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Grass Roots Minnesota

HE AMAZING write-in for Gen. Minnesota proves there is real depth and substance to "hia support among rank-and-file voters. The name of only one conspicuous Republican. candidate was on the ballot-——that of Harold Stassen, Minnesota’: former governor and “favorite son” candidate in 1948, But the majority of Republicans of Minnesota, voting in a preferential primary, said in unmistakable terms that Mr, Stassen is not their choice this year even though he will have Minnesota's delegates. The majority wanted someone else, and by far the greater part of the majority wanted Gen. Eisenhower, who had almost as many write-in votes as Mr. Stassen had with his name on the ballot. Lagging far behind ‘in the write-in vote were Sen. Taft Gov. Warren and Gen. MacArthur, in that order. Edward C. Slettedahl, a political unknown whose name was printed on the ballot, ran behind Sen. Taft in total votes, but he had announced his support of Gen. MacArthur. So his not inconsiderable vote is another hint of latent support for the General who has not quite “faded away.”

vote Eisenhower In

ON THE Democratic side of the ballot, Sen. Huber! Humphrey, running as a favorite-son, pro-Truman candidate, polled a decisive majority. But some 20,000 Democrats wrote in the name of Sen. Kefauver, a good showing for the Tennessee candidate in the light of only 3500 writein votes for President Truman.

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When so many voters take matters in their own hands -

« and select their own candidates in preference to the stalking horses dished up by the party machines, it shows the need for a genuine, universal nominating system. Gen. Eisenhower is a four-syllable word, not easy to spell, but more than 107,000 Republicans took the trouble to do it. Sen. Kefauver is another unusual name, yet 20,000 Democrats favored him over their own Senator who had » privileged position on the ballot. : It is too bad there can’t be a second Minnesota primary now, with all the principal candidates running on even terms. It would show how phony the present nominating * system is. pin, We'll have fo wait until Apr. 1, when Netranis and * Wisconsin vote, for the next tests of strength. But we've .. seen enough to know that rigged primaries can't conceal

+! a groundswell.

"The Japanese Treaty

SOME OF the Republican members want to delay ratification of the Japanese peace treaty now pending before :' the Senate. Other Senators want to attach certain reservations to the treaty before approving it. . Both of these moves should be defeated. ' Either unnecessary delay or partial approval would be as great a mistake as the fateful decision which abandoned _ China to communism. Unless the United States can live + and work in harmony with the new Japan, this country

‘cannot continue to be a major factor in Asian affairs. This treaty provides.the basis for such a relationship. This was an open covenant, “openly arrived at.” It wa:

drafted by a prominent Republican, John Foster Dulles, anc bears the approval of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Ou major Allies were persuaded to accept it only when they became convinced that we would settle for nothing less than the enlightened policy which. it projected. To now turn our backs upon our own handiwork would be stupid and probably catastrophic. The actual opposition to this treaty may not prove to be very substantial on the final showdown. But any opposition at all is unfortunate because the more strongly it i dorsed, the better it will serve its purposes.

Lollipop Urgency

N THE 20 months since it was set up by the Senate, the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee headed by Seb, Lyndon B. Johnson has filed 36 reports. Not all of these reports have been critical of the manner in which the defense pr ogram was being pursued Some have been only partially so. But the basic finding which runs through all is a story of misdirection, indirection and what the committee calls a lacking “sense of urgency." “The armaments production program,” the committee now says in a roundup report, “is lagging. not so much because mistakes have been made but because there was

not sufficient determination to surmount obstacles, to over-

come difficulties, to achieve the improbable.” The “miracles” of production which were so decisive

in World War II were possible because the country had a

‘policy and a leadership. The defense program is floundering now because there is no policy .and little leadership.

IN ITS three dozen reports, the Johnson Committee

has turned up massive instances of waste in both manpower and money. It found an Air Force base which was cutting up steel pipe and using it for road markers—in the face of an extreme steel pipe shortage. And enough men in the “chair corps” to raise three to five combat divisions. The committee has rooted out fraud and rent gouging and gambling rackets and plain, stupid carelessness, such as 43,000 pounds of hams peing permitted to spoil at a naval depot. Most important, the committee found an abiaiting lack of “cost consciousness” in the armed forces and a serfous sluggishness in the production of.vital supplies for Korea and the Allies in Europe. The reports have been useful and effective.

