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Mr. Jenner Is ‘Available’ ANYONE who was at the announcement yesterday that Sen. William E. Jenner wants to be Governor of Indiana surprises very easily. And anyone who believes that this “IT am available at my party's call” stuff is a self-sacrificing yielding by Mr. Jenner to a spontaneous and irresistible demand by the Republican voters of Indiana in their hour of need, is just plain naive. We can find no such demand. On the contrary, we doubt whether Mr, Jenner would today run better than a |. poor fourth in a direct open primary of Republican voters. That does not mean that he is without support. He isn't. The campaign to get the nomination for Mr. Jenner has been in full swing for many months. It appears to be amply financed, and shrewdly directed by able professional politicians. If anyone wishes to believe this has been done without his knowledge, or without his active co-operation, that, of course, is their privilege. But it has been a campaign to get convention delegates, not election voters. The plan, quite clearly, is to jam his nomination through our obsolete party nominating convention, and then tell Indiana Republicans they have to vote for him, next fall, out of party loyalty.

MR. JENNER was elected to the United States Senate

approximately one-fifth of that term. He now proposes to walk out on his commitment to represent the voters of Indiana in the Senate for six years, and ask them to elect him to another high office instead. His announcement that he is “available for nomination and election” as Governor makes no mention of resigning |- from the Senate. And no denial of the open charge that he proposes to keep his Senate seat, be elected Governor, appoint bis own successor to the Senate, and thus keep effective control of two of the three highest offices Indiana “That 1s 1 that Huey Long, 8, himself eléeted to the Unitéd States Senate and thereafter hung on to his office as Governor until a stooge of his own : choice ‘could succeed him. It Was perfectly legal. But it

other Republican of stature enough to be Governor. Th facts don’t bear out any such assumption. There are already in the field, and seeking the nomination, at least three Republicans, any one of whom, on his record, is better qualified than Mr. Jenner to be Governor of Indiana. And, we believe, more likely to be elected in November. » " ” IT WAS a fine and resounding statement Mr. Jenner made yesterday, full of pledges of selfless devotion to the interests of his Party and the people of Indiana, and protestations of willingness to serve “wherever they want me” —which he must feel is back in Indiana as Governor or there would have been no need for any announcement, If Mr. Jenner is sincere in that statement he will resign from the United States Senate right now, and come home and run for the nomination and election like any other candidate, without all this phony “draft” build-up. Not that we are suggesting he do anything of the kind. We cling to a sort of old-fashioned notion that a man's word ought to be good, that a commitment such as Mr. Jenner has undertaken to serve in our nation’s Senate ought to be carried out. We do not agree that the government of Indiana is a game, to be played for the sake of winning. And we are not aware of any need so pressing, or of any call so loud from the banks of the Wabash as to take precedence over the solemn obligation Mr. Jenner already has assumed. Anyway, suppose we do elect him Governor? How do we know he won't decide by next year he'd rather be Mayor, and quit us again? It pays more.

Civil Rights? have an announcement of a meeting to be sponsored here soon by the “Indianapolis Committee on Civil Rights,” at which O. John Rogge is going to speak and the people of Indianapolis, it says, are going to have “an opportunity to come together to discuss and act on America’s growing problem . . . the threat to our civil rights.” The essentially phony. nature of this enterprise is made quite clear by the announcement itself, in which the “committee” writes: “Mr. Rogge is serving as legal counsel for Harold Christoffel, well known labor leader, who is being victimized for his leadership in the recent Allis-Chalmers strike.” Christoffel has been convicted, and we believe justly convicted, of perjury which is the legal term for lying under oath, after a full and completely fair trial. He has been disowned by the union he pretended to lead, but virtually destroyed. There was, indeed, the most brutal and ruthless disregard of civil rights in connection with the strike the Indianapolis “committee” appears worried about—most of it by Christoffel himself and most of it against his fellow union members. : We are deeply concerned about civil rights ourselves, and about their full application to every human being. We do not agree that they can be arbitrarily withdrawn from members of a union at the will of a union boss. We do not

