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Give LAght and the People Will Find Thew Uwa way

The Red Light, Biffle

VE warn Les Biffle to have a care and not go too fur with it. Functioning normally under the imposing title of staff director of the minority policy committee of the United States Senate, Les is now doubling in brass as sergeant at arms of the Democratic National Convention. Fearing a demonstration of the We-Want-Wilkie sort, from the galleries, he has ordered a large flock of extra cops to head off howling and preserve dignity. What we are driving at is that Les in monkeying with an American institution. A national convention is second only to Ringling Broth-ers-Barnum & Bailey in the competition for being the greatest show on earth. Some say it’s first. To rob it of noise and whoop-la would be like taking peanuts and hot dogs out of baseball. Yet Mr. Biffie now trends in that very direction. " » » | I J . AND IN 80 doing he runs counter to his own party's tradition, the most dramatic climax of which was staged in 1040 in Chicago on the occasion when Franklin Delano Roosevelt busted into his third term. Boss Ed Kelly master-minded the demonstration and one Thomas Garry, superintendent of sewers, played the lead. Nature had endowed Mr. Garry with super lungs and vocal cords which were out of this world. And that, in effect, was where the shouting came from. Mr. Garry knew the electrician of the Chicago Stadium and between them they took advantage of a separate loud-speaker system which had been in the stadium but was not normally used during the convention. At a signal, Mr, Garry started hollering through the second speaker system: “We want Roosevelt, the world heeds Roosevelt, everybody wants Roosevelt,” etc, for some 45 minutes. The speaker system was such that the great epiglottis seemed to encompass the place; and you couldn't locate the source of the tumult. Actually it was from the catacombs under the stadium. Hence the incident took its place in history as “the voice from the sewer.” yy 8 = BN THEN THERE was that time in 1932 when radio was young. Huey Long started a harangue. The crowd began to boo. Huey raised his arms and beseeched for silence. “Don’t cheer,” he pleaded “my radio time is limited.” When twitted later on with the fact that he wasn't

being cheered he said, “Boos and cheers all sound alike

to a radio audience.” And in-1994=the Al Smith-McAdoo, :-24-votes-for-

‘Underwood affair in old Madison Square Garden, when it |. took 103 ballots and lung power beyond the dreams of a |

medicine barker. It finally settled for John W. Davis. That also was in the best circus tradition.

it was during those long days and nights that William

Jennings Bryan tried to stage a Cross-of-Gold comeback,

only to be greeted with a booing and hissing brigade from the center aisle—led by the daughter of Champ Clark. Mr. Bryan had ditched Mr. Clark in 1912. Some Bryan fans in'the gallery yelled—‘give. him time!” To which came this high pitched rejoinder—“Yes, give him 20 years!” = =. American life is deeply fond of this quandrennial

blow-off. * 80, we repeat, Les, have a care! ®

A Job for Patrol Cars, Too

MAYOR FEENEY certainly was on the right track the other day when he suggested that police patrol cars lend a hand on traffic, make arrests when they see motorists breaking law. They haven't been doing much along that line in the past. In June, for example, motorcycle policemen, of whom there are, altogether, 36, made 2472 arrests for “moving violations"—such things as speeding, crashing traffic lights, running stop signs and so on. The squad and district car men, of whom there are 138, made only 574 such arrests. True, it hasn't generally been considered their job, and they do have other duties. But they are patrolling the

streets at all times, they must inevitably see a good many .

traffic laws being broken, and they could quite easily act in a great many instances. Police records show that violation of traffic laws caused 95 per cent of all the traffic accidents in Indianapolis last year—a year in which Indianapolis had 8447 automobile accidents and killed 66 persons. Stricter enforcement of traffic laws can cut such tragedy here, as it has done elsewhere. We hope Mayor Feeney makes his suggestion stick.

Stealing a March

HE Citizens Gas & Coke Utility, long the target of polititians, stands one-up on its traditional foe in the arena of public strategy today. Those “purple homes" did it. When citizens in southeastern Indianapolis began to point to the gas company as the source of their annoyance, the utility was in a bad corner. : But not for long. The gas company very wisely decided to take the offensive and appointed Harry J. Clark, a research engineer formerly with the Associated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Co. to do the job. : Now if the gas company finds the source of the trouble and, if guilty, corrects it, it will have stolen the thunder from accusing office holders who need some perpetual “cause” to fight for the voters—and their votes.

