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fg a v Four Good Years for®indiana JNDIANA, we believe, may look forward with confidence to four years of good state government. : : Henry Schricker is not an unknown quantity. He has been Governor. We know how he operates in office—a - knowledge which certainly contributed hugely to his re election yesterday. . : But when he was in office before he was faced, throughout, with a legislature of an opposition political party in overwhelming strength. - He had to fight off partisan attempts to strip the Governor's office of its legitimate powers and functions. He got, at the best, only the most grudging support from the General Assembly for anything he tried to do. This time, apparently, he will begin his term with a Republican Senate and a Democratic ‘Lower House—both of which will include strong minority party representation. Such a set-up may not appeal to the advocates of purely “party” government. But:it can produce good government. We believe it will.

bd - . ~ ~ » THERE cannot, of course, be any “ripper” legislation, or any of the other minor partisan skullduggery such as some elements in both parties have undertaken in times past. There can be no strictly “party” law-passing. The result is likely to be fewer laws enacted—certainly a good thing for Indiana, But more than that, the bills which do get past two houses of two opposing parties, and are enacted into law are likely to be laws for the good of" all the people, for which the need is so apparent that intelligent leaders of both parties join in passing them.

» . » . - 2 MR. SCHRICKER has made it adequately clear in his campaign that he contemplates no revolutionary shake-up in Indiana government—but that he does favor, and will try to achieve, some of the sound progressive steps so long overdue in this state. In those he should have the nonpartisan support of a balanced legislature. The composition of the new state government, it seems to us, is more nearly representative of the people of Indiana than any we have had in a long time. We believe it is going to be a good government for Indiana.

For Industrial Peace : MILLIONS of words have been written about the causes of industrial strife in America. We're glad to see an intelligent, comprehensive effort being made by the National Planning Association to discover some of the causes of industrial peace undér collective bargaining. Strikes, lockouts and other ‘evidences of discord between management and labor get into the _headines. They result in the passage of laws, which may be necessary. But it's obvious that laws, alone, won't insure good labor-man-

done, by employers and unions making mutual, good-faith efforts to develop methods of getting along together for mutual benefit. The National Planning Association is a non-political private organization, with headquarters in Washington and with a membership drawn from agriculture, business, labor and the professions. It decided some time ago to explore certain situations where employers and unions have made such peace efforts with an encouraging degree of success. Reports on its first two studies have now been issued in booklet form.

. . . » ONE CONCERNS the Crown Zellerbach Corp., a big Pacific Coach paper manufacturer, and the two AFL unions which represent its employees. The other discusses the Libby-Owens-Ford Glass Co. ind the CIO union which represents its production workers. In neither case have conditions of perfect peace been achieved. But, in both cases, noteworthy progress'has been made, and efaployers and employees alike have profited. The association expects to publish, in all, reports on 15 different situations. It is not likely that any of them, or all of them put together, will develop an ideal formula ‘for every situation. But they will be an important contribution to industrial peace. We think that, as the book reviewers say, they should be required reading for all employers, union leaders and union members.

Stockpiles Still Down RAVE deficiencies in American stookpiling of strategic war materials, particularly essential metals, present a problem which needs. the earliest possible attention of Congress. * As to nearly one-third of the items on the strategic- . materials list, less than 10 per cent of the amounts wanted have been accumulated. By the end of this fiscal year, next June, the Munitions Board will have on hand only a week's supply of copper, three weeks’ supply of tin and almost no stocks of lead and zinc. Private industry is little better supplied. ar The dangerous lag is no fault of ‘the ‘Munitions Board, which has beei handicapped by lack of funds-and restrictive legislation. The law under which materials are being stockpiled. was enacted in 1946, when danger of another great war seemed remote. Its prime object was to get war materials acquired by the government during World War II into the hands of private industry, thus hastening reconversion. Under ‘this law, purchases for the national-security stockpile were virtually limited to materials available in ~ excess of the needs of private industry. That seemed sound policy then, but the world outlook has changed. The present situation calls imperatively for a new stockpiling law.

He'll Need -Ear-Muffs GEN. JACOB L. DEVERS, chief of the Army field forces, says no one will use profanity in the new peacetime iy. That’s a most commendable target: But we wonder ‘what'll happen when some of the boys get tangled up in the b on the infiltration course and forget that Jake's

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In Tune With the Times Barton Rees Pogue WHAT IS HAPPINESS?

"Most people will agree with Aristotle that happinéss is man’s chief end. However, he failed to elaborate on what constituted happiness, except to say that what is happiness to

one may not be to another. In that remark he

confused happiness with contentment.

