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| Reforms ‘Long Overdue -

fon County's antiquated and cumbersome government L 7 fulictions for more efficient service at lower cost has been ) _Spparet for a Jong time. i s voir that a general oxerailling of “the whole government structure would involve complicated planning and’ would require ‘amendments to the State's - Constitution in order to eliminate the many costly, overs lapping services that are mow. eating away large ‘hunks of tax money needlessly. a But an important step is to curd some of these evils can be accomplished now. We refer to the need for création by this year's legislature of a purchasing departinient for the sounty government.

. yn : SUPPLIES now are ‘being purchased haphazardly by’ __ the various county departments through County Commissioners. It's the same century-old system the county has been using since the horse-and-buggy days. It was efficient enough 100 years ago when the county had only a few thousand residents. But use of the same system after the -oumty has gov to half a nillion Population becomes ~~ Alaw editing a purchasing department for this, and ~ “other larger counties in the state could save thousands Lo of dollars annually through more modern methods of cen- = trallzed buying in economy quantities. - a:

ALSO the aceounting systems of Indiana. “eounty gov | ~ernments long have been regarded as obsolete and eumber2 _ some for audRing of increased county transactions. hn. The County Grand Jury warned taxpayers about this ~ In-its report recently when it said: “The reluctance of the ‘county to appropriate sufficient funds fo permit streamdined accounting - and hiring of qualified per. sonnel opens the way for fraud and mismanagement.” a In this we agree that some reforms in county govern- = en are long overdue.

So ‘What 7 eR Ly President's comment that “certain leaders” in z Moscow “are exceedingly anxious to have an agreement with us” i8 being inflated to the point of nonsense. ~~ No informed person has supposed that the Politburo - or other Communist bodies operate without disagreements. ~ On the contrary, there is evidence that Red moves are hotly - debated. But'the evidence also shows—and this is the

"No informed person has ever assumed that the party 4 ine never changes. Notoriously the line in the past: has shifted from north to south, from black to white, overnight from anti-Hitler to pro-Hitler to anti-Hitler, from organizIng to “disbanding” to reviving & comintern. Like any general staff in war, the Kremlin, which is fn perpetual war against democratic cjvilization, changes

n technique of switching from the offensive to strategic;

retreat and back to attack. “But the objective remains the

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THAT. ‘as “stated db Lenin and Stalin and a , proved by the record, is to advance Red world dictatorship by any and all means. There have been repeated struggles for power * within the dictatorship, with Stalin so far managing to purge his_competitors before they purged him. But the rivalries for personal power, like the. temporary conflicts, have never changed the basic purpose of distroying de_mocracy as we know it. It is probable that there are personal power struggles — within the Kremlin and sharp debates on tactics. It is "reasonable to suppose that when Stalin dies, a natural or ‘a purged death, there will be a factional scramble for control of the police-state apparatus which is the dictatorship. And-it is undoubtedly true that already the politburo is

American depression is not here, because Stalin has failed

for the moment, and for many other reasons,

» » . » > r BUT if “certain leaders” in Moscow “are exceedingly anxious to have an agreement with us” today, and if tomorrow the Kremlin makes that decision, this will mean merely that the Politburo again is resorting to the same tactics it used so effectively at Yalta and at Potsdam. The important point President Truman made was that the Soviet government always breaks its agreements. The President did not say, and no man can prove on the record, that any of the Russian leadérs—however they may divide on tactics and in personal ambitions—can be trusted. The Soviet dictatorship, however you slice it, will con- - tinue to-be a menace to peace and human decencies until the democratic nations are too strong to be threatened by aggression or undermined by treachery. The day we put our trust in “certain leaders” in Moscow and their desired “agreements” with us, that day we are lost.

Apple Shortage: tell us we are going to have difieulty kedping the doctor away in the future. The reason is we wott't - have enough apples. ; v + For 40 years, population had been increasing steadily while the apple crop was declining. It has fallen 50 per cent ‘In those 40 years, Cornell University savants tell us. That means we are down to about one bushel of apples each for a

‘When you stop to think of apple saiice, apple pie, apples baked or fried, apple strudel and apple brown betty or pan fawdy, not to mention the crisp crunchiness of the raw , that's not enough, at least for us. ‘What is nicer on a cold wiriter afternoon than to sink ‘teeth—they had better be otiginals—into a crackling 18 Of Or for /us, what ever could be

