Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1950 — Page 14
Business Manager - Monday, Nov. 6, 1950
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They're glad that it's closing. It has been a dreary aifair, marked in many states . Foy partisan mud slinging and exchanges of scandalous charges. And the wind-up speeches by. President Truman and # Harold E. Stassen contributed little or nothing toward lifting it to a higher level at the end. Mr. Truman, at St. Louis, used the technique he had found effective in 1948. He accused ‘“vote-hungry Republican politicians” of illingness to destroy the United Nations and undermine heir own government in a time of great national peril. The Republican Party, he asserted, “has been taken ver by the special interests.” Yet the bulk of his speech 3 vas an appeal for grateful Democratic votes by those two big special-interest groups, agriculture and organized labor. » ~ ” = . w MR. TRUMAN belabored the “Republican no-good, § do- nothing 80th Congress” and said that the damage it did has been repaired by the Democratic 81st. : However, his summary of the 81st's asserted achieve- < ments was not impressive. He didn't mention its refusal to repeal the Taft-Hartley law. Nor did he refer to the Z eagerness of Democratic candidates this year to disavow S support of his administration's new panaceas, the Brannan " Zfarm plan and the Ewing compulsory health-insurance “ proposal. He claimed full Democratic credit for rescuing the country from depression and making it prosperous in the Elast 17 years. But there was nothing in his speech about
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MR. STASSEN, at New Haven, undertook to paint ithe other side of the picture. He denounced Democratic waste and extravagance. And he undertook to fix direct blame for American casualties in Korea on the “spy-riddled” ruman administration’s “blinded, blundering, bewildered” policy toward the Far East. ~~ More temperate language might have been Tective. The administration's Far Eastern policy is vulnerable. ts ‘1946 decision to abandon Chiang Kai- shek did toss ina, key to the Whole Asiatic situation, to the Com-
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And, even after the Communist invasion of South the Truman administration -did continue efforts to ppease the Chinese Reds. Now the Chinese Reds have repaid those efforts by joining in the war against us. vs x ” : . » Ft MR. TRUMAN acted with courage when he reversed ansgearlier decision and, on behalf of the United Nations, intervened in South Korea. That action has, he says, given the United Nations new strength and standing. But that commendable action cannot be isolated from the administration's general Asiatic policy which, Zthis newspaper believes, has been misguided and, in major Fare. responsible for the present situation. Now the voters will have their say. i --The hope of all Americans should be. that they will se above the partisin bitterness of the campaign —and— lect a Congress able and determined to make and keep Zour country. strong. for the. Sangerons. days. that may be ~ #close ahead. :
Action for Peace : “HE United Nations organization has achieved new force { and substance by adopting the American plan which _ Zeuthorizes General Assembly action to maintain peace in~situations where Sec arty Couneit action may be Dlosked by he Soviet veto;
The overwhelming ST of this plan. the vote was
illingess to take stern measures against future acts of gaggression. N Only the Sov iet Union and’its satellites voted no. The new collective-security arrangement obligates all SUnited Nations members to keep units of their national . lefense forces ready for use against aggressors, at the —#General Assembly's direction, if a veto has tied the Security ouncil’s hands. ' ° Prompt compliance with the intent and letter of the uirement should obviate in the future such delay and iecemeal response to a general call to arms as occurred ter south Korea was invaded. i sn = ? ows THE same American-sponsored plan creates twe 0 nev. mmissions to help make it effective.”
One of these is to maintain watch on troubled areas A ad keep the United Nations informed of situations threating to erupt into war. The other will study ways and $ of combatting aggression and report to the Security, or the General Assembly on additional legislation, ich may be needed ‘to tighten up the peace machinery. sentatives of ‘the United States will serve on both, nd each’ is broadly representative of the United Nations _@menibershi "The ly situations in Indo-China and Tibet and along Ye Korean-Manchurian border should have ‘the immediate ttention of both commissions. They are made to order - studies of aggressor techniques in operation. jis sapecialy Spartan) in determine the roles of. and Communist China in Korea and IndoUnited Nations urgently needs a porous
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TIED HANDS... By Jerry Therp South Korea
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Leaving Reds in Posts Is Danger, Minister Points Out SEOUL, Korea, Nov. 6—South Koreans are opposed to a United Nations directive permitting present officials in North Korea to retain their posts in liberated areas. > P. 0. Chough, home minister of Korea, said
the United Nations’ policy “leaves us with our ~
hands tied” and can dissipate the advantages of United Nations’ victories in Korea. %' "Those who continue in power in North Korea from the cabinet level down to village officials are all products of Red indoctrination,” he said. “How it is possible to instill the principles of democracy under such conditions?”
