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ar expenses. In other words, r is for preparstion for war or

“that $90 billion is what we paid in of World War II; OF 4 tata] of $47 ito June 30, 10421

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made th rept publ with the rem tht t wis ," which is an understatement. Sat t is well, however, ‘that the issue is out in the open where it can be discussed. Almost any major innovation

sacrifices } somebody, probably by everybody. We have to face up tori, : Mr. Forrestal wants more time to: come to his own conclusions on the National Guard proposal, and so do we, But s can be no quarrel with the major premise of the committee, that in this atomic age the United States no longer 8 build its defenses “on the theory that our oceans and ‘allies will again hold off our enemies while we organise war and train our fighting forces.” : Our oceans offer little protection any more. And where have ap ally strong enough to stand off a major at. We know of none.

of his old friend, Senator Joo Ball

tiv all, the Senator, who probably | . Republican to support President ke TBIV Stared the GOP “stop

“Mn Tone | With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue TO BARTON REES POGUE

Please cease your sighing, For with your wishes we are complying. Our poems are short, In various rhymes, Wa hope we I JIM em TUNE WITH THE TIMES. KE. 4 and a EVANS PETERS, > New Castle. *

COMMENTS ON ART

much more to “art” than the defini-

uch of their efforts have impressed me with a lack of good craftsmanship, and I feel a “childishness” is reflected in their work. In fact, with many modern paintings— some of which have won blue ribbons and big * gash prizes; too—I have a ae & feeling of downright disgust and disdain. There should always “sanity” in all art, never “asininity.”

~LESTER C. NAGLEY SR., Nashville. i EE 4

A YEN FOR AN OYSTER

Every single summer, about this time of year, 1 got 8 Yan for aystama, and that time 1s drawing

But we 1 try to Soha. I get an awful

fright : For who cangdine on oysters at 90 cents a pint?

Won't somebody help mie, please, what can I do? That craving's growing stronger for a good old

g

oyster stew. Ive written to my congressman, but I get no

; reply, About the price of oysters, why they're so high? MRS. EARL LEISURE, 1921 Houston St,

HUMAN AILMENTS

—JOSEPHINE BUCK, R. og 1, Westfield, Ind.

COUNTING “SHEEP

My wife says I snore when I sleep. I don’t snore... I'm just counting sheep. \ When I come to four It's then that I snore, I'm just counting sheep when I sleep. PETERS,

FE. J.

New Oastle.

FASHIONS

Fashions come and fashions go, Shirts and skirts and blouses, Some say ankles should not show, ns come and fashions go. All the people don't agree On clothes, work or heuses, Fashions come and fashions go, Shirts and skirts and b ~LaVAUGHN EVANS PETERS, New Castle.

A STREAK OF HAM

By Marquis Childs

| Two-Hour Day, $30,000 a Year,

Taylor's Economic Pipe Dream

McCALL, Idaho—In this election year Idaho has a vice presidential candidate in Sen. Glen “H. Taylor, the running mate of Henry A. Wallace on the Progressive Party ticket. Fantastic, dare some of the adjectives applied by political commentators to Sen. Taylor's theatrical performances before big-city audiences in the east. But here in his home state they are not amazed or surprised. Sen. Taylor is acting perfectly in character in everything he has said and done. In some respects he is a very special case. As a frustrated, intensely ambitious, headline seeking individual, he would deserve little attention. In some ways, however, he represents a type not uncommon in the West and in this ’ phase he deserves careful consideration and

ysis. Sen. Taylor ts primarily an actor with a large streak of ham in his make-up. The Taylor tent show were a feature of Idaho small-town life before the war. Glen usually played the in stirring melodramas that brought rs and hisses alternately from audiences.

‘The People’s Corporation’,

TO TRANSLATE this crude showmanship Anto political terms was not difficult. In 1938 Sen. Taylor ran for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the second district, He was defeated. In 1940 he ran for the senatorial nomination. He was defeated. In 1944 he tried using the same tent-show technique and passing the hat to get funds for his campaign. This time he won the nomination and in November, with Recsevelt at the head of the ticket, he won

an. Taylor's political stock in trade was a book. He talked about it at every opportunity. It was a kind of Bible to the yearning, ambitious, frustrated Sen. Taylor. ‘The book was King Gillette's “The People’s Corporation,” All industry, so the book said, should be held by a giant corporation in whi every citizen would be a stockholder. The proposal bears some resemblance to the corporative

