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Symington Wins PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S candidate for the Senate in Tuesday's Missouri primary turned out to be a flop as a vote-getter. W. Stuart Symington won the Democratic nomination bv better than 2 to 1 over the Truman candidate, Atty. Gen. J. E. Taylor, who was put up, as Mr. Truman once had been, by the Pendergast machine in Kansas City. Mr. Symington's decisive victory shows a number of things. . He was a stranger to Missouri politics, as far as personal activity was concerned. But he went back to run for the Senate after turning in a series of top-flight jobs in Washington. . Six times, for different jobs, he had been confirmed by the Senate, almost automatically—because Mr. Symington was one Truman appointee who had a wholesome respect for the taxpayer's dollar, as he proved time and again, notably in his cleanup of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Moreover, as a candidate, Mr. Symington worked at the job-—just as he had worked hard at the important jobs he held in Washington. These factors all must have been significant in his victory. : : But the Missouri primary also indicates most of the Democratic voters of that state are not impressed by the,

recommendation of a President who rates the indorsement.

of the Pendergast machine above the abilities of a man who had ‘proven he could keep clean his part in Mr. Truman’s own administration.

Thorough'’s the Word

N ORDER to see if the teletype machine is operating properly test sentences using all the characters are printed over and over. In this country yards of paper are consumed each day with “The quick brown fox jumped over a lazy dog's back 1234567890.” In Germany, according to the esteemed Associated Press, the test sentence is ordinarily “Kaufen sie ihre Frau Jede Woche vier gute bequeme Pelze.” It means “Buy your wife four good comfortable furs every week.”

The East German Reds recently changed the test sen-

tence. Obviously it smacked of Wall Street and capitalistic doings. It may also have been felt to suggest the relationship between mink and a certain rather well known American administration. It was regarded as deviationist and counter-revolutionary, let alone using up paper without any propaganda. So now the test sentence in East German newspaper offices reads “Ridgway the pest general and Adenauer the national traitor,” or words to that effect. The Reds are really thorough, anyhow, even though they may lack all vestiges of a sense of humor, as we see things, and are therefore not aware of how their uncanny twists and turns produee ridicule,

Good Driving Noted

IGHWAY patrol officers down in Georgia have recently adopted the policy of noting and praising good driving as well as of penalizing misdoings. In some instances the procedure has involved highly humorous reactions from the good drivers, unaccustomed as they are to having anything said about them. The motorist who has been going along his way doing as well as he knew how is motioned off the highway by the officer. As he pulls over the driver wonders what in the name of tarnation is wrong now. Then the officer remarks politely: “I have been watching you. You have held to a steady speed. You have made all necessary signals. You have obeyed stop signs and other directives. I want to thank and compliment you for helping keep Georgia highways safe.” After the praised driver recovers from his first shock of disbelief, he likes it. It is also true that motorists from other states go away profoundly impressed on the credit side with the State of Georgia. The technique is on the positive side and might profitably be adopted all over the land.

Why Do Kings Love Us Like They Do

HAT IS IT ABOUT the United States that’s so fascinating to jobless kings? The word is now that Farouk, currently out of work as king of Egypt, is headed this way—40 cases of liquor, Ha frunks, and all. : arouk is the tail end of a regal parade to this country - that has included Edward of England, Michael of Romania, Peter of Yugoslavia, and Zog of Albania. Carol of Romania tried, -but they wouldn't let him in.Why do ex-kings come running to us, of all people? This nation came into being as the result of a ruckus with a king 176 years ago. The king lost. We haven't had any king trouble since, because people know where we stood on the matter. But let a king of some other country lose his job these days and where does he head for? Here. We don't get it.

Grim Prospect

DISPATCHES from Paris give a report of the plans and purposes of French hairdressers that suggests grim

_.prospects here and there over the world. Milady’s. hair, if...

the Parisians have their way, will be cut short, swept ‘up and curled all over the head. Bleached streaks are on the program, along with feathery effects, so that ladies of fashion will look like crested birds. American observers claim that the French hairdressers have really just come out for a sort of double poodle cut that features colors suggesting mixed chocolate and vanilla ice cream. All this is fairly far beyond our real ken, though it does offer at least a hint as to the origin of the hair-do sported by a rather well-known lady who addressed the Democrats in Chicago receritly. :

Incidentally, the French hairdressers have officially :

“christened their creation “Panache,” which means a casque _ or helmet. We intend to pronounce it and think of it the way it looks—the dictionary be

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‘MAN OF DISTINCTION"...

