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Tes Mae, Sucks, Puvenu af Chrewasion * The public doesn’t need a Gallup poll to inform them both Gen. Eisenhower and Sen. Taft are losing in their battle for public approval, and that Harry Truman is regaining public confidence at an amazing speed. : - Mr. Truman is doing this by sitting on the shelf waiting for a last minute draft to run

again. In the meantime he has sold the Republi-

MacArthur backers are divided in half a dozen groups that don’t speak to each other. And since Gen. MacArthur himself doesn’t speak fo any of them, this is the strangest disorganization of this whole crazy convention. Most substantial of the MacArthur groups

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Telephone PL aza 5351 Give Light and the People Will Ping Thetr Own Way

Hoover's Appeal

1s headed by Haroldson L. Hunt, the picturesque, white-haired Dallas, Tex., oil wildcatter, whose income is sometimes reported as a million dollars a week. Anyway, he’s one of the richest though least

"known men in the U., 8. And his suite at the

cans on making a non-partisan issue of foreign policy and thus has made his weakest issue his strongest issue. The Republican program is helping him immensely. It is vindicating his handling of foreign affairs. It is becoming, with little effort on his part, the major issue on ‘which he

Gen. Ike spok fzation’s memor: Saturday in a ho to the 82d's war

Grand Nigh!

MERICA'’S future freedom depends on its foreign policy.

3 : is regaining publi¢ approval. That is what Herbert Hoover told the Republican con- = Conrad-Hilton Hotel in Chicago is the only 2

° ‘

It was a big ni J. Cancilla, Mond

vention last night.

Because of peacé or war? Of course. But also because

it is the key to our domestic problems.

We can lose our liberties to Stalin if we are unprepared. We can also lose them through governmental regulations necessitated by crises, or through executive usurpation of

emergency powers.

Is it the rise of bureaucracy that worries us? Or political corruption? These creeping perils have grown in

this twilight between peace and war.

Are high taxes, inflation, and the danger of national bankruptcy the things we fear? As Mr. Hoover said: “The * reality is that we cannot ever balance the budget and reduce

campaign headquarters that doesn’t profess to be short of mdney. : “Fighters for MacArthur” is headed by John Chapple, Ashland, Wis., publisher and long-time worshiper of the General. Other newspapers give MacArthur individual support. There is another MacArthur group from Tulsa, Okla., that has put out several leaflets which the other groups don’t approve of.

One-Man Movement

ERVIN HOHENSEE, Washington, D. C., unknown, describes himself as executive secretary of the National Committee for MacArthur. He operates from one room and is the whole movement, . There is another one-man movement con-

THERE IS NO doubting that foreign policy, attended with the huge spending program, its apparent barren results, and its effects on the entire financial and economic future of the nation, had disgruntled the American public and put President Truman’s popularity on the slide. But when Gen. Eisenhower approves and Truman foreign policy and Mr. Truman and the Democrats approye the Eisenhower foreign policy, is there any wonder the ptiblic has begun to take a more lenient view toward Harry Truman’s handling of foreign affairs? The Democrats have already announced the non-partisan policy of Gen. Eisenhower on foreign affairs. They are too sure of themselves not to have a “deal” with Eisenhower, This makes his self-styled “No Deal” policy seem to apply to the public. He is asking the public. to follow him blindly in his master-minding of a continued Truman policy. He is not asking to

installed as grar

Mr. Cancilla

ufer; Dave C. Mc Fred Diersing, w Hoffman and C

taxes except by cutting into this military and foreign spending.” 3 oi An effective foreign policy is the most direct way, _ perhaps the only way, to change the conditions in which these domestic evils flourish. If we are to go on repeating the blunders of Yalta, of Potsdam, of Korea and of China, we shall be asking for more trouble at home—just as we

shall be inviting more Soviet aggression.’ A Some of the Repiiblican old guard are partisan enough

outside guards; inside guard; Wa retary, and Lee J

Sales Repres

Harry C. Ande agent for Indl schools for 22 ’ years, has been named sales represo Pesentative Tor Crown Hill Cem-

be President. He is asking to be Commander-in-Chief of the Republic. He is still thinking with stars on his shoulders. ; ob a ON THE OTHER HAND, Sen. Taft has been so compromised and embarrassed by the “Bolshevik” wing of Eisenhower supporters, his years +. of crusade against New Deal policy are losing effect. Gen. Eisenhower is not only sliding, he is pulling Sen. Taft down with him. People are § “Becoming $0 annoyed with the Ioose talk and default in programs of both Sen. Taft and Gen.

