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IF WISHES. WERE HORSES
If wishes were horses, they tell me, Then every beggar would ride. : If turnips were watches, as the old saying goes, Everyone could wear one by his side.
If all the wishes of a life time, All the yearnings could ever come true Our days would be filled and Each hour bringing peace and joy anew.
Our Little Red Riding Hood .
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Stalin Threatens Berlin .
ITHER Stalin is trying to start a war, or his effort to kick the Western Allies out of Berlin is bluff. Which it is nobody outside the Kremlin can know for sure. But
either way the situation is exceedingly dangerous, because even bluffing can lead to shooting. : Our guess, which isn’t worth much, is that Stalin is not ready to shoot it out. Victory in a bloodless battle of Berlin, in which American and British and French forces gre withdrawn to avoid trouble, is probably what he is after. That would be a decisive gain for Stalin, an incalculable loss for us. It would give him a leg up on all Germany. For Berlin in ruins is still the economic and communications center and potential political and military capital of the country, and is so recognized by all Germans. It would make our continued occupation of Western Germany far more difficult, perhaps impossible, for both political and military reasons. To the rest of Europe, Berlin is the symbol of the German nation and the seat of control. Voluntary American withdrawal would be interpreted by European governments and peoples as evidence that the United States will retreat from the entire continent whenever Stalin applies pressure. : . ’ This fear, that we shall run out on Western Europeans and leave them to their fate, could paralyze the great middle groups of Italy and France which oppose communism but are too weak to fight alone. It probably would enable the Reds to take over Italy, already teetering in the balance, and possibly France also. » by . & & » - OUR GOVERNMENT and London and Paris are only too aware of this. They kiow the stakes in this Berlin showdown as well as Stalin. So they are not in a mood to be bluffed. But that does not mean that we are certain to hold our part of Berlin, Our position there is precarious. We have all the right on our side but Stalin has the heavy battalions. So if it comes to a military battle, Stalin is Morally we are in the right because the Russians would not have even a zone in Berlin, much less their area west of Berlin, had we not invited them in. Before the armistice, United States troops on the point of taking Berlin were stopped on Washington's orders to allow the Russians to enter the city. Legally we are in the right because the Four-Power occupation of Berlin, and the transit corridors to-the American and British zones of West Germany now blocked by Russia, are guaranteed by Stalin's agreement. i « » ! ® u » :
IF STALIN breaks that agreement as now threatened,
nothing he has pledged in the past or ever may sign in the future will be of any value whatever, That is what the
Western Allies intend to find out now.
Of course if Stalin starts shooting he has a good "hance of taking Berlin. Our troops and those of our Allies there are only token forces, isolated and surrounded by a huge Red army. They can be driven out by superior
But life is not like that we find, Bitterness and
But this I know if I keep straight on life's pathway Be true to the ideals I know to be right For me there will be sweet contentment A peaceful sunset and then a good night. - * =MARY XE. HUGHES.
In There are approximately 100,000,000 sheep ustralia. mnia must be practically unknown there. »
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BRIGHT JEWELS
When hours are tipped with golden thought They hold bright jewels in their hands, Vain, idol griefs come swift to naught When hours are tipped with golden thought.
Life's weave is so divinely wrought It lifts the soul to God's own lands; ‘When hours are tipped with golden thoughts They hold bright jewels in their hands.
~ELSIE PEARL OLIVER. * . Oo
A golf teacher says the chin is 235 per cent of golf. With some players we know it's nearer 50 per tent.
¢ ¢ A GAUGE FOR SPRING
I sniff the air for hints of Spring for weeks And eye the slow-unfolding buds, and when The robin’'s nestlings tilt their open beaks And young bird language fills the breeze again When thunder squalls stitch rain on biased lines To applique the crocus on my lawn I wish I might be sure of Nature's signs— That Spring is surely here and Winter gone, But when Anne starts to skip the rope, and Bill Gets out his marbles for a game, and kite Strings hem the sky above the greening hill, I know that they have gauged the season
right. I used to think of Spring as vernal joys °
But now I measure it 1s and boys. MOORE. ® 6 9 ‘ This coming summertime will be what school will be out for and mother will be in for. aii + . @ z AWAKENING I never dreamed that spring Could be so desolate— ‘Nor flowers and ant buds
Might bloom insatiate.
