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j i Commencement Time

p81 ¢ AS Indiana's colleges and universities pour out their 1948 | : graduates, all high in hope and well-equipped with education, there arises a question of what will become of them. The girls either take jobs-or get married. But the young men have but one choice. They go to work. Those who stand highest in their classes are often 5 snapped up by the large corporations. The rest face a dif-- : at ln ferent situation. They have to hunt jobs, and sell them. i selves, wo Almost without exception, the young men who get “3 diplomas want white collar jobs. It is rare indeed to find one who wants to drive a milk or bread route. For some reason most university graduates acquire the feeling that their education entitles them to “clean work.”

jobs have become harder to land. Competition has served aa to hold down wages. i « Knowing that businesses reward their workers in proyo portion to their.contribution, we can see nothing wrong with . a college graduate driving a truck, or delivering a milk or 5 bread route. Because of his education he should do better i .. than his competitors with less education. CL What business wants is know-how. And it isn’t the know-how of young men behind polished desks; it is the w “men who can contribute -most-to making a business go. : This country has work to do, wealth to be created. And the graduate who isn't afraid to get his hands dirty gets our vote as the one most likely to succeed. He is wise enough to make the best money and learn the business, too. And he has a bétter chance, through up, to start Climbing toward the top.

Sen. Vandenberg’ s Challenge | SEN. VANDENBERG reached the heights of statesman ship in his appeal to the Senate Appropriations Committee to save the foreign aid program. He did not exaggerate in calling it “the greatest possible insurance against the war we do not want.” ! - He was justified in his bitter attack on the “meat-ax technique” of the Republican-controlled House which will “multiply the terrified confusion of a world in which the forces of aggression and subversion thrive upon confusion.” The President pro tem of the Senate and chairman of ‘the Foreigfi Relations Committee speaks not only as the . - Sisinguiatied co-author of the constructive Marshall Plan. He speaks also for the enlightened leadership of the Republican Party, Aas shown by the quick support of Gov. Dewey, Gov. Warren and ex-Gov. Stassen, as well as of many of his Congress colleagues. ‘They thallenge the tricky effort of the GOP House bosses—Speaker Martin, Majority Leader Halleck and Ap_propriations Chairman Taber—to capture the Republican "Party for. isolationism. .".» . » . : _ BEYOND the interests of a responsible Republican - FN Party, ‘Sen. Vandenberg is fighting for a foreign policy : ch is above party—which is American. That is what this conflict is about. ‘More than economic reconstruction abroad is involved, important as that is. The question is whether the American . ‘people can unite on.a policy of world leadership for peace, and whether their elected representatives can forget cheap partisanship and give a higher loyalty. .._ Without that nonpartisan national unity we are sunk. * Our industrial power, our military force, the atom bom} will not provide-security if we are divided. Even national unity is not enough without allies who trust us. This isolationist move by Martin, Halleck, Taber & Co., would destroy the nationaPunity and wreck the alliance of democratic nations. a) dy is that. these:

House bosses in

They hate Stalin and his works. Yet they unwit-

folly. ingly have shaken confidence in American Jeagerabip. more than. he with all his plots and propaganda, : “Congress must Yestore that confidence.

Palestine Truce A CRSENENT on a Palestine truce will be welcomed i by men of good will everywhere, It should do more than stop the bloodshed and destruction of holy places. It provides a chance for settlement of the dispute. Eyen though that chance is meager, the United Nations authorities must do everything humanly possible to take advantage of the 28 days of lull in the fighting, =~ , Without placing our hopes too. high, we have a right to be encouraged by the attitude of both Jews and Arabs which permits this truce. Both sides found fault with the terms of the cease-fire . proposal, each fearing the opponent would profit. The Jews were especially dissatisfied with the United Nations mediator's interpretation of the immigration clauses and his insistence on his own discretionary powers in appying - those terms. And yet at the last minute both sides bowed to the superior authority of the United Nations by “unconditional acceptance,” AceUring | to the mediator, Count Folke Ber- © 7 nadotte,

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JUST as s the division between London and Washington weakened United Nations authority and invited Palestine warfare, so the new British-American co-operation for peace is the basis of this truce. + British pressure on the Arabs who look to England for

want American munitions were effective.

some of the glamour off of civil war. '

would be strong enough to enforce a compromise.

