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Whitewash at Julietta? . . "THERE has been, it seems fo us, a rather interesting "effort by certain agencies and individuals to give out a public impression that things aren't really so bad at Julietta, the Marion County home for indigent, mostly So far the whitewash is a little thin. The facts show

Skipping the rather obvious items brought to mind by the “recommendations” that the Julietta management at least take some steps toward doing what the state health authorities and the State Fire Marshal apparently ordered them to do some time back, let's look once more at the meat situation, » . There's a new set of figures now. The County Auditor reports the quantities of meat the county has bought pir from a private dealer, and the quantities slaughtered on iE the farm, and it comes up to a little more than 10 pounds a month for each inmate of Julietta. That's different from the figures given by Daily E. McCoy, Julietta superintendent, which tallied up to around 21 pounds a month for each inmate. A fantastic figure, true. But Mr. McCoy's figure. Suppose it was only 10 pounds a month, instead of 21 _ pomngds, that the county purchased. / Mr. McCoy himself could account for less than two pounds & month per person that went on the tables. The official menus taken right out of the Julietta kitchen, ac- ; count for a good deal less than that. The cooks who prepare Julietta food, and the inmates who eat it, say it

Ea s = = y 8 8 ANYWAY, IF we accept these later figures, and discard those given by Mr. McCoy, the man in direct charge of the institution, that still leaves eight pounds a month shertage for each of the 490 or so inmates of Julietta. Or, say, 3000 pounds a month .altogether. That's a total of something over 47,000 pounds of meat a year—of roasts and pork-chops and steaks and such, according to the bills paid, that sre finally represented on the tables by two

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doubtful stew on Sunday. That's what Mr. McCoy says ff wagebc | § If Mr. y, and his eooks, and his own official menus | are accurate—and there appears no reason to doubt © —what becomes of all that meat? ; | Who weighs it when it is delivered— to make sure there has been no error? :

Who checks it after it is on hand—to make sure robbers haven't broken in and stolen it—if there lives, any- | where, a robber so low he'd steal food from these poor old broken wards of Marion County? { Bean Ms. McCoy know? | ; 't the County Commissioners know? ~ Doesn't anybody know?

People vs. Lobby VVE are glad to hear of progress in the House move for 'Y a vote on the repeal of federal margarine taxes and foot jen more interested in the public's welfare than in the dairy lobby’s are taking the play away from the 16 members of the House Agriculture Committee, who would condemn millions of families to go on paying excessive prices for margarine to replace the butter they can't afford. : ‘These Congressmen are signing a discharge petition to get the issue out of committee and before the House for debate and a vote. Today that petition had 141 signatures. It has gained 51 names in 10 days. It needs only 77 more, and we believe they will be forthcoming. ‘Sometimes the processes of democracy seem slow, but generally they are inevitable. For the issue here is more than that of benefiting housewives and home budgets. It is whether a minority of 16 can prevent a group of 435 elected representatives of the people from having their say.

Blackout by Strike FE are ways of blacking out a nation’s population without ringing down that iron curtain. Our staff correspondent in Rome, Parker La Moore, was quick to note that in his discerning dispatch on the effects of a Com-munist-ordered printers’ strike in Italy. The Communists had two political objectives to gain in the strike. First, they wanted to hide from the Italian voters news that would be unfavorable to the Red cause— the fact that the U. 8., Britain and France proposed Trieste

passed, says the government. Not meaning that sugar should be passed too freely, since production still is below prewar level,

ANN FRANCES' EASTER BONNET

GRAND JURY—JULIETTA PROBE

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be returned to Italy. Second, they wanted to gain time through the news blackout for their side to come up with a counter-proposal calculated to take the heat off the Trieste issue. The counter-proposal was a lame offer by Yugoslavia to return Trieste in exchange for another strategic town whose possession would isolate Trieste. While all this was going on, Italy went without newspapers and most of the people remained in ignorance of the developments. There was even a lull in the war of posters, with no printers to print them. As Mr. La Moore pointed out, the episode shows how effective the strike weapon can be when it is under politieal control.

