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Something for Everybody HE committee which drafted the Democratic platform at Chicago must have called in all the pressure groups in the country and allowed each of them to write its own ticket. Where controversial issues were involved, planks were so drafted that both the pros and the cons were given enough to take home with them to assure all’ concerned that their interests had been protected. Taken in the altogether, the platform reads like a compilation of President Truman's whistle-stop speeches of 1048 in which he promised every group and section of the population exactly what it wanted. Workable price controls are to be continued so long as the emergency requires them—and removed as: quickly as economic conditions allow. Could anything be fairer than that? The Social Security system is to be “strengthened” by increasing its benefits, extending them to more people and lowering the eligibility requirements. Where federal aid programs exist they are to be given increased support, -and where new programs are needed, they are to be provided. But lest the frugal-minded become alarmed by the possibility of excessive federal spending, “the preservation of the financial strength of the gpvernment” _is solemnly pledged.

Where the record is good, the platform presents it in .

full dress. Where it is bad, it is presented as good.

¥ » THUS WE are told that “our nation has strengthened its national defenses against the menace of Soviet aggression,” while the fact is omitted that nevertheless the Soviets are much stronger than we are, on the ground and in the air. On the highly controversial issue of civil rights, the new plank is as strong, and perhaps slightly. stronger than the 1948 plank, which provoked the Dixiecrat revolt. Yet the 1948 plank was not carried out and the prospects for the 1952 plank appear to be no better. ° . The promise of federal legislation on this subject can have no real meaning until individual members of Congress are specifically pledged to support and vote for such measures. + The South tates which opposed this- plank have ; enough votes in thé Senate to block any legislation on this subject by filibuster, just as they have done in the past. Political ‘platforms have come to be regarded as documents of convenience, to be followed or ignored as expedighey dictates. Why should the major parties continue to draft them at all, when they have so little consequence?

Barkley's Swan Song UR YEARS AGO, Sen, Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky delivered the keynote to the Democratic Convention, Last night, his impromptu speech was more a footnote. If it wasn’t a“swan song, it sounded like one. Mr. Barkley was an added starter on the program. He was especially invited after he had bitterly withdrawn his candidacy for the presidential nomination because of the opposition of what he had called the “self-anointed political labor leaders” in the convention. But last night there was no bitterness in Mr, Barkley’s speech. If there was frustration in his heart, the Veep ignored it. As he had done on so many other occasions, he surrendered his own ambition, his place in the sun, to his great faith—party regularity. His speech avoided the hysterical and narrow partisanship of others who spoke from the same platform—notably Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, who preceded him. It was a plea for party unity, a laudation of the leaders he had served, a “spiritual” address, as he called it.

The convention gave their old warhorse a grand entry,

a stirring and spontaneous ovation and a resolution of high praise. The band played “My Old Kentucky Home” and “Barkley-for-President” banners waved all over the hall The delegates cheered and shouted “We Want Barkley.” After all that, with the irony so familiar in politics, the convention made ready to give the presidential nomination to a man who keeps saying he doesn’t want it.

Welcome Garlic SAGE once said that there is no such thing as “a little garlic.” However, there is, from the trade viewpoint— the garlic that is produced in the United States, 90 per cent of it by some 60 farmers in California. These farmers recently asked the Tariff Commission to restrict imports of garlic from Italy, and the commission supported them on the ground that foreign competition was “seriously injuring their business.” This ultra-literal interpretation of the law has been over-ruled by President Truman, and properly so. Even the little garlic that it can sell to the United States means a great deal to a poor, dollar-short country like Italy, which will promptly spend every dollar it earns for American goods. have been preposterous.

Practical Well Doing REPORTS FROM Mexico are that the country is able to export corn in a small way by contrast with the necessity of’ ‘importing a good deal not so long ago. The fact stands as a monument for practical well doing. The Rockefeller Foundation spent between a million and a half to two million in showing Mexiean farmers what could be done with new hybrid seed and amended methods of cultivation. Farmers who followed directions doubled their yield, or even better, and that did it. It was an accomplishment of men and methods rather than of money as such.

