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Make 1948 Worth Winning

F inflation is to be stopped before the swelling bubble bursts, there must he courageous government action on each of three fronts: ONE: To stimulate more and more production and so bring the supply of goods more nearly into line with demand, TWO: Meanwhile, to keep excess purchasing power out of the price-boosting competition for scarce goods. THREE: And to suspend or modify, so far as possible, | policies which were adopted to keep prices up and to combat depression and unemployment, but which have continued into this period of boom and full employment. There is intelligence enough in the government and Congress and the country to plan and direct a genuinely effective campaign against inflation. But the prospect for courageous government action is dark. We see little hope either in President Truman's program or in the Republicans’ substitute program. Neither is a fundamental attack on the problem. Both would treat symptoms, rather than causes. And neither party shows any real desire to mike a fundamental attack. Why?

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BECAUSE 1948 will be a campaign year, Because Republicans and Democrats alike are thinking too much about next November's elections: Because each party hopes to maneuver the other onto a spot where the voters will blame it for high prices. Because both parties are more intent on hurting each other than on co-operating to lick the common enemy. Maybe this shadow-boxing with inflation is politically smart-— but we doubt it. For if inflation booms on to a bust, the side that wins the coming elections probably will find its victory hollow. The party that controls the next Congress may face problems which will make those of today seem simple. The party that elects~a President in 1948 is likely to have four years of grief in the White House and then a long, dismal stay out in the cold. The best possible advice for Democrats and Republicans, we believe, is to scheme less for winning next year's campaign and do more to make it worth winning.

Stopgap Aid Is Slow

HE House has passed the stopgap foreign aid bill, after partisan debate which may forecast trouble for the | long-term Marshall program. But the fact that opponents ronveniently neglected to get a roll call on the vote suggests they are aware of public disapproval of their obstruction. There never was much doubt about passage of an interim aid measure. Not after the eye-witness reports of scores of Congressmen returning from Europe this fall. The chief questions rather concerned timing, crippling amendments and whether China was to be included along with France, Italy and Austria. It is already well past the deadline set by the administration on the basis of acute shortages in France and Italy. The authorization measures still have to clear the House: Senate conference committee. Appropriations committees still have to report out the money bills. The utmost speed is required now, House amendments to the bill on the whole were not bad—all of the worst ones were defeated. Authorization of a joint congressional watchdog committee is certainly legitimate. ” » J n n r HE major difference between the House and Senate measures concerns China. The House in debate made clear that $60 million of the total should go to bur Far Eastern ally. This, in our jndgment, is absolutely essential. The conference committee should have no difficulty in | agreeing on this provision which the Senate neglected. It is supported by Sen. Vandenberg and the Republican leadership, including Gov. Dewey. Nobody can question China's dire economic need, and the advancing Red armies attest the

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Failure of President Truman and Sec retary of State Marshall to present a China interim aid plan is inexcusable. Now that the House has acted the Administration should submit itemized estimates at once. Lacking this, the appropriations committees cannot do their job intelligently. As for the three European countries, the House cut of $67 million was ill-advised. The Senate figure of $597

million is a minimum.

Mr. Harriman Is Surprised

ECRETARY OF COMMERCE HARRIMAN, a member of one of America’s wealthiest families, eats margarine | and likes it. “I commend margarine to the American consumer,” Mr. Harriman told newspapermen the other day. “I've eaten it since the war, and I can't, tell the difference from butter. I'm surprised that-People pay a dollar a pound for butter,” Well, a reason why people pay high prices for butter, | although margarine at half the cost is equally tasty and nu- | tritious, is that federal lJaws—and many state laws—have | been passed for the express purpose of discouraging use of margarine and giving butter-makers an undeserved advan- | tage. Without the discriminatory taxes, margarine could be sold to consumers at even lower prices. Without the un- | fair license fees, you could buy yellow margarine, tinted with | the same coloring matter which, at most seasons of the | year, is put into butter to make it yellow. Mr. Harriman, we venture, has never had to do the troublesome job of working coloring matter into a pound of white margarine. But most housewives, wha buy margarine, have. .to do that job for themselves, : * There are pure food and drug laws to prevent sale of | margarine as butter. The special margarine taxes and fees - are not needed. = They serve no good purpose. If Congress wants to do something positive to help lower the, cost of liv-, ing, here's one-way: - Repeal the- laws that discriminate |

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WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 13—R is. winnin pati Jung a Mai, Gur, Wilianw J Donovan, whose views wd present; |

of hare. hes a distinguished record as a combat soldier, a strategist and a director of “irregular” operations such as

“director of strategic services for the joint chief of staff. \ gucior of sirutegie these thet Rusia is now smploying against the U. S.

