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Let Him Be Heard!

[S SECRETARY OF STATE ACHESON, #heé No. 1 man in the Truman Cabinet, to be out of circulation for the duration of the presidential campaign? “ity That appears to be the plan. At his press conference Wednesday, the Secretary confessed “an ambition” to make a full-length speech in answer to John Foster Dulles and other Republican critics. Asked if he might do this when he addresses a labor convention at Kansas City, Sept. 11, Mr. Acheson said that might be the occasion. . Later, however, the State Department issued a statement saying Mr. Acheson did not intend to “enter into the campaign debate” and that his address at Kansas City would be “nonpolitical.” This makes it look as though the Democratic high command had put the gag on Secretary Acheson. If this is the case, it isn’t fair, either to the Secretary or to the American people. - » s . . » FOREIGN POLICY is a major issue in this campaign. Who can present that policy from the Truman-Stevenson viewpoint better than the man who made it? President Truman isn’t equal to the assignment, as he has demonstrated time and again. Communist influences in the State Department also are at issue. Here again Mr. Acheson should be the first witness for the defense—if there is to be any defense beyond the overworked red-herring cry of “McCarthyism.” Now that some of the small fry are being hooked, pertinent questions are in order, too, concerning the activities of Mr. Acheson’s law firm, which includes various foreign governments among its clients. One of the “cases” it handled involved a $90 million loan for Communist Poland in 1946, while Mr. Acheson was acting Secretary of State. Twice on leaving the government, Mr. Acheson resumed active practice with this firm. His son and Donald Hiss, Alger’s brother, are presently associated with it. « Acheson has been treated like a hot house flower ever since he has been in the government. If at long last he is willing to talk and answer questions in. public by all means let him. ~ If, however, Gov. Stevenson doesn’t want Mr. Acheson in the campaign in any circumstances, let him publicly disown Acheson. Then at least we'll know he won't be around after Jan. 20, no matter what happens in November.

Real States’ Righters

ERMONT is a small state, but a tough one. It has just made the federal government back down—and in the process has helped other states collect the taxes due them. Like other states, Vermorit always has deducted the federal withholding tax from its employees—and received no compensation from Uncle Sam for this chore. Recently,

however, ‘when Vermont passed its own state income tax law, requiring withholding, the federal government refused

to withhold the Vermont tax from its own employees in the state.

Instead of submitting to this, Vermont replied that if the federal government didn't start collecting the Vermont tax for Vermont, the state would stop collecting the federal It worked; under a new act of Congress, the federal government must collect withholding taxes from U. S. employees in any state which has a general withholding law. Dodging of state taxes by federal employees has been commonplace for a long time. Thanks to stubborn Ver-

mont, other states now have a way to stop it. They should waste no time,

Dangerous Innocence

THE CIO LONG since kicked out its Communist unions, and the AFL never had a real Red problem. But the latest report of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee reminds us that some unions still are led by Reds or ardent party-liners. The committee has testimony that certain officers of the Distributive, Processing and Office Workers Union are Communists, although they have signed the ‘“non-Commu-nist affidavits” required by the Taft-Hartley law. Perjury cases against these men, which the Senators suggest, would be a good start for the expanded anti-Com-munist program Attorney General McGranery has just announced. - Still, a man may resign from the party today and sign a “non-Communist” affidavit tomorrow — a loophole which the alert Reds have not overlooked. : To get rid of those characters we must persuade members of their unions — almost all good Americans — that they are doing their country and themselves a disservice by keeping such people in office. Trusting in one of Stalin's men, be he a card holder or a phony convert, is dangerous innocence — as millions of workers behind the Iron Curtain can testify. :

Pick’s ‘Moderation’ ECENTLY A CONGRESSIONAL investigating commit- ~ mittee reported large-scale “squandering” on U. 8. air bases in North Africa. ; Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, Chief of Army Engineers, in charge of the project, denounced the congressional report as “over-critical” and said he was “pleased” with progress of the airfields. : Later, Gen. Pick admitted “deficiencies do exist” but he said they could be fixed up for a mere $1,160,640 additional. This, he said, was “moderate.” He didn’t mention that $220 million already had been spent on only two of the five proposed air bases, all of which were supposed to cost only $300 million. Gen. Pick’s idea of “moderation” is enough to give a taxpayer the DT’s. :

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MIXED UP MOTORCADE .

