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The Election . . . and the Issues Pra S election next Tuesday is, about as nearly as we = are likely to get, a referendum on the policies of the present administration of our federal government.
stand on those po licies quite clear . . . particularly in the articles written by Mr. Campbell,” Mr. Capehart, Mr. Bronson and Mr, Jacobs which appear, unedited, on the prev: ing page. Believing, as we do, that these are all honorable men, we can safely assume that the course each now indorses is the course he will follow if elected to Congress.
HIGH on the "list of each, and uppermost, we are quite sure, in the ‘minds of Indiana voters, is the question of war or peace . . . and the part of our own foreign-policy in deciding which- ‘we shall have. The sole aim of our foreign policy i is peace .,. . with security. That this is a sincere aim of President Truman and his administration is beyond question . . . and to us charges that he seeks-anything else are frivolous and ‘irresponsible. The question before the voters is whether the course .now being followed is succeeding . can succeed ... In attaining that secure peace. Based strictly on results, it has not succeeded in Asia. Plainly, there, we have war, not peace . .. and deadly danger, not security. In Europe it may, test has not yet come, In the whole world the Ci mmunist enemy, 200 million subjects five years ago has 800 million subjec
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or may not, have sugceeded The
What those who favor them call those who oppose call “socialism.” 5 : Each step of government to “do something more” for the private good of the ordinary citizen has been inevitably accompanied by more restrictions on his personal freedom. It could not be otherwise. No government, whatever its intentions, could avoid controlling the personal lives of its citizens if it assumed responsibility for their personal wellbeing. "The administration has pushed the Brannan plan for socialized farming and food, the Ewing plan for socialized medicine, the PAC plan for socialized labor, and many. supplementary proposals . . . all aimed to’ give some ‘‘benefit” to some group of citizens, all of necessity taking away some’ part of their liberty. ; : Shall we' go further in that direction and adopt “the proposals now pending toward the system of greater freedom ‘and enterprise. this country followed during the century and a half it was growing to the greatest industrial power and the richest nation on earth? 5 —That, too, is a qiestion before the voter Thesiav. ‘We earnestly vecommend careful reading of the plat- - forms, of the four-candidates as they have written them themselves. : Two of them will help dec ide those issues
Red Impudence ~. . . - CommNST I leaders William Z. Foster and Gus Hall were among ‘the first to deplore publicly the attempt on
an's life by sagteila
of Indiana
for all of us.
two Fanatical Puerto Rican
Nationalists.
rion “County. A cents a copy for aay 4 and In
now. The free nations, altogether, have -also about S00 million people. There are about 700 million other peo le in the world, most of them in backward countries, many of them on the fringes of Asia. It is’ at those people that ; Communist imperialism, which has ga EM million sb » ject people against our existing \ chiefly directed now. There is the score. r = Ey Would a different policy have duae belier , , . ol worse? The question is for Indiana voters to ariswer Tuesda) s : ® ” ” THE ‘basic policies of the Truman administration on non-war domestic affairs are at issue, too. : ! “welfare” and
o.oo or shatb-we move Instead
"Candidates for national offices have made their own . 1
HOT ISSUES . . . By Earl Richert
Democrats
Evade
Health Insurance
Brannan Farm Plan, Another Key Plank, Gets Little Better Treatment
WASHINGTON. Nov. 4
nan domestic
IC nominees
he country are running from health s they would from the plague. And the Brannan Farm _ Plan. ‘another kev plank in the Truman pro-
about v ge Wo pet programs ot Federal Administrator Oscar and
curity
Mr. Lucas
. no attack Ewing
Agriculture |
ries
Recretary Ch Brannan. They're not attacking the proposals. They're simply. letting their constituents know they're not for them. For example, the Senate's No. 1 Democrat, Majority leader Scott Lucas of Illinois, handles the health issue by citing his. own record, rather than attacking the Rw program,
* wp ROPON. AL NS , for health insurance
introduced in
programs _Jeadership
the -
It won't be a clear mandate for the program if Democrats generally do well at the-
for Senate and House seats all over the administration's insurance program (socialized medicine to its opponents)
compulsory
Herbert Lehman in New York and -Sen.. Millard T%dings ‘in = LJ o DF MOC CRAY Alex Cam phell trimmed his on both the arm proposals ed his campaign. by an aid 1 nan as Brannan Plan supSenate Gahagan Douglas in John Carroll in Colorado; Joseph Ferguson in Ohio, Tom Fairchild in WisconAlbert J. Loveland in Mr. Loveland, former under sécretary .of agriculture, is: not mentioning .the Brannan Plan by name but he is supporting basic parts, such
has
bly
are nominees Helen
(alifornia,
sin and lowa.
as production payments for the.
handling of perishable farm
products.
