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They Know Danger ’ 0 one knows better than a man on the spot that it's dangerous to bluff unless you can back it up. Gen. Lucius Clay in Germany, Lt. Gen. Nathan Twin- |

ing in Alaska and Lt, Gen, John R. Hodge in Korea are] mer on the spot. Commanders of small—and ever-dwindling | ~ forces of American troops in trouble zones, each knows!

that he might become another Gen, Wainwright in another Bataan. Each knows he would be as helpless if the chips | were down, That's why we want their pleas for universal military training to reach you. That's why we believe they are | entitled to speak and to ask for support. | Scripps-Howard Reporter Jim G. Lucas has asked our | overseas commanders whether universal military training would ease their burdens. The answer has been a thunder- | ous “yes.” (See article on this same page.) But there's something else we don't think you'll miss. | Dignified: and restrained as their pleas have been, they're a stinging rebuke to all of us who, in one measure or another, share responsibility for their safety. We believe you'll feel a ih feel—guilty and ashamed, } » ” WHO KNOWS hetter than Gen, Clay that “only the strong can be patient”? Who knows better than the man whose troops are surrounded by Russian armies that “we cannot afford half-way measures”? Who knows better than the general whose troops could be wiped out in half a day that “wars come with great suddenness” and that only adequate reserves at home can protect them? How do you feel when Gen, Hodge writes from Koreaw“l am a professional soldier at a distant, ctitical outpost. We need trained men. We are not getting them.” Or from Gen. Twining at the top of the world— “Please give me men with every possible hour of training. If I lead them into battle with less, I commit a crime against them.” America cannot afford another Bataan. We have no moral right to ask that of men and boys we have sent to, our overseas garrisons in the assurance the strongest nation in the world stands back of them. Gens. Clay, Twining and Hodge have laid it on the There is but one answer: Universal military train-

line, ing.

Not Fooling the Public

PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S statement announcing his reluetant signing of the Republican anti-inflation bill was a clever buf obvious bid for votes. It is true, as he says, that t#ré: Republican measure, enacting only three of the 10 points he recommended, represents only “feeble steps toward control of inflation.” And it is true that since his request for the 10-point program the prices of butter, beef, pork, shoes, gasoline, etc., have continued to rise. t it is also true that the Truman 10point program itself was little and late, and even if Congress had approved all of it, prices and living costs still ‘would | have risen, and probably just as much. | The most impértant thing to keep in mind in the current controversy over who killed the Cock Robin of lower living costs is that 1948 is an election year. . Until November next the Democrats will blame the Republicans and vice versa. The public, whose votes are courted, is not so dumb as to overlook that both are to blame.

~ ~ » ~ n ” THE HARVEST of the present soaring prices is from seeds sown long since—extravagant government expenditures when economy was called for; the fallacy that farmers could. get more for what they raised without consumers paying more for what they ate and wore; the phony argument that higher wages could be paid forless work without the consumers, including farmers and wage-earners, losing in the end through higher prices; the cheap-money and pump-priming measures inaugurated to fight a depression | but never reversed when conditions changed. The Democrats are at fault in that these were policies | of the Roosevéll and Truman a ations. The Republicdns share the blame in tha / wheR they finally got voting control of Congress, they proved to be not strong enough to withstand the pressure groupgiand change the trend. It is not likely, in the election year coming up, that either party will do what is necessary to clfeck the rise in prices. But there are good reasons to hope and believe that

work and common sense of the American people, who pay | the bills, will yet restore order and balance.

The General Was Careless LET us accept the explanation of Gen. Graham, personal physician to President Truman, that he turned his money over to his broker to invest as the broker saw fit. | | And that he didn’t know that grain had been bought for his | account until the speculation issue was raised. At which | time he promptly told the broker to sell all of his commodity | holdings, win or lose. Accepting that explanation we advance to the premise | that Gen. Graham was not using “inside information,” which would have been grossly unethical. Still it seems to us that the general was rather care- |

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~ less in letting someone else gamble with his money, which |

would be nobody's business but his own, and rather care- | less with his reputation as a member of the White House | inner circle, & matter which ‘concerns other people, The | proof lies in the fact that the disclosure of the general's |

grain trading has caused embarrassment to Mr, Truman | and his administration.

What's the Difference?

THE State and Justice Departments have clamped down on another UN-accredited correspéndent of a European Communist newspaper, This time it is a Greek; afew w ago it was a Frenchman. ~ ] ving our officials feel that a foreign Cuiileiat can see more, more, and do more damage than Moscow's dutiful agents on the New York Daily Worker, who caf wo anywhere and write anything they please.

