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sistance program for the coming year, will he tell us how the similar amount voted last year was distributed, and what re-

“sults it produced?

Without the answers to these questions, thete cannot be an intelligent evaluation of Mr. Truman's proposal.

This is a lot of money—much too much to be voted

blindly. Administration officials contend that if the figure is reduced, it would impair the “growing strength of the free world and cause damage far greater than the amount that might be saved.” We've heard that one before. It is time we

saw a bill of particulars.

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GERMAN REARMAMENT has been postponed for at least a year, if not indefinitely. American aid can’t chapge

that”

France is without a government again, until a responsible government is formed—if that is possible—there will be no way of knowing what the French intend to do. Yet it is understood that a substantial part of the President's budget request is earmarked for France, which makes little

Only 17 per cent of French revenues come from income taxes oh individuals and corporations, as compared with over 80 per cent in the U. 8. Yet the French government was defeated last week, and resigned when it asked to have this tax increased 15 per cent. Surely France should not be given any more American assistance until it consents to carry its part of the load. And the French aren't likely to share the rearmament burden with us unless further American assist-

ance is made contingent on that.

A FEW nations such as Britain, Greece and Turkey are pulling their weight. Some others, in special categories, may need assistance until they can get back on their own feet.

giving the President another blank check.

_ But there can be special treatment for such cases without

If Mr. Truman can make a better case for his budget proposal than his subordinates have done this far, he has an opportunity to do so tomorrow night when he will be on the air for 30 minutes. But he should tell us exactly what he did with last year’s appropriation--and why he needs nearly as much money for next year to assist nations which aren't

supplying as many troops as we are.

What Is a Juverile Court? —

MOST people, including us, believe that a fnild who breaks the rules of society should have somewhat different

treatment than that of an adult criminal.

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It is for that reason that juvenile courts were created, not to be agencies for the punishment of crime but rather to try to straighten out the tangled lives of youngsters and help them so they may grow up to be useful, and law-abiding citizens. Essentially the juvenile court is expected to do the job of a parent when the parent has failed to do it

himself: It has no other function.

The higher courts of Indiana quite obviously do not

agree with us.

A series of decisions, ultimately upheld by the State Supreme Court, runs directly counter to that conception. In effect they require that a child be tried before this court, with a prosecutor pressing charges and with essentially the same rules of evidence in force that apply to an adult felony

hearing.

If a 10-year-old who gets into trouble, because his parents neglect him, has to be “tried” and “convicted” just like a bandit who robs a bank before this court can deal with him, then there's very little use left for this court.

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WE DON'T pretend to match legal knowledge with the justices of the State’s Supreme Court on the possible technical interpretation of what our statutes say on this subject.

We do Know quite well what was intended when thi

juvenile court was created, though.

If the laws under which it has operated all these years do not, in fact, permit it to do what it was established to do, then some correction of .them that will wipe out this unfortunate decision ought to be high in the order of business when the General Assembly meets again.

Where Is the Chaos?

SECRETARY of Commerce Charles Sawyer, announcing that he and his department are in favor of “fair trade” laws, recommerids that Congress again legalize them.

The Secretary is within his rights in doing so. But his’ .

supporting statement is so vague and contradictory that we wonder where he has been during the months the nation

has been without fair trade laws.

“During buyers’ markets, price floors are needed to

prevent business chaos,” he declares.

Obviously, then, we must have business chaos now, hecause we have no price, floors on manufactured articles, and we surely have a buyers’ market in consumer goods. However, the Department of Commerce has failed to call attention to this “chaos.” Instead, its current reports show that business, except in a few spots, is doing very well

indeed.

“To condemn price control under the fair trade laws

is to close one’s eyes to other types of price control sponsored by manufacturers and producers without regard to

fair trade contracts,” Mr. Sawyer continues.

In other

words, since there are other evils in the business world

already, we might as well add one more.

