Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1950 — Page 16

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Give Light and the People Will Pind The Own Way

For United States Senator ea WE

hart to the United: States Senate next Tuesday.

this election are about as clea” as issues can be. ‘They are ‘the mass of schemes now pending for more

more spending and more inflation and higher and higher prices . . . and more and mére and more federal bossing of the private lives of Americans. . They are the uncertain and vacillating foreign policies of the administration that have failed to bring us peace’ or security . . . but have led us into war in Asia and danger everywhere in the world. ‘ Sen. Capehart's record on those issues is clear, and his pledges are unequivocal. vote against those policies.

tJ ” » ” ” . PARTY differences of belief on tose issues are at least open and above-board and sincere. -

There is another factor in- this election which the thinking voter may well consider. Sen. Capehart, like his colleague in Ohio, Sen. Taft, has long been the target of a bitter and vicious smear campaign . . . and from the same sources. This segment of his opposition is neither Democratic or Republican. It is largely outside of Indiana. It marked Sen. Capehart as “No. 2” on its “purge list” of men who are to be driven from office . . . and tried by noisy name-calling to shout down the voters of this state . . . because it considers him a major obstacle to the program it wishes to advance. We have studied that “program” . . . as its own sponsors have revealed it , . . and we have tried in vain to find in it any substantial differences from the program under which Mussolini led Italy to disaster and ruin. = If Sen. Capehart is indeed an obstacle to such a “program . . . as those who seek to-“purge” him admit then it is doubly important to America that Indiana keep him right where he is . . . in the United States Senate.

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| Congratulations

DICK JAMES and the 7000 fine Indianapolis men and women who helped him raise the higgest peace: time ~ Community Chest . . congratulations. This was one of the toughest Chest campaigns Indi-, anapolis ever has had . . . with a goal set higher than

middle of the drive, and with a variety of other features “that made fund raising difficult just at this time. In spite of all difficulties, the biggest fund ever raised for peacetime community welfare work was raised. Even though the campaign did fall just short of the huge figure sought as the drive officially closed, Indianapolis had responded magnificently to the appeal, and belated _ gifts are still arriving that may vet put it over the top. It was a splendid demonstration of hard work, fine organ-- — ization, and community co-operation . . . and a big measure of its success was due to the inspiring leadersnip of the campaign chairman, and the loyal unselfish help of those " {ireless campaign workers.

“Our Glass Houses =. THE Moscow newspaper, Izvestia, “describes the current’ American political campaign as a “wild orgy” of * bite "taking, swindling, deception and Violence.” = According to this Soviet organ, gangsters tieians are in cahoots to terrorize the voters. controls the leaders of both major parties and is pourmg

and. poliWall Street

out big money to finance the struggle between them. And the “militaristic capitalists” will be the only real winners on election day. oo Tzvestia's lurid picture is, of course, recklessly over-

“drawn, but candid Americans will recognize’in it some small traces of truth. The campaigns in a number of states have, indeed, become pretty sordid spectacles, as candidates and:. their partisans exchange charges almost as disgraceful as’ the fertile imaginations of Communist ropa sandists could jwverl®,. >. > 0 re os r...-N % » , y g L THE curtains are up-in a-lot of glass h6uses, and their occupants are hurling brickbats at each other. This may be regrettable, but it isn't completely to the bad. At.least, it gives the people a chance to-see whats been going on in those glass houses. hing ofthe sort could. happen in. Russ i

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: pany [Bpower. and _no oppo sition party is allow ed to exist.

There. the people are told only what their ruler ‘Ss wan! them ~.1o know. They vqte as they're ordered to vote, afd those who don’t like the way their. country is. run, keep their mouths shut for fear of losing their lives. : “An American political battle is seldom an altogether eifying spectacle. ‘But it would be a sad thing for usall if "we weré having the kind of PERTIpRIEY that Izvestia. could Yiew With approval.

“Art vs. Nature

: WHOEVER c chose the Plum Queen of 1950 for the. city 7 of Buehl in southwest Germany made a singularly unfortunate and, for these times, inexplicable mistake. The queen turned out to bé not plump enough. : As everyone knows, such selected queens and drum - ‘majorettes nowadays need not possess great beauty if they measure up to certainrigid standards or "rotundity~ and parabolas. A quick but penetrating glance by the city fathers of Buch! showed that this was not the case with Miss Plum of 1 So they met in secret session and approved an optigial 1 efpenititure of 10 marks ($2. 38) to buy falsies

t young lady. The money was listéd in 6

spss dy dt

RECOMMEND the re-election of Homer E: Cape-

“————In-spite-of campaign Sound and. fury the. issues in

hand-outs and doles and subsidies, for more taxes and

A vote for him is a direct .

ever, with the impact of new defense taxes right in the

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“nobody is permitted to make public charges againstythe™

. WASHINGTON, Nov. "1—President Truman and his record in the conduct of foreign affairs and national defense seem to be the top issues

'* in this most puzzling national election of recent ~.

