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3 Give Light end the People Will Find Their Own Wey

[HE long, weary struggle against the tax on colored margarine soon will enter the national legislative arena the House of Repres If nothing unforeseen prevents it, the bill to repeal the coloring tax will reach the floor of the House early next week. : * This is what the people of the country have been years, want the Representatives i up hry be counted on this discriminatory tax. We're a little tired of having mysterious things happen to the margarine tax repeal bills, and seeing them gasp and die in committee. For years this has permitted

Between now and next week, every Hoosier housewife who is tired of the messy job of kneading coloring into lard-white margarine should send a letter or telegram to her Congressman and to both Senators. If the margarine-coloring tax is repealed, it will mean that margarine at once should drop 10 cents a pound. The butter people won't like that, Already the margarine industry is cutting deep into the dairy trade. If they can keep the penalty-tax on margarine, they have a 10-cent » industry. If the butter people

paid the 10-cent tax, it would not be quite so unfair. But dairy industry is charging the tax to the American 1f the margarine-coloring tax is repealed, the butter

trade may not be able to stand the sampetition. Butter «~DR: H. 1A JeLLE GREGORY may fall in price, But whatever happens, the only person : . fo oft hough the repel of the coloring {ax is the |," UY Bek Pole ote ; ws i A or a 0. When the vote comes up on the floor of the House, $e we'll beable to spot the weak sisters, and we'll all know OUR HANDS what to do about them in November, Praying hands 4 fais : Uplifted to God in prayer and commitment.

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oi London, it was assumed this would come as soon as Congress enacted the Mashull Plan. But the preparatory talks in Berlin during the past week have accomplished ‘virtually nothing. The French bogged down in technicalities. . Though there was once an excuse for French delay, it has disappeared. From the beginning the French have had two chief worries about a German settlement. One was fear of setting up a highly centralized reich, which

‘that German economic recovery—and especially of the Ruhr—might be pushed at the expense of Germany's western neighbors. "Russia by sabotaging the Potsdam pact for economic unification of all Germany, and by creating the east-west division of that country, has retarded political unification. In any case, the United States stands with France against a centralized reich and in favor of a loosely federalized

3 a nding, one at least re- into them? rife Reping y slorgior of X ~ —JEANINE H. PEARSEY. ones. Unification of the British and Ameri | =, ~~ [|BRARY a in hh De area is Vaulted chamber of mystic silences, be Fy eh oesph Here, voices are muted to a reverent whisper;

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THE WORKER AND THE . DREAMER

A worker on his way to work, He passed a dreamer gay, And wondered how a man could waste His life in such a way.

A dreamer on his way to dream,

And not all labor shirk.

So this went on for years and years, Then came a change of scene. . The worker thought he'd worked enough And settled down to dream.

But the dreamer woke up midst his dream, Thereafter not to shirk, But took upon himself all tasks And settled down to work.

80 who was right, and who was wrong? -Which had the better scheme The one who settled down to work, Or the one who dreamed the dream? —BEUP AND BEGONE. > © © Two young gals got in a argumint front uv the store Sattiday evenin’ an’ one tweaked the other's mose. “Now thet's why they're called the tweaker sex,” popped Willie Shuggs. Nobudy gits ahead uv Willie. —CATFISH PETE. > ¢ 0

SABOTEUR?

Once a small boy growed and dreamed Of riches, fabulous and power; Power as Ivan the Terrible had. Wealth like Midas, and hour by hour.

Quoted Shakespeare better than the bard himself, Puff and fume—a shaggy mane he'd grow 1 A beetled brow, a fearsome mein; He'd rule, men knew his word was law.

Now this is not a fairy tale, For this lad is grown today, And all his dreams have well matured; No Tsar, President nor Bey.

But better yet, more wealth he draws While telling rulers what he wants; And they'd better heed him, else, 'tis true, Another strike in their face he flaunts.

Skilled hands Fitting themselves for service for the King! hands 8 ! 3

Applying the ideals gained from prayer and communion with God.

Expendable hands ; Qutstretched in brotherhood and Kternal friendship. ;

hands— How can they be classed? Soren Are they fulfilling the plan God has built

Footsteps are lightened to those ‘of ‘4 dancing

For if one surrendeys to thoughtless reverie, And listens with one’s inner ear, One may hear voices out of the past Chanting, in ethereal harmony, The fullness of their souls,

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A friend is a man who cusses out the same people and the same things you cuss out. : ¢ ©

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“WASHINGTON —Kefauver Asks Congress To Cut ‘Headline-Hunting’; Useless Trips At Public Expense.”) Representative Kefauver, Democrat from Tennessee, * Wants less Washington palaver; Fewer junkets that are free.

