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Democrats Get Up Off the Floor

THE DEMOCRATS did a most unusual thing when they passed over five active aspirants and as many more receptive candidates and selected as their. presidential candidate a- man who seemed honestly not to want the

nomination. Loa We had here a rare instance wherein the nomination

apparently sought the man.

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And Adlai E. Stevenson, rated a political amateur when .

shosen governor of Illinois just four years ago—stepped for the first time upon the national stage last night, and

delivered an address which promises to raise this year's’

election contest to a new level of high purpose and campaign technique. ; vi oT In some ways Gov. Stevenson is the Democratic counterpart to the Republican's Gen. Eisenhower. Each represents the middle-road position in his party. Each is a “unity” candidate. Each chosen largely because in the opinion of convention delegates he was the party’s best hope to win. This ought to be a great campaign—and something new, if they both can keep it on the high level where they have started. Certainly, it will not resemble 1948—where the Democrats started from a dispirited, defeatist, divided convention, and wound up in a shrill whistle-stop victory over a smug, sluggish and coasting opposition.

ow... = = . THE WEEK in Chicago changed the approach of the Democratic Party. When the delegates met Monday they had their knives out for each other. : : It all started as a sight to gladden tired and anxious Republican eyes. But the party's regulars, the pros, led by Convention

Chairman Sam Rayburn, quieted the turbulence. North and :

South were seated as equals, and the week ended in a feast of harmony and common purpose. ‘ That was not the way four years ago, after the conven-

tions, of Philadelphia. This year the Democrats are not

asking quarter. the edge. Their spokesman has the manner of a statesman. has eloquence. mixture of the scholarship of Woodrow Wilson and the ‘affability of Franklin Roosevelt. SH : No greater contrast in political technique could have been presented than in the “give-'em-hell’ demagoguery by which President Truman capstoned his political career last

Matter of fact, they feel they have

. night, and candidate Stevenson's spiritual dedication to a

new and awesome responsibility.

= ” = ~ » = THERE WAS nothing cheap or tawdry in what Mr, Stevenson said. He looked toward tomorrow’s problems, not with cocksureness and swagger, but with humility and ‘prayer. Yet Mr. Stevenson goes into this campaign with an aid, and with a handicap, no recent candidate has had. He has to run side-by-side with Mr. Truman, the great whistlestopper. As the Democratic nominee, he inherits the Truman administration. He was no part of it—he would not have been nominated if he were—but it is his liability because he cannot separate himself from his party. It can be seen from last night's performance that the tactics of the Democrats will be to attack and attack and attack. . Such tactics Mr. Eisenhower can never meet hy going on the defensive. He will have to come out slugging.

The Sullivan Fund NDIANAPOLIS HAS SELDOM seen a finer practical move toward good community relations than the John J. Sullivan Fund that Dr. Bernard H. Pritchitt started this week. The fund is to be used to help educate the children left without a father when Patrolman John J. Sullivan was shot to death defending his home against an intruder. The youth charged with his murder is a Negro. Mr. Pritchitt is a Negro. ,

#-. There have been times, and there may still be places, “Where the killing of a white police officer by a Negro would "have touched off waves of racial antagonism. But in Indi-

anapolis today we have begun to learn that neither crime nor compassion draws any color line. There are poor, twisted criminal individuals in all races . . . and fortunately, there are also viduals like Dr. Pritchitt in every race..- None

has a monopoly in good or bad. ‘x » » ” ”

THERE: IS NO COLOR LINE to the Sullivan Fund, either. It was immediately indorsed by Mayor Clark, and is being helped by contributions from every racial and religious group in town. This may never be a large amount of money . . . and no amount, however large, could compensate the Sullivan children for the loss they have had. We hope it does become large enough to be of real practical value. But whether it does or not, its real worth lies in the proof it once again provides that in Indianapolis we are all one community, with hopes and aspirations and kindliness . . . and shortcomings : . . that bear no relation whatever to race or creed or color,

Hamming It Up ELEGATES to the Democratic National Convention, with an eye on television and an ear for radio, hammed up their proceedings to the point of exhaustion. The Republican convention had its share, too. Perhaps the only reason the Democratic Convention was worse, in this respect, was that the Democrats, meeting later, got their cues from the Republicans. If the next conventions are not to be dragged out interminably, and possibly lose their bored. television audiences, the convention planners may have to make some changes. An electric voting system might be an idea. . * The program committees of the two parties schedule enough ham to satiate even the most avid gluttons for pun-

ishment. But when every delegate has to make a speech in .

