Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1948 — Page 10

RD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ

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Truman Blunders Again

ONCE) MORE the President demonstrates his genius for putting his foot in his mouth in casual comments on Tp affairs. In the midst of the worst foreign crisis since the Armistice he blandly remarks that the chances for world peace are excellent. Unless he is trying to wage a war of nerves against the confused American people— instead of countering the Soviet war of nerves—that doesn’t make sense. “ Last month in Eugene, Ore., Mr. Truman said he knew ". + liked “Old Joe . . . a decent fellow ... who is a prisoner of politburo.” ) He thereby unwittingly furthered the favorite commie

line for fellow travelers that the boss aggressor is not re-

sponsible, that Stalin's aides run the dictator who handpicks and purges them at will. The American public didn’t know what to think. . . ». . ¥ FORTUNATELY a day or so later tie President in a "University of California address recovered his fumble in a brilliant and forceful analysis of Russian relations— “what the world needs in order to regain a sense of security is an end to Soviet obstruction and aggression.” At that point it was charitable to assume that the President had learned his lesson, that hereafter he would reserve his curbstone comments for lighter subjects and

speak on the war threat only with the considered responsi-

bility of the President and Commander in Chief. : But Thursday, he let his well-meaning tongue run loose again. The grave fact is—as stated in Secretary Marshall's recent note to Moscow-—that Russia's blockade of Berlin has created an “extremely serious international situation.” - So serious, indeed, that America is risking the largest airlift in history to counter the Russians, is rushing our biggest bombers and fastest jet fighters to English bases, and is trying. to co-ordinate. joint: defense plans. with our

Secretary of State Marshall repeats his public warning that or a in is coming Weg

TE Whe on the hosts of that ite Mamie MAGIC |

and Just before going into the emergency military conference with Gen. Clay, that the President blithely assured the press that chances of warld peace Sre excellent. , ‘Then to make the confusion complete, he added’ that

President was trying to reassure u jittery pub--

it can be made so by a President who appears at one minute to laugh off the threat of a world tragedy which he admits the next minute. If the President was thinking in political terms, and trying to offset unfair partisan eritioism that he has. been inventing a war scare, we hope he ceased thinking about

campaign politics when he entered the Clay-Marshall de-

fense conference. : As it is, the President's crack plays into the hands of Stalin, whose press says that Gen. Clay has been reprimanded for the firm policy, and whose politburo may now discount the next Marshall note of protest. That would increase the war threat. If Mr. Truman will re-read his own University of California speech he will discover that the chances for world peace are not, and cannot be, excellent until Russia ceases the aggression which causes war. = :

Fresh Bait on the Hook

EN. GLEN TAYLOR, who is to be third-party candidate for Vice President, says only the “pink” Communists will vote for him and Henry Wallace—that the “Reds” will support the Dewey-Warren ticket ‘because the best way to get a revolution is to have another Hoover administration.” The party of which the Senator is the hand-picked vice presidential candidate was the brainchild of the Communists, according to their claim. So he may know the minds of the Communist leadership better than most people. But he isn't kidding anybody by saying that only those Communists “who believe in the Democratic processes” will support his ticket. There just aren't any such. Party discipline does not permit such dangerous thinking. What Candidate Taylor is bidding for is the votes of gullible liberals who are beginning to shy away from his ticket because of its Red support. His is a familiar tactic, and one that will give no offense to the Communist leadership. It is one way they themselves have used in every country in which they have sought to form a coalition movement. But whatever the bait that’s used, the hook's behind it.