believe anybody's “civil rights” ought to include the right

to stuff ballot boxes in unions elections, or to give false testimony in court or in Congress, or to aid the enemies of this country in time of war. j Nor do we f28! that a meeting that begins with the premise that a man with the proved record of Harold Christoffel is being “victimized” when he is convicted of a felony in apen court is likely to advance the civil rights of anybody. ‘ “Scars zre not going to give any publicity to this sham ‘propaganda stunt as to the time or the place it is held. For that we anticipate being castigated in certain circles as reactionaries, tories, fascists and slaves of capitalism.

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Let me think every thought with an open, heart To do my best for my fellow men Whatever I start is carried out And I'll live every day with peace of mind

“In Tune With the Times

ITTY-BITTY

Itty-bitty, keen, bright eyes, Itty-bitty, he is wise Little imp is in disguise Itty-bitty.

Say “You're just a little pest” Keep me watching always lest, On my rugs your teeth you test— Itty-bitty.

Your contempt for us you flout You're a little scamp, no doubt. Four pounds df dog, and we lose out Itty-bitty.

You never heed us when we call Obeys never—not at all. Size worth mentioning, no, too small Itty-bitty. ~MARY R. WHITE, 854 N. Sherman Dr. ® % <% The rent of a tenant in a Michigan town

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MY DAILY PRAYER

And do what'I do with a will And hold fast to each tnought until— Just as the thoughts were begun

Till the setting of my sun— ~SUE ALLEN, 10 Media) Center. *

Some people go hungry for fear of biting off more than they can chew. ® ©

SPRING

Sure it's spring See the marble ring The kite and string Hear the robbins sing. : ~JEANNIE SEYMOUR

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yiger aus for the bushes poun: of meat get only two pounds? The Marion County Commission ; feel thoroughly indicted. oS shoud

: 3 A Forme Emplgyoe; I worked from Jap, ; ; un «1, 1046 as attendant ip Julietta’s ladies dining room (inmates pinch-hitted in Ward 2. ¢ x 1a serv e food. I know I complained about it and was Sa, aa my own business.” Many a time I've cried when I served kraut, bread, coffee and skim milk to old people 75 to 80 years old. One reason for the bad food was poor cooks—inmates who knew nothing about cooking. While there they only hired one cook and he was a drunkard, Mr. McCoy canned him. I tried to s improvement but got a calling from Mrs. McCoy for “butting in.” Sundays they would have stew, potatoes, carrots, green beans, etc. very little meat. Sometimes Mrs. McCoy would order

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Spirits are such playful things Coming in the dead of night, When a fellow wants to sleep, They set all his dreams afright.

They arise at twelve bells sharp * Just to come and visit me; "Waking all Necropolis, To come o'er and play with me.

Rapping on my door or bed That's the way they speak to me, Telling funny things about Spirits and Necromacy.

They advise my love affairs, And advise my business too, For they're shrewd and clever folk Once lived here till life's adieu.

Just before the break of dawn All these playful spirits seem, Now to vanish in thin air, .Leaving me to peace and dream.

Back again to quiet rest, Favored by good luck, I guess, All these playmates homeward go To their gay Necropolis. «DR. H. LATELLE GREGORY. ® o> @ Defeathering a chicken isn’t so bad—it's picking a duck that gets you down. > RN on A

WHENESPRING COME

When spring comes on, it seems to me, I shed a heap of care, But best of all the things I shed

Is heavy underwear, . STAN MOORE. ® oO A high forehead indicates brains, says a

professor. Or a hair restorer that didn't. ® ° @

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“WASHINGTON—Army Will Change Shoe Construction.”) In this latest army movement, We see little we can lose; This new plan to make improvement In their combat boots and shoes.