Pay Raise Bites Back , ov IN Oklahoma County, in the state of the same name, four officials recently got a pay raise of $80.90 a year. The pay hike was mandatory under the law because of an Increase in the total of the county's valuation. : The boost put the gentlemen in a higher income tax bracket. Net result is $72 more in taxes each year and ad increase of $8.90 in take-home pay. It is a fair example pafiviat the prevailing tax raise Jot only oun do, but ds

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KOREAN BLUNDERS .

. . By Ludwell Denny

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Democrats Try To Avoid ‘War Party’ Tag

CHICAGO, July 24—To escape public wrath over administration blunders in the Korean War, the Democrats are coming up with a policy which the Republicans will brand as appeasement. : :

This policy is to let Stalin keep North Ko-

rea. On that basis a truce might be obtained and even a so-called peace. That would be expected to take the Democratic administration "off the very unpopular hook of waging a costly war which it ean neither win nor stop. In any case party leaders at this National Convention think they have the winning issue for November, if only they can unload their worst liability. Their “winning” issue is belly appeal. They say the American people are not going to trade “prosperity” for promises. The thing which can ruin that appeal, in their judgment, is neither federal corruption nor high taxes nor charges of socialism—as some Republicans suppose. They remember that in the past tax-and-spend administrations have been re-elected despite corruption and boomeranging charges of radicalism, so long as there was “prosperity” —real or artificial, The only thing they really fear apparently is that voters will punish them as the war party. Hence in the many public references here there is little or no emphasis on the nécessity of winning the Korean-China war, or on the

FOREIGN ISSUES . . By Peter Lisagor Headaches for Next President

WASHINGTON, July 24— America’s next President is in for a large headache once he sits down with the planners of Western Europe's defense. Among the dreary facts he'll learn are these: JONE—The so-called Lisbon goal for .1952 forces of 50 divisions and 4000 aircraft was a bureaucratic pipe-dream, TWO-—America's delivery schedule of guns, tanks, planes and ammo lags behind expectations from six to nine months. THREE—The French and British economies have bitten off more than they can chew in rearmament and must either cut back or tap Uncle Sam for more aid. FOUR—Congressional cuts of almost $2 billion in foreign aid, if measured strictly by a ground-force yardstick, represent a loss of six NATO divisions, > & THESE FACTS will be dramatized in the coming weeks as the French seek specific commitments on how much American aid they can expect and the British begin talking about stretching out their $13 billion three-year arms program, With a foreign-aid kitty about 25 per cent less than asked of Congress, planning officials freely adniit now that the ambitious program for NATO laid down last February in Lisbon will have to give In seéveral directions. It is also acknowledged that the “magic target date” of 1954 as the period when Western Europe defense will reach its maintenance level is “out,” barring aggressive actions which would wuice up the speed of the buildup, : > O . A SAMPLE of what the new White House occupant will face can be shown in a few simple figures, The French are known, to want a commitment of $600 million in U. 8. aid this fiscal year, either in direct economic support or-in off-shore purchasing of goods in France. Earmarked for French aid in the 1952-53 mutual security budget is about $296 million, and though there is a certain flexibility in the use of funds, it would require a wizard at dol lar-stretching to meet the French wants, The net result of the inevitable scaling. down, officials ruefully point out, will be a tremendous strain on the impatient military planners. But it can’t be helped. eS 0D WITHIN THE next week or so the British are expected to disclose that their 3-year program, if adhered to in their present fiscal crisis, would throw London into bankruptcy proceedings. Hence, the emphasis will switch from rearmament to an attempt to stack up dollars with greater production for exports. These bread-and-butter facts generate political obstacles to the defense planning in both Paris and London. And they are likely to produce sparks in American politics once the heat of campaigning dies down and the next President takes a look at NATO's assets and liabilities, it is conceded by the men holding the fort meanwhile.

