Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1952 — Page 22

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White Hat in the Ring? GV HENRY SCHRICKER, by all accounts, isn't taking very seriously the presidential boom Hoosier Democrats launched for him yesterday. He appears to consider it just another “favorite son” project, without any implications beyond that, as probably most of its sponsors do, too. As such it would be a fine and well-deserved compliment to Indiana’s No. 1 Democrat, and one of the state's greatest citizens, to be sent to the national convention with the backing of his state for the nomination for President. It occurs to us, though, that on the stage at Chicago our Governor would loom pretty large along-side any of the party's candidates we've heard mentioned so far. In all seriousness the Democrats at Chicago could go farther and do worse.

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ERHAPS there has never been a time when some men in public office didn’t try to hide from the public some of the public's business. It seems to us, though, that there's more of this lately and it is getting worse. In recent weeks we've published reports on the secrecy situation in federal government. Today, on Page 10, is a report on it in our own state and county and city, from the men who come in daily contact with it. : - It isn't as-bad as it might be, to be sure, but it certainly is nothing to which a free people can point with pride.

DURING the war the newspapers of this country ~ voluntarily accepted a considerable degree of censorship in the interests of military security. The great bulk, even of this “military security” censorship, was obviously hogwash, but all patriotic Americans agreed it was better to take no chances at all of revealing information that might cost the lives of Americans, or even possibly aid an enemy in wartime. £ : : Unfortunately, to a good many small men in big jobs, the idea of censorship was most appealing. A great deal of it didn’t end with the war. There are still a few military secrets today that enemy spies have not yet unearthed, and that ought to be, and are, kept secret by those who know them; which includes more newspaper writers than you'd imagine, > Aside from that there is not the slightest excuse for any kind of censorship of anything that is done by any government agency, great or small.

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THERE may be exceptions, but so few it is safe to assume that any public official who tries to conceal what he is doing is simply trying to hide his own mistakes or his own niisdeeds. . There is no military security of any nature involved in anything our state or our county or out city govern. ment does. There is nothing else any public official does, or can do, in the conduct of his office which ought to be concealed from the public. Those who keep trying to hide things plainly do it solely because they have something to hide.

Brotherly Love

PHILADELPHIA used to be the favorite butt of secondrate vaudeville comics. But beating a dead horse eventually gets tiresome even to professional funnymen, and in time the City of Brotherly Love was displaced in their routines by Brooklyn and other such butlandish places. But Philadelphia is still there and it still has its troubles, which are screamingly funny to everyone except the folks who have to endure them, : ,- The other day the city's water system, which at best supplied a foul-smelling, evil-tasting brew that required considerable courage to drink, almost collapsed completely when a quantity of poisonous industrial waste got dumped into it by mistake. . : Everybody remembered then that Philadelphia, for decades the victim of corrupt and cynical ward-boss rule, couldn't afford to provide safe and palatable water for its people. And, until recently at least, it was not an uncommon sight to see ancient police cars stalled in the streets, because the city couldn't afford to buy automobiles that would run. The town's dirty thoroughfares fathered the wheeze that Civil War draft papers are still blowing up and down Chestnut Street. : But, as anyone who lives there will testify, the end product of years of graft and misrule is anything but funny. It might be a good idea for the voters of the rest of the country to take a long look at Philadelphia and see what

generations go by without a political housecleaning. Recently, at long last there was a political turnover in Philadelphia. It may not have been too late, but it will take a long era of extraordinarily good government to repair the damage.

To Fight ‘Cancer :

(CANCER IS taking so many lives, as the average age of our population grows higher, that it may eventually become the largest single cause of death.. =~, .. ~. Fighting cancer is the responsibility of all of us, for no man can be certain that he himself or someone close to him will not be struck by it. : A Science has not found a cure for cancer, but some of the best minds in medical research are searching for it daily, They are able to do so partially because of the gifts . of the American people to this important work.

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THE ANSWER— lke Will Campaign By ROBERT L. CHASE SALT LAKE CITY, Apr. 19—Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-

hower will campaign — in

the best meaning of that word —for the Republican presjdential nomination when he returns to this country im June. His campaign will consist of full discussion of the major issues as he-sees them.

