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REPUBLICAN OPPORTUNITY

POLITICAL platforms usually don't mean a thing. But the Republicans had better make theirs mean a lot this year. America is confident of military victory, after more sacrifices, but there is worried uncertainty about what the future will bring. Have the Republicans any of the answers ? Qur soldiers write back from the fronts asking whether there will be enough jobs to go around when it is over. War workers and farmers wonder how long high wages and high prices will last. Income taxpayers—and that means almost everybody now—are beginning to realize that today’s billions of debt must be sweated out by lean and long labor through many tomorrows. There is an uneasy feeling that government has grown too large and too powerful. From these economic and political pressures come social tensions of race and color, dangerous divisions which must be overcome if democracy is to endure. = o ” ~ ” WILL THESE American stresses and strains of world war be increased by post-war chaos abroad? Will nationalist ambitions, class conflicts and imperialist power politics, which debauched Europe after the last war, injure us again? Americans have learned that oceans no longer isolate us from the fortunes and follies of an interdependent world. Without rapid reconstruction abroad there can be little prosperity here. Social unrest and racial strife there would be reflected on this side. And failure to achieve an effective .international organization for security and peace would force America to prepare for a worse war. The next administration in Washington must be courageous enough, efficient enough, and wise enough to handle these national and international problems. It must provide leadership. s = » ” » » SO, PARTISAN POLITICS as usual—the old convention circus, the old platform hokum, the old candidate com-

promises—are not apt to satisfy the voters this time. They are not in a mood to be gold-bricked. If the Republican party expects to take over the responsibilities of national government and international collaboration, it will have to convince a people matured by war |

that the Republican party can be trusted. The platform must be clear and concise—weasel words won't do. The ticket must be. strong—not only a presidential candidate big enough for the hardest job in the | world, but also a running-mate who is no throttlebottom. The party must be united—otherwise it could only compound the lack of co-operation between President and congress, which is the curse of the country now. o 2 ” o - s THERE 1S increasing dissatisfaction with the Roose- | velt administration. Especially, there is fear of one-man rule. That would be enough in ordinary times to defeat the administration in November. But in a national emergency and a world crisis people are not likely to risk change except for better leadership. This is one election that will not be won by default. The voters who are “agin Roosevelt regardless” are not yet a majority—if the popular polls are accurate. The Republican party has to win the independent voters by a progressive platform and a positive ticket. Chicago convention delegates, so cocksure a month ago that their party could coast to success, now seem to understand that the best the Republicans have to offer will be re-

quired. The opportunity is there—waiting for them.

DR. CHRISTOPHER B. COLEMAN

TRUE historian is something more than a keeper of dusty archives. Ile is one who, by preserving the splendid heritage of mankind, makes the present a living link with both past and future. Wisdom builds up slowly, like a corai atoll rising from the sea, and the historian not only charts its progress but is the guardian of the painful gains achieved by those who have gone before. He is both

a steward and an interpreter; his toil and insight makes |

By Ruth Millett

richer the lives of his contemporaries and smooths the way for the unborn. Dr. Christopher B. Coleman, director of the Indiana Historical bureau, was one of those timeless men. He had the great gentleness of those who walk with the centuries. He had a brilliant mind, an able pen and a personality stamped with the hallmark of refinement that, for want of a better terny, is called “a gentleman.” And he was a selfless servant, whose ability and knowledge were dedicated to the profit of others. We on the newspapers knew him as a constant source of information, as a friend who was ever willing to walk the second mile, as a scholar who either knew the answer or found it, as a quiet man with a twinkle in his eye and inspiration in his talk. Few states have so well cherished their traditions and the flavor of their statehood as has our Indiana. And that © is due in no small measure to Christopher B. Coleman. . That was his vocation, and his avocation, to keep forever ~ green the memories of the men and deeds that made a state. He did that well, with self-effacing effectiveness, as he did all things. His was a big job, and he fitted it.