But behind every one of the shortcomings turned up

by the committee, including the missing “sense of urgency,” is the indirection of an administration which embarks on a “worldwide rearmament program with all the realism of a yipop Sapatigion.

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U.S. Deep nto Mire

By LUDWELL DENNY WASHINGTON, Mar. he, Reds by their on-again if-again Korean truce tactics are pushing the Utfted States

deeper into the mire, Unless a showdown 1 forced soon, there will be little - or no chance left

of gatting either .an a ceptable truce

victory, Time i= on the Reds’ side hecause, with each passing week, Ameri can and Al lied political

Mr. Churchill . . diluted

ower to jssue an ultimatum ind enforce ft is rapidly seeping away Here in the 1. 8. domestic

politics makes decisive action controversial iasue dif ficult. The closer we get to the nominating conventions and the election campaign, the greater the .pressure on the President to avoid a military offensive and more casualties. Similarly among our Allies ‘he always-weak will to win thé Korean War, or to risk ipreading it, grews weaker Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain has been almost our sole support, and even his restricted capacity to help is waning. A month after his heartening assurances to Congress here, he was forced

‘in Parliament by his own Con-

servative Party as well as hy the Labor Party opposition to water down his pledge. 8ince then . British public sentiment ‘or appeasement in Korea and "ina has grown ” » ou

THE possibilitiex ind “our Altes enough ONE--Go on doing nothing This is the easy way for politiclans. As long as truce talks continue, with a minimum of casualties, President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill are relatively safe politically on this issue. They are making a popular “peace” gesture and not open to the charge of inviting larger war. True, the orice is very high-—increasing Red military strength until the enemy can dictate terms. But the American public does not understand that, and the Brit{sh public would not care "enough anyway. TWO--The enemy may break the stalemate with a military sffensive. This is improbable, - As long as» we co-operate In stringing ut the truce talks already nearly nine months and time is on the Reds’ «ide militarily and politically, the

facing us are. . cTru.r

enemy need not risk an of-_

fensive, THREE - An Allied offen sive in Korea. This would stop the enemy build-up, stop the

decline in Allied military-

morale which comes from in action, and perhaps make the Reds negotiate seriously as they are not now doing. Such an Allied offensive would lead quickly to American bombing of Red Manchurian bases. There is an American-British ‘greement to do this if the leds use those bases againgt 15, as they would. FOUR -- Allled bombing ot ‘nemy transport lines and vases In China proper, and Allied naval blockade of the China Coast. Most military ex perts agree this is the only way to hit the enemy where it hurts, the only way now to win the Korean War, and the only way to prevent the larger war which the enemy is pre paring in Indo - China an ‘~utheast Asia. = ~ ~

THERE are two argumeni gainst this, but they cancel rach other. One is that it would not stop Russian supplies reaching China; the other i: that it would risk war with Russia. Actually it would drai: and hurt Russia more to br China's sole supply source. _ While nobody can guess wha’ Stalin will do, so far he ha: not gone to war when his ag gression was challenged outside Russia. He retreated from our Berlin airlift and he has let satellites. do his fighting v Korea,

SIDE GLANCES

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WASHINGTON, Mar. 20. That St. Patrick's Day was spoiled for many. Américans, who had. to spend it getting their. income tax filéd by mid ight, was the ne Congressmian - here, "This is the way Rep. Noa ‘A. Mason (R. Il.) began peech from the House floor 0

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Traditionally, this is a day of light-hearted galety, of fun and frolic and happiness. It is” 8t. Patrick's Day, But alas, this 17th of March in 1952 is ot a day of rejoking. It is a ay / of sncke ‘loth and ashes, of

contention: of’

i Dan Kidney

3loom and unhappiness of elt tightening and empty wurses, of wolf-at-thédooy prisation, It is income-tax day.” . The peason it was -incomeax day was because the usual ime for final payment, May 3, fell on Saturday and the overnment gave all the tax ‘ayers until midnight Monda o file their returns. ‘Mr. Ma on used his introduction t ‘dvocate a tax limitation” a wr only fiscal salvation.” ” u » : ANOTHER way to dram atize tax-paying day was u £4 vw. Rep. Thomas H. _ Wey

R..Cal.). He held up a shirt. that he said had been ‘sent to iim by a California constitu-