What Others Say—

THE (DEMOCRATIC) PARTY has become captive to the schemers and planners who have infiltrated its ranks ¢’ leadership to set the eourse toward socia wih regimentation.——Gen. Douglas MacArthur, ee * © ONCE UPON a time Americans lived on hamburgers when they were broke. Now they go broke if they try living on hamburgers, — Rep. Joseph W, Martin. o B..b BLATHERSKITES is the word for econgressional Red Probers. The end of American comedy is in sight, and the theater's gone to hell. Who can write where everybody's scared? —Author-humorist James Thurber. > PRINCES are no different from other men. —-Actress Yvonne De Carlo, about Prince Aly Khan,

MONEY TALKS

increased sarifices. required for victory. - the contrary, it is Ph that” war is yr won. The most specific statement of this wishfully reassuring theory was in the keynote address, which traditionally gives the campaign line as decided by the party Iaaders.-Keynoter Paul A. Dever, Governor of Massachusetts, proclaimed this Korean policy: ® “The goal never has been the military conquest of world communism. It has been the recapture of the invaded Republic, and in that objective we have reached the goal.” Hitherto American policy—officially at least

—has been to guarantee under United Nations protection the freedom of all Korea. That covers North Korea, without which dismembered South Korea cannot survive either economically or militarily. It covers North Koreans, whose right to liberty is the same as that of South Koreans ‘and whose suffering has been ter under Red slavery. “ This proposed Allied desertion of North Korea, and left-handed recognition of Stalin's illegal retention of it in defiance of international agreements and of the United Nations, is the avowed policy of Leftwing British Laborites and French appeasers. There even have been occas-

‘Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Here

' DEMOCRATIC DOINGS . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Finds Caviar, Champagne OK— But Hot Dogs?—Ah, Yum-Yum

CHICAGO, July 24-1 guess ] just wasn’t cut out fer high as among the Democrats. By the time I manage to show up at their free champagne fracases, my collar's wilted, the knees of my pants are bulged and my ears are smudged with carbon. This causes the'ladies clad in a minimum of

cloth and a maximum of talcum powder to look

down their noses and wonder how I got in. For this ruination of my social career before it even got started, I blame the politicians. They talk too much too long out by the stockyards. Take my big night with Jane Russell. Not everybody gets to crumble a cracker with Jane, but she and Bob Hope, her movie-making partner, included me in with Democratic bigwigs for a brawl de luxe among the flaming beefsteaks on the swords at a small hotel called the Ambassador East. They set the date at 12:30 a. m. for the start of this soiree on the theory that by then the Democrats would be ready for a little nourishment. At 12:30 a. m. these gents hadn't even begun their nightly battles in the cowtown suburbs. They still were going good at 2. In my anxiety to keep my tryst with Jane, I hurried my typewriter pounding chore (as you longsuffering readers doubtless noticed) and managed to show up for my debut in the life social shortly after 3.

Mountains of Food

IT WAS a hot night and I was a little damp, but I was not prepared for the sight of my host and hostess stnding sleepily among the mountains of food and the champagne bottles that nobody much had shown up to consume. They tried to feed me on caviar and something that

looked like hummingbird tongues, but I was:

sleepy, too. And also tired. I wondered if I please could have a glass of milk, Hope sald he was fresh out of milk. Miss Russell yawned. I couldn't blame her. I limped off to bed (my knees feeling kind of stiff) and hit the pillow at 4 a.m. Four hours later I was awakened from a

By Fred Sparks

To raise this barrier against it would

You'll ue There's Gold in Them

CHICAGO, July 24 — More than 150 millionaires are attending the Democratic Convention, either as delegates, alternates or camp followers. Two - of them-—Mr., Harriman and Sen. Kerr—are candidates, Gov, Dever of Massachusdtts, in his keynote speech, called the GOP a party “ ... captained by the lords of the + press, the ofl tycoons of Houston, the money changers of Wall Street . .." ~ ” » THE. REPUBLICANS do not have a complete monopoly on “oil tycoons.” There is the multi-millionaire delegate, Herman Heep of Austin.

"He winged up here in his twin-engine plane, after sending two air-conditioned Cadillacs on ahead for short trips around town. Delegate Heep, besides owning plenty of gushers, has

° more steaks-on-the-hoof than

there are on the daily menu of some well-populated: states. Keynoter Dever described the Democrats as “an army of fhinking men and women, the nest toler, the frufteul tiller . “Down with Wall Street” I cried—-then swallowed my

Words 3a 1. noticed Duidiate

Herbert Lehman of Lehman Bros. They own one of the softest seats on the New York Stock Exchange. Delegate Lehman, I understand, can put his hand on maybe 10 million potatoes and still have enough left for a light lunch. - n - I WAS MORE ready to borrow than give when someone mentioned millionaire Michigan Delegate Prentis Brown, Chairman of the Board of the Detroit Edison Co.

