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The 1952 Red Herring

EN. MIKE MONRONEY, chairman of the Democratic speakers’ hurega, seems to have set; himself up as Gen.

Eisenhower's mind and conscience. The young Oklahoman declares the Republican nominee must “disassociate himself from the tactics” of Sen. McCarthy or renounce his long friendship with Gen. George C. Marshall. Since Gen. Eisenhower has not been associated in any way with Sen. McCarthy's tactics, how could he disassociate himself from them? It would be just as reasonable to demand that Gen. risenhower should disassociate himself from Gen, Marshall's disastrous mission to China. Gen, Eisenhower had nothing to do with that either. “McCarthyism” is of less concern to most people than the soft attitude toward communism of which ‘“MecCarthyism” is merely a by-product. When Secretary of State Dean Acheson refused to turn his back on Alger Hiss, after the latter had been convicted by a jury of his peers, he did more to foster what has been called McCarthyism than Sen. McCarthy himself. But Sen. Monroney and Gov. Stevenson have not seen fit to disassociate themselves from Mr. Acheson:

IF GEN, EISENHOWER is clected, it will be by votes

of people who expect him to clean out the State Department® Then what happens to “McCarthyism?” It disappears, because, essentially, it is based on the contention that the State Department is full of left-wingers, appeasing communism and acting against the best interests of the United States. “McCarthyism” is being used as one of the red herrings in the present campaign to divert attention from threats to our internal security which the Democrats want the country to forget. It also serves to divert attention from the scandals of the Truman administration. : But “McCarthyism” is a campaign issue only in Wisconsin, The other 47 states must be concerned with bigger game, which has been collectively described as ‘‘the mess in Washington.”

Stop This Slander

HE pig is one of the noblest works of a benign Creator. He is gentle, self-effacing, loyal and cheerful despite the fact that his lot in life is hard. People who insist that a dog is man’s best friend just never tried to eat a dog chop. The porker, knee-deep in mud and regarding humankind through wise, unblinking shoebutton eyes is truly man's best friend, and we can prove it. 4a Horses shy, mules kick, cows go dry and if the weather gets too hot or too cold chickens, which are naturally onery, just quit:doing their chores. Did you ever hear a pig molting and not doing his work properly? For that matter, did you ever hear of a

pig who bit a postman? Climbed trees after birds? Ran away and busted up a wagon? Of course not. Poland China, Yorkshire, Chester

White, Berkshire or plain old Arkansas razorback, they are nature’s most munificent gift to a surly and ungrateful world. Pigs produce more meat per pound of feed than any other domestic animal. They provide hams, bacon, chops, chitterlings, footballs and pharmaceuticals, to mention only a few items. Anyone who has ever looked upon a plate of country ham or a dish of black eyed peas and white meat knows all of the foregoing allegations concerning porkers are true. Now, despite all this, pigs have been victims of widespread libel and slander for centuries. Swinish and porcine are two rough words to use on anybody. A man who is too stupid to drive an automobile is called a road hog. Make noise at the table and you're automatically a pig. Be of a stubborn turn of mind and people will say you're pig-headed. All of this is bad enough, but true pig lovers everywhere are up in arms over a new slander—one that seems to have originated in a deadfall for unwary travelers called by the unlikely name of Secaucus, N. J. This new canard claims that pigs smell bad. Moreover, the governing officials of this cultural desert have ordered the honest pig farmers to get rid of their charges or make them smell good. Several experiments have been carried out to this end, including spraying the patient animals with a pine oil deodorant. All these experiments were foredoomed to be inconclusive, since nobody who isn't a psychopathic hamophobe has noticed any offensive smell anyway. A pig has a certain smell about him, it is true. But who are we to say that a pig smells worse to the governor of New Jersey than vice versa? There are a lot of people who like the way pigs smell and there are a lot of people who don’t like the way politicians smell. We're on the side of the pigs in this struggle. We think they'd be completely justified in going out of business entirely and leaving man, ingrate that he is, to fry in his own fat.