state of Italian fascism, although the concept

is more naive and more primitive. Sen, Taylor used to tell his audiences that

TWELVE MONTHS OF ‘SLAVERY’ . | Taft-Hartley Law Failed to Bring Dire Results

MARQUIS CHILDS, well Jiown Nashinyton correspondent, is exploring great Jou empire of the West. He is OHIE the firs the relationship between this vast mew development and the rest of the country, and observing just how politics Jn this election . year will fit into the picture. /

under such a peoples corporation ‘‘every man, woman and child in the United States would get $30,000 a year.” At the same time the working day would be reduced to two hours. The singing cowboy may even have believed this himself. In urging a people's corporation after the Gillette prescription, Sen. Taylor gould at the same time assail the soul-

less interests in Wall Street, the monopolists

and the greedy private corporations. Out where the West begins this has always been a powerful political line. It is grounded in the real grievances of the farmer and the rancher in the days before the federal wubsidy for agriculture. The railways, controlled by great corporations in distant cities, set the price the farmer got for his produce and he could take it or go hang.

Dispossessed und Rootless

IN A SENSE Sen. Taylor is himself one of these and rootless people. From denunciation of international bankers it is just

Sen. Taylor expressed in his demagogic acceptance speech at Shibe Park in Philadelphia. And here his kinship with the past is most striking. Sen. Taylor's isolationism differs only in degree from that of Idaho's statesman, the late great Sen. William E. Borah. Sen. Borah, too, was known to talk of international bankers and their power. On this same political wave length you can pick up Col. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune. In reality it is a ‘far-reaching resentment of controls that seem to be imposed from afar. No one seems to believe that the Wallace-Tay-lor ticket will get many votes in this state. But in a less prosperous time Sen. Taylor's theme song might have a much greater appeal and that is the reason his performance is not to be laughed away.

By J. F. H construction of the new American Legion building (homeless ans, notwithstanding has caused disagreément among some of my friends. a?

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Oblivious of her many ns tion, ine fantile paralysis, cancer, jukeboxes and tical all

poli laws of health, of economics and dip Food prices have never been so high since th Civil Wars never saw so many fat persons in

is nosy and costly, but not to do so eur head in the sand. Millions of intelligent would give everything they have for a Ameri

Tale of a Heel By Edward Robinson

This morning at Ohio and Meridian Sts, a lady's shoe heel stopped traffic. I saw the lady as she tried unsuccessfully to pick it up. She limped atToss to the curb. Traffic stood still. The trafic officer took over. To pick up the heel, take two steps, and hand~it to the owner was out of the question. So he kicked it into the gutter. The owner picked it up. Not every lady is lucky enough to have her heel kicked around by one whose salary she helps to pay. Are the days of courtesy and chivalry past? ® ¢ ¢ Higher Fare By G. F. LEE, 4050 Cornelius Ace. We Indianapolis Street®Railway patrons can be prepared for another fare increase by Jan. 11 I predict that this time it will be two tokens for a quarter, with the transfer status in doubt. pat prospect should “boom” the sale of autos

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Give Him a Chance By Edward F. Maddox I agree with your editorial of Aug. 20 cone cerning John Ware. Let this poor colored brother have a chance to prove what the grace of God can do for a man.. If his fault is leaving a State which he cone siders unfriendly, then as long as he lives an upright life this State should not force him to return to Arkansas. Give the poor man a chance.

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Where to Get Em

By One More Taxpayer To the Police Chief; So you need BO more policemen. Take them out of those motorcycle sidecars. Since when does it take two policemen te give a traffic sticker?

. By E. rT, Leech

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“This is probably is a triumph

you overlooked it. You may even have forgotten that some 15 million Ameri+ cans have been in slavery for the last 12 months. Your carelessness is excusable. For their chains have

Just as freely as they ever did. Nevertheless, we have just observed the anniversary of the date when America's “slave labor bill” became effective, In other words, the Taft-Hartley Law has been in a full 12 months.

The Future ‘Dark’ IT 18 HARD to realize that only a year thousands of ’s union officials and hufidreds of labor ing how labor would be enslaved unider this law.

The workers, you will recall, would lose all their hard-

independents and

Sihiers—jwung into a solid front inst the law. The WI Ri daa

farm Hates.n

WE HAVE just had our Day by the Communist Daily Workof Infamy. Aug. 22 was the er of New York, was taken up anniversary of the return of by union leads th hout the slavery to America, nation, and without

any dissen voice. The a Law was enacted over President Truman’s veto on June 22. A big majority of Republicans and Democrats in both houses of Congress voted to over-ride.

