Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1948 — Page 10

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The Republican Convention

Ww E have long advocated, and still prefer, direct primaries to nominate candidates for state office. . But the reformed convention system, as demonstrated yesterday, is certainly a long stride in fhe right direction, and probably will turn out to be at least the next best method. In its first test the new system sharply reduced boss + control, took a lot of steam out of familiar steam rollers, and came reasonably close, we believe, to doing what the 4 party's rank and file voters would have done if they'd been I given the chance. Tol In nominating Hobart Creighton for governor the confo vention beyond doubt chose the strongest candidate it had bo available to head its ticket next fall. His record and his abilities are well known in Indiana. He is a man for whom the party will need to offer no apologies. And there is every. reason to believe that he would have been nominated by a direct primary if there had been one. 1 3 “ . » ’ "RA . 1 «i A SIGNIFICANT result of the convention is the rise of Rep. Charles Halleck to a place of dominant power in Indiana Republican leadérship. Sen. William E. Jenner, with

1s .seryed, has had, in effect, a vote of “no confidence” from his ~4fa 43 own party in his own state. So, to a lesser degree, has Sen.

i : fumble such as our astute senior Senator seldom makes. - : + Both, it seems to us, took a wholly needless gamble, lost, and are consequently left in a weakened position on : the national scene as well as in Indiaha. Already the halfi joking remarks about “Indiana's lame duck Senators” are going around . .. but they're only half in jest. Both have ~ _ alot of fences to build . . . Mr. Capehart with less time left = fop- fence building. Meanwhile, quite clearly, the spokes0d man for the Republican Party of Indians is going to be Mr. Halleck.

Is Thrift Always Smart? be AR be it from us to condemn economy in government. : «But when you can risk $18 billion on peace to head off anpther $400 billion war, that is economy. And that's what the over-all European Recovery Program hopes to accomplish. ! Our own nation's history reveals plenty of Tabers who misgussted. the immensity of What, Was going gn ‘hefore

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quently ‘described at the time, 1867, as “Seward’s folly":

“Seven million dollars in gold! How many “hearts would this lift from the verge of despondency? How many. orphans’ tears would it wipe away? How many widows’ hearts would it make sing for joy? “If this insane act should be consummated; if this $7 million of treasure should be filched from the suffering and a : the sorrowing of our land, to whom it is justly due, and 1: squandered in this worse than useless purchase, we shall oF i have cause to exclaim, “Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in i the streets of Askelon, lest our financiers be treated with contempt and our legislators laughed to scorn.” Much more purple language was spilled by press and publie speech about that $7 million outlay. And—the Louisiana Purchase. How the federalists railed against Jefferson for paying such an enormous price ($15 million) for what was then pictured by Jefferson's opAF ponents as “a worthless desert.too vast to be governed..." dosh such: a sum which, if piled in silver dollars, would make a 9 ‘stack three miles high or fill 866 wagons.” Referring, as it a turned. out, to the greatest real estate bargain of all time—

approximately 3 cents an acre. Yes—there is such a thing as false economy. And in

avery: gsharation.thers.ate Tabers. who.cas.be- wrong...

Millions More in Wages

HE. Allison plaat.in indianapolis. will get. a. big. slice. of the $1,345,165,000 voted by Congress to strengthen the

“Afr Force in this day of jet-engined supersonic speeds is certain to bring work and wages to the Hoosier home of jet air power. The Allison plant will build about 2500 engines, and possibly more, before the fighter plane contracts are coms pleted late in 1951.

skilled workers at the Allison plant, reveals that the contracts will distribute somewhere between $7_ million and $10 million here in the next two-and-a-half years. And this is capable of generating more than $100 million in new business for the town as the money passes from hand to hand as a trading medium. This is sure to give the city a boost in business which may overlap .the opening of the Western Electric plant, bringing additional millions in wages and more than 5000 jobs. ‘Indeed, our business crystal ball has a rosy hue when we examine the future of Indianapolis in its money-mirrorgd hk, surface. .

