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around a conference table. But certainly rehab fooled. . ec is not due to lack negofiations—t ere scores of conférences with ot with the Russians. The oot due-15 lack of tacilities for new negotia0 jo gre open in Moscow, in Berlin, in Wash- . Nations Security Council and else: any day or hour he is ready. Nor:

a was foreseen: fo a dibs Yalta: prevent it, a bargain for which America But within a few weeks Stalin began breaking EE A a ak aoa Tal ; Romania, 4nd finally in “those, ‘as well as his stooge civil

t6 his United Nations 4nd other maneuvers to § Potsdam agreement with’

“dishonored Past Past agreements. At least, some disposition to keep his pledges.

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a settlement. will not, and should not, Segatins ie broken agreements. Nor will our gov8, destroy the Western economic co-operation which is our defense agdinst

conquest. ‘of the armed dictator is the death ‘of cy. Most of the democracies which did not learn r Bem Hit hore pace destravad. ie Coeor Sti. “America intends to survive.

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: no authority a ih ra re and the power of public opinion. Here's happen it became law and Mr. Lewis threat.

Mr. ‘Truman would ask Mr. ‘Lewis to wait 25 days while rd” westigated the issues and tried to Lk him and the mine operators. Suppose r. Lewis astounded everybody by waiting, but the board's peace efforts failed. Then the board's findings and recommendations be published, and Mr. Truman would ask Mr. Lewis to wait five more days so that Public opinion ~could. xt its. inline for a settlement. 3 =» SIMILAR pratedvre ander the 1926 Railway Labor -Aet’ was markedly successful in preventing railroad strikes | for 15 years. But even the Railway Labor Act does’ 't work well any more. It began to break down in 1941, when President Roosevelt went over the heads of an emergency y board to give rail __union leaders a better settlement than the board had recommended. By 1946 it had become sc ineffective that it failed ‘ to prevent a nation-wide railroad strike. Mr. Truman broke ® “hint strike ‘by asking Congress for power to draft strikers into the Army and co; them to work. An overwhelming House vote passed 4 bill to give him that drastic power, but opposition led by Sen. Taft blocked the bill in the Senate. ~~ Mr, Truman ought to knaw by now that neither presi-

-_.~from ordering coal strikes. He ought to know that a law.which couldn't prevent coal strikes wouldn't prevent other | national-emergency strikes. If Mr. Truman still dbesn't know these facts of life, the country assuredly Ages.

falling economy, in g taxes usually puts the brakes on business ahd makes it nose over faster into a ~ deflationary cy. i “Four years afte the war, says the two-and-a-third- : jaranty Trust Co. of New York, the tax level is

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fs expected to fall $873 million short of expenditures, counting Mr, Truman's demand for $4 billion additional SkEiutive of the'$2 billion for Social Security taxes. AR 3's apparent. 4 that we are lingering on the war tax a long, and instead of using this high income to + liqu (DF Seog breaking debt, we are still striving In is afin up, as they threaten to do, and busi08, we surely shall very soon reach the breaking

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G. HOG'S DAY

At the very first of £ wintertime + He curls up in There old G. Sleeps Hike ‘a log, “ And never out. at a soul +. He never knows of ittin’ Ags,

Of sleet or ice or And winter fils, of fever 4 + Never bring him aches or ‘pain.

. But when the spring: starts Padiin’ to bring <The sunshine back again Somethin’ jogs his mind, and Jou will find Him comin’ up of his den, He'll look all at the sky aad

For the faintest sign of sun, N, If his ¢ s seen that's bound to mean | More {or everyone, ° -P

I'm takin’ my gun to kill each one of G. Hog's fam-i-lee “So next year none wilt See the Suh 7 And pester you #nd me, TI roam woods and hill, ‘to find and kill. These harbingers of storm. ; I'll start real soon . . . perhaps next June, When the weather's nice and warm, —WILLIAM E. WICKLIFF, New Castle. + &

SOMETHING NEW

Every hid and then I like to buy Sumething

Ir lh 4 silly little hat 10 be worn slightly askew! And ‘other accessories that a woman so loves. .Bome “get me up higher” heels for every now and then , .. Or. some “let me down” heels—he's five foot ten,

To be my pride and joy, to carry any And a hint of rare perfume, at so much a hint That it would take a fortune to buy without stint, Though happiness they say must, always come from within, { A little new outer adornment is a good place to

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Don't Raise Gross Tax’.

