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Telephone PL aza 5551 ’ Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

Burying a Red Herring SEN. McCARTHY'’S landslide victory in Wisconsin ought to dispose of one twisted issue which has been raised - in this campaign—‘“McCarthyism.” : Hospitalized most of the campaign, Sen. McCarthy made only one speech in reply to the nation-wide campaign conducted against him. Yet, he polled a plurality of nearly 300,000—and more than the combined totals of all other candidates, five Republicans and two Democrats. "The Senator regards this vote as an indorsement of his campaign “to rid the government of subversive forces that would destroy it.” In our opinion, it was not a vote for Sen. McCarthy and his scatter-shot tactics. It was a vote against an administration which had failed to purge itself of disloyal elements. It was a vote against Secretary of State Acheson, who wouldn’t turn his back on Alger Hiss, even after Hiss had been convicted by a federal court jury in an action brought by the Justice Department. It was a vote against the State Department's attempts to cover up fellow travelers and others of more criminal intent. It was a vote against Owen Lattimore, one of the State Department's most valued consultants until the Wigconsin Senator turned the spotlight on him. It was a vote against red herrings, and against the glib use of such fine phrases as “the free enterprise of the mind” and “fear breeds repression” to protect traitors who would betray all our freedoms. We hope this vote will influence more people who, don't like Sen. McCarthy to give full and undivided attention to the “mess in Washington” of which “McCarthyism” was one of the byproducts.

‘One-Party Press’ GG STEVENSON in Portland, Ore., charges that American newspapers overwhelmingly give editorial support to his Republican opponent, and says our country is in danger of developing a ‘“‘one-party press.” Some of our correspondents (see Hoosier Forum) think that's bad. But how does it work? Immediately the Governor's charges are headlined and _ detailed on the front pages of newspapers across the country, which of course was exactly what Mr. Stevenson . knew would happen and was his reason for saying it. - Mr. Stevenson did graciously say—and we thank” him for it—that he had been impressed by the fair treatment newspapers had given him in their news columns. President Roosevelt was the most skillful of all politicians in baiting publishers and editors, and making use of their front pages in selling a political line which outshouted opinions muted on the editorial pages. President Truman has been good at that, too, and has enjoyed boasting that he was elected in 1948 despite the opposition of newspapers, although he has never bothered to acknowledge that he has had the use of their front pages through his seven years in the White House and’on the hustings. A good case could be made for the thesis that Mr. Truman beat Gov. Dewey four years ago on the newspaper front pages because his speeches made more néws, although Mr. Dewey was the overwhelming favorite in the columns of the inside editorial pages.

In the real sense, a “one-party press” would publish only the views of one party. Nowhere in the papers would the views of the other party be presented. That is the custom in many other countries. But any modern American newspaper which followed that formula would soon be out of business. The people who buy and read American newspapers expect the newspapers to report the news. What a candidate for President or any other important office says

is news, even if ridiculous.

The trade magazine, Editor and Publisher, reports that

75 per cent of America's daily newspapers give editorial But the bulk of the news

columns and the display will go naturally to whichever

support to Gen. Eisenhower.

candidate makes the most news.

The editors of this newspaper are among those who prefer Ike. You may haye noticed that, a couple of weeks ago in an editorial, we urged Ike to get up and get going in this campaign. One reason that prompted us was that we had noted that Mr. Stevenson was making more hay and getting what could be considered better play on our own front pages. Since then, Ike has gone on his Southern

tour, has delivered his Philadelpiha speech, has talked to the farmers in Minnesota, has swung in Ohio and visited us here in Indiana—and has been making front-page news. So we feel better about our candidate. But we are not fooling ourselves. The voters will make up their own minds on the basis of what the candidates say-—and on the basis of the candidates’ records of performance-—rather than on the ‘opinion we express in our editorial columns.