. The Soviets are attacking the bastions of America’s

+ securit over. the world. They are doing so by every The general was America’s mest famous and most highly |e ie by decorated combat officer in World War |, when he com. Russia will’ defeat the U. 8, in this “war” unless America fights 1 manded the "Fighting-69th" division. HE

| better than it has so far. : If the Boviets-win this “cold war” they will be able to dominate the world without firing a shot . against America, because the U. 8. will be too weak to put up any effective opposition,

Here are Maj. Gen, Donovan's views in direct

In World War Il, Ms]. Gen. Donovan organized and directed the Offici of Strategic Services, which planned and conducted sabotage, subversion and political and psychological warfare against the Axis. =

quotations: “The distinguished historian Allan Nevins, in «his recent history of the United States called ‘ordeal +, of the union,’ said: ... ‘In a century and a half, twice a failure of statesmanship, if not of national character, cost, the country far more than it could afford to pay’ “He says that “The civil war and the second World War should have been avoidable.’ “Because the people and the leaders of the U. 8. did not act with determination and sagacity, he claims, the very existence of our republic was imperiled, and it was saved only by a colossal effort and the sacrifice of a vast part of the national wealth, “Errors like these, he says, can in time be largely retrieved-—but they cannot be forgotten or forgiven, and their lessons should be, driven home. “We should remind ourselves of these lessons now, when events are making a heavy demand upon our good sense, our wisdom and our courage. “While I do not share the belief of many others that war is in-

situation in Europe may drive her back to isolation even though we as 8 people have solemnly committed ourselves to the world community. “It is logical to conclude that the Politburo will postpone an allYU sonst with, the U. 8. ui other yessiiiities have boest explored,

Russia has served to waken us to our danger—even though we are not sufficiently alert as to what we must do about it.

‘We Must Meet Test of Peace’

“I HAVE SAID I do not believe war is inevitable.

“This lies wholly within the power and the capability of the U. 8. to determine.

“The issue of war or peace depends on our will to develop our depth of military defense in the economic and spiritual, as well as the physical strength of our people, as a democracy. Only with this strength can we achieve both the resolution and the reasonableness which are necessary to win a lasting peace. And if we want a true peace we must meet that test, “Our danger, therefore, lies, not in the inevitability of war. The real danger lies in permitting the Soviet Union to seize strategic bases, whether in Europe or in the Middle East or in°China or India, that are vital to our security—just as in 1936 France and Britain let Hitler march into the Ruhr with an empty pistol.

Remember ‘Allies’ Complacency?

“WOULD FRANCE and Britain have been so complacent had they known that Hitler's purpose was to make secure his western flank in order that he could with greater assurance launch his attack against Russia, as Goering himself stated to me? “Of what use are strategic plans if we permit the Soviet Union to cut across and paralyze our lines of communication and, under a skillful incitement of disunity, to use her fifth column operators as she is now doing to penetrate our vital internal defenses?

“Whee would our strategy be if we permitted all this and in addition remained indifferent to the fact that under the new force of air

deterioration in our relations with the Boviet Union, and that in the present state of tension an incident could precipitate shooting.

“BUT IT SEEMS to me that the Soviet Union does not wish war now if her aims can be realized without it, “Why should she run the risks and uncertainties of war when, through the confusion of the present peace, the Soviet Union has acquired during this period over 280,000 square miles of territory with 22,000,000 inhabitants? “Tf Russia wanted war and was ready for it, the Red army could walk into Europe tomorrow and no effective resistance could be offered. “‘I'hat the Red army has not moved is evidence only of the fact that the time has not come for that. “Russia therefore must count on gaining the fruits of war by keeping Western Europe—and other parts of the world where our interests conflict with hers—in such turmoil that orderly economic reconstruction is impossible.

