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The Governor Faces Facts {RY Schricker’s budget message may have been disappointing to those, in the legislature and out, who have mot yet discovered that there is a bottom to the pot of gold that is Indiana's treasury. To us, though, it was full of plain old-fashioned common sense. bi : * The state, he told the legislators, can’t pay out any takes that much in. There is only oneto get the money, and that is out of the pockets of taxpa; of Indiana. It is going to cost a stagger‘to run the state for the mext two years, any additions or frills, and all the taxes now collected will have to go for that essential expediSo if the General Assembly proposes to pass any the hundred or so bills now before it to spend more it just have to find the money first. Two and Gov. Schricker’s books, always make four, never"

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5 " # ; z 4 4 ~~ It Can't Happen Here... Yet ; . JN Philadelphia 11,000 streetcar workers have announced they ‘will go on strike tomorrow unless their demands are met. If they do the streetcars won't run, and more ; than 1,000,000 other workers who depend on them won't pet to Work at all until such time as the- strikers-agree to let them go back to their jobs. : -

3 heavily in wages, and business, even though they have ir n..nothing-to do with. the dispute that caused the

"THAT couldn't happen in Indianapolis. . . . . now.. In Indiana we have a state law that sends such disputes into

nosed utilities boss, or an equally hard-nosed union boss - - from penalizing either their own workers or the whole - community because they can't. agree over the terms of a labor contract. It could happen here next summer, though .... if Bdsm ronson the ‘illsconsidered : attempt - to repeal Indiana's wise. and. "just arbitration law is passed by the state legislature now in session. " The present law has saved eight potential utilities “strikes in two years, won wage increases for unions in six cases, saved union members in Indiana millions upon millions of dollars, and protected every Indiana community from the kind of paralysis that this week threatens Philadelphia. : It should not be repealed.

Gov. Dewey's Speech GY: DEWEY made an excellent speech at the Lincoln

Day dinner last night. He acknowledged frankly the wide-open split in the Republican Party and its “dismal

cu vie He with Republicans at both extremes with backward lookers who would repeal the entire New

and fight every Democratic proposal, and with those would try to out-promise the Democrats. He proclaimed his belief that “only a progressive, for ‘Republican Party can provide the leadership needs and must ultimately get.” ] stop “bellyaching about

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As the trail runs the valley of fun, Can come to the Scout as he camps for the night, .. Then remembers some good he has done,

The trail may be long-or the trail may be short, {The Great Scouter metes out the span), Be the length as it may-—each blazes his way As he grows to the stature of man. WILLIAM XE. WITHLIFF, New.Castis, * o

, SHIFTING GEARS

collecting this, that and the other, thinking we are doing something worthwhile, and we work like beavers at the job. Then suddenly we stop, look and listen, and begin to realize this and fume will end. All of

Then the balance of the time we put traveling In the o te direction. fearing

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THE RIVER OF LIFE

The sparkling rivulet of life, That flows with rippling song Within the merry heart of youth, Makes music all day long.

And when the channel deeper grows, And life is at its noon, It sings a lovely rhythmic, lay ... With liting, joyous tune.

TEN BELOW “Br-r! It's cold outside,” the-folks all say, Coming inside on a zero day. pi They bring to the kitchen all they do. “Get out of the way You better jump; Here's boiling water to thaw the pump!” Three little pigs and a new-born calf— Conglomerations to make you laugh. Must baké the dinner—no room on top ©Of the stove covered with milk and slop. Oh, zero days have peculiar charms For folks who're privileged to live on farms, —EDNA J. REESE, Williamsport. * o o

COME, WARM YOUR HANDS

Come, warm your hands before my fire; The flames are licking the green-wood log. The shadows dance a fantasy upon the wall, And the room has a ruddy glow: ie

The soul is more than body to be fed, It feasts in Rellowship with Foe and Friend, Who takes the cup warms before my fire Come, and break bread with me, . And warm your hands and heart before my fire -~-DAVID GOSSER, Mentone. ® © & FEALTY

. They say a dog is man’s best friend, No doubt his dumbness makes it so; But should he ever learn to talk, : He'd surely lose his status quo.

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ECONOMIC PLANNING .

O wad some power the giftie gie us to see oursel's as {thers see us! smite annie ice lifeline THOSE SIMPLE lines of Bobble Burns might be right helpful to the United States, We don’t seem to be popular with the rest of the

trust or dislike to hatred. This shocks us. For we are sure that our motives are pure; we have no designs against the property or liberties of others. Instead, we are spending our thought and resources trying to save them. So why aren't we better liked? *Havén't. we given away billions?” we. ask. “Did anyone else ever do so much? We are using our resources, sinking ever deeper into debt and taxing oursélves to distraction<-largely to help the world.” Why doesn’t the world like us? : And there's where we might take Mr, B advice and try to see ourselves as others see us. If we do, we may get a rude jolt. We might even discover that, in the eyes of others, we talk too much about what we are going to do for them. Or promise too much. Or seem too sure that we have a mission to save everybody else.