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Sm CHICAGO, June 26.—Humbled by years of frustration .and political and personal humiliation at the hands of the Rooseveits, husband and wife, Harry Hopkins, Ickes, Hillman, Leon Henderson, the Hagues and Kellys and kindred altruistic toilers for the uplift of the common man, the Republicans gathered now in . . Chicago to nominate Tom Dewey present a strange appearance in the accustomed politics of. the

land. They are entirely American, with attachment to neither Bundism nor Communism nor more than a stately and respectful acquaintance with Winston Churchill and the royal refugees from Europe. And yet there is among them an apologetic attitude as though to say that, while they are truly American, they unfortunately were born that way and venture to. hope their peculiarity will not be held against them. This is the first national party convention at which total enthusiasm. for the United States has created a scene of embarrassment in those so minded, and every word that Republicans utter is weighed first lest it be construed to mean that they would rate an Iowa farmer or a Chicago machinist or salesman above an Arab, or a Pole, a Sicilian or a Frenchman or a refugee from Germany or Spain.

‘It's Called Eastern-Seaboardism'

IN PRIVATE conversation, and subject to repudiation should the subject be treacherously accused of the crime of Americanism, first degree, the Republican will confide a distaste for excessive EasternSeaboardism and then try to explain, inoffensively, what he means by that. Eastern-Seaboardism means the hoodlums who police the politics and rackets of a stewing and crime-harried Latin district in New York whose representative in congress, Vito Marcantonio, is La Guardia's protege and speaks the language of the Communists. It means Sidney Hillman and the political action committee of the C. I. O, the political effort of the Communists in the fourth-term campaign, which keeps in telephonic touch with the White House, and the farm security administration which has superseded not only in the public consciousness, but in practical fact, the national committee of the Democratic party. Eastern-Seaboardism means personal and political slander against Americans who display the reckless unwisdom to declare and govern themselves strictly by the oath that every American soldier takes on joining the colors, subject to neither discount nor mental reservation.

The myth has been established in their minds |

as fact, that American labor, meaning all the mil- | lions of Americans who earn their living by work | and pay taxes, is held in dumb submission by Hill- ! man and other unioneers of both big houses, and that labor will punish at the polls any party which dares to promise that it will drive criminals and | Communists out of the unions, and restrict their private taxing powers.

Shrink. From Distasteful Brawl

The Hoosier Forum

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

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CHICAGO, June 26—Four years ago Indiana was in the spotlight at fhe Republican national convention at Philadelphia. When the Chicago meeting got under way today, the Hoosiers were just among those present. Four years ago Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind.) presented the name of Wendell L. Willkie as ‘native son. Now Mr.

do with his coming from the state. Mrs. Grace B. Reynolds still has her name in the book as vice chairman of the Republican national committee, Like here predecessor, the late Miss Dorothy Cunningham, she also has a fine national reputation for long activity coupled with acuteness. But she is being retired by the insiders running the party in the state now. And because that is their plan they have been lectured plenty by both oute standing men and women from outside the state, including Miss Marion Martin of the women’s division of the national committee; former National Chairman John Hamilton, and National Treasurer Sinclair Weeks,

Delegation in Background WITH WILLKIE BLACKED-OUT there will be

the delegation is having very little to say. In fact, they are far more busy in star chamber sessions over the Republican national committeeman, which is ta to be decided this afternoon. Former Senator James E. Watson is here, but no longer is a power in national councils as he was when he was majority leader in the senate. Ralph Gates, gubernatorial candidate, and Homer E. Capehart, senatorial candidate, are politically unknowns on the national scene. While Robert Lyons long has been a Dewey man, his getting in and out of the national committee assignment has put him under wraps. His national publicity with its Ku -Klux Klan background didn't do Dewey or the Indiana Republicans any good, it is admitted.

