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Give LAght and the People Will Find Their Own Way

Henry Is ‘Running’ WHEN President Truman pitched him out of the Cabinet a year ago:last summer, Henry Wallace hit the ground running. So his announcement last night that he will be a third-party candidate for President does not come as startling news, ! Henry had quite a number of followers when he first started running. That was back when some people thought maybe Henry had something when he said we ought to trust the Russians with the atom bomb, and court their favor by yielding on all other controversies. But time and developments have been disillusioning, and more and more people” have come to realize that Stalin's aggression and

Canada and Mexico, $1.10 a |

imperialism are of the game pattern as Hitler's. So Henry's followers have been leaving him in droves. [Henry is running like a dry creek, and if he doesn’t pick up | speed before November he can be charged with loitering. the “common Well, there are lots of us common folks, and we all want peace. But most of us who vote are old enough

Henry's platform is for “peace” and

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to remember that peace cannot be bought by appeasement. |

and disarmament, and that a fellow with Henry's ideas can get the common man into a whale of a lot of trouble,

Warman. ” ” » " " | EVEN HENRY'S loudest champions——and of late they to the Communists and the frustrates of the lunatic fringe—do not claim that ‘he has a chance to carry a single state. The most they claim is that perhaps in a few pivotal states, where the contest between the Democrats and Republicans will be close, Henry | may take enough votes away from the Democrats to enable | the Republicans to win. That's what the Republicans hope will happen. But | judging by the way ex-New Dealers and union leaders have | been flocking back into the Truman camp, it doesn’t seem | lik2ly that there will be much of a Rooseveltian core in the Wallace effort. : One good thing should come from his candidacy. ~When all of his popular votes are counted (he won't get any electoral votes), Moscow's Politburo can strike a total and learn the maximum extent of Soviet tolerance in this country. Maybe thereafter the Russians will try harder to understand Americans. -

Affront to a Church

THE great Methodist Church of this country with its 11 million patriotic members has been subjected to a notable indignity. Its enormous prestige has been used by an unofficial adjunct of the church, the so-called Methodist: | Federation for Social Action, as a national sound rd for Communists ghd fellow travelers to #xpound a of the party line. : This has occurred in a Kansas City conference of the federation, Atcounts of the meeting have been given to the Indianapolis Times and other Scripps-Howard newsby Frederick Woltman, a reporter who has won the Pulitzer prize for competency in ferreting out the efforts of fi ravelers to operate in the guise of unreproachable American organizations.

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We are sure that Methodists in general are quite as hocked as we are to read Mr. Woltman's disclosures of what went on at that conference, representing only a small minoriy of the church. Appealing in the name of religion and using the stories of Mary and Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount and the {sood Samaritan, speakers made strong attacks on America’s foreign policies while praising those of the Soviet Union.

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» ONE SPEAKER saw in the Christmas story “not the | improvement of the present social order but its revolutionary abolition and replacement anew.” And another fore- | ist “an emerging new order pushing, its way up through blood, tears and strife.” There was even defense of Russian | on the ground, of all things, that war talk in America” wag forcing the Soviets “to tighten

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We ¢dn recall no other instance of so flagrant abuse and e of name of a great church. None but insidious, Hleftists would have such unsurpassed gall. But ance in the fact that the *“social-action” proted at Kansas City 1s to go before the Metho- ( is a whole. And we are confident that the wd file of clergy and laymen, once they have learned tacts, will lose no time in disavowing this curious off-

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we commend the dispatches of Reporter ing bare the facts.

Canada Doing Her Part W iil E there is much’ discussion of the United States’ aid to Europe,-not much attention has been given to what Canada has done. ’ Canada has loaned a total of ‘$1,850,000,000 to European countries, In terms of relative pdpulation that is equivalent to a United States outlay of $20,350,000,000. In

American outlay of $27,750,000,000. To the world’s need in war or peace, Canada makes a bold and sacrificial contribution. But she does it quietly, ' without fanfare. ! It js a sturdy.and noble people that we have to the north of us. Canadians are a bulwark of democracy and We are fortunate in our neighbors.

