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“Tuesday, June 10, 1952

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[NPIANA'S REPUBLICAN convention last Saturday, by vote of its more than 2000 members, instructed its Na-

tional convention delegation on a course of action in Chi-

cago.

Against that convention action one minor delegate

defiantly sets his own wishes, says he'll do

the representative of the convention and will try to get everybody else on the delegation to go his way, regardless

of the vate.

Indiand's 22 Republican district chairmen and vice chairmen legally elected to those offices last Saturday met

as he pleases as

in a regular and orderly manner to elect a member of the

party’s national committee. There were 14 vates for former Gov. Ralph Gates and eight votes for other candidates, so

Mr Gates was declared elected, “Boss rule,” charges this individual, t sent the party.

hey don’t Tepre-

Same delegates, in the same convention, nominated a candidate for Governor of Indiana by a majority of their

ballots. But this was a clear triumph of democratic proce-

dure, it appears, Seems this was the candidate Lhe rebel

wanted nominated. oe

Paradox of the Stretch-Out

lious Republican

HE HEADS of the armed services—civilian and military’

~are alarmed by the $46 billion limitation on defense

spending imposed by the House of Representatives. : Appearing almost daily before Senate ‘committees; they

ments. would be more convincing if we could forget that these are the men who supinely agreed to the President's

earlier stretch-out of’ defense goals. The House action merely goes further dent intended. But that is a matter of de idea is the same thing—

-Juxuries over necessity.

than the Presi-

gree. The basic In their

angry denunciations of the House limitation, our defense chiefs have succeeded in condemning themselves,

# nk ¥ CONSIDER: Defense Secretary Robert Lovett: program) is the minimum fire insurance t

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“The (President's

his country can

safely carry at this time. In fact, I think it may be below

the safe level.” Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg: Only two years remain before what may critical date in our history, What is call

“Time ‘is running against us.

prove the most ed for is not a

stretching out or a whittling down, but a gathering and

building up of strength.” Air Secretary Thomas K. Finletter: ing point in the decision as to whether we w

' of Air Force that can determine whether

hot have war.” Navy Secretary Dan Kimball: would not only delay established readiness critical time in the nation's history, but productive capacity of the country . , . ” » LJ . ~ GEN, J. LAWTON COLLINS forces would be in an extremely dangerous

“This is the turn-

ill have the kind we have war or

“The (House'limitation)

dates at a most also upset the

“In the Far East, our

position. As for

our forces in Europe, it could mean disaster.” We agree. But we say this applies with equal force .to the action of the very men who now announce their apprehensions. For they have already agreed—presumably to protect their jobs—to the President's stretch-out, a defense program Mr. Lovett blandly says “may be below the safe

level.”

Time, as Gen. Vandenberg so aptly says, is running against us. Why aren't we running to catch up?

We're Weak, We're Strong

(?)

F THE public has been trying-to keep up with the assorted estimates, predictions; ‘boasts and analyses on the state

of United Nations readiness in Korea, it must be mighty

confused.

Here comes Maj. Gen. Daniel H. Hude

Ison home from

long combat infantry experience in Korea to say that if the Communists launch a major offensive, the United Nations

forces couldn't hold them.

“We simply don't have the manpower,” On the same day, the top commander in Korea, Gen. James A. Van Fleet, practically dares the Reds to start a fight and announces that if they do they will be “soundly

defeated.”

Yet all teil tigntia of Communist strength indicate the United Nations forces are outnumbered in mén-

power, guns and jets, » ® .»

he said.

PRESIDENT TRU MAN, in a speech last week end, ‘claimed the United Nations still has air superidrity over “most” of North Korea and can bomb the enemy at will, “almost” anywhere in his territory. Mr. Truman also claimed that oyr planes have knocked out eight times as many enemy aircraft as we have lost— “in air combat.” Which would seem to take no account of planes lost to enemy anti-aircraft fire, Only ‘a few days earlier, official Air: Force and Navy reports placed our plane losses at 1400 since the Korean War began, compared with an estimated loss of only 400

planes for the enemy.

That hardly jells with the impression the President

was trying to create.

