Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1952 — Page 12

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2 a SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER. - For Ww. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W, MANZ

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THE PEOPLE BACK HOME . .. By Charles Egger

GOP Dologatos Are F looded With Telegrams

TUESD | Me

Editor . Business Manager © CHICAGO, July 8—The people back home Gov. Theodore McKeldin of Maryland aud to But Lt. Gov. Floyd Wood, hea for Ike, said Arthur Smith of Detraii, heard by wir | Hom 5 . are being heard from plenty in this rowdy-dowdy that big bloc of “we ain't saying nuthin’ ” dele- he had received a lot for both; with the Eisen- 45 persons yesterday. 1s. generally. the. ease bb : : PAGE 12 Tuesday, July 8 195 Republican national convention. gates from Michigan. hower fans having the edge. formity in wording, as ge 1 ¥: Nearly Delegates—particularly those who haven't A desk in Gov. Fine's room in the Congress . Gov. McKeldin, a favorite son who wilt swing when an all-out organized drive is on. fg — «a ana published BY IndiaRapols. Times Publish. come out for either Sen. Taft or Gen. Eisen- Hotel 1s piled high with bundles of telegrams. to Gen. Eisenhower, said a stack of more than ail were for Tke and his mail is running sevenNn au Postal Zone § ber of hower are being flooded with telegrams. They came from all parts of the country and 150 telegrams was waiting for him when he {o-.one for the General. : ice ‘35a. Audit jiops. Td Siwsbaner ‘Aliager. A Western Union spokesman, who has sur- total more than’ 1500. They plug for both arrived. Mr. Smith wouwld't say how he will vols but Price in Marion County » cents & capy for dally and 10e vived several of these poltical ruckuses, says ‘candidates, but more for Ike than Taft. “They're still coming in,” he sald “T haven't volunteered that it would be “difficult to for Bundey: delivered. by carrier Gaily. and Sunda ay 35¢ delegates ordinarily average 1500 telegrams Gov. Fine officially is still neutral, although had time to open them all but most of those I've ignore the wires I'm getting and the polls that week. 324 Sunday $10 oes oF day $50 2's Sunday daily. he’s heading many of his state’s votes to Gen. read are for Gen, Eisenhower, have been taken in my district.” 35.00: all other possess and Yesterday, he said, an avalanche of more. Eisenhower. “It's difficul believe that this could be f New Hampshire Mexico daily $1 70 5° month. Sunday 100 8 COPY. « : cult to Gov. Sherman Adams o ps : than 7000 hit the 2400 delegates and alternates. Some of the Pennsylvania delegation said anything but an organized drive.” said his delegates, all pledged to Eisenhower, _ Telephone PL aza 5551 Ed = Joeredible, the Western Union they had not received many of the wires. ; One of Michigan's uncommitted delegates, , . |. .ived many telegrams demanding a clo C Give Light and the People Will Fina Their Own Way Strategists in the rival camps, of course, have : : switch to Sen. Taft. Sle said Jome ot them R noticed the telegraphic outburst, and are trying MH an Onto Y our I: ok Welw Sarelions- the kind of stulf y aps . to figure out what it means, 4 about.” : ; } Does it show that the people are so interested : North Carolina delegates also repdrted a PITTSBU A Call to Arms in the Republicans’ presidential choice that they . - : flood of the telegrams. CIO Presi rthur delivered in Chi can’t help but sound off? Ohio Eisenhower fans make no bones about charged the HE keynote speech Gen. MacArthur delive in Chi- Or is it all’an organized drive to set off an- their drive for wires supporting their candidate. day with ve cago last night was so molded to the mood of the con- other blitz like the Willkie one of 1940? Théy've mailed out lists of Sen. Tan ye gentation” ir 1 h h There's evidence to support both viewpoints. home-state delegation, with lette g vention, the delegates were given a nostalgic highlight to It's significant, fof example, that hundreds Ohloans to demand by letter or telegram that striking U: be cherished to the end of their days. of the ielegrams are gong to key men io key the Taft slate switch to Ike. Union’s der Some political license is allowable on such occasions, States—like Gov. John : Be of Pennaylvanm, a shop. so there is little point in suggesting there may have been . " Mr. Murr # tendency to over-simplify some problems, and perhaps to CON GAME . . . By Richard Starnes ° of more. th: under-estimate some others. Over all, however, the speech S k S ill Hoosier orum: Dogo. was a masterly presentation of the nation’s predicament. UC er S ti “I do not agree with a word that you i . union shop And, it pointed the way out of it. as say, but | will defend to the death your : “of it. I'm ) The Truman administration has been “obsessed by the Fed] bor Fa kes right fo say it." § that BEY idea we can spend ourselves into a position of leadership : : i way. - There abroad, just as it believes we can spend ourselves into pros- WASHINGTON, July S—America is still the - Pe Mure rity at home,” h id. And both, are based “1. land of the fleeced and the home of the brazen. : Ie ty = a a all 4 h, ire d pen The suckers continue to arrive one per min- Effrontery? Sotupanies : ry premises an c enge economic and soci Ss. ute with clocklike regularity. And for every MR. EDITOR: oral “OG entering int That's the case against Trumanism in a nutshell, patsy there is a character with a bluff manner, 2 Cangraivations Jn one me Sartor 2nd a jenis The General was on the target, too, in branding Korea 2 heart of pure flint and a monéy-raising dodge knew Urere Is = metropolitan dally in Indians brotherhoods “a failure of the principal of collective security,” and when thats bring ears St envy to the eyes oT A tx that has the effrontery to call Mr. Pulliam’s ug the. pre he said some of our Allies are showing a reluctance to. Remember the great oil lease schnookle? hand on 2 abject, adolesseul, hero-worship union “calli assume a fair and rightful share of the military burden Where enthusiastic operators would sell you an Pps 0 trae as vod mages, that Mr, Pallisin Brandishes + even in the defense of their own soil. When we get a Honeiad Jeate i Juineral rights in govérnment is “an intelligent man,” it would seem he would b As \he 5 overnment which will s : . be willing to grant expression of thought in his randis| a resus, We ich wil EPR Yio thie we way Fan get The catch, of course, was that the 40-acre — 0 columns with which he does not fully agree industry ni