‘By Mrs, Waller Hagieety + lators, take your: pencil and along with me and you may ange your on doubling the gross income on all of us alike,

because it will work a hardship businessman and our own corner ‘go out of business. . Let's deal with small numbers. grocer has a $1500 business. He turns every two weeks, and every time he business ‘over he pays a tax of: one-half of per cent Ee a. Toy he end o Se oar he will have {over n gross e on his $1500 investment, That isn’t right. Make adjustments, say; let the smal essman pay adjusimen of. + per cent and this will make his gross no. different than it is now. e should Rave no increase in rom income anyway. The increase should be on.the | nét profits. Put a tax on chewing gum, chew- | Ing tobacco, and anyone that must ehew a quid, | and double bubble gum, and a net profit tax will-pay the bonus. No one objects to a good honest tix dollar, For every honest dollar spent in-taxes, the tax. | payer gets $2 back. As it is, our tax dollar is | wasted. = They take our tax dollar and hire | double and inefficient help, because they polled

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(or say they did) a gbodly number of votes, 1 can cite one good example. - The taxpayers have paid their money to repair these roads. This has not been done. This is because the people have hired a politician who knows nothing about roads or cares les. He is going to payback his campaign promises, in spite of every thing. So it isn’t more taxes we need; it's more efficient people Wo serve in var government,

‘Bonus Is Federal Job’

By a Veteran, Crawfordsville, Ind.

I would be the first to grant that the state bonus is the wrong approach to the bonus prob-

So every now and then I like to buy something

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HEART SONG Would I were walking now Down a shaded Sowptey lane, “In an Indiana valley Splashed with a rain, { Hearing the.birds’ sweet warblings, Or the mooing of the kine;

1 AYeS. UPON... The ‘wild flowers’ “quaint design, Watching against the sky From a s_ broader view,” __A chatty sedge of herons, "A streak of purest blue. ~-JUNE WINONA SNYDER, Indianapolis. * }

A TOWN ASLEEP Maternal night holds close in tender arms The sleepirig town, and bids the roguish moon

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And clouds drift lazily across the sky, =

The town sleeps on. Night, with discerninr eye, Sees purple shadows lighten in the trees And hanging mist dissolve. She steals away And folds her empty arms upon her knees.

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THE SECRET OF THE GARDEN

The secret of the garden 18 the secret of the garden still. Nobody knows How it grows Nobody knows The secret of the garden Is the secret of the garden still.

~ANNA HOSEA, Indianapolis.’ La a HOW TRUE trom the Bd deeds, and words you might have said, Sin have much to share. Tou mat na wal till they are dead To bring. a bright bouquet, For then they will know or care For nice things ot hno —LILLIAN BECK, Terre Haute, =r Freda BUSINESS TRENDS . .. By Charles T: Lucey

Lush Days Fading

NATIONAL POLITICS .

Need for Middle-Road Plan Seen

ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 2-—Events have a way of outdating the bravest words of philosophers. and politicians. ‘as the speaker is uttering his noble sentiments. From several Republicans at the National Committee meeting in Omaha came the long familiar, yet nevertheless ‘eloquent, plea for the “this view 2

dows, Across the plains and in the mountain states, huge herds of cattle and bands of sheep are threatened with destruction, .It can be a Slanstes of a magnitude not yet appreciated in the East.

One remedy that instantly occurred was the In the abates, food can’ be dropped to animals other‘wise cut off. This may not ‘mean substantial help, but it is being tried.

Appeal to Washington

THE federal government is the only agency that can help In this way, because only the Air Forces has the necessary equipment. So immediately the governors of the states, Republican and Democratic alike, appeal to Washington for help with a haylift. Here, it seems to me, is a striking example of how lechnology and the ever increasing centralization of our world are tied together. Only a strong federal government can afford an-alr force. No sensible person would propose that ~| each of the 49 states maintain its own’ force, complete with fiying boxcars. Nor is it possible to suppress modern technology, with its ever widening implications. Once the internal combustion engine was per1 fected ‘and the “Brothers first flight at Kittyhawk, everything followed, from the B-36 to the jet fighter that goes faster The airplane is here to stay. In my opinion, that is where the heartfelt eloquence of those who denounce b SOV ment is off the beam. If you look. tfesii¥tically at it, you must concluds iat perhaps the chief reason for the bigaess” of big government is the effort. to. “BH the fantastic new technology of Alle past 20 years within the framework of the “kind of life we have known.

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CHICAGO, Feb. 2—This big buttons-and-bows town of the ol Midwest is beginning to see signs that the lush days of $5 sirloins

and $125 suits are fading. 80 freely. The cold statistics don't suggest much trouble yet. leaders seem confident that alt is due, it will not. be severe, concerned but not alarmed. - Conversations with officials in such fields as medt-packing, Tarm-implement manufacture, mati-order we ; DEARKING and department stores disclose a general eel that to maintain sales volume, consumers must be tter merchandise at lower prices. * * In the last two weeks 30 new o apblicants have been | on Illinois’ unemployment €6mpensation rolls. That looks but officials say it die largely to severe. weather which oe closed down muh” “outside construction work. result from fits closing for inventory-taking and some to slowing “oben ana business caution.

