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Barkley ; . THE man who might have been President today is promised second place on the Democratic ticket, but now his chances of being even Vice President are not good. Nevertheless, Sen. Barkley, as always, is a good soldier. He is willing to be President Truman's runningmate in what looks like a Republican year. Though sentiment is a luxury professional politicos seldom indulge, there is something of that virtue in the upsurge of Philadelphia delegates in support of the Senate minority leader. . : They remember four years ago when the vice presidential nomination—and probability of succeeding to the presidency—was within his grasp; and how FDR suddenly

And they remember how magnanimously FDR's once Alben” took the blow which would have embittered a lesser man. 2 Today many of the delegates would bestow on him this tribute of their confidence as compensation, however inadequate, for that lost might-have-been.

. » "= 8» OF COURSE that is not their only motive. Desperately they need a vice presidential candidate who can help restore harmony to their feuding party. Of all the Democratic elders, perhaps none has friendship so wide and respect so deep in both warring camps of Southerners and New Dealers as the gentleman from the border state of Kentucky. If he cannot silence, he may at least muffle; the inter-party strife which in a campaign might more properly be directed at the Republicans. Moreover, if the Democrats become the minority party after November they will need as leader a seasoned legislator rather than an idle executive. He is now ranking Democratic leader in Congress. As such he will have more prestige and power because of this convention vote of confidence, even if the ticket loses the election. Sen. Barkley is in his 71st year. Ideally, the runningmate of a man of President Truman's age should be one r and of more tive exper - fate * should him President.’But candidates are rarely, if 4 not a great statesman, but he isa good one.

The Old, Old Story TH HE Democratic Convention Platform Committee has * recommended repeal of the Taft-Hartley Labor Act, ) it has encouraged litigation in labor disputes and undermined the established American ggligy of collective

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In place of this law, enacted by the Republican Congress, the Democrats advocate: * “Such legislation as is desirable to establish a just body of rules to assure free and effective collective bargaining, to determine, in the public interest, the rights of employees and employers, to-reduce to a minimum their conflict.of interest, and to. enable unions to keep their membership free from communistic influences.” ; The Taft-Hartley Act had exactly these objectives. Litigation naturally follows the application of any new law, It was the same when the Wagner Act was put through by

the Democrats, It would be true of any new law.

Dull, but Decisive THE POLITICKING in Philadelphia seems like a puppet © show compared with the fateful march of events road. ©All the efforts of perspiring reporters and the breathless descriptions of commentators, poured out for the public, fail to bring the Democratic convention to life. The distant rumble of the foreign crisis is more real than the dispirited antics of delegates going through the motions. Not that what they do in Philadelphia this week is petty. It is vastly important—for other nations, as for us. For as America goes, so goes the world. If we choose little men to lead us, if our policies are blind and our decisions halting, if our strength wanes and division enfeebles us, the weakened democracies abroad cannot stand alone. Our help is between them and the Stalin tyranny which already has enslaved so much of Europe. “~.. But that—Thank God!—is not disputed at the Democratie convention. It is taken for granted ‘there, just as at the Republican convention it- was reaffirmed. So the words and the deeds at Philadelphia only seem

advance. There is no suspense and little drama in renomination of a President by default, even when the candidate is more colorful than Mr. Truman. And when a constructive foreign policy is so well established that it is no longer a controversial issue, we accept such blessings without counting them. : Whether the Democratic Party is destined for defeat— as it may appear to many now—is not so sure as this crepehung convention fears, or as the cocky Republicans assume. Swift-moving international developments are unpredictable, and their effect upon our election no less. That is why we and the world are so fortunate our foreign and security policies will be neither partisanly Democrati¢ nor partisanly Republican after November. Whichever way the election goes, they will be American. This is not what Stalin hoped for.. But it is the way both American major parties planned it—the listless Democratic convention no less than the more exciting GOP meet-

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‘The People’s Choice’ EN. CLAUDE PEPPER of Florida used 600 words to ex1» why he was withdrawing his presidential candi-

But his 914 votes told the story better than his state-

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Barton Rees Pogue GOING HOME TODAY

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She's come to visit in the town, a ° Etta named, This morn she’d played with girls—way down the street, And when she said she had to go, one of the group exclaimed: 71 “We like you very much, you are so sweet! You must come back tomorrow, and we'll have

just loads of fun, Oh, won't you please? We've all enjoyed your stay.” “I'm sorry, but I can’t,” she said, “You see my visit's done, ’ We've leaving town, I'm going home today.” All that was very long ago; Ann Etta now old; . And still they call her sweet, who know her well. Her friends have gathered in her room, for each of them’s been told , She can not weather this, her worst sick spell. Yet one said, “Dear Ann Etta, when you're feeling nice and good, p You must come to visit me. What do you say?” “I'm sorry,” answered Etta, “I would like to, if I could, But on leaving—going Home—perhaps to- - day.