leases cost only $30 when a person bought them

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Mores, wu RS: RS elas SETAE ca Rs iti set in store relative to being an “organization

<a NhRRent, over, government statisticians figured out that

0. because. it has. eRliss tonalite

ths. man. Certainly he cannot claim any considera- bars settlems un hc sac cae the hance (a) of having 4 well drilled on Ofte tion for his ie candidate on that score. I Sign ese acre tracts was abou n an w Mr. Eisenhower authoritativel IT WAS on the subjort of Korea that the ‘old warrior (b) the chance of bringing in a producing well Recently | saw M y of the steel

quoted as having said he had never voted in a national election until 1948 when he voted for Dewey. That certainly does not qualify him as

- was at his best. He was not content merely to indict “the shameful implication that we dare not strike back at those

was about 1 in 50,000.

Wells Cost Money

union shop | new agreen asked the ch

But transcending that victory was the moral triumph for the Republican Party and its presidential candidate, whoever he may be. people, because now they may have faith in the decisions of the GOP convention and its choice of candidates.

It was a victory for the American

acres. That, officials said with finality, once and for all would put a stop to the traffic in the 40acre leases. It did, too. Now the promoters are advertising that they'll get you a 640-acre lease for $500. And they will. They’ll buy it’ from the Department of Interior for $330 and sell it to

hall out by the stockyards was worth every cent and I want ’em to know I appreciate it. As for their celebrated cows, I must presume they followed in the footsteps of my Hilda, who shampoos her calves with castile soap. There is not one whiff of stockyards puffing

the Martians were too doggoned beautiful; those Republicans preferred talking into their machinery any time to staring at the distinguished chairman. About the only expression they got from him was a squint, on account of the “television spotlight focused in his eyes.