Secretary Schwellenbach

ALTHOUGH he was only 53 years old when he died this week in Washington, D. C, Lewis B. Schwellenbach wis a veteran of public life who had played varied and important roles on the national scene. He was a soldier in World War I; he represented Washington state in the U. S. Senate through six hectic New Deal years; he served ably as a federal judge; and he left the congenial lifetime security of the bench to assume a bit Lr many respects, thankless task as Secretary in President Truman's Cabinet. ° His untimely death is a sad ‘feminder that service to in these trying times can become an unbearable ,

Price in Marion County, § oents & copy; de-

“4 mare than four years of his U.S. Senate term still to be |.

"Homer Capehart who supported Mr. Jenner ina Political :

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828,000 square miles of our rich and strategic domain at |

air arm of the country's defense. Any expansion of the

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In Tune With the Times

80 I look half-shot! I ain't t quit, I'm restin’.

If you read upon my tombstone That I died an’ when, Don’t believe it, It was put there

1 ain't quit, I'm restin’, ~M. DUNHAM. ¢ © 9 skirts, maybe the gals will poets out of men instead * oo :

MY PRISONER Sth Ee

. nt cannot have its way, * Though it be thine.

With the go back to of rubbernecks.

y Maybe some day you'll come

And take the key? Stealing my prisoner Away from me. A.M. 8, * & 9»

A magazine article tells what to do with

worn-out shoes. Haying seen prices, we know

already, Wear them! * ¢ &

IN THE GARDEN OF NYT HEART |

It's spring in the garden of my heart, And tiny seeds of hope swell and start To grow, in the sunshine of a friendly sme.

Its summer in the garden of my heart,

10. Viossomtis ot SAN their fragrance impart a golden vial.

It's autumn In the garden of my heart, And faith is plerced by the quickened dart The bloom, the fragrance of faith, and hope depart And leave winter, in the garden of my heart. ® & With ‘bus "snd strestésr fares ralsed In cities, folks hop aboard and are really for a ride. ~ ® ¢ 9»

ADAM'S RIB

a rib from Adam, without leave, fashioned from it little Eve,

"Heaven must be a» place where you can wear & sult of alothes as long a8 the vest lasts.

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VACATION

Vacation time is here, © It came go very slow, ~And-now-that itis near Where shall we go?

Daddy longs for Mexico, Mother craves the beach; I'd like to take an airplane trip.. We might ‘have one of ‘each!

We find it quite 'ufiBlossible “To choose a place to roam, 86 we've agreed to compromise And stay right here at home! ~RUTH DENNING. . * & ¢ We'll soon be hearing from the straw vote ox] between elections. ; ah ® ®

OBEISANCE

My spring les In your éyes, My every hope, within your: heart. As you smile, so my soul takes Wings and ‘reaches undiscovered heights of ecstasy. As your countenance is pad, so my heart weeps bitter tears, You are my every thought, My every noble deed. Life to me is you; And Eternity will be Paradise Only If you are at my side. -PETE J. CARR. od

A Philadelphia woman willed $75,000 to her nine cats, specifying they be fed beef, stewing lamb and canned salmon. Will they

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MY. GARDEN! .

I had -a little garden, The cutest little thing.

2 hoped and prayed, as folks will do, the help that rain can bring.

I had some beans, some peas and beets, A row of carrots . , . grand. I looked and looked each brazen day For the rain to patter... and

I got the rain I wished for, ! I did not wish in vain, For days and days. . and nights on end I heard it rain, and rai

Then I hurried to my garden : y heart . . . how it did THUD! 1 have no lle garden. ALT have, , ls MUD! -" : Na *"ZANNE &. YOUNG.

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AN EDITORIAL—

"THE spectacle of ‘the President and

Congress bombarding each other with stale eggs and dead cats across the con-

|" tinent’s breadth is disgusting the Ameri-

can people and shocking the world. It ought to be stoped. -Even the arguments about who started it should be adjourned to a date when they will do less damage. : :

" Mr. Truman picked a poor time for that “non-political” trip which has turned out nth-degree political. His proper place, during the closing wseks of the congressional session, is in Washington, D.C. His -ill-chosen remarks in the West

‘Congress. They arouse only a partisan fury ‘which endangers’ bipartisan‘ support for the administration's foreign policies. eee ;

AND the Republican Congress has no excuse for retaliating in kind. Its record is, indeed, a bad one in many respects. It ought to be using every available minute to improve that record, instead of wasting precious time by exchanging epithets

with the President.