Friday, June TL, 1948" pa With tha Times

Price in Marion County, § cents a oopy; de

| Everybody has a smile on, like it was right

_ Never see a single person turn his head or act.

With the increased flow of graduates, the white collar |

cannot see the terrible A of their |

bi people Is high praise.

Were withered, crumbling, black and dead.

"Who constantly blutts with that know-it-all

‘military supplies and American pressure on the Jews who * Also the past month's déath and destruction had taken : If Russia were interested in peace, the United Nations |

But with Stalin agents active in Israel and the. Arab

hit will not be easy to maintain, the truce, much

. that one of their boys discovered ¢ &¢

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Barton Rees Pogue DAD'S OLD GROCERY STORE

T received your welcome: letter and I'm very: glad you wrote, So tonight I'll try, Dear Mother, to scribble you a note , . . We are having lovely weather, but I guess I ought to state That I'm getting sorta’ lonesome and I'm longing here of late Just fo see my dear old parents, and to talk . with you once more As we sit around the fireside in Dad's oud grocery store,

Where you know folks by their front name and you shake them by the hand, Everyone extends a welcome in a way that's really grand

‘from their heart,

Where they bury all their troubles and put hy each foolish care, And peace and joy and happiness is found most everywhere, i Where everything is rosy and it's everyone's “desire

To bring his share of wood in for the Keeping of the fire, So tonight I long, Dear Mother, as I stated once

: ore, Just to be there ‘round the fireside in Dad's old

grocery store. —CHET BARRIGER. *e + @ ‘ Is more pleasant when the lowdown on

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THE. POPPY RED I stood beside a poppy bed Where bloomed the drowsy flowers of red. “Sweét flowers,” I sald and plucked the bloom And hastened through the gathering Sloan.

Across the fields T made my way. Where home lights gleamed at end of day, But when my footsteps led me there I found the flowers I thought so fair

Had bowed each sleepy head—

And pleasures, in this world of ours, Are quick to perish like these flowers.

Untouched, they thrill us o'er and o'er, Once seized they leave and come no more. - LEWIS BRADFORD RICHARDSON. The ‘more you string your friends along the quicker You get to the end of your Fope,:* : * + 9

greeting Who waxes effusive at each casual meeting? Who fancies himself so abounding in charm That a bit for his neighbor can't do any

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Do I envy the mah with the bellowing laughter Who reminds one somehow of a “con” man --a grafter? Whose jokes are not new--merely have a new

—- After sach-he guffaws with his- wa; “Adn'tthat rich?”

Do I envy the man with the confident air Ya. treats competition as if it weren't ere?

smirk And predicts (like Drew Pearson) what will and won't work.

Do I envy that man—you can bet that I do— He married tHe girl I was hoping to woo, md MM...

and more earning capacity. * ¢ ¢

TO THE SIREN

Her charms have root in time's beginning, Her secrets have a way of winning : All her siren heart desires, For her exhaustless fires Are kindled in the mind of male beholder; Mirrored in her eyes, good and bad, One would push away-—oh, no, enfold her! She beckons, now forbids— Now shy, from lowered lids She contemplates the flames that smolder In the bosom of the snared— She smiles, disarming, now gay, now sad. What chances have her victims ever had? Yet who can say they cared? : =VIVIAN WOOTEN PIERSON. Em ee Wa A Now York man beat w his “dentist. That's one way to find out If he really is

“painless. Gop

: CROSSROAD GRAPEVINE

Lonnie Mason didn't do sech a good job o renderin’ “The Flight of the Bumblebee” on — slip-horn fer the School Gatherin’. When he wus finished Willie Shuggs announced, “Folks we've hin stung!” Willie kin call "em! Freddie Oatin is still goin’ up the success ladder. A drurmimer at the store sez he wus a program seller at the Big Race, Memorial Day. Freddi¢'s jes a natcheral. The Docs hey bin plenty busy the past | month, 14 new babies an’ 17 calves in the county. CATFISH PETE. * & It isn't so bad to make mistakes if you make new ones. . ¢ &

NO DIVIDENDS

When a man gains success Then forgets all his friends, The chances are his progress Will pay no dividends. ~—ROBERT F. MAPLE.

