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CKRC "HENRY WwW. MANZ Si Business Manager- : Po | ume vee ms | With the Times Owaed and. published except SUDAAY LINCOLN'S MESSAGE TODAY gang publ she ball to Co., 214 w IF LINCOLN could write today. Jand St. Postal Zone 9. i “At Gettysburg I spoke my sentiments on tember of United’ Seripps - Howard | Divine Guidance of-our Nation; and it behooves of . and Audit! us to be ever watchful that we do nothing to Asser 2 ip BTC Stl I ‘bring about a downfall of our unity. United we ; So . de! ‘stand! Divided we fall! : af Marion County, 5-cents a copy; ae “Profiting by our mistakes of the past, and carrier, 25¢ a week, ng that we have made some, mus

rates in recognizi dtodians, 35.0 Jessi all othel tyrengthen us to the ever present task of . §. possessions, Canads and “Mexicv hiring

. Telephone RI ley 5551 a ry is only half won. It is tod soon to

ond the People Wil Ping Thew Gun Woy | rejoice, for our Nation, and every nation, is in wr ~ | heavy distress. 1 have confidence in you that German Plant | make ih Fi Te, gar loft. ort J i to s a truly great na n world's te 4 an Flants A alone but in the glorious spirit of the ; ARY OF STATE MARSHALL'S Yai) hoor I Sosurin » i - . A timid man is one who feels he should

reasonable and convincing. In effect policy but agrees to re-examine. possible conflict with the Euro:

counts seems to us he reaffirms the gemeral its application to prevent This conflict, which

limp a little whel) sarrying a cane, THE DAYS GROW LONGER *

‘This time of year I'm glad to see The days are getting longer And with the coming of the light It makes my faith grow stronger.

I'm looking for the robin . Who will tell that spring has come . And the daffodils and violets And the insects that will hum.

Perhaps in all this weather You will think I'm premature But for all the cold of winter They will come, of that I'm sure.

critics have stressed, is more | threatening than real in most cases. At first blush it seems absurd to be destroying Germany's industrial capacity with one hand, and at the same time trying to build up with ~ for self-support. But these two operations need not be contradictory if proper precaution is exercised. “We have to start with a reparation agreement, made in good faith with our Allies. Any kind of reparations is difficult to collect without doing more harm than good. After World War 1 Germany, nominally paid large long-term

separstionsi- hut. Amations loans, later defaulted, actually. paid the bill—and in so doing re-equipped Germany with | ~ This time we wisely chose to keep reparations within manageable limits and to take the maximum in the form

Just as in life we go through weather That is stormy and so dark But we have to keep on looking For the faintest little spark.

God gives things in due season He sends winter, then the spring 80 as the days grow longer I see the blessings they will bring. ~DARRELL MILLER.

of German military equipment and excess industrial plants, & 4 Wo. rather than out of current production. Ouk BS SUL | | ems prin eg teunen, Mo agren though Russia fn silo op German. a8» bent chow, capacity to the point of military menace again. ‘ABRAHAM LINCOLN!

s . = 0 SO THERE are two ‘One is that it is the lesser of

: Not just that he was President of the good old for the present policy. U. a 1 also honor Lincoln for the man he was cach

evils, as proved by experi- | a : ence. The other is that we ase bound by an agreement with | ris forethought and his kindness proved how west European ‘Allies which we cannot break - co , » | - : We do we have to ale wh thout hat | js why Abe Lincoln now: is still so great ‘tussia in this connection, because she already has broken ; the : i-we } shut off plant shipments f He was upright and honest, outstanding and

our zone to her, in retaliation; but we should not put our- Proving the great man he was by things he s in her class of bad faith. "His acts of kindness showed with all his might,

Britain, France, Belgium, The The:kind-of man he was, because he stood for ; ¥ . must have machinery for industrial n ' —ROBERT O. LEVELL. recovery. That sinery must come either from Ger- ¢ ¢ : ‘many or from the United States. In some cases the Ger- A WINTER DAY man type is more adaptable to Western Baropy Jase, OR. the silence of white winter day, and in other cases American machinery is not available. vergreens drooping under heavy snow, Therefore European self-help, which we maghe 8 condition TER en el Th aid under 2 Plan, wo pP- os / cations fn the form of dist ted plants : The Fright sun S0Kia 10th With a will to melt, The snow-drops sparkle as rare brilliant gems. Cie shunt EEEE SEE That with our hands we delight to clasp. | : rele + ~MARIETTA KEM, 638 S. 18th St, New Castle, Ind. ¢ oo A 't of politicians seem to think that