” 5 = GENERALLY, Democratic candidates in the battleground states are against the TaftHartley Law. But some, like Mr. Hennings: in Missouri, say they would repeal the law to get. rid of its name and then re-enact most-of its provisions.
Senate or Tone up in com- Of Oe Wajor issue foreign mittee, have.not been brought policy, the administration can out and will not be . .."” he accurately claim a clear manSAYS, date in case of a general On ‘the Brannan Plan, the Democratic victory. “anti” Democrats express their For, on foreign affair the
15 MF.
PENCIL STUBS . . . By Frederick C. Othman
Political Experts Not Too Expert Now
Seers a Little Afraid to See Ideas in Print But They Do a Lot of Talking, Doodling
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4—The laundry bills of the National Press Club are soaring on account of all the sudden scribbling on the tablecloths in the main dining room. The card room has turned into a forum, while the fellow who drops into the bar for a beer is likely to get a political argument—with plenty of foam on top. I know it ig against the rules for a newspaper reporter to write pieces about. his fellow scribblers (on the theoryg that who cares), but this one if cannot resist:
UR traffic is getting worse by the week, especially during the evening rush hours between ‘4:30 and 6. It is hopelessly tangled up in the downtown area and you can bet your bottom dollar traffic cops during the worst time of the day are not to be seen. A few very efficient officers on a few corners don’t offset the lack of same on other downtown. intersections. Where are they? And where are the Wotoreyels: : men? They really could direct traffic to flow more evenly by being right on the spot. And when will our lights be set in order to get a smoother sailing? It makes no difference in going north whether you are on Meridian, Delaware or Central. - You get stuck on either street. Parking on the right side should be
prohibited aad strietly enforced. Is it? Of course not. trip through the Midwest. lis
worked for a magazine .rather than a newspaper and he, too,
THOUSANDS of dollars were spent fo widen Dela-; [he Dolltieal pundus these Was 4 man whose opinions and ware St. to gain another lane and what happened? It's out spending the boss’ money ~ 2Pility I admired. used for parking space and instead of the planned three : ‘on beefsteak dinners while an sir, Yeu also surveyed : ey put their ears to ‘the e voters of Missouri, Illinois, lanes ~We- still have only we as. before. Tor SA Te SAAR... you mmever id see sO Teiana and Ohio—and he had — The same goes for Meridian St. with the worst con- many dirty ears). They ex- discovered that the Demacrats around 16th and amined the grass roots (got were as good as in. “A general
gestion 22d Sts. where people even 2 - : — : trend,” he said. His own dis-
‘ —1 : : aT . . green stains on. their pants double park and are holding up tWo lanes. "And Central j,ing it) and twisted .the arm patches, however, he had’copis just as bad with the trolleys taking up s6 much space. -of the man on the street so pered carefully. They said in he'd tell ’em how he was going general that the Democrats
Vhen w ~ fair ice Depar y When will our fair Police Department wake up and == © next Tuesday. seemed to be crowding the Re-
give us a system that ig fitting for a city of almost 15 2 publicans out of the driver's : 2 : ih Yamce : 3 : val THE latter . coms in some seat. : million people? How mu h-longer do we have to wail 4 "5s resisted. The se for one-way streets running -north and south? Another ' masterminds who predict how SO I SAID. § root ; i : . : Sam eet Joe, » . élections will turn out are and what “they did to. that
20 years? ? . straggling back now from the It looks as though nobody gives a darn.
. . table as a crime hinterlands, looking consider. jecioth Was a. crime,
But these
opposition by announcing themselves for the present program of flexible price supports. Included among Brannan Plan opponents “are Democratic. Senate nominees Paul Aiken in Kansas, Thomas C. Hennings Jr. in -the dent's home state of Missouri, Sen. Lucas, .Rep. A. 8. Mike Monroney ¢n Oklahoma, Sen.
Presi-=
ouse
Democratic Senate and - nominees are standing behind Mr. Truman almost to 4 man. They proudly proclaim the administration's ' “great accomplishments” in the field of foreign affairs since.the war and srebut vigorously charges of ‘‘coddHing Russia’! and “bungling” that led us int t& the. Korean War.