All Quiet Along the Potomac

WE listened in vain for angry cries from Washington when butter and meat prices started shooting upward again. But it wasn't like those days when commodity prices were falling and consumers’ hopes were rising. Nobody in the capital demanded to know the cause of this alarming state of affairs, or whether anybody had cleaned up as a result of inside or outside information. So we have regretfully concluded that our Congressmen get excited about prices only when their colleagues in nment are suspected of bringing them down, but

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EASTER FLOWERS

The Weaver plies the shuttle To and fro - Upon the loom of life Spring lilies grow.

Yes, the Joom of life ° Has patterns red The moving shuttle holds 3 The brighter thread.

More tenderly—the Master Weaver knows About the plain white crosses In long rows.

Now sweetly bloom—"tis promised ‘To all men. -

We rise again from dark and . Bloody earth, The Master's promise of Eternal birth. ~—RUTH M. COFFIN. © 9

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MY BONNIE EASTER BONNET

My bonnie Easter bonnet, Tricky MNttle affair, With the little birdie on it; Oh, so high up there. »

Fit for any girlies, With its saucy style, Shows my hair so curly, Flatters me a mile.

Maybe I'll be shyer, Than a little bunny Listening to the choir, For my hat's a honey.

My bonnie Easter bonnet, Tricky «little affair, With the little birdie on it,

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nurse, my private doctor or myself? * I have a boy almost 7 years old who has had a rash breaking out on his skin from a sugar condition. He has had it off and on ever

Oh, so high up there. ~MILDRED C. YOUNG. > * » .

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Her eyes are bright and starry As she spies . . . her Raster bonnet Though barely six months oid . . . she loves “The pretty things upon it. ¥ The dainty frills of lace she sees Wee buds . ; , of flowers on it And ribboned bows of pink and blue Ann Frances’ Easter bonnet. . sa E. YOUNG.

Folks work hard and save money so that when they're old they ¢aa have the things only the young can enjoy.

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Julietta officials, here they come, Sirens flaring, perhaps a drum, * They give you warning, so you'll be able To get some good food on the table.

May find inmates dressed up in their best Spilling ice cream on their vest, And when the probe is over, by gosh, We'll see another grand whitewash,

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FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“WASHINGTON—Scientists Say Walking on Moon Will ‘Be a Light Touch.”)

Come let's stroll the lanes together, But let's do it on the moon, Where, our hearts light as a feather, We shall find an added boon.

It's arf idea night celestial To us overweight earthbounds, Lunar gravity terrestrial Makes light of those excess pounds.

of their hopes.

Czech Steal Shocked

Our Adolescent Policy

WASHINGTON, Mar. 27—The foreign policy of the United Stated, in the view of foreign diplomats, is about to undergo a sweeping transformation. In fact, they observe, the transformation is already in full swing. The so-called turn-abouts on Palestine, Trieste, the Chinese Reds, the handling of the German situation, the preparedness program and other matters are cited as examples of what may be ahead. The United States is expected to urge the return of Italy's pre-Mussolini colonies under United Nations mandate and the admission of Spain as a member of the Western European bloc. The sudden death of Czechoslovakia as a free country did more to shock Washington out of its adolescent simple-mindedness than even World Wars I and II—that and Palestine which revealed the complete helplessness of the Ynited Nations. A lot of chickens are coming home to roost.

Truman Took Another Look

Congress are expected to be harder, tougher and more realistic. Every President since Wilson has indorsed a Jewish homeland in Palestine and so have most Congressmen. Suddenly the administration awoke to find that to enforce this policy under prevailing conditions might lead to World War III.

Therefore President Truman was forced’to take another look at his Near Eastern hand. Without a truce and a temporary United Nations trusteeship, he said yesterday, “open warfare is just over the horizon.” And almost certainly we would be pulled in. Whatever the risk, it is now widely realized in Washington, the United States is going to have to re-examine a lot of other situations, in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Was '47 Treaty Too Harsh?

