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The West German Plan HE hard-won six-power agreement on

still has to overcome French opposition. While the Paris cabinet will fight for the London Conference recommendations as the best compromise available, Communist sabotage and De Gaullist chauvinism may suc-

America's eggs are in this basket.

as an interdependent unit.

_ Without such an agreement West Germany will con- | tinue as a putrid poorhouse on the American dole. France of course needs European recovery, and the increased German production and market upon which that

depends.

But the fears of many Frenchie are stronger than their hopes. In their minds Germany—even in defeat—is a potential menace and always will be. So they are torn between their desire for European recovery and their de-

mand for security.

This inner French conflict reflects in larger form the

well-founded fear in most of Europe.

When all the exaggeration is discounted, the essential problem remains—how to build up Germany without reviv-

ing Her war potential.

Particularly, how can this be done with Russia waiting

to take over Germany as an arsenal?

REPRESENTATIVES ‘of the United States, Britain, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg finally have come up with a an answer. Itisa Sompromise, as must

be.

Subject to acoeptarics by the six governments: A West German constituent ‘assembly in September would prepare for a government of loosely federal and de-

centralized character. “The thrée ma

tions of .coal, coke and steel.

Since Russia has prevented the unification of all GerMANY; we believe the prompt creation of a temporary West German state, for integration with Western Europe under the proposed safeguards, offers the best hope. ~~ The security concessions to’ France are merited. We - hope the good sense of the French people will support Premier Schuman and Foreign Minister Bidault in this desper-

ately Reeded agreement]

Goodby, Gromyko .. THE

tions, is going home soon.

He is Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union and presumably when he gets to Moscow he will take his place as one of the top men of the Soviet government. Certainly, he will have Mr. Stalin's ear when he gets home, and we should imagine the Russian premier will want

to be filled in quite a bit about America.

Mr. Gromyko-of course is the man who could do it. - For he has been in this country since 1939 when he arrived as a secretary of the Russian embassy in Washington. He became ambassador here, then went to the United Nations as Russia's chief delegate. - He has known us in the . pre-war years, through the war, and since.. Will he tell Mr. Stalin the truth about us? will he dare “PHEE tHE PHIHITG ANA speak out wheat tre surely must know: That the American people and their democratically elected leaders do not want war with Russia, that neither do they seek to enslave the rest of the world in-the Russian-con-

ceived ‘Yankee imperialism"?

We wish he would, but we're none too hopeful. iromyko séems to belong to that class of post-revolution Russians described by Novelist Arthur Koestler as the men who remembered nothing and had nothing to forget. Mr. Gromyko remained in character to the end of his Wednesday night in New York a friendly audience of 1200 gathered to hear his farewell speech to the

stay here.

American Russian Institute.

At the last moment, even after he had taken his place at speakers’ table, he refused to give his address: plained that he canceled his speech for fear that it might

be interpreted as a Russian plea for peace. to give this impression to the audience.

So we doubt that he'll carry any peace message from this side back to Russia. We shall not miss Gromyko.

Ballots Are Louder N Washington, nearly 4000 persons, largely Communistled and inspired, swarmed over Capitol Hill and picketed the White House in a demonstration against the Mundt-

Nixon Bill:

The purpose of this piece of legislation is to require annual registration of the Communist Party—and all of its And to provide jail sentences for Communist leaders who conspire to set up a foreign-con-

trolled dictatorship in-America. But. did the demonstrations mean that '

opposed to the purposes of the Mundt-Nixon Bill? . For the answer, let's look to what was happening elsewhere. Look to the political fortunes of the aythars of that legislation—out where, on the same day, the votes were

being counted.

