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Taft ‘Joins Up’ BY HIS formal statement yesterday, and his answers to questions at a press conference, Sen. Taft officially has made himself a part of the Republican election campaign. It is inevitable that he would. He had said that immediatly after Dwight Eisenhower's nomination in July. There never was any reason why he should do otherwise. The Senator has made it plain that he and Gen. Eisenhower agree on basic objectives. He also said frankly that they did not agree on some subjects and he anticipated that they may disagree, in some degree, on many in the

future. : That's a wholesome thing. ‘No man who is President can afford many “yes men” around him. They are dangerous. It is a President's job to resolve différences of judgment, not merely to reject all opinion which does not precisely concur with his. One of the areas in which the presidential candidate and his erstwhile rival disagree is on some details of foreign

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IT IS apparent they do not disagree on basic aims. Relatively few Americans do. The differences arise over methods, timing, calculation of what may come—differences of degree, not of purpose. ; Our present foreign policy is in a mess. A main reason for this is that it has not been widely enough and often enough and effectively enough challenged. There has been too much passive acceptance, on one hand, and too much ruthless over-riding of questioning on the other. There has been too much secrecy. Gen. Eisenhower need not accept, entirely, the judg“ment of men like Sen. Taft to benefit from it., No one can expect them to fall suddenly into perfect step. Strong men are not built that way. But there is no reason why they can't effectively team up in this campaign. This country needs a basic overhauling in Washington. There is only one way to get it— by the election-of Gen. Eisenhower. In that undertaking, Sen. Taft van play a respectable, useful and earnest role— without ‘any sacrifice of his own special philosophies. '

Timber Gone—Income, Too ARMERS AND businessmen throughout the nation “4 should take heed of what is happening to Forester, Ark. —population 1100. , - Too late the people are acting to save their lumber town after its timber resources have been depleted. A major sawmill is abandoning the town because of a short-.

age of timber. Sen. John L. McClellan has asked the U. 8S. Forest - Bervice for aid. . Forester should have put itself on a permanent timber management basis long-ago. Then it might have had even more timber today than it had when it started logging, years back. A community which is not interested in conserving and restoring the soil in the country roundabout also is blind. Soil fertility can go, as well as timber. Saving national resources saves towns. There is a refreshing contrast in Virginia. Every hunting and fishing license issued by the state carrie with it a pack of 12 tree seeds. Simple instructions for planting are printed on the package, and each hunter or fisherman is urged to plant the seeds in suitable spots as he trudges through the woods or along the banks of

streams. Of course, some won't take the trouble. But most sportsmen will be more than willing to make that small contribution to conservation. It is a novel and imaginative idea—and the state will reap vast benefits from it.

Mr. Snyder's Advice

GQECRETARY OF THE TREASURY JOHN W. SNYDER went to the H4-nation meeting of the International

Monetary Fund in Mexico City and handed out some good

advice. He recommended to all these nations they ‘take the difficult road” by adopting fiscal and monetary policies which discourage inflation, rather than following the “easy road” of trying to control inflation after it has started. This was in line with the report of the International Monetary Fund, which said the member nations have been creating inflation and throwing international finance out of balance by spending beyond their means. : Mr. Snyder's advice would have been more convincing if-his own government had followed these policies. The biggest inflationary ‘pressure in the United States is government spending. It is made more inflationary because it is deficit spending. And fretting about inflation after it was here has been one of the Truman administration's most consistent practices.

Daniel Bolich Says— N BROOKLYN, a grand jury, after many months of investigation, has indicted Daniel A. Bolich, formerly No. 2 man in the Internal Revenue Bureau-—he ‘of the $30 shirts and the $3.50 monogrammed hankies, The charge is evading payment of $7444 in income taxes—at the time he was supposed to be collecting them . from everybody else. Mr. Bolich “explains” the indictment as follows: “This indictment is the result of a political campaign.

So far, there has been only one side of the story told. I have never had the opportunity to present my side.” In addition to several appearances ‘before the grand ' jury which indicted him, Mr. Bolich last spring was summoned before the House committee investigating the income _ tax scandals, At that time, he refused to answer dozens of questions on the ground that his answers “might tend to incriminate” him. :

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Jerre seuaumt usu. sausages hava HOOSIER FORUM—‘G J i "I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." § Svensrisan " * i MR. EDITOR: make such statements. He does no justice to

Recent headlines have been a history in themselves, packed with brutal facts, comedy and drama. “Says Americans Gypped by Truman Inflation.” Yes, and Americans have been gypped by everything Truman has said and done. “A Deal With Russia,” exposed the Stevenson mental attitude of appeasement at Yalta, Potsdam and Misfit Marshall's mission to China. “Stevenson to Run on Tfuman Record. Truman’s Record? A record of ineptitude, misjudgment, brazen bigotry, profanity garnished with shallow personal whims and absolutely, devoid of dignity, flagrant violation of the oath of office to uphold the laws of the Jand. Indeety#t is a yecord of a misfit from start to date, and this record alone can beat Stevenson if-his own is” not enough. “Stevenson Bids for Vote of U. 8. Troops Abroad.” He well knows those in the United States know the score, but those farther away in Truman's police action might be fooled by a little smooth scheming. Let Stevenson, Truman and Company be advised that an old adage still appeals to most thinking people: “By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them.” -—Pat Hogan, Columbus.

