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] Sada ; neat ate 2 : 15 £ . a nw - Xa : = inure One Business Recession We're All For ~~ | ‘Hoosier Forum In Tune | oomtememmatiamcns. Hoosier rorum 4 . bad : : : : 8 . i ran o . ee : % J ; FRI A With the Times |} TERR s h W H | " _—- 4 § - 4 bu sa VV IT ie. 188 : i | » : will defend to the death your right to say it . in po Barton Rees Pogue ot "Koop letters 200 words or less on any subns PAGE 10 Saturday, Jan 22, 1949 | oo fect with which you are familiar. Some letters on Owes ans pa ” pips Pe LOOK FOR HAPPINESS tod, used will be edited but content will be pre ng Postal ; o, Oné afternoon I was sad and disappoin ved. 4 Freedom. BE pi Ee bh SE al because I could not have my new home re- warved, for here the People Speak i Fre : fi oust. ; decorated inside and out, equipped a. Comp day, dslivaces vy SArrie deily an aindly. To 3 Seek new furniture and carpets. While resting I ‘Don’t Take Handowt' Be wines) sniy a os rear. Sunday chanced to look around the jyooms. 1 saw a By Ex-Sgt. E. B. Lawson, 501 Southerland Ave, nated 0 8 Gommsenons mirror hanging on the wall, which ed that $ whom people might Eg I amare rr a one of my sons had brought i€ to to add to my | call veteran ACjoast T am classed a8 such, - Telephibne RI ley 8551 @ pleasure. Then I saw my dishes in the glass: ey for eight months, then crossed the ’ r= J Give Links ens Ihe People Will Ping Trew Own Wey doored cupboard. They bought to mind an- bond for another 13. So now I sm a “veteran.” mer r———— - ans other son, who gave them to me for Mother's This is one of theifew times I want to tell the Trizonia Deadlock or Th SR pA trot Al 1 aie Wau go geared 4°few Himes, Trizonia eadiock 2 SS pleased to give it to me, and is still happy over and rt In winning the war. When that A Americans hear about the Berlin deadlock, they. | the thought that I have it. . was finished 1 came home {o a stuntzy that me i th conti of th western nations wih | TH LEHR, 1 Fy to FOL TL a med Ct Russia, But thers ia wise 2 deadlock among the Aviertn, I fro NE as tr hat Mites i Fail In, men. Dow mill stouna ke & bunch riti 3 rn | ta boys or 8 , sheep. If are still " - Pius EE Te ey vee ETE of Se chairs they sa in, the books they used, then ‘1 Ge tae this hand-out bonus that wil : yn 4 ¢ did remember ks} : & eventually be by you. You ow “It was supposed that recent agreements finally had We sivas ve our sweet emonier with that the Ti roy won this war are dead, and cleared the way for this long overdue reform. Now western | us. As Mater explains in the “Blue Bird,” the only ones who deserve & bonus, that we : Wh : our happiness is found only in our own minds. will pay, are the ones who are not and cannot officials in Berlin admit that the project is stalled. Wherever we are we can find eontentment just be back at work. : Our State ent passes off the whole thing with | by looking for it, : Really now, fellows, 1 had 8 good Jost "wd ESSIE WILKINSON, Noblesvill jdier ‘who told me I had work for the Pasy assuratin that the disputes in Berlin can bo ironed bs ir oblesville, oldies Jao tala mn EE ant out by direct negotiations of the government in London applicable to the world in general, I will gladly or Paris or Washington. ; THE WOODS give the bonus I might get to the guy who is But that is one of the chief causes of the deadlock. To you who love the woods MUL 15 care of the medich, Just Tov ths privilege i : 0 i ’ The allied negotiating machinery in Germany has broken Nov Jilet splendor, oO Pn Ae Te raw uni we realing passengers in down because there is always an appeal to high authorities, To you, who love the woods we cannot negotiate with the Russians. = « Ne which leaves no incentive for a settlement on the spot and 4 ot Houta of shelter 5 It ie lallectnls who he. 40 strongly. not believed hy those who have to make the unstable agreements work. From the storms— and how” it should be paid, the solution would 8 two _o Le an “an. You know . . . it is a haven be quick and easy." Vi : WASHINGTON’ 'S policy. rarely is either clear or firm. For the wild Anything that is a luxury