. # =» NEVERTHELESS, this wise policy, like any other, san be maladministered to the point it becomes self-defeat- | ing. It is necessary to draw a line between plants that should be dismantled for demilitarization purposes and clgar. those required for peace. Even in the peace plants it is necessary to determine whether a given plant can contribute more and quicker to Western European recovery if left itt Germany, or if sent to France or some other neighWe agree with the critics that some of the dismantled diate European recovery, and later to produce for repay"ment of American occupation costs. A review of the entire tion of this policy, now pledged by the State Department, should produce better results,

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“NEW YORK—Bakery Stfike Threatéhs ¢ 70 Per Cent of City's Supplies.”) -

Lack of bread is never funny, It's a situation tense; But this issue of more money Leaves us strictly on the fence, 8o0-no word. of condemnation these deathless In what other occupation Would a worker knead more dough?

lines shall flow;

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson

Note to Edwin W._ Pauley

I¥ your latest tour of duty with the government, Mr. Pau4 ey, you made a worthwhile contribution to the nation’s defense planning. We like, especially, that part of your final report to the Secretary of the Army wherein you out- | line a more comprehensive, aggressive and business-like program of stockpiling materials. : It is a matter of regret to your friends, Mr. Pauley, | and to all who like to see government affairs conducted on | a plane above suspicion, that while you were engaged in | this work you became involved in controversy regarding | your speculations in the commodity markets. We offer this suggestion, Mr. Pauley: When and if | again your recognized talents are summoned to the government’s service, should you accept, the wise thing to do | will be to leave your business interests behind, liquidate all’ of your holdings, the value of which might be remotely affected by government policy. The public has a right to insist that government officials shun even the appearance of seeking personal gain. Government service and business profits do not mix, no more than oil and water.

WASHINGTON, Feb.

resolution reads:

to incite unfriendly relations between nations.”

Military'Bases for European Oil EVER SINCE Defense Secretary James foreign policy expert John Foster Dulles and

covered the San Francisco United

Interesting Days Ahead

HIS we want to see. / In Washington a new plan is under way to extend to | the public the help and advice of the select few who know what is best. : " Officidly are getting plan their meals. : "Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson is the | ‘man prepared to walk in where angels fear to tread. His | aids forecast that housewives not only will get advice on | TT ur CW ‘what foods to buy, but indy even get suggestions on what ; gy 5 hases oa, on part of the family budget to spend on the table. ! arsail Pan a Be Ue I “What we need,” said one agriculture official (who ha i Sveden wisely withheld use of his name), “is a little more business aylon stockings and administration in running the kitchen.” Americans ask for the ‘ _ Many a husband has harbored the same thought—and | © some have even dared from time to time to express it aloud.

The wise ones learned by experience, and didn’t repeat

According to him, that in exchange for reconstruction aid, countries are to grant to the that “the task of unifying the would be handed over to the U. The Pravda piece then goes on ch, Italian, Belgian and d of U. 8. officers armed the Yankee Doodle, with U. 8, governors place.”

ready to tell housewives how to

Evening Standard.” : But this seems

their error. i | But now, it seems, official Washington is going to learn | : he proverbial wrath of a woman scorned is nothing to that of a housewife who is told by a man that

speech made Reports on the speech say was that the Eurppean

‘know how be © U. 8. because, when Eur J now Hof Best 0 ODgrate the itehon. Eat 1. too, awas threatened and must take

ust see, | - were found necessary. Jt x

~peace on Earth, -Good-Willto-Men. iit somite nine

...the medical friend,

what this country needs is a good vile scent |

— How Reds Twist News To Suit Themselves

11-—-A Russian ex-newspaperman . named Jacob M. Lomakin—now In New York as delegate to the United Nations Subcommittee on Freedom of Information—is cure rently kicking up quite a fuss over what he calls the “sensation- | alism” of the U. 8. press. He is bothered particularly by sex \, stories, like the Black Dahlia murder case in Los Angeles. But Comrade Lomakin also wants the United Nations to adopt a covenant guaranteeing freedom of .speech, freedom of the | press and freedom of artistic expression. The last sentence of his

“If shall be intolerable that this freedom of information be used to-permit propaganda for fascism and aggression, or to dis= seminate false reports, dishonest information, or reports likely

Every day, radio Moscow picks up long arficles from" the Russian press, and broadcasts them all .over the world. Here in Washington these broadcasts are monitored and translated and this daily report makes the zaniest reading in town.

