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The New Housing Project he CLARK HAS Lo an excellent committee to carry the city’s part in the housing program that is to replace federal housing for Indianapolis. Builders, realtors, supply dealers, and bankers organizations are choosing delegates who will help to organize it. Plans for creating the corporation which will undertake the job are already well advanced. In short, in a period of a few weeks, this privatelyoperated, privately-financed project has got a good deal of the necessary preliminary work done—in a fraction of the time it took the federal housing agencies to reach the same

stage in its program. LJ » » .

» » THE OBJECT of this program, of course, is the same ' as the object of the now-abandoned public housing program —to provide decent comfortable homes at low cost. The difference is that this project expects to provide them at substantially lower cost than the federal program contemplated, to do it more quickly, — and to do it on a sound, private-profit basis, without federal or any other tax money, and without any element of “charity.” Even at the same prices, there can be no question this would be a better way. Under present plans, though, the new organization hopes to have rental units as low as $40 a month, as compared with the $50 to $55 planned under the federal scheme. a, We hope it is successful. There is no alternative for it. There never was any possibility that federal funds could build enough houses in Indianapolis to meet the minimum needs of the community—or even come close to doing so—at any price. Vast as the expenditures proposed were, they could hardly have made a dent in the need for lowpriced housing. ' 5 _ There is no such limit on this program. It can build as

the other homes in America were built. . . .

WHATEVER HIS APPEAL to the professional politician, Gen. Eisenhower has hit a responsive chord at the grass roots. He has done that very simply—merely by acting natural. He is not a know-it-all. He is not a demagog. He has the courage of his convictions, but he also has the courage not to give stock answers without having all the facts. And to say, frankly, that he is not going to pretend to know something he obviously couldn't know all about. a . He is not making rash promises, or being all things to all people for the sake of a few votes. “I am not a medicine man and 1 have no panaceas for everything,” he said. In his campaign so far, Gen. Eisenhower has been declaring his basic convictions, as he is obligated to do. But he is not making the mistake of indulging in preconceived solutions to rapidly shifting problems before he is face to face with them. “The most that I have,” he said, “is a determination to approach these problems with the help of the finest brains in the country.” Gen. Eisenhower's past record demonstrates his extraordinary capacity for enlisting the aid of top executive talent, inspiring loyalty and promoting teamwork. It is no part of evasion for a man to say he simply doesn’t know, especially when he is dealing with the vast complex of problems, subject to constantly changing conditions, which will confront the next President of the United States. ; The test is how well, how rapidly and how impartially a man can learn, and how honest he is in using the information when he gets it. Gen. Eisenhower has shown himself to be a man who knows how to get facts, and how to act on them. We don't need a medicine man in the White House. We've had one.

Worry for Today

QUR heart bleeds, sort of, for little Winthrop Rockefeller Jr., reported romping right happily on the lawn at his grandfather's home up in Lowell, Ind., blissfully unaware that he's only got $1 million to run him while he grows up. Totally inadequate, says his mother. Just not enough money on which to bring up a Rockefeller. Still, if it's any comfort to her; we seem to recall a Rockefeller who was brought up on less. He went to the public schools in Cleveland, O., until he was 16 years old, and then landed a job as a clerk in a commission house there, at, if memory doesn't fail us, $3 a week. Out of that he managed to start a commission business of his own after about three years and four or five

le real well. ; His name was John D. Rockefeller, and he was little Winthrop's great-grandfather. There may, indeed, be some rugged years ahead on this pittance, but with that example behind him, plus any acquisitive traits he may have inherited from his mother, we oul pretty sure little Winthrop is going to come out all

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Keep the Diggers Digging

BY UNANIMOUS VOTE, the House Ways and Means Commi has recommended that its subcommittee, headed by Rep. Cecil R. King (D. Cal.) be given another $50,000 to continue its imvestigation of the tax scandals. This committee has done one of the most useful jobs

recent Washington history. As

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many homes as the market will absorb—just the way all .

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‘COURTEOUS AND FORCEFUL—YET". . . By Charles Egger

Taft Man Could Put Eiseniiower On The Spot

WASHINGTON, June 17—A presidential nomination could be riding on the gavel that Walter 8. Hallanan swings in the early hours of the Republican National Convention. Mr. Hallanan, the courteous and accommodating, yet forceful and strong-willed GOP national committeeman from West Virginia, will be the convention's temporary chairman, That means the husky six-footer will be running the show from its July 7 opening until House Republican Leader Joseph Martin of

Massachusetts takes over as permanent chair- .

