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Give Light and the People Wil Fina Their Own Way

lke and the AFL

ERHAPS DWIGHT Eisenhower didn’t make any votes— at the convention—by what he said to American Federation of Labor leaders and delegates in New York. But he kept his self-respect. He didn't try to outbid the

high-bidding Adlai Stevenson for the vocal indorsement of

top leaders in the union movement. He said bluntly he didn't go before the convention to “curry any special favor.” He probably won't get any favors, either. A majority of the rulers of the AFL{ as in the CIO, are Democratic politicians. Tke would be foolish to expect more than a polite ear from them. However, the principles he spelled out will create, if nothing more, respect for his views from rank-and-file union members. Ike favors a fair shake for union members. But He wants a fair shake for employers and the public as well. He did not join Gov. Stevenson in competing for AFL indorsement by advocating outright repeal of the TaftHartley law. He said he favors some safe-guarding amendments. 3 » ” s . » ” BUT HE would retain the major features of the law — the features which protect union members from their own ambitious and power-hungry leaders. The features which give union members the right to decide for themselves on what terms they will work, or not work, which protect their right to know what becomes of the dues they pay, which safeguard them against discrimination by their union bosses as well as employers. He said he wants an amendment which would prevent the law from being used to break unions. We know of né instance in which the law has been used to break a union. The law specifically preserves the right to organize. But if that possibility exists, then by all means the law should be changed. ™ Anything done to the law should be done, as he said, to “stimulate, not stifle, collective bargaining.” : That's the whole purpose of the statute. The main trouble with the Taft-Hartley law has been the Truman

administration's political use of it. And that's what Tke is against: politics in labor disputes.

The Last ‘Minstrel

QUR PRESIDENT is many things to many people today, and there is much speculation over how history will evaluate him—political accident, a postscript to Franklin D. Roosevelt, or a stubborn little man who was really something new and different in American politics. However, we offer historians the suggestion that Harry S. Truman is really a great humorist and entertainer, of authentic American type—a teller of tall stories. Possibly he is the last ofsthat long line of frontier minstrels whose fantastic exaggerations have produced so much of our na-

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Those minstrels told of Davy Crockett, who swallowed a thunderbolt; Pecos Bill, who rode a cyclone until it threw him and thus dug the Grand Canyon: Mike Fink, who at 150° yards shot a cat's ears off so heatly that the cat didn't know it until he started to scratch them. And there was Paul Bunyan, who when the Pacific Ocean froze over during the winter of the blue snow, hauled regular white snow over from China on ox-teams.

MR. TRUMAN, like the earlier tale-spinners, sometimes tells origihal stories and sometimes purloins and elaborates upon another man’s yarns. This week at Philadelphia, he so honored H. L. Mencken by relating Mr, Mencken's story about the first bathtub in the White House. When Mrs. Millard Fillmore had it installed, the story goes, the Cincinnati Medical Association. passed a resolution denouncing it and declaring that it was unsanitary and unhealthy to take off all one's clothes at the same time.

Mr. Mencken and the good burghers of Cincinnati have been explaining for years that there is not a word of truth in the story, which the Baltimore sage dreamed up as a space filler one dull day. But it enabled Mr. Truman to take a dig at the medical profession and Sen. Taft's home town, and also to needle Philadelphians by declaring that the White House now contains more bathtubs than their Benjamin Franklin Hotel. (Another stretcher, too, since that hotel has 1200.)

The President went on to lambaste the Republicans for opposing his national health insurance plan. By the time he was half through his speech, a greenhorn listener would have been persuaded that Republicans were in favor of illness; by the end, that the GOP was planning to loose germwarfare upon the voters before election day.

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THE SAME day, in a message to the American Federation of Labor, Mr. Truman conjured up a group of ogres who had “hatched a plot to smash, or at least to cripple, our trade union movement in a period of postwar reaction.” While he and his fellow knights had thwarted that wicked effort, he went on, there are even now “plans afoot in Wall Street” for more oppression of the downtrodden workers.

