Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1952 — Page 26
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N W's a Dinger THIS 1952 election campaign isto borrow a word from @ Missourian who isn’t running this time—-a dinger. Not only a dinger, but a whinger and a real bell-ringer, Two things helping to make it that way are the write ins and the write-offs. The write-ins so far were in Minnesota last month and Nebraska this week. A lot of folks who went to the polls for presidential primary elections in those states didn’t find their favorite candidate's name printed on the ballots. So they wrote it in, The results made news—big news.
The write-offs have been every bit as Interesting. And:
just as newsy. They began “shortly ‘after the new year and before the New Hampshire primary election Mar. 11. Sen. Estes Kefauver was the first write-off. Sen. Kefauver.win in New Hampshire? Ha. Write him off, said the dopesters. He hadn't a chance against the administration machine. : So all that Estes Kefauver did in New Hampshire was win the Democratic primary. That ame slection started a new write-off.
SEN, ROBERT A. TAFT lost all 14 New Hampshire GOP convention delegates to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. Sen, Taft? Write him off. Well, said some of the
dopesters, maybe we'd better wait until Minnesota votes.
And Minnesota voted Mar. 19, piling up a spectacular write-in vote for Gen. lke. The Tat write-off took on more substance, Then Mr. Taft pulled out of the New Jersey primary, he'd been misled by the state's Republican organ-
ization, which let him get on the ballot and then threw its
support to Gen. Eisenhower. « There was a good deal of talk about that, and there were Taft write-offs, In the early 17th century, a poet nagpd James Graham, “He either fears his fate too much, * “Or his deserts are small, “That dares not put it to the touch, “To gain or lose it all.” Mr. Taft put his fate “to the touch” this week in Nebraska and Wisconsin. He may not have “gained it all.” But he sure didn't “lose it all. " He Sot a write-in victory over Ike in Nebraska. And he got 24 of Wisconsin's 30 Republican convention delegates. :
” THERE UNDOUBTEDLY are some y how write-off going on today. = . cian the hard facts arethat enough has been shown of timent and delegate lineups to indicate that both ar nhower and Sen. Taft will go to the Republican Chicago Convention solidly backed. And on the Democratic side, Sen. Kefauver, Sen, Rich-
ard Russell and Gov. Adlai Stevenson—if the latter is
indorsed by President Truman—all are major candidates. There's be more write-ins and more write-offs between
now and July.
But don’t let them fool you. They're not official. They The big show is still on down the midway. g : ¢ And it's a dinger.’
SOS for Blood
TUESDAY the Red Cross sent out an SOS for more
blood. At full capacity the blood center can handle 200 donors a day. Yet, donations fell to 69. ‘
There is still a war on. Soldiers are still dying in Korea. They still need blood from the people back home. But who is going to give it to them? You've already given blood? Fine, give some more.
Give until they won't let you give any more and then maybe
the job will be part way done. It's your blood. Do what you want to with it. But if you pick up the phone and call LI, 1441 you might help a GI cheat the grave-registration boys. A drop of blood is a precious thing . . . if it's put in the right place. el
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Corn Crop Worries BUSINESS WEEK, the magazine, reports that officials of
the Agriculture Department are worried about the
prospects for grain crops this year—especially corn. They have been trying to persuade farmers to plant But their surveys show only about 84 million acres will be planted. This could be bad, the department experts say. A
Tittle adverse weather and there might be a shortage, which
would affect the supply ‘of pork,*beef and poultry. Their worries well may: be justified. But there is one leavening angle to it. It might mean that the government would buy up less grain to prop up the prices and thus have less to store in warehouses, Hence less to disappear through what Secretary Brannan lightly called “cracks in the floor” and less to spoil when Mr. Brannan's Commodity Credit Corp. can't get around to taking care of it.
Civil Defense ONDAY the biggest air raid siren in the world-sounded off and what did it mean to most of the people of Indianapolis? Not much. A shrug of the shoulders, turk of the head... “some of these defense boys playing around again.” Air Raid Warning Director Col. Martin J. Luichinger said the tests were wonderful, went off with'a bang. But, he added, a lot of people would have died because of public
- disinterest. in civil defense."
