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Price . . : d Sund blican in- uded by : rda tor Sunday: deitsered by carrier Sails and Suncay, GS.) out to beat him by backing the Republican 2pvial the queer deal the Democrat bosses are tion yesterday. . daily and Sunday $10.00 a vear daily $5.00 @ year. Sunday cumbent, » apou q choice at the Mr. Curd and only $5.00; .all, other states. U 8S possessions. Canadas and __ . 1 working on to nominate a Truman Py 30.00, a One ath Sunday 100 % €ODY The "Democratic candidate is Dr. Charles tion in Chicago? > gssistant super C. Price, who has moved out as head of the Democrat Convention Irvington instit

Eo Why don’t they get back of Estes Kefauver, “n who has the Te get bao of winning for the Democrats? I believe Drew Pearson was right when he said to win with Kefauver would mean the end of the well entrenched jobs of the political bosses, so they would rather lose the election than boost Kefauver. : . ‘Gov. Stevenson of Illinois is the bosses’ first choice. The governor seems to think, according to his recent speech in California, that

chemistry department to make running for Congress a full time job. He still is teaching as a part-time professor.’ Backing the Republican from the Third District is a precinct committeeman who teaches =~ political science at Notre Dame and is the author of a widely used textbook on American government. He is Dr. Paul Bartholomew. At the present time, he is or the office staff of Rep. Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. freshman

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Give Light and the People Will Fina Thetr Own Way

Presidential Primaries | RIMARY ELECTIONS in all the states, for the selection of delegations to the national conventions, and for prefer-

: 3 : ‘Republican from South Bend. The professor is man has his price and he says he doesn’t blus She said her ential voting on candidates, such as have been Proposed a here to “study government first hand” for a at the corruption in the administration. Just the frotist of the man uarters, would be a vast improvement over the few weeks he said. The experiment also included man the bosses wan . ° not spen y ? t P the kind of politicking which went on at the Harriman is the bosses’ second choice. A the home. She prevailing arrangement. Republican national convention in Chicago. multi-mililonaire who was content to let his was unfounded. Primaries probably could riot be made a complete sub- He attended the Chicago meeting and came railroads remain in ent hands until Today Mrs. I

away like the majority of Hoosier Republicans —feeling sorry for Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. O0.).

Still Puzzled

BACK AT HIS desk in Mr. Crumpacker’s office, Dr. Bartholomew confesses that he doesn't know exactly how Gov. Thomas E. Dewey did it. That is, got the nomination for Gen. Eisenhower. So far as the Midwest is concerned, he figures Ike will be harder to elect than Sen. Taft. As a Republican plugging for Congressman Crumpacker, he hopes the GOP is victorious, of course. ‘ His research here convinces him that his own congressman should win in any case, he said. He admits that fellow-professor Price may be far tougher competition, however, than oneterm Democratic Rep. Thurman C. Crook. Mr. Crook was a union-backed ‘former South Bend high school manual-training teacher, who retired to a farm after his defeat by Republican Crumpacker. His greatest contribution here was a standing joke he used on all occasions. After introductions, he would smile and say—‘“I'm the only admitted Crook in the whole Congress.”

Tried in 1950

MR. PRICE entered Democratic politics by announcing for the U. S. senatorship in 1950. He got a scattering of votes in the Democratic state convention. But he learned how things ‘tick—including the fact that then Democratic boss Frank M. McHale's hand-picked candi-

: date, Alex Campbell, Ft. Wayne, was to be the Courage Rewarded nominee. Mr. Campbell lost the election to Re-

& RT . publican Sen. Homer E. Capehart. That los EN. HARRY F. BYRD of Virginia has so strongly op- was one factor in ousting Mr. McHale from his * posed federal extravagance. since his party has been

the political bug bit him. Recently. they were a back toborivate ownership for political reasons. Harriman won a primary over Kefauver in a district where there was no law to prevent voters from voting as many times as they 'vished. This was the only primary Harriman entered. : The bosses’ third choice lies between Truman, Barkley, Kerr, or perhaps Russell of Georgia who won the Florida primary over Kefauver. i _ Sen. Russell's strength was great in rural districts where the intimidating of the Negro has long been the worst. Put this altogether with the gangster methods used by the bosses in Ohio of threatening the Kefauver delegates and this queer deal is really worth the people's inter-

est to watch. ‘ . : —Ray Hinchman, Windsor.

