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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5th, 1945
ELIEVE IT
Or ELSE
MEAT O'  THE COCONUT
BY
SILAS WITHERSPOON
I
THREE"GREAT MINDS" ""•""
intrigued
twice    the
HUDDLE OVER SOVIET,
AND NLRB IN EFFORT It H
TO OUARD EVERYBODY
FROM SOMEBODY ELSE
one
by esteemed contemporary columnists —
Paul Mallon and Sam Pettengill,—through
my "One & Only"; the Tribune. Paul sets
me back on my pins anent Russia and Sam
anent NLRB. Mallori has an idea from which
to deduct some statistics and Pettengill some
statistics from which to deduct an idea. Beats
all how; three "great minds," like ours, can
commingle in the same rut.
It isn't ever thus and we are; likely to get
to quarreling, or Esther I am, before we have
commingled long at thatr I'm such a quarrelsome cuss anyway. In an old campaign book,
issued bipartisanly in 1896, when McKinley
and Bryan we__e running, a joint committee
undertook to present both side of the big issue, at the frontispiece of which was a great
shield, one side of which was Gold and the
other side Silver. The committee admitted
that most people saw only *their side of the
shield; gazed upon it from preconceived notions. They said they wanted them to look
on both sides and be sensible about it. Consider me a committee of one to somewhat
offset Messrs. Pettengill and Mallon. Both,
in part, are right and both, in part, are
wrong; which is usually the case with no difference what.
*  *  *  *
TAKE PETTENGILL AND | pr_
HIS ANTI-NLRB SPIEL s^Ta^
gives some
statistics on
strikes,
" square, "
we guess,
not "new."
and neither illustrative of his point. No ques-
'On  Page Two)
AND OTHER SIDE TOO
IS PERFECT PORTRAIT
OFPRE-NLRBMETHODS
THE HAND OF GOD
(Serial in Four Parts)
By LOUIS BROMFIELD
PART I introduces Salasso, on the Bay of Biscay, and
a lovely home, with a personality, where the noy-»
- .\ elist and his family stayed for a season, surrounded
"by the Basque town-folk, semi-Christian and semi-
pagan, but honest and reverent. It had been the home
of Monsieur Andre, a Paris lawyer, with the gift of
romance, love of beauty, and solitude. Hear neighbors
were Baron and Mademoiselle Fernande. old fashioned,
(On Page Six)
Ministers' Conference Fails As Power-Politics Prevails
■^r^r YT E WERE just thinking, as the confer-
^A// ence of foreign ministers disbanded, to
VV     take a new breath, that perhaps those
who wanted the peace treaties written, signed,
sealed and delivered, before victory,"had an idea
after all. Pre-war, the Allies were all breaking
What Price Victory
mwm\
their necks for a get-together; mid-war all the
propaganda of Germany, Japan and our own 5th
columnists, couldn't tear them apart—but now
that the surrenders are all signed, and we are in
possession, all hell seems at work to tear us
apart.
The London alibi is that the foreign ministers weren't prepared; their
technicians hadn't worked hard and
long enough on fixed programs, and
back-ups; they were short on blue
prints; things came up that hadn't
been expected. Everybody was asking
questions and nobody knew the answers. They're going tq^meet again—
sooner or later. Next time they'll be
better "set"; indeed, "all set," as it
were.
We hope so. Why did the London
thing bog down ? The very thing that
Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels tried so hard
to create; Allied distrust—particularly
of Russia. Well that he killed himself,
the war criminal. Suspicion played the
basic part in the fizzle. Russia has felt
isolated to a large degree by Britain
and America, with France and China
tending to follow in their train, al-
thouglt^with. misgivings.
Britain and.America rightly desire
increased popular representation in
governments of eastern Europe,—but
western concern, for example, over
Russia's natural desire for a real share
(On Page Three)
Indiana Home Building Situation Explored
Things Are Going
Quite As We Say
With Big Bully
Confirmations
T"\ J~T HAT we guessed about
\sV\J   the   current   outlook
^* two weeks ago con-
-tinues borne out by current happenings and the current comments of current contemporaries. News Week, Kiplinger,
United States News, are now
expounding the same things in
our wake. We were just about
to reprint excerpts for proof
wjfcien we noted a note at the
bottom of their spiels to this
varying effect: "No quotes and
no reprints without written permission." It is too late to ask
it and we wouldn't even if it
wasn't.
Within our philosophy, information factual or prophetic,
once given the public, belongs
to the public—not for commercialization, however, though
for the spread of knowledge.
"Plagiarism that gives credit is
not plagiarism" . in the passing
- ■      .   (On Page Sixteen)
90% OF DWELLING UNITS
IN 14 CITIES ARE FIFTEEN
YEARS OLD AND 45%
SHORT OF NEEDS
HOME building in 14 Indiana
cities \&t year decreased
32.8% in volume, but gained 1.7% in value compared with the
preceding year, D. E. Ryan, vice-
president of Investors Syndicate, reveals from its Minneapolis office.
A promising demand for new
homes and considerable remodeling
in these cities," continued Mr. Ryan,
"is indicated. Only 9.9% of the
dwelling units in these cities have
been built since 1930."
A sharp decline in federal housing
in some of these cities: Anderson,
East Chicago, Elkhart, Evansville,
Fort Wayne, Gary, Hammond, Indianapolis, Kokomo, Marion, Mun-
cie, Richmond, South Bend, and
Terre Haue brought 1944 volume to
the lowest level in seven years.
There were 372,163- dwelling
units in these cities on Jan. 1, 1945.
Of these 36,899, figures made available by   Investors   Syndicate show,
(On Page Ihree)
Moved to Country
And Now Want to
Have City Ways
Follow After
YOU CAN make a farmer
out of a city man even
less than you can make a
city man out ofi a farmer, and
so, seemingly, it goes with the
South Benders who have settled
out-country, especially along
Dixie Way north, and parallel,
even to State Line. Now they
want to take the city with
them. They're starting a hurrah boys for incorporation into
the city of all that territory
north of Angela boulevard,
from the St. Joseph River to
Jajiiper road, far as Michigan.
They would take in Notre
Dame, St. Mary's, Roseland,
North Bend, and, yes, Indian
Village, and scatterings. They
say it would add 25,000 to our
population and nothing to
their taxes.
Of course, the idea hasn't
reached the poll stage yet; may
not until after Christmas. Bow-
(On Page Five;