sisting of a man who just stands around smoking a corncob pipe in a silent campaign. On only one thing are these groups agreed. They don't want Gen, MacArthur to be made Vice President. They're sore at Sen. Taft for trying to climb on their bandwagon. They maintain he’s trying to stop their candidate by saying Gen. MacArthur would be an acceptable running mate for him—Sen, Taft. , ' : “To make Gen. MacArthur Vice President would be like having the tail wag the dog,” says J. O. Ferguson, editor of the Pawnee (Okla.)

to believe, or naive enough to hope, that a better foreign Chief, 20d one of the few real MacArthur dele- Eisenhower, they are reconsidering the “bad” tery. Audion olicy consists merely in damning the mistakes of this in- 8ates to the convention. Mr. Truman. - policy nsists iy y . g Mr. Ferguson is spokesman for the Hunt .~J. E. D.,, Crawfordsville. fs a member of competent administration. They do not understand that group, Mr. Hunt himself is in the unusual po- % . — mis the board of a negative policy could make matters worse. Just because sition of being an Eisenhower-pledged alternate ‘God Given Right North Methodist

Church, a 33d Degree Mason, commander in chief of the In-

on the Taft group from Texas. Mr. Hunt may therefore never get to vote for his ideal at all. Nevertheless he predicts the General will get 71 votes on the first ballot, from 19 states. Mr. Hunt has been working hard to persuade Gov. John 8. Fine of Pennsylvania to support Gen, MacArthur on the first ballot. Gov. Fine

MR. EDITOR: : From the paid ads run by the steel industry, I though their workers were making enormous salaries. Today I read where they make about $1.95 an hour. After tax deductions, that isn't diana Consisso very much after all. For. instance, I make tory,” Scottish Ri $75 and my take home pay is $60... > ® ; yn = . Also, they had to work 25" years to get a Priest Loses

the administration has made such a mess of it, the cleanup is not going to be an easy job or a quick one. There is nothing simple about the problem of ereating security for a free world against Communist imperialism, or of achieving the economic prosperity and political stability

ARGUE, ARGUE . . . By Frederick C. Othman Brass Band Music at Convention

which are essentials of that security.

Above all, the weaknesses of the collective security system cannot be transformed into strength by running away —any more than New Deal excesses can be cured by denial of the need for better living standards and more social

really prefers Gen. MacArthur as his first choice says Mr. Hunt.

Born Gambler

“I CAN'T UNDERSTAND why people like Joe Pew of Pennsylvania, who really like Gen.

Called Better Than Spellbinders

CHICAGO, July 9—Let’s duck into a smokefilled room where the atmosphere swirls like hot taffy and the air is so acrid it waters the

I've had a few lungs full of clean air I can see no valid reason for boring you with words that mostly sounded incoherent.

two-week vacation. Imagine it, it day and age. The union finally got one steel company to agree to give them a two-week paid vacation after 15 years. Sounds like the Dark Ages are still with us. My company gives me a two-week paid vacation after two years of service,

Brother Hurt

HASKELL, Ok «The Rev, Ant newly ordained ( Central City, Neb

justice. Macarttue best, are giving all their money to eyes of Lhe cupids sarved on te, Sefing. He 3 The FIpument vas simple SROugH. Nhe fel- Also, imagine the money spent by the steel y pore, Monday i : : : ion en. Taft,” says Mr. Hunt. leas elt something dripping. ondensation, ows of one delegation calle eir rivals bums, industry to prejudice the people’s minds against ¢ accident which Nothing Said at the Republican sonyentio has A born gambler, Mr. Hunt is betting this maybe, from the combined breathing of damp - no-goods, and also Democrats. Then the opposi- the steel workers. A page ad in our papers £ his younger brot! more pertinent than this warning by Mr, Hoover: time that the MacArthur boom will develop and angry Republicans, - «tion said .the first ones were Democrats, no- runs $500 to $600, and in Chicago and New The brother, E “I do not propose that we retreat into our shell like without even having his name placed in nomi- “This,” said a hot young cop at the fines goods, and also bums. Some would-be peace- York propably a page runs tom Sate io $1000, dent in the Hal wd nation. The campaign buttons Mr. Hunt gives door, “is enough to make you vote Democratic.’ makers tried to make conciliatory speeches but They ran ad after ad in all the d. 8, but Seminary. a turtle. I do propose the deadly rep risal strateg) of a out don't say “MacArthur for President.” They I had to remind him that the Democrats also they got nowhege. they: can't afford to give that money in salaries The two mien rattlesnake . . . say “MacArthur for America.” had a credentials committee; that he was only . s to their hard working employees. mother, Mrs. An “Certainly sane policies cannot be made amid college st He Sut a candidate,” Mr. Hunt explains. getting & good Start Mstening 2 Eeguirents -Committeemen on Spot AND WHERE YS oh enipiovess. be. it gral City, to a Ge . * . ’ . .e y ’ 8 i | u { h h yells of ‘isolationist’ or ‘internationalist.’ Nor smears and B vildcatiers tustingt Just tenis him that the 20 Biter Shey Make I THIS PUT the committeemen on the spot. it werent for unions. Td sure Diy them, ~™™ = saint two othe