. * He] ~ “Fair Deal Republicans’ MR. EDITOR: X I have always had a great deal more respect for a Fair Deal Democrat than I have for a Fair Deal Republican. The Fair Deal Democrat is usually sincere in his belief, while, the Fair Deal . Republican does mot believe in the Fair Deal philosophy, but is: willing’ to sacrifice his moral principles for political expediency, That is why I believe that all Hoosiers should be immensely proud of the 30 delegates to the Republican Convention in Chicago who stood firm and adamant against the ruthless Tom Dewey political machine. Naturally, of course, it would have been politically expedient for these delegates to have climbed on the hower bandwagon just as Charley Halleck climbed oh the Dewey bandwagon in 1948, Instead, they stood for the prin- - ciples which they believe to be right and just. It is my own belief that each and every one

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. gtitute for the national conventions. Preferential voting by . states probably would not indicate a clear majority for any candidate in many cases. Conventions would be necessary, too, to adopt the party platforms and to maintain the party identity. But a general primary system would give the people a louder voice than they now have in the selection of the candidates for the nation’s highest office. un - » : # » » SUCH PRIMARIES would tend to eliminate much of the back-room manuevering which people so thoroughly distrust. They would put an end to the tricky precinct meetings which lend themselves to fiascos.such as recently occurred in Texas, Georgia and Louisiana. Wisconsin held the first presidential primary in 1905 and for a time it appeared that all states would adopt such a system. Then, as the public lost interest, the political manipulators moved back into the picture and took over again. Now that the idea is regaining some of its lost momentum, perhaps the voters who believe in “no deal” government will push it along and erase some of the dark spots " from the political map.

WASH

SEND HOME FOR CASH . . . By Frederick C. Othman Humidity and High Food Prices + Rough on Democratic Delegates

For Shoppir

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« long-time post as Democratic national committeeman.

in power that President Truman not long ago declared that there were ‘too many Byrds” in the Senate. . Virginia voters disagree. In their Democratic primary Tuesday, they renominated Sen. Byrd by a heavy majority over his opponent, Francis P. Miller who not only went all out for the Truman policies but tried to pin the label of “Mr. Republican” upon Virginia's senior Senator. Mr. Miller is a distinguished Virginian with a notable war record,

— 50 he apparently carried no other handicaps than that of

. The Byrd victory was a tribute to a courageous Senator who has not hesitated to break with his party leadership when he has felt it was wrong. The primary result also suggests that a large proportion of the voters in one of the states where the Democratic Party had its birth do not support that party in its present position. It does not seem likely that that attitude is confined to the Old Dominion.

Moscow Please Note

N. ALEXANDER WILEY wants an agreement between the two major parties on issues relating to Communist aggression to prevent an election year “vacuum” which might invite an attempted knockout blow from Russia. To that end, the Wisconsin Republican seggests that President Truman ‘and Secretary of State Acheson should ~ ifivite Gen. Eisenhower to confer with them on “continuing international problems and challenges that may arise between now and next inauguration day.” Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull initiated a policy of this kind in 1944 when Gov. Thomas E. Dewey was the Republican presidential nominee. Its wisdom was manifest then and it is just as necessary now. If the occasion

After the Chicago convention next week, that post will be taken over by Paul Butler, South Bend, which gives Mr. Price a considerable lift organization-wise. Dr. Bartholomew doubts that this will make Prof. Price a winner. He points out that South Bend voters with Notre Dame backgrounds are not as committed to the Democratic ticket as they were at one time. 'He conducted a Republican mock convention on the campus and had

CHICAGO, July 18—Having counted this morning the crumpled and soggy bills remaining in my wallet (the humidity here's almost as bad as the inflation), I fear that before the Democrats get a good start, I'll be on a rigid diet. : The $3 lunches and the $7 dinners, which seem to be standard in the places where poli-

ticians do their eating, are ruining me: You °

—Rep. Charleg B. Brownson, Indianapolis, give the keynote address. At that time, Mr.- Brownson had not come out publicly for Ike, as he did later. Had he done so, he might not have received the invitation. For the Third District was strictly Taft territory.

