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} He Runs, You Pay i IN this election year some of Indiana's Congressmen may be planning to use a vote-catching scheme already being - used in a big way by Rep. James Morrison of Louisiana. : 1 Mr. Morrison, a Democrat, is a candidate for governor, ve Last Nov. 18 he got permission to print his platform— | : three pages of it—in the Congressional Record. He is now | having reprints of it mailed to more than half a million | __Louigiana voters. The reprints are marked “not printed at public expense.” which is true as far as it goes, but mis-

HE The 500,000-plus reprints were supplied by the Governi ment Printing Office, at’ a low price that few if any private printers could afford to match. Mr. Morrison did pay for them, $1630 or a trifle more. But the federal taxpayers, not Mr. Morrison, paid the cost of the platform's original publication in the Congressional Record, about $210. The federal taxpayers also pay the employees of Congress who are folding the reprints, putting them into envelopes and mailing them. That job will cost at least $750. The reprints are going from Washington to Louisiana voters under Mr. Morrison's congressional frank. The Post | Office Department's expense for delivering them also must | be pag by the federal Waxpayers. That will be more than $12,000 |

ah a ye : 50. FOR F [OODING LOUISIANA with his. election: eeting propaganda, the cost to Mr. Morrison is a little more | than $1680, while the cost to the federal taxpayers is more | than $18,000. At current rates, it takes the total federal | y income taxes paid in a year by 260 married men, each with | ¥ a $2500 net income and each with three dependents, to pro- : vide $13,000. The economy plank in Mr. Morrison's plat-

A form promises: “I will guarantee a stop to the squandering ~~ of tax money.” : _ In fairness to Mr. Morrison, what he is doing is legal. It's an old congressional custom. Many Senators and Representatives have used the same scheme in the past to hold down their campaign expenses—that is, the part of them. ‘hope to use it again and again to leave much hope that Congress will change the rules which permit it. _ But it soon could be too politically costly and unprofitable for use—and a lot of taxpayers’ money Sud be saved—if every voter who receives a candidate’s : paign propaganda¥n a congressional franked envelope ord spend 3 cents to mail it back to the Senator or Representative from whom it came, with a brief note: “This shabby wilh has fost you my vote forever.”

uot the books 1 haven't read-would make &

leading because it tells only a small part of the story. |

| have never considered the Bible as a book. I have | thought of it rather as a collection of books by a

' divergent views about immortality, predestination,

“TT Walk with you, t6 Told you In my. arm,

In Tune | With the Times |

LITERARY HEAVYWEIGHTS . Publication of “Raintree Country,” in 1066 pages, by the Hoosler-born Ross Lockridge Jr. reminds “me again that I usually. find some excuse for not books which. exceed. _about...500.. pages...

' much impressive list than the ones I have. Unblushingly 1 admit to having skipped GWTW. Anthony Adverse, and even Forever Amber, though T am quite awhre that such confession will brand me as almost illiterate. As for the Book-of-the-Month Club-—well, T have a strong aversion to eating or reading anything because somebody says it will be good for me. ‘I prefer to chpose my own fare, even though it results in indigestion, vitamin deficiency, and an extremely unorthodox state of mind. I believe the longest I have ever read was Victor Hugo's “Les Miserables.”.. I. never regretted this, however, for here I found the regeneration of a Man done convincingly, If a bad man is changed | to a good ‘one in a thousand words, or even In 20,000, one is apt to feel thas he couldn't have been very bad in the first place, or else his new-found | goodness is somewhat like a cloak which’ he may don and dof. with equal facility, Jean Val Jean; | the hero of “Les Miserables,” was a thoroughly vicious youth who became in the end perhaps the most noble character in all fiction, But it "took abut 1200 pages and some 40 years to-do it and T do not believe it could have been done adequately in less, Of course, T have read most of the Bible, but 1

number of authors who, while writing with a common underlying theme of the nobility of man and the importance of the individual, nevertheless had

and other philosophical matters, However, they tell me Mr. Lockridge’s opus 1s written in poetic prose, and if he does this in anything like the manner of Stephen Vincent Berfiet, 1 shall probably follow him, even to the 1066th page. CLAUDE BRADDICK. ¢ ¢

| WHEN WINTER WELLS ARE DRY {That T should take in mine your dainty hand, Lead you by April rills, through thrush-lined trees, { Is just & wish that birds might understand, . “Caught late in a bleak cold November reese.

