Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1948 — Page 10

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“A Strong Ticket TH Republicans have picked a strong man as running mate with presidential candidate Dewey. Gov. War‘ren is a liberal statesman of stature. = "He will increase the Republican chances of victory in November. If the ticket is elected, he can contribute greatly to the next administration's ability to meet the difficult national and international problems ahead. His qualifica“tions are manifold and in some ways unique. Best of all, however, the Warren nomination, following the Dewey nomination and the adoption of a liberal forthright platform, is convincing evidence that the Republican Party is getting in step with the times. Some of the recent trends in Congress had indicated just the contrary. The disposition of the House leadership to drift back to the outmoded policies and methods of McKinleyism, Cannonism and Hardingism had become disturbing to many people who otherwise had come to believe the nation might profit by a change in national leadership. r .

» » - . HAD ONE of the small-caliber politicians mong the aspirants for second place on the ticket been chosen instead of Gov. Warren, the convention would not have followed a consistent pattern. It would have left a large question mark in many minds. : However, Gov. Warren was.chosen because Gov. Dewey and a majority of the leaders—as well as most of the delein addition to a vote-getter a vice presidential candidate capable of being President if fate so

The traditional throttlebottom thesis that the vice presidency is unimportant has been thrown out the window by the Republicans. If they accomplish nothing more in this campaign they will have earned the gratitude of the nation. Ey

” . GOVS” DEWEY and Warren themselves are chiefly responsible for this Republican advance. The presidential candidate would not accept a second-rater—or a reaction- - at 0 with him. He would have

the vice presidential nomination four years: ago and had to: be persuaded to accept this time, insisted on conditions.

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80 FAR ‘m’we know this was the only significant “deal” at Philadelphia. It was not made by irresponsible . bosses but by the two candidates freely chosen by the ¢on-

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While we éahnot agree with Republican victory is in the bag, we are gratified that this 'unbossed eption has written an above-average plat. . Of paramount importance to the nation and to the ‘world the convention isolated its isolationists. It committed the party to the Vandenberg-Dewey-Warren bipartisan of American world leadership for peace through mutual aid, of free peoples, and a strengthened United “Nations. . This convention set a high mark indeed for the Democrats, in Philadelphia two weeks hence, to surpass.

Stalin Showdown TALJN is trying to force a showdown in Berlin. Our State Department and the foreign offices in London and Paris recognize the situation as serious. The Red dictator's object is to drive the western allies out of the capital now, and later out of all Germany. In addition to blocking food trains to starve out the American-British-French zones of Berlin, Stalin has broken up most of the four-power governing bodies supposed to rule Germany under the Potsdam occupation agreement. Meanwhile in Warsaw the Red satellite states, under Molotov's crafty command, plot to strengthen the Red empire with Germany as a Communist colony. The first duty of our government is to ‘seek peace. That requires restraint, patience—and keeping the door open for constructive compromise. We believe our government and its democratic allies have been, and now are, fulfilling those grave obligations for peace. We think they have gone as far as possible short of outright appeasement of aggression which is not the road to security but to war. The democratic allies cannot supinely retreat from Berlin without betraying their pledges for a democratic peace—without inviting even wider aggression. This crisis is a sharp reminder, if any is needed, that our presidential campaign now being launched by the Republican convention in Philadelphia must not divide us as Americans. The bipartisan policy of collective security and mutual -ald is more necessary now than ever.

John L. Hikes Our Taxes

; most of the country was watching the Repub“lican convention, John L. Lewis won another notable victory for his United Mine Workers. 2 The commercial coal operators granted the miners an increase of $1 a day, and doubled the welfare fee imposed on each ton of coal. This tax hereafter will be 20 cents a ton, estimated to put $100 million yearly into Mr. Lewis’ treas-

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BE im tes are that the latest victory of Mr. Lewis may ‘raise the price of coal $1 a ton, or even more. while the politicians were saying a lot of words ation, Mr. Lewis’ monopoly over the most basic

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FAME

When I was young I had my dreams . Of fame and fortune gained, My vision made of me a star, + And on me praises rained.

I pictured myself upon the stage, Surrounded by tributes of flowers, I was the marvel of the age, In this greatness I dreamed by the hours.

