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Commission has reported to Con-

THE Displaced Persons gress that the law under which it is operating is discriminatory and “all but unworkable.” Amendments are recommended to expedite the movement of political refugees from temporary camps in Europe to the United States.

Rigid adherence to preferences which the law confers

on refugees from Poland and the Baltic stats and on persons qualified for farm work threatens to wreck the program and gives an “unwarranted discriminatory advantage to certain groups because of national origis,” The Commission “contends,

At present, only persons who entered DP. camps before

“Det. 22, 1945; are eligible for immigration to this country:

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more displaced .. the rest Catholics. This supports President Truman's position that the present law tends to discriminate aaginst these

two religious groups.

bas from ~ present employment levels are maintained, this country ~ should be able to absorb an additional 100,000 persons a

The Commission wants the cut-off date advanced to Apr. 21, 1047, It estimates that this change alone could admit 95,000 persons, 78,000 of them Jewish and most of

Finally, the Commission would. increase the number of immigrants fro 200,000 to 400,000 and extend the

time span in which they may enter this country from two years to four.

s x» “ a 8 THESE proposals odmmend themselves to anyone who of the unhappy lot of Europe's fugitives and religious persecution. Moreover, if our

provided they are properly distributed. Probably,

that some provision be made for them, too.

Our should initiste a convention of all the

countries capable of receiving immigrants, such as Canada, - Australia and the Latin-

American states, and seek an agree-

ment to attack the whale problem on some ‘quota basis.

The longer this broad approach is postponed, the more

difficult 8 solution will become. For half-measures will skim off the cream and leave an ever-increasing percentage of

who would become automatic public charges upon

nations. that take them in.

More Than We Thought

ERRED the other day in saying that there were three sponsors in Congress for the proposed constitu-

tional amendment to abolish the Electoral College and give the country a fairer, safer method of electing its Presidents.

The amendment, we're happy to learn, now has at least

12 ‘sponsors—elght Démocrats and four Republicans. It

started with two, Sen. Lodge of Massachusetts and Rep.

~~ Gossett of ‘Texas, but-they: have been joined recently by |.

Sens. Kefauver of Tennessee, McCarran of Nevada, Fulbright of Arkansas, Hoey of North Carolina, Sparkman of Alabama, Stennis of Mississippi and Neely of West Vir: ginia, Democrats, and Smith of New Jersey, Morse of Oregon and Flanders of Vermont, Republicans, We hope there will be many more, in the Hotise as well . “as the Senate, for such popularity is well deserved. And we

hope President Truman, who seems inclined to believe that

since the country has managed somehow to get along with the old Electoral College procedure for 160 years it doesn’t need, a betler system, will ‘change his mind and encourage Congress to submit the amendment for prompt ratification by the states,

No Time for Sweet Alice Stuff

AMERICANS pant for peace, “as the heart panteth after the water brooks,” so-our impulse is to look with favor and hope on any move by Stalin which indicates a_let-up In the cold war he brought on. But to mix a bit of later poetry with EN let's not fall’ for blandishments from one whose whole

record is to play us like an accordion as long as he can get

away with it. Let's not do the sweet-Alice act:. {Dont you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt— _ Sweet Alice whose hair was so brown, “Who wept with delight when you gave her a "smile, “And trembled with fear at your frown?” ‘There is just one language, Stalin

% trample with Jar at Bis frown.

Two-Way. Traffic |

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y oy) ifs Times Publish uf 5 Indianapolis Tia Member of 1

as 3h aie Outs; carrier du Fn . 4 H ny A ony. se Alyy

_ Md. and kept going. It was a good road, fit for

NATIONAL ROAD The resolution before the present Indiana legislature suggesting that the National Road Be éalled UT BW, Blus Star Highway, opens & door to the past—to a vision of empire, and a road that was the key ta a continent. Talk of a great road began in 1805, and, while men talked, the road grew. Men must talk and roads must grow or both perish. While maps were drawn, the road climbed the moun~ tains, took one backward glance at Cumberland,