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LUCKY ME

I went to the store With my hair in'a mess, My slip was slippin’ And p held my dress— BUT, I didn’t meet anyone That I'd like to impress! (Aren't I lucky?) DOROTHY ANN, Anderson. ® o o

GETTING AWAY

In these days of seeing who can make the most noise—blaring auto horns, wide open motorcycles, jazz music, dogs barking, children screaming, skating rink music till 10:30 every night including SBunday—what a relief to pack one’s grip and board a bus for peaceful haunts down among the hills of southern Indiana and old Kentucky. Where nothing disturbs ‘the stillness of the night A But the hoot owl . . . no glaring light From automobiles, no smell of gas,

But the chords are music to a weary soul, Blue sky over head green fields under foot. You wish from your heart, you could just stay

put, Down among the hills where there's peace of mind And leave all the clamor and din behind.

~FRANCES RICHMOND, Columbus. IN PHILADELPHIA—

South’s Revolt Is Conservative

By Peter Edson : PHILADELPHIA, July 14—First man to speak at the Southern rebel Democratic caucus was Jimmy Arrington, a lean Miss plan who began by saying he was glad to be here, he certainly was, because hé hadn't seen so many people since the Red Cross gave away flour in 1931." He gabbed on something like this: “The Democratic Party has done left us, it certainly ‘has. Reminds me of a marrjed couple I know, it certainly does. The wife was a good woman, she certainly was, except when her husband got intoxicated, as he certainly did. She didn't treat him very good then, she certainly did not, and it didn’t do him any good. Then a friend of hers told her: “You got to use kindness, you certainly do,

you don’t use’ the right technique, you certainly do not’ So the next time her husband came home intoxicated, this woman was at the gate to meet him, she certainly was, and she took him into the house and put him on the couch and took off his shoes and loosened his necktie, and she says, ‘Honey, do you want me

said, ‘You might as well, you certainly might, ‘cause when I get home I'm going ta get hell!” “Now that poor man didn't know where he was, he certainly didn’t, and the Democratic Party doesn't know where it is, it certainly does not.

Need a Real 2-Party System

THIS ILLUSTRATES how much sense there is to the Bouthern revolt. It would be a great thing if the rebels walk out of the Democratic Party. They won't vote for Dewey, they cer= tainly won't. There isn't any place else for them to go. But an increasing number of smart Southerners now realize that the South needs a real two-party system-—one liberal, the other conservative. The revolting faction which will nominate Gov. Ben Laney of Arkansas for President is essentially conservative. That is revealed by the two resolut'ons the Southern caucus adopted just before the convention opened, One called for a platform plank supporting return to Thomas Jefferson free enterprise, individual initiative and states rights. On the last point the rebels want the states to have the only power to pass laws on the conduct of elections, define crimes committed within, state borders, regulate employment practices and segregation of races.

Now's the Time, It Certainly Is

UNDER this proposal, President Truman's civil rights program would be killed. But, says Gov. J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, the purpose of the rebels is not' to put over white supremacy, it's to preserve states’ rights. For if the U, 8. government can pass a law to make lynching a crime, then it can pass a law against burglary and so destroy state courts. This is an important point. It raises the question of whether the states’ rights issue is being used as an excuse to kill off civil rights legislation, or whether opposition to Mr. Truman’s civil rights program is being used as an excuse to get back to states’ rights extreme conservatism. Govs. Laney, Thurmond and Fielding Wright of Mississippi and their followers in the Southern revolt insist it's the latter. In support of this contention, consider the second resolution passed by the Southern caucus, It calls for retention of under-water min-

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ON DEC. 1, 1821 (less than a year after the foundation of Indianapolis) Mrs. Calvin Fletcher wrote in her diary: “Today I have finished the ‘Vicar of Wakefield and commenced reading the ‘Life of Washington’.” It also turns out that Mrs. Fletcher kept track of her husband's reading. Indeed. it was by way of diary that I ran across “Emma’’—and the even more romantic item that Mr. Fletcher read Jane Austen's five-year-old best seller at the very same time his wife was plodding through the “Life of

