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days if this trend fan't halted. penditures have increased six and a half ee 1020, 4 comparable year after World War I. j ciin't be maintained indefinitely, uiless we can Vast sources of wealth somewhere to carry
‘obligtions éinnot be scaled down, will become even heavier drains on in the years ahead. War pensions is one veterans or their dependents on the rolls and | the real impact of World War II yet to come. The next few years will liqlidate some of the liabilities of the recent war, such as payments to the 2 vet- ~ erans attending school or college under the GI Bill, and the 545,045 move who now ate getting on-the-job training _ benefits. But in many other quarters little relief is in ad The Social Security System now has 2,471,000 bene- ~ fislaries, and there are well-organized demands for in creases in benefit payments. In each of these cases the question should be asked: How much more of this can we stand and remain solvent ?
when ae "0. : SOME 3,205,000 farmers receive annual checks from Uncle Sam ranging from a few dollars to several hundred for soil conservation. A sound program, yes. But let's keep it under control. Meanwhile, too, let's quit paying farmers to raise crop surpluses we don't need. Former President Hoover has promised that the commission he heads, which is studying plans for the reorganition: of the ‘executive departments, will bring in some |” proposals. We hope Congress will adopt whatever ommendations will produce as good or better results ‘Obviously a federal payroll of 2,086,000 and a budget i can be sharply reduced. But the tendency been toward an ever-larger number of em-
‘Republican candidate for governor of Tennessee is Aguff; one of the nation's more popular hillbilly ‘been suspected that the Democrats had ! politicians, but Mr. Acuff has
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In Tune With the Times
Barton Rees Pogue BAKING DAYS
The women take a little of this, more of that and Jess of t'other, grind it and shape it, shovel it into an oven. and set befors our beétling Syes a culiniry créition fit for the gods. But to produce & cake, & ple, a pan of
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them an amazing Array of measuring cups, pans, ingredients, spoons, mixer, spatula, recipe, ote, 7 There are “Baking days,” however, so much movement and material. Take (one will suffice), parboil
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HOOSIER OBSERVER. ¢ 4
THE FIRST GRANDCHILD
Oh, how I'd love to hold her, And rock and rock and rock, But that, for modérn parents, Would be too great a shock.
Of course, I wouldn't spoil her! And this one thing I know, My heart's love would enfold her And surely help hér grow.
1'd cover her with kisses, 1'd care for her each day, And then I'd sit and hold her, And rock and rock away. BINA T. SARYER, Crawfordsville.
* Hl FIRESIDE PHILOSOPHY
Wisdom knows .it 18 sometimes wrongignorance doesn’t know it can be. . . . He who wastes time wastes that much of his life. . . . A An properly concerned about his duty needn't be too much concerned about his . + “Heaven helps them who help ves Benj, Franklin. And it doesn’t 8186. » . . One moment of serious worth a of raving. ... No can be too popular with himself and with others at the same time. ’ “THURMAN GEISE, Connersville. > & & :
BECAUSE
Because my soul is weary of the times . And sees no succor as the days go on 1.ét ho one siippose there are no true rhymeés— No harfiony ; . . no unseeh paragon Of rightness. Bécause froth rubble willow-weeds do spring And hold such promise men again take heart i a nation's wing or ress—1 may know thé greater part
~ELSIE PEANL SLIVER, Greenwood. ‘MY. CHOICE t T was calidd upon toda Between the with heads of curls And thé i all their
en nowest well y 10 st we B : Out Of Yeack, 711 just take one of each.” =GORDON OLVEY, Noblesville,
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Is Behind?
THERE 18 the schismiel, and there is the
A doppus is 4 fellow who 18 always dropping . A achiemiel 18 pe 18d who 1s so dumb; ne fous aro nd picking up the things that the Go Whether Comrade Lomakin, the Russian #til Who 16t the prisoner he had ‘‘rescusd’— . Kosénkina—jump out of a window and pe, if & s or a schiemiel probably will ve to be fed in high and solemn party conclave ih Moscow, . Phe point is académie, over here, but it may ; The pain Comrade Lomakin, = Bx-commie éfiz. former editor of the Dally Worker, says Soviet bureaucrats have been shot for
An lnkling of how Lomakin's fellow comfades feel about it, can be gléansd froin the news dispatches. For instance: Comrade Chepurnykh, Lomakin's vice conll, Wis scheduled to leave for Russia on the Soviet ship, Pobeta, three days before the whole Kosenkina case exploded in the Russian collective face. He didn't go. : “Now. I wish I had gone,” he told newsmen. “Theré has been so much trouble.” Then he was asked If hé thought Comrade Lomakin was in trouble. “Whe knows?" he sald. “Things have not gone well. Podsibly we mide some mistakes."