ITALY is another spot where the United States played it soft. Trieste, an Itallan city, was torn from Italy and made a free territory. Italy was deprived of her African colonies. She was forced to pay heavy indemnities to Russia-and her satellites. Her Navy and Merchant Marine were taken away and her national defense reduced to a’ mere police force scarcely able to maintal internal peace. 3 Yet the United States has committed itself to deal lightly with Italy. Italy had purged herself of her Fascists. She had set up a democratic republic. 8he had turned on the German invaders. If the United States, Britain and France took these Italian reforms seriously, as they semed to do, then the 1947 treaty of peace was too harsh. If they did not, then the treaty was not harsh enough. Between now and Sept. 14, the, Italian colonies issue must be

settled by the Big Four—the United States, Britain, France and

Democrats on Capitol Hill in touch with dissidénts out in the cotititry are. talk Sen. Scott W. Lucas of Illinois for President and House Minority Leader Sam Rayburn of Texas for Vice President. versed, with Rep. Rayburn in the No. 1 place and Sen. Lucas in No. 2. In this there is no hope of victory. Repudiation of the President by his own party would be too big a handicap to overcame. The campaign would be comparable to that waged in 1924 by John W. Davis, who was nominated after the Democratic Party, in the Madison Square Garden convention: of that year, had all but destroyed itself over Al Smith, the Ku Klux Klan and the Catholic

Might Avert Dissolution

THE CANDIDATES would give a respectable imitation of a campaign, doing it as cheaply as sible since, naturally, large contributors would ot be flocking in to volunteer donations. way utter disaster, threatening dissolution of the party, would be averted. As the gloomy professionals cast up the score, that is about the limit

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs, Democrats May Unhorse Truman

. WASHINGTON, Mar. 27—President Truman and the advisers close to him are busy putting out public and private assurances that the man in the White House has no intention of removing himself from the political scéne by renouncing the Democratic nomination at Philadelphia. They say that he will stick to the end, come what may. But what is happening both here and out in the country makes it possible—yes, probable— that the decision will be taken out of his hdnds. The professional politicians are moving in to save what they can of the party organization, including their own claims in bankruptcy on what is left of * the Democratic machine. That is the real meaning of the talks that have gone forward quietly here and in New York and Chicago. Speculation turns on a respectable ticket that would best hold together what is left

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

it second event was the defection of Ala- next day 's two Senators, Lister Hill and John Sparkman. This was like a sudden lightning flash revealing the extent and the depth of the Southern

Sens. Hill and Sparkman are both liberals, THey had announced that they would support the President. But the groundswell of revolution back home made that impos-

This, plus the situation with respect to the delegates to the Democratic convention and the Democratic electors to be chosen in the Alabama primary. Of 28 candidates for electors to go to the electoral college and cast Alabama's 11 electoral votes in November, 22 had. pl they would not cast them for Harry 8. Thus if Sen. Hill, running for delegate to the Philadelphia _ convention, were pledged to Mr. Truman, he would be committed to a candidate whq could not receive the vote of his state.

Might Be Another Landon’

SURVEYING the gloomy -scene, the party's professionals realized that Mr. Truman might go down to a defeat as sweeping as that of Alf | Landon in 1936. GOP Candidate Landon carried only two states, Maine and Vermont. Jf the tide of Southern revolt continues at the present flood, Mr. Truman seems likely to lose all of the states south of the Mason and Dixon Line with. the exception of North Carolina and possibly Gov. Millard Caldwell of Florida has said that he will do everything he can to prevent Mr. Truman's nomination but, failing to prevent it, he will not lead a move to deprive Candidate Truman of the state's electoral vote. The Southern states would accept a LucasRayburn ticket. They would, almost any other Democrat than the present

Thus, by sidetracking Mr. Truman, the Democrats would carry the Solid South. They might pick up other scattered states, particularly if the Republicans’ go back to William McKinley for They might save congressional : seats in cities which would otherwise go down Two events brought about the grim fact-facing sessions of the past week. One was the outright reversal of the Palestine partition decision. That produced open revolt in New York and Chicago, where the Jewish vote is a vital factor.

FOREIGN POLICY . . . By William Philip Simms

The presidency is a powerful office in more ways than one. But whether the present President could head off such a move, if and when it takes final and definite form, is highly uncertain.

COPR. 1948 BY NEA T. NEC. CL TRYORY

"Her father runs a drugstore across the street, but he cut off her "ice cream—so she comes in here and hurts my business!"

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Russia. The time marks one year from the date of ratification of , the treaty. If they fail to agree, the matter is to be submitted to the United Nations assembly and the verdict will be final. A proposal by Britain, France and the United States now to return Libya, Eritrea and Italian Somaliland would have almost as much effect on the Italians as the U. 8. proposal to give them Trieste. Russia might object, but the assembly almost certainly would agree with the three Western powers. : Spain is badly needed to strengthen the position of the 18 nations in the European Recovery Program and regional defense pacts. Because Spain fought the Communists, Russia has led the opposition against her. But Russia's charge that Franco collaborated with Hitler, however, has lost its sting, for Russia from 1939 to 1941 was Hitler's most effective ally. So Washington is expected soon to take a more realistic view. .

