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Space Between Trucks

QINCE the legislature is in session anyway, and not getting far on the welfare problem it was called in to solve, maybe it isn't a bad plan to let the members consider some useful legislation in other fields. The proposal to make trucks stay 300 feet apart on highways, for instance, would have the instant support of any motorist who has ever tried to use the roads of this state, which he principally pays for and trucks largely monopolize. There is no good reason, unless it's just because the drivers get lonely, why trucks should bunch up, bumper to bumper, in squads of two or three or four. Except down hills they are likely to be moving more slowly than passenger cars. When they gang up they make it very dangerous for faster traffic to pass them, and -in hilly regions virtually impossible. .

». Tepnessee, Dinois, abd some. he states have statutes

that require trucks to stay 100 yards or so apart. The rule

has no doubt saved scores of lives, Indiana should have such a law, too. It is an important ' safety measure.

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Quick of Tongue ———

HEN the Attorney General of the United States accuses a reputable federal judge of telling “damnable and contemptible lies,” presumably he should know what he was saying. J. Howard McGrath, the attorney general, said it

of Federal Judge George H. Moore in St. Louis. And

apparently didn't know what he was saying. Without Judge Moore there might have been no grand jury investigation of the Internal Revenue Bureau in St. Louis, an investigation which now has led to the bribery indictment of the ex-collector, James P. Finnegan. The judge said Wednesday he called Mr. McGrath last March after the local U. S. attorney reported he couldn't get clearance for the probe. He said Mr. McGrath told him these things had to “go through channels.” ‘But what do you do,” the judge replied, “when the channels are dammed up and blocked up?” Mr. McGrath retorted to these statements by calling them. “damnable and contemptible lies.” Wednesday night he had a change of heart after discovering, he said, a memo which recorded the telephone call. So he sent Judes’ Moore “apologies and Fegrets. if Ee—— 2 = MAYBE Mr. McGrath ought to look up some more memos. Last May, for instance, Sen. John J. Williams, who has done more than anyone else to uncover the scandals in the Internal Revenue "Bureau, said available evidence had been withheld from the grand jury. ~~ The St. Louis Post-Dispatch charges the Justice Department, which Mr. McGrath heads, twice tried to interfere with the investigation. ; A Congressional committee is investigating alleged attempts to interfere with another scandal in San Francigeo. And Sen. Williams charges ‘the dust has been col-

“lecting on the government's $2-million ‘claim against Big

Bill Lias, notorious Wheeling racketeer, while Lias was disposing of his assets among members of his family. A quick tongue does not always make friends and influence people. Nor answer important questions. Memos are better.

Two Haunting Questions

EN. MacARTHUR has posed the two vital questions that will haunt the Truman administration as long as the war goes on in Korea. First, why did they go into the war if they did not intend to win it? Second, what do they intend to do now—go on piling up our dead indefinitely with no fixed purpose or end in sight? Secretary of State Acheson has re that the United States would be satisfied with a settlement around the 38th Parallel. But what then? We would have to leave a substantial army in Korea to police the border, lest the Communists overrun the whole country the minute we pulled out. Meanwhile we will have paid for this stalemate with 100,000 American casualties. ~ Gen. MacArthur told the American Legion there was little doubt that the Acheson strategists were planning last March to yield Formosa and seat the Chinese Communists inthe United Nations as the price for peace in Korea. But MacArthur opposition, overwhelmingly supported by the American people, blocked such a sell-out. . » » - » . » NOW WE ARE fighting only for a draw, still committed to the policy of a limited war so we won't offend Russia. Only’ Wednesday we told the Chinese Communists we were prepared to carry the war through the winter if necessary. But in the same indecisive way—we won’t hit their supply bages, blockade their ports, or permit the use of Chinese Nationalist troops. . The war can be won by hitting the Communists with what it takes to knock them out. But, as Gen. MacArthur said, “we negotiate and negotiate and negotiate; never seeming to learn that you cannot profitably negotiate with Communists.” If Gen. MacArthur can continue to bring home to the American people the tragic truths of our misguided policies in Korea, and spell out the grave risks to our own survival in such a course, it will be a public service on a par with his own achievements in the field he knew so well.