Adlai On Hot Seat In Denver—Gremlin

KASSON, Minn.—The gremlins have cut in on Adlai Stevenson's campaign. = ¢ r These are invisible little pests who normally hide people's spectaeles, untie shoelaces of pot: bellied men and roll dropped half-dollars down the nearest sewer gratings. Now they've gone into national politics, They scramble campaign timetables, They pull bottoms out from under arrangements and leave them hanging in mid-air. They invent unexpected speaking engagements. They mix up advance publicity. They put people's feet in their mouths. They louse things up generally.. They kicked off against Adlai Stevenson yesterday. Instead of a rip-roaring welcome at the start of the Illinois governor's western tour in Denver, it was so quiet you couldn't tell an Adlai fan from a pedestrian. : The gremlins seemed to have tripped up or delayed thousands of Denverites who, according to Stevenson workers, really wanted to get over to Colfax Avenue or Broadway to see the grand entrance. The local press had printed the time table and route, but the gremlins hexed that too, somehow. The best available estimates were that from 5000 to 10,000 people saw Adlai come to town, But many of those just happened to be stand« ing on a corner. There's no way of telling. It was almost time for lunch.

LABOR... By Fred W. Perkins

Business Hits At Union Power

WASHINGTON—The U. 8. Chamber of Commerce is preparing an assault on what it terms the “monopolistic power” of big labor unions, The National Association of Manufacturers, the American Management Association and other national business organizations are expected soon to join in a campaign to persuade Congress that big union groups should be

placed under the antitrust laws—Ilike corpora-

tions. . : Another aim is to put restrictions om union welfare funds now partly regulated by the TaftHartley law. The campaign.has just been kicked off by the Chamber of Commerce in publicizing the alleged use of the United Mine Workers welfare and retirement fund to unionize all retail business of Central City, Ky. under the UMW’s catch-all division, District 50. The Chamber charges that UMW pensioners have been pressured into picketing and boycotting stores that resisted organizing efforts.

Pensioners Picket

SOME BUSINESS spokesmen say the Central City union campaign is a “pilot” operation which, if successful, will serve as a pattern for unionization of thousands of other small communities where the UMW or some other big union is dominant in the most important local industry. : The mine workers union is powerful there partly because of the working coal miners and partly because of the former miners now drawing union pensions. According to the Chamber of Commerce, “there are more pensioned miners in Muhlenberg County, where Central City is located, than working miners—approximately 1500 pensioners and about 1100 miners.” The Chamber of Commerce publication adds: “Many retail clerks and other business employees in Central Ctiy are near relatives of pensioners. They were given this choice: ‘Go out on strike or your father will lose his pension.” Retired miners were ordered into picket duty—sick or well—and a couple of them told us, ‘we felt it would be wise to go, or we might lose our pensions.” Gerald Movius and Arthur F. Hintze, Chamber of Commerce investigators who spent several days in Central City, say they have signed statements from pensioners, but cannot make them public without breaking faith with the retired miners. District 50 is headed by A. Dennie lewis, brother of UMW president John L. Lewis. Dennie Lewis denied today that his organizers enlisted UMW pensioners in the District 50 drive. He called the Chamber of Commerce statements “half-truths or falsifications.” Mr. Lewis pointed out that the UMW’s pension system-—which is financed by a royalty on coal production and takes in about $150 million a year—is supervised by three trustees, of whom one is a representative of coal operators. District 50 is not included under the pension or welfare system.

