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Why It Happened SECOND guesses being the order of the day, we venture

a few of our theories about why the election came out as it did. ®

Most of the credit belongs to President Truman and

the fight he made. And don't overlook Alben Barkley’s

part. The next Vice President didn’t get many big headlines during the campaign, but he was in there plugging hard every step of the way. _ We think Mr. Truman reaped the benefit of a lot of public sympathy because, right up to Tuesday, he was so generally pictured as the underdog—the game little fetfow doing his best in a hopeless cause. Editorials that criticized him harshly, cartoons that poked fun at him, columnists and commentators who pontificated about his errors, all probably helped him. For mighty few people ever have found it possible really to dislike Harry 8. Truman, while an amazing number seem to find it extremely easy not to love Gov. Dewey, much as they may admire his competence.

” 5 » ~ » “ PROSPERITY—high employment. It's tradition that the American people don't turn an administration out of power when times are good. It was not, in-our opinion, con. sistent of Mr. Truman to claim Democratic credit for prosperity and put all the blame for the high cost of living on the Republicans. But millions of voters must have believed him. His victories in such agricultural states as Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Ohio were thumping surprises. Evidently many farmers, too, like to be prosperous, want to keep prices for their crops high, and were persuaded that the Democrats would be most likely to keep them propped up. : Organized labor's political-action efforts were more effective than most campaign observers thought. © The union leaders, we believe, grossly misrepresented the TaftHartley Act, but they succeeded. in making it a rallying point. And they got out the votes in industrial areas for Mr. Truman and for Democratic congressional candidates.

» ” . ¥ » » INCIDENTALLY, we suspect that more union members than ever before refused to tell pollsters how they intended to vote. That may have accounted for the big “undecided” figures in the polls—the figures which, as the surprised Dr. Gallup has pointed out, now appear so largely in the Truman-Barkley column. Finally, we think, Mr. Dewey was a victim of overconfidence. Like many others, including us, he put too much faith in the polls and the predictions of professional experts. Whether the outcome would have been much different if Mr. Dewey had made another type of campaign— if he had come down from the heights, scrapped his platitudes and generalities and talked more specifically about the issues—could be debated endlessly. And fruitlessly.

- » » #” » » “ THE important fact is that Mr. Truman is back in the White House for a new term. And this time he got there on lis own power, not as a coattail rider, not by accident. He owes nothing to the Democratic bosses who tried to ditch him at Philadelphia, to the Dixiecrats or to the Wallaceites, or, for that matter, to the newspapers and the commentators. For the next four years he will be President of the United States in his own right, and for at least the next two with a Congress controlled by his own party. We hope he will be one of the best and most successful Presidents this country has ever had.

The Fall of Manchuria

surrender of the last government outposts in Manchuria to the Chinese Communists, the North China cities of Peiping, Tientsin and Tsingtao are expected to be under direct Red attack in a matter of days. On the outcome of these battles may rest the fate of Asia. The United States set the stage for this tragic situation, and Stalin has taken full advantage of our blunder. ** The Truman administration withdrew our financial support from Chiang Kai-shek when Secretary—then General—Marshall failed to bring the Nationalists and Communists together in a coalition government. (And why should we have wanted that?) When we pulled out, Russia in. It was that simple. —Can we do anything now to save this situation? Possibly not. It may be too late. But our national integrity demands that we make the effort. Gov. Dewey is on record in favor of prompt action to

halt the spread of communism in Asia. If he is elected, the

least President Truman and Secretary Marshall can do is to prevent the situation from going from bad to worse while they remain in office. . But the hour is late and half measures will not serve.

