Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 May 1952 — Page 14

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For the General Assembly

IN tomorrow's primary election a total of 82 gndidates— 51 Republicans and 31 Democrats—seek nomination for the 15 seats Marion County will fill in the next Indiana General Assembly. Each party will nominate four for the Senate and 11 for the House. *» The number is so large that even yet some are virtually unknown to the voters of the county. Party organizations have issued “slates” listing favored candidates ostensibly picked by the precinct committeemen—but in some instances apparently dictated by outsiders against the choice and judgment of. those party workers. We are, consequently, a little distrustful of those “slates” as even a clue of what the party workers themselves want, much less as a basis for sound decision by the voters. Some of these candidates have been -in office before, and we have their records there as a guide. Some have made records as private citizens that entitle them to the full confidence of the voters of this county. From what we know of these records, and without any pretensions to picking a “slate” of our own, we feel that some able individuals in both parties are entitled to special consideration at the polls. Not all of them will agree with us on all issues, by any means, but we do believe they will give fair and earnest and conscientious attention to the legislative problems of this county and this state. On that basis we recommend: ; For State Senator . Republican: Robert Armstrong, Arcada S. Balz, Robert L. Brokenburr and John G. Tinder. Democratic: Joseph Barr and Cecil McConahey.

For State Representative Republican: Alembert W. Brayton, Earl Buchanan,

George S. Diener, Addison M. Dowling, Nelle B. Downey, Thomas C. Hasbrook, John Max, Mary J. McCammon, J. Perry Meek, Rudolph J. Roehl, and Charles J. Trees. Democratic: Miles H. Loyd Jr., William W. Mann, Len 0. Royer and Dr. Emma Lou Thornbrough.

The Court Acts

TV needed and lasting benefits could come from President Truman's seizure of the steel mills. One could be a Supreme Court decision which would determine whether the President has the so-called “inherent” powers he says his office gives him. Another could be a law in which Congress would spell out the powers which a President may use in an emergency, how he may use them and in what circumstances. By the orders it issued Saturday, the Supreme Court took two wise and orderly actions: It agreed to hear the case promptly. Any prolonged delay in a final settlement of the constitutional issue brought on by Mr. Truman's arbitrary seizure could lead to nothing less than economic and political chaos. "The court also directed the administration not to make any changes in steel wages or working conditions, pending a final decision on the President's powers. If the President's Saturday threat to grant wage increases on his own authority had been carried out, it would have compounded the confusion, jeopardized the whole future of collective bargaining and involved the government in endless and costly litigation.

The issue now can be determined in traditional and

srderly fashion. ; Once the court has made its decision, perhaps the processes of true collective bargaining may proceed—unhampered by the hit-and-run actions of a free-swinging President. Meanwhile—Mr. Truman sits tight. : While the President used every thing except the law available to him in his attempt to prevent a shutdown of the country’s steel mills, he has not faced up to an equally dangerous situation in the oil fields. The oil strike, now in its sixth day, is threatening the welfare of the Armed Forces in Korea and the economy of the whole nation. Already the big defense production centers of Detroit and Chicago are up against a gasoline famine. The Defense Petroleum Administration has ordered a 30 per cent cut in the use of gakoline by commercial aviation. If the strike continues to spread it soon would cut off supplies for Korea. An extended strike inevitably would severely disrupt rail, tfuck and bus transportation and affect the nation’s public utilities. . ~~ To date, Mr. Truman has done nothing except hope there will be a settlement. He doesn’t like the law which is available to him—the Taft-Hartley Law. But he has used it nine times in other emergencies. And it is the legal, orderly and reasonable process for heading off strikes which cripple the country. "Mr. Truman properly has pointed out that the safety of our troops in Korea depends on a continued production of steel. But a continued production of oil is no less essential.

What About It?

J FFENSE Secretary Lovett's admission that the Rus- * sians are three years ahead of us in war production, and outproducing us every month, was long overdue. There has been too little of such frankness. There have been too many alibis, and too much high-sounding talk of “fantastic” weapons to come some time in the future. ‘But now the secretary says the Russians are far out

front and we are not gaining.

_congressional committees, have been it for a time. But Pentagon policy has been to cover up, to , to cry merely for more money, to belittle those who

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GETTING TOUGH WITH US Syria's Strong Man Flexes His Nationa

DAMASCUS, May 5—~There is a near-crisis in United States relations with Syria. Ironically it arises from an American effort to win friends and influence the three million people of this pivotal Arab state. Restrictions have been imposed-—gnd more are in prospect—for the United States Information Service. The restrictions, if rigidly enforced, could make the State Department close up its propoganda shop in Damascus. The curbs apply also to British, French and Russian propaganda efforts. But the American effort, being the biggest, most direct<and most

- ‘expensive, {8s hardest hit.