Views on News By Daniel M. Kidney

“FATHER'S DAY -is June 20. but he may not be hilled. for it Before July 1. "er *

Henry A. Wallace's campaign seems to prove that. the Russians were right when they said - brid corn.

It would be nice if the country could be assured that the party conventions at Philadel--phia will have vision as well as. television. - > The ‘big ‘question facing stump-speaking Senators- and Congressnien this fall will be: ° “Why doés a 10-cen BaTIburger cost a quarter?” ¢ » {

Ex-President . Benes of Cmchosibvaiia may be suffering from ldtent traces of freedom and democracy, but Moscow's man Gottwald | Seems immune, ! { * ¢. y Senate Republicans are apie or ‘the Sa of ‘whether Congress ought

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if Traffic Hazard

By N. L. Eggers, City A Very grave error was committed recently when the city made E. Pleasant Ruri Parkway, north and south drives, stop streets at Shermay Drive. This thoughtless action has speeded trate through the one-lane bridge over Pogue's Run

_ at an average of 40 miles an hour, both dire,

| in strollers, going to and from the | several times a day. I have seen

tions. Pedestrians have hardly a chance to gy across the bridge now, and if they do, it's after many minutes of waiting. Most of the GIy wives who live in the barracks on Pleasant Run Parkway, cross this bridge with their babies

Rrocery them ill

| to 20 minutes, and then practically Tun across

OUR TOWN

WHEN Robert Louis Mrs. Samuel Osbourne (the Indianapolis-born Fanny Vandegrift), he was 26 years old—10 years younger than Fanny. So far as a literary reputation was. concerned, he was unknown, Moreover he was withott money and bankrupt in health. : After three unforgettable wa

her two children returned to California. This time she. acted with decision. Finding a reconciliation with her husband ble, Fanny decided to bring suit for divorce, possibly with the help % of John Lloyd (the friend of her obscure boarding. house period), who was

now a successful lawyer in San - Francisco.

Eventually the divorce was granted without so muchas a peep. out. of Sam. Osbourne.

Counting absences and including vacations =r

and’ the like, Fanny had lived 22 years with Sam-—long enough to suffer what is now diagnosed as an emotional upsef. To restore hér health, she retired to the little coast town of Monterey. And it was here—in Fanny's house, mind you—that Robert Louis Stevenson looked her up. When Mr. Stevenson heard of the impending divorce and later of Fanny's illness, he dropped everything to comme to America: at once. He traveled steerage. Eleven days later he spent the night in a 25-cent boarding house in New

~—York at what was then No. 10 West-8t. Strange--

ly enough, the place was. called Reunion House. Within 24 hours of his arrival Mr, Stevenson was already ori his way as an emigrant to the Far West. The biggest part of his baggage consisted of Bancroft's “History of the United States” in six fat volumes.

They Lived Happily Ever After

TWELVE DAYS later, after suffering the torments of hell, he turned up in San Francisco ‘more dead than alive. When he arrived In

' Monterey, another 150 miles to the south, he

broke down completely, Instead of helping Fanny, as he thought he could, it was she who

had to nurse him back to health. The marriage:

took place on May 19, 1580—nine months after

Stevenson's arrival in America. They lived -

“happily ever after. Indeed, only once in their 14 years of married life was, there anything approaching a rift. That, was, when Mr, Stevenson began writing -- The Strange- wJakyll.and Mr. Hyde.” Fanny didn’t lke the drift of the thing when

FOREIGN. AFFAIRS ..

