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Shadow of '52? NDIANA'S elections Tuesday showed, rather plainly, it seemed to us, a growing Hoosier trend away from the Truman administration. True, Indiana hasn't been exactly a Democratic stronghold for a long while. No Democratic candidate for President has carried the state since 1936, even when the state twice crossed party lines to elect an outstanding individual Democrat as Governor. For most of the past 15 years the state's representation in Congress has been heavily Republican. But Tuesday's voting went a step farther. Through all this period such strength as the Democrats have retained has been in the cities. Tuesday they lost nearly all of those. And they lost them, in nearly every case, on the issue of the national administration, rather than on local issues or personalities. : In many cases, including Indianapolis, that was really the only issue there was.

= - . - » . VOTERS elsewhere in the nation appeared to take a decisive stand against corruption in public affairs—notably in New York and Philadelphia—without regard to party lines. Philadelphia, for example, elected its first Democratic mayor in history—after a long list of GOP officials had been convicted of misdoings in office. Normally Democratic New York City elected Rudolph Halley, former Kefauver committee investigator, although he ran on a usually weak “third party” ticket. That was no doubt a factor in the Indiana results, too, where corruption at national level of government was stressed—Dbut it was only one of a couple of factors. ~The other was obvious rebellion against the foreign policies and the domestic policies of the Truman administration. : Of those, it was rather clear, Hoosier voters have had more than enough. : :

. Coupled with the corruption which Mr. Truman has failed to clean up it was enough to send Indiana cities over into the Republican column where the smaller communities have been for the last 15 years. :

It Used to Be Just a Game

WERE sorry to see Clyde Smith quit as football coach at Indiana University. o Sorry because it looks from here as if the “win-oreelse” spirit that is ruining college football in this country has

finally got to Bloomington, where there is perhaps less reason for it than in most places. Smith quit under pressure. High pressure. His team didn’t win enough games. Students, who can be excused for it, and alumni, who cannot, have been howling for his all season. ¢ Last Saturday in a whirling blizzard up at Madison a scared kid managed to throw a’ football with cold-numbed fingers, and another scared kid managed to catch it. If they'd been Indiana's scared kids we'd have won, and everythifig would have been lovely along the Jordan. But these happened to be Wisconsin's kids. It was the last straw. Indiana is shopping for a new coach—one with guaranteed : - = . = 2 2 « FOR those who can see more of a football game than the scoreboard, Smith's coaching hasn't been so bad. The Indiana team that beat Ohio State three weeks ago was that day probably the best football team Indiana University ever put on a field—we'd say it was a good four touchdowns better than the team that won the Big Ten championship a few years back. All season it has performed creditably, against the toughest competition in America, shown every indication of being a good, well-coached football team. ‘ : * But it hasn't always won. ; Time was when that wasn't the whole answer at Indiana University, when a good game, and good sportsmanship, and a hard try were more important, even, than a winning score. And coaches didn’t have to win or get out, . We'd be sorry to see that changed. Football used to be fun.

Ike's Good Taste

GEN EISENHOWER came home from Europe to discuss , matters affecting the “welfare of the whole world,” in the words of President Truman. . In his few days here, however, he was badgered at every opportunty by that big political question: Would he run? 5 The General didn't say he would and he didn’t say he wouldn't. He did not say whether he is a Republican ors Democrat. : Yet none of his hearers—and we dare say none of ‘who read his remarks—got any impression that the merely was being evasive. On politics, the General sald nothing. But he said it with an abundance of good taste, good humor, conviction and forthrightness. + He gave no evidence of trying to be coy or clevgr. + Gen, Eisenhower well knows any political statement by him at this moment would jeopardize his usefulness : organizer of the Allied defense forces in Europe. tactfully, and with good grace, avoided that pitfall. Eventually, the General will have to say yes or no big question. And he said he would say it. “If the time ever comes when I feel my duty compels fo say a word, I'll say it.” The country can afford to maintain its confidence man

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Does It Pay

To Talk

With Joe?

