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GOP Choice for Governor . AN . very able men, Governor this week. ; It is our opinion that the best choice the convention could make is Sam Harrell.

seek the Republican nomination for

at the election and luster to his part§’s record in office. . Hig experience as a successful administrator of private business would be a valuable asset to a state government that has become big business itself. He has come to understand the problems of Indiana farmers by his work in a field intimately related to their interests. His personal ability and integrity are uriquestioned. His ideas of state and national government are in fill accord with sound Atnuriegn principles. “He comes before this convention completely free of 3 Niances or obligations to those sinister elements ‘which have embarrassed the Republican party of Indiana before and are quite ready to do so again. We believe he is a man his party can nominate with confidence and support with assurance. « 8 8-8 ; 8 INDIANA Republicans right now appear quite confident of victory in the election this fall, and there is, in fact, much to sustain that confidence. They could make, no greater mistake, though than to assume now that victory is “in the bag” and “any old candidate” can win. Such is far from realistic.

whose alliances are open to suspicion or attack, can very well be defeated in Indiana next November by an opposition party that has had its own internal fight, gone through with

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weigh very carefully the merits, and the qualities, and above all the political alliances of the men who seek its indorsement —and then offer to the voters the man who best meets all those tests. We believe that man is Sam Harrell.

Torrents of Moonshine

PROHIBITION was in effect: when the late Bert Williams sang “How sad and still tonight by the old distillery,” and then went on to aver “But in the mountain

the moonshine so stillily.” A recent roundup by the United Press in Washington indicates the facts at present are simi- + In nine months ending Mar. 31 federal agents seized about 8000 stills. They ranged all the way from so-called groundhog stills to outfits that turned out 1000 gallons a day. Their combined capacity was estimated at 300,000 “gallons daily. The liquor industry figures state and local officers grabbed off another 8000 stills.

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* THE RATE of seizures has been climbing since Mar. 31 and so it is expected that federal and state seizures this _ fiscal year will reach a 10-year high of 20,000 stills. Their estimated daily capacity is 800,000 gallons. The Treasury Department figures stills operate for an average of 37 days before being found. Thus it seems that the known production of moonshine this fiscal year will be around 30 million gallons. The facts further indicate a tax loss to the Treasury of 315 million dollars, and state taxes average $1.66 a gallon, Having no taste or talent. for statistics, we only mention that fact that the liquor industry claims only one moonshinet in six gets caught, anyhow. At the least, though, the loss of taxes is staggering—a good word in the connection really. . & ss » » 4 THE BLAME for this increase in illicit distilling is laid on high taxes and friction between state, local and federal law enforcement agencies. Worse than any other fact or potentiality in the connection is the reasonable guess thai the moonshiners and the bootleggers will make every endeavor to corrupt law enforcement forces. In the: meantime leggl liquor piles up-in warehouses in direct ratio to the torrents of moonshine.

Déadbeats

HE MORE we hear about the way federal income taxes are collected, or not collected, the more disgusting it becomes. ‘ . - It was shameful to find out that some of the Internal "Revenue collectors were using their public offices to stuff their own wallets—through influence, favoritism, fixes and other devious forms of corruption. ; It doesn't help any to know that a lot of corporations and individuals in high income brackets are able to charge off as “business expenses” fancy cocktail parties, dinners, lavish entertainment, vacation trips, and so on.

have been able to get away with settling for a fraction on tHe dollar on income taxes they evaded, as Sen. John J, Williams of Delaware recently revealed.

federal employees don't pay their income taxes—over an what the withholding system takes away from them. The salaries of government employees are paid out of * Those who don't pay their own taxes ought to be

| The Senate Finance Committee is going to take a look} this cheap business, When it gets all of the facts, it t to make the names public.

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We believe he would add strength to his party's ticket

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Major Split In Ranks Has Hoosier

Indiana Republicans are scared stiff. They're afraid they could lose the 1952 . election after all. Even though they have the Democrats on the run with cries of “crime, corruption and Communist-coddling,” the un-~ certain feeling exists. Hoosier Republicans, who have ‘deve knack for winning political cam; losing elections, find themselye ways than the atom bomb. Hiroshima. : Here it is less he week to the Republican state conv n and the Grand Old Party is bitterly divided, most notably on the Taft-Eisenhowes™ fight and the Six-man race for Governgr: First, 6 all, supperters of Sen. Robert A. Taft for President cannot picture Gen. Dwight. D, Fisenhower as a Republican, much less as President,