I'd always thought that April, and roseate June Were months of laughing joy, With every night a gay new moon. _ ==DR, H. LATELLE GREGORY. st hadi TY Be $ % A gs uilng ag the gordon rue. up : & ¥ @» $
'‘TERRY' (Who Is Three)
Terry has a new brown suit, Sweater, sox, and shoes, to boot; Shirt and sox of suhny yellow, Oh, he's a handsome little fellow.
In his nice new suit of brown He's the happiest boy in town. Hair of red, eyes so BY , your heart away.
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . .
By Marquis Childs :
Little. Reality in MacArthur Drive
MADISON, Wis,, Apr. 2—When you ask why Gen. Douglas MacArthur's presidential candidacy has taken hold here in Wisconsin, you get a wide variety of answers. One obvious reason is that he’ is claimed as a native son, That sentimental ap-
peal is heralded on billboards throughout the state. But his popular appeal is more than that. It seems to come out of the desire for a strong man, for a leader who is above politics. It is part of what, for lack of a better name, might be called
the generalissimo jitters that seems to have
shaken the country. One sympton is a kind of unhappy fatalism—a fear that war with Russia is coming and that therefore we had better have a general in the White House. This is a danger signal, it seems to me—a warning of the sad state to . which our
Gen. MacArthur's supporters are trading heavily on this fatalism. They talk of the superduper power of their hero both as military man and administrator. In faraway Tokyo, Gen. MacArthur can scarcely know what they are claiming in his name, It is only fair to assume that he would be startled and shocked by some of the lurid
The oddest collection of individuals turfi up in the MacArthur camp, inclu {solationists, reactionaries, shrewd politicians, idealists and those on the political fringes who skirt close to fascism, The list of contributors published here the other day included Gen. Robert E. Wood of Chicago, former head of America First, who gave $1350. Frank Gannett, Rochester, N, Y., publisher, was down for $3000.
Ex-Gov. La Follette a Backer
A. W. DILLING, divorced husband of Elizabeth Dilling of “Red Network” notoriety, was down for $100. A contributor named Robert Harriss,
inherent in Gen. MacArthur's personality, his | -
genius, his brilliance, Having served on Gen. MacArthur's staff through the ordeal of the war, Mr. La Follette's passion could be put down to simple hero worship.
But those with long memories recall that he has
always been attracted by power and the spectacular trappings of power. It was just 10 years ago that Mr. La Follette staged a giant rally in Madison to launch, with gaudy flourishes, a new national party that seemed to many to be patterned after the mass Fascist parties of Europe. > Not only Phil, as he is known throughout the state, but his son, Robert M. La Follette III, is active for Gen. MacArthur. The latter spoke recently at a forum at the University of Wisconsin, where a Veterans-Against-MacArthur Club is saia to have 400 members. Bob the Third, himself a Pacific veteran, served under MacArthur in Japan several months.
Ex-Dewey Man on Bandwagon
ANOTHER MacARTHUR apostle is Fred R. Zimmerman, Wisconsin secretary of state and a potent vote-getter. Mr. Zimmerman, who has undergone many political transformations.in his career, ran in '40 and '44 as a delegate for Thomas E., Dewey and led the ticket, ; Mr, Zimmerman talks about the need to kee a Christian America and he champions Gen. MacArthur against communism. This last is a familiar line. Carl Flom, a MacArthur delegate candidate, hailed the general as the “super-military genius” to rally America’s 70,000,000 Christians against communism. A great deal of this MacArthur talk seems
utterly divorced from the realities of our time. The?
myth-making process that comes at the end of every war enters in here. Gen. MacArthur is one of our great generals. No one questions that. But to compare the occupa-
~ Satan's ‘Cunning Lie" By G. W. Paschall, River Avenue Baptist ‘Church Pastor, 734 8. Shepard, City. We notice Thelma's article, Steam,” commending the article by P. C. B.” Thelma says liquor or a glass or beer won't hurt
anyone. We would like to ask if it ever helped anyone.