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“matter of “course. Stalin practices the

in method of attack. Because Wallace did not poll the expected votes, because the predicted 1048 |

to‘take over France and Italy and to drive us out of Berlin, _ because the going is easier in Asia than in Western Europe |

DEARBOSS .. “By DanKidney 2

S| Gop Losers Bet

_ Retiring Republicans in ~~

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1—Dear Boss: While we ‘are rin inthe new Democratic 81st Congress here tomorrow, I should lke to ring | out our old Republicans. Instead of following the seniority system of the House of Representatives, I'll deal with them by the ‘districts they represented and in which they met defeat in 1948. ’ * Th second district comes first. There Rep. ‘Robert A. Grant of South Bend was defeated “after a full decadé of service in the House, ‘Next to Majority Leader Charles A. Halleck of Rensselaer, whose Third District remains traditionally Republican, Mr. Grant had made

| "HE NEED | for a long range program to modernize Mar- b himselt into the most effective Congressman

from Indiana within his party. He was uniyersally respected by his colleagues on both sides of the aisle. “AL 43 he is a lawyer with a deep knowledge of the complicated problems of federal taxation. _ For he worked and studied hard as-a member of the top-ranking House Ways and. Means Committee which drafts all revenue raising bills.

Spoke With Authority MILD-MANNERED and able; “Bob” Grant , leaves here with the regrets of many made in Washington friends. “His Fourth District colleague, Rep. George

gory. Born in Scotland in 1880, “Doc” Gillie came to Congress at the same time thit Mr. Grant did. He had won his polifical spurs as Allen County sheriff. The only veterinarianin Congress, “Doc” was a man who spoke with authority on numerous livestock problems which confronted the House Committee on Agriculture of which he was-a member, Accompanied by his jolly wife, big “Doc” had a fine time here and his defeat leaves-the void of ‘a lively social couple. Defeated Fifth District Rep. Forest A. Har--ness also was first elected in. November, 1938, He came here highly publicized because the

Democrats let him carry on the prosecution of

the late utility magnate, Samuel Insull, as a Hoover administration.

Bitter Partisan az

ever. Mr, Harness became one of the most bitter partisans in Congress. He seemed to take the attitude that if a measure was instituted by a Democrat it was no good automatically. He constantly carried on a sharp-shooting contest against the administration of President Truman. As chairman of one of the special - committees he had established for this Surpass. he fired a parting shot just before: Congress folded for keeps on Friday, _ “While this attitude was applauded by some “members of the GOP, it won little praise from persons more interested in good government than partisanship. hs iring Rep: Gerald W. Landis of Linton also began his congressional career in 1939. He got a leg up from the Townsend ‘planners and tub-thumped for “adequate pensions for our senior citizens” throughout his 10 years here.

‘remained in majority party, Mr. Landis would have become chairman of the House Education and ‘Labor Committee,

- Looks to 1950 FAR more pro-labor than Chairman Fred A. Hartley (R.'N. J), who co-authored the TaftHartley law, but didn’t seek re-election, Mr. ,1andls often sought in vain to tone down the

Hartley law and against President Truman's veto of it. Thus; “used ®o be a. miner,” the miners and the farmers in his district retired him "this time.

dicted ‘that he will run and win in 1850. o£ “One-term-Eddie” is the title that kidding ends coined for Rep. Edward A. Mitche Evansville. The hearty hail-fellow-well hy who had no political experience, but a' fine Tecord of heroic service as & World naval officer, made quite an impression here. His fight to repeal the penal taxes on marga-

1 rine gave him nation-wide fame. A fighter; he

went down slugging and a good fighter always around here.

Lf —is-missed.

Three Survivors

who will always do all right for himself, Rep. Earl Wilson of Bedford, who was elected from the Ninth—District {i 940 and Rep. Ralph Harvey of New Castle, who will be serving his second term from the Tenth District. Mr. Wilson expected to win by a far larger majority than he did, but is thankful to be here again, all-things considered. Mr. Harvey is a seasoned graduate of the Indiana Legislature and. will likely make #304 as a minority man, ashe did during his first publicans in power, ee NOWeOMer—to-the-new-minority Cecil M, Harden of Covington. She has had long service as the Republican national committeewoman from Indiana, so difficulty in finding her way arol hd among the -GOP--politiclans.. .

crats, a Happy New Year,

House Will Bo-Missed ant

W. Gillie of F't. Wayne, falls into the same cate-

_hold-over assistant attorney general in the

OUR TOWN .