casting his vote, the ham only serves to make the $tockyard

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Expect U. S. OK On Tanker Dedl

WASHINGTON, July 26—The Danish tanker deal with Russia has dramatized again this gove ernment’s dilemma in trying to invoke the Battle Act. : Under the Act which became effective last February, the administration is required to cut

off aid to Allies which ship strategie goods to

the Soviet bloc. Exceptions: can be made if the mutual security administrator deems the termination of aid as detrimental to the security of the United Sates. In the light of the Danish experiefice, though,

exceptions might prove to be the rule, at least «

until contracts made before the Battle Act was passed dre fulfilled.

Denmark Vital

PRESIDENT TRUMAN is expeced shortly to notify appropriate Congressional committees that an exception has been made in thé case of Denmark , . . for obvious reasons. Denmark, astride the exit from the Baltic Sea, is vital to the stratégic plans for Western Europe's defense. : 2 Moreover, the Danes have heen generally cooperative ‘in NATO. To chop off aid at this juncture would jimmy the works for fair, in the judgment of officials. This is the view from this side of the Atlantic. To the Danes, the shipment of the tanker meant honoring a legitimate contract entered with the Russians back in 1948. They had already paid for it, a sum of roughly $3 million. But it was a principle, more than the money, that troubled the Danes. They maintained in the controversy stirred up by the tanker, which left Denmark for Russia on July 7, that they were morally and legally bound to fulfill the contract. And in the background of the dispute was a general uneasiness, evident elsewhere among Furopean partners, over what is regarded as unilateral action by the United States to decree what ean and cannot be shipped in trade with the Soviet bloc, regardless of when the trade agreements were made. :

Allies Agree

ALTHOUGH THE EUROPEAN Allies generally recognize and agree on the list of verboten items, tankers among them, they feel that contracts made some years ago should be filled.

The Battle Act makes no provision on this point and is held to be retroactive—a fact on which the chief disagreement occurs. Denmark’s Scandinavian neighbors firmly supported Copenhagen’s position. Trade officials here say that Congress’ effort to dry up strategic shipments to Russia is quite understandable. But the threat of cutting off aid, they add, is like using a cannon to kill a mouse. Nevertheless, the Act is on the books and it is acknowledged that it will be politically more difficult to make exceptions as’ time ‘goes on. 2) Thus far, two other ‘exceptions have been made, one in the case of Dutch shipments of oil drilling equipment to Russia and Italian delivery of machine tools to Romania. In the 1948 contract made by the Danes with the Russians two tankers were involved. The keel of the second has just been laid and

when it is finished another dispute is certain

to arise. ; But officials here are hoping that time may ease or eradicate the problem, for the second

tanker is not due to be finished for delivery until 1954,

‘MIND OF MAN'

The thoughts of man lie hidden in . . . a place we call the mind . . . and in this spot of understanding . . . many things we'll find +» « it is the nucleus of all . . , the things that we may do’. . . and by its functions we can make . . . the gayest heart feel blue . . , it is a secret hiding place . . . for things we dare not say . .. and in Hs portal dwell the acts . . . that show the righteous way . . . great love or hate live side by side , . . in this secretive home . . . and there inside may be the start - of works of art ox «+. but it is well to note that though . 4 the mind knows false from true . . . what it says and what it does e+. is up to the heart of vou.

—Ben Burroughs.

FIRST THINGS FIRST . . . By Bruce Biossat Foresees Long Battle On Senate Filibuster

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STILL TRYING . . . By Ernie Hill - End of Colonialism Not

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Is United Nations’ New Lesson

UNITED NATIONS, N, Y., July 26 — The military coup d’etat in Egypt has created further confusion in that unhappy countny.

King Farouk appears to be a virtual prisoner of a new army-imposed government which proposes to clean up ‘corruption. Washington and London are watching the situation closely to see what trend the military bosses will take. Meanwhile, a feeling of hopeless frustration pervades the United Nations in its consideration of problems involving the Moslem world. The happy faith that kicking European colonial powers out of North Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia solves all of the problems in that part of the world has come crash-

“ing down around our ears.

