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T'S A commonplace of the stock market that big events are anticipated days and sometimes weeks in advance. Thus discounted ahead of time, the events usually produce little shock when they actually occur. Lately some of the experts judging the national and world scene have been going pretty heavily into this business of anticipating things to come. With this difference: they haven't always been so successful in measuring the prospects, and consequently the actual events have often dealt something of a blow. This being an election year, it is probably a painful

- time to remind the experts of the fiasco of 1948, when President Truman upset the carefully calculated thoughts

of most veteran observers, and won re-election. . . Since then a good many other events have been misjudged. The ranting Russians were figured to make a stir at ‘the San Francisco Japanese peace treaty session last fall. They didn't. Gen. Eisenhower's June return to this country was foreseen as almost certain to touch off a prairie fire. It didn't. Examples are legion. ® = = : . » » PERHAPS these discrepancies between forecast and event wouldn't arouse too much concern if the erring observers simply acknowledged mistakes and vowed they wouldn't happen again. But some of the experts insist on blaming the participants in the events, instead of themselves, when things don’t work out as they predicted. A few go so far as to distort the story of an actual event to fit what proves to be their own far-fetched anticipation of it. "So we get some pretty tortured versions of current history these days. Why? "Certainly it never was easy to foretell activities in tie realm of practical affairs. There is no accurate barometer for human behavior. But over the decades some pretty ‘sound guesses were made of what was to come. Nowadays the confusion of affairs has vastly complicated the task of predicting. That very complexity is the orime excuse for error by the experts. They can cover only s6 much ground themselves, and thereafter are dependent upon the findings of others, : on ss = =» BUT THE difficulties of digging for even that part of the facts which one man can fairly unearth have tended ‘0 discourage too many. A lot of them have therefore jecome little more than collectors of surface impressions, ind rather jaded collectors at that. When they supplement ‘hese with the surface gleanings of others, they erect a ‘haky pyramid that can topple at the first real breath of ceality. "There is no cure for this condition but hard work. 3ecause the world is harder to understand does not mean ve can abandon the project. The manpower and the faciliin for grappling with this task in America are unexampled. Instead of talking events to death before they occur, ar experts ought to spend their time scanning thoroughly he groundwork for those events—talking to all the people hey can, reviewing past history where it has a bearing, etting and keeping the feel of the country where the events vill be made. This sounds simple enough, but it’s become 1 rather uncommon practice. Less talk and more action on the observers’ front 'vouldn’t eliminate forecasting errors. But it might make ‘he surprises less frequent. ’

One Step Ahead, Two Backward

& has rolled out billions of dollars for an Air Force.

But the planes have not been rolling out proportionately. As of March 31, we had fewer planes in the Air Force han we had when the Korean War started. That's the report of the Senate Preparedness Investi:ating Committee, just made public. Twenty-one months after the Korean attack, we had - ‘ess of an Air Force than we had when the attack was made. That is a staggering charge, backed up by documented acts. The charge is made by a committee of four Demorats and three Republicans which for more than two years

128 been doing a first class job of exposing tragic weak-

esses in the Defense program. . “The history of our air buildup,” says the committee, “is 1 saga of bad programming, neglected warnings, lack of o-ordination, abuse, misuse and disuse of power, bad adto the executive, and a general refusal on the part of governmental agencies to pull together or work to-

_~7ether in a dedicated way to strengthen our air arsenal.” -

Despite billions appropriated, despite an obvious nationI peril and despite the rising toll of American deaths in Sorea, we actually have been losing ground. “The blundering and lack of cohesion in the defense effort from Korea té January, 1952, were overwhelming,” says the committee, And in 21 pages of detailed report the committee shows why. It boils down to one over-riding deficiency — lack of leadership. That is the most damning indictment of the Truman administration — lack of leadershipg

If this isn't a foremost campaign issue, then there never

was one.

Big Wind

LY PHOON, the United Press reported the other day,

was so strong that it almost halted the Korean War.