.:nt and” reported that other

‘axpayers in the Golden state ‘ad sent shirts to their Con ;regsmen also, : “You do not wonder at thi: pontaneous outburst of in ignation,” Mr. Werdel® said when you realize that Harry Truman, in less than seven ‘ears, has collected more taxes rom the American people than ill the other 31 Presidents who preceded him, incMding Franklin D. Roosevelt’ He asked tn present the gar

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HOOSIER FORUM—‘Cleanup’

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

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MR. EDITOR:

Everybody from the Governor down has wen yelping about Jack Lait's and Lee Mortimer's comments on “Indianapolis morals in U. 8. A. Confidential.” Far (from praising this volume as a literary rem (I believe it is thoroughly asinine in ever) espect), nevertheless, the pungent comments ibout our fair cfty should give us pause. Where lo ‘we get off with that “holier-than-thou” attitude? Our skirts aren't so clean. If only half of what Messrs. Lait and Mortimer say is true, ve had better start doing a little housecleaning vhat do you say, Alex?

—Mrs. H. B,, Indianapolis.

‘Rebuild Courthouse’

MR. EDITOR:

Now this is the next agitation. Our Court1ouse is threatened . .. one of the eight most substantial buildings in the state. This should he a vital topic.-Alternatives spring up between showers when sentiment is aroused. « For instance, consider this one proposition Do not raze the Courthouse, but raise it. Uncrown and add four stories, then crown it with a roof-garden, making nine new floors when these four are renewed with walls refinished, rat dens obliterated, all interior redecorated and one- pair of elevators at each end replacing outside approaches, which would extend the length by 30 feet at each end. The Police Department could be given first

* “hoice of rooms on first floor, with police court

n second, if more appropriate. County offices, iw libraries, court rooms auditoriums, comort and custodian quarters from there on up

downtown parking problems to almost minimum. Generations unborn would be saved much taxation if this present structure remains intact during this procedure. Can we not be offered other and better suggestions appropriate to this situation in this time of stress. Public opinion, come to, and come across. It later than we think. - —C. Bell, City.

Lenten Meditation

Jesus Answers Our

Questions About the Word

RAZING OR RAISING?

For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. Luke 9:56 (K. J. V.). Read verses 51-56.

Jesus had-a way. of giving people nicknames. Simon he nlled Peter, the Rock. James and John he called loanerges, sons of thunder, because of their quick anger

| wonder what nickname he might have given to you > me? Son of pride’ Son of vanity? Daughter of the vaneyed word? Children of darkness?

One can hardly blame James and John for getting angry. Here in this Samaritan village the people would not listen to Jesus, becouse Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem and the Samaritans wanted him to worship ot their holy mountain, Gerizim. Unless Jesus worshiped at Gerizim he could not be their Messiah. So in their wrath hey osk Jesus to “command fire to come down from caven and consume them.’

Here we sce again the wonder of Jesus. He turned

‘ost? Plepty of course, but if you raze this uilding, Scatter its affairs all over the downwn and await delay involved, .expensive trans laborious running to round up sub

ortation,

ects and subject matter of importance . . , i!

ill mean economy enormous.

Now for the background and utilizing the “emainder of the square, a 10 or 12 floor parkng space garage equal in length to the com“leted Courthouse would reduce materially

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Let Us Pray:

the In Jesus’ name.

WASHINGTON, The Capital's Gobbledegook Department, - Agricultural Division, has thought up a polite and pléasing word for thievery embezzlement, swindling and old-fashioned robbery, When the taxpayer. is the victir

Mar. 20

that is.

He owns the grain.that a: assortment of no-goods haw: stolen by-the hundreds of car loads. The Agriculture De nartment calls this conversion So ‘now more than $8 millior worth of wheat and corn hid been converted from govern ment-leased warehouses. Mean ng: Swiped. No wonder the Senate Agr

‘ulture Committee is investi Jating. So they started out with

Latham White, the boss of the Dallas, Tex., Office of the Production and Marketing Administration, who had in 1000 rented warehouses 200 million bushels of grain scattered around Texas “Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. Or did, until he was fired last Jan. 3 for what Secretary Brannan called carelessness. The trouble seemed to be that the owners of nearly 50 grain elevators in his territory had stolen (oops!), 1

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sith lave upon the very people who had insulted. him by ‘ot listening, the Samaritans. 2e in tomorrow's meditation, he used these some Samari ns as an illustration of neighborliness Il their animosity with kindness.