It will include no whistle

stop tours, no appeals for votes -

for himself and no side-show acts, : How many of his declarations, or restatements of ideas, will be in formal addresses and how many in informal discussions is not yet clear. But his national campaign manager, Sen. Henry Cabot of Massachusetts, has left litile doubt that Ike's activities will include the most outspoken sort of campaigning on issues. Mr. Lodge is on a flying tour of the West.

“WHEN Gen. Eisenhower returns to Denver, he will not —a8 some of his critics have sought to claim — be in uniform,” Sen. Lodge said. “He will be free to discuss every issue, and he will do just that.” “He will be completely frank with the American people and he will he as free to discuss anything with them as he was as president of Columbia University, ‘The oply limitation upon him will be that he cannot make a personal scurrilous attack on the President of the United States—and he would not do that anyway.”

Ld ” ” IT BECAME obvious as Sen. Lodge discussed Gen. Eisenhower's plan that the confusion over whether he would wage a pre-convention campaign rests upon interpretations of the word, “campaign.” “He will not,” Sen. Lodge said, “put on a coonskin cap, ride a bicycle up the street, or hook up a train for a speaking tour.” Sen. Lodge would not speculate on whether Ike might visit specific localities—or how many speeches he might make. (Gen. Eisenhower already has disclosed that he plans to spend at least & month in Denver.) Should Gen. Eisenhower decide to devote a major address to each of the top campaign

. Issues, political observers be-

Ueve he would have to make five or six major appearances between mid-June and the July convention.

"Ow ~ SOME of the discussions might well be interviews or press releases, however, if he decides against that many ad8ses in the brief period. One thing he is regarded as certain to © stress, probably above all others, is the attainment of a durable peace, and thus the whole question of foreign policy.

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HOOSIER FORUM—‘Schools’

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fact, Mr. McKinney has os the prestige of President Truman to pressure Indiana leaders to arop their fight Mr. McHale, against Mr, he is working harder. for Mr. McHale than he worked for President Tru-

Grittith Reese, Lake County and First District Democratic Chairman, says he phoned last Monday with the rather 0bvious political hint: “The President and I . . . are anxious to have McHale on the National Committee.” ” . . MR. McKINNEY recalled that President Truman supported the CIO Steelworkers Union in the current steel strike and intimated that Mr, Reese, a member of the Steel~ workers Union, would be un- .. grateful if he did not support Mr. McHale. : Just why President Truman wanted Mr, McHale on the National Committee was not explained clearly by Mr. McKinney, according to Mr, Reese. The Lake County . Democratic chieftain quoted Mr. McKinney as saying that as chairman of the rules and credentials committee Mr, McHale was “needed” to handle a difficult dispute involving two Texas Democratic factions, one of which was opposed to

i the Truman leadership. ity » a ” MR. REESE reported that “he was “perplexed.” For after all, he said, was

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MR. EDITOR:

Tinhorn peliticians and narrow, if not foolish, partisan newspapers are influencing our people into refusing federal contribution toward the schooling of our children on the pretext of federal paternalism. I do not believe in governmental paternalism, nor in the much abused word “regimentation.” While we refused funds to enhance educational facilities for our children, other states accept it and lo, the taxes of the Hoosiers go to the other states where politicians do not meddle in education. Gandhi fasted many times in his lifetime to propagate his ideology and the people of India did not suffer the pangs of hunger nor share them with him. Here, the narrow partisans and the newspaper editors get personal glory, while the people of Indiana feel the fangs of the federal tongs extracting our tax money to support sducation in other states. Eureka. If T am rightly informed the federal government has nothing to say as to the school tourses. The school boards of state and counties have the selection of textbooks and other teaching materials, although big business and communistic liberalism is competing in what and how our children should be taught, It is high time that the three R’s and the old-fash-foned American history found its way back into our elementary and high school so as to properly mold the minds of our children in the right way of American life. As a lowly person in the field of vocational education, and having had some littleto do with education as a whole, I feel the acceptance of federal funds, which are our own funds, will in no way have direct or indirect political infiuence, nor place us under obligation to federal bureaucracy. State rights have their limitation, but what ahout state proportional taxation? Let's be practical and stop following like a flock of sheep, selfish partisan political shepherds. ~Leon Worthall, City.

