Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1952 — Page 18

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WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ Editor Business Manager

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Telephone PL aza 5551 Give Light and the People Will Find Ther Own Way

‘Loyalty’ at Chicago WHEN THE delegates to the Democratic Convention arrived in Chiéago last week end, most of them seemed to sense that the party faced a real fight this election year: They gave every evidence of believing their chance of staying in power after November depended on choosing their ablest candidates and using every available organizational resource, phon | But a handful of professional Fair Deal extremists seems bent on rending the convention into two bitter camps over an “issue” that is as meaningless as it is senseless. This group is led by Sen. Blair Moody of Michigan and young Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. They have insisted that every delegate—meaning southern delegates—promise every “honorable” effort to see that the names of the Democratic candidates appear on the ballots in their states. This is a chinchy version of their original proposal to compel all delegates to promise, in advance, to support the party candidates, no matter who they might be. It goes without saying that the voters in all 48 states are entitled to a free choice of all candidates for President and Vice President, whatever their party. The shenanigans which kept President Truman's name off the ballot in some southern states in 1948 was the opposite of free democracy. But raising the issue in this convention was like picking at a pimple. It served no purpose except to create a fester. The real aims, of course, were to pretty up the ambitions of the Moodys and Roosevelts in their own backyards, and to tighten the grip of these extremists on the party organization. Hea ! ~~ The donkey has had to have a strong back to endure the dead weight of scatterbrains collected by the Truman administration. Now some of the Fair Deal zealots seem - bent on breaking it. :

Plight of the Democrats HIS DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION has the virtue of being the first in 20 years with a “wide open” race for the presidential nomination. It is the first since 1932 not’ dominated by one man. - But in its virtue liés its weakness. At the Republican Convention two weeks ago there ~ were two standout candidates. It simply was a question of which one iter ‘one or two or three who were standouts, in that they combine both ability and popular appeal. : - So party leaders and delegates literally are begging a man who has made it more than plain he doesn't want the nomination—Gov. Adlai Stevenson.

i td ” o THIS SITUATION is the direct result of too-long oneman rule of the party. It is the result of the dry rot which das seeped through the party organization as represented by the Truman administration in Washington. Isn't it singular that not a single member of Mr. Truman’s Cabinet is being given serious consideration at this convention? Isn't it singular that the leading candidate, a man who disavows his candidacy, has been at pains to avoid the Truman-Fair Deal label? And isn't it singular that Mr. Truman, rounding out 20 years of Democratic power, has so little decisive influence at the convention of his own party?

” = THUS THE Democrats flounder under the inevitable - handicap imposed by a President who refused to develop new leadership in his party and who stacked his administration with mediocrity, misfits and nest-featherers.

Citizen Kohlberg THE RECENT report of the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security held that the Institute of Pacific Relations, a privately supported research agency, had been used by the Reds to “orientate American Far Eastern policies toward Communist objectives.” The committee found that this had been possible because of the IPR’s “close organic relations with the State Department through interchange of personnel, attendance of State Department officials at IPR conferences, constant exchange of information and social contacts.” Indeed, a perusal of the printed record of 5000 pages compiled by the Senate Committee indicates that for praetical purposes the IPR functioned as a wing of the State Department, where China policy was concerned. While all of this was going on, the board of directors of the IPR included the names of many distinguished diplomats, high public officials and. prominent educators and businessmen. Yet the Communist intrigues went on undetected behind this facade of big names until they excited. the suspicions of a then little known director, Alfred Kohl-

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berg, a New York importer. And it took him seven years to bring about the congressional investigation resulting in the current relations. : It \was in 1944 that Mr. Kohlberg began to detect a striking similarity between the line taken by IPR publications and the policies of the Communist Daily Worker and other Communist publications. A careful study of hundreds of documents verified ‘his suspicions, and he called upon his fellow directors to join him in purging the IPR of Red influences. But most of them ignored or ridiculed the proposal. And when he forced a special meetting of the board through a court order, he was outvoted, and the IPR officials were given a clean bill of health. But Alfred Kohlberg didn’t quit. By this time he was operating on a broader front, charging, as proved to be the case, that American policy was abandoning China to communism. But he continued the campaign for an investigation of the IPR as one of his side-issues until the

committee headed by Sen. Pat McCarran of Nevada took

, it over. The committee report on the IPR unfolds a story of intrigue with few parallels in recent history. It also shows “what one citizen can do to set things right when a majority of his associates are deaf, dumb and blind, and when even the government itself has been deluded. If there were for good citizenship, Alfred Kohlberg. would merit successful fight to unmask this instance of