Ulcers Away

IT IS well known that war tension promotes acidity of the stomach, frequently causing people to become touchy, morbid, fretful, peevish and nervous. That psychomedical fact posed something of a problem for Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt, who was housekeeper at the White House during the war. World leaders flocking to Washington and the White House for surcease often found themselves beset by acute cases of ulcers. How to meet the problem? Mrs. Nesbitt reveals if her book, “White House Diary” (Doubleday) just published, that she simply kept a long file of ulcer patients’ needs and _. by consulting it frequently she was able to play up to their fini : A

Thus we suspect that the White House menus in those ng days, together with liberal portions of lend-lease, Hays great deal of hyperacidity and sourness

In Tune ‘With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue . KATYDIDS—

Please tell me why the katydids Must always argue so; 1 hear them quarreling every night ‘Most every place I go. Do you suppose that they are mad? —~What can the trouble be, That they are always so at odds And never can agree? —MARY LARKIN COOK, Anderson. ® © 9

"THE LITTLE THINGS"

There is so little we may say To help someone along the way. There is so little we can do— You for me, or me, for you.

‘““Thé little things” are not so small If we would see them, one and all, From s kindly deed, that grew and grew— You knew me, and, I knew you. ~MARY R. WHITE, 854 N. Sherman Dr. ¢ © *

LOW GEAR

My but we are poor! We are never sure If Pa will have some work; Hed mow a yard, And not take it hard To be the country clerk!

But the likes of such Ain't in our thinking much— We'd all be quite content With burnin’ cobs, And little jobs That turn a helpful cent.

My but we are low! We never know, Bince our days are so ajag, How fortune will set, How we will get ‘X The next shot of gas for the car! 1 ~—BARTON REES POGUE, Upland.

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\ "ON BRANDYWINE"

I recall when a lad—In boyhood’s happy time—=I oft went fishing with my dad—On the e. Now I have boys of my own— An’ I've been sorta a’ wishin'—That me and Dave and little Phil—Could some time soon go fishin’—Get up when the roosters crow—It the weather's fine—Head for the sucker-hole—On the Brandywine—Find a shady, grassy nook— where cool shadows, double—Unwind our line, bait each hook--Forgot all care and trouble— ‘Stay all day—On into the night, have the time—Even if the fish don't bite—On the Brandiywine—Sometimes we catch a “mess” or two—Sometimes we catch none—But no matter what we do—we Have a bag of fun—And all too soon—Will they be grown—Those two dear boys of niine. Then, I'll have but memories as I fish—Aloné—on Brandywine.

» ~W. E. WIOKLIFF, New Castle.

IN WASHINGTON—

Draft Dispute

By Rayy Mitten

WASHINGTON, July 24—BSelective service may yet polish up that fish bowl for a repetition of the World War II lottery type draft.

Thate 18 4 shatp difference of opinion between congressional leaders and selective service officials as to how the draft should be administered. i The former want the draft to be spread evenly among the 19-25 age group by use of the fish bowl method or something similar. The latter have Jet it be known they er drafting men according to tes. Republican Armed Services Comimittee,

assurance that the matter would not be settled before Congress reconvenes next ‘week. Mr. Gurney said his committee would take up the matter immediately upon returning here.

Against ‘Birthday Provision’ WHILE it was not confirmed by the Senator, he is siid by reliable sources to have complained sharply to Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director, upon reports recently that the birthday drafting method would be used. Mr. Gurney himself said he wrote a letter to Gen. Hershey last week, setting forth the stand taken by Senate and House conferees in final shaping up of the new draft law, © “The conferees intended that the draft should be spread evenly among the different #gge groups,” Mr. Gurney said in the telephone interview. He explained that the bill as it cant to the Senate from the House contained a provision authorizing a draft by age groups. The Senate, however, struck out that “birthday” provision and the conferees of both houses finally agreed to leave it out. “There will be nothing more done about it until we get back there,” Mr. Gurney said. “Then we'll work something out.”

May Stick to Stand

WHILE Mr. Gurney’s view holds that the birthday system is contrary to the intent of Congress, Gen. Hershey's office is said to con‘tend that there is nothing in the law specifically banning it. It is expected here that if Mr. Gurney and others influential in Congress stick to their stand against the birthday system (which will be used in draft registrations) it will be dropped. Main reason given is that Gen. Hershey must look chiefly to Mr. Gurney’'s committee for Capild! Hill support next year. Rep. Short (R. Mo.), who will be new chairman of the House Armed Services Committee if he is re-elected as expected, is lukewarm, if not hostile, toward, the peacetime draft.