KING FAROUK wants the Suez and Sudan to help pay for his latest honeymoon and old matrimonies.

SOME CONGRESSMEN may have voted to defeat

the tax hill ‘because they are afraid to go home.

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DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney :

Homer's Mad At Harry T.

Asserts President Uses ‘Smecr Terms’

WASHNGTON, Oct. 19 — Sen. Homer E. Capehart +R. Ind.) ‘who often challenges President Truman to debate with him, really doesn’t approve of the President's controversial style. He told a meeting of the California Manufacturers Association in Los Angeles last: night that President ' Truman uses ‘‘smear terms.” After condemning it coming from the President, Sen. Capehart made his own contribution as follows : “The white House,” he told the manufacturers, “has adopted a new technique of smear — smear by trick phrases. Most of them, of course, are beneath the dignity Mr. Capehart of the distinguished . about Tom's boy men who occupied the office of President of the United States before Tom Pendergast sent his boy Harry to Washington. “Now, Tom's boy Harry and his stooges have complained about the so-called smear technique

used by some people who have been fighting.

eommunism, graft, corruption and high spending in the Truman administration.’ But, I sub-

mit that Harry himself is the greatest smear ’

artist—against private business—of all time.’

It is only since the President termed the”

escalator ‘amendment in the price controls bill

that ft is' “an economic booby-trap” that the

Senator has, become so violent in his personal.

attacks on Mr. Truman.

Saved the Country : ~ALTHOUGH the President sent a mess Ca

amendment and restoration . of slaughtering quotas for meat price control, he didn't get either one .from this session of Congress.’ “If the Capehart amendment was so terrible, why don’t the Democrats repeal it?” the Hoosier gsolon asks. Pointing out that they have not done so in his Los Angeles address, Sen. Capehart credited the Congress with saving the country from

“socialism.

“President Truman will finish the job of socializing .America the minute he gets a Congress that will stand for it.” he said. “What Mr. Truman actually is doing is serving as a willing tool in the furtherance of a socialistic conspiracy—if not worse—which was conceived by New Deal brain trusters more than 15 years ago and which has slowly fastened itself upon the American people in 19 vears of the New Deal and Fair Deal under the guise of one emergency after another.

‘No Difference’ “THERE really is no difference between the

two deals—New Deal and Fair Deal. As the New Dealers and the Fair Dealers say, one is

simply an implementation of the other.

“One of the major weapons Mr. Truman is using in his campaign to soften up the people for his program of socialization is a smear of all business-name calling, vilification and trumped-up hullabaloo intended to weaken the foundations of the system which has made this nation great.” In a speech at St. Joseph, Mo.,, a week ago Sen. Capehart accused President Truman of

carrying on the Korean War for 1952 campaign

purposes.

What Others Say—

IT IS unfortunate when a procrastinating woman marries a methodical man. Maybe she puts off balancing the checkbook or forgets-to leave the car at the garage for the fall antifreeze. They seem small things to her but.not to her husband. It's time to do a little selfanalyzing when husbands show signs of developing nervous tension.—Dr. Frances H. Bush, psychiatrist.

ADMINISTRATION

system, for they have been warning us year after vear that our economy {s about to collapse. Meanwhile , . . our #conomy has become stronger and more prosperous.—Charles F. Brannan,

-Secretary of Agriculture.

A FEW years from now, music, 2s we know it, will have ceased to exist. . . . People no longer listen to “music.” they go to watch the performance of a famous conductor or planist.—Arthur Honegger, French composer,

I NEVER invited Mr. Truman (to my parties) when he was a Senator. . . . I néver had anything against him. It's just that I never thought the Trumans attracted me. I only ask people that are really exciting.—Gwendolyn Cafritz, Washington party-giver.

I WOULD not run (for the presidency) if nominated, I would not serve if elected . . . and I am no more a candidate for the vice presidency than I am for the presidency.—Sen. Paul Douglas (D. Ill).