This" business of civil iene is not a game. It is
dead serious. If we are going to treat it as a game, then
better We all about it and Spend that money for
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"character which looked almost impassible.
, any Tom, Dick, or Harry on the edges of faith,
‘happen.
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Japs Win Back Their Hotel
TOYKO, Apr, 3-Two huge Japanese flags and a small grove of live cherry trees dominated
the lobby of Tokyo's famed Imperial Hotel. yesterday. The flags were the thing. They said volumes, They stood out as the first major sign that the Japanese had come Into their own again-- . they had regained that citadel of occupation, the Imperial Hotel, which the Americans for nearly seven years flaunted in the face of the conquered people. More than any other building in town-—even SCAP headquarters -— the Imperial was in Japanese eyes thé symbol of the occupation. For here the brass lived in luxury, eating 40-cent steak dinners, drinking 25-cent bonded bourbon #nd being waited upon by a small army of Servants, bowing and jumping at their every whim,
An Errand Boy
" ONLY Tuesday, a former Japanese diplomat was complaining to me along these lines. He sald the one small aspect of the occupation he resented most was being treated like an errand boy by his own countrymen employed by the Occupation forces. On the few occasions he went to the Imperial to call on friends, the Japanese clerks and bellhops ordered him around, refused to let him sit in the lobby and gave him the back of their hand, as they kowtowed to the occupation. Well, all that's changed now. Japanese dip-
Lenten Meditation '
‘Jesus Answers Questions About Our Troubles
"DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE And nothing will be impossible to you. Matthew 17;
20. Read verses 14.20.
We all know people who remind us of the line in The Tempest, “What impossible matter will he make easy next?” How true: that was of Jesus himself, who came face to face with illness and sin and wrought changes in life and Jesus has been doing that ever since. When His power gets into men and women they are changed so that their friends often hardly recognize them, So Jesus told his Disciples. that if they had faith nothing would be impossible to them. Remember that Jesus said these words to those who were closest to him, not to Jesus could essume that those who knew him would not misunderstand ond would do the impossible things which were worth doing, net circus stunts. So right now no situation is hopeless. Anything con It may take-faith, patience, prayer, work. But mountains ‘have been moved, as Culebra wos at Panome, and mountains of sin and fear and futility can be moved too,
Let Us Pray: Forgive us, O God, when we have given up attempting seemingly impossible things. Help us to remember what Jesus did. He gave the world a way of sal. vation from the least likely place of all, a cross. Amen.
SIDE SLANCES
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lomats and business leaders, many a son of the old Samurai and even one daughter of the Emperor turned out Tuesday night for a gala party in the Peacock Ballroom, celebrating the reopening of the Imperial to the public. ‘In that off-again-on-again behavior of which the Japanese are masters, once more the waiters and clerks turnéd on the warmth and geniality at the Imperial for the elite of Tokyo. They bowed very low and were so very glad, s0 honored to see Suzuki-san and Watanabe-san again.
Other Way Around
THE sprinkling of U. 8. Army colonels and Navy captains at the party, so recently lords and masters of the Imperial Hotel, were taking a back seat. Where once they were bawling out the servants and making them toe the mark, Tuesday night the brass hats themselves were bowing low and summoning up their best occupation Japanese phrases to please the “old friends” who formerly made their beds and
fetched their morning coffee on the double.
“Please” sald a dispossessed colonel to a Japanese chambermaid who was passing around the canapes, “take good care of my friend here, who has moved into the hotel today.” (He meant me.) Indeed she would, said Miss Plum Blossom politely. But she managed to convey the impression that the Colonel's recommendations were not exactly the final word with her.
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: Holland did things in reverse,
RUSSIA .
