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The GOP Clears Its Decks

THE unanimous vote of the Republican State Committee to retain Cale J. Holder as State Chairman was, in effect, a decision to keep the Republican Party in Indiana intact and united. aid : : Any other course would have torn the party apart beyond hope of repair just as a crucial election campaign is starting. There can be no doubt whatever that the present State GOP organization represents the Republican voters of Indiana. It won overwhelming indorsement of those voters in every one of the state's 92 counties in the primary elections only three months ago. ‘ Within a month after those elections it began to get arrogant demands from a self-appointed “boss” who failed to carry a single county election and who did not have a majority of delegates in even one county convention that it abdicate, throw out its National Committeeman and State Chairman and other officers, and fill their places with men chosen by him. Unimpressed by bluster and threats, the State Committee has very wisely refused to do so.

= # ITS ACTION this week paves the way for genuine party harmony and for an effective campaign for all Republican candidates, both State and National this fall. Mr. Holder, who has ably built the strong party organization now in existence, immediately invited the little minority group which had wanted his political scalp to join in that campaign. Some of them promptly did. We hope that all do. . : : Even with a united party and a fighting campaign Republican victory in-Indiana is by rio means certain this fall. { With anything less than that its prospects in Indiana are dim indeed. -

High Road and Low Road RANK E. McKinney, President Truman's man, will stay on as Democratic national chairman, at least temporarily—on the word of the new leader, Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson. . Mr. McKinney announces the outgoing President will take to the stump for the Democratic ticket. i So the Democrats, in effect, will have two campaigns. They will have the scholarly, thoughtful, face-up-to-the problem speeches of Gov. Stevenson, as indicated by his acceptance address Saturday morning. They will have the give-'em-hell, braggadocio make-your-own-issues whistlestoppers of Harry Truman. ‘ Mr. Stevenson, at Chicago, spoke of “both” Republican parties—meaning the Eisenhowers and the Tafts. Much will be made by the Democrats of the “split personality” of the Republican Party. But the different approaches of Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Truman will get as much notice. Mr. Stevenson is the candidate, but Mr. Truman will be “running,” too, and probably hard. After all, his “legacy” to the next President will be a factor in the election decision —inescapably. His presence in the campaign will sharpen the issue. Adlai will take the high road and Harry the low road and Ike will have to hustle to be there before them.

Political Football EN. HERBERT H. LEHMAN OF NEW YORK has warned Sen. John J. Sparkman of Alabama—Gov. Stevenson's running mate—the ticket will be weakened in New York State unless he gives his wholehearted support to the civil rights plank in the Democratic platform. The presumption is Sen. Sparkman accepted this plank, as well as the rest of the platform, when he accepted the vice presidential nomination. : But any new-found enthusiasm the Alabama Senator might show Yor that plank in order to strengthen the party in the North would be just as likely to weaken the ticket in the South. So the Stevenson-Sparkman campaign managers will not thank the New York Senator for pricking this half-healed sore. The civil rights zealots overplayed their hand at Chicago after getting what they wanted in the platform, by attempting to rub Virginia's nose in the dirt. This was resented by middle-of-the-road Democrats and may have been one of the factors behind Sen. Sparkman’s selection for second place on the ticket.

3rien McMahon SEN. BRIEN McMAHON (D. Conn.) who died yesterday at 48, was one of the first members of Congress to ecognize the tremendous significance of atomic energy— oth in warfare and in peaceful uses. He was chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, which ha§ done a singularly conipetent job of leading the way in the development of this complex new servant of mankind. He led the fight for civilian control of atomic power and handled the necessarily confidential phases with finesse and good sense His death from cancer is the more tragic because it,is in the field of atomic energy, where Sen. McMahon exercised so much vision, that some of the most hopeful research has been done on that dread disease.

Viva Puerto Rico WHEN Puerto Rico became a “commonwealth” in ceremonies last week end, it was a notable event for the United States as well as for the people of that beautiful island. They at last have achieved the maximum of selfgovernment within the American system, and they deserve it, Seized from Spain in the war of 1898, Puerto Rico "for many years has had an ambiguous political satus. Yet its people became loyal Americans, They fought in our wars, they embraced our political institutions. Despite the burden of an enormous population density, they have achieved the highest standards of living in the Caribbean. As its governor, Munoz Marin, has put it, Puerto Rico bas become our “show window in Latin America” because it has adopted the political and economic methods of the United States and at the same time retained its historic

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LEWIS’ CAMPAIGN BEGINS . . . By Fred W. Perkins