But life doesn’t go, oft-times, as we plan, And I bring myself back to “now,” With the hope all gone of having my share Of the world’s acclaiming bow,

80 a little sad, I roll the crust— A dot of butter, some spice and a sigh Are interrupted by a voice: “Gee, Mom, you make the world's bést apple ple!” IRMA JYONS, McCordsville.

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NON COMBATANT

His reaching fingers touched the skirts of Glory But Fate withheld from him the hero's role; ; He played his part along with all the others, Part of the team that reached a hard-won goal. He offered all, his youth, his bright young

courage, But Fate was kind and shook its ageless head, His not the worshipped glory of the living Nor yet the endless glory of the dead. He sought to grasp the fingertips of glory But could not equal, quite, her matchless stride, And though his name be not in hero’s annals He lives to hold the Peace for those who died! fi ALLEN, IU Med. Center

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YOUR HEART IS STONE

Your heart is stone--I always say Before I sleep at end of day, Before 1 bid my cares good night,— ~.Or flip a switch, turn out a light Or kneel beside my bed to pray.

Once it was soft as potter's clay, Smooth to the touch and apt to stay;— Now, when I ask for favors slight,— Your heart is stone. ;

1 shall not throw my life away “Or linger Witere tire willows sway; I'll buy fOr tié 4 raiment bright, ‘Then shout to ev'ry lousy wight, To ev'ry dame now young or gray-—— Your heart is stone. =—GEORGE 8, BILLMAX, Anderson.

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WHY BE IRRITATED?

When I ride a city car or bus My little notions fume and fuss At attitudes that people take... The things that humans do will make A Flutter of my mind in time, And rob me of that Life Sublime; Ill surely the downward way In payment for the words I say... But of all the things those people do, That stir my temper through and through, This one. strikes the sourest notes ... ' The way they sit on the tails of their coats!

This universe has very few Who have been trained in what to do To keep a coat tail without pleats, When they set themselves on seats ... O now and then a saint appears Whose schooling is not in arrears, Who straightens what would wrinkle much Without that cultured, careful touch, But most of people flop them down And rise with rears that scowl and frown . .. Such humans cannot have my votes, The way they sit on the tails of their coats!

Oh, lots of other things disturb: The way folks park along the curb, And fail to use the double lanes... String their cars out like the trains In single file at traffic lights; And here's another thing that bites, They blare their horns at me with spleen The instant that the light goes green! I would reform, with pointed talks, The man who spits upon the walks, ° But I could jump at people’s throats . For the way they sit on the tails of their coats!

Why don't people “move back in the car”? Why do they always wade 80 far Through other humans . . . why not ease the chore By unloading themselves at the middle door? At the groc'ry store, why don't they wait Their turn? Some guy that comes In late Is deviled with a burning thirst To nudge ahead and get out first! : But for all my ravings they won't be good, I can't get people to act like they should! So I've given up fuming . . . my spirit now dotes On the way they sit on the tails of their coats! —BARTON REES POGUE, Upland.

Cupid in ltdl By ERNIE HILL NAPLES, Italy, June 26-—Here beside the warm Tyrrhenian Sea romance is having a "colossal season, June brides are as thick as flies Won the post-war birthrate is getting out of and.

the sobering seriousness of overpopulation, southern Italy is producing children Tike a row of Reno slot machines. The government's statistical bureau has released another document stating that soon there will be standing room only in Italy—if the fertile south doesn’t slow down to a fast gallop. In the bustling industrial north—around Milan and Turin, the birthrate is about the same as that of the United States. ’ "But in the three southern provinces and on the Island of Sardinia, it is 50 per cent greater. The national statistical bureau states that Italy has worked feverishly to get Italians to move to other countries. About 250,000 emigrated in 1047. ; Still the population increase raced at least

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PHILADELPHIA, June 26 — Dear Boss: Sorry I was only half-right about the Repub lican ‘ticket. Last week I told you I was leaving for the convention and the ticket would be Gov. Dewey and Gov. Dwight Green of Illinois, Well, I don’t know whether Col. Robert R. McCormick reads this column or not. But he did make Gov. Green quit boning up on “How to Be Vice President,” and told him to go on home and he could be governor again. That checkout caused our favorite son, Charley Halleck, to get on the merry-go-round and the ‘Dewey powerhouse gave him a great ride up until the final’ round. As you know, he missed the brass ring, that went to the Golden State governor—Earl Warren. Four years ago Gov. Warren refused to take it. But that was in wartime, and President Truman was only in second place on a fourterm FDR ticket. ' 2 Now Gov. Warren and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey both figure that they can win hands down. Bo Dewey didn’t take Sen. John Bricker of Ohio, who took second place last time, bhecause he wanted a new dish and not just a warmed-over one. Like Majority Leader Hal-

leck, Sen. would have liked to have been. it. The Coast-to-Coast Hookup + BUT in the coast-to-coast hookup,

the ticket cuts out the 80th Congress. While some senators and congressmen may think that is “too bad,” a whole lot of liberal Republicans and independents consider it “just