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itself to a campaign season of kicking, gouging, clawing and biting. In the na-

ture of things, that ‘appears inevitable. |

But it doesn’t need to start yet. It can be postponed. It should be until Congress has finished its job and closes its record. Let's have a truce to this premature political in-fighting. It is helping neither party. It is destroying public respect for

"both parties, hurting the country and

making democracy look silly. * ¢ 0 LET'S have Congress return, after one or both the national conventions, to complete the essential chores it cannot pos-

_sibly get done by the end of next week.

Let's have the President and Congress trying to work together with a sober sense of their grave and mutual responsi-

~ bilities—until some of the urgent legislative tasks are out of the way.

Let's shut up some big mbuths and shut down the political Donnybrook Fair for a few more weeks.

There'll be time enough later for all

the name-calling and head-busting the American people can stand, and all the country can afford. ‘

DEAR BOSS .

DEAR BOSS: Should the lightning strike Indiana's “favorite son” candidate, Majority Leader Charles A. Halleck, at the Republican national convention, it will Bnd him well ; Squipped wih everything—including a light-

fe the. Iate Wendell L. Willkie, who won tthe GOP presidential nomination in 1940; and former Gov. Paul V. McNutt, who didn’t win the Democratic one, Mr. Halleek will -be “avalilable.” All three were Betas at IU. : But just as Mr. MeNutt ‘would have settled” for the vice presidency on the third-term ticket with the late F. D. R.. Mr. Halleck could easily be talked into second place on a first term Re-

on ‘publican ticket headed either by Mr, Vanden-

berg or Mr, Dewey. All he would need in the way of urging would be to win the nomination. And there may be. same chance of doing just that if the first place goes to Gov, Thomas E. Dewey of New York. Indiana has the right geography for second place in that case and Mr. Halleck would like nothing better than to campaign the country defending the 80th Congress in the fall campaign He was first to crack back at President Truman when the President termed this the “worst, Congress.” As the House leader, Mr. Halleck retorted: “A lot of people think Mr. Truman is the poorest President.”

He's Proud of This Congress SOME PRESS gallery critics concluded they are “both right.” You could get an argument out of Mr. Hal leck any time on that. For he fully believes that this has been one of the most constructive

and is real proud of his leadership in it. .As busy as a butter lobbyist trying to keep the tax on margarine, Mr. Halleck still has found time to keynote the Indiana and other state GOP conventions, He never misses a chance to sing the praises of the 80th Congress, both for what it has done and what it left undone, "Sometimes it is difficult to say which he seems most proud-—accomplishment or lack of it. Perhaps, If pinned down, hé might put passage of the Taft-Hartley Law as tops. He called it "labor's bill of rights” and has a long

Propaganda Shifts Votes

WASHINGTON, an \ine 12—You may know how you will want to vote next November, or ‘think Bind know, but propaganda can change your mind. Studies made at a men's college last tall and

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‘Come On. Lightning—Strike Me’

list of “reasons” to prove it in the perpetual arguments which have arisen. he. placed Wendell Willkie's

‘name in nomination, Mr. Halleck is still more

of his own pre-war isolationist self than a oneworlder. Yet he has come a long way in supporting the Jatioua post-war measures provid-

“ing Tor Uncle Bam assuming an adult part in

this tough old world. His conservation leadership on the domestic front ‘has been closely followed by all his GOP colleagues from Indiana. ‘But they lag behind hindi on international affairs. party leader he has almost complete discipline in" the House. He never has failed to deliver a thumping majority vote for a party policy measure. Only once was he fooled

When they passed the margarine repeal tax

over his opposition. Yet nobody exceeds Mr. Halleck in condemning a “rubber stamp Congress.” He Is against rubber stamps—unless they are Republicans and he is using them.

«DANIEL M. KIDNEY, Washington Correspondent.

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