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The Indianapolis Times Tn 8 n 1 P ) : - ’ " : " : y 6 A Both Parties Bid For Vital Farmers ote M. FW JB NE HENRY W. MANZ . ; ; : ROY Sy - HOWARD WALTER LECRRO Business Manager WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—The fight for the The Republican platform condemns the pro- The Republican platform defends the flexible expanded farm credit for young men, veterans, : - - — farm vote in the November presidential elections posed but never adopted Brannan farm plan, price-support plan initiated by the Republican- tenants and low-income farmers, to assist them By PAGE 12 Tuesday, Aug. 9, 1952 is again crucial. The Democratic platform doesn’t mention it by controled 80th Congress in 1948, The Demo- in becoming farm owners. ANOTE . mm—— It has been a general assumption that it was that name. cratic platform specifically condemns it. Both platforms pledge support to farmer co- LINE of Ousis ane” orillsbad Gail. BY Jnciaospols Tries Eusieh the farm vote opposition to Republican farm On the question of price supports for perish- The Republican platform calls for “on-the- operatives. The Democratic platform goes far- shows fou _ ing Cove2l4 W Matyiand 8t. Postal Zone § Member of policies of 1948 which gave Wisconsin, Illinois, able farm crops, which is the essence of the farm” crop storage. The Democratic platform ther in a promise of “protection from punitive United Press Scriops HOA Henn" Iowa, and Ohio to the Democrats, and so en- Brannan plan, the Democratic platform says, calls for “adequate storage facilities . . . for taxation.” ; nel 10 Su Pr County § cents a copy for daily and 10k abled President Truman to win the election four ‘We continue to advocate , . . extending price needed reserves for defense and other emergency The Republican platform urges “further de- “Masquerac tor Bunday: delivered by carrier’ daily. and Sunday, 3b & years ago. supports to other storables (crops) ahd to . .. requirements, in order to protect the integrity of velopment of rural electrification and commu. So man aay ay ny Se ener daily 3500 "Canada ann After the Chicago conventions in July, a perishable commodities Which account for three the farm price-support programs.” nication (rural telephones) with federally and TV — Rexico gaily $1 10 month Snday gg ied number of farm-state newspaper editors in at- fourths of all farm income. It was on this crop storage issue that the assisted power . .. when not available through after the tendance expressed some fears that "The Re- The Republican platform plank on perishable Republicans stubbed their toes in 1948. Their private enterprise at fair rates.” all, “What > Telephone PL aza 5551 publicans may have done it again.” commodities says, “ .,. we recommend locally 1952 platform shows no change in view. The Democratic platform takes eredit for wonder te Wili-Ping Their Own Wii By this they meant that the Republican plat- controled marketing. agreements and other The Republican platform calls only for having developed the rural electrification pro- There are Give Light and the People : form farm planks did not offer the farmers a voluntary methods.” “voluntary, self-supporting crop insurance.” The gram and calls for its expansion to every farm tions of a | program as much to their liking as the Demo- On price supports for nonperishable crops, Democratic platform calls for expansion of the home without the GOP private power restriction, When a : cratic platform. This opinfon was ex; ™:ssed in the Republican platform favors “a farm pro- present federal insurance program, which it de- Both platforms call about equally for ex- well-done : ’ spite of the editors’ natural preference for the gram aimed at full parity prices for all farm fends as now developed into “a sound business panded soil conservation programs, agricultural : Stevenson's Helper % Republican ticket, : products in the market place.” The Democratic operation.” research and education, development of new - : A comparison of the farm planks in, the two platform says, “ ... we will continue to protect The Republican platform mentions only in demote 31) Toreign a Iaarkels, Jooa pre- The 1 Fy N ~ : : i 0 f the com- platforms, item by item, is therefore a matter of the producers of basic agricultural commodities passing the need for “sufficient farm credit.” vention an e decentralized, local administra. yo © NE OF THE MORE fascinating phenomena Os iti f keen interest in the Midwest. under the terms of a mandatory price-support The Democratic platform devotes a full para- tlon of all farm programs. . Monday ing ‘political campaign will be the stump activities o Farm planks in the Republican platform are Program at not less than 90 per cent of parity.” graph to this subject, calling for continued and The Republican platform comes up with 12:05 p. n something new in a proposal for a bi-partisan on your (