When Summer lightning strikes hard an elm tall, Assuring one so fair from worldly harm ith Love's mantle, might seem within my call. t Time grows arms of glass—fragile, less strong; Ba cloak is shared by others’ subtle will; The broad way becomes a path narrow, long: ebbs where once conflict gave only thrill, Yet, Love, with all its dreams, will not deny The thirst of June though winter wells are dry! ~GEORGE 8. BILLMAN, * &

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| WORLD AFFAIRS .

CROSSROAD GRAPEVINE Tobe Deegaw, the barber, an’ Slim Kester hed words Monday evenin’. Seems thet Slim's bin cut- | +in' some uv the tellers’ hair with his horse

clippers. Reb Slade is worryin’ bout his hawg, Reb sez, “Jes as shore as I keep it the price’ll drap, and eff'n I sell it the price’ll go up. Wichever one I do’ll be a mistake” 2 Freddie Oatin wuz down from the city carryin’ two suitcases. It don't take half an eye to tell thet Freddie's made the grade. i EAE PETE. |

WINGS OF NIGHT "Twas only for a second in the night You came to me on wings of misty flight. 1 visioned I could see you standing thexe - To guide me and to help me see no fear.

Mediterranean Precautions > REOPENING of the American air base near Tripoli is de- | scribed by our officials as a non-belligerent move to serv- | ice transport planes en route to Greece and the Middle East. | European diplomats interpret it as a counter-move in the so-called war of nerves. Communist propagandists call it

| A gentle hand so dear, upon my hand. The slightest touch, yet I can understand Our love. A love embedded deep within my heart Which may seem hidden since we've been apart, I'm glad you came from out this starry night My heart was. all: alone, and closed so tight. We'll meet again, dear, and when we do . Yuu find me still as much in love with you. Fat OLIN M. BLAKE.

__. aggressive encirclement of Russia. : We see no reason to. doubt, the official American explanation. Certainly the increased traffic to Athens and to the Mideast merits an adequate way-station. Any idea: that the purpose is to attack Russia is absurd because there

for that.

our air traffic needs in the Mediterranean and Russia’s.ag-.

are nearer and better bomber bases. which could be acquired |

Nevertheless, there is an obvious connection between

: FOSTER'S FOLLIES (“WASHING TON=Capital Police Hunt Man Seeking to Oust Truman as ‘Imposter’.”) D.C. cops have been alerted “To be. ready to give chase, To. a man who has asserted He wants Mr. Truman's place. > They would be darned good retrievers ne “Could they cateh==or even" finds=="~

gressive moves. . Russia through her satellite Balkan states is. waging undeclared war on Greece.” Stalin's tool, Tito,

ing revolution, The Kremlin is putting pressure on Turkey for the Dardanelles: Palestine on ‘the eve of paftition is bloody with strife. And the strategic Middle East is tense

from Cairo to Jenran. »

THAT IS THE SETTING in which the Ww aaRTiti and

sions such as the following: Retention of British. troops “3 Greece, increased “American funds fora farger Greek army, dispatch of about +1000 additional U. S. Marines to the Mediterranean fleet, proposed increase of Britain's military force on Cyprus, and the American and. British diplomatic warnings to the Soviet satellites against recognition of the Greek rebel regime. These moves taken together indicate the patter. Clearly it is not a strategy of aggression against Russia or any other nation. It isa pattern of precaution and pre“vention. It is a warning to the irresponsible Red stooges and the expansionist Kremlin not to go too far. It is an application to the Mediterranean of the the same firm policy which Undersecretary of State Lovett and Gens. Clay and Hays have just expressed on Berlin—the United States will carry out its international obligations regardless of Russian pres-

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A Bet We Overlook i "MBASSADOR JAMES C. DUNN, newspaper corredisturbed over acceptance of Communist propaganda and ~the failure of the United-States to give Italians a proper sunderstanding of all this country is doing to help them back an their feet. Parker La Moore, our correspondent, writing from | Rome, quoted the opinion of one American who has been |

made one-tenth the progress they have made: ‘cans who appreciate what America is doing for their mother country and kinsmen.