man, It means, too, that Mr. Hallanan will be pre-

siding if d when the fight over contested Southern delegates—each one precious to candidates T and Eisenhower—Iis taken to the

convention floor.’ That's when Mr. Hallasah's big gave) way through a presiden nomination. pound experts think the candidate who gets the disputed delegations may also get the GOP nomination. There's a set of convention rules to guide the chairman, and Mr, Hallanan says he'll be as impartial as a World Series umpire, But each national political convention is a law unto itself and when the politicians are playing for keeps, as they will be in Chicago, the temporary chairman can be a Handy guy to have on your side. Mr. Hallanan makes no bones about his admiration for Robert A. Taft. : So it's no wonder that his appointment by the Taft-controlled convention arrangements

DEFENSE . . . By Ludwell Denny

France Asks More Arms

WASHINGTON, June 17—At the three-day conference here, France is requesting more American armament orders for herself, and faster military and economic aid for her IndoChinese ward. Meanwhile, Adm. Arthur W. Radford, U.S. Commander in the Pacific, has come here demanding higher arms priorities for Chinese Nationalist forces on Formosa. Other allies also are crying for more help. But Congress is in the process of reducing foreign aid authorizations drastically. It is expected to cut still more when it votes on actual appropriations. So the State Department and Pentagon, however sympathetic to French needs, will be unable to satisfy that ally—any more than other Allies, including Chiang Kai-shek.

Will Present Case ; JEAN LETOURNEAU, French Minister for

the Associated States of Indo-China, will pre- _ .

sent the following case for special treatment for that area: > J Defensé of Indo-China against present Red aggression, is an obligation, because the security of all southeast Asia is involved. ; ance cannot continue to put more than a billion dollars a year, and her best officers and troops, into the battle for Indo-China, and have enough left to raise the 15 divisions she pledged for European defense by Jan, 1. She cannot even provide 12 European divisions. Britain is already stretched to the limit by her commitments in Hong Kong and against the Red guerrillas in Malaya.

committee burned up the Eisenhower folks, Sen. Henry Cabot lodge of Massachusetts, Iké&s campaign manager, blazed forth with the charge that Mr. Hallanan was a “rabid partisan” hand-picked to run a kangaroo court for the Taft camp. : Sen. Lodge said Mr, Hallanan should resigh, and hinted that if he doesn’t, the Ike forces may challenge his appointment. Tough talk like that doesn’t upset Mr. Halla-

Battle of the Century

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. Indo-China and to permit France to redirect

more of her preparedness effort to Europe. This is practicable, because American troops are not required. In the past two years, France has trained four divisions of native troops, with half enough native officers. That Viet Nam army can have six divisions by January, and more later. : Provided, that is, they are equipped by the

U. 8. Though recently American shipments have risen, these are still too small and too slow. Natives May Fight

THANKS to recent victories and the approaching rainy season, there is a fair chance of getting enough native divisions into the line in time—if Washington will act fast. Unless Red China sends in a “volunteer army” as she did in Korea—in which case, more than American equipment would be needed— the growing native force should be able, with American arms and fewer French divisions, to - stop the Indo-China Reds. Some American officials are not as confident as M. Letourneau that French colonial policy has produced an autonomous Viet Nam government stable enough and strong enough to rally the young nation against the rebels. Nevertheless, they think progress is being made. They will do what they can to arm the native divisions within the limits of congressional appropriations, the Korean War, world - wide commitments to other Allies, and certain neglected requirements of our own forces. ’

-BE THOUGHTFUL

BE MINDFUL of your fellow man . .. and help him make his way . . . by being kind and cheerful you ... can brighten up each day +++ have keen consideration when . .. you talk about a friend . . . don’t ridicule or step upon . . . his name to gain your end... in short, be thoughtful all through fife . . . think just before you act ... and you will find as I have found . . . your joys will be Intact . . . for other folks will follow suit . .. by being thoughtful too . . . and you will gain in many ways . . . from what they say and do. —-By Ben Burroughs.

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

WASHINGTON, June 17—Congress is about to pass a $750 million Agriculture Department bill; this is a lot of millions and I am pleased to report that not one cegt will be spent in persuading us taxpayers to eat fresh-roasted grasshoppers, ; aig Lt For a while there I was worried about this. So was Sen. Guy Gorden (R. Ore.), who never has developed a taste for fried hoppers and who does not intend at this late date to experiment with them. This interesting subject came up for thorough discussion by the Senate Appropriations Committee when A. 8. Hoyt, chief of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine (who did not realize what he was getting into), fold the gentlemen about his new grasshopper slayer. Stuff called Aldrin.

So, said Mr. Hoyt, you stir two ounces of Aldrin into a quart of oil and spray same from a flying machine. This kills every grasshopper on a whole acre. To date he’s sprayed about 12 million acres in Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas, and he believes that at last he's got the hoppers on the run.