WASHINGTON, Apr. 3—8talin’s answers to ‘the cabled questions of a group of American editors reveal nothing, but they are "excellent
Soviet propaganda. This isn't the first Lime that has happened. x
Stalin intends to get across to readers that he is a benign and reasonable old gentleman striving for peace, That is too much for | the public in this and other Allied countries to swallow. Nevertheless, the net effect among many will be to wonder whether it isn't possible after all to settle the cold war and prevent another world war. simply by getting around a table .and talking things out with the Russians, And meanwhile,
we can take our Stalin time about this terribly ex- . 2% pensive and distracting arma- same song
ment race. If that is the public reaction to Stalin's latest propaganda statement, it will be worth many divisions, tanks and planes to him. For he is speeding up military preparedness—and has been ever since the end of World War II, when we almost disarmed. Here are the questions sent to him—he refused to grant a personal interview—and his cabled answers:
QUESTION —Is a third world war closer now than two or three years ago?
ANSWER-No, it is not.
This is meaningless because at some: times during that period war-was closer than others. Nearly two years ago he started satellite aggression In Korea, which may yet lead to world war. He presumably will not make his threatened attack on Indo-China if he thinks the price is a world war. But he could not answer “yes” to the question without revealing his military plans—which obviously he will not do.
Q—Would a meeting of the ‘heads of the
' great powers be useful?
A~Possibly it would be useful.
That is pretty cagey for a man who has been plugging so long and so hard for such a
ROYALTY
“By Lodwell Denny
Stalin Busts Out the old Dove a
, Since President Truman has repeated- , meeting, Since President Truman had Sapesied, be glad to meet Stalin here—the other meetings having been “held .in or near Russia—it is impossible for the dictator to give a flat -answer
‘without showing he is afraid to confer in the West. |
Q—Do you consider the present moment opportune for the unification of Germany?
A—Yes, 1 do. No news in that, since he made this tora} proposal to the Allies only two weeks ago. The catch, of course, is unification ol what eran) He proposed to allow a “neu German eto army, which would destroy the Allied European army plan for joining Germany in Western defense and would lead ta another German-Russian alliance like the Hitler-Stalin deal. "Gen. Eisenhower in his annual report as North Atlantic Commander warned against this Stalin plan. 3
Big Mouthful
n what basis is coexistence of capitalism and communism possible?
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A—Peaceful coexistence of capitalism and 3
communism is quite possible if there is a mutual desire for co-operation, if there is a readiness to fulfill the undertaken obligations, if there is observance of the principle of equality and none interference in the internal affairs of other states. That is quite a mouthful for the aggressor and conspirator whose pledges of mutual cooperation always have resulted in a double-cross, He has never fulfilled his undertaken obliga« tions of the Atlantic Charter, the United Nae tions Charter, or his Allied agreements at Moscow, Yalta, Potsdam or elsewhere, By nons interference in the internal affairs of other states, he means what he is doing in Korea, Iran and the satellite states, and what his Communist agents are doing in the U. 8. and around the world. Only a sucker would seek sense from a Stalin statement which uses black to mean white, Any American who is in any doubt about what Stalin means can read it in the bloody record of Soviet subversion, conquest and tyranny, which continues day by day.
By Andrew Tully
A Little Bit of Dutch History
WASHINGTON, Apr. 3—You're apt to get a little confused trying to figure out the House of Orange-Nassau, to which Queen Juliana of The Netherlands belongs.
