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‘Survival in the Air Age’ :
F there were such a thing as required reading for every American citizen, we would place near the top the report
_ of the President's Air Policy Commission which the White " House released today.
“Survival in the Air Age” is the title. The congluaion
_ "is that the Unitéd States may not survive unless we dras--
tically and yuickly step up our aviation defense against attack. The conimission finds we cannot depend on the United Nations alone to develop necessary’ authority fast enough to prevent another war. Therefore it proposes a double“barreled policy of working for peace through the United : Nations, while arming America so strongly, that others will not dare to attack—or will suffer defeat if they do. The absolute deadline for defense against atomic at-
tack is fixed as: Jan. 1, 1953. Other nations are expected to
, have atomic weapons in quantity by. that time, and possibly biological weapons and also supersdnic bombers and missiles capable of sustained attack against our mainland. The commission points out that, while the chief danger of planned major war is five years off, “There is however such a thing as blundering into war” before. ~Hencethe need for immediate preparedness.
= Our new strategic concept must be based on air power. | “but above all a
‘This means not only a defense air force,” ~counter-offensive air force: established in being.”
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THAT, THE COMMISSION admits, will be extremely | 2 . expensive. It would. increase the Air Force from 55 to 70
air groups—the present budget of less than $3 billion w. be raised to more than $4 billion for the 1948 calend: “hod air budget would be increased half a billion over the next ‘two years. This would raise the current total military ~ budget of roughly $10 billion to $13 ,000 in 1949.
Among the disturbing revelatio of the report is that co-ordination under the military unification law has not yet
_ chiefs of staff know “the | of the air establish-
periods.” Another research field. Separate sections of the.
report are d ito requirements of the aircraft industry
and civil aviation.
Without going into the many detailed recommenda- =
of this exhaustive report or passing judgment on its hnical aspects, we wish to Tegister our agreement with its basic findings. ., We believe the danger of future war is terribly real.
retary of Defense and joint,
Howard News- |.
We “believe that our nation should provide constructive |
peace leadership through the United Nations, the Marshall _ Recovery Plan for Europe and special aid to such exposed |
IEA er AER fave ha a i hy. military, Sw : ee uperior air “power
How to Stop. Inflation A
‘by 53 meml
tee on Monetary Policy. Since 19388 they, and other members of their committee, have been warning the country that various government policies were setting the: stage
for price inflation. Bsc "They “certainly” were’, Hight about: that
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PROGRAM to combat inflation has been recommended : 3 m of the Economists’ National Commit-|
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“© From 1933 until World War Il the government do] Jiberately pursued monetary and spending policies intended to cause a certain degree of inflation. This on the theory - that higher prices were needed -to- stimulate- prosperity,
: niake more jobs and lick the depression,
. Alter the war began the government had to pursue far-more inflationary policies. It had to borrow and spend
moire}. like water.
It Kad to create an enormous volume
of purchasing power and use drastic controls to keep the
prices of scarce goods from being forced out of sight. After the. war, when the controls were relaxed,
because * they stifled: peacetime production, prices: headed for the
sky. And, during and after the war, the government kept on the books most of the milder inflationary policies it
had adopted When it was fighting the depression.
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ART COMES TO THE “CROSSROADS The wimmin got up a big doin’s _An’ called it the Church's Concert, Went. up to the city an’ hired ' A long-haired pianny expert.
The folks were all getliered thet evenin': » When he stept on the platform with ease, - In a swaller-tail coat an’ wing collar As purty a sight as you please.
He faced the pianpy half-crouchin’, . Shook his hair once 'r twice fer a start Then leapt at the keys like a boxer A-fightin’ with all of his heart,
He swung a fast right at the white keys An’ crost to the black with his left, A hittin’, an’ poundin’, an’ jumpin’ Prom the bass to the high treble cleft.
He, finally. landed a left hook On the bass with-a terrible boom!