If Red officials retain their influence long
enough, they may be able to control elections
to. fill 100 Nerth Korean vacancies in the General Assembly, he said.
Mr. Chough, a doctor of philosophy from Columbia University, implied that at least 40 out, of 212 members of the assembly from South Korea “have leftist leanings.” —
~ Could Be Influential
IF the Reds succeeded in seating their men in most of the 100 vacancies from the north. it would give the Communists an influential and disruptive minority in the assembly, he said. The home minister proposed a five- -point program to solidify Korea. First, he suggested, the United Nations should disband all existing government agencies in North Korea. After that. he said, all political, social and cultural organizations north of the parallel should be outlawed _ “because they are agencies througr which Reds infiltrate the masses.
“Then, " he continued, “new civil agencies should be created to control governments locally and the personnel should be composed of persons with patriotic and democratic ideas.” “The people of North Korea also should be , encouraged to organize their own social and cultural organizations to offset propaganda sown by similar groups controlled by the Reds.”
Would Return Refugees
THE FINAL step in his plan is to encourage three million North Koreans, now refugees south of the parallel, to return to their home towns and villages immediately. The return of refugees to North Korea is particularly important, Mr. Chough added, inasmuch as they include nearly all persons from that sector capable of leadership. Those of superior education and ability with a background of democracy who remained behind have been liquidated, he pointed out. Mr. Chough believes a national police force of 75,000 men will be necessary at least for a
_ year -after peace is declared.
That many national police would enable the government to wipe out guerrilla activity whicn is almost eertain to continue many months after the was is officially declared at an end, Mr. Chough concluded. .
FOSTERS. FOLLIES
CHICAGO—-A judgé offered 3 crapshooters freédom .if they could throw a 7 or 11. He released them anyway when they refused to try their luck.
We can't throw the dice; we might throw an ace. twice, And thus bring on freedom’s demise — It wouldn't be nice, if we threw in a trice, “~A-pair of those gleaming snake eyes.
But we might recommend (if it wouldn't offend) That your offer be changed just a shade. If the bones you will send on their galloping trend,
Your honor, we gladly will * “fade.”
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THE editor of every sheet . . . has many things to do . . . and standing out above the
rest . . . he must please you and vou . . . he sets the paper's policy . . . and if he should go wrong . . . he's ridiculed from every side . . .
by both the weak and ‘strong ., , for though his name appears but once . . . upon a certain page . invisibly it's everywhere. . . from news to fashion’s rage . . . because he deals so close
with life . . . he must be worldly wise . ., and so he prints the naked truth . . . in place of tinted lies . . ut I have often wondered how
—orjust what he would do... he found himself . through.
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Lawyers Drop-Test Sdn i
Its 52,571 Subjects Counted,
ASHES Nov. 6-—~We now ) con- York, sider the learned lawyers, publishers, and federal officials testing the quality of Volume I (A to ANNO) of the Encyclopedia Britannica
demanded Mr. Seaman, who
_. by tossing it toward the -SeiHng. Then Shey. ak read Volume -X—on-the subject of —grammar,—
eastern sales nf for Britanniea, with his big, fat Volume I under his arm. “Where do you want me to drop it
“| de not agree with a word that you say, but | ho defend fo he Saude your) Yo say 1:
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A G d Me re art 2-0 By C. D. C., Terre Haute :
I WAS very much interested in the letter of William IL. Jordan who tells how everyone . ‘loves the Democratic Party. He says: “One of . the first acts of the late President Roosevelt was his commendable defense of the veteran.” I recall that quite well as I happened to be living in a‘city at the time where there was A National Soldiers Home. : One of his first acts was to kick all the able bodied World War I veterans out of the Soldiers Home and they made a camp down next to the river and many of them stayed in the camp all winter because they couldn’t find a job. Ironically there were 1800 vacant beds in the Soldiers Home where there was steam heat,
Lah TE I KNOW because I saw the camp and, in‘cidentally I was one of the old tightwads ¢a name Mrs. Walter Haggerty calls me) that donated to them almost every day so they could _have some cheap meat and vegetables to make stew out of. Also, every morning there were some of them that went to a hospital to pick up any food that was'.left over. On top of this Roose- ~ velt refused to give them their bonus. money that had been provided for in a law passed by a Republican Congress until the pressure became so strong he had to give it to them. "Yes, Mr. Jordan, most all of us have made a lot of those blood stained dollars that were provided us by the Democrats. The exception being the many who died and some who 'suffered worse than death along with the others who have been fighting useless, futile wars.
