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Guessing Red Army Plans .-

ential groups within the Republican Party, and also as long-

that is true of most of his remarks in opening the Cleve- " order.’ His emphasis on the traditional American principle

~ policy. I do not know any Tesponi

alibis and not by trying to read their minds, On the record,

foes on margarine, yellow or white, .

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

JFEW students of foreign affairs are better informed than John Foster Dulles. As unofficial spokesman for influ.

time leader of international committees of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, his words carry weight. : Usually we are in hearty agreement with him. And

Jand sessions of the Federal Council's conference on world

of subordinating the military to civil power was timely. So. was his plea that America make full use of moral, cultural and economic factors to stabilize peace. But, if we understand him correctly, some of his statements about Russia and tHe war danger were out of focus. He is quoted as saying: : . “So far as it is humanly possible to judge, the Soviet government, under conditions now prevailing, does not contemplate the use of war as an instrument of its national naible high official ,. . who believes that the Soviet state now plans conquest by open military aggression. . . . It can be assumed that the Soviet state would use the Red army if its leaders felt that their homeland was imminently and seriously menaced . .. that is why our fellowship with the pedples of western Europe and particularly of Scandinavia ought not to seem to bring United States military might directly to Russia's » sy =» 5 5 ¥ LE J : IT SEEMS to us absurd for anyone to dogmatize on whether and when Russia plans conquest by open military aggression. But the fact that Russia militarized her own country and her satellites after the war, when western Europe and America virtually disarmed, does not suggest ‘that the purpose of the Red army is entirely defensive. Mg. Dulles of course did not intend to imply that arm‘ing the Atlantic Pact nations exposed to Soviet attack would menace Russia, but rather that Red leaders might think it-did. Aggressors usually charge they are being encircled, as an excuse for attacking weak and exposed nations.. Small neighbors of Rusisa, such as Norway and Turkey, cannot defend themselves without American supplies, and without the collective-security allies sanctioned by the United Nations. Dictators are to be judged by their acts, not by their

Russia has behaved as an aggressor and the United States has not. Soviet threats have forced the free world to band

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together and rearm. Doubtless this displeases Stalin. But it is far safer to risk his displeasure than to face his ex-

panding military might without arms or allies.

Sally Should Be’ Hanged XIS SALLY was convicted of treason and we think she deserved it. She could be sentenced from five years to life in prison, or she could be executéd—and we think she should be hanged. Ve SA " It is true no American has yet been put #o death in peacetime for treason. But memories sometimes can be short. Axis Sally didn't care how many Americans went to their death when she broadcast her “vision of invasion” in May, 1944, as her countrymen were poised to sweep on Normandy. In fact, it is fair to assume she hoped quite a

few Americans would die to confirm her choice of Nazism

over a free America. . 0»

. LJ ur» . SHE KNEW what she was doing when she cast her |

lot with Hitler's gang. True, she was a stage-struck, frustrated woman; she hated Roosevelt, England and the Jews; she was in love with a. Nazi. But, as the judge who tried another traitor, Robert Best, said last-year: “When a man intends to betray his country, his motive is immaterial.” She had the benefit of a fair trial and of -a-certain wariness exerted by the framers of the Constitution.

“They made the Constitution restrict treason to levying war.

against the United States and adhering to its enemies, giving them “aid and comfort.” For conviction they required either confession in open court or at least two witnesses to the treasonable act. Axis Sally's defense testi"mony was a veritable confession, and there were plenty of witnesses. — wo “7 It was clear she pulled no punches in aiding and comforting our wartime enemy. Neither should we, in peace- _ time, in assessing penalty,

To Margarine Users A BILL to repeal the federal government's unfair margarine taxes and license fees is at last ready for debate in the Democratic Congress. But that bill, as it emerged from the House Agriculture Committee, is not the simple, honest measure which millions of housewives want and which they understood the Democratic platform promised. : It would prohibit. the interstate shipment of yellow

margarine, and so. continue to give butter an unjustified

«competitive advantage, . In other words, yellow margarine could be sold in any " state whose own laws do not prohibit it—but only if it is ~ made in that same state,

