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Stassen POLITICAL wiseacres laughed, a couple of years ago, | when Harold Stassen started out to make a full-time | job of seeking the 1948 Republican nomination for President, » Mr. Stassen, they said, was too young—he'd still be only 41 by inauguration day, 1940. He was too brashly £1 ambitious, He was starting too soon; he couldn't keep 4 folks interested im his campaign. He wasn't well enough h known to the country. The thing for Mr. Stassen to do was to get elected to the Senate from Minnesota, if he ¢ould, and pit in & couple of terms gaining rience and a national reputation. But the wiseacres aren't laughing at Mr. Stassen any more; Poe Their miles turned sickly when he swamped Gen. MacArthur and blanked Gov. Dewey in the Wisconsin primary. And now the last faint grin has been erased by the returns from Nebraska. There Mr. Stassen ran away from the whole Republican field—Dewey, Taft, Vanden- | berg, MacArthur, Warren, Martin. oy couple of spectacular primary victories, to be sure, :¥ 5 don’t add up to a nomination. It remains to be seen how ? 4 well Mr. Stassen can do in Oregon, on Sen. Taft's home & grofinds in Ohio, and in other pre-convention tests. His record, however brilliant, may not prove much of ‘an asset to him at Philadelphia in June. It may only make the old-line candidates determined to combine - forces and stop this outsider by backing some dark horse. * Especially, if the Republican master minds persist in what . we believe is the delusion that this, at last, is the year when they could elect that Chinaman. : But, as of today, Mr. Stassen is a political phenome: & non. And many theories are being advanced to explain his success. : : : * ®» ® = = : OUR THEORY is that he proved himself smart, when § : a lot of politicians thought he was dumb. He set forth to 14 travel constantly about the country, meeting the people, i | studying their problems, answering their questions with : candor and courage, seeking every opportunity to submit /* his views to the test of public debate, and making a na- © tional reputation for himself, not in the marble halls. of Washington but at the grass roots of America. Youth is no impossible handicap to a man who became governor of his state at 31, won two re-elections, and conducted an outstandingly fine administration. And as for brashness, we suspect that one of Mr. Stassen’s strongest appeals to voters is his ambition—his frank desire to be President and his diligent efforts to prove that he is . qualified to be a good President. :

When Words Fail D° you switch back and forth between the woodshed : technique and the science of psychiatry in rearing your children? A lot of parents do. Some are confused. Adults past 40, perhaps 30, never heard the word psychiatry when'they were children. When they violated the family rules they were spanked, or put to bed, or made to do the dishes, or were taken out to the woodshed for a 4 thumping session with a barrel stave. But today there is a growing suspicion that most of this technique was wrong: \ : Psychiatrists are beginning to tell us things about our ) children we never suspected. They are beginning to pull back the veil of deep underlying causes. They tell us when we reach the causes of misbehavior there should be very few woodshed sessions. Getting this “information to the public is the task. It is being done exceptionally well in Indianapolis by a psychiatric seminar sponsored by the Indianapolis Council of Parent-Teacher Associations. Leading psychiatrists

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| WHERE THE soul Is HEAVEN.IS Conceptions, that move In panoramic parade Before the mental eye, Rise, like tracer bullets From the mind And reach throughout space-time In parabolic curves To some distant star— ' Then back again On the rim Of the horizon, Forever and ever— And thus a Soul is; Ané those in tune Ride these ever-expanding waves, As a witch rides a broom, To some outiying post, s Where the intellect Made the throw— And there Heaven is: . =OEORGE, 8. BILLMAN.

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fever days. They don't scratch the desk so easily. > & ¢ A SMILE

I want a shining smile To wear upon my face, Then I shall never need Rich satin and fine lace, For friendliness will give Any woman grace —FLORENCE, MARIE TAYLOR. ® A pound of phesphorus will tip a million matches—just enough for a nickel sigan. Te @

CHILDREN

There is so much wealth to be had That circumstance forbids

If it wasn't for our kids, -F., P. M. * © A Kansas man made a flying machine out of an old auto. This frequently happens on rough. roads, ¢ & ¢

SIGN OF THE TIMES

The elephant has his trumpet out, he’s heading for recall, The donkey laughs at nim for thinking he'd get back at ali, The elephant has a better plan for getting back in trim, The donkey thinks we'd be worse off if we “* depend on him.’