Stalin's Aim—To Control Europe “AN IMPORTANT factor in the Russian calculation is the Poe that discouragement and disgust on the part of America with the

think the Arctic Wastes are now put our Midwestern cities gn the

‘we continue to neglect alll these primary things, then our danger 18 that if the day arrives when we find 1 Meosmsaly to Agni we could

to fight the Marshall Plan to the death? “The answer is that in{the Marshall Plan and in its effects the Soi non tee he esi. of the econo nd nde life of a free Europe under 1 governments as an obstacle to its effort to separate Western Europe and the U. 8. : “What we fail to realize, and what our political leaders fail to tell us, is that a war is already being waged against us. True, it is not a shooting war, But in many ways it is more effective and more danger« ous. It is what is called subversive war. “Subversive war is that which employs all weapons other than strictly militgry—both moral and physical—to break the will of your

all, a news service which can furnish the true facts to those who have been forced to listen to false stories. “Since these instruments of fact and Communists in those countries, our first see stand with us, and whom Years pledge tos suppest, get those “Not that we should not use our Vi of America in its Slate ast Wo Swuld Dol Ts Jur Nalco of Americ is said us by an Italian or a French worker, or in his newspapers, is much more convincing than that which we say about ourselves. “Under the second decontrol act of 1047, broad powers are vested in the Secretary of Commerce to exercise export controls. If the Marshall Plan is to be effective it must be buttressed by measures which will insure that it will not be abused and that the population of Europe will know where and how and why America is coming to their assistance. “It would seem desirable to limit the number of Russians who enter this country to the number of Americans who are allowed to visit Russia.

‘Don’t Underestimate Soviet “WE MUST not underestimate the Soviet Union—her strength, her skill, her determination and tenacity and her experience in this kind At the same time, we should also remember that in this kind of operation there is an element of the bluffer and the bully. And it is necessary to call the bluff and to stand up to the bully. “In all of this we must ask ourselves, this question: “Is that which we are called upon to do in the interest of the security of our country? “Apply that measurement to any proposal that is made to us. And having taken that measurement and decided that it is in our interest ~—then we should do it and accept the consequences.”

truth are now largely held Jab i to that those

In Tune _ With the Times

CHRISTMAS

The tradition of Christmas is a matter of complex origin In the background is the Pagan element of the winter solstice. The ever-shortening days led primitive man to fear the ultimate disappearance

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life, Hence rites were instituted to welcome it | back and feasting marks the signs of its return. | Added to this primitive fact is the Pagan veneration of all forms of vegetable life found flourishing in winter with their promise of life in their green growth. Hence the holly with its bright cheerful berries and the pale mistletoe. The Christmas tree is German in origin, though back of it is the old Pagan tree-worship, Folk myth-making was set | to work and in time in Holland St. Nicholas appears as the children’s saint. Soon his name Was changed to Santa Claus. All these strains, though associated with the purely Christian element, have never fused with it in a perfectly harmonious union. And the reason is plain enough: The non-Christian elements grow out of the human desire to enjoy the creature comforts of life; but the Nativity theme is spiritual, appealing to man's higher, unselfish aspirations. And the spiritualizing of human behavior is a painfully slow process. There is goodwill in the family : groups and in national groups: but not in interiational political relations, as is witnessed today by the suspicion of the good intentions of the other by each of the two most powerful nations of the world JOHN 8S. HARRISON. ® & <4

THE TIRED HORSE

There in the clangorous thoroughfare A horse plods by with dejected air; Slowly plods on in a drizzle of rain. Ah, how much better an empty plain, Away from the clatter of city streets! With the only sound his own hoofbeats On the hard brown earth. Above him the sun, Or a quiet moon when the day is done. A sight to stir any thinking heart: That tired horse pulling a rubbish cart. g ~DOROTHY LYON.