Morally, "there is an overpowering argument to permit all people to govern their own destinies regardless of their foolishness or backwardness. Often, their senses of values are different from ours. And only European egotism justifies long colonial periods. i But an end to colonialism is not a cure-all, the United Nations is sadly learning today.

A Strange Malady

. A STRANGE 20th Century malady that appears to require the services of a psychiatrist rather than a plain doctor is attacking such countries as Iran, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Indonesia and even Lebanon at times. : These are free and independent %ountries with "their own parliaments, kings, presidents, dictators and economic systems. , Yet they are still feverishly fighting a European colonialism that no longer exists for them. Iranian mobs kill hundreds as they stage

‘frenzied demonstrations shouting “death to the

British” and “death to the Americans.” The British oil company employees have been gone for 10 months and there is no one in the world to stop the Persians from doing whatever they wish with their petroleum. The same thing is true in Egypt. The British gave up their barracks in Cairo several years ago and now only have several thousand soldiers far away in the canal zone where they play no part in the Egyptian government.

SIDE GLANCES

' Yet the campaign against “British imperialism” is more frenzied today than it was when the British occupied Cairo and Alexandria.

Syria and the Lebanon, freed from French -

administration after the second world war, are still throwing around the same anticolonial slogans that were so popular during French days. Syria is inclined to transfer most of its antiforeign hatred to the United States although it strains a point to call the United

‘States colonial. The Americans in Damascus

are trying to give away foreign aid and spread a little Western culture.

Lebanon, comparatively stable. has been

.edging toward a dictatorship in the last, fews

weeks, : How to help these countries banish these phobias is a problem the United Nations must.

try and solve.

Exploit Dead Issues

REASONING HAS had little effect. United Nations experts say that the great difficulty can he traced back to demagogs and extreme nationalists. who are adequately clever at grabbing political power by shouting hackneyed slogans that no longer have meaning. In Cairo, a member of the Nationalist WAFD party told me that a ‘settlement of all BritishEgyptian problems would rob his party of the source of its strength—anti-British slogans, The United Nations is of the opinion that demagogy will continue to exploit these dead issues until the day when the people of North Africa, the Middle East and Asia arrive at an educational state where they can differentiate between facts and political fiction.

What Others Say—

AS LONG as both sides are talking directly about the problems at hand, there is a possibility of something constructive coming out of the Korean truce talks.—Brig Gen. William P, Nuckols, Allied spokesman.

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Hoosier Forum “| do not agree with a word that you

say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

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‘Facts Misstated’ MR. EDITOR: © A letter in this column headed “Test Oldtimerss should not get by unanswered for ‘it is a misstatement of facts backed by statistics, Local and national records show that it is the young driver who is responsible for the majority of accidents. Indeed, insurance

driver is under 25 years

* companies have yea now that relieves them e

from damage If of age. I have been driving 36 years. I am handicapped by defective hearing, but. never have been responsible for a single accident, although I have weathered a score of them.. There are oldsters with defective vision on the roads, but that does not condemn all oldsters. Indeed, the old driver has years of experience, mature judgment, has no desire to “show off” and usually has more courtesy, regard for the other fellow, regard for human life. In a word he has learned it is better to be safe than sorry. 4 All accidents occur in a matter of seconds. If you had any way to get the facts you would

learn in those few. seconds the driver's mind

is occupied with something not akin to safety. Paniel Webster once settled in a few minutes a law suit that had baffled a battery of learned - attorneys for weeks. When asked how he arrived at his point, he replied that he had dismissed everything else from his mind. That is exactly the only way to drive a car or truck. Let nothing but safety enter your mind while behind the wheel. Keep your eyes on the road ahead, behind and at your side. No matter how competent you are, you are always at the mercy of the drunk, the roadhog, the inexperienced, the smart aleck, the speed maniac.

~—Pat Hogan, Columbus. .