Takes Slap at Jenne MR. EDITOR: ? : For the general welfare of us all, after hear ing some of Atta Boy, Willlam Jenner's stormy sessions, T am convinced he should not be reelected to the Senate of the United States. In one of Junior's tempermental outbursts, according to newspapers, he said: ‘Vote for Eisenhower to keep dads out of war so they can stay home with their families,” and that “Democrats cause all wars.” Jenner also called Gen. Ike's old friend and Army boss, “a living lie” and “a front man for traitors.” Every sensible voter knows that no realistic person, although it is his right and privilege, will

his party, abuses his sacred freedom of speech and becomes an “old blabbermouth.” Republican leaders try to withhold news of . these verbal cloudbursts, lest it raise a “storm of protest,” but they may as well try to hold back the weather, for some of these days Our Junior is going to cloud up and rain all over us. . ==By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, Indianapolis

To C.D. C. MR. EDITOR! Where was C. D. C. in 1932? I see this C. D. C. is back on the job again, ' If this C. D.

C. knows all the answers, where was he or she

back in 18322 pails i And that the Democratic Party has been weighed and found wanting, at least the people of this great country have not wanted for something to eat like they did under the great engineer, Herbert Hoover. I hope C. D. C. is hot dumb enough to think the people of this great state would believe such bunk. Tell us who the Republican Party caters to, C. D. C. Is it the poor man’s party? —A. L. Maxwell, Washington

"ACTION SPEAKS LOUDLY’

"It's good to speak with gentleness . . , to

@beople that we know... because it makes things ;

easier , . . as through this life we go... it's fine to shower good advice . . . and say a kindly word . . . because it does a lot of good ... for those who may have heard ... to write a heartfelt poem too ... is really quite the thing + « « and many are the folks who smile , .. when poetry takes wing ... but as I write I stop and think . . . and it seems to be true ... that instead of saying things . . . more of us should do . . . for though it's fine and proper ... to speak well of our brother... . to talk is merely one thing . . . but to act is still another. ~—By Ben Burroughs.

TROUBLE BUBBLES . . . By Frederick C. Othman Little Woes Bring A Flood of Sighs

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 — A lot of small been irritating me lately; add ‘em up and they turn into a nightmare. Like cigare te lighter flints. They wear down too fast and: I never have a spare. Lately I hought a package of razor blades said to be so sharp your face can't feel them. My face does. Feels ‘em something fierce. I'm tired of paying 40 cents a quart for engine oil; my engine seems to be using more and more. All the left cuffs of my shirts are frayed, apparently from my wrist-watch strap. I sent some neckties to the. cleaners to get the gravy spots removed; they came back with the silk soggy like a roller towel. Nearly broke my neck with a pair of new shoes. The heels are half leather, half rubber. Perfect combination for skids on waxed floors. Why should floors be waxed, anyhow? ” » » MY BALL-POINT pen gave up in the midst of a congressional hearing on thievery among the federals. The last two paper cups with which I've done businéss leaked. The elastic in the tops of my socks to hold ‘em up, doesn't. The streetcar fare's come up to

things have

17 cents and I never have

those extra pennies. Panhandlers, the first since war, have been pestering me lately. Now I've splashed green toothpaste on the bathroom wall; the green won't core off. What's it likely to do to my teeth? ’ On every TV channel are quiz programs: On all radio stations are political speeches. The word, mess, is becoming a bore. Say it and somehow

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you've had it and I'd appreciate the candidates thinking up a synonym. " » “ I DO NOT intend to smoke any more I-Like-Ike cigarets, or I-Like-Adlai, either. Accept one of these and you get into an argument, My heir's getting thin and just as I was cogitating patronizing a restorer, the Food and Drug Administration sald he. was a fake. The brims on men's hats this year are too narrow to suit me; they make a fellow squint. There isn't enough ham in ham sandwiches. To put a new light in the automatic gear-shifting widget in my sedan, the man had to remove the steering wheel. Cost me $2. My watch is gaining time, The electric clock at my bedside squeaks. Coffee most places seems weak. Lightning wrecked my best apple tree. My de luxe, rotary, gasoline lawnmower won't rote. Just coughs blue smoke in my face. My tomatoes all split before they ripened. The zipper in my best blue suit came apart. My dogs are full of cockleburrs. The new gutter around my front porch leaks exactly like the old one. sn » MY ELECTRIC blanket gets hot and stays that way until unplugged. Someday some-

body’ll invent a shampoo that

doesn't blind a gent in his shower, The leaves are beginning to fall and the minimum price for an automatic leaf chopperupper, like President Truman's at the White House, is $300. Where's my rake? You see what I mean. Just one thingrafter another in this electronic autumn of-19852. The situation either improves, or I

" move to. Yucatan, where chew-

ing gum is cheap and nobody worries about the price of fuel oil. Or storm windows, either.