Red Tape or Red Ribbon HE plight of a young Italian girl, who arrived in this country to find her ex-GI fiance dead, hts aroused the | generous. sympathies .of most Americans. The fact that she is mow being wooed by another man has kindled their love of romance, . ~ Apparently, at this appropriaté season, immigration officials felt it nicer to use red ribbon than red tape, for they | granted her a 90-day visitors’ visa, in which to make up | her mind if she'll marry her preéent” suitor, or go back to

decency.

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"In Tune With the Times

"TWAS THE NIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS

Drying cedar falls from bough, y Christmas Day is past Comes the anti-climax now Of A pace too fast,

| Toys and wrapping strew the way,

Bense of neatness pained Who'd believe that yesterday Perfect order reigned!

House is now a cluttered mess, Seems it can't be so, All was tidy readiness Just a day ago.

Crumbs of cake and bones of fowl, Remnants of a feast, Fill to brim the puppy's bowl, Lucky little beast,

Brother shoots his handsome gun, Sister dons new frills, Mama finds relaxing fun, (Dad awaits the bills!) -~MARCELLA HIBNER. "4% 4 0 Keep young folks busy, advises a judge. When there's nothing they should do is when they do something they should net. * % 9

ITEMS FROM THE CROSSROAD

At this writing, |

GRAPEVINE

George Lawson, allus the ca'mest man around lost face when his house caut fire airly Friday morntn George was walkin’ ‘round givin' orders, all dress'd 'ceptin’ fer his pants Cawfee Hansen sez, “To me there's only one thing bad 'bout advice, . . I cain't take it.” Some of the fellers come over from Switzer's Corner Battiday evenin’ aimin' to take in the dance, but our boys run 'em back to where they ~CATFISH PETE. ¢ 4% 4

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Bahy sitting cover youngsters 4 years old—-and we've seen ought to be sat on : “ -& 4H And ad.offers a woman a job in a band playing second fiddle. They don’t come that way, le apd

SEQUENCE TO 'THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS’

‘Twas the night after Christmas and all through the house, No one was stirring except the mouse “The stockings have been taken from the chimney with care, Because Old 8t. Nick has been there The children were nestled so snug in their beds While dreams of their toys danced in their heads. And mamma inher new kerchief and I in my new cap, Have settled our brains for another winter's nap.

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| Santa has returned to his home in the north, |

Away from the children and his trips to the hearth. Christmas is over for another year, The season of joy--without a tear. &« ~—RICHARD P. BECK, e 2 9 Reducing often becomes necessary when the line of least resistance is the waistline, > © 4 Watch traffic lights! The best of motorists often take a turn for the worse. LI

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“New York—Landon, not in tails, barred at Opera Club, “though accompanied by its president.”)

Though well groomed and well bespoken, Mr. Landon got a snub; For the rules must not be broken, At the staid Met Opera Club

Salome wouldn't awe some flunkies, . In her last transparent veils; And like Zamboanga's monkeys, Mr. Landon had no tails!

everybody else, has some alarming possibilities.

.. Think what it would be like if thi§ love business caught on in Congress, where at least 16 of the statesmen have signed up as spon-

sors of the lately revived “Movement.”

Wouldn't you be surprised to pick up your paper today and read that Speaker: Joe Martin and Republican Chairman Brazilla Carroll Reece had been invited over to the White House to sing carols with Margaret, while the President accompanied them on the piano Or think what vour reaction would be if that big-hearted and House Committee, should announce over the radio that—filled with remorse and pity over the hunger and starvation of Europe's millions of war victims, he was going to raise expenditures for stop-gap aid of cutting the $597 million to $540 millions, he would up it to $640

generous man, Chairman John Taber of the

million just to show how he loved his fellow man. a shock like that?

Would vou be able to take a statement from that universally adTaft of Ohio, announcing that he was going to campaign for the presidency on a platform of repealAct and restoring the Wagner Act?

mired friend of labor, Sen. Robert A

ing the Taft-Hartley

Charlie and Jesse 'Fess Up!

FANCY HOW vou would feel if Repfiblican Floor Leader Charlie and Currency Chairman Jesse Wolcott of Michigan should come right out and say: “That anti-inflation bill which we put over just before going home When the boys get back in January, we're going to turn over a new leaf and pass a bill that : Mr. Truman's proposals

Halleck of Indiana and House Banking

for the holidays was a phony and it stinks

will really cut prices and hold down rents didn't go nearly far enough.”