PHILADELPHIA, June 26—The difficulties encountered in starting a stop-Dewey drive at the GOP convention point up many primer lessons in practical politics to paste in the hat, Before nominating began the whole trouble was that anti-Dewey forces couldn’t agree on one man to get behind. Roughly 60 per cent of the delegates didn’t want Mr. Dewey. Here was the old difficulty of trying to stop something with nothing. Saying it the other way, Mr. Dewey was ahead because his enemies were divided. Even though Mr, Dewey had only 40 per cent or minority ‘starting strength, he was stronger than any one opponent. When anti-Dewey forces® did start getting together—Gov. Duff of Pennsylvania, Gov. Sigler of Michigan, Gov. Stassen, Sen. Lodge of Massachusetts and Connecticut GOP Chairman Harold Mitchell for Baldwin—they had to work out a long plan. First stage was to stop Mr, Dewey for several ballots. Second stage was to see if Sen. Taft of Ohio could pick up enough strength from Mr. Dewey to push himself over. Here was a great weakness. Plenty of delegates might not have wanted Mr. Dewey. But when offered Mr. Taft as alternative, all they could say was, “Well, if that's the only choice, we'll take Dewey.” When the whole 56 Illinois votes switched to Mr. Taft, it may thus have helped Mr. Dewey.

Race Between Taft, Stassen.

ALL PRE-CONVENTION polls showed Truman might beat Mr. Taft, even with Mr. Wallace running. Mr, Taft and his leaders never. conceded this point. If they had and if Mr. Taft had taken himself out of the race in favor of someone

of.the convention, the stop-Dewey move would have been much further ahead before balloting started. Third phase of stop-Dewey strategy was to let Mr. Stassen have a run. This g would of course be going on at the same time Mr. Taft was testing his speed. This was really a race between Mr. Taft and Mr. Stassen to see if the place and show horse could beat the favorite.

Some Fought for Principles WHAT WAS said about Mr. Taft could also be said about Mr. Stassen. While the polis showed that Mr, Stassen could beat Mr. Tru-

Charge Japs Build Army

TOKYO, June 26—The Russians charge that - the 125,000-man police force now permitted the Japanese by the supreme command of the allied powers is the nucleus of a new army. The Japanese answer that postwar conditions being what they are, the force is entirely inadequate. Both Russia and China have criticized Gen. MacArthur's methods of maintaining law and order on these islands. The Russian member of the allied council has charged the present police force is twice as

asterial gave price spiral another violent boost.

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DEAR BOSS . . . By Daniel M. Kidney

Why Halleck Didn't Get on GOP Coast-to-Coast Hookup

IN PHILADELPHIA . . . ByPewrEdson = Stop-Dewey Drive’s Failure Provides a Primer in Politics

like Mr. Vandenberg on the first day or so.

dandy.” For while the 80th long way, under the leadership of toward

berg, accepting postwar world, its record on domestic issues 18 one which will provide plenty of material for the opposition in the fall campaign. President Truman called the 80th Congress the “worst” on his western But Gov. Dewey and Gov. Warren can tru didn’t make that record. They are certain to promise to remedy it.

Indiana's Still Out of Step

ONE of the handicaps to’ Mr. Halleck was Indiana’s own record of “isolationism.” When his name was prominently mentioned for VP, the Hastern Seaboard papers, including the New York Times, began pouring it on. The fact is that, although he was 4 prewar isolationist, he has “gone along” reluctantly, with the House program as majority leader. But he hasn’t brought any Hoosier votes along with him. The other House Republicans from Indiana—except Reps. Grant and Mitchell— ‘have continued to vote against the Marshall Plan and the appropriations to implement it. Even worse, they all—sxcep$ Mr. Halleck— voted against the draft. a7 Ang the two sendtors are labelled “isolation ist,” also.

