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% Marion County CAN Vote | On Taft and Eisenhower ,

THE hottest political issue at the polls on Tuesday is whether Sen. Taft or Gen. Eisenhower will be nominated for President. : rs "1 overshadows every local contest. : Neither name appears on the ballots. Nowhere in Indiana can any. voter cast a direct vote for either. In most of Indiana voters cannot even cast an indirect vote. . Convention delegates, who will decide which of the two Indiana supports in the Republican National Convention, will be /chosen by county delegations to the Repu State Convention. Throughout most of the state there appears to be no contest on that issue—in twothirds of the state no contest at all on any issue—in the ont of state convention delegates.

sa rw MARION COUNTY, though, there is a choice. The county: will elect 208 state convention delegates ‘Tuesday. A majority of them—140 delegates—can decide two votes enhower, or for Taft, in the Republican National Convention. Sr It almost was not a contest. of There are 520 candidates running for thpse 206 state " convention seats. Some of them are well-known figures in Indiana politics, whose views are also well-known, a few had publicly expressed a preference fof one or the other of the leading presidential aspirants. e great majority of thém had not. :

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. Neither Eisenhower nor Taft organizations here—both claiming victory at the polls—has given the voters any sort of line-up of its own convention candidates, nor any information on how a voter could express his own preference, even indirectly. We couldn't even have known who

won, after the election was over.

» » WE HAVE TRIED to correct that, 2s a service to the voters of this county. : : A staff of Times reporters, in many hours of hard work at the telephone, has polled as many of the 520 candidates as it'was possible to reach. Most of them gladly went on rd as to which presidential candidate they favor, and will support, at the state convention. ; ‘A minority were unwilling to commit themselves either ' way,. A handful felt it was an “invasion of privacy” for the voters to inquire who or what a candidate for election to public office was for or against, an attitude we believe ought to dispose of them so far as intelligent voters are Om ili of that survey—the first of its kind, we believe, ever undertaken before an Indiana primary election pears today on Page : i offers Marion County voters about the only chance any voters in Indiana will have to express a choice between the two leading candidates for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. We trust they will use it.

Safety Costs Money

F YING is no safer than it was five years ago, the Guggeneim aviation safety center at Cornell University has found. : ‘There are fewer accidents now, but the fatality rate has remained about the same, because the larger planes of "J today earry more passengers. : There have been important discoveries and progress in research, the report notes, but the airlines have been slow to apply the new knowledge. The government also has failed to do its part. ‘The primary reason has been a lack of money,”

~ - ” THE AIRLINES have no such sum of money available, but good business has improved the financial position of most of them in the past year and a half, and they could do more than they are doing now in the field of safety. As the report says, neither the government nor the airlines have been willing to face the facts. The airline pilots themselves recently protested officially that safety / ¥ regulations are inadequate for emergency water landings. ."{ And some of the corner-cutting nonscheduled airlines apparently ‘can violate safety regulations repeatedly without receiving real punishment from the government.

; ‘THE GUGGENHEIM report denounces the attitude of some people in aviation that the accident rate has reached “a plateau and cannot be cut. This is the old “accidents will happen” line, whieh the public will not accept. In safety, to stand still is to lose ground. : - ~The airlines have been concentrating on speed and more speed, when obviously no other method of transportation can ‘begin to conipete with them in speed. ; We have enough speed. What we need, and what the public. demands, is more safety. » ®t

Ah; Love—Sort Of : "E ARE inclined to be somewhat impatient with a Russian dame named Valeria Gerasimova, who has written an article in Moscow's “Literary Gazette,” decrying the wooden love scenes in Soviet films. “Why-is-it,” asks Mme. Gerasimova petulantly, “that in om plays the hero is vivid and interesting so long as Ptoduction activity is described, but when he begins ] bout love, he suddenly becomes bleak and gray?" rh ‘she mentions a film she saw recently in which the first words spoken to his wife by a soldier returning rofff five years at the front are: wa | “How are you, dear? How high the wheat is already.” 5é now, Mme. Gerasimova, don’t be so naive. You ‘well as we do why lovers in Soviet movies talk like because they know what's good for them, that’s

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Hoosier Forum—‘Law Copied’

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

By. O'Donnell

MAME ity 3 ee hg : ADONAY

RITE IIET MR. EDITOR: New York's Weekday Religious Education Law fs copied from Indiana's which took me 21 yedrs (1922 to 1943) to nurture along and get made a law here. The New York law has just been pronounced constitutional by the U, 8. Supreme Court. ’ The bill for the Indians Law for Weekday