‘Labor Troubles’ MR. EDITOR:

Once a great man said: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people

TEARDROPS

WHEN sorrow casts its heavy veil , . . and bids you heed its call . . . most always the result will make . . . a tender teardrop fall . , . when children want for this or that . . , and cannot gain their plea . . . their eyes run over

‘with great tears . . . that no one likes to see

+ + « And so it is with joyful things . , . folks cry in love's caress .,. and many were the winners who . . . knew tears of happiness . . . for tears are flashes from the heart . . . to tell of how we feel . . . a true complete emotion that . . . is wonderful and real... it's not a shameful thing « +» to shed a tear and cry , ., for tears were shed by greater ones . . . greater than you and L ~By Ben Burroughs.

some of the time but not all of the people all of the time.” He did not know about newscasters and newspapers of today. President Truman in fairness to the people of America, the men in Korea and the steel workers, seized the mills. The seizure was in name only. Same management, same employees, same profits and the same union. After 99 days of negotiations the union and management were at a stalemate. He had two choices: ° ONE~—S8eizure, TWO—Injunction against the workers. Because of the 99-day period of extended negotiations he felt the Taft-Hartley law would be unfair. Minutes after the seizure such words as socialism, communism, dictatorship and the “sacred rights of property and the individual have been violated.” Some demanded his impeachment, others demanded that he enforce the laws of the land, others condemned the WS8B,

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NOW suppose the WSB had ruled 5 cents for the worker and $10 a ton for the mills, would these same champions of the “American way” of life condemn the WSB? Not on your life. Never condemn an agency that rules against the common man, by the same token, never condone one that favors him, Let us be consistant. This week in Cleveland a U. 8. justice enjoined three railroad brotherhoods from striking against the carriers.

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_Here the rights of the workers were violated.

Here a judge said that the workers were not permitted to demand economic and contractual gains, but had to take what an arbiter gave them. ’ : And here in Indianapolis two judges that believe in free enterprise issued injunctions against two local unions. These judges placed property rights above human rights, Did I hear a dissenting voice raised in their behalf from’ these self-styled champions of freedom, I did not, nor will I, Let us be consistent. We do not need Injunctions and seizures and arbiters. We need genuine collective bargaining. When we have that our labor-management troubles will be dissolved.

—Harley F. Legg, Rec. Sec. No. 28 UAWCIO,

‘Is This Democracy?’

MR. EDITOR:

From what I read in the papers, the rail

unions can’t strike, In other words, these men must work with a bayonet in their backs just like they have since August, 1850. In another part of the paper, I sée they have added the steel workers to the boys that must work with a knife in their backs. On that same day that I read this business, [ watched a TV show, Part of the program was devoted to democracy and I thought. to myself what a contrast.

~T. J. Gallivan, 1736 Spann Ave,

HOOSIER SKETCHBOOK—

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McKinney Is Working Hard

To Save McHale's Neck

DEMOCRATIC National Chairman Frank McKinney apparently does not intend to stand by and let his old _ political and business chum, Frank McHale, lose his ) as Democratic National Committeeman for Indiana.

Frank McKinney ++» teamed up again

it not true that McHale had said on several occasions “the Cl10’s Political Action Committee is a millstone argund the neck of the Democratic Party.” And didn't McHale say . “The hell with labor. Where can it go but the Democratic Party?”

“We all know how McHale feels about labor,” Mr. Reese said. “I don't think he is fooling anybody.” But, if Mr. Reese was surprised to hear from Mr. Meche was amazed, he said, when he received a telephone call from Mr, McHale.

TWO DAYS after President Truman seized the steel mills, Mr, Reese said Mr, ¢

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and, in his best apple-polishing manner, asked: ; “Say, how did you like what the resident did for the labor boys?” Mr. Reese reports- that the

calls from Messrs, McKinney and McHale ‘sure confused

“I thought McHale had decided to quit,” he said. “I wonder to what we owe this t honor of McHale being with us again.”