Ability And Personality

WASHINGTON —The most striking quality about W, Stuart Symington was once unwittingly defined by a member of a congressional committee before which Mr. Symington had

heen testifying. “I don't know what's the matter with those whisky people,” remarked the Congressman. “This guy Symington, now, is a real man of distinction.” » 4 % LIKE MOST everyone else with whom William Stuart Symington had come into contact in Washington, the legislator was awed by an intangible. It is a combination of style and charm which Stu Symington wears so lightly. 1t comes easily to Stu S8ymington because he has the physical equipment to start with. The man who defeated President Truman's candidate for the Democratic senatorial nomination in Missouri i= a tall, strapping, handsome individual of 51, who looks much younger. Above a strong chin, his wide mouth breaks quickly

COMMUNISM . . By Fred W. Perkins Leftwing Unions To Get Spotlight

WASHINGTON—The old problem of how to stamp out Communist influence in labor unions will come up again in the\ next session of Congress. Communist influence in American organized labor is much less than it was six. or seven years ago. But a few danger spots remain in industries that would be vitally important in a world war, They are principally in the electrical manufacturing, international communica-

tions and metal-mining industries. Leftwing unions in those industries were expelled by the CIO in 1948 and 1949 for failure to follow that organization's antiCommunist policies, but they are still operat-

ing independently.

The main law on the subject is in the TaftHartley Act, which requires non-Communist affi‘davits from officers of unions using the services of the National Labor Relations Board. (NLRB). Suspected union officers have found ways to evade this requirement that they swear they are not members of the Communist Party. Some, furnishing the sworn statement, have stated simultaneously that their revolutionary ideas. were unchanged. The Department of Justice has found no way of successfully prosecuting such affidavit-makers for perjury.

New Ways Studied

SO THE EFFORT will be either ‘to tighten the Taft-Hartley law in this respect, or to find

into a happy smile, and his. thick blond hair is graying in a manner no Hollywood makeup man could find fault with. "Sitting before a congrégsional committee, or standing on a platform to make a speech, Stu Symington has the_easy air of the man-about-town, the guy who has been around. He speaks

in a soft, lazy tone that just misses being

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as spokesmen for American working people. “Taft-Hartley law experts pointed out today that a recent Senate subcommittee staff report did not recommend abolition of the law’s requirement on non-Communist oaths from labor union officers--as was widely interpreted—but only suggested its waiver in certain cases to speed up NLRB action in handling labor cases. The waiver method would be offered to unions that certify to NLRB that they bar Communists from holding any office in the organization. The Senate subcommittee, headed by Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D. Minn.), has criticized the Taft-Hartley law in many particulars, and would be expected to recommend its repeal. Such action would be up to Congress, which up to now has had majorities heavily in favor of continuing the basic ideas of the controversial labor law,

Unions Disagree on Methods

THE COMMUNIST-OATH controversy has produced no recommendations from officers of the NLRB and other government agencies concerned. Definite recommendations have been made, however, by James B. Carey, president of the CIO Electrical Workers, and L. R. Boulware, industrial relations director of the General Electric Company. This company deals with both the Carey union and the United Electrical Workers, one of those expelled from the CIO. Mr. Carey and Mr. Boulware differ on many points, including the proper method of handling Communist ‘sympathizers. The union official would like to have a hoard, made up of labor, management and public representatives, to decide what unions should be denied help from the NLRB. Mr. Boulware proposes that an independent government agency seek out and publicly designate any Communists or their agents in labor unions. measures to see that such Communists—provided their identity as such is sustained in a fair and prompt proceeding giving constitutional due-process protection—will be surely eliminated from any vantage points from which to do damage personally or to exercise damaging influence over others.”