In South Dakota, Rep. Karl E. Mundt won \ the Repub- _ lean nomination for the U. 8. Senate by a margin of 6 to 1. In, California, Rep. Richard Nixon, running for re-elec-manish Raps nd

0 paTtion,

Without a West German agreement the Marshall Plan would fail, because it is based on economic integration of all Western Europe

naif Western Allies would retain contro over foreign relations and defense, disarament, ‘reparations. and level of industry. Even after the end of full military occupation they would continue armed control of key areas . presumably including the Ruhr and Rhineland. : Though the Ruhr is not to be torn from Germany and internationalized, ‘a seven-power international authority (with a British-American majority) would control alloca-

i Bath add Andrei A. Gromyko, who has

been Russia's chief representative at the United Na-

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8 President Truman takes off on his cross-country “non-political” speaking trip, he

has one big advantage.

Nothing he says or does will be likely to subtract from his political shialios| His popularity chart is almost at a point where it can move in only one direction—and

that's up.

The -Democratic Party is more “divided than at any time since Stephen A. Douglas

won the presidential nomination. Mr, Douglas won only after the Southern delegates bolted out of the convention hall,

AND WHEN you say that the Democrats are more divided “than at any time since,” you say a mouthful. Because most of the time _since—except for the brief intervals whén a Woodrow Wilson or a Franklin Roosevelt pulled the warring factions together—the Democrats have

fought among -themselves,

“fought ina way that made it seem they were intent on keeping clear title to the Civil War label of “the party of rebellion.” Even in the serene '20s, when they were out of power and had evgry reason to -work-together-to-try to get-back-in, the —

Democrats lacerated each

much so that the late Will Rogers was “lI am not a member of any organized puityeet am a

prompted to remark;

Democrat. ” » ” .

STRANGELY though, to a man of Mr. Truman's bent “and inclination, the present state of affairs is not without a

rosy hue.

The unpredictable’'man from Missouri does best when the going’s rough. When he's. scratching. bottom and can't go.any. lower, Mr. Truman usually forgets about political consequences and does and says just “what comes naturally.” ”

In Tune With the Times

DISCONTENT

“You think it great perhaps, that IT am me, | Perchance my life you think youa rat rather live. But know you now that My entire future for a A some one different ry my present self, A soul whose yearnings vary from my own.

I'm bored with me; dissatisfied I've grown. My few attributes seem .inferior pelf So unimpportant, so

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Maybe the Russian bear wants to hibernate a while and digest all he has swallewed. - But Congress concluded that an American Eagle with strong wings is the best peace

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1 would g chance to be

(shall we say) dead, That, had I but the pawer myself to change, My soul would slip from its (the nonce) menage Into a life more like the one you've led.

~H. E. DROLL.

An Editorial

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return for our money. They have not been able to legislate free trade in margarine past the butter lobby. Nor to bring the House and Senate together on housing and education bills. They haven't done anything about raising the minimum wage or expanding Social Security.

SO THE Republicans have given Mr. Truman plenty to talk about as he rolls

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That clicks with the public, and—-not Las so oddly, Americans being natural folks 's stock starts rising, = He gets into trouble only when he reads that he's gaining in public opinion polls. That's when he stumbles by trying to think up something that will get some - more minority faction Votes. ;

THOUGH HE HAS" “hadtittle help pA Sy —from-the Democrats in his desire for reelection, Mr. Truman has been helped aplenty by the Republicans. in Congress. The Republicans have messed up the economy pledges. They have voted to start a $20 billion give-away program for Europe and Asia. Then they have turned around and botched up reciprocal trade

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WORLD AFFAIRS .

from a British-

Mr. Stalin. himself has said that. commu-. nism’ s advance must be in zig-zags. In his role as quarterback, if he progress. through center, he calls for an end “run, a kick or forward pass. Reports from every country this side of the Iron Curtain indicate a lull in Russia's cold war against the West. Czechoslovakia is the only country in Europe where the battle has gone Russia's way. 2 Her push in Finland was stopped without Her drive to throw the allies out of Berlin was checked. y Elsewhere—in Found, Italy. and. Greece—she —— i —————————

can't make

was thrown for a loss. “Information from Britain and the 16 Marshall Plan countries reveals the, general situation is better than it has been at any time in the three years.since V-E Day. 1s steadily im-

INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT in France averages

Some folks have many friends, I just have a few; __

But our friendship never ends,

I'm forever true.