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since he was a year old. One morning he had the rash on his face. I wrote a note to school explaining it. They sent him hom instructions fo take him to get a slip, which I did. The doctor examined the boy, gave me a slip that it was OK for him to return to school. He returned to school the

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school nurse sent him home, using the that he had a temperature. He had n perature. I checked him every hour. Since she did not believe my doctor I her to order a Board of Health doctor to and examine the boy. ye Now what I would like to know is “ when in the city of Indianapolis, has a sc nurse got more power than a doctor w you have to pay. I sure don’t have money to throw away.”

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Your Help Is Needed

By James 1. Snyder Your help is needed in the $1,300,000 yellow coupon trolley court fight. This rate case seems to have been based on estimates and on personalized accounting used to create a lot of red figures for the judges. i The precedents of the U, 8. Supreme Court are clear that facts, not personalized estimates, shall rule on the subject of depreciation and valuation. : The Attorney General of Indiana can appeal the case to the U. 8. Supreme Court. Mayor Feeney can persuade Attorney Gene eral Cleon. Foust to appeal to the U. 8. Supreme Court. : Mayor Feeney is trying to be a good Mayor. The City Council consistently refuses to act. Your pressure for the ratepayers and taxpayers is needed now. Contact Mayor Feeney | to appeal the yellow coupon rate case.

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; Nice Going By Bill Gloer I would like to express my appreciation of

the article by A. J. Schneider on the subject, “What is a Communist?’ The only thing Mr.

the Communist Party, as suggested by Harold E. Stassen. 1 shall carry a copy of Mr. Schneider's article and hand it to the bloke who says, “There must be some good things about communism.”

DEAR BOSS . ... By Daniel M. Kidney Hoosiers’ Record Poor On Margarine Bill

WASHINGTON, Mar. 27—Dear Boss . . . When Mama is kneading margarine to make it look like dollar-a-pound butters she can thank the following Hoosier Congressmen for helping to keep her in this*mess. ... Majority Leader Halleck and Reps. Grant, Gillie, Harness, Johnson, Landis, Wilson and Harvey. All aré Republicans. None has signed the discharge petition to bring the bills to the floor which would wipe out the federal penalty taxes on margarine. These include the 10 cents per pound tax for coloring it yellow— just as butter is colored. Only one Indiana Republican has signed. He is Rep. Edward A. Mitchell of Evansville. He did more than sign.” He fought vigorously for the bills, oné of which he authored himself. He carried the fight on to the House floor and into the House Agri culture Committee. But to no avail. He admitted . . “I'm actually ashamed of my party in this matter.”

‘Doc’ Gillie Likes Cows

A MEMBER of the House committee which voted not to Te port out the margarine bills is Rep. George W. Gillie, Ft. Wayne Republican. He is a veterinarian. Naturally he likes cows petig than soy beans. So when Ersal Walley, Ft. Wayne, president the Soy Bean Associafion, who wants the margarine taxes If a asked “Doc” Gillie to introduce a margarine tax-repealer he W turned down. thet When it came time to vote, Rep. Gillie voted with the 150 ‘i Republicans in the commitjee to put the margarine measure on ice. He later explained that he was number 15 in the poll and 8 didn't want to be the only Republican for the bill. One Demosta, joined them. But the other minority members of the commf 1 were for voting the margarine bills out. Cottonseed oil, as We as soy beans, are affected.

141 Have Signed Petition

FOLLOWING the committee failure, Rep. L. Mendel Rivers (D. 8. C.) filed a discharge petition. It needs 218 signatures bring the margarine bills to the House floor. d Rep. one have signed. Included from Indiana are Mr. Mitchell an Lis, Ray Madden, Gary Democrat. Rep. Louis Ludlow, Ingianape the only other Hoosier Democrat in the House, likely will a He makes it a policy to sign all discharge petitions on the gr0 he that committees should give popular bills a chance to reach House a for vote. tu MrilHalleck takes the opposite 2 e petitions. He says they interfere with the orderly procedure of the ‘House. - You can take your choice. ~~ J

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