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Jenner and the Direct Primary WEVE probably heard louder, and maybe even angrier, accusations, but off-hand we can’t seem to recall any funnier than those currently coming out of the Jenner-for-Governor camp about Gov. Gates and the direct pri-

mari Here's Sen. Jenner, willing to serve wherever and however his party calls (it says here in his announcement), being brought back from Washington by the overwhelming demand of Indiana Republicans that he be Governor of Indiana. And here's a mean, underhanded political trick to do him out of that nomination for Governor and thwart that will of all these Indiana Republicans—by letting the Republicans of Indiana vote the nomination to the man they want to have it. There's something wrong there, some place. If the demand for Mr. Jenner is as great as his sponsors tell us it.is, why wouldn’t they welcome a direct primary? In fact, why wouldn't they be out demanding that it be restored, right now, so the people could make their wishes obeyed? It couldn't be that Mr, Jenner's managers feel, as we do, that he'd run about fourth (out of four) in such a

primary, could it?

Who Can Keep 1? AT the end of the year every Hoosier should have at Jeast $32 more in his pocket than last year if prices don’t go up, if his income does not go up or down, and if ‘he doesn’t spend any more than in 1947. i This undershoots by $8 President Truman's offer of a flat cash refund of $40. But the Republicans came close {and accomplished about the same thing. All they did was ‘ta make it more complicated for the average citizen who ‘chews pencil stubs over his income tax forms, ! Clarence Jackson, executive vice president of the Indi"ana State Chamber of Commerce, was quick to figure that | Hoosiers would be ahead some $124,800,000, more than ‘what they're paying in the gross income tax to the state. i Carl Dortch, governmental research director of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, did a slide rule job and figured Marion County would save $17,404,245.75. And we bow to hind over that 75 cents. That's whittling it pretty fine. Those who live inside the city will be ahead some $13,057,875, to his computation. ; We don’t know whether the Republicans have stolen a march on the Democrats in an election year or whether it's the other way around. The Republicans surely no forget-to Teaind voters of allPBY 23h they gave them | with the income tax cut. And the Democrats are almost | sure to say, “We wanted to give you more.” Our hunch is that not many will be much better off © than they were last year with prices still edging up enough to absorb any extra change we have in our pockets. So we shall probably have to write it off pretty much as an illusion when we get down to the brass tacks counting what we have left when we ring the old year out in 1948.

Housewives’ Victory FRIDAY, Apr. 2, ought to be a red-letter day for the unorganized lobby of housewives who want to use margarine in place of high-priced butter. For on that day the 218th Congressman heeded the wishes of his constituents and signed the petition to bring margarine tax-repeal bill out of committee to the House floor for debate and vote. The legislation had been bottled up by the Agriculture Committee under control of the organized dairy interests. It is a triumph, as one Congressman remarked, not only for the housewives but for majority rule. He added that he had signed the petition principally because he disliked the spectacle of 16 members of the Agriculture Committee dictating to 435 elected Representatives of the people that they must not vote on whether to repeal the excessive margarine taxes and fees. Since the discharge method is not often used successfully to bring bills out of committee to the House floor, we believe Friday's action reflects the people's determination to see this issue through. And they have expressed that determination in a flood of letters and telegrams to their Congressmen. : Those who have been leading the fight to get the bill to a vote are confident the House will repeal the objectionable taxes and are equally hopeful of favorable Senate action. Even then the battle will be only half-way won, for 12 states still have on their books anti-margarine statutes. But they're apt to fall in line promptly when the parade starts. We remember the quick-step of 36 states on repeal of prohibition not many years ago.

Shades of Bret Harte

RUSSIAS GROMYKO made a lengthy, blistering address against the United States Tuesday at Lake Success in the course of which he charged Washington forced the reorganization of the Italian government ousting the Communist Party. By way of emphasizing that it was common knowledge, he made this puzzling statement: “Every cowboy in the United States can tell us about it.” We thought this country by 1948 had grown past the stage where visiting foreigners still grouped the population west of New York into two classes: Cowboys and Indians.

Keep It a Museum Piece THE Army has in its possession a historic American flag. It.is the flag that was flying over the Capitol in Washington on the day war was declared against Japan, Germany and Italy. That same flag subsequently was raised in succession over Rome, then Berlin, then Tokyo. Tomorrow, Army Day, in a special ceremony, the Army is going to present the flag to the Capitol Museum in Washington, © 3 We sincerely and prayerfully hope it will never be ) ‘to fly that flag, again over another foreign

In Tune

J BOY'S EYE VIEW = When the pussywillows bloom gray fuzs In spring, when first bees buzz, The robin cocks his head to hear Earliest earthworms of the year. The grasshopper is an ugly bug He jumps from me with a shrug.