Make them bigger, broader, tanner, Add the cobbler’s latest tricks—

And, in quite his normal manner, Let the GI have new “kicks.”

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

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With Eyes on Turkey

WASHINGTON, Mar. 24—While the eyes of the world are on Czechoslovakia, Finland, Italy, Trieste and the Palestine— all danger-spots—Turkey’s peril seems forgotten. Yet it is more real than ever. In the event of war with the Soviet Union, Turkey could become the most vital of all bases of operation against Russia in Europe. She is closer to Moscow than to Berlin and considerably nearer to the lower Danube than to the American zone in Germany or Austria. Turkey is within 200 miles, as a bomber flies, of Russia's richest oil fields around Grozny. She is not more than 300 miles from the Baku petroleum deposits; and the Ukraine and the Volga Valley are just across the Black Sea. Russia's every move-since Yalta has aimed at making home territory as secure as possible against attack, especially by air. Turkey and Norway are now the sole remaining free nations touching the Soviet Union proper. That is why both are now in such danger. Radar posted in Norway, Finland, Easterp Europe, the Balkans and Turkey would spot enemy planes hours before they reached the Soviet border.

Turkey Vital to Reds ANOTHER REASON for Turkey's’ peril is the increasing tension in Palestine and the Middle Bast. Russia and her Communists might take over all Western Europe, Including Italy and France but unless Russia takes Turkey, too, she would remain vulnerable to the same sort of maneuver as the Allies used against the Axis in North Africa. If the Mediterranean were blocked, American and Allied Forces could enter Turkey from the direction of the Persian Gulf or the Valley of the Nile. The United States sent into Russia billions of dollars worth of lend-lease by that route during World War II Lastly, Russia has her eyes on the oil reserves of the Middle Fast. Modern wars use oceans of petroleum products and, however much she may have in reserve or underground, she hasn't enough. And she would hardly risk war unless and until she gets her hands on more. This would have to come from Iran, Iraq and Arabia.

Turkey Stumbling Block

AND HERE, again, Turkey enters the picture. As long as Turkey retains her independence, Russia would not dare wage aggressive war in the Middle East.’ In one way or another she would have to have Turkey on her side. And Turkey will not willingly enter the lair of the Red Bear. k Traditionally the two countries are enemies. Since Peter the Great, Russia has wanted control of the straits. After the Hitler and Stalin partnership of 1939, Turkey signed a 15-year treaty of alliance with Britain and France, with a Turkish reservation regarding war against the Soviet. ' Turkey has not forgotten how Russia brought pressure, in the dark hours following the Nazi blitz of 1940, to force her to give up the districts of Kars and Ardahan, on thé Caucasus frontier. Nor that if there had not been the 1941 break between Russia and Germany, the story might have had a different «nding, Now she is up against it more than ever, as once again the

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PLAIN WORDS, PLEASE ee Write So You're Undefstood

EZRA VAN HORN of Cleveland wrote a letter to the coal miners last week. Mr. Van Horn has a job few people would want. He speaks for the coal operators in arguments with John Also, he acts as the operators’ trustee over the Lewis union's welfare fund, into which the public pays 10 cents.a ton for the coal it

Mr. Van Horn's letter tried to~tell the miners ‘thinks Mr. Lewis is away off base in demanding $100 monthly pensions for all miners over 60. Therefore, we presume, he wanted to get it read and understood. But he wrote it in a way that would be tough reading for college graduates, He was trying to tell the miners why the fund hasn’t been put to use. He wanted to show that, on the basis of insurance estimates, the pensions sought by Mr. Lewis are so high that Hey would soon break the fund. So he told the