The dictionaries do not clearly distinguish |

between them, Certain of them, however, imply they are substantially the same, except that happiness is contentment raised to a higher power—to the state of ecstasy, blessedness, serenity and poise, a oneness with the 1d. Both are states of mind, and, like most abstract ideas, are relative, Both exist in degree. It is implied further, that happiness can voluntarily be acquired; can be cultivated through reflection and meditation, whereby frequency of periods of happiness may more frequently occur; be of longer duration and be more pronounced. Recognizing that man has a dual nature, physical and spiritual, happiness is a product of the spiritual, while contentment is a product of the physical. To acquire happiness, meditate and reflect on the grand, the sublime, the lofty and the profound; speculate on the mystical and spiritual nature of man; view grand scenery; listen to great music; read lofty and profound literature; hear great and profound oratory. Things that stir the emotions produce happiness, and these, only. Things that arouse and satisty.the passions and appetites produce only * contentment ~-CASPER BUTLER, Kokome. ®» 4 <

“IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH

When I am ll my friends come in : And bring me flowers, and try to win My mind away from gloomy pain And thoughts of self; but all in vain. They give me bits of local news, And tell me jokes to rout the blues. I'm glad to see my friends—but still I cannot laugh when I am {lL :

When I am well, my spirit gay, And I would pass the time of day With friends of mine, could well abide Some kindred spirit at my side No one comes in to share my thought, Nor ever will, as like as not. In lonely solitude I dwell; I wish they'd come when I am well! ~~MILDRED MUSGRAVE SHARTLE, Danville. * * o

THERE WILL BE DREAMS

There will be dreams too lovely for keeping, All soft as blue mist that falls through the dawn As fragile as lace that covers the nightgowns Of fairies that hide and sleep on my lawn.

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There will be dreams to scintillate nighttime With star-dust and moon songs to stifie my breath There will be dreams of wonder and magic; There will be dreams, even in death.

~—DAISY MOORE BYNUM, Lyons. * ¢ ¢

«ADVICE TO ONE IN LOVE

* Before the sun is down, the dusk Beshadows sky and grass; The brighter is the day, That swifter does it pass.

The pollen of the rose A tiny thief will steal, And where its fragrance goes Necromancy will not reveal.

80 tender care to love And drain its sweetness while you may Before some vagrant‘ comes Stealing the hour away!

-—~NORA ASHMAN, Indianapolis. ¢ + o a

THE SONG OF THE THRUSH

In the willow in the brush _ You can hear the little thrush As it sings its merry tune, Saying, “Very soon! Very soon!

On the hill and in the vale Whether colorful or pale You can hear the cheery note From this little warbler’'s throat.

In the marning or the night On the ground or while in flight If you hear very clear, “Very soon!” You will know that it's the thrush’s tune. =DELORES BRUNER. Indianapolis.

ON SAFETY

They speak about “dumb animals” But in calculating losses, . Most any animal—but a skunk— Will look before he crosses:

MARY LARKIN COOK, Anderson.

UNPACIFIC PACIFIC . . . George Weller Soviet Saws Wood While China Crumbles

GUAM, Nov. 3—The Berlin duel is viewed only as a Russian time-killer in the atomic race

Germany's control, but a springboard to further Russ Pacific

encroachments, . Russian history moves in pendulum fashion,

East always following frustration in the West.

In many ways the Russian position in Asia i Germany and southeast Europe. Communist or

nest “revolts have broken out in every mainland state except Siam, which houses a huge Soviet diplomatic staff. Russ-supported Communism.

China is crumbling before China's Red armies in Manchuria have routed

Chiang Kai-shek, to whom the country was promised by the U. 8. |_and the U. 8. 8S. R. Japan is only a larger Berlin, half-circled Joy Soviet air and naval bases running from Korea through the Maritime Prov-

inces to the Kuriles.

Siberia a Fortress

RUSSIA, using Japanese war prisoners, has built a new industrial fortress in Siberia and is consolidating its bloodless {

victories as it pushes East. The U. 8. on the other hand, intent on Berlin,

years of retreat and inertia in the Far East while pouring out

relief dollars on unfortified positions. : Japan costs the American taxpayer a millio: to feed, asides from occupation costs. fan of permanent bases there is not a single in Japan that is America’s guaranteed property. Yalta, now recoghized as the blunder of an

. dent in his last weeks of decline, hangs a millsto

‘Pacific policy.

Yalta Betrayed Chinese

YALTA’S secret treaty betrayed the Chinese into Russia's - hands without their consent or knowledge, with staying Rloof from the deal. Today Yalta has turned Asia into a bucket without bottom which-the Ainerican taxpayer vainly,

tries to fill. Russia today 1s a mid-Pacific, not an Asiatic, and submarine striking power.