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: N EWS that the government is going to be only $10 billion >" in the hole this year instead of the predicted $14 billion

reminds us of the old story of the six-foot man slowly -

sinking into the quicksand. “Don’t worry,” yelled a bystander, “it's only eight feet deep.” he y “Thank goodness,” replied the sinking man. “I thought it was 10.”

Shy Samoans

THEY are making a movie on one of the Samoan Islands, and the natives are behaving like thovie fans everywhere, a reporter finds, except they call all the actors “Gary Cooper.” And they do not ask for autographs because they # That's odd. People here ask for them anyway,

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MORE LIES... By Richard Starnes S'pose He'd Brief the Rest of Us?

Pravda Hits New Low Mark

WASHINGTON—One of the more onerous chores performed at the American Embassy In Moscow is the daily translating, reading and digesting of Pravda, a dull publication full of neurotic attacks on U. B. warmongers, alternated with mealy mouthed articles in pursuit of “culture.” Pravda, which habitually refers to President Truman as a ‘‘cannibal,” is studied closely by State Department policy makers. in hopes it will provide a clue ‘to the next mischief on the Kremlin's agenda. The tortuous line it pursues is one of the things Ambassador George F. Kennan has to cover in his reports, Pravda and its sisters in scientific slander have become more important than ever since the recent intensification of Russia's “hate America” campaign. Broadcasts from behind the Iron Curtain are studied just as closely.

Article Cabled to Us

A RECENT article in Pravda was considered so grave by Ambassador Keenan that he cabled the text back to the State Department. The article was a sickening ‘‘report” of atrocities hy U. 8. troops in Korea. It went into revolting detail, accusing our soldiers of being rapists, sadistic malmers of women and murderers, The article was significant for two reasons: ONE—It hit a new low, even for the Soviet press—no small trick. TWO-It apparently was aimed strictly at the domestic Russian audience—since Pravda seldom gets past the border and since this article was not picked up and broadcast in one of the Kremlin's endless propaganda programs, The Pravda article was added to the mountain of Boviet lies in our files, but nobody in the State Department is sure just what it means, On the surface, the atrocity lie and the germ warfare lle seem part of a concentrated campaign to prepare the Boviet people for war with the West, But another and more optimistic view is held ny a lot of experts in and out of government. The Russian people, this school holds, live a

: hard and unyewarding }ife. They may be becom-

ng restive, So the Kremlin has to prodice a whipping boy to shoulder the hlame for whatever 18 .wrong with Ivan’s cabbage soup. The villlan is the United States—hell-bent for war, populated by barbarians, murderers and, what's worse, people utterly barren of “culture.”

‘Crimes’ in Korea

THE “CRIMES” in Korea are the favorite theme of the Soviet propaganda peddlers. An air raid is always a ‘‘bestial” attack on ‘peaceful cities and villages.” With uncanny accuracy, our airmen never hit a soldier or a military target, only “thousands of children, women, and old men schools, hospitals, libraries, churches and monuments . . .”- Americans, according to Moscow broadcasts, are forever being ground under the heels of the “Wall Street warmongers.” Pittsburgh, in addition to being “a smoky, dim town” is also the home of “Richard Mellon . . . head of the Pennsylvania dynasty . . . who controls large companies.” . Again, “the prevalence of gangsters is quite a well-known fact in today's United. States.” Small wonder then that “the discontent and indignation of the American working class is increasing. The will to oppose the imperialists becomes stronger among the best people of America . . . growing social antagonism 1s revealed in the numerous draft bills of the reactionary congressmen . ..” A recent Moscow domestic broadcast quoted at length from an article in the Literary Gazette. Entitled “A Funeral Business,” it dealt with the millions that would be made by “dollar jackals” out of the brisk trade in shrouds to be ordered by Civilian Defense authorities in this country. “And thus the conversion of living people into corpses, parks into cemeteries, and harbors into morgues is the future foretold for millions of Americans by the U. 8S. ruling circles,” it said.

