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Mr. Eisenhower hopefiilly, undaunted by the memory of his firm

takes of the past. ,

Serenity and Soda B

F the troubled globe needed further proof of the unworld. ly serenity man finds in his favorite corner saloon, an occurrence in Chicago the other night has provided it. The regular gang had gathered at Thomas Duffy's | tavern. A beautiful blue haze of tobacco smoke had settled | In well-modulated voices, the clients could |

over the room, ' be heard discussing Freud and the White Sox. Suddenly a policeman walked in.

- front window blew down.

Mr. Duffy, the proprietor, looked up like a man whose contemplation had been disturbed at the precise moment new light on the theory of relativity was about to dawn. “We heard a noise,” Mr. Duffy told the policeman

blandly. “But nobody bothered to look.”

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people in authority with letters and telegrams.

If these propagandists would ever step inside the av

HE Communists and a good many other groups in the = United States still hang onto the childish notion that they can accomplish some of their objectives by deluging

He wanted to know | if anyone-had been hurt when that ‘brick coping over. the

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BN WASHINGTON, Sept. 8—In this politically conscious capi-

tal the speech that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower made before the American Bar Association has been subjected to searching analysis. : LE i What Gen. Eisenhower did in that speech, as is clearly recognized here. was to stake out for himself a middle ground between President Truman and Sen. Robert A. Taft. . The background of that speech is as revealing as what Mr. Eisenhower told the lawyers at their national convention. It goes back to a meeting in Mr. Eisenhower's high-ceilinged office at Columbia University shortly before the General left on a long vacation that was to take him to remote Colorado trout streams. The General's callers were a group of influential Republcans. They had come to tell Mr. Eisenhower their conclusion that he could get the Republican nomination for President and be elected President. : : But—It was here that a certain solemnity, tension even, came into the conversation—they had a condition, This was that Mr. Eisenhower refrain from making statements or. speeches with anything faintly resembling a political slant. In effect, the spokesman for the group sald this:

Run as Popular Hero

“WE'LL elect you as a popular hero. It isn't necessary that they know what you think. Then after you're elected, we can proeeed to do the things we have to do to get this country back on the

‘right track.”

The General did not take this very well. He told his callers what he has so often said before—that politics, as politics, has no interest for him. But more than that, he resented the implication that he should be presented to the voters as a package with fancy wrappings to be opened only after election day. Gen. Eisenhower replied that he believed in the middle ground between the extremes of left and right for America. And he would continue to try to define that middle ground no matter what the

“no” to all entreaties in 1948. This is true especially of those who distrust the isolationism of Sen. Taft and the powerful wing of the party that he dominates,

Taft Campaign

LAUNCHED on an Intensive stumping tour of Ohio that will

take him up almost-until Christmas, Sen. Taft worked against the North Atlantie Pact and he is expected to lead the opposition to granting funds for arms to implement the pact. Mr. Taft 2lso has made himself the symbol of opposition to organized labor. And, as President Truman made clear in his Labor Day speech, the Taft-Hartley act will be a fighting issue for some time to come, Whether Gen. Eisenhower would be willing to run in '52 is a question no one, certainly not the General himself, would answer positively at this point. In my opinion, his willingness or unwillingness will depend largely on two things. His first concern-would be ‘Whether the Republican candidate would be likely to try to take the country back to isolationism. He has an unshakeable belief in the need to rate with the free nations of the West, and particularly Great Britain, in order to preserve individual freedom in the world. That, Mr. Eisenhower told the lawyers in St. Louis, is our most precious possession. vs : Opposes Isolationism WHEN he took part in the secret Blair House conference on the question of sharing atomic know-how with Great Britain, Mr, FisenHower was deeply disturbed by the attitude of some Senators who expressed a grudging resentment at the suggestion that Britain was a trusted partner so far as the atomie project was concerned. This seemed to him to ‘reflect a return to the hopeless, dead-end isolationism of the past, . Gen, Eisenhower's second concern would be over an irrevoo-

able cleavage between political extremes that would seem to be’