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CHICAGO, July 23—Denying charges millionaire Sen, Bob Kerr of Oklahoma that he has spent more money than any other candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Estes Kefauver asserts that he has really been running a poor man’s campaign. Kefauver headquarters here in Chicago produce figures to show that the total cost of the Senator's campaign will be about $250,000. This includes about $40,000 to cover Chicago convention costs. This $250,000 figure represents only a fourth of the million dollars spent to get Gen. Dwight Eisenhower the Republican nomination for the. presidency. : ¢

SEN. KEFAUVER is the first of the candidates, either Republican or Democratic, to come forward with anything like a complete breakdown on his primary campaign expenses to get the nomination. The lavish expenses by the Eisenhower and Taft organizations created something of a national scandal. They have resulted in some demand for a congressional investigation of primary campaign expenditures, which are now outside the law. = Sen. Kefauver has spent about $17,000 of his own money to get the nomination. He has had to go into debt to do this. After his crime investigations closed, the Senator made a number of speeches for which he was paid.

CANDIDATE... By Richard Starnes Ave’s Bucking For the Big 5

CHICAGO, July 23—More than any other candidate, lantern-jawed Averell Harriman needs the Blessing if his campaign for the ‘Democratic nomination is to become airborne. The Blessing, of course, is President Truman’s indorsement. Without it, as Mr. Harriman and all his camp know well, the millionaire Fair Dealer's candidacy is as dead as salami. Even if he gets the blessing from the White House, Mr. Harriman is going to have a difficult row to hoe. His nomination almost certainly would cause a rupture with the Southern delegations. Their bolting reflexes are as sharp as a footpad’s at a policeman’s ball. Mr. Harriman’s highly confused and disorganized partisans know that their candidate's chances of carrying off any votes from Southern delegations couldn't be worse if he were using “Marching Through Georgia” as a campaign song. (He's not. It is “I've Been Working on the Railroad,” a mark of Mr. Harriman's early and brief experience as a track-layer with the Union Pacific, which his father built). . S

Big City Votes

HARRIMAN leaders say Mr. Truman and FDR before him would have been elected if they had lost the South in '44 and '48, counting, ‘of course, on the absence of a Henry Wali Progressive Panty which siphoned off imn g city votes in New VY where in 48, ne : York 50a ise - Right now Mr. Harriman's most. backers. gan count less than 120 - a ee

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“THAT Will put him at, or near, the bottom of x 0! the big five—8tevenson, Kefauver, Kerr, Russell t him several hundred light years away #8 the magic number—616 votes needed. to nominate, This bleak arithmetic is recognized by all the workers in Mr. Harriman’s lavish headquarters on the 11th floor of the Conrad Hilton hotel. Mr. Harriman, who has stoutly refused 10, Jase i any eelimates of his first-ballot , 1s a realis th a h He Snows it, too $34 for figwes. The only all-out Fair Deal-New Deal candidate, Mr. Harriman seems honestly to believe that Mr. Truman cannot knight anyone. else. But an early convention development made it clear that, believe and hope as he.might, Mr.

