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For-Cleaner Restaurants

HE plan the Indiana Restaurant Association announced yesterday to raise the standards of cleanliness in public eating places deserves the support of every restaurant owner, and certainly of every restaurant patron, in Indiana. Enforcement of minimum standards of cleanliness by public health authorities can never be wholly effective without the co-operation of the restaurants themselves, The IRA proposes to go well beyond mere co-operation, however. It has in the making a vigorous program of its own which will, in time, impose standards well in excess of the minimums permitted by law. | If its members do not maintain them, they will cease | fo be members. If non-members cannot meet them, they will not be admitted to membership. So the symbol of | membership in the -association will, in itself,. become the hadge of a clean restaurant, one which has met and maintains standards higher than those imposed by city or State inspectors.

That is good. citizenship, of course. = It will also, most likely, turn out to be good business. No one wants to eat in a dirty restaurant, Most people who eat out will welcome a sign — like the IRA membership card — which will guarantee high standards of cleanliness and turn to restaurants which display it whenever they have a choice.

All for $36,000 |

HEN vou begin to list the communi.y services the Church Federation of Indianapolis performs, the budget it is raising this week to carry on the work for another year seems modest indeed. The Federation is the liaison agency among most of the Protestant churches in favs, and between those churches and the community. It serves to co-ordinate the efforts of those churches, and to make effective their moral influence in many and varied fields. It is their contact with judicial, legislative and civiebodies of all kinds, and it is the contact of many Indianapolis Protestant churches with major national and international Protestant organizations. | This past year it has been active in promotion of better liuman relations right here in Indianapolis, it has conducted | leadership training courses for more than 700 persons, it | has provided religious ministry to eight local hospitals and other institutions, directed more than 50 devotional radio programs a month, conducted major united religious serv-ices-and carried on many other activities. ~ All this it proposes to continue for another year with an expenditure of only $36,000. Any examination of its | program inevitably leaves the impression that Indianapolis | Protestant churches which support it are getting quite a lot for their money — and not only Protestant churches, | but the whole cd as well.

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Stalin Gets Slapped

HE week-end was bad for Russia. In London the longsuffering representatives of America, Britain and France replied to Molotov insults by charging the Soviet government with wholesale theft and lies. Secretary Marshall proposed closer relations between the United States and Britain—to which Russia objects. And in Rome the government, which Stalin is trying to overthrow, quickly broke the violent Communist general strike. All this bad news for the Kremlin followed the similar defeat of Red efforts to destroy the French governnient by strikes and insurrection, The bitter denunciation of Russia climaxes the foreign ministers’ conference. Molotov has been misusing it for | the twin purposes of arousing German nationalism against | the Western Allies and of trying to get $10 billion in German reparations—most of which America would have to pay in the end. Foreign Minister Bevin's response was that, while America and Britain have been forced by Russia's division of Germany to subsidize their zones, Russia has taken $7 | billion in reparations behind the backs of the Western Allies. i Foreign Minister Bidault said Molotov's against France were “contrary to the truth.” Secretary Marshall charged Molotov with “perversion and deliberate nisconstruction” of Allied policy.

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~ » » » VEN more remarkable than the Democratic statesmen’s stand against Russian warmongering, and the successful action’ of the Rome and Paris governments against Soviet internal aggression in their countries, is Moscow's attitude when caught red-handed. After the serious

charges made by thé Western Allies against Rusia--so

Ns ious that in the old days they probably would have led

to relate war—a Soviet spokesman blandly announced he could see no reason for a breakdown of the Big Four conference. Apparently Stalin thinks he can go on indefinitely with his cheating and lies and betrayal of the democracies at no more cost to him than a few harsh words from Mr. Marshall, Mr. Bevin and Mr. Bidault. Crazy as such an idea sounds, if Stalin holds it the democracies themselves are largely to blame. Until recently the French and Italians at home were cozy with the Reds. The American, British and French governments have been turning the other cheek to Stalin's blows for so long, it may take him a while to realize they will not take much more. Therein is the grave risk of war. Not that Stalin will | precipitate war now deliberately—he is not ready yet. The | danger is that he will over-reach himself, Aggressors usually so, FE a ” EANWHILE, the democracies must stand together in defense against this threat, Especially, as Secr ry Marshall told the Pilgrims Society in London, the United States and Britain should proclaim their “close and fraternal relationship.” If the combined leadership of the two strongest democracies cannot stop Stalin before it is too | ~ late, there is not much hope left. © We think it can be done, but it is getting very late. Pa : \ Ni 2 i 8

In Tune With the Times

LITTLE GIRLS, WE ASK YOU

Little girls who bleach their hair ¢ I. believe are not all there, Why not leave it glossy brown? 1t's awfully pretty when it's down.