Leadership Lacking ALTHOUGH INDIANA pioneered amang Mid-

“WE CAN NOW ALL FORGET OUR TROUBLES”

THE REPUBLICANS are, in this way, an over- | Bayless 4938 Guilford ave.

civilized aggregation come to nominate their man, |

Well, well, we can now all forget

but it must be said that they shrink from a whole- |Our troubles and be carefree again hearted fight only from the natural distaste of the (8s Some of our valuable manpower

well-behaved and law-abiding citizen for a brawl in the spit and drippings of a barroom floor. They all talk fight in confidence, reviewing the scandals of the air mail cancellation, the unblushing personal graft of the greedy bleeding hearts, high and low, and the union rackets. But they think, or hope, they can win by keeping acrimony and scandal

out of a fight with a notorious opponent who wades | cious grain. : © | in swinging a mud-bucket. So far, they lack con- |the entire Greek population is said

fidence that in a rough, low-down campaign they could handle themselves successfully, Possibly when the two nominations are in and the contest warms up, the Republicans will commonize their language and talk straight to the common man to convince him. that the phrase “we planned it that way” goes for the decree that after July 1, ne American man may take a job nor any employer give one, except through and by consent of the President's own job service or the union halis, and on the government's own terms. Thus far, they are handcuffed and muzzled by their respect for the office of the President and fearful that straight Americanism will be exploited as a revival of the indecencies of the latter-day Ku Klux Klan, itself an evil emanation from the wholly Democratic South.

Gerald Smith Takes Over

THUS, yesterday afternoon in the Stevens hotel, the polite, patriotic and bewildered workers of Governor Bricker's candidacy, fell back when threatened by an organized mob come to listen to Gerald Smith, the ersatz Huey Long. Smith was told that the room leading to his hall was Bricker's private property and no thoroughfare, but his crowd crashed through by force. Smith preaches America-firstism, an assembled job composed of Coughlinism and other deleterious ingredients. The Bricker people, gentle, genteel and unprepared fell back as the mob, all wearing Bricker’s badges, crashed through and Mrs. Robert Biehtler, the wife of a major general commanding a division in the South Pacific, telephoned for cops who presently arrived too late. Bricker disowned Smith and his meeting but the situation called for a half-dozen reasonably athletic friends of an American candidate with a belly for a fight, and was met, instead, with good manners and worried looks.

We The People

SINCE THE outbreak of the war women of 35 years and over have been marrying in greatly increased numbers, recent marital statistics show. That is undoubtedly because SO many malure women have stepped out of jobs where their associates were mostly women or men who were already married, to get jobs where they meet eligible men. : As a school teacher,

Sadie

Smith, aged 33, seldom had a date. The only men

she met at work were the high school principal, married, and a teacher of sciences, also married. But when she got a job with the Red Cross, she found herself in a world of men. If she were ever going to get a hucband here was her chance.

Supply the Needed Faith

SAME WAY %ith the college dean who went into the WACS. And with the beauty salon operator who left a world of women for a job'in a war plant. The luck they have had, as proved by statistics, ought to be a lesson to unmarried women long after the war is over. It ought to make them resolve to leave the feminine worlds in which they work if at 30, say, they are still husbandless. : That is a change that could be made any time, if a Woman just had enough confidence in its being worth Ww e. And. now statistics have the needed faith.

To The Point—

‘proven it is—and supplied

| ought to be by this time.

OPTI

land grain supplies are to be dedi-

|cated during the month of August

'to the high and noble purpose of | making a supply of hard liquor, It {matters not that thousands upon |thousands of Chinese and Greek

| people are in dire need of our pre-

It matters not that

by experts to be doomed to starvation unless life-sustaining grain is shipped to them. It matters not that the thousands of work hours to be wasted in making this new liquor supply could be utilized in

starving Greek and Chinese allies. No, all that matters is the fact that

their Saturday night sprees and Sunday morning hangovers, And we have the brazen audacity to sing, “God Bless America.” s = “ALL ARE TRYING TO MAKE A LIVING”

plaint in Tuesday's edition of The Times, I would like to enlighten

phone soliciting. In the first place, no one is calling for the fun of it, all are trying to make a living. Personally, I ¢an

ness, as that has been my work

their homes. I know two magazine solicitors who work from their beds, flat on their backs. I know two who are confined to wheel chairs, one so crippled with arthritis someone has to write up whatever orders she may take. I know a man who, although he had a leg removed, was able to make a living until he went totally blind. He then studied the Braille svstem, took up magazine work and keeps his own files.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, .religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be "signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter cor-

building ships to carry grain to our)

