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The French Veto N SIGNING: the Bonn Peace Pact with the West German Republic, as well as a companion measure designed to "brfhg Western Germany into the European defense community, President Truman remarked that “this is the treaty taking Germany back into the family of nations.” However, this problem has not heen settled with quite that finality. Only the United States and Britain have ratified the two agreements, which do not become effective until they have been ratified by all the nations which are parties. Nations yet to give their approval are Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and West Germany itself. Approval by West Germany and France is by no means certain. The German Socialists are opposing the agreements be. cause they contend it will become an obstacle to German unification if the West German Republic becomes affiliated with the Atlantic Pact nations. France may withhold ratificafion simply to prevent the Germans from rearming. The veto privilege which France thus enjoys may prove almost as troublesome as Russia's much-abused veto right in the United Nations, With the latter experience before them, it is not easy to understand why Secretary of State Acheson and British Foreign Secretary Eden ever agreed to put such bargaining power in French hands. The North Atlantic defense arrangement will be lacking in ground strength without German participation. Soin a large degree that whole program hangs upon this single

clause in the Bonn agreements.

Punishing the Purse NFLATION, one of our most persistent enemies, seems to be taking off again for the upper reaches. « Unlike those other high-fliers—the so-called saucers— there is little mystery about price soarings. . Steel prices were provoked into a new upward spin by the strike, which shortened up supply, and the strike settlement, which raised wages and consequently prices. Now aluminum prices are being raised, and a wide

range of aluminum products will follow suit. LJ .

THE EFFECTS on the whold economy of price

increases in such basic commodities are almost limitless. But .

this isn't all— Price Boss Ellis Arnall predicts a big upswing in fresh fruit and vegetable prices, blaming this prospect on Congress’ recent action in exempting these products from controls. But the great drought now sweeping the land may be a much more serious factor. Food prices generally have hit an all-time high-—more than 135 per cent over the level of 1935-1939.

So another round of inflation is getting up steam. The .

reasons for it are many. : But the basic reason is the failure of the government to hold the line when the holding would have been effective— the instant the Korean War broke out. Instead, the Truman administration waited until inflationary pressures had been built up, then used only half-hearted measures to hold them back.

Windmill Winners

HE HELICOPTER, an awkward-looking machine, was the butt of many jokes in aviation until it proved its worth in rescue operations in World War II ‘and in Korea. Many men owe their lives to the “whirling palm tree” which was able to pick them up when they were wounded or isolated in the jungle or at sea. Now. the helicopter has flown the Atlantic, an exploit considered impossible a few years ago. Its longest lap, [celand to Scotland, was 940 miles. The helicopter is most valuable at short distances, of course. Because it almost literally can land on a dime, it will someday be used widely for airport shuttle services and other methods of avoiding dense ground traffic. In case of civilian disasters, too, it may save many lives. : It is true that the “flying windmill” is not a thing of beauty. But neither was the first Ford.

Defiant Crooks

AST YEAR, when Congress passed a law requiring professional gamblers to pay $50 for an annual permit, more than 22,000 -of them did so. They likewise paid the 10 per cent tax on gambling transactions. Now, however, the gamblers have decided to ignore the law. Although the deadline for new permits was June 30, only a handful has been sold. Yet gambling has increased almost everywhere, the authorities agree. The only conclusion is that the gamblers have decided “the heat is off” and that the government doesn’t care much whether gamblingegoes on or whether it pays the taxes the law requires. : The Justice Department and especially local authorities cannot tolerate this defiance. ] The control of gambling is primarily a job for the states and the municipalities, as Sen. Kefauver's crime committee pointed out. The federal authorities have their share of the task, too, and Congress spelled it out clearly.

Congress should see to it, when it meets again, that the

Justice Department does its duty.

