Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1950 — Page 16

FACE Sa ay 3190 organization.

oosier Referendum

country will offer this year.

DIANA'S elections next fall look from here like a test of the Truman “Fair Deal” as clear cut as any the

Mostly that’s the: doing of the two candidates who

head the party tickets. to run on.

It's the isshe both have chosen

It isn't drawn’ 80 sharply in the platforms the two ponventions adopted this past week. Both of those, but | Specially the Democratic platform, reflect what appears _ to be a conservative trend in Indiana thinking. Both have done some hedging on the hot items. And they contain

wide areas of agresment.

TAKE “agriculture, for instance, The Roptbiica plat-

form condemns the Brannan Plan .

. . the Democrats

ducked that one entirely . . . and “waste” of crop surpluses. But otherwise both parties are pretty much in agreement on the subject. Both clearly. intend to go right on paying federal handouts to farmers to raise more crops and neither has the faintest idea what to do about the fantastic crop surpluses, food prices and taxes which this inevitably

creates.

There's little disagreement on health. The Republi-

— Democrats are just not for it.

lic health services.

cans, naturally, are against “socialized medicine" = —So-the -GOP- platform stresses voluntary medical insurance plans, improved pubAnd the Democrats,

, the

in a carefully

worded statement advocate about the same, plus a veiled

“hint that if those don’t work maybe we ought to try some-

thing else. But it's a long way from indorsement of the

- Truman-backed Ewing plan.

— There is fundamental difference in their approach to * tar. The Republicans have slanted their labor plank to-

ward the worker , . .

the Democrats toward the labor un-

jon. On the state level the Democratic platform is 100 per cent the platform of the CIO, from which Democrats expect to get organized support. But even here, significantly ~ enough, it fails to call for outright repeal of the Taft-Hart-ley law, offers only to do away with certain "vicious, dis-

eriminatory” (but unspecified) portions of it.

Republicans do, too, in somewhat milder language. But

; the main GOP point is one they rode to victory back in 1806 oo . . the competition of cheap foréign-made goods for Amerjean markets, jobs and wage scales. 80 IT goes on a good many other points. They are live national issues, which together form the

very heart of the Truman “Fair Deal” . . . and the Indiana Demosratie platform is conspicuously luke-warm about

It is the two candidates at the head of the ticket whe.

have drawn the issues clearly and sharply.

Mr. Campbell goes all-out for President Truman, and.

everything he does or wants or advocates.

Sen. Capehart strikes at the “socialism”. of the Fair Deal, and offers to stand or fall on that issue.

So the voters do have a choice . . .

from unequivocal stands.

in spite of party —gonventions which show a-cautious tendency to draw: away

Indiana's senatorial election plainly leaves to the voters of this state the decision on the Truman administration and

‘its policies. It is the only real issue at stake.

“Trucks and Our Highways

: FP HE NATION'S governors believe big trucks are seriously Hi ~* damaging U. 8. highways. They blame “deliberate

overloading” for much of the harm.

At the recent governors’ conference they got support for their views from Thomas MacDonald, U. 8. Public Roads Commissioner. He has long charged the trucking industry with consciously violating state laws limiting truck loads. =

s-and highway engineers. —

loading.

ing a series of such tests.

~==This whole issue is confused by the conflicting claims of ckern ‘he. Association of State. Highway Officials recommends 18,000 pounds per axle as the safe weight for ordinary highway TRYements. (weight per axle is the critical figure). : —But-the truckers say the recommended Timit is too low. : ir “englreel ng, “weathering and other

RIGHT now the: o 8: Public Roads Burestri ts conducts Bureau officials insist they are

strictly down the middle and have no wish to favor one “side or the other in this dispute. But it isn't clear that the ~ tayckers will accept their tests as sufficiently impartial.

Yet, if they do not rate them satisfactory,

it would

seem fair from the public's standpoint that they’ devote _ their energies to arranging for suitable experiments.