The elephant fears the worst for us and Democrats deride The Sonkey brays, “It isn't so; the elephant has lied.” The elephant says, “We'll reduce the taxes, we're for the common man.” The donkey says, “Like heck you are, you're a Capitalist fan. »

So, We the People listen and sigh and worider which platform is right, Which one is best for our country's sake to take us out of this plight. And so it goes, the battle old, between two aged factions When in reality—the men not the should have the greatest attracton. MARY ESTHER WILLIAMSON. ‘ ¢ ‘We just hope that spring isn’t just around the same cormer yg lower prices.

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To live For an infinitesimal fleeting second in time; Yet to live eternally In the hearts of those ‘Who glimpsed its ethereal fragileness. —VIRGINIA FORTNEY. eo @ A Michigan thief disguised as a girl was caught by poliss-—iustony of by pneumonia. * @

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“Tokyo = MacArthur Bans Campaign Slogans on Money.”) In the former home of shoguns, Japs with sense of humor bland, Have been writing campaign slogans, On the money of the land.

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS

ASHINGTON, Apr. 16—From here on out” the race for the Republican presidential nomination Is bound to grow more personal and more bitter. The target for attack from within the GOP will be Harold Stassen, who has proved in Nebraska, as he did in Wisconsin, that he is becoming the party's foremost vote-getter. Up to this point the race has been a cozy af-

‘fair, with the candidates running against Presi.

dent Truman. That, incidentally, ‘is one of the

. reasons for the toboggan slide in Mr, Truman's . prestige and popularity. With the returns from

the Nebraska primary, any resemblance to a friendly family contest is out of the window. * Mr, Stassen is the winner. And nothing succeeds like success.

Yet at the same time a personal equation must be taken into account, since it has a direct bearing on whether or not Mr. Stassen will eventually get the nomination. He is heartily disliked and resented by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and Sen. Robert A.

. Taft, who were respectively No. 2 and No. 3 at’

the Nebraska finish line, Both men feel that Mr, Stassen has gone out of his way to affront them. Sen, Taft was angered when Mr. Stassen announced he would enter the Ohio presidential primary, May 4. This was a violation of the professional code, which says that a candidate is not to be challenged in his own home state. The feeling was increased when Mr. Stassen let it be known that Sen. Taft has personally challenged his right to cone into Ohio. The account of how Sen, Taft angrily chided his rival at a private meeting in Washington did not add to the Taft sense of dignity.

Ohio Would Make Him Stronger

MOREOVER, it seems likely that Mr. Stassen will win some delegates in Ohio. He has carefully chosen the districts in which he is contesting, with an eye to labor and liberal support from those who would like to Sen. Taft humiliated on his own doorstep. If Mr. Stassen should.get 5 er 6 Ohio delegates, he would look even stronger than he looks today. And Sen. Taft would have even more cause to be resentful. Gov. Dewey's close friends say that he can never forgive Mr. Stassen for what he regards as gratuitous attacks. Several times in recent months

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IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson

and child study authorities contribute their knowledge and their time.

Hl i a little hard for some of us to understand. Most parents } take the psychiatric route as far as they can go but still keep the paddle in the woodshed. It works when words fail.

Where Our Money Goes

O you run a little short of cash before payday? Do you talk in terms of take-home pay instead of the full amount of your check (before taxes)? Do you wonder where your money goes? Here's the answer in plain, but amazing, figures. In the first three months of this year the federal government extracted $349,713,243.34 from the citizens of Indiana. It was a record for peace-time years, up $38,402, 766.78 over last year. Most of it was income and withholding taxes. Next on the list was the distilled spirits taxes which poured $60 million-plus into the federal treasury. Third was employment taxes—Social Security. Wage earners and employers were tapped for $10 million-plus. We're paying for the war, that's true. paying for a token rearmament to hold Joe Stalin at bay.

eral government every year when we should get along on $25 billion. When the federal government tightens the spigot on its spending we probably won't be running out of cash before payday. And we'll have something more inspiring to live for than paying, and paying, and paying, federal taxes.

Have a Heart E fair to your dog. Buy a City license. Many dog owners believe when they pay their State dog tax through the County, that's all they have to do. If their dog strays away from his kennel or out of the house, he is picked up by the City and is taken to the dog pound. If the dog is not claimed at the pound after a few days, he is destroyed. And while the figures are kept pretty quiet, | it is safe to say that hundreds of tax-neglected dogs have been pe out of the way in the last two months. ‘canine pal who barks and wags his ‘up the walk at night, give him a Buy him s City license. Youll probably save

Problem of Franco

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WASHINGTON, Apr. 16—What to do about Dictator Fran-