That's more than any human beings have been able,

ts a0, so let's have another one.

Discovery

PUBLISHERS of “Parents Magazine” announce that ies with children spend more for food, clothing, products and virtually every type of product and servph do famliies without children. Yes, and they also] lose more Heep.

"TN THE 26 months since the Korean War began, Congress

HARD SCHOOL . . By Feter Edson

lke ‘Graduates’ By Traveling Middle Road

WASHINGTON—The inside word from Gen, Eisenhower's strategy board is that their man has finally found himself. Up until about Aug. 15, they weren't too sure he was going to click. His advisers were beginning to feel terribly sorry for him.

He was harassed from all sides and con-

fused by ‘all the conflicting advice he was getting, by all the new things he had to learn. He was being born all over again as an adult in a new world he didn’t know existed. The original Eisenhower backers had shuddered considerably when, right after the Chicago ‘convention, all the Old Guard Senators like Dirksen.of. Illinois, Kem of Missouri and Jenner of Indiana ‘started traipsing to Denver. GOP National Committee Chairman. Arthur Summerfield’s sounding off on how "he was going to run everything didn’t help any. The general impression was that the Old Guard had taken over and was still in full control, But the “For-Eisenhower-Before-Chicago” faction now admits that these moves were necessary to bring in the Taft camp and reunite the party. The list of people that Gen. Eisenhower has taken into his headquarters staff is cited to prove that the Old Guard is not in control. There is no one incident which is said to

KIND WORDS . . . By James Daniel

RFC Helps in

‘Disaster Areas

WASHINGTON-There’'s one side of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. (RFC) for which nobody ever has anything but kind words. Since 1933, the RFC hay been helping out in disasters,

Let a hurricane sweep the New England coast, a flood wash out thousands of acres of ansas river bottom land, a tornadc rip across northern Alabama and Tennessee or—as Tecently—an earthquake strike in California.

Promptly, the big, impersonal bureau is there, working with the Red Cross to rehabilitate home owners and small Businessmen.

Most of the loans are for only a few thousand dollars. The all-time low was $75 (to help a flooded family replace the kitchen stove). The high was $500,000 (to rebuild a meat packing plant).

Churches Get Aid

EVEN CHURCHES have been rebuilt with RFC loans. But mostly the recipients were ordinary people . . . a barber along the Ohio river who needed enough to buy a new barber chair . Maine lobstermen who had to replace their lobster pots and gear ...

Then there was the Kansas widow whose home was layered in mud by the great Missouri River flood of 1951. The widow borrowed $2000, accounting to the RFC for how she spent every penny of it. At 67, she went back to her original occupation of nursing in order to repay the government, In a letter which the: RFC still cherishes, she asked the R officials to pay a social call and observe how nice her house looked, removed to higher ground and with new wall paper and curtains all around. She ended, “Thank God, the RFC and the Red Cross.” ; Being bracketed between the deity and a public service organization like the Red Cross is an uncommon experience for RFC.

. Over the years, $65 million have been disbursed in disaster loans, $39 million have been repaid and $16 million are now outstanding, much of it from the 1951 Missouri River flood. Few of the approximately 30,000 loans had any collateral except the borrower's apparent good character. In spite of this, only 5.4 per cent of the money disbursed has been written off as uncollectible, Offsetting such losses has been the income from interest and service charges on * the whole $65 million.

Currently, disaster loans are available for .

up to 20 years, at 3 per cent, to rebuild owneroccupied residences; and up to 10 years, at § per cent, to rebuild businesses. When disaster strikes, some 60 experienced loan examiners scattered through approximately 30 RFC area offices and in Washington are on call.

Works Through Local Bank

THE NEAREST. RFC area office asks local banks and relief agencies the extent of the disaster and the need of additional credit. If a need is shown, the RFC then establishes a citizens advisory committee, seating the local bankers at the head of the table. The banks often process the RFC’'s loans for no charge, as a public service. And frequently banks themselves will make a loan after an RFC examiner has approved it. It’s not uncommon to find disaster victims who still would” prefer to borrow the money

they need, rather than accept free help. One.

flood victim needed $5000. The RFC decided he could afford to repay no more than $2500. They loaned him that and he consented to take $2500 from the Red Cross. Congress apparently shares the approval of RFC’s disaster program. This last Congress,

which once came close to voting RFC out of"

existence, raised the revolving fund for ters from $40 million to $100 million.

