Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1950 — Page 10
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ORMALLY Democratic Alaska appears to have gone Republican in the elections held this week for the territory’s new legislature. Scanning the horizons for any weathervane, however distant, Republicans in the states have been quick to note the upset and dust off the slogan that “as Alaska goes, so goes the nation,” they hope. There is, of course, some reason for their seeing a rosy glow in the northern lights. In 1946, one month before the GOP swept the U. S. elections, Alaska Republicans won one house of the territorial legislature. In 1948, Democratic victories in Alaska preceded the party's landslide in the states.
WE AREN'T so sure about it, for 1950. Alaska is a rather special case, with some problems and issues not at all applicable to any portentous feeling in the United States -—and some that might be. The fight for statehood was no doubt deeply involved. A majority of Alaskan voters, regardless of party, want statehood. The Democratic Party has been promising statehood for so long, without paying off, it is possible that quite a few voters cut across party lines on this issue and balloted for the GOP in the belief that they could get some action. There is, incidentally, some basis for hope in that. Though the statehood bill has passed the House, it bogged down in the Senate during the last Congress session largely because Republicans feared the admission of Alaska would add two more Democratic Senators.
A SECOND major consideration is that Alaska is well out on the cold-war frontier and by no means happy about
tions. That is understandable, for on a clear day Russian Siberia is visible to the naked eye across the Bering Strait. Also, Alaska lies in the path of any aerial onslaught coming from across the North Pole. Since the outbreak of the Korean War, this sensitivity has been rubbed even rawer because Alaska is the nearest U. S.-owned land to the scene of hostilities and on the flank of the shipping route to the Western Pacific.
AS A territory, Alaska has had a limited voice in national affairs and often an inadequate one in convincing the Pentagon and White House of basic defense needs.
Could be that a majority of Alaskan voters, dissatisfied with the Democratic administration's defense policies, took their war worries to the polls with them. And that is what we mean when we say that sofhe phases of the test in Alaska might be applicable to the voting four weeks hence in the states, -
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More Draft Confusion
HE director of the draft, Gen. Hershey, told a group of veterans that lowering the draft age to 18 was being “seriously considered.” The present age limits are 19 through 25. The General obviously was trying to reassure veterans . who are now exempt under the law. Only recently he had said it might be necessary to draft veterans. But, as he explained to them, if 18-year-olds could be drafted then the former servicemen would be “wholly exempted.”
HE declined to say definitely whether he would ask Congress to lower the age, but he was merely saying there was a ‘very rich source of manpower.” In fact, he ‘did not know if Congress could be sold” on the idea. But he might try it, and so on. We have two observations to make on this: - First, Gen. Hershey's frequent speculative forecasts and diverging opinions cannot but add to the confusion that already . surrounds a prospective draftee. When the director is fully prepared to make his recommendations, let them be made forthwith, without prior. guesses and thinking out loud. » Second, we doubt that Congress “can be sold” on any such trading ventures—relieving one category at the expense of the other, especially 18-year-olds. Drafting an.
adequate army is hardly a trading matter. S$
Heck, No, Virginia _
GY DEWEY accuses the Democrats in upstate New York of spreading rumors that children will have to ~ attend school on Saturdays if he is re-elected. The governor said that was about as low as you could get in mud-slinging, which probably is true. But, borrowing « from a master in the art of placating children, he might have recomposed something along these lines: . “Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. Alas, how dreary would be the world if there were no Saturdays off. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. “No Saturday off! Thank God, it lives forever! A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay ten times ten thousend years from now, it will continue to make glad the hart of childhood. Now seram!” .
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Never Admits Mistake
A STATE DEPARTMENT spokesman announced that the assignment of Consul General Angus Ward to Nairobi, British Bast Africa, would stick, despite criticism. We hadn’t expected it would be otherwise. fhe State De t, in the present regime, has never yet admitted error. ass of criticism or of overwhelming evidence of folly, it is the State Department's policy to persist in its mistakes. And that's the principal ; reason our country is inf 50 much global tro
YHA. a By John Ww. on 5 Swiss Stock Food for War
Follow Same Pattern As |
In Former Conflicts
14—Early last June the Swiss government advised housewives to set aside 20 pounds of food for each family member as a reserve “against unforeseeable events.” Before the month was over, war had broken out in Korea and the’ shock went round the
GENEVA, Oct.
world. Now the
of next.
The notion the Swiss had in June wasn't bad--at least they saved some money. Similarly, they are sald to have had forewarning Are they being smart
of the two world wars. this time?
One guess of informed Swiss people is that the notice comes through Swiss engineers still in Soviet Russia, who write home and sometimes come back on vacation. Unlike American engineers, who began going into Russia about 1927 but who were released when their contracts ran out before the wag, never stopped Workg for the Russian govern-
ment.