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While clappin’ jes filled up the room,
O, he wuz a expert I tell you, "1 clapped 'til my hands were nigh raw, Fer the way thet he whupped thet pianny— . Wuz the best fight thet I ever saw, " =-CATFISH PETE. eo @ An opera singer says women should learn to
| for taking a night out now and then. * + » An osteopath says that people crentadlly forget how to walk, Not as long as ) have second-hand cars. 8 > 2 9 7
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FORGIVE ME THE THOUGHT Forgive me the. tholight— Well I know it Of a now deed. - wt
An Instat in the mind But how damaging its stay, . elp me cast it quick, away!
i 7 Though it is my secret “A ¢ It was-a wayward thought. - ==VIVIAN WOOTEN PIERSON. 3 * % Today Is what you were okiig forward to yesterday—and it's your own fault if you are disappointed y ’ - 2 gp Belief that you will achieve your sont Is at Toast half of what it takes to accomplish anything worthwhile. Plain hard work, not to mention getting the breaks, makes up the balance. Who sald it? “Always work as If it were impossible 0 -MABLE K. STABLER. “oo : Home, sweet home is any old place where mother wishes to goodness the kids’ would “hang” up their things. ® > @
REFLECTION OF NO IMPORTANCE
Had Columbus agreed \ That the world was flat, Where, I wonder,
Would I be at? \
Would I be elsewhere; isietne Or not at all A part of this = © Terrestrial brawl? -—MYRA AHLER. | * bP teint A full meal dulls the human ear, according to a medical authority. No wonder junior ant.
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(“LAUSANNE~<Michael Broke, But He Can Cry in His Gin”)
Good King Michael’ s secretary —Wants the -whole -wide- world -to- know, “That his boss can’t be too merry °° With no assets; litiye dough.
To some people's way of thinkin’ ~~ King Mike must be poor as sih; What's two Buicks and a Lincoln, wae AD BIRE CASES full of gIN? Cc
rr — AFFAIRS . . . By E. T. Leech
Profits Alone ot el Meet Wage Demands |
* AMERICANS ALWAYS are ready to take a chance. According to
popular belief, this is one of our chief characteristics.
It's-beén so. from the start. History's greatest gamblers were the
settlers who left the comparative security of the Old chance inthe New World.
In One. way or another, they were. motivated ahead-—to be on their own and make their own way.
There are almost na more territorial frontiers,
neers still take chances. For instance when they enter business. Most’
lof them don't make a go of it. About three-fourths
WHAT THE 53 economists propose is “chiefly and simply that the government stop doing a lot of the things it did before, during ‘and since the war to cause inflation.
The trouble with the program is not that it wouldn't
~— work. Most of its 18 points would be surely deflationary.
The trouble with it is that it might work too well to suit either the Democratic President or the Republican Con-
a bump—and so bust the boom. Neither party wants the blame for high prices.
It might bring prices down too Tar, with too hard
jut
each party is much more afraid of the blame for another depression, The government can enjoy- taking credit. for
the business activity, farm prosperity and full employ ment
It enjoys that credit so much | | suspected:
that come with inflation.
«that any government run by politicians who have:to be ; elected will be too timid to take the kind of action necessary
to curb an inflationary boom.
That is one of the fatal flaws in. the theory that government planning of the whole country's economy could
keep it always rising steadily and safely. The government | would plan the upward climb’ with bold enthusiasm, But no danger signals could warn it to enforce a downward turn _
with anything but slow reluctance,
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Action Precipitated
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stie the Reno Chamber of Commerce for allegedly
.|_ of business, and what ‘part of it goes to workers and owners,
86 Per Cent for Salaries and Wages ~~ ~~
BY “TOTAL INCOME" is meant the amount of money available for : Heintirs ndan ) | workers, in the form of wages and salaries; and to owners as dividends, | : and the defe 3 suits interest, rents or royalties. This total income represents all thé money { LS SASSY Sab ir Shae Sng Or Natok Ak Ma BU $0.