Danger Signal Ahead By Loyal American, City
SHOULD the present incumbents gain full unchecked control of all branches of government won't -we get all of those socialistic ideas they are seeking and many more? We are planning vast expenditures of billions as if money grew on trees, free for the picking. This money comes from a free enterprise of ° capitalistic investments. More accurate, it is the dissipation of wealth we bhilt up from them. On credit we pass out money everywhere we really don’t have. This makes business hum. We enjoy it. We vote for those who fill our pockets for the day. Why worry about tomorrow? The more hand-outs, increased wages and taxes, the mare inflation, : of de A INFLATION makes us richer on paper until the. bubble. bursts. Controls will only hasten this. An all but slight hope is a reverse of trend. gradually. But the spenders dare not try this. : a They must create necessities for more and more spending. Who doesn't know that this will sooner or a little later wreck us? Who is ng to pay these fat old age pensions? We tw ill be helpless eating out of their hands. In fact half the people are eating out of their hands now. Only -now-the rations are
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ducked. English. ' » “Ca - rash.” Mr, Seaman dropped his tome 5 feet, as if went Volume from a book shelf. Then he slid it off a desk, I on the Fed- like from-a-reading table. He also tried several Trade eral other methods of dropping it and then Commission ’s he said: floor and all “There are no other ways you can drop it.
I can say is’ ‘that our government's interest in literary matters is what you might call violent. It turns out that Joseph L. Morse and partners. .in.. the Unicorn Press of New York publish the 25-volume F set of- Funk : and Wagnalls’ New Sangurd Encyclopedia. They advertised that their books contained more than 60,000 different items. They said further that each volume was of such a neat and handy size that when dropped its binding probably ‘wouldn't smash like the big. heavy books of the competition. : The commission Marcus Miller, attorney for Unicorn, insisted it was logical that a small book should suffer less damage when dropped than a big one, The
with—seven -abstentions=indicates RIT HRpressive———
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TIMBER . . . By Peter Edson
GOP’s
Presidential
“Possibilities Are Few
REPUBEICTAN presidential possibilities for 1952 are rapidly
being reduced.
It's now a race for survival.
Gen. Eisenhower
seems -headed for appointment as supreme commander in Europe. - Mr.” Stassen has eliminated himself hy talking too much. Gov, ‘Dewey's stock was. never lower, and he. says he is no longer in
the race. But Dewey, Gov. ~for office in the 1950 election. Winners in—these—trial—heats ~will- be, marked. men, by the unfittest. gi = = nz = WHY candidates with greatest ability sometimes go down to gefeat before lesser men is always a great political riddle. In the Ohio senator-
stance, it has frequently been said that Democrat Joe Ferguson did not meausre up to the qualfications of Robert A. Taft. An analogy given by some Demoeral i banvdde? “Well, Joe McCarthy couldn't measure up to the qualifications of young Bob LaFollette in Wisconsin, and
Mr. Ferguson
Kenneth Wherry couldn’t meas-’ Ture up to the qualifications of in Nebraska. .
Norris Me¢Carthy and
George Nevertheless, Wherry won.” “ ! . ” » n IF YOU of averages, the Bureau of the Census compiled some eléction statistics which” should be checked against results in this year's senatorial races. Here’
is the average vote in- the mid. -
term elections for U, 8S. Senator in 10 key states, from 1928 to 1946. It shows five states lean-
can. Colorado A 242,000. Demo‘cratic, 185,000 Republican.