Welcome, if Late ATTORNEY GENERAL McGRANERY announces he will seek to revoke the citizenship of Frank Costello the celebrated New York gangster, - We favor easy success, for Mr. McGranery in this undertaking, but we're curious about why the action has been delayed until now—in an election year. Costello was convicted of illegal gun-toting in 1915 and served a year in prison, He was naturalized in 1925, after having sworn he had never committed a felony. His prison sentence, and the reason for it, have been public knowledge for years. Yet only now the Justice Department proposes to denaturalize him on the ground that, when he applied for citizenship, he failed to mention the rap he took in 1915. Although he was a known and admitted racketeer on a big scale, this’man for all these years haughtily has managed to maintain an immunity from the law—until he balked at talking before the Kefauver committee and drew an 18month sentence for contempt. . . We hope Mr. McGranery will pursue his proposal with _appropriate vigor—and also, since he is new in the attorney general's office, will try to find out what it was that shielded Costello for 27 years from this kind of action.

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MR. EDITOR:

I want to congratulate The Times for printing news for both political parties as I see they appreciate the business from both parties. The other newspapers print mostly Republican and very little Democrat news. I guess they think it will help the Republicans get in office. But they can't keep the people from remembering the years from 1920 to 1932 and people don’t want any more of the same thing in the future. - I read only The Times now. You get real facts in the paper. . ? All rich people who want Ike for President want him elected for one thing and that is so they can cut the wages of the laboring people

“and have them work 70 hours for what they now

get paid for 40 hours, : Four years of Republicans in office and the country will go back 20 years. But God will not let that happen for America is too great a nation and the American laboring people are %oo smart, The laboring people are awake today and will not be shackled again by the big corpgrations and will stand for their own rights as the good Lord intended. The next four years will be critical years and it will take smart men to run the government and the Republicans don’t have the men with government or business experience. They have just a couple of hot air jammers, | God will not let his children suffer. He will save the nation again in 1952 as He did in 1932 when he gave us a Democratic President, the great humanitarian, Franklin D. Roosevelt. * —A Democrat Who Remembers.

Why Change?

MR. EDITOR: We have to have capitalists. to have the working people.

without the other. J But there are capitalists who do take ad-

vantage of the working people. Not all of them, but enough that the Democratic Party is the onesto elect in November. After all, it has proven itself the friend of all the people, not just a few. That is more than you can say for the Republican Party. Just look at its voting record in Congress. Everything for the working man. What more would you wish to know about a party? The wars will go on no matter who is President. So will taxes go on. We don’t want to reverse things, We'll have wars anyway, and taxes, so why change?

—Mrs, Inez Strickland, Morningside Dr., City.

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The Press and Adlai

MR. EDITOR: I think the remarks made by Mr. Stevenson to newspaper editors in Portland, Ore. (see Merriman Smith's article of Sept. 8, featured on the front page of The Indianapolis Times) apply to your paper (and probably the other 20-odd Scripps-Howard newspapers) : Nn press is against Democrats. And it is against Democrats . . . not after a sober and considered review of the altesnatives, but automatically, I quote further:

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to a candidate last spring, long before they knew what that candidate stood for, or what his party platform would be, or who his opponent was, or what would be the issues of the campaign. . . . The press cannot condémn, demagoguery, claptrap. distortion and falsehood in politicians and public life on the one hand and practice the same abuses on the Buble themselves, on the other TRIM In my opinion, these remarks are true '&nd beyond discussion and constitute an indictment against you. I fail to perceive the advantages accruing to your newspaper from advocacy of one or the other party. It would be a welcome surprise to find a newspaper which declared itself for one or another candidate in mid-Octo-ber, .as a good proportion of the voters do— such a newspaper would mare clearly fulfill its function, which is to report news. I do not deny that a newspaper has the “right” to endeavor to mold public opinion through its editorial pages, but it appears to me to be more fitting and proper for a newspaper to seek the tryth with the rest of the citizens, rather than to wave the banner of,one party and trample that of another. —George J. Fritz, West IL.afavette.

On the Side of Drivers

MR. EDITOR: In re: “A Plea for Drivers” by Jerry N. Williamson.