Like Secretary Sawyer, we deplore “predatory price cutting by powerful retail organizations,” but it surely does not follow that all price cutting is predatory, and that we

must have laws against it. There is nothing evil about

; ) free competition. It is ~ supposed to be the basis of the American economy. It is

strange to see the Secretary of Commerce deploring it, an urging Congress to let the price fixers take over, :

The Indianapolis Times

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Candidates And

CONCORD, N. H., Mar. 5-- New Hampshire’

spun Into the last week of its presidential primary battle with voters all but outnumbered by

touring candidates and droves of" visiting big- *

name olitcal strategists, minor tub-thumpers, entertainers and free-style debaters. : The propagandists poured a political barrage - across the snowcovered north country guch as it never had known before. A state which If past years rarely saw a presidential candidate was ahout to be surfeited with them. A saturation point in oratory seemed a cinch on the town hall-luncheon club circuit, 2

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NATIONAL POLITICS . .. By Charles Lucey TE ea aa oliticians Outnumber New Hampshire Voters

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_ Democratic Ben. Estes Kefauver and Re‘publican Harold Stassen were beginning their newest swing through the state yesterday. ‘Ben, Robert A. Taft arrives tomorrow for the biggest show’ of all, The brothers Lodges—Sen. Henry Cabot T.odge and Connecticut's Gov. John Davis Lodge- have been pushing a series of snowdrift seminars- for Gen. Dwight' Eisenhower. Sen. James H. Duff’ (R. Pa.) also has been stumping for the General. Sen. Leverett Baltonstall (R. Mass.) starred at an Eisenhower rally at Claremont last night.

Paul Hoffman, president of the Ford Founda-

"By Talburt

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney . Minton Proves Conservatism

WASHINGTON, Mar. 5 — Because he had been an arch-New Deal Senator, many conservative eyebrows were raised when Sherman Minton, New Albany, Ind., was promoted to the U. 8. Supreme Court by President Truman. The Indianaian’s record as judge on the U. 8. Court of Appeals in Chicago, .° where he had been named by the late President Roosevelt, should have allayed all such fears however, For Associate Justice Minton long ago proved that he is a legal conservative, despite his having been a political liberal. That fact was dramatized this week when the .Hoosier Justice wrote the majority opinion upholding New York's Feinberg Law, providing screening tests for publie¢ school teachers to eliminate so-called subversives, Vigorous dissents to the Minton opinion were written by Justices Black, Douglas and Frankfurter. The latter held that the Supreme Court test was premature and the other dissenting justices-that it was a violation of the freedom guarantees of the U. 8, Constitution. Concurring in the Minton decision were Chief Justice Vinson and Associate Justices Reed, Jackson, Burton and Clark. It marked the court calendar up with another 6 to 3 decision.

The Feinberg Law provides for dismissal of teachers who belong to any organization advocating overthrow of the American form of government by “force and violence,” or for belonging to or associating with those. who do so, Public employment, in schools or elsewhere, isn’t a right but a privilege Justice Minton maintained. Therefore, the state has a right to lay down the rulés. ; “A teacher works in a sensitive area in a “There he

Justice Minton . + « decision.

society in which they live. In this, the state

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has a vital concern. It must preserve the integrity of the schools.

“That the school authorities have the right and the duty to screen the officials, teachers, and employees as to their fitness to maintain the integrity of the schools as part of ordered society cannot be doubted. ?

“One’s associates, past and present, as well as one's conduct, may properly be considered in determining fitness and loyalty. From time immemorial, one's reputation has been determined in part by the company he keeps.”

Justice Douglas, in his vigorous dissent, sald:

“I have not been able to accept the recent doctrine that a citizen who enters the public service can be forced to sacrifice his civil rights.

