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Bra Telephone Rl ley 5551 : Give LAgM end the People Will Fins Thew Own Woy

AS TO few labor legislation, the immediate question, is ji whether Congress shall enact it in two steps or in

demand quick repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and restoration of the 1935 Wagner Act in its original form. After getting that, they say, they would consider accepting some Wagner Act amendments. sh : * House and Senate Labor Committee chairmen believe that Wagner Act changes and Taft-Hartley Act repeal will have to go through at the same time, in one step. President

that such Wagner Act

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co-operate with Congress in correcting “repeatedly, but every effort was did favor a few changes that would

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take over the entire country on short order. That leaves Sweden, Norway and Denmark, which are divided on the

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Naturally all of them would prefer neutrality in event of war. The difference is over whether neutrality is posgible. Sweden, on the basis of her experience, thinks it is. Norway fears it is not. Denmark is wobbling toward Nor-

= way's western policy.

~The idea that genuine neutrality is possible either in the present cold war or any resulting world war seems to us completely fallacious. The conflict is not between Russia and the United States, but between Russia and civilization. ‘Sweden and other European nations are far more vulnerable than America.

” » » Ss . . . SCANDINAVIA cannot have a free ride to security.

Unless those nations join in collectiveysecurity with Western

Europe, Canada and the United States—sharing the sacrifices and risks—they must not expect to receive the economic and military help accruing from the defensive alliance of others. * If Scandinavian nations choose to remain’ out of the western alliance, that will leave it exposed on the north and northeast. This in turn will make western defense all the more difficult and expensive. For the United States under those circumstances to share its short military supplies with a so-called neutral Scandinavia would be folly. The Norwegians dre more realistic and so are many of the Panes. We hope they succeed in persuading their Swedish neighbors that it is safer to stand firmly with the democratic nations than to bow to Stalin in the name of neutrality.

Georgia Justice

: Two white jurors were called from the jury box, at Lyons, Ga., to testify as character witnesses for the defense in the trial of a white man accused of the lynch murder of a Negro. ‘ They said they were well acquainted with the defendant, considered his reputation good, and would not believe the chief witness for the prosecution under oath. Shortly after they testified, they joined the other jurors in returning a “not guilty” verdict. News accounts say that the white prosecutor did not object to letting the two jurors appear as defense witnesses, and that such procedure, though rare, is not illegal In Georgia. Certainly, however, it made the trial a travesty of justics.

i Mr. Ayers Tells Us Off i, NEWSMEN

: asked Eben Ayers, one of President Tru. 7 man’s secretaries, why they hadn't been notified in ad- . vance of the President's flight to Pinehurst, N. C., to see - petiring Secretary of State Marshall.

Nope, Mr. Ayers, no reason at all, except that it's the

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In Tune. With the Times Barton Rees Pogue WHY ARE TELEPHONE Le OPERATORS MOSTLY WOMEN? |

In the beginning all the operators were men. After all the télephong was a male

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«GEORGE D. GREER, New Castle. ’ ®. 4 :

OH, OH, NEVER RETURN

' Oh, never return to the land of your birth, That land of enchantment, that heaven on

For the scenes that fond mem’ry has taught ~ you to prize Will not seém the same to your wise adult ~ eyes.

The old house and yard will look lonely i and N 3 4 ; Ko glad bounding Raver will come at your

~The. woods. will be gone now, the orchard cut down, And you'll miss your old friends when you : drive into town, Those school mates won't know you, sor seem much impressed, Though their own names and faces you've . held on your breast, - ' - :

And the Ja5Sistaint Hania peaks, snow

May be shrouded in .mist—you can't see

Oh, never return to the land of your birth, That land of enchantment, that heaven on

earth, For the charm will be gone that you thought you once knew, .

It was planted and cared for In my garden . . . by you! .. .. -=-ANNA E. YOUNG. 1 ¢ & * TO A GOLDFISH

I wonder, do you think about

And wondering about the stars above?

Do you resent the walls that stifle you, And so resénting, shed a tear or two?

Do you, though living, wonder it you're dead, And, living, wish and pray for death instead?

The body grown old, wrinkled, weary, Bespeaks its approach to dust once more, But ah, the spirit is not dreary! It will be glad to be on its way, Joytully forsaking worn out clay. Here it has learned the impatience, worry, Struggle for gold, endless round of hurry, Were not important. It would implore On-coming youth, “Move slowly, heed’ The everlasting human need For peace of mind. Take time

Pennsylvania St.

To Love, live well, and give of yourself; Time is Eternal, your only wealth. Know this, Age is sublime!