“Phe real and fundamental reason why the welfare and retirement fund is not activated is the fact that Mr. John L. Lewis, one of the trustees, is insistent that I join with him in circumve ting, evading and avoiding the provisions of Labor anagram Relations Act, 1947, by join- * ing with him in granting benefits to persons not entitled under the law to receive benefits. . The actuaries’ réport shows conclusively that the pension proposed by Mr. Lewis would bankrupt the fund and not leave anything for the other welfare purposes set ‘forth in the contract.” Mr, Van Horn wrote like the head of a government) burean, a lawyer drawing up a utility oever writes th ~ - guage in insurance policies. St Swislb re Jun

Language Hard to Read

IN SHORT, it was the kind of writing which makes it as hard as possible to get the meaning. The kind which uses “activate” as a synonym for “start” or “put into use.” A lot of business legal and official statements which people, ought to read, for their own good, are written in that way. Many misunderstandings about business policles, laws, government orders, insurance papers and contracts would be avoided if they were written simply.

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: Your reporter on Julietta is to be compli. mented for trying to help those poor people and to show the taxpayers how their money is spent, My sister was sent to the nursing home at Julietta due to crowded conditions at the Gen-

By E. T. Leech %

In the newspaper business this matter of how hard it is to read and understand written language is called “readability.” Several firms make a business of testing newspapers, magazines, press reports and other services to see how “readable” they are. One such firm has ‘just held some meetings with our staff, There's no mystery about it. Largely it involves such simple things as short direct sentences, short paragraphs and plain words.

Why Use the Long Words?

ALSO, statements are better understood when there is a human element—that is, when you make a direct statement about Joe Doakes, or a taxpayer or some other human being. For example, everybody quickly grasps what you mean when you write about coal miners. But its harder to understand your statement if you speak of “the operating personnel of the coal companies.” By counting the average length of sentences, the use of abstract or complex words and the number of personal references, it is possible to set a “readability” score for written matter. There are other factors. But sentence length, choice of words and personal references are the key ones.’ These readability tests first were used to find whether textbooks were suitable for the various school grades for which they were intended. The same tests are now being applted to other reading material. One discovery has been that the writers with the widest audiences are also the most “readable” writers. * Ernie Pyle, for example, made himself easily understood by sixth or seventh grade pupils. Popular magazines, such as True 8tory and Woman’s Home Companion, do the same thing. Reader's Digest hits about the eighth-grade level; Time has been measured on the tenth-grade average (that is, easy reading for a high school sophomore). No magazine runs above the 11th grade level—which is where Harper's and Atlantic Monthly test. These averages were fixed by Robert Gunning Associates—one of the firms in this new field of measuring reading levels. Sinclair Lewis, Hemingway, Steinbeck and other popular authors hit in the sixth to eighth grade brackets; so did Charles Dickens, Mark Twain—and the King James version of the Bible. All of which proves that “easy reading” can also be “good writing.” In fact, that the two go together.

home. These bed patients saw a doctor briefly once a week, She was in a wheel chair. The hospital was crowded, they put her in the other section. No prison could be any worse. » Usually visitors are not permitted to stay during supper, but on account of change in ‘bus schedule I had to wait until 6:30 so I saw what they served, Sunday evening the old people who were unable to walk to the table: Three tablespoons of molasses in a bowl, one slice of bread with no butter, one tin cup of milk, On my way out one of the patients asked me to mail a letter. As I passed .the office, a lady asked where I got that letter. I told her, and she said don't mail these people's letters as they have to be censored. Why? This was not a letter from a mental patient but one who was in a wheel chair with a broken eg.

By a Taxpayer (Name Signed): The wards (at Julietta) do not get meat, there is: no meat in the locker rooms. State ments show meat was purchased. Please tell me where is the money that was spent for it? Why do these people. have food less nutrle ous than war prisoners received. Why do we send money and food abroad and let our own old people go hungry? It seems we should take care of our own first. Tell me where the money is going?