‘Second Class Citizens’

“I CANNOT, for example, find in our .constitutional scheme the power of a state to place its employees in the category of second class citizens by denying them freedom of thought

and expression. “The Constitution guarantees freedom of thought and expression to everyone in our society. All are entitled to it, and none needs it more than the teacher.” Agreeing with Justice Douglas’ dissent, Justice Black added: “This is another of those rapidly multiplying legislative enactments which make it dangerous —this time for school teachers—to think or say anything except what a transient majority happen to approve at the moment. ‘‘Basically these laws rest on the belief: that government should supervise and limit°the flow of ideas into the minds of men. The tendency of such governmental policy is to mould people into a common intellectual patfern. Quite a

different governmental policy rests on the be-

lef that government should leave the mind and spirit of man absolutely free. . “Such a governmental policy encourages varied {intellectual outlooks in the belief that the best views will prevail.”

WASHINGTON, Mar. 5— Young Robert Dudley may have been a phantom officer

in an assortment of phantom corporations, but he insists he was no dummy in connection therewith, I guess we'll have to go along with him on that. Young Robert in 1947 was a diligent, journeyman lawyer for the big legal firm headed by Joe (Mink Coat) Rosenbaum, Young Robert's job was to push along the ship contracts between his clients and the old Maritime Commission. So he came up one day with an elegant idea about how oil tankers could be bought ‘on tick, chartered to a Panama corporation, then rechartered to'an American oil company. The possibilities, taxwise and also otherwise, were magnificent.

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corporations, one American

ary and, one Panamanian, to buy

- five surplus tankers fromthe government. So the corporation

$40,000. Of this young Robert

University of New Hampshire, in Durham, tonight. Sen. Frank Carlson (R. Kas.) will give it his best for Gen. Ike Friday night. Despite repeated efforts by Gen. Douglas Macarthur to get his supporters to fold up, they are proceeding zealously. Thousands of dollars already have been spent in -the MacArthur cause here; John D, Chapple, a Wisconsin MacArthur leader, arrived yesterday to help run a last-week propaganda drive. °

All three candidates—Messré. Taft, Kefauver and Stassen—have laid out stumping programs which appall the followers who must trail them up to the Canadian border. Sen. Taft has nearly 30 meetings scheduled for his three days. The few villages too small to rate brief stops are on the pregram, just the same. For instance, the schedule reads, “move slowly through Suncook,” and “slowly through Center Harbor.”

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CONCORD turned out Monday night for a debate featuring Mr. Stassen, Rep. Christian Herter (R. Mass.) speaking for Gen. Eisenhower, and Rep. William H. Ayers (R. 0.) speaking for Sen. Taft, Up in Conway, a group of New York celebrities staged a big show for the Eisenhower cause.

Billboards around the state splash the word that Gen. Ike is sure to win for the Republicans In November. But those emblazoning the Taft gospel say pointedly that people know where the Senator stands on every issue. The Taft leadership is trying to play up the chief weakness of the Eisenhower campaign— the lack of a walking, talking, hand-pumping candidate on the scene—by stressing out-of-state help for the General.

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MR. EDITOR: I entertained a group of women recently and during a discussion of the crime and accident reporting in the local newspapers, I heard a woman say that The Times is the worst offender of all. Since I do not read the Star or the News, I could not intelligently contradict her. But the point I wish te make is that all of you are betraying your country in the type of journalism you are giving to the public.

The greatest need of these times is to sell the “American Way of Life” to the world. As you can see, even the Russian leaders are -too smart to misrepresent the real status of their country by featuring its crime and accidents as the. leading news items of the day. YThe Times has made some rapid strides, recently, in outdistancing the other local papers. Now, why, why don’t you get smart and adopt a new policy about news reporting. In a few years the other two papers would have to go out of business. Jf you would dismiss your ambulance chasers, and report only what is of real public interest, regarding crime and that on the pages without headlines, I will venture prediction that in a short time you will be the talk not only of the town, but of the entire country. You are only a small institution now, but if you would pioneer in this business of excellent reporting, following the example of the Christian Science Monitor, you could become a national issue. There is an overwhelming majority of intelligent readers in the Midwest, who would welcome and support a local paper that would be fit to be read by children. Please, for your own good, as well as your country, give this matter some serious consideration.

—FEthel B. Keller, 3360 N. Meridian St.