I am heartily in accord with Mr. Willlamson’s line of reasoning. Many parents are too careless or indifferent. Even in neighborhoods close to parks and playgrounds, many children play in the street all summer. Where some of the parents have enclosed backyards, the parents sit on the terrace while the little tots play ball in the streets, dodging cars. ~Mrs. L. M., City.

BITTER ALOES . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Let Baby Bend an Elbow, It’s | Freddie Who's Crying for Succor

WASHINGTON-—I can't help it if you are a bachelor who hates babies; I'm in trouble over how to keep an infant from sucking its thumb, and you've got to bear with me. My travails began a couple of weeks ago when I wrote a rousing send-off for the Kiddie Thumb Succor (his phrase) of Moe Simon, inventor and father, of Passalc, N. J. The U. 8. Patent Office, which never has received any laurels for the quality of its literature, described Moe's invention in language slightly muddy. I took it to mean our troubled father had produced a kind of elastic splint designed to keep the youngster from bending his elbow, With his arm held out straight, said I helpfully, he sure as sin couldn't gnaw on his thumb. Now comes our inventor to say I have done him a grave injustice; he doesn't hold both the baby's arms out straight—he merely makes‘em tired. ‘This is better and also more humane, and we now will consider how best to weary an infant's arm, Inventor Simon said a child chewing constantly on his own thumb develops a set of buck teeth that handicaps him the rest of his life.

Drastic Action “IT BECAME evident any child of tender years, pursuant to the act of thumb-sucking, could not find consolation for the fingers in any imitations and should be permitted complete freedom of the arms,” Mr, Simon continued. “The application of all sorts of bitter aloes proved unsuccessful.” They either rubbed off, or babies—as I long have suspected—have exceedingly strong stomachs; a little. bitterness doesn’t bother them. 80 Simon consulted his doctor and came up with the big idea; a cloth pocket around the elbow connected by straps to a wedge of pure gum rubber on the inside. The baby then gets a yen to suck his thumb. To do this he's got to bend his elbow. That means he must compress the rubber insert. Easy for a baby anxlous for a taste of his own thumb. He holds his thumb in his mouth as usual, Pasi faded

but all the time that chunk of rubber is pressing gently on his arm. According to Simon’s observations, the average infant gets tired after about 10 seconds of this and he takes his thumb out of his mouth. “After a few seconds’ rest,” the inventor added, “the child will repeat the performance with the same result.”

Perpetual Motion SIMON'S further researches indicate the average baby, wearing the Kiddie Thumb Succor, puts his fist in his mouth between 30 and 40 times dally for the nrst two days. Every time he does it, remember his arm gets tired. Babies are no dopes. After a couple of days of this they decide thumb-sucking is too much effort—and you can throw away your succor. So be it. I trust buck teeth soon become'a “thing of the past and Inventor Simon in the process a wealthy man. Another item of mine a few days pack about a hectic month devoted to the care of a swim- - ming pool rented by my bride has me in the bad graces of all the swimming-pool diggers in this land. I never knew so many were in the business. They agreed (some bitterly and some with wisecracks) that anybody too stupid to keep a swimming pool clear doesn’t deserve one. I do believe they meant me. Guess I'll just have to do my bathing henceforth in the shower,

"FREEDOM SHARED’

It's commonplace for men to say . ... their freedom’s all but done . . . the day they find their true love and . . . their marriage is begun +» « they seem to think that they are tied . . . when they put on a ring . . . and so it is they

think that they ... should have their final fling

+ + « but to my mind they're really wrong . . . for from the day they're wed . . . they should find untold joy and bliss . . . and happiness ahead +. +» fof now there's one to share their fun . . . their joys and sorrows too ... a pal freédom with , , , in everything they do. ~By Ben Burroughs.