You fuss and fume and duck your head o To get each little strand, Until at last you have your hair The shade of dirty sand!

Of course ‘at first it's pretty light, But two weeks more and ‘what a sight! 80 please, my dears, leave it alone, Don't use more of the “"amone.” ~-RICHARD C. STANFIELD. * % * "There is one nice thing about bores—they don't talk about other Do

* “THE PRE-VUE"

He sat so rigid—and so tight In pleasant misery And strained his eyes with all his might To see what he could see.

1 didn’t have the heart to scold And say “now go to-sleep” For he was only four years old And he deserved to peep.

Think back—I'm sure you will recall Your sleeping was a chore You found the key-hole much too small While peeping through the door.

I'm sure that Santa doesn’t mind If he stays up awhile He'll thank you with that certain kind Of “extra special”. smile!

Hell put his arms around you And hug and kiss your cheek Bo don't scold him if he “hounds” you For just one pre-Christmas “peek » —ROBERT 0. REYNOLDS. > ¢ 4 One of the most expensive pipes to smoke is the one leading from the furnace.

v 4 LOMBARD POPLARS

Lombards on the distant sky In graceful pantomime, Baw majestically, and bow : Asif. to God, The Great Divine. — moon-night silhouettes Awe the beauty-seeking mind; Lombards are an idyll, and The ladies of all treeing kind —DR. H. LaTELLE GREGORY. <@ *» It's nice to do things with your heart and soul, but you always get better results out of your hands. Oo &

CHERRY PIE

When I go to see my Grammaw 1 eat an’ eat. , . an’ I Jist never et a thing -she cooked Good as her cherry ple.

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spokesman for Robert A. Taft. identified by the party.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

Taft's Voice Loudest in GOP

NEW YORK, Dec. 16—A gressional elections, Republican victory in 1048 seemed a foregone conclusion. appeared nearly as certain. However, traveling through the country, | bad the strong impression that the Republicans are | determined to throw away that victory if they possibly ! The Republican pronouncements that come out of Washington ‘have very prevailing mood of the country. The chief reason, the party Or, rather, Mr.

Sen. Taft is a “no” sayer. ment and predilection.

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"‘Misinformed on UMT'

By Milt D. Campbell, director of National Defense, ~ American Legion, City. pA After reading the letter by Mrs. Lois Schrag of Franklin, Ind. in your issue of Dec. 10, I cannot help but wonder why people can be so misinformed. In speaking of the “Compton Commission,” she - calls it “a rubberstamp” commission and ‘then names three members as those who had long been in favor of UMT. However, she neglects to name Anna Rosenberg and three others who had long been against UMT. She says “A careful study of .the thought and acting of all nine members of the commission will reveal a bias in favor of UMT."” Who made that study? As a matter of truth it is not a statement of fact. - She says that the young men in the UMT experimental camp at Ft. Knox are “a handpicked lot.” Again that is not a statement of fact as anyone knows who has been to Knox and talked to these young men. The officer personnel at Ft. Knox UMT Camp are handpicked and are training not only the boys but other officers who will be handpicked. Could one condemn Purdue or Indiana University for handpicking their faculty? The lady is correct in just one statement—"The world looks to America for leadership,” but she neglects to qualify by adding one word. The world looks to America for STRONG leadership. In every case, and this is without exception, that close, sincere, and open-minded study has been made regarding the necessity of UMT, the final conclusion reached is that UMT is necessary, One may not like it any more than school is cherished by the child or taxes by the taxpayer, but it is necessary. ¢ & 2

. ' ‘Life, Liberty and Property By J. F. Frants, 7150 Ketcham 8t., City. Among our liberties, none are cherished more and justly so than those.of life, liberty and property, essential symbols of our American Most essential for the general welfare, the visible

. By Marquis Childs

year ago, after the conof the Republican Party.