¢ outcome, this.is one action in which it is
don't survive five Vears. For our so-called * "profit ashen” is very much -
a profit-and-loss svstem. Yet people keep starting new Wusinesses, hoping
—in other words, make a profit, Among these founders of-new firms
have been hundreds of thousands of working men
{ millions of other workérs have invested savings in stocks or bonds—
also hoping for profits. There are about 10,000,000 business—en only about dorporated firms and 6000000 independent farmers profits,
terprises
From a third to a half of our people are dependent ‘on businesses or farms which they run or in which they have investments. All want profits—~must have profits. in fact. to keep from going broke. And
practically everybody else whe works is on a payroll that won't con- |
tinue unless the hoss makes a pr rofit,
Profit System Involves All of Us. 80 THE "PROFIT SYSTEM.
personal welfare and standards of living are closely
A new epidemic of attacks air profits is under way. It is nof cone fined ta specific cases of, unreasonable profits—aof which there probably
are a gond mary,
In their zeal to stir up suspicion and resentment,
picture. al! nrofits” ns inordinate, unreasonable and woikers. Right now corporation profits are being chief reason for the high cost of living,
Ap effort is being made—particularly in CIO papers—to aovinoe “workers that a big third round of wage: increases can be pad solely |
out of profits, without affecting prices,
This Is another example of what aptly has been {Niteracy.”
Danis of all U. 8. corporations averaged only 3.2 per But the best, fairest comparison is to consider
cer bin 07.5 gi i
Giving husbands a perfect reason |
. « Moming, on 8. Meridian St., he
{—which-Mr. Hoeltke was to pose | long as it was necessary I, of the contract, the model was to receive an Initial
500.000 of them are corporations, Over 3.000.000 unin- ~
which is so heavily attacked and | isn't a distant, impersonal thing. Tt involves all of us:
No sitch thing could possibly happen. For profits take aSil part ‘of our national income as compared to the far larger paid out in salaries and wages. Prom 1929 throu
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OUR TOWN .
: By Anton Scherrer
.|Baron’s i Adorns Circle
"IF YOU HAVE EVER suffered sleepless nights
wondering about the arrested motion portrayed in
the George: Rogers Clark statue on the Circle, your troubles are over. When John H. Mahoney received the imission to do the statue, he found himself hard pressed to find a suitable model to fit his conception . ~ “of the subject. He spent days = walking the streets of Indiafiapolis with no results when one
-ran- across a wholesale who was a friend of his. For want of something to say,
| Mr. Mahoney spilled his troubles and, right away,
the wholesale merchant suggested William C. Hoeltke, anf Indianapolis citizen withs German blood
{ Lvoursing through his viens who ran a retail grocery on
E. Washington St. It turned out that Mr. Hoeltke was a customer of the wholsaler, but whether the coincidence had anything to do with his recommendftion I'm not in a position to say: Like as not it did, Tor if there is any one thing by which I have profited
it is the discovery that most of my stories with a
happy ending have their roots in some lucky coin-
cigence. Be that as it’s may, one April ali: Wn f ME dni cot dy orgie chndin on Hongp. St. He was 6 feet tall, ‘weighed 175 pounds and was ‘splendidly develgped without an” inch of superfluous flesh. Moreover, his age was somewhere around 38—
just about that of George Rogers Clark when he set
out to conquer the tribes on the Wabash. Indeed, the only flaw, so far ‘as Mr. Mahoney could discover, was the size of Mr, Hoeltke’s hands. They seemed a trifle small for the rest of him. Except for that one
—defeet;-the -seulptor-was tickled pink-with the whole-
saler’s selection,
$100 Cash and 30 Cents an Hour AN AGREEMENT ‘was. reached by the terms of r the sculfitor as
As for the sordid details
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pavment of 1% cash and 30 cents an hour for his time. Every day thereafter. for a little more than six
‘weeks Mr. Hoeltke ‘went to the studio and took his
stance. The pose, as you can see for yourself, was a mighty tricky one. For one thing, the model had to stand on one foot and twist his left hand and arm until it hurt. In addition to which he.had to -pitch his “whole body “forward; thus violating for -a split second all’ the established laws of equilibrium known in Indianapolis at the time. ‘For a period of something like 40- hours distributed ‘over as many days, Mr. Hoeltke suffered the tortures of hell.