Between the Hon. Guy's squabbles with the

break the Republican Party. Sure, I am a Taft man, but I am a Republican first. If Gen. Ike gets the nod over Sen, Taft I will vote for Ike. Will this same Mr, Pulliam vote for Sen. Taft if he gets the nod? I would say he is on the inside with all of these

internationalists, meaning the rich, big business, -

etc., making millions from war equipment and

who strike at us.” He declared “No military problem is an “organization man.” UMW Pres ” THE reason for the long odds is twofold: * % © unsolvable” and demanded this one be solved before Korea pirat, leases to U 8. land with ofl-bearing geo- ON THAT POINT, the Chicagd Tribune com- hag Rot yet becomes a “graveyard for American hope, faith and honor.” logical structure, are sold to the highest cash mented recently: “The fellow who makes his man a That was a challenge which the Republican platform bidders—and not in 40-acre lots. Next, even if way to the mourner's bench should not expect til a 60-dz committee cannot afford to ignore. . You gwned a 40-acre lease in good oil land, it's to be passing the plate 10 minutes later.” But tion is given. Th h thi doubtful anybody would drill a well for you. Mr. Eisenhower is asking the privilege of “filling Mr. Murra: ough this was a Republican keynote by a Republican Wells cost from $50,000 to $500,000 each and the pulpit” Seems slightly presumptious to me. aor: Murs: to Republicans, in a larger sense it was the appeal of a Mobody would drill without having rights to all None the less so, however, than Mr. Pul- company has great American to his fellow Americans and to free men 3 the i Jrospective geological area—again more he he that Jie is- Bok -Subjech- i crf “agreement w eryw | t nt the will of the majority of an organization he can Chain evi here. Government attorneys, who try to guard the has been appointed to represent at the Chicago contract cove American sap from being plucked, searched convention. He was appointed to a specific task, eight plants. A Free Convention & heir law Ubragies to Ling 3 xa to stop the ol and not to express his own personal preference. 40 Fir ease swindle. They foun ere was nothing Cale J. Holder could not have “steamrollered” : RESUBLICAN delegates at their convention in Chicago’ Mega! abow the Scheme. ar od Cale J. Holder could 80 Have SHEEN oer A us : rday v jor Secretary Oscar Chapman issued a State Convention. a Sey a Yo enisclves gros of | Bt, Ftv. of warning that people who spent $100 (in some —H. E. Conn, New Castle bint si of iy margi 3 Vv eir party a cases even $200) for a $30 oil lease very likely enter nto handicap which could have plagued th rthl y In his Dt eir candidates to Worthless were being took. His remarks were i 5 3 defeat in the November electio drowned out by the ringing cash registers in R Mr. Big Wig ; Murray reite: Tey PIR ier otros which will enable the 'M® OTe" of the lease serlers. COOL, COMFORTABLE . . . By Frederick C. Othman MR. EDITOR: | Do tmiwy : : : The Star and the News are controlled by convention to decide on merits, free of suspicion, the Nevada Oil Nil Prett Talki e-Walki Gi | ol that “big wig,” Mr. Pulliam, the man who him- wanted 0 ins eligibility of delegates who have been challenged. They ONE OF the sharpshooters got fat selling oil a Ir S ace sei 3 he fron Suriain ay Beck of Ine ant relations rejected the steamroller and flattened its sims. ti Sra ionl Jntestor Hi C S s Ce indorsed by Mr. Big Wig. AS the old story goes, the WEB th i ; “The pen is mightier than the sword,” so if the ‘nat 5 was a moral issue, and it had to be decided on Sie = onthe A Bl 3 oe I 00-and on. uy ‘o n pot at onve ntion : arta does not bow to Mr. Big Wig Pulliam, have the ri " A couple of weeks ago Interior's Bureau of then the headlines of his papers go to work on ATTanke ang It was made a moral issue by Dwight D. Eisenhower, Land Management came up with a sure-fire way CONVENTION HALL, Chicago, July 8 — She said, and I quote, that if they confined the sandigute Mr. Big Wig gets whit he Wants “1 they h i] their attention to that, sh 1d t mind. course, r. Big Wig gets wha and it was his backers who forced the showdown. For the to stop that 40-acre oil lease racket—it thought. ~ This, I guess, is the first comfortable political eir attention 5 at, she would not mind then everything is hunky dory. I really believe this, they cai Eisenhower camp. it was trat t he fi Henceforth, Interior ordered, it would grant no .,nvention in American history, the $350,000 So the talkie-walkies created nothing but ; n he. will Help to day and take a by hy 5% Was 1s rategic victory on the first mineral rights leases on tracts smaller than 640 pens Chicagoans spent to air-condition their Confusion for the Hon. Guy. The trouble was that If he doesnt get his way he P Mr. Murra