FOSTER'S FOLLIES .. . By Ben Foster *
Can We Forsake’ y
TORONTO-Kissing-is-just so much chemistry; what a chemist told a conventi¢
=r
Jt a do
Republican ~
" that the working man has suffered because of the law.
economic
“was the act of Agents
int at interests
Tpro-Fascistc ‘the Wall Street
serving "for the here of *
provocateur. ina “frame-up corporations.” “This act,” Messrs Foster and Hall proclaimed, not be used as a pretext for a reign of persecution” against the people of Puerto Rico either here in the United States or in Puerto Rico, , , we call on our fellow countrymen to block any attempt to utilize today's terroristic act as fuel for the flames of war hysteria and police-state repression already Sudange: ng the Bill of Rights and world peace.’
. THE ‘es sg of the Communist all responsibility for what happened at Blair House is thoroughly understandable. Their professed concern for. “the legitimate aspirations of the Puerto strikes this newspaper as Beyond any doubt, an Puerto Ricans, whether they 1 live in their native island -or on the U. S. mainland, are loyal American eitize ns, grateful for the economic help the government at Washington. . has given them and appreciative of President Ti uman’s firm i assurance that they are free to work out their dwn politieal ” destiny. - aah _ ™ ¥ : A Members: of the so-called “Nationalist Party” are a tiny minority of malcontents. Puerto Rico's Governor’ Munoz Marin and its representative in the U. 8. C ongress, Antonio Fernos-Isern, both assert that Communist agitators have been working busily ‘to arouse this small group and incite to violent measures. of course the people of Puerto Rico are ot going to be. d for the crimes of a few deluded revolutionaries, 5¢ people might well pray to be spared the hypowapport of Shir Professed rips, the Communist
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“must
v
” oaders to disclaim
gern
Rican people” a gratuitous piece of impudence.
overwhelming’ majority of
But we'll
To such thoughts wore t A man to wh nch of never
ten. 3) love iy a mere i nh wii Know been” missin’, Sa - 5 WE don't mean to be but {f you don't mind pass the salt . . and just stick to- our little “sugar.”
nes
what
fresh
we'll
” salt
the
9 Ld = EVEN go, the can't kick about publicity it's getting these ‘days. Not long ago a scientist came for ward with the idea that the best thing to do when crave “alcohol is to take a spoonful of salt in a glass of
industry’ industry
vou
water,
Gals, or a quick snort? Nothing doing. Salt's the thing. : ) d ” “HEY, Orin £ a box of galtines from the village. paws
= maw,
COFR-—&qUEEZINS jug Is empty agin.” ; - ” PRETTY soon they may be
‘calling them saltinis. And serving them with an olive, ”n o =” ON one chap we know we are not very keen; he Will always insist on a third dry Martini, Now, three may not be one too many for you— : But for him more than two Means thas 10 are too few, .
_ Landon, England. a lady (started a ‘campa for beaut ears ap elbows. She
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. most important day...
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u u ~ A TV. manafddturer's mad 2A) Vd FCC's decision on vision has. the pub 4 True enough But théy forgot to mentio the stations, the manufacturers and the sponsors. And the FCC. = - un THEY came up with a great decision, The gave us color televigion. The ti they. haven't told us vet
Is where we get a color set.
TWO IN LOVE
THE organ played “Oh Promise Me” and all the world seemed bright . .. because the thing they were to do was wonderful -dnd right , -. . and &s they -kneit upon the brink . . . of honor and: obey +I Knew* they never would. forget this for as the ring “slipped on its , and all their vows were done , . . they Kissed a Kiss of tenderness . . meant for the one . ¢ , and oh the joy that filled their hearts ..,. for they had Known at last... promise and fulfillment of , . their dreams throughout, the past .. , and now the world.
lenge to their best . .. and sec“Yetly T prayed that they . r . would pass the mighty est, X —By' Ben
the
place .