If the public can’t seem to understand on in Korea, these are some of the reasons. :

i IF ONE of those POW tunnels on Koje Inland led to Ui asses SHOU, i way Save Sess. Su. + solege

what is going

PARIS REDS . . . By Ludwell Denny

U. S. Welcomes French Policy

WASHINGTON, June 10—The Paris government’'s move against French Communists is welcomed here as one of the most hopeful

developments in the whole range of Allied defense. | : Especially in Congress, there has been

growinz opposition to giving American aid to strategic French industries where Red labor is strong. Also, there has been much fear of espionage in French government departments and military services, In the crisis of five years ago, Jules Moch, Socialist Minister of the Interior, met violence with violence in breaking revolutionary strikes. Many Reds were kicked out of the regular police and security forces, There was some tightening of the defense services, including aviation and atomic research. But the job was not complete, and since then security control has been too loose.

Now It's Tougher

ONCE again the government is crushing violent street demonstrations and breaking political strikes. This time it is going further. It arrested, and is holding without bail, the secretary general of the Communist Party, Jacques Duclos—which no earlier Paris regime had the courage to do. Then it continued with week-end raids on Red centers in half a dozen ports and cities in France and Algeria. Those resulted in a goodly haul of subversive literature and some top-se-cret defense documents, including alleged plans of the Toulon naval arsenal. Though all of this is an excellent start in a long-delayed cleanup, and makes big headlines, fts actual value will depend on the followthrough. The Communist conspiracy in France will not be eliminated by a few raids or the arrest of some big name Reds,

Much Work Needed

MANY MONTHS of careful search, continunus combing of .suspects, rigorous pursuit and punishment of spies and traitors are required. No better proof of this is needed than the admission by officials after the . latest raids that the Reds, in several places at least, had advance warning, Doubtless the government used every precaution of which it is capable, and that was not enough. Nor does the arrest of Duclos, however encouraging, leave the Reds leaderless. Presumably an unknown Russian is Stalin’s top agent. And, it has long been rumored that even in the French Communist command Duclos was only a parliamentary and union front man for Andre Marty, who has now replaced him as party head. If that is so,-it. is all. the more urgent that

> Marty, - as- leader of the: i a0-called. Com- °

mandos, join Duclos, in jail,

Public Faverable 5

MEANWHILE public response to the gov-'

ernment’s firm policy has been even mare favor‘able than expected. This is particularly true of labor. - vm The General Confederation of Labor, which had six million members before the Reds captured it, still has half that many. But, only a ‘few thousand have joined in these political strikes and street violence, The Reds have to use North Africans to get enough street fighters. The government can lose its advantage, however, if it fails in its two-fold promise to punish Jaw-breakers and to raise living standards for underpaid labor.

What Others Say—

NO country can dream of progress if it neg-"

lects the cause of its womenfolk.—Jawaharal

Nehru, Prime Minister of India. BD

WE should not stop until we have every one

“of the 50,000 disciplined Communists (in Amer-

fca) under lock and key or deported into the ‘custody of the masters of the Kremlin.—Sen. James Eastland (D. Miss.), 3 oo» oo I DO not believe that security in the sense that we may live in slothful indolence and ease can ever he achieved. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, > ©

I WISH all women would begin to think of

a beauty shop more like a man thinks of a .

barber shop—a place to go for good grooming, but not a place to go to be decorated.—* Maurice the Great,” New York hair stylist. “2

I DON'T know how to describe the amazing period which we are in now. It's not my idea of peace in the old-fashioned sense of the word.— Robert Lovett, Secretary of Defense. ded IF THE government does not pursue prompt and vigorous action to dismiss and punish those who have betrayed their trust, the Democratic Party will not hold or deserve the confidence of the people.—Sen. Herbert Lehman (D. N. Y.). o Sb

THERE are those who say the campaign will not begin until July, that nothing important will happen until Chicago . . . when the khaki curtain will roll back and the next President will take his bow.—~Harold Stassen.

COTILLIONS, TEAS... By Andrew Tully

Mamie Eisenhower's Denver Background

Replacements for the AWOL

A BIT WORMY .