‘A Good Man’

MR. EDITOR: I am a teen-age boy. I am writing to you concerning Mr. Duke Stern. This man was accused of selling sex books, etc. to teen-agers. So, before it was even proved, the Indianapolis papers ruined his reputation by making all kinds of insinuations. For the newspapers to print this sensationalism is a crime. Mr. Stern is married, with three children. He had a TV show with thousands of young fans. These fans all admired Mr. Stern as a wonderful man and inspiring showman. Well, he is a wonderful man. My hobby is magic and I buy all my equipment at the place Mr. Stern worked. Never in all the time I've spent in the shop has Mr. Stern offered me any of these so-called obscene articles. To my knowledge, Mr. Stern never offered to sell or sold any of these things to any teen-agers. Duke is a good American citizen, he has given to me and a good many other kids a good, clean hobby. Why drag his name in the gutter for a crime I am sure he had nothing to do with. -—K. L. K,, City

‘Churches and Races’ MR. EDITOR:

Judging from the results of the survey of the local churches as to their attitude on the racial prejudice question, if the reincarnated Jesus Christ should return today with a black face, he would have great difficulty getting into many so-called Christian churches. Mr. H. G.» Wells, the great historian, says he is convinced, “there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice.” It is the belief and contention of many people that the so-called Christian church holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other institution. The findings of this survey give weight to their argument. —W. H. Spight, 2347 Martindale Ave. ®

PHANTOMS? . . « By:Frederick C. Othman Robert ‘Sinks’ the Senators on Ship Deals

Hoosier Forum—‘Crime News’

"I do not agree with a-word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it.”

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“IT 18 apparent the opposition is worried,” a

message broadcast to Taft workers Monday - sald “You can expect they will bring into New, Hampshire movie actresses, actors, name bands

and an array of out-of-state speakers. It's up

to us to call to the attention. of our neighbors that the Bob Taft campaign is being conducted

by New Hampshire people.” Almost nobody figures Harold Stassen’s tour ing will get him much more than beautiful winter landscapes through a car window. For Sens, Taft and Kefauver, these next few days could:be important, however. In Mr. Kefauver’'s case, the odds are against him. But even, the Democratic organization people supporting President Truman acknowsledge that Sen, Kefauver's recent rambling along New Hampshire's main streets made him friends and votes His problem is that he has no. organization to reach into the cities and towns, and his slate of delegates contains almost no Well-kzown political names,

FOR Mr. Taft, there is the hope that meeting and shaking hands with thousands of New

Hampshire men these next few.days could tip °

the balance in his favor when the state votes next Tuesday. :

"The Eisenhower top command figures fits

candidate stands to win most delegates. But he could do this and still be held very closely or even beaten by Mr. Taft in the straight popular preference vote. : ? So the Eisenhower people now. are saying that the popular poll means little. But Taft leaders, knowing the odds are with Ike to win thé most delegates, argue it the other way and say the popular preference test is the big one.

‘God Save the Queen’

MR. EDITOR:

One cannot help but be amused at the spat between the enlisted men’s wives and the officers’ wives over who is making the bigger sacrifices and who should be permitted to follow their men around. How those women do love one another. Why not let them all go where they want, whenever they want, so long as they pay their way, full fare, to and from, find their own living quarters when they get there, and pay for them, full price, after they find them? If war should break out where some of them ‘live, 80 they find their way out the best way possible the same as any other citizen would. If any woman feels it is more important to her children to see their dad every day than to have the warm, friendly, secure feeling that comes with living in one place, among old friends, then by all means let her indulge herself, I sometimes think this generation is getting the blamedest persecution complex. You would think they were the only ones that ever made a sacrifice, that ever marched off to the army, ever feught or lived through a war. Yet our history pages are filled with the story of wars . . . one after another. Who fought them, I wonder? Why, some woman's husband _or some mother’s son. If they had not, we would be shouting, “God save the queen.”

—F. M,, City

‘No Reason for Change’ MR. EDITOR: :

Why all the fuss about people of other races coming into the white churches? Why .should they? They have their own churches and their own organizations and their own ministers. What would become of their ministers and their churches? Not many white people go to churches of other races. Why should other races want to leave their churches? I for one can see no reason for the change. It doesn’t make sense to break up their fine churches.