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i American public opnion, how-. ever, is carefully led away from the fact that the Kuriles— pan hid its fleet to attack Pearl Harbor-—now provide - Russia jith bomber strips and ice-free submarine ports nearer

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DEMOCRACY AT WORK ,

Than Any Other

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3—Americans are the : world's biggest advertisers. Not only by volume, but also by the effectiveness, the intensity and often the blatancy and exaggeration of our claims. This word “advertising” as here used covers not only the commercial ads, but also all the various means by which we try to sell our goods, services, opinions and prejudices to others. This quality of heralding our various wares at the top of our lungs has done. both good and ‘bad. It has made our people want more and bet. ter things—to the extent that they pitched in and got them. "As a result, we have the world's highest living standards. You can recite endless

figures to show that Americans have more phones, autos, bath tubs, washing machines, radios, indoor toilets, lights, clothing, cigarets, permanent waves, tooth paste, amusements and what-have-you than any other people. Also, because of our advertising knack, the world might well judge that we have more minority problems, intolerance, disgriminstinn and social strains than any other nation. This being a campaign year, we are just ending one of those periods when this form of advertising is at its peak.

Other People Don’t Understand

NOWHERE else is the power of advertising used so effectively to proclaim the bad along with the good. Our system of free speech and individual liberty lets anybody who has a grouch proclaim it at the top of his lungs. In the long run, that's a good thing; but other people don't understand it because they don’t have that sort of freedom.

Take the matter of minority problems—so much emphasized today. We always Have had them—along with the prejudices, tensions and discriminations’ they create. The only strange thing about the present clamor is that it comes at a time when we have made tremendous progress in overcoming them-—when the evils have been vastly reduced.

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

COPR. 1948 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. M. REG. U. &. PAT. OFF. "Why doesn't he ever write anything about what the professors say? He's told us every word uttered by the coach since college started!"

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to these problems than most other nations. For we were settled by a diversity of peoples and cursed by the introduction of humanity's worst poison—slavery. Many of our settlers came here because they couldn't get along at home, due to religious, political and social conflicts. They naturally brought strong prejudices and deep feelings of injury, which did not die_easily.

Economic Conflicts Existed

ON TOP of this, early in our history there was inflicted on us the curse of slavery, involving the natural antagonisms of two different races and the economic conflict always existing between free and slave labor. This was our start. As a nation we are still very young, and we have nat wholly overcome these youthful problems. The wonder is not that minority problems exist, but that so much

progress has been made in so short a time toward completely overcoming them. Read the left-wing press, hear some of the campaign oratory, or judge by some of the popular books and current plays, and you might well think we had made no progress. There is a line of politicians, authors, playwrights, journalists and general agitators whose stock in fade is to whip up passions over these probems. The problems exist, of course. They are bad. They ought to be righted. They shouldn't be ignored.

Minorities Doing Well

BUT, in the intensity of our advertising, almost no consideration is given to how much progress has been made toward correcting them, It all gets down to one simple, basic question; Name any other place in the world where any one of these minorities is doing as well as in the United States. Name any minority group which wants to go elsewhere. ~

Millions of people in the world are clamoring to. get away from countries where they now live. There is a vast underground movement of refugees from their homelands. But in America the exit-gate is wide open, and nobody wants to go through it.

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America presented Russia, four years neutral in the Pacific war, with the fishing grounds adjacent to the Kuriles and oilrich Sakhalin. Today Japanese fishing. craft are secretly exploiting American Micronesia, entering 2000 miles into American

In the keyhole labyrinth of the Yellow Sea the Kremlin has been presented by America with Dairen and Port Arthur. American, Marines from the Peiping-Tientsin-Chin 0 area have pulled out, giving Russian marines a gn -

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SOVIET GOAL . . . By David M. Nichol Report Russ Siphon $9.1 Billion Off Reich

BERLIN, Nov. 3—A German expert, who undertook a close study of the problem, has estimated that the 8oviet Union already has collected $9.1 billion in reparations from the German econ-

Getting the Russians to give any kind of a figure for their repayments from Germany has been one of the most difficult features of the negotiations toward peace. But if the German estimates are anywhere nearly correct, the Russians have almost achieved their goal. The figure the Russians have cited most frequently as their minimum demand on Germany is $10 billion. Probably the German estimates are high. They fix payments to the Soviet Union from current production in eastern Germany alone at $3 billion, from the end of the war until mid-1048, with another $500 million scheduled by the end of the year. In contrast, exports from the combined British and American zones of occupation in western Germany, exclusive of reparations, from the end of the war until August, 1948, were only $740 million, less than a third of the imports which have been