Its full provisions, including the prohibition against sign-

ing closed shop contracts, be-

came effective two months later, And it is fair to ask the public—and particularly union members—whether or not the solemn warnings of their officers have been verified by experience.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

comm. yee : "That! 5 % the beauty of a place. like this—why, you could tinker

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Anil b SES

In short, have you become slaves? Well, a third round of big wage increases went through with only a scattering of minor strikes. At no time since the war have labor relations been so peaceful as during the last year. No unions have been busted. Thousands of elections for a union shop--that is, a system under which workers must join the union following employment—have been held. An overwhelming majority have been won by the unions.

Routing the Reds

AN OUTSTANDING Dbyproduct of the new labor law has been the cleaning out or isolation of a lot of Communists who had gained power in unions. ‘The Taft-Hartley Law requires union officials to file non-Communist affidavits, or else lose the services of the Labor Relations Board. Some sincere, anti-Communists, such as Philip Murray, refused to comply. But most of the resistance was from Commies and fellow travelers. This exposed them before their own memberships, and reduced their effectiveness. Thousands of unions have lived up to every provision of the law. They have not suffered, and some have grown at the expense of resisting

in mind.

purged.

been in effect. For the TaftHartley Law included all rights which workers had under that law, plus some new

they please.

The facts speak for them-

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ones. Time and events have an- Indications swered the “Slave” F

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

Lomakin’s Hope Slim If Russia Gets Him

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—1t is genémlly expected that Soviet Consul General Jacob M, Lomakin will ne sets foot back in Russia. It is pointed out that he lied to his bosses in the Kremlin, misrepresented the whole case of the Soviet school teacher, caused the United States to demand his recall and made Foreign Minister Molotov look foolish. Truth is, however, there is no telling what will Jiappen to Lomakin. Some officials have been executed for less. But some have been promoted. Everything depends on what Moscow had

be purged when and if

Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinov who did more to bring about a better understan than any similarly placed

Skvirsky Purge Not Denied BRILLIANT, tactful Boris Skvirsky, the Soviet Union's unofficial ambassador to this country before recognition, was recalled and has disappeared. Reports, not denied, say he was

of Russia by the rest of the world scow official has heen shelved.

Ambassador Troyanovsky, Russia's first official envoy to Washington—and who, like Skvirsky, won innumerable friends for Russia while here—dropped from view after his recall. Likewise several who served with him.’ "On the other hand Ambassador Oumansky, who succeeded Troyanovsky, and who left few if

was sent to Mexico City where he o munists throughout North, Central an America. However, Oumansky and his wife died in an airplane crackup and some of his own entourage in Mexico since have publicly expressed the belief that he, too, was purged. There is every reason to believe Fig! of itself, Lomakin's distorting of the facts surrounding Mrs experiences, will not hurt him in Moscow. " Moscow's own twisting of the truth make its New York agent's efforts look like the itt fibs of a child.

Not Expected to Tell Truth

IT I8 ALSO clear that the Kremlin's representatives abroad, deal

any friends in this country,

. Kosenkina's dramatic

The chances are that a Russian envoy would be in Hues worse fix than Lomakin if he sent In statistics proving tha American workers enjoy the highest living standard in hat world and that ll of them are free to Work when and where

unions. his if he did Meanwhile, every provision ob of . labor's so-cal

and Rafnel, Mi Miss Brier.

- Mr. and Mrs Wrancher are o to Michigan foll riage at 3:30 p. the Irvington MN The Rev. Ralph the double-ring : The bride is Hackney Carmic Mr. and Mrs. G 319 Graham A groom is the son C. E. Wrancher, Ave, Mrs. Robert Bloomington, w matron of hono Wrancher was | brother. After Sept. 1 graduates of In will be at home ington St.

” Mr. and Mrs. 5129 Burgess A marriage of thei: daughter, Fern and Kennett Shirley, the sor of Mr. and Mrs William Shirley 7700 8. Meridiar St. The coupli was married a 8 p. m. Saturda) in the Wilkersor home with the Rev. Ted Rigdor of the Moores ville Church of Miss Betty Sh groom’s sister, honor, and the Ancil Wilkersor bride.

” Miss Helen Si fca, Cal, will b to Lawrence A Mrs. A. L. Baile St. The bride-to ter of Mr. and } Santa Monica, The double-ri: be read at 4 p. Neri Catholic CI and Mrs. Robert couple’s only at The ceremony by a tion the bridégroom the couple “will ing a trip to Cs:

Linen Shower

Glenna Frost, Mrs. Charles Carl Taylor, 46 will give a line row night for M The honor gues Friday to Richs

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