Higgins, Builder NDREW J. HIGGINS built boats, and he built them quickly when they were sorely needed in the early months of World War II. From the English Channel to the Southwest" Pacific, Higgins boats carried Allied fighting men to the beaches, then backed off and went back for more. When this colorful and enterprising individual died in his home city of New Orleans the other day, his plants again were building a dozen kinds of small but important vessels for our Armed Forces. Like most men who are willing to try anything, Andrew Higgins did not succeed in every project he undertook. “But his successes were big ones, important to his country in its time of need and notable achievements of American

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MID-TERM CONVENTIONS

. +» By Peter Edson

Party ‘Boss Rule’ Politics Losing Ground

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—Behind the trials and tribulations of both Republican and Democratic National Conventions over the seating of “loyal” party delegates is a growing new movement in /.merican politics. Its purpose is to make the members of Congress more responsive to what is believed to be the will of a majority of the people. At present, it is believed that too many Senators and Representatives are more responsive to the will of the party bosses and their own convictions, The Idea for changing this situation has probably made more headway in the Democratic than in the Republican Party, But the rise of the insurgent Republican forces in southern siates from Florida to Texas shows that the idea is very much alive and kicking in the GOP. The aim of (he southern Republican revolters — largely pro-Eisenhower forces—was to take control of the party machinery away from the Old Guard regulars, For years this faction in control has heen operated more like a private club than-a party of people.

NEW JOB... By Max B. Cook

‘Saucers’ Lure Skywatchers

OPERATION S8KYWATCH-—with thousands of volunteer eyes scanning the skies 24 hours dally—has a new job. And it is proving even more exciting than just watching for invading enemy bombers. Along with the Regional Air Defense radar which sweeps skies over 38 states, and the Alr Defense Command's fast Interceptor groups, the S8kywatchers now are looking for the so-called “flying saucers.” Reports of saucers—single and in groups—have béen on the Increase for several days. Whether or not the saucers will prove a myth, their re-appearance is doing something that fear of enemy bombers failed to do. Defense areas which could not hegin to reach their quotas of volunteer skywatchers now are reporting renewed interest. The latest stimulus resulted from the Washington, D, C., reports of sighting a group of saucers, dispatching 600-mile-an-hour fighters and then losing contact as the “invaders” mysteriously put on terrific speed and disappeared. The fact that radar picked them up indicated that they were composed of something solid aside from just flame, This strengthened some official belief that they might be some sort of missile or aircraft.

Theories and Thrills

ON THE BASIS of reports thus far compiled, the U. 8. Air Force has no aircraft nor missile capable of attaining the speed credited to some of the elusive saucers. Great Britain has announced successful tests on a 2000-mile-an-hour guided missile whieh, it claims, can track and make contact with anything up to that speed. Thus far it is not in operation. Our Alr Force's newest and fastest guided missiles have not been thoroughly tested and their ultimate speed and guidance methods are

The nation’s scientists, including some of the most noted astronomers, have become vitally interested in the saucer reports. Theories include meteors, planets, reflections and just pure imagination. Government officials, questioning the possibility that the saucers conie from some other planet, grin when they admit that “if this should prove true, the planet is at least 50 years ahead of our own world.” To the thousands of skywatchers, however, the reported saucers have added. a new thrill to the tiresome job of scanning the skies. “It’s just like watching a fishing line” said one Ohio woman..“You expect that, any moment, vou'll feel a tug and pull in a big fish. We never know just when we'll pick up one of tHose saucers.”

What Others Say—

TO ALTER the law of the land to take action against a man of that caliber is like taking a steamroller to crack a nut.—The Marquis of Salisbury commenting on Britain's “Red” Dean of Canterbury, Dr. Hewlett Johnson, L A JE NOW everybody has to jump in and work. We have a long, hard campaign ahead of us.— Republican presidential nominee Dwight Eisenhower. . oD OUR banners are tattered and we have been duped by those who led us into the (Korean)

conflict--Donald FE. Wilson, National Commander of the American Legion. > > BD

ACTING is okay, but just as a sideline. I wouldn't want to depend on {t—Child movie star Claude Jarman Jr,

‘CITY EDITOR’

He seldom gets his name upon . . . a writeup or a story . .. and hardly ever does he

share . .. In a reporter's glory... it is his task to sift the news . . . that's made for us to read . . . and he must be a master when . . .

he's tracking down a lead . . . he is the inner workings of . . . a most complex machine . . . his knowledge makes the paper run . . . although it is unseen , . . and he is mostly always first . , . to hear news, bad or good . .. he must be tough but then again .. . his heart's not made of wood . . . and so I praise him to the sky . .. a man who though unsung ... is most important to us all . . . the old folks and the young. —Ben Burroughs.

