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Bureau of Circulations. where, 1 i for the dipio. Price ‘n Marion County. 5 cents a copy; de- | I Seem to feel their gentle touch. mat’s cut-away pr ] lvered by carrier, 25¢ a wed. And in each sigh, each spoken word its vanished. E Mail rates in Indiana, $5 a year; all other I heard your voice and yet unheard, me ica Ia ‘political fickle. | BOYS’ Hi states, U. S. possessions, Canada and Mexico, I feel it in my heart, my soul : Se acs an of Jat i itn tt : $1.10 a month. Telephone RI ley 5551. | Like billows on the sea that roll partition of Th : the. on Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Woy Against the crags and then to death. This turn-about not only has d 136) E Bes : : : | I hear it in each trembling breath Jewry, but has shocked all freedom-loving i ( SE peoples. Its result will be that never £ = ’ . The warm, soft winds may whisper—oh, T again | oo No Showdown Abroad Till My dearest, I have loved you 50; will the word of the U.S. be accepted without | he And, yet, I will find thee, I know teastyation.. sinplies the. : = a e—deep in th t, : ning of We Have One at Home ae te ld sion. of wi the 0% pers | | QNCE again John L. Lewis is forcing the issue. Some- eo that of the U. Fi of infanticide | : ti i thi : 0 4 When you finish paying the grocer, butch- has the U.S. begun the necrosis of = | tt ——— this Seems, to be it ur country must de er, milkman and the rent, you understand hy Nations by its sh. : : . termine whether he is bigger than the government. why “you can’t take it with you.” Holy Land partition? 5 15) PLAI Coal is tae most fundamental raw material. Our whole $ 4 aE becauss of: | ( i i ONE: Fear of permitting Russians on Holy JACK business system, our jobs and our national safety depend WHEN A LADY BUYS A HAT LE perinitting Russiang on Holy 9.95.1 on it. When a lady buys a hat, sion recommendations for ‘an international (18) 0 Coal has fallen under a one-man monopoly. Mr. Lewis She doesn’t want this, army to patrol and enforce the partition after wm : | Or she doesn’t want that, ps Witish depart May 15? = | alone eth hall have it, and under what | le can say wh er we s ve 1i, a Fw She claims she wants one TWO: Hopelesshess. in the 2h tof (16) SPRI conditions and at what price. : wis 3 big 704 fusthier “i Jewish and Azabias Jostitity with Dartition? e Fei 3 1 i ut when 8 1s shown er, : a Ameri ; reign : . He has shown, time and again during both war and She doesn't know whether policy devoid of any military and ‘economig scene peace, that he intends to use his monopoly as he alone sees | She wants a black one, uniformity? : ; y (21) ZIP F fit. He places his own will above public health and safety, or 3 White ue a Xe u R: or, fear of impairing its contracts oath and above national security. He has brow-beaten and I have watching, , Arabias oll?’ mri ew Loos a humiliated this nation over and over again, and made it When a lady buys a. hat. toward Palestine? Trusteeship, it work? | , JELINE BX Recent history of British efforts in Palestine bow to his dictates. 5: Fr : s o JACQUELINE KNOX. show it will not. ted N tin Co Now, in a time of crisis, Mr. Lewis is again acting as a When 4 took applies for u job dnd Suds hist ui itis un ae Stout Phlesti . S wii (115) ¢ one-man supreme court to overrule Congress and the | they've just hired one, the thing to do is call r aly ry will be an attempt, and a fight President. ¢ . Jin the uexs aay. s & seems imminent. Another round of Russ-U.S§, iy It is a strange thing that the best example of how bad EGALITE distor Jeema Jivvanle. iy ‘polot 10 2 | monopoly can be, should be furnished by a union leader. Love loophale in its proposal to revert to 3 Jeghl | $15 For nobody has been so loud in warning against monopo- Thou art“Mona Lisa trustoeship, oF, mandate I rn nr BR Lemons lies, and in insisting on ever stronger laws to prevent them, 1 hoatnate; coneiaer that the United Nations was not a ‘as have the unions. Thou art Troy’ world government and that the assembly does, . ‘ y's own Helen, ate, * But the anti-trust laws do not apply to unions. It was So epicurean; Bot generally have the Power 10 1¢gislat e: wi 1 never suspected when they passed that the perfect flower- Lo patia’s artistry : that time, and for some reason, rd U.8 ing of monopoly would come through a union. | Dwarfs beside thee; - 7 a fenced tuat fhe United No el, that © Anklets Under that exemption Mr. Lewis has gained absolute | I ore thac.of Be. —., : Palestine was a former League member, hence i i TI leg . . ternational respansibility. control over the labor of 400,000 coal miners—virtually all SULT would score theo. NATIONAL AFFA IRS By Marquis Childs a jolot. 