'LAST WRITE-UP

I often scan the pages . . . of the paper that I get . . . to see the things that happen . . . or to check the nation’s debt . . . I read about the robberies . . . and how the market fell . . . and of the Inside stories that . . . the correspondents tell . . . the sporting and the comic page . . . I never fail to see . . . because no doubt deep down inside . . . they're such a part of me , .. but yesterday it came my turn... to read of one who died . . . and look through columns of the press . . . that told of his last ride . . . now I may never famous be . . . but one thing that I know . . . I, too, will have my name in print . . . when it's my time to go. «By Ben Burroughs.

POLICY PARADOX. . . By Ludwell Denny

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GENIUS STEPS ON IT . . . By Frederick C. Othman Is Li'l Snookie an Elbow Bender?

Mebbe He Needs Snowball Gun

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25—It has been a long time since I have investigated genius at work in the U. 8S. Patent Office and I hasten to report that the inventors in my absence have not marked time. They've been sweating away as usual; the count of inventions has passed the 2.6 million mark, and I'm only sorry that many of these are too complicated for my full comprehension.

The heaviest load of patents lately seems to involve automatic transmissions for automobiles, color systems for television, and elastic underwear for ladles.

The engineering principles in these three fields of endeavor are strictly beyond me and with your permission we'll consider a few boons to mankind that nobody, including myself, can understand:

Takes James W. O'Dell, of Pittsburgh, Pa. who received patent number 2,607,333 on his snowball _gun. - That's exactly what it does. Shoots snowballs and I wish I had one now, fully loaded. Se In South Bend, Ind., Arthur R. Constantine invented the automatic washing machine’ and dryer, .and {it is strange that nobody ever thought of this before. Put the clothes in and push the button. They get washed. Then the water shuts itself off, the hot air comes on, and they are dried, all inside the same “box. In his Forest Hills, N. Y, laboratories Sidney Berkowitz has produced the world’s first combination flashlight, cigaret lighter, and ballpoint pen. Noah H. Harrison of Birmingham, Ala, has invented an automatic swarm controler for beehives, wherein the bees can’t sting anything except a plank of wood. Charles J. Pavlik of Denver, Colo. stirred on his cookstove a mixture of chopped-up corn--cobs and rubber for his treadless auto tires. These are smooth, except for the chunks of cob, which fall out as the rubber wears down and leaves thousands of small cups and indentations for skidproofing. This action lasts as long as there's any rubber left; one of the big tire companies thinks so much of the idea

SIDE GLANCES

that it bought from Mr. No. 2,507,386. This brings us to Moe Simon of Passaic, N. J, who may or may not be a father; his documents do not say. Moe, in any event, has invented what the government classifies as a thumb-sucking discouraging device. It surely is. Consists of comfortable splints that fit on the baby’s arms. Keeps the brat from bending his elbows. If he can’t do that, how can he suck his thumbs? Discouraging is hardly the word. Looks to me like a sure cure. Then there is Harry R. Vandeventer, the New York City dancing master who has invented a system that could make an elephant dance. Or even an Othman. On the ceiling he places two small spotlights, which shine on the floor. Harry controls the lights, Moves ’em in time to the music. So all a lummox like me has to do is watch his feet, put ’em down on the spots of light and hey, Maw, I'm dancing. Practice this long enough and pretty soon you don’t need the lights. That, at least, is the theory.

Pavlik patent

The patents for color TV have been issued '

to inventors in many different countries. The automatic transmission inventions, some involving gears and some depending solely on juice, including one that takes the place of the universal joint. The feminine underwear inventions depend on the most complicated engineering principles of all. Furthermore, they're none of a mere man’s business.

What Others Say—

I DON'T believe Truman or anybody else has control over that man (Gov. Adlai Stevenson). He's going to buck with his own horns.— Mississippi Gov. Hugh White. . oo oe o> THE men (overseas) are in very good condition. Their morale and physical condition are .good and the sick rate is amazingly low.—Assistant Defense Secretary Anna Rosenberg. eS AMERICAN women are just too active to wear long dresses.—Beauty queen Joan Wayne.