By LUDWELL DENNY WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 —Here we go again. Another effort to get lasting

peace by a conference with Stalin, and the consequent danger of a rearmament slowdown meanwhile, : Winston Churchill made the suggestion Tuesday to the House of Commons. A few hours earlier in Paris the French President, Vincent Auriol, expressed ‘a similar hope. in opening the United Nations General Assembly. Churchill had made the proposal in the recent British election campaign and also’ in the 1950 campaign. Why does this keep bobbing up after the Alligs’ disastrous experience , with past Stalin conferences and the dreary deadlocks of other Big Four meetings? So far as Stalin is concerned the answer is very clear. He has everything to gain and nothing to lose. His purpose, as proved over and over again, is to split the Allies and retard their rearmament so he will have an open field for

‘world conquest. If he fails to

separate the Allies, he always can use the conference as a propaganda loudspeaker for his tricky “peace” offers. » 2 ="

BUT THE desire of the British and French to repeat such. conferences is more complicated. In the earlier postwar period they, and indeed the United States government, actually believed a lasting settlement was possible by talk. These hopes were destroyed by the 1947 Foreign Ministers Conference in Moscow, where Secretary of State George Marshall and others also had an opportunity to see Stalin. Nearly seven weeks were devoted to that Soviet propaganda show, with Allied accomplishment zero. A year ago Stalin wanted another conference, and the British and French were ready to jump at the chance. By that time Washington had learned part of its lesson. It said it would not attend another propaganda orgy, but if Russia actually wanted to negotiate the door always was open. After an evasive exchange of Soviet notes, the British and French insisted with the Russians on holding a, deputies conference to draft an agenda; and the United States went along. = » = AT THAT Paris meeting last spring Stalin’s man played the same cracked phonograph record through 16 weeks and T4 sessions, charging -the. Allies with plotting war and refusing to-admit or discuss Soviet aggression. The issue today is the same as then: Whether Red militarism, treaty violation and aggression are the causes of the war threat, as the Allies in-

‘gist, or whether Atlantic Pact

defensive rearmament. is the basic ¢ause, as Stalin charges. While Churchill and Auriol Tuesday were urging a conference, Stalin’s security chief, Marshal! Beria, was keynoting the 34th anniversary of the Red revolution in Moscow. He said American imperialism caused the Korean War and is now preparing to start war elsewhere. Churchill answered his own ‘proposal when he cautioned the Commons that any Allied negotiations with Stalin should be “from strength and unt from weakness.” That is the American policy. Churchill did not explain his contradiction in proposing negotiations now, before the Allies have built up their military strength.

THE EXPLANATION— apart from Churchill's personal vanity, despite being outsmarted by Stalin at Yalta and elsewhere—is that British and French politicians think such conferences are a necessary stop to strong appeasement bloes in those countries. By inviting peace talks, however futile or dangerously phony, they hope to prove to their own war-weary peoples that they are not warmongers.

SIDE GLANCES

Twinkle, Twinkle,

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MR. EDITOR:

I have wondered mary times. why people write to the Hoosier Forum and don’t sign their names. For example, C. D. C., Terre Haute, writes the Forum often. He writes well, too; with excellent word arrangement, yet anyone who can express himself so well ought to have the courage or maybe better said, the courtesy, to sign his name,

Now about his letter last week on mayoralty elections. I hope he wrote in a period of anger, because he knows that letter doesn’t make good sense. Of course America is in a mess and many of us sincerely wonder sometimes if every single human institution is not loaded with lies and crookedness, but we must maintain the two party system with all the faults of both parties. It may be truthfully stated that the Republicans have their skeletons in their closet too, so electing all Republicans is not the anywer. They have as many crooks as the Demo-