REPORT TO CONGRESS . . .

President Truman Paints a Pretty Picture, Promises Plenty of Prosperity for Country

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4— President Truman painted this rosy picture in his midyear economic report to Congress— A nation bettering its standard of living for years to come, avoiding depressions by what we've learned in the past, and achieving a vastly increased

our greater armament.

Our output is now running $340 billion worth a year, and

are on the prices.)

- son and Wilson Wyatt.

crease in the labor force, a rise of efficiency .of around 2 per cent a year and some shortenIng of the working week? Or it might go to $420 billion or 8.8 =» :ven more if man-hour output rose by 3 per cent a year. He thinks man-hour production has _.been rising at a higher rate lately. (All these figures basis of present

We have to take

The Old Guard machine gained and maintained mo-e power by having the Republican Party's national ticket defeated than it stood

to gain in victory. This was the condition that.

led to the rise of pro-Eisenhower forces in the southern state conventions, ©“ Pb IN THE Democratic convention, the move for more democracy in shaping party policy was revealed in the "drive to write into the platform a plank favoring a change in the Senate rules, The change would limit Senate filibusters by a simple majority vote, instead of the two-thirds majority now required. Southern Democratic Senators opposed. this change. Their argument was that the Senate was a self-governing body. No one on the outside should tell the Senate how to behave. By this argument, the Senators indicated that they put themselves above the will of the party and the will of a majority of the people. Two years ago, the Republicans went through the same kind of a snake dance, It grew out of GOP National Committee Chairman Guy George

Full Speed Ahead

1952 WILL BE DIFFERENT . .

New Days Call

Gabrielson’s proposal for a mid-term declaration 'of party policy. Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio at first resisted this move. His argument was that between national conventions, the party policy was determined by the Republican members of the House and Senate. Both the Republican and Democratic Senators’ objections to outside interference were equivalent to saying that Congressmen were above party dictation and discipline and the will of the people. o ¢ & IT WAS to overcome this attitude that the American Political Science Association has been promoting the idea of mid-term national conventions. The purpose of these conventions would be to restate party policy and party objectives in the light of changing conditions. At present, the party platforms adopted by the presidential ‘ nominating conventions remain the party doctrine for four years. That is considered too long a time,

. By Charles Lucey

for New Ways,

So lke and Adlai Fall in Line

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—-New faces, new strategies and new techniques will combine in coming weeks to give America a sharply different presidential campaign than it has seen in recent years. - Democrat Adlai Stevenson's basic pitch is to show how a change in government—and his acceptance speech recognized the powerful argument for change—can be brought about without change of party. His appointment of an able Kentuckian, Wilson Wyatt, as campaign manager, shifts command away from the Truman administration and the Truman-McKinney bossed Democratic National Committee. : Top Democrats expect National Chairman Frank McKinney to depart as soon as a replacement is found—and the old tradition of finding an Irish Catholic to head the party organization is involved. Mr. McKinney's sponsor, Indiana's Frank McHale, has said he wants to quit. It will not be startling if a new chairman is from outside New Deal-Fair Deal circles, Certainly, President Truman will have an important campaign role, despite a fairly plain showing by Gov. Stevenson that he wanted no “crown prince” role as inheritor of the Truman mantle. Some party leaders see Mr. Truman as the one to hit back at the Republieans and defend past Democratic policy. Identification of the Stevenson campaign with Springfield rather than Washington is deliberate, of course. There'll be no overlooking of the Lincoln-Springfield tradition. Democratic leaders here report enthusiastic reaction to Gov. Stevenson's Chicago acceptance speech. The Governor unquestionably does well on television: Many already are comparing his approach to problems of the presidency to that of Weedrow Wilson. There's a real affinity between Gov. StevenNeither is the hamhanded type of politician who talks down to an audience. Both have been on the national scene -—Mr. Wyatt once was housing boss in Washing-

By John W. Love

have in the next 10 years as much of an increase in prices as we've had in the last 10, we'd begin to talk about a trillion-dollar country.