Six months ago, that victory

I have at least as often as they say no. Mr. Taft's dominance, that those

of the

little to do with the it seems to me, is that the in Washington is Sen. Taft is increasingly

public as the official voice of the

Mr. Taft's man, national chairman.

B. Carroll

He says no by temperaBecause he is running for

make clear that he is not the sole official mouthpiece Senators Baldwin, Knowland, Aiken, Tobey and others have nearly as much right as Mr. Taft to-speak for the GOP. They speak, of course, quite a different language.

however, his views coincide more or ultra-conservative gentlemen who, through all the lean years, have paid the party's bills and kept the party organization alive. Reece,

Taft Has Edge in South

THESE ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE gentlemen will have a great deal to say about the Republican nomi-

freedom of security is property, which strengthens the character of all liberty and faith in our Con stitutional freedom. The right to enjoy these liberties is guaranteed by our Constitution. The guardian of these individual liberties is the Supreme Court, before God, and its judges have all sworn to protect and defend and to preserve these freedoms of life, liberty and property, all in the same category. Our greatest heritage, a most sacred duty, the right of Congress is to make all necessary laws to protect the constitutional liberties of personal freedom which belong to the individual. The power of Congress to add or to substract one of these freedoms does not exist. The intention of our Congress to do so would mean to imperti all liberty in our Constitution. ¢ ¢ ¢

‘Trusting You Won't Relax’ By G. G. Winterrowd, Newton, m My heartiest best wishes in your campaigh to clean up the eating places in Indianapolis. 1 only wish you could extend your efforts to the entire state, and eventually make it nation

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It oozes out with cherries An' is sugared fit to kill, She sets me out a whole big one An' sez . . . now eat yer fill! An’ when I've et an’ et . . “somehow At suppertime , , . then I Hain't got a bit o' hankerin’ Fer ,,. Grammaw's cherry pie! ANNA E. YOUNG. Sb H It all amounts to a total loss when you spend all of your money just to prove that you have it. ¢ @ 2

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“LONDON=—Philip Is ‘Duke of Edinburgh’ in Church Rite.”)

President he is more inclined than ever to say no, hoping thereby to curry the favor of opposition groups of every kind and variety. But the country is not in a no-saying mood. The mood is one of confidence and buoyancy in spite of high prices. While there is skepticism on the score fo European aid, even there the general fecling seems to be that the country is strong enough and rich enough to carry it through.

Bill-Payers Are Conservative

THE PRESENT MOOD may not endure. If even higher prices produce strikes and angry strife, then perhaps the mood of the majority may coincide with the twangy, nasal, ever repeated “no” of the Senator from Ohio. That would seem to be the condition on which Mr. Taft is calculating—a revulsion against the

nation. Their real preference is for Mr. Taft. The chances that he will get the nomination seem to me to have improved in the past six months. While professional Republicans in the South are cautious, they will say, when pressed, that Mr. Taft has the edge in that region. Having assiduously cultivated these professionals, Mr. Taft should éome to the convention next June with an impressive nestegg of Southern delegates. Col. Robert R. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune has named Mr. Taft as his first choice and Gen. Douglas MacArthur as his second. And the colonel will have a great deal to say about what the Illinois delegation does at Philadelphia. These are substantial straws in the Republican wind. They can add up to the nomination of the Senator from Ohio, But whether that would mean a Republican victory,

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wide. As a commercial traveling man I sometimes

shudder to think of the way food I am forced to eat five days a week—50 weeks out of the year—is handled and prepared. Trusting you won't relax in your wonderful

campaign, 1 remain. ¢ »

‘Never a Gestapo, By Gory’ By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, R. RB. 6, City. An Irishman was given 50 cents an hour to dig a ditch. He hired it dug for a dollar an hour, A friend told him he could make no money paying twice as much to get it dug as he was offered | in the first place. The Irishman replied: “It's worth twice as much to be boss anytime.”

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There is always much discoursing, Wwhen*a Royal Princess weds, As to who will do the bossing, And which oge the household heads 1f vou would not look us askance, Or give out with quick rebuke; ‘We would say in prise ring parlance: Beth's already ' got the duke!”