Fair Trade Protection

MR. EDITOR: I wish to take exception to your criticism of the President signing the Fair Trade bill of recent date. In the first place, the bill as passed is not

. a price-fixing bill, for prices are governed by

competition in every field of merchandising, but what it does is to prevent radical cutters using trade-marked products as a football to demoralize the sale of a particular item which the manufacturer has spent millions of dollars to create a demand for and winning a favorable reputation for quality and price. With a loss-leader as a bait, he entices the innocent customer into hig store and palms oft on him an inferior. item with a huge profit to himself. . Fair trade has kept millions of small merchants from bankruptcy and kept solvent many companies who would otherwise suffer a loss of business and a reputation for quality. Even newspapers and magazine publishers maintain a certain price and standard, so why are not small merchants entitled to the same protection? . Fair Trade has been passed by 45 states and several recent surveys by independent research organizations “have shown that the average prices on popular items are less than similar items in states not having this law. ; I trust that I have shown to you that Fair Trade is here to stay and benefits the consumer.

—J. J. Urvy; 1401 8. 8d St., Terre Haute.

Wolf Bait MR. EDITOR:

Referring to an drticle in your paper last week saying our city is so full of wolves, I don't wonder. If you ask me they have something to howl! at. ee Our young girls, wlves, mothers and even grandmothers parade the streets with not much more on than Eve wore in the Garden of Eden. I don't blame them for howling. When Eve realized she was exposing her torso she quickly hid and made a garment from fig leaves. Come on ladies, get dressed and the wolves won't bother you half so much. If you could hear the remarks I hear from gentlemen, and I said gentlemen, you surely would quit goin around in your disgraceful garb. You oi feel more like" making them ankle length and throat high instead of a strap or halter. You won't agree with me, but it's disgraceful to the young, shocking to the {ged, and unpleasant in the sight of God. There wouldn't be so many. wolves if you dressed right and did not encourage their howling.

—M. E. B, City.

MOSCOW VIEW ... By Albert N. Colegrove Two Conventions Going at Chicago

CHICAGO, July 26-—S8en. William Benton, Connecticut Democrat, foresees a “long, tough, ‘brutal fight” to crack

the celebrated Senate filibuster and demolish that prime barrier to federal civil rights legislation. - ' His stubborn fight on this issue in the Democratic convention he views as the barest beginning. Hammering away like that in a great public forum, he feels, helps to build pressures. But it will take more than one good pounding to convince the Senate to change its rules —as it must, declares Benton, before filibustering can be choked off and the practice of talking bills to death is ended. Parading around . in his breezy 20th floor hotel suite in pale green shorts, Benton, a

realist who keeps his optimism, °

slammed hard at the filibuster tradition. “Here's what it take to do this job: “First of all, you'll have to have a strong, tough president with a heavy popular backing. “Second, he'll need powerful lHeutenants in the Senate who can help carry out his wishes. “Third, you'll have to have had a Democratic landslide at the polls which would sweep into the Senate many more Northern liberals than are there now (to increase their strength relative to the South), “And, last, you'll have to gét a cleanup in the Republican party.

will really

“Ag it {8 now, many Republi- )

cans vote with their Southern colieagues in this fight.”

. ” » BENTON believes such an array of power, plus the passage of time to allow public pressures to build, is the only prescription that will work, The reason is embedded deep in the Senate's rules of opera-

tion. The critical rule is rule

22. It provides that Senate debate on any issue may be shut off when 64 Senators—two-

thirds of the full body-—so vote, That is what is meant by cloture. But there is a crucial exception. It goes by the disarming title of subsection 3. -And it states thafgloture—the closing off of debate—does not apply to a motion to change the rules of the Senate. The situation is this: The Southern Senators, with some Republican allies, can almost certainly muster 33 stalwarts to block cloture and keep a filibuster going. enton and others therefore want to change the rule zo that a simple majority of those voting and present full Senate) may shut off debate after 15 days on an issue. or a two-thirds majority of those present and voting may end debate after four days. ” ” n SUPPOSE Benton could get a change out of the Senate rules committee—a difficult task f{tself-—and put it up for floor discussion. Under =ubsection 3 of rule 22 the ‘agreement on hiz motion could never be concluded by cloture. That little technicality is thus the real obstacle, It makes an almost unbreakable circle. Rule 22 in practice allows Senators to talk a bill into oblivion. But you can't readily change rule 22 because that very regulation prescribes unlimited debate on changing the rules. .

faid Benton: “Vice President «+ Barklev warned the Senate in 19840

when it adopted the rule that ft would freeze the filibuster into perpetuity. That iz vir-

tually what has heen done.”