—CanSpring Be Far Behind? ~~

IN WASHINGTON ee « By Peter Edson A Pleasant Dream— | ut Don’t Wake Up

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—The Moral Re-Armament idea, that all the world's troubles would vanish if everybody would just start loving

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POLITICS .". . ByPaulR. Leach

Modest Margaret Helps Dad

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—One of President Trumans best campaign helpers is going to be his 23-year-old daughter. But the role she will play will be quite indirect, By just being herself in rare interviews as she has traveled in her singing recitals, Miss Truman has added to Truman good-will. Music critics have. not raved about her voice, but they have been won by her personality, The certainty that Mrs. Bess Truman will continue to remain in the background and daughter Margaret's efforts to start an artistic career on her own, naturally have created discussion among the President’s planners. While some would like to see both the President's wife and daughter take part in the campaign, the majority belief is that the very contrast of their way of doing things with the four previous campaigns will be helpful.

Decision Up to Papa THERE IS just one thing that the National Con-

vention Arrangements Committee would like to have ,

from the Truman family. That is to have daughter Margaret sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” following the “invocation on opening day But so far it hasn't been put up.to Papa President for fear he would veto even that. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's boosters as a compromise Republican nominee, if Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Sen. Rebert A. Taft and. Harold Stassen fail to make the grade, are putting their fingers on a few paragraphs in a speech he made Nov. 20, 1946, before the CIO convention .at Atlantic City.

“I ask you to believe this of te,” he said. “When

"I recommend to my civilian superiors and to the

Congress the requirements of military preparation .I am thinking of only one objective “The continued opportunity of your sons and my sons, and their sons, and all that may come after them, to live under the same rights, the same type of government, that we ourselves have enjoyed

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“We have dgmonstrated -that our system of free enterprise$ run » free people, can out-produce by a wide margin any other economic system.” The reason they're bringing this up now is that Tke was gccused by conservative politicians who don't want him for President of being opposed to the profit system and free enterprise. That cane out of an off-the-record dinner here a couple; weeks ago. It was given to Gen. Eisenhower 4 Pennsylvania Republicans, headed by Gov. James H. Duff and former Sen. Joseph R. Grundy. Sens. Rgbert A. Taft and Arthur H. Vandenberg were .there: After the dinner contradictory reports of what Tke said were circulated. He- was reported in a national radio broadcast to have said industry should give up profits fer three years.

What lke Really Said

IKE HIMSELF has added, to the confusion by refusing to say one word publicly in explanation. "He has even refused to let one.of the prominent men at the dinner make a statement for him,

What Ike really said, I am satisfied after talking with several men who heard him, was this: —That industrial Jeaders should take the leadership-in announcing $here would be no price increases for a Labor leaders also should, add to stability by announcing there would be no wage demands for the same period The only mention of profits, I am told, was Ike's admission that such a price policy might result in no profits for that year. But holding the price-wage line for a year, he#argued, would bring stability and normal business later. It is little different from the Republican congressiohal stabilization act, Ike's closest friends say it is a 100 to 1 bet that he will make no speeches until he reports as president of Columbia University June 7, and 10 to 1 that he won't after that date. That's just a week before the Republican cbnverition opens at Philadelphia. Ike is going on 60-day leave March 1, and on inactive duty status May 1.

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QOPR. 1947 BY

“Rankin Backs FEPC" might be the headline if this spirit of lov-

Ing your neighbor as yourself. should burst forth from the bosom of that great champion of tolerance, the gentleman from Missouri. Then ponder what a great event it would be {f Tom Dewey, gov ernor of New York and “head” of the Republican Party, would come

+ | Molotov: “You were right.

| hearing Radio Moscow broadcasting a message to Mr. Marshall from I was wrong.

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War II. no security.

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"When | think of all the lazy men | could have married!"

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including herself. I should apologize.”