'OUR TWILIGHT

When years pass by and suddenly , find that we are old . , . we cling unte our memories . . . of stories long since told . . . we're in the twilight glow of life . . . when we live in the past . . . and so we cherish all the days .. . that traveled by so fast ... this twilight is a peaceful time . . . that God has set

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aside . . . to give each one of us the chance . . . to get our lives in stride . . . it is the time when little things . . . can quench our heart's desire

« «+ for seldom is the need of wood . . there's. no hearth to fire . . . twilight with all Your somberness . . . you come to us too soon . « « but with. you comes the prelude to ... an everlasting June. :

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—Ben Burroughs.

SIDE GLANCES

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southern, disarmingly dropping his g's in words like “interestin’” and “goin’.” The effect is one of reassurance; the impression one of a man who knows what he's talking about and is confident his listeners will accept the validity of his views, . % 2%

OCCASIONALLY, Stu Symington attempts to be folksy. He is a great hand at doffing his jacket and rolling up his sleeves and draping his long legs around the furniture. But even at such times, his urbanity shows through; he remains essentially the kind of a man before whom headwaiters cower,

. By Andrew Tully

This was the quality which the public noticed most during Stu Symington’s nearly seven years in Washington—as head of the Surplus Property Board, Assistant Secretary of War for Afr, Secretary of the Air Force, Chairman of the National Security Resources Board, and head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. ® Ho WHAT insiders got.a chance to discover, however, was that Stu Symington was a smart guy and a first-rate executive. In all those government jobs—and there were many sticky moments—he showed a constant cnthusiasm, a driving energy, an intuition and a directness that at times :xploded into impatience. To use the old business cliche, Stu Svmington got things done—by leading his subordinates into the proper paths and then letting them go about their business with as little interference as possible. ; He has heen so long in government, however, that most people have forgotten, if they ever knew, that Stu Symington also was one of the

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WRONG ELEMENT . . . By Frederick C. Othman

When a Beer Man Gets Involved

With Milk, It's a Sad Story

SAN JUAN, P. R. —While taking my ease under a coconut tree I noticed ambling down the heach a tall and husky gray-haired citizen clad in zebra-striped shorts, There was something familiar about him even though he was tanned the shade of unbleached mahogany. I'd seen this one before. Turned out to be an old friend from my Hollywood days: Ed Gardner, the illiterate Archie, who used to run Duffy's Tavern on the radio and in the movies, so he joined me under my tree and soon he was unfolding the most tragic story in the history of the condensedmilk business. When he was the nasal-voiced Mr. Malaprop of the radio, Mr. Gardner regarded canned milk as something that babies seemed to enjoy. His own business was beer. You may remember that he produced this program in Puerto Rico, because of the tax savings here. He also made a local movie for the same reason and managed to lose about $200,000; it wasn't exactly a Success.

Caribbean Squire

THEN HIS contract with the brewery in Milwaukee ran out and here was Archie, still independently wealthy, living in a mansion on a hill overlooking the ocean blue and sailing around the nearby islands in his big. white vacht. He was the squire of the Caribbean for sure, but also kind of bored. He was thinking of maybe reviving Duffy's Tavern for television when in flew at the opportune moment a fast-talking theatrical agent from New York. The Pet Milk Co., said he, wanted to start a TV series on film in Hollywood and it was

LONDON~—The proudly proclaimed North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) “agreements” at Lisbon last Fébruary are little more than scraps of paper today. = Right now the bottom seems to. be falling out of the NATO plans, NATO members are scrapping among themselves over American aid. The idea of a joint—with emphasis on the joint—defense effort has never, really become fact. cutting down their defense goals. The program—adopted after months of work last fall and winter to reconcile military needs and economic capabilities—has proven too optimistic, and thus is a failure. v ~ td ~ SIX MONTHS AGO the member nations complained they couldn’t plan two or three

- warned the Rome NATO meeting last December against setting up “paper” goals. : - But internal NATO problems were in such a mess when the . vi. 7 foreign ministers met in Feb—weruary “at Lisbon” street!" .

interested in Archie for its star. So he parked ihe vacht, locked the house and headed for the Hal Roach Studios in California, where the first Duffy's Tavern TV show was to be made. En route to the West Coast, Archie read up on condensed milk. .He discovered that Pet Milk was one of the leading brands; that perhaps its chief competitor was known as Carnation Milk. So, all right. The picture was produced in and around Duffy's bar. And how can you have a bar without some bottles in sight? Archie had plenty of bottles.