slanted news which are the ugly instruments of those who would dictate. /The Republican Party must not blink at the other many difficulties of the times ‘and the other tasks

before us. ]

“Our party welcomes change in the social and economic order when it will produce a more fair, a more free and

more satisfying civilization.”

Whether one agrees or not with everything Mr. Hoover said last night, certainly without such a positive approach

convention will just naturally call MacArthur

back. . But in this connection there is recalled the

story of Herbert Hoover in 1936. He came to °

the Cleveland Republican Convention to sweep

the convention off its feet. He hoped the dele-l

gates would call him back to lead the party again and to vindicate his record of 1928-32. He made his speech. He went to the station and boarded his train, with the applause ringing

in his ears. Departure of the train was delayed

a little. Then it pulled out of the station with Mr. Hoover aboard. - 3

meant it at the moment, that he could get a job

driving a hack. Out in the fresh air. The 25th Republican National Convention ground to & halt, while the fight raged downtown. Out dt the amphitheater in the stockyards the atmosphere was salubrious, on account of no people much shewing up. The entertainment consisted of speeches alternating with musical selections by a large brass band. I hate to insult the spellbinders, but the music was better than the oratory. Never before have I heard “The Hot Canary” rendered quite like

So they lit fresh cigars, which added to the murk slowly floating upward and then they blinked into the television cameras, while they thought deeply. Focused on them was the bluewhite glare of 1000-candlepower lamps, as in a movie third degree, and I must say that a Republican sachem objecting to TV has my sympathy. He's not trying to keep the voters from learning what's cooking so much as he’s attempting to avoid intense physical suffering.

The commitiee voted eventually in any event .

to seat those Georgians who favor Sen. Robert

wouldn't you, and we don’t belong to ® union, but they benefit us indirectly nevertheless. Some people say workers are overpaid, and to my way bof thinking that is erroneous. They were underpaid for years, and the standards of the country were low. Today they are better paid, and the standards of the country are higher, as they should be. Such higher standards are to be highly desired by one and all, and are the God given right of all, and not just the few. 81

Mrs. Inez Strickland, Morningside Dr., City.

to foreign and domestic problems the Republican Party will The call never came. It was probably the it was for the Republicans. A. Taft. This made the Eisenhower. gents The Other Fellow’ ; {ther bef after N be: ' biggest disappointment of his life. angrier than ever, if that were possible, and they MR. EDITOR: not get very far either ore or er INovember. vowed to have the fight all over again before : ;

Some of our Allies have not been doing their fair share in Korea or in Europe, as hé said. But the solution is not to split the alliance—which is what Stalin wants. It is to make the alliance work by providing more realistic, firmer leader-

ship. £4

The administration is guilty of letting Russia surpass us.in air power, as he charged. We must build planes fast.

IF | HAD TIME

If time would but allow me .. . I'd do so many things . . . I'd make your dreams come true dear ... and give your trouble wings . . . I'd paint your skies true blue love . . . and shelter you from rain . .. and if time would

Things Disorganized

IN THE Gold Room of the cold Congress Hotel, $1.75 away by taxi, was the cause of all this time-wasting. Here the credentials committee was hearing the arguments of assorted rival southerners, who wanted to be delegates voting on the Republican presidential nominee, Things were what you might call disorganized. I had my own troubles getting in because

the convention. : The committeeman sighed, and took up the similar case of the Floridans. I got out of there, while I still was able and that's when I got stopped by the unhappy cop. First time I've ever met a policeman asking out loud for sympathy. He, poor devil, still is there filling his lungs with tar and wondering why tears keep forming in his eyes.