: And it would séem proper, too, that they wait until such tests have been made before lobbying in state after state for higher weight limits. Evidence is definite that truckers have already been successful in Such a campaign in many states. Itis hard to reconcile these activities with their expressed willingness to accept scientific, impartial ng on weight limits. What if sound tests show that 118,000 pounds’per axle IS a wise ceiling? - Furthermore, there can be no. justification for any de-

: ONE anywhere is questioning the role of the truck 8. transportation economy. No one wants to rule

American, who probably drives a car and Hilerili udm feg Aamely S.

flouting of the load limits, as governor after gov-

Times INTERNATIONAL ACTION IN KOREA . Pi.

~ Acceptance Of U. S. As PS en oO

Sn WASHINGTON, July 1—The United Nations

is defending Korea against Communist aggresSlon=the United Slates is acting for te mesurlty

This point is all-important. It may seem only a play on words to some American citizens, proud of the forceful leadership of their Jvertinent. and conscious that thelr suns are

again. _ But all high United States dficlald reiterate,

Far from being an ic quibble, the question of whether the United States is acting on its own or as an agent of the United Na-

DEAR BOSS... . By Dan Kidney

Lively Senate

Race Expected —— Capehart and Campbell Set Campaign Strategies

WASHINGTON, July 1 — Dear Boss: Sen. Homer E, Capehart (R. Ind.) didn't make an -acceptance speech after that unopposed renomination at the State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis Friday#but afterward he held an informal party at the Columbia Club for the working press and asked them to ask him anything they wanted, That, ‘of course, made the newspaper reporters feel that here is a forthright candidate. The same might also be said. regarding his Democratic opponent, Alex Campbell, Ft. Wayne.

~89 unless the war pins down the senior Sena-

tor from Indiana here in Washington, the home folk will know all about where both candidates stand by the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November,

If the upcoming census shows there are four

million people in Indiana, Sen, Capehart said he

will try and get around and shake every one by

the hand. He attributes his victory six years ago to this tactic, when he defeated the best vote-getter the Democrats ever produced, Gov. Henry F. Schricker, for the Senate. pe

Early Campaign BY the time Congress quits, if it ever does, Sen. Capehart may find that a good many of those hands are still hot from Mr. Campbell

having been around shaking them. For the .

ebullient Alex lost no time in launching his campaign along this line. Nominated by the Democratic state convention on Tuesday, he was campaigning on Thursday with an address to the Terre Haute Kiwanis .Club followed by a talk to the Vigo County Democrats. En route back to his Indianapolis headquarters at the Claypool Hotel, he paused to talk-at Kemmel in Warren County. And he seems to -be-buying-gas-by-the quart; for he stopped at numerous crossroads filling stations to get in some of that handshaking that Sen. Capehart is talking “about. The so-called liberal platform which the GOP put out came as somewhat of a shock to the Hoosier Democrats. For it reads like Gov. Thomas E. Dewey talks. Mr. Campbell took one

look at it and said that he thinks the real Re-_

publican Party sentiment in Indiana was more

- reflected by the convention speeches, They were

largely of the Bill Jenner type, giving the Demo-' crats the growl in both state and nation.

Isolationist Issue “THEY really mean that” Mr. Campbell commented. “The issues in Indiana are clearly drawn, The people can't .be fooled. Homer Capehart is an isolationist and I intend to say s0-on the stump, That kind of thinking will not do now.’ Sen. Capehart said he will stay in the Senate. and do ‘everything ii his power to win the’ shooting war in _Korea and that is the kind of “patriotic isolationism” that he stands for An this time of peril. He intends to devote whatever time he can to the campaign, but his’ job as Senator will come first, he said. “TIL try my best to. visit every erossrohds in the state, however,” he asserted. Upholding Gen. Douglas MacArthur’ will be

tained that had he been consulted things would not have deteriorated so far and ay fast in the Far East. : Should the war become large- -stale, a younger general toward whom some GOP leaders have been making sheepeyes as a possible presidential candidate in 1952 may resume a fleld command. He ig Gen. Eisenhower, now F president of Colum-bia-tintversity: v

ar makes politics look Picayune. - - So with” En

“SRTORNR ~ SeNATOMIA] CANAIAATEs - WhO Are , alike in energetic personalties and two platforms not too far apart, it may be that the tempo of the times will be such that neither will get mare than a million hands shaken. —

