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PAGE 20 Friday, Nov. 26, 1948 Barton Rees Pogue ; : ’ ! Owned spd published daily by, Indianapolis Keep letters 200 words or less on any sub- Cerem Times Publishing Co., 214 W. Marylan n Postal Zone 9. Member of United Press, Scripps- WEATHER KNOWLEDGE ject with which you are familiar. Some letters In Pos Howard Newspaper Alliance, NEA Service, and Sul Xa Steolitd tom Rist osed will be edited but content will be pre- The P Audit Eutesy of Clrculations. oid 4 copy iol a I served, for here the People Speak in Freedom. Harrison, 'v daily or Sunday; delivered by carrier dally and In the little town of Noall, wedding of Sunday, 30c a week, daily only, 25¢, Sunday To see whom he could meet; ‘Not Fashion Plates’ man and R nl 5c. Mail rates in Indiana, daily and Sunday He always had an answer p. m. today. $7.50 a year, daily, $5.00 a year, Sunday only, For questions coming fast . By “A Sloppy Hoosier” The brid $2.50; ali other states, U. 8. possessions. Canada And always liked to talk about An open letter to Mrs. Veronica Dengel-= | Ma}, asd } M and Mexico, daily, $1.10 a month, Sunday, So A sign or sams forecast, mask producer of charm: | man, 8925 a copy. Bley 8051 “Wal, yes, it rained t'day In your expressed opinion of we dowdy, une Geisinger, 1 : Give Light Teiopoene Wii Fina Thew Uson Woy 21a a a Say ore, mn ive 314 ilopry In iis ' | i x oT vol A : omg 0p there's anything in signs which appeared in The Indianapolis Times, { son Ave. It'll rain next day, fer shore; Maj. Zim p d i "he kitenen fives smokin’ there are a few comments I would like to make, 1 lain for the More Production i Ca Oe rs First of all, I'm wondering how many chile | rn dg DURING the British Parliament's debate on the bill to Th’ pitcher pump’s a-sweatin'— dren you have and the floors you have scrubbed, | The bride nationalize the steel industry, Sir Stafford Cripps issued How plain is ev'ry sound! the Tneals you have cooked, the dishes you have sisters. Sli i 3 # ’ » was , etc, ; | a rather amazing warning. If the bill did not pass, said the “Th’ raincrow in th’ thicket mew | Paula. Zim; p : e (speaking of the average | Chancellor of the Exchequer, “the ugly alternative would | Sends out bie Warnin’ note; woman of very moderate circumstances) dont a They then be that any such change which is to occur must be An’ nearly busts his throat; always look like “fashion plates” when we go and carried brought about by other and more violent means.” : Thar's mare-tafls in the sky downtown. We can’t afford to buy néw clothes AD’ sun-dogs hargiy’ lov everytime the styles change. We are lucky to Champag: . This set the House of Commons, in an uproar, and Sir I seed a dry-land gander have one or two good dresses, let alone several Worn b Stafford never got to finish. But it might be inferred that A-fiyin’ high fer show. dozen complete outfits, but we do try to use the Y : 3 bet {ali | best taste we can with what we do have to wear. The bride he was offering the House a choice, not between socialism “Nope, Tm not superstitious. A TOF Boing doret we Bor Te r Boa and private ownership, but socialism. and Communist revo- But this I often find, someone to stay with the children, get all our son; adjutar lution—or at least some kind of lution. Th' weather's like a woman— work done before we go and rush around after Air Force,

All this is of interest to Americans, we believe, since it is their money that is paying much of the freight in Britain’s drive toward recovery. And if Sir Stafford is