Demonstrates Method

SEN. CARL HAYDEN (D. Ariz.) wondered if we were doing anything to help Asia get rid of her plague of locusts. : “Yes, sir,” replied America’s No." bug killer, “When the Point 4 program was set up we were asked to furnish a man to take charge of fit. He went t6 Iran, Pakiston, and two or three other countries in that area and demonstrated with airplanes this method of locust control. It was very effective. The peasant women would go out as the sprayer would go over and stand there with their aprons extended and get them just covered with grasshoppers and locusts in a very short time.” “Does this (ulp) destroy the edible quality of the locusts?” inquired Sen. Hayden. “I understand they are consumed as food by human beings in that area.” Mr. Hoyt turned to Dr. W. L. Popham, his assistant chief, for the answer. “I doubt if they would eat those that had been so poisoned,” said Dr. P.

DENVER, June 17—From the high ground of the Rockfes, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower today could ¢heck the log of his past two weeks and find something about like this— On public appeal: The General neither has alienated all but his blood relatives, as his opponents hoped, nor sparked the prairie fire his leaders forecast. On balance, a pretty fair showing. Crowds were unimpressive until the Detroit week end just past. That showed people, including workingmen in goodly number, have enough interest to turn out and see him. It gave a hitch to a drooping campaign. ” " . WITHIN the General's camp, some advisers are ready to urge him to hit the road, not sit tight in Denver as in New York, meeting delegates, but. seeing few people. Build Chi-

WOOING VOTES . . . By Charles Lucey lke’s Campaign Makes Fair Showing

SEN. CORDEN, the steak-and-potatoes man, asked, aghast: “Do they still eat them?” “I believe they have done it in some countries replied Mr. Hoyt. e “What countries?” demanded the incredulous gentleman from Oregon. That stumped Mr. Hoyt, but he rushed couriers to the mighty pile housing his department and there the food and/or grasshopper experts took over. They checked the whole world as to its taste for grasshoppers and they came up shortly with the official word, thus: “It is understood that locusts are used to some extent as human food in Southern Luzon (Philippine Islands), Lower Mexico and Central America. It is doubted that they are used to any appreciable extent in any of these areas.” Sen. Corden still was not satisfied. “Does it (the grasshopper) represent any appreciable part of their diet, or is it some type of delicacy?” he inquired. “I do not think it represents any great part of their diet,” said Mr. Hoyt.

Tries to Change Subject

“WITH OUR meat shortage, Senator, it might be a good idea to look at the grasshopper,” suggested Sen. Allen J. Ellender (D. La.). “That is when I become a vegetarian,” said the shuddering Sen. Cordon. Sen. Hayden tried to change the subject slightly by saying he remembered hearing about great clouds of hoppers appearing so quickly that they darkened the African sun. Very interesting, but not interesting enough for Sen. Corden. “How do the people catch them for meat?” he insisted. : “When they come in such clouds, I do not believe there is any problem in catching them, Senator,” said Mr. Hoyt. That takes care of grasshoppers, except for one item, I know a lady who used to live in the Philippines. She said you eat roasted grasshoppers like you do peanuts. Very good, too, and if the Senators are interested, let them bring the hoppers. She'll do the cooking.

He made his biggest play

Hallanan’s big frame to its toes. He wrote a letter to several U. 8. Senators “because misery loves company and I felt I should let you know the depths of my despair and disappointment. “We lost because our candidate failed to fight,” Mr. Hallanan wrote. * He said Gov, Dewey's speeches were made on a repetitious monotone, that the governor fed out only high-sounding platitudes and that Gov, Dewey let President Truman put the GOP on the defensive—“let us be mispresented and impeached without any effective challenge.” “It is going to be hard for the Republican party to get up any steam after this unnecessary defeat” Mr. Hallanan worried. “Our morale is very low.” It was at this early point, probably, that he began to swing to Sen. Taft. It wasn’t too difficult, either, since Mr. Hallanan’s political philosophy has been described by a friend as “conservative conservatism.” Now 62, Mr. Hallanan has been in and out of political office since 1913 when, after a stint as a newspaperman, he became secretary to Gov. H. D. Hatfield of West Virginia. He also has served as that state’s tax commissioner and in its state senate. He has been West Virginia's GOP national committeeman since 1928, In 1923, Mr. Hallanan assisted M. L. Benedum, the great oil “wildcatter,” in organizing the Plymouth Oil Co. of Pittsburgh and has been president of the company since. TT TTT s1880080 —t

Hoosier Forum

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

SSNS NNER TINERNY

The People’s Choice MR. EDITOR: I've heard people crying out in despair: “We're headed for socialism,” “the Communists have us licked,” “taxes and inflation will ruin us in five years,” and the like. Ask them who is to blame and nine times out of 10 they'll have their answer all ready for you: “The government, of course.” Well, who chose the government? Again

" they'll have the answer ready: “Who? Why,

those convention bosses and lobbyists who have been monkeying around with their special ine terests. Who else?” ya : Is there nothing we can do about it? These convention bosses can make for a pretty bad situation, I'll admit. But it's by no means hopeless. a situation, the more hopeless it seems and, eventually, becomes. The first steps toward solution were ably sized up by Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illinois, in an article in the Atlantic (February, 1952),

who said we should “cultivate more positively

the sense of community responsibility—stop preaching so much about the virtues of local management and begha to Practice them.”