could Mr. Hoeltke pose for more than a few minutes. After an hour of posing including, of course, .the
intervals of rest, Mr, Hoeltke pocketed his 30 cents |
and returned to his post at the grocery. - He did it so. quietly ‘and with so little publicity that nobody knew that he had another business on the side.
, The Perfect Image of Mr. Hoeltke -
GRADUALLY, fraction by fraction, the sculptor built the statue of Geprge Rogers Clark out of the pli~ able clay. At first the clay .model was the perfect image of Mr. Hoeltke including the face he was born RRR A RARE SETAE OWeE NY, Malioney substituted the features of Mr. Olark_ which h took, HLS ana PTR of Sve getters © AT ree;
the hands of the finished statue were considerably
bigger than those of Mr. Hoeltke. When it came time to unveil the statue, Mr.
- Hoeltke was no longer in the grocery business. By
this time he was head salesman in Frank Kamp's oyster and fish store, Even then nobody knew—or even suspected—that he had suffered the physical pain to produce the George Rogers Clark statue on “the Circle. Nor did anybody—not even his friend, the wholesale grocer—know that Mr. Hoeltke was a nephew of Baron von Hoeltke who for many years Was one ‘of ‘the political cog wheels of the German Empire, back in the- days of Bismarck when it was still going good. : *
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Department or Commerce
.manufacturing from 1920 through 1045 paid out 86 per cent of its | total income for salaries and wages. This left 14 per cent for stockholders, bondholders, interest, rénts and royalties. Profits have gone up during the inflation, but so have wages. The current figures are pretty close to this 17-year record of 86 per cent for wages and 14 per cent for all forms of profit—which includes re-
mately or tis 90. po sent sla. cant be tat. | out of the 14 per cent class. The answer, of course, is that prices | would again go up—as has. happened repeatedly. in “the last few | years—and as alwhys Will happen unless business goes flat broke. In which case we who depend on the profit system--and that's ol of ts— |
called “economic |
serves for bad years. Obviously & big
1045, net | fof total sales. | the total income |
will go broke with it.
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the poss again’ about a raise, dear—next thing he! Il be wanting is a sports convertible!"
raw materials, unsisportation. taxes, fuel and other OpEIiing OXPERORS. expenses.
| ‘The surest, fastest way’ W boom business failures would be to try | to carry wut the ‘economic miracle now being widely preached-that NALS ‘ch he _Taised and prices. lowered, ok by. lncreasing the of | misunderstanding produetion methods and How. of neglect. Mra 8 rT misrepresentation.
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‘WORLD AFFAIRS a Parker La Moore
U. S Benefits to Italy Too Little Publicized
| "ROME, Jan. 14—The United States has taken a *peychological beating in Italy and is on the defensive here today in the cold war ¢ -with Russia because the story of American aid to Italy never has been adequately told to the Italian people, An almost identical situation exists in France. It seems. beside the point to mention the Voice of America program in this connection, so far removed has been the relationship between. that program and major American operations here. . Our. propaganda effort has been cultural and long-range in tone and purpose, - calculated to create unders American institutions. “of the TVA and .the advances in American medical science, it has given scant attention tg America’s tremendous contribution to Italian welfare. There seems to be little awareness of the slugging match in which the United: States is engaged in this critical ares. UNRRA'S expenditures here saved the Malian people from starvation. But Ifttle if any effort was made by any American agency to inform_the recipients of that aid that the United, States was the source of 70 per cent of the money,
Army Turned Over Biggest Air Field
: AT FOGGIA, the American Army built and turned over to the Italian government the biggest airfield in Europe. | other’ modern airports in Rome and Naples. It repaired and mod- | ernized the great seaports of Naples and Genoa. But we have sald next to nothing about these things. No particular. publicity was given to the hyge stores of surplus property our armed forces turned over to Italy, Nor did we, invite attention to the fact we paid rent on the hotels and other building® our forces occupied, when some of our Allies stripped the buildings they used, even of their copper wiring, and pulled out without a8 “ much as a “thank you.” An American newspaperman who has lived in Italy the last three years ventured that Communist Party would not have attained one-tenth its present strength if Americap contributions to Ttaly had been properly exploited.