: “Half the many eager beavers . ; } Who-have that idea tn mind!

threatens Trieste. Italian Communists -are openly prepar- nN” WASHINGTON : . . . . . By Charles T. Lucey

PCA Boss’ Real Hope Is to Block Truman

By Maraois Childs

Waste mi on ys s War’

- WASHINGTON, Jan. 17—In their searching and

highly ‘significant report, the Presidents Air Policy Commission did not paes judgment on how the total defense budget is divided between Army, Navy and Air Forces. But anyone who reads that report carefully can

tell that the commission felt a lot of money now -

being spent on defense is being wasted because it is going for “yesterday's war" Neither the Army nor the Navy has faced up to present-day realities. Millions and millions of dollars are being spent in ways that can never serve the security of the United States. This is true in spite of the merger of the armed services six months ago which was meant fo stop such Wastes. The facts are known, in part at least, to men in high position, some of them in uniform. Waste on yesterday's war—or even day-before-yesterday’ S WAr— is “particularly obvious in the Navy. For example, shore installations which are. the Pacific coast can have no possible relation to .any future war. The old days, ‘when America was relatively is0~ lated by the two oceans this kind of waste did not matter too much. The military establishment was

hardly more than a kind of museum piece. —At-the outbreak of a war we would brush it aside and build

a new modern war machine. Behind the barrier of the oceans, there was always time.

‘Survival in the Air Age’

BUT AS THE Air Policy Commission's report—

| called “survival in the dir age"—makes dramatically

clear, we shall never again have that much time. In the age of jet bombers and guided missiles, there

is no second chance. An atomic Pearl Harbor would

mean final and utter defeat and disaster. The commission's report is the first over-all, im-

| partial examination of the post-war military estab-

lishment and over-all strategy, if any. The commission was not authorized to pass on how the total dfeense budget -should be spent. They came close to it, however, when they said:

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“We. view with great anxiety ‘the. presstitgs fiom:

many sides directed towards the maintenance of yes-~

{ Jertays estabjishment to fight .tomorrow’s war; an

to-discard: the “old and take on the new; -a determination to advance the interest of & segment--at-the sacrifice of the body as a whole.

maintained on -

All this is understandable. For it comes in large part from loyalty of each service to its traditions. But we can no longer afford the waste it involves.

Hope rests only with the ability of the Secretary

of Defense under the President to discharge effectively the authority vested in him with one ob-

jective: in mind—the maximum in security for the |

minimum cost. It is imperative that this be done; for unless it is we will not have a military establishment capable of defending the country.” The Air Commission called on’ Secretary of Defense James Forrestal to show that what had been done thus far to integrate the services and bring about Sagential economy. In tangible results, Mr. Forrestal could show very little. Me rs of the commission were fully aware of the tremendous task that was. dumped in Mr. Forrestal's lap. : In the past the Navy has been the only force maintained between wars. It was kept in being to guard the sea approaches to the United States. - Vested interésts-have.grown up around the Navy that are like barnacles which fasten on a ship wo long in port. tradition and hedged around by Suardiang of that tradition.

Urges Pruning of Navy

MR. FORRESTAL'S JOB is now to keep the Navy {

as a force in being and as a security weapon safe-

guarding American interests all over the world | while at the same time creating a second force in |

being in the air to guard the air approaches to the nation.

“To carry out the second half of this assignment { - means inevitably that the Navy must be pruned,

because the necessary money simply will not be available unless there is a drastic pruning. \ ~The vested Interests are not, of course, an nside the Army and the Navy. For many years after’ they had outgrown any conceivable usefulness for defense; the Army continued to" maintain posts that in their day had been useful in fighting the Indians. When it was proposed to abolish these posts, nearby towns rose up in indignation and brought congressional pressure to bear to stop the move, That nappened . repeatedly, and naturally, army officers, who didn't ‘want to.see any change, could ally them-

selves with these interests

“Those days afe gone forever, u Congress and ‘nimtion ‘persist in living in that kind of a past, ne

“the awakening will eventually be a rude one.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

Hoosier Forum "1 do not agree with « werd hal you dy. but | wil defend to the desth your right to say i"

‘Mars Hill Parents Disgusted”

new building, reduced the sizé a temporary hallway. His room grown _nerson would have tn walk sideways dram the” aisles between the ini ats A good thing their teesher- was smal ——— Anyway they went #11 1:30 or 2:00 p. m. last vear and now this year only from 8:00 till 12:00, He has home work every nitht. His teacher told me plain'v he couldn't possibly pass if he.didn't turn in his hamework. Every night he must do swelling and often arithmetic and sometimes English. ; v His first vear of school he wae a good student, Inst vear fair or aversee and this year a poor student and he definitelv hates school. The teach. er is trving tn eram irta hic hesd the required work in shant, ha'f the time. vf other mothers feel as T An Tt naw thee ‘are warried, 1 can't see why thie hrilding jsn't finished, Why 1 can etand an mv front walk snd count at least 20 heness that haye heen built (comnleta and ocerinied) within the Iast two vears and thév are all within three blocks of the school. I do hope some. thing can be done soon. 6 @