Religious Education was introduced the first’

time in 1922 but the Governor, Ed Jackson, vetoed it. At the next biennial session of the Legislature I saw that the bill was reintroduced, but the Senate voted it down and the church people lost their courage. I continually worked for this law until 1935 “hen Iiretired from the faculty of Manual Training High School where I taught a quarter of a century, retiring with a grade of 100 per cent. I continued my campaign until 1943, when I rallied the heads of some of the different religious organizations back of. Weekday Religious Education. This 21-year-old bill was made into the present Indiana law which is being administered so efficiently (not gby the City School Board, but by the Weekday Religious Education Board and its teachers). It is this law, adopted by New York, that the U, 8. Supreme Court has declared constitutional for New York, Few people, comparatively, that kept encouraging me and giving spiritual comfort age now living, ‘Two of the city’s Church Federation secretaries have died in this almost a quarter century required to get the Indiana-New York law. New York had a law before adopting the Indiana one that was declared unconstitutional. This one was changed so it would be. It was appealed. It had been like our Indiana law. ~—Wilfield Scott Hiser, 35 E. 83d St.

HST Is Busy Man . MR. EDITOR: ; Works day and night and likes it. That's our President. He says it is an allday and nearly an all-night job and still he

‘Hkes it,

Now I can't understand how he can be so busy unless he is trying to right the errors and mistakes that he has made. It does seem like there are too many people working there in Washington as I have been reading Newbold Morris’ experience while he was there. One girl told him she had been on her job six months and had only worked one-half hour. Seems as

though sthe Truman administration is afraid

of a real corruption investigation. The errors and mistakes he has made in the seven years since he has been in the White House have all been tragic. First dropping two atom bombs on Japan, sending our boys to Korea without the consent of Congress, refusing to give China aid when Madam Chiang came over here he told her he didn't have time to talk to her. Then

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firing MacArthur, which was most tragic for our country for I feel he is the smartest man in our couniry today. od

MR. TRUMAN says this country is more prosperous than ever before. We all know it takes the life of our dear boys to make it prosperous: We wouldn't have inflation today if he would of accepted the bill that Congress had for lum to stop inflation in the fall of 1950, and then Bernard Baruch had a talk with him advising that it should be .stopped at that time, but our President said at that time it wasn't: necessary and he blames the inflation at this time on Congress. . Mr, ‘Truman has done our country a great favor when he decided not to.run. I will say this, if he had decided not to run in 1948 our country wouldn't be in the shape it is in today. He does so many terrible things and tries to blame it on someone else, or lies out of it, which is tragic for a President to do. I am just hoping it isn’t too late for someone else to take over and bring this great country of ours out of this serious. situation which gets worse and worse every day. - —Mrs. George C. Baker, 19 N. Oriental St. N\ i

N ‘Litter Is Terrible’ MR. EDITOR: i We were one of the many to take advantage of the lovely weather last Sunday and enjoyed a day in the open. However, I was shocked and rather disgusted to see the condition of the picnic sites along Fall Creek from Keystone Ave. east. The litter is terrible. We had to remove an assortment of beer cans, bottles, rags and other litter before we could begin to enjoy the

surroundings.

Do Hoosiers take this lovely location so much for granted? Most of the places I've lived you must get a permit to build a fire, supply your own wood, and leave the site in good condition. If those who use this area would just clean up theirjown debris and a little of someone else's it wouldn't take long to have it nice again. I've lived here ‘almost three years and can't understand the attitude of the people who do these things. : The places around this city are many, if the people would only realize how fortunate they are to have them. Imagine, no fences or keep off signs for miles, ==Mrs. F. W. Denison, 4612 Carrollton Ave.

What Others Say—

NOTHING can be more fatal than the feeling, “war is bound to come—let's get it over.” War is not a way out from danger and strain.

-It's a way down into a pit—of unknown depth. * —B. H. Liddell Hart, British military analyst. <*

‘ ¢ STALIN does not want a “hot war,” but he does want, or does need, “cold war.” It is® one of the pillars of his regime.—W. N. Ewer, British lecturer, writer,

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DEAR BOSS ry . By Dan Kidney : Hoosier Congressmen Dodge Chance To Cut U. S. Farm Fund

WASHINGTON, May 3-—Thrifty Hoosier Republican Congressmen offered no help when attempts were made to cut the huge Agriculture Department appropriations on the House floor this week. ‘ Their leader, Rep. Charles A. “Halleck, Rensselaer, found time to eulogize a capable fellow= Congressman, Rep. W. Sterling Cole (R. N. Y.), who has been unjustly attacked by his primary opponent, Rep. Edward Arthur Hall,

Mr, Halleck remained silent, however, when such “city fellers” as Republican Jacob K. Javits and Democrat Donald L. O'Toole, both from New York City, tried to whack a few hundred millions from the Agriculture Depart-

- ment funds.