By Galbraith

Hoosier Forum

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

Time to Stop Inflation

MR. EDITOR: After attending a public session of our City Council, I was impressed with the fact that all our government, from low to high, is subject to lobbyists. Now why the city dads, whose salary is only $1333.33, must seek advice from poWerful groups, I cannot comprehend. Surely the dollar mark does not determine a man's true worth, especially when public servants owe their positions to the ordinary voter. A lobby seeks $25,000 for civil defense. The best civil defenders obtainable are good police and firemen. A better salary to start should help to fully man our police department. Why waste $25,000 on imaginary needs? !

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WE ALL KNOW THE time to stop inflation is now. Why not stop it on a local level? I am sure there is no good reason for raising the pay of any city employee who now receives $3500 a year or more. I cannot condone money being spent on thoroughfares or _airports where only select interests are served," City revenues of all kinds should be under direct control of the City Council and not diverted easily or carelessly. . Money gpent by the city for surveys of offstreet parking should be returned to the city if and when business or so-called free enterprise takes over, I can readily understand the views of politicians who have axes to grind. However, I am an average working man whose wages must pay his economic debts. —Tom McGuire, 2028 W. New York St., City.

A Good Analysis

MR. EDITOR: ~ men v . I called your desk relative to an inaccuracy appearing in the syndicated column by John

Troan titled “New GI Ald Bill Is Mord Strict.”

In the second column the following para~ graph appears: “Up through Aug. 20, 1954, they can switch on their own hook. After that, they can't change at all unless the VA says okay. And the VA can’t do this if the vet is flunking out because of ‘his own misconduct, his'own neglect or his own lack of application.’"” The date Aug. 20, 10854, applies to only those persons discharged or separated from active service on or prior to Aug. 29, 1852. For those whose separation is later the date is advanced to two years from date of such separation.

Mr, Troan has a good analysis of the legisla« tion reduced to layman's language, but in this instance he failed to include all the provisions as spelled out in the law.

~—R. F. Robinson, Director Indiana Department of Veterans Affairs.

‘Needs Capital’

MR. EDITOR: I should like to reply to a letter signed by F. M. which appeared in the forum entitled “Our Faith in the Future.” :

The first impression I obtained from his article is that he must be a Socialist, due to the fact that he berates both major political parties and has little use for the greenback. I agree that the wealth of this land to a degree is in the lands, factories; however, it takes money to produce these items of necessity and put them on the market. What good would the oil in our lands be were it not for the refinery companies, the workers, as well as tools to produce this oil and refine it for the use of mankind? oH &

YOU WOULD take a factory and give it to the workers, who, in turn, could produce these goods, but who is going to finance the money necessary for the tools, and who is going to market them? : >

As F. M. states, and I quote: “Take every dollar out of circulation and the real wealth of this land would remain untouched.” True, but it would also lie unproductive. Two things are necessary and one is capital, the other is workers, and they must go hand in hand. When one thinks he can do without the other he is only kidding himself.

England is a great example of socialism and where it failed and there are numerous other nations in Europe where it has been tried and failed. This nation has no room for socialism until it has been proven that it is a better theory than we have at the present time, and up to now it has failed to do so. --N. 8, City

PRICE SUPPORTS . . . By James Daniel

Farmers Get More for Crops Without ‘Props’

"WASHINGTON—Some modification of the anti-Allied position of the powerful Socialist party of Germany, as a result of the death of its Extremist Chairman, Kurt Schumacher, is possible. But no basic change soon is expected here. Schumacher’'s successor may be the next Chancellor of West Germany. None of the party's other leaders has the martyr complex which was the strength and the weakness of the one-armed,

one-legged victim of Hitler's concentration camps. For years he had been almost a ghost, tortured in spirit and body. So his selfless but dictatorial leadership was pathological. Because there is no other like him, the party will revert to a more normal operation. There will be freer play for different groups within the party, with resulting composite judgments in place of the one-man black-versus-white decisions. ~ ” -