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OUR TOWN . == By. Hinton Scharrer

80 FAR AS this column is concerned, 1947 was the year women “had everything their own way-—leaving us men to lick our wounds. In St. Louis, Cireuit Judge Eugene J, Sartorius ruled

| that a wife has a legal as well as a moral | right to rifle her husband's pants when _

he is asleep. In Jackson (Miss.) Diana Guance

her boss (a male) smack in the face with a chocolate meringue pie. Interviewed in jail, she exulted: “It was soul-satisfy-

| ing. .

In Chicago, blue-eyed soft-speaking Alice McCarthy whirled when a suspicious character (a male) threatened to shoot, laid him low with a slug in his stomach. Where‘upon, she nonchalantly cut another notch on her 38-caliber servite pistol—the seventh such notch since 1925 when she joined the police force. ” » > r . » IN INDIANAPOLIS, a discriminating waitress recommended a herring for a hangover. “But,” she added knowingly, “it must be a maatjes herring; males are good for nothing.” Moreover, it was the year women cleared their minds of fixations and got themselves new shapes. The revolution started innocently enough with the lengthening of skirts. Finally, however, it got out of hand; to such an alarming degree, indeed, that it produced the New Look and the Hour-Glass Figure. It necessitated a complete re-orientation on the part of us males, not only regarding

periphegy. » ~ ~ » . ' 2 ; PRINCESS ELIZABETH got married. To a man, of course. To judge by 1947 trends, however, it's the last anybody will hear of him. . . , Margaret Truman was accepted as a member of the AFL's American Guild of Musical Artists. . . . Kathryn Lewis, maiden daughter of John L., was granted a permit to pack a pistol. . . . It was the year, too, the Dromedary Date people (a group of males) didn’t dare publish a Martha Washington pie recipe without first getting special permission of the Daughters of the Revolution. And in the twilight of the year the papers proclaimed the mews that finally, at long last, the Duchess of Windsor had hit the jackpot and reached the top of the list of the 10 best dressed women in America. Thus, totally eclipsing her husband's renunciation speech which, only five days ago, Ross Mullin of Vincennes, Ind., pronounced “as great or greater than Lincoln's Gettysburg address.” ~ ” . » » » CROWNED ALSO was Ruth Annette Subbie of Ft. Worth, Tex., who hauled in $21,500 worth of unbelievable presents for revealing the identity of “Miss Hush.” The croaking-frog radio voice of Miss Hush proved to be that of Martha Graham, a dancer whose initials fit the 7th and 13th letters of the English alphabet—a clue no man was smart enough to figure out, Earlier in the year another woman triumphed. She detected the veiled radio voice of Clara Bow, the “IT” girl of the blowsy Twenties and now a rancher’s wife and mother of two children. In her case, the prize was $17,500

047 Women. Had verything Their Own Way 4

the new locationi of a woman's waist bat also of her hip- . including an airplane, a refrigerdtor, an

an automobile, = furance, a fur coat, and a maid's service for a year. As for Miss Bow, she shared the same luck Miss Graham did—a million dollar's worth of limelight publicity which, in a highly competitive woman's year, is nothing to be sneezed # ss kx x .&® STILL TO be crowned (but fast getting there) is the Canadian woman who has been practicing flying by put-. ting on a pair of home-made wings and.jumping off buildings. At last accounts, she got her altitude up to 25 feet. No doubt, we'll hear more about her next year. Like as not, by way of the front page. Indeed, the feminine flavor of 1947 was so pungent that it even penetrated the laboratories of male scientists. A Columbia zoologist, presented with a live fruit fly by a British colleague, told the press that he was as thrilled as a young girl receiving her first box of candy. . » ~ ~ ” ” AND, EXCEPT for the diligence of scientists this year, we myopic male boobs wouldn't yet know that eyeglasses increase the sex appeal of women—provided the rims do not hide the brows. For women, -it was an immemorial year. It had that quality. The only sour note to appear was a contribution by Dr. Marynia F. Farnham, Manhattan psychiatrist and author of “Modern Women: The Lost Sex,” who observed that American women are the unhappiest in the world. It’s a trap, boys. Hidden in the words is the threat that women are so insatiably ambitious that there's no telling what the new year will bring. A Happy New Year to you males.