It's apt t’ change its mind; But, here's a sign that's sure, And railly ain’t no riddle— With thunder an’ black clouds all ‘round,

we get there, and then hurry home and get the evening meal. : We go to the beauty shop to get a permanent a couple of times a year. The rest of the time

dress of cha Her feather were cocoa her own wh

E . : It'll pour down in the middle.” we do our own hair and fix our nails whenever orchids and sincere in his implied warning, then it seems that this —~GEORGE 8. BILLMAN, Anderson. we have the spare time. Richard 1 should k about it. , ® & If we do have any extra money, it usually and the uv country 0 now more ¢ goes for something to improve our home for, Fisher, brot OUR view of the English scene is. distant and our ENDINGS After all, that's what we enjoy and where we and Maurie ‘ - The sle of our time. knowledge of the complexities of English social and Politic | cistered ine o mony coit Of the wild mustang When we do get an evening “out” we fix Following glisten ike a pool of dark water as he lashed ourselves up and think we look pretty small recep cal life is sketchy, But we would be inclined to discount gut a ine (2h with hent. foreknees—ioving As for the average husband, I fink Tm home of tu : e 0 e prairie grass waving at his l Sir Stafford's dire prophecy. If communism is so strong feet. He felt strong and gave a ono ng ors : - Jisaty ante » saying that he would Father come Bare Loup that socialism is the last bulwark against the violent seizure test. against anything that would dare to stop -ny K —— Cita tp aoa ouse, Sol, mes! an jis wise blue gabard of private property, this alarming state of affairs has oh ove ot lite fo Jay heediesely Ante. te ne . is wits goat has spent the day (and his salary) Seagoflese ! own certainly been kept quiet. at the head of the ridge. catapulting him into | NATIONAL POLITICS . . . By Marquis Childs re ug he Sgr ulin the betuly City Colleg We would rather think that the Cripps statement was | & cavern of darkness below. There he lay SID. .Ste. 3nd with & messy house, No med] oe FoR broken in body and spirit, his strength spent ° ® cause she didn't want to spoil her . Fisher a political exaggeration to further a political end. This | pi courage crushed. High spirited individuals N : G OP M Rp F $ nals. University. would fit into the whole history of the Labor Party's na-, lores such endings. Groups dare dangerous ew ay 15 in U ur e 0 0 0 : ‘tionalisation program. For the program is a result of a motives in their own strength. Nations prove ‘Compulsory Votin g Not Answer’ rganiza

major pledge in the party's successful 1945 campaign. The situation is not the same in the British steel industry as it was in the British mines or transportation system. But in theory they are all of a piece. The theory holds that basic industries must be state-owned. And the

the folly of swaggering, century after century, by exerting love of thrill and are battered down by the inward courage of a stronger force that is like an unseen finger writing in the sand. :

=~OLIVE BopE BROWY, Fountain City. “

Out of ‘Dead Weight of Past’

WASHINGTON, Ngv. 26—To most devout Republicans. yesterday's traditional feasting and

+ giving thanks ‘may have seemed a bleak mock-

ery. The season of mists and mellow fruitful-

credit for putting Illinois’ 28 electoral votes in the Truman column. Mr. Stevenson, who was afraid he could not win against the largest expenditure of slush-fund monéy in the history

By Sarah L. McMath, Pennsylvania Hotel In regard to an editorial on “compulsory voting” appearing in The Times, an idea struck me during a most inspiring talk on the specific

needs of each country given at the War Memorial.

