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nin tire " . dangerous in the nation's capital, the facts . the situation corrected. If in that Sccrues to the Republican Pasty, that is

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aan 1618 svugentad the Communist Party should be ed 88 a conspiracy against the American government, ctars say that would drive the movement underground. Yet the Mundt-Nixon bill, which would require Com-Communist-front organizations to register with the attorney general, is denounced hy many of the same as an invasion of civil liberties because it would i members of such organizations to make themselves

deal with this problem boldly, while we can still calmly, That will give the sheep & chance to sepafrom the goats before we are forced to

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‘mvitation serious consideration. A for the opportunity to play - of their tour would

In Tune ~ With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue " MORNING MEDITATION

At dawn . . . when all the universe Awakes from sweet repose, "Tis then we feel in harmony With all God's creatures . . . those

Who fain must rush about to do The never ending chores

f= It takes to meet daily demands

Of life,. , ,of mine and yours.

Wg feel compassion , . . We say an inmost prayer To God above who watches o'er His children here and there.

~ANNA E. YOUNG, Indianapolis. e & ®

I'VE BEEN THINKIN'

Some folks never waste anything it spoils—then they throw it out without ah eye. . , . One too anxious to get a $8ise—may get it to his = «+. A wealthy man was sued by & mar. og man for alienation of his wife's affections, when he won, the couple went back gether again, and he retired from + + +» Laws with teeth in them are made to bite the other fellow. . , , Don’t throw sw our oa worn-out-hairbrush as long as ood, for it may be useful | curb od quency in some of your off Aa A Joler whe isis to convints ong argument on kpows about, usually gets caught in his pos ty 1s 1 of ets tien som

soon 3s be finds himself hon an tt do so few young men wish

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for his fellow travelers. . . . Bome never pay cash for anything but stamps. ~~ADUNT PITIPAT, Anderson, * & 9»

THERE SEEMS TO BE

There seems to be a low, sweet tapping, At my door a constant rapping. What seek you, soul, at my door, Are you loved of days of yore?

Guarding me today, Helping me along the way? like to think they love me still, And climb with me life's rugged hill,

Touch my eyes that in mind I see The loved ones that would talk to me . ,, Do they think of me today, Those loved ones who have gone sway?

—ROSE BOUSE, Indianapolis.

> 9 ¢ KNITTIN' 2 Lt" said paid “Kitten, ” “be all y sittin’ CE with yam, so off I'm Mittin i they'rs good!” she

81x’ an he at hos ke A or were at 2nd gs. ~C, EARL EAST, Bermington,

Whipping Boy? Target: Clay

By Hou Philip Y

WABHINGTON, Aug, 12—The tendency in BIW laces ta Nis Gon. Lucius D. Clay as the pping-boy of the Berlin crisis has given rise to Soviet reports of bis “repudiation” and Yrscall” The White House has made it plain that nothing could be further from the truth. But the fact that Kremlin propaganda found it possible to manufacture such a lie indicates the harm any undermining of the general here at home

To “bi me the crisis on Gen. Clay, one senatorial authority said to the writer, is about as SRAtiath 3 hang An WuhrelA tor the storm. Jnavitable when the Hitior to reoccupy the

> ond Inevitable the United States ne Great Britain, at i 4

ita, re, gave in to Russia all along the line,

d when Btalin was permitted to retain the eastern half of Poland which he had takin over after his past with Hitler, And when was allowed to pensate” Poland by giving her parts of ay RermanY and Prussia.

Our} Failure After World War |

Washi and London shandoned Yugoslavia's khalioviteh to be

t by the Soviet protege Tito and his Com-

munists.