THIS courtesy wan not, FeCIprouated; Hows

Had he been re-elected and the Republicans’

anti~union assaults on his committee and even TT But he voted for the Taftdespite his claim that he

Always optimistic, Mr, Landis already has pre-

REPUBLICAN survivors are Mr. Halleck, -

term with i ReAs Mrs. |

have little

‘We wish themr an; plus Fr a Demo=

" THE PREDICTIONS handed out over the week ‘end by professional prophets proved not

‘only disappointing but something of a bust,

or so it seemed to those of us who move in deep-thinking circles. Indeed, the messages of even the cocklest ones (like Drew Pearson, for instance, who I had every Jeasoid 30 be-' lieve was pretty sure' of hime self) ended on a serjes of sour notes-—notes which/ strangely enough, were sung to the same tune, the general refrain of

which was that nobody knows

what the new year has in store for us. ~ Shucks! I know of at least a’ dozen big events, every one of which. will be significant enough to make the front page of all three Innewspapers in 1949, And, indeed, of

— dianapolis ‘every paper in the country. I'll go even further

and predict that every forecast of mine will be good enough to merit a front page ewe at

' least three columns wide. *

Among the big events scheduled for 1949, about which the professional prophets spear to be ignorant, will be the front page account of two sisters who haven't seen each other for

| 35 years, followed by the discovery that they

have been living right around the corner from each other all that time. This will be good for a group picture together with a caption prepared

for tidy comprehension but which, nonetheless,

will leave a lot to the imagination.

A Bewildered Look WHEN it comes time to spring my prediction—like as not sometime around May 8, which this year happens to be Mother's Day—

“ war—11-|-don’t fail to observe the bewildered look on the

two sisters’ faces. As for-the story accompanying the picture, note that the re-united sisters are going to dedicate the rest of their lives looking for a third sister who was last heard of somewhere down in Kentucky in 1910, It's in the cards, too, that sometime towards

- the end of 1949—like as not the week of Nov,

8:15 ho it behooves one to don his woolles—

Barbs .

A GROWN UP ustally means about half he

says and a youngster says about half he means, .

® & "BIGHT hours of sleep, eight hours of play” and--eight-hours of work is one of the oldest.

fairy tales. . ® * o "WHAT to pick out for.the whole Yasily for

Christmas ‘kinda leaves you flat—-and after you , 7

| _plck-it out, flatter!

* & o "TWOULD keep Aad busy from now giving the kids all tite spankings mother has promised they're going to = hy i

SOME little ro would even like to get thelr” hands into a traffic jam—If it were possible.

. By Anton. Scharrer.

Prophets Ovateok 1949 ‘Events’

the police of Indianapolis will pick up a wretched ragged beggar with $2000 (in $20 bills) sewed on the inside of her dress. Sure,

‘this year it's going to be a woman, for the

reason that last year it was a man. - Appirently, the professional prophets know nothing ot Bcherrer’s Law, the general import of which is that the crop of crackpots is subject to annular rotations—one year to the advantage

“of males, and the next year to the advantage

of females, and so on throughout eternity. It represents a compensating factor in the-.divine scheme of things which, when figured over the

years, supports my theory that the fantastic behavior of the two sexes is in a constant and

exquisite state of equilibrium, Chances are, too, that sometime around St. Valentine's Day, somebody will produce a letter just delivered by the postman which bears —postmark of ago. It's going to em-

_barrass Postmaster George J. Ress no end be-

cause, this time, the long-delayed letter will turn out to be a marriage proposal which; for want of an answer, wrecked the future of an Indian-

apolis girl. . Picture of Girl About 22 :

IT'S GOING to .be the most poignant story

_of the_year—good for at least a week. It will achieve its climax when the papers publish a

recent photograph of the man who wrote the letter back in 1919. The picture will portray a worn-out oid male with six grown:up children grouped around him. As for the suffering woman whose life was wrecked, the papers will publish the picture of a girl ewhere around 22 years old—for the reason that she stopped patronizing photographers some 30 years ago. My predictions for 1949 also include the return of 30 cents (plus compound interest for 24 years) to some corporation, church or circus

(but more likely to the U. 8. Treasury) by some

conscience-stricken-citizen of Indianapolis, This year I entertain high hopes that it may turn out to be a local banker who suddenly remembers that something in his past needs fixing up. It's not expecting too much; certainly not after

what a conscience-stricken preacher did last year. Because of the inherent modesty of In- |

dianapolis bankers, this event will be handled without pictures. The most propitious time to look for this story is in the Sunday editions of June 19 which; this year happens to be Father's

Pay.