The Indianapolis Times| "se f= "| Why We Can't Let Him Fall Hoosi ; gibi ] ! Won't Give UD | coca a an Hoosier Forum A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER gt on ive Pp hy "do a ba ve : : not agree with a word thet you sey, ROY W, HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ BR, Pl , ; ot y ] President Editor Business Manager rannan an i will defend te the death your right fo spy IW ' PAGE 10 Thursday, Sept. 8, 1949 | Truman Forces fo Keep Opinions on sm m—————— ——— On Working for Measure Ea Sudly \ Oyneg ana published daily by indianapolis Times Publis | | ; By Soblalis g : PS 34 Martiand ol Postal Zone A 1 WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 President Truman The early school of scientific Socialists at: tes And Audit Bireas of Cireulations and his administration are giving the contro- tempted to teach that socialism is not the enemy : ar Marion County, duu “Sha *oiE Tou I8 ee | versial Brannan farm plan the “old college try” of capita Wut, | Sally. its most _"t Suirenie ally LEA Ar ak 00 a a Geis treatment. . that the success of a co-operative commongir ie ~ other states. LQ. vodessions. Canads ao | They aren't going to give up. wealth in any single nation would be t dally 851.00 » men ay So » copy g : 3 “absolute practical enty of Telephone KI ley 8551 | The President made this plain in recent o Shasiut 3 amid ot life : > | speeches and at the White House conference ie Dr \ater day American propagandists reGive Light and the People Wili Pins Thew Vwn Woy 1 with Democratic congressional leaders when it ferred to the marvelous productive ood Ko . ' was decided to pass a new farm law this year. sapitalism as ihe “mifwife SS social mao ; Our Dollars Alone ; The situation. JueHbn by a top Democratic ot = Wr ou dee) epandent upon . spokesman, is this: scarcity and specula such Cannot Cure Britain “We're on dead center on farm legislation Now Dealers proceeded to artificially revive in » WITH the opening of the American-British-Canadian con- | now, with the House having passed the Gore Aavons who ‘would attempt to describe the . ference on Britain's latest financial crisis, it is in order | bill. the Senate Agriculture Committee having New yout as soclalls c in character & : | indorsed the Anderson bill and the Alken Law either purposely honest or y to review the record. . due to go Into effect Jan. 1 (none of which in- norant of at fudauentals oF bots, Vie: Well before the end of the last war it was recognized” | cludes the Brannan plan). We want to get off fas ge nn ne at 8 Jew Spechus reliefs” that Britain and the othefnations of Western Europe would geag cantar. So We Te Wiig {0 SCONE Whaat Such as age pensions. ubemployment compensaneed substantial assistance, both to supply the immediate | ¢erence—even without the Brannan plan in it. tion and athurs advocated: 2 Jo oped needs of their people and to restore their war-shattered econ- as.a few toca] in Durger that such petty re_omi . Go to the Voters forms could be so long delayed as to become SIS i oduction be * “BUT we'll keep on working for the Brannan valueless except a eapons to be turned Many fields and factories were out of production be- plan. We can go to the voters next year and again Jofialism Seu). ob Britatn 47% at cause of war conversion, war damage and neglect. New | "that Congress gave us a ood farm law per i: 100eh IO OMY ate convincing Jaast i and equipment were needed. There were acute | last year but it would be even er were on two points: British free enterprise reached Masianery f el he ing. food and clothing. Many pre- | Smended to conform to Brannan plan prin- its zenith and was drifting into decadence prior shortages of fuel, housing, : 8 yD ciples.” to 1914. Hence the present compromise experiwar sources of raw material had been cut off. Trade with So far, the Branasa Jla® fund Fuh up ageingt ment has boon many decades too Jong delayed. i i ing civi a stone wall in Congress, It appears to us ill-informed, at this Asia languished because of spreading civil war and anarchy. Agriculture Committee. And