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Laws for All the People PUBLIC interest in Indiana soon ‘wil: be focused on the General Assembly and the hundreds of bills that will be introduced for“ passage into laws.” yp - There will be an avalanche of measures - to. favor one group of citizens over another, bills to curb the activities “of some citizens so others can maneuver selfish gains. at the expense of their neighbors, along with the usual grist | of proposals to reshape the pattern of social life for every- | bod ~ Ya few of these bills will have merit and may be worth considering for the general good of al! the people. A great majority of them, if examined carefully, will bear the tell tale earmarks of disguise for political maneuvers. + “You support my pet bill and I'll suppgrt yours” is an old custom in the Legislature that has put a 16t of unwise laws on the books that should never. have Boers there.

» AND THERE will be many more of the zame passed | into law at the 1940 session next month unless the public takes an active interest in what their representatives in the Legislature are doing. A simple test of any of the 500 or more bills that will “be tossed into the hopper involves only one question: Is it good for all the people or just a few? , If the measure won't stand that test it is time to = “suspicious about it. “And the public—the people who pay for all the law-making and suffer or benefit by its results —should exercise the rights of citizenship to see that no __more phony laws clutter up Indiana's statute books.

No Aid for a Red China

AUL G. HOFFMAN, Marshall Plan chief, has dealt a ren BENVETE.DlOW. 0. the, reeling Chinese government. He told the Shanghai Press American aid would continue if Chiang Kai-shek fell and a coalition “followed fulfilling requisite conditions and freedoms. He said this would apply to a coalition with the Communists though not to a complete Communist government. . His statement is interpreted in China and in Europe as an American invitation to replace Chiang with a Red coali- _ tion. As a result, Chinese officials formerly loyal to Chiang reported working toward that end. This is indeed a critical development. We challenge the ‘wisdom of Mr. Hoffman in making such a policy pronounce: - ment under such conditions and at such a time. NIf this is Truman policy, it is a return to the old dis-

of giving the Reds partial power. What happens when they ~ get into such a so-called united front regime is- not a mat- ' ter of opinion. It is a matter of record. At least they “sabotage the government as in France and Italy, which were lucky enough to get rid of them in time. More often ‘they succeed in establishing a Red dictatorship, as in Czechoslovakia and throughout-Eastern Europe. In addition to being discredited by all experience, this + policy is a reversal of the over-all Truman doctrine against Red penetration. pra gg EL CE Rn is » ; TECHNICALLY it is true, as Mr. Hoffman said, that Marshall Plan aid is aimed “not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and . chaos.” It is also true that Soviet satellite states were in-

_ But the essential fact is that no Red-dominated regime can participate in Marshall Plan aid in good-faith, because -it- cannot. meet the specified conditions.” Those include American powers of investigation, allocation control and ofIee press coverage, to which a Red police state cannot submit and survive. Though it is naive to think any ‘Communist or semiCommudist government recognized by the United States would fulfill-a-Marshall-aid bargain, it is even worse to think American aid ever should ‘be used to, further the SVEFtHTOW OF ¥ Trenany gi ~—alist government has been: our faithful ally in “péace and war.

_.._To subsidize the Red rebels, either directly or indirectly, would be unthinkable, ) » ” y . L 8 ” | * MORE than the Chinese republic ¥ viet Our. own ; =seeurhy- ts at-stake ee wen vio Russia's penetration of Marichuria ‘and now of North . China with Chinese Cgmmunist armies is isolating our military positions in Korea and Japan. America’s strategic interests in the Far East already are gravely jeopardized.” If Washington encourages a Communist coalition in North China, probably South China and Southeast Asia will follow. Is that why we fought the Pacific War—to replace Japan with Russia? : It is inconceivable to us that President Truman will continue the China policy with which he now seems to be playing. If he does, we believe Congress will stop him. The American taxpayer is taking a lot in the name of a free world menaced by Russia, but we can't see him carrying a Communist coalition in China.