At night the firelight’s dancing flames Are blown aloff on fairy planes,

The morning glory trumpet’s filled With jewels of dew on petals spilled.

When ghostly dandelion heads are white I set the hoary hairs in flight, Where milkweed fairies cradled lay I blow balloons of feathers away. In winter as I scuff through snow I count the diamonds as I go. ~~MARCELLINE BRUCKER. ® % 2» .

THE TOYS | MADE

When I was just a little lad I had so many joys, Didn't think so at the time— I made most all my toys.

A doll house for my sisters, And then they would cut out Paper dolls and furniture ,From a catalogue, no doubt.

Those kites I made were extra good, Their tails were extra long; Out in the field I'd fly my kite— My dog would come along.

The umbrella that I had To jump from top the shed— Those circus tricks were hard to do— I thought that I was dead.

Bo then I hammered on a boat, It had some kind of gears— I tried it out, it knocked me out, Hot air came out my ears.

the junk yard, where I went to hike To get so many things— The wagon and the bike I built Were good enough for “Kings.” -—R. R.

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EXPERIENCE

In our youth we think we know More than elders could ever show, But experience does surely prove Better results in every move.

In this life we must live and learn To get the money we must earn, As that is what carries us through And always true for me and you.

Experience is costly in this life, Carries us through in great strife, But if the lesson we fail to learn,

Soon our money will surely burn,

Good results tell the whole story, So if you want to bask in glory Remember what I say in this rhyme And save the money, grief and time. -JOS. B. ADLER. * ¢ ¢ Everybody is happer when you don’t say what you A it's mean.

THE. GREAT VIBRATION

Wan luminescence came. , From Earth's overlaid dome On my subjective framé Of early days and home. !

Blue of the misty on, True in the Time to be— Out of this far beyond _ Eternity spake to me:

“Darling, my beloved son, I loved you so—so yet— My only and first one Of now—and ne'er forget.

I saw her in the blush— A mother of thirty last, And me, an awkward brush, Though fifty years have passed.

Thanks, all, for picture of, For word consolation, Through the pane of my love On the Great Vibration. ~—GEORGE 8S. BILLMAN.

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leaders whenever a grab for more power was made. It was always earefully explained to the public as “The democratic way.” Since 1936 our government has largely been taken over by bureaucrats. Laws: have been made by directives and sanctions instead of constitutionally. : If voluntary press censorship, as asked for by the administration, is given, T would say that our government would be almost totally

NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Carlton K.

Democracy Needs Public Relations

WHAT THE WORLD needs today more thin anything else is a public relations program for democracy. I give it priority even over an effective military and diplomatic operation against communism, because ths weakest spot in that operation is the public relations of democracy.

Public relations is nothing more than a system and technique of putting one’s best foot forward. It's much like politics, betause at its worst it is a low and slimy form of fixing, not unlike political “spoils” distribution at its lowest level, -

But just as polities at its truest, highest level is the most important and idealistic vacation in a democracy—that is, the profession of operating democratic government apd making it work—so public relations at its best can be the expert technique of selling the true and the free and making them triumph in the world in the presence of the false and the slave. . To understand what I am trying to write here, you have to understand the difference between public relations and publicity. Publicity is the practice of writing a story or an article about what the: s call a fait. accompli, something that IS. Publicity has nothing to do with the nature of an idéa or product, 6f changing it or shaping it, or reshaping its form or appearance, #0 that it will make a greater appeal to the public. Public relations is concerned with these fundamentals. In its true sense it goes ‘way back to the roots of any idea. It mixes intp what's known as “policy” at the source. It changes the substance if necessary, so that the seeming may be right with the world. : ;

Here's the Difference

IN A GREAT industrial concern,.a publicity man is instructed to write a piece about how a company has fgrtified itself against a strike. A public relations man, if he was truly functioning, would be in position to say, for instance, “See here, company, if you'll take pains to see that your forémen are put into a right frame of mind, maybe you won't have to have this strike.” So if one were just a publicity man for American democracy, one might be ordered to write a complimentary piece about “thy rocks and rills, thy woods and templed hills.” That would be all right, for certainly /we've got some of the best rocks and rills and templed hills in the world, but

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On the other hand if one were a public relations man for democracy, he would be in a position to go to the President of the United States, or Sen. Vandenberg, or Parnell Thomas’ committee, and say with authority, “If we're really going to fight the menace of communism we've got to do something about bad things in our own country the Communists are making capital of—poll-tax - and ‘Jim Crow’ regulations, for instance.”

