Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1948 — Page 10
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hower's withdrawal have been simmering through the toplevel ranks of both parties. The yes-or-no decision could wait no longer. A slate of delegates had been entered in the New Hampshire primary, pre-election proving ground . Gen. Eisenhower wrote a letter to the publisher of the Manchester (N. H.) Union-Leader in which he left no doubt as to his stand. Said the general: “I could not accept the (presidential) nomination even under the remote circumstances that it were tendered me.” Publisher Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star, robust hub of wheatland journalism, had been predicting openly
- Republican wheelhorses whose hats either are in the nomination ring or have been rolled convincingly close to its “~pdge.” But Gen, Eisenhower was too much for-him- to. handle. President Truman had no such record for World . War II and if the country should decide to reward a military man for his effort, Gen. Eisenhower might have won the presidency in a walk. The Democrats now will step ~——up their Truman campaign with considerable more confidence than they could have boasted a week ago. : “The Republicans are relieved but still confused. There are so many using every trick in the bag to capture the nomination that they may be bunched in the home stretch, close enough to deadlock the convention. EA . sn eon. : . . GEN. EISENHOWER probably could have licked them all. New York's Gov. Thomas E. Dewey has no such war © record, indeed, hardly any at all. Senator Taft and Caliornia’s Earl Warren haven't many campaign ribbons to |
long an avowed candidate, is the only remaining aspirant who can ask for the war veteran vote on the basis of his own contribution. So, he probably should feel considerably
_. With the air cleared, the old line politicians can move in with their time-worn strategy, their horse-trading tricks, ~ and resume the game under the rough-and-tumble rules of American politics; grabbing all of the delegates they can , ~~. get, no matter whose toes they step on, whose reputations 7 they hurt, and whose money they use. r Our view of this mad and greedy scramble is—may the best man win. But he probably won't.
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WE are indebted to the government of the United bi States for a handsome volume entitled “A. History of the Petroleum Administration for War . . : 1941-1945 «just jssued by . .. who do you suppose? . ... the Petroleum’ Administration for War. a Beautifully printed by the United States Government Printing Office, and attractively bound, it consists of 463 pages, with many illustrations, photographs, charts and table, a number of them in colors. Obviously a lot of | work, and gkilled, expert work, at that, has gone into-the | compilation and printing of this impressive volume.’ They | are for sale, the fly-leaf indicates, by the Superintendent of “Documents; for $3 per copy, although ours was generously. provided free, but we doubt if the superintendent can make any money at the $3 price, or hope to come out.anywhere | near even -on it. Looks like around a $10 job to us. Well, we've always wanted a history of the Petroleum Administration for War, 1941-1945—though not very much. r » » . » » WE JUST paid the last instaliment on our 1947 income’ tax the other day, and it did seem like a lot of money, but of course if the government hires these high-priced writers and editors and statisticians to make up books like this, and these expert printers and engravers and pressmen and bookbinders to produce them why we can readily see how it will need the money, and why the income taxes have to-stay away up where they are, as Mr. Truman says.
What we can't quite understand is why books like this
in itself, compared to the federal budget, hut the federal budget is made up of just a lot of little items. Like this.