And very soon after, as we

Jesus tried t

O God our Father, we live in a world full of deadly conflict between the powers which destroy: and those which would save human life. Help us to know the difference between the two and to be onthe saving side Amen.

TAXPAYER THE VICTIM .

mean converted $3 million worth. Everybody admits that four-legged rats got some of it, but apparently the two‘egged variety took the most. White turned out to be a

" oft-voiced citizen with a bald-

ng head, a tweed. coat, a and a feeling hat he was the fall guy. He new some of the elevator noguls were copverting our vheat to their own uses, he iid, but the masterminds took heir own sweet tifhe telling im what to do about it. RB:

hen it was too late. He kept

‘sing that wort conversion. “Whoever thought of that”" lemanded Sen. Clinton P. Ander. on (D. N. M.), who used to be Agriculture Secretary

ment to Rep. Daniel A. Reed (R."N.* Y.), ranking minority member, of the House Ways and Means, Committee, “as a symbol of the fact that Harry

+. Truman is back where he

itarted—in the shirt business.” Mr. Reed said he didn’t want 0 take the shirt because he ould be subject to a gift tax = ¥ - SIMILAR scenes an speeches will be commonplace this election year. Partisan ship aside, the heavy federal

taxes are causing more wide.

spread concern, however, Iu diana Congressmen are receh ing thoughtful lettess on the subject, oe Their general reaction wa

summed up by the dean of the

Hoosier delegation, Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer Republican. He reported this week that his mail “indicates that a lot of folk who may never have given the matter much’ thought before #re at least becoming painfully aware f the relationship between heavy government spending nd high taxes.” Charts issued by the Joirt ‘ongressional © Committee on nternal Revenue show that ake home pay has shriveled ince 1949 as the withholding ‘axes Increased Mr. Halleck said. The fire, of critical citjzers should be directed at lavisi: spending, which has made high taxes inevitable, he pointed out. Resentment of Frenchmen has made tax collecting next to inpossible in France and tha: could happen here Mr. Hallecl: warned.

so. 2 =» “ONCE public confidence in the justice of tax demands is lost,” Mr. Halleck declared. “more and more evasion is attempted and any nation find ing itself in such.a position is in for serious financial diffi culties.” Mr. Halleck then recalled “the--good old days,” when federal income taxes were not on the grandly graduated scale that they are today. “It may surprise many of

the: younger, generation but millions of Americans cafire- - member when there was. no federal income tax whatsover,” he said. “In fact the 16th Amendment-<the income tax ‘amendment—is less than t0 years old. “At the time it was under fiscussion, Congress debated the rate a federal income‘ tax should be. Some Senators urged that a limitation the amendment provide that the

~rate could never exceed 10 per

cet. But it was argued that some ‘‘spendehrift” Congress of the future might regard that “limitation as an invitation to go that high, » » “" “AS A result, Congress imposed a rate of 1 per cent after deductions—and what deductions —single persons got $3000 exemptions and married couples were granted $4000. “On this basis it was esti mated that a married couple, after’ reasonable deductions, would pay about $50 in taxes on a $10,000 salary. (Today the tax would approach $1950 on the same income) “Most citizens, of course, took the new law in stride. ‘It really didn’t mean much to.the vast majority of Americans, The 16th Amendment was a proverbial “shadow, no bigger than a man’s hand,” and was not considered cause for wide alarm. “Some ‘newspaper editors fought the proposal. The old New York Sun denounced the new tax in these words—this is not taxation for revenue, but taxation of the few for the wnefit of the many. " 8 n “AND in a speech opposing ratification by the New York Legislature, Joseph Choate proved himself*“a prophet when he warned -- the temptation and local clamor for lavish national expenditures and costly improvements”will beeome irresistible. “He was probably labeled an alarmist, but history has . proved the wisdom of his words.” :

RUSSIAN TRADE . . . By R. H. Shackford

RL AE il Britain Gets Deeper 2 2 S In Rod With Soviets

LONDON, Mar. 20—Britain is going deeper and

deeper into the red In her trade with Russia.

Only

British exports of raw rubber to Russia prevent that trade from collapsing completely.