vrats do. Wonder if C. D. C. really wants the

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WELL, here it.is, and it isn't my solution vither. It’s one with a background of some 2000 rears. The only trouble with it, American leaders just won't try it despite the fact they give it lip service. I mean the application of the philvsophy of Jesus Christ. If that philosophy as recorded, is a myth, then it doesn’t matter much what happened to anybody, any place at any time. : We humans will destroy ourselves and each nther by war or other methods. What disturbs me, even frightens me, beyond the telling, is that possibly 19 out of 20 Americans inwardly believe in the philosophy of Jesus Christ yet lack the courage to opgnly support it. In America today we need a refuge, some sheltering wing, a remedy for our heartaches, which neither the ‘Republicans or Democrats can offer. I am an old man, awfully tired and weary, scared that our race for the dollar will destroy us. Honesty, integrity,

kindness, co-operation,

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. Views on News

By DAN KIDNEY

THE OFF-YEAR election results indicate that Democrats or Republicans will win® in 1952 if the stay-at-home ‘vote turns out. And even if it doesn’t. > b dH PRESIDENT TRUMAN must feel confident about his new peace plan. He named a shepherd to lead the Marines, . fb oH ONLY TWO weeks until Thanksgiving and city kids have already seen the first Santa Claus.

> oS: & HAROLD E. STASSEN declared against Sen. Taft, ‘but he still is threatening to in-

dorse Gen. Eisenhower,

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HOOSIER FORUM—Bad Letter’

“1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

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etc. are all forgotten. We live in an age of the dollar, just get them. How seems to mean very little. So C. D. C., with your ability to get words to fall just where they tell the best story, may I advise you that there is no refuge in the Republican Party. As God is my witness, I wish there were. It would just fix everything up fine. —Bob Gry, Foge stan, ‘A Killing Tax’ MR. EDITOR; There exists in the City of Indianapolis a closely owned corporation operating an office building. Because both income and expenses are rather stable, it is possible to forecast the operating results for the entire year of 1951. The estimate made discloses that the net profits before federal income taxes will be approximately $13,000 more than in 1950, but that after payment of federal income taxes, the net profit available to stockholders will be approximately $12,000 less than in 1950. This means that the federal income tax will he approximately $25,000 more than in 1950, due, of course, to the so-called excess profits tax. If this happens in the ‘case of a corporation with a relatively small net income before taxes of approximately $100,000. to $150,000 and a profit available to stockholders of between $60.000 and $73,000 per year, what will it do to larger corporations and what will become of the incentive to earn additional profits? ¢ % 2

IN MY opinion, any tax which absorbs not only all of such additional profits, but likewise

‘takes away an additional amount (in this case,

a total of double the added profits) is not only unfair, but will bring into disrepute any political party which advocates it, provided of course, the public is sufficiently informed. Such a tax amounts to confiscation. Businessmen are, of course, aware of the adverse effects on their respective businesses of the new tax law, but the general public. and particularly those who subsist on a salary, or wages, are not aware of the fact that these added tax burdens will ultimately be passed on to them in the form of higher costs of living. If this vicious cycle of increased taxes, increased wages and increased cost of living continues, this nation will face even a greater crisis than that with which Great Britain is now faced. ~—Leo M. Rappaport, City.

HUNTING TIME

WHEN the skies are cold and cloudy... and

* a chill is in the air . . . it is getting near the time

to hunt . . . the agile deer or bear . . . when the frost Is painting pictuzes . . . and the winter winds do blow . . . you can clean your doublebarrel . . . and get ready for a go... don your red cap and your storm shoes . . . and 'vour sheepskin jacket too , . . take along the kind of grub that makes . . . a real piping hot stew . then begin your happy journey . . . over and again experience You hunters love so well. —By Ben Burroughs.

the time . .

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"Imagine the boss telling me to find fime af home to write to my friends in the Army, Navy and Marines! Not a spark of

ofism!"

troversial subject in Italy even above rearmament is land reform. The man in charge of the program is Prof. Mario Bandini of the Italian Ministry of Agriculture. He has been in the United States and is familiar with what America has done on soil conservation and reclamation. There are some things that

Italian farmers can teach Americans about land use, however.