He's Confident

“OUR OWN Congressman couldn't be labeled,” Dr. Bartholomew - explained. “He does his own thinking and will run as just what he is—Shep Crumpacker—lawyer-farmer, who has a good record here for a first-termer. I don't think Prof. Price can beat him.” This practical experience in politics will be applied in Prof. Bartholomew's classes in the future. He says it makes them popular and ves Notre* Dame students something besides eory upon which to work.

What Others Say—

WE (DEMOCRATIC PARTY) see human rights as a matter of principle and stand foursquare on them.—Michigan Gov. G, Mennen Williams.

® © 9 / A FAMILY only truly begins with three children. Thereafter . . . majority rule becomes

at once possible.—Archbishop of Canterbury, father of six sons. * 4 o DEMOCRACY can no more be genuine in our modern day without socialism than socialism can be genuine without democracy.—Socialist

may ask what's: wrong with a sandwich? I've tried that, too. The cost of two soggy slices of bread, a sliver of ‘ham and a piece of pickle wrapped in a paper napkin at any lunch counter in Convention Hall is 75 cents. Wash that down with

. a paper cup of imitation orange juice and you've

spent 90 cents. Also, you're still hungry. This is ‘rough on Democrats, some of whom have had to send home for more money before their shindig even has begun. Chicago not always was like this. Take the Bismark Hotel, where on paydays in the long ago, I used to take my best girl to dinner. The food there in a restaurant known as the Swiss Chalet: I considered the best in town. One night I took a blond to the Chalet and ‘she ate $2 worth. Her amazing and expensive capacity so shocked me that I never saw her again because how could a fellow afford a girl who ate like at?

Same Waiters on Job

SO THE other night I lured .one of my Washington cohorts into having dinner at the Swiss Chalet, Everything was the same as before: Sup German food, May wine with strawberries floating in it, soft music, pleasing murals on the walls, and the same old waiters who used to tip me off on what was especially good. The tale of the hungry blond I was telling to my companion as we plowed into the schnitzel. Our walter joined in the conversation. Well did he remember when a $2 food check was phenomenal.

the steak, when your young lady was eating here, that same steak cost 75 cents. It was bigger then, was all.” y Sadly he shuffled off to bring us the cheese cake with the cherries on the bottom crust, which always has been a specialty of the house. This now is 60 cents a portion; it used to be 15. The following evening I called on perhaps

—my oldest and dearest friends, Mary and Bill

Sullivan. Bill and I used to observe together in

the morgue the bodies of fresh-killed gangsters. We tore around town in police cars checking up on the depredations of Al Capone and his rival beer barons. For years we were roommates on the near North Side when we hoth worked for the United Press. I wanted Bill and Mary to join me for dinner at the Red Star Inn, which had been another of our favorite hangouts.

Meal for 3 Cost $20

DON'T BE foolish, sald Mary. She was serving dinner at home. A meal for three at the Red Star, with a cocktail before and a brandy after, would cost at least $20. She said she and Bill long since had stopped eating out, even on special occasions. For the cost of a

dinner she could buy. a dress, or even -a new

lawn mower. I'd had the idea that prices had surged up for the special benefit of the politicians. Bill said they hadn’t; for the last six months the cost of living in Chicago has been bouncing

skyward. Chicago isn’t unique, I know, but the jolt of returning here after 25 years has given me the fiscal shivers. Maybe the new President next January (and I still wouldn't bet 10 cents on who he may be) can do something about our money. Otherwise,

of these delegates who are candidates for reelection should be returned to public office to fight against totalitarianism which is now being peddled by both Democrats and Republicans Liberalism. ' Again I wish to congratulate these 30 dele‘gates for their display of honor and integrity. We need more of these kind of people with hig principles ia public office. i

«By C.D.C, Terre Haute. ‘A Bitter Defeat’

MR. EDITOR: As a Republican visiting my daughter and family in this city where I formerly resided, I have ‘had the occasion to talk with many fellow Eisenhower Republicans and we all agreed that Sen, Taft's third defeat in his bid for the Presidenial nomination was not only a bitter defeat for the Senator, but also for the Old Guard, and for a great majority of the members of the American Medical Association who had waged a vigorous campaign for the Senator's nomination. We were also in full agreement that had Taft or MacArthur been the nominee they would have been as badly defeated as was Alf M. Landon in 1936, and would not have carried our own state for the reason the Eisenhower voters here, as elsewhere in the nation, would not have supported such. reactionary Old Guard candidates. —James Wallick, Ft. Wayne.