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Let's Talk U, S.=Neot Russia
WE'RE REMINDED -6f that apocryphal story about thé Russian and American arguing before the United Nations. “Te United States is not living up to its agreement about thus ahd so,” declaimed the Russian. . “The United States is behind in ifs shipments of this,. The United States is behind ‘in its shipments of that. The United States is behind in thus, thus and thus,” “True,” replied the Anierican delegate. “The United States is behind. But we are behind because our promises were contingent on the Soviet delivering thus and so. The United States , is behind bécause the Russians are behind.” “1 cannot discuss that,” declared the Russian delegate. '‘I.am here to discuss the Amerjean behind. To discuss the Russian behind; I must have the permission of my government."
Views of News
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY
President Truidan Will tour the states this
* Slogan for the meat strikers—Xvery Day Should Be Turnip Day. SA bumper corn crop. At presf, cattle must be eating only
* A Soviet representative wants to let gov ernment workers strike in Japan. Under a new Japanese ruling they have no more right to strike there than n Russia,
Turnip Day Sesion.
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ent prices for the choice ears.
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ing are bifocals. They give a dim View of the USA but make the USSR lex rosy.
The New York Times reports that “Voice of America” broadcasts now operate ‘twenty-six and one-half hours daily,” That should make
believe in the law of supply, and vote-getting.
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J a re EMPIRE OF THE WEST . .
As West Unfolds
MeCALL, IDAHO-—Hére in the great empire of the West you get a different view of Wash ington. It 18 like l6oking through the wrong end of a telescope at a lot of little men who ‘seem to be quarreling over issties and ideologies {hat have no rélation to the needs and the prob 1éms of the country. : It is oh the Pacific Coast and in thé moun= {ain statés that the greatest possibilities for growth and development still exist, That is reflectéd in the astonishing population growth shown in the recent census bureau report. California ahd Oregon have both gained moré than 40 per cent since 1940, as pared to 5 per cent for New York state and 8 per cent for Pennsylvatiia. This growth is reflected to a somewhat lesser degree in the mountain states. The boom is still at the crest here. The demand for almost everything that Idaho prodiices is at the Beak and so are the prices paid to the proues! . 5
THIS 18 BEING written in a newly opened résort hotél as fine as anything in the East, with gréat picture windows in every room that looks out across Payette Lakes to the magnificent mothtains beyond. It is part of a develop ment that will include one of the longest ski
o l1fts in the world, all of it being bullt with local
capital, But the big question is whether this is to bé nierely anothér boom. And that is Where government comes in. The balance in the émpire of the West must be maintained by government. It cannot be’ 16ft entirely to private exploitation. That 18 récoghized even by some of thé ablest and most rd-ariv exploiters. it is 80 because of tHe delicats balance between land and water in this great émpire. A third element is powér—cheap Water power from the rivers of the West making it possible to compete with the East in spite of all the political advantages the East has arrogated to itself
The millions who hdve come out West in
"the past six or seven years all have jobs ih
the present boom. A lot of them are fihdin it mighty hard to get along With sky: prices, But they are working and they 1iké the new land they have discovered. But if they are to be kept at work and jobs provided for the other newcomers, then there fiiust be industrial expansion. It is not enough to stand still. Government alone can expand and initiate the great hydro-electric projects that can mean low-cost power and new industry. Economic prophets who have often been right in the past, such as Marriner Eccles of
: By Marquis Childs
Power and Population Booming
Its Wonders
just how polities in this eléetion year will fit into the picture. This Is the first of a series. ; the Federdl Reserve Board; are saying that thé inflationdry price level i8 bound to bring 4 dé préssiofi. That could méan thillofis 6f unémployed, and thé burden would be © heavy in the West with itd great new population.
It May Be Too Late
AGAINST THIS background the quarrel between the President and thé negative, nullifying Cotigréss has an ominous look. Time is running out. It may, as the gloomy prophets say, be already too late. That is the short-term consideration. If a depression should cone, it would hot necessarily be severe or prolonged. So much needs aang ahd building. ere 18 another and évén mofe vital role that governifient must play in maintaining the balance ésséntial to growth and pro#pefity in thé empire of the West. That i8 in Oats the watersheds which meéan the differéfice bétween lite and death for this Whole région. The West has for many years been living off its capital, like a héedless rich than who believed His bank account was limitless. Or, to put it more accurately, thé Hast has beeh dipping into the West's capital. : That capital—in the form of forests, #oil, water—has been drained off at a te rate. The federal government must y restraifits, ahd effective restraints, if néw growth and this hew prospefity 18 to Dé austained,
Through Lost, Lonely Country I HAVE JUST come from a re through a paft of the wilderfiess ated of the Payette National Forest.” On Horseback, with a pack train of mules, we traveled over mountain trails through lost, lonely country. Here the lifegiving streams flow crystal and pure down to the sed. Here is the capital on whieh the empire. of the West must build and live. Fire,
ood and insect pests have seriously threatened -
the balance, maintain it. I want to try to describe that struggle and what it means for the West and the country. It is at the véry roof of Vhoiiles in this year of 1048, even though the Washington sideshow seems intended to disguise that fact.