Redhots Are Going High Hat

JACQUES DUCLOS, French Communist leader, terms.

Marshal Tito's reply to the Cominform's charges “a tissue of gratuitous affirmations.” A man who resorts to language like that in a wae must regard himself as a statesman.

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In Tune With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue A PUPPY'S PRAYER

“Won't somebody buy me? I'm a store-window pup, And the dream to get out Is eating me up! .

“I'll go anywhere . . . This window is wrong ... I want to be downed, 1 want to ‘belong’!

“To a crowded flat I'll go, and not frown, I'll learn to wag My tall up and down Ag

I'll go to the country...

rous sky And far-flung fields. “You mister, that’s looking, Love the country like that . . Don't let me be bought By some man from a flat! --BARTON REES POGUE, Upland. ® © oO

THE ARTIST'S TOUCH

I stood on a hill * Where the wind did blow, And my heart took wings O’er valleys below, The flowers seemed to nod In the breeze and say, “God smiles on the world This beautiful day.”

_ He breathes in the flowers, And with His own hand He has painted the clouds 80 that over the land Your own special cloud, Silver lined through and through, Will be there above, Waiting for you.

~~MILDRED F. KOLLER, Coal City. . 9 »

WHY AT THE WRONG TIME?

The shoelace broke! Why did the spiteful thing have to break at just that moment? We had a wedding on the other side of town, and we do not like to think of two young people and their relatives chewing their nails down to the quick; they are jumpy enough without and additional worries. ’ So we try to figure it out. When one thanges shoes in a hurry he no doubt yanks the laces a little harder.than normal. If it is a little frayed, the frustrating “pop” is heard. Underneath, however, we sense a deeper reason: There is’ no right time for a shoelace to break. Whenever it breaks it is the wrong time. The only answer is that shoelaces should last forever, but that, we fear, is an unfounded

hope. . ~GEGRGE D. GREER, Newcastle. ® ¢

A NEIGHBOR

“If there's anything I can do,” That's what my neighbor said, “Why you just let me know,” (For I was sick In bed) She sat and talked for hours, My head was aching so, . I thought she'd never stop ... Long enough to go. -

She walked across the dirty floor, With health-and-recovery wishes, She passed the kitchen sink Piled high with dirty dishes; .

_ Then paused there at the open: door: “ bye, I'm going to ie. If there's anything that I can do Why, you just let me know.”

—IRMA LYONS, McCordsville.

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Rebellious Tito

By Ludwell Denny

STALIN is beginning to blockade the rebellious Tito. This economic offensive follows the political attack—in which the Cominform outlawed the mutinous Belgrade dictatorship and called on the Yugoslavs to overthrow it. The third move is military invasion—which Stalin may or may not be able to make. That depends on developments, not only in Yugoslavia and eastern Europe, but also on the East-West conflict now centering in Berlin. In any event, failure of Stalin and his puppet to patch up their power rivalry already has done more to change the post-war international situation than anything since Stalin’s early wholesale betrayal of his peace pledges to the Allies and the United Nations, The outcome cannot be predicted, Stalin 1s playing for huge stakes. He is not accustomed to moving without careful preparation and timing. It is to be assumed he would not have forced this quarrel into open conflict with his most strategically placed satellite unless he thought he could win the showdown. Or perhaps it was so far out of hand that Stalin no longer could control it. Which of the two it was, probably will not be known until the battle is over,

Tito ‘Leading on Points’ THE FIRST ROUND is pretty much a draw, with Tito perhaps leading on points. The other satellites, as expected, have sided with Stalin; but so far this has been on the party rather than governmental level—there has been no break in dipfomatic relations. The Yugoslavs to. date have not responded to the Cominform order to rise against Tito, Tito's secret police and army system has survived ‘the boring-from-within tactics of Stalin's fifth columnists—Tito ‘‘got” them before they got him. It also means that the highly nationalistic Yugoslavs, if they must have dictatorship, pre-

fera national to a foreign tyrant.

Nevertheless, Tito is vulnerable. Given time, Stalin's agents may wreck Tito's own terrorist machine by bribery and murder, and create national ghaos preparatory to military attack. Economic strangulation, which Stalin is now threatening is slow but can be sure. Through Romania, Stalin "has stopped oil shipments and all river traffic to Yugoslavia, He hag broken all of Albania's trade agreements with Tito. Presumably Stalin will try to force Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia apd Poland into the economic boycott.