Believes in Free Choice

LAURENCE F. LEE of Jacksonville, Fla, president of the U. 8S. Chamber of Commerce, said the Central City campaign “underscores” what the national chamber has tried to represent since it was organized 40 years ago . .. the chamber believes in the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively—but of their own free and uncoerced choice. Amos Stone, coeditor of the Central City Times-Argus, said today hy telephone that there have been no recent instances of pensioners appearing on District 50 picket lines, and also that the District 50 campaign has resulted in “only four or five” wage-hour contracts being signed by employers, In contrast to earler instances of violence, Mr. Stone said, “the situation is quiet now— maybe because our Grand Jury is in session.”

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The readiest yardstick to measure the Stevenson welcome was that for Dwight Eisenhower on June 15, when he came here to set up pre-convention headquarters. Trustworthy esti-

mators say his turnout was 75,000 to 100,000,

They stood along the same route, on a hotter day—a Sunday, when Denverites might have gone to the hills otherwise. Of course, Ike was coming back to a place that considers itself his home town. Nevertheless, Denver has been predominantly Democratic, >

It was while the airborne Adlai and his entourage were winging into the flying saucer country of the far west yesterday that the gremlins made their first move. :

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four-engined planes to each other and to the ground, there came a voice from an unidentified transmitter. It was picked up through headsets aloft and many loudspeakers aground; “I Like Ike,” the gremlin said, using a western drawl to disguise his voice, Gov, Stevenson was welcomed at the airfield

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THERE'S A LAW, BUB . . . By Frederick C. Othman Whaling at Whales Just for Fun Makes a Whale of a Difference

WASHINGTON-—If- anybody has any ideas concerning whales, their care, and how to catch one, he has until Oct. 4 to get his views to Albert M. Day, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service.

Otherwise Director Day, whp has had a long-time love affair with all furry and finny “things, including whales, will issue his own whale rules. He already has 'em all written out,

One of the troubles with whales is that people won't leave them alone. Always teasing 'em. This makes for unhappy whales, which pine away, and what good is a skinny whale for blubber? All he's got left is whalebone, a commodity no longer in any great demand. That is why Director Day intends to make the molesting of whales a criminal offense, subjecting the molesters to a jail term. As he puts it, officially: “The chasing, molesting, exciting, or interfering, with firearms or by any other manner or means, with any whale protected by the provisions of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling of 1948 is prohibited.”

« A Whale of a Difference

CATCHING A WHALE legitimately is a good deal different from molesting one; this calls for a license and considerable book work. Baleen whales may be caught from May 1 to Oct. 31 and sperm whales from Apr. 1 to Nov. 30. Anybody doing this, providing the whale doesn’t get him first, must jot down the

day and the hour of capture, the species of g

the whale caught, and the time of delivery to the factory ship. If lost, the whale catcher must explain why. The factory ship must give each whale a

WASHINGTON—A national presidential primary election in 1956 is favored three to one by U. 8. newspaper editors in every state polled on the question by this column. i. A much slimmer majority 54 per cent to 36 per cent— favors a change in Senate Rule No. 22 to limit debate and prevent filibusters. Ten per cent of the editors polled expressed no opinion. It is still the overwhelming vote of northern editors that accounts for this result, Southwestern editors favo no change in the present rule, 56 per cent to 44 per cent. Southeastern editors stick with the present rule five to one—77 per cent to 15. On the Taft-Hartley labor relations act, 35 per cept of the editors say no repeal and no change. The other 65 per cent think the law should be amended in varying degrees to remove inequities—and even to strengthen its restrictions.

this poll on what are probably the three most controversial issues facing the new Congress which convenes in Washington in January, 1953. '

this new 83d Congress, most editors feel that it will have

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serial number, record its sex, measure its length, describe the contents of its stomach, name the whale catcher which.took it, and mention any abnormalities noted about it. Unclaimed whales, which occasionally float up ‘dead to a heach, are. different. no licerise to cart one of these away, but you've got to report to Director Day what kind of whale you found, where and when, and what you intend to do about it. These rules and others, which consume a good many hundreds of words, mention nowhere the dead whales on tour of the Middle West riding on flat cars, where the locals can have a look for 25 cents.