In answer to a Mrs. Hess’ com- |

her on some of the phases of tele-.

respondence regarding them.)

| these unfortunates because they sell | magazines on the merits of the

the American people just must have| magazines and the special prizes

they have to offer and not by ! stressing their misfortunes. [As far as the radio survey, fur | storage, furnace repairing, etc., is concerned, I don't know much about that, but I do know those solicitors

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answer many calls, perhaps’ when they are very busy, but in no other way is breeding (good or bad) so

{ evident as in the manner in which | those calls are answered.

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A BLACK CROW”

for 11 years. Most, or I should say, By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, R. R. 6, Box 494 | 250’ made a mistake so far in his| a great-number of the solicitors| Well, I'll be a black crow and ° are shut-ins, doing their work from! pick her eyes out, one by one, if it | take once, so now they are consid- | |isn’t a hoe, a senator, a goat, it’s & ‘ered of a lower race. The second | | neighbor, which puzzles me how | | anyone, no matter how simple, can | twist language around to mean { anything come election. “My neigh-

bors” are busy from morn ‘til night

‘and we seldom see each other, ex-

' cept when someone's car fails to go. There are few homes that haven't been broken by the tragedy of war 'and some whom we saw grow up ‘have paid the supreme sacrifice. {Fathers of some who are crying

Mrs. Hess wouldn't know about their heart out to be at the battle

'Side Glances—By Galbraith

front near their sons, caffy on when they are physically unable. Some | we hear are in prison camps and] you are wrong if you even think we! have time to talk about the weath-| er, although you have a right to! your opinions. May I remind you who do not like what I write, many others do, and my name is plainly, written at the top so do not read.’ May I advise those who are worrying about their Bill of Rights and their Constitution, they are safe; | We have made it so by sending our! sons to fight for you. Some are like the tumblebug, | which scratches things to pieces and | starts rolling it backward cr “anti,” instead of forward, which reminds me of the anti-New Dealers. { Our neighbors remember 12 years ago, when the whole countryside’

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| are trying to make a living of sorts land it only takes a few seconds to © M™ I. S. Indianapolis By Mrs. Dorothy Moore, R. R. 5, Box 229 politely answer their questions.

- (record. He wasn't good enough, so

|victs or no ex-convicts they are

{equal country—someday it will be.

was in darkness, our President made! it possible for rural electrification! which they will long remember, and like others, we think he has been the -savior of our country. God bless our President, may he live forever. | s s

“SECOND CHANCE BETTER THAN NONE”

| Not very long ago there was a It is true the housewives have to Woman who apparently thought that jcannon fodder should be ex-con-| |victs instead of boys like her son.

This is- what makes America the way it is today. People turning] against their fellowmen because in the past they made a mistake. I wonder if there is a person who

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The. ex-convicts made a mis-!

chance is not there for them to improve what is really deep down inside of them. | This is supposed to be a free: world where all mankind are treated as equals. Am I right? Not just certain ones to be cannon fodder. I have met boys that were not cone sidered good eonugh to fight for their country although their hearts would be aching to be in there too. For I happen to know. I have a brother-in-law who tried to enlist in the army. Do you think he could get in? No, because he had a prison

he didn’t care. Now he is back in prison again. His wife is still walting for him although part of his family didn’t much care what happened to him, My brother also had a record—he couldn't get in. Now he is dead. Dead from a policeman’s gun. It wasn’t much to break into-a place— that is what they thought. , They couldnt fight. He couldn't have died from a hero's death, Soon my brother-in-law will be out of prison. I suppose he will be turned down again. Hg doesn't care now if he gets in or not. I consider my brother-in<law- as good as Mrs. Rose's san. Ex-con-