WHEN WE LOOK closely at some “of the circumstances that run along with this na-

der if more-expansion in the future promises vary much for

the individual. into- ac-

“tfonal growth we-have to-won-——

by 1960, the President said, we can lift it to nearly $440 billion. In fact, you can take most any set of statistics you like and come out with a bright vision for 1960. It results from compounding the annual rise in the output of industry and the cerfain increase in the working force due to the number of young people coming on. ” » » . LAST SPRING Prof, Sumner Slichter, Harvard economist arrived at estimates not: far below-the President's. The national output might

it go to ~ only $376 billion with the in-

count, said Mr. Slichter, such things as the improvement in education and its widespread effects, the use of more laborsaving machinery and new technologies, and the greater employment of women, All these boost the national production.

Speculators may be attracted °

by such forecasts, as they have been over many years in the past. Since the war the gains have been stimulated some-

what, partly by the develop-

ments in science. 3 Speculators have , profited much ‘more, however, by the

rise in prices. If we were to

President Truman points out that defense will take quite a chunk of the gains from here: on for a time. The burden has risen from about $19 billion to about $50 billion a year in two years, though deliveries are running at only about $30 billion now. We are not even paying for those in full. Mr. Slichter comes to the reluctant belief that maintaining our forces will cost about $50 billion a year. Each year the military services will want much redesigned equipment. 1f he turns out to be right, there

2 s half or more of our an-

ticipated gains. a ~ President Truman mentions

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ton—but they're essentially new faces to most Americans. On Gen. Eisenhower's side: Like Gov. Stevenson—but before him—the General brought in as his close-in political chief-of-staff an able younger man not widely known nationally — Gov. Sherman Adams of New Hampshire. He was one of thé earliest Eisenhower-for-President men. He plugged for the General in the U. 8. Governors’ Conference. He made a telling argument for the Eisenhower side in the Chicago convention battle over barring disputed state delegations from voting. GOP National Chairman Arthur Summerfield isn't new in national politics. But he isn’t part of the Old Guard, either. And in Arthur Vandenberg, Wesley Roberts, Wayne Hood and others rising to the top, the Eisenhower camp extends the “new faces” idea. ren. Eisenhower's projected campaign swing into the South is brand-new GOP politicking. Tom Dewey hit the border states and Wendell Willkie once dipped down as far as Texas, but no GOP candidate in many years has made a serious deep-South electioneering effort. Ike will. Gen. Eisenhower has announced that the pre-

convention Citizens for Eisenhower organization .

will be continued. There's hope much more can be done along this line, and outside the regular party organization, than in the past. The pros always are edgy about amateurs moving in on them, though, and if this one isn't pulled together smartly it could cause frictions. Both .the youngish vice presidential candidates—Democrat John Sparkman and Republican.Richard Nixon—will wage vastly more active campaigns than usually are waged by the No. 2 men. : They'll have a hard time covering more ground than Alben Barkley did in 1948, though —and Tom Dewey's strategists winced later when they realized what an effective voterouser he had beén wherever he went.

SIDE GLANCES

a list of expansions in social services, health services, education and pensions, all of which will have to be paid for. Mr. Slichter alludes to the big outlays cities will have to make for transit, sewerage and water services, and expenditures that will have to be made for highways,

= n ” PUTTING THE lists together, we can't help wondering how much the individual citizen can expect to spend from all these billions. He may be better off, let us concede, if he gets his share of the highways and pensions, but he’s not going to handle much of the noney.