TWO CURLYHEADS

Each night when little Carol climbs . . . the stairs to go to bed . . . she takes along her favorite doll , . . the one with the curly head ... she combs its hair and cleans its teeth . , . then puts its nightgown on . . . and tucks it into bed with her . , . to stay there until dawn . . . she even tells her dolly to . . . recite a little prayer . . . and when they both go sound asleep . . . they make a darling pair . . . for nothing could be sweeter than . . . two little

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FREE-FOR-ALL . . . By Peter Edson SIDE GI ANCES presidential nomination are good Americans who share the

__accepted American tion are good Americans who share te | 6 [Jamocrats Ar a ———ips Partisanship in this country ends where national secur- * ‘ ' Hoping for ‘The Nod

girls in bed . . . our Carol and her favorite doll. . . the one with the curly head. —Ben Burroughs.

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it'll be useful principally for papering rumpus rooms.

ity is concerned, and if the Russians have any doubt on that score they are invited to review American history.

Moreover, Moscow might note that there isn’t a pro-Russian element in either of our major political parties.

Good Riddance

JURISDICTIONAL strikes are the most ridiculous kind of strikes, because neither the honest businessman nor the honest laborer can cope with them. Basically they are strikes of one union against another union. They have been particularly prevalent in the American Federation of Labor, so it is good news that the AFL Building Trades presidents have finally agreed that they will revoke the charter of any local which pickets a job involved in a jurisdictional dispute. 1 If this agreement is enforced, it should stop most of these adolescent clashes. labor leaders reforming themselves instead of waiting for Congress to do it.

And it is encouraging to see

This Kind of Peace Is Important

(GUARANTEED: Five years without a strike. Think what peace of .mind that means to workers, managers and stockholders of Aluminum Co. of America. The union contract signed recently between ALCOA and the International Council of Aluminum Workers Union (AFL) provides this. Wages were not frozen for the five years. wages will be raised 4 cents an hour. That's $416 a year more for each worker five years from now. A bright prospect for the workers, a challenge to both workers and

It covers 9500 workers. Each year

" Union and company can be proud of this contract.

WEST GERMANY and the Allies made a peace contract and Stalin wants to help carry it—out. ® = » ® 8 =» PURDUE UNIVERSITY has developed “wilt-proof tomatoes.” They

should make good dates on hot summer

CHICAGO, July 18—With 16 possible candidates for the

;, Democratic nomination for

President, anything can happen at the party’s convention here. And it probably will, By tradition and natural inclination, the Democrats have always put on a better show than the Republicans. The Democrats will have tao go -some, . this time, however, if they put on a better performance for drama, humor, suspense and fast action than the Republican vaudeville that is now gone but still not forgotten. ” ” » ..THE SHADOW %f the Republican nominee, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, of course, hangs over the Democratic fracas. If Sen. Taft had been the GOP nominee, every Democrat from precinct committeeman up would. have wanted to take him on. Against Gen. Eisenhower, there may be some reluctance to run. The 16 Democrats — and there may be others who craw! out of the stockyards woodwork — break down in three main groups. % Heading the list are the Four Favorites, First is Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, who claims from 300 to 400 delegate votes and actually has a. little over 250 nailed down. Behind him is Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia, with a claim, of 300-vote first-ballot

strength and a firm count of around 150. - -

- . BEHIND these two southerners are two northerners who are in the unusual position of hoping that they get The Nod. The Nod, of course, is recognition and an oficial blessing from President Harry 8. Tru-

Up. to now Gov. Adlai Stev-

enson of Illinois has had The Nod held out in front of him on a silver plattér. But since he has been so reluctant to grab it and run, there is now considerable belief that The Nod will be given to Averell Harriman of New York. Mr. Harriman has a little over 100 pledged delegate votes, but hopes he can muster 150 by first ballot time. Gov. Stevenson has only 54 pledged delegates without ever having announced himself as a candidate, and he makes no claim of having any more. Doesn't want ‘em, so he says.