As Others See Us

IN AN individual, these signs are commonly described as “big head.” Nobody is more unpopular than the fellow who, as the saying goes, + “has all the answers.” And nations are just individuals on a bigger scale. Without sacrificing ideals or tions, we well others see us, Who elected us to save the world? Does it want to be saved according to our ideas? Did anybody ever become popular by giving money away--especially if he tied any strings to it? Or hinted that some day he would like to have part of it repaid. : We may well ask whether we have all the answers. And, if we have, whether some two billion other people will accept them. And

shirking obligamight try to look at ourselves as

sources to secure their acceptance. It ‘all seems to grow out of what is regarded as a new era. You might call it “the era of government-knows-best.” It knows best how to run things abroad. And also at home. Not just any government, understand--only the one in Washington. We lived through a long era of mostly mindour own: business. Both

EMPLOYMENT . . . By Peter Edson

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SIDE GLANCES

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U. S. ‘Save World’ Plan Too Big?

mestic affairs of foreign nations and the private | MOSCOW, a8

world. Feeling ranges all the way from dis-

whether we have“the financial and other re- ~~

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activities of pur own people. So long as others

- respected our rights abroad, or didn’t threaten

our welfare at home, we were content to let

them pretty much alone.

“We felt no obligation either--to- finance or manage the world, or to make all the rulés and. dole out all the benefits at home. Now, we do. Of course, times change. But have they really changed this much?

. ’ It’s Our Busines WHAT We do at home is, of course, our own affair. We don’t want anybody else meddling An. that matter. That's our business, =~. Yet, isn’t that what we're doing for much of the world? And if we must do it—apd admittedly we have new burdens and responsibilities --are we doing it in the right way? Does the world regard it as“help—or meddling? We have our hand in planning and decisions everywhere. We talk continually of how dependent on us the world is. We make vast promises. Bruce Barton recently wrote in Reader's Digest: “No nation can play God to the world with any final result except self-destruction.” & That says it. : We have to make good on our promises or the disappointment and resentment will be awful, - ‘ President Truman recently committed us to a “world-wide effort for the achievement of peace, plenty and freedom.” Defense Secretary Forrestal said in his annual report: “We must do everything we can to bring order out of chaos wherever it exists and to eradicate the evils and injustices which cause war.”

Vast Bill of Goods

THESE ARE great words and fine ambitions —but also a vast bill of goods. In behalf of them we are active all over the world—planning the economy of Europe, advising.the Dutch on Indonésia, debating the Chinese crisf§, pledging a loan and trying to stick to a policy for Israel, using pressure to influence South American rev.olutions, seeking to raise living standards for half the globe, and fighting a cold war with Russia. Co Daily our efforts cover the whole earth. We are even planning guided satellites to circle the

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‘No Freedom for Hate’ By Henry J. Richardson Jr., Attorney ; "I have read with interest The Times’ news article and editorial concerning the investigation of certain letters and pamphlets which were sent to the members of the Indiana Legislature by W. M. Osman on the letterhead of the Circle ' City Company, 2025 8. Bast $t. The news article was objective and to my knowledge factually correct, but I must emphatically disagree with

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for the protection of our society as a whole. If he is innocent of any violation of the law, he should be so adjudged, if he is guilty then he

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| “Stalin Will Not Accept’

By H. X,, City

Mrs. Walter Haggerty ‘thinks the evil Republicans have failed and writes the first article of the Constitution in the Forum for them to read. Personally, I wouldn't want to argue over the merits or demerits of an Old Guard Repub-

However, for sheer deceit and abrogation of campaign - pledges, I can’t recall any adminis. tration that ever reneged on its cam proms ises as early In the game as the’ who are now running our state government.

What Others Say—

THE U. 8, is responsible, as a result of the war years, for stirring up a freedom conscience throughout. the world... Now Wwe must follow that up with a form of economic co-operation and capitalistic investment based not so much

-'on the profit motive as on an opportunity to

do the most good.——Nelson A. Rockefeller, former Assistant Secretary of State. ® © ¢ SOME educators have been so concerned about having students meet academic standards that they have overlooked the importance of developing pride and happiness in doing essential

work well.—Charles S. Stevenson, vice president, .

Hall Brothers, Inc. ‘* * © YOU could give the Chinese 90 per cent (of control of China's government), and the Communists 10 per cent, and the Communists still would run the government.—Rep. Sol Bloom

.(D. N, Y.), predicting failure of any “coalition” § China.

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No Big Job Drop |

of today's U. 8. employment picture. A headline, “Unemployment Claims Rise 100 Per Cent in Three Months,” may look and sound terrible. But any idea-that a depression is on the way and that - soup kitchens and breadlines are just around the corner would The important figuré is the amount of employment-—not the unemployment. - At present high levels of cmployment—80 million Jobs—a drop of 1 per cent Tn employment means 600,000; laid off. If, however, previous unemployment was 600,000, this new 600,000 would represent a 100 per cent increase in unemployment. This is a mathematical distortion which always has to be taken into consideration in studying unemployment figures and in talking Census Bureau's monthly report on size of the labor force, employment and unemployment, is a sample survey and not an actual count, The last report made Jan. 7 covered the week Dec. 5-11, 1948. It indicated total civilian employment of 59,434,000 and unemployment of 1,941,000.