Washington.” Mr. Fletcher must have gobbled up “Emma” in a

hurry; for by the 20th day of the same month, he was reading “Duncan’s Logic,” for the second time, reports his wife. . Nor was that all. That same month, Mr. Fletcher devoured two mere books: “Travels of. Munro Park” (into the interior of Africa) and Robertson's “History of America.” + From other sources we learn that Mrs. Fletcher didn't do much reading for the better part of the next year, the general supposition being that a lot of fancy knitting and sewing was piling up. Nonetheless, on Feb, 12, 1823, she found the necessary time to report that she was reading “The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey.” And with apparent relish too. : Even more significant is the discovery that, simultaneously with Mrs. Fletcher's reading of “The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey,” her hus band again turned to the “Travels of Munro Park” and read it a second time.

He's No ‘Peeping Tom’ Columnist ALL’ OF WHICH, of course, leaves one no

alternative but to believe that Calvin and Sarah Fletcher spent their evenings at home and didn’t

eveér, that’s not the point of today's piece. Nothing as obvious as that. Before proceeding with the point of today’s piece, permit me to clarify my position. Believe me, I am not peeping through the keyhole of the Fletcher cabin because of a Winchell complex—or, indeed, any other kind of vulgar curiosity that seeks only to destroy the privacy of people who ask nothing more of their fellowmen than to be let alone. % Thank heaven, my motive is of a higher order-—nothing less, indeed, than a passionate desire to shed more light on a general and longsuspected belief that Indianapolis people are what they are because of prenatal influences. In support of which I cite the fact that Calvin and*Sarah Fletcher's first baby was born in 1823, the very year Mrs. Fletcher was reading “The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey,” a romance of extraordinary suspense—the very same year, too, Mr. Fletcher was re-reading ‘Travels of Munro Park.” Well, that baby turned out to be the Rev. James Cooley Fletcher—perhaps not very exciting news until you learn that he was the famous author (in collaboration with D. P.

DISTANCE ENTERS . . . ® ® Price Quiz By: RAYY MITTEN WASHINGTON, July 14 —

Geography is about to make the high cost of living and do-

worse for others. It's a matter of shipping distances and costs. Disturbed by, the situation and complaints regarding it, Congress is getting a largescale investigation started. A special Senate subcommittee, given $50,000 to work with, is doing preliminary work and hopes to bégin hearings this fall. ® 8 = | ITS REPORT to Congress, due next Mar. 15, may lay the | groundwork for new legisla- { tion to curb Federal Trade | Commission powers, informed | sources here believe. | What has kicked up this | storm are the current indus |

eral rights—oil—-by the states. This is the old tidelands iasue. .

and ‘the power companies and other big busi-

posed to dominate the Republican Party, now | have a stranglehold on the Southern representatives. And if that's the situation, then these Southern rebels ought to walk out on the Democratic Party or vice versa for a completely new political realignment of both parties. Now's the

time, it certainly is.

What this resolution indicates is simply that | the big oil companies, along with the railroads |

ness interests that have for so long been sup-©|

trial change-overs tb FOB pricing from former delivered pricing, under which shippers frequently. absorbed part of | | freight costs. | This means higher costs for buyers living leng distances from the shipment's point of origin, lower ones for those living close. Under the de: livered price’ system, those geographical differences are largely evened out under a “basing point” plan. *

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Kidder) of a monumental work known as “Brazil and the Brazilians.” It made Munro Park look like a piker. 8 A mere coincidence, you say. Very well, listen to this: The Rev. James Cooley Fletcher married a daughter of Dr. Cesar Malan, an

"eminent Swiss divine, and in no time at all

Calvin and Sarah Fletcher had a grandchild. She was christened Julia Constance. Julia was only 19 years old when she wrote “Kismet,” an epoch-stirring thriller of such extraordinary that it made “The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey” look pathetic. It turned up anonymously in the famous ‘No Name Series” of 1877. That year the girls of Indianapolis lost so much time the book to bed that they never did catch up on their sleep. The usual child-prodigy stuff, you say. All right, then listen to this: Julia kept on writing until, finally, she had a whole shelf full of best sellers to her credit. Her success started with “A Nile Novel” (1877) and ended in 1897 with

“A First Gentleman in Europe” written in: col-:

laboration with Frances Hodgson Burnett who, a decade earlier, had tossed off “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” (probably the most bitter book we kids ever had to put up with.)

How Else Do You Explain It?

AFTER her novel-writting period, Julia Fletcher put together an impressive lot of plays. Almost forgotten is the historic fact that it was she who dramatized the authoritative stage version of Kipling’s “The Light That Fialed.” By this time it was 1903.

