Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1952 — Page 22

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

Nixon's Speech ICHARD NIXON, on the spot as few men have been in their lives, last night delivered an extraordinary speech. It was the first time any man ever went before a nationwide audience and talked so revealingly about his personal finances. : And it was a challenge—an inescapable challenge—to Adlai Stevenson. Gov. Stevenson, by open confession, is in the same fix as Sen. Nixon. He took money from outsiders for political purposes — money which, conceivably, could influence his decisions, however altruistic the donors, however honest the beneficiaries. Sen. Nixon bared personal affairs which few Americans would have the sense of responsibility to tell their fellow citizens. The political expense fund which Sen. Nixon discussed —and which he submitted to certified public accountants— is on all fours with the political expense fund which Gov. ' Stevenson admits he had in Illinois. Gov. Stevenson is under the same obligation as Sen. Nixon to tell his story on radio and television and to submit his accounts to impartial certified public accountants. Only then can the voters compare.

Ott Workman Should Be Freed

TT WORKMAN has served 14 years in Indiana Stale +- Prison. He was convicted of participating in the shooting of his brother-in-law during a holdup-robbery. The evidence in his trial plainly showed that Workman was many miles away when his brother-in-law was held up and shot. The man who was shot is alive and well today. The men who confessed they shot him and were sentenced for: it, have been out of prison for years. The only “evidence” against Workman in his fantastic “trial” was the testimony of the actual robber, even then an ex-convict with a long criminal record, who said Workman had once, a couple of years before the crime, remarked that his brother-in-law shouldn't keep so much money in his safe because somebody might rob him.

» » » THE “TRIAL” itself clearly violated every concept of impartial justice, as its own record shows. The evidence presented by the prosecution was ridiculous, The aged judge who dozed through the hearings apparently never even understood what was going on in his court. There was, and. still is, strong indication of local grudges being paid off in a personal feud. « Even if the charge against him had been: proved— which to any reasonable mind it was not—the life sentence was absurdly heavy for it. Ott Workman has served 14 yegrs in prison for a crime that no credible evidence ever showed he committed. Political pressures have blocked every reasonable examination of his case. Ott Workman is, in fact, a political prisoner. Today the state clemency commission is again reviewing his case. It should act on the facts before it, and without fear

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of political retaliation. If it does, Ott Workman will be set free. » Indiana has been disgraced long enough by this affair,

Tips and Taxes RANK HOLMAN, a Chicago waiter, has just settled his account with Uncle Sam. Uncle's tax collectors said Mr. Holman didn't mention his tips when he filed his income tax returns in 1943 and 1945, and he didn’t even file a return in 1944. So they filed a $1553 claim against him—$842.80 in taxes, plus penalties and interest. Now he has paid $300 —about 19 cents on the dollar. That's about all Mr. Holman had, because the file on his case says he was left with a single dollar. Tip to Mr. Holman: You should have looked up the case of your fellow Chicagoan, Jake (Greasy Thumb) Guzik.

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MR. EDITOR. So I see by he papers that the great General is “irritated” by the quibs of Gov. Stevenson, Well, what could you epect from high brass? He is not used to having anybody talk back to him, much less Jaugh in his face. All he knows is kotows. The only adult experience he has had involved the regimentation of underlings. To him it is lese majesty to openly disagree with him and I suppose outright treason to make fun of him in public, Of course, it is all right for the General to call more than half the people in the United States—the Democrats— ‘town drunks” whose leaders, Roosevelt and Truman, gave him his position in the Army on which position he has capitalized by deserting it to run after their job. It may seem all right to him to thus embark on a phony “crusade” and compare himself, as he did, to Cromwell. Honestly, who could help but laugh at the fellow who really is imitating Don Quixote, the fabulous knight errant crusading against windmills and other phantom enemies, on a decrepit elephant. Yes, it is to laugh, and I hope into oblivion by Nov. 4th. We Democrats will then “soberly” continue to keep the people's prosperous house in order after this noisy “crusade” to proselyte to Republicanism—the worst ‘‘iSm~ in the country—has died down. Well, let’s save some of the laughs for the ghosts who write the words and tell the great General what to say. He doesn't know any better than to repeat them and first thing you

know he'll be believing them—that's another .

laugh. ~—Clyde P. Miller, RR. 17, Box 145.

A Wise dea MR. EDITOR: Since the many accidents in which our school children have been involved, I feel it might be wise for the city to have posters similar to those we saw recently in the officer's housing area at Bergstrom Air Force base in Austin, Tex. In prominent places, these signs were displayed: Cars can't think! Children don't think! You think! Makes you think, doesn’t it? 3 —Ruth M. Macklen, 112 N, State Ave.