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In Tune With the Times

NEW YEAR'S EVE MEDITATION

For the middle-aged New Year's Eve is a time for reflection. Younger folk may join in the multi-

| tudinous vociferation and raucous din that turns

| downtown into bedlam: but wiser heads will find quieter quarters conducive to more decordus be-

| havior,

Charles Lamb's essay New Year's Eve will suggest a pattern. The sound of bells led to the gathering up of his mind to a concentration of all the images that had been diffused over the past years. Naturally shy of novelties because of some mental twist, he was sanguine only in prospects of other (former) years; and he would have no untoward accidents or events of his life reversed. So introspective was his mind that he had little respect for his present identity and indulged in reminiscenced of his boyhood, of the child Elia, as he named himself. Thoughts of increasing years reminds him of his mortality but only for a moment; they rather confirm his love of fife. “Sun, and sky, and breeze, solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields. and society, and the cheerful glass, and candlelight, ‘and fireside conversation. and innocent vanities, and jests” these things with the love of books go out with life and therefore he abhors death. To fortify his soul he turns to some favorite verse, smacking of

| the rough ‘magnanimity of the old English vein: | and, as his heart warms at

e thought, he toasts

the New Year “with anotBer cup of the generous.” §. HARRISON, * ¢ ITEMS FROM A CROSSROAD GRAPEVINE —

Sliver Sylvester hex bin allin’ ever since he took a ride on one of them roller-coasters in the

city. Seems thet when they took thet first big dip |

| Sliv swaller'd his spittin’ terbaccker.

Gramp Miller hes bin piecin’ a lot at the ‘store since Gramma burnt her tastin’ finger last week The boys wuz arguin’ 'bout the best Christmas treat an' Rev. Jim Hines advised thet, “The best treat for people is to treat them right.” Nice feller, thet preacher Jim. { —~CATFISH PETE.

+ + 0 THE POET'S REALM

1 fancy the mode, of a poet, Thefe in his realm revere. His imagination floweth, { Conscientiously sinoere,

Scrupulous to vision, An ever beautiful dream Secrete from it in wisdom, All of its relevant gleam.

Seclusion from grandeur, To pretend a graphic esteem, Or entreat, to epical splendor, Fntwining a brilliant theme.

The fondling poet's ensemble, Remaineth ever consigned, Within the hearts of thé humble, Another poem, enshrined, ~~WILLIAM PAUL JARED. hy

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RETOLD FOR LINDA

. 3 : | When the Boy blew on his pi of dreams ..the great productivity of the American system and the hard | n

Pictures in bubbles would glow and gleam. While the Girl looked on with starlit eyes Their dreams of the future floated by. | The Boy appeared as the King in the dream, And the Gir! was his beautiful fairy Queen.

| Life’ would be filled with wonderfu]l things

As faintly they heard the chiirch bells ring A house that nestled among the trees Appeared in a bubble plain as could be; | And a child played on the lawn of green, As the future unfolded, scene by scene.

Then the bubble floated into the blue And the Boy and Girl followed it too; Seeking the Tount of the distant gleam That halo'd the picture of Love's old dream, They found at its source a baby's charms Encircling them both with chubby arms; With golden curls and eyes of blue, ° A living dream to them come true. | As » dad he's a King and has no peer, And she is a Queen of mothers dear. The Princess Child is their treasure all Their Kingdom surrounded by Love's strong wall, ~—CATFISH PETE

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THE BOOMERANG

John's face bore a look of scorn

As he said to his wife on Christmas morn,

| “Dad-rat-it, will you looky here

Bill sent me the tie that I sent him last year.” LAURA THELMA COMSTOCK. * ¢

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

May sach moment of your New Year Be quite merry, glad and bright; May it bring no woe—no new fear, May the Whole year treat you right. We have heard a lot of groaning : On the unkind

ways of fate; wes: ‘

May we all have done with moaning— In a Better Forty Eight! RJ . *

UNIVERSAL TRAINING . . .

‘Generals Plead for UMT

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31— Americans who command troops in three far-flung areas—Europe, Alaska and the Far East—today pleaded for universal military training to back up their small garrisons and field units, After witnessing the failure of the foreign ministers’ conference in London, Gen. Lucius Clay wrote the Scripps-Howard newspapers from Berlin: “We'live in a troubled world ‘in which the United States must lead the way to peace “We can do it with. patience, but only the strong can be patient. : “Our responsibility is so great we cannot afford halfway meas_ures. We Need d universal | military

Side Glances—By Galbraith

Bringing Home the Bacon

training so that our strength is both apparent and immediately

available.” ‘Give Me Men' . IN ALASKA--Ffém which direction many believe the Arst blow of another war may be struck—Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, urged: “Please give me men with every possible hour of training. If T tead them into battle with less, I commit a crime against them “This is what any troop commander would say. Iam sure every person who may fight in any future conflict will bless every hour of training he may have had.” From Korea-—where Americans face a Russian army and the .