. . x » » » THAT WOULDN'T be quiet as bad as the tricky “compromise” scheme proposed by the dairy and butter interests, which would have prohibited manufacture and sale of yellow margarine everywhere in the country, But it would be an absurd and unnecessary denial of the right of a vast number of citizens to buy and use a wholesome and economical table spread without having to color it in their own kitchens, tl : This bill should not become law. The one that Congress

should enact bears the name of Rep. W. R. Poage of Texas. * a 1t provides simply for repeal of all federal taxes and license

Now is the time to tell your Representatives and ators that you want them to vote for the Poage bill instead

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THOUGHTS ON LIFE’

What-a man is going to do isn't worth a dime if he never gets around to doing it. , , . Good intentions constitute a poor alibl, . . . The man who obeys and carries out.. an order is just as important as the one who gives it. , . . If there had not have been more good “than bad in people there would have been no organized society. . . . A life without a program is like a sailor without a compass.

+ + + Every year about the time we get enpugh. |

money saved up to pay our income tax, some milliner has to stick a spring hat in the window. « + « The cost of living never seems to get high enough to hurt the sale of things we don't need. . . . Gossip is a mixture of envy, malice, jealousy and les. . .. 8he—I would like to have a dream watch for my birthday. He—~That's the kind you'll get. . . . Nine people out of every 10 respond favorably to a smile, «THURMAN D. GEISE, Connersville, * * ¢ :

‘SUGAR TIME

When maple sap is runnin’ high, And the sun is lazin’ ‘cross the sky, And the ole sap sled is slidin’, That's the time ole Tom and Ned Pull barrels o' sap to the bilin’ shed, With the 'lasses man presidin’,

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Many a night at the bilin’ pan I've fraternized with the "lasses man, And breathed sweet vapors steamin’; Perhaps a chicken was bilin’, too, On the fire for just us two, And the man in the moon was beamin’,

I've stoked the fire, as a stoker should, . It seemed the fuel was sweetened wood As the "lasses man would deftly skim The foamin’ bitter from the sweet, With shiny ladle, long and neat, A-leavin’ sweets fer me and him.

Freezin’ night and thawin' day, Sap runs better that a-way . .. Time fer bucket, time fer spile . .. Sweet way of life the Lord done sent . . , Thanks for bygone nights I've spent A-watchin' of the syrup bile. JAMES D. ROTH, Indianapolis. Cee @

* PLUM BLOSSOMS

Of all the springtimes I have lived, Just one springtime I see; That is the spring, the glorious spring, When young love came to me,

A tiny lass and sturdy lad, We wandered, hand in hand - Down through the orchard to plum-tree land.

The grass was greening, Blue was the sky; Two birds were building * Their nest near by.

The whité, white blossoms I still can see, : . That spring when young love Came to me. ==MAY A. ARBUCKLE, Elizabethtown. o ¢ SH

LIFE'S GOBLET

Youth seizes on life's brimming glass, And gulps in haste its fluid rare— He has not learned how soon will pass Much that he now considers fair, So wide, so limitless the range— 80 inexhaustible the store, He throws away the flower he has And rushes out to gather more.

But age has learned to hoard those things - Entrancing to the ear and eye— And graves them on the mind and heart As the years rush swiftly by. He holds the cup, half empty now, * And makes no haste to drink it up— But savors to the last sweet taste, Each drop remaining in the cup, ° “a ~—OLGA ADAMS, Peru. ® ¢ @

A LITTLE PETTICOAT

They say the earth is bare and drab and brown}.

In early March, but when I look around, . I find beneath earth's winter gown a special tint of green; A most becoming petticoat just slipping to be . seen,

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darkness of Soviet Russia, ‘the outside world stirs in a flutter of speculation. The substitution of Vishinsky for Molotov once again has set off the tremors that vibrate out to the farthest corners,

To American officials who have made a study of Russian policy and Russian intentions

speculation seems futile if not downright foolish. They believe that on the fundamental ob‘jective of the Soviets there has not been the slightest deviation through the years, The latest proof of the unshaken singieness of purpose in the Kremlin is .a remarkable document that is being studied and re-studied for its bearing on the present. It is 4 long article in the Soviet magazine, “Bolshevik,” by. E. Burdzhalov, who bears the impressive title of chief, lecture group, propaganda and agitation division, all-unién party central committee.” What makes the article especially significant is the evidence that Stalin takes a personal interest in every word that goes into “Bolshevik.”