And I felt positively shabby when the name of millionaire Georgia Delegate W, H. Lovett was raised. Delegate Lovett runs banks for business and a ball club for kicks. Although I didn’t pry open vaults or slit mattresses to check fortunes, I easily found that the Republic of Texas is near the front in Democratic millionaire delegates. Texas’ Gov. Allan Shivers can himself ante plenty of mil-

‘lions, his family having wisely land at $1-an-acre’

purchased: and sold same at $1000. Another millionaire oilman, H. H. Coffield of Rockdale, Tex., has sufficient room on his ranch for an airfield. (When I asked a good Texan

why these padded parties play politics he said, “a game— strictly a game. They like

baseball, football — and poli-.

tics.”) ~ " ~ OTHER millionaire Texas delegates are Wright Morrow, Dan Moody, Neville Penrose, C. T. McLaughlin, Hugh Prather Jr., Mrs, Durwood Manford, Albert Sidney Johnson, W. R. Boyd Jr, Guy €. Jackson, A. H. Rowan, J. R, Parten and Fagan Dickson. (Dear Boss: I'm leaving for Houston tomorrow).

In America a fellow should:

be very proud to have a mil lion of anything, so let me now call the roll of some Democratic millionaires:

California—EQd Pauley, oil. Georgia—James V, Carmichael, pencils and airplanes. Illinois—Jack Arvey, law and politics; James B. MecCahey, finance and politics; Stuyvesant™ Peabody, coal; Charles H, Weber, real estate, Louisiana-—Dudley Leblanc, the patent medicine man.

+ Maryland—James Gill, law '

and real estate; Samuel +H. Hoffberger, law, finance and breweries.

Michigan—Gov. G. Mennen Willams, shaving cream; Dunigan, ofl. . ;

James P.

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pleasant dream about Miss Russell juggling plates of steaming lobster souffle by delivery of a telegram. This said that Mme. Minister Perle Mesta requested the pleasure and the honor of my presence at a little dinner the following

evening in the Blackstone Hotel. I got the idea

that Mme. Minister would be devastated if I didn’t show. She set the time for 10:30 p.m. and again those long-winded Democrats were yammering. I finished my work about midnight and there on the steps of the Mayfair Room my hostess in a black dress and a big wad of white orchids was waiting for me. She said she was delighted. This bucked me up. I don't think she even noticed the smear of mustard on my pants from an unruly hot dog.

Beat Me to Seats

INSIDE THOSE Democrats (there must have been a thousand of ’em) had beaten me to all the seats. They were lapping up champagne and dry martinis in champagne glasses at a marvelous rate. In the center of this mob was a long table jammed with food, which looked

similar to that of Miss Russell's. All the chops

wore lace-paper trousers. My hostess observed a couple hundred standees,. including me, and she ordered up more chairs. I got one at a table occupied by a number of people, including a lady in a low-cut white dress. One of the waiters brought me a noggin of bubbly stuff and about then the society editor of a Kansas City paper came along with note pad to ask my neighbor what kind of dress she was wearing. She described it in detail, The society editor looked at me, I told her I was wearing a suit of gray rayon and a necktie that cost $2.50. She said she was not interested in my costume. By now the mob of Democrats around the buffet made it look like a free lunch, which, of course, it was. I got out of there, without ever seeing Mme. Mesta again, and Mad another hot dog at the lunchstand in the press room across the street. It cost 25 cents and tasted fine, with plenty of chopped pickle,

SIDE GLANCES

There Halls

Mississippi—R. C. Stovall, railroads, banks, Nebraska—Mrs. Essie Davis, cattle. Ohio—Ray Miller, law, real estate; Commerce Secretary . Charles Sawyer, 50aps, newspapers, radio stations, Pennsylvania—Joe Guffey, coal and oil; Richardson Dilworth, main line family fortune. Rhode Island—Perle ‘Mesta, Vermont—J, Spencer Love. Had enough? Believe me when I say the Democrats have millionaires. Somebody has to pay. for all those buttons.