J. Frank Dobie, the Texas historian, himself both a

collector and a purveyor of tall tales, once described the

typical American yarn-spinner: “He does not take himself too seriously, but he does regard himself as an artist and yearns for recognition of his art . . . without any purpose at all and directed. only by his ebullient and companion-loving nature, he may ‘stretch - the blanket’ merely” because, like the redoubtable Tom Ochiltree, he had ‘rather lie on credit than tell the truth for ‘cash’ His generous nature revolts at the monotony of everyday facts and overflows with desire to make his com- " oe

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2 | IKE'S PLEA . . . By Jim G.

Begged Congress Not To Wreck War Machine

WASHINGTON—In a desperate attempt to halt too-rapid demobilization of our Armed Forces in 1946, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower pleaded with the Democrat-controlled Congress to “re place hysteria with calm judgment and sound

wuam discipline.” : In his recent Philadelphia speech, Gen. Eisenhower charged the Truman administration had “allowed America, at a time when strength was needed, to become weak.” Democrats retorted. that he was Army chief of staff at the time. The record discloses, however, that Gen. Eisanhower repeatedly tried to stop the dismantling of the superb ; war machine with . which we won World Gen, Ike War II. Again and igain, he told the 79th Congress that we were taking unacceptable risks. “I am frank to say,” he told Congress on Tan. 16, 1946, “that I had never anticipated this emotional wave would reach the proportions of near-hysteria. I am confident that members ‘of Congress are as anxious as I that straight thinking be substituted for emotion in this matter . . ” Gen. Eisenhower said then that the “very numan desire to get soldiers home in a hurry clashes with the Army’s manpower needs to do the job that has been assigned to us.”

Calm View Urged

“IT 18 ‘a big job.” he said. “Even with the fighting over, it takes a great many men to carry out our rnission. (The) still unfinished business of winding up the affairs of our great war establishment are matters of co'd, hard fact, They cannot be obscured by emotion and near hysteria. Evidently, the relation of demobilization to these tasks is understood only partially by some and not at all by others.” Fourteen months after the war ended, he pointed out, the Army had only 500,000 trained men. “It is with this relatively untrained army, in the throes of reconversion, that we must undertake the grave tasks still ahead,” he said, “This has been the most rapid and broad scale demobilization in histéry. I consider it to be almost without a safety factor.” If it continued, he warned “we shall have no choice but to abandon billions of dollars worth of war supplies still overseas.” Eventually. that happened. “Even if you gentlemen approve such action as the choice between two evils,” hé told Congress, “I hope you will not tolerate the reduce tion of occupation personnel below levels required by Gen. (Douglas) MacArthur (Supreme Commander, Allied Powers, Pacific) and Gen. (Joseph) McNarney (then in command in Ger-

Tito .. . By Ludwell Denny Trieste Deadlock Must Be Broken

+ WASHINGTON—British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden is in Yugoslavia to pat Tito on the back for recent co-operation and also to push him gently toward more of same.

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Belgrade, the burly Yugoslav dictator should understand that a compromise settlement of his Trieste deadlock with Italy is the prite of the much larger Allied aid he has requested. Prospects are not favorable. After a month of intensive secret diplomatic negotiations in Belgrade and Rome under Allied pressufe, Tito has stiffened and suggested putting the whole issue on ice for a while. His public pronouncements on the eve of Eden’s arrival make it harder for him to comoromise now, even if he should decide to do so.

Dispute Helps Russia

UNDER ORDINARY circumstances the Allies) as a matter of customary diplomatic technique, would postpone further Trieste negotiations. =~ After all it is a very old issue, and what difference can a few more months delay make? There are several reasons for speed: As long as Tito’'s military strength ig divided between his Trieste - Italian frontier and the Soviet satellite frontiers, the planned AlliedYugoslav joint defense of the Balkans cannot be fully effective. The Trieste dispute is an invitation to Stalin adventures. He is already using it to block an Austrian treaty. A settlement would be some evidence of Tito’s good faith, The fact that he is anxious to receive all possible Allied military and economic ~id—upon which he is dependent for security against his fellow Red dictator and former partner in crime—does not make him a reliable associate,