Follow Exact Pattern

WHAT THE article declares, reduced to its simplest terms, is that the Communist parties

olution to overthrow the landowners and the bourgeoisie and then on to a dictatorship of the proletariat. Any deviation from this pattern of revolution is heresy or treason. This can be Télated directly to the recent statements of Thorez in France, Togliatti in Italy, the British Communist leaders and William Z. Foster and Eugene Dennis in the United . States, One after the other, parrotlike, they stated that in the event of war with the Soviet Union they would be loyal to Russia rather than their own country, Thus each one cut himself off from any possibility of collaboration with other forces either in peace or war, Burdzhalov © writes: » +The assertion that each country moves toward Socialism in its own and completely original way and that there are as many routes toward socialism as there are countries cannot be 1ccepted as correct. To speak in this way is to deny the international significance of the experience of Bolshevism, The general laws for

--B. C., Indianapolis.

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ECONOMIC POLICY . . . By Peter Ed

Pressure on Credit

WASHINGTON, Mar. 11—Chad Calhoun, vice-president in

charge of the Washington office for Kaiser Co.

circulated among capital newsmen a dozen highly embarrassing questions. Unfortunately; there is not space to give them all here. But the general purport is to raise suspicions that there is a “great split in President Truman's: official family of advisers on

economic policy, .

There is a fairly obvious reason why these questions. are

raised at this time. Kaiser-Frazer Automobile Co

one of the most active pleaders-for the idea that the Federal

Reserve Board should relax its Regulation W.

consumer credit. The purpose is naturally to enable more prospective Kalser-Frazer customers to buy cars for less than one* third down afid the balance in more than the former IImit of 18

months or the new limit of 21 months.

This company and many others in the same.boat make the argument that if they can't sell more cars on easier terms, more auto workers will have to be laid off, It is further maintained

that increased unemployment will naturally add

decline, thereby offsetting the beneficial results of curbing Inflation, which is what Regulation W was intended to do.

High Pressure Technique

WHEN people can't get what they want out of government, they naturally assume it isn’t being run right and that there's something the matter with the people at the top. The usual technique of the Washington. business representative in such a

predicament is to start turning on the heat where he believes it that \ reluctant concessions will do some good. And in this kind of pressure cooking, nobody Nn . - pg nas greater four-burner skill than Henry Kaiser and his bright "ITGOPR. 140 BY MEA SERVIOR, Be. 7. W. A006 6 PT. 00%, © young men. : :

Understanding this background, consider a few of Chad Calhoun's pointed questions and a few possible answers obtained ‘after consultation with people who should know.

QUESTION--"Is there a terrible split in the (President's)

Council of Economic Advisers—that is, (John

(Leon) Keyserling vs. (Chairman Edwin G.) Nourse?" The answer seems ta be “No!” They have their arguments

on many subjects. But in everything they have far in their own reports and in the President's are apparently in unanimous agreement.

QUESTION--"Is Nourse allied with (Secretary of Treasury John W.) Snyder, (Secretary of Commerce Charles W.) Sawyer and (Assistant to the President John R.) Steelman—a sort of

conservative axis?’ :

' _ It is extremely doubtful if any such axis exists, Secretary Snyder has gone right down the line for the President's program, Dr, Nourse: a highly honorable gentleman, doés not play politics. Secretary Sawyer and Dr, Steelman cut no particular ice as pol-

icy makers. The man

nomie policy In Secretary of Agriculture Charles :

the transition from capitalism . to socialism,

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to the business

CONQUEST OF WORLD . .