And backers of Gen. Eisenhower regard Sen. Taft as a stuffy poltiician of the ancient, creaky GOP. There's no middle of the road. Taft peo~ ple intensely dislike the Eisenhower crowd and the Tke forces hate the Senator's supporters. Indications are there'll be no kiss and make up “for the good of the party” after the national convention in Chicago. The Republican race for Governor is more domplex and confusing, But its bitterness goes just as deep, will do as much or more toward dividing the party as the presidential scrap. Here's why: One of the leading candidates for Governor, George Craig, former American Legion com-

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SHOES . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Let Everybody

Go Barefoot

WASHINGTON, May 31.—If Congressman Charles W. Vursell (R. Ill.) knows what he's talking about (and I have the profoundest respect for this ex-sheriff of Marion County, Illinois) the thing to do is go barefoot.

This is good for the feet, once they get

toughened against hot concrete, and 1 don't guess there is any more exquisite pleasure than the feeling of mud squishing between the toes after a summer shower. Remember? ; Rep. Vursell and I have nothing against shoes as such, you understand. Some people have worn them all their lives with no II effects. Nor do we have any argument with America's desperate shoemakers. They have shoes they'd like to sell at deep-cut bargain

" prices, according to Mr. V. but they can’t do

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THIS obviously makes no sense. “Sq it you'll ©

flex your toes in the grass (feels good, doesn’t it?), the gentleman from Illinois® will attempt to explain ‘why price controls have boosted the cost of boots. In stock across the land are millions of dol-

lars in shoe bargains which the industry would -

be delighted to sell, if it dared, Rep. Vursell said. “There - are thousands upon thousands of pairs of shoes In factory warehouses begging

for buyers at substantially reduced prices,” -

he sald. “But retailers will not buy them be-

cause they will lose money if they do.

“This is sthe strangest story I ever heard. Here we have an agency set up by Congress to bring prices down and it is doing just the opposite.”

The trouble, he sald, is ceiling price regula- °

tions No. 7, under which the retailer adds his profits to the cost of a pair of shoes. If his profit is 28 per cent on shoes that cost him $2, and 38 per cent on shoes that cost him $4, he's stuck with it. “The government won't let him change these percentages. “Say a retailer has 1000 pairs of shoes in stock for which he paid $6 a pair and on which he is.permitted a 40 per cent markup,” Rep.

Vursell added. “While he is trying to sell these’ -

shoes at $10 a pair, he comes across a batch of the same shoes which he can buy for $4 a pair. “On the pricing chart of the OPS the reSalles is allowed a 28 per cent markup on $4 oes. »

Stiff Competition

S80 THE POOR DEVIL in the shoe store looks at the chart and discovers that he can sell the bargain shoes at $5.55 a pair. But if he puts them in stock he finds them competing with the identical shoes he sells for $10. =, ‘His only alternative is to mark down the regular $10 shoes and take a heavy loss. The small profit he makes on the bargain shoes will not cover the losses on marking down the $10 shoes. his problem.” So, sald Rep. Vursell, the merchant doesn't buy the bargain shoes at all and the consumer

is robbed. He urged that OPS quit meddling

in the affairs of the shoe men so they could adjust their margins to suit conditions and get rid of all those shoes. “Plain, common sense is taking an awful beating in this situation,” he added. We went on to tell how the price of leather was far below its pre-Korea levels, while the cost of hides was lower still, An assortment of his fellow Congressmen, mostly from shoemaking areas, congratulated him. And as Rep. Vursell said: “It's rough when prices are trying to come down to have the price controllers hold them up.” Eventually this will straighten itself out, I hope. My unbound toes, meantime, feel elegant, tramping in the morning dew. .

Only an aspirin and red ink will solve

mander, a8 opposed to the Republican Party endoavhip of Sen. Homer E. Capehart and State rman Cdle J, Holder, :

" Around him Re has gathered a powerful

strategy board headed by Eimer (Little Doc) Sherwood, Publisher Eugene Pulliam’'6f the Star and News and a cluster of Eisenhower backers. ‘They are unhappy with the Republican leadership that took a thoroughly defeated GOP and: ONE--In 1950, captured nine of Indiana's 11 Co seats and 70 per cent of the State Legislature, Also, elected Sen. Capehart by a tremendous margin. ’ TWO-—-In 19351, won seven of the top 10 Indiana cities, including Indianapolis and seven of the second 10 Hoosier cities; Should Mr. Craig, who comes from Brazil, Ind., be nominated, it probably would divide the

. Republican Party as much as 1048 when a

similar opposition group was able to nominate i elect Hobart Creighton, Warsaw poultry f Tr. 4 :