Some folks have much to say,

well above 1938 figures, the last normal year ‘before the war. Coal, steel, chemistry, electricity and automobiles are all above and still climbing. Food is more plentiful in France. - Bread

- oeratic presidential

| pve 'Gommaros and vies humbs

I keep things inside;

- 1 guess that's just my way,

My feelings to hide.

- It's no fun to pretend,

No matter what I say, "My ‘heart goes with you, friend,

To cherish to the end. ® > 9

Being in crowds releases one’s emotions, Who wants to

according to a psychologist. make love in a rush-hour bus? ® © 0

MOTHER MINE

‘The ‘word sweet” was coined for you, Mother’

Dear.

‘Angelic speaks of ‘your beloved voice, Exquisite. of the thousand. tender.cares.. .. Of your loving heart and hands. 1. That of all the wonderful mothers everywhere

tam,

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Whe remembers when the average person could afford to read menus from left to right and order what they really wanted? .

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DUBIOUS VIRTUE

Rising early is a virtue

That tends to make one patronizing Toward ordinary folks like us Who dote on very late rising. ~.

—ESTHER OWENS,

me, darling Mother of mine - =—MILDRED C. YOUNG. @

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eliminated.

about fit,

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Europe.

rations are ‘increasing. Cost of living seems to have passed its peak, also inflation. Public confidence is returning. The French people seem happier and more hopeful than at any time since 1940. The French story is repeated more or: less - throughout Western and Southern Europe. And the European Recovery Program is only just

Unless something drastic interferes with the present course, there is good reason to believe that the Communist

menace. soon may be

This raises the question of what Mr. Stalin and the other 13 men in the Kremlin will do

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ALREADY SOMETHING has happened. No- - where west of Russia are the Communists as active as they have been. Greece especially they” have piped ‘down. © Greece, the red guerrillas have put out Hence. THoTEPR OO rr RO BAN MAG SAT RN LN S NAA SL er Shr re: In Italy they are lying low. In France. Maurice Thorez in a speech offered “a hand more fraternal than ever,” to the Catholics. And when there was threat of a new subway strike ih Paris, the Communists urged against. it—on the ground that they did not like “to put the people to such inconvenience.” they not only paralyzed Paris transportation but every railway in the country. For the moment, therefore, a spirit of sweet reasonableness appears to have possessed the souls of Russia's

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Capehart i in. ‘Bottling Business’

DEAR BOSS: Our senior Republican Senator, Homer E. Capehart, seems to be in a new business here. And it fsn't making jukeboxes ltke he does in Indianapolis. 1 suppose the hest title for it would be a “bottling works.” For as chairman of the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Subcommittee, handling the nomination of Thomas C the . Federal the Sen-

Buchanan to Power Commission, ator has received back business for further hearings. He has already held hearings for three weeks. . - » "THIS MOVE follows the Senate Republican Policy Committee's go-slow stand on Demnominees. to long-term commission positions. ’ Mr. Buchanan fis a former member of the Pennsylvania Publie Utilities Commission. And he did as much as any man in that state to reduce rates for consumers. As subcommittee Sen,. Capehart recommended that his appointment be turned

down. He was joined in this

recommendation by .his Re. publican colléague on the subcommittee, Sen. Hawkes of How Jetony, J dig

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‘Dear Boss' .

By Daniel M. | M. Kidney

president of the National Association of Manufacturers, He is a one-termer who Was turned down for renomination by the GOP organization in his state. Sen. Brien McMahon, Connecticpt Democrat, is the other subcommittee member, He voted to confirm Mr. Buchanan. They took the majority - minority subcommittee reports to the full committee and now théy are back again right where they started. It is expected to’ be bottled dup there—thus the “bottling

, " ? works.