There are many points about the Italian land reform program which have not been appreciated in the United States, either, It has not been a ruthless, socialistic seizure of the land just for the sake of giving it to peasants. Under carefully worked out and exact tables in the 1950 land reform law, the high-production land already under intense cultivation like that mentioned above is made less subject to redis. tribution. ~

AS AN EXAMPLE, land which is producing an income of 1000 lira per hectdre, prewar (roughly $1.25 net for two and a half acres), may not be expropriated at all. Land producing’ 900 lira per hectare

may be expropriated 25 per fet Land producing only 300

priated 95 per cent. This is to break up the big estates of idle land and put it in use. In all, 1,750,000 acres have been marked for subdivision by 1954. Two areas are in the north. One is the Po Delta on the Adriatic. It is new land which must be drained and reclaimed. The other is a half-million-acre tract north of Rome on the Mediterranean coast. Two smaller areas are south of Naples. ~ u ”

FINANCING for the purchase of expropriated land is ’ partially by bond issue, partially by a $550 million, 10-year appropriation by the Italian government, partially by a $10 million World ‘Bank loan for Southern Italy's development, Each area is administered by a separate authority. Its ‘work is divided into three phases. First is to improve all the land, so that the new own ers won't be moved into unproductive areas. This includes building roads, housing, water, livestock and machinery acquisition.

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Reds Spread Lies,

Snatch $$s in U. S.

CLEVELAND, Nov. 8—Communist Czechoslovakia is spreading Communist propaganda in Cleveland and other American cities and at the same time getting thousands of dollars from unsuspecting Americans.

Hundreds of Clevelanders of Czech origin or with Czech names receive, unsolicited, Communist reading material in the Czech language, notably a weekly called “Czechoslovak World. At the same time the Prague government has made it difficult for its citizens to receive gift packages from the United States. ! o. #8 . INSTEAD of sending .packages, Americans with relatives or friends in Czechoslovakia are urged to buy dollar gift certificates from Centex, a Czechoslovak agency at 465 Lexington Ave., New York. Lada Kimi, president of the Czechoslovak legionnaires of Cleveland, an organization active in the fight against communism, believes the two moves of Prague are closely connected. “Many people in Cleveland who used to send packages to their relatives in Czechoslovakia have received letters asking them not to send packages anymore, since the duty on them {is so high that it does not pay to redeem them,” Mr. Kim! said. He continued: “At the same time the Prague government is doing everything to ‘facilitate’ the sending of dollar gift certificates from America. The recipient of such dollar certifi

cates is entitled to buy goods -

in one of 11 designated

in Czechoslovakia.

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= = LJ “THE large number of gift packages which were sent to Czechoslovakia until recently were effective propaganda for America. Now the propaganda value of the package is gone and at the same time the Communists are getting mil-

‘through

lions of much-needed dollars the Centex dollar certificates. “Furthermore, some dollars thus earned, no doubt, are used to finance the spread of Communist literature in America, Hundreds of people of Czech descent and hundreds more who have Czech sounding names, receive Communist newspapers from Prague." Apparently Communist agents = or sympathizers in Cleveland copy-from telephone

books and directories all Czech sounding names and send the list either to the Czechoslovak Embassy in Washington or to Prague directly, Mr, Kiml said.

” - Ed MRS. PEARL KUDERNA, who began receiving the “Czechoslovak World” this

week. said:

“I don't know why I get it, since I cannot read Czech. My husband died 15 years ago, but neither he nor his parents were foreign-born. 1 don't want my neighbors to think that I subscribe to Communist literature and I wonder how I can stop the paper from coming.”