Harriman daes not now ha th vonon Jaes 1 Ve any promise from

Pooling Strength

THE DEVELOPMENT was one of the few bits of hard news remaining after the chaff of rumor was winnowed away. It was, simply, that Mr. Harriman and Ses. Kefauver would pool their strength to keep the vital first innings of the convention from going to the glass-hard front presented by the Southern forces, After an evening of off-again-on-again promises of a statement which would “clarify” the situation lieutenants in both candidates’ headquart s announced that their principles would BX

sponsor a proposal to change the conventio rules to combine Sen. Kefauver's “Fair Play’ J3sSistion with Mr. Harriman’s “Loyalty Pledge” ea. This development would seem to presage a possible final alliance between the two camps. Patently, if Mr. Harriman knew he was to be named heir to Mr. Truman’s legacy he would not be holding hands with the Kefauver camp at this point. It would seem to indicate that Mr. Harriman has two strings to his woefully weak bow, First, to go to bat for the nomination with all the stops out if Mr. Truman does give him the nod. Second, to stay in the fight in any event, even without the blessing, to form a rallying point for the motherless chicks that represent the extreme Fair Deal-New Deal elements, and to toss these delegates to Sen. Kefauver or anyone else who will continue to fight what Mr. Harriman considers the good fight. Without Mr, Harriman, the convinced liberals in this convention now are just folks who are all dressed up and have no place to go.

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Also he got about $25,000 gross from the sale of his book on the crime probe: ! ' . > o ¢ AFTER Sen. Kefauver formally announced his candidacy last January, however, he had to start speaking for free. In the past six months he has campaigned in all 48 states and conducted primary campaigns in ‘15. ° * He has traveled 115,000 miles, most of it by air. A plane was chartered from a Miami, Fla. firm, but part of the air tr been in a private plane placed at his disposal from a pool operated by LeTourneau interests and Longview, Tex. publisher Carl Estes. : About $160,000 of the Kefauver finances were raised by the Senator's original Tennessee backers. Nathan Straus, New York investment banker who has served as Kefauver's director, raised much of the non-Tennessee money.

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CONVENTION HALL, Chicago, July 23— The thing I like about Pemocrats is the way they refuse to be impressed by diamonds, dollar bills, dignity or dames. Only to friends like Mrs. FDR are they cordial. Everybody else can £0 row a boat. . Consider democracy’s greatest array of femininity, which put on its highest heels, trod daintily through the trash ‘oh the floor of the Cow. Palace and.sought to turn the charm on the delegates. Came first Mme. Minister Perle Mesta, wearing her second-best, or washday, diamonds, who said among numerous other things that she was thrilled. : The Democrats never heard their party’s biggest (I don't mean, madam, that you're stout) party giver; they couldn't hear her. They were too busy shouting greetings to each other to absorb the wisdom of our envoy to Luxembourg. : Then came Hon. Eugenie Anderson, the ambassadress who earns her wages in Denmark. She fared little better. She was a cool-looking and pretty lady in a sleeveless white dress; doggedly she plowed through her speech. The noise was the next thing to tumultuous.

No Sympathy for Dever

THIS PAINED temporary Chairman Paul Dever, who'd shouted so long and so loud the night before that now he sounded like a wounded bull-frog. When his painful creak clarfoned a muffled plea for a little quiet, those delegates laughed. Sympathy for Mr. Dever in his hour of pain? Not these babies. He'd made their ears hurt with his spieling, hadn't he? Now let him take it. They gave him the old raspberry. Georgia Clark, the loveliest Treasurer the United States ever had, tried to lure the statesmen out front with a sheaf of dollar bills bearing her signature. They weren't interested. Nor were they fascinated by the words of that spunky candidate for Vice President, Mrs. India Edwards. This made her sore. She placed

FRANKFURT, Germany, July 23—Black market coffee is as big a problem for Germany as bootleg whisky used to be in the United States. The American Armed Forces must share the blame for this problem, around which much of Germany's crime now centers. ‘American and German officials are—belatedly—trying to do something about it. The problem is a simple one of supply, demand, price and taxes, x On the German retail market, coffee sells for about $4 per pound. About $3 of this is German tax. .. The result is that smuggling coffee from nearby Belgium and Holland, plus the black: marketing of coffee sold to American personnel, is a lucrative temptation. The American part in this scandalous operation revolves around © American. post exchanges and commissaries which have been operating ~ here since the war's end for American personnel. * 8 »

COFFEE HAS always been

TM Red U8 Poi ON rationed in these American or st oasval dla stores. But, until recently, the 2 says we can w enough our debts ve - ration was fabulously large— . <aome leftit says that's good old honest American way!” ; Seven pounds per month for