Don’ t ‘Stop Now

EATERS: -OUT will commend the City Board of Health tor suspending the licenses of four Indianapolis restaurants for insanitary conditions. It seems we have been a long time getting around to the conditions found in careless restaurants as described in The Times early this year. What it takes to get cleaner restaurants in Indian——apolis is to suspend -a- few more licenses, and-keep on. suse pending them until those who wish to remain in”business will clean yp their places and make them conform to the ~ ordinary sa nitation ‘standards. | A We hope the City Board of | Health will not stop at four, or 40 if need be, until restaurants in general conform. to. the sazitatio tode. By doing this the City Board can rais en and eliminate the danger -of dire |

HENRY W."MANZ"[

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“credited Truman-Marshall plan of 1 uniting China at the price |

vited to participate and reluctantly refused on Stalin's |

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In Tune With the Times

J Barton Rees Pogue FIRESIDE PHILOSOPHY

A- man lit a cigarette while driving eighty |

miles an haqur, but he didn’t smoke it, , , . It isn't so mutch the kind of a job a man has that counts, it's the kind of a man-the job has .. . under our present parole system thieves are

released so they can become murderers . . .

most-—of the worthwlille achievements of the

world have been accomplished by men who were

tired but wouldn't quit. , . . Humanity seems to be growing weaker, wiser, and worser. . , . If you are getting along pretty well where you are, then the grass isn’t much greener any place else. , .. The dollagthat goes fastest never goes furthest, . Intelligent people make mistakes » Anybody can start something, but nof everybody” Ean keep it going... . One example of good. citizenship is worth a " dozen lectures on the subject. . Undertaker to his wife: “If we can have just two more holidays, we'll be out of debt.” Ole Asa Button says: "If someone gits murdered th’ paper runs a big headline, but if someone saves a life, they tell it in a one-inch column.”

«THURMAN D. GEISE, Connersville, JB ®

TRANSITION.

As one, who, born in blindness, is restored And drops blank curtains of his eyes to hide Light which a thousand times ten thousand stars, Cascades down time's enlustered flood--s0 he Who of free will, walks three-score years and ten In darkness of the spirit; and at last, Close on the folding of the hands in sleep, Comes. on the luminance where no night is, No crying of the eyes nor of the heart, Draws curtains of his soul and gropin¥, walks As Paul walked when Damascus tiered to night wh The noontide of his pride, and held him dark Til revelation Himward lifted torch; . And for that angels and archangels give Of their supernal grace to guide them in Who stumble up the jagged steeps of death— Thus enters he, unknowing clement wings Of ministering spirits shadows make, Till one’ prepared for light sees glory bloom In golden roses from Life's Upper Room. Te=OLLAH ELOISE TOPH, Indianapolis ee Lo

LATE WIND

Late wind came tapping at my window pane, I shivered and poked at the fire . .

And his shouting grew higher and higher.

He howled and he snarled at the windows and doors, And sgreamed from the tops of the trees. ,, Then he went running up a steep hill, And down, with the greatest of ease.

Old men pulled their collars close to their throats, Kids scampered by, cheeks aglow... Then with a gust, like the soreech of tired brakes, = Late wind dumped his first “load of snow! ~—RUTH RICKLEFS, Crawfordsville e & »

IN. THE WOODS

A little brown bird is singing a song, calls mate,

Ez x bullfrog sounds his deep tom tom, oo ~. While I sit still and wait.

The wind’/plays tag with the fallen leaves, "The; clouds are a filmy gray, : And everything around me says, “Sit and enjoy the day.”

So here in the heart of this friendly woods I'll linger the whole day through, With dreams and smiles and dreams again, . Of you, old friends, of you. - ‘

The dreams and smiles deceive me not, ‘Your strength is like ‘the sea; . My heart's at rest in every thought: My friends they think of me. —~BARNEY ANTROBUS, Crawfordsville * Bb 2

THINK WISELY TODAY

The mental cup must be clean and ready for receiving: If the receptacle is-filled with-stale “food” it is because we have not used it, there-~fore-there-is no roém for more knowledge. And that which we have lies dormant and wasted. —L ALLIAN BECK, Terre Haute:

~ He was very-insietent but. I. paid. him.no heed, |.

"FOREIGN POLICY

MAYBE ) OUGHT TO INVESTIGATE, THOSE RUMOR THAT SOME BOD HAS INVENTED

A HORSELESS

By Marquis Childs

Tragedy of Chinese Reviewed

WASHINGTON, Nov, 16—While we may be

treated later on to furious political denunciation, there is iittle disposition at this stage

.of the China crisis to try to make political

capital out of that vast tragedy. Conscientious Republicans on the Congressional Watchdog Committee are well aware of the Brim realities behind. the “collapse “of the Nationalist" armies. Their calculations show that this country during the past two years has sent upwards of $2 billion to China in aid of one kind of another. A large proportion of this aid has eventually fallen to the Communists, Whole armies have surrendered and have bought immunity from the conquering Communist forees by turning over American military supplies. No one can say with any ac-

—euracy the exact percentage of the §2 billion

not consulted even by telephone.

was left of middle-class savings has been largely wiped out. Recent news reports from China have told of the wave of defection among middle-class, and even wealthy, Chinese who now feel they have nothing to lose from the sweep of communism, .