POLITICS . .. By Fredarick C. Othman lke and Harry Lost In a Cloud of Hot Air

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—If all the hot air being wasted here these days in futile arguments about the intentions of a couple of fellows named Harry and Ike could be put under pressure, this nation would have a

new and inexhaustible source of heat and power. Harry is a Democrat for sure, but he is being coy about whether he hopes to stay on the job. Yet the word keeps leaking out that his good wife, Bess, wants to go home to Missouri. Harry, himself, isn't saying. He takes elaborate measures at his press conferences to keep from saying. Then the lingual sleuths commune with the unabridged

dictionaries about what did he say, anyhow, and out come 5

more pieces in the papers concerning his intentions. All 1

know for sure is that they're strictly honorable.

HARRY is a dear friend of Ike, who just flew back to Paris after a couple of days here. Only nobody knows whether Ike is a Republican or a Democrat, The experts most certainly don't know on which ticket he intends to run, because they don't know whether he'll run at all. So they argue and they fuss, while leading politicos issue non - informative statements and I think it’s fair to say that the Messrs. Truman add Eisenhower are two of the most

SOUTHERN EUROPE . . . By Peter Edson Land Reform May Solve Italy’s Problems

ROME, Nov.

Subdivision must be completed within 3 years. Each farmer will 8 t from 5 to 20 hectares—1213 to 50 acrés—the average being about 17; acres. For this land the peasant is given ‘a 30-year, 3'3 per cent loan. He pays for his land a minimum- of $40 an acre, a maximum of $160--dependipg on quality—plus improvéments,

and with an incentive subsidy. -

If the improvements cost $300 an acre, the government pays 40 per cent, or $120, leaving $180 to be paid by the peasant. If the original cost of the land was $100 an acre, the purchaser’'s cost is thus $280 of a total of $400. : The state contribution is

varied to secure production of .

desired crops in different areas.

” » ” EVERY 250-acre tract is to be organized into a co-opera-tive. One farmer is made head of the co-operative and he schedules use of tractor, distribution of water in irrigated districts. For every 1500 acres, the govetnment has bought twa heavy and two light trac-

tors. '. Farmers using the co-opera-tive tractors y service Front SRR eR hon year, they will be divided among the users. 5 v

bashful and demure political gentlemen of the generation.

That leaves Bob Taft. Even the Democrats have got to admit he knows what he wants. Out loud he says so at every opportunity, and bangs the table in the saying: He hopes to move into the White House next year. Fellows like him make work i a little easier for the likes of me. Reporters can (and do) phone Taft and get an answer on what he thinks about any subject of public moment. Including his own chances of being President. s! - - THIS is giving him a good press. Newspapermen can't help appreciating the fact that he always tells them where he stands. Getting along with reporters is as simple as that. The Senator's system is one that I can commend to candidates generally. One of the objections to Taft as President seems to be that he isn’t suave enough, I'm not booming him here because that’s not my business, but I do remember one hot evening at the last Republican convention when Taft was meeting the press. He'd hardly started to predict his own . victory when a larger-than-life-size portrait of you-guess-who fell off the wall and conked him on the head. So there was Taft brushing off the debris. A clomp-clomp-clomp could be heard down the corridor. Somebody was leading up a genuire baby elephant. » » » “PAT HIM, Senator,” cried one of the photographers. The harried Taft did pat that beast, which took this moment (it being a smoke-filled room) to sneeze. The resultant photographs made the Senator look scared as well as disheveled.

Under this system of land reform, Prof, Bandini estimates that 100,000 new farms can be developed in Italy in the next three years. The benefits will be double. First will be an increase in food production. Italy now produces about 85 per cent of its own food. Over a period of years, with further land development, it might be made self-sustaining, with some shift in crops. v

. » - THE SECOND benefit is relief for Italy's excess population. With two million now unemployed, another two million partially employed, and insufficient emigration to reliowe the surplus population, there is no other escape than to get more people back on the land. Figuring four. Itallans per family, the land - reform program will take care of 400,000 more people. Italy, about the area of Arizona, now has four million farm families. The whole U, 8. has less than six million. farms, Italy's population is increas ing by 400,000 every year, so the land reform program is only a partial solution, Jt does offer an interesting laboratory for all other countries in the Mediterranean and Middle East where land reform is the number one domestic problem.