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you at a $270 profit. from the mighty, iced-air pipes and the only on x J * o =» ss x =» The government lawyers are back pawing aroma is the one generated by politicians. Not tajkies; the Selegates Hale some wondrous using our boys ia this Socaliea Harrys Paes. D | HAVING counted itself on the side of fair play, the their lawbooks and, meanwhile, the merry tinkle at all unpleasant. Spea cipal Wiieh yt Moaivgg wi Action” just to ep - . alse prosperity. e eyu convention now in good conscience may speak its mind, Of cash registers is heard throughout the land. lle Somblied pder.of well-wastied id booers, Republicans.’ THey open up like the fog WAS MR. PULLIAM one of Marion County’s LONDON, as it legitimately should, on the corruption and dishonesty Ple all These Chirafiv hotels have Daths Yuh hom of the SS United States, delegation? I wonder, and I still wonder if he newspapers by every room—orange-flavored soda pop 10 cents told our Sen. Jenner: “This is not your time today Gen. in the present administration in Washington. What Ot ers Say— per glass, good cigars—these are Republicans, Get Awfully Sore fo th oT Ori, of Indiana. Yours is next.” hower’s 110- , isi i i remember—and prime roast beef-served off- = n ak hin or Seve Sevision the Republican SouveNon was ONLY aroused citizens can end those evils 440 at $1 per %. ub with gravy. SO PRETTY soon they came to a vote on es A Mn. 20.5% the power bee Republican : ribute ad € devotion to principle and po tical aptitude that increasingly grow into real threats to our You get the idea. I am amazed. The locals Whether they ought to change the rules in a diana? In other words, we Republicans of Ine The newsp of Gen. Eisenhower and the leaders of his campaign. country—Gen, Eisenhower, are keeping me cool and well fed and they're way that favored Ike a little over Bob. This diana must play ball with Mr. Pulliam or he Eisenhower, It also was a tribute to the courage and fine sense of YOU'D think 1 rd aver dhe. was Sing Rot ying i fies me. Tre entertainment was tense business, I can tell you, and a lot of wont play. um Sanani a major Be} ow . sn’'t bad, either. I particularly like the feu 0, Mr, am, we Republicans can see v eo D service to their party of those Taft sSupporyers whe refused Some Enchantad Evening."—Singer Exile Pimza, . ,o1ween Guy Gabrielson, the grand sachem of - [ols got awfully sore, including the delegation right through you and what power you have is Daily Mai to vote with their leaders on this issue. * iwi the proceedings, and what he calls the talkie- {rom Puerto Rico. beginning to sink to a low level. You had bet- Test Vote.” The convention now has erased the blight of public MORAL and cultural deflation these days walkies. One of the members of this delegation de- ter stick to your newspapers and quit trying to News Chr distrust growing out of the delegat di ute in T cause more foreboding than monetary inflation. Every time the Hon. Guy clears his throat manded in a thick Spanish accent that his be a politician as I don’t believe you know the in Big Row. rust. g B out gale dispute In Iexas, _ po tarian Webb Follin. to say something world-shaking, seems like, gejecation be polled. It consisted of exactly TiBht answer. Daily Gra Louisiana and Georgia. The delegates may now go about eB there's one of these talkie-walkie things in . —George A. Tipps, Plainfield Wins Clash their business with heads up, deserving of public confi- I'M not just a crazy kid. I mean business— competition. lure Yotes and the wrgent plej {nat this wie Daily Hers : Hot ad Johnny Arzoomanian, 13-year-old student, who be recorded by name struck the convention as Win Over 1 dence in their decisions. y \ A New Slate roar.” : Na : twice failed to get the Army to send him to Looks Like Lady From Mars hilarious. The booers now were laughing and a Daily They have shown their convention is not rigged. Korea. MR. EDITOR: ie Lay U the proceedings broke up in a far pleasanter : NN SUCH AN outfit consists of one pretty girl MY REPUBLICAN TICKET FOR '52 hower had s ’ i wrapped in straps, earphones, a small gray box, mood than the Hon. Guy figured. Being a con- ; —and probal ‘ . THE (Supreme) court's opinion (on movie gr World Leadershi censorship by states) marks a great step for- a telephone receiver, and a red-tipped antenna scientious reporter, I hasten to add that Puerto President .......Dwight Eisenhower and added: Pp : 1 favor of Vice President ..Dean Acheson “Ninety of . : . h - in the small of her back, She looks like a lady Rico stands two to one, literally, in ro inety HE FOREIGN 1 lank be sub ward toward removing the shackles of censor Secy. of State Fugene Pulliam policy plank to submitted to the Re- ship from the screen.—Motion Picture Associa- from Mars and her job is to talk by wireless Gen. Eisenhower's stand on seating delegates. y. wees litical exper publican’ National Convention by the subcommittee to tion President Eric Johnston. elephone to the news boys in the back rooms. * It is a complicated Thing, Jue seating of MY PLATFORM FOR '52 assured of te : > & ad a chat ‘with one of these pretty- delegates, and I won't attempt to explain 0 The devil with this country and the future, nomination. draft that part of the platform faces up to the major prob- I HAVE no doubt Germany will be reunited pretties, a Miss Lewis, who was blond, and I you. Hardly seems necessary, anyhow, most [ets follow Churchill, The Trumanites are av may still lems confronting this country in that field. in true freedom. — British Foreign Secretary suggested that when she got out on the floor of the time they're standing up, either booing ing it away too slow. comeback.” It indorses the United Nations and rejects isolationism, Anthony Eden. those Republicans likely would tweak her aerial. or cheering, according as to their mood. ~John J. Dalick, R. 7, Crawfordsville, It supports the principle of collective security, and pledges : ; Drove Mi the party to supply .the foreign aid necessary to carry it SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith POLITICS . . . By Peter Edson Judge Fir out—within the limits of the economy of the United States. NEWARK