that group gave it to ping NS fe into benevolent fascism inParticularly in Britain's case, overseas investments had been gly modided indarsement Dy approving 4 wil end of socialism (we hope we are mistaken). * liqui : is i in. | which would let the Secreta Agriculture- In an answer to H. W. Daacke ’ liquidated and consumed. And this important source of in Iroduction payments on three commodities. The via tise tv B. W_ Duties (Sat, 1- 2 come had been lost. House turned down this bill, however, and voted make all income equal. . .." Useful goods or Europe had a pressing need for dollars which it was |- to continue the present mandatory 30 per cent services ‘could become mors Susitapie tncome aad’ of ‘parity price suppo: » an an instrumen . . not in a position to earn. The so-called “production payments” are the Where. and at what time, during the past CI Co. mo» most controversial feature of the Brannan plan. 4000 years that “the idea” has been tried, SEEKING ways and means of combating this common | These would be direct Sadia sajing by He gov: such conditions axiat hich made it posible ernment to farmers to or a sm t problem, representatives of 44 nations met at Bretton | 0, price received for a perishable commodity Droduce. essential commodities, especially food Woods, New Hampshire, in July, 1044. The keynote of that | and the government support price. ' products, Juster and in much, areater Yolume meeting was that international co-operation was the frst Reverse Present Policy OUR. TOWN :6-¥ ‘By Anton Scherrer hae the ny Thirties here, when free enteressential—that to revert to prewar throat-cutting practices ) prise held full sway, instead of bellyaching to : — : h th : THE Brannan plan would reverse the present ‘ the government for help, why did not the mil-in-world trade would invite disaster, perhaps another war. | "0 iaying such perishables as potatoes, L O C a L e en S 0 J e S S e J a m e S Be I Taam Hille brite Two international agencies resulted from Bretton | eggs and butter off the market to hold up farm . ple, farmers and others, use their incentives to : . i ; : economic ruts? Woods. The International Monetary+«Fund. was created to prices. Jt Would et prices of Bese en - NOBODY to my knowledge ever took less a humble way, said our story teller, After that pull I —, “reward for stabilize exchange of currencies at a nearly constant rate. | farmer the difference between the price he re- | time to gather to himself the attributes of saint- Jesse improved a lot until eventually, he per- | o\ Lo."or a 4011» “private initiative,” “incentive,” i ist in floati ceived and the government floor. liness than Jesse James. fected his art to include the looting of banks, | "4 "eo ot any of the farmers or ex-farmers Then a world bank was established to assist in floating A ol Toa stangly BACK the “pros Sixty years ago, the kids of the South Side the very seat of the rich. By all odds, this was | 0 were sold out for mortgages or taxes if - long-term loans. = duction payment’ system in his Des Moines (of which I was a odie member) entertained he best Jant Ll IHSHILYY § Teperione: x . you want to risk getting knocked down. ~~ i ech, saying it was the-best method yet sug- a notion that Mr. James or no othe n - ; .¢ 4 . The United States pledged $5.925 billion to the two pep ay ay surplus perishable com- was - still ' alive, notwith- cluded the most convincing examples of Mr. . ’ funds which were set up, and other governments pledged | T ... 