President Truman. Mr. Truman is reported by an interviewer to have remarked last week: “I am just a buck private in the rear ranks now." But he also has volunteered to stage a “whistle-stop” campaign in behalf of the Democratic ticket. Gov. Adlai Stevenson, the party's candidate for Presi dent, has indicated by his opening remarks an intent to build the campaign on his ideas of the future, not on the past. Mr, Truman represents the unfortunate past. It would be entirely out of character for the headstrong President to miss any chance to flail away at his critics, to applaud his own seven years in office—in total, to keep his own administration foremost in the attention of the voters. “Let's face the facts,’ Gov. Stevenson said in his acceptance address. J Mr. Truman makes his own facts. And it won't be easy to reduce the commander in chief to a “buck private”

overnight.

Martyr to Freedom

HE BOOK is closed on the death of George Polk, the CBS radio correspondent who was murdered by (Communists while covering the guerrilla warfare in Greece 1m 1048. But while the press-radio group which conducted the investigation never solved the mystery entirely, it did cause the conviction of one accessory. ] More important, its thorough and determined efforts showed the world that Americans take seriously their freedom of press and radio, and regard their correspondents in foreign lands as an integral part of that freedom in action. : 2 George Polk died with his boots on, doing his duty. His colleagues in the press and radio, by this investigation, have seen to it that his death did not go unchallenged by his fellow Americans. -

Small’s Big Job

OHN D. SMALL has been made over from a figure-head to a man with powe® to make decisions. Mr. Small is chairman of the Munitions Board which by law has the job of making sense out of the military procurement program. Other board members are representatives of the Air Force, Navy and Army, each lobbying primarily for the interests of his own service. Mr. Small, a civilian, has been little more than the presiding officer over a debating society. Now, by order of Defense Secretary Lovett, Mr. Small has the power to make decisions for the board, even to the point of overruling all other members.

Congress gave the Munitions Board chairman this

power five years ago, subject to the Defense Secretary's discretion. But the discretion never has been exercised. As a result, congressional investigating committees repeatedly have picked extravagant flaws in the military procurement program. Service jealousies, waste, duplication and lack of unification have been exposed again and again. Mr. Small, a man of long experience in the government,

has a big job. Now, at last, he is in position to do it—if”

he will.

Saucers . . . and Such

NV THE AIR Force says that flying saucers are as nonexistent as those 14-carat gold ones on your kitchen shelf. All right, Air Force, but did you have to keep things up-in the air so long? The latest saucer rash soared to some sort of a dizzy record over Washington a few days ago. First the Air Force wouldn't even send up interceptor planes to investigate “unidentified objects” flying over the capital. A week later the Air Defense Command ordered planes to take off instantly to chase saucers, spoons, teacups, or any other unidentified eating utensils sighted flying over the country, anywhere, any time. So the Civil Aeronautics Administration got on its horse—the flying Pegasus, of course—and right away saw some things in the sky that needed chasing. » » » ~ » ~ BUT IT TOOK more than two hours for the Air Force to get interceptor planes up. The flyboys said this reflected no lack of alertness on their part, only confusion. OK. A couple of days later, Civil Aeronautics Administration radar observers, which“had busily been sighting everything but pie in the Washington sky, cooled off suddenly and completely. The CAA traffic control center spotted things in the air for six hours but didn't even tell the Air Force. “We were too busy with other things,” was the surprising explanation. “And besides those objects aren't hurting anybody.” ~~ And the Air Force didnt seem to mind, despite the fact that only a couple of days before jet pilots had been ordered to take to the sky immediately to chase everything that couldn't be identified. n » ” ! $8 ” n " BY THIS TIME, the public, already a little unhinged by the heat and two political conventions, was about ready for the trembly ward. Various official and unofficial explanations were forthcoming in bewildering variety. The things were everything from trucks to the product of war jumpy. nerves. So the Air Force held a press conference to allay things. It said it was getting some scientists in to investigate the matter and meantime there wasn't anything to worry about. The consensus on the latest saucer business was that the hot, humid weather had produced some reflections in the sky which looked like solid objects,

expressed in 12 paragraphs, in the Democratic platform 18. Three paragraphs in the Republican platform criticize the Democratic farm record. The general charge of the Republicans js that the Democratic administration has been ‘'seeking to destroy the farmers’ freedom.” The Democratic platform answer is that under these programs the farmers’ annual income has heen raised from $2 billion to $15 billion,

VACATION . . . By Andrew Tully

Loneliest Guy In Washington

WABHINGTON-—The loneliest guy in town these days is a big, bluff, likeable individual named William D. Simmons. Bill Simmons is lonely because he iz the official doorkeeper and receptionist at the White House and —with President Truman out of town there's nobody to keep the door for, Qccagionally Bill does the honors for somehody. calling on Presidential Cbhunsel Charles Murphy, or steers a wanderer into the right office. But mostly he sits there, growling to himself and dreaming of the day when Mr. Truman will come home and he can go back to the job he loves.