This public relations man would be in position to-say to the U. 8. Secretary of State, “See here, Mr. Secretary, it's no use our trying to make democracy look good in Europe, if we're going to | keep some top-hat diplomats over there who act like the snobs they are, and ‘who've forgotten whatever they ever knew about real democracy.”

Steering Congress Part of Job

THIS P. R. MAN would be of authority to say to the Congress, to the people of America direct if necessary, “It's very tough sledding indeed to try to sell democracy against communism to young | folks who haven't a roof over their heads, with living at grandma’s and pop and mom | .,

And beyond that, there's the public relations’ of the positive side, the creative side of democraey, which hag been sadly neglected. The public relations man would be gifted in making the great Bill of Rights—the very essence of our system— a living vital moving doctrine which goes into the homes and the lives of all the sturdy, independent people of all the earth. He would be able to do what we now do badl show the world what these rights are before:4Mi are lost. He would be able to make peog stand that they even can well. and to walk for a time at Téast in even privation, in order to keep for themselves the privilege of not being throttled and choked, and kept from free kirk and polling place, and from the act of sticking out their tongue at constituted authority and saying “Y-a-a-ah!” on oc-

This public relations man should be a great figure in the world, a prince of free nations, a potentate of the United Nations, a creator of policies, a reader of copy, a former of noble words and messages, and a man respected for his supreme function of selling democracy to us all, to those who've lost it and to those who should keep it.

I believe the newspapers would be doing a real public service if they would explain these different forms of government. : e oo Billions, Oleo, Crime By Mrs. Lucille Morrison, Waldron, Ind. After lending billions to Britain the Britons admit they are no nearer a solution of their problems. I wonder if they think that there's any end to our resources? Surely their food .cannot be worse than that served at Julietta. My second observation concerns margarine. Instead of spending days, why not pass the bill in favor of (coloring). We are learning every day that what the people want is of no concern to bad Lastly, crime continues full blast in Indianapolis and Watt's execution is put off further, No wo! criminals aren't worpie-- > % ¢ Parking for Trucks By George Schultz, 2527 Randolph St., City I liked that part of The Times praising Washington also his acts as related in his farewell address. ' : We would do well to heed that advice and pattern the government on those rules. Now is the time to pattern a street to park the large trucks that bring produce to our city. A street like S. East would be fine from Virginia Ave. south, park on: either side of the center: - The market on’the ‘south side is crowded and too small. : Leroy Keach should take this into consider-

ation. He is able and capable and brings a reform if he sees fit. Sout

* 5 @ ” Crossing Signals The bells and lights at Troy .Ave. and the

Pennsylvania tracks work overtime for a half hour after the train has passed. The same thing happens at the Big Four at Keystone Ave. The bells jingle and the lights flash: with nothing in sight. Why not put a man. to watch these crossings and protect the public when the trains go by? . * 9% ¢

A Racket, Is t? By Howard Hudelson, Clarks Hill, Ind. Around this part of the country the farm boys (Veterans) are really going to town on the GI bill-of-rights farm training program. , The on-the-job training is just a racket here as the boys are about 99 per cent lifetime farm boys—pretty soft. !

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS . .. My Leigh White Iranian Claims Soviets [— Back Off With a ‘Boo’

TEHRAN, Iran, Apr. 5—Say “Boo” to a lion and he'll kill you with one stroke of his paw—but say “Boo” to a tiger and he'll

draw back indecisively before he strikes.

U. 8S. military advisers in Iran.

Zia Ed Din Tabatabal.

premier. Tigers, Not Lions

the grudging admiration of the world. aggressive neighbor.

Oct., 1940.

in Apr. 1941, ‘Tried Not to ‘Provoke’

the Germans dnd Italians.

World War.

the Iranian notes have been couched. at least delay. Soviets without any genuine provocation,

bent on conquest,

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This is an Iranian theory about dealing with the Russians that Premier Ibrahim Hakimi was following in his forthright | reply to the Soviet note of Mar. 24 objecting to the presence of

It was first explained to me on my return here from Moscow three years ago by the leader of the National Will Party, Said

Zia, a swarthy, whitehaired man strongly resembling Premier Jawaharlal Nehru of India, is a veteran pro-British, and now pro--American politician, who some persons think may be Iran's next

THE RUSSIANS,” said Zia had explained at the time, “may be tigers, but they're ccrtainly not lions.” 3 By acting on that theory and refusing to be bullied by the Kremlin, the Iranian government, for all its many faults, has won