Republicans

er le. sampaign and the Craig campaign Mr, Creige. GOP leaders to swallow. He was a nice enough

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: “It ts within the Republican eau Paty tae la win in Indiana,” he “If we ‘nominate the right candidates, and if we don’t go out

candidate and a fine individual, but couldn't -

draw flies to a political rally. Came election ‘day and the GOP organiza tion stayed home, As a result, Gov. Schricker swept the state by more than 100,000 votes, carried ‘the whole Democratic state ticket into office on his coat tail. That's why the Republicans are really worried. For not only has Gov. Schricker been always in their minds as a candidate for Senator, but there is ample evidence the GOP organization will catch that old political sickness,

* “stay-home-itis,” on election day if Mr. Craig is

nominated for Governor. The mere thought of another 1948 Creighton ‘campaign is enough to send shudders up and down the spine of any Republican in Indiana. In Rockville Thursday, State Chairman

_ Holder warned against another 1948.

All This and Heaven, Too

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By Dan Kidney

Capehart Has New Amendment

WASHINGTON, May 31—A new Capehart amendment is ready for presentation to the Senate. It would wipe out price and wage. controls, but keep the OPS bureaucracy intact to restore them if the consumers index rises 3 points over the present 188 or if Congress declares war. :

Having been one of the 18 Senators who voted to remove all price and wage controls on June 30, which was rejected by 52 votes, Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.) explained his latest amendment to the Senate. As ranking minority member of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, the senior Senator from Indiana got his name affixed to an amendment in the current law which the administration blames for inflation. Sen. Capehart terms this, “ridiculous,” as many items are selling below OPS ceiling prices. And he is ready to abolish controls, except on a standby basis, with his new proposal. - x

Explains Amendment 88 ;

HE WILL have it ready for action when the Senate continues its Defense Production Act debate, which was recessed over Memorial Day. It should satisfy those who want to drop controls and those who are afraid to do so, the Senator told his colleagueg. He expldined it as hows: j The amendment proposes to keep the price and wage-controls law on the statute books, to keep the organization for the purpose of imposing price and wage controls .unless the Consumers’ Index should rise three points. “The Consumers’ Index at the moment stands at 188. That, by the way, is the index now used in the escalator clauses of our, labor contracts.

Jt 1s the index which was prepared by the Labor

Department, and it is the index which has been used in the writing of other legislation. Under my amendment all price and wage controls would be suspended forever unless the Con-

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sumers’ Index should rise to 191, or 3 points above what it is now, or unless there was a declaration of war by the Congress.” BAprocing interest in the latest Capehart amendment, Sen, H. Alexander Smith (R. N.J.)

. asked its author how “he visualizes the keeping

together of an organization, so that when the moment of danger comes, the organization will step in to keep things moving.”

Pertinent Question

. ; “DOES the senator propose to keep the entire price control organization all the time?” Sen. Smith inquired. Pointing out that the bill under discussion extends only from June 30, 1952 to Jeb. 28, 1953, Sen. Capehart replied: “I would recommend keeping Ne staff and appropriating money to keep it intact until that time. I certainly would. make that recommendation. After Feb. 28, next year, if there have been no further wars, 1 would favor a continuation permanently of such a law as I propose.” Sen. Capehart said he would introduce a bill at that time to carry-on standby controls under a congressional ceiling, and providing a price and wage freeze automatically “if the nation goes to war.” “Would it not be far to assume,” Sen. Smith inquired, “that after the nidex had risen 3

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and Sgiit for victory, we're going to get kicked worse than we did in 1948."

To make matters worse, ‘there are indica-

tions that Mr, Craig has some Democratic working for him as well as for Gen. Eisenhower. Frank McHale, recently kicked out of Democratic Party leadership, is believed giving the Craig campaign undercover support, Mr. McHale still boasts he helped pick Mr, Creighton for the Republicans in 1948. "One of Mr. McHale's aids, gave a Craig worker an introduction to prominent .Lake County Republicans, according to Mrs. Ruth Skews, leader there. Another McHale afi, Roger Branigin, attended an Eisenhower-for-President luncheon at the Columbia Club recently at the invitation of Publisher Pulliam. * Leadership of the Republican Party would be happy with most any candidate for Governor, except Mr. Craig. For example, they like SamNoblesville businessman; State Sen. John VanNess, Valparaiso merchant and W. O. Hughes, F't. Wayne attorney. In an emergency, the GOP top cémmand could even get along with Leland Smith, Logansport attorney, who has his own personal political machine. But a Craig victory would cut deep scars, And Republicans who put the party first, don't want a repetition of 1948 when the only big Republican to win in Indiana ‘was Thomas

Pv Dewey.