Americans. - Cannon fodder alone won't win this war for cannon fodder don’t exist just for certain men, for I have a husband out there fighting for himself and his brother. America is supposed to be a free and

‘Yes, Mrs. Rose, we didn’t ask for this war but we are fighting for it . Give the ex-convicts a to make life worth living for. A second chance is better than none —even better than being cannon DAILY THOUGHTS ~ For we brought nothing into |

‘we this ¥ and it is certain we

western states in returning to the Republican fold | (beginning back in 1938), no leadership has developed | comparable to the days when there were such men | as the late Senator Beveridge, the late Postmaster | General Harry 8. New and the lively, but no longer | politically active in Indiana—Will Hayes, who had | been both state and national chairman. ”

In an election year when the feminine vote is supposed to count higher than ever, the Indians insiders for the first time in years made no woman a convention delegate. The women consider that politica] retrogression and that phrase might be used to describe what has made the delegation just another state on hand here.

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, June 26.—You should hear about Undersecretary of War Robert P. Pattersons pants, Remember that O. Henry story about the besi-dressed man in New York who disappeared one day, to be found years later In a monastery? The gimmick was that in a monk's robe he had discovered the perfect garment—ona that would not bag at the knees, Well Judge Patterson's pants beats that a mile, and has the further merit of being true. It seems that Judge Patterson recently had a sitting for Max Kalish, the celebrated American

| sculptor commissioned to make a statuette of him. | Kalish and the judge finally agreed upon a stand-

ing pose, showing the judge with hat in hand and locking as though he were going places. It was a typical, friendly likeness, and a characteristic pose for the energetic and hard-working undersecretary, who even likes to stand up and walk about his big office during conferences. : When Kalish got around to finishing up the legs at the second sitting, he was a little puzzled about the pants, which were round and baggy at the knees and looked as though they hadn't been pressed in some time.

How's About a Crease?

“HADN'T WE better put a crease in them, Mr. Secretary?” asked Kalish. The judge glanced down, and then in his usual serious and deliberate manner said, “No. I haven't had this suit pressed since I got it,” he explained. Kalish couldn't help smiling, but he did manage to ask, “Well, how long have you-had it?” “Two years!” the judge answered frankly, and without any trace of a smile. As an afterthought he added, “I just haven't had time.” . Nobody had ever noticed it before, but it was the truth. The nondescript, mixed weave suit has seen service day in and day out. There isn't a less clothesconscious official in Washington, and it isn't an affectation, for he looks neat enough. Surrounded by uniforms and swank, the undersecretary of war is perhaps the most unpretentious and unassuming of men, having achieved that blissful state of mental perfection in which clothes don't count and don't make the man. : In addition to being so decidedly old hat personally, Judge Patterson wears a pair of ordinary GI russet leather high shoes that lace up over the ankles. These shoe tops won't show in the Kalish statuette, for the pants come down over them. But the pants are there, to be immortalized ‘in bronze with bags at the knees.

Is He You-Know-What Timber?

MAX KALISH, by the way, is an old hand at sculpting baggy knees. His famous statue of Lincoln, which stands on the Cleveland Mall, is a classic in unpressed pants, and his great series of sculptures

of American labor types have all the majesty of

wholesome, earthy men expressing all the nobility of honest sweat and toil in work clothes. The story of Judge Patterson's pants, however, has brought out: other stories of the undersecretary’s lack: of front. He absolutely refuses to dress up for any-' body. Can't be bothered. Last spring, someone sent him a complimentary ticket to the Jackson Day dinner. Judge Patterson is a lifelong Republican, but a Democratic party stalwart who paid the 100 bucks for the ticket wouldn't go at the last minute and asked the undersecretary to go in his place. Being in the administration, even if not of the majority party, the judge acc : It was Strictly a dress-up affair. The ladies were there in jewels and orchids. The men were in evening clothes, not a few in white ties and tails. - Up at the head table with the party hot-shots sat Judge Patterson—in the same old suit and a blue

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