It is a never-ending struggle to
Industry Shuns—
A-Bomb
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17— Chairman Arthur Hill of the National Becurily Resources Board says industry is keenly interested in his suggestion that it think about atomic warfaré when it builds new plants or éxpands old ones. Since the board released its “National Securily Factors in Industrial Location,” July 22, | | Mr. Hill says, requests for the |! report have run into several | hundred daily. The board says industry is spending $12 to $14 billion a yeaf tu build new plants .in “highly concentrated industrial areas, thereby increasing vulnerability in event of attack” That is what alarms Mr, Hill. “There is no known defense against the atomic bomb except gpace,” he said. “The cons stantly increasing range of alferaft and the destructive capacity of atomic ‘weapons make it reasonable to assume no area in the United States will be immune because of its location.”
How to Check
THE BOARD offers no ready solution. But it suggests: Draw a three-mile-radius | circle around your plant. Then list everything in that circle you believe would Interest the
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A Bigger One By Mrs. E. 8. In reading the article about thé big Wyandotte cave 18 Corydon, Ind, 1 Set where they say they have the largest un eIglound pd room | wondeg they ever visited or heard of Carlsbad Mexico? Wyandotte’s large room, so they say, 18 a quarter of a milé in eireumference, while Oarls-
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Poor Mt. Wolf
By Rosamond Pollard, 2424 N. Alabama St. Poor Mr, Simoke ‘Fighter Walf, salary reduced from $8000 to $7500. (Still the highest salary in thé City Hall except the Mayor.) Now he can’t afford milk or meat at present prices. (But he 18 still for thé 80th gs 100 per cent, whith may explain the champions he has f course, the Tyndall-Denny deficit inust be madé up, but never, never, ® a nickel from Mf, Wolf,
Can We Keep Oure Berlin Airline?
By Jim Lucas
"WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—There's 4 lot of whistling in thé dark In the prediction that we can maintain thé air traffic to Berlin throughout the winter, best-informed military sources 8
ay. They say wé can do it—1if we aré willing to pay the price. Théy don’t mean the dollar cost, which Gen. Luéiis Clay sets at $1.5 million a week. They're talking about the cost in lives and planés, ’ . Luck has been with us so far. We have lost oily five planes ane five men. That can't go on indefinitely. is winter, when Berlin's always bad flying weather gets worse, military men expéct us to start losing many planes and mahy men. . : When Gén. Clay was in Washingtoii, he said we would stay in Berlin. But Re added an important proviso. “We will stay in Berlin” he said, “as long as the American people want us to stay there.” The significance of that was generally overlooked. :
Will People in U. 5. Understand?
MILITARY MEN are worried about public reaction this winter. Théy wondér how long the people will want us to stay in Berlin if famflies in Memphis and Cleveland Begin réceiving telegrams of official regrets. A If this were war, operations would be sustaihed regardless of cost. Bit it isnot war, and top men fear that our people may not accept their government's decision that we must stay in Berlin to forestall war. Every four-éngined transport we own has been sent to Berlin, One lands every 60 seconds. That, in itself. is a trafic hazard. One mistake, and planes pile up. In bad weather, that means trouble. Moreover, our Berlin corridor is & narrow one through Russian territory. The Soviets Rave threatened to conduct maneuvers in that corridor. Formations of Russian planes hdve buzzed the British terminal. Nonetheléss, We are committed, militarily and diplomatically, and we are making the most of jt. Air supply has settled down-to a routine operation. The feeling of crisis has gone, but the elements of a showdown still are there.
Reds May Change Minds
THE THREAT of war has eased but only because the Russians apparently don't want war nbw and because we gave up the notion
of trying to run a convoy By rail or water. Yet the Russians might their mindss<if, . for p they think they have lost too much face in the: case=and
! the fat again would be in the fire. :
What our planners pray for is a diplomatic solution. They say they are fighting a holding action, wai fof a break. If that they stick it out, trusting
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us to demobilize at the end of the war.
Army Secretary Kenneth Rovall's to State Bar ras Saturdhy can be regarded as a declaration of policy from uh hate no longer can be any turning back. € sala: “We have no option but to meet this challenge. We have. done nothing wrong, nothing unfair, nothing provocative. To surrender in the face of this arbitrary action would invite other tions-—in
and more extensive. impost y, throughout - Europe elsewhere. t might well mean
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