Mr. Stassen has belittled the New York Governor

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These LA "might be writlen' ‘off as! trivial by-products of an election year if it were not for the fact that they have a direct bearing on the Republican choice at Philadelphia. No mat< . ter what happens in the primaries, Both Gov. Dewey and Sen. Taft will come to Philadelphia with a pocketful of delegates. Short of ‘a first or second-ballot stampede to Mr. Stassen, it is highly unlikely they will release those delegates to the Minnesota giant-killer, While ar Taft-Dewey deal to make either one

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their weight behind ‘a third man who would not be Mr. Stassen. It is just’ here that the: pereontt | equation comes in. -

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CONCEIVABLY the third man might be Sen. Arthur H, Vandenberg. His strong. fourth-place showing in Nebraska. is impressive in view of the fact that he has repeatedly said he does not want to be a candidate and did nothing to advance hime self in the Nebraska contest. By the same token, Sen. Taft's poor showing is all the more striking since he had the backing of Sen. Hugh Butler and Sen. Butler's organization in Nebraska... . From here on out, Mr. Stassen will have to : combat the professionals—the National committeemen and committeewomen, many of whom distrust him. He is not one of their kind. He is far too independent. They have ticked off ‘against him such examples of independence as that he was willing to serve on a committee to help the families of strikers in the prolonged United Auto Workers strike

against General Motors. For many of these old- |

timers, who have footed the bills and kept the

party alive in the lean years, Mr, Stassen is far

too much of an internationalist. . But they cannot ignore the fact that he is a vote-getter. Nor can they ignore the fact that he is almost the only candidate to offer the American people something positive and constructive.” The Tafts and the Martins talk about what they're against. Mr. Stassen talks about a strong, free America that can remain strong and free and thereby avoid the calamity of war. The American people like that.

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to/go to the polls would go for the benefit of some candidate indorsed by Henry Wallace— not one of the incumbents. is : ®. ®

‘Peace Farther Away By Nellie Macy, Charlottesville, Ind. In 1917 our young men and boys were sent across the sea to fight a war to end all wars Fierce battles were fought and in fields w wild flower formed by thé Alm ew to be gathered by happy ell were destroyed and’ the ground was with blood with dead ad Cob Pe The 3 yi men and boys found rest from battle in : other land. But nature far above the evil passions of men soon recovered her serenity and smiled upon the guilty battle grounds as she has dons:

before. Birds flitted to and fro. In some places

crops were sown and gathered in; men whistled

: at the plow; and sheep and oxen pastured.

' But, there were deep green patches in fhe growing ‘corn. Year after year they reappeared

“and it became known that underneath those

fertile spots, some of our boys lay buried, ins discriminately enriching the ground. .. But that war did not bring a lasting peace, “ into the world. It was fought in vain. World War II was fought and still we do not have “peace. It is foolish to think that fighting. 3

, war will bring peace. af Are we going to se d 0 yo! men to Weld, ou Young sien to

fight-a "third ‘World “will” take our girls and BE re Det ‘can’t’ we seé that we cannot bring peace into’ the world by sending human lives and material * ‘things to other countries?” We have tried it for years and peace ge, farther away. Ble Enough for Me By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, i ‘When Mr. Jenner tiade the remark that he ;would do anything ‘his party led him to do even if it were scrubbing the Monument steps, that was enough to cancel him off my list as a public servant. To me, when a man in public life makes a remark like that he is a. politician and not a statesman, Mr. Jenner, there are three political parties, remember? Are you going to sérve the people or a political party? So let the politicians

talk, and talk themselves in and right ou | .again. I am talking in the interest of all J

‘the people. I feel, if a citizen wants to serve only his party, he will not serve the people but only those who help elect him. This is party politics and not good government. This politics in gove ernment is something to be feared.

.|FOREIGN AFFAIRS ... . By Parker La Moore

\U. S. Has Failed to Tell Freedom Story in Italy

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cisco Franco in Spain is one of the toughest nuts the U. 8. has to crack. By dint of some fast work in the U. S. Senate, Wisconsin Republican Congressman Alvin E, O'Konski's embarrassing amendment to include Spain in the Marshall Plan was stricken out of the new Foreign Assistance Act, after it had passed the House, 149 to 52. The O'Konski amendment was in the bill only a week. But that was long enough for Communist propagandists to get in some awfully good licks against U, 8. intentions. They solid eastern Europe on the idea that America was just another Fascist country, willing to support Fascist Dictator Francisco Franco. Some of this propaganda has taken exceedingly weird forms, A short time ago Maj. Gen. August W. Kissner of U, 8. Air Force stopped off in Madrid after an inspection of the Mediterranean. Kissner is a long-time friend of U, 8. Charge d'Affaires Paul T. Culbertson at the American embassy in Madrid. It was a purely social visit and it caused no concern in Madrid. When the Moscow radio got hold of this event, however, it reported that U: 8. Gen. Lucius Clay was in Madrid to make a deal with Franco, Clay had never left Berlin.