Defense and all other things are not likely to leave him very much more spending money than he has today. He may not want very much welfare, but others will see that he pays: He may not. travel much, but he will put .up his share for those who do. And “anyway, the largest piece of the $100 billion will go to de- - fense. . . i , . g

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It does not permit a change In foreign policy objectives created by some mid-term develop. ment like the development of war in Korea. A restatement of party policy on the eve of midterm congressional elections would give the voters a clearer idea of the issues at stake, according to the political scientists’ theory.

President Truman has given his indorsement to the mid-term convention plan. For the Republicans, Rep. Jacob Javits of New York has been promoting it. Minnesota and Wisconsin Democratic state conventions indorsed it this year. But the effort to put a plank in the Democratic platform, favoring the calling of such a convention in 1954, failed to carry. The idea is not dead, however, and it is bound to grow. It has certain obvious objections, in addition to inconvenience and cost. The principal objection is that in subjecting members of Congress to more strict party control and discipline it would kill independence of thought and contribute to a more totalitarian form of government in America.

Hoosier Forum

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

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Drug Prices Hold Line MR. EDITOR: I would like to add my comments on the issue of Fair Trade, and. hope to clarify the question. The primary purpose of Fair Trade laws have been to give the owner of a patent or a trade mark the right to protect the sale of his property. Under-the Fair Trade law the owner can set a bottom price that he feels will meet competition and still get sales co-operation that he needs to put his product over. He is permitted to exercise his right. No one is forced or-re-quired-to-put-an-item under Fair-Trade: I believe statistics will back me when I say that drug prices are almost at the same level they were in 1939. Some prices are lower, many the same, and some 15 per cent up. Newspapers are double or more; food, the same; autormeiive and electric, building costs are way up the line, Next to rentals, I think we have kept drug prices pretty low. The only reason I can offer Is that our volume has tripled in the past 15 years. Our expenses have only doubled. I really do not feel elated for anything that Fair Trade has done for me, but it has stopped some nasty situations that occurred during the depression. This is my honest opinion of 25 years’ exe perience in the retail drug business.

—A City Pharmacist.

City Is Cleaner MR. EDITOR:

As reported just a few days ago, it was most Chapple, our Street Commissioner, was observed in the wee small hours of the morning sweeping glass from the street following an auto wreck.

It was revealed he was on his way home to catch a few winks of sleep after inspecting some of his night workers. This certainly should prove he'is on the job and not leaving his responsibilities to others, thus having a handy excuse to pass the buck. : . Being one who lives in the downtown area, and having done so for several years, I can truthfully say the streets and alleys are cleaner than I have seen them in years, I have talked with several of the employees of this department and everyone agrees Mr, Chapple not only expects a full day's work for a full day's pay, but demands it. This means the tax payers are getting one hundred cents value for their tax dollar. I am sure I express the thanks of many when I say: “Thanks for a job well done, Mr, Commissioner, and congratulations to Mayor Clark in making such a fine appointment.”

—Arthur M. Bowman, - 28 S. Capitol Ave., City.

Which Odor Worse? MR. EDITOR:

The Wall Street conventions have ended. Their hand-picked delegates have gone home

to try to reap some of the reward of the harvest

that is to come. I don’t know which was the worse, the odor from ‘the stockyards or the one from the conventions in the .cowbarn. I do knew the one from the cowbarn was the most harmful.

They worked this time through the governors of the 48 states. Even Indiana's motherlylooking governor with the white hat was in it. I suppose it extended on down to the county chairmen and even precinct committéeman. It all goes to show what a vast organization they have. For instance, the. international bankers with their great power centered in New York City, London, Moscow and Paris shape and form the policies of the worid.

Mr. Albert N.. Colegrove's articles in The Times on July 26, I presume he meant for a gag, but it. is more truth than joke. Democracy as we know it today is only a huge joke. A wealthy London financier once said: “Let me control the gold or money of a country ‘and I won't care who makes the laws.” How true it is.

—Ernest Bronnenberg, Anderson.

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