He denounces headline hunting, To: which some colleagues succumb; Dawns the day they stop that stunting,

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By Fred Sparks

states-rights system. On the economic side, the United States has no desire to build up a strong Germany at France's expense. Wash-~ ington wants to integrate Western Germany into the European economy, which is obviously essential to. French recovery. That, however, cannot be achieved through a Ger‘man poorhouse subsidized by the American taxpayer indefinitely—as some naive Frenchmen seeth to think, Hungry Ruhr miners will not produce the coal needed by neighboring countries, and a pauperized Western Germany will pull down instead of prop up the European economy. A producing Western Germany is the key to success of the Marshall Plan. And merger of al! three Western Zones into an efficient Trizonia is the key to increased German production. \ France finally has accepted this in theory. But we are tired of being told that the creation of Trizonia is only a matter of time. The time is overripe. There should be no more stalling at the London Conference.

We're With You

THE Church Federation of Indianapolis is preparing to

take a close look at our public welfare institutions.

‘They are not looking for criticism or trouble. They want to be helpful. They will examine the operation of our jails and prisons, reformatories, juvenile court, the home for the aged, public hospitals and other institutions for the indi-

gent and maladjusted.

‘They are taking their cue from George Stoll, a Louisville businessman, who with a committee of 200 Christian laymen, did a similar work for Louisville and received national attention. Mr. Stoll explained the Louisville program to a group of 100 Indianapolis pastors and laymen

this week at the YMCA.

~The idea is to assist supervision of public institutions, judges and parole officers who have charge of those whose

plight has placed them in the hands of the law.

In this, we give the Christian laymen of Indianapolis field so

our blessing, for probably nowhere is the welfare much in need of citizen help as here. :

to support them all the way.

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs

The Word War in Central Valley

WASHINGTON, Apr. 21—Propaganda is one of those words.that slip conveniently off the poli-

tician’s tongue. He uses it to attack any point of view that he happens to disagree with. A curious crusade is being carried on here behind the main current of the news, The crusader, the man on a white horse, the man with banners, is California’s Sen. Sheridan The object of his devotion is California's where, on irrigated land, rich crepe = Sen. Downey's goal is to have the limitation lifted restricting the holding of any individual to 160 acres of land under the irrigation project of the Bureau of Reclamation. In the valley today 34 of the biggest owners, most of them corporations, have 748,490 acres of land. If these owners got the benefit of water provided by the Bureau of Reclamation, they would have to split.up their holdings. The argument Sen. Downey chiefly relies upon

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levels ‘under the earth and what would happen to the undergfound water with large-scale irrigation. He insists that the small holder would end up by paying the water bill of the large holder, who would refuse to come under the Bureau of Reclamation Project because ‘of the 160-acre limit. No ordinary citizen can pass on the merits of this argument. But the ordinary citizen can and does have opinions of the big corporations farm versus the moderate-size family farm,

Downey Goes Off the Track

IT IS JUST HERE, it seems to me, that Sen. Downey, the passionate crusader, goes off the track. He says it is “propaganda” by the Bureau of Reclamation, and most particularly by Commissioner of Reclamation Michael W, Straus, that has made so many people want to keep the 160acre limit. : He has written a book, “They Would Rule the Valley,” to prove it. committee of the Senate for days to present his case against the Bureau of Reclamation “propagandists.” ’ When the Senate committee got tired and lost interest, Sen. Downey took his case pver to the House. There he persuaded Rep. Forest A. Harness of Indiana, chairman of a subcommittee that spe-

“Many Favor Keeping Limit

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

cializes in tracking down bureaucrats suspected of making propaganda, to look into the case. Sen. Downey never. misses a chance to deliver a speech attacking Mr. Straus. , The funny thing about all this is that it builds Mr. Straus up into one of the greatest ‘propagandists of all time. It makes him into a master

mind, persuading organizations and individuals by his subtle propaganda to accept the 160-acre lim-