By Frederick C. Othman

Veterans Charge Dream Homes Turned Into Nightmare Manors

WASHINGTON, June 10 — A house with a .. built-in swimming péol for $10,000 sounds like an. extraordinary bargain, but the builders of

Templeton Knolls tn nearhy: Maryland weren't ‘ advertising pools; they were talkeng #nout guar-

anteed dry cellars.

First came cracks in the guaranteed cellar :

floors. Then the water bubbled up and GIs who bought some of the 300 houses discovered that their basements were guyitable more for perch than people. , As for the wildlife in the woodwork, ‘that’s something else worrying the householders and one Marcel Weiss of New York, vice president of the firm that built the houses under the banner of the Veterans Administration. The story is a sad one; sad for Marcel, sadder still for the young householders, who claimed their dream homes turned intognightmare manors, well landscaped in red mud. So there was Marcel, a voluble building cons tractor, trying to explain to the satisfaction of the House select committee investigating veterans’ housing across the nation. Let us hope that this particular case isn't typical, because every time Marcel made what he thought was a point, he got a loud horselaugh from the veterans and their pretty wives crowding the chamber.

Prices Shoot Up

BACK IN 1950 Marcel's outfit started Templeton Knolls on 40 rolling acres, Immediately came trouble, said he, in the form of dillydallying on the part of the Suburban Sanitary Com« mission, which was supposed to put in the sewers, but didn't get around to the job for more than a year. This threw out his building schedule, Then came Korea and prices of everything that went into a house shot up, while a number of items Marcel couldn't get at all. So he made substitutions, The government went along with him, but the young veterans who thought they were getting oak floors, for instance, got beechwood. One of them, Ferdinand C, Méyer, testified that big

cracks. grew between his floorboards. Then the.

boards split. He got down on his knees for a closer examination and discovered worms boring holes. He kind of blew up. So did Mrs, Meyer, in a ladylike way, of course. They invited in Rep. Olin E. Teague (D. Tex.), who got a good look ‘at the worms, too. Struck him as odd in a house so new it still smelled of varnish. Marcel said the floor was OK when it was in-

SIDE GLANCES

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stalled; maybe the Meyers turned up the heat too high and caused it to shrink. “Did the heat also cause the worms to Le in Were inquired Rep. Teague. : .

“I DON'T KNOW anything about worms,” replied Marcel. “You should see 'em,” said Rep. Teague. Haws haw-haw, came from the audience, As for the cellars, Marcel said he was doing the best he could. This isn’t much to date, but this is because his waterproofing contractor let him down. That's the big trouble building here, he said: The second-rate mechanics. In New York the ~workmen really work, he added, while here they make a mess of the job. “I have seen the carpenters just butcher doors at Templeton Knolls,” he said. “Good doors, but when they get through sawing, they're scalloped, in waves.” Then there was the little matter of grass. The contracts called for Marcel to put 20 feet of sod behind each house. The Veterans Administration let him install 10 feet. This left an

area between houses of red mud, said Rep. Teague, and badly eroded at that. Marcel said he knew there were defects and he was fixing them as rapidly as he could. He had hundreds .of complaints from buyers, he continued, waving a sheaf of them, but he in-

" sisted most of them were tricky-track.

He said in general his customers got sosd value (the customers did some more horsey laughing) and he'd be pleased if they quit pestering him and Congress about trivia, such as no screens on the cellar windows,

DO YOUR DUTY

Republican or Democrat , , . whatever you may be . .. you have a duty to perform . .. and I'm sure you'll agree . . . yoi must be loyal to our flag . . . and all for which it stands . . . and you must place the U.S.A. ... above all other lands . , . you must be one hundred per cent . . . a real American . . . in everything you say or do . .. in every way yo ean , . . because it's really up to you . . . to make our colors fly . , . and rid the world of isms that . . . would make our freedoms die + + » 80 do your duty , , . boost our land . .. wherever you may be . . . and in that way you'll do your part . | . to keep democracy. ... ... —By Ben Burroughs,

By Galbraith

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UP TO REDS . . . By Jim G. Lucas

Biggest Transport

Hoosier Forum “1 do net agree with 8 word that you

: say, but | wil Sefnd fo the death your § right bo say i."