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A Weeping Widow ~ LIKE as not, too, will ea tiont-poge Account {and- picture) of ‘a weeping widow look~ ing out from behind bars in the Marion County Jail. Asked why she used an ax to kill her

~—husband, she will sob: “Because I loved him so

much.” This event will-be staged on June 20, a day which this year also happens to be the 56th anniversary of Lizzie Borden's acquittal. Moreover; Venus will be in perihelion that night. From the 160k of things, 10949 will be the yeur women have everything their own way.

Keep letters 200 words of less on any subs

B | fect yith which you.irs familiar. Some letters

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‘Intense Opinions Win' By. Claude Braddick, 614-8, Meridian’

plained, . The earlier explana snap judgment, the more seasoned ones val fo tha they Tul. fo moot 10 41 the phenomena connected with that event. -

The fact that these’ independent polls were al-.

7 evidence that this is not true; Their fault was, and is, that they lack the ability to measure intensities of public opinions. When two op‘posite opinions are held by nearly equal masses of people, then the one that is most intense _ will win ac the polls every time. The reason ‘should be obvious. To come down to cases, the reason ‘the Dem« ocrats won was that too many western and

Dewey, didn't bother to vote. So many, in fact; that they overcame the considerable nume ber of Democrats who, Teeling as did these Republicans that Mr, Dewey was in fact a younger and abler replica of a New Dealer, voted for him instead of for Mr. Truman, As for the 80th Congress, it had run on the slogan: “Had enough?” And the Republican landslide of that year seemed to indicate clear ly enough that the people had indeed had enough, However, the slogan didn't go quite far enough. There was considerable confusion among members of Congress as to just what ‘it ‘was that the people had had enough of. This caused that body to behave as a whole as if we had enough of everything. Thus it contributed to its own digsolution.

‘It's Crime to Sell Eyes’ By Mrs. M. B. . Iam a partial-sighted reader who thinks it's a crime and an insult against the intelligence of mankind to permit small time heroes to sell their eyes. I'm not an overly pious person, but when I think that God, in His mercy, has given eyes for sale and trade, then I'm ashamed. Not even four-legged animals would do that. There must be something terribly wanting in anyone who would sell one part of any of ‘his senses. The BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE—why not enloy them? Frankly speaking, I suggest the 21-year-old Cincinnati woman who made the latest offer should forego the pleasures of a large family and keép her eyes. After all, like most of you folks, this lady has only two eyes to begin with and you can't raise a very large family on selling eyees. Why not stop making heroes of these ‘buyers and sellers of human bodies and begin to educate them in hygiene clinics in every part of the country.

“Union Not Intolerable’ -

By Edward J. Perkins, 3330 Nichlas, In answer to Oscar W. Cooley: I am a “member of & closed shop. I do not find it “intolerable” or “monstrous” as you claim, I might add, I wasn't in-theiunion until I got back from the Navy after the war. I don't believe fromi-your letter you are a member, ‘so 1 can't understand how you can claim to know it ‘about {t. You were talking" about rent controls and said they kept veterans in garages. To my notion, if it hadn't been for rent controls, even garages ‘would be too high for most of our veterans. If I were you, or thought as you do, I would advocate another party too, but I'm glad I don’t.

‘What Others Say—

I HOPE ... ahd pray earnestly that we may gain sufficient foresight through the lessons taught us in the past to save the civilization of the future.

«Mme. Chiang Kal-shek. ® 4 ¢ * FOREIGN policy has taken a seat at the dinner table. Secretary of State Marshall. ¢ Pi THE Republican Party is a long way from becoming extinct." It will continue to be a force in Congress and in the nation—Rep. | Charles Halleck (R.) of Indiana. ; ®* 9 ¢ ; LIBERALISM is the most éffective antidote for communism. We mean business on civil : Tignis, and intend to go through with it.—Sen.- - elect Paul H. Douglas (D.) of Illinois. TTT @ AS recently as September, the book (“Cru[#6 Th Europe”) was still in manuscript, for 1 still wasn't sure it was worth bringing out. Now it's out and I'm still not dead sure. I'm no critic. I've been a-soldier all my life, and ‘when you Senne right down to it it's simply an old soldier’ s ry.