Hint for the Voice

THE VOICE of America could put over some effective propaganda to people behind the Iron Curtain, we think, by reading aloud from any day's advertisements in the New York Daily Worker. ' All Communists have been told that most other newspapers in America are lying tools of the capitalist system. The Daily Worker can’t be suspected of that. It's as red as the Moscow Pravda. But here are a few of the goods and services advertised in the Daily Worker and, presumably, bought by the downtrédden masses, for whom the Daily Worker purports to be published, in quantities sufficient to be profitable to the advertisers: : ~ Custom-built furniture, radio-phonographs and television sets; cleaning and storage of summer rugs; women's fur coats; corsages; typewriters; electric heaters; automatic washing machines; pressure cookers; a dine-and-dance club. Millions of people in Communist-dominated countries be surprised to know that even rank-and-in the United States can and do buy these

~. In Tune With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue . SEWING CARPET-RAGS

Perhaps you need to be a native Hoosier and tot have ‘left your youth behind, to know just what I mean by “sewing -rags”, Today was my day for anything I chose to do. There was no laundry on hand, nothing needed to be canned, no cleaning scheduled for the day, no committee meetings, no church group duties, no shopping. ! I remembered that sitting in the shade of the cherry trees in the summer, I had torn into strips many old garments of every hue, and stuffed them into a large laundry bag. I've been sewing them today and winding them into huge balls. My friend, who inherited the loom of her Quaker grandmother, will weave them into lovely rag rugs for me, using bright carpet chain, # Sewing carpet-rags takes you down memory lane. How clearly you recall that lovely plaid gingham your sweet little girl wore to school! There it is, all in strings now. You reach into the pile and out comes one from a dress of your own. Dear me! That dress was very pretty and the cost was less than one-third per yard of the one you are now wearing. You reach again and this time it is a piece of your lad’'s pajamas. How ill he was when he wore these, and your heart s a beat once more in memory of your fears, You halt to breathe a prayer of thankfulness for his health and vigor now. ‘How clear and blue the color remained in these shirts! These were lovely draperies! This strip is from the pillow-top Great Aunt Nancy made for me— So I sew more than -carpet-rags. 1 sew memory and hope and love into my rug. And I am thankful to be a Hoosier and to have lived in the wonderful when girls learned to sew carpet-rags, to milk’ a cow, teach a school and bake a perfect pumpkin pie. And I smile at the incongruity of sewing them with my electric sewing machine, for I learned to sew them by hand before an open-hearth stove and by the light of coal-oil lamps.

—BERNICE HARNESS EZRA, Lafayette. * » o

OL' BANJO

Ol' banjo, yo’ has been mah fren’ Fer Mo’ dan fity years, We'se made folks shake wid laughter 'N' we'se filled dere eyes wid tears.

We’'se set out wid the young folks, When de moon was shinin’ bright, 'N’ sent dere voices ringin’ Cross de cotton fiels’ at night.

I'se played upon yo’ all de tunes Mah Pappy played fer me, When I was jes’ a little feller Standin’ by his knee.

But now I'se ol’ 'n’ feeble, 'N’ mah fingers dey won't fly Across de strings as dey did In dem happy days gone by.

. 'N' I know, too, hit won't be long "Till I'® be called to go . . . I'se ready, but I sho’ will miss yo' When I leaves yo’, OI' Banjo.

—RUSSELL YOUNG, Indianapolis. * ¢

THE DEAD WAGON

The dead wagon Crawls up behind the troops, Dragging its canvas covered trailer. The crew squats in the cab— Waiting. They come to a little pile, Quickly collected after the fire fight —For battle refuse left lying around is Apt to lower morale, The bald-headed sergeant alights, Grabs one end and shouts to the corporal To grab the other. Okay, swing, heave, Over the side. The sound on the trailer floor makes me sick . . Dignity of man . , ,

“Hell!” ~J. LOWE, Bloomington. > 4 ¢

ACHIEVEMENT

‘ To spin vague dreams in lacy froth is not Enough; for they will float in whiffs away, Or fall as jagged shard from broken pot Into the yawning grave of yesterday . .. To give ideals substance ere they fade, To life dim promise to achievement’s goal Is but the will of spirit unafraid That knows the presence of a Master soul.

—ELSIE PEARL OLIVER, Greenwood.