0 < _ | standing the historical fact James unbounded Benevolence. ti Serr a | ‘Can't See Praise for Hoover : “ ” ident, that he had been dead all Mr. James was always go 0 the poor and | ¥ smaller ye h i . tion: it el I nd of 10 years. Apparently, we unfortunate, but sometimes he even Surpasted "By Clarente 19V%, Marshall, Jud, 75th birth | en ore these new agencies were in operation, 1 » "perishable food were unaware of his death; himself. In support of which I submit what I | Since Mr. Hoover reached his 75t day % time our entire production of perishable s | ; h becam i i 9 1 or we-—deliberately ignored remember of the Irishman’'s best story: and is the only living ex-President of our coune apparent Hat Britain would peed ‘both immediate | “would be Crimi ping gL of it, which is much more Once upon a time, Jesse James happened to | try, we see his picture in the newsreels and .and additional assistance far beyond the scope of the Bretton: es Th ne same purpose, would go a | probable for, by that time, be passing a rickety old farm house when he | newspapers, and often hear him referred to as Woods program. - : - "| long way toward overcoming the defects hoi Jone James Wag: atizihed } siojjed tv gut 3 Srink Jvuters, A weeping a gpeat Numanhariam, Whi die worried about This led to the agreement of Dec. 7, 1045, in which the present legislation 1g Gving a 2 Hejers pre Now that I think back, I recall that it-was her tears, she said that the mortgage on her | another depression Sid sizes 10 yi United States wrote off its $25 billion lend-lease account SUppoT: system. an Irishman, living in my boyhood baliiwick little arm was due thas day, snd that id mis- Sinir one Big Ah ih By oun) LA sir : : y 3 Th 8 r. t e skin 0 anker would show ’ against the British Commonwealth, and agreed to lend Brit- Takes Food Away : Sous. a Be Be was bu CE the a of the contract. And, say le ihe grdvation Sau Ha lovin hn aif $3.75 billion, 1a be fepakd fier 55 Yoana This loin was HE SAID th I yon aay She {2 here of my suiiosd_ Sot be piioted wn cloud Snouge. Fig vi ey a oment ney ay a Jes in competition, in individual adventure, new expec ‘ in’ ceeds fo! Vea i | present farm program is that it takes away | motive between Indianapolis and some point in clo of dust in the distance. Jesse James ings. At all times in history thers ted to meet Britain's dollar n fora five year period. | ih consumers instead of enabling them to southern Illinois, a geographical area which at slipped the woman the necessary $1500 and De who sought escape De ney » The agreement included an undertaking by Britain to | eat bétter. He said a slash in government sup- | that time carried the cryptic connotation of Tetired. Wien the Wud of gust Sisclosed the | prom self-reliance.” mmedi eew ve | port prices would not meet the problem because. | “Darkest Egypt.” We kids -counted it a poor anker, the woman handed over the money Personally, I can see him as a humanitarian act immediately, but with a leeway of one year, to remove | when prices drop farmers grow bigger surpluses | run if he didn't return with a new story con- and, pursuant to Mr. James’ Instructions, got | pyt of the introvert personality type. : all restrictions on imports from the United States. or — | in a “hopeless effort to make up for low prices.” | firming the saintliness of Jesse James. a signed Yeouipt for it. The banker was shout i r . Mr. Truman made no mention of the cost of to leave “when somewhere out o e shadows These objectives were abandoned by mitual torent be the production-payment.method. Haloed Hero .-y crept Saint Jesse James and shot the skinflint What Others Say Ar , fore the agreement was a year old, because Britain insisted He .said he was convinced this Congress fm banker dead. What's more, he relieved the dead re: TR ARTI AG, SRR rn og eg ” " v x 4 ; i “ - | 2 9. - A gio the type of farm price support legis: ~QUR-IRISH story. teller always spoke of his banker of $1500 and handed the recovered i coud nt Rew ply With fac SOAR. -'w A nin ! PPO haloed hero in the present tense, a practice money to the overjoyed woman: «=. WLR ie dhe Rg oy 5 : , - The. ‘Anderson bill, which the Senate likely | yhich contributed perhaps as much as anything , | ring to it.—Vice President Alben ——BY THE end of the second year, the five-year loan had | : Cant 0] asn : Cauaht 'Nappin bell has a real ring to it.—Viee * D ha ae qa io | will pass. provides a flexible price support Avs to the legend that Jesse James wis still alive. g PPIng W. Barkley; accepting gift of model locomotive beén exhausted, and Britain faced another crisis. Then came | tem ranging from 75 to 90 per cent of parity. ; ; rel mn A ’ ; 3 y his- ON ONE occasion, and- quite inadvertently, bell. a ‘ ] tion’ pay- At any rate, it was enough to warp my the Marshall Plan } It contains no authority for produc f the oth. the Irish joned the fact that tual * & o * 0 . wg ments. . 