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ESPRIT DE CORPS .

Strategic Air Command Gets Rigid Training; Will Be Ready When the Whistle Blows

" and his lass.—Chelsea

mark the turning pois# for Gen: Eisenhower to indicate when he began to find” ‘himself.

But along about the time he discovered that Social Security was here to stay, that “peace” was the big issue and that he would follow a “middle-of-the-road” course, his original backers again took hope. . They're counting on it that he will be himself from now on and that he will run the campaign. Main battlegrounds of the 1952 presidential campaign are the states which were won or lost in 1948 by a margin of 5 per cent or less of the total vote. There are 24 of these 5 per cent states. The Republicans won 14 of them and the Demograts 10.

Z Switches in these states might mean. the difference between victory and defeat for this year’s candidates.

This is the way they line up, with their 1052

electoral votes and the percentages by which they were won in 1948:

WON RY WON BY 00 DEMOCRATS Votes |. Pet. Votes ° Pet. : 3 New Hamp- 25 Ohio sessesnss 483" - shire esr 52.4 27 Illinois eae nn 49.6

8 Connecticut ..50.1 12 Wisconsin ... 46.8 45 New York «.,. 46.3 10 Iowa ........ 480, 32 Penpsylvania .51.3 3 Wyoming .... 474, 16 New Jersey ..51.1 6 Colorado a 1 3 Delaware esse 503 4 Idaho ...s +. 475 Maryland ....499 4 Utah ..cee000 450 20 Mithigan ....497 3 Nevada «.....472 13 Indiand ...... 50.1 32 California ... 47.4 4 North Dakota, 52.5 —— 4 South. Dakota, 51.8 126 Total - 6 Nebraska ....54.2 Note—Percentages un- * 8 Kansas ...e.. 54.3 der 50.0 are accounted 6 Oregon“ +444..50.3 for by "Progressive Party vote reducing the majority.

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177 Total

So What? I'm Not Running for Office

What Others Are Saying—

OUR college men are deferred (from the draft), but they realize their civilian status is temporary. They alternately wish they were in it, and wish it weren't there.—Dr. A. Whitney Griswold, Yale University president. dP DB WE ARE not thinking. about giving up air superiority (in Korea) as long as we have the ships to fight with.—Lt.-Gen. Glenn 0. Barcus, Sth Air Force commander, “>. dH OUT of the crudeness of war, something can come of spiritual beauty, that ig, the spirit of clean living and clean speech, which go hand in hand.—Army Chaplain Lisle Bartholomew.

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IT (WAR) began to be an anachronism, a handicap, and an impossibility if civilization

ultimately is to survive.—Gen. Douglas Mac-

Arthur. Sor oD EGYPT and the whole Nile valley are worth nothing without a strong army.—Egyptian Gen. Mohammed Naguib Bey. > o> 2% WE FOLLOW the definite pattern of do it with bullets and not with flesh. We save every boy we can.—U, 8. 8th Army Commander Gen. James Van Fieet. S 4 BH THERE CAN be no assurance of lasting military strength without firm economic conditions.—British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. > dS LET US leave a little darkness for the lover (England) Councilor Mrs. Margery Thompson, protesting an electric advertising sign along the Thames waterfront.

. By Jim C. Lucas

OFFUTT AIR FORCE a.50 mission, I questioned the.

