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PAGE 14 Wednesday, Jan. 28, 1948

“weir present

_ agedy of the past year—culminating in the Manchurian bacle. :

‘he-Indianapolis Times

W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ Editor Business Manager

A SORIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER “>

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Jp to Truman and Chiang LE the United States government sits on its hands Stalin is taking over Manchuria. These Chinese Reds, ‘med with vast Jap supplies left for them by the Russian ‘my, have taken nine-tenths of the land. National forces _e rapidly losing the remainder. : In two months, or perhaps three at most, the Reds at rate will have all of it. Then it will be too late

r éffective American aid to the retreating Nationalists.

This disastrous situation will be described in detail |

om- Mukden by our staff correspondent, Clyde Farns. rth, whose first dispatch appears in The Times today. \r readers, including members of Congress and State Dertment officials, will find in these factual reports cer‘nly the most neglected and probably the most fateful of rrent news stories. : i For Manchuria is the key to the Far East. Econom: Ally it is to the Orient what the Ruhr is to Europe. Stravically it dominates not only China and Koréa, but is the or to Siberia in one direction and to Japan in the other, a #8.» a =» 9 THE ROOTS of World War II were in the Jap conast of Manchuria—there could have been no Pearl Har-

xd closer to World War III on the day the

"In this emergency it is too late to stop and argue >ut blame. Discredit is due to Washington for its fum“ng and fickle withdrawal of essential economic help and military supplies from a faithful ally who had pinned wh millions of Jap troops for so many years. Blame is- « to the Nanking goverment whose internal feuding, iniciéncy and corruption have contributed so much to the

We are familiar with the alibis of Washington and winking, good and bad. It is true, as Washington says, of past American aid has been wasted or even

| To no one knows where, bend after bend.

| Day in and day os ‘To no one Knows where,

~ In Tune * ‘With the Times

THE CROSSROAD GRAPEVINE

PUD GALIMORE an’ his ‘mule hev bin mixin' it agin, Pud swung with a single-treé an’ missed, an’ thet mule kicked him so hard he'll be takin’ his vittles offin the top uv the cream separater fer a spell. 3 . Ever'budy hed a fine time at Mildred Hoskin’s skatin’ party helt in Fish Crik. Jeptha

uv the evenin.’ : The store got in four cartoon uv doub thumb huskin’ mittens an’ they wuz snapped up like hot cakes on a cold mornin’. Jimmie Johnson's paw sent Jimmie to bed *thout his supper an’ then felt so bad he couldn’t eat none hisself, Nearly allus effects a feller thet-a-way. —CATFISH PETE. ws ¢ & ; WHAT CAN COMPARE?

We love the balmy days of spring when Nature wakes again The sleeping flowers , . . buds on trees With sunshine and the rain. We love the summer roses . , . and Their fragrance , . . here and there. The forests filled with wild life and The blossoms nodding there. Then Autumn comes, Seems every year We think she is more fair, She paints the leaves all red and gold Just beauty . . . everywhere! But . . . what can compare . . . the peace within Our hearts . . . this time of year, For all mankind does live anew Our Christ-child birth . . , is near! What can compare? I ask again, That peace . . , such peace within! . We're in accord . ... we love anew Our God and fellowmen! ~ANNA E. YOUNG. & © . An Ohio man asked divorce because his wife threw dinnerware at him. Those pesky flying saucers again. ? s

Oh, murky river of my delight! Following the ks hither and yon,

Rolling, flowing, on. ‘Twisting, turning, bend after bend. Sg 1

Here a.farm land, there a wood, All depending on you for good, Clear water, so needed for life. Here a rapid, with turbulent strife. Following your banks from beginning to énd. “Churning, churning, bend after bend.

Stirred by the powerful hand of God. Mixed with the brown silt and the sod. Mingling with waters from no one knows where. : Ine the shadows, as fast as Pou dare. lowing your s from beginning to end. Drifting, drifting, bend after bend.

And now comes the time life is through Merged indiscernibly in an ocean of blue. A gurgle, a sigh, a word of farewell To the banks and the shore, to quiet dells. You've followed your banks, beginning to end,

80 goes a life from birth to the end, green banks, through life it must wend. Tumbling, tumbling, surging, and lolling, out, soaring and slowing, shores from beginning to end... bend after bend. = + ie GAMAGE.

Following its

r about x doesn’t mean that you

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(“MPSCOW-—The U. 8. Through Soviet Eyes: Nation in Shadow of Disaster.”)

Comrades Izakov and Zhukov, Each a Russian newshound ace, ~ Came and took a hurried look of

Being nol Have a soun

If Stalin takes over Manchuria and North China it will 1 because of Nanking incompetence and Washington in-

ference. There is still a slim chance of saving Manchuria.