No Change Seen in Red Goals

WASHINGTON, Mar. 11=-Each time there is +

avidenis_of uidue. Woven 18 the. JRHY “Lenin and Stalin on the basis of Bolshevik par-

over a considerable period of time most of the,

_author says:

‘not parties of the masses. This problem can

© * Burdzhalov takes a glancing blow at Yugo-

of every country in the world must follow the :. exact pattern of Russia in moving toward rev- -

" ‘cipline. They must follow without looking either

"I've decided to enlarge my reading scope till Freddy gets over being mad at me!" :

. By Marquis Childs"

which were first revealed by Marx and Engels and were verified, solidified and developed by

ty and the Soviet state, are mandatory for a countries.” :

Iron Code of Conduct

. WHAT was handed down from on high to Marx now has been “solidified” into an absolutely iron code of conduct that the rest of the world must follow. This is shown particularly in Burdzhalov’s discussion df the Communist parties of the U. 8. A. and Great Britain, After pointing out that the Bolsheviks always believed “the highest form of organization” was to achieve leadership in the trade unions, the

“Many Communist parties, in particular the Communist parties in such important capitalist countries as England and the U.S. A, have not resolved this problem. One of the principal reasons for this lies in the fact that the Communist parties in England and the U. 8, A. are still

be resolved only by means of painstaking and persistent work within the trade unions. . .

slavia’s Marshal Tito for having deviated from the Russian pattern. He also makes it clear that any ‘part the Communists may play in democratic procedure through parliaments is merely “aesupplementary means in the basic, extraparliamentary, revolutionary meéthods of struggle” ~~ : :

Masters of Combat

THE author quotes Lénin with approval as having sald “that the revolutionary class must first master all methods of combat without any exception whatsoever, and, second, must be ~ ready for the most rapid and least expected substitution of one combat method for another.” He points with pride to “the extremely rich experience the Bolshevik party accumulated in alternating and combining legal and illegal and parliamentary and extraparliamentary forms of struggle.” That spells it out as unmistakably as anyone could ask. Those who become Communists and who remain Communists must inevitably submit to this extra-legal, extra-national dis-

to the right or the left in the footsteps of the master—Stalin—~who reserves the right tp in-

|-By. R. A. Fo City.

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terpret the holy writ of Marx and Lenin,

By Galbraith

BELLY

Reds to share

D,) Clark and

Sawyer, et al?

announced thus program, they

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are, principally? to get people to do what they ought to | later. Dy the President te. work out A iy oy 8 The President spends most of | . TF ott his time kissing people first on ons cheek and then on the other | eoun » Brannan, in 4 ‘surrender of

gerling and Clark have more influence over Truman than Snyder, fe

like this usually imply what many people have been led to belleve—namely, that the President is a mass of

fingers are stuck into him farthest and oftenest. , Truman say nothing could be farther from the truth. They paint him as a fellow with ideas of his own, and awfully stubborn. What his advisers sometimes wish is that they could influence him more. In short, the President is boss.

ident’s recent .speech before the National Planning Association

offensive.

administrative

columns.

"Hoosier Forum

will defend to the death your right to say i”

- Keep letters 200 words or less on any sub- | ‘ject with which you are familiar, Some letters used will be edited but content will be preserved, for here the People Speak in Freedom,

‘High Cost of Health Insurance’ |

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When people unthinkingly state that they

“}. favor compulsory health insurance, do they be-

ve they are going to get improved medical them more in the long run, They will be paying not only for medical care but also to maintain a host of “bureaucratic officials, office space, thousands of'@lerks, filing systems, and reams

of paper that are not now computed in the cost

of medical attention : La Some state that there are those who eannot afford medical attention. There is not a person in Indianapolis who need go without a doctor's care. General Hospital affords every specialized care a person could need. Eminent city physi» clans and surgeons give of their time gratis as staff men of the hospital, : I have failed to see any children “ravaged by disease” because of lack of medical attention’ as one contributor to the Forum stated. Malnutrition undoubtedly contributes largely to infec tion and disease but I fail to see that that would be alleviated by a National Compulsory Health Insurance—perhaps we should also have a Nae tional Compulsory Food Distribution. A doctor who of necessity must spend much more time on red tape paper work cannot possi bly give as much time to his patients. _ Let's take a lesson from England. There, it was estimated that socialized medicine would cost 2 million pounds annually. In actual operas lion it now costs 15 million pounds per year 714 times the estimate—and we are notably more prodigal with our taxpayers’ money than is

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We will not get somethiig for nothing.

