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QF r : HNC rans Are Germans | Powers have stopped. the dismantling of in Western Germany and relaxed occupational to allow the new Bonn government broad latitude d conduct of its internal affairs. return, Western Germany has promised not to re-

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That, in substance, is the new 10-point protocol signed by the Allies with Western Germany. It is well that American, British and French troops are to pemain in Germany as insurance that the promise not to rearm won't be violated, as it was after the first World War. That must not happen again. An economically strong Germany is essential to the development of a sound European economy. But the Ger mans must be kept disarmed until it is established that they to. become law-abiding members of the European community. That will be demonstrated only by the test of time, and not any day soon. . :

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MEANWHILE, what the Russians do In Eastern Ger-

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have no control. Our decisions must not be dicby Moscow's decisions, We must avoid any position where we might be bidding against the Russians for Germany’s good will. To do so would turn the German defeat 10 lerman victory. . The Russians are organizing a substantial German miitary force in the area they control. Nazi storm troopers : retrained as Red storm troopers. The conversion easy, hecause there is no essential difference beNazis and Communists. :

it would be folly to assume that this threat can he tered by organizing an opposing force in Western Geraren't enough real democrats in Germany to for us to do that. The two “rival” armies likely to join hands against us, in an alliance with

That would set the world on fire. .

policy in Germany must be based on the neither the Germans nor the Russians can

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: Hungary and Czechos division of Korea and the conquest of China. + A German-Russian alliance set the stage for World War I and we are dealing with the same Germans and the same Russians. Let that not be forgotten.

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oma City at 68, crowded a _lot of history into his brief career as would-be dictator of an American state, ~~ In 1923, when he became governor of Oklahoma, he fed 100,000 people at an inaugural barbecue—then collected money from interests that wanted to do business with the state to pay the barbecue “deficit.” He let his friends sell pardons and paroles, releasing Oklahoma's most hardened criminals if the price was right. He professed to be a bitter enemy of the Ku Klux Klan— which he had once tried to join—and made Klan outrages in a few communities his excuse for putting the entire state under martial law, forbidding citizens to leave their homes at night without official passes. : HE SUSPENDED the writ of habeas corpus throughout Oklahoma. He halted a grand jury investigation of his conduct by ordering the National Guard to train machineguns on the Court House. When the state legislature tried to meet and impeach him, he used the Guard to disperse it. But “Iron Jack” overreached himself when he tried to top an election. The voters marched past his gunmen to polls and voted the legislature the right to convene on its own initiative,

. HE HAD served nine months of the four-year term for which he had been elected when the legislature convicted him on charges of corruption and incompetence and threw him out of office. : *- = The people of Oklahoma had decided that they wanted neither Klan nor king. Jack Walton tried repeatedly for a political comeback, and did succeed in winning one minor state office for a term. But he lowered his sights in later years, and was badly beaten in his last two campaigns for

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Peanuts and Sunflowers “he British Labor government's plan to grow peanuts and sunflower seeds in East Africa—the biggest single colonia! development enterprise in the Empire's history—is an example of government planning gone sour, The idea was to supply Britain's acute need for fats and

oils. The plan, when undertaken in 1047, was to clear and plant 3,210,000 acres in five years, the entire program to cost 23,200,000 pounds. \ Now its sponsors admit that by 1054 only one-fifth of that acreage Will be planted, the cost will be twice as much as estimated and the project will not be paying a satisfactory dividend. Yet it was all based on a survey approved by the best Socialist planners. : _. The initial aim was to clear 150,000 acres in 1047 and 450,000 more in 1948, and to sow all the cleared land to peanuts and sunflowers in the.fall of each year, By Mar. 31, 194, only 49,620 acres had been sown to

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‘Coming Out Party’ for “ ~ Senate Race Staged by Club"

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26—Dear Bogs—Ring- « ling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey may have,

when a Hoosier politician starts running for office and has a "coming out party” here In w the result is certainly a challenge for the title. The day before Thanksgiving such a party was given for. Alex Campbell, one of the two % Pt. Wayne candidates for the d Democratic pomination for U. 8. Benator. la ol ; Althoigh t was _ noon and billed as a luncheon, it was big enough to remind ‘one of the all-time high in