80 far as the ideas of Mr. Dewey and Mr. |

Warren are concerned, Indiana still is out of step, even if Mr. Halleck did get them to cast 20 votes for Gov, Dewey on the first convention ballot—~DANIEL M. KIDNEY.

man, if Mr. Stassen had withdrawn in favor of Mr. Vandenberg at an early stage the atooDewey drive would have been better. But both Mr. Stassen and Mr. Taft are men of convice tions and of" certain principles which they said they would not surrender.

Mr. Stassen’s principles would not: let him go for the Taft-Stassen ticket proposed by Col. Robert R. McCormick of Chicago.

If Mr. Stassen had not opposed Mr. Taft fn Ohio, it. is conceivable that Mr. Taft might have been more willing to yield to Mr, Stassen —when and if he ever became convinced that he—Mr. Taft—could not win himself.

But Mr. Tatt's stubborn stand-up. for his .own principles—against the all-out international co-operation ideas of men like Mr. Vandenberg and Mr. Stassen—made this too hard to take. « In the meantime, the lesser candidates were having their problems, The one man all these anti-Deweyites might have united behind at an earlier stage was Sen. Vandenberg. This fourth phase of strategy .was put last. But at this point everbody was too tired to care much. What they wanted to do more

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Pointers on Profit-Sharing By Olara Rice, City July Readers Digest contains an artigle about free enterprise by Edwin Miller con. densed from Forum e. ge Employers and managers might get a few pointers from -this article as to the success of profit sharing with employees. : _ This it seems to me is the equitable answer to labor troubles—and the prevention of strikes and establishment of 4 more humanitarian and just co-operation between employer and employee. It is a “one for all and all for one” plan that” would eventually benefit everyone Dy increasing the buying power of the masses

of people. t would eventually benefit the employer as well through greater consumption of all kinds of goods and bring a better spirit of co-operation from the employees as he would be working directly (or indirectly) for himself. Also, it. would reduce taxes as it would absorb the surplus of profits which now goes to the government. . : Many companies are already on this basis of profit sharing but a more universal usage of this method would surely help the wheels of industry to work smoother. 4 This would give.a more common interest to both employer and employes and ‘might

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Raises for Unskilled Workers By Frederick O. Rusher, City _ Every day we read in the newspapers whefe large and small industrial enterprises have increased employees’ hourly wages from 5 to 15 cents an hour. This is a help. But here is what is wrong with the entire setup. Unskilled labor ranges: from’ 80 cents an hour up to 80 cents an hour: They pay the same prices for the necessities of life as the others. But these persons’ raises are lower afd far between. Employers, in raising wages, are usually guided by the type of work you do. But raises for unskilled workers should be judged by the high cost of living—at least to the extent that the employee won't have to deprive himself of the necessities. This is only fair and square dealing between smployys oy employee.

He Wants New Deal Back

By Disgusted, City ‘ Now that our wonderful Republican support ers have had their auto insurance increased and their cigarets taxed to death, their auto tag fees are being raised and more tax is being added to gasoline. And our old people have the lien law on their pitiful little places of property in order to gets bare $20 or $25 a month to live on. The servicemen who were eheered not 80 long ago have been forgotten entirely—with no bonus, no housing, no nothing. oY : I wonder what comes next? Go to it, Republican voters, you are doing fine . . . Me, I' take the New Deal. %

Assails Ball Playing in Streets By 8. T. C,, City. We pay taxes for recreation places for young folks, yet our streets are made into ball diamonds in our city. You can’t drive. If one mishap were to happen the driver would be at fault. Why aren't our streets cleared so they can be used for driving? If you walk it is the same thing in some places. You get hit with a ball or bat where children are playing on the sidewalk. Don't we taxpayers deserve any rights? Just let us car owners drive without a license So why not

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FRANCE KEEPS . . «

Worrying By PAUL GHALI PARIS, June 26—The pes Soviet - line ‘on Germany i by the eight Behind* the-Iron-Curtain foreign mis* isters at Warsaw provides France a frésh worry. J Political analysts here tod&y are envisioning another SP in Premier Schuman’s pari mentary majority as & reswt. ‘As they see it the -Socialists will approve ussians drive for a united -Germany— and possibly = even .their demands for four-power con of the Ruhr. £ 2 8 = DURING the Socialist Con* s in Vienna last month—

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