MR. REESE wasn't the only Democratic leader contacted by the McHale-McKinney team. Statehouse Democrats learned they had put the pressure on other county and district chair ale or Mr. McKinney could be reached for comment. When Mr. McKinney, the Indianapolis banker-politico was named National Chairman, he disassociated himself with Mr, McHale—at léast publicly. Indidna Democrats read this in the newspapers—and some even believed it. Many others, particularly here in Marion County, openly laughed, recalling the profitable deals in which they both figured.

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THERE is no doubt now, however, that the McHale-Mc» Kinney team is functioning again—maybe not as smooth. ly as before, but at least somewhat out in the open. Just what the McHale-Me» Kinney combination can ace complish is a matter of specu~ lation. They are now both trying to climb aboard the Schricker-for-President bandwagon. Not that they want to see Gov. Schricker in the White House. But, in Indiana, that’s the popular thing to do today— especially if you happen to be a Democrat.

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Kerr Barked Loudly— Stevenson Made Sense

WASHINGTON, Apr. 19 — With Sen. Robert S. Kerr's oratory still ringing in their ears, Hoosier Demo« crats today should feel somewhat disappointed at not having heard all of their presidential possibilities. .

They might then conclude that the Oklahoma oil-man is

on the stump, but that their good neighbor, Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, is the best equipped can-' | didate who - ever counted himself out of the race, including Presi- « dent Truman. $® ; Following : % Sen: Kerr’s oratory at the &ov. Stevenson New York... small voice Democrats dinner Thursday night Gov. Stevenson reminded one of the Biblical quotation about “after the whirlwind, the still small voice.”

The Illinois Governor wasn't

nearly as loud a shouter as

Sen. Kerr, but his speech made far more sense. It was the only one that got a genuine hand from the $150,000 worth of Democrats present.

When Illinois Democratic National Committeeman Jake Arvey passed the word that there is still a possibility that

"Gov. Stevenson could be

drafted by the Democratic convention it was “shot heard round the world.”

- » » FOR Sen. Estes Kefauver had spoken and left the impression ‘that his candidacy was sophomoric. No need to repeat the perorations of loudshouting Sen. Kerr. They must

still be reverberating throughout the state from his address at the Indiana. dinner. So it might be well to pass along a few of the facts of

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1952 political “life as assem bled by Gov. Stevenson for four minutes of radio time at the Ncw York dinner. “The burdens of the presidency dwarf the imagination” Gov. Stevenson said. “And the next President will have some~ thing more to face than most any of his predecessors — guidance toward co-existence in this world with a ruthless, inscrutable and equal power in the world. This is a new and fearsome position for the United States, and its Presi dent will be sorely tried. - » . “PERHAPS it isn't exactly the thing to say to a partisan meeting, but who wins this fait is less important than what wins, what ideas, what concept of the world of tomor« row, what quality of perception, leadership and courage.” Declaring that the “omens are good for a Democratic vietory,” Gov. Stevenson assailed the Republicans for their party strife and lark of program, Then he continued: “The 20 years of Democratie direction. of the United States have been a period of change as rapid and violent as any in history, Forces have been at work that shattered many societies, But we contained them within the American system of Jamocratic ment, popular control and civil liberty. There has heen no break in the continuity of our Institutions. We have steered by the same course we have been following for 150 years, The party .hat achieved this triumph of stability in a time of world revolution did se net by. pretendirig that there were short cuts to safety, to pros. perity, freedom or social justice, or that they could be bought at a discount. Tt must not minimize the difficulties or the dangers now,

» » y “AND during these two decades the United States has risen triumphantly from depression and misery to the pine nacle of prosperity and power, No nation ever reached such a position of world leadership and responsibility with so little premeditation—or so retuctantly, Like bits of a chrysalis, bits of our reluctance still cling to us—a recurrent inability to realize our strength, to ignore

» Pits implications, to avoid its

responsibilities. But our pur-pose-has been steady and our direction firm. Our goal is peace and every time—from Greece and Turkey to this day —by its deeds a great nation has accepted the full responsibility of its power and its peril, has accepted the leadership from which there is no escape, r - » “WE CAN be proud of our 20 years of faith and service in the American way. But we must look forward, not back. Rather we lose this election than ‘mislead the people by representing as simple what is

infinitely complex, or by representing as safe what is infie nitely precarious. For there are no painless ‘solutions > perialism, hunger, intolerance, and all stub-

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