" It is the effectiveness of this perpetuating device that leads Benton to acknowledge that the path to civil rights action is long and hard,

a." a : ' HE KNOWS that the con-

.ditions he has projected as

essential to success—a strong President and a more powerful Northern Democratic wing

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"Mom didn't tell me you were on a diet when | came to visit you, Grandma! Where's the nearest bakery?"

abetted by more cooperative Republicans—might not occur in proper combination for years, “Still, that's no reason not to make the fight,” he said. “Our weakness on civil rights is the No. 1 cutting edge the Soviet Union applies against us in many parts of the world. If we can only establish the equality our ideals profess, it would undercut the Communist argument against us and be worth billions ef dollars in national “security.” : A " . Mostly, Benton leaves to others the general debate about the need for civil rights laws. To him it iz all just “rhetoric” zo long as-the.Sen-

. ®te permits filibustering. For

right now you couldn't get one clause of a civil rights law past that verbal barrage. That's why Benton trains his sights on rule 22. You have to knock out the artillery; he believes, before you can, go charging into your opponent's firmly fixed lines. Simply a matter of first things first. 3

Barbs—

BANDITS held up a bus driver in an Illinois town. Add one more excuse for being behind schedule.

‘ uy = ~ POLICE found an Indiana boy of 5 after he had taken a five-milg stroll. Maybe mother just sent him to the store.

WASHINGTON, July 26 -— There must be two Democratic conventions going on at Chicago.

There's the one most Americans read about in the newspapers and see on-television. And there's the one the Russians keep telling. about on their Moscow broadcasts, which are picked up here. Any similarity between the two is pure oversight. For stark drama and magnificent corn, that convention “reported” by Moscow radio to the home folks makes the other one seem paler than new cider. rn n n THE WAY THE hear it— ; “Painted girls’ dance “acrobatic can-cans” atop gay floats in convention hall, The delegates, mostly drunk, are “almost all $20,000-a-year men.” . There's a reason for all this* hoopla, Moscow explains. Something has to be done to keep the down-trodden proletariat from realizing what's really going on. You see—shhh-—there's really no difference between the Democratic and Republican Parties. ‘ Same bunch of international bankers and munitions makers run them both. You know — the Morgans, the DuPonts, the Mellons, the Fords and ‘the rayon wust,” whatever that is. . Once every four years, Wall Street puts on two big shows -~the Republican and Democrat conventions—to make the people think they have some-

Russians

‘thing to do with who'll be

President. “But the truth is,” explains Moscow radio, that the real decisions “are actually decided in the smoking room.” (Honest, that’s what the man said.)

Eisenhower, Stevenson, Taft, /

Barkley, Warren, Harriman, Russell, Kerr, Kefauver — all are “either bankers or the mouthpieces of bank¥rs,” Mos-

cow declares. And that goes for Harry Truman, too.

» ” » THE MOST HYSTERICAL account was supplied in English by one Viadimir Morev, a commentator who claims to have observed personally the 1948 conventions in Philadelphia, . Morev's research then and , now portrayed the delegates to the conventions as an amiable mob of deluded stiffs, “plastered over with badges and having fine time” and erroneously believing they were of some importance, Actually, Morev hleated blandly, the nominees . were chosen by the Chase National Bank, Detroit automobile makers and half a dozen other representatives of Wall Street. All" of these “facts” were hidden from the American people by the monopolists of press and radio, Morev said. Then, with the characteristic Inconsistency of a Russian propagandist, Morev sought to prove his contention that the conventions were rigged by quoting as his sources New York and Chicago newspapers and national magazines, Morev seemed to suggest that a meeting of the Minsk Local of the Communist Party was more free and Democratic than the Chicago conventions. n ~ o : BLEEDING FOR the delegates, though, is the Morev specialty, . . Claiming. tor quote a New York journal, Morev says the selection of candidates at the

“conventions “takes place with-

out the delegates and even without their knowledge.” The gimmick in Morev’s spiel, however, is that Wall Street money rules both con-

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States, and to support his claim he quotes such widely disparate sources as the Alsop brothers. “the Chicago’ Tribune and Look magazine,

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