'. than

easy for Republicans-anyway.—He-long has -been— their top wartime hero and they have main-

tons fs so realistic that the fasue of worid. war ‘may turn upon it. Already Russia has taken. the

_ line that the United States had its South Korean

“tools” start the war by invading Red North Korea, and that President Truman is American air and naval forces for imperia aggression. If the Soviet propagandists ‘can make the peoples of Asia and of Europe be: lieve this lie, then Stalin will have pl own guilt on President Truman.

That may seem fantastically nd the realm of possibility, and yet 8 sold Chinese and also to lots

~ similar lies to many of Buropsubs. .

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SLOTS ON THE MARCH .

_ number of nations that the United States in‘of Russia is the menace, he would be

The fact that such strategic nations as India,

Eiypt and others ate SYIE 10 vag filing -

against Russia is significant. Washington's insistence that Korean defense is an international,

based on the record: The United States withdrew from Korea, without creating an offensive native force, and turned over the new republic to United Nations protection. In contrast, Stalin in North Korea

. By Peter Edson

lllinois Raps Gaming Raid Laxity

SPRINGFIELD, Iil. July 1-—Illinois has had - a long tradition of open gambling. Also, it is the manufacturing center for most of the coin-ma-chine industry, to give it a polite name. This in spite of the fact that for over 50 years, slot machines have been illegal. The whole trouble, says Gov. Adlal E. Stevenson, has been lax enforcement. The take on the slot machines alone has been from $60 million to $100. million a year. And since the machines have always been rigged to pay back no more 20 per cent of the take, the 80 per cent profit has provided plenty of money for political corruption. ; Just where the corruption went in past state Administrations, Gov. Stevenson says he doesn’t

/-know. But that it went to local or state law en- / forcement officials seems obvious,

The governor and his attorney general, Ivan Elliott, campaigned in 1948 on broad promises of reform and an end to _corruption in state government.

Campaign Promise

“SINCE the-Stevenson-administration-has now been in office for a year and a half, and since the slot machines are still being found in raids by

the state police, there have been a number of questions raised as to why campaign ‘promises

haven't been carried out. But Here the governor makes a distinction. “I said that if I were elected governor, there would be no lines between the gamblers and the state,” he explains. “I did not say there would be no local tie-ups, which are « local responsibility.” Gov. Stevensorr offers this explanation not as

an-alibi,-but as a statement of his policy. He does —not, believe that enforcement of antigambling ~iaws should “be: carried-out-at-the- state govern ment level. He believes it should be done by city-

and cotinty officers. __To this end, the attorney general has called “4n locat—sheriffs and police officials of places where gambling-was known to-exist. These local offtcialy nave been lectured on thelr responsi-

Bitity, And IN Abme tases even: threatened; where

ath

in any one locality weakens the regular patroling of a state 400 miles long.

Policy Changed , BEFORE ng. these emergency raids could be . conducted, it was necessary to completely reorganize the state police force. Heretofore, this force has been a political plum. When a state administration was changed from one party to another, it has been customary to fire the whole state police force and recruit a new one. ‘This has now been changed. By agreement with the Republicans, half of their old state police force was fired and replaced by Democrats. And hereafter, appointments to the force will be made on a merit basis only, regardless of political affiliations.

)t UN Held Key & created a ppt di

rather than exclusively American concern, is not a eover-up. It ..