should be taxed . aa A Much of the time our military governor, Gen. Clay; is the And for the tame. (mighty true), and any ex-G.I. who can't fall The accider victim of buck-passing by his bosses. Often the Depart- Prom boille ia easicat, In.js the suy ho should receive payment for. Anfnch was . % *“" rende ”» . a ment of the Army and the State Department cannot agree. Bate Art vary 8 Ee the Legislature, please: nota: Sh0uS the sux Sometimes neither is willing to take responsibility. So And. hold us close This is one of your worries (it says in automobile w the decision falls to Gen. Clay by default. Then, if the To Sah ik fro ie : i small print), Ana belive that the solution is goilided bi] going gets tough, Jin pressures from home ob five our ~RUTH RIOCKLEFS, Crawfordsville. ——p— ter A — TT * 4 "a ton, in a hea allies, Washington is apt to reverse or at least whittle away * oo - NATION'S ECONOMY . By P Dies of As eter Edson Fav i tie We AROD TOMORROW ° N ae y ! * on Salis Tax ua Ind. a ig a In the case of Britain and France the trouble seems Think not too much of tomorrow A oN 5 ht i S I 2 my RE = ; than RL I to be of the opposite kind. Those governments tend to be so pond let ood thoughts fade away, i oug : or cYmai Usiness in Jproted for the men Whom 1 though it het Hin, suid, Mt rigid in policy and so jealous of authority that their military “You thought of yesterday. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—Whether or not posite sides of every question, it is a little un- | state and nation, men whom I thought would. - Pt governors in Germany lack freedom for the give-and-take small business will get any kind of a break be- usual to find New Dealer Murray and Conserva- | forget party issues and would live true to their were 4 in y unified three si adminis- Plan not to do tomorro : fore the new Congress will have to be decided tive Wherry on the same side of anything. This | promises which were flowing ever so freely be- pital in Biv: accommodation essential to uni power SHOT © by the Senate in short order. For the Senate’s Is it. 7 toe fore election. I voted for the GI bonus, knowe au tration. nu Tor DAL 0dAL WOUIQ Dring real cheer, Special Committee to Investigate the Problems The White House has an angle in the argu- | ing that it was no more than a loan to me, the Piotnget i in setting up and operating a Trizonia admin. - Has arrived today. It's here of Small Business is itself about to be merged ment, too. President Truman's #State of the | loan which would enable me to get a home fof dition with a 2 Delay acy p an 3 } ’ : : out of business on Jan. 31. Union Message to Congress gave small business | my wife and children. I selected the sales tix leg injuries. istration is no longer excusable. The present triplication Sen. James M. Murray (D. Mont.) has intro- = -two mods, “Small business is losing ground to | as the means of repaying this loan, becauss : Boast not foo h of teri Richey, 23, of effort is expensive and inefficient. It produces the dis- : Rot. 108 MEY gl MAsar ng duced a new resolution to continue this com- _‘monopoly,” the President said in listing his 11 | all of us would be helping to pay it back. 1 ar : : ' Iie problema of tomorrow, mittee through the 81st Congress. Sen. Murray things wrong with the country. believe if this form of taxation was in foree the Tygatations, 3 unity Russia desires. It encourages German sabotage. | If yesterday's opportunities would probably become ifs chairman. But Sen. bonus would be repaid within a very short timp, ur Daas One of the first jobs awaiting’ the new Truman administra- Today you have to borrow. Scott Lucas of Illinois, Democratic majority Freedom fo Grow After the bonus was repaid I believe this form Siiome i ’ ! i of State Ach is to make the floor leader, says the Small Business Committee LATER in the message he said: “We must | of taxation would be much better than the eased at the tion, including Secretary eson, Waste not the chance by waiting ought to stay dead. assure small business the freedom and oppor- | income tax method which therefore oy i or Indiana much touted