The Farmer Pays Mrs. N. F. M.,, Bridgeport, Ind. This is in answer to Mrs. George Baker's comment on who's to blame for high prices. I'm a farmer's wife and if she can show me one farmer in the United States who sets the prices on what he sells,. I'll eat her hat.
We feed our stock, milk cows and work farmers buy
what prics some city licker says thay gis, -
We ean’t even shop around bidder. The price is set on the grain market, Also when we buy cars, furniture, clothing, ete, we have to pay the same price as you do. It yO these everything would go down. The farmer is the only business there is that has to buy everything he uses for his business at retail prices and he has to sell eve he raises at wholesale prices. At present how much capital do you think it takes to and operate an 80-acre farm. The most im tant thing to you is your food raised by underpaid farmer. he
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645,000. Robert Wyal Indiana State tion, his wife, a Republican n Legislature, N Comb, Terre Hilda Mehling here lobbying sage. Miss M of the Indian Association, 2 represents the division of thi tion Associatic in teachers f state to boost Hearings -on were held by mittee ugder of Rep. Edwar 0.) last April. committee rep in favor of its that time CI Hartley (R. N. mittee has Kk pigeonholed. | ceived the gre powerful . GO! mittee in the Majority Lead: leck (R. Ind.) Mr. Landis se thinks that it
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. And a smile that » It : down for $1000, is presumed here to be the New ion of Japan with the occupation of Germany and Vote on force. But that would be only the beginning—not the end. Goes to Sunday School on Sunday, York cotton broker who was at one time an to say that Gen. MacArthur has mastered the By G. F. Lee, 4050 Cornelius Ave. City. A ddiibezate Russian military sttack on American and | Wants 1 60 10 schoo] OB Mods. active backer of Father Coughlin = could agreed terms of occupation. the Russians were | Instead of putting the “fast time" problem Allied troops in Berlin would be an act of war. A world | Jif Jwelh [0 Satie 0 Keo not be reached. At his office in New York I was never admitted to Japan, In Korea, part of Gen. | in the hands of a minority, why not have & STORE war might be postponed, but not long. . told he was for Gen. MacArthur, but they could MacArthur's command, they cause as much trou- public vote? bether they want it a . Dear little boy, so innocent, not verify whether he had made the contribution. ble as they do in Germany. © Let the people decide whether . ts : : On growing older so intent, One of the general's most ardent followers, and MacArthyr may win a majority of the Repub- | After all, it is their issue. Share wore “ Just be a baby, while you can, a candidate for delegate-at-large on the Mac- lican delegates in the Wisconsin primaty. That will This was done some years ago. wae Old Masters at |¥) For all too soon el be a man, Arthur slate in Wisconsin, is former Ga, Fhiriy PF give Nis Prasiqarial bob 4 ig Noipsts, aa he only a SE the system n 3 : : «=-MARY R. WHITE, 854 N. Sherman Dr. La Follette. Mr. La Follette talks about the power wills ave a long way to go for the nomination. e major . JNDIANA University has announced a month's showing ; : "of Old Masters from the Metropolitan Art Museum of |IN WASHINGTON . .. By Peter Edson Side Glances—By Galbraith FOREIGN AFFAIRS , ... By Parker La Moore : New York. The exhibit will extend from Apr. 18 to May : ® ® 15." It is free to the public. w A A | hry tant How U. S Butt These original earpiece from the Renaissance w wa e por an 0 : Ya an rirain Period are valued at $1,257,000, and that may impress a | C Ri Ww | i | ol Ww ; It | few of us. But most of us will derive greater pease (IN COSHA RIC Revolt elped Reds In lraly | from tanlng n the presence of these masters nd from | re po Fs Avil vt Bruins rt Bi 1 FUE, Apr. Comm, mens Ta which 7 8 Elory they til-about the pe WHS LAY Weis WASHINGTON, Apr. 2—In the larger world crises caused by in its infancy by two Allied agencies—the psychological