The Happiest of Beasts

DIRECTOR DAY unfortunately was out of town when I called to discuss the whale situation, but I did have a nice chat with Dr. John Kask, his top as8istant in charge of whales. Dr. Kask said whales in 1952 are among the happiest of beasts. This is because hardly anybody is molesting them, or shooting them, either, In all the United States this year, not one single whale firm is at work. This is because of the low price on whale oil. ’ What little whaling going on now is im the Antartic. This is where most of the molesting happens, too. Dr. Kask said the fellows down there sometimes chase a whale all day, wear it out, decide it isn’t the kind they want and let it go. This is hard on whales and it has got to stop. The rules eventually will be adopted by the International Whaling Conference in London. If the price of oil should go up, we'll be back in business, too, and then the regulations will apply to us. So it is that Director Day’s document is not as academic as it looks at first glance, as I, for one, am glad to know.

POLITICAL PREDICTIONS . . . By Peter Edson Editors Favor Primaries for Presidents

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s Were Out In Full Force

by Colorado’s Gov. Dan Thornton, among others. The governor, a former Texas cowpoke, was wearing a Hopalong hat and an Ike pin on his

“lapel. * Adlai took both the pin and a gift’ crate

of Rocky Ford cantaloupe in his happy stride. Along the uncrowded way downtown, a gremlin materialized in the form of a bullvoiced young Denverite. He kept chanting, “Eisenhower for President.” . Instead of riding slowly and sitting up on the back of an open car like Ike did, Adlai hurried things along so fast that other innocent motorists got mixed up in the motorcade, Adlai’s principal speech-making last night was before 1000 volunteers for Stevenson,

. mostly Democrats, who were briefed before

television time to get off their hands and haunches when the candidate entered the banquet hall. But in the introduction for Adlai, there was an awkward, gremlin-inspired silence after the chairman got to the part:

“ ..'The next President of the United States.” .

From there on, however, applause was loud and spontaneous.

But the gremlins weren't through yet, Tele- .

viewers In at least one part of the country— the Washington, D. C. area—reported that Adlal disappeared from the screen for three or four minutes during the half-hour program. You could hear him talking, but you could only see a “please stand by” notice. At the city auditorium, where the capacity is perhaps 8000 people, Adlai later delivered a

shorter speech. That rally of Stevenson support.

ers had been put on the program by surprise.

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It Can Happen Here MR. EDITOR: ‘ Richard Holden tells us the Democrats are the party of the common man and he may be right. So was England's Socialist party, and so ‘s Stalin’s Communists the party of the common man. There are others like Hitler's Nazi party that was for the common man. Maybe you think it can’t happen here. Well, it is already happening. It happened under FDR when he closed the “dirty little sheets” that attacked his foreign policy at a time when he was making our beds with the Communists. It happened under Truman when he sent our boys to Korea without Congress deelaring war, and it happened again when he seized the steel mills. : We don’t want any party in this country that is. either the common man’s party or a rich man’s party. What we need is someone that is

“not afraid to call a spade a spade whether it is

fn the mansions of the rich or the hovels of the poor. - In this respect it is my opinion that the Democratic party has been weighed in the balance for the last 20 years and found wanting. At least we couldn't do much worse under the Republicans. =C. D. C.,, Terre Haute.

Likes Jenner

MR. EDITOR: Rathér an odd front page editorial the other day criticizing. the governor for seeking federal relief for certain counties from the drought just a day or so after Jenner had dispatched a vigorous letter to Washington demanding identically the same thing. The only difference was that the governor is the Democratic candidate and Jenner the Republican candidate. By prattling about the independent, self-sacrificing farmers you evidently thought to tickle farmers to offset the governor's request for aid and to build up some prejudice against the Democrats.

