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‘LOT of fun has been poked at Americans for the zeit ; _ with which we celebrate our holidays. We really go “to town on Christmas, of course, but we also manage to have a time for ourselves.on Thanksgiving Day, the Fourth «of July and Labor Ray. No one can be sure where these Tu days” will stop—a hundred years from now Americans ay be making. merry on Millard Fillmore's birthday. "But there probably never will be an American holiday | - to beat New Year's Day. This is when we Fejoice in the - fact that no matter” how tough a year may be there's always another coming along.. Foreigners think we are too optimistic and that is fo .understandable—to ‘most foreigners one. year is pretty much like any other, full of trouble. But this is a country which still has plenty of hope in its system. We're still Young. enough to be able, to ¢ see something better ahead of
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RR. . 8.8 X80 we celebrate. A lot of us go to church, because this is one of the countries where God has not been replaced by a bureau. Some of us go to night clubs, drink wine at |" $10 a bottle and eat month-old chicken sandwiches at $1 Some of us concoct a bowl of outlandish punch and neighbors in. Paper hats are worn. Pins are stuck
in toy A "We suppose we should know better. But it's tradition, | and to most. it's fun at the: time. Besides, it does no serious harm.
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tives, Moat 18 a trifle. cheaper and fewer of us are bunking in in-laws’ bathtubs. Communism has had a couple of swift
lateral when you buy a new automobile.
a a es er i og as the Romans . Cp or mi, up our neighbors ke, those old sooth= ~_sayers, the Druids, did. So, let's chalk up some Vand go, ahead and Selebrats. It's showing.
Happy New Year!
Three Good Men Needed
We ern ET three vacancies in the House Committee on Un-Ameri-
Ce Tes: prossat members were last
progress for peotie in general really Just our optiamisns
publican, has volunteered to fill any of the vacancies. .. That's hardly remarkable, in view of the smearing the committee has undergone from people who.want to discredit all efforts to expose Un-American Activities, and in further view of the legitimate criticism it has invited by using methods which themsslvey came perilously lous to being Un-American, __.. Bervice on this committee has never been Sve to enough men of wisdom, fairness and sober judgment. And mantbership-on this computes should not be Svaried to fdhatics, demagogues, publicity hounds .or men with 10 Slhatien oe Py icant sists. Too many of that kind have been willing to serve in the past, .and'as a result the committee has not commanded the high F—fegiis af uli eoutilanse Uesdss to-maks.fts wore thor: oughly effective. . rs . pl
= NO volunteers ‘appear, Dumbiatic and Republican
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bers to fill the three vacancies. We hope they will persuade three of the ablest men in Congress" to undertake-that dit ~ ficult and perhaps distasteful duty. ; The purpose for which the Committee on Un-American
tial. But, if that purpose is to be served properly by a congressional, committee, we believe two steps must be First, there must be definite rae of procedure to protect the rights of witnesses and of persons under investiga-.
committees. Second, the caliber of-the committee must be raised. Three genuinely good new members would help greatly to do that.
Sound Advice
“leaders of the House presumably will have to draft mem-
Activities. was created is, in our opinion, absolutely essen- |
tion. Indeed, Congress should adopt such rules for all its
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7 ¥ \ NEW YEARS THOUGHT
‘Providing years And touching age but lightly, Time holds in escrow countless wealth - For those who use it rightly. r
But, still, how very few are those ‘Who seek its golden treasures; Who fall to multiply their woes “rh Through tangite tory Pleasures!
“The words: would gain a lasting peace; Old wrongs would soon be mended; If Time were used, without surcease, For what it was intended. :
—WILLIAM Bl CHITWOOD, Indianapolis.
THE NIGHT AFT TER CHRISTMAS
wi h apologies to Clemment Clark Moore) Bhp tho. RT after: Christmas, ang - all " through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. " The toys were strewn on’ the wide nursery stair, ~And
‘there. The children were nestled all¥hug in their beds While memories of yesterday danced in thelr
heads. And mamma in her kerchief and I If-my cap Had just settled our brains for a long winter's \ na i When mirmurs of restlessness came to our ears, Then sobbing and moaning that told of wild tears, -° We sprang from our beds to see what was the matter, °
And rush up the stairs through the toys’ wild F
clatter.
But all we could get from the babblings of pain
Was, “My tummy’s hurting,” again and ‘again. And then in a twinkle I heard in the sky
A humming grow louder as. minutes went by, |
Away to the window I Bow like a flash, ‘Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash, And there on the lawn, in the new-fallen show, A big silver airplane was settling, slow. I stared in amazement—het door opened wide, - A dapper young airman dashed up to my side. - He smartly saluted and said oA & grin; “St. Nicholas’ Dispsnaaiy, sir, coming in." He gave me a package done up in tinfoil And 1 lettered in crimson, “Firit Grade Castor
Again he saluted, then spra to his plane And so soon had her motors al Adi again, - as he roared out of sight, ear to all, and to all a Good ia ~LAVERNE BROWN PRICE, Plymouth
: iF If we never were cold we'd never know How welcome a fire can feel; os
It we've always shelter we'd never know How walls and roof £9 delight. -
ha comin means. “To enjoy good things—it ty TMAUD Sram. Portland
WHAT DID "WE GIVE TO ME?