Denouncing Administration

“ALL MHI was) months or even a. year ago. publicans were denouncing the Administra“tion for not sending more aid to Chiang. Those who deal in the perfect wisdom of hindsight undoubtedly will still try to use the China stick to beat the Administration. One such is William C. Bullitt whose current

, perfectly “forsésabre six Then the Re- |

mission to China was authorized solely by. |

Sen, Styles Bridges, chairman of the Watchdog Committee. Other committee. members say. they were

Mr. Bullitt's

that. ultimately ended in ( Communist hands, , but expenses are being paid out of committee Tunds.

it is certainly high. Republicans who have studied the situation are for the. most part agreed that nothing can be done top save Chiang Kai-shek at this late

date; — An exception—is Rep Walter Judd of

Minnesota who spent many years in China as medical. ALY... Mr...JJudd. believes that

wll -mission if Chiang would consolidate his forces in South

China, that area could be preserved withmassive aid from the United States, sent immediately by every possible means,

Blame on All Sides

* KNOWLEDGEABLE Republicans’ such as Sen. Alexander Smith of New Jersey, who have given careful study to the China debacle, realize

that there is blame enough to go around. Part _

of the responsibility for the failure of American policy must fall on those who continuously belabored -official policy-makers with charges of communism and accusations that they were undermining Chiang. This increased the timidity of those in the State Department who have tried since the end of the war to work out a sensible course. They felt powerless to move in any direetion. American policy-makers used every power of pérsuasion to dissuade Chiang from carrying out. .the Kind. .of currency. reform he put into. effect some months ago. U. 8. experts were convinced that the reformed currency could not be sustained and that a. second collapse

“would have even more disastrous consequences...

than the inflation that was then raging. This is exactly what has happened. What

Although he was a part of the Roosevelt Administration, first as ambassador to the Soviet Union and then to France, he has written bitterly partisan attacks on the Roosevelt-Tru-

zine,

credible Senator, George Malone. Mr. Malone gave an interview in. China the other day in which he said that American ERP materials were being fabricated in ERP countries in Europe and then sent to the Soviet Union which promptly. sent them to China. There are féw, of course, except bitter-end isolationists, who would take that seriously.

Decisions Did Harm

CERTAINLY, grievous errros have been made. Decisions taken at Valta, resulting partly from. overestimation of Japanese strength, did incalculable harm, But these errors of judgment were based-on the best information: available to responsible military planners and nbt, as those who seem to delight in distortion and vilification would have us believe, as part of some sinister plot. The bi-partisan foreign policy is just as important for Asia "as it is for Europe, It is

not yet clear what can be salvaged in China...

But a constructive American approach to Southeast "Asia Hecomes more and more urgent with the virtual certainty of a Communistdominated China. possible under the - suspicion, the counter-attack of the past three years.

EC ONOMICS Cer By Peter Edson

Big Business Plans

ee —— «Dots Abenionsiderable. son s2axshing, - in progress in the business community. Business leaders seem to be taking a new look at their hands, in the- light of recent

Side Glances

ig. now.

political and economic developments, As for reaching any agrees | = fr

ment on what cards they should lead with, however, there are

as many shades of. opinion, a8. there are patterns on their con- =

servative, $100 suits.

CED—the well-known Committee for Economic Develop‘ment; made up of--top-drawer business executives from all over the. couniry—has just dropped on Washington another of ‘its

_ policy. statements. This one. is called "Monetary and Fiscal Policy [7

for Greater Economic Stability.” Its purpose was to advise the government on what ought to be done about such: things. } B, has always been critical of government Bureaucracy, also: with a capital B, for its multiplicity of agencies. But when it came to recommending a program | for achieving greater business stability; the best the @ED boys could do was suggest the creation of still another goveérnment- |. business-farmer-labor commission to work on the problem for

Business, with a capital

a couple of years.

Presents Two Programs .

IF THE CED report had beep prepared w a, government agency, it would probably be condemned for its double-talk, It presents two programs. One is for use in periods of inflation.

The other is for use in periods of deflation.