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Warren of California and Sen. Taft (of Ohio were still candidates
Maryland; — 300,000 Democratic. 189.60 Republican. Missourt— 789.000 Demo
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New--York-—2,261.000 Demo or Ate TFT 00 ReEpubITean, Connecticut—325.000 Repub lican, 306,000 Democratic. Indiana 769,000 Republican. 106 000 Democratic. Ohio-<=1,275,000 Republican, 1.172.000 Democratic. Nebraska — 262,000 Republican, 179.000 Democratic. Pennsylvania 1,766,000 -Republican, 1,512,000 Democratic, = » ~ WOMEN of both political parties go through a lot of motions to get out the feminine ‘vote. But one of the strangest developments -in
American politics is that the
introduction “of women's suffrage was ‘accompanied by. a reduction in the percentage of eligible voters going to thepolls. : In 1916, last year that the man voted-alone, 71 per cent of
commission called in Paul E. Seaman of New
'__umphantly,
charged this wasn't fair,
Well, unless I throw it up in the air and let it come down.” ;
Other Books Checked
“TRY IT,” snapped Jesse Kash, attorney for the commission. Mr. Seaman took a deep breath and a hefty swing and snapped Volume 1 skyward. Examiner Hadley et al. cringed, and the book smashed to the floor, “This book is still solid,” he cried triThe gentlemen turned then to the 60,000 subJects covered by the Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia. The commission doubted this. Publisher Morse said he'd instructed his “editor, William Hendelson, to go through all 25 volumes, counting each item. The commission
“called in Mr. Hendelson, who testified that he'd
turned this job over to Miss L. Pulvérmacher, a conscientious lady. She counted each item on every page in all 25 books and came up—oops!-— not with 60,000 subjects, but only 52,571.
Publishier Morse said he picked .up that 60,- _ 000 figure from the former publishers and that
he'd quit advertising it as soon as he learned the horrid truth. The commission decided that there was nothing much else wrong with his ads, so long as he didn’t suggest the competi-
Mr. Seaman recoveved.it quickly.
“but the corners are a little dented.” .
If you are a true American think and act for ' its preservation at home. What can a “busted” United States do but drift into world communism, with its consuming pressure around us?
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New HOSP w+ PRUVO tah By John T. Lewis, city I i ay SEN. CAPEHART says the Democrats gave cannot barn us two wars. He'd better go see “Farewell to 108i, Sona Yesterday” and he'll learn that the Republicans ae would have given us the same two wars, or antec on Ist maybe the Senator would have been in favor = only 81.50 of having no wars and letting the Germans.and...... & _ by name Ac
the Russians come over and take over, The same about taxes. No matter which party is in, we'll have high taxes. Wars cost a tremendous amount of money, and we have to pay for our planes, tanks, our dead, our wounded, so we should be ashamed to gripe about them. I'd rather pay taxes than be like some of our poor wounded soldiers coming home from Korea, or hadn't the gripers thought about that. Then again Sen. Capehart pretending to be a friend of labor. That gets it! Wolves in sheep's clothing are on the prowl, people, so beware. He's the one who hollered for ‘more produc=tion, more production.” In effect, that means the markets would be flooded with goods, this would have meant a cheap labor market, longer hours and much lower Pay. A friend of labor:
tion's books bounced less easily than his. *
First Order of Business
ence of only one strong party,
with little or no oppasition and no doubt about thé outcome, also keeps down the vote, States with the best turnouts on record—in the 1944 elections—were Utah and West
the eligible voters went to the "Virginia with 83 per cent, IlH-' nois with 82 per cent; Indiana -
polls. In 1920, first year of equal suffrage, only 49 per cent of those eligible went to the polls. The percentage rose to 62 in the. 1940 election, which is the record so far. ; sn ; PARTICIPATION of voters in: U, 8. elections varies widely from.’ state to state. That's why . results were so hard to predict this year. It all de--pends on who got out ‘the voters in what states. Poll tax laws, of course, keep down the te in ing n South, et mes being de- , iY ano as 10 per cent population. Pres-
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and South Dakota with 81 per cent and New Hampshire with 80 per cent. iw PRESSURE on, the Féderal Reserve Board to modify its restricting credit buying on automobiles
and home“appliances. has been
terrific. Practically all dealers making time payment. sales have been earning a lot of
gtr
money: Through trade asso-
- ¢jations, they have. been con-
‘tributing heavily’ for ecam‘paigny to have credit restric.