. By Anton Shere: = Lived hi Ever After—In “Robert Louis Stevenson House

Stevenson first met:

"he read the first draft to her. She left the room

and wrote a detailed criticism, pointing out her chief objection-—that it had the makings of a great allegory whereas he had treated it purely as if it were a rip-snorting story. Fanny delivered the paper to her husband and left the room. In the course of an hour his bell rang. Answering the ring she found him

> sitting up in bed pointing with a Jone denunciatory

finger to a pile of ashes in the

manuscript.

Influenced by Indianapolis Schools

IT WAS written again in three days, this time more to Fanny's liking. ‘Whether .Fanny bettered or butchered the book is a debatable question. Less debatable is the suspicion that “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” as finally written, revealed the moralistic influence of the Indi« anapolis public school system.

In support of which I cite Fanny Vande-

uribelievable precosity when she the Third Ward School in Indianapolis. Literature was her special talent ‘with the fine arts running a close second. She was the best writer of compositions fn her class and, certainly, the best reciter of Sarah Bolton's “Paddle Your Own Canoe.” Not that the other kids weren't pretty good too, but Fanny had a way of emphasizing . the moral, a trick which somehow escaped the competitors. Fanny's gift of pointing the moral came to the top when a temperance movement swept the

country ‘and eventually hit Indianapolis. Fanny

was just about to graduate from the Third

"Ward School at the time.

In her enthusiasm to help the cause, Fanny produced two drawings, both of which set the town on its head. One represented a rickety house with broken windows, a crooked weedgrown path leading to a gate fallen off its hinges and a fence with half its pickets gone. This. she labeled “The Drunkard’'s Home.” The companion piece dépicting a freshly painted cottage with a straight path and an orderly fence and gate was called—so help me—"“The Reformed Drunkard’'s Home.” 1 was reminded of Fanny's two didactic

. drawings when several weeks ago, in Monterey,

. By Marquis Childs

I hunted up what is now known the “Robert Loyis , Stevenson House,” a lal utterly unmindful of the fact that the house really belonged to Fan Vandegrift, most depressing, for the place was in a state of ruin.

There was a hopeful sign, however, recent spade marks revealed an earnest effort, on the

-- part. of. sore. One, to. restore the garden in

~ WHICH Fan ny Airet received her great lover,

Greece Is Riddle Within Riddle

WASHINGTON, June 11 — Rumors persist of an impending change in the government of Greece that may well provide néw embarrassments for the United States In its uneasy role of protector. Today, one year after the

munism,

that

. the mounting threat of com-

THERE ‘are * unhappy signs Amherican policy-makers in Greece are in a frame of mind to accept thing—ylelding to the Greek

all forms of repression are jus-

munism. And communism, by this definition, becomes any ex-

almost any- pression to the left of, say,

William Jennings Bryan,

start of the U. 8. program, progress must be measured with a microscope. The achievement is almost wholly a negative one. Greece has not gone Communist and the government in Athens is not an outright dictatorship. » . > BUT it is not enough, as Greece abundantly illustrates, to have stopped communism. Such a negative approach will not win over Europe. It is not enough to stop communism if the alternative is. support of looks very much like fascism. ’ We will grant that Greece

will also grant that Ald Administrator Dwight Griswold did his best to broaden the Athens government, over the opposition of career diplomats and the former ambassador, Lincoln McVeach, ~ ! : sn » NOW. according to reports from Greece, powerful leaders on the extreme right feel the opportunity is drawing near to end . this so-called coalition government. . They want to replace it with _ what they would call a service government to be headed by a military man. = = Such a service government | would be little more | thinly ‘a . . That will ‘the ) the propaganda out of

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

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right wing idea that any and -

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traffic, " ceding

I have lived by this bridge almost a year and will say there has been an average of three collisions on it a week. They were not .bad, due to the fact that they were barely

| moving .alter stopping at Pleasant Run Park:

way. But now, with nothing to slow them motorists may be severely injured or Kitica ‘There are two ways to eliminate this hazard: (1) Widen the bridge, and (2) make Sherman Drive stop at Pleasant Run Parkway, north and south drives, as it used to be, creating a four. way stop at "both Intersections,

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‘They Called Indianapolis Dead’ By Mrs. W. A. Collins, City