Whittling away of the American position in Syria would almost certainly tempt other governments of the Arabic Middle East to get out the jackknives. If the sityation sours completely, it is possible the United States may break or threaten to break diplomatic relations with Syria's military dictatorship. > * o

WHEN THE SYRIAN foreign ministry first turned the heat on big power propaganda— especially Americafi~U. 8. Minister Cavendish Cannon remarked for publication that it looked like the first step toward a break. The story was hastily spiked by Syrian censorship. It caused a tizzy in Syrian official circles and got out anyway. That was several

DEAR BOSS . . . By Paul R. Leach

GOP Session May Be Short

WASHINGTON, May & (CDN)—A short Republican convention and a long one fer the Democrats. - ___That's what politicos hereabout are figure ing on for Chicago next July, but they have their fingers crossed. Both could be bang up wrangles. Early in the campaign Harold Stassen was counting on a deadlock for the Republican presidential nomination between Sen. Taft and Gen. Eisenhower to give him the breaks.. Gen, Douglas MacArthur boosters had the same idea. But unless the picture changes radically in the next two months, the showdown will be between Ike apd Taft. To make a deadlock possible there must be a third if not also a fourth candidate holding large blocks of ‘delegates. Neither Stassen nor

Gov. Warren has them in sight. A presidential nomination ought to come within three roll calls.

Foreign Policy Fight THERE COULD be a real fight over foreign policy planks in the GOP platform between the Taft and Eisenhower camps, Stassen and Warren groups siding with Ike. What lke says about his own policies when he comes home in June will provide the framework for the platform on which he would run. There's been much back of the scenes talk among Democratic “king makers” about a Tom promise civil rights plank. But a meeting of the minds is still as far off as it was in 1948 when the southerners Yebelled. at nS apomiee 8 st’ . - platform idea was at DE ta other nomination this summer.” : The plan was to work out one that could unite Gov. Stevenson with Sen. Ryssell of Georgia as running mate. That has gone with the wind. :

May Run Even

~——CONGRESSIONAL-Democrats are taking, Sen. Kefauver's campaign a lot more seriously than they did before the Tennessee crime-buster took President Truman in the New Hampshire primary. Even so, Sen. Russell could go into the convention with as many pledged delegates as Sen. Kefauver, if not more. ; With wealthy New Yorker Averell Harriman, and millionaire Oklahoma Sen. Kerr on the sidelines, and Vice President Barkley in the background, that nomination is wide open. Nobody among Democrats I've been talking with expects anything like the 104 rollcall 1924 Democratic deadlock. But I've heard none pre-

dict a nomination short of half a dozen calls.

Speculation persists among some Democrats over the possibility that either President Truman or Stevenson will change his mind and accept a draft it the GOP nominates Sen, Taft. There is no apparent encouragement from sisher the President or the Illinois governor for that.

Homecoming Program

GEN. EISENHOWER'S campaign managers, under management of Sen. Lodge, himself a candidate for re-election in Massachusetts, are

working out a schedule for his home coming.

It will be sent to him soon in Paris for approval. His initial appearance will be at his Abilene, Kas., boyhood home, where he lays a cornerstone Jine 4 for the Eisenhower museum. It is ‘to display his war trophies, papers and souvenirs. The cornerstone laying will be at noon. He is scheduled to speak at 5 p.m. in the town park. Present plans call for a press conference the next day. He and Mrs. Eisenhower are then going to New York to pack up, remaining there for a week or so. They are to settle down in Denver, Mrs. Eisenhower's home, about June 15 until the July 7 convention opening at Chicago.

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weeks ago. Since.then, the Syrian government has been trying to make up its mind about how far to go. Mr. Cannon hagibeen named ambassador to Portugal and will leave Damascus soon. His suc~essor has not been named. On the other hand it is possible that Brig. Fawzi Selo, chief of state, and Lt. Col. Adib Shishikly, chief of staff-—respectively the face and mainspring of what makes Syria tick— have an ulterjer motive in this show of touchy nationalism. It couid be a gesture of face-saving indepandence, principally for Syrians but also for other Arab states, to soften the reaction to what some consider the imminent prospect of Syria's signing up with the American Mutual Security Program.