How Gibraltar ‘Deal’ Started

A SHORT TIME LATER U. 8. Adm. Forrest W. Sherman came to Magirid to visit his daughter, who is the wife of the U. S. naval attache in the Spanish capital. The Commies reported this event as a deal by which the U. 8. was to turn over British Gibraltar to Franco. Then when Myron W. Taylor, President Truman's personal representative at the Vatican, stopped off in Madrid on his way to Rome, the Communists really got worked up. Taylor made courtesy calls on the Papal Nuncio and the Cardinal. He also saw Franco, alone. Communist propaganda reported Taylor had come to assure Franco that Spain would not be excluded from the Marshall Plan. Official assurances are given in Washington that no possible change of U, S. policy toward Spain was discussed. Incidentally, Soviet Russia has no diplomatic representative in Madrid. All this inside information it gets is dreamed up in Moscow. That Generalissimo .Franco is a dictator of the worst sort is no longer open to doubt. The U. 8. and other allied pations did business with him during the war to keep him from openly joining up with Hitler and Mussolini, who were algo doing business with him. :

And No One Knows Yet

ALL THIS TIME most American officials were saying privately that Franco would have to go when the war was over. The big quéstion was how to get rid of him. Nobody knows the answer vet. In the meantime, Franco has dug himself in more solidly than at any time since he began his revolution in 1936. Last July Franco put over a plebiscite authorizing him to name his own successor. Out of 17 million eligible voters, 15 million voted and 14 million voted “Franco, Yes, Communism, No.” The Russian formula for getting rid of Franco is to break off all diplomatic relations, apply economic sanctions, blockade and boycott the country. Soviet delegates proposed this course

“I'll be there in exactly one hour, Mrs. Jones—and please don't wait till | ring the bell before you start straightening up the house!"

to the UN in 1946. Other countries couldn't see it. They feared this policy would merely produce chaos which would enable the Communists to seize power. So a watered-down resolution was passed for all UN members to withdraw their ambassadors from Madrid. This is a mild kind of snob insult which really doesn’t mean much. Nevertheless, the U. 8. hasn't had an ambassador in Madrid since Norman Armour, now assistant Secretary of State, resigned in December, 1945. Other countries withdrew their ambassadors a year later, except for Argentina. Peron got real friendly with Franco just as everybody else was giving him the tilted nose. . This SpanishArgentine love match is still going on to such a. degree that Madrid radio now reports the two nations might make a pact to stay neutral in any conflict which might break out between Russia and the west.

There is apparently no sentiment in Washington for a change of policy that would accept Franco as a partner. -

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~~ ROME, Apr. 16—We are still neglecting to tell our side of - the story. to Italy. Unless American objectives are made more. understandable to the average man, the: Communists will: remain in position to sabotage our recovery program here, : That's true, even if they lose the Apr, 18 election—in the opinion of many observers here. 1 The Communists have told the workers over and over again. that we are spending so much money in Italy because we expect -to. make the country a vassal state of American capitalism. Because we haven't refuted that in detaf), the Reds’ contention has won wide acceptance, : Moreover, the Communists have been successful in selling the idea that American aid is in fact a double-edged sword. This has been done by making a sharp distinction between aid which means food for the working classes and the money we have advanced for rehabilitation of Italian industry.

Worker Can See No Gain

SUCH MONEY, the Communists contend, simply goes into the pockets of the privileged classes and is of no benefit to the working man. The average worker is prepared to believe this because he can see no appreciable improvement :in his situation in spite of our well-publicized expenditures. Thus the Communists have worked themselves inte a spot where they can indorse American aid for the common man while continuing to dengunce the Marshall Plan as a vicious Wall Street scheme to enslave western Europe. : A small shop-keeper when asked why he thought the U. 8 was spending so much money in Italy quickly replied: “Why: you want to use this country in the next war.” ’ _ That is another popular version of our post-war interest

here. Hence, one of the Communist slogans that a vote for the people's front is a vote for peace,

We Missed on Propaganda

“AMERICA” a well-informed Italian remarked, “has sent enormous aid to this country but no propaganda. Europeans through nazism, fascism and communism have been subjected to an intense and penetrating type of propaganda. Like the morphine habit, it is difficult to shed. The Communists know this, but you Americans apparently do not.” Several Italians who have expressed similar views asked if they had heard the Voicé of America. Not one of’ had. It was pointed out that few Italians of the working cl had radios.

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