And when they failed to insist on an early Jenersl an peace confersnce, with all interested powers present, as after World War I. And they turned over to Russia the eastern half of GOrmeny ~ including Berlin -- without Rroviding for corridors between their

. gones and Berl T

in, he for the Berlin cribs was set not only then t when the U. 8, ahd treating wi

gars of which, Moscow very uch wanted "without obtaining the slight. est erumb in exchange. ; policy, a8 shown by the record, was to swallow all Eastern pe and the Balkans 3 the outset and then, through her fifth columnas, iia over France, Italy and whatever was le Ee aorisan and British policy was to “bring

smployment of their fathers? nye pe

seems to be a better J v+ +1 KBOW of an ex-convict who was a mt he was noted for doing so many

the boys home,” leaving the armies of occups- | tion mere skeletons. There is proof that the |

Kremlin was convinced by all this that she could get anything she wanted by being tough. It was into this situation that Gen. Clay was tossed ~— against his will. He had wanted to comie home but, like a good soldier, stayed on.

Why There Are Nazis

BACKSEAT DRIVERS have been needling |

him ever since. Why can't he get along with the

Russians, ask some. Why is he so tough? Why | is he so timid? Why hasn't he turned the Ger- |

mans into good Democrats’ like ourselves and made them love us? And so on. There are several reasons why many Germans are still not denazified. Here are some of them: (1) Failure to conclude a general Euro providing some slight hope {or the po! 0. (2) The bitter taste left by the unconditional surrender edict of Casablanca which pulverized the country. (3) The Morgenthau policy, upon which Gen. Clay's first directive was based, designed to make Germans forever peasants. (4) the Allied policy to prevent German lying standards from ever rising Shave Europe's lowest. (5) The fact that the Four remain 3 SaKyers drawn, not only n ny but eve ere.

Critics further complain that Gen. Clay has | often acted on his own, In Berlin this writer |

found at Shaervers on the spot almost unani« mously in his corner, But for his courage 3 ot ly the fort despite the lack of clear-cut

, We and our allies would have been | kickna out of Berlin long age. Which means |

of Germany and out of ye

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| to capture the trade unions.”

‘WHILE GETTING'S GOOD .

There's No Ever-Flowin Business Profits

ay

'8 AN OLD FABLE about a pitcher ha CE fer how mush you

and benefits i nd 0 can go

suppose £ uns dry—what then? : A Po tt gion, and | the re Worry. Let's

k Foe ie petting much emphasized by i ns, to. say that business and workers To gommon interest. The truth is that milTons ot persons have come not to believe this. . A lot of

Digging the Chasm Deeper A DEE hy been dug be : Se nose on Fr, i i

1 ” loyer to bh or ploy: 2 : of . Yet some hig signing :

of 18 e of pd a have each Seen lo 0

tween ‘the

ness aire spe hd among small 08—are PLY. y worried small emp! oy gM do to get my workess to wr iirstand or iF Broblem? Or myst I just wait until it's too late?” That's ‘thé biggest question of the day,

Maybe it can't be answered. But it's certainly worth an hopest éffort, for American workers have always been pretty smart, Smart enough to know, for example, hat there isn't any

pices uh which ra them } have rked, in years t for y know that was y uplesses experience—not A or hy 8, Mant nore so for the workers. A Profit-and-on System IT ALL yack to that old question of profits—and or in spite of all that is

claimed, this country, try, doesn’t have a ‘profit system.” What it has i" 8 A peat -and-loss system and over the years the majority of folks who started businesses have had losses, rather than profits. That's oy most commercial ventures

fail in the lon, hi 1 f Yeats sasadl Lately we' Ving n a fool's p se, Both labor and ness have been living in it.

Labor has been getting round after round of

. By E. T. Leech Pitcher

wage increases, plus shorter hours and expenAlive benefits, Business has been paying the cost because it could raise prices and still sell what it made to a goods-hungry public with money burning its pockets. . These repeated “rounds” eof wage and price increases have been poured out of inflation. But suppose inflation can’t be kept up forever—because, for one thing, it's too painful. Then you'll begin to see the bottom of the pitcher. This is happening now in a number of lines —particularly amusements and retail stores and the so-called “service industries.” The first drying-up is in those lines where wages are a very big part of total expenses.