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ness can call for th 7 f defeat = theory i being put nto practios regardless MISCONSTRUCTION Bn em oe o sae of Gee ee | etn Lam, 20 J irs we ma to rm & 8 ® ® = We say or do some certain thin, Yet without straining too hard to see since Illinois was admitted to the union. No, compulsor- , sponsor a 1 NATIONALISM has evidently worked some improve- That's oftime misconstrued, 8 blessings in disguise, maybe even the Republi- appeal to Yt aE ud Rot Zen rem$ ih McCormick ments in British mining, particularly in a more efficient Ant when we hear a sad elect cans hit Sad soteling No be hari ry Rejected the Stale Past other reasons go to the polls and vote. That day in the x : . + . Someone’s been rude! now that the memory of the resounding defeat . ; definit Church. He! working of veins through elimination of private boundaries, of Nov. 2 is fading. Theygcan, it should be MR. DOUGLAS won by nearly 500,000. This | It The ute INPIFAtion. 4 or Confusior and in the ending of some restrictive practices by operators. We may well guard our speech 'tis true, added, if they will seize this opportunity to step compares with President Truman's lead in the | fee] jeep within themselves the desire to go Mrs. McC But production remains inadequate and expensive. But . . . should also guard our ears, out from under the shadow of the past. state of only about 50,000. And it makes the | {4 the polls and intelligently exercise their vot- . president of For sometimes 'tis the things ... we hear Thanks to what happened on Nov. 2, the Tribune's alibi—that Dewey's me-too, NeW | yng power, In other words, to create an interest Missionary Improvements in mining do not mean that there will That causes. some one tears! party got rid of some of the most embarrassing Dealism lost the election—sound pretty foolish. | ag being their duty as well as their job, So Assembly o be improvements in steel production. Perhaps there will —ANNA E. YOUNG, Indianapolis. mementoes of that past. When the voters The common sense of the average voter Ié- | that when elections come, 100% turn out s of Churches ® & po singled out such old line isolationists as Rep. Jected the stale past and we can all be thank d ht to b Lar0% turn out phouid will disc . * | and ought to be expected and a feeling of Seuss be. It does seem, though, that higher production and not HIS CH ANCE Harold Knutson of Minnesota for defeat, they ful for that. So can the Republicans when they | “well done” can be felt by every dang give her im; warnings of revolution should be the British government's gave unmistakable indication that they wanted reflect a little on the significance of the out- After all, if our government is a governe en in Europ first consideration in pushing this major changeover. Blaster 3 50 Segolate. no ore of hat brand of Repuplicaniamn. , ’ Sone. the. mech of bewiierment. and doubt ment ot by, and for the people, it cannot ays: Har y : : “ ”" ompanionship unknown— e y is rid of a surprising number efficiently function if only a minorit rtici- an. There is nothing in the magic word “nationalization At suffering’s extremity of encumbrances, thé furniture of another day following the election, many Republicans have | pate It definitely must be with the Pareicipaitself that guarantees more efficiency and more steel. A A man is quite alone. which has now been retired to the attic. B. turned back to a most teresting document tion of every individual who enjoys a free life, Trani, Carroll Reece in Tennessee and C. Wayland that was ignored at the time. n May 30, Again I say, compulsory voting by law or socialized industry will have to pay off in performance to Then turns the stricken soul to God ‘Brooks in Illinois, Henry Dworshak in Idaho, 1947, Sen. Raymond E. Baldwin of Connecti- | other means is not the way. EY sional Wom justify the disruption it is almost sure to cause. gs Vithout a word or prayer— these and many others were swept out. pi A .