THE SPIRIT of the people of Kansas City fn recovering from the disastrous flood of the Missouri and Kaw Rivers has been astounding and revealing.—Sen. James P. Kem (R. Mo.)

DON'T bellyache. Get out and work-—this country will pull through.—Bernard Baruch.

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By Frederick C. Othman

The Man in the Brown Suit Lied

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19—At 2 p. m. on Oct. 17—mark- well that date—the U. S. Senate sent to the House of Representatives a messenger in a loyd brown suit. He strode halfway up the carpeted aisle, bowed from the waist, pulled from his pocket a piece of yellow paper and began to read: The Senate would be pleased to appoint conferees with the House to write a new tax bill. At 3 p. m. these harried gentlemen did meet and, if you ask me, they weren't pleased. Seldom before has there been such expensive confusion on the Potomac. You remember a couple of days ago when the tax-boost bill was all written

. and ready to be rushed to the White House for the Treasury —

President Truman to sign so could start collecting extra millions on Nov, 1. All it needed was the formality of passage by the House. Everybody knew it would be passed —80 nearly everybody voted against it. The idea

was to be on record with the voters as oppdsing

higher taxes. To the surprise of these practical

politicians, they defeated the bill which they had intended to adopt. Well, sir, the rules say that a new tax bill

‘had to be written and submitted to Congress.

If this new bill is not passed by both houses Saturday, the government loses $120 million in extra taxes it would have collected during No-

. vember on whisky, cigarets, autos, and no tell-

ing’ what all else.

This is because the Jaw says the taxes cannot go into effect until 10 days after the President signe it. Saturday is the absolute final day for passage, though presumably Mr. Truman could wait until Sunday to put his name on the paper.

Nine Solid Months

WRITING the first tax bill took nine solid months; the displeased conferees figured they could do it quicker. Actually, they could have changed a single comma somewhere in this iengthy document and, technically, they would have a new bill. Only. some of the Democrats who voted against the first draft claim they did so on purpose; they say it didn’t collect enough money. Add a comma, they continued, and they'll blast it again. = Each tick of the clock provides just that much more chance of the government! losing

$120 milion forever-more. ~The troubie-seems-to-

be that new bill has got to be printed before anybody can say aye. Printing takes time, even if the government publishing office puts on another shift.

IRAN .

Oct. the es “med-

WASHINGTON, People ‘who say States has no business dling” in the Iranian oil situa-

tion may not know the half of it. For in the last four months, world oil shortages caused by the shut-down of Iranian production have been made up largely by American-controlled production. So the Iranian problem is now an American problem, almost as much as it is a British problem. Oil men say this situation must continue for some months. The worst pinch will come this winter. Along about « Dec. 1, the American demand for heating oil begins to rise. American. refining capacity must take care of this demand. in general, however, American oil men are optimistic in . their statements. Six months from now, they say the world may find that it can get along without Iranian production, which has amounted to 7 per cent of total world production. This is about equal to total Russian and satellite produc~tion. A 4 & THE WAY in which Amerfcan oil production has been mobilized to bail the British out on their Iranian ofl dilemma {is a story little known out Sas the international petrol-

The betting at this writing is 10 to 1 that the second tax bill cannot possibly be sent to the President by the week-end. This means that Congressmen, many of whom already have bought their railroad tickets, cannot vote to adjourn.

Let ‘em Try It ° TEN OF them, who've written home that they are ahout to leave on a trip around the world to inspect surplus property deals, can't get away. A number of old timers predict that the gents may say the hell with it, and not bother with a new tax bill. Let 'em try that, the administration indicates. and President Truman will haul 'em back for an extra session before they climb their front steps back home. This indicates that the little man in the suit the color of bright leaf tobacco lied. He shouldn't have used that word, pleased. Fact is, it's been a long time since the Senate has been so sore at the House and, of course, vice ¥ersar « mace rere ¥ eevee

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LONDON. Oct. 19-—John Strachey, Socialist lecturer and author who once was refused entry into the United States on the ground he was a Communist sympathizer, is one of the favorite targets for Tory witticisms in the current cam-

paign. : Mr. Strachey, who has since renounced his Communist sympathies, now is Britain's minister of war. But it was his career in his preceding office—that of minister of food—which has brought him under attack.