But when CED Chairman Walter Williams of Seattle and banker J. Cameron. Thomson. of Minneapolis came to Washington to unveil the statement their policy committee had prepared, reporters found it impossible to pin them down on which program

they recommended using now, Main emphasis of Mr,

ment bond prices at par. He admitted that if this support were withdrawn the effect would be to let interest rates rise. Trying to force up interest rates has been a number one aim of the

banking community for a long, long time.

This program runs contfary to what Beardsley Ruml, chairman of R. H. Macy's, and many other economists have been

advocating. Mr. Ruml,

a ‘major address in ‘which he declared the Tréasury-Federal Reserve bond price stabilization program was a. sound and com-

mendable government fiscal policy.

The important: point in such'differences of opinion is that whenever anyone says, “Business ' wants this,” he is probably for -himmelt-or-his own little cligue.. There. 4s no | ~more. agreement among buginessmen on what ought to be done |

—speaking-only today than there is among politicians,

Against Socialism?

ONE ‘of the common beliefs of current capitalistic folklore is thdt business is supposed to be against nattonalization or socialization of industry, Business is supposed to be all for fteeing private enterprise from the dead hand of“ government, And yet, the other day no less a business spokesman than Eric’ 9Gtuston~presient 6t the Motign Picture Producers and ; . |

‘Thomson's remarks was against the Federal Reserve Board's present pregram of supporting. govern- |

in Washington earlier this year, made

*. COPR. 19498 BY WEA SERVICE. INC. T. MRED U8 PAT. OPP. +

"Grandma, is your will a secret? Mother keeps wanting te bet Dad he'won't get 3,penny!"

man conduct of foreign policy for Life maga- |

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Mr. Bullitt flew to China with Nevada's in- | ww

-.Such-.a. policy will not be_ | the attack and -

‘Needless Unemployment’

Hoosier Forum

“I do ‘not agree with a word that yeu say, but |

Keep letters 200 words or less on any subject with which you are familiar. Some letters used will be edited but content will be preserved, for here the he People Speak in Freedom.

| ‘Let's Get Betting Revenue’

By. Walter J. Wolpert, 4324 Winthrop Let's control the betting legally and get the revenue due us! Why couldn't such revenue be supplied to the veterans’ bonus?

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“At tha present-time, 21. states, including dur

sister states of Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois and Michigan, have pari- -mutuel betting. Naturally, with the tracks in these states being situated close to the Indiana borders, a lot of money flows from Indiana into the treasuries of our sister ‘states. This, of course, dges not include that which is bet through other devious. chanels,

re pig not TRY purpose —tediseuss the amoral

implications of gambling or to discuss whether gambling adde anything to the total wealth of the country. I do know, however, that it trans« fers wealth. We ‘all know, too, that people gamble daily, legally or otherwise—it i§ reliably estimated that over 507; of the people gamble in some way. It seems to me, therefore, that legal controls, with the income derived therefrom in the form of a luxury tax, would be a sensible approach to paying the veterans’ bonus, o o oo

‘Ye Old Christmas’ By Allyn Wood, 2502" N. Alabama St.

I thought you' might like to have this ancient, beautiful, yet slightly-known Christmas promise by an anonymous author. As the spirit of Christinas, and of what might be every day, it is immortal: “Whosoever on ye nighte of ye Nativity of ye younge Lord Jesus, in ye greate snows, shall fare forth hearing a succulent bone. for ye lost and lamenting hounds, a whip of hay for ye shivering horse, a cloak of warm raiment for ye stranded wayfarer, a bundle of fagots for ye twittering crone, a flagon of red wine for him whose marrow withers, a garland of bright berries for one who has worn chains, a dish of . crumbs with a song of love for all huddled birds who ught that song was déad, and divers lush sweetmeats for such babies* 1 taces as peer from lonely windows. “To him shall be proffered and returned gifts of such an astonishment as will rival the hues of the peacock and the harmonies of heaven, so that though he live to ye greate age when man goes stooping and querulous because of the nothing that is left in him, yet shall he walk upright and remembering, as one whose hearte shines like a great star in his breaste.” > @

By Northside Reader - We have in this country today a Feder: prosperity than we have ever seen in our history. Unfortunately,” a certain element’ sees fit to invoke hardship on a minority of our people. It seems to me that such unprovoked and

needless ‘unemployment at this time. is most

uncalled for. 1t is significant that in “this day: and age the men who are supposed to set a ‘precedent for their fellow men cannot overcome a sportsman= like political defeat and still continue in the besf interest of their country. Beeause our fortunate brethren have to sacrifice a little 'of their leisure and a very small per cent of their money’ is no reason why thousands of faithful workefs

should lose their livelihood.