The car ahead of me pulled aip to the stop sign and came to a stop. The driver got out of the car, closed the door and walked across the street. What a goofy place to park, I thought—until I saw what he had in mind. Two very small children were waiting to cross the street in the heavy Saturday afternoon traffic. The driver of the car ahead of me took the little girls by the hand, saw them safely

A ay one mastermind said only those reporters with across the street, then got back into his car. But to rely on air power alone would compound the folly. alloy a x real vegies and Joy you d gain... white House credentials could get in. Some- And, when the traffic cleared, he was on his way . By under-rating the importance of the Far East and bat love R you 2 "ee $s Wheat Neugst body pointed out io him Shat such Socmments What Others. Say— again. sd + a - . . “ ” aie “ i y '@ « «+ « ANd You wou now currently were issue iy emocrats an ence . : mistaking the China Reds for “reformers,” the agministra Lo utment. . . that Tove ions cam give , .. were untouchable, He subsided in a pool of I'M numb. It's indescribable.—John J. Mann- IN THIS DAY and age, when we hear so tion—as we have pointed out all along—sowed the bloody 4 sadly 1 must state dear . . . that time files SWeat on a spindly gold chair. And soon every- Ing, when informed his wife might have much of reckless drivers and the utter disregard harvest we are reaping in Korea. But that is no excuse for body was pushing in, including a few Michigan quintuplets. : for the other fellow or his rights, it’s nice to

withdrawing from Europe. American foreign “policy and

all too soon . .. and just when needed mest of all . . . it fades as does the moon . . . and se

Ave. cowboys and their girl friends. So impassioned were the arguments of the

* * o THE activities of imbeciles in the states

know there are still those among us who do think of the other. fellow and are concerned about the safety of other people’s children.

occurred. - Mrs, Nabity v

THE

it is, although I try . . . I may not solve life's rhyme-. . . for I am lacking one big thing . . .

I'm lacking in the time. --By Ben Burroughs

military strategy must be global, as the Red threat is global. The answer in our judgment is betted balance. Only by better balanced foreign policy and domestic policy can America restore its waning’ strength and revive its limp-

Georgians, who were sounding off when I got there, that I took careful notes. Got their names and all they said. This was an error. I guess that smoke got me, too. But now that

(panty raiders) do not bother us as long as they do not affect the supply of ammunition, beer and mail.—M/Sgt. F. T. Stolley, stationed in Korea.

I don’t know this man’s name or where he came from. But I know he is a good man and this world of ours could use more like him. : -—J. H, M., City.

ing liberties.

More Than One ‘Monopoly’ HILIP MURRAY, president of the CIO Steelworkers, is © 7 back trying to use the government as a club to force settlement of the crippling steel strike—on his terms. Despite the disastrous results of government fumbling —a ‘main reason his steelworkers are out of work—Mr.

Murray is asking for more.

This time he wants the government to force the companies to cave in to his demands by hauling them up on antitrust charges. He claims the six biggest companies are acting in “unlawful combination and conspiracy” to prevent

settlement of the strike.

He has brought similar charges before the National Labor Relations Board. He is asking the board to cite the on the ground they

companies for ‘unfair labor practice,” are acting in unison.

This is the same Mr. Murray who zealously has been seeking to deal with the steel companies on an industry-

wide basis.

If the six steel companies, as Mr. Murray charges, are a “monopoly” because they gre acting in concert in their dealings with the union, then, by the same token, Mr, Mur- _ ray is head of possibly the biggest monopoly in the country

-—a monopoly on steel labor. Neither is good for the country.

Hail the Champ

EVEN Americans who have never seen the ocean are ; thrilled that -our new liner, the SS. United States, is the new speed queen of the North Atlantic. On her maiden voyage the new vessel, our largest and one of the biggest in the world, broke the East-West speed record held for years by Britain's Queen Mary. Many years ago, the Yankee Clippers were the fastest ships in the world. Congratulations to Commodore. Harry Manning for bringing back some of that glory and for showing that America can win on the seas in peacetime as well ©

HITLER'S PLACE . . . By R. H. Shackford

Old Nazi Center Now

. MUNICH, Germany, July 9 ~This is the House that Hitler built. : But if the corpse of that evil man has any way of knowing what's going on here today, it must be spinning continuously. Amerika-Haus is th4§ German name for the United States Information Centers — the effort by the U. 8. government to build spiritual, cultural and educational bridges between America and Germany. Amerika-Haus in Munich is the largest project of this kind. Ironically, it is housed in the «wery middle of what was the headquarters of the Nazi Party. Munich was the cradle of Hitlerism.