Friend of the Old and Poor: I have followed the articles on Julietta, hoping your good work would@ not end there. In the Central State Hospital T have 8 friend, whom I visit. I encounter other patients so nearly OK that it makes me wonder why they are out there. They need protection, However, you can depend on what they tell about - food. Last Sunday my friend had for dinner— cooked green beans, flour and water gravy with a few shreds of meat, a piece of bread and tea. ’ I know from having been in the toilet, that conditions are foul. I beg of you—Kkeep at it until you get better food for those patients in Central Hospital.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson

U. S. Believed Ready For Military Effort

WASHINGTON, Mar. 24—Since eve : , rybody is talking war scares, it's in order to take a long look at U. 8. business § ond: tions to see how well the country is prepared for the shock of 2 pine big national defense effort. Beardsley Ruml, chairman of R. H. Macy & Co., in Washington to talk before the Board of Tooke, has 3 few ideas on the subject. uml looks for some changes in the business picture right after Easter. Pre-Easter trade has not been good. Customers simply have not been buying the high-priced goods. ew The oon, hus been that manufacturers have been preparing nem priced lines of merchandise. They aren't as good in What the merchants have yet to dete: ese Tower. quality goods will sell. y tonite is Wathe: Oh ow much effect any cuts in the prices of clothing and house. hold, £o0s might have on third round wage ey is another Juz 8. Mr Ruml is of the opinion the country has passed the peak of inflation. The three big items are food, clothing and rent.

Cost of Living Outlook

FOOD prices stayed high last year because of short crops in .Europe. Good crops starting to come in should bring prices down Congress a Jhowing Inelnations to relax rent controls. aws would still tak laces like New York and Washington. $ opie of heWimunn in Y If living costs can’t be cut enough to head off third round wage demands in April or May, the only hope is that these de mands may be settled for less than in rounds one and two. If the third round increases are in the nature of five to 10 pef cent, business could absorb the increases without further raising Bricce 0s. Ruml believes. And’ a prolonged coal shutdown over . Iewis’ dem . 0 Jon te ands for pension payments couid-upset th Mr. Ruml fathered the wartime, pay-as-you- lan. He now believes that a tax cut is aay. Hed gettle ur Sither the House $6 billion cut or the Senate $4 billion cut. If additional revenues are required to cover the costs of 8 stepped-up defense program, Mr. Ruml believes that this finan Be hou be done through increasing sales of savings bonds. Brett, 120 in, Simbad oy at acce : the $100 billion-a-year ore of oy any BA

Defense Plant Is Ready Today THE PLANT for a new national defense effort is bullt. Ths! was not true in 1939-41. start to

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"He's cute, but if he had a car and was taller, Pd go to the freshman dance with him—if he'd ask me!"

LITTLE QUOTES From Big People

WARS do not start on Main St. It is not Wall 8t. but Main St. which determines American foreign and domestic policy.— Charles E. Wilson, president, General Electric Co. t cp iad

Any' further interference with the business of my Senate office will be deemed an insult to the sovereign State of Oklahoma. From a manpower standpoint, it might be necessary —Sen. Elmer Thomas (D) of Oklahoma. recruiting women for production jobs. Ten to 12 million men eS © would not have to be called up for a defense effort. That mi When a tax cut is made it should be made so that those | take only a million men—recruited or called into a universs! least able to pay get the greatest relief.—Gov. Earl Warren (R.) | training program. : of of California. is What Mr. Ruml cam Board do ® e to Washington to tell the ties.

Trade about was the interest rate on government § Should the Mediterranean nations lose their independence | EXamining statements of the President, the Treasury and © to totalitarianism, war would be close to us.—Gen. Dwight D, | Federal Reserve Board, Mr. Ruml found them all in agreemet Eisenhower, U, 8. Army, Ret. 3 : *

on supporting government bond prices. Federal Reserve has

+0 Suthority 1 carry out this policy and is doing it. evel The job is delightful. But it is almost entirely unimportant. Ita effect 1s io stabilize all interest Tates at present le, ~—John Nance Garner, his opinion of the vice présidency. EE

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