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APART from confused start on. Point 4 in neighboring Lebanon, American Mutual Security—tied in with the controversial question of the Middle East Defense Command-— hasn't caught on with the Arab states. Some observers, undisturbed over Syria's crackdown on American and other propaganda, believe Col. Shishikly will go all the way in tying up with the West. Meanwhile he ig throwing his nationalistic weight arqund. It’s just as well that the powerful colonel, who pulled Syria out of a parliamentary morass last™ November with .a -bloodless coup d'etat, doesn’t grab at Middle East Defense Command participation. The defense plan is still pretty vague. It has been kicking around, without much Middle East support or even a shape of its own,

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Truman Contradicts Himself

WASHINGTON, May 5 (NEA)—Any sympathy for the plan to give Harry 8. Truman a seat in the Senate after he leaves the White House was probably nullified by the President's last press conference, p It was a perfect example of what happens when a politician makes a statement without first looking up the facts on an extremely involved situation. At one point he contradicted himself twice in his comment on tlre plan to transfer flood prevention work from the Army Corps of Engineers to Department of Interior. The President can’t be quoted directly, but the questions and answers ran like this: Q—“Could you tell us why you changed your mind about the plan ...?”

The President replied that he came to the

conclusion after a lot of study. He decided there was no use in doing what ex-President Hoover's report on government reorganization called for. By this the President implied that he had changed his mind. Then came the remark from a reporter: “I can’t understand the shift.” The President replied there was no shift. He never made a decision.

Q—“TI thought you said in the press conference last week that a plan would go up to

psi ® President then said he had changed his mind and that no plan would go up to the hill, but that matters would be left as they were, Q—=“Why did you change your mind?" a The President said he didn't change his nd.

“Telephone Service for Gls

BRIG.-GEN. WILLIAM P. CAMPBELL, assistant chief of Army Finance division, has let himself in for an awful lot of long-distance

telephoning when he returns to Washington &

from his present tour of American military installations in Europe. . At every post he visits, Gen. Campbell has

LONDON, May 5 (CDN) —

lines—and problems—for the British these days as the native population slowly begins to develop political ideas. The way these native aspirations are handled will have a lot to do with the possible future course of events in this vast continent with its vital strategic position and its treasure house of resources, val-

uable to the west in both pe&ce and war. /

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been collecting messages and phones numbers from soldiers for their folks at home. When the general gets back to Washington, he'll place collect calls to the designated mothers, fathers, wives and sweethearts, then read the messages. Reason for the service is that trans-Atlantic phone calls cost the soldiers about $12. Through Gen. Campbell's service, they can charge it to the folks at home.

Bloody Bolivia

THE APPROXIMATELY 700 Americans in Bolivia came through the recent bloody revolution in the country without a scratch. Communications channels out of the country were closed down and power was shut off at the start of the fighting.

charge d'affaires in La Paz couldn't make a check-up and get his report to Washington. There was some consideration given to sending in a U. S. Air Force plane to safeguard American lives, but that was finally decided against and later found to be unnecessary. Three hundred of the Americans in Bolivia are in the capital at La Paz. Two hundred more are working on the 300-mile highway which American Construction. Co. is’ building from Santa Cruz in the Grande Valley to the mining center of Cochabamba.

Oil Confiscated

STANDARD OIL of New Jersey once had a $17 million oil investment in Bolivia. It discovered and developed a 35-million barrel reserve. This property was confiscated in 1937 by the Bolivian government and Standard settled for $1.5 million. Of the 700 Americans in Bolivia today, about a third are U. 8. government employees. Army and Air Force have military missions there. Institute of Inter-American Affairs has had health, education, ‘agriculture and civil aeronautics missions at work on local Point Four-

type development projects during to 10 years. pro} the bust 5

a federation which would be called British Central Africa. This project was first Jaunched by the labor governmant in March 1951. One of the objectives was the noble one of counterbalancing the Union of South Africa and preventing its racist policies from spreading northward. - ” » THE BRITISH announced they wanted to develop “racial co-operation and partnership.” But when a conference was called in London to organize the federation, most of the natives boycotted it. There are ° 7% million natives in these three territories and only 169,000 white men. Yet the legislature which was proposed for the federation would be over‘whelmingly dominated by the

Justifiably so in the pinion of the whites who, like all white men in Africa fear the

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meet it.

For several days Thomas J. Maleady, U. S.

listic Muscles

COLONIAL PROBLEMS . . . By William McGaffin Political Ideas Stirring Darkest Africa

- would not advance but rather would slow down their progress toward liberty. They were further alarmed at the speed with which the government was rushing the discussions. The government, holding the conference without the Africans, had announced that a final decision was going to be taken in July. Many Africans could see no reason for the gudaen a oeleraLion unless it pi i Jo, anticipate their with an accomplished fact before they could organize to

But just last week the government slammed on the

since last “October. At that time, the idea figured in the British-American proposition te Egypt on how to make her a partner in defense on the Suez Canal Zone. Egypt was anything but enthusiastic. - & O: 4 8 IT HAS COST the United States no schélarships, free movies, libraries or news bulletins to persuade Col Shishikly that he needs Amerie can arms and other mutual secyrity advantages. Most Syrians seem sure that Syria one day will have to defend herself against neighboring

Israel. Conversely, American officials would like to satisfy themselves in advance of -any handouts or permission to buy weapons in the United States that Syria wouldn't try to beat Israel to the punch. Technically the two nations are still at war. An uneasy armistice prevails. . On-the-spot American consensus seems to be that Syria wouldn't tackle Israel on the strength of any mutual security aid. In a broad strategic sénse, Syria's 40,000 troops need arms to help shield Syria herself from ‘a potential Russian end run or infiltration through Iran, and to armor.plate Turkey's underbelly, which is what Syria amounts to, militarily.