8 nn FATE DECREED that Al-

lied bombers should destroy .

most of the great historical monuments of Munich—once a great cultural and educational center of Central Europe. Fate likewise decided that the buildings erected by’ Hitler in the 1930's around the Koniggplatz in the midst of museums to house his Nazi Party machinery should escape. One of those buildings—No. 12 Arcistrasse (formerly called the Fuhrerbau)-—today houses Amerika-Haus. + Here hundreds of Germans come daily to use the American libraries, see exhibits or films about America, learn English or listen to lectures. Almost forgotten in this busy and pleasant present is the unpleasant past of ‘this building.

An ‘Amerika-Haus’

far from the American director, Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor of New York, Hitler bamboozled Neville Chamberlain into signing the infamous Munich Pact on Sept. 30, 1938, and into

“hoping for peace in our time.” ” = n

BUT WHAT a different pic ture today. Of all the various programs for “selling” America abroad, these projects-—Amerika-Hauses in Germany and United States Information Centers and libraries in other countries —-are unquestionably the most successful. At relatively small

America to lots of foreigners, The Amerika-Haus here is an excellent example, Some 40 odd people run this project —-all except the director being Germans. Among things being done are:

ONE--American library of 40,000 volumes with open shelves and free for anyone's use. There are 10,000 card holders and the librarian estimated a circulation of about 12,000 books per month. The magazine reading room ine cludes a vast collection of current American periodicals of all kinds-—from popular weeklies, through trade magazines (even the American Brewers’

Journal in this famous’ beer’

city), to the scholarly quarterlies. - TWO-—A section for children where young Germgns can read, look at pictures, paint, learn English and par-

ticipate in group activities,

THREE-—FEnglish classes for adults. The démand is so great

SIDE GLANCES

for these that they could be multiplied many times and not take care of everyone. FOUR-Films and lectures. The films are documentary, mostly about the United States. The lectures . cover everything from those - designed for housewives to those on contemporary American

* Jiterature or on how the . American political system

oven

.- By Galbraith

MECC

A Copr. 1982 by NEA Servies, - "His father's a psychiatrish—that's how he manages to get : away with murder without ever getting sparked!"

FIVE-—Concerts of all kinds including group participation in singing and orchestral work. The last concert wus by

the visiting Colgate Univer- «

sity Glee Club. Peak hours are after work each day. Then the house ‘hat Hitler built for the, Nazi Party teems with young, middle-aged and old Germans eager to learn about the American way of life. .

PRODUCTION CHAIN .... By Max Cook 143 Wings by Early ’'56 Is Air Industry’s Aim

THE U. 8. aircraft industry, backed by an administration “go” signal on the basis of promised funds on delivery of aircraft, Is aiming at full strength of 143 wings by. late 1955 or early 1956. Of this total, 126 will be combat wings as compared to the Air Force's present 80 combat wings, Seventeen wings will come under the cargo and general service classification, Only about half of today's 80 wings are completely modernized with jet aircraft, but industry leaders predict that by June, 1953, about 96 wings will be fully equipped with up-to-date aircraft. » ” ~

THE fighter planes and bombers which are just receiving “their first experimental test flights this year will not

start coming off production

lines until possibly 1954-55. Later models, aimed for 1953 test flights, will not reach accelerated production until about January, 1956. Most of the jet fighting aircraft now being used in Korea and on duty at national defense bases and in Europe will be obsolescent when the full strength of 126 combat wings is attained, : The program of jet development from the time funds are allocatéd until mass production can be started is explained by Mundy Peale, president of Re-

‘public Aviation Corp. as a-

four-year Funds allocated by the government in January of this

. year started a development.

last until January, 1956, when accelerated production is probable. ” » > tJ SIX MONTHS” of research and designing would see a mockup of the aircraft completed. The first experimental plane would be test flown in

January, 1953 Materials would

be ordered and contracts let by June, 1953. Personnel training would start in January, 1954, and the tools, jigs and dies would be ready by June, 1954. Production of parts and sub-assemblies would start in January, 1955, and the first plane might roll off the production line by June, 1955. Fighting aircraft designed in 1947 and 1948, now are beginning to e off production lines. world’s best—fo date. One of these—Lockheeds’ new F-94C Starfire all-weather interceptor —4is an example of the evolution of a single aircraft. An almost automatic jet warplane with no guns, but armed with air-to-air rockets

~ » ” SPECIALIZED ‘“brain-like” instruments and radar enable the Starfire to spot an enemy miles away, latch onto the target, track, close, aim and open fire, while the pilot and radar operator simply monitor ‘the instruments. It- can climb— fast—to above 45,000 feet. Its

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