itation. That is, of course, perfectly silly. 3

THE GRANGE, the Farmers Union, erans’ Organizations, the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, the AFL and CIO all are for keeping the limit. So are many other groups. Some months ago, water users on the Coachella Irrigation District voted on a Bureau of Reclamation contract embracing in positive terms the acreage restriction law. The vote was 1139 to 19 in favor of the contract. A year ago Bishop Robert J. Armstrong of Sacramento wrote on “Family Farm vs. Factory Farm” in the Catholic magazine “America.” In the article, he said: 3 “The latest attempt, therefore, to change our national land policy is a challenge which cannot be lightly laid aside by those who have faith in the liberty-loving independent American farmers who cultivate the soil. They rear the families that support and people America’s large cities. The fight against the political power of corporate monopoly demands an extra effort from. the unorganized majority of American cities. The same fight must be waged on the land.” Sen. Downey would apparently have us believe all of this results from the “propaganda” of a few bureaucrats in Washington. That is not the way deep convictions take hold. They are woven into men’s minds and hearts. That has been demonstrated in Soviet Russia. After 30 years of unceasing propaganda and all the techniques of force and violence, including starvation, the Russian peasant still clings to his love of 2 Pecenf land of his own. ° ~ e e come to stop this silly talk abo propaganda. It has got so that a official can hardly explain the work of his department in the normal course of his duty without being accused of propagandizing. The politician should realize that people are not: quite so simple-

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chairmen and women if it were not for the precinct committeemen and elected by the people and who must the people want or they would not consequently most certainly should be allowed to run the affairs of their party, and not a hush-hush closed room arrangement where the little man's {lghiz are not recognized. * ei

How Many Next Time?

By J. C,, City he et ‘In view of the propaganda about another World War, remember what Hitler outlined in “Mein Kampf” due to his prediction that the Allies, if victorious, would: fall out over the “Division of the Spoils.” ' Meaning of ‘course the right to exploit the conquered territories. It would be well for Americans to recall facts as set forth in the Encyclopedia Brittanica and : substantiated by Secretury of State George C. Marshall. y “First ‘World War—Dead: 8 million.” “Second World War—Dead: 15 million.” How many wounded Mr. Marshall doesn't Soy. In First World War 19 million was the

\ It could hardly have been less in the Second World War and might ‘well have been. more" No one. has tried to give an estimate of the deaths and suffering of ‘“‘non=mili "One fire-raid on Tokyo—100,000 killed. ° Millions died in forced mass migrations Jabor Samp, in SEtAAia Hon chambers. would pro! y no overstating to: the late: war's total of military and she deaths at 40 million, by lethal methods. At Hiroshima and Nagasaki 120,000 were killed by two bombs. LES We would get a picture of what the death toll will be. in World War III. T would say “put those who call for war in the front ranks where they will be the first to face the effects of the atomic bombs, rockets, ete.” Everybody will be enemy No. 1 in the next holocaust. ; : “wh =

% . * 0 Show Our Strength By Edward F. Maddox, City The futile and dangerous policy of merely keeping token military forces in Europe and

Asia, to face the Red hordes of Stalin is an

open invitation to war with no chance of victory for the few American soldiers on whom our military and political leaders have placed the burden of halting communism, ‘No wonder the Reds are bold and insulting. Our policy has been an open invitation for them to move in and take over the whole of Europe and Asia. . ; Pulling our armed men out of E » and Asia, turning down men like -Mikhailo' for Tito and recognizing Tito. as a legitimate ruler over the people of Yugoslavia—these diplomatic and military blunders make World War II nearly certain. a : Safety lies in formidableness. : If we wish to prevent certain war we had better get into Germany and Italy with enough divisions to cause Stalin to stop, look and listen. Our military weakness.is an invitation

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Latin-America Expects

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In Greek Communiques

SALONIKA, Greece, Apr; 21—War is a very impersonal thing ~—if you go by the communiques and most of the press dispatches. It is very ‘impersonal for overy soldier, too—except the man who has to go that last 100 yards toward another man with a gun ., . Or go on a combat mission , . . or drive daily over mine-strewn roads. It is a feeling you cannot describe later—if you survive. someone has said, “war is something which vicariously.” ; Greece's civil war has been going on s0 long, and is so packed with tiny bits of nastiness, it is impossible for communique writers—or correspondents—to cover poignant details. I have tried to run a few “small, relatively unimportant” incidents down to earth, however. These ‘samples, set down next to their original communiques, reveal the grim reality of tragedies that daily saddens Greece, .