a Caesar's’ dream. Four stage coaches could race abreast down its macadam, and its bridges were the best. Even before it reached the last fence, the last town, it was a thing of wonder, and the birds of the forest must have’ looked in amazement at this work of man. That was the Cumberland Road, hope and despair of man, killer and god.. Towns grew or died as it passed, and populations knelt in the streets praying that it might come their way. . Indianapolis, lost in the wilderness by the swamps of Pogue's’ Run, became a city overt. The manufacturers who had laughed at’ the idea of building in its marshes came back with the first stages, and thousands followed. The old “trace” ahd the s h river were forgotten, and the Road was life itself. i In 1840, the Cumberland mr fedched Terre Haute, and the Mississippi. Settlers who had

1 who let their pets run loose should have

which you say means fear to the good nts. aes sus but i aha SeS shot

the blame when they have been warned of such, i. danger, ! As tar as the hot potato dog leash ordinatics

momentumn when it reached the mighty river.

> And sees it glide upon the downward fling, — Then cSWftiy=-cHmb-the tant magnetic

followed the blazed trails to Madison and Cin cinnat! now drove their hogs down the broad highway to the Mississippi and its New Orleansry fg boats. Emigrants walked the Road, and On es. The great and the poor came, and a wilderness became one of the greatest farme« ing sections in the nation.

Somehow, the Cumberland seemed to lose

Jonigreat in the world, and the greatest man had uilt.

There are no mountains now or Mississippi, no plains to cross. Men look at the great network of roads they have built, and “National Road” seems a bit pretentious. They call it “U. 8. 40,” and feel better. But something more is

string.

Tach sure-returning trip is like the comeback o Lats svn broadcast in life's waiting

, #éturn unto the doer, Not singlé-handed, but in ample yield, Dp the cable smooth with much return “And-oright with-1ife’s frat: candles swirtlyburning .

«ROSE MYRA PHILLIPS, Attica. * +

FAITH Spring will dome soon again, And little rivulets will run

I am content to wait.

‘WORLD A AFFAIRS

lin's propaganda is given circulation throughout —the world:

and distorted account tary Acheson but by his brother, Prof.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7—There is something comic about the reaction in this country to the answers that Marshal Stalin sent to a news paperman’s inquiries about whether Russia wants peace. Even behind the grim, closely guarded Walls of the Kremlin in Moscow it must cause some laughter. The headlines, the speculation, the state ments and the denials go on and on, and all over an old routine repeated several times in the At least twice before Stalin has given

past. “almost identfcal answers to similar questions. have not

The soft answers previously given brought any change in the harsh conduct of the cold war against the West carried ott under

{Stalin's direction. All this seems to be forgotten - _in the current furor.

In my opinion the press, or a section of it, has a great deal to answer for in this connee¢tion. Consider the irony of it.

Stalin's Propaganda

THE questions were submitted to-Stalin by

Kingsbury Smith, general manager in Europe of the International News Service. he is the chief Fn ven Burope of Wil: lam Randolph Thus, it is thanks in the first instance to the Hearst press that Sta-

At the same time the Hearst press, along with the McCormick-Patterson newspapers and other allies, is pouncing on the new Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, for the slightest. suspicion of Russia. And if nothing suspicious can be found, it is not beyond some to invent suspicions. That happened the other day when a garbled t of remarks not b

Acheson, were made public. Prof. Acheson, Ip. has a distinguished reputation in his own right as an authority on international finance, was talking at a private, off-the-record meeting of When he saw the distorted version of what

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he said, Prof. Acheson issued a denial. But this did not prevent Ben. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire from getting up in the Senate to say that if Edward Acheson said such things, then they must in some manner reflect the thinking of Dean Acheson. Quite apart from the obvious unfairness of such an inéinuation, the irresponsibility of the performance speaks for itself. - The same press that starts the rabbit of the Russian peace propaganda immediately sets the dogs onto anyone who proposes to consider its merits. The mere suggestion that Stalin's answers might be more than propaganda is to bring down the awful denunciation of appeaser.