Complete, With Flower THE BIG climax of the performance had Archie functioning as a phony banker in ascot tie, striped pants, and frock coat with boutonniere. Funny it was, too. Even Mr. Gardner could smile at the memory of it. So the film was previewed for the prospective sponsors, “They were not enthusiastic,” Archie reported. ‘They were pained by those bottles on the back bar. They wanted condensed milk in 'em. We figured maybe we could fix that by reshooting, but then we came to the banker sequence. Me with the flower in my buttonhole. That's what flung 'em. “Me advertising Pet Milk with a Carnation on my lapel.”

Archie blamed that on the property de-

partment. He didn't even notice he was wearing the opposition's trademark. But the Pet Milk boys did and that ended that. Duffy's

Tavern never did appear on TV and here's Archie getting ready to cast anchor for another voyage to the Virgin Islands.

Win For Symington

nation’s most successful businessmen. It was ag a businessman in St. Louis that Mr. Symington attracted the attention of Harry Truman, leading to his coming to Washington in 1945. o * % ¢

AFTER several successes in forming and running small manufacturing plants in the east, the Massachusetts-born Symington went to St, Louis in 1938 to take over the ailing Emerson Electric Manufacturing Company. He not only put the plant on its feet, but even made peace with a Communist-led union by demanding that

it hurry up and organize the shop “so we can ., start producing.” And during World War II, he

converted the plant to the production of $100 million worth of gun turrets a year. Accomplishments such as these in the hardboiled arena of big business undoubtedly will impress the voters of Missouri next November, But it is the Symington charm that is most likely to win him votes. After all, there is something indisputable about a personality that even a Congressman finds admirable.

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Hoosier Forum

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

Substitute for Telephones

MR. EDITOR: Since I'm an ardent reader of The Times, I couldn't help seeing a certain letter. It was writ. ten by H.F.J.,, who was complaining about the high cost of the 10-cent local call, Now, I'm not criticising H. F. J., but I wonder if he has ever considered what this world would be like if there were no telephones. After reading his letter, I sat and pondered for awhile, Finally, a story from India came to my mind. It seemed a man had a magic lamp which could produce a great and powerful spirit when the right magic words: were used. This spirit could do anything, including washing dishes and

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darning socks, but the thing that made this .

spirit most valuable was the power to summon people anytime of day or night no matter where the person to be summoned might be. Isn't the telephone this great spirit? What I hear now is that a telephone can be installed in cars, boats, airplanes and just everything. I wonder what it would be like if there were no- telephones. I guess a fellow would have te g6 over to the girl’s house every time he wanted to talk. Of course that sounds like it wouldn't be such a bad idea. I imagine that bypiness would be very slow, and no matter how fast our mail sefvice, it would still take a long time to contact people. I think H. F.J. and I should be grateful that we have such a wonderful thing as the tels-

phone. . —FEdward R. Sweetman, 3050 N, Illinois. -

‘Captive’ Candidate?

MR. EDITOR: If Sen. Nixon's speech at Columbus, O., is An example, we are going to get the same old

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Republican brand of oratory this fall as before,

1, for one, had hoped we would have a cam-

, paign of ideas, an appeal to the intelligence

and good judgment of the people, not to the prejudices, hates and lowest instincts we possess, The crack Sen. Nixon made about “polished phrases” was directed at the fact Gov. Stevenson is an educated man and acts it. If I were the Republicans, I wouldn't follow that line too much. We might well be better off with some

. polish and intelligence in the White House.

* db I SEE WHERE Sen. Taft is fishing. If I were he, I would go right on fishing. The way they whooped it up for him, then turned him down cold. The way the Republicans whooped it up for Gen. MacArthur and Mr. Hoover, then ignored everything they said. The General is taking a job and not going to campaign. The old fellow has found out, as we all knew perfectly well all along, that he has been exploited for political gain, nothing more. The Republicans love to talk about “Democratic wars” and yet, they use one of those wars’ five-star generals as their candidate. Anyone with a grain of horse sense knows they are exploiting that general, too. Talk about candidates being “captive.”

brother. —F. M., City.