American-British-French unity a working What is needful for today— Mr. Tucas' main argument is that the (upity to grow and prosper. To this purpose we | abolished. of 345 4 Ving : in : J 4 This is yesterday's tomorrow, Senate should keep within the LaFollette-Mon- - should strengthen our anti-trust laws by closing *e a % ving reality Germany. : Do not let it get away. roney Congressional Reorganization Act, and those loopholes that perniit monopolistic mer- | ) Se he : ee . ’ t ha 1 ittees. Th bl gers and conso ons.” 2 3 . TS . SOTIIS SHIRK, Mune, | HOt Dave Shy apace] com Te pe «FOE to Boor. ap, these statements, severss | 100 Much Bickering 1230 a. m. ¢ Strange Standpattism as well be taken care of by some sub-committee big repofts are due soon on the work of the | By A World War II Veteran Look : I" nme that Mr o ai the ANTIDOTE of one of the 15 permanent standing committees Senate Sal Susiiess 8 Commitios in a last I would Hee to express my views on the vet - The driver SEEMS strange th . Truman, whose speech When reverses come of the Senate, ngress. Under wo staff directors, | erans’ bonhs. The recent election showed hdw and looked Electoral College dinner stressed peopl e's desire Don't look so glum; Dewey Anderson and George Meredith, the | the le felt abo rane’ , They riving . : the 8 tof Sing and hum” Overlaps Other Committees Small Business Committee has dug into mary | voted for it, and aa Mossi which a whi progress, saw fit to add: When reverses come! WHILE Mr. Lucas’ proposal makes sense nasty business situations. Principal concerns | to fina dsm : tional visi organizationally and economically, the catch is have been in trying to get oil and gasoline for Nos te Homuk. Pet uly the 1agisatars g able tting Consti ’ to be doi “1 am in Savor of Jat : he Con itt oi provitons “Here's our trouble: ‘ that Small Business Committee work cuts the independent refiners and distributors, and ory forth at ME Shout a ao hick Hag atk rib = Ml which provides for electors, con We want life too rosy, across the fleld of at least five standing com- to get ste#l for small manufacturers. the mandate of the people, both parties should, Mr. Helton for 160 years.” v : Stripped of its briers, mittees. Anti-trust laws to protect small busi- In the past there has been considerable | pegardiess of political faith, vote for the sales’ eral Hospit: : : in th 160 under that pro- Padded and cozy! ness go before the Judiciary Committee. Tax boondoggling and phony propaganda in the | ..o ,.4 quit talking so much, . tractures of | Strange, because ose years P But half of the time laws to ald small business go before the Finance name of smajl business, by both the government i sible skull . three candidates—all Democrats—were denied the Lite is not singing, Committee, Legislation to give RFC loans to and private” industry trade associations. Some ; reo a after Ameri citizens "had voted Half of the time small business goes before Banking and -Cur- of the small business lobbyists in Washington wh Oth Say. . A hes iB more can eit d vo of ers — & GE bn an 3 Ser Bas Am It is bitter and stinging, rency. General business. legislation goes before have been unmasked as nothing but fronts for 5 . trian, Forres them t ‘or their leading opponents. : . cad t Sur that hale Interstate Cotnmerce. And epitintion to pro- bigger business organizations. : FOR eas, we. give all saris of eo fn 525 N. Alabs v because Mr. Truman himself narrowly esca a keeps humming, armers—who are really. small businessmen pt 5 : the coll Ausints, Ee for, an ifjur a He'll brighten the bad da —is Agriculture. Committee's exclusively. . Kea nger Seen colleges. We. hire men for their ability. We from Genera a simildr unfair defeat last November. He id Wirvughout While the good ones pri coming. . Several attempts have been made to writs POLITICALLY. being for 4 small business . jay ihm ing Salaried. any S00 We do ‘is affer being goun over more popular vo! than Vv. bills setting up a Small Business Committee as a good e g for flag, home govern ? f bama the Ary. if in 210; ® Jor nly about 30.000 of .