: ies z = : with a craving for salt. That's Their statement, issued in New York on behalf of the = here. : : Communist Pa arty's national committee, lacked nothing in - They can figure this out any pulls her owj) ears every morn vige r : way.that they: wish; ing and scrubs her elbows with ) — Ay - Up there “in the. cool of a vegetable sponge. : As is well-known,” it said, “the Communist Party Toronto; Well, elbows and ears 3 T ¥ ve ake-sal 8 7 nat he : 7s loveliest attri pardemne gad yeirets AERasSing ation and all ficts of violeheo hey ean-even—taks : alt as an. Bn at ha. milady’s lovelie a = ¢ ” = Ee Seer dish ean hytes: but, they're; -darnes a and BEELY, : Ss a - tpethe-gainsif+ g ATE It went on to hint broadly that the a‘temnt probably 0D would she ever pick
; All over the room, vie same gentlemen don't hesitate to take money from the ably the worse for wear. And aq populated Shubin Which j also worried. : 0 : : le same taxpayers whom they are supposed to. serve and Re of these gentlemen known, political writers. in we mean serve wall, z whose opinions and ability I Singiies fe Teen a heing | Let's get on the ball and let's do it now. Sesty Fe NY experts all seemed to have dif- i 3 - 1: 8 By L. E. Emmert, City. rolled in from his survey of Jeren ideas on w ho was going : ! south Hitrolsr-Tatiany ang The a turned into 5 1 LS nef 11 L b d P li os Ang he said that he'd bets and ‘most of these gents a or an 0 itics. discovered an upsurge of Re- foreed to back “their Ais By Mauirice Coburn 4117 Park Ave. Publicanism wherever he'd i A pions ; sani] $e" —trtit=—triE— ipeme iD CASH limited their Hakhid. “SOMETIMES T wonder whether the “Republic ans are doing oan: THe ; —his pencil; tv to $1. ~ : , all that they can to clarify their position on the labor law, to Tot > Sad alter winced, Aik Pg a It was adopted with considerable help from Democratic tablecloth Saicuiations on ne THIS proved to me they" votes after much evidence of unfair practices by labor leader- a . weren't sire. what thav en ship ‘which possessed powers that it was unable or unwise enough THESE showed that Repub- talking ahd : I: 6 oT hi / lican candidates for the Senate ered it a good Ee EB much for the protection of the worker as to help in all four states were dead These babies, who write s man agement or the public and it is a real help to the union certain to be elected. He, of . loftily aboyt whit ihe 'p 50 . M he popu-
of its excesses which ‘in the No one is trying to destroy
cause with some limited restraint long run would weaken its position.
course, was taking no chances with the printed word; his dis-
Jace is’ gol ng to do at used to awe me. I
the polls,
¥§ won-
labor, as Mr. Campbell claims. patches indicated merely that dered how they-knew. Now I = u u » » = al : v = > = > EXPERIENCE has shown that the law can be improv ed in Ihe GOP seemed happy. So know . they don’t. Makes mae details and Taft, Capehart and Brownson have definite proposals a : ; feel a good deal better, I just sat there (I don’t You want to bet? I am pres
to that have never hear f anything of importance 0 effect. . 1 eve eard o thing p c guess anybody ever earned His
living as easily as I.do) and in came *another harried-looking gentleman, just back from a
pared to wager 10 cen money rs Senatorial land;
Labor shows its immuturity by its constant abuse of those on
who disagree, as for instance, Reuther’'s intimation that some induétrialist might have been guilty of the attack on his brother. No government can guarantee security or stop worldwide movements. and the best that can be done for a man 3s to give him the incentive and the opportunity to do his best, to te honest and thrifty. This country has been great, not only because of -its resources but because. of its incentives and because of “the moral rin es that gave it birth.” Much has been done" in recent o impair t these a advantages.
DEFENSE . . . By Ludwell Denny =
g-Corngressnish Scold,
comets gamete Abit ess
-WASHINGTON, Nov. Undarteat h the official eoptimis regarding an agreement soon onthe deadlocked issue of German troaps for European defensé, there is a good deal of worry here There is some fear that the French example of :
‘Watchdog of UN’ By David N. Ross, 22 W. 54th I. HAVE 1
Nt. Imitating ‘Ru
‘ead with interest your editorial iS Lie
insisting on
in which you say that our delegation is supporting Mr, for. their own plan-in disregard of the otherwise unanimays agreement re-election as Secretafy- -General of the United Nations appar- of the Atlantic Pact governments may encourage othets to Freak ently f{ for no better.-teason than that Russia is against him.” ¢ away. If the spirit of accept- ts Vou are mistaken, —OUF deIsgation” 18 Supporting Mr-Eie-be ing-the majority- judgment »is nations which seem tn it ta be copa sistrnpiv-supported AOR Rg HAL tha aggressibn ho last: Fach it isnlcmany mone tHing EET I Fea. and becalts TOSSA TE Ae TEPMTHEd 10 WAVE HTS OETA Head == fo Dull that spirit cannot I m— that swift. determined act. So that time Mr. Lie used his be regained quickly. ; FRANCE} wpa-Seeretaiy-Genaral-to.callto. the. atl ention of the Security, ~~ But the chief worry” is bver nerable. - Member the Narth Korean attack. For thik Russia wishes to. . American - French. relations. WHO Rive" 5)
touncH
a warning ‘to ‘the Secretary Congress’ is’ not expected to of rai
punish. him and set up a preced
Generals that may follow, to be c: arefut how they use this power . take kindly to what many call to cover foreign : est thev offend the Soviet Union. French “obstruction.” tive to the weakness of the RR. 5. 8 Fren h taxation system. There Id S P li THE administration attitude 1s also resentment of French ‘0 care ° icy’ is a strange: mixture of im- “mismanagement” ‘in Indo-
?