DP Problems . . . By Peter Edson

U. S. to Get 201,000 Refugees of War

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 — The first boatload of displaced person immigrants arriving in New York is advance guard for 201,187 ‘more war refugees ,expected to follow in the next two

years,

It's going to be a bigger and harder job than was anticipated, says Ugo Carusi, chairman of the Displaced Persons Commission, set up to handle the job. But he thinks it can be done. Biggest catch discovered in the operation so far is a restriction in the DP law as passed by Congress. of New Jersey and McGrath of Rhode Island and Congressman Keating of New York have indicated they will move for.amendment of the law in the next Congress. But as it stands today, 40 per cent of the persons admitted must be former residents of a

country now annexed by a foreign power.

The way this works out, it means that 80,800 of the 202,000 to be admitted must be refugees from countries like Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania and parts of Poland and East Prussia now

under Soviet domination.

Most Refugees Protestants

MOST of the refugees from this area are Protestants. the Protestant organizations haven't been as active as Catholic

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NEXT CONGRESS . . . By Marshall McNeil y

Old-Line Democrats Will Take Most Seats of Power in Senate

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4—Wily old-line Democrats, seasoned through years of experience in handling senatorial affairs, will reoccupy the seats of power in the new Senate of the 81st Congress as the result of ir party's victories. The Democratic-controlled Senate meeting here Jan. 3 will see a parade of old-timers return to the committee chairmanships they so

long held under Franklin Roosevelt and before 19486. Senator “Long Tawm” Copnally of Texas, whom some credit with originating the bipartisan foreign policy so many others have claimed as their own, again’ will become chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee.

Return to Old Jobs

AGED AND ill Sen. Kenneth D. McKellar of Tennessee, who broke with boss Ed Crump of Memphis, will return to the chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee. “Ole Elmer” Thomas, the 72-year-old fashion plate from Medicine Park, Oklda.—whom the Republicans accused of commodity speculation— will become chairman of the Agriculture Committee. Under Senate seniority Sen. Robert Wagner of New York, whose illness has kept hirh away from the Senate for months, would head Banking and Currency. But chances are that young and vigorous Sen. Burnet Maybank of South Carolina will take over operation of this committee. Sen. Millard Tydings, a soldier hero of World War I—the man whom President Roosevelt once tried to purge—will become chairman of Armed Services. That will please high Army and Navy officers.

Members of Same Club

THE Dixiecrat movement will, of course, give the Democrat Senate majority some trouble, but they're all members of the same club—a fact seldom forgotten in that chamber. So, it seems likely that Sen. Olin Johnston of South Carolina will, by seniority, advance to the chairmanship of the District of Columbia Committee, and Sen. John L. McClellan of Ar-

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Side Glances—By Galbraith:

kansas to chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments. A “sound” man, well liked by the business community, will be the new chairman of the Finance Committee, Sen. Walter George of Georgia, and Sen. Ed Johnson of Colorado would head up Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Sen. Joe O'Mahoney of Wyoming is scheduled to be chairman of Interior and Insular Affairs; and Sen. Elbert Thomas of Utah, the boss of the Labor and Public Welfare Committee.

Other Posts in Doubt :

SEN. PAT McCARRAN, who also has been ill recently, would become chairman again of the Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Carl Hayden of Arizona would head up the most completely political committee of the Senate, that on Rules and Administration. !

The chairmanships of two other committees —Post Office and Public Works—would be a toss-up. Actually, Sen. Dennis Chavez of New Mexico is the top man on both, but he could have only one chairmanship. If he took the Post Office Committee, then California’s Sheridan Downey would head up the group on Public Works.

Over-all, this is a group of conservative Senators, most of whom followed Roosevelt when he was the leader. None is particularly chummy with President Truman, but the bulk of them went along in this election, being “good” Democrats to the end. .

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An astronomer says the sun will be cold in 15 million years. That's as important for you to worry about as are most of the other things that worry you. ® ¢

A driver in Connecticut was fined when his auto threw mud on a pedestrian. Mud slinging iz reserved for politicians. * * ¢

: Hang on, despite everything, and you'll get there a lot quicker.