Tough With Reds
TECHNICAL men from the makers of big electrical and other industrial equipment went to Russia to supervise the erecting of power houses and factories, and have remained there A Swiss said to me in Zurich: “Our people can be pretty tough with the Russians. “A certain number of engineers have to be kept or the plants ‘wouldn't run properly. The Russians have never acquired a sufficient Our engineers can’t be spied on or annoyed too much or they will leave.” One report which came back to Switzerland was that while the Russians did indeed have an atomic explosion, they had not been able to develop a bomb that would weigh less than 10 Whether or not this could be true—and it—8witzerland
ever since,
amount of skill.
tons. scientists. doubt European listening post.
The Swiss hope to keep on supplying ma- " chine tools and other machinery to Russia. they say, compared with what they sell to other countries. have a three-part reply when asked about the - shipment of tools which wold be useful in
These exports are small,
manufacturing arms:
the way the territory has fared in belated defense prepara- \ ONE: They are unlikely to ov , that they are going into their own $180 million
defense budget.
TWO: ‘This and other Western countries’ armament expansions will require all the tools. they can make for some time to come. would hardly become the - United States to protest these exports when it is threatening to hike the tariff on Swiss
THREE: It
watches.
Increasing Exports
BRITISH manufacturers thought recently the Swiss would be increasing their exports of , tools to Russia as soon as the British were cut and with the Americans having already all hypothetical and unlikely,”
back, done so. “It's is one reply from the Swiss.
The Swiss machinery and tool industries were not too busy for a year or more, but their orders are now rapidly increasing. Some of the orders—for high-precision tools—are from Americans :
Zurich is the old center of metal-working
— Swiss parliament has been in- ~ - formed by Karl Kobelt, head of the War of“That FTI Ar I TIE RRL the arma-budget-to-beimg- increased ‘more than a third, and that the five-year plan ie for defense is to go into effect this year instead
Swiss have
is still the
level.
bankruptcy.
CAMPAIGN TIME | Reverse Tactics in N. Y. Politics
BUFFALO, Oct. 14—If the people in the rest of the country could tune in on the blow by “blow of the New York political campaign, they
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They ~ probably wouldn't think they were hearing things right. It sounds so unreal -- at least to those
familiar with the national political campaigns of the last 18 years. For here so much, is the reverse of what it has been on the national
It's the Democrats who are charging the . GOP. administration of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey with having started the state down the road to
The Democrats are shouting about “the eight long years of Republican inaction in Albany.”
They jibe at “the indispensable man.”
Sounds Like GOP
been doing.
tools and Geneva of watch-making machinery DIS regime.
and its derivatives. Zurich's
weaving industries.
Stocking Materials
RECENTLY these and other Swiss manumaterials. In City’s, alarms
facturers have been stockpilin,
a population only half New Yor get about quickly. The tip to Swiss housewives was similar to one the manufacturers got for
materials.
Warehouses were so full the government was suspected of using the fear of war to get the householders to take up some of the load. Swiss economists are able men, moreover, and it is now being said they foresaw the inflation and got the manufacturers into the mar-
kets early.
product grew out of hydroelectric power and the spinning and They now make fairly complete lines and like Americans they can tool up complete plants anywhere in the world. Their numerous tool works are less specialized than ours, though, because they have to be capable of switching from one product to another to meet shifts in demand.
gram, etc.
THEY want Gov. Dewey to account for what he has done with the $673 million set aside in wartime for a post-war building program. This sounds -like the Republicans in Washington who wanted to know what had been done with the $50 billion voted for defénse since World War II. And Gov. Dewey, in defending his record, is duplicating what the Democratic Presidents have
He tells of the great expansion and improvement programs that have been going on under
“I admit it. And I boast of it,” he shouts. Then he asks what the Democrats would repeal —If they would repeal the vast dormitory. buflding program. The low rent public housing pro-
In town after town he lists in dollars and cents the improvements brought to the area by his administration. He sounds like President Truman did when
* “he stood on the back platform of his campaign train and in dollars and -cents told farmers at
POLITICAL MAGIC . .. By Charles T. Lucey
Democratic Retreat
DES MOINES, Oct. 14—The retreat of Democrats from the Brannan farm plan, that bit of political-economic magic that
seemed to hold somethirig for everyone including votes on elec-
tion day, has become a rout out here in the corn country. Here in Iowa, Albert J. Loveland, former Undersecretary of Agriculture, carries the blessing of the Truman administration.