“New Low in. Politics’ By C. D. C,, Terre Haute, Ind. } Agriculture is the greatest single industry in the state of Indiana. Farmers all over the has tion use about 40 per cent of all steel manue factured which give employment. to almost every industry... ... ... - : It is my own opinion that much of the present unemployment is due to drop in farm . prices, I wonder how much the youthful New Deal solons whose pictures appeared on the front page of The Times on account of their filibustering agtixities know about the farmers’ problems. The filibuster over the time question cost the Indiana, taxpayers about $1300 per hour, and it cost the Indiana taxpayers approxi. mately $1000 while the youthful Judson Hage gerty read a little red book on the history of clocks. Do these youngsters understand the farmers’ : problems in regard fo weather, insects, rodents, crop failures, low prices, etc.? Do they unders stand why business people have to be bes deviled with politicil parasites that swarm over the land like locusts from our national, state and city governments? Do they understand how a businessman is hemmed in between these so-called government inspectors -and a ‘union which probably is taking orders from someone in Chicago or New York? Indiana politics seems to have reached a new low under the present administration as the C. I. O. and labor lobbyists from other states give their orders to the New Deal solons, But, after all, it is what the majority voted for, We are getting what we should expect.

What Others Say—

IT is a buyer's market (for college students) from now on, and those colleges which insist on top-ranking students are going to have to go out and compete for them as we did in prewar years. . . . The honeymoon is over.~John M, Daniels, chairman of admissions, Carnegie Ine stitute of Technology. = * ¢ o THIS “cold war” could end in 20 minutes,

Soviet Russia being willing, in deeds as well as

words. We ask nothing of her except the right of independent nations to “live and let live” according to their own free choice in their own domains.—Sen. Arthur H. Va,ndenberg (R.) of Michigan. 5 , WE (Republicans) ought to remember tha it is just possible that, with all our mistakes, we were right . , . and part of the voters (last November) were wrong.—Rep. John M. Vorys (R) of Ohio. Co

‘PEACE’ TALK . . . By Clyde Farnsworth

Substitute for War

SHANGHAI, Mar. 11—The kind of peace that comes in quotation marks has become a powerful weapon on both sidea of the struggle for China. "No real peace is in sight. ss Even if the Chinese Communists and Nationalists start “peace” talks this month, as they are likely to do, and even if they eventually reachéd~a marks will belong around that doubtrul word for a long time - to come in China. Le ia——_ . ., First the -losing Kuomintang and then the winning Come munists have turned to. ‘‘peace” offensives as handy substitutes for warfare. The bloody struggle for supremacy in China has ‘been in suspense for about two months. The lower Yangtze is the dividing line between. the two war. zones. - Nationalist Premier Sun Fo is not convinced the Reds will allow an “honorable peace" but he says they at least have indicated a willingness to negotiate “on the basis of equality.”

Proposals Drawn Up

TEN Nationalists headed by the premier are drawing up concrete proposals to be laid before the Communists in North China. The premier also is trying to smooth out Nationalist family rights, He recently told members of the legislative Yuan, the government law-making body, that he President Li Tsung-jen were working “honorable peace.” Presumably that would be a compromise permitting the

“peace” agreement, quotation

and acting single-mindedly for an

in the government. Such a coalition would give

greater effect to social, economic and administrative reforms upon which both sides long have been in essential agreement— on paper we least, . e principal catch in such an overture to the Communists would be that they have claimed a virtual monopoly on reforms in China, and unless Sun Fo's proposals could be made to look

by the Nationalists, the Reds would

rather do their own reforming. Their immediate reaction be ably will be to challenge the government's sincerity, pro

‘Peace’ Offensive toe}

YET the Communists seem inclined toward some kind compromise. The recess in hostilities at t - peak military momentum has - a

coincided with Nanking’s “peace”

One probability 18 that Communist deaders found that thelr

capacity fell far behind their military ability.

They might conquer all of China, but not govern it. They needed the services of thousands of Nationalist civil servants and co-operation of millions of private citizens if they were to fill the political vacuum behi

, Communist colimns might have plunged on across the ; 2 Yangtze to destroy the government's. demoralized armies, but In this connection, a little noticed quotation from the Pres- 8 an poutible price oe ry Wi I ye Eo ; counseled the Reds to negotiate. > y President Chiang Kai-shek's new Nationalists’ first overture for “peace”

year message ‘was the and that psychological

flanking movement was spurred by his retirement threes weeks

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