- 2. ment Chub. 8 finds opportunit chairman of the Republican National Com- ‘ » » . ~All A di T M To prove His tmoat care. No Apologies Necessary mittee. That memorandum began, “I am more Farmer Getting His’ gioowant | -— ' bout th bli ro4 ccor n 0 arx MABEL NEWMAN, Oakland City. A CLEAN start can be made and with no mee Oe ye oe Republican pro By A. P. W. . William H. ALL sports activities in the Soviet zone of Germany have or » ‘ apologies. No apologies are necessary since .... in 1048” Joe. JOD, overlooked a couple of béts president, I : there are Republican leaders in‘ Senate and ? when ng farmers’ benefits which are largely of Commer: been placed under the same rigid controls that existed a AR House and in many states who have under- Followed Old Guard paid for by the city residents, such as state speakers. during the Nazi regime. oar hi Zins Power of Jue age, stood that it was the middle of the twentieth FROM thar Dbpinaiig. Baldi Wont = siidowed Séhools ang ig Bighways, Where discuss “Ing 8a 4 cent and that we could not live by the rules a nning Ba) n went on ncle Sam really plays Santa aus to the and Mr. E en Sluby wuss register their memberships. Anglers With some thoughts you cannot play, of ny last century. These men Y nc been review the record of the 80th Congress to that | farmer is the Rural Free Delivery service. In “Indianapoli must join a club to qualify for fishing licenses. Wrestlers th others you can have your say. handicapped by the old timers who went on point. He showed how on housing, on taxes, | some cases the government pays a man to drive A forum } and boxers get political and cultural instruction in an or- It's an' important . repeating the platitudes of 50 years ago. on prices and in almost every other field, the | 50 miles to deliver a pulp magazine in which by the Rile ganization known as the “Young Activists.” And poe age, The new leadership, if it asserts itself, can Republican Congress was following the orders there is usually an article telling the farmer Andrew Po , g ¢ h ry our plane the stage; expect sniping from the side lnes. of the Old Guard. He concluded: how badly he is treated by said government. guild, will b Visualize, if you can, a cultural class made up of arena nS our lacs in the picture But nothing was clearer in the recent elec- “This record seems far from encouraging. | This is paid for by the city customer where hotshots such as Primo Carnera, “Two-Ton" Tony Galento ’ ase this chaotic mixture, , tion than that the Chicago Tribune was de- Unless the Republican Party can learn to take | the carrier walks and delivers mail every 50 The ACA oy ep : =—ROSE BOUSE, Indianapolis. feated. Sen. Brooks and Gov. Dwight Green, into account the desires, particularly of that in- | to 150 feet. The farmer can send a registered 12:30 p. m. Rocky Graziano and Arnold Skaaland, the Swedish “Orchid . ’ 8 re * oo the Tribune's personal proteges, .were snowed dependent-voter group, who are largely young | or insured article from his mail box. The man eon meetin; Boy. GOODNIGHT ? under. It is possible, as Irving Dilliard in- people, I see Riki jor, no ohasice for a con- who pays moat o Ris RED. bill has to go " a XN Bs i i dicates in an interesting analysis in the St. tinued success. think—as ave sa efore a post office or station which may a couple Ss. 1 2 Professional sports promoters in Berlin are moving | Goodnight, my love, my day of life is done, | Louis Post-Dispatch that they pulled Gov. —the condition requires strong and bold lead- | of miles away. to speak ) ri , uis Dispatch, Y Pu into the American zone. They aren't so much concerned 3 claim the rest I've earned and call it good; Dewey down to defeat with them. ership. To go along with the present leader- I have nothing against the farmer but he Touch” and about the thought-control program. But they are afraid Leta see well my love—my race is run; Or, to put it another way, Paul Douglas, ship and the present program, I believe, is | should realize that as far. as Uncle Sam is party will b that, now the Soviets have the eye on them, they will want a yan I always knew he would. | running against Sen. Brooks, and Adlai Steven- going to mean ending only as another member | concerned, he has been getting his for a long Med iO ’ — HOGAN, Indianapolis. son, who defeated Gov. Green, may take the of a discarded, discredited group.” time. shy 1s - a lion's share of the gate receipts, too. Suet: speal . party for th : w j os . ® o ei i 7 welss| Chapt Toward Unity ORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms Side Glances—By Galbraith LABOR'S PROGRAM . . . By Fred W. Perkins Weiss . . eld in the SE Secretary Forrestal has ordered the three Britain and France AFL Set for Poker armed services to thrash out their differences on legis- * ; - Men Tip lation in his office instead of running to Congress with them S