Ran Smoking, Cafes Urged By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, City . ~The majority of the public are not deserving of clean eating places. What do they do after eating

It is an institution hoary with |

-a>bellyful -but-eram-the cups full of cigaret butts.“ Some prefer to throw them on the floor. I had rather have a fly in my soup! Tobacco smoke and cigaret butts no more mix with clean food than whisky mixes with gasoline, and, frankly speaking, if I were operating a restaurant, I would have a “no smoking if you prefer clean food” sign on the wall Some of these who "eat out” do a do worth of damage and buy a nickel's worth b food. People can’t stay in business that way. A cockroach is a credit to some of these public eaters. In a downtown restaurant a little one crawled half-way across the back of a chair, then reared back on his hind legs, washed his face, combed his hair snd shined his shoes, then

thanks to the proprietor. If we expect to eat in clean restaurants, we

should at least show the management as much |

respect as a cockroach does. * © ¢

‘Only the People Are in Favor’ By Jud Haggerty, R. R. 6, Box 494, City. Republican leaders are firmly against the Presi. dent's tax reduction bill because it is “inflationary.” Boy. they stuck their legislative chins out! Either they want to be inconsistent, or they're terribly absent-minded. Their own anti-inflation | plan calls for a tax reduct , and that was only | a couple of weeks ago! |The Republican i wouid out taxes by five | billion dollars, thereby putting that much more | money in circulation. Mr.. Truman's bill would 1 '

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cut taxes only three billion. Yet the President's’ bill is “inflationary.” Not only the Republicans but quite a few Democrats are against the bill. Even Henry Wallace is | against it. They all say it is.inflationary because L She pour aA (snd the slready rish man) Would be $40 richer. Apparently only the people are in favor of the bill. As usual, they don't have a chance. « ® ¢ 9 3

Suggested Name: ‘Baxter Shades’ By George M. Crouch, 853 N. Gladstone Ave, In recognition of the unselfish and public spirited action of Arthur R. Baxter, who has long been one of our outstanding civic leaders, ‘who with his own funds: quickly came to the aid of all Indiana and made possible the preservation of the + +Shades,”. F--wigh-. to-- herein -suggest- that he be honored. by the présent generation and remem-’ | bored. tor generations to come by -re-naming this beautiful Indiana spot. “Baxter Shades.”

| DEAR BOSS . .. By Daniel M. Kidney

List Plan for Jenner

London governments have been forced to make recent deci

spondents and other Americans in [taly are greatly |

living in Italy three years to the effect that if American. aid had been properly exploited Communists could not have |

In the United States are thousands of Italian-Ameri-

“Would not a barrage of letters from America to rel: I and friends back home do more to explain and interthan all the radio programs .we might | or all the- literature we might pre. ship pverseas? :

“_the state delegations to the national convention.

CHICAGO. Jan. 17—A Californian named Robert W. Kenny took over the show today as Henry Wallace's pals staked oul a ¢i ui the common man in the mink-and- ia -bottle-Scotch belt of Chi.cago's North. Shore... “MY Kenny 18 pational ——— of “the Progressives. Citizens ot America. He hadn't been talking long when he indicated -that his chief hope for the Wallace movement lay not in a third-party success—a quixotic notion at the momeént—but in trying to block ‘nomination of President Truman by the Demacrats. Oddly, although the PCA is trumpeting for a third party, Mr. Kenny wants to send Mr. Wallace into the primaries in some states, especially California and Oregon, as Democratic candidate to grab If Mr. Wallace

could trim Mr. Truman in two such important “exhibition bouts,”

as Mr. Kenny put it, the Democratic party might turn away from '

the President at-the Philadelphia convention “If 3MG Truman were’ knocked off,” says. Mr. Kenny, “I can’t conceive that they would nominate him unless they are following a suicidal int@t. How could Frank Hague and Ed Flynn (New Jersey and New York. Pemocratic bosses) reconcile themselves-to running a guy who couldri't.win in his own party?’ Mr, Kenny even thought it was ‘conceivable’ Party would nominate Mr. Wallace.