He had been expected to make the Brannan Plan his big issue, but instead he is fleeing from it like a man running from a tiger. - . - IN. OTHER days Diente believed that, because the Brannan. Plan promised good prices to the farmer and a
break for city folks in letting.
consumer prices find their natural level, this was an almost unbeatable political package. But. the idea never caught on out here in the farm belt. Candidate Loveland, trying to latch onto the U. 8. Senate seat now held by Bourke B. Hickenlooper, isn't even mentioning it in his speeches.
Democratic Party leaders here
ssay farmers either don't understand it or don’t like it. a VICE PRESIDENT ALBEN - BARKLEY came into Iowa the other day and then backed up halfway to Chicago trying to explain that well now, really. after all, we Democrats aren't so hot on this Brannan Plan ourselves: But because Democrats are throwing down what was supposed to be their big issue doesn't mean Sen. Hickenlooper has a soft touch. On the contrary, although the GOP has counted the Iowa seat safe, there are signs Mr. Hickenlooper may have the toughest kind of fight trying to hang on. y
a el s ” THIS state went for President Truman by a slim margin in Iowa is of stout Republican fiber, ang the GOP usually makes better showing, in
* Atomic Energy
1948... Traditionally _
"term tests than in presidential | years. up for Mr. Hickenlooper.
Maybe that should add
But the farmers are pocket-book-sensitive. pretty -good year, and nobody is quite sure how far they'll swing back to the GOP from the support they gave Mr. Truman two years ago. The governorship, the legislature and
. most of the county sdats even
then remained in Republican hands. ” ”
” * © THERE is considerable criti-
cism of Mr. Hickenlooper ‘among farmers for having been so busy
and being so involved in other affairs that he didn’t give enough time to representing the interests of his own state. _ This reporter took a limited
sentiment only very slightly in favor of Sen. Hickenlooper.
- - - HOG prices have siipped off in recent weeks, and it's not
hog prices. As in every election campaign since 1932, the Demo-
crats are holding up the fear . at stonémic collapse and re...
They've had a.
© rean
Pocatello, Ida., just what the national administration had done for them. .
Cites Projects Tr
AGAIN and again, Mr. Dewey cites some project and asks: the Democrats?” And Democrats are jibing about the governor's numerous dedications. They contend that Mr, Dewey has turned - more spadesful of dirt in dedications on the state's new 535-mile super highway than the contractors have in. actual construction. : This sounds like the Republican wisecracks
“Did you ever get that from
SIDE GLANCES
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th in human integrity all the necessary principles were embodied to vafeguard the rights of all the people.
great wealth. The masses of our people are today enjoying all-round better conditions than ever before, The wars and other things have had some influence in this. But, the predominant reason is organized labor’s strength at the polls. Neither the churches nor the other advocates of morality have had much influence. The Demoeratic Party has been behind most of this legislation seek-
By Earl Richert
about how many times Presidents Roosevelt and Truman have dedicated Grand Coulee Dam. Rep. Walter Lynch of the Bronx, the Democratic nominee for governor, contends that Mr. Dewey is seeking to run for the presidency
again in 1952.
He is attacking Mr. Dewey across-the-boards. He blames the governor for not having stopped gambling throughout the state and makes much of Mr. Dewey's pardon of Charles Luciano, the
ex-dope czar,
‘Lackey of Bronx Boss’
MR. DEWEY is depicting Mr. Lynch as a “lackey” of Bronx boss Ed Flynn and Tammany Hall. But Mr. Lynch is labeling Mr. Dewey as a servant of Winthrop Aldrich, chairman of the board of the Chase National Bank. He “Tom (Chase Bank)
refers to Mr. Dewey as Dewey.”
Mr. Lynch feels that he is the underdog in this campajgn. But he’s hoping to surprise Mr.
Dewey—as Mr. Truman did.
GOSSIPS
When gossips ring my doorbell , . . . 1 welcome them reluctantly . to a place where loves abide . . . with tales about . . . ; and seem to use my humble « « to off their troubles let , . . not real- . how very wrong they are . . for ridiculing someone else . . . and they finally leave . just what they'll say of me, . . when next their wagging tongues will crave
to come inside .
to me they've met . . . _ place . izing that I think .
someone's star . . I think .
. and when
. for more gossip to free.
—By Ben Burroughs.
FOSTER'S FOLLIES
MIAMI, Fla.—Six young women who ad- . mitted - stealing $100,000, mostly in quarters, which they todk from the phone company counting room in their brassieres, were later released on-a legal technicality. But the company says Cit will prosecute.
Well here’s an idea that is new for a change, : An act which was no pantomime, But one which in fact had a loftier range, Yet hewed to an old-fashioned line.
And if in the end a new clink should prevail For all of thuse counters and sorters, They still shouldn't mind the confines of the
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jai They ought to be used to close quarters!