By O'Donnell

“This taking of the state police out of potitics

is offered to the cities and counties as an example of good government and as a first step

. toward getting more honest law enforcement.

In a few cases, the state has tried to suspend liquor licenses in establishments which permitted gambling. But this movement has been tied up by court injunction. No decision as to its légality is possible before October.

Raids Net. 500 Slots “THE RAIDS on gambling houses which state police have conducted in half a dozen Illinois counties have thus far netted nearly 500 slot

-machines They have created much, speculation

in Illinois as. to whether the state would completely take over the antigambling drive. in the light of the governor's policy statement given above, however, it is apparent that the state police will be used only in emergency cases, against the worst offenders whom local

potee cannot-or will Bot. touch. es

Mort to Cowen

While thousands of veterans’

1 widows wait for money due them, $50-}

-million—more. has been paid to some

Save

_ MOST people are right, in y their way, accords ing to a h-writer, Yeahs $0 > long as tReyY re not in vor ORR RR a 5 “* < : FOLKS who buy more and more governs ment bonds are wise——others otherwise!

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‘In a few cases where there hag been no action at all, the Illinois state police have been . ordered to make raids. But this the governor

“gays-he-dorsnot-tikesto-do Fire state. police fom

force numbers only 500 officers. There are seldom more than 200 on duty at any one time. And to muster 100 of them for a gambling raid

war, from the very start.

integrated war machine,

the National Security Resources Board, headed by W. + Btuart Symington. The Presidem would send it to Capitol Hill Immediately in the event of war, and in a few hours every aspect of civilian life would be under. sovermment controls.

W - -

IN World War II the govronment fumbled along gradually toward all-out mobiliza-

would start with: total mobilization and then have such decontrols as appeared feasible - - later. Complete federal control of labor-management relations, prices, wages, jobs, transportation, matetials, profits, public expression, production, would

IN CASE OF WAR . uU. S. Controls Set to Cover All Civilian Life

veterans than they are entitled to receive and it has not been recovered. atte - N edless “red tape 1s costing taxpayers heavily in duplication -of services.

. By Edwin A; Aohey

Cw “take

When the Red army invaded the United Na~ tions protectorate and the. United Nations coms= mission on the spot so reported, the Security Council ordered the to cease fire and ‘retire, and it requested United Nations members to help execute the order. When the Reds defied that United Nations order, President Truman, acting under United Nations mandate, sent American forces to Korea. : > Then the Security Council reaffirmed its deaia ig ogi pnd LR ish warships operating er: make it an international force physically as well as legally. This is not a struggle between the United States and Russia over Korea. Itis a fight between the United Nations and Red world aggression, in which the United States is honoring the pledge of every United Nations mems ber to defend international peace.

“agin,

Hoosier Forum “1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your fight § to say i."

‘Choice for Democracy’ By Charles Williams, Terre Haute

The time is past for any group to have last. ing prosperity and happiness at the expense of another group being exploited. The choice is’ now. between plenty, equality, democracy and peace’ for all people of any race or suffering, poverty for many.

Whoever is mean enough to choose destruo- :

tion for all including himself, rather than the peace, plenty, freedom and happiness for all which is possible, then let him choose. But. let all who acknowledge themselves members of the human race, instead of a super race and children of God, let all such love and work for Democratic socialism, for there is no production for profit under this plan of economy. Therefore, there is no hunt for markets and source of raw materials and places to invest

‘Condition Shiotdng By Bud Kaesel, 524 Rochester Ave. I want to commend Edwin C. Heinke for exposing the shocking conditions that exist at the Perry County Home for the aged. The world is wicked and selfish. Otherwise these conditions wouldn't exist. 4 How could anyone overlook this story without getting in a rage? How can any person or persons who are to blame for the conditions sleep at night? Imagine those poor, sick, for gotten people living like that ‘in their last ree maining days on the earth. If some of the other places were investigated we probably would be shocked. I say, let's send protest letters to our Gove ernor and demand that he do something about these conditions. After all, the state has money for everything else, but none to help some destitute people who need help. : - erly