- cocktail parties ven hate Mr. Campbell When former Gov, Paul V. Mi ww, y Nutt kicked off his ill-starred presidential cam

paign. "AS Is fitting for an Assistant Attorney General of the United States who heads the highly responsible Criminal Division of the Justice Department, the Campheil coming ent party occupied both the Congressional a esidential dining rooms at the swank Statler Hotel, It was a stag, with four bars to hurdle en route to the tables. There the food was more on the dinner than the luncheon side, with half a squab for each guest and all the suitable trimmings. /

Made Honer Roll

HOST at the feast was the “Chatter-Box Club” of Washington. Once each year this club awards a white carnation and adds to its honor roll some government official it has rendered outstahding service to his country. This year Alex was it. He accepted the carnation on the speaker's rostrum, where high ranking dignitaries were seated at the head table. The table was banked with flowers, beribboned squashes and flanked with - Beaming down on this scene was a huge graph of Mr. Campbell, which could well be salvaged for his campaign.

grin and thanked the club president, Wash B, Williams, for the Chatter Box carnation. He wasn't allowed to speak. That is a ¢lub tradition, " «At that point, however, Mr. Campbell probably felt that President Williams had sald all that was needed. After telling how, as head of the Criminal Division, Mr. -had brought Communists and traitors to trial, be refesred to his own (Williams) 100 per cent record of predictions (as compared to a radio commentator's claimed 84 per cent) and sald:

Predicts Campbell Victory

“I PREDICT that when the club meets on this date next year, Alex Campbell will be the new Senator-elect from Indiana.” There was music and singing, the latter "branching out into a sort of regional jubilee which included Ohio and Michigan songs as well as the Banks of the Wabash. Associate Justice Tom Clark was at the head table and also Atty. Gen. McGrath. As Attorney General, Mr, Clark brought Mr. Campbell to Washington from the U. 8. attorneyship in the Northern Indiana District, Mr. McGrath has kept him on—at least until the first of the year when he is slated to resign and return home to campaign actively for the senatorship. There he faces opposition from the other Ft. Wayner, former Sen. Samuel D. Jackson. Mr, claims the support eof Demgcratic National Committeeman Frank M. McHale, Indianapolis, who was a principal backer of the coming out party for Mr, McNutt. Here is the way he sums up his present prospects:

I'll Be Nominee’

“IF Gov. Henry F. Schricker doesn’t want the nomination next year, I'll be the nominge." Entering the race under the McHale colors may prove a liability, as well as an asset, It proved to be the former in the attempt to obtain the Southern Indiana U, 8. attorneyship for John Hurt, secretary of the Democratic State Committee. —_ What may or may riot be straws in the wind was the absence from the Campbell party of prominent Hoosier Democrats occupying high places here, The other freshman on the Supreme Court, who was appointed after Tom Clark, is Associate Justice Sherman Minton. He didn’t attend. There were two Democratic Congressmen in town at the time—Reps. Andrew Jacobs, Indianapolis, and John R. Walsh, Anderson. The latter helped trip up Mr. McHale—on the Hurt appointment and the former is running a senatorial aspirant’s show of his own. It isn't the biggest on earth, but he sure hopes it will grow,

'TIS SAID

The man who knows how will glways have his job. The man who knows why will be his boss. Could be--but many a man has learned why after he reached the top at high tide. ~B. C., Indianapolis.

PLANNED ECONOMY ...ByE.T. Leech

Guaranteed Jobs

WASHINGTON, Nov, 26--Is it possible for government to guarantee everybody a good job? If so, how? These questions again are raised by the platform of Jimmy Roosevelt, who wants to be governor of California. “Every resident of California who is willing and able to work has the right to find a job at a fair wage and under

gether,” the Socialist platform

desirable working conditions,” his statement of policies says.

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OTHER, I 'reniember, always started making her, Christmas cakes on the morning of the Monday following ‘Thanksgiving, no matter whether it was a scheduled wash-day or not. To postpone the operation wouldn't give the cakes sufficient time to age, she

said. The baking lasted the - better part of a fortnight, and during that entire period, the house was fragrant with a bouquet compounded of citron, anise, cloves, nutmeg, vanilla, allspice, raisins, currants, - molasses, honey and all kinds of nuts . —the bitter-sweet odor of almonds dominating the rest. It was a heavenly smell divinely appropriate to the season. ?