Boycotts Can Boomerang :

BUT ANY boycott can boomerang. It migh hurt the other satellites as much or more than Yugoslavia, and they might balk. Moreover, if Tito cannot get essential goods from the Soviet area—and the lack of such supplies from the East is one of his reasons for revolt—he may turn to America and the Marshall Plan for help. : Russian military intervention in Yugoslavia is just as risky for Stalin as economic blockade. Even if he overthrew or made a deal with Tito there probably would be fighting for a long time in the mountains. And just what a Yugoslav war would mean in the way of dividing Stalin's military strength is something much more pleasant for the wéstern democracies to contemplate than ‘or the Kremlin bulfy. It would put dangerous ideas into the heads of the Czechs, Poles and other Soviet slaves. And it would greatly reduce Stalin's capacity to wage offensive war against the western allies,

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DEAR BOSS . . . By Daniel M: Kidney : Dan Predicts: Truman And— Maybe Gov. Lane or Tydings

DEAR Bdbs: Today I am oft to Philadelphia again. And havi made a fairly successful guess on the Dewey-Warren ticket, I planned on predicting that the Democrats would nominate Truman and Tydings. 5 Millard E. Tydings is the tall and able Senator from Maryland, who recently took our Sen. Homer BE. Capehart (R. Ind.) to the clsaners in the draft debate. He will. not be up for reelection until 1 and has both the time and money to spend .on what now appears to be an almost hopeless campaign. He would meet the requirements of being

"both from the South and East and the governor

of his state, William Preston Lane, although president of the Southern Governors Conference, has not joined in the anti-Truman bolt of the South, 3 $i At the moment, however, Mr. Lane himself is more mentioned for second place on the Truman ticket than Mr. Tydings. And. the party’s condition on this convention eve was best expressed more than a quarter of a century ago by the famous philosopher “Mr, Dooley.” He said: Ty : “Th’ Dimmycratic Party ain't on speakin’

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Kilroy Might Get Gl Vote

80 ANYTHING might happen. Some wag suggested that the ticket should be “Truman and Kilroy,” the latter to snare the World War II veterans votes. In any case and no matter who is on second place on President Truman's ticket, it looks as of now as.though the Democrats have little chance to remain in national power after the election this fall. Despite his mercurial rise and fall in the various popularity polls, a comeback by Mr. Truman seems impossible. His chances appear as dim as did those of Herbert Hoover tn 1932. But there is this difference—the country now is

enjoying a boom while when Mr. Hoover ran for a second term we were in the depth of depression. This is likely to be reflected in the different reception President Truman will receive when he campaigns the country. There seems to be no hatred for him and he will be greeted everywhere like a “good Eik”— while in 1032 President Hoover paraded the streets. of Indianapolis in a silence which was deafening. . In Detroit and elsewhere Mr. Hoover was booed and efforts made to throw tomatoes and eggs at him.

‘The ‘Wonderful One-Hoss Shay’

FOR President Hoover personified the plight of the millions of unemployed, although history has shown that he was far more blameless than people thought at the time. And in" hid dwn party he received the greatest ovation of any leader when he addressed the convention two weeks ago. ; Although his party is falling apart like the “wonderful one-hoss shay,” there is not that personal bitterness toward the President. Labor no longer loves him because he was unable to carry out their demands and cracked down on strikes that would have crippled the country; well-heeled liberals like Leon Henderson say he talks their language but keeps. them from the fleshpots where they feasted

_ under FDR.

Frank Hague-type city bosses feel that he hasn't been able to gre their machings—and the Southerners are sore because he took Mr. Rooseveit's civil rights seriously. Yet none of them really hates Mr. Truman the man. : 1 And if he could come back; the whole pack— including the sons-of-Roosevelt—would probably

; contend that they were really for him all along.

DANIEL M. KIDNEY, Washington Correspondent. .

CIO IS AGAINST... Truman

By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, July 10The CIO--which still claims credit for swinging the balance of power ‘in the fourthterm election of Franklin D. Roosevelt—is definitely against nomination of President Truman to succeed himself. That became clear today with the refusal of CIO President’ Philip Murray to address . the Democratic convention—or to attend it as a delegate-at-large from Pennsylvania. And it is made clear even more pointedly in a statement by Jack Kroll, director of the CIO Political Action Committee.