~VIVIAN WOOTEN PIERSON, Greenfield. re———

WCRLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

Danger in Red Pact

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-—Despite official denials of any change, the belief persists that President Truman is looking for a new and “different” approach to the Russian problem. This is causing some uneasiness, . Informed Americans who have studied the Berlin dispute at close range are inclined to | | agree with former Gov, Alf M. Landon of Kansas who said in a speech recently. hi “The greatest menace to America today is to continue to

believe that if we are reasonable with Russia she will be reason+ able with us.”

Moscow is known to be increasingly eager for a new meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers to discuss a German peace settlement. At the Paris meeting of the Security Council that was her main objective, She defeated her own purpose because of the complex which makes her spokesmen deathly afraid to admit Russia could ever bé wrong. She refused to lift the Berlin blockade in ex for an immediate Big Four meeting. Her representatives insisted on terms which could make it possible for Russian propaganda to claim a Soviet victory.

Soviet Policy Is Clear

TODAY it would still be comparatively easy to end thé . blockade. It would cause no great surprise if the Kremlin soon began to put out feelers. It may have done so already. Western European capitals refuse to believe President Truman was just talking when he sald that “certain leaders (in Moscow) are exceedingly anxious to have an understanding with us.” At the Security Council in Paris, Soviet policy became quite clear. Russia wants the Allles to get out of Germany. That is, she wants to end the occupation and leave a “united Democratic Germany” whose capital of course would be Berlin, The catch, however, is obvious to those who remember that Russia also insisted on a “Democratic” Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Hufigary. She already has organized a German army and scores of thousands of “security” police on the order of the MVD (formerly the NKVD) to take over, The usual pattern is prepared. .

Beset by Danger ~ PRESIDENT TRUMAN has that everyone in Washington and

Job to tell the voters what their hired men are |

As " d : fect that some you swiy round and ‘rourid your little bowl? : y th the U. 8. The Are your nights spent dreaming dreams of Ne. Gtyi

And lost be the picture time painted for you. «MILDRED MUSGRAVE SHARTLE, Danville. .to deserving that distinction. . > : ‘|. The group of circumstan AMITY which preceded and inevitably TEN x resulted in an effect of m There is one cherished flower mental proportions com ~ In my garden of friends, surate with a cause celebre As its is scattered may, in this case, be traced to It all subtly blends Mr. Truman's off-the-cuff Into thoughts that are priceless, : delivered In Bathed in memory's dew. City, at ®

Jacobson (Harry's ex-business partner in the ill-fated haberdashery) not only sat next to the sbut in such close pi ] had sufficient elbow room to en-

[ of his vest. » Do you hear voices asking, “Why, Oh Why?” Like Foxy Grandpa A ‘ A dozen years later when he was somewhere And, hearing, answer with despairing cry? OR TO put it in Mr. Franklin's own erudite around 70 years old, his beard was even more . : “With the casual ‘and air nt. That's when he was living at 442 |

thus opened yet another in his long * ede lege of Squipture portraying two chil- , struggle against the organized pressures which en kneeling at a chair. He called ft “The Botham pou ie, tat © shoughtyt 2eard? | threaten to create an American vested interest Nursery Prayer.” Only thoss admitted to the yo in world unrest and which have won practically ~ sanctuary of his innermost know ~VIRGINIA FORTNEY, Indianapolis. | every skirmish with the President up to now.” that it was the work of his son Carl who, apoo 0 The injection of Foxy Grandpa Into a situ- parently,’ had left Kentucky. at an -early age THE EVENING HOUR ation involving the “organized pressures which tO pursue a career of art.

threaten to create an American vested interest in world unrest” certainly would have ¥ickled Charles Schultze, an adorable peace-loving old man who, some 50 years ago, lived at 442 N.

Mr, Schultze, so far as I can learn, came to Indiana in 1854 when he was 15 years old. He settled in Ft. Wayne and, as time went on, earned a living giving music lessons. His household effects, when he arrived from Germany, included a mahogany case upright piano, probably the first instrument of that style to be brought into this state. He had mastered it, too. His father attended to that. Indeed, when the young Schultze left the Old Country, his father was imperial royal chamber musician