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The Major's Jeep Hits a Mine

COMMUNIQUE; “Salonika—A major was killed last night 10 miles outside of town when his car hit a jeep. His driver was badly wounded; both legs will be amputated.” The major was on his way back to the command post after a few brandies with some friends in Salonika. He felt pretty good, pretty democratic, and he and the driver were singing. There was a blinding flash, something pushed itself into

his glasses and then he was dead. The driver knew what it was right away. He had often thought of mines. It seemed to him as if the whole floorboard rose up and smashed into the lower part of his body. He rose in the air and then was rolling a ways down the embankment on the side of the road. : The driver was on his back and he couldn't focus for a few seconds. Then he managed to sit up, kind of, and his legs were all damp and useless. He remembers someone lifting him into an ambulance and saying: “This joker got it bad.”

Crazy—Absolutely Crazy

COMMUNIQUE. “Kastoria~The bodies of four national guardsmen were found outside of town this morning, One sur< vivor of the ambushed group, who crawled to town, said they were killed by mortar fire,” It was a good place to make a stand. It.was incredible but no one had been shot when the bandits first opened fire. There >were a lot of rocks on this hill and the slope was clear.

The young lieutenant figured there were about 20 guerrillas the band. Berlei

unless they have a mortar.” : Just then the guerrillas rushed up the hill. The young lieu-

tenant and the four other boys fired slowly, deliberately, from

the major’s stomach, came ott of his eye. He started to take off °

“We can hold out,” he said, “until we are rescued—

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behind the rocks. Two guerrillas dropped, the others took cover. A few minutes later the mortar started to fire, The lieutenant's side was shattered. Before he died he said: “The . . . were crazy—absolutely crazy—-not to use their mortar at once.”

Communique: ‘“Naousa—This town was shelled by guerHa 23 tillery last night. Ten houses were hit, several civilians illed.”

Mr. Hjaris and his wife were having a ‘retzina” before retiring. That is one of the few luxuries they can afford these days. Mr. Hjaris has not worked in 10 months. Suddenly there was an earthquake—at least that’s what Dr. Hjaris thought. - Bits of the ceiling showered on the table, knocking down the bottle. The ‘'retzina” spilt grey on the dirty tablecloth. The first thing Mr. Hjaris did was to stand the bottle up again. Then Mrs. Hjaris stood up and screamed: “The babya.” They went into the next room. There was a big hole in the wall. All the furniture was piled in a corner shattered and

More, Not Less, Revolt

WASHINGTON, Apr. 21—The neat and easy explanation for recent uprisings in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Panama is to blame it on the Communists. Latin-American experts in Washington say it isn’t that simple. . They do not dismiss the fact that communism is at work below the Rio Grande. A quick summary reveals these highlights: The center of activity is Cuba, which has an estimated 150,000 members in its Popular Socialist (Communist) Party. This party has elected three senators and seven deputies to the Cuban Congress. The party also runs a training school for Latin-American Communists. : With the exception of one Polish immigrant, Fabio Grobart, who ‘came to Cuba 25 years ago and has since become a Cuban citizen, Communist leaders in Latin America ‘are all natives. President of the party is Juan Marinello, a poet. ‘The active lead. i Seraany General Blas Roca, who has traveled all over Latin Links between Soviet Russia and the Latin-American Com: mies are concealed as much as possible. IL became a matter of important news when Fabio Grobart was recently seen entering the Soviet Embassy in Havana, early one morning.

A Greater Threat Than Naziism

MEXICO’S Commuhist Party is now believed to number from 10,000 to 25,000. Its status is subordinated by the active labor union movement under Vicente Lombardo Toledano, who says he is not a Communist. Colombia has less. than 8000. Communists, Costa Rica from 3000 to 6000, Panama less than 1000. : Paraguay, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador have practically no Communists as the party has never been recognized in those countries. Brazil and Chile have outlawed the party. ; Total Communist Party membership in all 20 Latin-American countries is believed to be less than 500,000, with perhaps a million followers. ‘ ~ What is happening, American officials believe, is that native populations in all Central and South American coun are on their own account showing signs of unrest as a result of their first social gains, : i

Revolution Against Poverty

THE CONDITION of the common Americano is not 4s low as it was before World War I. Wage levels are higher. A ing labor union movement has improved working conditions. World War II pumped a lot of U. 8. dollars into. Latin America. The standard of living is better. The people have more education, And from their improved learning they. are finding a means to re against the terrible poverty that has held them down since the original Spanish exploitation of the 16th gentury. Gi If you believe social revolution in the "U.. 8. has not yet reached its ultimate goal—then the outlook is for 80 to 100 years of unrest in Latin America, until the underdogs get a better break. Writing an ment which will permit the U. 8. government

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