Hoosier Forum

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‘Seizure Power Limited’

MR. EDITOR: The President and the Congress are forbidden to seize property by our Constitution

_ which declares in plain words that the state

or the United States shall not make a law nor enforce a law which will deprive our citizens of property rights unless they obey due process of law, which means court procedure to decide the necessity for the seizure and the compensation to be paid for the property seized. If any of our “citizens have been denied court protection in the taking of possession or in the seizure of their property rights” it has been contrary to law and is prohibited by our Constitution. The seizure power is carefully limited and. property is justly protected by our Constitu. tion against political seizure of the executive, or law makers. This is essential to the .safety of our citizens, securing thereby both their liberty and their property by preventing unlawful seizure. Our Constitution was so designed to protect the citizen against all mere acts of power, whether flowing from the Congress or the executive branch of the governmeént. Property rights created by our Constitution cannot be taken away without due process, or court procedure, a protection against abuses by the executive or law makers in a nation that speaks of per sonal liberty. Most, this protection is beth “necessary and proper.” -J. F. Frantz, 150 Ketchum St.

‘Blame Where It Belongs’

MR. EDITOR: You know, I appreciate all the effort the captains of industry are making to preserve my liberties. I wish they had taken as much interest in my welfare from 1929 to 1932. Maybe if they had taken a little interest in those days they would not be having so much labor trouble now. Seeds have a way of growing into bushes. It will be fine to have the Supreme Court rule on the powers of the President. If the President does not have power to do more than enforce Congress’ laws, make appointments, negotiate with foreign powers, and ‘run the Armed Forces, then he shouldn't be blamed for everything that happens in this country, as he always is. Maybe the people will have sense enough to put some blame where it belongs and realize when they vote for a Senator or Congressman they are doing more for or against themselves *than at any other time. If some of the pressure is taken off the President, he may have time to dust off a few old laws and see if Congress hasn’t giyen him more power than he ever dreamed he had anyway. -F. M., City.

“Blasts Fairchild pe

MR. EDITOR: What's fair about Mr. Fairchild and his form of City government? All the police are interested in any more are running down a harmless game of bingo, being sponsored by a church for the benefit of charity, and the persecution of the Fraternal organizations regarding the loss of their slot machines is altogether out of reason. . What's wrong with members enjoying this form of relaxation if they so desire? are going to spend their money one way or another. The money obtained through these means always went to a good cause. organizations donated thousands to charity. They helped everyone in their communities as a result of some. When will this town wake up and realize the revenue being lost by the city and state? Perhaps another depression will make us change our narrow-minded viewpoint, The police better exert their efforts in ap<

prehending the thieves and killers who bludgeon -

defenseless old ladies in cleaning establishments and shoot down family men filling station at-

tendants in cold blood. § ~John Acker, City.

and for a more patient second look at the federation proposals. What the natives will ses, as a result of the London cone ference, is a modification of the original plan which should be more acceptable to them. For one thing, the southern Rhodesian delegation has made the important concession of agreeing to African members

of the legislature from south ern Rhodesia as well as the

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Short Motorists Ir area were hit ing gasoline ‘s Detroit’s ga. cut 70 per cer eight of the m gasoline distri bound and h stations in Mi for the durati An oil co said the gas f: Chicago area the strike e stretches fror Ind. to Wauk

The Air Fo the number of the United S mum: But an Air | Tokyo said fly Air Force wre pinch of the two weeks, if tinued that lo He indicat there might b oil consumptic should the str The unexpla in Denver co pendent serv selling gas at average. Meanwhile, Workers 1 (CIO) said | Coast wage Standard Oil the Independe leum Workers pattern for o the walkout.

Rails

Terms of th day, were anr geles last nigh age increases hour for 5000 ers, plus nigt increases. However, O dent of the Inf Union, said he fers had been and rejected.” Eastern ra been hit by a limiting jobbe consumers to petroleum pr may receive a Midwestern reported that ably good sh: diesel fuel-sh fense Petrol Brown said m -45-day-supply could ‘switch gines if neces

Raleigh B Wins Sew

Raleigh Bu today was;ay the second pa east side sew Mr. Burk's was low for ft the ,34th ° St.

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"million now i by an out-of-The project sewers desig east side wh free thousanc construction year,