Inflation in Love

MANILA, July 24—The high cost of matrimony has hit these islands. In pre-war days a lonesome Filipino could get married if he had $50 in his pocket. Now he needs at least $500. As for the prospective bride, or rather her parents, the ante is away up, too. According to official city government sources here in Manila, 860 couples were hit by Cupid's arrows in June, 1948. They spent an estimated

$600,000 to get hitched and that didn't include honeymoons. The bridegroom needed $50 for his wedding suit, $12.50 for his shoes, $25 for the ring, $25 for church fees, $27.50 for flowers, $350 for the reception, plus miscellaneous items. The bride's outfit cost $125 for the wedding gown, $12.50 for shoes, $2.50 for nylons, $25 for gifts for attendants, $12.50 for the “Ave Maria” songbird for the ceremony and another $12.50 for the pictures. |

U. S. AFFAIRS .

. By Marquis. Childs

Stage Managers of Wallace's New Party Are Aiming at 1952

PHILADELPHIA, July 24—At this third political convention to be held in Philadelphia there can be few surprises. The ground has been too carefully prepared

from the first day—now more than six months

ago—that Henry Wallace gave his consent to lead a third-party movement. The resentment of non-Communist liberals and radicals at the domination of the Communists and fellow-travelers may boil up. And there is reason to believe Mr. Wallace would welcome such a protest, which would show that the convention is not too tightly stagemanaged.

But otherwise the program will. move on toward the climax in Shibe ‘Park. There Mr.

Wallace and his running mate, Sen. Glen Taylor of Idaho, will appear before a crowd that is certain to be wildly enthusiastic. This is a propaganda show, and the propaganda is aimed not so much at the present

as at the future. tod Sirewd singe mamagels are aiming at 1952. They do not believe, as Mr. Wallace says Re believes, in the future of American cap-

They see in mfationary prices and the trembling uncertainty of the stock market the symptoms of a new crash and depression. And they want to be ready to lead millions of dissatisfied in another political direction. These stage managers are something new on the national political scene. With one or two exceptions, they have never before in the rough-and-tumble of American politics and they never held elective office. Behind a barricade of mimeograph machines, these dedicated men and women have carried on a propaganda warfare.

Baldwin Is Stage Manager THIS IS not said to belittle their influence. In organized labor, before Philip Murray of the CIO decided on a showdown, the power they

Health Pledge

PEARL HARBOR, July 24-—Two years from now the United States will have kept its pledge to the United. Nations more than any other trusteeship power. The U. 8. Navy will have made a complete physical examination of every man, woman and child of the 51,000 inhabitants of the Pacific Islands the United States holds in trust. The inter-island ship Whidbey, a floating clinic about the size of a plump destroyer, has just sailed from here to begin examinations for every new son and daughter acquired from Japan by Uncle Sam in the Marshalls and the Carolines. : About one-third of the 42 men in the crew are members of the medical staff. They will peer at 50 chests daily to check jor, Subercisiesis, main enemy of island good ea

for the Wallace . United Electrical Workers.

“Human Welfare. Another former

+ exerted was far out of Proportion to their numbers. Almost the only substantial labor support Party comes today from the

mer Lillian Traugott. She the Office of Strategic Services fi war. Mrs. Baldwin is the politics of the left both an a

country. The individual who has made himself uable to Mr. Wallace personally is Lewis Frank

* Jr. Soft-spoken, a brilliant intellectual, Mr.

Frank is always at hand to help in the preparation of a speech or to discuss with the thirdparty candidate his doubts and difficulties.