MR. EISENHOWER concurred with these views in his homecoming speech in Abilene: “I am against centralization of government . . .” Then, it seems, one partial solution would be more power to local and state governments and less to the federal government. But how can we get good local, state, and national government? Where does individual responsibility come in? One cardinal rule should be to get out and vote, and use that vote wisely, Don’t vote for a man just because you've shiken hands with him. Don't be influenced by personal interests. These could backfire on you. Watch the conventions, especially the forthe coming GOP convention. If a certain candidate is chosen as a result of a ‘rigged” convention in a certain party, we must show them, at the polls in November that we just won't put up with such practices + 0

HOW ABOUT the candidates? Which of them has the integrity, experience, sound judgment, courage, and selflessness which the Presidency requires? How about our Vice President? He could become President, you.know-—he did in 1945. How about our Congressmen? Our Governor and our state officials? Our local officials? I notice that many people voted for our present mayor as a protest to our national government. Pretty silly. Our Mayor is our city administrator, ‘not our representative to be sent to the national government to protest. If he's a better mayor than his rival, well and good. If not, then I repeat: pretty silly,

These frightened warnings of Communist

world domination, shattered economy, and total

dictatorship in government can come true, if

we let them. But we can prevent such disasters by the simple expedient of using our heads, and using them constantly and intelligently. If we collapse, in the course of years, to communism, socialism, and inflation, we have only ourselves

to blame. ~Bill Ridge, 807 Ohmer Ave., City

What Others Say— -

THE NORMANS hung a last name on the Englishmen to tell them apart so they'd be easier to tax.—TV Cowgirl Theodora. ® & o THESE panty, raids are sensualism and pretty stupid stunts.—Teacher Gordon Southworth, 1939 Shmplon Svlagsh swallower. ®

IF ‘THE world is to be saved, it will be saved primarily through the divine time-honored means of preaching.—Rev. Jitsuo Morikawa.

Indeed, the more helpless we make out .

for Pennsylvania and Michigan delegates. Some smart boys in Pennsylvania say it's now a real question whether Gov. John 8. Fine will go for the General or Sen. Robert A. Taft. Gov. Fine’s basic sympathy is Taftward. But after two meetings with the General, in New York and QGettysburg, he's definitely closer

to Ike than he was two weeks"

ago. He still prefers Mr. Taft, but political circumstances could turn him toward Ike. Michigan looks good for the

his favor, On public issues: »

” » IKE IS FILLING IN the blank spaces in his views on labor, foreign policy, federal spending, racial discrimination, taxes. But observers with him since his first Abilene speech remark on the continuing numbee of his yes-and-no answers.

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inquiring specifically. about Defense Secretary Robert Lovett and German High Commissioner John McCloy. There's considerable critical reaction among Negroes on his stand against a compulsory fair employment practices law. Probably no one traveling with the General doubts the honesty and deep conviction of his frequent comment on sound morality, spirituality and devotien to what are called the simple virtues. He talks of them with a kind of evangelistic fervor that bespeaks the young boy of Abilene, rather than the commander of armies, On campaign tactics:

- s ” THE GENERAL realizes he's in a tougher battle than he foresaw. His aids say he Is ready to let go with shot

and cannister when he goes to

Texas next Saturday. There was a hint of this in ‘his reference to corrntion in his Detroit speech—a sign of getting ready to attack what his managers have branded a Taft

As to organization: Ike's is partly good, partly bad. He has able men about him in Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Herbert Brownell Jr, Arthur Vandenberg Jr. Paul G. Hoffman, Thomas Stephens and others. Mr. Brownell directs the main job of rounding up the votes to get the General nominated, infiltrating enemy lines and making the shrewd dicker with states pledged to someone else on the first ballot, The General's speech prepara~ tion is plainly a baling-wires and scotch-tape operation. His off-the-cuff speech Saturday night had drama and boldness about it, but it was hardly 2 matter of cholce— 4 The situation was the brain trusters fell down. Summary: ~

® =» MR. TAFT HAS 460 or so

delegates, according to various.

“neutral”

nomination—Ike’s men think most of California and Mine nesota will be with them after the early balloting. :

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