= » = IN THE first public delineation of the. CIO attitude toward President Truman, Mr. Kroll accepted an invitation from James Roosevelt to attend a “Ditch-Truman” caucus in Philadelphia tonight. He stated in a telegram: “CIO-PAC {8 ‘uncommitted to any presidential or vice presidential aspirant, avowed or unavowed. CIO-PAC, however, is committed to an open convention to the end that a ticket may be selected in a democratic manner, free of interference from those holding high office or the strings of political patronage. v : J .

“THE STRESS of the times

COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, WC. T. MW. REG. U, 8. FY. OFFL,

"Do you suppose she's mad at me about something? That's how you bawled when we had our first quarrel!”

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a1 “I do not agree with & word thet bt } will defend to the death your right fo say i.~ Just to keep the record straight for bey control of of food, 1 | dated Oct. 15, 1048, “Ty, Meat Price Today.” Ang action has Deen lirgeq i, party.” Me nmads =] 10 pin responsibility op the whole decontrol pp, up. On Nov. 18, 184s pped Up Pr May End Controls by End of Year” OPA other Hem 10 De tree ot permit going Into full detall * : of OBA controls cs removed befors the election of Nov. 5, 1945 au a to you publi rary x Bis of Der, 1048, A Sane Fourth's Fine, but . . .

isn’t there way down in the deep recesses of some mother’s heart . . . and dad’s aldo ; . . the : 1

to be hidden away in dark, secret places . . . sky rockets Shaziciers and even the noisy firecracker, and : of course a great big one with a guaran ‘ BOOM! All these hidden away until the Mend ) day when Dad would emerge with a yard-wide |

grin all over his face as he pulled out from &

under his arm a pack that mi ‘ equalled Juniors. Bat Sage TOR, Aan Yes, Mom did have to get out the broom next | morning and sweep up the bits of colored papers ° from off the lawn, but deep inside that glowing feeling of , . . something shared between her 1Wp DOYS «+. Dad and Junior! Sharing Fourth : y | : Again I say we are thankful for our safe :| and sane Fourth. But the memories 6f bygone '

#2 0.0 1 Grow Mustache Like Dewey's? i By Ronald F. Faucett, 884 Wright St. _ a From a story in The Times of July’ 5. ;; | “Rev. Louis W. West of South Baptist Chureh began growing a Thomas 1. Dewey mustache joday and Plage Gite f not to shave it ont: : - New. York governor, ected | President” JOUR ‘governor. ul . aleetng the Rev. Mr. West were the pastor of my | church, I would either protest his using a pulpit { for political promotion or demand that he exer- ' cise his right of free speech where it: was not being Hd a ihe Sxpiias of his church mem- ; on an litics are "if strange bedfellows, go : Bpdeed n ides, why should men: 1 mustaches just to look like Dewey? ... 8 Bre he had a wooden leg? , .. Or a. blockhead oo It seems to me that it both the minister and his flock were to undertake to look more like Christ, ° from the way they live, and the way they greet their fellow-men, there would be very little time ' to grow mustaches or waste good pulpit time in trying to drum up Joi. for any political party, '

¢ * A Keen Political Observer y C. Gilbert, State Re y Brotherhood of Railroad rate, he! ‘Tris Coffin, formerly with The Indianapolis Times and now & newspaperman in Was n 1 and New York, and author of a book of the | political life ‘in Washington called “Missouri Compromise,” which was published in 1947, shows the keen insight to matters political as evidenced by the last two senterices in Chapter

~ 7, Pagé 81, whebein the author of his book en- ..

titled “Missouri Compromise” makes the follow - ing statement: “Roosevelt had somehow kept the three horses of the Democratic Party-the machine politicians, the Southern. conservatives and the liberals—together in harness. Now, : they were flying ‘off in different directions, This ' | was the beginning of the:roaring battle coming up in 1948 for control of the Democratic Party.” | Tris Coffin shows by this prediction, made HOF han 18 WoAihs rag hy many of us new, that he is amon 8’ keenest political observers. 8 Jhe mations

IN WASHINGTON— ° SE Price Campaign

By Earl Richert WASHINGTON, July 10-<Democratic cam-

-paign banjos are béing tuned up now-—even

before the presidential ticket is picked — to catch the ears of the millions of ae and

low-income voters being pinched by the high cost of living.