Even so, Britain is buying from Russia almost three times as much as she is selling to Russia. The result—which is worrying British officials is that the Kremlin is building up a sizable kitty of British money. British imports from Russia have quadrupled since 1949, while -her exports to Russia now almost entirely rubber. have only doubled. \ Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who raised the roof until the Socialist government stopped its imports to Communist China, has not tinkered with “the explosive Russian trade issue since taking over from the Socialists.

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THE Socialists, after much

prodding from the U. S., agreed °

not to export any significantly strategic war materials to Russia or her satellites. The main exception was raw rub-

. ber, which continued to flow

to Russia at about the same rate, although 1951 exports were less than those of 1950 which in turn were much higher than 1949's. However, Russia started 1952 with a bang, buying 12.60 tons of raw rubber worth

$14 million from Kingdom. The problem is extremely difficult for Britain. Presently, one-third of her coarse grains and one-fifth of her timber for housing and rearmament construction projects come from Russia. Russia refuses to buy any British consumer goods in return. She wants only basic materials, such as rubber. What little dent Britain is able to make in the adverse trade balance is because of the rubber sales.

= = 2 FINAL 1951 figures show that ~Britain bought almost $170 million worth of goods from Russia, She sold Russia

the United

goods worth only $66 million,

of which virtually every penny was for rubber. The proportions are similar for 1949 and 1950. Thus for the past three years, Britain is in the red with Russia to the tune of more than $176 milHon. : The latest figures in tons of rubber exports to Russia from

British Malaya direct, reexports through the United Kingdom, and .from other sources

primarily Indoredn- - are shown in the chart be

Rubber Shipments to Russia -

Year

From Malaya From United Kingdom Others Total 1949 63,414 482 41,104 103,000 1950 67,888 10,076 4526 82,500 1951 14,423 11.620 8383 64,428 British. officials claim gue long and loud against

there's no significance in Rus‘ia’s switch from buying from them in Singapore to buying in London. They guess the major reason is that the Russians found it easier and just as cheap to transport it from Lon-

don, despite the higher price there. 5 Under the circumstances,

even Mr. Churchill would ar

. By Frederick C. Othman ; | Ci] Word ‘Conversion’ Irks Senate Grain Probers

himself, “Why partment just ment?”

White had no idea. Somehody he couldn't identify started saying conversion and nretty soon all hands were 1sing it. So if you don’t object we'll skip the rest of his testimony (which mostly wa = technical about rules) and tak 1p the case of the Southern Grain and Storage Co., in the ‘illage of Arkadelphia, Ark The general accounting offic told the tale:

A couple of freq enterpriser in Memphis, Tenn., who neve! had been in the grain business, set up a corporation to buy the ancient grain elevator in Arkadelphia for the express

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YOU. ARE MY WORLD YOU'RE -the tenderness of every teardrop . . . and the coolness of each drop of rain + + « you're

the warmness of each ray of sunlight , wild flowers dotting the lane . it's just like the ripple “se

the dell . heaven ., .

. You're the . when you're laughing

. of the babbling brook in . « you're the twinkle of each star in . you're the glory that each one will tell

+ + « You're the grass when it's growing in springtime :

«+. and the snows of the wintertime too . each thing that is wonderful darling . world i wrapped up in you.

+ You're . my whole

—By Ben Burroughs

stopping rubber sales to. Russia unless there were a pretty

ertain alternate non-dollar source of coarse grains and lumber. Both are still very

short. Further grain shortages would seriously affect the ale ready scarce meat supplies, since ‘it would cut. down even more the tiny amount of homerown meat.

purpose of renting space to the Agriculture Department. This moldy structure had a practical capacity of 106,700 bushels of grain. . They stuffed into ‘the ela‘ators 142,539 bushels. In a oom that had been designed for sack storage they fune neled 36,307 bushels, or 21 car-'oads,-more. Then they started ollecting ‘the rent. Well, sir, the grdin was =o tightly packed that it couldn't be.stirred. It got hot. Then it turned sour. In came the moths and the weevils, The management did nothing, despite the protests of White's helpers, who finally ordered all the wheat shipped out, The railroad track leading to the elevator was so rickety, the railways refused to use it. The Memphians refused to put up the $1500 to make the track safe. The weevils busy, When. at long last, th grain was completely ruined, i

was hauled .cut and sold for chicken feed. Loss was $139,897. We taxpayers get:

back” $60,000 from a bonding company, but other assets the

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