Legitimate Channels Open

- AT HIS press conference Secre Acheson analyzed Stalin's replies and red them to proper proportions, ére are, as Mr. Acheson pointed out, legitimate channels to explore the

_either. We can’t pay our income fax until he finds something to do. Td say fake it from tobacco and chewing gum &nd whisky.

The government has done more than ever before to compensate veterans for the sacrifices they made. If they take advantage of the educational program they will increase th . comes, and that's more than most of could afford if we never had a war. We are already taxed to death. Do they realize if

Landlord's Com aint

By Mr. and Mrs. ton Anderson, 1303 8. Belmont Ave.

How can we landlords find teriants we’ ean

possibilities of peace and end the frictions of | trust?

the cold war. -Too often ignored in the past, the instrument for peace, above all others, is the United Nations.

The time may come, and it may be closer than we think, when Moscow puts’ ddt a real peace feeler. This could come in a half dozen different ways, such as a serious proposal to end the impasse in Berlin.

When that happens, Secretary Acheson should be free to go as far as he deems necessary to work out a practical agreement for peace. Those who know béleve that such an agreement is possible. ~The Secretary of State should not have to be concerned with dark sus Jiclors of appeasement in anything that has to do. with Soviet relatiofs, We have a right to demand of those. ‘Who raise the shrill ery of appeasement at every opportunity what they are seeking. If it is war with the Boviet Union, let them say so. They give every indication of believing that war is the only choice. p

End of All Freedoms "

THIS IS a strange phenomenon. For these same shrill Yoiots peofeny 10 40us Sion She 16

one who looks at reality must realize that HB

third world war would end all our freedoms and reduce us to total regimentation The only hope for freedom 18 the hope of preserving a peace, however uneasy, in the next few years in the sions will subside, terics who denounce every his and ay practical terms with Russia seem eS aiun. 1

You rent an ent to some so-called friends. They pay rent for a few months, then start moving in their married

and their families. Five adults and two children and a third expecting, in this three-room apartment. They make an awful nuisance of themselves by running up and down stairs day and night. Then we have no right to evict them except on a nuisance order. Is this being fair to us?

What Others Say—

WHERE there in no will (for world peace) there is no Way --Alhet bert Einstein.

PEOPLE tend to be needlessly dazzled by writers, ‘and wonder why they write. , It's not all: Bome write to earn rs writs for fame, which is also Fame is a will-o’-the-wisp, here . Then, of oolirse,

I BELIEVE fn the discipline of stiencs and aiid talk for hours about it.—George Bernard Shaw. ¢ ¢ o IN spite of all the supposed about tie (attic) BOM, it is easy to show that the

explosive charge weighs in the neighborhood of 20 to 30 pounds and occupies a sphere of three

® o wish the end of our world. Theirs is a tragic | or four -inches-~about the size of an indoor MABEL NEWMAN, BRING on the below-gzero 0 peratures! It's sickness which must not be allowsd 1 to infect | baseball—Dr. J. A. Campbell, professor of Oakland City. 8 relief to have anything dro Amfierican policy. chemistry, Oberlin Oo

ECONOMICS . , . By Charles T. Lucey

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

CATTLE FEEDERS ...By James Daniel

understand and tier amccs ar hy hea oan us mle. indies that he Is beginning to understand. Of late we have ceased to

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Job Market Dips

CLEVELAND, Feb. T=The factory gate. Weeks ago it reached the the commodity counters_in numerous lines as supplies came abreast of demand. It has means that the consumer could be more choosy about his purchases, That goes for hiring men now, too. It is apparent here in “this big, breezy industrial area, where an estimated 36,000 men are jobless-—the most in a long time but scarcely alarming in a total job pool of 575,000. The unemployed figure has jumped 10,000 in twp months. Some slowing of business is obvious.

