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apolis in connection with this approaching vacancy. He Has steadily preferred to appoint men well past 50 to the .

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most part to the health and ills of farm

La os - INDIANA'S prolific soil wil As farms grow, industry will have to step up its production to meet the of needs of more rural households that are becoming mechani. cally modernized every year. : "Thus, Indiana is heading toward a greater future

. agriculturally and industrially, calling for refcrms in the

public services and tax structures that are now archaic and out of gear. : >

Alas, It's No Dream OMETIMES we think we must be dreaming. Especially :

% when we read about the government's farm-price Supports. ; + Now it'looks as if Congress will dip into the Treasury

to keep up the price of mohair—the stuff that comes off |

Angora goats and goes into upholstery. And of hofey. And

"of tung nuts, .

Already Uncle Sam has stored away in caves such quantities of dried eggs that, if they were in their original

* shell form, they'd fill a dozen White Houses. The dried

eggs are going stale and the Agriculture Department goes on buying more. It's the law. . The potato people and the advocates of price supports in general talk happily about the prospect that keeping potato prices up this year will cost the government—that is, the taxpayers— “only” $50 million to $100 million, instead of the $250 million spent last year.

CHARLES SHUMAN, president of the Tllinois Agricul: tural Association, says the government's present cqrn-price floor—$1.44 a bushel—is too high to encourage the feeding of this grain to livestock. Yet, apparently, there is no other

~ use for more than four-fifths of our huge corn supply. (The

Agriculture Department has $750 million worth of last Year's corn crop on its hands, even before an ear of the huge 1049 crop has been shucked.) | Secretary of Agriculture Brannan speaks gloomily ‘about the coming pork surplus. It would be fine, he says, if

‘pork prices to consumers went low enough so that people

would eat a lot more pork and a lot more surpius corn would be fed to hogs to produce the pork. But Mr, Brannan actually proposes to boost the government's hog-price floors about $2 per 100 pounds above their present levels. Sen. Lucas of Illinois, the Democratic Senate leader, says the government has gone too far with its program of farm-price supports, But many members of Congress seem determined to go further. - : :

4 Bhould they vote support for Angora rabbit fur, too?

The of these interesting animals want it, and naturally they ask why take care of the goats and neglect

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the British picture. ME y The overwhelming trouble in England is excessive government spending. And that is the point on which Americans can get the most valuable lessons from her experience. For free: spending is our great weakness, too.

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We are a far stronger nation But, also, we owe a far greater debt. Not only

IT WAS a pleasure to see the Wittenbergs, Junior, in Valparaiso last definite opinions, and

have we built up a’ . debt of over $250 billion; but, more oe we have used a tremendous treasure of natural Fred Senior TY Da I 3 Hr ara earoas. amor and tion as regards important have always duction and. employment, our government 1s | °F What our once more running at a deficit. besides BY as In Inventive a lesson as to what can tool box for tractors

PEDDLER'S PASSAGE . . , By John Loveland

Live Life of Luxury

Being scientifically fed with the proper amounts of feed and corn, these same aristocratic were able to seek their rest at night by tramping into another building which houséd a snugly bedded loft into which they were able to make thoir way up a special ramp. No snuggling together in a fence corner for protection from the cold for these select shoats. Yes, Fred took especial pride in the advan-

his Chester Whites were getting over other pigs. :

At his politics Is new? as she rol More than one amazed taxpayer As Must think something is askew.

For his honor wasn't happy With the paycheck which he drew, And this unique civic pappy Simply cut his right in two.

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AUSTRIAN ELECTION ...By Ludwell Denny Ex-Nazi Vote Power

SALZBURG, Aug. 20—Half a million newly entranchised ex-Nazis will determine : Austrian election results on Oct. 9. All parties, including the Communists, are bidding for their votes. The ex-Nazis' chief center is here in Salzburg, where they are trying to start a new party, but they are scattered through the country and all classes. ¥ Fi. If they go to any new splinter party, they will reduce the leading Peoples’ Party's ratio to the profit of the strong Socialist Party. If they give the People’s Party the absolute conservative majority now lacking, that party may break its present govern. ment coalition with the Socialists and for a right-wing cabinet. The danger of ex-Nazi balance of power has been precipitated by two laws. One was the amnesty of the “lesser implicated” 482,000 out of the total 524,000 registered Nazis. These “minor offenders” constitute about half of the new voters, the others being so-called Volksdeutsch, returned prisoners of war, and come-of-age voters, Of the total electorate one-quarter will be" new, and one-eighth ex-Nazis—in addition to the large number. of‘Nazi sympathizers. - '

Questionable New Party

THE second law was a compromise and deliberately ambiguous. Under this measure a questionable new “Political party,” unable to get necessary clearance by the allied control commission, can get on the ballot by popular petition in the districts as a “vote-soliciting group.” This legal subterfuge permits neoNazi parties which are technically banned. This dodge was. invented by the Socialists to reduce Nasal support of the People’s Party. As such it was opposed by the People's Party at first, but then accepted for fear the opposition might boomerang. The big four in the Allied Council, each for different reasons, straddled ‘the issue. They approved the trick law, at the same time reaffirming their right .to ban political parties—without defining “party.”