No Chonge Planned?

MR. EDITOR: ; Ike is just what the “doctor ordered” «fop those who want to change the label but not the regime. The Fair New Dealers realize the coun. try is ripe for a change but they have no Intention of losing control—hence the big boom for Ike. : ; , The world of Roosevelt's Four Freedoms is a world riddled with fear, hate, treachery and bloodshed. Eisenhower was and is a part of that leadership, handpicked, groomed and given a Hollywood build-up. He has risen to political heights on A grin, a uniform and the‘greatest publie relations enterprise ever put to such a service—the plush-lined publicity staff of SHAPE. His first crusade in Kurope was a dismal failure or he would net have been back preparing another. Under the Roosevelt-Tru-man-Marshall-Eisenhower team this nation has wandered further afield than any nation, with the flower of American youth the cruel and inhuman price. Lives and dollars scattered carelessly. This same team now has plans for a binge that will cost a hundred billion dollars a year and countless lives that are not ours to take. To claim the right to send others to their deaths denies any realistic pretense to Christianity or morality. * & 9

THE CHOICE is between Taft and Yemran policies. Sen. Taft's candor is matched unrealistieally. He is bucking the cleverly planned strategy of the Fair Deal Democrats and the Me-Too Republicans. "There is frankly something ominous about a bandwagon hurtling driverless along, with only the vaguest suggestions of what will happen to its occupants, and something disturbing, if sane and thoughtful men will leap aboard. The basic conflict is not between the United States and the USSR. It is a conflict within each one of us. The businessman at war with himself wants overseas and military spending, insuring a bull market, but objects to the cost in high taxes. The farmer objects to govern. ment handouts, but not to accepting some of them. The worker making a tank for Korea says a prayer for the boy who may die using it, but a fat pay check calves his conscfénce and he soon strikes for higher pay. All nurture a candy-coated dream of being able to buy wholesale and sell retail. Each man makes his own Heaven or Hell by what he does with this conflict. Sen. Taft has the moral stamina and the desire to attempt to stay the trend of government

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_ to tax, destroy and confiscate future capital, a

system that is stealing from the babies of the

nation. They will be the underprivileged andunderdeveloped people of the world when the os

end of the road to ruin has been reached, Those who say they are afraid Taft could not win have an excuse for their timidity, not 3 reason. A win with Ike is a loss. »

F. G., Danville,

‘Fast Operators’

- MR. EDITOR:

I don’t know who the operators of your Speedway are, but as the Speedway is connected with your city, I am sending a copy of this to the representatives of your city from the Mayor on down. i They say the “500” this year was the fastest in history. Well, it's no wonder. The race was directed by fast operators.

In New York I once ran up a tab at a bar

and because they thought I had imbibed a little .

too freely, I believe they padded the bill about a dollar or so. Once, while in the Navy, I went into a barber shop in Los Angeles and asked for a haircut. While I was reading a magazine the barber also shaved, shampooed, massaged, scented, and billed ‘me $5. After a long argument we settled for half. In Paris recently, I was a canstant vietim: of waiters who had French prices and American prices, and every time I was spotted my bill was always about 200 francs higher than it should be. * » 2

AND in Spain, they have the most annoying method of milching money from the unwary. The Madrid government decrees that foreigners must buy pesatas at a high rate when entering the country and sell them at a low rate when

leaving. But they only stuck me for a couple of

bucks there. But the most obnoxious money grabbing method I've seen is the swindle you people work in this fair city. : Charging $3 at the Speedway for permission to see where the cars are parked and the hot dog stands are located is worse than selling the Brooklyn Bridge to an immigrant. You Indians are giving us furriners a far worse scalping than your namesakes did. Well, I sure didn’t get the benefit of the doubt at the Speedway gates. And if I ever see you Indianapolis Speed~ way people again it will only be because I will not be given the benefit of the doubt at those pearly gates.