Nor was there a peep from Indianapolis’ own “city feller,” Rep. Charles B. Brownson, who took a trip around the world trying to cut government expenses. Nor from Rep. Cecil Harden, Covington, who made the same circuit,

Saered Cow '

REP. RALPH HARVEY, New Castle, who wants controls abolished and-all budgets cut, Is a member of the House Agriculture Committee. Neither he nor any of his committeemen came to the taxpayers’ rescue in this case. For the farmers are the white-haired boys of our law-makers and the Agriculture Department a huge sacred cow. It was once said here that they “employ three more people than there are farmers.” That is, of course, somewhat exaggerated. Word went round the cloak-room that Iowa had been lost four years ago because Republicans were blamed for something the farmers didn’t like. So the GOP leadership took no chances this time. Only Rep. John Taber (R. N. Y.), ranking minority member of the Appropriations Committee, talked up for a out.

. But nis was a voice crying in the wilderness.

He was a leader without a following. Who finally voted and how was lost forever. As there was no demand for a roll-call, therefore

® . y no record of how each Congressman voted. This is a form of hiding often adopted by Congress

‘men, particularly in election years.

The bill carries direct annual appropriations for regular activities of the Agriculture Deparfs

ment totaling $724 million. Added ta this are

loan funds for the Rural Electrification. Admin« istration and the Farmers Home Administration of $229 miHion, administrative expense authorizations for the corporations of the department amounting to $2.6 million and $582,000 for special activities. <

Proud of Cuts AOUSE APPROPRIATIONS committeemen

+ were proud that some sums were not as large

as the Budget Bureau had recommended. They had cut $24,412,129 from the regular activities of the department as recommended. Loan authorizations were $33 million under 1952. . Administrative expense limitations recommended are $151 nilllon over the 1952 authorization but $1,376,000 velow the 1953 budget estimates they poiated out. An amendment to cut $585,075 from the national forvst protection and management fund was rejected. So were amendments to cut soil conservation costs, or increase them. Limiting or reducing the maximum soil-conservation payments to single individuals also were voted down. btn 8 ‘An amendment to cut $3 million from agricultural production program funds was killed,

Job Cut Approved

A GIMMICK to cut personnel 10 per cent by attrition was approved. ¥ - Indiana has two members on the apprepriations committee. They are Reps. Earl Wilson, Bedford Republican, and Winfield K. Denton, Evansville Democrat. The latter, like the other Hoosier Democrat, Rep. Ray Madden, Gary, is sort of expected to be in the Fair Deal spending

class. But Mr. Wilson is one of the leading"

thrift talkers in the House.

Like his eight ,other “thrifty” Republican.

colleagues from the state, he wasn't having any —80 far as farmers are concerned.

SENATE HOT SEAT . . . By Frederick C. Othman Big Cotton Deals Questioned

WASHINGTON, May 3 — Clovis D. Walker, the bureaucrat in charge of buying cotton for our stockpile, sat in the Senate’s hot seat as motionless as an Egyptian mummy. So you had to keep an eye on the skin on top of his head; it varied from parchment white to deep crimson and back again, according as to the size of the fire the Senators had burning under him. The tale they brought out with the assistance of an Agriculture Department sleuth, Harold Mesibov, was an eyepopper: Last year Mr. Walker was buying Egyptian long-staple cotton by the thousands of bales and the. millions of dollars for use by the military in such strategic places as the seams of parachutes. Wherever extra-strong thread was needed, it had to be made of cotton from the Nile.

WELL, SIR, Mr. Walker bought more than half of it from his long-time pal and fellow fancier of the arts, Loutfy Mansour, of Alexandria, Egypt. Before the first sale such cotton was going for around 85 cents a pound,

When the government started to buy, it shot up to $1.20 and $135. At these prices Mr, Walker bought $37 million worth from Mr. Mandour. How much extra this cost us taxpayers, you cam calculate for yourselves. “Millions,” says Sen. George D. Aiken (R. Vt.) who charges that at least two -members of President Truman's cabinet knew what was going on.