li . ® P li . NEW YO . as a rule That's a great idea if he can make it work, and should do a tL it on nion # an ame in Oo itics than ‘women lot to bring more real unity into the unification program " PARIS, Nov. 26—A histori ar CINCINNATI, Nov. 26—Most of the AFL leaders have gone ily only w | : hn, . c meeting looking toward a | But nothing in the Forrestal order prevents a congres- United States of Europe is about to be Sin Tere under the ber | home, to Washington and elsewhere, prepared to take hands in a Women, —- sional committee from subpenaing an officer of any of the oy ? rages, Siviain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Laem Po 5 jot th Tat Hartley law repealed, as demanded by thelr Earl Wil: urg. o get the Taft-Hartley , § i branches to testify in favor of a pet theory which he the te a2 Risialte howaver Io sxpuct io much of it. For while ing ag Er A ey rn a Page 36 : : 8 all for immediate creation of a con- I Sates with a committee member. We hope, then, that | suitative European assembly, the British delegation will arrive organized labor. But the official AFL policy is one of not agree- - rngress will go along with the excellent spirit of the sec- | With buckets of cold water. The British are understood to prefer ing to anything. The amendments to which the AFL will agree retary’s decision and help to advance the idea that better : a ot RUIopean Foomnitie” whose members may be depu- are the cards it holds in the poker game about to begin. . : : : . nal parliaments. 4 : Other participants will be congressional leaders, pro-union H national defense, not the promotion of one service, is the The French spokesmen—led by Leon Blum, Edouard Herriot, members, and Senators and Representatives who refuse to return ( goal. and purpose of unification. and Paul Reynaud, all former premiers—believe now is the time to the days of free-wheeling labor under the Wagner Act. Presifo siart bullding a European federation. The British—headed dent Truman also will be sitting in the game. er . y Hugh Dalton, Lord Inverchapel, and Gladwyn Jebb, seem to i In January, 1947, he asked Congress to enact a set of union Rugged Ind ivid valist a Xng of suplimated Paropean Pan-American union, curbs much milder than the Taft-Hartley law turned out to be, i a n S$ indorse e French plan an but still tough enough to get no backing at that time from AFL WE detected a new self-confidence in President Truman | While the Netherlands and Luxembourg have not th, u ug | from the news of his Key West vacation. For Mr, | '®Y 8re belleved to be favorable. : ew 3041910 E10 mint Truman didn’t fish. All President are supposed to fish while | Foundation for Federation Playing Cards Carefully in office, just as they are supposed to join Indian tribes THERE is great disappointment here ofer the failure of this TLENTY a AFL HY a ra de Fag ous while campaigning for same. It is the form of recreation Seis ae Alles Io pi Winston Churchill en the. British It wants to on rr caretully. that the public expects and demands of its chief executive | nents of an eventual United Stores of My os oo AF); opinions. Wes not yasnimous on. thie matier: Some —whether he likes it, as Herbert Hoover did, or loathes it | for Western European survival, ? leaders like Joseph Keenan, director of the AFL's political diwith Cal lide’ 1 thi 7 ! The five powers will meet as a committee created by signa- vision, and Charles J. MacGowan, president of the Boilermakers, Coolidge’s loathing. tories of the Brussels pact last summer. Their job will be to lay favored immediate concessions as 4 ¥eans of promoting. betise , But Mr. Truman evidently didn’t care for fishing or 8 foundation for a proposed federation of which the nations of relations wih the public. A Sosisacting eiratesy. ag aiapiud or public inion. i : 3 . e Western union would be a nucleus. as a result o e urging o » op I by So he just swam and hiked and sun Britain's principal objection seems to stem from the La- Labor Committee for Truman and Barkley, and George Meany, | and grew a beard, and left the ‘angling to Mrs. | borites’ unwillingness to participate in any European federation AFL secretary-treasurer. : Truman and Margaret. There, we think is a man who is | Pot composed entirely of Socialist governments. The French— The plans were given a going-over in a session of the AFL sure that the people are behind him and oddly enough, the British tories—say