warfare painted. : Soviet Russian aggression against Western Europe, the Middle branches of the British-American forces and UN . ” The University has thoughtfully added to the exhibit | East and Eastern Asia, the little, two-bit revolution in Costa Rica The psychological warfare branches, at least, were operating i» such other fitting attractions as Percy Grainger with the —just up the Central American isthmus from Panama—has been on the theory that fascism most easily could be destroyed by 8 ! y 8 pretty generally ignored. There is a tendency to laugh it off as couraging communism, which was regarded as its an oH University Band, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a con- | Just another LatiAmarioen + Some Spare, uppsval But | there As an illustration of how this policy operated. thers ga hi 4 : are some new Communis s Cos can a , &C distribution of newsprint to newly organ 4 vocation address by the Rev. Ralph W. Sockman of cording to reports available in Washington. Monarchist daily was given paper for 10,000 copies a day. Unita, / Christ Church in New York City, two performances by | | U. 8. Ambassador Nathaniel P. Davis has something extra the Communist organ, got enough for ISON Solas ally. we i i special to watch in the Costa Rican capital of San Jose. For if today is leading the fight for the Comm ! ron . the Metropolitan Opera Company and the University the pattern of the Costa Rican election revolt spreads to other y z : - Spring Music Festival. Latin-American republics, there may be trouble ahead. Already Uncle Sam Put Up Mone We urge that every Hoosier who possibly can do it | & Peruvian diplomat has referred to Costa Rica as “the Czecho- P certain leftist . . . . . . I the W H » - ITALIAN OBSERVERS credit this program to A to visit this exhibit with the full promise that it will be an | * availa ae Bes emusp a the four-year presidential British officials who Same to Italy rom Altera early in the occu : n ation. Uncle Sam of course put u hn esperiouee of 3 Mistire. Tr Bg a ne op Ct ore PRR, smributd. ta it by disebuing rte tor urs parties joined as a National Unionist coalition, Ttaly through iy Agticuitaral a a mn were Sad Performance . = ||’Rresident Can't Succeed Self taking over key omons I Ahan. works Which today Profe OVERNMENT by law is the only kind of government OPPOSING HIM was Dr. Rafael Calderon Guardia, He had seriously threatens the success of the Marshall Plan dates from reat : . . been president in 1940-44. But since a president can't succeed that time hii that can keep secure the rights and liberties of citi- | himself in Costa Rica, Calderon Guardia had dropped out for Many Italian industrialists who had been faithful servant : i { four years. In 1948 he was running for his second term as i {ions to the Communis v ~2o08 When any group fails Io exercise the. restraints candidate for the government National Republican Party. ot Mu gio La gg Meanwhile the~ "Scot ‘Which the laws impose and violates the rights of any This National Republican Party had first come into power on practical and realistic Communist leaders who had returned to ireah eitizen, and when Fesponsible government officials fail to & Mattorm ra el an A oe. Italy from long exile in Moscow took over the lower layers of, arrest and pais the Viclstoss then the rights of all citi- organized into the Vanguardia Popular, or Popular Front. Though Sapeiam by simply blanketing them into the : Zens are placed in jeoparay. y this Popular Front has formerly had only five seats in the Costa ’ : : * unio yo Rican Congress, that has been enough to give the Republicans a This is in comment on what happened Tuesday night | prt, REE He on, Dower. Mussolini Made It Easy i loath in Columbus, O., where a crowd of 1000 milled around in ] here bad beet Sharges of, graft against le combination. | | : ING. 7. M. REQ. U. 8. PAT. OFF. /4.2 0 MUSSOLINI himself had Rade Ine tansition easy who 73 mmuni n the February elections Mr. Ulate defeated Calderon Guardi re : Ls : : e later days of fascism ntrodu program of app! feo of She home of Bloeal Communist