$96 Million Debt

WHEN he assumed that office he announced what he ‘termed ‘operation groundnuts,” a grandiose scheme to raise 'peanuts in the East African jungle to supplement Britain's fat ration by producing more margarine. The project was given up as a bad job, however, after it had cost the taxpayers $96 million, most of which was spent building a model town for people who were expected to be attracted to Africa by the new venture. Meanwhile, on the other side of Africa, Mr. Strachey had started a huge poultry raising enterprise which was to produce eggs for Britain. Known as the Gambia Development, it is expected to produce 20 million eggs and one million pounds of dressed poultry angually. It was abandoned early this year.

It was found that the soil at Gambia was.

unsuitable for raising chicken feed and 30,000 of 80,000 birds died of fowl typhoid. Twentythree million dollars were sunk into this venture which produced only 38,000 eggs and a relatively small amount of dressed poultry. In

. By Peter Edson

Uncle Sam's Making Up Oil Shortage

action had been worked out to relieve world oil Tankers and storage tank capacity were pooled. and products were exchanged. If one company had a tanket of crude in the Mediterranean and another company had a tanker of fuel oil in the Indian Ocean, under government supervision they were permitted to swap, if it would help relieve . = = -

foreign shortages. ” ” AT FIRST, 200,000 barrels

eum industry. But {it presents a number of U, 8. oil problems. Should U. 8. petroleum production be allowed to go into export in large quantities? And how much foreign oil should be brought to America to save U. 8. reserves? Both U. 8. and foreign oil demands now stand double their prewar 1938 rate. Forecasts indicate the foreign demand will probably increase more in the future. Foreign demands were rising steadily

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Hoosier Forum

"I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defenc io the de®th your right to say it."'—Voltaire.

What Are Pedestrian Rights?"

MR. EDITOR: Citizens of Indianapolis: pedestrians have in the streets of Indianapolis? In my estimation some drivers think we don't have any rights. Monday of this week ‘at about 12 noon, I started to cross Washington 8t. at Capitol Ave, when I heard a woman following me yeli, “Watch out.” I looked around and heard another familiar sound. It was the sound of air being released from a bus after the Brakes had béen applied. LI THAT bus was an Indiana Railways bus which would have hit me if I hadn't heard that woman yell. Right now I owe that woman my life, 1 have been told that the pedestrian has the right of way with the go light but sometimes I wonder. That bus driver would have made his turn anyway. Oh, yes. By the way, one police officer directing traffic was watching all this at that time: as Capitol Ave. was converted to one-way about 15 minutes prior to that. Did he try to stop the bus? Did he say anything to me? No. The bus continued west on Washington St. I finished crossing the street but was quite upset, My question now is, who is to blame? Is it the driver, policeman or pedestrian? Think it over, citizens.

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~G. E. Palmer, City

‘Cross-Town Bus’ 7

MR. EDITOR Why not a new cross-town line on 16th St? Many people have to cross town every day. As it i= now, we have to wait for a car, go to town and wait for a transfer. By meeting the Speed-

_way bus on W, 16th St. a cross- town line would

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good as a new cross-town line. In other cities, vou can get a car at night every 10 minutes, Here it is 20 minutes. The fare is raised and the car service cut,

hen. get home iti 11 pm -because of service A new cross-town line would connect with the Columbia, Brightwood, Millersville bus, College, Central, the bus that runs on Delaware and Meridian Sts., Illinois, Northwestern, Riverside. Veterans’ bus and Speedway. We would not have to go to town. Much time would be saved and traffic difficulties decreased.

—W. E. Keen, City.