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A Wisconsin man has driven over 200,000 miles in one auto. Another argument for more parking space.

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Travel and see American scenery — advertisement. Will someone please move the billboards? = » » WE WONDBR how many political candidates would like to abolish the day after election, = ~ ” ACCORDING to a college professor, lots of men work hardest before breakfast. Getting the wife up to get it?

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‘our oF WHITE PAPERS’ .".. By Clyde Farnsworth Is Adlai’s Foreign Policy Based | On False Asian Red Theory?

(The following is presented as opinion and” interpretation of a distinguished newspaper correspondent who has had unrivalled opportunity to observe the march of communism in Asia. Clyde Farnsworth was in China through the whole period of World War II, and remained in China to cover the Nationalist-Com-munist civil war which followed. He was in Korea before and immediately after the outbreak of fighting there. He has worked as a correspondent in Japan, Formosa, the Philip pines, southeast Asia, India and the Middle East. Now temporarily reporting the Stevenson campaign tour, Mr. Farnsworth in this article analyzes what he sees as mistaken notions the Democratic candidate appears to have embraced). :

WHISTLE-STOPPING WITH STEVENSON —The Stevenson foreign policy, partly unveiled in San Francisco, appears to me to be based largely on a misinterpretation of Far Eastern communism. This is, briefly, the Acheson-Jessup-Latti-more idea that, unlike the European masses which communism has captured physically, the Asian masses have willingly turned, or may turn, to communism in a broad-based, revolutionary search for the more abundant life. In short, that Asians—Chinese particularly —have embraced communism more than communism has put the bear-hug on them. This demonstrably false theory, treated as fact, was used to explain dway the failure of our China policy .in: the State Department's white paper of 1949, ghost-written by Dr. Philip C. Jessup, a man of no Far Eastern training,

Adopted by Stevenson

IT HAS now been adopted—straight out of the white paper—by Adlai Stevenson, another man of no Far Eastern background. Indeed, the man of Asian experience with whom this theory has been most prominently identified is Owen Lattimore. It has been the predominant line of the Communist-infiltrated (and now discredited) Institute of Pacific Relations, of which Gov. Stevenson was once a member. This line allowed the Truman administration to write off Nationalist China and American support of that government as contrary to the manifest will of the Chinese people. One had only to be in China and witness the movement of millions of civil war refugees

. 5 into the coastal cities and to the shrinking zones of Nationalist control to realize that communism was no popular choice. y But the line persists in Mr. Stevenson’s concept of a world divided on the issue of personal freedom versus a willing subordination to communism. -

. . Expert in Using Gun RATHER, IT is a world divided into a majority which chooses freedom by its various - lights, on one hand, and a fanatical and forceful | minority, on the other. It is simply a minority which has become expert in using a pointed gun. No nation has willingly chosen ‘communism. In Asia, the Acheson-Jessup-Lattimore line

pushes—and now Gov. Stevenson adopts—the *

idea that “more than a billion of the world’s | peoples are churning in one of history's greatest | upheavals.”

The . very lack of communications across Asia, if not an Inherent Asian resignation to life | as the ancestors lived it, robs the thesis of any great weight, 3

True, communism has captured many Asian minds, particularly those of a superficial urban minorify—some students, frustrated intellectuals and, on less than an ideological plane, the topflight hoodlums that do communism's dirty work. Although communism also has taken Asian Nationalism under wing wherever it could, it remains a minority force. s

Shunned Issue in Speech

BUT GOV. STEVENSON-—who did not attempt it in his foreign policy speech—would be at a loss to prove that communism has been, or is now, the majority choice in any Asian country. When communism fails to command the majority mind of Eastern FKurope, among peoples more literate, more integrated, more compactly situated and reachable by all media of propa- | ganda, it is stretching things to assume that the Asian majority has been an easier prey. But the Acheson-Jessup-Lattimore line persists. It runs through Mr. Stevenson’s hope for peaceful coexistence and compromise with world communism—the negotiation and adjust- | ment from which he “will never ‘shrink . .. if they advance the world toward secure peace.” It conditions Mr. Stevenson’s thinking on India and his idea ‘of what our role there should be: An obviously vast support of that country's | evolution; the use of hard cash to try to outbid | communism’s lavish promises. That is an obvious impossibility.