Side Glances—By Galbraith | WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William ® . Building Viewed as Vital

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—The Panama republic's refusal to coe | operate with the United States in the defense of the canal dealt a blow against the whole principle of hemisphere defense which Panama helped to formulate. Such being the case, the matter is likely to be taken up at the | next Pan-American Conference scheduled for the coming year, If the Panama spirit should spread, everything that was accomplished | at Rio de Janeiro, Lima, Havana and similiar conferences would be

The nature of national security,

| United States and Latin America. tics are being standardized all the way from Alaska fo Tierra Del Fuego, The Monroe Doctrine has ceased to be a one-way thesis under | which one powerful country alone undertook to defend all its neigh« | bors. Instead it has become an undertaking whereby | aid in defending the whole hemisphere, all for one and one for all.

‘Hurting Every New World State TODAY, therefore, the Panama Canal has ceased to be solely an | instrument of United States defense. of South America as it is to the defense of North America. True, the | United States foots the bill for the entire hemisphere. | of Panama first of all shares the benefits. only can’t defend the canal herself but refuses to permit the United States to do it properly, she is hurting every other new world

‘Hoosier Forum

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

‘Lawmakers Keep Right On’ By Claude Braddick If John Smith is a fool, adding a lot of college ' degrees to his name will not make him less a fool —it will only add to his capacity for making a fool of himself. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in our lawmaking: bodies Lawmakers are no bige ger fools than the rest of us—it only seems so bee cause they have so many more opportunities to work at it. ’ @ Since long before the New. Deal, lawmakers have been trying to peg the price of farm products, and

for no better reason than that, thére are more

farmers than any other class of people. Will Rogers once remarked that the farmer would ale ways vote the Republican tickét anyway, because he was “agin slavery.” But you know how Will was. A couple of farmers somewhere probably told him they were “agin slavery,” and Will thought all of them were. { Lawmakers, however, go right on trying it, in spite of the fact that their measures as often as

- not have effects quite opposite to those intended

and result in harm to both the farmer and his customer, and sometimes in waste or even de. struction of huge stocks of foodstuffs, which in my opinion is a monstrous crime—a crime which no amount of good ‘intentions can justify, and which is no less reprehensible when done by the governe ment than when done by private interests. I have no doubt, tholigh, that our lawmakers will go right on trying te alter human nature by statute and repeal the law of supply and demand, in the hope that we will say, “Well, at least they, tried—got to give 'em credit for that.” I doubt very much, however, if even this reasone ing can exempt them from meriting the term, Fool. We do not laugh at King Canute becausé he failed to sweep the ocean back with his broom we laugh because the durn fool tried it. LS J ;

‘Why Can’t Landlord Be Thankful?’

By An East Sider, Indianapolis

The other night “Another West Sider” had a piecevin about rent control. What have most of the landlords got to gripe about? ; Our landlord is like thousahds right here im Indianapolis. ’ When the rent freeze went into effect they were mad at the Democrats. They took their spite out on their tenants. When anything needed repair and you reported it you Jere told if you did not like it you could move. We had the entire house papered which cost us $65; $75 for new linoleum; $100-to. have the heating plant fixed; new blinds throughout; floors and wood~ work varnished; new light fixtures, and this goes on like this ever since rent was frozen. And I know dozens of families who have done the same thing to the homes that they rent, also, Why can’t the landlord be thankful that all these years he has been getting fair enough rent for his rentals and none has been empty? Just as soon as our landlord had the oppore tunity to raise rents 15 per cent he did so. I hate to think of what some of us poor folks will do if rent control goes off in Indianapolis,

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‘Injustice Should Be Title’ By Mrs. Marjorie Leckas, 506 S. East St.

Injustice should be the title of the article concerning Patrolman Durham's suspension. I pelieve that it is a political conspiracy and is very unfair to this upstanding officer of the law. The anonysmous telephone call was such a brave act,’ one * to be proud of. After all the people in the tavern said- he hadn't indulged in the use of liquor. At this time of year when everyone professes bic beliefs in humanitarianism, we find this man. who has exhibited the true spirit of Christmas by assisting the Ballard family. Is this to be. hig reward for his display of kindness? I believe the citizens of Indianapolis should

rally to the support of this officer and see to it that he receives justice. *

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Philip Simms

a New Candl

whether for the Republic of"

the United States, Canada or any of the Latin-American states, is far different from what it was at the :

beginning of World

Security today must be achieved collectively, or there is

Every one-of, the 22 nations of the Western Hemisphere not only

recognizes this, but has already taken action based upon it. Canadas | and the United States have a mutual defense pact. So have the