1 gustional Tespuibiiny, rvoerican the coal diggers in. the United States. He runs them ~—DR. H. LaATELLE* GREGORY. ; . ss 9. . reasoning was then, politically their reasoning Girls through a union from which democracy long ago vanished. > oo ® °, 0 today in deserting partition for trusteeship is The United Mine Workers makes some pretenses of slf- | Sef (J moms thoce aro more gain Becomes Political Goat | mie, , vs su mom our 3 : ! , ‘who play j , eV tical & rule—actually Lewis decides everything of importance. bridge. WASHINGTON, Mar. 31—This is the begin- Consequently the weary round is repeated. | is still the ingens of the world Bolities) stage. Not that the miners are unwilling captives. They / AM * ning of the season of political conversion. You The same old testimony and hy same old What do my hh y ATTENT follow him with fanatical loyalty. He has taught them hear the most surprising things from the most criticisms are dragged up again. e top man- A fo i ; ya ly th is 7 ITY surprising people. 2 agement of TVA must spend weeks replying to Thanks to Ffficient Police to believe that he alone stands between them and persecu There is one cherished flower Take Sen. Tom Stewart of Tennessee, for ex- these stale charges, taking time and resources nelly og I St. St. City. tion and abuse. “ So he need only nod and they follow An my Sanien of friends, ample. The Senator has come out in favor of the that should be spent in constructive effort. By Robert L. Todd, 424 E. St. Clair Gi i £ 8 ns | Fagranee i scattered Tennessee Valley Authority. What makes this The achievements of TVA cannot be obscured | ~~ ,, open letter to Chief of Police Edward : There ha bee outright violation of the y Yen a, so remarkable is that for years Sen. Stewart has by the smear technique. With bad news about: | p,q 5 may have n no outrig * Into thoughts that are priceless followed the lead of his colleague. from Ten- floods from other parts of the country, the New On the evening of the 1748 day of ¥e ary labor law in the strike which followed his latest nod. There Bathed in memory's dew, nessee, Sen. Kenneth McKellar, who devotes what York Times had this to say in a recent editorial: | tne owner of the apartment n g A Cen probably was no violation of contract. For only a year It was planted and cared for little energy he has left at the age of 79 to Latest reports on the high water in the Ten- | y reside, fell from approximgtely aight 1 : In m d . rr mpai f snipi hd nessee Valley again confirm the efficiency of der in the rear of my partment 8 g y garden . . . by you! carrying on his long campaign of sniping a a lads ago he forced on the U. 8S. Steel Corp. and the Pitts- —ANNA E. YOUNG sabotage against one of the most successful TVA'S system of tributary and main-river dams. | pis head on the s\dewalk 3 one Pear. ib rod purgh Consolidation Coal Co.—and through them on the * @ ' : institutions of government. The great reservoirs of Norris, Cherokee, Doug- I called the police a : gh industry tract which iia? that miners 1s hard: to look * There is SL EoveIay for Sen. Stewart's con- las, Fontana Awmiawassee, on the tributary | the accident. By the time I had walks out db BOYS’ SH( entire coal ga tn : no ood Job Tradl hard Wot soul ehogt 8 | version. He is up for re-election this year and Streams, took all the water that was poured into | my front door to direct your ley door T5 yards need work only when “able and willing. k ¥ou ol 8 45.8 good Jub unless it seems likely that he will be defeated. Ed them and had plenty of room left. By this means | two squads had reached the al CY ‘hem to (9) yal : trac rum the flood crest at Chattanooga was cut 10 feet, away and by the sia I else than a a Dleted his gy : re a ee et ora with an estimated saving of 6 million.” the scene the ambulance had Sriived othe (139) FAN monopoly. 3 P : ya ercy. MEALTIME lo abandon Sen. Stewart because he had lost Flood Control Not on Books a he, EE to you our j thanks : SHIR : ’ a... . ’ “ ’ 4 rer keno ; ; My infant has the most is vote-getting appeal. “Boss” Crump tapped ; ervice. Also to Sgt. ‘WHAT, THEN, can America do? We shall soon see. Extraordinary taste, a new man-—-Judge John Mitchell—to be the ONE OF the direct benefits, then, is flood con- op 4 EE Ie Officer Jefferson of seen . This government, says. the Constitution, was formed. He muddles ordinary food Dene ary oh the Cramp yore a Sen. Stevan trol. The savings do not show up in TVA’'s ws Car 16 and to Forest Frieby the city ame (48) SLF : ce, Into quite a ragout paste. e had nothing to lose and a lot to galn pooks, which are forever being picked and pulled driver for their courteous service. SWE. to “establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide in coming out for. TVA. : gp p bulance driv or y ‘ . . . , is of many criticisms, accep | for the common defense, promote the general welfare. Spinach and Bis eaftots Fortunately for the voters of Tennessee, how- Ma those who would And some bookkeeping der <7 y ; (64) SOIL Lewi pe: : ever, a vigorous younger candidate is also in . o> & @ SHIR Mr. s imperils them all.” We do not profess to He prefers vegetables mixed the race this time. Rep. Estes Kefauver has con-® A second direct benefit is low-cost power in Fis wigs know his reasons. Sometimes he seems to be suffering In his own kind of stew. sistently upheld the independence and intégrity quantity. Without TVA power, the aluminum to | Good fo Indiana ( 6) SPRI from the egomania that comes to men who rise to positions To measure up to demands of the agency that has meant so much to the build 50,000 airplanes a year during the war N. Ospitol. 