Wage-Price Race To

WASHINGTON, July 20-—The government's look-out men on the anti-inflation bastions have their eyes peeled for more raising of wages and prices to follow the steel settlement. : Higher prices for goods made of steel are certain, because of a reluctant agreement by the White House to authorize price increases of $5.20 a ton. This increase was intended to cover not only the wage boosts won by the CIO United Steelworkers, but also hiked freight rates and other added costs to steelmakers. Former Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson and others have predicted that the boosts in steel will force prices higher generally, and that other unions will demand wage advances corresponding to those of the CIO United Steelworkers, If these forecasts prove true, the country is in for a wage-price race to accompany the current political battle. “sb THE UNION RESPONSE to the steel settlement is shown by the beginning of a long-ex-pected campaign by John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers president. Mr. Lewis apparently had been waiting for the steel agreement to be

IN THE DARK . . . By Ludwell Denny Allies Misjudge Egyptian Crisis

WASHINGTON, July 20 — London and Washington are whistling in the dark of the Egyptian crisis without having the faintest notion of the future, They did not know the military coup was coming. They did not think it would result in the King's abdication. And they cannot guess what will happen next, - This failure in Allied intelligence was due partly to the fact Allied diplomats were closer to the King and politicians than to the people, and Allied attaches were closer to the Army old guard than to the younger officers who supported Gen. Mohammed Naguib’s successful coup. The Allies have been misjudging the Egyptain crisis for many months because of their now-exploded theory that King Farouk was the strongest figure in the picture and their best hope for a foreign settlement. They recognized that the King, in his struggle with crooked and anti-foreign politicians, was powerless without Army loyalty—but they took that for granted. Their second miscalculation was to suppose that the king would—or could—clean up political and military corruption when so many palace favorites were involved. In the six months since the king took over the government, after the January anti-foreign riots, he demon-

strated that a playboy monarch surrounded by

questionable friends cannot produce sudden reforms, much less win popular confidence.

Few Hopeful Factors

AS, FOR THE FUTURE, there are a few Bojpe; | factors—though so far these are supercial: Gen. Maguib says foreign lives and propert will be protected. He says his only re > to eliminate political and army thievery .and bribery, and protect the constitution. He says the army will not Interfere in politics. That sounds fine. It may even -be sincere. But, if not insincere, it at least is extremely naive. A military coup constitutes revolutionary interference of a kind that cannot be discontinued in a day. For better or worse, Gen. Naguib is in facet a military dictator, regardless of how he may choose to dress it up for domestic or foreign appearances. There are signs that already he has gone further that he originally intended, and inexorable results of his acts will force him to go still further.

Naguib May Be Front

ONE DANGER is he does not appear to have any carefully matured plan of national reform or responsible associates, and the old guard he put out the front door will return through the back door. If he can do for Egypt what Kemal did for Turkey, his country and the world will be his debtors. But most military dictatorships do not turn out that way. The chief danger is he will not control fanatical nationalism, but front for it, His attitude toward the Allied offer to co-operate with Egypt in a mid-East defense system, including Suez, will be the test. If he tries to repeat the black-mail-neutralism of recent Egyptian policy, in the name of saving his country from Britain, he will be preparing the way for Stalin.

Barbs—

A PENNY for your thoughts—that's about the only thing that is cheap these days. > . UNCLE SAM wastes a lot of money trying to find out what the cost of living has done. And how easily we could tell him, LI IT WILL be nice when the political season is over and all of the bunkers will be on the golf courses, : Se > @ THE average person is said to be sick only eight days each year. Yet the first of the month comes 12 times. <> @ IF YOU enjoy driving arguments home, simply let the Mrs, ride in the back seat. SBD VERY few people stiek their neck out when they are keeping their chin up. THE younger generation learns quickly from the old, says a writer. Maybe that's too bad. LI THE barber meets a lot of self-made men who forgot to put hair on their heads.

SIDE GLANCES

.minous Coal Operators Association, an organi-

reached. He anticipated it by a couple of days but didn't guess wrong om the outcome. Mr. Lewis, intending to end the present coal miners’ labor contract on Sept. 20, apparently has served notices only on the Bitu-

zation made up mostly of large producers in western Pennsylvania and Ohio. It includes all the “captive” mines of the steel companies and is headed by Harry M. Moses.