Arms, equipment and military tace

all have pledged

It is just as vital to the defense

The Republig Thus when Panama not

state,

It would be undemocratic and unbecoming for a great power like

right out with a hard-hitting, straight-forward unequivocal state- | ment that he stood four-square in‘Yavor of changing the flavor of the | stickum on postage stamps from cold tea to skim milk—mentioning \ both “tea” and “milk” by name! > | Wouldn't it be wonderful to report that Morris Sayre, new president of the National Association of Manufacturers, had come to Washington, called in Phil Murray, Bill ‘Green and John L. ‘Lewis, and issued a joint handout announcing an 18% per cet cut in profits and prices, with no more wage increases in 1048! All in the spirit of love.

Thomas Gets in the Spirit of Things

TO MATCH that one, there might be a letter from=Rep. J. Parnéll Thomas of New Jersey, chairman of the House un-American Activities Committee, indorsing the new report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights. : y . Sen. Kerineth McKellar of Tennessee, wishing Atomic Energy Commission Chairman David Lilienthal a Happy New Year, would be just as hard fo believe. It would be liké Sen. Owen Brewstét of Maine spending a week-end with Howard Hyghes in Hollywood. “What a world of love it would be if Ed Pauley should apologize to President Truman and offer to give the profits of his grain-trading | deals to reducing the national debt. : What a great day it would be if you should find in your mail a | card reading, “I shall not be a candidate for re-election. . I do not | think I am worthy of the high office of U. 8. Senator from Texas.” ‘Signed, Pappy O'Daniel. * Why, if this thing was

carried to the extreme, you might even be

strikes—Philip

There must be a catch in all this world-love stuff, too. But it's a pleasant dream.

THERE ARE reasonable limits to what many American families or individuals can afford to pay for efficient, serviceable cars, particularly in these times, when the high cost of living has reduced the public's car-buying ability to new lows. —Powgll Crosley Jr, Crosley Motors, Inc. 0

» » ~ ‘. » » ] WAR VETERANS and other home PA es would be better off living in a tar shack for a year or two ins of paying $11,000 for a house that should cost $5000 —Edward E. Brown, president, Federal Reserve Board's Advisory Council. . » » » » ” » COMMUNISM or no communism, mets or no menace, ft is our simple duty as neighbors to take a genero§s part in helping these great peoples to help themselves.—Henry' L. Stimsod, former Secretary of War, speaking on ald to Europe. ~ ~ ” La EEE J THE INTELLIGENCE and the caliber of a nation rite only when there is first a rise in. the intelligence and caliber of its citizens. And . . . women are more than half of the people of America!—Carol Lieberman, University of Michigan. - . :

WE ARE all living in hope that it will not be necegsary to have Murray, president, C10. :

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the United States to bully or threaten a tiny nation like Panama. Bug it is equally unbecoming in a small state thus to play dog-in-thee manger at such a time just because it knows it can get away with ft, Fortunately, the United States does not have to depend entirely on the good-will and co-Gperation of Panama, however welcome these would be. Nicaragua has granted to the United States, in perpetuity, canal rights across her territory, ‘and’ for a long time experts have insisted on the folly of putting all our eggs in the one Panama basket,

Two Believed Vital for Defense

THERE SHOULD be two canals across the Central American isthmus. Unlike Panama, Nicaragua would welcome a canal and doubtless would do anything in her power to help defend it. Eyen during the past war, she pressed hard for such a waterway and persuaded Costa Rica to drop its objections to ‘the joint use of San Juan River which at one point forms the boundary between the two countries, . In 1938, engineers estimated that the Nicaraguan Canal woul@ | cost $1 billion, a number of surveys already have been made. Each time ‘the estimated costs have been upped. Doubtless present estimates would be considerable higher, perhaps as high as $1,700,000,000 or even more. Even so, it would be only one-tenth the amount which it is proposed that the U. S. spend in Europe during the next four i years. eo s Vo eA x x Two American. inter-ocean canals are widely regarded as vita ere defense. As such, every one of the 22 American states a direct ‘interest ‘in its building. If the United States is willing to pay the cost, the project at least should have the, blessings of the other beneficiaries. -, 0. i

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