 35 years. It is based on a practical knowledge hard to refute. But it 1s no answer to the menace of a depression, and the men ace is real. Measured in dollars, his sales are up from a year ago a little over 5 per cent. Measured in the number of units sold, his sales are down 17 per cent, which is a fairly sharp drop. There you have it—consumers priced out of the market.
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