THE STRUGGLE for the successorship will dominate the annual party conference, which opens at Dortmund Sept. 24. Deputy Chairman Erich Ollenhauer, who ran the party for Schumacher during the latter's long periods of illness, has the inside track. Carlo Schmid, a brilliant and ambitious parliamentary leader, has lost popularity recently as an opportunist and relative newcomer, Mayor Ernst Reuter of West Berlin, leader of the pro-Allied minority, is able but. handi-

qapped for the moment by:

The party policy is a paradox. It is vigorously antiCommunist and anti-Nazi— but it is opposed to a Western alliance. There is no question about the sincerity of its opposition to nazism and communism. It has the longest and best record of any German party on those issues. And yet the net effect of its sabotage of the

. Western alliance has been to

help the neo-Nazis and to

play into Stalin's hands. In theory the party is against extreme nationalism. But in his efforts to win elections, Schumacher led the flagwaving parade. From the beginning, he was super-critical of the Allies, especially the U. 8. : Likewise, the party is antimilitaristic. But in opposing German rearmament, Schumacher and others blamed the Allies for not affording West Germany more military protection against Russia. Again in theory, the party is committed to peaceful cooperation with France. Yet it has fought against all of the concrete co-operative measures, including the European army, the Schuman coal-steel pool, and a Saar compromise. o . .

IT URGES that nothing be done until Germany is unified. But, while insisting on free elections in Soviet East Germany (which Stalin refuses),

it demands a Russian-Allied conference to hasten a Ger-

man settlement. : There are several explana.

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policy. One is that unification would give the Socialists a comfortable majority. Another is that its patrioteering is popular—as its victories in byelections prove. Another .is

that it fears Catholic leadership in the Schuman-Adenauer-DeGasperi movement for Euro-

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ing Russia and‘ the West against each other for the supposed benefit of a dominant Germany is merely a blatant form of a widespread -attitude in most German parties and groups. ; The exception is West Berlin, where the Russian menace

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WASHINGTON—Farm products on_-which there are no government price guarantees are bringing higher average prices this summer than those which the government is supporting. This will surprise most pol{ticlans and many farmers. It’s widely believed that high government price supports automatically mean higher incomes for farmers. Credit for pointing out the facts belongs to the national Grange and its Washington economist, Lloyd Halvorson. The other day, Mr. Halvorson was looking over a routine Agriculture Department chart. This chart compared actual farm prices with “parity” (the hypothetical “fair” price for each farm commodity) and with the lowest ceiling prices which the Office of Price Stabilization is allowed by Con-

gress to put on such items. . » 2

ON THE CHART were 43 farm products which are the principal sources of farmers’ income. Twenty-four of the items are produced with government price guarantees, 19 without. a Using the chart as a base, Mr. Halvorson dug back into his files: for other Agriculture Department néws feleases showing how important each of the commodities listéd is in the total U. 8. farm income picture. With this background information, he then “weighted” the separate figures on the chart, in order to arrive at a fair comparison between cur-

rent prices for 4d,” as against farm The C } thus ob tained shows

15 — before the drought distorted farm prices—the aver age price pald to farmers for commodities grown with government price supports was 96.8 per cent of parity. On the other hand, the average price farmers received for commodities grown without price supports was 99.T per cent of parity. Some farm organization leaders have long warned against the assumption that rigid high government price props, in the long run, raise “real” farm income. These props do sometimes cause the government to take surpluses off the market—thereby saving farmers from a short-run loss. ss = BUT UNTIL these surpluses are used up at home—or exported, at a loss, with the taxpayers paying the difference over what foreigners can afford to pay-—these same surpluses serve to restrict future farm output and depress future farm prices. Thus, farmers avoid having any very bad years, but they miss having many “very good” ones, too. Or—as the Agriculture Department phrases it—price supports “stabilize” farm production and farm prices. Mr. Halvorson’s figures are open to one criticism from those who want more and higher government price supports. High market prices for meat animals—a big chunk of farmer income—pull up the average of unsupported prices. But on the other hand, the of

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