Routine Continues

MEANWHILE, the rest of the White House staff of 230 go about their business pretty much as they do when the President is home. Routine continues, whether the boss is around or not. The White House still gets 3000-4000 letters and 200 telegrams a day and there still are the interminable conferences and phone conversations with other government departments and bureaus. Chief of operations, with Mr, Truman away, is John Steelman, the No. One administrative assistant, sometimes called the assistant President. He makes all the decisions which do, not go directly to the President and generally keeps an eye on everything. Contact with the President in his office suite

in Kansas City’s Muehlebach Hotel is main-

tained through a direct telephone line and teletype machines. Less urgent matters are handled via the official pouch flown to Mr. Truman every other day. Ordinarily, the White House is in touch with the President by phone several times a day. These calls usually are made by Mr. Steelman or Mr. Murphy, both of whom can get the President's ear merely by picking up the phone and saying ‘‘get me the President.” Others, like administrative assistant Donald Dawson, also may phone Mr. Truman but usually clear the calls through Mr. Steelman’s office first. Mr. Truman, an affable boss, is available most of the time to his staff. But except in an emergency, no calls are put through to him between 1 and 3 p. m.—the president's lunch and nap period

Press Follows the News

MOST NOTICEABLE in the quietude that has descended on the White House is that in the press room. When Mr. Truman is here, it is swarming with newsmen; these days there are seldom more than two or three reporters on hand, although several others will drift in during the day. Most of the “regulars,” of course, are covering Mr. Truman in Kansas City; others are with Gov. Adlai Stevenson and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the two presidential candidates. Roger Tubby and Irving Perimeter, assistant White House press officers, keep 9 to 5 hours like most of the rest of the staff, but they admit

there isn't as much to do. Phone calls, for in- .

stance, are down about 40 per cent.

'A LESSON’

The man looked rather gloomy and . . . to say the very least . .. it must have been a year or more . . . since his pants were creased . . . his face was heavily bearded and . . . his look was cold and grave . . . no doubt he was in dire straits . , . this most dejected knave . . . and 1 was right for suddenly ... . he asked me for a dime , . . and as I honored his request . . . he told me of his time . =. when he was doing very good . . . and was respected too . - for

everything was going well . . . and all his skies were blue . . . and I took heed from what I heard . . . it warned me to prepare . . . for rainy days that were to come . . . or his sad fate I'd share. . —Ben Burroughs.

SIDE GLANCES

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"It's been ‘mowing lawns or hoeing gardens all summer—not even time to make up my mind who to support for President!"

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By Galbraith

Hallelujah—

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ROUGH WEATHER FORECAST . . . By R. H. Shackford Socialists Fight for Control

With Prime Ministership Prize

LONDON-— British politicians started a 10week holiday today. Before they return, the fight for leadership of the Socialist Party probably will be rougher.

The British Parliament wound up its first session since last year’s election with a dramatic demonstration of the bad blood between Socialist leader Clement Attlee and rebel Socialist Aneurin Bevan. Last week, the debate on the economic crisis and German rearmament gave final proof that the split is more than a gentlemen’s disagreement. It is a ‘no-holds-barred struggle for Socialist leadership, with -the prize possibly being the next Prime Ministership of Britain. Many guess ‘that Mr. Bevan personally will lose the struggle, but that Bevanism will win. Already the party as a whole is coming closer and closer to so-called Bevanism. The climax to the fight's present phase comes late in September in the northwest coast town of Morcambe, where the Socialists will hold their annual conference—the closest equivalent to American presidential nominating conventions. It will be the first full-fledged intra-party conference scrap in two years, since last year's meeting came just before the election, and feuds had been buried for the sake of the campaign.