‘The Nut’ Gets Them Down MORE AND MORE the boss is worrying

about what he calls “the break-even point.” | Or, as they say in the entertainment world, “the

nut.”

must be dore just- to meget expenses—such as wages, cost of materials, fuel and light, insurance, interest on debts ‘and the hundred and one other items of expense. That “nut” has been going upward and upward. Most firms must do from two to five times as much total business as they did ‘before the war—just to break even. Inflation has enabled most of them to do it, But can it continue? And it doesn't just rub the boss—it can be painfully irritating to his employees. Smart workers will surely start recognizing this fact; for if they don’t there'll be trouble, With the break-even point so high, a small drop in business volume can bring serious difficulties. No firm except those few which have been able to earn and keep big reserves can run very long when income falls below outgo. Each business has a saturation point beyond which income can't be raised, either through more sales or higher prices, If “the nut” passes that point, then it's a matter of cutting expenses or going broke.

No Ever-Flowing Pitcher HERE, THEN, is where the troubles of the boss become very much those of the workers. For every major effort to cut expenses must ultimately involve the biggest item of payroll and number of workers. 80, in their own interest—not for love of the boss—workers must begin to understand that the ony safe employer is one who is making a profit. ban J] There is no ever-flowing pitcher, but lots of broken ones.

How Reds Seize

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Labor Unions

B KINS she said. “It opened with the House being torn-apart. ALLL 13 * Communist salute, the “1 didn't like it, and some $ clenched fist. They showed a men came up and said, ‘We've

The

crowds are at the hearings, On another

Klieg lights and the

film. about Indonesia. they has pictures of the White

Then got your number.’ So they put

me out.”

haa; the same House :

ing something that i Heke pants view as more fundamental is going on. In a quiet room with few spectators, few reporters, no photographers or amplifiers, members of the House Labor Committee are investigating how Communists bore into labor unions and take charge. : A main dottrine of the old comintern (now - the cominform) was, “It is particularly important, for the purpose of winning over the proletariat,

Just now the committes is looking into six | New York department store unions. Later, Chairman Fred A, Hartley (R. N. J.) says it will in« vestigate the leadership of the United Electrical and Radio Workers-—one of the CIO's biggest units and: a pillar of the Wallace-Taylor party.

A Full-Blown Red

EVENTUALLY, Mr. Hartley wants to get around to the CIO Fur and Leather Workers, whose chief, Ben Gold of New York, is a Communist’ and makes no bones about it. Miss Alice Bartoli, who works in Macy's, told of her belief in trade unionism, of her election to the executive board of her local, and of how a minority of radical members changed the aim from im- Vs proving the Yaipers lot to spreading a foreign ideology. |. “We were called to a meet-. | ing in downtown New Fork?

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

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SOM 198 BY NEA SERVICE. WE. T. 040. 1 § PAT. OO. : "Dad says 1 ought to finish my last year in college before handicapping myself with a wife—do you Fhink a wife's sa handicap, Mom?"

In truth, iis purpose is to keep those in the very lowest brackets from starvatio And what does the do under Republican leadership to stop inflation? It cuts the income tax! This is a typical trick to buy votes with the people’s money—to’ deceive and hoodwink m. It Tok the good—it is the kind of medicine that tastes good, but oh, the after effect! The money that is saved to the taxpayer by income tax’ reduction stays in his pocket a » few hours. The forces which are being permitted to keep the spiral of prices going upward look with avaricious eyes to this fuel for inflation, and by the simple expedient of stepping up prices another notch. neatly lift this money from the grasp of the taxpayer, especially the little fellow, before he had a chance to know what is going on. ah in the meantime our huge national debt : ass on and op to the rest Joy of those ¥hees excess wealth vernment securities which pay Ieaont provid { by the pepy er really wanted to a le, it w ve smved Shem noney bile wa re they were (Ww the excess receipts to the debt, thus hastening the day when the burden of a national debt can be tied from the shou ont man.

of everyone, stpecialy the common The Democratic form of government is the best the world has ever known, but the present Republican Congress Jas as Jone 8 great disservice too,-and has great of influence in the ak, auard brane of our American form of jovesnment. 10 the amusement and satisfaction of the Communists. To be heavily in debt is 4 but necessarily a lo tah to have .chare acter ebt as rapialy as Jos sible is i% oth baa and dishonorable—and poo economics as wail! u J

‘Strength in Good Preparation’ By M. 9 R.