What we" have by-

Then they scurried back and printed A report on what they'd seen; But their glasses sure were tinted—

Munson wore her red snowsult an’ wuz the hit |'

group of wayward women.

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| Fancy Meeting You Herel

- EL arden,

“MODAY'S~ PTECE has “for its “principals a -bachelor and. a. priest. The plot revolves about.a

The bachelor was Mayor John Caven who had the job of running Indianapolis during the Civil War, a period which brought “with it a floating population made up for the most part of men and women who made it their business to trim and plunder the soldiers of everything they had. The womien were especially bad; so much so that, in 1863, - Mayor Caven called the attention of the Council to their outrageous behavfor. Our jail was much too small to hold them all, he said. To take care of the women, Mayor Caven recommended the erections of a reformatory. For some reason, however, he couldn't get the Council to see things his way; with the result that no was done about it at the time, - A year later, however, Stoughton A. Fletcher —a philanthropic banker, of all things—revived the subject. He offered to give the city seven acres of his farm located south of town between the Bluff and Three Notch roads for a reformatory, provided the city would do its part and put up a building.

Priest Paid Out of Own Pocket

THE GIFT was accepted. Moreover, $5000 was appropriated for the start of such an institution. Plans were approved and contracts let. Owing to the war, however, building costs advanced so rapidly that the work had to be stopped after $8000 had been poured into the project. All the city had to show for it was a‘cellar lined with fantastically thick stone walls,

-sometime-in-the-Bessonies, the beloved French priest of St. John's parish, stumbled across the abandoned founda- " tion. The priest's discovery may be traced to the fact that the big hole in the ground was near

Russian Reéd-—or envy's green!

some land he had purchased. Nobody could

OUR TOWN . . , By Anton Shore. :

| APriest; a Bachélor and a Cemetery |

Nothing more happened to the stone-lined cellar grace, ——— until 7 -Seventies-when- Father

“ut every day the chance is less. It's up to President Tru-

'fonetary Fund and the London government should re-

. creased. uction costs do not/eat up the difference, But "these diréct American benefits would be far outweighed by

ian and Chiang Kai-shek.

uropean Currency Conflicts

"EVALUATION of the French fraric could start & European currency war. To prevent that, the International

rain from retaliation or at least postpone actions that would add to the tension. . .- The tragic: paradox. of the situation is that stabiliza-. fon of the franc, so greatly to be desired by all, may have: he opposite result from that intended. What may help france today may hurt her neighbors tomorrow.

Experts disagree as to the results. The reason for the somplications, and for International Monetary Fund and British opposition; is that France did not make a cleansut devaluation. Instead she created an intricate-muitiple axchange rate for the frane, and a “free” market which is. not in fact free. Her avowed object is to reverse the flight of French capital abroad, restore confidence in French stability, increase production and exports, and elim- | inate the black market. 3 . Can this laudable purpose be achieved without inju to others? Paris says this will help her neighbors. But London and others say it threatens to undermine the value of theif currencies, and to cause dumping. of cut-rate French goods in their markets.

” ” » . . . . THE SOLUTION is obvious but difficult. Currency abilization, which all agree is essential to European ecoomic recovery, should be carried ott co-operatively by the Western natjors, by turning all currencies loose simultaneously to seek their own level on a free market. But the rub is that the all-important matter of timing applies differently in each nation. Thus the French monetary and export situation is so desperate that devaluation cannot be delayed; while the British, with their greater dependence on imports bought in the world market, must keep up the artificial value of sterling as long as possible. Though France economically is basically stronger than Britain, on the monetary plane the French crisis is now and the British will not come until later. : As for Americans, tourists in France may profit about. three to one and purchasers of French imports here theoretically might get prices reduced 50 per cent—provided in-

indirect effects here of international economic chaos’ : lurop currency win

NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs Give Allen More Rope For Voice of America:

| as we hope them to be, there will be mistakes” which sometimes | happen to be dramatic. However, criticiém which reflects per-

‘Americans Distrust Authority:

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real estate so far away from his parish. Finally however, the secret. of that leaked out, too. “What - looked to be a. hazardous 8 on the part of a priest turned out to be what is now Holy Cross Cemetery, the first Catholic graveyard in

Indianapolis.