Tories Aren't Doing So Well

DURING THE summer recess, Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s Tories also will take stock and hold an autumn conference. They aren't doing so well. Party back-benchers are grumbling about the autocratic leadership of the aging Mr. Churchill, who has been. especially cantankerous in the House of Commons, refusing to answer questions, which is one of tne time-honored high points of Commons dehates. The Tories might be more willing to tolerate the old man's eccentricities if their pop-

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Aug. 5—Down here at the Caribbean festival where the islanders from hundreds of miles around dance all night, grab a couple hours’ sleep and a noggin of coconut milk and

thinking of Congressman Ezekiel C. Gathings, the leading Democrat of West Memphis, Ark.

Maybe you remember Zeke.

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saw a toned-down tropical dance on his TV set, decided it was a scandalous hoochie-

ok He got it, too. The inquiry's ; still in progress, Had he been with ma last night for a look at the genuine article, such as the Yanvallou, or serpent dance, as performed th by a’troupe of panting Trini- % dadians, Rep. Gathings prob-

embarrassment. Nothing even tl, remotely resembling this ever ! was seen in West Memphis. Lan, Geoffrey Holder, who is six feet five inches of. coal-black suppleness, was the snake: a succession of scantily clad, dusky belles were his victims.

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ular support hadn't been nose-diving. There is no question of ousting Mr. Churchill, but the Tories do not like the looks of the latest Gallup poll. Asking people how they'd vote today, the poll showed 50 per cent for the Socialists, 40 per cent for the Tories and 10 per cent far the Liberals. Election figures last October were: Socialists, 48.7 per cent; Tories, 48.1 per cent. The Tories also are uneasy about Mr. Churchill's dramatic off-the-cuff rhetoric. In early July, sounding an alarm on the economic crisis which scared the daylights out of the world, he promised new and drastic measures. When he and, Chancellor of the Exchequer

Hugh Butler announced those measures: this’

week, they turned out to be nothing above what the London Times called “humdrum fare—spasmodic doses of restriction and prohibition which have long ago become too familiar.”

Ruckus in Commons

BUT THE REAL drama in British politics has been provided by the mild school teacherism of former Prime Minister Attlee and the young robust rebel demagog, Bevan. Parliament closed on a public ruckus in Commons between the two, with Mr. Attlee accusing Mr.- Bevan of violating Cabinet confidences, and Mr. Bevan accusing Mr. Attlee of wrongly besmirching his honor. In less touchy times, Mr. Attlee would have ighored Mr. Bevan’'s breach—if it was one— and Mr. Bevan would have been inclined to let it pass. House of Commons was entertained by, more bitter debates between two factions of Socialists than between Socialists and Tories. It's unlikely the Morecambe conference will produce a final answer. The best guesses are that Mr. Bevan’s strength will grow, but won't reach the stage where he can claim party leadership. :

Not now. For many days the .

federal agricultural commission with power to review all farm policies and recommend changes, The Democratic platform stresses development of the family-sized farm and the con. tinuation of agricultural adjustment programs, which it claims have done much to stabilize the U. 8. farm economy of today.

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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An Active Interest

MR. EDITOR: For the first time in our history, we, the paople of these United States, were able to attend the Democratic and Republican Conventions as

nne pf the audience. I think it would have been very appropriate if all the ministers who opened the proceedings of each session could have ended their prayers: “Oh Lord, we thank Thee for this new device television so that the vast majority of people all over our. nation can see for the first time that they have very little to say regarding the people’ss choice of candidates, for publie office, and perhaps after seeing our President nominate through political bosses the Demncratic nominee for Presidnet it will awaken them and they will arise and demand that these dictatorial methods be gone and the people through telephone, telegraph and mail will select their own nominees as well as elect them.” The Senator from Tennessee didn’t have a chance after Harry arrived and put his official stamp of approval on Gov. Stevenson who just didn’t want the job and then was highly elated at such a great honor. The Senator from Ten-

