Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1948 — Page 10

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Election Reform Needed THIS presidential election ought to be the last one conducted under rules which make it possible for the candidate who gets the largest popular vote to be defeated. . Lodge (R. Mass.) has proposed a constitutional awendment to change the country's old and bad electoral system. The next Congress should submit that amendment . to the states for prompt ratification. The present system gives each state's entire electoral vote to the presidential candidate getting more popular votes than any other in that state. For instance, this year : a candidate needs to poll not even a majority, but only a bare plurality of New York's more than six million popular votes in order to get all 47 of New York's electoral votes. The same in other states. As a result of this system: In 1876, Democrat Tilden got 4,284 885 popular votes in * all states combined; Republican Hayes, only 4,033,050. But the electoral voté was so close that a Republican-controlled commission was able to count Mr. Tilden out and make Mr. Hayes President. "nw . " . . . ~ IN 1888, the aointey gave Democrat Cleveland 100,000 kl: mre ork bvnel Votes. ‘than Republican Harrison, but Mr.

“And such defeats of’ ‘the American people's majority will could happen again. In 1044, a shift of fewer than 600,000 popular votes in ix big states would have elected Republican Dewey with: a small majority of the country's electoral votes, although Democrat Roosevelt still would ‘have been the choice of a great Hajority of the country's voting citizens, Indeed; it is. now ‘mathematically possible for fewer than 24,000,000 citizens voting in 12'large states to elect a candidate even though’ 60,800,000 citizens in the other 36 “states might vote for his opponent. he § toral votes of each stite among the various presidential cnadidates -in proportion to their shares of that state's popular vote. :

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A make, the ‘whole country's electoral vote ‘accurately the ‘whole. country’s Jopular

‘War in Korea ness Ere republic can suppress the Red mil tary ‘rebellion quickly, a - full-scale Far Eastern war. __ might result. Stalin is in position to start such a war. But 7 itis too early yet to determine whether he has planned this as pnother of hia Bfth-column sideshows or Something | much | bigger, Fri

occupation there, and the United Nations as the protector of the republic, both would be involved. ~~ Whatever the résult, the start was deceptively simple one of those “internal” affairs in which native Red agents rather than Russians are used. method serves a double purpose. It cannot be pinned on Stalin so directly, and it is more difficult for American occupation troops to handle without cries of “foreign intervention” being raised. . r . y - x . IN immediate military terms the situation favors Stalin. In northern Korea he has established a puppet regime, and trained and equipped a local army of 200,000 or more. This enables him to withdraw his larger Russian army, which he says he is beginning to do, But even if all Russian troops are out by Jan, 1, as pledged, they will remain in neighboring Siberia on quick call. By comparison the military force of the Korean republic is puny—a raw constab of about 60,000 infiltrated by Reds now-leading the rebellion. American troops, remaining during the transition period, are reported: to number less than 25,000. : On the political ud diplomatic side, however, Stalin's position in Korea is very weak. He defied UN authority by refusing supervised elections in North Korea when they were held in the rest of the country. . Bo it would not be as -easy for Stalin to finish a war fn Korea as to start one, because soon or late he would have ‘to dispose of both the United Nations and the United States. He should watch his step.

Home-Brewed Words : Bom William Philip Simms and MVilliamp H. Newton, our correspondents at thé Paris United Nations meetings, have written about the dry, legalistic wordiness of American delegates in contrast to the hard-hitting, down- to-earth speeches of the Russian spokesmen. EY We think their point is well taken. When the Ameri“egns spit on their hands and come out.with a majdr speech, it still sounds like Harvard Law School elocution.| But the Russians, seemingly without effort, have a way of reaching * “ordinary people. Take Mr, Vishinsky's remark, for instance, . that! you couldn't dismiss the atom bomb “like it was a “pound of raisins.” It never. would have. occurred to our State Department ghost-writers to compare the atom bomb with a pound ef raisins, nor would they have condescended: to use the gimile if it had occurred to them.

knows that with raisins you can get an effect not unlike a mild atom Bombing. Yes, Mr. Viahiey had ‘something

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In Tune With the Times Barton Rees Pogue MEMORIES OF THE SEA