Effects in lialy

THE BIGGEST time factor is the Italian election next sprina. Unless there is a Trieste settlement before that political campaign begins, it will become impossible. Any compromise would be hard enough for the Rome govarnment to sell its people now, but would be political suicide during an inflamed campaign. A pro-Allied Italy is more important to the West than any half-way association with Tito, risky at best, f : These considerations, however, do not blind the Allies to the fact that Tito has come a long | way in the past three months. He has modified his totalitarian economy somewhat to get better results with Allied economic aid. He has permitted closer Allied inspection of his military sstablishment. He is working out an informal regional military alliance with Greece and Turkey, which is of great potential value to the Allies, His 33 divisions, plus 10 Greek and 12 Turk, would total more than twice the Allied strength in Western Europe. Nevertheless the Allies are not going overboard for Tito. Economic aid is being cut from $120 million last year to $99 million this year. Technical and military aid is increased, but Tito will get only token tanks and jets until there is more tangible proof that the co-operation is mutual when and where it counts, That is why Trieste is a test.”

'DEAR PEN' .

Pray speak to me and tell me what ‘oa my love did chance to write , . . for you were the main witness to . . . the things she scribed that night . , . you were so close and did so .nuch . .. toward helping her along . . . I beg of you, beseech you . . . to tell me was it wrong . .. 1 never realized till now . . . the power you contain . . . for by a single stroke from you . .". blue skies can turn to rain .... oh lifeless yet so powerful , , . come whisper in my ear . tell me what you penned for her . .. my soul it longs to hear . . . but I suppose it's better that + +» You cannot speak a word . , . for if you’ could perhaps I'd sorrow . . . at the things 1 heard. :

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many) to carry out their duties. There is no possible doubling up of the work load which could enable us to accomplish our mission with fewer men. If that situation develops, you gentlemen will have to decide what me must do.”

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TALL TALES . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Caudle’s Southern Deer Hunt Like Shooting Fish in Barrel

WASHINGTON — Associate. Justice Tom Clark can tell his wife no more tall tales about his prowess as a huntsman; if he has the head of the deer he shot in North Carolina hung above his mantelpiece, he'd be wise to take it down. ‘ I've got the facts about this Supreme Court jurist and big-game hunter from his great and good friend, T. Lamar Caudle. You remember T. Lamar, who still can’t understand why President Truman fired him as assistant attorney general. He's in the hot seat again. In accents so richly southern some of my colleagues claimed he sounded like he had a mouth full of Carolina mountain mush and molasses, T. Lamar was recounting for congressional investigators the story of his life. He'd been appointed U. S. attorney back home in North Carolina and he’d made it his business to get chummy with all his bosses, Including Justice Clark, then only an assistant attorney general, himself. One autumn T. Lamar invited Mr. Clark and James Barnes, a White House assistant, on a deer hunt in the * Carolina mountains.

Woods Were Full

“YES, SUH,” said T. Lamar, “we went . huntin’. We shore did. We went into the Carolina National Forest and there were 400 other cars ahead of us. “You get any deer?” inquired Rep. Frank L. Chelf (D. Ky.), chairman of the inquiry into the Justice Department. . - “Well, suh said Mr. Caudle, “we did not. For a“fact. The only deer that Mistah Clark saw was a doe, and you can’t shoot does.” The disconsolate hunting party then ran into the superintendent of the Vanderbilt hunting estate, who was chagrined that Carolina's distinguished guests had not had better luck.

POLITICAL FRANKENSTEIN .

He invited them into the boss’ private preserves, where he guaranteed that both Mr. Clark and Mr. Barnes would get a deer apiece. “Did they?” asked Committee Counsel Robert Collier. “They shore did,” said T. Lamar. “It was very luxurious. Paved roads all through the forests and deer running all over the place. So you just sat in a station wagon and you shot. If you missed one deer, you got another,” It wasn’t long thereafter before Huntsman Clark was appointed attorney general and soon he was on the phone, inviting T. Lamar to come to Washington as assistant attorney general. “You were pleased?” inquired Mr. Collier. “I was excited,” said Mr. Caudle. “I came up to Washington on the tail of a hurricane.”