3 - - torical perspective .and indeed, that of the o . e Irishman mentioned the ac at eventually 18 ak - The 16 nations joining in this program reverted to the . or kids, too : - © somebody got the better of Jesse James, too. It WE are at the bottom of the barre nancial S : ching : y se . “This squandering of (American) Legion *R oods - Patching together what I remember of the ' ‘happened somewhere in Missouri, T believe, but | ¥: = T . Bretton W thesis, pledging themselves to the progres FOSTER'S FOLLIES Irishman’ stories, I distinctly recall that Mr. _. ore funds must be stopped. If we operate another , sive removal of trade barriers among them, and approving Jamies was always on the side of the poor; in ~t Was 3 Phase of history the Irishman never | year on a deficit we will face bankruptcy. Our i ‘ i ( - p - " " . liked to talk about. Seems that Mr. James was | money is being squandered by Legion politicians -E 0 nion. | “(“London—Bobbiés wear new open-neck coats”) | which respect he was not unlike Robin Hood, | i Priciple fhe dea of £8 al Duropean Ss ustoms u There's a new rule in the blue book another character who enjoyed posthumous af- caught napping without his arsenal of guns and to advance their own control—Frank N. BelAside from the Belgium-Netherlapds-Luxembourg customs And ole Lunnon's all agog. fection—especially on the part of the dozen of it was so contrary to everfthing he had done | ETamo Jr; past national commander, Ame union, néthing important has been done to promote inter- | For the Bobbies have a Rew Josie so teachers of Publie School § who seized every © |. '‘o that time.that the Irishman just couldn't | Legion. > oe a o ; i business by | Keen enough to plerce the fog. opportunity. at BA COMMA 0-Jmprasy us believe ‘it. What's more, he refused to believe | . . European trade. Britain has continued to do business by kids with the Englishman's rather feeble. ex- ," 4 4y'ai'q probably why we kids of 60 years | WHEN one man can, before leaving his oes — barter deals and blocked-curréncy arrangements. Typical of From now on each pavement pounder, Plott, * dill bet the t ago continued to nurse the notion that Jesse | In the ging aut a WSIS of Joe ger i . Plunging neckline will reveal. ere was a vas erence ween the two, James was still alive long after he was dead. | paragraph to a sma group 0 Thee #730 Iho Solon} trade rea ni Arpaitine 1 Well. by virtue of their founder however. Robin Hood, for instance, always Credulous tales of ol after death were throughout the country, go home and to his bed. Although the Marshall Plan will run by informal agree- They've a darn good Tight _to—peel! made a lot of unnecessary fuss about everything 4.110 common when I was a little boy. Besides | With the knowledge that when he awakens ment until 1952, the European Marshall Plan Council no | . * & he did, whereas Jesse James never once stooped ,.\i vine that Mr. James was still alive, we | in the morning 500,000 men will remain away 1 1d » real hope that F . , _ on 000.000 | 2 conquer. As for making grandstand plays. It ere ready to bet all our saved-up pennies that | from their custofary employment, millions onger holds out any real hope at Europe can overcome |. - (“TOKYO—Baggage thefts exceed 10,000, just wasn't in his nature. Indeed, our Irishman y= Wwikes Booth was still at large. And there | more will be indirectly ‘affected and every part its dollar deficit by-that date. A &ntinuing U. 8. subsidy | yen in five years. | led us to belleve that every act of Mr. James .. "4 general belief that Brigham Young had |- of the nation’s economy jeopardized, it's time to i ht x | Tokyo or Nagasaki was dictated by a clean conscience: compared | 4.4 ag reported in 1877, but might turn up | do something about it.