To the sailor He gave the sea; To the wanderer, all the world to oary, But what did He give to me?
To the ranger He gave the forest, To the cowboy the plains are free;
To the hermit a range of uftaiog, But what did He ve He gave me the day & ev And truth on to depend, In darkness He gave me gh - In trouble He gave me a d. He gave s lite for living,
He gave x work to do, And ofie night in the wind and rain, nk God, He gave me you. a —DOROTHY MM PARKE, Indianapolis.
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‘Mandate’ of Voters Questioned
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1-Big Jarguing point
in"the coming session of Co is whether the Democrats have a “manda " to carry.out
all the Programs President - ‘Truman promised ;
dyring his campaign. . ‘The fact that the President received only 49.5 per cent ‘of the vote his opponents-as evidence that there is no basis
for assuming he has a mandate. Preliminary
study of congressional election returns, district by district, lends sgme support to this view, In spite of the. thatthe Democrats won control of both Houses of Congress, surprising everyones, it was a close race. In general, of the presidential vote, Mr. Truman's plurality over Mr. Dew was 2,000,000 votes. The total vote for candidates for Congress is
expected to be better than 3,000,000 above the
total Republican congressional vote. But in
nearly 100 congressional districts, a switch of -
less than 5 per cent of the votes would have changed the result.
These statements are made now on the basis : mplete official returns. Only 36 states
of in their final election results up to Christ.
| m week. ‘When the last 12 states are in, the
number of close races may be increased.
Small Margin of Victory
, / IN ALL, there were 50 congressional districts /~which the Democrats won by a plurality of 5 -per cent or less, Since membership of the new
House will be divided 263 Democrats to 171 Republicans (plus one American Labor) the Democratic majority will be 92 seats. A switch of less than 8 per cent of the votes /in these 50 districts would therefore have given the Republicans a slim majority of eight seats—221 to 213,
Included in the list of congressional districts ~~ that went Democratic by a margin -_or less are eight districts in Pennsylvania, seven “in New York, five each in Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio, three in Califoinia, two in Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey and West Virginia, gue each In Idaho, Massachusetts, Missouri,. braska, Nevada, ‘Oklahoma, Virginia and “Wie consin.
Democrat John H. Marsalis of Pueblo, Colo., Chenoweth by
defeated Republican J. Edgar only 1802 votes, Democrat Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse of Baltic; Conn, defeated Republican Horace Beely-Brown by 1471 votes. Demo-
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congressional vote ran ahead Ho
of 5 percent —
crat John A. McGuire of Wallingford, Conn., defeated Republican Ellsworth B. Foote by 1139 votes. - : In a. six-candidate race in the. 11th New Jersey district, Democrat Hugh D. Addonizio of Newark won by a margin of 1724. In the Nevada ‘race for Representative-at-Large, Walter - 8. Baring of ‘defeated . Republican Charles H. Russell of Ely by 761.. ‘And in New York's 35th. Democrat John C. Davies of Utica . won a three-cornered race by only 138 votes, closest race in the last election. :
Slim GOP Majorities
NECK and neck races did not all result in Democratic victories, of course. The licans sneaked in some 47 of their congressional candidates in 23 states by pluralities of less
than 5 per cent. “But these returns again llys-
trate how close this election really was, Among these close districts which the GOP won by less than 5 per cent were eight in Illinois, six in Ohio, three each in Indiana, Iowa, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. These Republicans won
‘Blackney; Flint, Mich.;
i48 votes. Robert J. Corbett, won by 680 votes, In a majority of the states where Repub- . lican congressional slates came out on top, their luralities were smaller than in the 1046 election. or the past two years, the GOP has had control of the House by a margin of 246 seats to the Democrats’ 188. a majority of 58.