Danger Ahead “YOU DIDN'T realize how dangerous it was?” asked Mr. Collier. “No, sub, not then I didn’t,” said T. Lamar. “Not until later.” The danger in Washington was not so much a big wind, but a flood—of martini cocktails. Folks he hardly knew were hospitable. He was amazed. Such nice people he never had seen before. .. Then, said he, it turned out the host who pressed upon him the champage of an evening appeared in his office a few days later, wanting something. : “We were just invited everywheah” said T. Lamar. “I accepted a lot of 'em (pause)— too many.” -* : The congressmen wondered who were the

big shots who plied him with cocktails and then

sought favors. Could he name ’em? “No, suh,” said Mr. Caudle. “There were 80 many of ’em.” ‘

. + By Marshall Lynam

Texas Republicans Might Regret The ‘Adoption’ of Gov. Shivers

FT. WORTH Texas Republicans this year have created a political Frankenstein which may return to haunt them in 1954. They did it by cross-filing on Gov. Allan Shivers—by adopting him as the Republican, as well as the Democratic candidate for governor. What's bad about that? Nothing—as long as he doesn’t

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merely meet, hand-pick their candidates, and that's it.

” » 8 THEY HAVE always said they don’t have enough money to hold a primary of their own. The party—not the state—pays for primaries. Democrats meet the cost by charging candidates stiff filing fees. Some people thought Gov. Shivers might refuse to allow his name to be listed in the Republican column. It’s still not too late. Gov. Shivers can withdraw anytime up to 20 days before the Nov. 4 election. It is believed that Gov. Shivers will get a lot of votes in the Republican column because of the way the ballot will be made up. : In the Democratic column, there will be Stevenson and Sparkman, followed by all Democrats running for state office. The Republican column also will list all Democratic state candidates, but with Eisenhower and Nixon, at the top.

” ” ~ THUS, A voter desiring to vote for Eisenhower and Nixon but also for all Democratic state candidates will be able to do so merely by voting a straight Republican ticket The law says any party whose candidate for governor gets 200,000 or more votes must nominate candidates next time by primary. If Gov. Shivers gets that many GOP votes, then what? One dopester predicted that Republicans, intent on, avoiding a primary if possible, would go to court. They would try to prove, he ~aid, that Gov. Shivers in reality was not a Renublican candidate at all— that there was in fact no Repuhlican candidate. This, however, might lead to another comPlication. If a court ruled that there was no Republican candidate, it would thréw the Republican convention system out of whack.

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numbers,” he said, “for lack of trained ground crews to service those planes.” ¢ In an address to the American News Publishers Asociation on Apr. 26, 1946, he aid: “In the shadow of the most costly conflict of all times, we ignore the lessons of our past history and events daily recorded in American newspapers. We do not see military problems clearly since they come into our range of vie sion only as ar irritating distraction. By wish ful conversion of hope into accomplished fact, we refuse to look at the problems of today. .., “The belief that unco-ordinated disarmament can liberate us from the fear of war is a fas tuous notion. (It) is a treacherous road. The caution to be observed is that disarmament is not unbalanced.” z At Northfield, Vt.,, on June 10, 1946, Gen, Eisenhower again s out against hasty demobilization, warning there “is an obvious limit to our unilateral disarmament.” : “We need (what) is required to meet the solemn commitments of our country throughe out the world . . . to secure us in peaceful ace

tivity and give confidence to those who seek to emulate us.”

Hoosier Forum

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

Slaps Clark Regime MR. EDITOR:

Speaking of cleaning up the mess, could any city be in a bigger mess than our own fair city? And what has happened since the first of the year? We had two good Democrat mayors, but no, not enough graft and gambling. Mayor Bayt was too honest and forthright. Gamblers were afraid of him. But under Mayor Clark, anything goes, We have the worst crime wave in our city ever known before. The Republicans screamed to high heaven about taxes and waste of public funds. What funds? There weren't any. When a Democrat mayor followed Mayor Tyndall, what did they find? All kinds of graft. Money spent out of the general fund for flowers, thousands of dollars and no records kept and there wasn't enough money to pay the city employees. > SS