gift. But next time, if. they don’t mind too much down there in Washington, we'd rather they'd just take $3 off pur tax bill. “And not send us the book. »
Straws in the Wind FOR those who are watching for the first paling edges of the boom, there are a few signs in the wind. The beauty parlor business fell off 6 per cent in De.cember, the holiday, party and look-pretty month. A district sales manager calling ‘on grocers in Indian- ~~ apolis and 20 surrounding counties reports that candy and ‘facial tissue ‘sales are off. Fein’ iin "Take these wisps of information for what they are
something big is about to happen to the country. the women have to cut their beauty budgets,
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Mail rates in Indiana, §5 a year; all other states, | And it's a dreary U. 8. possessions, Canadas snd Mexico, $1.10 a Just sit down and write a letter month, Telephone Ri ley 8651, | And explain you hadnt know: CREB NARRE Give 1AGht ana the People Will Find Thew (hom Woy. That YOu'Ye snuty _-g you a he Wai ya yuyd Hee cb : That you’ s lke Steps Out That you'd Like to sort 0’ stray— LO : ur? That you'd like to make amends Democrats are breathing a little easier. The Re- Aba 80 D JuliTe Wiig ‘em today; publicans have a fresh gleam of hupé in their eyes, | 1, esas though they stil have a ball of politcal taffy AAR oF pds Solon fingers. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the big “if” for both That they'll be glad and answer soon; major parties yesterday removed himself from the Re- Then YORE B00 SOT ee publican race for the presidential nomination. 7 And you've written in a letter IE — For ‘the past week persistent “rumors- of Gen. Eisen- 1. TINGS You Hause UES Jou'd never 2h yi Cs Decide you'd like to roam, :
than the other kind.
stay in your own.
wheels in the city,” So can we say again, “What's
wards and forwards.
it is long.
one—which appears to be only one of a seriesthat are com- | ing out—need tobe printed at all. Sure, it isn’t a big item,
We don’t want to seem ungrateful for this handsome |
worth, but when a boy runs out of. his nickel-candy money, |
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ne illness - You feel better thinking kind thoughts of people
* 4 9 For all children, one of the bést yard rules is
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Police Chief Edward D. Rouls says, “No roulette
* that the general would, in the final phases of well-meaning | in a name?" pressure, keep his hat from rolling into the Republican | : oo <TEAVNE C'MOUR arena. Others closer to the general had pointed out a rising | , 4, RE anged his will nine resentment against any military man cashing in on his war | times in § year, A fresh heir fend. he record by asking the people to elect lim to the presidency. 2° x : HE Our estimate is that 70 per cent of the men GT i ama ——— ..n a SE — 8 Rul . . abi 2 lia looking for arguments are single. a “felt they had a chance with President Truman against the | --—- ~JOMORROWS .. .. . .. |.
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yet I've heard, is the unknown. D appiness must lie,
~MARION N. WISE = eo o The optimist reads “no” from left to right, back-
® & ¢ A live wire is much better to be than fool with. ® o :
® ‘ .A LITTLE GIRL'S GRACE
thanks for all her pretty dresses. «BY LAURA THELMA COMSTOCK ® & Much of the talk you hear is not so broad as
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Love is still a blind Goddess, Who our, faults will ne'er admit Love, my dear, is an optimist Quite dead and blind and mute, And best 'tis so, for there is naught That may her lovely heart pollute.
—DR. H. LATELLE GREGORY
CEAR BOSS . . . By Daniel M. Kidney
it. here. > i Although this is Rep: Jénner's second time to
Senate—thaving been elected -to-a short-term in 1944) he still wants |
to go home and be governor of Indiana. He tells
they.are busy with the “Jenner draft.”
Both Rep. Harvey and Sen. Jenner are products of the Indiana 1 Each profited from his experience there and came to Washington with considerable legislative packground. But only Sen. |
Legislature.
Jenner wanis to go back wo the State House.
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the summer recess.
| between the National and State Legislatures,” the
| There's a Difference Down Here “A MEASURE calling for the expenditure of
take a single printed page. When we appropriate a million for any- | thing in Indiana there are many pages taken up with talking exactly
| how it is to be spent.
| “That information here is contained in the committee report accompanying the bill and in infinite detail in the printed committee
hearings. “In Indiana a committee meets somewhat
it and even after it is reported to the must give it a time and piace on the calendar. let it die in the Rules Committee.” .n “
' Willing to Go the Hard Way
BECAUSE he was chairman of the Indiana
some GOP colleagues sought top-ranking committee assignments for
Rep. Harvey when he came here. They would go
Charles A. Halleck, the Hoosier power-house here, and seek his aid. Finally the guileless Rep. Harvey went to Rep. Halleck himself and
said . . “Now Charley, I'm not back of any of these been made to you. For I think it doesn’t matter start here in the House, youll wind up about
| to be”
| on Executive Expenditures. which is checking up | . | has jurisdiction over the greatest library in the | of Congress.