Less Than Five Per Cent
IN THIS 1946 election ine Republicans won 52 seats of 5 per cent or less of the votes cast. The Democrats in 1046 carried 37 seats by pluralities of less than 5 per cent. The 1948 election is therefore an approximate reversal of the result.in 1046, insofar as the number of close districts is concerned. By. i in 1046 the Republicans thought that they, too,
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had a mandate to change everything in sight. -
They did. ‘ Look what happened. If there is any moral in this, it is that if the Democratic Congressmen think they have a mandate for 1949 and 1950, they'd better think ‘again if they care what may happen in 1952,
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: by a nose of less | _ _than 1000 votes: Mrs. Cecil M. Harden dbf Cov- | . ington, Ind. wen by 483 votes. ‘William W, re-elected by 784 votes. “Gordon Canfield, Paterson, N. J., re-elected by
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served, for bore the Pesple’ Speak in Freedom. | ‘What Con We five By? |
In the early church established by .Christ’s
: disciples, .there woman was only a follower of
her husband. Women do more work in the church today than any of the men, and we have. preachers. .
are wildly disobedient ‘and thrift. Adults are full of willful excitement."
— Sur marriage vowp and laws Ne 80" toottsn
they. make my la
Morals are loose, Ostrich people don't like to see,
I can't see what is very. Christian about us,
1 and if the old early Christian laws are not to be
used," what are we to assume as rules to live I'd like to see a great wave of Willing, praying people seek God to send light to a d America. T do not like the mixture of’ d ie trines, To be mixed up is foolishness if we have a true powerful God above us. Certainly, my conception of God is that He is powerful and
wrathful, as well as loving. Can He really love ~~ | such a hodge-podge of humanity as our world
has' become? What kind of parent can. He be? “Asan earthly parent would you Ike your chils dren not to have a real understanding of what
you would do at all times about matters in
their hands? Can we live like Adam and Eve? The Hebrews? The early Christians? Then, what can we ‘live by? Tm “asking as an Honest American.
minded = 4 Assails Dutch Action . By John Fredericks *
The brutal, unwarranted vasiop. of Sado nesia by the troops of the Dutch should cause us the deepest concern. How can we, as Americans, ‘a0 less than use every force at our dis to help re-estab-Msh he 4 democratie republic of the Indonesian If we stand aside and watch the rape of this’
~ young republic, then we stand in a very poor position to criticize Russia for doing the same _
thing in Europe, Let us demonstrate some sort of standards by which democracy ean be
judged. .. i ee ‘Nee More Crosby Songs’ By Jars. Brack A. Teck k A, Peck, Danville, Ind, Imagine Christmas without - Crosby “singing “Silent, Night.” It was one of the first songs many of us. learned as children. “White
Christmas” was the favorite of our boys over-
seas, by Bing, of course. Yes, Mr. Holmes, Bing is a crooner, but have
better, I'm sure.
Views on the News
By DAN KIDNEY PARITY politicians are preparing to give the farmers. more than they voted for. and pfobably all the rest of us. os 9 BEVERAL of the pew Co men are graduates of state legislatures. feel Fight at home around LL. a .
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THINGS may be getting back to aormaley—Dayton, 0. a an
MRS. ANA PACKER: i minister of Romania, says the Swiss are warmongers, It took a woman to think that one up.
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PEACE QUESTION . .. By James Thrasher
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WASHINGTON, Jan.
Shadow 1949
1—New Year's resolufions sre made
sing “O! Holy Night" “No one. i “sing it
A SOCIAL Science Research Council Committee, set up to | find out why the big public opinion polls went wrong | in their forecasts of the November election result, has. now reported. The report's gist is that the pollsters acted in good faith but used poor judgment when they predicted that ‘Gov. Dewey would be elected President. ~The poor judgment would be hard to deny. But we've never had any doubt as to the good faith. Messrs. Gallup, Crossley and Roper certainly did not proceed deliberately and dishonestly to issue forecasts they knew to be wrong, thereby hurting their own profitable biisinesses and sub_jecting themselves to unmerciful kidding. . , : The committee urges the pollsters to learn by sad experience, improve their methods and, in the future, avoid flat. predictions when there. is a possibility of error. Sound ad- . vice, that, it seems to us—not only for pollsters but also . for political writers, radio commentators and newspaper ~ editors. he , eT . - :
Go Get. Em, Ana AL PAUKER, Communist foreign minister’ of Romania, is angry with little Switzerland. She says the Swiss are blocking Romanian funds and are warmongers. “Ana, who's built like a Mack truck—only more comly éould whip Switzerland si “While she's about it, * she can, make our offcs” or, rallying » Joe Louis, : ud i
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haul off, a: soon as the Senate meets, with an attempt to limit the . RR if their move, “succeeds, it may bring” ona filibuster historic in length and vehemence
The prospect is for a lot of talk about not-tatking sc- MUO
When Southern Democrats tied-up-the Senate last August on the anti-poll tax bill, Sen. Robert A, Taft and other GOP leaders vowed to do something about it as soon &s they returned. They expected to come back still bossing the Senate, vf course:
‘Now the Republicans are a minority and the Democrats are |
running the show. But there's a platoon of new Democratic senators cataloged as liberals or progressives who are counted as anti-filibuster recruits, ¢ Sen. Taft plans to get the anti-filibuster propogal rolling at once and will have an early conference with Sens. Leverett Sal.
tonstal (R. Mass.) and William ¥. Knowland (R. Cal.), who spon: |
sored such’ legislation in the last session. From Mr. Knowland today came word that he hoped to get a new proposal out of the Rules Committee in the first week of the session.