DETECTIVE MESIBOV, a Pump and serious young man, told the law-givers that his researches showed Egypt's mostfabulous cotton speculator could, and did, walk into Mr. Walker's office at his pleasure and find but what his competitors were bidding before he made his own offer. Result was that at one sale In February of last year he sold us from 35 to 40 per cent of all the cotton we bought at the time; in another sale in December he sold us from 75 to 80 per cent. That was only the beginning.

THE INVESTIGATOR read a long series of cablegrams, showing that Mr. Mansour

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communicated with his home office in code and indicating that Mr. Walker knew how to translate it. Mri Walker also sent some cables to Egypt. So did his wife, Eula. The general idea seemed to mean thaf the words “millet” and “oats” meant grades of cotton, “Harry” meant Mr. Walker, and “the Florida situation” meant the governthent's purchasing program.

While Mr. Mesibov told his story, ‘the tall and weatherbeaten cotton buyer, who used to be an Oklahoma farmer before he became a federal official, sat beside him, changing color according as to how the testimony of the moment went. » » 8 . THE SLEUTH told how he had looked over the gifts presented Mr. Walker by Mr. Mansour. These included antique statuettes, cut crystal and semiprecious stones. He sald these cost Mr: Mansour

$500 in Egypt, but that. Mr. Walker once estimated they were worth $5000 in America. Later, he said, Mr. Walker told him he could place no value on his Egyptian trinkets. : Mr. Mesibov also told about the electrically-lighted transparent picture Mr. Walker sent his fez-wearing friend some months later. Then came Mr, Walker's secretary, pretty Mrs. Lois Burke, to tell how she typed the figures in one of Mr. Mansour’s bids, after he strolled out of the boss’ office.

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FINALLY CAME the boss himself. With trembling hand he removed his pale-rimmed eyeglasses and in shaky voice he denied everything. Said he never did his old Egyptian pal any favors, knew no about ‘any coded telegrams, and never sent to Alexandria my an Licrels, e inves n contin: At this writing Mr. Walkers still head cotton buyer,

DEFENSE . . . By Peter Lisagor

Cut in Foreign Aid Appears Certainty

WASHINGTON, May 3-— Only a small-scale miracle will restore the billion-dollar cut in foreign aid voted by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

But in fighting a rearguard action against the slice, defense planners are making an admittedly potent argument in behalf of-the economic, or de-fense-support, items in the $7.9 billion request. Two examples are cited here

to show how the total Western Europe effort might have to be shaved if adequate economic aid is not forthcoming.

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THE FRENCH are producing three jet planes said to be as good, if not better, than the Russian MIG's. But because of economic difficulties, the French face a possible choice of closing ‘down the aircraft plant or lopping off one division from their overall commitment to NATO forces.

It's a hard choice which could be avoided, it is suggested, with enough defense support funds to keep the factory going. . nw | THE SECOND example touches on the problem of Retting 25 reserve divisions in shape so they can be called up in the first few days of actual conflict. Under the Lisbon Plan, it ‘was agreed to have 25 divi-

sions in being by the end 1952 and 25 in Res for ” quick call-up. To achieve this state of readiness requires two months training a year. But in Bri“tain, for example, this training has a direct impact on the economy,

MANY British reservists work in the coal mines. If the British could raise their coal production from 225 million tons a year to 250 million tons, it would go a long way toward

helping ease ther: e pinch. conamje

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the foreign-aid dispensers some °

latitude in their opera however. Hope,

While voting an across-the-board cut“of a billion dollars, it did retain a provision permitting the President to transJor Xr > 10 per cent of the unds from one e another. . Sajegory. fo

HENCE, the President can divert funds authorized for military hardware to economie purposes related to the defense effort, ¥, But during the hearings it was argued that for every de-fense-support dollar voted here, Western European A 11 t es would be able to make a contribution of nearly $3, So, despite the transference provision, something's got to give, the administration holds. And a good guess is that it won't be Congress as the slashed bill moves to the floor for debate tomorro E

POLITICS . . . By Vinton McVicker

Ohio Seen

COLUMBUS, O., May 3— Here; among his home folk, Sen. Robert A. Taft is in the final round of a primary bat-

White House hopes materially. pu 8 tion, is to win Qhio’s 56-vote delegation to the GOP national’

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any serious setback in his home state would have a’ bad psychological effect as he heads for his showdown convention battle with Gen.

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