SEN. CAPEHART'S conduct

of the hearings was no more one-sided than a jug handle. He let five big utility men from Pennsylvania tell -him that as commissioner in that state Mr, Buchanan didn't measure up to their Specificn tions. It would be ha a man who did, and at the same ‘time made a record of reducing utility rates to con " sumers. But the Hoosier solon 0oncluded that M#. Buchanan was

“just. a Mroublemakerc, a ; was equally as ready to Sowa, on 3 him at “the.

end of {he hearings as at the beginning. ” . . IT WAS Commissioner Buchanan who inaugurated the case which established FPC control over natural gas in in terstate commerce, through a Supreme Court suit decision on the natural gas act of 1938

- which two utilities lost.

To regain this ground they launched the Moore-Rizley bill which," it is. estimated, would up consumer costs for natural gas between $40,000,000 and $50,000,000 a year, Our Sen. Capehart was one of four members of the Inter state and Foreign Commerce Committee who voted to approve it. Nine of ‘his colleagues on that committee voted “no” and the bill isn’t scheduled to be reported to

the Senate this session.

BUT if Sen. Capehart can

get the kind of FPC member that the, utilities want, they may not need the Moore-Rizley bill. For the commissioners now are split two and two on the matter. » “They are having enough trouble over there so I don't want a ‘man who will only add to it” Senator explained,

"Which only . brings up the

adage that “one: man’s meat’ is another man’ s poison.” J

. By William Philip Simms :

Russ Must Pounce—Or Give Up

WASHINGTON, June 5—The Kremlin is = = | believed to be working on a high policy change —the most important since 1939, In 1939 Russia switched French orientation to a tie-up with Nazi Ger.

_ their ranks for another.

-terprise can live together in peace in the same

"the Republican faithful meet tp nominate their

- he-became red in the face. ms _ Bn Be Bi nt THE ‘SETTING is a huge hall seating over RUBE BIT TH THE FAITETTER, “with “the priviege

They suffered a terrific setback in P last eight months. And, like any army defeated in one battle, they need time in Which to reform

Observers on the spot report war talk in “Western Europe has somewhat subsided. But underneath, it_is remarked, there is still the | fear that this may be the quiet before the storm. The decision which the Kremlin must make, . and soon, could be world-shaking. Unless Mr. Stalin and his teammates of the Politburo decide that communism and free en-

world . . . and révamp their world-conquest policy accordingly’ oon they must strike soon and strike hard. Otherwise world recovery may get such a start that they can’t stop it.

CONVENTION YEAR—

Now's the Ti By RADFORD MOBLEY WASHINGTON, June 5—'Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party. ” -This is a typewriting exercise three years out of four. On the fourth it comes alive. * It will again June 21 at Philadelphia when

presidential candidate, Again on July 12 when ° the Democrats meet in the same city. It is the great American drama. It is the American political convention—a wild, sweating session where our leader for the next four years is chosen. % Cee + “ONCE I saw a great man eating soup,” wrote Carl Sandburg in a poem. He must have been thinking of the gold fish bowl of an American political convention. In Philadelphia the party's great will mingle with its lowly. Everybody will have his say in making the choice. It's a spectacle. Jim Farley, master politician, once laughed In sheer delight when he saw a staid diplomat get excited on the conven tion floor—and grab a banner to march around . the auditorium shouting for his candidate until

1000 delegates on the floor. About 20 times that

of howling, too, as much as they like. They usually do. i To witness a hectic national convention, wild words flying, near fist fights, mad hubbub, reqifires a sturdy attitude toward excitment. oo THERE'S real life in the Républican ele phant for the first time this year since 1928. The party has captured Congress and knows by the polls it is in the lead for the presidency? This means there will be no half-way candidates at Philadelphia June 21. Announced or not, the candidates will be ready to go all the way.

should be worth watching,

Hoosier Forum

“| do not agree

will defend to the death your right to say it."

Visit a Shut-In Tomorrow “By Luellls HII, 632 N. Pine St.