‘Stand and Fight’

MR. EDITOR: If the people of the world 3 not want to lose their freedom, they will have to make a stand and fight for it. The best place to begin is Congress. They should select their best home talent and work for their election into Congress. 8o that freedom shall not perish from off the face of the earth. The New Deal politicians will have a hard time convincing us Hoosiers that liberty still rocks in the cradle of the world =o long as Bill Oatis languishes in a filthy Czech prison cell. —Ernest Bronnensburg, Anderson.

‘Is This a Violation?’ MR. EDITOR: Just who do we thank for putting ne parking signs on the south side of Orange St? Now coal trucks can back in flat to the curb at Harper Ransburg and cars and other trucks can pull over the sidewalk breaking tree limbs and also breaking the sidewalk. Someone should stop it or is it a violation?

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Tories Find Another Good Target

neither case was a trial run made on a small. ‘scale experimental operation. Mr. Strachey now is trying his hand at running Britain's expanding army.

‘Adolescent Boy Scout’

SOME of the Socialists, for their part, have called Winston Churchill an ‘adolescent boy scout’ of Blendheim—in which Mr. Churchill's famous ancestor, the Duke of Marlborough, distinguished himself in 1704. The campaign, however, isn't as bitter as might be imagined. A Tory sound truck overturned on the Southampton docks Wednesday when It interfered with one of ‘Prime Minister Clement Attlee’s meetings. But such incidents are rare. It is so quiet, in fact, that some critics of the conservative press are engaged in a debate over Anthony Eden's capabilities as a television personality,

INGREDIENTS FOR HAPPINESS

A LITTLE bit of tenderness . . . can scale a mountain high . . ..and make a world of difference If . . . you just give it a try ... a bit of kindness paves the way ... for happiness untold . . . just as a smile can fill your life . . . with joys of purest gold . . . a touch of laughter when you're blue . . . can change life's dreary

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scene . . . and color waves. of trouble till . . .

life's seas are all serene . . . these things mixed with a little song . . . and flavored with true love ..... can make your life a happy one .,, that's blessed by God above.

~—By Ben Burroughs

have been made possible by drawing on American reserves for the domestic market. When the Iranian crisis first developed, U. 8. stockpiles were high. There was some fear in the industry that prices would have to be cut to reduce stockpiles. The Iranian shortage was therefore a boon in cutting down the surpluses.

shortages.

Crude oil

THE U, 8. government, with . an eye to the defense situation, wants stockpiles kept high. To

when Iranian production was cut off by the strikes: of last March and April.

IRANIAN output had been running at about 610,000 barrels a day. Of this, 150,000 barrels was crude for foreign re fineries. The rest was. kerosene, gasoline and aviation gas, fuel and bunker oil. Loss of 30 mi]lion barrel$ in a few weeks upset all free world markets, European countries dependent on Iranian oil tried to get

, oil from U. 8. companies. But

the question of a cartel was raised and nothing could be done until Départment of Justice gave its clearance on June 25. Then 19 U. 8. companies operating abroad were authorized to work together to relieve the world oil shortage.

By earlp August a plan of

of Middle East crude that had been coming to the U. 8. dally. were diverted to Europe. This has now been cut down to 90,000 barrels a day for the rest of the year. Other Middle Eastern and Venezuelan producers = found they could step up their production by 270,000 barrels a day. European consuming countries were then put on an

allocation basis for products, *

which cut daily demand by. 75,000 barrels a day. Free world refining capacity

_ was inventoried. It was found

Eastern Hemisphere refineries could produce an additional 195,000 barrels a day. And from the United States, 180,000 barrels a day of refined products will be supplied through December. All these diversions from normal American ¢ supplies

keep them high and still meet, the European Shortage, U. 8.

production had to be stepped up. Petroleum Administration therefore asked Louisiana

Conservation Commission and Texas Railroad Commission to allow greater production and so meet the world ofl shortage. Both agreed. The Texas Commission, how ever, has sent a letter to the U. 8. State Department, asking why the U. 8. should drain its resources to meet AngloIranian shortages. Independent U, 8. producers, on the other hand, are alarmed by increased competitive American

* production in the Middle East

and Venezuela. And U. 8. consumers have a right to ask

why they should have to pay higher Prices i to meet Europea : shortage.

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