BASE, Omaha, Neb. — Gen. Curtis LeMay," head of the Strategic Air Command, says there's no.such thing as partial

readiness in the atomic age. Either you're ready when the whistle blows or you're not. And if you're not, you've had it. Come hurricane or high water, Curtis LeMay intends to be ready. It's impossible, Gen. LeMay concedes,” to be at your peak for every game. But it is possible, he says, to be close to your best every day. “It is my experience,” Gen. LeMay says bluntly, “that when you work harder than anyone else, you accomplish more.” “Curtis LeMay’s Airmen are a special breed. Like the Marines and the Paratroops, they . have their own esprit de corps. It's not the catchy pride every Marine exudes as he walks.

Nor is it the calculated bellig-

erence of a Paratrooper. ” sn

BY AND LARGE, SAC men are family types. On a recent

11-man crew. Only one was unmarried, and he was a recent widower, All were fathers,

If one thing characterizes .

SAC men, it is their preoccupation with the future, They know a great deal more about

the A-bomb than their neighbors. They aren't afraid of it, but they respect it. Day after day, one idea is pounded into their heads—that this country’s survival depends on SAC. Gen. LeMay —- admired in some quarters outside SAC and unpopular in others — is their hero. He is not loved because he is gentle and kind. Curtis

LeMay can be hard as nails. .

But he néver demands of his men what he will not do him-

self. He abhors an alibi. His |

men know that. When they are punished — and punishment in SAC fs swift and sure—they know it is deserved. When they are praised—-and praise is

Just as freely given—they glow.

“Gen. LeMay,” Master Sgt. Bill Hay of the 98th Bomb Wing said, “is nbelievable. He

oe took this outfit when we were

" standards, Here at Offutt, for instance,

simply flying holes in the sky and made it into a first-rate fighting team. It means something to a kid like me to realize he's that important to his country.” In SAC, team play counts for everything. A crew is. more than a collection of men, It has its- own personality. It functions as a unit. Once a team is broken—by so much as the replacement of a gunner —it goes back into training. It must start from scratch and prove itself-—as a team—before it flies again. se.

BECAUSE they are a special breed, SAC men aré by some a pampered lot.

Gen. LeMay insists that'a man is “entitled to a room where he can turn an the light, prop up his feet and read a newspaper without waking everybody else:” A new-type barracks—

cheaper to build—puts no more

than two men to a room with a. bath between each two rooms. Omaha citizens chipped

in and bought $54,000 worth of . new furniture, :

“of SAC. — hope war never

WE ARE -a great people but our foreign policy doesn't reflect it.—Frank L. Howley, former American commandant in Berlin. hp YOU MUST consider that anyone who finds himself with less than he used to have considers himself poor.—Exiled Egyptian King Farouk. eo @ I TOLD them (the Russians), “I don’t have any politics, but I don’t like yours.”—Australian nurse Sister Kenny. ® % I THOUGHT it might be different north of the Potomac, but Hospitality is no different here from the South.—Georgian George F. Miller. : da WE'RE competing against TV and movies. You can’t exhibit animals in rows any more. You have to give them a setting.—Bronx Zoo Curator Lee Crandall. ¢ 2 2 WITH THEIR 1 million-man army, the Reds are in readiness to wait out the war, come armistice or no armistice—U. 8. 8th Army Commander Gen. James Van Fleet. > oS HOPE makes a sound like a wet halibut slapping someone’s face.—~Sound Technician Mervin Goodbar, describing Bob Hope's kiss as recorded on a sound machine, * 2 0. . I DON'T believe there are flying saucers. However, there. apparently are physical phenomena which make people think they have seen HH en. Hoyt Vandenberg, Air Force Chief. of Staff.

SIDE GLANCES

Gen. LeMay has set up a family services unit. Let's say Lt. Jones is ordered overseas. Lt. Jones is in debt. He owes the butcher, the baker and the finance company. Family serv. ices—either by loan or grant— will send him on his way debt free. ; SAC bases are security conscious. Since SAC is persuaded that our A-bomb fleet is the nation’s most precious possession, it is jealously guarded. A special SAC security force— alert, well-trained and tough-—-guards each base 24 hours a’ day. It is impossible to walk 10 feet on the flight line with- . out being challenged by dn: Airman with drawn pistol. A general without proper credentials is stopped cold. I have seeh it happen. ~ Because they are fathers whose children’s lives are at stake, this special breed-—men

comes. They know what it can mean. Like their boss, . they know there is no prize for second place.