Most & downward readjustment

‘Soffening of Business

2” THERE is always a seasonal rise In these figures at this time of year. In most cases workers have been told they'll be called back—but no date is fixed. As C. 8, Young, president of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank, sees it, business is due for a “softening” from now to midsummer but will be up a little in the last half of this year. He says some businesses will get hurt in the process-—some which added lines they didn't know much about during the war, some so small they can't get the volume of sales needed to survive. But Mr. Young believes that after all this has come out in the wash, . the economy will be on a more sound basis, .- Bank officials are not trying to pull punches. Their deposits show that in recent months more and more.individual lines of goods and services have begun to experience declining sales, scattered layoffs and losses, with “some new rise In failures.” A reserve bank study says an "underlying conviction that present ‘business’ and employment levels are unduly and artificially high permeates much of the business community in this district and elsewhere.” push on business by government spending, but says that virtually all past signals Indicating a business reaction “have been flashing for “months.”

Heavy Price Cuts

CHICAGO department store sales were 110 per cent higher in. the first three Weeks of January than ‘in the corresponding period a year ago. But they were in part due to, heavy price

cuts and when nig sales topped -consumer purchases slipped off:

An official o January business was “softened” last week after a good first three weeks,

Marshall Field's big department store said better than anticipated. But that it He re-

It weighs the possibility of an upward

People aren't tossing money ahout |

ey’'re cautious but not fearful;= :

Some layoffs |

ported that since November, for the first time since préwar, | ,fhe number of sales transactions in ‘bis store Increased at a | houses, doing business all over the U, 8; says wolume has re-

po iid rate than the dollar volume, He mid it seemed to mean , mained that:

pnd are sun ring fe lots of things. The average prices

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Sometimes this happens even rations with

almost any staté in the union.

a incentive and, to. “down. = :

Vital Rola for GOP

eral government is an all-devouring, powerseeking monster deliberately bent on destroy-

ing America’s ancient liberties, While those words were being spoken, still

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‘By Galbraith

“a. J Es » ‘ / boy wre A yh, | lhrathe 2.2 Folly KF / COPR. 1049 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. M. REG. U. §. PAT, OFF. “l really should be at home with this cold, but the children ,. Come in so early from school and | don't swant them to catch it!" Li i - " - of these things are lower, and the more expensive {tems—fur. | coats, jewelry, silver--are moving more slowly.” Farm-implement makers report sales for the last few months ahead of a year ago, “but we know that a major shift is.taking place all through the farm areas.) There has béen a sellers” market in farm. Ssxiplements for eight years; now It is turning Into’ a buyers’ maricet. Not long ago & farmer would buy equipment whenever he could get it he would grab a corn-picker in January even though he wouldn't use it until October, Today he waits ungil he meeds it. He's - hanging onto his cash reserve and buying more of his farm equipment on time payments, Co * Slot An official of one of the nation's: largest

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| 1 | but that “we would be down sharply 4f we used the same tactics as a year-ago. Now we must have / wwell-toncelved Plage for sreation- and distribution J] Sper tos do Pine.

A second reason for the bigness of vig gov+ ernment is the bigness of big business. several hundred thousand employeés have an economic power greater than

There is a danger from big government, and a very real danger. .To centralize the direction . of -all functions in Washington is to destroy

IT 18 just here that the Republican Party could play a vital role in pointing out a reason able middle course. But this cannot be done as long as so many leaders in the party continue merely {0 denoumce the New Deal and“point with’ pissionate <levotion to the past. ‘ One Republican at Omaha said more or less . that in a speechh which got almost no notice, That was Nebra&ska's Gov. Val--Peterson, a veteran of World War II, re-elected last fall by a majority more than twice that of Gov. Dewey. Gov, Petersonn spoke straight from: the shoulder to warn that if the dead hand of the past continued to doxmuinate, the end for the: party

must recognize that government does have an appropriate place in our yond that of validating property titles, putting

of individual initiative is a good

of subordinating the 1blic-welfare, has an equally honorabi¢ p Place tm our society,” - =

THE AUDIESINCE-fiat heard this had just the hooming emptiness of Sen. Wherry”s oratory, It was hard to te]l “whether they wwere listening to the earnest. ‘When Gov, Peterson _sat down Toastmaster Wherry turned to infssduce Sen, Homer Capehart of Indigga-as "a real Repub- * Noah lo talks —3g¥ke-u Republican.” of Tam ve meant this as a slur on the .~. of his state, but fo some in his auydience it sounded that way. As the old slogan has it, “You pays your money and you takes | lin.