Small Drop From Peak

THIS IS a drop of 2,181,000 employed from the peak of 61, 615,000 reported last July. But as the Department of Agriculture's farm labor report shows, there is always a drop in rural employ- | ment from June to December. Last June there were 9,396,000 employed in agriculture. The December estimate was 7,155,000 a drop of 2,241,000 and more than the total unemployment reported by census, The 1,941,000 reported unemployed by Census Bureau in December is greater than the number reported unemployed in September, October and November. But it is the same number reported unemployed last August and it is lower than unemploy‘ment for every other month of 1048, with the single exception of May. Here you have the paradox of greater unemployment--over 2 million—while employment was at its peak last July. Bureau of Labor Statistics goes at this thing differently in getting payroll reports from industry on the number of paid workers ‘in nonagricultural employment. It does not include the self-employed, domestics and a few other classes of small business labor. So BLS comes up with a smaller employment figure than Census Bureafi. BLS reports 46,100,000 nonagricultural employees in mid-December, as against the census figuré of 52,279,000. The important point about the BLS figure, however, is that it ts the highest number of employed reports! since the end of the war, : ’

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Unemployment Trends Normal

U. 8. BUREAU of Employment Security's weekly: reports on

state unemployment insurance and benefitss-covery only

"But for, the past three months—mid-October to mid-January ~contin claims filed for unemployment insurance have dou bled; The low of 762,000 was reported for the week ending Oct. 186,

election might have told a dif-

1048; For the week ending Jan. 15, 1049, it was 1,568,000. This is -

tinued, as the applicants-find new jobs or-are found to be ineligible. Fei AR 35 million of these nonagricultural ‘worke#s who come under the | law, J)

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COM. 1548 BY WEA SERVICE, WG. 7. . REG. U. 8. PAT. OF, “If you can collect the money they borrowed from me. to buy that electric razor for my birthday, I'l split with you!"

the highest figure since May, 1046, and it is 500,000 above January, 1948, New claims for unemployment Insurance reached their peak of 415,000 in the week ending Jan. 8, 1949, But they dropped to 376,000 the week ending Jan. 15. First reports for the week ending Jan, 22 show there will be further declines in initial claims for unemployment insurance, Incidentally, about 40 per cent of the initial claims are not con

these increases in yment insurance claims are

in employment after the Christmas rush, «The ‘past, three months have been a period of readjustment. in industry.’ Production in some lines has caught up with demand and there have been some layoffs for a more normal postwad level A ’ w- . *

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Russia Asked for More

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Treaty for Austria?

WASHINGTON, feb. 9—Big Four talks on the treaty for the re-establishment of an Independent Austria are scheduled to'resume this week in London. They broke down last May. They will be watched by Washington, London and Paris for possible signs tbat the Kremlin means what it says about itlement. - Continuat f ®. / JFabting ; ation of the deadlogk will This will be the seventh attempt since VE-Day to implement As “the first free country to n,” ‘said that declaration, annexation to Germany. was

fall a victim to Hitlerite Austria “shall be liberated.” declared “null and void.”

In 1945, at Potsdam, President Truman, Prime Minjster Atles

and Premier Stalin further stipulated that, ms a liberated

uit lig nd Lay Jepdrations. At Soviet ’ y was agri at Russia t “German assets” in eastern Austria. Tight take over

Treated Like Step-child 2

SINCE THEN, Austria has been treated like a redheaded step-child. Russia has occupied the eastern zone and Vienna in precisely the same fashion as she has eastern Germany and Berlin and the Allies have been afraid to evacuate theif reas lest the Red Army occupy the entire country,

This occupation has already cost “liberated” million—a terrific drain on ay pn ria Si ! Approximately Half has gone to Russia. The United States not B only renounced its share but has returned such payments as had already n made. Britain and France still receive

"Even so, says Dr. Ludwig Kleinwaechter, Austrian minister to Washin reco is impossible under occupation. gm, ull very

Russia has continued to block Austrian freedom = despit the three western Allies. When the Nazis entered ‘the country in 1938 they séized whatever enterprises they liked and placed them under German ownership. Now Russia all these ol vain assets.” Not only that, but she has backed Yugouge reparations and demand ustri Carinthia for her satellite. “ A oy

a 7 FRANCE. with Britian, and American su TOP o an mnity of $100 million Haatia lace of assets.” But Russia. insisted on more. “was offered, In addition, half of Austria’s oil output, her oll exploration rights and all of the Danube

‘Co. assets In Romania, Hungary and Still Russia . She wanted a $200 million Indemnity Bayath in RL two-thirds of existing oll production ‘and two-thirds £ all oil

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