| - So when troubles come one of the Senate's permanent work groups, motherhood. It is a sacred cow which every | re in the biggest business of the bunch—and of Alabam b Dewey. But e three big only a hn § Don't look so glum; So far, no one has succeeded in this effort he- vote hunter worships, but nobody has done | ® business in which we all have an interest. 22. of 6116 C “those popular votes had been Republican instead of Dem- Sing and hum cause of these conflicts of authority. There were much about, constructively. ~—Carroll M. Shanks, president, The Pru- h a four ocratic, they would have given Mr. Dewey an Electoral Col- When troubles come! a number of nice fights behind the scenes in Nevertheless, informed big businessmen as | dential Life Insurance Co. of ne 3400 block y ta oo --BARTON REES POGUE, the last Congress because Republican chairmen well as the little fellows and the politicians re- * * py last night, 1 lege majority and made him President. Upland. of the standing committees—Sens. Tobey, White, alize that in the present growing trend toward WE'D be better off with some recession in suffered by . Strange, too, because in that same election a switch * 4 ¢ Miliikia ‘and Others-.thought the Benate Small Mergers and mgnopalies, thefe 12 8 ising anger a. But vaychologicatly, people opt want ta 24, of 5110 i . iness group was stealing their stuff, next step r over of eco- e any on r . It She was tal from Democratic to Republican of only about 12,500 pop- BILL OF FARE Sen. Kenneth 8. Wh f Nebraska, Re- nomic power in the hands of a few giant corpo- | takes courage than the fther ular votes in two big states would have thrown the choice What the world is coming to, * publican minority Boor "leader. In the Senate, rations may be government ownership. Creat- | the Marini community or Win 4a Hopplta! i of a President into the House of Representatives and let The way things now look, who was chairman of the Small Business Com- Ing conditions under which there can be healthy | slice off sections of a boom. - 3 ne Pp Is enough pretty 4-H girls mittee in the last Congress, wants this com- competition of many small business establish- | _p, Meynard CO. Krueger, associate professor a the country in for a long period of damaging controversy To provide every man a good cook. mittee continued. While it is only normal to ex- ments is recognized as absolutely essential if of Economies, University of Ohlonge, ood 5 “Childre and uncerfainty. -F, P. MYERS, Indianapolis. pect Mr. Wherry and Mr. Lucas to be on op- the private enterprise system is to be preserved. prominent : ; As Flame : . . . =» roan : ; ; / ; BECA ral : . —— DETROIT, cat AND BECAUSE, although only one of the Fiectors | POUTICAL FUTURE .. By Marquis Childs | SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith | CHINESE PEOPLE . . . By Clyde Farnsworth - - apo election refused to cast his ballot for Mr. Truman, all the L k 4 Y Ah d \ or P : . i night in the a vas : . and junk st OE a and under that 160-year-old Con- 00 ea r S ed : | L eace at Any p r ice? a condemned } & OI y . WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—Republican emotions, after all the | J SHANGHAI, Jan. 22—The | ’ . MP Truman. stands pat on the venerable Electoral | fuss and feathers of the inauguration run the gamut, as Dorothy | 1 a Bua the Sntrance of the He ducky yaws u hd rai Hous. that : oToe child College system. But millions of his fellow citizens want | Parker once put it. from A to B. That is to say, from haughty | ~ : getting a high polish these days from anxious passers-by om junk store. progress in this field, too, They want a better, safer sys- | disdain to contempt, with a touch of wistful envy bravely con- | WW 5 ; E wie WA. sta of good or evil¥s Given. ; I led. - | or ; were tem—one under which there can be no danger that the can- Sea It seems to me that the responsible managers of the Repub- | \ tary twitching of their own eyelids or the itching of thelr om as he tried didate favored by the largest number of American voters | lican Party should look on this outpouring of the forces of the | hls woul not think of passing the