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‘Misfits in Highway Jobs’ By Clyde P. Miller : ® 54-Inch Ce The present State Highway Commission is faucets ond | ~probably made up of more misfits and income : petents than any ever appointed since the des" ® 3 Over-the

partment was created. One of the outfit was gotten rid of recently when ousted by a Sue preme Court decision against his holding twa

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state jobs at the same time, one of Gates’ seve All for Onl eral blunders in that line. : ; Our highways throughout the state show TERMS:. 37.9 evidence of neglect and inefficiency in those ape includ pointed to administer the department and when H b a complaint is made to the Governor his invari« eavy-gauge, abie answer is that the matter will have to be" du Pont baked-

taken up with the Commission, but that he will back up the Commission in whatever position it may take. . As with most people who know the least about their own jobs, but try to cover up the fact with a stubborn superciliousness, the meme. bers of the Commissidn treat the public with a disgusting self-assurance, intolerance and know« it-all attitude. It would be truly disastrous if the personnel of this Commission is continued under a succeeding aqinislration. ® <

‘Must Have More Police’

By John Alvah Dilworth, 816), Broadway

Indianapolis, in the interest of personal see curity and property damage, must increase its pedestrian and vehicle ‘laws. Despite our present needs we have no reserve enforcement officers to help cushion the postwar shock of any emergency. Our peacetime demands are actually so great that Indianapolis has become a net ime porter of those without grass roots. Obviously, the time has come when to be careless with our police department, among which is the dire need

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rifles and sawed-off shotguns, is to gamble with our city’s security of home and safety on the streets. Law enforcement is of vital importance to everyone of us. SD We must upheld our police department and enlarge it against law violators. We must let ruffians, sex offenders and others know that Indianapolis is not divided. We must let them know that the citizens do not falter and that we will not weaken,

‘Time for Action’

By E. F. Maddox

I agree with Gen. Arnold that the way to break the Berlin blockade is by armored troops. Most of the blockade runners should be German troops, since it is the Germans who are dmenaced with Soviet starvation and Communist aggression. The Western powers should not forbid, nor prevent the Germans, Japanese, Italians, or any other people from taking part in the defense of their own human freedom. The Communists are organizing and arming Germans to force ull Germany into Communist slavery and should be met by the same tactics

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by-the Western powers. Meet force with force, Luxury Fi Molotov, Stalin, and Vishinsky are staging a monumental bluff which should be called—now. We should arm the air lift and shoot down The H/ every Soviet plane which menaces the lives of our pilots. The Reds must be stopped. We TERMS: 25.9! should also warn the Communists that gunfire . from the ground will’ be assured by bombs ' An outstandi from the air. And tell the Reds to lift the land designed to blockade peacefully or we intend to break it by force. It’s time for action. : an 18” overs > 5 The Fire D smokeless br e Fire Department | ond even-u

By Mrs. John Hull, 2468 E. Washington St. Well, well folks at last we know what we are paying for in the Fire Department. It is too bad Chief Roscoe McKinney eannot pick a few good men for captain and Neue tenants that don’t have to run upstairs from their men. ; If he has to scatter the men so they will behave, we better get a new chief that can put a man in an engine house that can run it right. If it was not for the captain and lieutenants the men would not drink, but when the officers do that, what can you expect from the men? And I know where there is a few engine houses that certainly have their parties and the captains right with them, . Of course they "all kick in on the rings for the chief and their big dinners, I think we need a new chief that knows

AVIATION . . . By Max B. Cook | Many Changes Seen For Airlines in 49 :

NEW YORK, Nov. 4—Next adjustment for commercial aviation. 5 * This" is indicated in recent charges and counter-charges between the Civil Aeronautics Board among the individual airlines themselves. The airlines blame the board for their present poor financial The board says the airlines are to blame. airlines point to the Civil Aeronautics Act of "1938 as proof that CAB is responsible for seeing that the airlines remain CAB of excessive sche priced equipment.