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The Moses organization represents about onethird. of national coal production. Outside it—

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head—are the large production districts of the Midwest and those banded together in the Southern Coal Producers Assn. The Southern group for years has been fighting the miners’ union president, and he has followed a policy of ignoring or by-passing it when possible. Some of its members say they are not surprised they

And Now to Bury the Hatchet—

‘THINGS’ FROM AFAR? . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Top U.S. Authority Convinced Those Flying Saucers Are Real

WASHINGTON, July 29—Maj. Don Keyhoe, USMC (Ret.), is our most modest and unassuming citizen hereabouts. He just happens in his own quiet way to be America’s leading authority on flying saucers. His honest but reluctant opinfon Is that the mysterious red-orange: lights blinking lately over Washington, Chicago and many another place are manifestations from another world.

Do not worry about them, the major adds.

They've been with us for the last 200 years and they haven’t bit yet. Even so, it seemed to me that I had a hairraising lunch with Maj. Keyhoe. I don’t suppose there's anything quite so scary as the unknown. Causes you to imagine things. So with no imaginings whatever, I'll try to tell you exactly what the major had to say. After a distinguished wartime career as a Marine Corps flyer, he became an aviation writer, This led him to do a little piece about saucers for True magazine; it caused such a sensation in military circles that he later wrote the best-seller, “Flying Saucers Are Real.”

Others ‘Converted’

ALL OTHER authorities are coming around now to agree with him and no longer do we get the suggestion from the Pentagon that reports

. of saucers are hallucinations and probably

drunken at that. Maj. Keyhoe, who 'has traced down dozens of such stories and talked to their goggle-eyed tellers (mostly commercial aviators), said there were three theories about saucers: ONE-—They are a natural phenomenon growing out of atomic explosions. TWO-—They are a secret weapon, developed either by the United States or Russia. THREE--They are exploratory vehicles from a far-advanced civilization on another planet. No. 1 he discounts because the saucers do not travel haphazardly; they maneuver, as if controlled by a brain, possibly not human, but still an intelligent chunk of gray matter.

Can't Keep Secrets

THE SECOND THEORY could not possibly be true, he believes, because mere humans cannot keep secrets so well. If the Russians had

such a machine, they’d have used it before now, he continues, while, if we had developed it, at least some of our high brass would know something about it. That leaves No. 3, or what he calls the extraterrestrial theory.

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WASHINGTON, July 20—A little arithmetic and a woolly minded ghost helped persuade Democratic leaders that they were on firm ground in nominating a man from the deep South to be their candidate for Vice President.

The ghost was all that remained of the threat posed by Henry Wallace and his Progressive party in 1948. Mr, Wallace polled 1,157,100 votes in '48—a relatively insignificant total except for the fact that more than 500,000 came from New York and threw that state’s 47 electoral votes to the Republicans. This year, the ballots cast in 1948 for the Progressive party may be expected to go to the Democrats, . » » LAST WEEK in Chicago, the Democratic bosses had to weigh these two factors in deciding on a Vice Presidential candidate: A Southerner obviously was desirable as a sop to the chronically ruffled states south of the Mason-Dix-‘on line; such a -choice might be construed as an affront by Negro politicians in the North, It was. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Negro New York Con-

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“I came to the last-named conclusion reluctantly,” he said, “because none of the other theories fits the known facts. This one does. I believe further that these so-called saucers are unmanned and controlled from afar, perhaps by radio from a space ship so high that it cannot possibly be detected.” The saucers fly at hundreds of miles an hour and somethimes make right-angled turns without slackening speed, he added. No human being, or even humanlike creature, could withstand such suddenly developed pressures.

Seen by Hundreds MAJ. KEYHOE said that more than 1000 fiy-ing-saucer incidents have been logged by the Air Force. Many others have not been reported because those who saw them kept quiet ‘on fear of being ridiculed. The machines, in general, seem

to be in the shape of an egg, with the large end

in front. This has caused them to look like disks sometimes, while others have insisted they saw something that was cigar-shaped. At night they usually glow deep orange. “In my own opinion,” the major continued, “there is no cause for fear. For at least 200 years now, astronomers, sea captains and

_ others of repute have reported seeing similar

objects. Only lately have the reports been numerous, but that simply is because we now are able to see better than we did in the horse-and-buggy age.” There you are. If the major's opinion is correct, somebody somewhere has a civilization at least a couple of centuries ahead of our own. Makes you wonder...

What Others Say—

A LOT of people last summer used up their surplus cash and bought heavily on time payments. I think this situation is really holding the lid on how—President Rowland Jones Jr. of American Retail Federation. es od &

TODAY we cannot anticipate. “light” polio years—Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis,

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PROFIT sharing helps because it prevents development of the feeling that workingmen are a class apart and makes them feel they will get 4 reward for initiative and industry—Sen. Robert Taft (R. 0.).