" > - Hoosier Forum “| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your : right to.say it."

Use for Rotten Eggs MR. EDITOR: There will be no decency .in this land if some women can prevent it. When the 50 or so women of the Rising Sun paraded as nearnudists in brazen defiance against the Mayor's plea for decency probably many proponents of decency wished they could have been there— with a basketful of rotten eggs. There is a proper use for everything, even for.rotten eggs. Consistency is a jewel and no doubt some of these Rising Sun hussies would have considered themselves to be mistreated if they had

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been atacked that night by some male intruder

in thelr home, —H. Seaford, City.

uns Paid Killers?

ko whom are we fighting? Korea is not an enemy. We are friendly with China, and we are trading with Russia. Yet, there are Koreans and Chinese strewn

‘ on the battlegrounds. These must be minions

who have been hired exactly as "Murder, Ine” did. War usually creates prosperity, ‘but T, who have to HUNT for potatoes at 15 cents, will never be a millionaire.

. —F. Adelman, 2951 N. New Jérsey St., City.

You're Very Welcome MR. EDITOR: This note shall be short and very poorly worded, but let me say a very large THANKS for your paper on “Dixie Day.” =Opl. Reldoy Ie Cully, Camp Atterbury.

What Others Say—

WE'RE NOT kidding ourselves about the personality factor. A lot of our PAC (CIO Political Action Committee) women are pretty much taken with Ike (Gen. Dwight Eisenhower).—Jack Kroll, head of PAC. * & & IT'S gotten beyond the point . . .. as to whether it is desirable to have universal military training. The issue is now whether we can exist and stay out of national bankruptcy with out such a system.—Sen. Richard B. Russell (D.

' Ga.).

points, there would be a substantial lag before

new controls began to operate?”

No Lag at All

“THERE would not be a lag at all,” Sen. Capehart replied, “because the President could issue one executive order freezing all prices and wages at rates existing on the day the executive order was issued.” Sen. William Benton (D. Conn?) challenged the Capehart contention that prices will fall when the controls are removed. He cited the 1946. experience and charged that the present anticontrol' drive is spearheade. by the steel companies, who are sore at President Truman.

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THE free nations have never said, “We cannot live with communism in the world.” It has been communism that has said, “We cannot cgexist with free government.” — Gen. Dwig Eisenhower. : eH IN. the discussion of the prisoner of war question, the Communists seem unable to sep arate the word voluntary from the word bayonet.—Navy Lt. Walter Ellis, at truce talks, RE SE

THE sentiment of nationalism is usually good, but this same sentiment can also find expression in an unbridled frenzy, which is none the less formidable to deal with because it is so often a cloak for domestic failure. . This Is conspicuously true of the Middle East.— Anthony Eden, Brith Joreitn secretary.

THERE IS a widespread spirit of neutralism (in Germany) which is another word for defeat ism ... (It) is picturesquely termed “ohne mich”

3 —without me.—Rep. Jacob K. Javits (R.N.Y.).

The agreement provided that any time the regular market 3 price of wheat went above a

France) had to sell a specified quantity of. wheat-—at ceiling price—to the 42 importing nations

IN RETURN they ~~. promised that if the. price of wheat feil below a ‘ —which

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wr A great battle is lost Parliament and the people can turn out the government. If a great battle is won crowds cheer the King.—Winston Churchill. e 9 THERE Eisenhower majority whereas there does not exist a Republican majority.—Rep. Hugh Scott (R. Pa.).

$600 MILLION SUBSIDY . .. By James Daniel

‘Seek New Wheat Pact

WASHINGTON, The Agriculture Department is ‘pushing for an extension of the 3-year-old international wheat agreement, which will expire next year unless renewed. ! By mid-1953, the agreement will have cost American taxpayers $600 million in subsidies to United States farmers. The international wheat agreement is a cartel—a dividing up of the world wheat. mar- on ket in the name .of “stabiliza-

May 31-— tions would have to buy ‘a specified quantity of wheat, and pay subsidies on their end. Each year since the agreement was signed, wheat has

sold above the pact’'s ceiling price.

Now, every bushel of wheat sold by the U. 8. to a foreign nation under the agreement is

costing the American taxpayer 66 cents.

aT WORKS this way: Exporters at the going market price, ship it to a foregn country at the Price rice set in the agreement, and n bill the Agriculture Department for the difference. ‘There's evidence the wheat

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