IN WASHINGTON . .. . By Peter Edson

Old Question: How Big A Merchant Marine?

WASHINGTON, Dee. 16—The old question of how big a fleet of merchant passenger ships, freighters and tankers the United States should operate—and how much shipbuilders and operators should be

As of today, sentiment

subsidized by the government—is again hot. Half a dozen sparks have

fired up the boilers and raised a head of steam. ONE: The Geneva agreement, under which tariffs on threefourths of America’s imports will be reduced Jan. 1, 1948. While many U. 8. manufacturers fight all thought of protective tariff cuts, shipping interests see only good in it. They believe lower trade barriers

| can lead only to increased world business. And most government of-

ficials belleve greater U. S. imports are necessary to relieve the rest of the world’s dollar shortages and balance trade. TWO: Early adoption of the Marshall Plan. This is expected to assure continuance of heavy relief shipments over the next four years. Pragident Truman has already asked Congress to extend Maritime Oommission authority to operate, charter and sell government-owned vessels until June 30, 1049. This authority Is due to expire Feb. 29, 1048. Roughly 40 per cent of the British loan shipments moved in American bottoms. Marshall Plan shipping would be about the same.

Tankers Busy Carrying Fuel Oil, Gasoline

THREE: The unexpectedly heavy consumption of fuel oil and gasoline, which has made necessary the recommissioning of nearly 100 tankers lald up in the Inactive feet. At the end of the war surplus tankers were offered for sale to U. 8. buyers. Those not sold were disposed of to foreign buyers. Now there is pressure to stop these sales abroad, so the tankers can be put in U. §, service. FOUR: A pending Interstate Commerce Commission decision on the petition of éoastwise shippers for adjustment of rail and ship rates. Shipping interests want a higher rate for themselves. Also, an end to the railroads’ practice of juggling rates so as to charge less freieht on lines competing with water routes. If ICC ends. this discrimination, an increase in coastwise shipping is likely. FIVE: The new report from President Truman's Advisory Committee on Merchant Marine, headed by K. T. Keller of Chrysler. It recommends a four-year, $600 million program to bulld 46 new passenger ships and: 200. cargo vessels to replace 20-year-old freighters retired to scrap. All - the foregoing are, positive factors, Indicating a continuing boom in shipping. There is one bearish influence: SIX: This is an effort to amend the wage-hour law to provide a four-shift, 42-hour work-week for seamen, It would replace the present three-shift, 56-hour week at sea and the 40-hour week in port. If this change in the law is approved, it would mean a one-third increase in crews and costs on U. 8. flagships. This, in turn, would make it harder for the U. 8. merchant marine to compete with foreign flagships, which already have lower pay Scales and operating. costs. Or it would mean increased U. 8 operating subsidies. :

Old Question of Fleet Sizé Unanswered

THE QUESTION of how big a feetthe U, 8. should maintain for national security has )been argued back and forth in Congress for many vears. Main impact of the Keller report is to revive interest in the subject. and. make old recommendations seem new. Congress set a policy in the Merchant Marine Act of 1036. A Maritime Commission report in 1938 laid out a long-range shipbuilding program which paid off handsomely by expansior. in wartime, “In June, 1046, the Maritime Commission reviewed its program in

the light of expected peacetime traffic. It recommended construction of 58 new passenget ships and 86 fast new freighters. The Keller report merely revises this to 46 passenger ships and 200 freighters— Bb

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party long in power, however, when they would defeat Sen. Taft as the Republican nominee— and by a considerable margin positive passion for the man in the White House, this means many simply would let well enough alone. Several of Sen. _Twisy Colleagues have tried to

the polls reflect prevailing show that President Truman

can occur very rapidly.

moved up and down. Today sound

Rather than any

accentuate the positive.

come next November, is quite another matter. Changes One proof of that is the way in which President Truman's popularity rating has

the Taft voice has a, harsh, It seems to identify the GOP with the negative when the country in its present temper is out to

“All is well and wisely put.” The Irish are born bosses and very nice folk! Al Feeney would be wise to appoint wherever possible an Irishman for.a policeman. “They are a natural for this kind of work and can do a fine job in a joking way without offense to anyone. There is one thing, if we appoint the Irish for our policemen we will never have a Gestapo, By Gory!