—General Elsenhower,

‘NATIONAL POLITICS ++. By Charles T. Lucey

GOP op — Remote

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1—The “new faces” in Republican

Resolved to Be Solved : =

CONGRESS... By Tony Smith

New Spy Probers?

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1--A move to clip the wings of the

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senyed for bie thw People Spal a Fpvndemy 4

The “miracle” of Mr. Truman's election, it i _seems to me, has not yet been adequately ex«

First, it has been assumed, without ware { rant, that toe pre-election polls were “way off."

. most unanimous in their findings is ample

midwestern Republicans, ‘unenthusiastic about -—

leadership which party progressives began shouting for after the election seem likely to wind up on the political cutting-room floor. There may be lively rows and indignant oratory before the roll is called on party organization, but unless the rebels muster more force than they have up to now, the GOP. high command in Senate, House and National Committee will change little. Serious talk of change never touched the House but centered on the Senate leadership and the National Committee chairmanship now held by Rep. Hugh Scott. The scurrying-about accompanying the “rebellion” talk has emphasized the party power of one man—Sen. Robert A, Taft,

Taft 1 Key Figure “WHAT does Taft think?" is a key question on all intraparty differences. Before he returned recently from Europe everyone ag that decisions must wait on him. When he returned and Capitol Hill discussed which top ‘party post he might take in the Senate, his friends a that it didn’t matter because “where McGregor sits is the head of tHe table.” The best chancp of an Intra- ~party row may be at the National Committee meeting called for Omaha in late January. There has been much grumbling about Rep. Scott as chairman, but there are no signs yet that his eritics can agree on a successor. The Dewey forces planted Mr, Scott whare he is. He had little part

likes the job, wants to hang on to it—and mere possession gives him an advantage. Gov. Dewey's friends have indicated they will ride with Mr, Scott. Bome of Harold Stassen's friends have been lighting the

—drives and who- helped steer the unsuccessful Stassen primary campaign In Oregon. . Carroll Reece, one-time chairman, has been holding a finger in the wind.

Scott May Hold Job THE chief hops of sbme insurgents was bullt around Everett - Dirksen of Illinois, retiring from Congress, but so far it has been only a hope. Sen. Taft hasn't tipped his hand on the national chairmanship, but ‘there still ars numerous “Taft men" on the National Committes. s odds are that Mr, Soot wil Bold ie Job. Victor

Northern Spy. Doctor, we are

Te , an able organizer with experience in both Dewey and Btassen camps, fiat Dosti mentioned for sy all-time exetutive Jo undér’ Mr. Bauyte cualeuanships iy

in the campaign and he was an unknown in the party. But he.

bonfire for Theodots Gamble, who helped run the war bond

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House Un-American Activities Committee by turning the Communist spy investigations over to another committee is under discussion by Democratic leaders, Despite some parliamentary obstacles, they believe the move can be accomplished, The seniority rule for selection of commit. tee chairmen will not be bypassed but efforts will be made to insure that the committees which handles the espionage investigations is kept under closer control, .Democratic leaders are not favorably disposed toward the

Wood-Rankin leadership, to which the Un-American Activities Committee shifts under the seniority system.

Work May Be Shifted

REP, JOHN 8. WOOD (D. Ga.) becomes chairman because + he has the longest continuous tenure in office of all the Democrats on the committee. Rep.” John E. Rankin (D. Miss.) will p be his assistant. Both have performed in the past, as members, ' ot the committee, in a manner the administration did not ap prove. . Under the plan now being discussed the committee would continue to exist, at least in pame. But its work would be handed over to another committee—one headed by members of the type the Democrats t. One suggestion is that it be the Mouse A Gmusinrash mmittes, to be headed by Rep. Mary T. Norton (D. N, J.).

particular committes the authority to handle funds for all investigations by the standing committees, thus putting a financial check rein on the Un-American ittee,

Ceased to Be Im THERE is precedent - 9 a shift. It was recalled that when Mrs. Norton headed the House Labor Committee, illness kept her away from Washington much of the time. Many important labor bills in that period were handled by the Military Affairs Committee. The Labor Committee ceased to be the im-

Sen. Hoey is not presently & member of Committee, He Would have to resign his membership on the Expenditures Committee and be

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