It’s ‘a guess on ‘my part, but there may be two good reasons why Julia Fletcher's fame has escaped almost everybody: (1), Because she spent almost all of her life in Rome (Italy) and (2), because her entire literary career was hidden under the masculine pseudonym of “George Fleming.” Phenomenal, you say, but hardly general enough to serve as a Hoosier law. Shucks! I know of any number of Indianapolis people whose genius can’t be accounted for except that their grandparents planned it that way.

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Still Believes in Love

NEW YORK, July 14—Clara Lane, who has introduced 35,000 men and women to each other, still believes in love.

“It's the only thing-that will make a marriage work,” she said today. She's dismayed by the recent public offers by several women to marry for money.

“There are a lot of men who would pay $10,000 for a wife,” she said.

“But such a purchase would be a waste of money.” Mrs. Lane operates the world’s largest introduction service. Thousands of her introductions have led to marriage. And she laughed at the theory that gentlemen prefer blondes. » ;

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y changed. ever, still ought to value them highly. A permanent a Heke is a boon.

Building a Better Future

By D. W. Blakeslee Idealism? Yes. Ideas cause change but they are the effects of earlier causes. The pressure of slavery developed the demand for freedom. Capitalistic pre caused the development of the socialistic ideal. Where pressure is greatest, as in the coal mines and textile mills, socialism makes To build a better future we must have vis« fons of what it should be like and work to develop it. : But the Communist says: No, not yet; first tear down everything we have and then start in a clean field. How far back does he think we must go along that endless chain of cause and effect? We must not go back to an earlier stage of development, as did Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin, We must build a better world based upon the things we can now make, distribute and have for our own use.

® & ¢ Points to Truman's Record By West Sider ’ What better indorsement to the support of President Truman by the average independent voter than the lack of it from the party bigwigs? This man has a remarkable record for trying to enact legislation to do. the most good for the many. The fact that he will not lend himself to be used for selfish political interests rates at least a review of his term of office. His lack of color has sometimes overshadowed his honest endeavors, but one tan't help but; S4mire his forthrightness and independent 8p!

U.S. AFFAIRS — Can Democrats Win Senate?

By Marquis Childs

PHILADELPHIA, July 14—What is happening here is so completely out of focus that, Judged by ordinary political standards, it makes no sense at all. Like mirror-writing, it needs to be seen in a glass that will correct the distortions. <The reason is obvious enough. No one; but no ‘one at all, believes in the future of the party or the candidates to be chosen by the party. ; That is true particularly since so many eager beavers have worked to destroy the slim chance that may once have existed. : Take the selection of Alben Barkley for Vice President as an example of the upside-down quality of the goings-on here. Those behind the Barkley move had no illusions that the Senator from Kentucky would add much strength to the ticket nationally. His Senate colleagues want him to have the honor as a kind of capstone to his long and faithful service in the Senate. *

A Practical Political Reason

BUT HE will be 71 years old. in November. That doesn’t matter, his friends say, since in any event the ticket will not be elected. He will make a respectable campaign, so the argument goes. , There is, however, a practical political reason advanced. Mr. Barkley would help the ticket in his native Kentucky—a border state that went Republican two years ago—help knock out a Republican Senator up for reelection. 2S. © In other words, you would be nominating a vice presidential candidate in the wistful hope of strengthening the Democratic opposition in Congress. Place where Liberal-Labor elements in the party now can make their influence felt is in congressional. contests in behalf of candidates considered progressive. . Some Democrats are pointing to a chance to capture control of the Senate from the Republicans—even though this is. a Republican presidential year. A shift of four seats from the Republican to the Democratic side would do it.

Here’s How It Could Happen

IT .COULD happen. In Oklahoma, former Gov. Robert Kerr, who seems certain to be the Democratic candidate for the Senate, is said to have a good chance against Rep, Ross Rizley. In Wyoming, Gov. Lester-C. Hunt, the Democratic candidate for the Senate, is given the edge over Sen. Edward V. Robertson (R.), 8 wealthy .rancher. 3 The Senate race in Minnesota is hot. There the Democrats have a dynamic vote-getter in Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey of ‘Minneapolis. He has gained in recent polls against the in_cumbent, Sen. Joseph H. Ball, with 38. This was a distinct gain for Humphrey. -In some states, Democratic Senators are threatened. , In Montana, Sen, James E. Murray is in a tight race. Even with Mr. Barkley on the national ticket, the Democrats cannot be too hopeful pig WR ii came on two “ago for a short term. He has a good record

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