This is a little conversation we heard last -

eck. ai “Cut off the trains” ; RR From the other end of the line came the reply, “I have just finished cheéking the revenue of thede trains and find that in the last eight months we have cleared a net profit of $16,000 per month per train. Why were these trains cut off?” We will leave the decision up to the gavernment.

| What Others Say—

ALL the Communists in America can’t back up the width of a pencil mark. ... Wé are go= ing to-expose the complete Red machine in Hollywood.—Rep. John E. Rankin (D. Miss.), ranking member of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

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DARREN

UNLESS we prepare far more rapidly than

we. are preparing now, war. within the next five years is inevitable.—Clare Boothe Luce, outhor-playwright-and- former. Congresswoman, - ¢ >

THE. Progressive Party is. far more ime

‘portant now than it ever was. I have just be-

gun to fight.—Henry Wallace.

By Galbraith

Johnston, would be to} dustries.

+ |. The more you. study this proposal, | becomes. It is in itself the essence of socialism. It means that t -private enterprise wants the government to guarantee it against |

socialistic, {

also a member of the CED ‘research and policy -committee— in a Washington interview advocated that the U. 8. government should create a billion-dollar fund to guarantee private U, 8. investments: in Europe. Purpose of this guarantee, according to

loss. Tt means that U. 8S. business wants the U. 8. government to go socialistic in order to keep European business from going

There is still a great lack of confidence in business leadership. It is high time business leaders re-examined their hands. But statements from business leaders, such as those cited here, make no great contribution to re-establishing that confidence,

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LEGISLATION . . . By Fred Perkins

: |Labor Gives Views

WASHINGTON, Dec, 16—Conspicuously absent from the Falling list 6f Tabor SecretAry Matrice J: Tovir Lewis; president -of the United Mine Workers. He is the only first-team union leader for whom a meeting _. has not been arranged in Mr. Tobin's efforts to get an agreement in ‘organized labor on how far it will" gd in accepting a Tabor law

to replace the Taft-Hartley act. Howgver, Labor Department spokesmen say that before Mr,

Tobit 1s on “Xa

e will ably ‘tall in representatives of the

§ 2h Facade tHe Mine Workers: “The: likely Mine Union spokesman is Vice President Thomas Kennedy, The Lewis views are pretty well known. Taft-Hartley law from stem to stern, and likely to fight any restriction on union operations. the injunction procedure under the Taft-Hartley section dealing with strikes afiecting the public safety or welfare. He and his union have felt the teeth in that section.

A Duty of Labor

BUT THERE is strong sentiment in the AFL to accept such a restriction. Charles J. MacGowan, presidént of the Boilers makers and a member of the AFL committee dealing with Mr, Tobin on this subject, has declared it the duty of organized labor to accept public responsibility by agreeing to that type of curb, President Truman, who has used this weapon several times, despite his disapproval of the Taft-Hartley law in general, is not likely to give it-up willingly, and in this he will be supported by ~ strong majorities in Congress. r. Lewis’ uncompromising stand is shown by the record of his ers split with the AFL. He “disaffiliated”. because the 1947 AFL convention refused to go along with him on complete Taft-Hartley defiance, including its requirement on non-Coms= munist affidavits from union officers. Another union (leader who opposes a rumored compromise between the Taft-Harfley law and the old Wages act is A. F, Whitney, président of the Brotherhood “of “Ratiway -Trainmen,

He is against the

Particularly he has denounced

Compromise on Repeal

MR. WHITNEY has wired Secretary Tobin a protest “the reactionary press is attempting to create the impressio you are supervising a compromise oh repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. . Any compromise would be a. great disappointment to the people who gave the Democrats victory on Nov. 2.” . r. Whitney’ wants Taft-Hartley repeal first, Wagner act keep Europe. from. nationalizing. ta. in: -tygatbration secondr And THEN ATSCUSSION or aMeRGmente tortie That is the public position of the AFL, also, but privately AFL leaders are willing.to make some concessions. A CIO delegation has ‘presented its views, |. President Philip Murray and was composed of Secretary-treas« - urer James B. Carey, General Counsel Arthur Goldberg, and David J: McDonald, aid to Mr. Murray in the United Steel-

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It represented

The CIO officially is less prone to yield than the AFL, but its ~apokesmen spent nearly two hours discussing possible. Wagner act changes with Secretary Tobin and his chief lawyer, William

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