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Mother's epmriaire embraced a dozen differ-

ent kinds of tmas cakes and, year after year, she played her program in exactly the same way. She always started with the baking of springerle, I remember, To my way of thinking, ‘springerle were the least satisfactory of the Christmas cakes which doesn't necessarily mean that they didn’t have their good points. Not at all. They just didn't measure to the rest, which is more or less like saying that Mendelssohn's music, good as it is, isn't quite as soul-satisfying as that of Robert Schumann's.

Like Hard Rock

IT WASN'T Mother's fault that her springerle didn't tickle my palate. The weakness was inherent in the cake itself. If properly compounded and baked, it had the consistency of a hard rock of a geological period yet to be determined which made it difficult to eat—much too dificult to fool with during Christmas week when we kids didn’t have a moment to waste,

Moreover, it was too stolid in appearance, lacking the romantic appeal of other Christmas cakes. Compared with honey lebkuchen, for instance, the springerle was a passionless thing capable of neither love nor anger in which respect it was not unlike the forbidding severity of the baked clay Babylonian tablets one sees preserved in modern museums today. Nor will it do you any good to remind me that YOUR mother had a magic way of keeping springerle soft and moist during the Yuletide. So did my mother and it doesn't alter my position a bit. The point is that the softer a springerile the less it approximates the real McCoy. In spite of all its defects, however, Mother nursed a notion that Christmas wasn't worth celebrating without springerle, an opinion which I have since learned was also shared by the

mothers of George Kuhn, Adolph Seidensticker,

Kurt Pantzer, Herman Kothe, Victor Jose, John (Pete) Frenzel and the Vonnegut boys all of whom had fathers of such diametrically divergent views that it was a wonder that they could ever see eye-to-eye and agree on any one thing. Even more amazing is fhe discovery that an in-

Foot in Door

He plans to provide it. . This worthy desire iz the more ambitious because Cali+ fornia has passed Pennsylvania to become the second most populous state. If its present stream of new residents continues, it may challenge New York. » » » . THE debate gets down to whether government can guarantes jobs, or merely encour age good conditions so business cans provide them. “Full employment” as a popet arantee along the s r. Roosevelt has in mind is the basic principle of the British government. But the British are more definite and honest than Jimmy in telling how it has to be done. The {alist platform for the 1950 election frankly says it requires full state control of business and employment, Also it requires control over what people do with their income.

continues, The British fyll-employment plank advocates “control of investment” by the state, further development of “publicly owned industry” and use of public funds to expand business when necessary. oy» » OTHER proposals aim at complete state planning and control of business and working life, Shifting of jobs, for example, already . is under state \ control. To guarantee Jobs, short, the state must run things, . Many of these British jobs aren't much good. Pay is low by American standards. Many jobs , contribute little toward pation) output, h tain is overrun wi service workers, There is a myriad of footmen and door

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By Edward F. Maddox, City

significant thing like a springerle should have Wrought them together-—once a year, at any rate. - 's- habit of starting her baking with a 4pein rile may be traced to the fact (1 think) att was the easiest cake to make, It was a good way to get her hand in again before tAckling the more complicated kinds. Certainly, it required the minimum amount of materials—nothing more, as a matter of fact, than eggs (4), sugar (a pound), flour (about four cupfuls) and anise seed (anywhere from one to two teaspoonfuls). The reason I'm not more definite is because baking is a fine art andynot an exact science as modern smart alecks would have you believe. The. amount of flour, for instance, was not so much a matter of quantity as it was of feeling, ch is to say that it had to be just enough to thicken the dough to the right consistency. And as for the correct amount of anise seed, that dether on the kind of temperament the father of the household was blessed with—at least, that's the way it worked in our family.