In retent years the American people have been putting thedr money on those who seem fo have at least some sense of the realities of

lem. A federal bonus is the only approach to rewarding the veterans -that eould be fair to all concerned. However, the federal government has failed to act and the bonus has been. allowed” to become a political plum for the ‘state politicians to take advantage of. Other States have paid their bonus and Indiana will have to. nag Sapa much for the political future of any po that -opposes paying the bonus. . However, 1 am not a politician and I can say what I think, When I pay my increased gross income tax I am going to attach a rider to it saying: “This state bonus is a small token in a small way to reimburse the veterans and my-

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invite break- self, a veteran, for the pitiful and disgraceful 3 Seton -in- Which the federal government has —— } greeted us back to our country.” : LE Appointment Praised

By W. H. W.,_ City. : I want to congratulate the Yourd: of park directors and Mayor Feeney for their wise selection "of such-an-outstanding man as our new park superintendent, Mr. A. J. Thatcher, I know our city parks and playgrounds will function more smoothly and increase in popu~ larity for the recreation of all citizens of In-

We should all feel very fortunate to have a man like Mr. Thatcher, with years of successful experience as recreation director and management, as our city park superintendent. You can rest assured he will work hard and endlessly to tH ~Indianapolis : -of Indians proud of our 1 parks and playgrounds here in our capital city,

What Others Say—

i “THE problem of economic stability poses one of the supreme issues of our generation, which isya moral issue in its core implications. Will our democracy make manifest its innate sense of justice, which- rebels against hard-ships_for-sa-mahy people even in the presence ‘of pra¥Perity?—Leon H. Keyserling, vice chairman of President Truman's Council of t Boor Homie Advisers. ® 4

NONE of my men are going to play footsie wootsie with the Russians under such condi_tions as their intolerable blockade. ~Col. Frank L. Howley, U. 8. military commandant in Ber-

* ¢ AVE. no intention of Jetting my: private ay terfere with my career—at least for the present. —Mavie star Rita ‘Hayworth, vacation- - Ag In Switzerland with Prince Aly Khan.

MEDICAL SERVICES . ., By Jim G. Lucas

Draft for Doctors?

WASHINGTON, Fe 3-1ts 2 toss-up whether Defense See fetary James Forrestal ess for a doctors’ draft. He won't do it soon, mone. Res waiting for a report from his medical advisory committee, which is not due for a month or more. On Dec. 13 Mr. Forrestal named. Charles P. Cooper, former vice president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., head of an eight-man committee, Mr. Cooper is chairman of trustees of the New York Presbyterian Hospital. If there is a -draft, it will take first thousands of young doetors who received their ‘education at government expense and saw no service. That would help considerably, although it's doubtful the armed forces would get many specialists that way. Sources close to Mr. Forrestal say he hasn’t made up his

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mind, that it’s stil} “a flip of the coin.” But if a draft is neces< "SAT. he wants the military to get its medical house in order first,

A doctors’ draft would encounter bitter opposition from the

American Medical Association, which has been urging its mem-«

bers to volunteer, to head it off.

Joint Hospital Staff

MR. FORRESTAL says his "medibal officers nave worked out plans for joint staffing of hospitals used by two or more of the armed forces. They're also working on plans to use the same civilian consultants. The Hoover commission's committee. on national security organization says a scarcity of doctors and specialists is the “main problem of the (military) medical services.” Competitive efforts to get doctors have not been enough, it says, and there is no indication they will be. - Although the armed forces are faced with a doctor shortage “whichein their opinion—threatens to become critical in the very near future,” the committee feels the military is partly to blame. It does not think a draft is the answer, “largely because those specialists which are most needed would be unlikely to be included.” If there is a draft, It says “some reasonable period of service should be required of those who received their educa-

tion at the expense of the government’ and did no military - service."

Four-Point Plan

. THE committee said the military could help oy eliminating (1)..doctors in administrative positions, (2) maldistribution, (3) | wasteful medical practices and (4) use of military doctors for. service dependents, veterans and other employees, Mr. Forrestal in his annual report disagrees: He says free medical sérvice for dependents “is a military necessity in attaining morale and personnel strength , , . and, in operating military stations throughout the world.” The Hoover committee wants consolidation of military and other federal hospitals. It would leave two big military medical centers Bethesda and Walter Reed.

“There is no reason,” the committee said. “why they (the

services) should maintain a long string of general hospitals. If they were consolidated with other federal hospitals, the unified group could offer physicians inducements similar to those. now being offered hy the Veterans Administration and the patients 2would receive hetter care.” The Army and Air Force say they are short almost 3000 don “tors; the Navy wants another 2000, i

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