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| = oe Hoosier Forum “I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

‘Help Make Better Boys and Girls’

By a Worried 1B Mother. In some of our schools the traffic systems is surely slipping. A student traffic officer should be one that is outstanding, when at home or at school. He shouldn't be a troublemaker either at school or home. That is the kind we want to watch our little 1B’s. This kind will help to make better boys and girls out of our little fellows. The traffic officer should talk to the little 1B’s like a big brother and not take them down until they have been warned.

themselves. But if a little fellow runs a little he is made to walk back and when they are home they do things that aren't very nice. Just like Halloween, two traffic officers were around saying trick or treat and if you didn't go to your door, your windows were soaped. Dirty words and soap were all over a crippled woman's window. And across the street a sick lady had soap on her window. These boys were seen doing this and they said, “So what. “We can do what we want to do when we are at home.” What would you think of a police officer if he di® that after duty? The first year of the child's school will be the start of his life. The 1B’s are still babies, and shouldn't be scared or bullied because their nerves are not so good and it might start them to tattle or even to lie. Especially if the traffic officer can get by with anything. e 4 ¢

Tell Children They Are Good

By Mrs. C. R. F., R. R. No. 4, City. Open Letter to Mothers. In these times of juvenile delinquency, why, oh, why, do some mothers write in to Santa Claus and have your children’s name read over the air and say that they are bad children. Why not take the time you take in telling them they are bad to try telling them when they are good and make it so much worth their while that they will make an extra effort to be good? While they are too young to go to school give them little things to do that will keep them busy. They can empty ash-trays, pick up papers, help dust, besides picking up their playthings.

ITEMS FROM THE CROSSROAD ~~ GRAPEVINE

Gertie Muchow was home from the city over the holiday wearin’ a watch chain ‘round her ankle. Right snappy gal, Gertie. | Smelly Davis won the cider drinkin’ contest | ‘tother evenin’ an’ on the way home run his car into Gramp Miller's hig elm tree. Sed Smelly, “Thet tree's bin standin’ there stiller'n a corpse fer years, but tonight thé dad-blamed thing jumped at me.” Smoothy Smith.is sportin’ a tie with thet new Windsor knot. Hit's hard to git ahead of Smoothy, --CATFISH PETE. * >

YOUR CHRISTMAS CAKE

I think the kind of cake for you Would be the skies of lovely blue, All fluffed and whipped so feathery light; Hard to distinguish blue from white. Now maybe you would use this part

NATIONAL AFFAIRS How Seesaw Works in Steel

YOUNGSTOWN, O, Dec. 13—Here in this steel city in the heart of the Mahoning Valley, with the roar and clash and clang of a great industry going full blast, all the issues of our day can be seen in sharpest focus. On the wall of the union hall is a big placard showing the prices now of bread, meat, butter and eggs, and the comparable prices a year ago. Set out that way, the differences are striking. They add up to the pinch on the pocketbook that almost everyone talks about.

Philip Murray of the CIO has announced another set of wage demands to be presented to industry next spring. Leaders of the United Steel Workers Union

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A new coke oven costs three to four times what So does a new power plant, badly needed in the face of a growing power shortage. New steel plants built at present costs would have to mean | a higher price for steel, says Mr. Purnell. And so the seesaw threatens to go up and up and up. We are getting our economy on a higher and

If steel production should drop from the present 100 per cent of capacity to 80 per cent, every steel company in the country would be plunged into the red, with bankruptcy around the corner. because fixed costs of production are on such a high

Relationships Seem Healthy

No, I am not an old maid that never raised any children. I raised three and now I am taking care of my grandson. We have always told him he is good and he always tries to be good. - He is just like any boy but he is always so busy he doesn't have time to be mischeivous, I still insist chilren aren't bad unless they have been told so many times that they get to believing it and then they try to live up to the reputation oldém. people have given them. So please write and tell Santa how good your youngsters have been and see how much better you and the children feel, > ¢ o ‘Fine Review by Dramatic Critic’

By A Long Times Reader, 1820 S. Keystone Ave, I wish to comment on the fine review of your drama critic, Henry Butler, in regard to Indiana Central College's play, “Deep Are the Roots.” I thought this was one of the finest reviews of any such event I've seen for a long time. The smooth manner in which the article is

