Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1944 — Page 18

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THAT REPUBLICAN TREND VW HILE political dopesters were speculating that continued success of the European invasion would increase Republican chances in November, the G. O. P. ppeduced more tangible evidence of the trend in its favor. In New York City’s 11th congressional district it won Tuesday's special election by almost a 3-to-2 vote. Democrats had held this district for the most of the past 80 years, carrying it in 1942 by 9000 votes. Significantly, Republicans won despite American Labor party support for the Democratic candidate. In another New York City Democratic district, the 21st, Republicans polled more votes this spring than the Democrats, but lost the seat because of the labor party vote. Of course this trend in special congressional elections does not itself prove that the President would lose New York state in November. For one thing, he is generally recognized to be stronger than his party and its ordinary congressional candidates. . Nevertheless, Republicans have good reason for hoping that the New York City result is more than local. The same trend has shown in special elections across the country this winter and spring, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Colorado. And in most of those cases, as in the 11th New York district, the G. O. P. campaigned specifically on anti-fourth term and anti-admjnistration

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A REPUBLICAN trend also is indicated by the Gallup poll of public opinion, particularly in the two largest .electoral states, New York with 47 votes and Pennsylvania with 35. Though it shows that in Pennsylvania Roosevelt would have a 52-to48 edge over Dewey as of today, the trend is against the President, who polled 58 per cent in 1936 and 53 per cent in the 1940 elections. In New York state, according to Gallup, Dewey already has passed Roosevelt and is now leading with 52 per cent. Whether Dewey, if nominated, will continue to gain nationally enough to prevent a fourth term, will presumably depend largely on world developments and on thesintelligence of the Republican campaign. Perhaps the chief G. 0. P danger will be over-confidence and the tendency of some to make a martyr of the President.

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am as a suggestion of a snigger, be- ~ cause we all got refined as the years passed and our hot young blood cooled, and nowadays Associated Press and United Press men | lunch together, play cards together and, for all I know, may even room together, But in the “days that I am telling you about, the United Press was an underdog outfit and the A. P. was the and this feeling extended even to the out on assignments, The A. P. had plenty of money and its salaries and expense accounts were larger and the A. P. men generally were older; for the U. P's staff was largely composed of unmarried kids who lived out of suitcases and made up for their inexperience with enthusiasm and ambition. “ You may have noticed how polite the U. P. and its relatives have been to the A. P. in its recent embarrassment over the false flash from London on the invasion. No sneering, no leering, no hollering fake

been about the same, barring a little ribbing, perhaps.

‘It Wasn't That Way in 1918’

IT WASN'T that-way in 1918 when Roy Howard fired in his flash from Brest on the armistice after Admiral Wilson had received the word by telephone from the embassy in Paris and gave Roy full permission to send it along, as any alert reporter would have done. That, at least, had every mark of authenticity, whereas, in the présent case, the A. P. seems to have been the victim of one of those dumb, unavoidable accidents. A girl operator, practicing on a telegraphic printer in London punched out the flash on the tape, contrary to standing orders against colddeck matter and forgot to tear it up. Twenty-five years ago I wouldn't have believed the A. P.'s explanation, I would have said they had punched out some canned flashes to save a few seconds in transmission, and the A. P. would have said the same had it happened to us. Back in 1914, the U. P. gave the A. P. a licking on the death of Pope Pius X and, so far as the record shows, the A, P, still insists that the U. P. had a false tip or figured that he couldn’t live more than a few hours and took a chance. The A. P. never did find out how it happened, nor can I tell you entirely; but I can tell you that His Holiness really was dead

when the flash was filled and the A. P. was very badly

beaten. Melville Stone, the general manager of the A. P., was very pure and more than slightly officious about that, for he even let it be known that he had checked the incoming cables from Rome and elsewhere in Europe and was able to say that no flash had been received in the United States announcing

that the Pope was dead. Can you imagine that? Checked other people's messages. Therefore, the flash must have been faked in the U. P.’s office in the old World building—a dastardly proceeding, no less.