Rarely in modern history has a small weak power stood up so courageously before the menacing gestures of a powerful

One of the few precedents for such behavior was the Greek government's refusal to give in to the Italian ultimatum of |

Another was the Yugoslav army's defiance of the Germans |

PRIOR TO their heroic gestures, however, both the Greeks and Yugoslavs had done everything possible to avoid “provoking”

Their previous diplomatic repliés to the Fascist powers were far less outspoken than the many replies the Iranians have found occasion to deliver to the Kremlin since the end of the second

Neither Hakimi's note, nor any of its predecessors, have been dictated by either the American or British embassy here. Some American and British representatives, however, have been frankly concerned about the defiant tone in which most of

Unwittingly they fear the Iranians may be hastening a catastrophe which a more judicious use of diplomatic language might

A frequent Iranian reply to such objections is to point to Czechoslovakia and all the other countries enslaved by

It is impossible, Iranian leaders say, for a small power either to “provoke” or “avoid provoking” a great power that is

As one high Iranian army officer put it in an interview with for a totalitarian form of government.—Gov. “The Soviets, in my opinion, will invade Iran the moment they feel themselves superior to the combined strength of the United States and Great Britain. Nothing that we can do in the meantime will hasten the invasion and, by showing that we can't be bluffed, we may just possibly delay it.”

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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N WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson

U. S. Air Power Back Where It Was in '39

WASHINGTON, Apr. 5—Army Air Yorce and Naval Aviation procurement officers and planners today find themselves back where they were in 1939 and '40. The word “bottleneck” is heard again in bureaucracy land. Shortages of strategic materials and the need for allocations and priorities are being talked about. Once more there is discussion of re-tooling and converting plants to defense production. There's & manpower shortage. It’s the old pre-World War II story all over. What has happened is that World War II air power has become obsolete. Planes in the new alr arms must be faster and have longer range. ‘These new planes have been designed and experimental models have been built and flown. But in putting these new models into production, the aviation industry has to start from scratch. : It is this situation which is behind all the apparent confusion over building up U. 8. air power, It will take from two to three years to get going. 3 No. 1 bottleneck is in jet engine production. There are five principal jet engine builders—Allison, General Electric, Westinghouse, Wright, Pratt and Whitney. Up to now Allison has been making 90 per cent of the jet engines for the air Force. Westinghouse is in production for Navy. The others are just getting started. None has orders worth anything.

Need Years to Get Started

ALLISON is in production on two models. Its management says two and a half years would be needed to tool up and train 30,000 new employees to turn out 3000 jet engines a menth. All the wartime aids to production are gone. Defense Plant Corp. is out of business. It can’t build new plant to make new planes. Reconstruction Finance Corp. could make loans, but engine builders won't go into debt or invest their own capital till they know what their c-ders are going to be. Shortage of aluminum would be the first bottleneck airframe builders would run into. President Truman asked for authority to set up allocation controls over scarce materials, last November. Congress turned him down. Congress must pass a new law.

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Comgmunist conflagration we are going to pay ia Albert C. Wedemeyer, asking aid for China.

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LITTLE QUOTES From Big People

A third party has as much place in American politics as does a third party on a honeymoon.—J. Howard McGrath, Democratic

It is the natural right of the Jews under the law of Almighty The nations must prevent bloodshed if need be by tie interposition of - police agencies.—President

rom the Novem1 open the door

I predict that if we don't take appropriate steps to stop this

‘blood.~Lt.-Gen.

William Tuck

Television ‘Competition’ THERE would be bottlenecks to break on fire control, radar, radio and other electronics equipment. Manufacturers of these devices are now concentrating on television and doing ail right. These are the-major factors behind Defense Secretary James “V. Forrestal's decision to expand the U. 8. Air Force to only 55 groups. Members of the Senate Armed Forces Committee could hardly believe this figure. Tate ataid They dragged out of Air Force Setretary W. Stuart Symington and Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, Air Force chief of staff, an admis sion that a 70-group Air Force was wanted. The Senators said they would approve a 70-group Air Force, too. Mr. Forrestal had vetoed it. ? ! Then Mr. Forrestal amazed the committee further by saying _that it would cost $15 billion to increase the Air Force by 15 groups, or from 55 to 70. The reason given was that if the Air Force was increased by this amount, it would be necessary to increase Army and Navy propo . That would make the National Defense bill for next year $29 billion. 3.

The Senators coujdn’t understand tl Secretary | will have to go back before the committee to explain in detail

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