It is an interesting. psychological aspect of the egotistical newspaper publisher that, by taking sides politically, he is willing to antagonize half or more of the readers on whom he depends for his income just to gratify an apparently uncontrollable urge to use the assumed power of the press to influence political opinion. The joke of it is that he does it under the guise of a vaunted duty to lead the political thinking of the public, his poor pet sheep.

~—Clyde P. Miller, R. 17, City.

'SPEAK UP’

Whenever you have things to say . . . to someone you may know . . . look them In the eye and then . . . let all your true thoughts flow . . . or if you have complaints to make « « « about something they did . . . tél them squarely to their face . . . and not while they are hid . don’t sulk or shy away when you . . . have some request to make but come directly te the point . . . and never feint or fake . . . be just as straight and forward as . . . propriety allows . . . and speak your mind directly . . . put away- dejected bows . . . if you do this you'll benefit « « « « and I will tell you why . . . humanity respects you if , , . you look it in the eye.

—By Ben Burroughs.

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On the political make-up of .

‘Republican majorities in both

tors predicting a Republican Senate is much smaller than that predicting a Republican House of Representatives. In the last Senate, there were 50 Democrats to 46 Republicans. Senators whose seats are to be filled in the 1952 elections number 35-15 Democrats and 20 Republicans. The Republicans must therefore win at least 23 of the 35 contests to obtain a 49-47 maJority. is wr ww ON THE outcome of this Senate race, 43 per cent of the editors think the Republicans will win. control, while 41 per cent think the Democrats will retain their small majority. Sixteen per cent of the editors were unwilling to make a prediction. Fifty-four per cent of the southern editors think the Democrats will retain control; 52 per cent of the northern and western editors think the Republicans will gain control. In the last House of Representatives there were 235 Democrats, 200 Republicans. The Republicans must win at least 218 seats in November for maJority control of one vote. Fifty-three per cent of the editors think the GOP can turn this trick, while only 35 per cent think the’ Democrats will retain their majority control of the House next year. Twelve

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per cent of the editors would not hazard a guess on this. Only in the Southwest was this sentiment reversed, 53 per cent of the editors in that area believing that the Democrats would carry the lower house as well as the Senate.

It is notable, however, that 10 per cent of the editors predicting a Republican Congress next year qualified by saying, “Only if Ike wins,” or “Only if there is a Republican landslide.” As a corollary to this question of whether Republicans or Democrats would control the next Congreds, editors were asked their opinions on what kind of a President General Eisenhower would make if elected. Would he be a “liberal” leader or a “conservative"? The division was remarkably close among the 96 per cent who answered. Thirty-eight per cent think Ike will follow a liberal course while 37 per cent think he will be conservative, - = ~ WHAT THIS would seem to indicate is either that the general has not made his own position clear, or else that he is really a ‘“middle-of-the-road-er,” which he himself says he is. "But only 17 per cent of the editors so ticketed Eisenhower,

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question were revealing.

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line, unfortunately,” said the Huntington (Ind.) HeraldPress.

“He'll be liberal,” commented the Seminole (Okla.) Producer, “but not. socialist.” The Manhattan (Kas) Mercury-Chronicle, Xnoxville (Tenn.) News - Sentinel, San Luis Obispo (Cal.) TribuneTelegraph and others think Eisenhower will be liberal on foreign policy, conservative on domestic.

The Buffalo (N. Y.) Néws

thinks he'll be a liberal, “preaching enlightened conservatism.”

Many editors also had sharp comments on the prospects for changing the Taft-Hartley law, amending the Senate filibuster rule and installing a national presidential primary in 1956. On this last-mentioned issue the Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal opposed the proposition with the observation, “Think what 3 Huey Long could do (with “Strengthen the primary recommends the Ponca City (Okla.)

News and several other news-

papers. “Amend the Taft-Hartley law to curb the power of the

‘labor bosses,” recommends the

Livingston (Mont.) Enterprise. “Just use it,” is the substance of advice from the Baton Rouge (La.) State-Times.

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