Side Glances

"So the moan is_a globe 2160 miles in diameter and 238,000

OUR TOWN . . . 3. Anion Seheres re Trace Foxy Grandpa Origin Here

BY THE time this offering appears in print, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that Jay Frank““lin’s plece in'last week’s number of Life (Jan. 10) will have achieved the stature of a cause celebre. At-any rate, it will be well ofi the way

and a member of the Cassel Opera House orchestra led by a violin virtueso, one Ludwig Spohr, billed at thé time as the “Paganini of the North.” Except for Gilbert & Sullivan who, in a moment of poetic ecstasy, bracketed his name with Beethoven and Bach, Ludwig Spohr would be practically unknown today. To return to Mr, Schultze and Foxy Grand- : Ft. Wayne, then a town of 10,000, apparently didn't suit Mr. Schultze, for shortly . thereafter he moved to Indianapolis. It didn’t suit him any better. Here he contracted chills ; and fevers which determined him to try his luck in Kentucky to which state he migrated in 1855. He stayed there .for nigh on to 40 years, 30 of which were spent in Lexington. It was there a son was born, christened Carl E.

Opened Studio Here

IN 1895 when he was 56 years old, the-elder Schultze left Kentucky to seek a larger field of operation and returned to Indianapolis.” Immediately, he looked for pupils with an itch to play the piano. Five years later, he opened a studio in the old Propylaeum Building (on E. North St.) and ran it for several years. At that time he was one of the most striking figures in all Indianapolis—a lonely looking man with a long white patriarchal beard. It was so long, indeed, that it reached the second button

that

N. Pennsylvania St, apparently all alone. Tt was in that house, I remember, that he cherished

Cherished Piece of Sculpture

IT WASN'T long after I became aware of the little plece of sculpture cherished by Mr. Schultze that a comic strip the title of

. . y around here at the time knew, or even suspected that it also was the work of Carl. Too bad that Mr. Schultze (and, for that matter, Carl, too) couldn't have lived long enough to see-the day when a political writer of Jay Franklin's acumen had to turn, for want of a better analogy, to the unexpected antics of Foxy Grandpa to adequately describe Harry Truman's le behawjor.

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‘A Bill for VYaste Basket’ By J. M. W., Indisnapolis.

I would ike to,commerit on the bill ‘to atlaw daylight saving time recently introduced into ° the State Senate by Senator O. Bruce Lane (R.,

Many people are in favor of adopting Eastern Standard Time for Indiana the year around. This would not only eliminate the confusion which seems to be the chief bone of contention, but it would also place Indiana in the time zone in which it belongs since all of fhe state is now several minutes behind sun e, \ I hope the Senate Policy Committee will give

Mr. Lane’s asinine bill the only treatment it de-

serves—the waste basket. ¢ & o

‘No More Rain-Making'’

\ By R. E. T, City.

After a nine-month experimentation of sowing clouds with dry-ice, the Air Force is going out of the rain-making business. So now the country will have to fall back on such timetested drought-ending expedients as washing the family car and scheduling Sunday picnics.

U.S. STOCKPILE . . , By Jim G. Lucas Europe’s Goods Slim

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—8o0 far, Uncle Sam has $18 million worth of stockpile materials in return for $4.2" billio

Marshall Plan. That's about four-tenths of ore

per a. yg Economic Co-Operation Act provided that the Uaited States could accept critical materials we need for war return | vrs, 4000 to we have received 26,000 tons of rubber f sisal, abd $4 million worth of industrial diamonds.” Britain and France have been our principal sources. Es Evan Just, head of the Strategic Minerals Division, says there is 4 limit to our asking. He says it isn’t logical to try wo Jebmbigiate Stan Jutuje and Shan demand it give up 0 recovery. orld suppli nerall are down a. demand up, Mr, PR pase 2 wy

Better Return Later

THE Jong-range picture is more favorable. lieves ECA can show a better return later on. To speed recovery, he says, it has set up a reserve to increase production, From other sources; it was learned the amount is about $25 million.

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been spent so far, Mr. Just says. With that

ney, however, we can help Marshall Plan countries rebuild

materials to the United States, - For Instance, Belgium recently asked the ECA fits attitude on completing a raliroad in the Congo. ECA asked for detuils. So far, Belgium hasn't answered. Such a railroad could

0 the world's largis being consid-

rich uranium of other materials,

- FoR whi Mr. Just thought about preclusive rubber buy- “" 5 on. Preclusive buying - miles away! What's romantic about that?. 1 try's output=-big or little—th ir Apr Agere Bg A Be - . it, even though we may not it all. In this case, the other another Polatd, & Soviet anteliits, and doom France. Maly and | country would be Russia. idea was dropped because Mr. the rest of we ; Tot Shins Gia world soon Jill have an Svel-Suphly of suber. Today, it is observed, the smaller, anti-Communist Natura® production is increasing in the East -and, are reasonably firm because the United States is firm. ‘Any sign | In addition, we a big synthetic industry in this country.

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