leader. Rocks rn by 10,000 ary roughly 55,000 to 45,000. on Guardia | vshe's awful nice, but | think a guy ought to stick to one girl—and | socialism. er it, 51.per cent of the stock in industrial gone Junio thrown breaking windows and ‘about 30 young van Every adult male in Costa Rica is required to vote. He gets Betty's folks always have ice cream in their deep freezer!" cerns was taken over by the state, with eominitiace . Te. ole entered the home and wrecked its furnishings. Personal Anes 2 he doesn 4 There Yas 8 New Sitction jaw iy forse this set w 1s pave a Jorge Soles In bo io an Rion ss ) , not all the voters got registered. e num- committees uscovi injury was averted apparently only because the Commu: | {or"vas less than 5000. It was at first believed that the two | Bromus, Er Victor Manuel a Ce ae Neon] Now they are being promised complete control over manage: nist, his wife and year-old daughter happened not to be at | parties had suffered about equally from this mishap. wee oe: Zlominent hart Ib A hogan: onal ment when the Communists take over. at proposes home. Police appeared on the scene twice but did nothing Charge Fraud in Election promise Settlement. that would have called for a new election. ate Communisl PAO ae distribution of Jarge " more than disperse the crowds. There were no arrests. \ ut the Popular Front kept.things stirred up. ¥ to furnish cred The £ pes the Co ist de hi If 1 DR. CALDERON GUARDIA, therefore, at first declared that On the day after Congress annulled the election, Ulate was Jand-holiings Smoke a Jasmers, slate Pp that has e fact that the Communist made himself personally | the election had been honest and conceded his defeat. Several | found hiding in San Jose. He was seized and thrown into jail | perc wer SIWEOOR SIC 7% of the nation's farmers are tenants. objectionable to his community is no defense for this out- Sate pater Je Shangey nis ing. The general belief is that the ‘without a warrant. That brought on the fight. There were po ppea, pe Seta - : —a Communist does : , ospect of losing power, egge several bombings, a doctor was wounded, two others killed. : { ‘rage. The fact that a does not respect the | him on. : Mr. Ulate was released after one night in jail, at the interces- LITTLE QUOTES From Big People rtv rights of others is no excuse for destroying his On Feb. 11'Calderon Guardia charged fraud in the election and | sion of Archbishop Sanabria. With Col. Jose eres er propery Te. ying p Figueres. a loa We must first make peace in Europe a reality. When of property. The fact that law enforcement officials did not fries lo seize the government. He was stopped by government | in the National Unionist Party, Ulate left town. The two are now | doy on Tok pe the more effectively on butld- ic agree with the Communist's political beliefs is no alibi for The National Election Tribunal—corresponding to the U. 8. Costa Rica, hii the DE a ing up a workable international organization—Fleld SUF ot P their failure to provide him the protection which the law | tlectoral coliege—met on Feb. 28 and declared Ulate had been | ate” their country. The Archbishop has withdrawn as mediator, | Jan C. Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union of South p p : : guarantees. es elected President. Three days later the Congress met. The com- | and the Bankers’ Association is trying for a settlement. : : 0 0 sufficient ® : . bination of Republicans and Popular Front held a majority. In the early stages of this unrest U. 8. Ambassador Davis used I am hopeful that the redrafted tax bill will attract . Th ted 1 am hope sts are not strong enough to kill American ey voted to annul Ulate's election and called for a new election | his good offices to avoid bloodshed and to aid the Archbishop in | votes to override a veto if one should occur. In fact, at not to BLC 8 long as we enfores it. : in Apr, : finding a peaceful settlement. But the Ambassador has now been | ful that we can pass a bill that the President see : ding citizens, political neutrals, tried to effect a com- Eugene Millikin (B. Colo.). :