In the first place, it's not a Dutch outfit at all, but half-French and half-German. In the second, Orange-Nassau didn't start really ruling The Netherlands until 1815, although it's helped to run things since 1579. 2 The explanation is that It started out as a republic and grew up into a kingdom. . Queen Juliana, who's visiting in the U. 8. this week, has her job today becduse of a town named Orange in Southern France and a cas- : tle on the Rhine named Nas- . sau. Queen Juliana Charlemagne started it. A «+. confusing guy named William Le Cornet had done some ward-heeling for him, so he made Bill the first prince of Orange. Bill worked hard at being a prince, but his children weren't much good at producing heirs and eventually the line died out. It all turned out all right, though, because Bill's In-laws took dver. By 1520 they'd produced a prince named Philibert who was such a hot warrior that Emperor Charles the Fifth gave him Holland for takehome pay. Philipbert had no kids, either, but that turned out okay, too, because his relatives did some smart marrying into the family of a guy named Count Walram, who lived in Nassau
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MR. EDITOR: The defense of Senators Capehart and * Jenner, with the crack that they haven't
accepted any mink coats or deep freezes, is very silly. Who knows what they have been doing? Senators don't Investigate Senators, and if something gets so hot they must do something in that direction, they do the prize whitewash job of all times on it. $18 Besides, what are we yelling about’ corrupt practices for anyway? What is so new about people accepting gifts for services rendered? What is so new about folks going to influential friends to get favors done for them? This sort
of thing has been accepted in social and business circles for years. In those places, it is thought to be ‘‘very clever.” Suppose a “man wants a big job or promotion? Does he stand or fall on his own merit or qualifications? He does not. He rounds up every influential person he knows to say a word for him. The man who rounds up the most influence gets the break.
As for Florida vacations—why is it so wheng
for Harry to take one when our papers are filled with pictures of local big shots basking in the Florida sun? They don't go off their
WASHINGTON, Apr, 3— Looks like we're about to meet Daniel A. Bolich, the well dressed tax collector. Fashionably clad, even in his sleep.
He's the veteran revenue agent who worked his way up via posts in Cleveland, Newark, Philadelphia, Brooklyn + and New York until eventually he became: Assistant Commissioner of Internal Revenue here in Washington. Suddenly last fall he resigned. Said he was sick. Now it turns Hut that the dapper: Mr.. B. of the mono--grammed handkerchiefs, the solid gold cuff links and the silky pajamas, spent, during the last five years, more than twice as much as he earned, The House committee investigating boodling tax collectors has one simple question to ask him: Where'd he get the ‘dough? I'll be there to jot down his answers; meantime’ “you'll
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two revenue sleuths assigned to ferreting out the costly habits of their ex-boss. They soon learned that he had five youngsters sites hers educated in private handsomely ‘ furMhocie. rae in Brooklyn and another at Spring Lake, N.J.,
HOOSIER FORUM—‘Why Cry?
"I do not agree with a word that you say, but'| will defend to the death your right to say it."
By Galbraith WHERE DID HE GET nm . 'Fancy-Pants Tax Collector Rolled i in Dough
doubtless be interested in the
wibRncresennessrssennd
payrolls when they are down there. I wouldn't
. be too surprised to find the whole trip charged
to traveling or sales expenses on their books. Who pays? You, dear buyer, you. -—F. M., City, )
‘Fire Traps’
MR. EDITOR: In the last month I have visited a number
of apartments in the mile-square and I certainly :
was surprised to see the fire hazards in them. Wash rooms and basements piled high with papers, cartons and discarded furniture. Most fire escapes are rusty and have not been used for years. People would take their lives if their hands if they used them. They would crumble to. pieces. Windows unwashed and nailed down, could not be opened ‘and could not be seen through in case of fire. And there were no fire extinguishers anywhere. If there were a fire in any of these -Dulldings many lives, perhaps, would be lost. Now is the time to look after them, not wait until it is too late. Why haven't inspectors of such things reported these conditions and enforced the laws, or do landlords ignore them? —A. F. V., City.
two Chrysler automobiles,
merely dropped into all“ the
Castle. So there now were two houses practi. cally for the price of one and it was quite a bar. gain for the Dutch because the combination produced William of Orange-Nassau. This was in 1579 and the Dutch were still ruled by Spain, with some kibitzing from the House of Hapsburg and France. The Protestants in the north didn’t like this, so seven provinces got together and formed the Union of Utrecht and asked William to defend them against Spain.
William said he'd be glad to found the Republic of Holland. He did, too, and became known as William the Silent because he always thought twice before even mentioning the time
of the day. The Dutch were grateful, but not
too grateful; they said they were sure William didn’t want to be a king. So they made him a kind of a governor, but kept most of the power in the legislature. William's descendants continued in this role, although one of them took time off to be King of England for a'while, This was William the
Third, who married Mary, daughter of Eng-
land's King James the Second, and in 1668 helped her take over the country from pop.