© years. While the main issue is conceded by both - Republican and Demoeratic national, headguarters to be national rather than local the in-~ terest of the voters seems _to be at a Tow. ebb. It amounts almost to apathv: The campaign got off to a late start because Congress stayed in session till the end of September. But as the campaign goes into its final stretch, newspapers and radio are devoting less space and time to «it than’ is customary. ‘Based on the new census estimates, there

are over 100 million—people of voting age in .

the U. 8. Yet Clinton Anderson, chairman of . the Senate Democratic campaign committee and acting national chairman during the illness of Bill Boyle, estimates that the vote on Nov. 1 will be about 40 million. Sen. Anderson hopes - it -will be 50 million. He thinks th

‘the vote, the greater the chances for a » Demo-

cratic victory. . “ GOP Eyes Big Vors = STRANGELY enough, the Republicans aldo

feel that a big vote will mean a Republican victory. This is perhaps a carryover from 1948, when a lot of normally Republican districts and states went. Democratic because Republicans Shovent the election was in the bag for them, and didn’t go to the polls. - The total vote for congressional candidates was 46 million in the presidential election of 1948. It was-34 million in 1946, the last midterm election. If no more than 40 million voters 80 to the polls Nov. 7, it will still be a record. It will also be another minority deéision and

WALTZ TIME . . . By Earl Richert St. Louis Seers Pick Hennings

Donnell Rates Self 30-50 Chance to Win

ST. LOUIS, Mo. Nov. 1—Political experts

here put the odds on Democrat Thomas C. Hennings. Jr,

at the Nov.

to defeat GOP Sen. Forrest Donnell 7 election. * But, although thé dopesters expect Mr. Hennings to win, no one is counting the 66-year-old Senator out. This isn’t the first time he’s been in a tight political spot. The Senator, who looks like a character out of Dickens “heing short, stoop shouldered, bushy-haired and bulgy-eyed--survived: the Roosevelt victory in this state to be elected governor in 1940 by a scant 3600 votes, ~ He survived another Roose-

.velt year in 1944 fo squeak through for a 1900-vote vie“tory which sent him to the U. 8. Senate. ; 3 But the experts say Mr. Hennings. a pergonable, 47-year-old attorney, is three strongest

opponent Mr. Donnell has ever had.

Disorganized GOP

The

apolis Times PUZZING NATIONAL ELECTION . . <- Interest Of Voters At Low E

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PUERTO’ RICO

5 By Peter Edson

a poor excuse for a y President Truman, bx : War, as he says, has speeches. Democratic headquarters is still working on him, however, for a last-minute radio appeal, ; Vice President Barkley has * toured the country by private plane—at a reported cost of ‘$36,000-—but with questionable effectiveness. He is scheduled for a {inal, national radio broadcast from Chicago on Nov. 3. The Repupljcans haven’ t beerr able to afford

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“As 1950 Campaign | Nears End

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can’t even afford a me, or 305090 Se ‘hour television over a national hookup. ; Sinclair Weeks, Republican national finance chairman, doesn’t like to discuss party money publicly. The GOP budget for Senate, House and national campaigns was set at $1.8 million, This. amount hadn't been raised two weeks before the election, but the party bigwigs were confident they would end the campaign in the black. If true, this result would be achieved only by strictest economy. i

Nation’ S Life

WASHINGTON, trouble in paradise, favorite island.

Nov. 1—Now we've got Meaning Puerto Rico, my

THERE is the St. Louis situation, too, Here the tropical breezes shake coconiits Republicans. are "disorganized. And Mr. Hen- down on. the < . nings is receiving the whole-hearted support heads of the of labor and the city machine bY unwary sa-

Sheriff Tom Callanan. The seven Republican- candidates’ “ror office in St. Louis are so panicky that they have cut themselves loose from Sen. Donnell. These candidates are making joint appeals only for

their own™ é¢lection. They are not mentioning - - electric mixthe. Senator and their supporters are telling ers, and a people how they can scratch, voting for Demo- poet turned crat Hennings and also for the seven GOP city governor - is candidates. trying to ~The GOP city candidates also have issued bring on an a joint statement saying they should not be . economic revcharged with responsibility for the Taft-Hart- olution with a ley Law as they had nothing to do with it nor trick scheme

its enforcement.