“nessee who was the people’s choice in the pri=

maries, and who, against the will of Harry, refused to get out of the campaign, finally received his defeat from Harry and the party bosses who believe in what is called “the Fair Deal.” The people of this country pay a President to do his duties and one of his duties is to let the people of this country nominate their own President. After all, we still remember the firing of Gen. MacArthur and how the Marines were called “ a little police force,” and, last but not least, how Harry, just before the nomination, settled the steel’ strike. What did the strikers gain? They lost all their wages. What did Harry and Murray gain? Their wages went right on just the same. It’s hard to believe, but facts are facts and I guess after all the big steel companies were right when they said there was a deal on between Truman and Murray because how can you explain the sudden decision to settle it and still not gain one thing for the workers that they.could not have had in the beginning? I notice in the papers most of the boys overseas say they are afraid and don’t want Ike as President because they will never get out of the Army. : Who do they think put them there in the first place? It wasn’t Tke. Who was it that issued the orders to retreat from the 38th Parallel? It wasn’t Tke. Who fired MacArthur? It wasn't Ike. Who was it that was singing “Happy Days Are Here Again”? It wasn’t. the Republicans. Who was it that recently saw their son leave for foreign service? It was Ike. Wake up, America, and demand that we all be allowed to take an active interest in our own government and do away with these inherent powers.

—N. L. Shepard, 3037 Graceland Ave, City

The True Facts

MR. EDITOR:

I would like t» gea in print something about the Democrats. I mean the truth and not a lot

of hot air about what the Republicans have done. :

The people know what they did back in 1920 to 1932, and they would do the same in 1952. We would be in the same ‘mess as then. I think the people would be very foolish whe

work for a living to vote against their own ine terests.

Every law that has been passed in the last -

20 year¥ would be repealed that is of help to the laboring people. People would be working 70 hours for the same pay as they get now for 40 hours, and maybe less on the hour. Let's not repeat those years. People are well off now if they will only sit down and think of the past they will thank God for what they now have. :

—A Good Democrat

TROPICAL DANCE . . . By Frederick C. Othman Congressman Should See Art in the Antilles

then dance all day, I keep

“He was “the statesman who

koochie, and demanded a con3 gressional investigation of the Y television industry's morals.

ably would have writhed in’

Here where the trade winds rustle through the palm trees and the moon is brighter than

anywhere else in the world, * Rep. Gathings will be inter-

ested to know, there was nothing immoral about the performance. The locals, men and women alike, applauded enthusiastically. What is lewd in Arkansas is art in the Antilles.

If the sober-faced Zeke only

had traveled a little outside his home state, there probably

_would have been no morals

hearings, and we taxpayers could have saved some $25,000 in investigation expenses. Television likely would have been a. good deal more lively, too, if Rep. Gathings had kept his long nose out of it. But this is no time for me to be growing philosophical. Outside my door, even as I write - this, is the brute force steel band of Antigua, British West Indies, plus that island's whip-snapping troupe of clowns. They make as savage and frenzied a sight as you'd care to see outside a Fitzpatrick travelog. a

The band plays on care- .

fully tuned heads cut from steel oil drums, while the

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clowns keep time to their own abandoned-dance with the pistol cracks of their whips. The bandsmen wear earrings and

technicolored shirts, while the clowns perform ‘in grinning masks and costumes of their own devising, with jinglejangles around their ankles. Occasionally the proceedings calm down a little and to a kind of voodoo beat the portly

_band leader, Theophilus Wil-

liams (who is a British constable when he’s not making music), sings calypso songs, which he makes up as he goes along. He even sang one about me. Very flattering it was, too. on the subject of Othman and lovemaking. The ladies never have swooned.over me, the way Theophilus said they did, but I still appreciated the idea. =

» - ° THEOPHILUS even tually loosened his earrings, reached for a beaker of pineapple juice (he never touches anything stronger) and told me in accents of purest Oxford English, something about the ori-

‘gin a couple of centuries ago

of the brute force band. »

‘. Seems that when the white

man arrived, the thing that scared him ‘most at night was

{rom West Memphis.

the jungle drums, booming in the distance, So he made drums illegal. The natives got around that with lengths of bamboo, which made a reasonably satisfactory boom when pounded on hard-packed earth. With each new inroad of civilization, the brute force band got some new musical instruments. For a while there around the turn of the century its members speeialized on music - tapped from empty gin bottles. Later they took on the lids from galvan-

ized garbage cans, oy ” ~

WHEN the oil drum ‘ar- ~

rived, the brute force band was in. Tuned with a cold chisel and played by hammers wrapped in inner tubes from old bicycle tires, the drumheads actually produce fine, thumping melodies. But now it's 1952, I reminded Theophilus, and he's a British ‘cop. Why not. turn to genuine drums? - “Matter of honor,” he said. “And also of tradition.” I think I see what he means. So, I hope; does the gentleman

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