Mr. “~nny Seems to Doubt California

IT'S ALL RIGHT with Mr. Kenny to put Mr. Wallace into the field as a third-party candidate in states where he wouldn't go as a

that the Democratic

| Democratic candidate contesting delegates with Mr. Truman. But.Mr.

Kenny apparently doubts enough petitions will be signed to do it in California. and so he wishes to work within the Derhocratic Party. If Mr. Truman were beaten--and Mr. union of Progressives, Townsendites, remmants of Upton Sinclair supporters and other Californian movements for a brighter world— Mr. Kenny might wind up as a Democratic boss in his own right. “I-don‘t know where this third-party movement lands—the dynamfcs of events will determine that,” Mr. Kenny said in smiling profundity. Mr. Kenny observed that numerous PCA big shots had resigned because of the Wallace third-party candidacy and he described himself as “The boy on the burning deck, whence all but he had fled."

PCA would be like speaking for a uranium pile—you don't know where all the cosmic rays will go.” Commenting on PCA's willingness to accept Communists to mem- | bership, he remarked that “we'll take anybody's three bucks, of what- | ever it costs to join.”

Delegates Often Leaned to the Left

DELEGATES EXPECTED here to survey PCA affairs and perhaps propose a third-party nominating convention in the spring incjuded many often identified with leftist or so-called .liberal groups,

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despite the substantial showing made by the Independens Progres- | sive Party here in a fall election, it could not get on the ballot as a third party in the approaching Illinois primary. The court held the showing had been made at a special judicial election rather than a general election as required.

But that isn't stopping the pro-Wallace people. They wilk ap- | peal the decision to the State’ Supreme Court, and will build another backstop by a big petition-signing drive to get on the ballot. They'll put up candidates to beat Democrats even when those Democrats ate In with considerable reputation for liberalism, such as Paul-Douglas, | Chicago University economics professor. Mr, Douglas is. the Democratic nominee to oppose Republican Senator C. Wayland Brooks. - But’ Mr. Douglas hasn't liked the Communists, apparently, because + Z&imon Garfield, Cook County PCA chairman; denounced him today as “one of the most open Red-baiters and warmongers'in the nation.” | «Rep. Adolph Sabath (D, Ill), another Democrat, will get the PCA ‘| | blessing, though,’ pe rte Hn rug Be bt ben, Mans,

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To Seek Governorship

— DEAR BOSS:

There is a way suggested here whereby Senator William E. Jenner

__could go back to Indians and accept the Republican nomination for

governor this year and at the same time turn off some of the heat which the Democrats would generate come November. Previously. the Jenner plan—which he doesn't admit is his and only: says he will accept if drafted—has been for the junior Senator

~~ to take the nomination and campaign for election while still holding

his Senate seat. If .elected, he then would resign from the Senate, take the governorship and name his successor here, . But the entire Republican delegation in Congress has riever consented to such a plan. Some of the congressmen have other candidates which they favor for the governorship—covyertly if not openly.

‘Comoromise Plan Outlined

ONE OF THESE objectors said that the Democrats would be going around casting such slurs as “junior didn't like it in Washington 80 we had better let him come home.” So the compromise which would permit Senator Jenner to eat

his cake, but not exactly to keep it, would be like this . . .

ould he be nominated by the GOP state convention, he then would resign from the Senate and Gov. Ralph Gates would name 8 successor—possibly House Majority Leader Charles A. Halleck. That would put the Senate seat into the campaign this year, as well 88 the governorship. Mr. Halleck, or Whoever Gov. Gates named, would campaign for

| the remainder of Senator Jenner's term in the Senate, which does not expire until Jan, 3, 1953.

Should Mr. Halleck be nominated for President or Vice Presidend in the interim, some other candidate could be selected of course.

Suggest Ge t Gates for Senate Post GOV. GATES not having much of any place to go politi cally after his term ends this year, there have been that

A. the origina: Jenner plan was carried out the Senator, if elected

governor, would name Gov. Gates to his Senate séat. But the general opinion is that politically they ‘do not love each other that | much at this time, Of course it may well be that Lt. Gov. “Dick” James,’ Spounel Hobart Creighton of the Indiana House of Representatives or some* one else may get the Republican’ gubernatorial nomipation. In theb case Senator Jenner will keep his seat. Six years at $15,000 a year with all office expenses paid doesn seem to be 100 bad a job. for a fellow at 40 Who has spent his entir® adult life in politics, only taking time ou for World war IL .

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