By Galbraith
- GOPR. 3960 BY SEA SERVICL, WG. 7. 4. RES. & & PAT: OOF. "He's picked up bad manners from those rough ahildren that
‘moved in next door!"
other day. And one only needs
' to talk to farmers to see that
théy do remember, often with bitterness, the days of 10-cent corn and 5-cent hogs.
a. say that
U. 8. Production Marketing committeemen,
Administration -
supposedly bar ; tics by the Hatch ‘Act, are working quietly for Mr. Loveland.
. But before the campaign is
ovef, the American Farm BiiFederation, Jrended by
- oi POLL of lsrmers by enry Wallace's showed . Hickenlooper leading with 45 per cent _to Mr. Loveland’s 39 per cent. But neither side is doing any. big, careless talking and there'll a terrific
ing votes more than good principle perhaps, They must receive some credit anyway. ) ¢ 0
THE acts of political office seekers and of-
fice holders furnish us a first hand knowledge of the moral integrity of themselves and give us fair warning of their actions on any issue. Some of them have proven themselves to be moral and physical cowards by making unsubstantiated charges and attacking the character of men ~ whom they would like to see removed from office to help their own. political interests. writer's humble opinion the independent voter has a greater opportunity than ever before to eHampion morality.
‘Freedom Slipping Away’
In this
By W. Clay Reese, Shelbyville, Ind.
The arrest of movie people for contempt of Congress, the appeals of party leaders to the Supreme Court, the enaé¢tment of laws requiring registration of radical groups show alike how the rights of free speech and the liberties of the people are being taken away. True these are being done under the law but that was the excuse that Hitler used to support tetrorism in Germany.
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THE offensive people's court where counsel
must be approved by the court, where the
accused was. guilty before . trial,
all followed
these repressive laws to bolster up the security
and want
they come the others that get better,
of the state. Wars are fought to liberate the oppressed of the world, but the rights of the people are being sacrificed right here at home, Things will no doubt get worse before they
What Others Saye
UNLESS the supply of trained elementary Teachers is increased immediately, thousands of
children will be placed in the hands with
sociation. _
young persons of sub-standard train executive secretary of the Ohio Education Ase
ing.—W. B. Bliss,
WHEN the United Nations has won its enforcement action in Korea, as we must, I want to see a new and great effort to start the wheels of negotiation turning again between east and west in the United Nations.—Trygve Lie, secre-
< - tary general of the United Nations.
ONE of the weaknesses: in our education system is that we have nothing to parallel that ‘ (West Point, Annapolis) for training top leadership in public affairs.—Harold Stassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania.
WE reject the theory of giving workers only the same loaf of bread year after year. Other factors must be considered hesides the cost of living.—David McDonald, tary of the CIO United Steelworkers.
international secre-
STEPPED-UP TEMPO . . . By Fred W. Perkins
Labor's Vote Push
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14—Organized labor is making its big- .
" gest political effort this year—bigger than in any presidential
contest--to swing the congressional elections on Nov. 7.
Operations of the CIO Political Action Committee and the AFL's League for Political Education far surpass those of 1048, when they claimed a share of the credit for President Truman's
election and the defeat of some congressmen they had labeled anti-labor. r . =
MORE people are at work in all except the one-party states
of the South, and there is more
~ activity everywhere, according - to George Meany, secretarytreasurer of the AFL and a . leader ‘in the AFL's strictly * ‘political division. More money will be spent by the labor politicans, according to reports from both the CIO and AFL. Each has announced "a goal of a million dollars in voluntary contributions and
THE AFL hopes to raise its million in $2 Zcontributions, haif of which is returned to state and city committees for local use. The CIO sets only $1 as a standard contribution
from members and operates a little differently. ‘Fifty cents is retained locally, and the other half dollar is
tional 3 ® = =» : ,IN ‘addition many local and regional labor politicai com-
mittees are working independ-
a
of its unions -
. reports required by law are
filed with Congress about Jan. 1, An indication of the steppedup tempo is in the fact that 37 “united labor committees,” representing both AFL and CIO and in some cases. the raflroad brotherhoods, are working in that many states. Two years ago there were only six. The most complete organization is reported from Ohio, where two big independent unions,’ the International Association of Machinists and the United Mine Workers, have joined in. - . = » : JACK KROLL, CIO political chief,
labor is opposing claim’'a share of the credit.
. » . ; LABOR publications of al kinds are giving most of their these days to politics particularly to labor records of candidates and to appeals for a Iull Jote 4s well. as ful) Tegistra
“Taft in Ohio, their itieses wil Bé measured by. whether ‘the Democrats or Republicans Sonate,
in the House and -
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