tions. - ‘eased, Favorite device
the complaint, he owes the government $8000
has been to buttonhole congressional candidates and have them phone protests di-
rect to Federal Reserve Bank.
officials. ; . In one call from the South“west, the hardship story of an automobile dealer was poured out: “Why this dozens of used cars he: can't sell because ‘too ‘high-a down
payment and too short terms:
are required. He says he'd like to give these cars to the Fed-
eral Reserve Board and let them try to sell ‘em. “And furthermore,” .came
“in income: taxes.” How's he
going to pay that income tax
on Dec. 15,1 he ean’t sell those
ars?” Noa * The inconsistency and
humor ‘of Nis argument the =~ Congrssman entirely. seeking his
missed
“this man says
.Baloney.
STILL AT IT. ... By Andrew Tully
Sabath Oldest Man
‘In Congressional Race
- WASHINGTON, Nov. 6—0ldest. member of both houses, in point of service, running for re-election Tuesday is Rep. Adolph *
man since 1907 .
——J.Sabath; 84-year-old-Hlinois-Pemocrat— He's been a Congress-
. oldest Senator in point of service Is Walter ". F. George, Georgia Democrat, who's served since 1922 .
". Longest
record in Senate is held by Democrat Kenneth ‘McKellar of
Tennessee, who's held “his job since -1917,-but he's not-up for re-election in. : hrony- Ps _— TRrORant If a the Republi- =~ - © a ns should 4 gain «control of the Senate, Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin would be in a fine spot to harass his enemies in the State Department. He'd ber come chairman of the potent Committee on Expenditures in the executive departments, which has the power to investigate various governmental departments to see whether they're being run right . ..
Rep. Sabath
+ +. long service
wy FN TWO Republican Senators— both from New Hampshire—
could take their pick of com-
mittee chairmanships in the
event of a GOP victory. Styles - - Bridges is senior Republican member: of the Appropriations
and Armed Services Commit-
man has “tees, and Charles \W. Tobey is.. . ranking GOP'er’ on banking - and carrency ‘and
interstate and foreign commerce. . a GOP win, Sen. Robert ‘A. Taft of Ohio wonld become chairman of ‘the Labor, and Public, Welfare - Committee jf he wins himself, that is, ' House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas is seeking re-election
to his 20th consecutive term. That puts: him third among 4 veteran Congressmen, with
—He's 87
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the Ae man in Congress.
FOUR states will elect only
Delaware, Nevada, Vermont and Wyoming. Nine states will elect only two representatives — Arizona, Idaho, Montana, New Hamp-
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shire, New Mexico, North Da- ~
kota, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Utah . .. throughout the nation, voters will cast ballots' to fill 36 Senate seats. Ordinarily, there would be only 32 seats to fill, since one-third of the Senate comes up for reelection every two years, the extra four seats result from resignations, deaths and appointments . ,-. Five Senators were licked in party primaries and will, be bystanders Tuesday. They are Chan Gurney (R. S.D.), Claude Pepper (D, Fla.), Glen Taylor
. (D. Idaho), Eimer Thomas (D.
Okla.) and Grank Graham (D. N.C.). Three others retired . from competition—8heridan Downey (D. Cal), Garrett Withers (D. Ky.) and "Harry Darby (R. Kas.). 4 ® = » i . ELECTIONS already have been held in Maine arid Alaska. ‘Maine went. Republican as usual, ‘but the Democrats gained some votes. Alaska re-
reli
- elected Democrat E. L. Bartlett '
as delegate to Congress; but
Uthe Alaskan Legislature went
Republican . Voters in four states will vote on legalizing some form of gambling. They are- California, gambling’ casinos, slot and bookies; Massa: a state lottery, ana
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