Policeman J: was the mo:

Farm Policy Is Thin Ice’ for Both Parties

, The Truman administration is condemned’ for denying full aid to Nationalist China. The Republicans pledge that

: J CHICAGO, July 8 — Farm passed an agricultural appro- election news was a surge of Gen. Eisenhower, however, in Newark tc they would accord Asia equal emphasis with Europe. The policy presents a fine kettle of priation bill increasing the bullishness., A more general has cottoned onto a farm pro- He was fir party affirms its determination to help enslaved peoples. It rhubarb for Republicans and funds for Almost ver A arm afresTment A py al he Mex —— ote A L operators. i ; i ; rogram. Mr, Kline had pro- support program effec- nley, a po wer © would repudiate all parts of secret agreements which have Democrats to stew over this prose. cuts of over $200 i tive.” St. Ansgar, Iowa. Sor two judge he hac furthered Communist conquests. year, exempting from these econo- But if the Democrats have years he has been carrying on it after it “ Both platforms in 1948 fa- mies only the Farm Bureau's their trouble over the Brannan . a feud and l&w suits with the birthday. ‘The Democrats are accused of hes squandered our vored flexible price supports. pet Extension Service, which It administration of farm policies, ~ Department of Agriculture es power and lost our peace.” Today, Alter four years under largely controls. the Republicans also have The cause was a potato mare flexible price-support pro- 2 8°» theirs. EL keting agreement which MeTHIS BROAD statement of the Republican position gram, about the only people THE CHARGE that the « 5» Kinley voted against and then "on should find general acceptance among all shades of politi- in favor of it are those who Democratic administration de- guy poppgy A, TAFT, in violated, after a majority of Mawp.. thought it up. They are pri- liberately drove down farm : - the farmers in his area had cal opinion which are committed to thé American way of marily President Allan Kline prices prior to the 1948 election a printed campaign leaflet, “My approved it. His farm pro- lL - life and recognize America’s responsibilities in the present of the American Farm Bureau will probably be kicked around Farm Stand,” widely distrid- gram ‘on one sheet of paper, is Retin Sa. George as a Republican campaign yteq, declares, “Supports cer- given little standing. During