leaders say, of colirse; a readjustment is on but that Cleveland is a dynamic town that can cushion economic miseries. They're up to their necks here in preparations for what they call the “industrial tomorrow”--new developments in jet power, electronics, plastics, aeronautical research... Cleveland's. wealth has been built -largely on metal-working and machine-tool plants but its leaders say hk will not Jepend solely upon them in the days ahead:

Investment in Future : THEY POINT OUT that dozens of companies have set up shop here in last year. The say $400 million was spent on new plants during the waf and another $250 million piled on top of it in postwar years. Federal Reserve Bank officials say that pt now they see nothing on the economic horizon to alarm the Cleveland area. They observe a national trend to modernize rather than to expand U. B. plant capacity, and predict that the machine tools for mh of the modernization will ome om Be Cliveland area. ey cite recent department h t per cent above those of January, 1048. They say people are paying their

shelves are not excessive. But, all this said, it is a fact saftened. - One plant manager recently ran a small advertisement for assemblers-—the same ad which Sa the last two or three Juke has brought a dozen or so to his. factory gate. “This time he drew 100 applicants. i What does it mean? It means that amples | can be more selective. about the men, they hire—not in all ln , because in some particular skills men still scarce, but work. It means also that when ts lay off men due to lack of orders, inventory taking or model they may not merely dismiss—they may cull to get rid of efficient help.

Lush Days Fading | : THERE ARE signs Bt productivity 1s up, too. “the Tunch counter IHERy saloon grapevine has been saying that the lush days may not go on forever. And this may be having its effect on quality and amount of work done in a day. Fewer men are quitting jobs. Six months ago. Shottage of materials was the chief cause of industrial sl this area. That factor is well dows the list now. “head oi 1 th Tae tht fewer ordecs, & rtur 18 the Hstasondbie’ pattern whic brings & slump at this time of year in ‘lines, consumer resistance and full lines,

that the labor market has

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But Cleveland as a community seems unruffied. Business

bills. They think that in most lines stocks of of goods on retailers’

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i! Sntried hat 3 is autres an Mass 0-404 time Prices must be mined to Make: more attractive deal for the

prospective purchaser,

The Cleveland office of the Ohio State Employment Service for several months past has shown a steady rise in job applica tions and claims for unemployment compensation. *

- Cleveland’s industrial pattern is extremely diverse. This diversity is counted on to help maintain balance in employment. But it 1s conceded that if a real economie blow’ came, mere diversity itself would be*stant answer. -

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| Asks Beef Price Aid

WASHINGTON, Feb, T=The Army is cutting down on #ts

‘purchases of beéf in Argentina in order to boost prices to eattle feeders in this country. The decision was reached in discussions participated in by congressmen, Assistant Army Becretary Gordon Gray and Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan. One effect will be -to reduce -the amount of betier-grade. beet available to the public. Also, the step is expected to help

" bolster beef prices in general.

A campaign by cattle feeders preceded the Army's move,

which revares 8 poly duldnd upon ast year to Duy part o

our meat for occupation forces from South America. Roland Bibolet, secretary to Sen. Ernest W. McParland.

to. Ariz), said the Senator began getting letters and phone

calls in mid-January from cattle feeders asking ¢ that the Army cease beef purchases in Argéntina,

Political Connection

SEN. McFARLAND said he arranged for & number of cattlemen to meet with Gray and Maj. Gen. Herman Feldman, Army chief of supply.. One of the group was George Lucky, who has cattle ranches in California and Texas and 1s committee vice chairman in California. Sen. McFarland said the cattieman also saw. Secretary Bran Sea tr. Lucky talked with President Trumas.

‘million pounds before Sept. 1.

So, Wiliam Darksdate who ia thie suhéiisnte branch of -

seas personnel for the past six or eight months” he “de pending upon the avallability of shipping in a,

months ago.” i ae : “ “At least,” he sald, “the people who were trying to bid dows will have to use some other reason.” Two months ago the Agriculture Department

Irvingtc will meet at day In the Inc Club. Honor g

W. C. Honecl Spencer.

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