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AND MAYOR BAYT, anyone knows what a fine honest, sincere mayor he was, Now look at our taxes. Highest in the history of the city. All Mayor Clark thinks about is money, money, so he can e a big show. I remember when he talked on TV before election. He would lower taxes. Oh yeah? He had over $500,000 to start with but that was small potatoes to the big showoff Children don't go to school in my neighborhood. Dozens of them play all day. Where is the truant officer? What about the truck routes? Do the large trailers follow them? They do not. Why should they? The police don’t stop them; in other words, it doesn’t make any difference what“you do, you get by with it. Ah O ; WHAT'S HAPPENED to our city? What about the $10 fine for overparking? If that isn’t a holdup, show me one, And this is the political party that talks about a mess in Washington. They will clean it up. Oh, yeah? All they would clean up is everybody's pockets and put it in their own. You would be clean all right, that is the working people would. But the big shots would have all the money. Do you workers think all the big companies and name any you want to, would donate millions and millions of dollars to the Republicans for you, the working people? Not on your life. It's all done trying to bring wages down. The big shot Republicans don’t like these high wages because they can’t walk all over you when you got money in your pockets. * Sd &

GOOD CARS, nice homes, TV sets and vacations with pay so you can take those vacations. You Democrats were too lazy to get out and vote last election here in the city. Better get going or you sure will wind up behind the eight-ball. Over 90 per cent of the people work for wages. If you want your good living and your good wages, you must vote Democratic. Re-

-member, no Republicans in office ever made

good times, good wages for anybody — only

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down the river. . —By Mrs. A. F., City.

‘No More Old Guard’ MR. EDITOR:

An open letter to Sen. Jenner: I see where you have grabbed the coattail of Ike, a man whom You a month ago - criticized on foreign policy. Now, Senator, I, and the voters of the city and state, would like to know what change there would be if it were possible for the Republican Party to win in November. Since Ike indorsed you for the Senate, he has lost the support of a fine Senator in Wayne Morse and we know it is because Ike has weakened to you and Sen. Taft, I wonder when the Republican Party will learn that votes are not won on polls but by votes cast on Election Day. And on Nov. 4 we, the people, I mean the.working core of the nation, will show you and Sen. Taft that we don’t want any more Old Guard Republicans who would take overtime pay away from the workers, destroy all unions and bring back the sweat shop that EHsted before 1933. . *

OH, YES, Senator, about corruption. Can Ed Jackson, former of John L. Duvall,

I hear you blowing off you recall the days of Favvenor, and the days ormer mayor of In - apolis, and Army Gen, Rober Symi tar, mayor of our city? The only trouble with.you is they haven't caught up with You and Sen. Capehart. But just wait, some day they will SRY will 1 make hay then. Ha, ha. enator, do you have any new plow: ? haven't, you had better get i a Pi, whether Ike is elected or not, we, the independent voters, are going to return you to the farm. We are going to elect a little man to the position who cares about the little working man and his problems instead of cutting his throat, ~Bud Kaesel, City.

‘A ‘Plug’ for Drivers MR. EDITOR: To Miss Mikels:

I read your piece in The Ti the tragedy of little Tommy. Bryans wrote was true and no one loves children better than I do and no one has more respect towards ein Tou casual Judge in punish all drivers e er. Eve has two sides to it, 2vihing ofthis sons For instance, as I came home from work, tired and worn out, working towards the war effort, etc, I drove down Tibbs past Allison's Plant 5. I saw ahead of me one, bicycle ridden by a girl, oh, 11 years old and another ridden by a boy 16 years old anyhow, and behind this big long-legged boy was a girl, say 8 or 9 years of

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were ng. I blew my horn and slowed es Tagging opposite * one of them made an insulting remark. What would you do, lalgh it off? I fear these kids and their “D D” bicycles. I just wondered about the parents of these “children.” I wonder if you could write a few articles concerning the other side of the picture. Oh, yes, if I had brushed them as they zig-zagged, you would have laid me out in your paper. We have lots of this kind of thing on the streets of Indianapolis, . on

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