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Too Many Doorkeepers?

MR. EDITOR: The attempt of the Fair Dealers to explain why Gov. Schricker did not keep his promise to repeal the 3c tax on cigarets was a “joke to shake one's sides.” When did a New Dealer ever try to reduce taxes? There was published a statement saying the surplus was not $60 million. But he stands today as the most expensive Governor the state has ever had. Here is a list of the expenses of the last sese sion of the Indiana Senate. Read these figures and weep: Mileage cost, $1877; printing, $40,000; 24 officers and secretaries, $25,795; 12 stenographers, $4500; attorneys, $4100; 64 doorkeepers for the Senate, $9651; 572 pages, $1962. This report does not take in legislators’ salaries at $1200 a year which sum is fixed by law. What puzzles many taxpayers is why they need so many doorkeepers for the Senate. How many doors does the Senate have? Also, why were s0 many pages needed for the Senate? Why didn’t Henry keep his promise to the voters? You voters remember him next November and that promise.

—H. H. Pleasant, Danville.

NATO’s Nebulous Divisions . . . By R. H. Shackford Paper. Army Poor Defense Against Russia

“years ahead. Gen. Eisenhower

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that “they 1g~ _ bored Gen. Eisenhower. With the Indo-Chinese war), two

tongues in cheek they tried to

sell the public this goal for 1952: “NATO nations have agreed to provide approxi-

mately 50 divisions in appropriate conditions of combat readiness and 4000 operational aircraft in Western EuTope. . «J There was a bit of a white lie in that communique. Fifty divisions to the average man ment 50 divisions. But to the men who signed the communique it really meant only. 25 ready-to-fight divisions. © The

“he nations IndIVIAUAHY Are —Test--were--to--be-in--various.

stages of ' reserve—some not callable for 30 days. y & a THE SCRIPPS - HOWARD newspapers pointed this out then and also estimated: “It will take several miracles to reach that paper goal.” Now it is six months later. Less than five months remain in which to reach the 1952 goals. Where .do we stand? ONE—Gen. Matthew Ridgway doesn’t have any more troops than Gen. Eisenhower had in February—at best about 21:plus divisions. * There are gix Afnerican divisions, - four British, five French (although four are said to be Jess than 70

Belgian, between three and. four Italian and a scattering of Dutch, Norwegian and Danish brigades. TWO—Despite great efforts by NATO's Deputy Commander Bernard Montgomery, re-

serve divisions still don't exist, -

Although nations such as France have many men to call up in case of war, they are not organized or trained as- divisions. ~ THREE: As early as March Britain stretched out her original $13.1 billion ' three-year arms program (now ‘upped to ois 1°billion by THAALI6N alone) to four years.

” = - : FOUR: MR. CHURCHILL indignantly rejected suggestions that Britain should consult her NATO Allies before cutting arms and giving priority to civilian exports. “To suggest we have no right to: make necessary or even beneficial changes in our own military organization and expenditure without a general meeting of all NATO powers would be an abrogation of our rights and alteration of our ordinary practices such as I have hitherto not. seen in peace or war,” Mr. Churchill said

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France has decided she ean't

meet her Lisbon commitments

unless the United States signs on the dotted line now for some $600 million in arms ore ders for the next three years, SIX—Belgium is the center of serious mutinies and strikes provoked by Socialists over the length of military service. = » L 4 » SEVEN—THE Netherlands is in the midst of a five-wéek-old Cabinet crisis following the Socialists’ victory in the general elections. No one has

..been: able .to form a coalition.

government. Meanwhile, ac-

tion is at a standstill.

EIGHT —Germany, the main hope for a strong military NATO structure, is marking time until fall when the big debate on rearmament starts. But since France will never allow Germany to have a big ger army, even the ratification of the German treaties may

. be just another paper agree-

ment. Even after ratification Germany won't be willing to proceed unless she can build

at least 12 divisions. * France’

is a long way from agreeing to that, 5 The next NATO meeting

isn't scheduled until December.

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