Vv. Forrest al, GOP

testified on the Marshall Plan, Moscow has had a field day. It | began with a long article in Pravda by Zhukov —Russia's leading | commentator, though no relation to the general. This Zhukov Nations charter conference in 1045, so he thinks he knows all about the Us 8.. Secretary Forrestal has announced bluntly | “the western European United States military military forces of the 16 countries 8. Department of Defense.” | to paint the picture of “British, | other soldiers marching at the com- | with U. 8. tommy guns and singing | in command all over the

Pravda Digs Up Old Greenland Story Greenland is dug up 8. intent to exchange | ald for military domination of Denmark. . . the Danes and the Dutch, Pravda finds, are | “while dispatching to Europe stale cigarets. similar goods of far-from-first necessity, the right {o interfere in the domestic ‘affairs of western Europe. ‘Sovereignty is to be exchanged against an omelet—made from dried eggs,’ as recently remarked the British

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Hoosier Forum

"I do not agree with a word thet you say, but | will defend to the death your right te say it WE . - -— Write what you think on or are brief. We do not return letters and all contributions are subject to

“Five Liquor Spots Must Close Doors.” It seems. according to this article, under a

Fame of Sam Tilford's Dog, Dock

1 KNOW. of no other Indianapolis celebrity who enjoyed the posthumous fame of Sam Tilford's dog, Dock. Instead, a decade after Dock’s death, we kids on the South Side still heard stories concerning the extraordinary behavior of Sam's

The way I: have it figured out, it was sometime around 1878 when Dock started having emotional fits. He was affectionate or snappish depending on the mood he was in. And it was so unlike his normal behavior that Sam decided to ask a medical friend of his : to diagnose the case. Dock has toothache, said

cided to extract the tooth on the following Sunday. ; ng their time until Mrs. Tilford and the children left for church, the two men prepared to play dentist. Dock was made to inhale a quantity of ether, but it failed to have the desired elfect, it worked just the other way and made Dock more wakeful than ever. After this flasco, it was to

resolved to-chloroform him. This time it worked, ‘and with little difficulty the bad tooth was re-

moved. After the operation, it was noticed that Dock was unusually quiet. A more critical examination revealed—to all appearances, at any rate—that he was dead. ;

He Was a Very Dead Dog

FRANTIC efforts to resuscitate Dock didn't do a bit of good. He was a dead dog and no mistake

about it. What to do next? It wouldn't do to let

Mrs. Tilford and the children learn the truth. Sam

knew his family well enough to realize that they'd’ act up like the very dickens and desecrate the”

.Sabbath with a scene if they ever learned what had happened to Dock. ;

At long last, Sam and his friend made up their minds that the corpse had to be disposed of at once. They put the lifeless into the doctor's buggy, concealed it from viéw, of course, and

office, that these business places must

tion of any liquor store or tavern feet of a church. i Before I go any farther, I would make it clear on this point. I am not ing the churches neither am I upholding liquor stores and taverns. But my point is What is to prevent any preacher who town from starting a church in every vacant storeroom in the city? Taking ff that most storerooms are located in ness district. Why not take out sometimes General, and ride over the the area between New York as 16th St. and from Senate " as Whité River. Be sure and between streets. - Be sure churches you will find doing business . rooms and old buildings that in a theater. If this policy continues,

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street jobless. Now the whole thing in a nutshell is this. There is a place for everything and everything should be in its place, including the churches.

\ Landlords Are Getting Wise White, City I read in the Forum where someone is going to appeal to Mayor. Feeney to lower the streetcar fares. I doubt if it will ‘do any good, since Mr. Feeney drives a car, therefore, the high fares do not effect him. Since he rents is it any wonder he is fighting an increase in rents or lifting of controls? Likewise most of the Senators and Congressmen rent, so it's as plain as

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Write what you will—for hers the peo ve

share their earnings with

and then and there it was de- yo o.y

-that-seme fine night he would. be awakened by. |.

“that ‘was the spittin® image of Dock.

day why they are fighting rent increases,

then made @ beeline for Brightwood to hide th The landlords: are surely getting a Totten

evidence of that morning's deed.

They Gave Dock Another Chance WHEN THE funeral procession arrived in Brightwood, a brilliant idea struck the doctor. it was barely possible, he said, that the dog might come to. After all, it might be a case of suspended animation. Who could tell? Medical history cited a number of such cases. The two men decided not to bury Dock, They'd give him a chance to live; with the result that Dock was deposited at the base of a tree and left to come to or not, as

1 deal, and have for several better next time not to save and sacrifice to buy a piece of property to play Santa Claus to ungrateful tenants. You don’t own your own property anymore, the tenant does. No wonder

clothes and gambling, etc., instead of buying a piece of property. They know the Government will see to it that home ownérs are forced to give them shelter for a song and dance. Like the 15 per cent increase in exchange for a lease running clear through 1948. That was another rotten deal. © We could increase their rent 15 per cent providing it was agreeable with the sweet little tenant and also If lease through 1948. Say, I'm wondering why they didn’t write and ask the property owners if it was agreeable to raise our taxes last year. We had to pay it or else but boy, those little tenants didn't have to pay the 15 per cent unless 3 Jt was agreeable. bY. |... you see why the housing situation is the well-known voice of Dock claiming admittance | like it is? Do you think Se have enough by way of the back porch, a pleasant habit of his | sense to save their money are going to build around the midnight hour back in the good old | houses to rent when they know they will never get their money back? No we are wising up at last and as far as I'm concerned, the housing situation can remain forever as it is now. I know this much, when my tenant's lease expires we are going to ask for possession to remodel and, boy, when that time comes if we aren't allowed to ask a fair rent on our property, it will stand idle forever. I wish all property owners would do the - same: 1. still- say, if they hadn't. all their money silly, they would have a home of their own. :