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7" Kefauver dinners proved to be the most profitable sources of campaign’ money in TenFour dinners in Tennessee raised $43,000, Prices ranged all the way from $25 a plate down to a $1.75 hamburger luncheon which netted a $l-a-plate profit. 4 ; Glenn Bull, a Kappa Sig Fraternity brother of the Senator, promoted one of these luncheons every week in Washington. But the best money raiser was the Senator himself. His presence at a money-raising dinner assured its success. ®, ¢ © ON A STILL smaller “scale, Kefauver Financief’s Club membership cards sold at a dollar apiece, netted $20,000. Half the money was retained by the local organization and half went to national headquarters in Washington. The Washington headquarters had a maxi-

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shouted: “You had three of the leading Democratic women address you today and you were exceedingly rude. Now I am glad to be here, but I would prefer to sit down unless you're going to be halfway polite.” Applause. Prolonged applause. “Does that mean you want me to sit down?” inquired India. ; There came to her startled ears a chorus of yesses. These happily were drowned out by noes and Mrs. Edwards chose to continue speaking. She talked at length about the glory and duty of her sex; the Democrats of the opposite sex grew increasingly restive. Then a heart-

_ ‘warming thing happened.

Mrs. FDR Gets Big Hand

MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT appeared in a dark-blue dress, a pearl necklace, a poodle haircut and a big smile. Time has been kind to her and she seemed far handsomer than when she was chatelaine of the White House. Well, sir, her arrival brought on an old-time demonstration. Cheers. ‘Balloons, waving banners. Band music. And even a parade through the crowded aisles. You'd thought, and I say this in no spirit of levity, that the Democrats were nominating Mrs. Roosevelt for President. This, for a change, really was a spontaneous demonstration. ® Some of those Democrats glanced from her to the giant photo of her late husband and tears came to their eyes. Still they applauded. Fi-

nally they subsided and Mrs. Roosevelt delivered -

an address about her hopes for the United Nations. I must be honest about this; her speechmaking has not improved. There was no sound in the gredt hall except the pulsing of the airconditioners, but her words were difficult to understand. Those Democrats didn’t mind. They gave her their rapt attention. When she finished and kissed her son, Jimmy, they cheered. You See what I mean, You can’t hate these Democrats.

COFFEE A PROBLEM . . . By R. H. Shackford Black Markets Are Flourishing in Germany

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mum of 168 workers, three-fourths of whoni were volunteers. In Chicago for the

practically no advertising space. But he chiseled a lot of time on the air on quiz and forum programs, making about 20 appear-

ances. * * . IN THE state primary campaign, Kefauver expenses are listed like this: New Hampshire, about $2000 for postage and radio spot recordings. Wisconsin expenses of about $1000 were underwrittén by the state organization. Nebraska expenses were budgeted at $2500 but ran to $4000, mostly for telephone calls. In this campaign some $90,000 were spent on behalf of Sen. Kerr. y In Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland and New Jersey, Sen, Kefauver spent a day in each state and the local Democratic machines gave him no help. He didn’t go into Pennsylvania but ran up a printing bill of $250. Florida, where he spent $5000 and California, where he

spent $4000, were his most expensive state cam-

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

Driving Tests MR. EDITOR: About the most inane and childish letter I have ever read in a vox pop column is the letter signed by a Mrs. J. W. Statistics will not bear out her ignorant assertions. No one realizes better than those of us who are approaching the sunset of life that we are not what we used to be, but because of that most of us have the common sense to make allowances for our condition, to practice moderation comparable to the age, and we have developed skills not necessarily enjoyed. by youth. Naturally, there are exceptions to every

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THE PARTICULAR incident which caused Mrs, J. W. to break into print was deplorable, indeed, but the background picture might justify the assertion that all drivers over a certain age be called in for re-examination. I question the wisdom of such a ruling or law. Rather, I would urge that every doctor’be charged with the responsibility to report to the Bureau of Financial Responsibility and Drivers’ License Enforcement, all cases which the doctor deems an unusual traffic risk. On the doctor's recommendation, a re-examination should be made. Most all older people have a doctor who knows

them well.