Not Simple Issue

THE issue is not as simple as first appears. It goes back to the original’ problem. Should all registered Nazis be lumped together and denied the vote for a long period? Or should the lesser offenders be reclaimed and absorbed into the | political

community? The gbsorption course was chosen in the belief that most Nazis had been such for convenience or necessity under a dictatorship. Also it would be dangerous to make permanent

outcasts of such a large number in defiance. of overwhelming public sentiment.

. Choice between permitting concentration of ex-Nazis in new parties, is also difficult. Each of the major parties is

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Of the 70 splinter groups, only three are taken | ply; | One of these, the left wing Socialists, has openly ay Joint ticket with the Communists, Another is the “Democratic

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regular changes of bedding. Along the back wall of each pen was a low ledge, under which the newly born youngsters could retreat and be protected from the awkwardness of their mother

as the young were weaned and could fend for themselves, they made the acquaintance of a fully cemented feeding lot where there was room for exercise and also a pit for -clean water and a bath without the usual green slimy mud that accompanies a hog wallow on th

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"My mother says if the neighbors complain about the vielig, she might have fo stop my lessons! Doesn't it bother you?"

RAL curr ALY Porte Horses Over Senators A TR a or ro pla Wednesday and Friday in The Times. EARLY in. the fall of 1941, Fred took a trip for hand-outs and bensits. Nothing here is com- Bot & Sean of Freddy hor Bis aston ts. 0 Florida with his wife. After spending a few as yet 1b what has happened in Eng- | Ratner, it deals wi senior half of the, JAYS there he wrote home as follows: However, we are definitely on the way. partnership, Fred. T'm ready to start back any. time, but am Social security programs are worthy and “Fred,” sez I, “Do you still have the Deluxe RAvVng 3 hard time tying 10 decide whether 10 humanitarian. They can do much good if they | 0 ern south of town? And are you still rais- Teturn by way of Washington and see the don’t lead to excesses. In Britain, they have led ing Chester Whites?" Senators, or to come by way of Kentucky and to excesses. “I've still go place, and I manage to . %¢¢ the horses. The more I think of it, the more The old principle that a man must help him- | 0 00 née but Pm raising Durocs now.” Attractive the horses seem to get.” self, that he has an obligation to try to stand When I said DeLuxe, my friend, I meant De- Being the man he is, Fred chose the horses, lon feet, ind that the world doesn't 0" | Luxe, because there never was a place like the ~ 204 enroute stopped at one of the very new him a lving, still stands. When it is violated, pride and joy of Fred W berg. He treated it army camps to visit a step-son. The commandJuin 1088 deil-reliainte 414 pations loss strange. like a hobby, but dividens, even, = Ing officer, being especially proud of his hastily is an object 20 a lot of armers will tell you you thrown together barracks, y escorted Axton. Forty per cent of ihe entire | can’t do any good with hogs on hillside farm. the visitors his post, letting his deep study 1s Forty per cent of the entire feeling of pride overshadow any possible conBritish income goes to taxes. It is a burden sw | Best of g - cern for the barrenness, and poor construction vast that it discourages work, stiflies. enter- | — “ppong ung wart to finish, his pigs got the of the dormitories. 2 prise and destroys hope. Britain has passed the | ,..¢ or everything. farrowing house was a With all too evident an expanding chest and much-discussed point of diminishing returna “regular maternity , each sow having her mounting self esteem, he turned to his visitor {n America we are at or close to the point | 0 "oon ooment. The building was furnace from the North and asked, “Well, Mr. Wittenere A axes Ke a eT A ioncom®: | heated, and had fioors which sloped gently to berg, what do you think of our bright new bare And if we keep taking on new obligations a center walk and gutters to insure proper racks, and the quarters where your step-son drainage for each pen. An abundance of bright will learn to be a soldier?” ¥ : FOSTER'S FOLLIES | clean. straw was immediately available for Hoas' Home Befer

TH slightly curled lower lip, and a fixed stare which usually accompanies the Wittenberg feeling of disdain, his visitor replied dourly, “Hell, man, my hogs has got a better place to sleep than that!”