One Hour of Stirring. ~THE ACTUAL making of springerle was mostly a matter of orthodox stirring. Mother, I recall, always stirred in ‘one direction, starting with the eggs and sugar, then adding the flour gradually, stirring all the while (and always in the same direction, mind you). It took at least an hour of constant stirring, after which the dough was put away and let stand overnight. Next morning bright and early—even before school took up—the dough was rolled out, about an eighth of an inch thick, as I remember. Then, but not until then, was everything ready for, us kids to contribute our part. Now that I look back it occurs to me that, maybe, Mother continued making springerle year after year just for the sake of giving us kids some fun. Anyway, after the dough was rolled out it was our prerogative to handle the floured springerie and press it down hard on the dough. No matter how many times we did it, our eyes. always popped when the hoard was lifted and we saw, transmitted to the dough, the extraordinary designs which. identify springerle the world over. -

Cut in Designs WHEN WE returned from scheol in the afternoon (by this time, it was Tuesday, of course), we found the springerle cut to their required designs and laid on the table to dry. Mother wouldn't think of baking a springerle until it had dried at least 10 hours, which was why the baking in our household never started until after supper. Just before they went into the oven, the springerle were sprinkled with anise seed, a ritual handled entirely hy Father who insisted that it required the steady calculating hand of a full-grown man to sow seed of any kind. : Next morning (Wednesday) —even before we kids left for school—Maother had all her tools collected and materials laid on the kitchen table to begin the baking of pfeffernuesse, the second number of her repertoire.

Christmas

Both the Democrats and Republicans are y -the-fact-thet-the-whele-New-Deal

monopoly-state socialist program is. dased on the plan disclosed by Harry Hopkins, who said: “We will tax and tax, spend and spend and elect and elect.” : That plan has won every presidential election since 1932 and it will continue to win and keep the friends of New Deal socialism in wer

- until the genuine Democrats and Repub icans

have wisdom enough to join political forces tother in & patriotic crusade to save our nation Re monopoly-state Marxism. That is the issue. Mr. Truman is a “prisoner” of the Socialists, 1 believe there is only one remedy for the rescue of our nation from the New Deal Socialists ana . that is a coalition ticket headed by a popular candidaté such as Gen. Eisenhower, and 8 man like James F. Byrnes or Harry F. Byrd in a new independent American party under which all honest Democrats and Republicans could vote together to save Us from Socialist slavery. The old Civil War political animosity must be ‘discarded or we face political and financial

Let us heed the advice of George Washington and “Raise a standard to which the wise and honest .can repair” and vote together for the common good of ourselves and our posterity. Now is the time for Democrats and Republicans who seg the danger of the New Deal Socialist tax, spend, elect and socialize to get together on an independent American political program in which the North and th, East and West can join political forces to oust the Socialist planners from the temple of Amenican democracy. There is no other sure remedy.

What Others Say—

THE t spark, ignited at the right moment in international relations, could launch the struggle for man’s ultimate survival— Navy Secretary Franch It Matthews, JAPAN will he able to advocate her rights at a peace conference. Thus, if the treaty terms should be extremely unfavorable to Japan, our only course would be either to walk out of the conference or to refuse to accept such terms.— Premier Shigeru Yoshida of Japan. > & 9»

WE must reaffirm our determination never to compromise with latent dangers that can lead to war.—Adm. Forrest Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations.

* * HONEST competition makes for better business, better government and better defense. ~Capt. John Crommelin, GSN, Tv $9 ¢ THERE is no preparation . . . among the people of the United States for war with anyone and I am quite sure that, this being a democracy, it would take a great deal of provocation to get the people of the United States to allow their government to change their policies.—Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. . > $ ¢

THE (New York senatorial) election gives us great encouragement and if will give us victory in 1950.—Demoeratic National Chair-

man Willigm M. Boyle Jr.

FAR EAST . . . By Bruce Biossat

New Pacific Policy?

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26—In January, Ameri chiefs in the various Far Eastern nations will meet with Ambag-sador-gt-Large Philip ©. Jessup in Bangkok, Thailand, to discuss the general trend of events in the Orient. : : This conference will be the second step in what apparently is to be a slow, painful search for the elements of an entirely new -

diplomatic

Pacific policy for the United States. The first step was the appointment of a special Far East study group under Mr. Jessup, whose work had been #80 singularly effective in end-

taxation, economy in govern soe, EAB AI that Youd Our ment, avoiding huge publ aren Stperts panty China alone. Bangkok con-

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