Barbs—

A TENNEBSEE man dropped his glasses from a ‘rowboat and 10 minutes later pulled them in on a fish hook. Spectacles to behold. » . . THE trouble with most inventions to end wars is that ‘they ‘suost in a1 directions, . 8 YOU'LL have to get into the

ional guarded hints of it around the White House and State Department. But the Democratic keynote is the first flat ‘American statement from a responsible source that the administration's goal from the begin-

ning has been merely to save South Korea, that .

our original goal has been reached, : and therefore—by clear implication—if we. can get a “peace” on those there is nothing more to fight for. Whether such a reversal of policy, if executed by Washington, will win the November election remains to be seen. Meanwhile, unless completely disavowed by Washington, it can have dangerous and perhaps disastrous results in Korea .and elsewhere, The first Question it raises is: Why did Washington insist and the United Nations authorize the Allied military advance across North Korea, which cost s6 many American -lives and prolonged the war? The answer cannot be that if merely was to eliminate the then defeated - Red North Korean army, Because, on that score, it would be more necessary now to wipe out-the much larger undefeated Red Chinese army “ahich holds North Korea today. , Obviously ‘South Korea in the fiture “would be much more exposed to aggression by any Red North Korea than was the case two years ago when President Truman started out to liberate all Korea. : ; The second question is: What will be the effect on our ally, the Korean army, which contains patriots from the North as well as the South, if it learns we are deserting North Korea and leaving South Korea with a frontier as indefensible as it is fictitious? Third: What of the effect on American and United Nations troops and fliers who are risking their lives now to liberate North Korean territory? Fourth: What encouragement will it give

. Red China, if secure in its conquest of North

Korea, to repeat its victorious aggression in Indo-China and Formosa? . Fifth: “What would prevent Red China's acceptance as a member of the United Nations’ Security Couneil? And most of all: Would not this proposed American desertion of North Korea, after losing the war, be interpreted by Stalin as an even more welcome invitation than the fatal Acheson failure to include Korea when he announced our defense line in 19507

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‘Logical Choice’

MR. EDITOR:

- Will Rogers once sald: “Americans don’t Jott? about corruption, unless they're sharing n ”» a I do not quite agree. All of us admire those courageous crusaders who, having been inspired by the valor of Sen. Kefauver and his daring investigation of crime and corruption, have uncovered the racketeers, the grafters' in publie office and party bosses who “steal” political eon trol and maintain it by “packing” important departments or committees with unqualified but grateful dullards. - Nevertheless, it is wise to remember that political corruption starts on a small, local scale, Such corruption is substantiated by repeating reports to me indicating that in certain counties this year’s primary election was cicatriced by money imported and used for “buying” precinct committeemen with the intent of neminating specified candidates. This activity was re-en-forced by a program of distribution of illegal slates at polling places.

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I BELIEVE that Sen. Kefauver, “The Scourge Against Corruption,” should be nominated and elected President. I do not base my admiration entirely upon the fact that he exposed organized crime, embarrassing certain past and present governors and Senators, nor the fact that he defeated the putrid “Mister Ed" machine of Memphis, for he has other merits of more importance to his country, Sen. Kefauver’s middle-of-the-road foreign policy is out of sympathy with both internation. alist meddlers and the forces of reaction, Ultras conservatives frown upon his up-to-date philsophies while financial princes, with investments to protect in far corners of the world, sought out the strongest candidate possible to oppose him when they observed his increasing popularity. He is a moderate who believes in social Justice, in domestic affairs. A well developed conscience and a realistic approach to idealistie goals make him a logical choice for leader of the great American public, which shares these attributes. —Otis A. Kopp, Anderson.

"KNOW A FRIEND"

When you're way ahead on the winning side + ++ and your pockets bulge with dough . . , you will find that you have many friends . . . wherever you may go . . . no favor is too great for them . . . to grant in just your stead . . . and you will know no loneliness . . . so long as you're ahead . . . but should your luck turn toward the worst . . . and you've a worried mind + « « You'll wonder where your friends have gone + « +» for they're so hard to find ... and so it is throughout this life . . . true friends are far between . . . for most folks love a winner , .. and to losers they are mean. —By Ben Burroughs,

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