: - #1 Marc Has Demagogue Skill THE SON of a wealthy paper-box manufacturer in Detroit, Mr. Frank might almost be a character out of one of the highly successful plays of Lillian Hellman with their sharply. drawn villains, their. pathetic victims and their heroes. Miss Hellman is one of the “big names” that lend prestige to the party and who presumably also comes through wi generous contributions. One of the few officeholders active in the party is Rep. Vito Marcantonio of New York City. Marc, as he is called by almost everyone, must be rated as one of the four or five top managers of the party. He knows 4.Jot shout practical politics 2 and he has a demagogic skill in stirring a crowd. Between Marc and another active manager, Pressman, a rivalry is said to have grown “up. Mr. Pressman—who resigned as counsel for the CIO when Mr. Murray forced a showdown over Wallace—is for Congress on the third-party ticket in a Brooklyn district. He has an aggressive personality and a powerful intellect. * Paul Robeson, the Negro singer and a member of the executive committee, is high on the list. So is Clark Foreman, who was formerly the active force in the Southern Conference for 10 Executive taking a leading part in the Waliase movement is John Abt. Berlin is a kind of lurid backiyop for what happens here. If war with the Soviet Union should come, the FBI would move at once to confine thousands suspected of allegiance to world communism rather than to the, United States. And it is no secret that some of those who would be confined are here at this convention. That is part of the drama just offstage, but you would never suspect it watching the stage managers go about their work.

TREND IS DOWN. ..

On Tips

By JACK KOFOED MEXICO CITY, July 24-— Having spent no small amount of time in such excellent tipping centers as Miami Beach, New York, Beverly Hills and Atlantic City, it has become a habit with me to watch the trend of tipping. The trend I've discovered here is down... Summer, it seems, is a disappointing time from the viewpoint of Mexican tip receivers. Most visitor's from the states this time of year are on the wrong side of middle age for. real open-handedness. A good many are school teachers who want to make their pesos last. » ¢ ” The silver peso is a beautiful piece of coinage, but at the current rate of exchange it's worth only abSut 20 cents. Tourists hate to hand out anything so expensive looking. So they fall back on copper for tips. Often a waiter gets about seven cents for serving a seven-course meal, The people who live on tips here are beginning to have a slightly hungry look, there are plenty of Americans around.

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LABOR IN POLITICS—

A Split in S08

By Fred W. Perkins

PHILADELPHIA, July 24—The Wall Party is busy here on plans which it will result in separating masses of AFL | 30 members from their anti-Wallace le snip. The aim is to win votes for the Wall Taylor ticket in the field where most of ‘ support, must be found, if it's to make showing at all in the fall—from members df ganized labor and working people in genet Leonard DeCaux, who is handimg FE Di for the Wallaceites’ labor division, sai he was aware that most such votes it Mr. Wallace would be votes taken away {I President Truman. But he added there wou a smattering who would otherwise vote 0! or LOY Dewey. : The admission is important only as it @ cates the Wallace people. knowingly are We ing on the side of the Republicans and ag# the Democrats in the fall elections.

Some See CIO Splitup 48 MR. DECAUX—who was top publicity He for the CIO until his political views ¢: irreconcilably last year with those of CIO ¥

ident Philip Murray—said he saw no CHASREN that the CTO would be sElft fu tw Jf the @ £2! Sina

Others here are not so po bi They 8 possibility of the CIO’s organic re olution, pending upon how bitter the internal polit fight becomes. As if to further such a split, Mr. DeCa¥ division has made public a list of the mer of the ‘National Labor Committee for Wal and Taylor.” The list, which came out even 1000, gave names, addresses, ps unions to which the thousand belonged. On the sheet were members of 47 ! A unions, whose top leadership has spurned FeLC Wallace and his associates. Also there members of 31 CIO unions, although oF i

Wallace Party. In addition, 14 a, and six independents had individual mem on the committee.

Insurgents Againts Own Lead

WITH THE exception of the dozes Wallace CIO unions, all others on the cof tee are technically insurgents against theif union leaders. ao g Heavily represented was -the m Electrical Workers, which has a left-wing

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