—Walter' R. Thurmond, so BONE cnc : i | To the tourist may be grand, with which Robin Hood always left the impres- yy, 4ianapolis any minute with his entire en- | secretary, Southern Coal Producers Association, Britain has recently ‘imposed sharper limitations upon But to keep from going whasky, vend plon har meet like a gentle- 4 rage of wives. | eriticizing John L. Lewis. . American trade, and her top officials are pow in Washington | One must. have things well In han he g gS ; : seeking further constesions. | Baggagemen wis ways gute taking ‘Soak the Rich [co J ESE le wil obed ey ay Sot you ill escort you , ! ! 8 oe you’ | T re- .going to do.—Shirley May France. We Bo ev . . | But you'll find, all else forsaking. EVEN AS8 far back as 60 years ago, I re g AMERICAN officials, backed by sympathetic public They just carry things too far! member the Irishman saying that Jesse James | } * * opinion, enter the conference with a desire to be helpful. to > eo never had any other motive but “to soak the MRA: Tag Tork hide oe: wi But so far as the public is copcerned, honest friendliness is (“LAS VEGAS, Nev.—Gambler plans baby | rich.” Those were his exact words and to prove : a s OO tinged by honest skepticism gained from experience. pie ti ) vr goat Rens | his Poti, on Sd " was in the $ivine Selene I DON'T think the people on tn Xu Cat 1 iret wr Sr irate Jould you like to (ry - Ke 0, of things that Mr. James’ career paralle e UE. quite realize what went on in the Pacific. ) It has not been disclosed just what new program Britain Or perhaps some fast roulette period. of the 1873 panic, the railroad strikes | don’t think we had more than 500,000 or 750,will offer. But: certainly it has. been demonstrated that ; In Las Vegas. southof Reno, | and the revolt of conditions which favored the | “000 men (out there, but) with those 750,000 something more than the mere transfusion of American tax | Theyll amuse your little pet. {rich (or, as he put it, the “flthy rich”). | we contained somewhere between 3 my 3 dollars is needed to restore health to Britain's economy. A | They provide free baby sitting, |." According to the Irishman's tale, this un- { {million Japanese, and notwithstanding the : So there’ jou.c x , Ah ‘ dropping of the atomic bomb—and that was a : 1p So there's little you.can lose. just state of affairs led to Mr.-James’ first train pping : good place to start is a clear statement by the British on | y 11 admit the idea's fitting— robbery. It was a rather crude affair compared - : i | great mistake—we defeated the Japanese nation. Stur what they will do—and it will have to be different from Sitting babies need no shoes! to what followed, but everybody has to start in An old scene from the exploits of Jesse James. | — Retired Adm. William F. (Bull) Halsey. “what they have been doing-=to help themselves. ms ED Cy - . > i ee etter fot ere e—————— er —————T 26" ~ ne constrictive 6 v | 3 | : boi } “ The chances 3 ADReNIg Sansieiive Serming out of | SIDE GLANCES ~, By Galbraith | PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL... By Marquis Childs ge : ; Ge finis is conference wi enhanced if the conferees, American - . p— : un wh er 0 re | lke’s ‘Mid ' Stand. Eyed by GOP as well as British, will discard their vested interests in mis- | ARN: ) r e S i oO 0 oq an - ye Y De

: R oo , . rr consequences. . The invitation fo address the Bar Association splitting America along class and alien lines. If test erage Congressman's officé, they'd learn that their pressure *» CAPR. 1900 BY NEA SERVIOL WO. T. ML RIG & PAY. OF has already Soipe. Mr. Efsenhower accepted with the Yealigation ; three years from now should seem to be moving Dan dinections ; : ow" at : i “ : i . ‘ : at this would be an excellent forum befors which to present I believe Gen. Ike would feel he : the Bi . mail | gets abotu as much & tention ie a department store What does Mr, Bosworth see 16 smile at in the boss’ vacation | pig aliet tn the “middle road.” E ey Of he “nadae i”. he had a out¥ 0 stand for . Wo siroular : A ; ed g ti = Prominent Re, a formidable candidate. tase :

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