Gray ships, sfiug at the river pier. A night the portholes gleaming like strings of jewels. + Mooring lines creaking as the ship rocks

with the tide. . . . Shabby seagulls on the channel. buoys. . . . Lighthouses tall and gaunt on the bone white ‘dunes of the beach. . . . The

green ocean spread out to meet the sky. . , Convoys of ships hull down beyond the horizon, « «+ Palm trees lush and wild along tropic shores. + + +» Black rotting ‘cocoanuts bobbing with the tide. . . .. Green camouflaged ships at anchor, turning As the ‘tide turns. .. . The low rumble and throb of the ship's engines underfoot, . The engine room stuffy with the smell of hot off and hot metal. . . . The tropic sea glowing in the night. . . The wake of the ship, a gleaming path of green light. . White capped swells growling defiance out of the darkness, , . , Vicious waves charging across a low slung deck. . . . Pink dawn breaking over a gilded unresting sea, . . . The rattle of pans and profanity from the galley, and the smell of fresh hot coffee. . . . The SBouthern Cross and the Centauri burning. brilliantly in the glowing Milky Way. ., . . Pale silhouettes of land on the horizon. . Flying fish that appear and disappear into ‘the ink biue swells, . . . Bleek, shiny, black porpoises that leap and dive to race with the ship, sniff and snort, then slip Away ‘again, . Distant rain squalls lowering their silver veils to the sea. . . . Bleak, empty horizons when they at last raise ‘the blue green hills and glittering cities of home. . .. The rumble and thunder of the anchor chain in the hawse pipe. . The strange, powerful silence after the engines cease their throbbing.

~WALTER K. NEWMAN, Indianapolis. LI

SOWING AND REAPING

The click of the seeder, The tractor's loud roar, The call of the men in the field . ., Bright sunshine above And the mellow: South wind ~All add to the earth's summér yield,

WwW. -' cr pt “lo, m turned sun ward, ¥ ar Harrowed and endef with care , , . ns The song of she tiller With strong, calloused hands And back of it all , , . God is there!

The hum of the reaper, Anxious moments withal, A hungry world waiting for food Then harvest! Reward . For the tilier of soil— ; From a God, Who is kindly and good!

~RUTH RIERLEDS, Crawfordsville.

"FROM THE RUDE SWAIN

Forgive me, World, if I uncouth do seem; If in my stride no lordly sage you see, And In your wise and- learned mind you deem Me far below your proud satiety, Put down the burnished goblet from your hand And lift your hoary brow from hidden shame, Look then upon the earth's broad rolling land And see from whence your proud possessions , came: Then you shall know what he who strives to Know And, 1, that these by him are thus polsested When I, full spent and unashamed, go To my dark chamber and to final rest; That none may bow upon the fresh turned sod And know not why we turn. to peace and God. ~MARV IN THEORORE 40 JOLLY, Seymour. ode

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FWhat hive you in your hand? The. ability to do! - nos fingers have the power To express the soul of you! “Bat the soul; “tan ttrreach nc Beyond. that splendid skill Into things sublime, ‘and grasp From heaven what it will

4 Of melody and charm?

Say not the days are wrong! Reach for dreams to match your att And give the world a song!

—~BARTON REES POGUE, Upland, * % o

FALLING FOLIAGE (Cinquetun) The trees of autumn are aglow With leaves of red and brown Which falter in the briskly stirring breeze . . . Then driven to and fro, Forsake, while fashioning earth a gown, The trees. ~MARY HAGLER, LeMASTERS, Franklin,