Batavian Republic
THE Dutch Republic came to an end In 1795, when the French moved in and installed something called the Batavian Republic as a front., This lasted until 1808 when Napoleon made his brother, Louis, King of The Netherlands, over a considerable number of dead Dutch bodies. But Louis had to abdicate four years later when the French took over again. Naturally, this sort of thing was getting on the average Dutchman’s nerves. So in 1813, William Frederick, Prince of Orange, led a revolution against the French. This time the Dutch figured the House of Orange-Nassau had earned a little reigning, and in 1815 William Frederick was crowned king of The Netherlands and Belgium. Fifteen years later, the Belgians revolted and formed their own kingdom. That's the way it's been ever since, :
‘Views on the News
By DAN KIDNEY
QUEEN JULIANA will know she is in the U. 8. when some reporter asks, “Who originated the Dutch treat?”
VICE PRESIDENT BARKLEY believes a man is never too old to learn how to live—in the White House,
JUDGING from the increasing entries since President Truman withdrew, Democrats are not convinced that they have lost that long-term White House lease.
ONLY ONE week left to start keeping Lenten resolutions.
Mr. Barkley .. never too old
STALIN says that communism and cap-
italism can ‘get along in the world without war-—this year,
TV 18 an improvement over old-fashioned vaudeville. You don’t have to tramp over other people's feet to escape.
. By Frederick C. Othman
membership in an assortment of lush clubs, and haberdashery such as to shame Adolph Menjou, Mrs, Bolich, they also observed, was an exceedingly well-dressed woman.
The detectives knew also that Bolich’s wages from Uncle 8am during’ the past five years added up to $54,000. He struck them as looking entirely too prosperous. He paid most of his bills in cash, but that did not phase the sleuths. George H. LeMay testified that he and his red-haired partner, George W. Rutledge,
fanciest stores on New York's !
Fifth Ave, and asked whether the Bolichs, Mr. or Mrs., ever made any purchases there. The storekeepers remembered them well.
At A. Bulka's, one of the deluxiest of men's stores, they learned that Mr. Bolich was a valued customer. There he paid $92.50 for a set .of studs to button up his tuxedo and $47.50 for a pair of cuff links, He bought a couple of dozen shirts ranging in price from $24 to $31.50 each. These he adorned with cravats ranging
ANOTHER'S SHOE
I'VE often heard someone exclaim ,. . how they would lke to bo. + In somashe lsc
job or place . . . or far across the sea because to them the grass is
the other side . . . and therefore they would like
greener . . . on
to go . . . and there in peace abide . . . but
“little do they realize . . .
that those whose place
they'd ‘take . . . woilld be so happy if they could . i... the change or barter make . . . it all amounts te merely this . . , that what we =
have and are .. . is
really good and best for
us . .. so why reach for a star , .. because If ‘we t find out . . . that we are sad .
tight the other’s shoe.
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we didn’t realize . . . how —By Ben Burfoughs
. 1951 New Yorker model.
up to $8.50, per copy. His pa. Jamas cost him $20 each, Bolich was a ‘fancy-pants tax collector for sure. His wife paid $28.95 for her shoes at Bergdorf - Goodman, - She bought many a dress ranging in price from $110 to $139, The goggle-eyed sleuths went on to the furniture store of w. and J. Sloane, where RBolich spent $2300 fn cash. Here he also obtained $3500 worth of carpets, but a friend yet to be’ identified paid for them, Mr. LeMay said he and partner. learned further that this most luxuriant of tax col/lectors spent $6000 on club dues and rode alternately in two Chrysler sedans, one a The same friend who paid for the carpets put up the money for this 180-horsepower fob. All In all, Agent LeMay cone cluded, Bolich spent 115 217.78, while he was. earning’ considerably less than half that. The last couple of days Bolich’s been explaining’ this to % grand jury fin New York, ie has opportunity. to tell all In _gublic I ny of his $31.50 I wash my hands he
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