| Rep. Harvey, like his fellow Hoosier Republicans except Mr, | Halleck and Rep, Bdward A. Mitchell of Evansville, voted against
| stop-gap aid to Europe at the special session. | against the Marshall Plan and only for measures which his party's leadership approves. Por he is a regular, Midwest isolationist in Washington nevertheless. tid
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| “Contrary to what you might expect from a farmer like me” | Rep. Harvey says with a disarming smile, “I like it here.” i He was elected last November to-fill the Anexpired Raymond 8. Springer of the 10th District, who died suddenly during “Of course,’ Rep. Harvey explains ‘in stressing the difference
here are so much vaster in scope that they can scarcely be compared.
seldom takes more than a few hours to accept or reject a bill. Here there are exhaustive hearings and the matter pends for weeks, After a bill 1s approved by a subcommittee, the whole committee acts on House the Rules Committee Sometimes they just
Rep. Harvey didn’t do so badly though. He is on the Committee
spending. He also is on the House Administration Committee which
“against inflation of
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OUR TOWN . .
Jap Miller, proprietor and general manager of
. “The Cross Roads Store—Everything Under the Sun,”
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lived long enough to have it happen twice. In 1880, James Whitcomb Riley made him the subject of an unforgettable poem. In 1902, Jap turned the trick again—this time by way of the stage. In this instance, he was generally believed to have been the man who inspired Herbert ‘Winslow to create the character of “Joe Miller,” the sourpuss played by Ezra Kendall in the. - sensational comedy known as “The Vinegar Buyer.” Jap Miller was good literary material for the reason that he was the Brooklyn (Indiana) genius who spent his spare time thinking ‘up nifties such as “A good man grows; a small man dwindles” . . . “An honest man in jail is better off -than a dishonest one out” . . . “Man is not a - descendant of the monkey; if he were, he would behave better” . . . “All this talk about Morgan County being 75 years behind the times is a lie; we Se only 40 years behind.” f
Vinegar Buyer” embarrassed both Mr. Riley
1-and-Mr—Miller. Scared -by--the-turn..of events, the.
poet went on record that in no way had he collaborated with either Herbert Winslow or Ezra Kendall as was generally suspected at the time. As for Jap himself, he wrote an emotional letter designed to portray the hell-of-a-fix he was in.
Who Was the Scoundrel THE LETTER, a classic in its way, was addressed to Charles E. Wilson (private secretary to Governor Winfield Dubrin), who apparently had written Jap scoundrel
to learn the identity of the ! responsible for libeling Morgan County. “My dear friend,” began Mr. Miller. “Your letter
of inquiry just received. Let me thank you for same. Most of my former friends will not listen to an explanation. You want to know if I am guilty of this Vinegar Buyer business. No! I have always
lived a pure upright life and now this comes upon-
me in my old age. Job had his bolis, but T am hav-
. By Anton Scherrer _
Jap Miller=Twice-immorta
“FEW MEN Hve to see ihemséives immortalized. Ing my cArburicles anid you know I have: been-espe- i:
cially particular who I associated with. “You want to know if Ezra Kendall has been here. He has not. I don't know him; never heard of him until I saw the article in the papers. I. doubt whether a man could be found possessing the nerve and audacity to introduce him to me. You know I belong to a different class or set. I understand he is the same man that wrote ‘Good Gravy, My, isn't that just awful?