that attitude is executive council that followed adjournment of the convention. - strangely undemocratic It smacks of Russian insistence on com- — OPK, 1948 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REO. U, & PAT. OFF. William Green, just elected to his 25th term as AFL president, . . : Taunism as the price of her collaboration with others. "Mom, if you tell Pop before | get it fixed, you'll break our | announced later that Taft-Hartley repeal and Wagner Act restorA ed in th (H Il ) Ww ol Obpini Diff . . m d +h h al be?" ation was the ticket, but that: 4 e oily 00 pinions er bi-partisan alliance—and then where will you be “We aire not opening the door $0 a new wave of strikes. On NEWS from the movie capital seldom has much serious | - Ay Daiise Nations delegates will, watch the otitcome with the enunY; we seek 10 aseablish Jasting Jesve 10 twsen manage- Seve M : : spec nterest. Many agree with Mr, Churchill that Europe ment and labor on a s completely fa. Hy ave ; import. Bat now and then an item appears that brings | today is not ripe for a political federation or even a customs Borrhpe P t Political Policy : with it a reminder that the years are really slipping by. | union. But others like Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, who NUMBER of Je who will do the most complaining ermanent Folitical Fo icy Popa It was bad enough when Shirley Temple had her baby. But | bo made the Upited States of Europe a life work, insist Europe | 1 .¢"ne ‘outcome of the election greatly depends on how many he SE LCURPIEIADIS of THe AT) Eatienios a8 VieWs1 bY Herp ally ai i : 8 : what really aged us was when Jackie Coogan, “The Kid” Count Coudenhove points out that 16 nations of Western | PeOPle forgot to vote. 0.4 Establishment of a permanent policy of participation in na- learn i of not 80 long ago, complained to the police that somebody | Europe already are collaborating as never before. This is due : tional politics; declarations for price reductions rather than a a gay, © had stolen his toupee. © ‘ mostly to the European Recovery Program. It is also due to the HUNTING season dates are being announced again, together | «sourth round” of wage increases; support for “an effective home You 20 . Rr Russian expansionism. He feels Europe should proceed, with | with the limit on animals and birds. No limit is mentioned on 3 : Britain if ible, without h construction program;” also for increasing the federal minimum & Murray's Si, : n if possible, out her if necessary. » hunters. wage to “a decent level;” for higher social security benefits, and skillful te . * Other observers are less optimistic, particularly those in cl ® © & Difficult Assi nment i pi-nustie, arly those In close for. gi “every American child a chance for a good education.” pert. But 4 ; uch with Eco fc Co-operation Administration. Beneficiaries w ; 9g Ma not only have at difficulty dovetailing their own national pro- JAIL rioters in an Ohio town used musical instruments as In addition, Mr. Green said that “in the international field in today : [E new Democratic Senate may try to restrict its own grams but the master plan for NE years of the ERP Fro. weapons. “Let's blow” may have been their battle cry. the convention denounced the aggressive policies of Russia, ~ rule of unlimited debate. Such an anti-filibuster pro- | far ic nonexistent. Yet both are imperative if the ERP is to be | ; > oe 0 : YY era, 1d - 3 i 3 i successful. * 1 : ) peace ; posal would of course run the risk of being filibustered to These observers remark that if Western Europe can't get to- ON Tat the capeigus ae Ye veryboly 8 on speaking | ponds upon maintaining a firm policy against unjust demands hy death. But if the try is successful we may at least have | gether on a master plan to share the $20 billion‘ worth of Ameri : : by Stalin. . | Re : e idea of how the UN Security Council veto .could be | can aid, then hope for anything like a real consultative assembly, : ’.s 9 : The AFL men, happy about the election results, say what Io A ey A : let alone a United States of Europe, in the near future seems + WE wonder how many women looking in shop windows are | they intend to get from Congress will be “insurance for the freee | —————

out the amenddlent being vetoed. pretty dim. : : merely sneaking a look at themselves in the glass. enterprise system of this country.” - X

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