OLD WOUNDS . . . By Marquis Childs oT

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 23-—President Truman and Gov. Dewey have -given the voters their first real basis for comparison of the two c¢andidates’ promises .on specific issues. They line up like this: Minimum Wage Law: Mr. Truman—*T be- _ lieve that we should increase the minimum wage “from 40 cents an hour to at least 75 cents an hour.” Mr. Dewey—"“The present minimum wage set by law is far too low and it will be raised.” Both statements head the same way. The difference is that Mr. Truman is specific and Mr. Dewey is general. Mr. Truman advocated his increase during the last Congress but was > blocked by the Republicans. Social Security: . Mr. Truman—“I believe Social Security should be extended to the large groups of people not now protected. I believe that the insurance benéfits should be increased by approximately -50 per cent.” “Mr. Dewey — |, “We will overhaul the Social Security system for the unemployed and the aged and go forward to extend its coverage and increase its benefits.” Both statements head the same way. The difference is that Mr. Truman is specific and M#; Dewey is general. The difference is that President Truman advocated his increases during the

trol. to the aged and blind by $5 to $50 a menth, increasing aid to dependent children" by $3 & month to $27. Then the bill blocked inclusion

- This was passed over the President’s veto,

| Both" Want ‘Lower Prices

COST of Living: Mr, Truman—“I believe we should do something, at once, about high prices.” Mr. Dewey" “We will make sure that soaring prices do not steal food, clothing and other necessities from American families.” Both stateménts. head the same way. The difference is that Mr, Truman spelled out a specific anti-inflation program for the special session of Congress, blocked by the last Congress while Republicans were in control. The difference is that Mr. Dewey hasn't said how he proposes to carry out his promise. Housing: Mr. Truman—"“I believe the Congress should provide aid for slum clearance and low-rent housing.” Mr. Dewey—“We- will break the log jam in housing so that decent houses may be provided at reasonable cost for our people.” Both statements head the same way. The difference is that President Truman specifically supported the ‘Taft-Ellender-Wagner Bill in full,

Toe Issues of Compared ik

fast” Congress, while Republicang: were in con-... The Congress passed a Bill increasing aid ~

of 500,000 salesmen and others not now covered.

_ actually did. This reduces the campaign to an

This program was largely

‘4,000,000 men under arms.

| Side Glances—By Galbraith

In the housing bill finally passed by the special session, slum clearance and low-rent housing sections were killed by the Republican Congress. This, however, is not the complete housing story. New York state's record in slum clearance and building of subsidized rental housing for lowIncome families under Gov. Dewey is above criticism. If he can do as well in a federal . housing program, there can be no complaint,

Here Is a Real Difference

TAFT-HARTLEY Labor Law: Mr. Truman —1 believe .that we should repeal the TaftHartley Act” Mr. Dewey—" "The new law is not perfect ... wherever and whenever it needs change it will be changed.” Here there is real difference. There is no question about what the President's statement means. But Gov. Dewey's statement could mean anything. It could mean that some sections of the act might be made stiffer just as well as it could mean that some sections might be repealed. What Mr. Dewey apparently means is explained in other sections of the Pittsburgh speech. He said that the Tart-Hartley Law had reduced strikes instead of increased them, that it had reduced the discharge rate instead of increased it; that the Truman -administration had . iteelf used the law seven times to head off major strikes, being successful in six cases. . What this brief comparison on social issues | .shows is that—aside from their opposite stands on the Taft-Hartley Law—there isn’t so much difference in the objectives of Mr. Truman and Mr. Dewey. The difference is in what they seem to stand for and what the last Congress

issue of whether Mr. Dewey might get more out of Congress than Mf. Truman did. Odds are that he might.

| | What Others Say— |

At least one nation baldly announces its intention that communism shall cover the face of | the earth’ . .. This same nation has more than This military might can: hardly bé for the purpose of defense.— Army Secretary Royall. * © *

We are setting up America’s best insurance policy against communism or any other kind of “ism,” and against those who believe that it is the function of the state to regulate completely | ‘the lives of all :men.—Joha L. Lewis, UMW president, referring to the miners’ pension pian,

Hoosier Forum

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‘Drugs Causing Attacks’ By N. E. Woodward, Corydon are more oftén the cause of attacks on women and children that we are reading about here. One writer stated that “it was booze.” I differ there. That opinion comes through long usage of hatred of what they call “drink.” They know nothing of the drug habit, and its behavior in the creature and wmttribute all ibnormals to drunkenness. Drugs have been” flagrantly dealt out to

these Sodomite youths, to the extent that our -

insane asylums are overflowing with their kind.