18, © ' By A. B. Brown, 1116 N. i i Is reall ite a feat; valley of the Tennessee. He is now conducting could never have been produced. If TVA had w of vast power. Sometimes he seems to be suffering from Li ay ae re) the kind of intensive crossroads, counfry-store not been built, the war might have lasted two The ewiogy by La OE a persecution complex, as indicated in Monday's statement I entertain as he eats. campaign that sometimes prevails over the forces or three years longer. ; Jenner embodic I ef the most touching 1 CAMERA | that one member of the President's fact-finding board had ~MARCELLINE BRUCKER. of reaction and bossism. These are demanstratile fasts, is te Job a ead : ; (2) 2 3 ope . . y ded by reaction es, : willing (yea, anxious CRA] sought to “harass and persecute his union and this 0 Politics Still Fights TVA Jicians, goa The Senator seems SO BLY, v ; : the base of this monumental achievement. al aspirations and ambi writer.” sor ihise Sraller days Now cal You expert 3 THE AMAZING thing is that politics should The other day Presidential Candidate Harold Be Fee ad Pl living sacrifice W orig. Whatever the basis of his astounding arrogance, it 4 @ stil seek to Underming the van It Je a sign Stassen felt compelled, a fe Sourde of Soshing upon the altar of public service it's really (1) KOD. : : of the savage face of reaction turned against Nebraska's primary vote, to throw off on : : orig. challenges the authority and power of our government. It FOSTER'S FOLLIES any and all social advance. TVA idea and oppose a Missouri Valley Au- pethelis I stop (for 10 seconds) to consider Bf ‘ g is clear there must be a showdown in the strange case of (NEWARK, N. J.—Tax Consultant Held as Sen. McKellar, of course, is not surprising. thority. He warned against the dangers of fed- | ,.. ,..,rq of public service so far rendered to (1) KEY : i WwW not risk any showdown Evader.” He will go on to the end paying off his grudge eral control. Indiana and the nation I shudder to th lens, Mr. Lewis now. e cannot r y sho a ) p , we ol : is finished against an institution that McKellarism and In so doing he ignored another of TVA'S | pare the State of Indiana might well ri (2) EXT till that one is . This news might have saved us worry, Crumpism could not convert to their own selfish achievements. That is to put control ir an | nat the “State of the Union” might be at | ail ane our life much more sublime, uses. His present goal is to hamstring TVA in autonomous board situated in the region and | moment if Mr. Jenner had been selfish saoush orig. ’ . bili . a ro sav Sl such a way that it could not carry on an effi- tied directly into the interests of the region. to have withheld us services and “hidden " > cient business operation on an annual basis. TVA’s liaison office in Washington has hardly a light under a bushe me Baruch b Economic Mo ! ization For ’'tis said that this man’s system . Sen. McKellar would tie the agency with red dozen Yee ' tial v ia 5 1 Snienal no Soul LI uy le SLIPPER I ERNA . B H pri ses a broader-based de- Was much simpler than you think, tape to bureaucratic Washington and the Con- Facts are facts even in a political year. Senator wo J ] RD M ARUC 2 propo : All the tax collectors missed him— gress. What is astonishing is that the Repub- deserves something better than this unending to serve as President of the United Be ' [— fense program. In his recent testimony before the He used disappearing ink. lican majority sanctions this effort. campaign of harassment. Fellow Hoosiers; Ain't God good to Indiana’ (188) Senate Armed Services Committee he supported the Tru- - | man request for prompt enactment of Universal Military I!" WASHINGTON ... By Peter Edson Side Glances—By Galbraith FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By Parker La Moore i Training and the draft. But he would add an industrial | ° ° ° i . e 5 U i in S and economic mobilization law for quick use when needed. Survey Gives i ngertip Ww) — R i g . 0 We agree. Military security without economic pre- : ) ' ® ® ° ; ® . paredness is a delusion. Moreover, the draft and rearma- P } } EB | It | Pv ment if piled on top of the heavy foreign-aid load could IC ure oO usSiness n a ian romises by vie WU WOMEN’ i i i i i WASHINGTON, Mar. 31—A qui . ROME, Mar. 31—The question most frequ 8 create disastrous inflationary strains here unless effective ar. 31—A quick picture of U. S. business | | fore ME, Mar. ST Oe auniam shown a steady growth: EN’S