‘Paying Price of Stupidity’ By C.D.C., Terre Haute - 3 We are now paying the price in Korea of the - New Dealers’ and Fair Dealers’ stupidity. Stalin was given half the world by Roosevelt at Yalta, something which, incidentally, he didn't own. Truman merely confirmed at Potsdam what Roosevelt had already done, Neither is the supposed surprise “attack by the Commies in Korea any more of a surprise to Truman and our State Department than was the so-called sneak attack made by the Japs to Roosevelt and his State Department. _The only difference is that Truman does not actually want to go to war, although he is quite willing to use war talk to bolster the Far Deal ~@COROMY mr However, it is not probable that we will go to war over Korea at the present time, although it might be just as well if-we did -and find out just where we stand as there is certainly no use in waiting until Stalin gets ready. Regardless of the boys who are telling us that war is not inevitable, we are well on our way to World War III and the Korean incident is merely another milestone on the road. As I

out-of war-at this late date is for the American —

people to clean out the internationalists by vote ing them out and that would automatically clean the Communists ‘out of our government, too.

What Others Say— WE are engaged 1 ~undertaking that detades and hat Ho -abindoft the eos" operative effort or to forsake our friends might cost us .our national life.—Warren Austin, CU. 8, delegate to the voted | Nations. 4 ®-

3 COMPETITIVE rr is generally Dita ter able than government to improve, develop and expand a new and growing industyry.——Ase

NTE SECTtary ot Commerce-"Tionias- Blxis

dell. . ® BP NO amount of propaganda against so-called RE RET ognd warm America” can keep the truth away from the misguided people who are temporarily on the other side.—Defense Secretary Louis Johnson,

,.

tion. In ‘World War -III we |

WASHINGTON, - July 1- Everybody would . be in the next

Once the shooting started, the people of the United States would be converted by law overnight into 150,000,000 cogs of an

An Emergency War Powers Act has already been drafted by

$900,000,000 fn “phantom orders” for big machine tools, gauges, and cutting tools.

” » 87 . SPECIFICATIONS of these

“phantom orders” have been . changed from time to time, to

keep them up to the minute. Telegrams at the opening of a war would change these “phantom orders” into real orders, and the machine tools would

start “rolling to war contrac~

tors as fast as the orders for war materiel came to these

contractors. The time lag for the pro-

‘duction of machine tools was oné of the great bottlenecks. at - the beginning of World

War IL. — The first act of total mobi-

be the curtain saiser for a neW"Haation. in the National Seeu-

controls, material controls and priorities, censorship, and production controls. The right to strike would probably go out the window.

One of the five major objec--

tives of the Emergency War . Powers Act, according to the NSRB prospectus, would be to maintain labor standards and . the rights of workers “without interruption to production oi essential orders.” Sein a 8.8 OTHER objectives listed by the NSRB follow: Maximum utilization of the

has not yet been decided whether the federal government or the state and local governments should bear the cost of civilian defense. The NSRB planners have not overlooked the probability that a war full of atomic implications might panic the , Populati ns of big cities, and. ’ start a mass exodus from cen-- . ters of industry. -

Plans have been perfected to -

control population movements in the event of war. These _ plans would Be enforced “through job controls, food con-

productive potential of indus- . Aros, and transportation con« try.

Maximum utilization of ma~' ~ terials, through - conservation, substitution, and the elimina- _ tion of hoarding. Prevention of excessve prof-

: its and speculation in essential

ALTHOUGH nothing would be left untouched in total mobilization, the war powers act would state it to be the intent of Congress that the vast . powers svested- in the President would be used “with all pos-

] ; sound RA aa JES ! le regard to the Si cis civilian economy and the oq preservation of our form of

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