"Wad better wake grandpa and tell him the New Year's noise is i full blast on the radio—he s never heard nytting 5 like 8

By Jim G. Lucas

Communist-trained Korean people’'s army across the 38th parallel «Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge spoke out: “I am a professional soldier at “a distant, critical outpost . .°.

we need trained soldiers. We are:

not getting them . . conditions here illustrate the need for that strong professional army ‘of naturally adapted soldiers which universal military training is “boun to discover in the ranks of our young men. “Universal military means peace, not war.”

Training Essential ALL SPOKE of their own diffi-

training

“elu, Gen. Clay said:

“One of the problems constantly

nepal facing us here is the maintenance

of occupation forces: at full au-

| thorized strength.

“Wars today come with great suddenness. The oceans no loriger provide time to get ready. If we

| need large forces again, they will

be needed quickly. “Basic training is essential. . . . If provided to all our youth under a universal military training program, it will prove our intent to keep prepared and enable us to raise large forces quickly in an emergency.” Gen. Twining surveyed his small Alaskan garrison and said: “We will not (in any future war) select the time or the place

| or the mode of attack. We must

| people.

be ready everywhere .for everything. “We may some day be criticized because we asked too little of our Universal military training will train our men.” Gen. Hodge said his two divisions have had two complete personnel turnovers since they took over occupation duties in Korea, With universal military training, he said, he could have garrisoned Korea more effectively. “Japan would never have aitacked Pearl! Harbor had we . . . adopted universal military training,” he said. “Today, we are once again tragically weak in a dangerous situation. How many lessons must we have? aa Byesial ‘military training

is a system of aggréssion. It b

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+. There is a grea | in our (no) mean city.

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

‘On Right Side for New Year’ By a» Times Reader A commentator, speaking of the cold war, expressing fear that Russia is winning blow after blow, said he did not know how or just when ‘it all started. 2 It is my opinion that the cold war has been upon us ever since there was one man to rise up afd voice his belief in a God in contradiction to those who would insist otherwise. When it all started is as old as man himself, who can be both good and bad. When he is good he will believe in God or at least admit to his existence. When he is bad he will not believe but may even loudly deny him. Those who are just now awakening to the reality of a cold war are those who have not necessarily denied God but who have ignored him, and are just now awaken-

ing to the necessity of his actual presence in’ ‘everyday life.

At the office when good old John’s fidelity to his wife 1s being whispered about, when men will make statements about the time John went to Washington for a week-end on business and stayed a whole’ week, and in the next breath recall that girl he went with before he married also lives in Washington, these men are starting a cold ‘war. The man who speaks up in John's defense and says that John's mother also lives in Washington is fighting a cold war on the right side. . The girls in the office who are constantly finding fault with one among them, who remains much to herself, is quiet and is constantly going about her work—these girls are fighting a cold war. The one who has the courage to remark

| that perhaps the others are a bit jealous because

lone Sue 1s much prettier than average, and is very good at her job, is also fighting a cold war, on the right side. One need only ask one question of those whose loyaity he doubts. Does he believe in God? A negative answer is a strong indication of communism. Atheists are not all Communists, it is true. But all Communists are atheists.

A person's belief or disbelief determines his |

very capaoility to know right from wrong. It is Cu

man’s disbelief in God that blurs his ability to distinguish readily wrong from right. In this state man may even sink so low as to believe that wrong is right and right is wrong. Then the man who has preserved his Godliness is conscience-bound to contradict the wrong one and try to steer him a straight course, Here he Sometimes runs inw a brick wall (or the iron curtain) with those who insist and sometimes sadly, but “honesuy” believe that wrong is right. The result, naturally, with those of us who still want to live the good life, to fignt for a decent kind of world, can only be a cold war. One kind of war is over for most of us. Men and women fought and lots of them died in the hot war, the war of blood. Now we must all carry on the fight to its right end, this cold war of nerves, of mind, of hearts, and of souls. This cold war is a returh match. At its finish

the world will determine who really won the

first, the hot war. God will help the right. The devil will help the wrong. While we keep an anxious eye on the scoreboard, let us all pray that there are more Godly people in this world than there are devilish

- people.

May we all sincerely resolve to rid ourselves of wrongs and move over to the right side for this coming New Ygar. Let us make it truly the Year of Our 1948. With God's divine assistance may come to be known as the last year of the cold war.

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lane marked out in the streets. . Third—have all the busses and trackiess typit leys stay next to the curbs, and try te keep to

the) right. When they are going to turn left stay in the middle of the'street and then when they make their turn, unload or take on passengers. Fourth—have our city police take a few lessons on driving in the proper places. Pifth—our alleys are no place to park passenger cars. They are for tricks to load and unload.

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Do not double park trucks in our downtown area, sspecially in the early morning rush and late hour rush. Sixth—where are our police at 7:30 a. m. at our rush hours? Can't the patrol cars give stickers to double parkers? ec. 9

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