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ADMINISTRATION ALIBI . . . By Ludwell Denny «+ Stevenson Far Eastern Speech

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Reveals Attitude of Defeatism

WASHINGTON-—Gov. Adlai Stevenson's Far Eastern policy statement is chiefly an attempt to alibi Administration blunders. He does not answer the serious charges made by Gen. Dwight Eisenhower and others. On one point only does there appear a major difference between the Stevenson and the Administration attitudes. While the Administration has long rated the Far East less important than Europe, the Democratic presidential candidate treats them as of equal importance— even hinting that Asia is the decisive area. But. when it comes to the practical defense problems. of China and Korea, Gov. Stevenson seems to forget his excellent theoretic policy in trying to justify the Administration’s Asiatic record of neglect. In San Francisco he said:

“Critics could better demonstrate the good faith of their concern for Asia by doing something about India today rather than talking about China yesterday. Tearful and interminable post-mortems about China will save no souls for democracy in the rest of Asia, the Near East and Africa.”

Accepts Loss of China?

IF THIS MEANS anything at all, it is that we should accept Red enslavement of China as permanent and that nothing can be learned from the loss of China to prevent repetition of the Administration's costly mistakes there. This same defeatism shows in his reference to Korea. After claiming that “In Korea we took a long step toward building a security

system in Asia,” and boasting that “we had the courage to resist that ruthless, cynical aggression,” he added: “I am equally proud that we have had the fortitude to refuse to risk extension of that war, despite extreme Communist provocations and reckless Republican criticisms.” So he is opposed to bombing the Manchurian bases from which the Chinese Red army and air force wage aggressive war against Korea, against the United Nations and against Ameri can defenders. ‘

All Korea Involved

LONG FIGHTING and large American cas-

ualties prove our inability to win a decisive

military victory, or liberate North Korea, while enemy bases remain untouchable. Gov. Stevenson in effect proposes to desert North Korea as the administration deserted China—and this, although the American and United Nations defense commitment is not to part of Korea, but to all Korea, Such desertions in China and Korea will not matter if we aid social progress in neutralist India—this seems to be the Stevenson solution. All of which ignores the fact that the Red advance in Asia is military. As long as Red forces occupy North Korea, there is no safety for South Korea, and Japan is threatened. As long as they hold China, then Formosa and Indo-China, Siam, Burma and all Southeast Asia are threatened. Unless we win this China-Korea War, other Asiatic countries will fall to the Red military aggressor, for those endangered nations would have neither the will nor the strength to challenge the armed power which made the United States and United Nations retreat.

FORUM FOR REDS . . . By R. H. Shackford Land Claims of German Officials

Threaten New Crisis in Peace Talk

LONDON-Two West German cabinet ministers have just scared the daylights out of West Europe by supporting” German territorial demands reminiscent of Hitler's days. Just as the German, French and other legislatures are preparing to consider ratification of the German treaties, two cabinet colleagues of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer have: ONE—Supported the Sudeten German demands for return to their former homeland— the Czech Sudeten borderland handed over to Hitler at Munich. TWO—Encouraged the Sudeten Germans, now refugees in West Germany, to believe the Sudetenland can be “rewon by peaceful means.” THREE—Approved creation of a strong central political body to represent all East German refugee groups and sponsor their right to their former territories. The Adenauer government ministers who did all this were Dr. Hans Christoph Seebohm, Minister of Transport, and Dr. Hans Lukaschek, Minister for Refugees. The occasion was the third anniversary of the Bonn Republic.

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SOME AMERICAN officials like to dismiss

such talk as just Fourth of July type oratory. But the British and French, wary of the political dynamite among these millions of Fast German refugees and mindful of the Sudeten crisis of the Thirties, are frankly worried.

These 10 million or more refugees—with nothing to lose and everything to gain—are

made to order for another demagog, if he shows

up. . Such nationalistic frontier-rattlings are bound to have an effect on the forthcoming ratification debates in Europe. The Communists,

ever alert to take an advantage, think they've found in this a perfect instrument for defeat. ing ratification, especially in France. “If the Germans are talking like this now, what will they be saying and doing when they have guns, tanks and bombers once again?” the Red press is screaming. East German refugees in West Germany came from many places but are solidly unitede on one issue—that they return to their old homes. Many have resettled in West Germany. But probably more than half haven't; several mil lion still live a hand-to-mouth existence in refugee camps.