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AS A RELATIVE picture of what the Russians have taken, however, the German figures are illuminating. They are, in millions of dollars:

moved to the Soviet "Union—$2000. > Payments from current production, including food, machine products, optical instruments, wood products, textiles, leather and a variety of other items—$3500. ; Industrial plants taken over by the Russians as Soviet-owned corporations or SAG (Sovietische Aktiengesellschaften), which continue to operate in Germany—$800

Value a Question 2 “7 TRANSPORT, business interests and other property, outside

Capital holdings controlled through the central Soviet-owned bank, the Guarantee and Credit Bank—$1600. : Gold, jewelry, antiques and art works, purchased through Soviet trading companies, similar to pawn shops—=$200. : The list is an imposing one. How much actual value the Russians have received remains questionable. One of the better Berlin papers claimed to have had information recently that less than 25 per cent of the industrial installations which were removed to the Soviet Union have béen placed

In the most restrained description of sabotage yet seen, the

“The fault may be found in the precipitate demolition of the Gérman factories. T

ea rom Hoosier Forum: “| do net agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right fo say i." Keep letters 200 words or less ou any sub.’ ject with which you are familiar. ‘Some léiters used will be edited but content will be pre

‘Why Buy Government Bonds?’

By John Alvah Dilworth, 818! Broadway Why are we being urged of latg to buy gov. ernment bonds, so many ask. . Because there is too much money in eircula. tion. This wealth is too unévenly distributed Those who have it and those who had it but have foolishly spent it and are now about high prices because they cannot lve at the same standard they have lived since World War II began, are bidding up the cost of living instead of saving it—at least a part of it—for the proverbial rainy day. True, there is no war on. The officials in' Washington are, beyond reasonable doubt, not planning on having another war although they do believe in, and are taking precaution because an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure against communism, so-called. While the government, past and present administrations ‘all alike, uses, without one iota of doubt, more money than is necessary to operate a business-like administration, the true picture behind the front page is to siphon cff excess money in circulation into government bonds. 4 The fact is you earn 2.9% interest on your bonds—a gopd investment. Instead of paying the 2.9% on bonds the government couid borrow the money at 1.7/8%. If you were at the helm of the U. 8. Government, let me propd sition you as readers: Would you borrow the money knowingly and without any endeavor to halt it, let inflation rage on, or would you, for the welfare for all: peoples, urge those who. posaibly could spare any money to invest it in government bonds and thereby try to hold the price of necessities at a minimum? Buy bonds because if you wish to drink deep of wine you must first drink water. ® & o

‘Why Close 'Y’ Pool?’

By a Mother Interested in Girls

I listened to a radio program advertising the wonders of the Community Fund. Let me just say this, they may help in many cases but there are many, many things they do that are completely out of line. For instance this past summer when all young girls and women would like to have been in swimming the YWCA. closed it pool all through the month of August up until Sept. 20. Why was that so necessary? I know the city pools were open but there are many girls that live close downtown who could have walked to the “Y.” Besides it would have been an opportunity for {hem to become better acquainted with new friends and new interests. The YWCA has lately become a commereial institution instead of a Young Women's Christian Association. ? &

‘Veteran Opposes Bonus’ By J. W. 8.

I would like to express a viewpoint that I hold and is held by many of my friends who are veterans of this past war. * On all sides of us today we are urged to vote for a Veterans’ Bonus, As a veteran of the U. 8. Navy, I would supposedly benefit from such a payment, I'll admit that I could use the money—use it very well. But it seems to me that a veterand bonus is nothing more than taking a lot of money out of one pocket, throwing a part of it away (in the form of administrative costs), and putting the remaining small part back into the other pocket. Why not face the facts? If a bonus is enacted we will pay for it many times over in addition to giving the price spiral another boost. So may one veteran urge you to vote against A bonus for veterans?

What Others Say—

Everyone who has a life insurance policy is a capitalist. Experience has shown that capitalism is the most effective system of incentive for human effort.—Earl Bunting, board chairman, National Association of Manufacturers. e © & Speech that costs a man his job is not free. Investigations that cost a man his life are murder. The American people are never going to accept the stool pigeon as the hero of 1948, nor the heroine, either.—~Henry A. Wallace. * © : I would Father see one family cry than to see a whole street weeping. — Maj.-Gen. Chiang Ching-kuo, commenting on the execution of a rich Shanghai black-marketeer. * * ¢ Hollywood is not making as much money 2s is popularly thought.—Prgducer David O. Selznick.

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