These drugs are a violent excitant to the brain,

and make wild animals of the former civilized creature, This is the reason we have the juvenile problem. Medically, sociologically as a researcher, I am speaking. ¢ &

‘As the Twig Is Bent—"' A Reader. }

Indiana has forgotten the School for the Feeble Minded. However, that is nothing serious, prevention is better than a cure, Would it not be ‘better to prevent foeble mindedness by requiring all couples applying for marriage license to pase a test of “horse sense.” Mental health is just as necessary as physical health. Even the shameful divorce rate is caused by feeble mindedness.

Prevention is better than a cure, fof as the.

twig is bent, so the branch wil, , grow, * oo

‘Letter Not Written by Me’

By Ray Anderson, vice president, Citizens

National Bank, Crawfordsville, Recently there appeared in this Solum Ls

Jetfer HH Rims ong who used ™ to 12 , Rs J J letter signed by “Ray or 3 i =

were not my opinions and _. Cf rb

by me. This has caused considerable confusion and I desire to inform all who read the letter that I did not write it.

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ltgnorant of Facts’ By Oscar Houston, Ellettsville, Ind, Hobart Creighton, Republican candidate for Governor of Indiana, launched an attack against the Democrat Party's ability «to handle the financial affairs of the state. I don’t think Mr. Creighton Is ignorant of the facts. It is just a cheap attempt of his to deceive the voters. Let's just briefly review the financial records of the two. parties in- the last 30 years in Indiana. When Samuel Ralston, Democrat, took over us governor in 1913 after a long succession of Republican governors and legislatures, he found an empty treasure with the state owing the banks for borrowed money to pay salaries. With the co-operation of a Democratic legislature and state officials they passed a tax law that put the state finances on a sound basis, paid all debts, and when Gov. Ralston left office in 1917 he left a surplus of about $500.000 in the Hany,

Barbs—

Now there are so many autos running loose,

-we don't need wars to keep the world from being overpopulated. . lo Se Since so many women have taken men's

place in the world, why no traveling saleswoman stories?

> O° Jt's.nice to. be. the head .of the. house--hut

i “tough to have the headaches that go with it. <>

* <9 Some punches at a prize fight are music to

the fans even though played on a busted horn.

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The lowly hen is making the goose that laid the golden egg look like a piker. ¢ ¢

Here's hoping we have i a big apple crop that won't be enough jugs to hold it. >

Fall's here! How come they're not showing

spring hats? ¢ + 0 The average man has no head for figures, says a professor. Just an eye! * oo It's mighty hard to wake up the average careless driver ‘without JDinching him, *

Sympathy is best toner in very small doses,

| RED ‘CRACKDOWN’ ‘es . By Tony Smith

» | Grand Juries Probe

"But anyone whd has ever experimented with home brew

In GOP Spotlight

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23-—-A great deal of oratory of one sort and another has poured through she microphones since that night last May when Gov. Dewey and Harold Stassen had their famous debate In Orégon on communism in the United States and what to do about it. Mr, Dewey had the more popular side of that argument; he handled himself more skillfully and it gave him the slight edge necessary to win in the Oregon primary. Mr. Stassen pushed Mr, Dewey hard. Defeat in Oregon might well have cost the New York governor the nomination at the Philadelphia convention. The Stassen threat compelled Mr. Dewey to go out to the Pacific Northwest and engage in a grassroots, county-fair campaign for Oregon's six electoral votes. Yet today Mr. Stassen and Mr. Dewey. are as close as two such ambitious men could be. The feeling in the Dewey entourage is that Mr, Stassen is contributing more to the campaign than any single individual aside from the candidate himself.

Out for Younger Voters

MR. STASSEN {is campaigning in most of the states ‘where senatorial seats are in doubt, He is speaking particularly at universities and before groups of younger Yoters and veterans, where his appeal is greatest. On the Dewey team there js full appreciation of the 8tassen ry -out effort. . The realists around the New York govérnor realize that Mr. Stassen had a following among independent voters and. therefore, has something to offer in the campaign, merely converting the alréady-converted, as 80 many Republican

Speakers are doing.