with French delays China; and the resulting drain
By FE. M,, City patience I DON'T feel your editorial in support of Sen. Capeharts and. a desire to prevent unre- on American mi Vv supplies re-election was very impressive. The reference to ‘"forces outside’ strained public criticism of the in that area. the state” invading Indiana with a ‘program’ could meah.any Paris position. So in ‘the de- There™is surpr little number of things—all dark and sinister, but hardly having much fense meetings here the Ameri- understanding ress of “scare” policy so apparent in this cans have taken a stern at- the risk inherent in Germans,
substance. It is part of the old
titude, ‘stressing the urgency of rearmamen therefore not
campaign.
What you really do not like is to have labor in a position to action. But in their public enough ay iation of the sit and bargain at the table with you, It would be so much more statements American officials French proble This is not pleasant to sit in the front office and “give orders” to be obeyed have carefully avoided ‘criti- true of Secretary of State all down the line. How they would like to get the bridle between cism of France and predicted - Dean Acheson, Defense SecréJabor’ 8 teeth SgRin, that agreement would be tary George C. M3 I 2. 0. & reached in a matter of weeks _.. of Gen. Omar N 1 AM NOT what is known as “labor.” I. belong to. the lost bat-- Despite this. administration chairman of the alion of “white collar’ people. Here is the way 1 see it— discretion, hewever, all signs bf Staff.” All have (sists d or
We have organized capitalists on one side, organized Tabor on point to a congressional flare careful safeguards .and rigid
‘he other, with organized farmers in the middle, throwing their up on the subject after the limitations ‘on German rearma Wi eight to which ever side promises them the most gravy. Running election. ; ment i Po around these three are the organized veterans and aged pension- nH 8 It. is ‘precisely because the
MILD congressional pressure - would “Strengthen. the administration’s hand in dealing with
ors, all after a handout. Where does that leave people tke me? Outside-—very much outside! Unless our group finds a place
to hang on, we are going to become the “underprivileged” of this Not a very
American andother Allied gov. ernments "have gone so far in the majority -plan to meet le
country—and there is not much doubt about that, the French. But there is no Eitimate. French fonts of Sos promising future, believe me. way of keefing it mild. The vived German militarism that ; . CongTessional mood, as indi- the disappointment over tha . LL cated in the ‘current election nres adlocl is = a = How to Save Liberty cated in the EGfrent. election Present deadlock is so deep. By Independent Voter : There is ‘widespread feeling READING the pros and cons in the Forum, .toe many people that European governments Barbs seem to be victims of propaganda, and fail to give due con- are relying too much on Amer-, 4 sideration; to the problems that face us today. The paramount ican aid and 100, little on self- ,THE change in the incoms “ jssue today is. how to preserve our liberty, and prevent otir own help. tax puts even more meaning
: ‘bureaucracies seem to have grown tuto a SUpes-gavernument;
‘ controllers, appointees, that we never vote for, and are. not re-
If it were only a question of into the expression congressional criticism, that take it with you.” could be taken in stride with 8 #2» othing more than some hurt
destruction: The blue print of liberty designed by our founders “You ecar't seems to he in danger of encroachment by the Bureaucratic
spansible to us, only to those. who appoint them. .. « '" Under the sponsorship of ‘the long Democratic regime, t the feelings abroad. But the rub ithe is money. Congress may’ cut.
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Democrats. - Sixteen House, three make gains. Sixteen others None expects Here are President T House. GOP Cha by Republicar win control. Democratic | Net gain in Congress. Senate Secre fie. Minimum gain of two 8 Sen. Owen campaign chai gain of four 8 gibly seven. Rep. Leonar: man GOP Con paign Comm Republican ga seats, maximu Rep. Micha Chairman De paign Comm gains for Dem Jack Kroll, PAC: Democra ate and House Newsweek p ton correspond of three seats | in House was predicted. Dem House, Five control of hou: ed GOP cont Comparison wi
lost ground ir of campaign.
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