Tomrrow is

with a word that you say, but |

Shut-in Day. EE us” rai WN

“member to do some Kindness Tor & Whut-tn per: A visit to a shut-in cheers him so much. If you can not visit one of them, a card or letter is greatly "appreciated. Such attentions help .

many of these people on the road to recovery. A kind word or deed brings to the lonely shut-in the knowledge that he is not completely forgotten. I know; I have experienced 714 years as a shut-in, with a A-spial ry. :

Is idleness a Blessing?

Every aay you see advertisements showing

pictures of healthy looking men who have re-

tired on $200 a month. You read of efforts of ;

planners to sell idleness as a blessing to the |

people,

You hear wild schemes of day dreamers

who tell you if. we only didn't have to ‘work

we would be supremely happy. : Show me a person with nothing to do and fi show you a miserable

Yet here we go spending millions pe money to keep children busy, because we :

they'll get into

mischief otherwise. We set up

hundreds of expensive organizations to bolster the morale of people who are ;unemployed.

And at the same time we go right on spouts

ing that idleness is a blessing. It doesn’t make nae,

Wiiy Poke For at Clubwomen?

By. ‘40 and Proud of It’

I resent the

toonists at middle-aged women. everybody gets off wisecracks about life-scarred 3

females,

slurs cast by writers and carPractically

If you're over 40 and on the stoutish side, the public tréatment you get can't be called

‘courteous.

Yef most of these women have brought up

families.

They've ‘managed homes and have

been good’ wives.

It's” fashionable to poke fun at clubwomen, - But. on. the. whale they are intelligent, sensible, :

valuable members of society.

Emphasis on youth 1s fine.

However, it isn't

HEHE PROVE STAN Won" BY THE Feene. rite insurance statistics hint they will be around for a long time, so maybe we'd better be a little

kinder to them.

Traffic Tip By C. J. One of

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tipper 1102 Newman. St. . e most important things to do to * - help our traffic system is to do away with - about half of the busses on our beautiful Circle.

And how about some crosstown car lines?

This is one

of the important survey items

the gentlemen from our sister cities forgot to

look into.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

u. s. AFFAIRS—

Big Navy

WASHINGTON, June 5 — This has been a big week for the navy. It got House approval of 8 %3.7 billion budget to maine tain the world's largest navy, -~ and It got $12 million to build an air base for the Naval Academy .at Annapolis.

To some Navy men, the

« Annapolis air base was as im- 1

nt as anything in the $3.7 billion budget. - It has knocked around Congress for a year, At times, its chances were slim. Two weeks ago, the House rules "commitiee fused to give it-the green light. But the Navy persevered— won, pend The Navy ’ sto» the $12 po wig vg buy 2400 acres in the Sandy Point resi dential section near Annapolis

est rank ne ghost 7 ton

are promoted o Court of honor Grover L, He ud of the departm ee “withthe Chy +ion-of Indianapolis, the address In the Memorial auditorium, Musie by “the Boy will the in hi . C. T. Alexa iges Will D& pres Sirection of Mer

“of the ‘ 35 to Be Hon ts to be Hh _— van Ree, M and Allan Darling, 3 enn iniam arper and am oe IY cop 6; Philip troop 8. Robert L. Baker, Ur ard Eider and Edy troop p 38; Robert L. 42; Ronald T. Cool Paul Cowan, troop Haramy, troop 80, Ricard Fethering Farrow, and Thoms troop 82; John J. Mc ard A. Warne and Shardelow, troop Keyler, troop 1 Trudgeon and Robe: roop 177. er Bridgford, erry Thurston, troo imsett, troop 3( Paul, Richard Coc Hines and Lawren troop 316; Wallace 8 Bayless, troop 332; A Randall Burk, troo John Marshall, troof

ndustrial Peat By U. S. Medial

WASHINGTON, Ji ederal Mediation D . Ching said tod: ave brightened for | ndustrial peace. He said he was’ er ohn L. Lewis’ agre ume soft coal wage Way, by the new conf lated for Monday ir ned atomic strike a enn, and by settle long lines telephone

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