But a , political platform can achieve nothing of itself. It can only point the way. The Democrats have failed in the present crisis because

Recently, the House of Representatives has taken ‘two hard cracks at Mr. Kline and the 75 to 90 per cent of parity

But in a special press conference; Secretary Brannan brought forth a sheaf of 1948 trade paper reports to refute

tainly should be flexible. . , .” Sen. Taft was one of those won over by Sen. Alken for 1948 passage of the flexible

the war, the government had to take farm machinery away from McKinley because he refused to abide by the war food

formula by the Republican 80th Program. they have lacked leadership of integrity, intelligence and Sorshula for farm price sup- this Agent aud 10 how: ui Cs hie a a. ‘ew. Wn rrawerse 0 A government possessed of real integrity .would - House Agriculture Commit- cratic administration did ev- now repudiated by Congress, in THE BEST line on what the not have been a party to secret deals which sold whole tee voted. wr return to a erything that it could to keep faver of a fixed 90 per cent of Republican farm program will ’ straight 90 per cent of parity prices up. It was on this basis parity price support. . « _ be is found in the statement nations into slavery, ; i support on basic crops—cotton, that Mr, Truman's 1948 win Gen. Eisenhower's profession * oo a committee of farm leadaR» . TRA LITE corn, wheat, peanuts, rice and was claimed, that he knew nothing about the . IN THE light of this record it is not surprising. that tobacco. On top of this, House. _ Among the evidence cited by arm program caused consider- os oo 10 Mifwant eaten the Democrats have been unable to provide the leadership Banking and Currency Com- Mr. Brannan was "one Wall ype suprise in Washington. His Yrorl RU Serer . i i mittee put a provision in the Street Journal dispatch of Sept. y. erer Dr. Milton 8. Eisen mpletely which the whole free world expects of the United States. Defense Production act to 3. 1948; in which ex-Gov. Har- p=", 0 © C0 0 1 the the issue of specifying a farm PARTLY It is because of that failure that we are losing the cold make 90 per cent supports old” Stassen's Buffalo speech was'a Department of “UPPOrt level at 75, 80 or any ton

war to the Reds, despite the billions which are being spent * to contain Communist aggression.

mandatory in 1953. * In the hearings before these two committees, Congressmen

was quoted. It was to the ef-

fect that Secretary Brannan

had made “a deliberate effort

Agriculture official from 1932 to 1940. »

other per cent of parity, Instead, it declared: 4

: Though a consistent _Republiie Reps nt hatape vy ve py SO | ay SE ESR IIR, at Ty te es mt ee folly and failure which will plague any Democrat Who is (Same a t Farm Bureau went out of their large crops. Wallace. After the war he Was . While this was interpreted in nominated as President Truman's successor and who will ~~. od city dudes come p evry r and bro's | NAY.0 criticize, Mr. Kline for jgAnd on the day acter the JIERIdent Sf wo 2 Sultural dome quarters 44 messing the inherit his support. It is much easier for the Republicans _ quides to take ‘em out! If it was me, I'd Be bored Adding insult to this injury, Rice grain letter reported, “Jai- farm policy, he does, and he per cent parity support prices, gs draft an Ssseptatie platiorn on that account. : oti tiff with so much fishing!" ‘both houses of Congress then = tial market response to the could tell it to Ike. it doesn't say so. : = Ro 1952 : * : -®: 3 : rere B i a ¥ # { A ie : > * > 3 % Ya 3 A - : a i his 2 : * 5 * ; ph : oy A ; Hr % 1 % a i 2 £4 yo RY ws : iti sl el I A i i od iy bellied Ll a i Loh i, Bay Roy sol I, . ai Ls JH ig jis & ah