Feeling pretty blue, Sam Tilford apd the doctor returned to “he €éity, and all that day and many days thereafter they wondered whether Dock would make up his mind to open his eyes or stay dead. The two men never opened their mouths to tell of Dock’s untimely departure. All that year, however, Sam entertained a vague kind of hope |

days. .- Well, that's the end of Dock as far as anybody knows. However, it isn't the end of the story. One night more than a year after Dock was supposed | to be dead, Sam Tilford was awakened by a noise | that sounded exactly like that of Dock. He rushed down the stairway, went to the back porch—to the very door Dock used to get in and out of the house—and there found an S8-month-old puppy Believe it or not, he even had the same funny clover leaf mark on his left paw.

WORLD AFFAIRS . .. By Parker La Moore

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Bernard Baruch

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SO THEY SAY . .

President Truman. ” " » ”.

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‘D. Eisenhower.

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

t SERVICE, WC. 7. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OW.

COPR. 1948 BY NEA

"Oh, we didn't really want a new car, but it was a necessity— all our friends were raving about theirs!"

. In the News

Today the Navy would make a good showing if trouble were to break out, but is too short of men and ships to win a war.— Adm. Louis Denfield, chief of naval operations.

We Yelieve that governments are created to serve the people and that economic systems exist to minister to their wants.—

The way of. life that we have known is literally in the balance.—8ecretary of State Marshall, bs

to be the least of it. According to Pravda, the . Hw U. 8. is threatening to use the atomic bomb, if Europe doesn’t accept Marshall Plan aid. Proof is offered by reference to a | before the Swedish Chamber of Commerce by Freeman Matthews, new U. 8. ambassador to Stockholm. " ¥ as received in Washington show that Matthews never even mentionsd the atomié bomb, What he did

We're going to talk ourselves into a depression. There's no question about it.—Sen. Homer Capehart (R. Ind.).

. 1 do not wish to be a helpless witness of the destruction of India, Hinduism, Sihkism and Islam.—Mohandas K. Gandhi.

Therp is no such thing as human

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Men and Equi t KILKIS, Greece, Feb. 11.—Brigadier Vassilas, commander of Greek Government forces here near the Yugoslav-Bulgarian “border, 18 confident he can hold his present position against Communist rebels. But he says he will need additional manpower _and equipment to mount a’ successful offensive. A few days ago, when I arrived in Kilkis, Brigadier Vassilas was in the hills directing an operation against the bandits who had razed villages northwest of here. He forced the eiemy back into the mountains until he was caught in crossfire from heights to his right and left, Darkness intervened before flanking tactics could be employed. - By the time daylight came, the bandits had disappeared. 7 “That 1s what constaptly happens here” he said. “They retreat to superior positions where they stop me and then they disappear, usually across the frontier. If I could go on a real offensive it would be different. But in this type of warfare you do not have one front, but a front which is everywhere and all * around you. And I must be half policeman and half soldier.” Returning to Kilkis last night, the Brigadier's armored car hit a land mine, seriously injuring two members of his party.

This mine was just two miles out of town on an important highway.

Entire Countryside No Man's Land

BECAUSE of the troops here, the town is relatively safe from attack but the entire countryside is a no-man’s land. The Communists had 1800 troops in this area eight months ago. Three hundred were detached to assist on the attack on Konitsa and casualties and desertions have reduced their forces to an estimated 500. : The government's two battalions here and one at nearby Mouries total more than 1500. But the government troops must guard the railroad line through this area and other Joins and the Communists have the advantages of position and ative. Brigadier Vassilas says that with two additional battalions and increased firepower he could maintain a continuing offensive. He has two British field artillery pieces, two cars and two weapons carriers in his command but no tanks and no mountain guns. These last are artillery pieces Which can be taken down and carried into the mountains on mule-back.

Burdened With 15,000 R

KILKIS, with a nomal population of 10,000, is burdened With an influx of 15,000 refugees from surrounding mountain areas. These and the townspeople alike are known to include a substantial number of Communist sympathizers. Henry Sideris, who looks back upon happier days when he was earning $50 a week in Cincinnati behind a soda fountain, “a | says he is lucky to make a dollar a day now teaching English | and working as a blacksmith, . But he has a better reason for | wanting to return to Cincinnati. ‘He is afraid he may be Kiled | by the Communist. underground here. | A young government employee acting as my guide also was doleful about his personal situation. \ “Your American mission insists we should reduce the number

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