ee : ONE OF THE rich rewards of life is the privilege to grow old gracefully among friends. hose of Mrs. J. Ww. 8

recognizes that she,

For myself, my friends are legion—more perhaps among the young than among those

of my own age. "And up to .this time I have °

never had anyone, young or old, refuse to ride with me because of my driving. Indeed, there ‘are some who seem to be continually scheming to get me to be their chauffeur—and I enjoy it. : ==A..J. Schneider, City. ‘Didn’t Get Square Deal’ MR. EDITOR: I admire the way you played fair with both Seh. Taft and Ike. Such a contrast to the Star. We realize we have our Pulliam the same as New York has its Dewey. After watching the convention on TV, I decided it was a disgrace to our country. I am sick to think’ we are at the mercy of a group of rotten delegates delivered at the convention by the governors in paper bags. It Is time the people changed the method of voting. Do away with the delegates and let the people decide who to nominate, It is supposed to be a free country. Have our boys killed in action died in vain? The Ike forces with clean hands will find out on election day that the American people are not delivered by the governors tied in paper bags. Dewey once again stopped Sen. Taft from being nominated, the one man that could be elected. Of course, Dewey isn’t interes in winning elections, just nominations, as the past 20 years have proven. I realize all good Republicans, newspapers, etc, will try to join the party, but there is a lot at stake. We, the people, don’t think we had a square deal at the convention. —Mrs. Bernice Johnson, 5385 East 10th, City

"LITTLE BIG FOLKS"

I love to talk with little kids . . . and get their views on life . . . I like to find out what they think . . . about this world of strife . . . for what they say refreshes me . . . and gives me hope anew . . . to tackle what may be ahead - « + and hidden from my view , , , they always see the brighter side . . . and never see the rain + « » they never seem to lose an inch . .. but, always seem to gain . .. and that is why I cherish them . . . they give my dreams new birth + « « for little children with their youth... con-

trol this very earth. ~-By Ben Burroughs.

each adult. That added up to 14 pounds per month for a military man and his wife. Now, married couples still are allowed that amount. Single GIs have been cut down to two pounds per month. A German official figured out recently that if the Americans drank all the ‘coffee they im- / ported, it would amount to 25 cups apiece per day.

LJ o s WHAT DOES an average GI without a family here do with his coffee? p— Many use it for gifts for German friends and families. ~ But a great deal of the coffee gets into the black market. After all the GI only has to pay 95 cents a pound. The Ger-

man retail price is more than °

four times that. . If the Germans would reduce their huge tax on coffee and the American authorities would

coffee to all personnel except those with families here, the black market might be eliminated. - » =

THERE IS a mild vendetta

of a sensational case at nearby Wiesbaden. The wife of the former Commanding Officer of the Wiesbaden military post, Mrs. Katherin G. Reed, is

charged on 17 separate counts

of black marketing on a huge scale in coffee, cigarets, gasoline, U. 8. Army scrip, greenbacks, etc. There have been a parade of witnesses telling of Mrs. Reed's operations. One testified he bought 200 pounds of coffee from Mrs. Reed for about $2.50 a pound. The same man said he bought American gasoline coupons from her. About 500 to 600 gallons worth. “I made plenty of money on the gasoline deal.” he testified. He should have. Americans get gasoline here at 15 cents a gallon. German gasoline is 70 cents a gallon.

” ” » * IN MUNICH, M/Sgt. Thom as H.: Carmichael was just sentenced toa year of hard labor and dishonorable discharge for assisting in’ the

theft and sale of 350 pounds of coffee. k

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killed Hans Schiffer, 20, recently » border near Aachen. e was sm six pounds of cote gine a month’s ration for an American married officer. It was the third fatal shooting in smuggling cases this year. » . =

THE AACHEN district cus-

toms agents are training dogs to scent coffee.

Even the Belgian-German trains are being searched carefully since a ‘water-proofed 50pound sack of coffee was found in the water compartment of a locomotive tender. The engineer and fireman await trial.

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