bank's fierce, reclining lions to the bedr in any future election will be defeated. Democratic Party with something more than disdain. Anyone | ha re Atle affectionate paw-rubbing to’ change their luck, The vietin y . who views the spectacle at all realistically must see beneath | ; ou PAW of the lion to‘the right of the entrance-is onescu, 4; 4 The proposed Lodge-Gossett-Kefauver amendment, | tne frothy surface the vigor and new strength that came out | especially favored by the superstitutious, : 5" Thomas, 18+ sponsored by two Democrats and a Republican, would pro- | of the Nov. 2 victory. ef in a Sgtaty milous Haghng for peace under almost sty Cregory, y , Mi with the visitors from out he country, you le 8 now like a new penny, nescu vide this better, safer system. It would abolish the Elec- get a ging sense of participation, This is their triumph and, } The great mass of Shanghai's population no longer a 28,. were tre toral College, divide the electoral votes of each state among | what is more, they are looking ahead to four years from now | SOPosng Sonditions of peace ofred by Chiang Kai-shek fn his M},, Clemen the Presidential. candidates in ratio to their shares of that | With the belief that almost certainly somewhere in tre cow | | 12 days later. 30" Tee-tung's \ntrassble. yeply uf Famed EB state's popular votes, and so make the combined electoral | pedrer of the party and, if they have anything to say about it, | | ‘Pea f Any Sort’ sn Hotel Cle vote of all states an accurate and fair reflection of th as President | 8 © y otel C . 8.1 : | | “MOST people want peace of any sort” sald a Chines WASHVAL whole country’s popular vote. Me. to Be Heard From physician whose sympathy has always béen with the Nationalist i EYE ' & THERE ARE, fitst of all, the new Senators and Represen- 1 a iy Ro Wiis So sake their chances with whal~ ang operate , tatives ‘whom Washington is just beginning to know. Among don’t care how.” ighting stopped—and they Nashville, n Hey, Joe, Look— . them are outstanding men certain to be heard from in the next | Since Mao's broadcast reply, Shanghai's papers have bee opened until J : four years. | explaining that the Communist terms could onl 8 to Jr. Rees THE next time the boys with the smooth tongues climb But here, to, are the new governors who came in with the | that the Red stand on “war criminals” mY Mgun suthundar, With the on their soap boxes to tell us what a swell deal the SDexhecsi JPHsing of Inet November, SY Adis Btevenson, | Communist intention to. overthrow the government. ly fre ming} Russians have, we'd like to remind them that we are doing | Seputation. and attention io already i | But these are all idle disputes so far as large numbers of reputation, and attention is already focused on him. ‘ | people are concerned,” said a Chinese editor. * pretty well ourselves. Pairis, At 49, with a background of wide experience in public life | fire orders. What comes after that will be They want cease. For instance, there are nearly three million more | Poth at home and abroad and with & distinguished €amily nome, | about later.” Something to. worny Gn : bh hance t the fe mess nd in passenger cars registered in the United States than ever Springfield by the ‘Republican machine, The task will be far, ¢ /) |: antee Ao Nppartat hewrt among civilians for a fighting before. That isn’t. the total, that's three million more | from easy since the corruption went so deep. But this means yf | to the Communists but rather that they are resigned to thee than the 33,653,776 registered July 1, 1047. u au Nuala De Jhat Hie Hot, Conspicuous. ui wisest. | Most Amal] businessmen expect to go on doing business, come ___ Substantial Indiana goes right along with the per- | is G. Mennen Williams of Michigan, At 37, with no prior ex- | COP. Yoo UY MEA WECM: we CK PT DAY. MIR. 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centages which shows pretty conclusively that the fertility of the Hoosier State has yet to diminish to the point where the seeds of Joe Stalin's ideas will take root. Our best crops are still corn, wheat and oats, voLpe