Riley Wrote Poem About Miller
“THIRTEEN YEARS AGO Mr. Riley wrate poem ‘Jap Miller down at Martinsville’s the rest feller yit!’ I did not protest then for I was young and I know his intentions were good. we could only have looked into the future to now, I assume that poem never would have appeared print. Just this one summer I have received four poems by “would-be poets about Jap Miller. They have weakened my health and now my good friend, Dr. Vanstant, tells me I must go away. | was stout and this calamity comes upon me in my weakened condition,
“I have done what I thought was right and best
~—employed two good attorneys. I will ask for (and
will defend to the death your right to say it"
another rung on the ladder of science. Man is | with the is going to keep right on’ climbing that ladder. Japanese and, We might as well learn to- like it and we might movies, spent 8 as well learn not to be afraid. Either we are time with beaut going to have & small glimpse of paradise in the Only other thin coming atomic age, or we are goihg to destroy about the OSS ourselves. Personally, T prefer to beliéve that we operatives looke will make the grade. Ny Tyrone Powel. The problem of Russia is the one big dark cloud. 08S headquar Russia must be converted into becoming a decent time was 50° Sec! member in the family of nations. Molotov's state... ganct. And ‘nok ment on New Year's Day was dangerous: “We are the President a | the masters of our destiny.” That statement is «ever did see the | both dangerous and out of date. That sort of ‘yerious, the ins Ithing used to be the fashion among nations. But face. to face. fashions among nations also change. from. time # to time=as man raises hithself from the dust-and. § $0 YOU-can | sweat in his struggle for supremacy over the cap I had a sea elements. : . when the Seliate Nowadays we need a world government and a Committee world police force. Many. clubs are being formed to see what he about the-country to study. this problem of nations. Marshall Plan. .....In._the meantime, millions are prawng be. tntense disappoir cause they believe that, too, will help. Their priel case, bay number is ‘growing each day. If you have not had much luck with prayer, “Hist,” 1 aske 1 suggest you try your hand with the Mother of who probably w God. ' The Household of God 18 & good deal like *What happened the household of man. Many & child has found My undercove: favor with its tather through the intercession of thumb in the dir its mother i Wn one. “That's C We can do the things we have to do. There- “Av fore, we can master the science and the art of ger in New York living in the atomic age. ; Not since I le *.D : Claus, have I su A Word for the Landlords BS By A. E. Wrentmore, President American Home Jess like Tyrone Owners’ Union, Ine, 227 S. Ritter Ave, : He talked in t shout the Marsh thought was a f cludes some secr sians. They've pow, he said, wi apolis district, is granted, it is must just war against us. propriate that we have some letters from landlords : . as to the hardships which they are already en- § “HIS EYEBRC during through the continuance of rent control, . wriggled like @ * and their need of immediate relief from such con- above his blue e
ditions.
It would certainly be unfair for the expeditor
as taken from your income 1941, as influenced by frozen costs. The évidence submitted by this means will used by our representatives in Washington to sup- . port the recommendation of the Rent Advisory
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eve me, but I doubt under the circumstances if they: could get pallbearers. My good sister, Mrs. Dalton, feels the disgrace keenly, but says she will continue to live with me. If they would only let me alone here I could make a good living. I beg of you to let me say I remain your friend, “ =“JAP MILLER."
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| Side Glances—By Galbraith Harvey Wants to Stay; | Jenner Not So Sure ~~
Congressman Ralph ‘Harvey of Newcastle differs with ‘Freshman Republican Sen, Willtam E. Jenner of ‘Bedford-—Rep.- Harvey likes
corm 1948 BY NEA SERVICE, WNC. 7. M. REO. U. §. PAT, OFF.
jin. heaven,
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S Budget Committee, |
to Majority Leader | education unless the years he
requests that have | so much where you
where you deserve | Cter:
| tion of running 1 ~
. . " ofi the President's I DEALT in
world--the Library Pauley, defending his : ua
He likely will vote Arends (R,) of Illinois. 3 ”
or:
Y. | eriticling the misuse of |
"The new look is ail right, but take a tip. from grandpa—what “the boys like is that same cfd smile!” fe
IN A DEMOCRACY no youth ought to have a spends in college will teach him to work| . | harder and to greater social purpose than if he were to spend the amount of time in an appren 1 | —Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president George .