ficer in question, and if he should happen to stumble onto this report, let him find comfort in the knowledge that the pampered pigs in question did, beyond a doubt, have the better

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Union,” a professed middle-of-the-road group with an ambiguous platform, toward which the Red press is unusually friendly. The most important “fourth party” is the “League of Independents,” led by Herbert Kraus of Salzburg. Many if not most men are ex-Nazis, pan-Germans, or former Austrian

Kraus himself was not a ksown Nazi Party member, though he managed to live without difficulty in both Moscow and Berlin during the war, . He Is a brilliant publicist, butv w poor speaker and inex- & | perianced organizer. ‘While not directly advocating Nazi ideology, ince the war he has led the attack on Allied de-Nazification i Policy. Whather the Nazis are using the ambitious Kraus, or ‘ he'ls using them, is not yet clear. { ;

eanwhile, the People's Party presses its negotiations with

splinter parties, and of forcing them into large existing “safe” i

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artiéle of commerce, then we have lost free labor in America, and our democratic way of life had better take immediate heed of this serious threat to free labor, for to place the legitimate activities of labor unions under the anti-trust laws would be a

that there are still people who use the Golden Rule right here in Indianapolis. An unknown friend has been made, and I wish to thank her, if perhaps she reads this column. I was shopping in a downtown store and lost my new billfold with over $20 in it. It was found by a lady and she mailed it to me, say ing, “I could have used this money, but honesty pays for itself.” ¥ This surely proves there are still. honest people in the world, and even though she did not sign her name, surely her conscience is well paid. If more people had such traits of character, surely this would be a more wonderful - world in which to live, i We

‘What Others Say

IT 18 a most extraordinary thing that lawyers for defendants in a criminal case and their witnesses shall persistently and deliberately decide what questions they will answer and what questions they won’t, and then further have the effrontery—at least one of them did— to say that was the traditional policy of workers and labor. I am pretty sure that statement is resented by a good many working people in the United States.—Federal Judge Harold R, Medina, in the trial of Communist leaders. * & ¢

I DON'T know which way to turn. Every couple of minutes I am invited to a cocktail party. I'm not used to that sort of thing. In Kansas, we mostly are Saturday night folks, . Save up for a little fun on the week-end. Here, everybody goes all the time.—Mrs. Georgia

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DEFENSE ...By Jim G. Lucas oa

Army Plea Refused

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20-—The Army has told Gen. Douglas MacArthur it will be impossible to reinforce his Far Eastern

Gen. MacArthur had asked for more men soon after the collapse of the Nationalist armies in China. "He made the same request on several previous occ learned, was not a formal request. Department source said, the General, in several cabled messages to the Pentagon, pointed out the need for reinforcements, i The army high command, in what is described as a full * discussion of the Far Eastern situation, informed him it was sympathetic to his problem, but that it “simply did not have the

ns. His latest bid, it was ead, an informed Defense

. Approximately 127,000 of the army's 667.000 men are 3 signed to the Far Eastern command. Gen. MacArthur wants . & force of between 140,000 and 150,000 men. Communist victories in China, he believes, make it necessary for the U. 8. to. reinforce its garrisons in order to reassure the Japanese.

Accused Russia

HE HAS: publicly charged Russia with inciting “disorder and violence in an otherwise orderly Japanese society.” Last March, he told the Japanese their role was to “be the Switzerland of the Pacific but that If Japan were attacked “we should certainly defend her.” He added then that he did not expect a Russian attack. Earlier this year, the Army planned. to increase the strength of the Far Eastern command to 136,000 men. Those plans, however, were never carried out. ‘ Defense sources say there will be “some reduction” in the ‘Army's authorized stiength of 867,000 men in the next few months. Apparently that is in line with Defense Secretary Louis Johnson's recent slash in the Department's civilian payrolls, The reduction in fighting men will not be e - military establishment, but it will make it impossible to send ~ more men to any command.

10-Division Force

WITH 667,000 men the Army intends to create a 10-division force. A year ago, it had its sights on a 900,000-man, 12 division

mough to cripple the

There willbe 10 divisions by the end of the fiscal year, army men say. But the problem is to shuffle manpower in order ‘to get them rather than to assign men overseas. Gen. MacArthur made his last public bid for more troops ‘while Kenneth Royall was Secretary of the Army. | told him at that time it would be impossible. In an informal press conference in Tokyo, Mr. Royall was quoted as saying America would get out of Japan in event of war, He later denied making the statement, . « Within the United States, the Army is setting up a mobile striking force of five divisions. 192,000 men. Present plans call for only 142,000 men. Gen, Mark Clark, recently named to command the Army field forces, has urged reinforcement ning's. Alaskan command. Presumably; Gen. Clark's request will meet the same fate. Army i

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