‘Widespread Apathy

in ‘new busiHE: CHARGES that ‘outside’ labor bosses neésses from are -trying to dominate political affairs in income taxes. Missouri. » >The idea Robert N.. Denham, recently ousted as.gen-. looked like it

eral counsel for the National Labor Relations

‘Board, and Thomas E.

Shrover. a staff mem-

to exempt

loon keepers whisk up concoctions” . of rum and pineapple juice in

corporations

was working fine,

‘too, “with dozens of mainland firms opening branch factories in the beautiful

ber. of the Sénate Labor “Committee, are to isle, when blodie! Comes<the old-fashioned kind speak here next week in Sen. Donnell's behalf. of revolution. * Belief hers is that Mr. Hennings will roll up Kind of a weird one, too. This island, you a 50.000 to 70,000 vote margin over Sen. Don- know, is a part of the U. 8S. A. and the revolu nell in St. Louis. A margin of this size would tionists ‘claim they want independence. So it's be difficult for the Sendtor to ovércome in the a sort of-civil war on a miniature scale with rural areas where hé is strong. tropic overtones. And poor old Gov. Munoz MaThere is widespread apathy toward the elec- * Tin isn’t Spending tonight dancing, I betcha. tian here. The vote throughout the state likely At this writing 13 are. dead, the national will be light, with the possible exception of St. guard has been called out, the fighting is fierce Louis. Registration ig down in Kansas City. in widely scattered ends of the little island, and ~ Sen. Donnell rates himself only ‘a 50-30 the-revolutionists even have attacked I.a Forta-

chance to win.

VIEWPOINT .... By Andrew Tully

Enjoy U. S. Food? |

g from impressions average “Yugoslav

th: mixed entotions i las

SHINGTON Nov. rE ih a trip to Yugoslavia, thé will regard Amgrica’ food parcels wi emf eR ef S-hungry—he's omng-to-bes

&

recent:

something to eat: 5 But one @ “think that {3 has st

‘his “ston nach ks: sult, it's

Americ: 1's generons: : stantly rengthened Tito's hold .

12 Lountry .

For Tito wasn't

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not” “the hero to go out and havea good time, in his pwn The second category is pelitbaliwick that {cal the: professional comin-his.-press formist. What he wants is 7 agents make power he’s ‘ not interested in him out fo be. y No 4 bettering conditions. He talks Porow et ically of PRO a -lot about Tito —betraying - everybody ir Fo communism, but what he Yugoslavia to- . fT means is that Tito hetraved day is anti-, me AN him out of a chance for a soft government SES mad job. Rhy It probably | : ’ 8.” wouldn't be w\ychsl Tito THERE are a lot of these ne ig oe ... cold sore boys in Yugoslavia—some’ of so Ray them still “thembers in good

that his only supporters are the higher-ranking Commun ist bureaucrats’ and their opposite numbers in the Armed Forces. The rest of the country’ is sick

remiaiscing about good old days of the monar« hy when food was plentiful and it considered

standing of Tito's branch of the Communist | they have no effective under.

leza the governor's palace.

ain work mi

gathered probably

the

unpatriotic

Party.— But :

and tired. of — the marshals reign. = The ranksof dissatisi@ ugoslavs fall into two catégories. One is the average citizen, with

no. jdeen.sedted political Jean:

ground — first because Tito’s

. secret police are too tough to

use they

imrgla

n't trust one another far ancuah to risk their necks in any serious conspiratorial monkéayshines.

evils.

Tito may be a cold sore.

COPR 4930'8Y NEA SERVICE. GC. T W. REG U.S. PAT. OFF. d you finally bought a SUCH TUR TROBE ING for three or four

ta qo with

. By Frederick C. Othman So—Comes the Revolution—

I remember spending a fantastic night there during his inauguration; there was fighting then, too, but. mostly between ladies in evening gowns struggling forward in an effort to shake the oversized paw of the 225-pound governor. The party went on all night. Gov. Marin was-getting-a—littie—red-around-the-eyes—by-H— a. m.. but he was having so much fun that he stayéd on for a couple of hours more. After all, it was his big evening. He was the first elected governor Puerto Rico ever had and that night, certainly, it looked like, all the people. were behind him. Literally, the lines of well-wishers queued up for blocks in;the narrow streets. ‘So the governor, who was educated-in WasHhington and who is perHaps as well known here as he is in San Juan, immediately began his program of luring industry to the islands to make jobs. for his hordes of jobless-ecitizens.