Time on Our Hands . . .

perience in office-holding or even campajgning, he defeated the veteran politician, Kim Sigler. The story has been widely told of how he put a mortgage on his home when his rich Republican family declined to have anything to do with what seemed a fruitiess effort. '

‘May Be Embarrassed

MR. WILLIAMS had the active backing of virtually all trade-

"When | got home, Mother and Dad were having a quarrel, too—it sounded so silly | borrowed some eggs

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of petty spite in it, enough old guard Democrats joined the Republicans to stop the attempt to exempt from the amusemen

“Plenty big boss go by-by,” Rnglish, “Rich boss no watchey fightee. Poor peopls no wantes

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OUTWARDLY, Shangha! hasn't’ chan much. M able disturbance is the drying up of rr as a a R a 11 o'clock curfew. Buses and streetcars retire from the streets

an elevator boy told me in pMgin :

union organizations in Mich ‘with its highly concentrated : much earlier than the curfew, however, gi ; ; Industry. They may, of a — so much from their new | '** Hokets old inaugural Snelionit. ¥ hold, the ‘present out | OWE CL > lnving People to walk THE way things are shaping up we're beginning to worry guvesnor that be will be put under stricus SmbarrAstmant, pouring is & formidable one. It implies growth and development Ju curfews seem to forbid the streets only to people who go is Chester Bowles, of Conneéticyt, have beds to sleep In. More than 5000 lest the legislature fool around so long with trivia such | ,c.inst the advice of of his sensible friends. he ran for the | in the direction indicated by the electorate last Yall. In the light | quer pave been : dead, mostly ragged chil as taxes and budgets and state institutions, that they won't governorship in 4 state that seemed overwhelmingly Republican. oP Oe caning for We Democrats tn. tip, and found on the sidewalks, where they have frosen to deat in’ their be to settle important issues aun, ve a tough row to hoe since his legis- . op. oh : : Jolie clock. por Shia Seasion-- ks BOW £0 | lature is Republican. : Mtmicipal authorities have found it impossible to shelter the your The new-found vigor of the party is evidenced not only by rb : hordes of refugees that keep pouring in as war approaches. Th ~ Central Time? Eastern Time? Daylight Saving Time? Ingridunis. Neo Honk various parts of the countzy Ba po ; : is a commentary on claims by the Communists to the support of Sun Time? ~~ Ro ar time'sna paricpatng to the even connected with 1. This The real turkey raisers probably are Busy again—those tel- | “MHS in ‘Shanghar’s back alleys or who throng a Still, there's an easy solution to the whole problem nderfiancables nest shy single bioe of yobdy euutafbuted Ya Shawn. Whaup De prien.. $0. piiyei, the mat:shed camps on: the fringes of the eify are not rich landadseihly could dash. off in a hurcy, if membery But here is a question for.the Republican managers. Ta the A pessimist is a man who has been listening to a mechanic | They are poor peasants we To Be Det ——_. ves pressed for (pardon us) time. "| Negto vote to be permanently attached to the Democratic Party? | explain what his ear really needs. : "= | sibly fought on thelr behalf : tens 8 law that says the sun has to rise at 6 a. m. | {he ToReCRUe BMINES JAY, oF Sores, be Pie nga | Te rot tame of wins uly copien 20k the cou) 19g along the Sand ph, has suid Lond het ma see r Indiana, the year round, | ancient quarrels. Ina rst Gopt, which incidentally had # look HS I, IL P| tha Dank tions tor u litte earnest paw-potshing. 4 : a s ” . - ! Je vin 3 : : nce 4 ! “ w nn We Soap a : y # . " a am my gy 5 : he A - oy ip! \ a wears] - Grd IN : wa : gos “4 : & whit] ae J \ 7) a N ! - . ¢ ya : 2 7 A 3 a . f a Gs 4 * if 4 5 { & wi ay a x 5% fe x : Loi dw fh \ v wn : ; a

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