jameriesn Position Misrepresented
AS IT 1S, the United States’ position has been 30 misrepresented here that the present Italian government, which is decidedly pros American, is yeluctant to acknowledge publicly the full messure o
ROA tics Gf the Jisriball Plains gained uch siseitens hat wallinkorraed Americans Ing here wanted to Koow 1 2 United States would suffer a serious depression if the government ‘stopped buying for relief exports to Europe. Ambassador James Clement Durm was quick to ness of the situation upon his arrival in Rome. He has been stumpEy the country like a first-term Congressman explaining American sie policy. . Because of his position, even the Leftist press mitt bo fome stanton. Vo. Hie speecius aud he has boc wi ‘where. But he has undertaken a big }
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2 will appreciate very much Jour printing this in this way, maybe many proprietors can and Wil Yeud Ous~—-end put & S10D 10, this toolish way of serving beer, If I ever break my arm—then they can pour my beer for me, but until then, I am perfectly capable. Thanking. You for your in. duigence. . *
‘All Wallace Wants Is Confusion’
By Ralph Cline, Joint Board Manager, Textile Warkers' Union, City. There is no doubt that Henry Wallace will be ‘on the ballot in Indiana in "48 but that is the only place he will be, for he does not himself. believe that he will be President. All Mr. Wallace wants to do is to confuse the minds of some of the liberal people in that state, so that Mr, Taft, and the
-likes of him, can become President.
1 believe there are some in this country and state--who-believe that: if you. can’t rule then you.. “should destroy: ~ These few-believe-if Mr. Tati. elected President that he will destroy the labor
: -—unions and cause this country to again have an.
other depression, which will bring on a revolt against these conditions, then they will step in and take over the government. Mr. Truman is not, as one writer in the Forum said, NE yh, and a near Fascist. If he were, he would have long ago shot the man that made the above statement. $ 1’ can see no difference in one who shouts .. “Fascists” at the person or group that he does not agree with, than the one who calls every person or vp 8 “Ret.” Yith Wot He GUS Hot agres. * ¢ ¢
‘This Day We Stand. Accused’
By Charles W. Burton, 911 East Maryland St. Oh God, our Eternal Father, this day we stand accused before Thee. Ye gave us life; we permit its wanton destruction. Ye showered us with gifts _ of plenty; we allow them to be thrown back in Thy face -with war, Marshall Plans and inflation, Ye. taught us peace; we permit wars of greed and plunder carried on in the name of righteousness, Ye taugh us brotherhood: we allow covetousness to divide us and thrive on our confusion. Oh God, send each of us forth determined to rid ourselves of these wills which have come upon us and firmly resolve to dethrone the forces of avarice and greed that seek, yea, in Thy name, to withhold from the people of the earth those maiiifold blessings which Thou hast geen fit to bestow. Amen,
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By E. Adelman, 2951 N. New Jersey st. Here 1 go again, finding fault. Before World War II ended you were kind enough to print » letter in which I said that the U. 8. did not stamp out the first fire, which caused the conflagration later on, J There is another fire smoldering in a different part of this globe now: it’s in the midst of ‘the conquerors this time. We have created ‘s United -
bers turns traitor and violates international law? If England wants to regain respect, she must bring the officers in the “Exodus” incident to trial for attempted murder and she must immediately Sop the Syaera) policy in Pajestisie.; .
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