conditions is revealed in a mew series of some 30 charts and | supporting statistical tables prepared by the President's Council of Economic Advisers. First of the series, ready Apr. 1, will be issued under the title, “Economic Indicators.” : It has a strictly limited circulation. Only 100 copies of the first issue are being printed. Copy number one will go to the President's desk. * The Council's intention is to revise the charts monthly. In January and June the charts will be issued as part of the President's semi-annual report on economic conditions. The other 10 months of the year, “Economic Indicators” will be issued seperately. .

Indicates Still Expanding Economy

controls were available. living on American relief and. The chaos and waste were bad enough when we were caught without economic preparedness by. World War II But it would be far worse now. Then there were idle plants and men to carry part of the extra load, while now there, is none. As Mr. Baruch points out: “Were war to burst upon 'us, the civilian economy would have to be drastically cur: tailed. There is no slack today in materials, factories, food, labor, prices, in anything. Unless the government

in this: country which has been getting nothing from Russia? I have devoted several weeks to the answer, or answers. In 1946, when the Italians voted on the question of restora tion of the monarchy, the vote was roughly 10 million for the monarchy and 12 million for the republic.’ But that was at a when the monarchial idea was at its lowest ebb. And included among the supporters of a Republican govern* ment were the Communists and Left-Wing Sorialists. These ree garded a republic as a step toward their goal of a proletarian dictatorship. : So, the young Italian republic today must look to former monarchists and Fascists for support in its efforts to sustai

were able to act quickly, with full mobilization powers, the confusion and inflationary havoc of sudden and full rearmament would be ghastly.”

WHAT THE FIRST set of charts reveals factually is a still expanding economy. Consumer prices—the cost of living index— are still going up. Wholesale prices leveled off in February. Personal income of individuals is approaching an all-time high of over $210 billion. Installment buying, charge accounts

itself against the mounting challenge of communism. -

Speak of ‘Good Old Days’ MOREOVER, in so doing, its administrative leaders cann wage an all-out fight against totalitarianism lest they offe