‘Just an Innocent Personal Communication’

MR. STONE had not canvassed all private messages received that day, however, and even if he had he might have passed over the one that carried the news without recognizing it. For it was just an innocent personal communication from a man in Rome to a man in New York, asking him to deposit a sum

of money. say $1537, to his account. That would mean that Pope Pius X had died at 3:37 that after- | noon or 1537 o'clock Continental time. t The Vatican's official announcement, on which the

people, if some of our casualties of war are to be fitted | into paying jobs and enabled to live successful lives, despite | handicaps. It is heartening, therefore, to learn of some of the! uses industry has found for disabled veterans. One group of expert machine-gun inspectors at the | Republic Aviation Corp. at Evansville, is composed of | totally blind veterans. In the army, they learned to dismantle, clean and reassemble guns while blindfolded. Henry J. Kaiser uses veterans with physical disabilities to hire other disabled veterans for jobs in his West coast shipyards. A Cincinnati watch company can use men with finger dexterity and good eyesight. The most effective use of a veteran's disability, as reported by the war manpower commission, is in a plant at Mishawaka, where a veteran who lost a leg and won decorations at Guadalcanal was hired as exit interviewer. The number of employees leaving to change jobs or get more pay was cut down appreciably.

A. P. relied, came many hours later because the Pope was not officially dead until the papal secretary of state had been able to get back to Rome from Naples or wherever he was, and perform the solemn rites by which the death of the pontiff is formally established as historical fact. So indignant was the A. P., and so confident of its own infallibility, that you would have thought that the Associated Press, itself, and not the Vatican, was the authority in this matter. Until the A. P. said it was so, it wasn’t so. But a short while later, | the A. P. jumped the gun by several years and killed | off the Pope's sister; and for long afterward when | A. P. men would pull snoots at U. P. men over the premature death of Pope Pius, the U. P. men would say that, well, anyway, he died whereas his sister wasn’t dead yet.

"Thought Itself Incapable of Error’

IT WAS rough-and-tumble business, with no holds barred, and the A. Ps main trouble was its overconfidence and a too high opinion of itself. It had no respect for competition and thought itself incapable of error, Thus it was that in 1915 the A. P. was caught lifting an exclusive United Press story

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“WE SHALL NOMINATE HIM ONCE AGAIN" By H. L. Smith, 2937 Hillside ave. In 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt was | elected President of these United| States. Roosevelt; received 472! electoral votes and his opponent 59. | The far-reaching policies during his! term in office certainly did not escape criticism. He did, however, | win an overwhelming victory over Alf Landon in 1836. Roosevelt re-| ceived 523 electoral votes, Landon! 8, with only two Republican states. | On September 3, 1939, President! Roosevelt said in part, “As long as it remains within my power to pre- | vent it, there will be no blackout of | peace in the United States.” He| was again elected in 1940, but Japan! soon brought the war to us. On! December 9, 1941, Roosevelt said in| part, “We are going to win the war, | and we are going to win the peace that follows.” We are well on the way to that! peace now. Yes, we will win the war; Roosevelt has taken care of|

difficult, and President Roosevelt! is good at combating obstacles that | lie in the path of a free America.| And, that is why we shall nominate! him once again. There is no other man in the United States who can! or will take on his shoulders his re-| sponsibilities. ‘And that is why he| will be elected President of the] United States in November. After! the war, there will, of course, be a peace conference. Franklin D. Roosevelt should be there, He will

on the first battle of Ypres, filed by the late Bill Shepherd. In New York, the Evening World and Evening Sun published it. Presently, the Sun and World reached London, where someone on the Morning Telegraph lifted it bodily. Then some A. P. man in London in turn lifted it and sent it back in the mall service; and so one month after Shepherd's story had been published in the United States in the papers then served by the United Press, the U. P.s story credited to the A. P. showed up verbatim in the Washington Star, published by the president of the Associated Press, no less, credited to the A. P.