Father Bessonles pa his own pocket and it's pretty well estal that the transaction just about cleaned him out. But, broke as he was, his inherent sense of thrift wouldn't permit him to see a well-constructed basement go to waste. The the matter was that the sight of the a d cellar inspired the priest to think of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, a cloistered order in his native France, who for 200 years and more had been doing what Mayor Caven had in mind,

Priest and Mayor Strike a Bargain FATHER BESSONIES and Mayor Caven got together, struck a bargain, and to this day nobody knows who got the better deal. By the terms of the agreement, the Sisters of the Good Shepherd received the abandoned cellar including the land surrounding it.- As for Indianapolis, it got a shelter for wayward girls. ‘ The House of the Good Shepherd is still doing ~business at the old stand. Today it's a big affair

“consisting of many buildings. The foundations of

the original structure, however, are the very ones Father Bessonies saw going to waste some 70 years ago. On the inside, the House of the Good Shepherd looks like a bit of France transplanted to -Indianapolis. Like. the nuns of the Mother House at: Angers, the Sisters down in Raymond St. wear the same white habits with the same white scapulars. The same silver hearts around their necks, too. It's the insignia of a holy order, the members of which work for the conversion and instruction of penitents. The task to which they have dedicated themselves is a life-long duty. are laid to rest in the little cémetery in the garden of their convent, The last time I was down in Raymond St. I-took a good look at the little graveyard. Almost every headstone registers the

paid for the cemetery out of | blished

"1 do not agree with a word will defend to the deeth your

it t : le in the world who . op gh think some tion on the part of men at those windows would go a long way, Better still, I think a grand on the part the railways also would be to maintain some. one to spot aged people distress in such places as the Terminal they are not hard to spot) and see that they get the right bu

By a Dally Reader, City. Now that the streetcars have been taken of

busses & new confronts the people. |. How are we going fo cross the streets whall '~ 1. ihe Automobiies ‘race down ~the middle of -¢ a 085

““T believe trafic is much worse. for now Re ee Tr Th FiroR eats. The Tos are fine. Service is better. But, oh, that W. Wi race ArROK.. . _ . ..... . "We have three or four schools where street.

street safely. - What we néed are more Stop-and-Go signals, How gaa we g4t more o} HM sighals? :

Why Not a GI?

By W. H. Richards, Box 291, City. It would be-a good thing if both Republican mocrat nominaf

and De parties 1 te military men for President, but not high-ranking officers whe have returned full of glory. -A general for President would mean the country under mill

tary control and certain war. Better by far that candidates be from among those who fought to glory and who stood in rain ar over the generals while they slept _warm feather beds. Plenty of them wt competent to fill . the office. of President. you can gamble that they would do all to prevent another devastating orgy of murder, Remember “Private John Allen!” : 0. ts ;

Justice, Where Art Thou?

By Mrs. Margatet Dupre, P. O. Box 935, Indias: * apolis, Ind. Justice takes a holiday. One man kills his paramour’s husband and her father; then kidnaps the woman, and is aquitted. Another man shoots his ex-wife, a teen-age boy blasts his mother into eternity. In Shelby County, the TEXPEYErs’ money is béing used to defend a oonfessed murderer of two women . . . he t00 may

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free. . Justice! Where art thou? Isn't it time you

age of an octogenarian. a Tl

1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 28-—George V:. Allen, who has | American Ambassador to Iran, is returning to Washington to ||. take -on a difficult and important job. He will be Assistant Bée- |} retary of State in charge of the Program of Information to- be beamed to the world, ; . “Mr. Allen, a career service diplomat, was nominated after four or: five. men-out of civilian: life had said:no.. The fact that he was the fourth or fifth choice is no reflection on Mr. Allen's capacities. On the contrary, it is to his credit that he accepted the assignment after others with perhaps more obvious qualifications had turned it down. wo . With féw exceptions, the Congressmen who traveled abroad last summer and fall-learned how. important the job was, Those .}- who exaniined the American information program quickly realized it-was not the Voice of America Flirope was hearing, but a squeak or. a whimper. Against the barrage of Soviet propaganda and the extensive British Information Service, it was scarcely audible."

Congress Used the Ax on the Voice

ONE REASON, of course, was that Congress last June had used an economy ax on the information program. Many of the | ablest people got out. The result was a kind of demoralization which was certainly not checked in the interval that followed | the resignation of Assistant Secretary Benton while the infor- | mation division was headless. SEE __ The difficulty of thie job under our kind of democracy is almost as obvious as its importance. In his report on the Mundt Bill authorizing the information service, Sen. H. Alexander Smith of New Jersey included this comment: : ; “If the programs are as energetic, creative and courageous |

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spective and judgment cannot but help the program and should be applied especially in detecting any persistent tendencies toward ineffectiveness, distortion or partisanship.”