MM I HAVE never taken myself seriously as a political glamour charEven with both ears to the ground I couldn't hear the rumble | acquire joint military bases overseas, with the U. | of distant drums.—Secretary of Defense Forrestal, denying his inten- | for vice president. : : Teh
everything I felt my business judgment would grain market o
”. ”. “i : WE MUST NOT conjure up imaginary, ghosts
Republican, who likes it spectres are at large in the world today Secretary of State
For use now,
ticeship in some other occupation.| Washington University.
Plan countries
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; . eae | action will beat back the clawing: fears of inflation. at home. when so many real| magically lift the fear of another war from the world's shoulders y, It it will do that, OK. But if Dr. Baruch's diagnosis is GOTT"
IN WASHINGTON . . By Peter Edson ~~ |Mr. Baruch Fashions An Economic Harness -
. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24-Eider Statesman Bernard M.. Baruch, in his last two appearances before congressional committees, has made statements that have scared the nightshirts off all the angles of peace.
_.In spite of his avowal that “Ido not. believe that we are going guns or that we are going to War,” everything he says ad r-up te preparedness - for - another war. : : supled with some of the other things that have been going on | around here—like the recommendations from President Truman's | commissions on bufiding up air power and establishing universal mili I;tary training—the outlook is positively frightening. But if that's-the way things aré going, it's just as well to ‘know about them and prepare for them. f Last October, i War Investigating Committee on mobilization plans. He presented {a 1T-point program for economic, military and spiritual * It provided for work-or-fight compulsory service, an M-day tndustrial mobilization plan, taking unfair profits out of war, stockplling, intensified scientific research and intelligence work, decentralization of cities, and the building of underground war plants,
‘Use It Until UN Works’ Sa MR. BARUCH properly qualified these ideas by saying, “If these things are done . . | hopes for {he United Nations as the instrument through might be attained, ultimately. |" Nations becomes effective, the U. 8. should not drift along without 8 | plan for total, immediate defense, Mr. Baruch made no estimate of what all this would cost. Obvi® | ously, it would be many billions. - In his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committe, where he indorsed thie objectives of the Marshall spelled out an 11-point, two-year programy of his own country on what, to many ears, may sound like a 100 per cent mented economy, Not for use in time of war, like his first 17 points
Price cutbacks and freezes. Wage stabflization.. A longer work | ‘week. Continued rent controls. No tax cuts, save through a retur® to wartime amortization. This would be offset, however, by: restoring ‘at least 50 per cent of the excess profits tax.
right to» college. Man on Horseback and Dictator ge . “Recovery TO TOP THIS OFF, Mr. Baruch proposed setting up a sanie Administrator” to run both foreign and domestic economy, to control by the President and Secretary of State. | administrator would appear to be pretty much of a | & potential man on horseback and dictator. As if this weren't enough, Mr. Baruch even proposed
| war in case of aggression by another power. * sini Many European countries may be expected to want make, latter. They will consjder it a measure to drag them |'a profit on in what I considered the good American way.—Edwin W. War between the U. 8S. and Soviet Russia. , operations. But wait until Henry Wallace and the Moscow radio get } : They won’, have to strain very hard to make out that these BE THE AMERICAN people know that if OPA comes back, the people plans—all 28 points of them-are vicious will get black markets, old bull meat and short shirt tails.—Rep. L. C.' All the qualifications of Mr. Baruch’s statements . , Sa Re . will be overlooked. Mr. Ba
and they don't who live here and pay, it does
stores 90 cents a carton. I can't understand.
Mr. Baruch testified before Sen. Owen Brewster's
ess.
. they will help prevent war.” He expressed high which peace But+he said that, until the United
Plan, Mr. Baruch for putting the regi
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that 8S. and. making mutual defense pacts—guaranteeing
hold