Cannot Get Together

RECENT, protests of individual major airlines against the temporary mail-pay rates now in effect being made permanent have revealed that the airlines cannot get together on this

The year 1949 may see: ONE: A complete overhauling of the domestic airline-route pattern with a number of route duplications eliminated. TWO:. Some airlines, far in the red battling for award of higher mail-pay rates than that successful airlines. THREE: The breaking up of the Big Five setup wherein CAB sets the same mail-pay rates for American, [Inited, Northe

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and Jewish organizations in promoting and arranging for admission of refugees of their faith. So it will be up to Protestant organizations to get busy and arrange for the admission of more “Balts,” or people from these Baltic countries, if they want their full quota under the present law. . About 8000 individual applications requesting the admission of specific DP’s have been received at Displaced Persons Commission headquarters in Washington thus far. New applications

. are coming in faster than they can be handled. At present the

only applications being processed are from people who have known blood relatives or close friends in DP camps and are able to give satisfactory guarantees that the immigrants admitted will have adequate housing and a job. ' The applicant must also guarantee that the DP's transportation will be paid from port of arrival to future home. Individual, unclassified applications from U. S. residents writing in to ask for a maid, a farmer and his wife, three carpenters or four skilled needlecraft workers—without naming the refugees wanted—are being put aside until the applicants can be investigated. What the commission has to avoid is any danger that the DP's will. be brought in to take jobs away from American workmen or to be employed as slave labor, lowering American wage scales. ’

100,000 Applications

IF some private organization is willing to make the required guarantees, the DP Commission will approve ‘applications. The commission is now wor through a score or more church and

king ‘charitable organizations that have interested themselves in the

problem. There are perhaps 100,000 applications in their hands.

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Another type of public organization which in the future is expected to play a bigger part in getting DP’s distributed in rural areas throughout the country is the state agency. Eighteen states have already set up agencies to work with the DP Commission in finding homes and jobs for DP's while at the same time helping their farm operators find farm labor and tenants. The law specifies that 30 per cent of the DP’s admitted must be agricultural labor. :

The states now working on this job are Maine, Vermont,

Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Oregon, California and Tsxas.~ Half a dozen other states are in the process of setting up such agencies. The way the system works now, anyone writing a letter to the commission asking how he can get a DP maid or farm hand, will get back a form to fill out in triplicate. On this form, which must be sworn to before a notary public, the applicant guarantees that the DP admitted will not become a public charge. ' All applications must be investigated or @ponsored by a reputable welfare organization.

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west, Eastern and TWA. Each line is asking for a different rate, FOUR: A vital ruling on international air freight and the non-certificated air-cargo carriers, some of which are operating at a profit without mail pay or government aid of any kind. Attempts of some to obtain permission to fly freight on a demand basis are being fought by. the certificated airlines. In one recent case, the CAB denied this permission to a trans

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Atlantic registered, irregular, common carrier which is operating Just load ti at a profit. The irregulars state that, if they are to grow and ‘ Dash : dd remain in business, they must have this CAB permission, » er, P x y . washer has f Air-Mail Pay Question FIVE: A decision on whether the government is to allow So Thorough air-mail pay to certificated airliners, based on cargo as well“ come beaut as passenger operations. The Postoffice Department has opposed . I this. The aviation industry, including the irregular carrlers, cleansing. ~ also has announced its opposition. : ’ this new Ap CAB has announced that the Civil Aeronautics Act “recognizes no distinction between cargo and passenger service.” It added that, under the act, “losses incurred in : cargo operations must be underwritten to the same extent that passenger operations must be underwritten,” excepting in cases BLOCH of uneconomic freight rates or overscheduling. of freight capacity. SIX: A possibility that the major airlines may fight CAB's attempt to eliminate the National Airlines, as such, and split its routes among other airlines. It is said that if . 424 N. ILLI such a precedent were set, the future of any airline would $534 E. Wi

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