~By Martin Gershen, Bronx, N. Y,

DENVER, June 10 -— Log cabins are fine in a presidential candidate's own background but campaign managers generally prefer his lady to come from more elegant surroundings. It is nice to be able to suggest to the voters that a candidate's wife, as a girl, charmed her way through a succession of cotillions and tea parties. Mamie Eisenhower fills that hill delightfully.

tious without being plush, - The distaff shrine of “the Eisenhowers here is a squarish, two and a half-story gray brick house at 750 Lafayette 8t, in in East Denver. It is one of those big wide-windowed houses, of around 1915 that, despite their size, suggest a bungalow, . ~ - . IT IS a neat, well-polished and well-groomed house, as are the houses around it. When it was built, Lafayette Bt. was one of the town's more fashionable districts, Today it is solid and respectably middle-class. Inside, its furnishings and decor seemed unchanged from the original. The woodwork is A dark and highly polished walnut, with high wainscoting. The big. square entrance hail

. ey with a ‘red orien.

A sofa and several

Her back_Rround here in Denver is gra-

fs a tan brick fireplace. On the landing, halfway up the stairs, is the inevitable stained glass window, » » » o " OFF THE entrance hall, to the right, is the sitting room with its scrubbed-looking rug and fits victorian pieces that obviously were bought long ago and not installed as a recent decorator’s whimsy. An upright piano is crowded into one corner, and over the tile

fireplace is a painting of Ma- -

mie in a light blue, sleeveless frock of tha Twenties. The house hag eight rooms, plus three on the third floor, and two baths. It is a grander house than the Eisenhower home in Abilene, but not so comfortable-looking. It would be safe to say no one ever has napped on that sofa as Pop Eisenhower, did an ‘the oldfashioned couch in the Abilene sitting room. ~ » » HERE, in 1916, Mamie Doud, a spirited, pretty girl, was married to serious-looking 2d Lt, Dwight D. Eisénhower, amie's father, John 8. Doud, made a comfortable fortune in the meat packing busie ness in Iowa and so the wed. ding was adequately elaborate by East Denver standards. The guests, for instance, drank champagne as the newlyweds stood in front of that tile man te which Mamie's portrait now dominates. Neighborhood kids kept run-

Bing up out tie Nigh concrete i

ference, either, In the past, Denver could boast that it let Ike alone. He walked the streets at will, with the eiti30ary paying him oniy amiably casual attention. This time he'il have virtually no privacy. He'll be surroinded Sie atvind fs Sok ad-

DAYTON, June 10—The Air Force will be ready with the world’s biggest transport planes — four-motored C-124’s — if a second Berlin airlift is necessary. Where once we averaged seven tons a load, this time we would be able to haul 25 tons a trip, It took approximately 8000 tons of food and fuel a day to keep Berlin operating the last time. It would take about that now. Then, C-54’s, C-82's and lighter British trans< port planes made 900 round trips a day. Now, C-124's could do it with 300 daily flights. ” » » THIS MEANS we would run less risk of a clash with the Red air force. When we had to make 200 daily flights our planes landed at Berlin's Templehof Airdrome about a minute and a half apart. That required. meticulows timing. If the Reds had decided to jam our beacons, it could have meant crackups. The Reds didn’t try, maybe because they didn't want te risk a showdown then. But

Planes Now Ready

American and French zones, as formerly. ” ” » GEN, NER, who ran the Berlin aire lift and inaugurated the Koe rean airlift, says we could run both simultaneously, if that's the decision in Washington. As deputy commander of the Air Materiel Command, which is responsible for supply and sup~ port, and as the top Air Force expert on mass transport, he knows what can be done. Smaller four-engined C-54's have been adequate for Korea. Consequently, all our C-124's would be available for Berlin, if needed. We're much surer of ours selves in the German air than

onthe ground there. The Reds -

have closed highways to our military patrols and made it stick. © At Potsdam, unfortue nately} we took Russia's assure ances on faith as far as highe way traffic "was concerned, However, more skeptical air. men insisted on a Written agreement. The dimensions of

they are much mere ‘surly now. . our air corridors are a matter

» IN A NEW Berlin airlift, we wouldn't be so pressed for time. There would be more flexible

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