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in this region feel there will be little difficulty in AT PRESENT it timated 5000 to 6000 To. form the topping... or the start. capacity, an estima » , . ; obtaining an additional 15 cents an hour when the 1 . written, on such a “touchy” and con rsial VOUr Cake AT Ist be. + Well. quite Vass time for bargaining comes. additio workers are needed in the Youngs problem, is highly commendable. I believe ff more

Because you'll use the fields and trees And every brook . . . and every breeze, You'll pour into this . . . all the folk, No... this is not a silly joke, But mix all this . .. with our good people From valley to the highest steeple. You'll find it spiced with varied flavor, We are siot.all , . . the same behavior, But mix this . , . well... not quite as much As for angel cake or such. It znouid be baked . . . of course... well done, With beaming smiles and rays of sun. | . later you would frost the whole With ice and snow! If that's your goal-— It would look lovely . . . glistening white On Christmas Day. A pleasing sight!

Yet no one really believes that another round of wage rises will solve anything. The rank and file have learned that a wage hike merely means a price hike. And the price jump is likely to be a little higher than the wage increase. The rank-and-filers say wistfully or angrily, de pending on their mood, that somebody down in Wash« ington ought to do something to stop this seesaw. They ought to roll back prices, that's what they ought to do. “The trouble is we've got the wrong people down there in Washington,” says one man.

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Turn Fire on Taft BUT WHO the “right, pedple” might be, no one

area, That is true although almost that many persons, who lack essential qualifications, are listed on

Here is a block to increased steel capacity unless, of course, it would be possible to assign workers to

essential industry. This is impossible in our society | or in any society that has for so long had a tradition

Is the choice today between regimentation and a runaway inflation which will end in a bust? No one would voluntarily choose either course for they beth threaten the destruction of a free society. Even though it may be the rankest of wishful thinking, I keep coming back: to the hope that somehow an agreed solution must be found—that is to

standing and carrying a punch, on the so-called today's dilemma, “The Racial Issue,” it would help matters considerably. As the rule goes, not many writers can tackle these problems without offending someone (the so-called majority), The play, “Deep Are the Roots,” packs a wallop and so does this article. ly ’

= such reviewes are written with the care and under-

‘My Bouquet to The Times’

By W, 8. 2 «ANNA E. YOUNG. is quite sure, Om ths union side there is one cer spy, a minimum of regulation will be accepted by & & oi all as the only way to through the next 12 to 18 The Indianapolis Times is doing a very eome Seven waiches. were found in a pickpocket | 1AT—the villain is Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. All 8s the only way to get mendsble job of exposing conditions in’ loted pocket. Now he has time on his hands. On a table in the union hall there is a petition In spite of the bitter battles of the past, in spite | eating establishments. The fresh air and white ¢ ¢ o which the members sign as they drop in, It demands of the Taft-Hartley Act, the working relationship be- | light of publicity will, we hope, have a salutary

that Sen. Taft resign. It damns him for isolationism, for high prices and for general obstructionism. The Villain is made out to be a good old-fashioned villain, On the side of management and ownership, the price level is alsa the chief preoccupation. It is seen, of course, from a different perspective.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

All the latest Red didactics, Throughout much of Europe's span, Call for widespread striking tactics, - To defeat the Marshall Plan,

Prank. Purnell, president of the Youngstown Sheet ing one of our Prosidential contest. The but it's nonetheless of careless food But for Stalin there's dejection & Tube Co., and one of the ablést steel masters in. SW yArcias sesh HEY 10 MiSke unte n oI peice handling. x : \ ys. ID the newest Paris rout; “| the industry, talks about his plans for expansion. and supply the battleground of 80, once aghin, here's my bouquet to The Times Joe'll recall upon reflection: | fie wants to build more enpacity bus there is the that seems to leave little voom for any kind of and __in-ite current. of articles aimed st bettering - Even Casey once struck-—outd -* hurdle of high costs and. scarcities. + sonshle agreement. Wod-serving in our home 1 i i . ) ; : - ~ | - “. - bo S i ' x i A \ x b \ :

tween labor and mandgement seems fairly healthy. | Each talks about how good the other side is having it in the boom, but that is natural and it does not prevent the settlement of practical differences. But the hope of an agreed settlement comes up against the harsh fact of timing. We are approach~

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