No man living is big enough to contro gambling. They can't stop it either, but onl men can legalize it and take a tax burden off the pevs man. irth, the beginning of life is a gamble, Marriage is not to be ignored as a gamble for look at thé divorce rate. Divorce ‘is a’ gamble with children’s Ii because many end in Juvenile Court from broken homes.

ie big is a gamble, for often the rsons in these posts do not hotony: po! understand child We go out all dressed up in our Sunday best. A foolish motorist runs a red light, and we are carted away to the hospital or to the morgue, Another gamble. : ‘Great fortunes are gambled away in. three __generations, so the records say. —. We gambie on the men and women appointed to public institutions; are they honest or will they gamble with lives for a few paltry dollars? Why don’t politicians wake up and be honest men and legalize gambling? I wish the politicians could have heard. the crowds, at the Speedway raving about what a dead town Indianapolis really turned out to be, Poor little town, the people will wake up some of these days and put you on the I believe it will Ble. a Botaewrs to do it too.

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Watch Hoty — By C. D. C. Harry Truman's political barometer is as unpredictable as Indiana weather. If he is nominated as President in June it looks now as if his forecast would be cloudy in November, If the past is a criterion to 80 by it may be fair and balmy. Mr. Truman came into power at a time when only a great war was oapy holding the untey _ together,

His first mistake was in trying to —

FDR’s shoes. Forty-nine per cent of the voters didn't like Mr. Roosevelt and they didn’t even like his shoes. The 51 per cent wanted a hero they could idolize and they couldn’t idolize Mr, even if he was trying to wear Mr. Roosevelt's shoes. The congressional elections were a worse disaster than even the 49 per cent predicted. sce the electior he decided to be plain arry Truman and I cannot recall that he has Hoy Mr. Roosevelt's name in public since. The le liking Harry Truman,

peop “especially the way he handled the coal and ral

road strikes. His next mistake was firing Henry Wallace. Mr. Roosevelt could have been more subtle and sent Henry off on an important mission to the North Pole or the moon and everyone would have been happy, including Henry. His next mistake was in trying to steal Henry's thunder with his ¢ivil rights program.

The boys from the South don’t feel obliged to .

go along even if Harry is a Democrat. A-lot of changes can take place between now and November. Harry Truman is unpredictable

i and he may make a quick comeback. -

Te & @ “Art and Politics Don’t Mix’

By Gene Oakes, 1546 Broadway, City

Knowing both musical and non-musical people, I hear a lot of divided opinion on the cur-

rent plight of Paul Robeson, the famous singer

who has refused to tell a congressional com: Titled ‘whether of not he is a Communist.” Te ‘would seem on one hand that he is an ungrateful, outspoken troublemaker; on the other, a victim of unreasonable and. inhuman persecution. . Whichever. is actually. true, Mr. Robeson’s attitude is out of line. The province

* of ‘the artist in these complex modern times is

or should be limited to his.own particular field of endeavor. Art and politics do not mix; one distorts the other,

Mr. Robeson's passionate outbursts against

| the stupid and barbaric,attitude.toward minori:

ties in America contribute much less towar an eventual solution of the problem than do the examples of Joe Louis and Marian Anderson who—without bitterness—strive only to use their abilities in the best way possible to reflect ‘credit on themselves and their race. They are

two fine people and. everybody knows it and re

spects them. . Paul Robeson's tactics will only increase the already overabundant bad feeling and prejudice. l

® ¢ 9 Feed Them

By Fred Wm. Lawrenz, 1548 Gimber St, City Open letter to Mayor Al; Feeney Why don't you take one day tog AT over our streets? You would see our half-fed children. Travé: ing in any direction you would see that a effort on your part could at least help. A campaign could be started with your back: ing'to raise money through mail and contrib" tion stations uptown, and to make every §* ery in town ®nd theaters agents for. the caus ave a date and 1 set. On completion of drive have food displayed ,at city markets, so the needy could get thelr food quickly. Have each item. carry so many points. each family be given their quota, depend family sige. A ‘well-fed child will make a well-bred atu.

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Catch the Rabbit

By O. G. Overcash, Clty

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