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Political Battle

have received no contract-termination notices

‘they don’t expect any.

Under this strategy, Mr. Lewis is expected to make a new contract with the Moses association, and close down by strikes the mines of all companies and groups that do not agree to the same terms. That was his successful pro--gram 18 months ago. : > > %

BUT THIS TIME. there are difficulties that could keep the plan: from working outside the companies in the Moses group—or at least would prevent long shutdowns. One difficulty is in the unusually large supply of mined coal above ground—enough, if it were distributed evenly, to supply the country’s needs for two months. This puts many operators in a mood to stand a strike of some length. A second factor fs that owners of the “commercial” mines—those that sell to industry generally—are becoming ine creasingly opposed to their labor contracts being written by steel company interests. Another is that the big miners’ union is having more trou= ble with non-union movements.

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Everyone is interested in avoiding accidents,

Here is a poem that was given to me by my

employer, Hall Freight Lines, that I think is & pretty good poem to think about. Could you find a place for it in your paper sa

will read it and think about it, too? ; others Do ;

wr . 1 If everyone who drives a car could lie a montH

in bed With broken bones and stitched-up wounds,

or fractures of the head, : And there endure the agonies that many peoplq

do; They'd never preach safety any more to m4 or you.

; If everyone could stand beside the bed of a close

friend,

And hear the doctor say “no hopes” hefor¢ the fatal end,

And see him there unconscious, never knowing , what took place, u : The laws and rules of trafic I am sure we'd soon embrace. : If everyone could meet the wife and children left behind And step into the darkened homes where once the sunshine shined, And look upon that vacant chair where Daddy used to sit, T'm sure each reckless driver would be forced to think a bit. If everyone would realize pedeestrians on the street Have just as much the right-of-way as those upon the seat, And train their eyes for children who run recklessly at play, This steady toll of human lives would drop from day to day. If everyone who drives a car would heed the danger signs, Placed by highway engineers who also marked the lines, To keep the traffic in the lane and give it proper

space, ; The accidents we read about could not have taken place. And last—if he who takes the wheel would say a little prayer And keep in mind those in the car dependent on his care, ? And make a vow and pledge himself to never take a chance, The great crusade for safety then would suddenly advance. ~— Anonymous.

A Plea for Pets MR. EDITOR:

I would like to ask people to stop the eruel and inhuman practice of abandoning animals on the highways and in the country. Any animal no longer wanted should. be brought to organizations which will dispose of them or painlessly destroy them. It is heartbreaking to see these poor oreatures starving on the wooded areas and killed on the roads.

If you have a dog or cat you do not want, /\

there is no problem of disposing of it. , Pets have brought much pleasure and hap« piness to many families, so let's hope all kin@ and intelligent people will de everything pose sible for these friendless creatures which cannot

speak for themselves. Mrs. r 8, Tit, 4

Another Chance A MR. EDITOR: '

The Democratic nomination compares with that of a thoroughbred putting his whole heart and energy toward winning a race only te have a balky straggler in a final burst of speed 80 over the finish line first, Gov. Stevenson worked to clean up his state, you'll say, but Sen. Kefauver's aim was to clean up the nation. Sen. Kefauver had too much against him thig7fime, but his chance is yet to Some. The Peop Choice has truly a winner's ea

—Katherine Allen, Southport

‘Civil Rights’

Apd I know that is the feeling man’s political assets out- and you can afford to subtract 0 egroes all over the con- weighed his liabilities. whatever vention floor.” He added that . » = votes We lode became

if Gen. Eisenhower takes a strong stand on eivil rights, “which he hasn't done so far ~—he's in.” The Democratic king-makers unquestionably anticipated this reaction. Against this they balanced the fact that there was no Henry Wallace to drain off vital New York votes this time. Equally important, with Sen. Sparkman on the ticket it was unlikely there'd be a States Rights party to siphon off strength in the South. Plainly the Democratic leaders decided that Sen. Spark-

IN 1948, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey got 2,828,764 votes in New York state. President Truman got 2,572,048. Had he got the progressive vote, he would have carried the state by a comfortable margin. In the South, the States Righters drew 1,169,312 votes, winning four states and 38 traditionally Democratic. electoral votes, The Dembvcratic leaders’ arithmetic now goes like this: Add to the Democratic 1948 total the Progressive Party vote and the Dixlecrat vote

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Steel Si Layoffs

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