Don’t you think since our sons are required to take military training to meet any emergency that. might arise—that our high school girls should be required to take two years of firs aid work along with their regular courses? If we should have war there would be no shortage of “First Aiders.” Time would not be wasted in learning how to take care of the injured. Some girls will object strenuously to administering first aid but it has become a duty. Many of our boys don't want to go into training. They have no choice. Neither should any high school girl have a chance to skip such a course. For girls between 18 and 30 I think there should be an established camp or

This means the amount of business that

training center with suitable living quarters { right here in Indianapolis for girls who want | military training-—just in case. | There's eng in $00 § preparation,

Crack Down By T.V. J, City. The Times has always led the way in re forms. I have Jong admired the couragedus way in which it attacks those evils which offend the good taste and good sense of the people. 8o more power to you in your used car racket expose. It seems to.me that the wrongs in this business have long been apparent and I am sure prised that they were not brought to the public's attention, and the attention of public officials, long before this. Dig deep into the used car racket. The deeper you dig the more I think you will find. The honest car dealers will be behind you 100 per cent because they want their business kept clean and devoid of suspicion. Get after the shady dealers, and prod public officials until they do something about it. Thousands of dollars are being milked from honest wage earners who want and deserve their own transportation.

Who's All Right? It's Henry

By Charles T. Lucey

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—It says here—in a transcript of Moscow radio Broadcasts—that the recent drive against U, 8. Communists is in fact -aimed at “all genuine Democrats.” Also that it has assumed “monstrous form” and has been “cooked up by.U. 8. reactionaries.” The Muscovites rain fire on President Trumar, Sen. Styles Bridges (R. N.'H.), John Foster lies, the Democrats, the Republicans, the Mundt Bill, the Taft-Hartley law. But Mr. Truman gets no title—he's. just “Truman.” And who's all right? Why, Henry Wallace. “For ‘almost 18 months now,” one Soviet broadcast said, “the pernicious loyalty test of government employees has been in operation. A huge machinery, especially organized to carry 4, out Truman's order to ‘clean out government offices’ has inaugurated Gestapo police methods, checking up on every step, on every thought of millions of Americans. “The arrest of the leadership of the U. S. Communist Party was a further step along this anti-democratic line. The 12 Communist Party leaders are incriminated on counts of participation in a plot and conspiracy with the aim of overthrowing and destroying the government of the U. 8, by means of force. This indictment, forced from beginning to end, was cooked up by U, 8. reactionaries.

Attorney General Under Fire:

THE BROADCASTS charged that Attorney General Clark had been forced to admit that he had absolutely no evidence whatsoever that might incriminate the Communists of spying, of employing force or violence, or of being in the service of a foreign power. “The libelous accusations brought against

was concocted at the very moment when the election fight is getting fnto full swing, the election fight being waged by the forces of reaction as (represented) by top cliques of the two parties, the Republicans and Democrats, and against the forces of democracy as repre-. . sented by Wallace's Progressive Party.” The Moscow radio claimed that the attempt

to “get rid” of the Communist leaders, who “together with the U. 8. people” support the Wallace movement for and , is to

make sure that the reactionaries win in November. tL.8 Communists, said Moscow, stand or consolidation of peace and are working friendly co-operation with other nations. Truman doctrine and the Marshall Plan, as is known, pursue an entirely different aim.” There is much more of the same, attacking - the “rapacious” Marshall Plan, assuring th listeners that in. all lands Communists pars shown themselves the finest patriots, the most

the leadership of the U. 8. Communist Party’

they don’t like out of uniform If Uncle Sam want security i they sign up fo go comfort, hi vilian advancer Nevertheless, says reserve of and want to s chance to rems the world looks ful than now. Many reserve al, want to vol in one place. | overseas with t ers want to sts look after thei Ship So The Army promises, thot some reserves

About 10 per officers got te motions—Ilieute captain to maj come back at t Gen. Westov serves came on this rule was wouldn't be fai Other compls ing (reserves’ | than on V-J da: against reserve men, and prom Gen. Westov complaint has