» » » IN THE GROUP- behind the Four Favorites are what might be known as the ‘Seven Favorite Sons. The interesting thing about this Seven Sons group is that together they have 190 pledged delegates’ votes. This isn’t enough to give any one of the Four Favorites the nomination. But it would give any candidate“a big shove if it could be mustered behind him by the political bosses. It probably can't. Democrats just don’t agree on things that easily. The Democrats, it should be explained, don't count noses the way the .Republicans do. This is to make it more confusing.

8 . 8 » THE DEMOCRATIC convention will have 1230 votes, with 616 necessaty for a choice. But of the 1230 delegates, 886 district delegates will have a full vote apiece while 688 will have a half a vote apiece for a sub-total of 344, This means that nearly every state will have fractional votes. And the confusion when they start polling big delegations like New York's 80 will really be something fancy. . Of the séven favorite sons,

Sen. Robert 8. Kerr of ome"

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“You go in with Mom and Dad and I'll hide here fill nobody's looking! It would ruin my reputation to be seen at a Friday night movie without a date!"

homa- has 38 pledged votes. Vice President Alben W. Bark-

ley of Kentucky, 28; Robert J. .

Bulkley of Ohio, 27; Gov. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan, 40; Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, 26; Sen. Brien McMahon of Connecticut, 16, and Gov. Dever of Massachusetts, 15. ¢ fo 3 » - rd FINALLY there are the Five Fractions. These are the candidates—willing and unwilling — with splinter strength of

Sam Rayburn, up to the grand total of three pledged to Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois. Others. in . this group are Chief Justice Fred Vinson and Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing with two apiece; ex-Sen. Scott Lucas of Illinois and Justice Billk*Douglas with one apiece. Last but not least, as the 17th possible starter there is

“the old maestro himself, Pres-

ident Truman. He says he's not running. But he’s going to

get a starter of 14 votes, any-.

way.

YOU DEMOCRATS, who hold your convention in Chicago next week, could make. a lot of people happier if you eliminated some of the nohsense that cluttered up the Republican clambake last week. In_the old days, it ‘probably didn’t matter so much—the only ones who got bored were the delegates and their relatives in the galleries. But with television peeking in on everything that goes on, 70 million people are apt to be yawning in your face if you don’t look sharp. » s . THE FIRST thing you Democrats might concentrate on is getting those convention sessions started on time. The GOP meetings practically never were on schedule, often starting an hour or more late. Politicians might condone that kind of thing, but the television fan accustomed to seeing Milton Berle explode onto the screen at precisely the same time every week is likely to get exasperated ‘and go out for several short beers. And there goes your vote-owning audience. s » ” AND ONCE you do get started, boys, try to keep things moving. Patriotic ceremonies are okay and 80 are’ prayers— politicians are especially in need of the latter—but they don't have to take so long. After that, you should get down to business. For instance, you could have fewer and shorter speeches. A convention presumably has to be keynoted and apparently way to Jat a

it. In the old days, oratory was rated as entertainment, but these days there's too much ' competition, like ball games and quiz shows. Get some men of few words up on that platform and less viewers will switch to “Diana’s Dreadful Dilemma.” ‘ a # s DEMONSTRATIONS for candidates, it's been announced, will be held to 10 minutes. That's fine—providing the limit is enforced, which is doubtful. After a few minutes of that mass exhibitionism, even candidate must get the willies, That brings us down to what is loosely refered to as the “entertainment” portions of the p: am. Look, buster, it just ain't. Fellow tunes in on a political convention, he wants to see a political cenvention, not a lower-case amateur hour, Let somebody sing “The Star Spangled Banner,” but kindly omit those “Old Black Joe” 4nd “Silver Threads Among the Gold” renditions.

- » n AND, PLEASE, fewer of those long musical intermissions while you try to figure out what to do next. You've known for four years you were going to hold a convention in 1052 and by this time you should have a pretty good idea of what the gimmick is, It's to nominate a presidential candidate. Remember?

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