In consequence, Mr. Stassen can have a very important job in the Dewey administration—if he wants it. The last is a signifi cant proviso. r. Dewey and Mr. Stassen, at their meeting in July, came to understand each other véry well. Mr. Stassen confessed his errors with a contrits heart. He admitted -that his conduct at the Philadelphia convention was outside the benevolent forgiveness of the older ‘and more enced man who recognizes his adversary's real capacities in spite of the blunders of impetuous youth.

May Be Dewey Successor-

IT TURNED out, in short, to be a love feast, Within the

kindly Dewey view it is conceivable that Mr. Stassen will succeed Mr. Dewey in the White House after two Dewey terms. The difference in their make this perfectly feasible: As to the immediate future and a job in Washington efter Jan. 20, the two friends may well end up in agreement that it wolild be unwise. Mr. Stassen accepted. the presidency of the University of Pennsylvania only a few months ago! ‘and his departure so soon would havé an odd look. Moreoyer, the choice of a position would be likely to prove difieutt: Mr, Stassdn has hinted thst he would only two State and eoreiary of

jobs—Secratary of fense. _ Candidates, for the State Department ar

lined up

He is not

Ages Mr. Stassen is 41, Mr. Dewey 46-—would

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GOPR. 1990 BY NEA SEAVIOL. WO. 7. M4. REO. U. 8. PAT. OFF.

"Oh, she's the cutest thing | ever saw, but | wish the first word she learned to speak wasn't 'grandma’l” :

from Mr. Dewey's private office clear out to tha steps of the capitol at Albany. If the Democrats should get 4 majority in the Senate, the situation would be further complicated. Then

ity member of the Foréign Relations Committee, might seriously be considered for the post. A brilliant practitioner of the bipartisan foreign policy, Mr, Vandenberg would be best equipped: to get along with a -Democratic majority in the Senate. Should that happen, John Foster Dulles, Mr, Dewey's closest adviser on foreign’ policy, would be likely to replace Warren Austin as: head of the U, 8. delegation at the Uni Nations, .

keep James Forrestal in his Jronent post as Secretary This is essential, so the t goes, for continuity ¥ “policies at least in a of several months. Presi comes from search 3. Davey cannot iguore:

fense. efense

Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, who would be merely ranking minor-

Powerful pressure is bullding up to persuade Mr. Dewey. to

The

J; Communist Party

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23—-A nationwide Y on the “open” Communist Party leadership has begun to gather steam, The drive is being conducted by the Department of Justice through grand juries now working in at least five American cities. Justice Department officials wouldn't disclose the nature of the crackdown: nor other details of actions it has brought against avowed officials of the Communist Party's regional and local organizations. A query on the number of Communist-investigating grand juries now in operation brought this reply: “The department cannot pinpoint the places where grand

| juries are convened to hear charges involving Commuriists, It

can say only that there are a number.”

‘Five "Probes Under Way

AN unofficial survey by congressional apy investigators

i showed that five boards of federal inquiry are now convened.

Angeles,

Listed were New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Denver and Los Many more are thought to be meeting secretly. House spy hunters believe Atty. Gen, Tom Clark is sending

“many cases ¢ontained in the FBI files to grand juries all over the country. counter. Republican, charges that the Truman Administration

They say the drive is a pre-election gesture to

has failed to meet the threat of communism with sucient fegal action. One expert for the House Un-American Activities Committee concedes that the proceedings in Denver and Cleveland indicate the federal officials finally have found a way to jail any Communist official they regard as a security danger. He explained the trick is to subpena the Communist, ask

him questions he can't answer and then cite him for contempt

when he refuses.

Go to Jail First

THIS method was gemonstrated in Cleveland, where Ohio state leaders of the Communist Party were asked od produce membership lists. Gus Hall, Ohio Communist chairman, says the five Red officials subpenaed for appearance before the Cleveland Grand Jury will go to jail before they turn over the party membership lists., Hall was the only Ohio Communist leader who didn't receive a summons. He is under indictment with 11 other national leaders in New York,’ Charges against local Communists apparently are similar

| to. the conspiracy allegations on which the indictment of as \

national leaders was obtained. These charged the party officials with plotting to overthrow the government.

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