Legit Tax Dodge ONE of the first of the industrialists to take him up on a 10-year tax-free deal was Ed Gardner, the Archie's Tavern radio spieler. who took his beer program to San Juan and who started production there a few days ago of a featurelength movie. A rumber of Congressmen kic ked

about Arche pulling a ‘fast one on the tax collector; “insisted his-move was’ legitimate.

So did Mtinoz Marin.

Numerous other mainlanders opened factories in =~ Puerto Rico, making blankets,. calicoes, gloves, shirtwaists, cement and bricks. Only this week a leading optical concern in Ohio announced the building of a plant there to make precision instruments Tor the defense progran. I. can only hope that the governor quells his revolution without killing too many of his people.. He's a good Joe, he has a nice island, and the Puerto Ricans at long last seem to be getting somewhere—if they'll only quit] ‘tirning ma-

¢hine Juns on each other.

By Galbraith

&

‘BIGHTING

The profes

4a Follette R

the State Department and *United Na: tions. : ® THE

ew tuxeds, Geordes— others with

evening's ers : ‘ am ‘ the reservation lies probably would help Yugo-

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Science Report Gives ‘Mavericks Hot Brand |

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 all but read the Dixiecrats out of the Democratic Party.

a -aitahs poleaa-the—NonRartisan—teague- Fd

right ott and name Dixiecrats,

wandering Republicans itching feet. But it did say that strayshould hasten, back

the lahel of théir party.

Democrats, on the other hand, are in the ° money. They won't admit how much they have and theyalways say it's not enough. With some chagrin, there is a feeling at Republican headquarters that a lot of fat cats, who ought to be contributing to the GOP, have been con- ' tributing to the Democrats instead. There will probably be a blowup over this when the list ; of campaign contributors is made public. after

FENC

election. For FREE “Feed Party in Power or a LE ual { . REASONS for big money donations to the at LOW ( Democrats are fdirly obvious. Regardless of ‘who’ wins the 1950 elections, the Democratic PHONE executive departments willl be in control .in Washington for another two years. It is with for Sears Fen these departments that big business must do Call .. [No business. So they feed the kitty of the party in .power, even though’ they don't believe in teosery

—— FURN

its political platform,” With what political expense money they —have-bean-able-to-dig-up nationally and focally, the Republicans have been booking Sen. Joe

McCarthy of Wisconsin: as their principa . a REP Sen. McCarthy's charges of comrade in :

government, the ‘matter of. inflation, high taxes,

conduct of the war in Korea, whether to defend - & . | Over 20 Yea Formosa, continued Marshall Plan spending and the military assistance program are all con- en Coal sidered subsidiary to the main issue of the : campaign. IMMEDIAT is, as stated at the beginning, is the issu of President Truman's oe of Gen ii on Smol and national defense. This is perhaps the first Estimaf time since 1920, when the League of Nations ¥ was the main dispute, that an American elec« tion has. been fought primarily over foreign rather than domestic, issues. : HARRY | WA-3101- |

" 4 not agree with a word thet ou sa bi | will defend to the death your right to i he

‘Same Old Hocum’

By Oscar Houston, Ellettsville. AS MUEH legislation that's been passed in the last 15 years for the security and welfare of the people. Here we have the GOP speakers firing away with the same old hocum and as void of any forward looking program as a door knob is of feathers: They seem to think they can win because they designate everything that's been done for - the people as socialism, communism, or any scare word they can hatch out. They have tried to discredit the President, even suggesting he be impeached, and have tried to brand almost .

everyone of his official family as Communists or sympathizers,

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CONGRESSMAN HALLECK, Senators Jene ner, Capehart and Wherry are leading their shock traps, but they have failed to find a came paign slogan that takes with the voters. _...They-put in their time slinging mud instead of ‘presenting a program. Before the war in Korea they accused the President of being an appeaser. Now they have changed and say his policy put us into war. For the last 15 years Charley Halleck hag been lambasting the New Deal as being a dicta torship, socialistic, and contrary to our way of life. But a few days ago he told his hearers ha wanted’ it understood he voted to expand the Seeiay-seeurity-taws, the very heart of the New Deal. That is a sample of tneir consistency. / ‘False Comments’ / By C.E.C. City : : / THIS is in answer to William L. Jordan from Anderson, for his fine, but “falée” ‘com= ments of “I can remember,” appearing in The Times. : 7 You state, Mr. Jordan, “that /‘one of “the first -aets of the late Mr. Roogevelt was his commendable defense of the veferan,’” For your information, Mr. Jordan, one /of the first acts of Mr. Roosevelt was to cyt the pensions of all disabled veterans 25 per’ cent. > Later his own House gnd Senate overrode Mr. Roosevelt's veto to restore ‘the cut. Did that satisfy ‘F.D.R.” ot course. it didn't. He prepared a brand new/ pension plan and sent’