. Change in Senate Rules “THERE is no need to hold lengthy hearings,” Knowlind said.. “We had this thrashed out in committee San the last session. If the leadership on both sides of the aisle will really try to get this measure enacted — if there is no dragging the feet — I believe we can succeed.” The anti-filibuster drive would center on a change in Senate rules. At present, Senate debate is almost unlimited unless twothirds of the Benate votes for cloturé, which would shut off the oratory. But rulings have established that cloture applies only to a bill and not to a motion, It takes a motion to bring up a bill — to bring up an anti-poll tax bill, for example. This motion can he debated week after week and such-tactics are as effective in blocking legislation as if the bill itself were being debated. It has been a Senate custom to bring up eivil rights legisla~
hours, with reinfofcements always ready when a senator tired. It wasn't necessary to talk to tha subject. Recipes, travelogs and anything else passed for oratorical fodder, A raft of bills demanding action would be held up and at last the Senate leadership, desperate to get action on Shae, would have to shelve the measure which provoked the filibus
“Early Action Seen BUT, says Sen. howland, the thing to do it to get the anti|__filibuster rule change to the floor at the beginning of this session.
all be In committees, 3 ‘T believe this can be done,” Mr, Knowland said, “by having session every day, running them lito the evening, even all night
__ if necessary. I believe a filibuster can be broken ken if the leader- " ship is persistent. But, i$ the As galled | until the third or fourth- month, then we'll be -wirere we Some Southern Demacrats nav tvs J acknowledged 156d that 1t would
be more afi ts, in + ccs
tion late in the session. Southerners opposing it would talk for
; No other legislation will be ready for the floor anyway — it will
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(OOP. 1948 BY NEA BERVICE, ING. 1. M, REG: UL. 5. PAT. OFF.
"Why buy anything as good as that? All our friends are paying too much for things and it wouldn't impress them!"
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A WRITER says the greatest vacation of all is to pitch a dent and sit down to rest in it. The tent, not the pitch. 88 PRISON in England have a mirror in every cell. locked up and left to their own reflections, : » » oa. THE first of the month in some ng cites is when gangsters pay their bulls. a
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‘. IT8 fortunate for fome children that they teach the ASR at the bottom of thé class a at te top. :
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by individuals, not by nations and their governments. So all of the New Year s Day stock- “taking cAnnat change the tide of inters national events, The tide. flows on as usual, still carrying on its crest the great question of war or peace, Three hundred and sixty-six days have gone by since the last change of date on the calendar, but the question remains’ the same. The only difference is that 1949 brings us closer to an unknown day of climax and resolution. Five years ago it was sgid that Russia would not have an atomic bomb “until 1950." “Since then: it-has been said that if war comes it will not come until 1850 or 1952 or 1955. Five years ago those dates seemed safely remote. Now they are almost upon us. It is impossible to prophesy whit will happen.in 1049 to decide the great question one way or the other, though some will try it. Even speculation must be cautious.
Toward Normal Life
EUROPE should advance farther toward nofmal life with our help. . The Palestine war should end in agreement and the recognition of Israel. They should, but will they? What will happen in China? Will the Berlin blockade be raised? What does the outbreak of rightist uprisings in South America portend? Above all, what change will there be in our relations with Russia? Who will take the initiative, and where will it lead us? The answer to that is bound up with a question of our domestic economy. And the domestic problem will hinge upon a crucial judgment. That seems to be one of the few certainties among the imponderables. The problem is simply this: How much money can we raise; how much money will we raise; how will we spend it? # The prime obligation of the newly elected govérnment that takes office this month must be the nation’s security, at home and abroad: The new government will draw up & budget with’ that in mind. It-will have to break down its over-all oblifi« tion Into a multitude of details. It will have to answer questions such as these: 3 il
‘How Much World Aid
SHALL there be more and higher taxes? Shall the military What gets priority in maintaining security, housing or airplane production? How much more must we spend for world aid, and where? spend? Will we have to push military production farther, even if It means aggravating present civilian shortages? And if this must be done, can it be done Without government control of prices, wages, labor, management and material? . These and. more. vital, must be answered. in 1040. The answers may come in a series of crises, For there are influential groups in the t with strong. and ‘conflicting views on the relative Importance of social progress, the status quo, and impregnable military défense.
Each® question will be considered - each answer made the shadow of Russia's veiled policy and unpredictable tactics, y can only pray that those who , ‘our government. and aden, 100 Wiatou Yleres Hk re * . .
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