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What this t table shows is that a switch of from one to six vofes out of every 100 would, throw these states into the opposite column. In 1948 the Republicans carried the states in the left-hand column plus only Maine and Vermont, which they won by over a 5 per cent margin, for a total of 189 electoral votes. This year those states would give them only 186 votes, due to changed apportionment. “This year the Republicans will have to carry all the states they won in 1948 and win

* 80 more electoral votes in order to get the 266

electoral votes necessary for victory. Winning Ohio, Illinois and California for a total of 84 electoral votes would do it. x From the Democratic point of view, the

. battle for electoral college votes is a lot simpler,

In the 13 Democratic states of the solid South, there are 146 electoral votes. Then there are another 14 states with 143 electoral votes that have voted Democratic ever since 1932, These 27 states alone give the Democrats 289 electoral votes, or a margin of 23 more than they need for victory in November, In addition, with the Progressive Party prace tically out of the picture this year, and assume ing that this Progressive Party vote will go largely Democratic, the Democrats believe they have a chance to carry New York, Michigan and Maryland, for an additional 84 electoral votes.

Hoosier Forum

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Likes Schricker

MR. EDITOR: - A few nights ago, I attended the Shelby County Fair, an event we, in Shelbyville and Shelby County, are indeed proud of. At that time I-had the opportufiity to meet and shake the hand of our illustrious Gov. Henry Tr. Schricker. I have always been an admirer and an ardent supporter of this gentleman, but not’ until that evening did I have the oppor tunity to see for myself what makes him se immensely popular with the people. It is a simple answer—true love for his . people, his respect for people and his realization that in people are implanted the true roots of America. Here is a man who can solve the problems of public office. During the coming campaign there will be small men, who will seize upon the opportunity to belittle what he has accomplished during his administration. Such men should not be heeded. Good citizens will not be led astray by counsel of cynicism and despair. The people of Indiana know that in the leadership of Henry Schrickér they have gained a stubborn architect for a better nation. And Indiana has responded to Schricker’s policy of good government, and they will give it their further indorsement on Nov. '4, 1952. ~—Bill Holmes, Shelbyville.

Rights Reserved?

MR. EDITOR:

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I note where Mr. Young, Superintendent of .

Public’ Instruction and well-known “friend” of our state’s school teachers, is pointing with pride to the fact that he managed to spend all but 43 cents of the money allocated to Indiana by the federal government for the school-lunch program. It was my impression that the Republican Party in Indiana was unalterably and unequivocally opposed to all federal grants-in-aid which would include school lunches, SmithHughes Vocational Training, aid to the aged and the blind and to widows and dependent children, road and bridge construction, hospital construction and slum clearance. Can it be that they reserve the right to be selective? Can it be that there is more politics than patriotism in their stand on these issues? “Consistency, thou art a jewel.” ° —Russell Davis, New Castle,

Whose Files?

MR. EDITOR: If McCarthy and Jenner are really guilty of “character assassination,” why doesn’t Truman open the official files and-prove the charge Instead of allowing his lackeys to"run up and

down the land doing the very thing the: charge to McCarthy and Jenner? g y

What really innocent person objects to.

opening those files? And whose “private” files are they, anyway, when American security is

involved? -—A. R. 8., City,

MY FRIEND :

WHEN a fellow has a lot of friends . .. his life-1s made much lighter . . . and when his skies are overcast . . . his friends make them seem brighter . . . not by the things they give to him + «+ but by the things they do . , . his friends make his life happier . . . by being good and true ++ + Now I have been quite fortunate . . , for many are my friends , .. and after all is sald and done ; .. true friendship never ends . . . and I have traveled far and wide , . . and folks I've

known a few ... and I am lucky beyond words + + « to have real friends like you.

—By Ben Burroughs.

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