A Reader, City.

Lenten Meditation

Jesus Answers Our

Questions About God

* LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON

Where is your Father? . . . If you knew me, you would

Father also. John 8:19. Read verses 15-20.

Jesus paid every father on earth a high compli when he spoke of God as his Father. He A. iid meant that a good father is close to God in character and that God is very much like a father. What does this tell us about God? It tells us that God takes a personal interest in each one of us, that God seeks our redemption from sin, that God may punish us because He has to, not because He wants to. It tells us thet God vill forgive us when we return to the Father's eart. Jesus might well have described God as Moth Fod God is just os much a mother as a father, 7; tou; = What does this scene tell us about the Pharisees? It tells us that like all finite minds they wanted to see the Father in flesh and blood. They could not believe in o god who is a Spirit, becouse they were earthly minded. What does this tell us about Jesus? It shows us thet Jesus was conscious of his nearness to God and wos trying to live out the marks of divinity in human life. Jesus fulfilled the suggestion of Shakespeare’s Hamlet,

“To show yourself your father's son .in deed more than in words.” J :

Let Us Pray: O our Father, O our Mother, be to us a sheltering arm and o leading voice. And may we be to

thee sons and daughters of whom thou shalt mever be ashamed, In Jesus’ name. Amen.

got $10,000. Not bad, for a starter. .

He told the. Senate investigating committee that he

earned every cent, All was con- ~

fusion at the Maritime Com-

. mission. He feared his applications might get lost. So he’

dogged up and down the marble halls, cooléd his heels interminably in the commissioners’ offices, and eventually came up with the contract to buy the ships. Brother-in-law Casey was so pleased that he slipped a few shares in the new corporations to young Robert, who later sold this gift of stock for

$42,000. This was just the beginning. .” There was still another outfit. called the U. 8. Petroleum Carriers Corp., which wanfed some tankers, too. So Dudley

dogged the bureaucrats some

more and eventually earned the Rosenbaum firm a $100,000

fee. Young Roberts got $33,- -

000 of this for himself. Not bad, either, but still just the beginning. HE ALSO had $500 worth of stock in the corporation. So did . retired Adm. Harold G. Bowen. Young Robert paid the Admiral $7500 for his shares and then he sold the whole block of stock to another outfit for $125,000, to bé paid at

know there was a’pair of new’

paid the Rosenbaum. firm

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WITHOUT A SOMEONE

WITHOUT someone beside me . . . to help me bear the load .'. . this world would be a lonely place . . . and long would be the road + « +» without a hand to guide me . . . my path would go astray . . . yes, I would dwell in darkness and . . . I'd know no sunny day without eyes filled with lovelight .". .

. or a voice I long to hear . . , my life would

be a dreary one . . . 80 full of doubt and fear «+ and with nd heart to cling to . . . my

Joys would be so few . . . that's why I need a

someone . . s & someone just like you. 5 e Io —By Ben Burroughs.

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the rate of $25,000 a year, kept only $5800 of he mn slipped brother-in-law Casey another $5800 and forwarded the rest to the Rosenbaum firm, Remember, young Robert still had time on his hands, He did .a little business for the U. 8. Navigation Co., too, and got'a $19,000 fee for the firm, plus $7000 himself.

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had explained all this, the Senators .were so confused about who got what that they couldn't tell the prow of a tanker from the stern. Sen, ul A, Pungt (R. 8. D.) put wn a strong-smelling ciga finally - and fo, g dase ~ ” ” “JUST WHO did conceive this clever tax avoidance structure? 5 didn’t Just drop down from eaven, mebod He y conceived Durned if he knew, said young Robert. ¢ And there was Francis

‘ Flanagan, the committee coun-

sel, ‘insisting that he acted merely as, a dummy stocke holder in the Petroleum Car.

riers Corp. ° : Young Robert raised his ‘voice for the first time ‘all

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