Side Glances—By Galbraith -

| "Something came over me all at once, Dad, and | proposed—| forgot everything you told. me about the housing shortage!”

the good of the

that it won't

Ever since

THIS, in effect, gives authority for a bold and courageous | program with one hand and quickly yanks it back with another, We have a fundamental distrust of any and all authority. It goes so deep that often we refuse to: delegate sufficient authority to & man in an important position. He is held 80. tightly on the leash as to be unable to make necessary day-to-day decisions, In beaming a.million and a half to two million words to the world every week, the head of the information service is peculiarly vulnerable. Not every member of Congress will agree with every word that is sent out. But a man who has both training and integrity should be allowed to make what some may think to be mistakes, Otherwise his program will be so cautious and so colorJess as to be of no value at all, Ll = - As a career diplomat, Mr, Allen has distinguished ‘himself «and particularly in Iran; All his training and conditioning have, however, been on the side of caution when it comes to policy and Congress. If now Congress is to sit looking over his shoulder,

So They Say

PEOPLE TODAY will pay $4 for a pre-war $1.50 steak with a minimum of grumbling, but these same people damn the bulld- | Ing industry when they are asked to pay $10,000 for ao pre-war $5000 house.~~Max Folly, PrIsigi, New York Bullding Congress.

THE LITTLE GUYS in this country are in a fix. But.as bad as their fix 1s, it would ‘be far worse If America lets her defen down and become involved in

—Al M. Landon, former governor of Kansas.

: ATOMIC WEAPONS or no atomic weapons, you cannot win another war without men, and we are deluding ourselves if we think we cah~—Secretary o the Anmty Royall. |

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ready to jump at any and afi mistakes, the programs will not be : decide / bold and courageous. They will be dull and lifeless. Radio lis- [18 JUST as dangerous and wrong to try to fool the 5 to call Che idle oft. advishd th canoe! thelr ‘teners from Khartum to Kamchatka will turn the dial to find | people into that we can buy off Communist aggression ) : ; until ¢ something more interesting. * hw "| with dollars as it was to try to appease Hitler. which they did. They will pot co-operate any further WIT “Mr. Allen deserves a chance to’ show t he can do; to #7 Lt sen, Joseph H. Ball Minn), State Department tells them it's safe. Sa operate with comparative freedom. Of course; he will want x os = ) But does this position taken by the State Department | work closely with Congress, ’ But Congress must not keep the | was never given a real opportunity. It will also be clear that he | ) 6 be Kt a im of ant leash go short that the new director will be handicapped at the | did a lot to win: cong support for the progras 48 i ohn critic And When thes whole story is told, it will be clear that Mr. Bent 0 get the necessa opriations © C - o ig to the 18 European af

show just about as much breadth of mind and depth of vision as as bunch of officers’ wives in some remote military posts 'Wedhesday tternoon bridge club. ‘THey dre petty and’ they av iy ¢atty. But they are YIP's—very important people—so they haw to be kow-towed to. A case in point is now offered by the deference that has 10 the Chicago Mai) be shown to the sensibilities of members hostile “to the Marshall Plan: ; ~~ One oftheir main- arguments against the Marshall Plas

to list what imports they would heed to re-establish their no “economy. The Paris report on European economic co-operatios is therefore the basic document of the whole recovery progra™

41d to Europe have kept up their cries that there must European co-operation. foi ; Barly in January, the French there should bé anothér meeting of the CEEC, to report progress. The French invited the 18 nations to send representatives to Paris. Immediately the cables from America began to burn. Und secretary of State Robert A. Lovett politely . British and French call off their talks, and bandon any plans © another meeting of the 16-nation CEEC,

Trying Not fo Antagonize Congress THE REASON? It was feared that Some Buropéan might get up and say he did not like the way the U. 8. was proposing to interfere in the internal affairs of his » That in turn might upset the congressmen, who would the

returned to balance. the scales, and give the _few law-abiding citizens an éven break?

: It WASHINGTON .... By Peter Edson = 1116 Marshall Nations t (Always Short of Food

' WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—Sometimes the politicians of th world—who are supposed to know how to run the machinery fot ll labor Pact

common people—sometimes these important guys

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troubles—that the only solution is for the European people to SJ *% The amount

to work and to start co-operating with each other; like ‘tht [ll 4 not disclosed ; pt Adverti; at the record. “The Paris feport of the Committ Jl Report of the Economic Co-operation was drawn up last fal Western N when representatives of the 16 Western European countries ot an A together on thelr own initiative. Théy made an inventory of what iin Indianapot » help they could give each other and what help they woul Dounty, at the fromthe rest of the world. : : on Decembx N : : . RESOLU Nations Naturally List Imports Mortgage 1 THESE 16 NATIONS have never been self-sufficient B pp foodstuffs or raw materials. So it was in perfect order for them} obligations .

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