A WINDOW FOR THE THIRD HOUSE HE “third house” of congress, historically the scene of secret negotiations and deals on the final terms of legislation, would be opened to press and public if congress were to pass a resolution just offered by Chairman Clarence Cannon (D. Mo.) of the house appropriations committee,

This resolution should be passed. :

Here, briefly, is how a typical statute gets through Congress: The house receives a bill, refers it to a committee, which (in most cases) holds open hearings, and reports the measure back to the house for passage. There it is publicly debated, amended and finally passed. It is then sent to the senate, where the same procedure is followed. When the senate amends the bill further, and the house does not agree to these amendments, the measure is sent to a joint house-senate conference committee. This committee meets in secret and composes the differences between the house and senate versions. Theoretically at last, the conferees’ compromise does not go beyond the limits of either bill. * 8 = s = = JUST HOW this compromise is achieved nobody except the conferees knows of his own knowledge, because the conference committee—the third house——meets in secret. Over the years, some strange things have come out of such committees, The third house reports the compromise bill back to the house and senate, and when each approves the conferees’ report the bill goes back to. the President. There is nothing in the rules which says the third house shall meet in secret. But secrecy is a matter of long tradition, Apparently the tradition can be broken only by such affirmative action as Mr. Cannon proposes. He evidently has some specific situation in mind in offering his bill, but its terms are all-inclusive. It would open all sessions of the third house to public view. That is the way it should be. A

orried KP will soon join the harassed tax-

But, as I say, we have all got refined in the meanwhile so that now, when the A. P. pulls a colossal and historic mistake and blames it on a girl, our boys say, “Yes, accidents can and will happen and please accept our sincere sympathy.”

By Ruth Millett ; " IN A CUSTODY battle for his | young son a father recently charged that the boy's mother agreed to trade her unborn child for a cocker spaniel dog. Said the father, “I explained that full custody of the dog would be exchanged for full custody of the baby.” ~ Whether that is true or not, it's a shocking thing to contemplate. Yet there is a type of modern woman who does practically the same thing. She trades the opportunity for having children for all sorts of material advantages.

Trades Children for Social Life

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By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, R: R. 6, Box 494 All the intentions of the framers| of the constitution are embodied in| the preamble, which reads: “We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic

tranquility, provide for the common that Nazi and Japan bosh? We defense, promote the general vel. didnt get it. For your information, Mr. Stevens and Mr. J. E. R, that| erty to ourselves and our posterity,| constitution included even me and do ordain and establish this consti-| Mrs. E, E,, too. .

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tution for the United States of! America.” The constitution is based | upon the declaration of independ-| ence: “All men are endowed by | their Creator with certain inalien-|

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piness.”

Our soldiers are giving life, lib- be a die-hard proposition, and so it|

may live in’ a free and peaceful world, yet Mr, Avery of the Montgomery Ward Co. doesn’t want to back them up with even as much as co-operation with our government and commander-in-chief. Congress bellows, “Where's oyr bill of rights, where's our constitution?” reminding one of a herd of mad bulls, shutting their eyes and bunting the earth, When they've stampeded around for a few days, they finale ly get their eyes open and wonder how they could have made such a Jackass of themselves. Are we not all in this war for the same purpose?

As for Mrs. E. E. and myself, we wy

have no intentions of slurring the bill of rights or our constitution, and I dare you to prove it, Mr. Walter Scott. Usually men that have gone through battles like that won't talk. And what was .he nasty, underhanded crack you made about

As for Mrs. D..M. 8S, after I do my milkin’, hoein’, ironin’, washin’, scrubbin’ and cookin’, I sit down and write to The Times while restin’. Yes, you told me to quit writing and go to work in a war

Side Glances—By Galbraith

| want to come home until it's over.” | a (“WHY SHOULD PEOPLE | PAY TO PARK?” | By Eimer Jenkins, Indianapolis I thought the parking ‘question had been settled,

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“What you jitterbuggin' fer in th’ garden, Paw? An’ quit wavin that hoe around in th’ air. weeds up thar.” Th' squire wuz cussin’ an’ hollerin’ & two skeeters clipped him from behind an’ he wen

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Mammy Said No More Curtains

NEXT NIGHT th' squire put on one 0’ Bo's tropical helmets an’ draped th’ kitchen curtain on it. He

pants. Them skeeters swarmed over him a raisin’ hell ‘cause they couldn't git down t' his flesh, But he didn't git much work done ‘cause his cigare!

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