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"What's the down payment on thi is one?" held up Maritime Commission plans to start its post-war program. mn January, 1047, President Truman checked it further by cutting Maritime Commission appropriations $328 million. If the President and Congress now accept the Keller Committee recommendations in whole or in part, it will merely mean that the old long-range Maritime Commission program will again be set in motion. It aims at a modern, active fleet of 1000 ships. This may be too Small for an Axpanding word trade.

So They Say

BUT WE MUST face the facts. This international unity which won the war<and which pledged these ideals—has fallen apart. «Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. Mich.). y 0»

» . Te ® = » YES, I think automobile prices in '48 wil] rise. Even if there is

no Increase in wages, certain engineering changes and cost of materials |

will make an increase necessary. ~Charles E. Wilson, president, General Motors Corp. . » ” » » » EVERYONE... is up to his armpits in the profiteering gravy bowl.’ . ~Sen, Glen Taylor (D. Idaho). » ”. »

"x | IF. TO OUR REGRET. we of the Air Forces did not find a rotten |

opie in the barrel, we are grateful that others have done so. : ~Gen. H. H. Arnold, U. 8. Army, retired. ; > oo ; SCIENCE HAS a Sharp eye fogerays nd means, but 106 frequently % 8 bill 4 ends Wd values, =r, Albert Einstein, scientist. > 5 “4 { og :

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‘WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

U. S. Losing Out In ‘Battle of Words’

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—The United States continues to take it on the chin in the battle of words waged against it by Soviet Russia, That is serious, for in the long run, loss of that battle could lose us | the “cold war.” Nothing is too low or too ridiculously untrue for the Kremlinites in their prcpaganda. For instance, Romania's official radio charges | that “many” children were taken ill after eating “adulterated Yankee | cornmeal” from the United States. In her desperate, all-out effort to defeat European recovery | through American aid, Russia and her fifth columns thus are trying to frighten starving people into believing they may be poisoned by American food. This, to date, is an all-time low—even for Muscovites. What the United States can do to tell foreigners just what the American people are like, what our real aims are at home and abroad, is one of the most difficult problems we have to face. And face it we | must for, next to.the atomic bomb, propaganda as used by the Hitlers and the Stalins is probably the most terrible of weapons.

Something Still Could be Done

TO DATE, at anywrate, the U. 8 admittedly hasn't reached first base with its propaganda. But the fact that tens of millions of dollars have been wasted heretofore in the effort, should not itifluence Oongress to give it up as a bad job. In the proper hands—and that's the trick—something can still be done. A competent joint congressional committee headed by Sen. Smith (R. N. J) and Rep. Karl Mundt (R. 8. D.) should be able to comé up with something. Sen. Wiley (R. Wis) asked Secretary of State Marshall for his views on a proposal to facilitate the sending of American newspapers abroad by air to supplement the government's “Voice of America.” In an address in New York commemorating the 156th annivers sary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, Editor William IL Nichols, of “This Week” magazine, proposed something similar. He pointed out that while the government 18 the only agency which ean carry truth beyond the iron curtain, on this side of the curtain private agencies can be mote effective. However. Mr. Nichols reminded, the dollar crisis abroad threatens to stop, or seriously curtail, distribution. of American publications, Their revenues abroad are in blocked foreign currencies. Thus there 8 a4 limit beyond which private businesses cannot dig down for the hard dollars. necessary for overseas distribution of their samples of { free speech.

‘Calls for Plan of Action

THEREFORE; Mr. Nichols ‘suggested that the Mundt bill and other foreign-aid measures include some method for converting the blocked currencies of approved private informdtion firms operating overseas. The British, ‘he recalled, customarily insert in thelr

foreign-loan agreements a clause providing that a certain propertion

of the funds are allocated to the purchase of national literature,

Mr. Nichols has made two trips. through Europe in the past two years in part as a consultant to the State Department. He called for a four-point plan of action: -. First. an adeqliate government overseas information program; second, emergency goverfiment aid for those private information éne { terprises how operating in dollar-short areas; third, advertising sup- | port by Americans for private infotthation ier abe Soult, & SAbibn-yide afols on the DAs of OIE: W SsAvIm : communications with inavigeny abroad. : - p » ’ ¢ 2