Administration leaders are pinning high 8

hopes on the cost-of-living issue as a vote-get-ter, presuming they can place the blame on the Republican Congress. And they think they can. Some of them admit they may be grasping at straws but they see no other issue which could reverse the apparent Republican -trend and lead to a Democratic victory in November. Almost to a man; they think -living costs are going to keep climbing during the months before the election. ENC EW, And while the American “people aren't aroused at present-apparently growing sccustomed to high prices—they think that by November the people will be. “a

Work Up Propaganda Job PARTICULARLY do théy expect this in the | case of meat, key food in the American diet. Meat prices now average the highest on ree | ord and are climbing fast. Sa These hopeful Democrats think it is possible meat will do as much in getting votes for them ,

_this fall as it did for the Republicans in 1946—. ;

when the meat" shortage became the burning issue just before the congressional elections. At that time President Truman was forced to drop meat controls. A first-class propaganda job, they think. can help create the desired situation. Democratic plans at present are to make the air waves resound from coast to coast

‘blaming the Republicans for high prices—and :

presenting figures to prove how much prices : have gone up. since the Republicans took over Cohgress. ;

Urge Standby Control Power

THE ARGUMENT will be that if the Democrats are elected something will bé done about: high prices but that if the Dewey-Warren tick:

the common sense of the citizens of the country to choose leaders capable of meeting the domestic and international crisis of today and the immediate future. “They found such a leader in 1932 and in other times past. I am confident that, given the opportunity, they will, again find forceful and able spokesmen who can fulfill the needs and aspirations of all Ameri-

cans.” ¥

. s - CIO-PAC has had a close working arrangement with

Americans fo: democratic action, headed by Leon Hender- ° son, which wants Gen. Eisen-

hower first and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas sec-

ond. The CIO lays claim to Having started the so far unsuecessful effort to get the Gen-

eral to become a presidential .

candidate.

Mr. Murray invited “Ike” to -

be the principal guest speaker at its convention in late 1945. The General drew a great ovation there, although he refrained from giving any hint that he knew what his hosts had in their minds. . 2 = 8 WHAT Eisenhower sentiment there is in the AFL is greatly subdued. * Influential voices in

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League for Political Education are talking against the General’s nomination. At the same time, however, there has been no commitment in favor of President Truman, and two AFL ) rs have declined invitations “to address the convention. They are President William Green and Daniel J. Tobin, president of the Teamsters’ Union. ” . . SOME AFL leaders are expected to wind up in support of the Republican Dewey-War-ren ticket. Prominently mentioned in this class i8 William L. Hutcheson, president of the Car penters.

et wins nothing will be done. Fm Democratic speakers intend to cite the pi ° geonholing of Sen. Taft's housing bill by the GOP-controlled House as évidence that no help in respect to high prices can be expected from & Republican Congress, no matter what Mr Dewey might want done. : Present plans are to avold the subject of full controls but to urge-—as President has in his messages tb Congress, the granting of standby control powers which can be used as needed on specific commodities. Latest Bureau of Labor statistics figure show that meat prices went up 5.4 per cent bétiveen April and May, 11 per cent since Feb. 20 per cent in the last year and 101 per in the last two years. : i Democrats think it will be hard for yr Heans to held them responsible for such:

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Opinion On USI

By | Grain trad hat the end shortage is ir Many - sald soon may fa lisposing of They based U. 8. Departm estimates of wheat Crops. yesterday f pumper Whe: biggest corn « history. The corn ¢ at 3,328,862,0( spring and ¥ combined Wi 1,241,451,000 © to last year’s Combined Furopean Cr¢ the yield fre farmlands wi the world she Means At home, | will mean mx ica’s dining ta said. A Departn spokesman wi it would tak good crops t pean food su Europe als its grain to ! production, 1 said, it is “hi an undue sur here for lack Chicago gr: if the Depart estimates are production, tI a total grain bushels over year’s outpu that “we, ar unwiedly sur Allen Q. M president of pany at Mi nation could carryover of bushels. An S00 4g bush: sidered surph Mr. Moore trade sources ment allocati trols no lon and that ther of "save whe The Agric yesterday res mate of the at 951,958,00( with a previc 877,230,000. Spurt After a ba said the w spurted in making “am. many areas. The crop now and has « congestion 3 especially Ka ‘embargo on becomes effe A total of clogged the | nal yesterda) ord for the s

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