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il . YE ad : t would pre This industrial mobilization system would include Pri | and other consumer credits have risen above $13 billion. This | : thousands of Ae OO oy ib 2 actually form of RAYON ority, allocation and rationing powers, taxation to take | is 50 per cent above a year ago, a third greater than prewar. ID Ho Bow y ye : : ndustrial production has been rising since January, 1947, to : y a ite- orker, when Trin profits out of war, stockpiling of strategic materials, labor an index number above 100, as compared With 100 tr 1939 and Almost so} rte slate histian or white Sonar i er oi” __and professional pools, standby war plants, decentraliza- | 247 in November, 1943. a CS te good Old days on time and ‘AN tion of factories, constant current surveys and balance Other charts cover production in ‘various industries, en, life and property were 7 | ’ : expenditures for new plants and equipment, strikes and lockouts the children were in school: ms to sheets of economic assets and commitments, and ceilings | pank deposits, purchasing power, corporate profits, consumer Representative goverment, 52 Americans know it, se€ RB ——— over wages as well as rents ang prices to prevent inflation. | income and spending, savings, average earnings, stock prices, have relatively little popular Suppor. t is its unsound great weakness of the present governmen . Of course there will be objections from pressure Sash Jar {neni prices received and paid by farmers and the economic base, which is semi-feudalist in character. Te (100) PLA . : ht . o groups. Business does not like ceilings on profits, farmers tunate few live in luxury while the vast majority know TICC don’t want them on prices and labor fears control of jobs | Not the Most Exclusive . erty. ’ : - § (40) NVI tno 1° IN SPITE of the limited edition, this is not the most extlusive : -31 4 Reds Promise Plen for All PET and wages. Some protest that these controls would vio COPR. 1948 BY NEA WE. T. M. REQ. U. 8. PAT. OFF. 3 lat £ t . N d Introd i of the government's publications. That honor is reserved for a AGAINST “more of the same” the Communists promis Cone ale our iree-en erprise Sys BI and introqauce po ice state series of hand-mhde colored charts called “The Budget In i kind of figured that if they didnt expect us to play hooky once “plenty for all.” Consequently our appeal has lost much of methods, Mr. Baruch says: “Such people value freedom | Operation.” Only six copies of this work are in existence. in a while, why would they have a truant officer?" magic. Com : low indent $0 bs unwilling ‘to actept the temporary Te |" or 2% FXeeident kseps sony number on in His top desk grwer, = Moreover, the working classes are told repeatedly bv COU. If GIFT SHO ; ys er copies are held by Budge or James E. Webb, Counc . izers that American aid will ' straints and disciplines necessary to preserve freedom in | of Economics Advisers Chairman Edwin G. Nourse, Treasury Sec- LITTLE QUOTES From Big People an they vote. Some wishful-thinking Italians undoubl (50) FIG these critical times.” : pea uvdens ASUng Chairman Mattiner 8. Eocles. of: Federal One of our great national weaknesses is that we don’t rely | edly believe that. 1s little an honest rami There is not much doubt that we shall have this in- The sixth copy is a “floater.” Charts in the book are revised | °% oUF Professional people. Folks who paow 2 one shout > ie oE ing his) tpisasant fast, ee Fiviloged in answef sods dustrial mobilization and more, if war comes. The ques- monthly. While one copy is being brought up to date the floater subject mand : oe dard Judge~~Dr, wal > nao § to the unqualified Communist promise of abundance. Moreo?fy ( 8 ) LAR tion. is whether ‘we prepare the bi hile there js | *® *ubstituted so no holder will ever be without his book, recor, bureau go nears. the Communists stress the good will that will flow from frie prepar e plans now, while there is When Council of Economic Advisers was created year and a $2» neighbors to the north and east. : orig. time, half ago, it found a need for condensing the important figures | When you lock the doors of the laboratory you are ltkely The Communist organizers b:gan to build their politics! (1 lot) GI Preparedness now not only can save us later waste, | from the mountains and mazes of government statistics. In the | lock out more than you lock in.—Dr. Charles F. Kettering, | 4; 0s among the working classes the moment peace Was C0 : . Ste, | president's January and June Economic Reports to Congress a | General Motors Co. clared and have been everlastingly at it. : : a k ancy and possible defeat, it may save us from war. | number of supporting tables were included. 9-9 9, Against this backlog of three years of solid campaigning. out hors | be less inclined to war if our vastly superior The trouble was that these data were made available only The U. 8. position (on Palestine) is dictated by ofl imperial- | Jast-minute appeals may be too late and too lacking in promi ers, organized. ay “7 | twice a year. The need was for quick monthly summaries. Out | ism and oil politics. A second Munich is under way.—Henry | and drama to impress the highly imaginative Italians. They wet “rat

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