a long message “to Gongress. It was passed, ® Easy 10 kee and left us (yes, I #m one of those veterans) ® Resists chi with reduced pensions and some with ‘none + Color-Bila aratt; = oo Sd i ® For long | : / be £4 ve . SUNTILE THERE wag another bonus uprising in 1935. Remember, Mf. Jordan? Another veto, This We'll be bapp) was also pagsed over that veto, but not for SRUBITING 20 the benefit /of the veteran. Wa: were given bonds to Wold for 10 years. We needed cash WEGE | then, not/10 years hence. If we cashed any ; —§ 927 Archit

or all of fhe bonds before the 10-year period we ‘werg charged interest against the unexpired time. Yg¢s, Mr. Jordan, some of us can remember, aig; And maybe a little more nearer the truth,

WORDS’ ...By James Helbert

4

—A group of college professors today

sors alsb would strip the Republican Party of such | =the epublic any if w {se onsin and tirose of the Sen, — group in Oregott.

ty Wayne Morse = nmi Ee rei ry oe pon J yY of - - « . The policy of Vote her and the policy statements of: Xr raight, follow-the-leader par- top leaders, ; ty regularity was put forth in ie roy a report - of IN OTHER words, the report the Comniit- holds that Congressmen from tee on Polit. is wi SY, ical Parties of Alabama, Texas, Tennessee 3 4 you've bee: the American and other southern states few “For Ren Political. - Sci- should . support the nation: al. desirable hom [See geniieind platform’s-civil rights plank or on Arsenal ho tion. This in- § ; : _cludes' teach get out of the-party. ; for your very 6rs. Of-ROVeEn- . And to make certain theres et ment_. courses is ng foggy notion about what When you pu And a sprin- party policy is. the report calls payments are “kling from * for creation of party councils, - buying as ea

one for ore for the Demograts,.

the Republicans and

each of .a stack of

Mr. La Follette

ith. 50 members . offshoot wath : : : s a Select the ho 5m THESE , councils “would ine you buy it—a

\'} for over 60 y

clude Congressmen, governors, vel obligation.

members of “the parfies’ state and national committe¢s and big names picked by the na- - tional conventions.” The coéune meet four -times a vear-and hand down the line. The report blazes with fight.

oi and political anta cil ‘would br stop wearing

HLADGI DUURS THU tl

5 public festivities. ~The cynics of Buehl may | holler and rant and say they have cheated. They may write letters to the press, city records have been falsified. Others may

that art being elled spon | to S Presa.

with Miss un-Plum, but we think she is fortuthe municipal authorities met the crisis \front-

oa eertain. number of ‘hours ‘a

wo. i

MES tired od. the regimenta-tion--of having to ¢ “volunteer”

month to help uid roads and . tie baltdings. Hey, cons Choosing Li : li | Cn 5

offset. by the rest of the Y ugo* - slaw people L for, generally speaking most of the Yugo-,. sides “would fight any aggres-| ‘It's merely. A Luestion of

the lesser: of two. :

ory. They see a victorious war as their_Gnly hope af getting

rid of Tito. 1f this sounds para‘doxical, way the. man-in. the-street fig. = v yhes. it is that the Western Al :

then. it does; but the

= first bya

ing i : a el tite be a rahe Slain brand oa AL Teast he's ~their cold. Slavia lick the Cominform __Pheassociation says parties ing ETS Tes talk about Te — e doesn ave encugh to ea first Sore. T— : wi ; 3 t : pe . i ‘enough’ clothes to. wear or a _ nuisance if Yugoslavia got into = 5» = eventualiy—but oply become Fre Shoe Ie, A i placing “disloyalistate leaders” : = decent place to Jive in. a war. with Russia or some, of THESE people also-holito a after the first Ru ussian drive - Toles con : ed a ess _ = by the party geouncil would 3 (her - zatellites. ‘But they'd be typically devious Balkan the- ‘had uriseated Tito. Then, at (rats’vote a emocra nM send States’ Rights Sotithern-

Congreéss, sta

the end. they see the Allies helping them to form a demo-

cern; hiE, ext, is arms,

and city councils.

His) natipng} party Platform

v

legislatur 8. ers into tantrums and probably

- out of "the party. They figura

cratic—-or even. a monarchie— / By voting like Peigerats, it js. the northern, Trumarn-led Sth Floor, ! government, ‘the «professors ° mean they “wimg-dF the party that is dis. Noh a “Meanwhile. food “is Tito's “i hp jd support bills in ling with - loyai- to traditional Jeffers 5: Di

“sonian. Semseracy. Ae a