Sudeten Question Crucial ~~ THE REFUGEES are divisible into these groups: The Sudeten Germans. They lived on the fringe of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland, which Htiler “won’ at Munich. At war's end, the Benes-Masaryk government expelled these Germans when the Czechs regained control of the Sudetenland. No one except the Sudeteners —and Hitler—ever claimed any German right to this land. : Eastern territory Germans. They were expelled ruthlessly by the Russians and Poles (rom East Prussia and the land east of the Oder-Niesse line. ” ose ——- Germans from the Soviet “6écupation zone of Germany. These are people who fled, and who still are fleeing at the rate of several thousand weekly from the Communist regime in East Germany. What worries Europe the most are the irresponsible claims for the Sudetenland. What. sver may be argued about the former German land gobbled up by Russia and Poland—and by the Yalta and Potsdam agreements, which left the West without a very good case—there’s not the slightest ground for any German claim for Czech territory unless we are going back ‘te Hitler's heyday. ;

AIR LANES . . . By Charles Lucey Flying Makes Quite a Change In Election Campaign Routines

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WASHINGTON—The Kitty Hawk experiment has caught up with presidential campaigning at least and November may tell a good deal about whether plane or train stumping makes the most votes. There's no doubt campaigning by air has turned the political business upside down. Twelve years ago at this stage of his vote-hustling, the late Wendell Willkie was traveling by bus and car through New England. Availability of the flying machine has sent Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisen-

hower spinning around" the country perhaps 25000 miles already. 2 = PHYSICALLY, the air pace can be tough on the candidate and his party. In the recent Eisenhower plane swings across the South and Midwest, the rising hour often was 6 or

6:30 a. m. Meetings that often broke up late at night meant little sleep for all hands. In more leisurely train-travel days, the candjdate met the local politicians as he moved from state to state, so there was always a chance to get briefed on the situation just ahead. In recent days, Gen. Eisenhower scarcely had familiarized himself with Illinois Republican politics than he was whisked to Minnesota and a new set of political balances. Then he was off to Ohio just a few hours later, where he had to cope with the complexities of the Taft situation, various local GOP feuds, etc. nn SMALL wonder someone pulls a boner now and then Plane travel lets the candidate cover distances never possible before. Gov. Stevenson is on a one-week West Coast swing now. Nobody did it in much less than three weeks previously. Nothing like Ike’s 48-hour raid on the South last

presidential campaigning. Between stops, the presidential candidate’s plane becomes

.a kind of flying office head-

quarters. Speeches are gone over, strategy planned, staff mefhbers get out bales of correspondence, and call in the secretaries for a couple hours’ dictation. Luggage always is a probe lem. In train-campaigning, party members got their gear unpacked in the compartment they shared with someone else and that was it for three weeks. ¥ » »

AN PLANE campaigning, de« spite efforts of patient and painstaking staff men, baggage goes astray now and then. More often than not, it’s the fault of the owner, Bags must be taken to the hotel lobby the night before plane take-off: it’s” no strange sight to see reporters and others rushing toward an airstrip with toilet articles bluging from coat pockets.

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"Ill say he's a speedy efficiency expert—in two days he has ty dated three secretaries!"

By Galbraith

Newspapermen travel in a separate plane from that of the candidate and his top staff. In other days, after an important night speech, {it wasn't unusual for the candidate to relax in the club car or the train and palaver about the day's doings. The plane operation has introduced a greater remoteness. The airlines have done a superb job. Sometimes their fine care in point of food and drink gets almost to the point of pampering. . » -

THOSE long stretches of Western mountain and desert will see less of the presidential candidates this year. The pressure of time, in the intensive kind of campaign both candidates are waging, rules out

slower travel. Electoral votes are pretty scarce in those areas, too,

Both Ike and Adlal will turn to train whistle-stopping’ on their next campaign swings— the General in the Midwest and the Governor in the East. They'll be hitting more small towns and speaking to crowds in downtown squares or around a train platform, instead of riding miles from an airport to a downtown hotel th: sparsely peopled suburban streets

For the rest of the campaign, it will be a steady switch from train to plane and back for both candidates. The politicians are watching to make a judgment on how the Job is done most effectively.

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