IT'S MUTUAL . . . By Irving Leibowitz Candidates Eisenhower, Jenner

Need Each Other—In Indiana

EN. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER marched into Indianapolis last week well aware that he would kick up a fuss no matter if he indorsed or disavowed Sen. William E, Jenner. He chose to indorse him. . It was a calculated political risk. Ike's own board of strategy advised him the Jenner inYdorsement would strengthen him in Indigna: but harm him in the East and Far West. Some said to indorse “isolationist” Sen. Jenner would do irreparable damage to Ike's candidacy among liberal Republicans and wavering Democrats. Supporters of Sen. Robert A. Taft said, however, Gen. Eisenhower needed the “solid” Republican Midwest or he might just as well throw in the toivel. : As expected, Ike's indorsement became a “cause celebre” across the nation. Newspaper reaction to Gen. Eisenhower’s support of Sen. Jenner ranged from praise to sharp criticism— mostly criticism. :

Back to Indiana

TOMORROW, as Ike starts a whistle stop tour of Northern Indiana, he again will be needled by a hostile press corps on his support of Sen. Jenner.

Sen. Jenner, of course, will be on the train with Ike in Indiana. Both will be seen together when the train stops at Ft. Wayne, 9 a. m.; Warsaw, 10 a. m.; Plymouth, 10:40 a. m.; South Bend, 11:30 a. m.; LaPorte, 1:30 p. m,; Gary, 2:30 p. m. and Indiana Harbor, 3 p. m. It is no’ secret that the vast majority of newspaper correspondents were out to. sabotage Ike in Indianapolis if he indorsed Sen. Jenner. Most of them were openly hostile to the Indiana Senator. That was one reason Ike handled the indorsement so carefully. Actually, although Gen. Eisenhower did not mention Sen. Jenner by name, he called upon Hoosiers to “spare no effort” to elect the Republican ticket, from top to bottom. The General, however, rejected a proposal by State Chairman Cale J. Holder to come out with an unqualified indorsement of Sen. Jenner. In an effort to pressure Ike's advisers into line, Mr. Holder said he was disappointed.

Way Out Seen

IKE'S- ADVISERS seized upon Mr. Holder's statement to pacify the East and West Coast Republicans, who wanted Gen. Eisenhower to disavow Sen. Jenner. Mr, Holder's statement was relayed to the Associated Press. As a result, Gen. Eisenhower's advisers were then in a position to tell New York's Thomas Dewey and California's Gov. Earl Warren they were forced into a ‘lukewarm’ indorsement of Sen. Jenner. But they reckoned without Sen. Jenner. The

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Bedford Republican ighored the “lukewarm” ine | terpretation and publicly thanked Ike for his | “unqualified indorsement.” . It turned out that the extreme left and right | wings of the Republican Party were dissatisfied, But, the majority said it was the General's only course. That's how matters stand now. Of course, there will be constant efforts to swing Ike away from Sen. Jenner. And, naturally, Midwest Re-

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the Indiana Senator even stronger, It boils down to the fact that, in Indiana, Ike | needs Sen. Jenner and the Indiana Republican .. needs the GOP Presidential nominee. ; Sen. Jenner has a tough fight for re-election | against Democrat Henry Schricker, who has served notice he intends to exploit any breach between the General and the Senator.

Stevenson ‘Distressed’

EVEN ADLAI STEVENSON, in Fresno; Cal. jumped on Ike’s indorsement ofs Sen. Jenner to say: . “I am distressed at this and I say so here with the utmost candor and clarity.” Most presidential candidates in the past have run up against the hard fact that a presidential election is not an educational program, but a struggle for power in which both sides use the tactics they think will win. Gov. Stevenson, for example, is not arguing against, Sen. Jenner because he really thinks the Indiana Senator would dominate a victorious Eisenhower and force his views of foreign policy upon America.

‘Hit Weak Spot’ HE IS ARGUING this line—with wit and skill—but he is arguing it for the oldest of political reasons, namely, that in politics you always attack the enemy on his weakest flank.

Newspapers, particularly in the East, have built Sen. Jenner into a giant bogeyman. But the fact remains a great many people in the Midwest are hopeful the General will swallow a large dose of Sen. Jenner's foreign policy views, His views represent the Midwest, they say. And Gen. Eisenhower is not launching an all-out attack upon the foreign policy of the Truman administration because he thinks the policy was a bad policy. His early favorable reports on the Korean War, North Atlantic | Treaty Organization, United Nations and Economic Aid to Europe indicate his latest pronouncements are fairly new to him. Ike is developing this argument because some parts of the Truman policy have failed and because his party—especially in the Midwest—believes that the way to win to exoloit those failures. He did just that in Indianapolis.

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