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HOOSIER FORUM—‘Quixote’

“l do not agree with a word that you ay, but | will defend to the death your right to say it.”

In Defense of Adlai

MR. EDITOR: The accusations Gen. Eisenhower is making that Gov. Stevenson is making jokes about Issues in this campaign are as unworthy and

low as they are false, Nothing could be farther from the truth. Gov. Stevenson has been seriously trying to discuss issues—so frank has he been in some cases that he has lost votes. For instance, the Texas Democrats who want the Tideland oil lands. Gen. Eisenhower should read what the Governor says himself before he goes around making a big fuss. He might look less like a monkey, if he did. Stevenson, of course, is poking fun at the Republicans—platform, party and policies. Since when has the Republican elephant become the sacred cow of American politics? Just who do they think they are that no one dares make a jest at their expense? It is proper, I suppose, for them to make jokes about Gov. Stevenson's appearance, his clothes, his education, his diction, his choice of words, now his form of wit. This is the cheapest form of polities. Consider how Eisenhower rides into town— sirens screaming, sitting on the top of the back seat of a car, like some movie hero. The ladies scream with delight. Forgotten is the fact that this man favors universal military training: of boys beginning with the 18-year-olds. Forgotten is everything but glamour and hero worship. If this country will fall for that, then, truly, it could happen here. Maybe I am wrong, but I thought grownups were brighter than that, somehow. -—F. M., City

Calls Contract Worthless: MR. EDITOR: : A contract with the Republican-controlled city administration of the city of Indianapolis is as worthless as a promise made by Joe Stalin. The city of Indianapolis created an Indianapolis Housing Authority; the federal government advanced the Indianapolis Housing Authority $231,578.17 in order that the Housing Authority could prepare to builld 1500 low-rent housing units. The Republican city council killed the public housing program last March, thereby repudiating its contract but it did not return the fed:ral money. This money was spent but not one house was erected. Which glutinousfingered Republicans divided the loot? The net result of this fraud is that the taxpayers of ndianapolis will be forced to dig deep into their pockets to repay this loan to the federal government. What did the taxpayers get for their money? A drawerful of blueprints and a horse laugh from our vitiated mayor.

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DECISION DUE ... By Ludwell Denny ; Use of Chiang’s Troops in Korea Rests on UN Desire for Victory

WASHINGTON -- Failure of the latest Formosan trial balloon for use of Chinese Nationalist troops in Korea does not dispose of the matter. When Korean policy is reconsidered, as it inevitably must be after the presidential election, this ¥sue will arise again. If the new administration’s decision is to accept the stalemate and An appeasement settlement on that basis, Chinese Nationalist troops will not be needed. But if the decision is to win a military victory — as essential to Korean liberation and as a warning against Red agression elsewhere—Chiang Kai-shek's forces will get more attention. ¥ So far there is no definite evidence that either Democratic Candidate Stevenson or Republican Candidate Eisenhower has a positive Korean policy. Both talk about the past—the Democrat in praise and the Republican in criticism—without specific commitments for the future. Gov. Stevenson is not as free as his opponent to change policy, since he has approved the administration’s refusal to risk widening the war, Gen. Eisenhower, however, has prejudged the situation at least to the extent of stating that Chiang’s troops are needed where they are to guard Formosa from Red attack.

Cannot Be Evaded

BUT THESE cautious campaign negatives will not be sufficient for the next President, whichever is elected’ He will he faced with an

Sirgent situation which cannot be evaded. If he

chooses to drift, that in itself wil be a policy decision of far-reaching consequence. Already the long stalemate at the front and in the truce negotiations has created a morale problem in the military forces. Here at home there is'a growing spirit of indifference among

those not directly involved, and an attitude of bitterness among some relatives of men being drafted or to be drafted. American public opinion is souring rapidly on the Korean war. That is not surprising under the circumstances. But, inevitable or not, it is becoming the biggest single factor in the making of American policy. If this trend is permitted to continue, the time is not far distant when the public will insist on getting out. Once that nappens—and it obviously is what Stalin has been waiting for—even the strongest Washington adminis. tration will lose most of its bargaining power, The result is apt to be appeasement, regardless of how it is dressed up and regardless of how unwilling the new President may be to accept that.

Invites Aggression SUCH A DEFEAT in Korea would invite other aggression in Asia and the Mideast, and undermine the will to defense in Europe. For those réasons the new President will be forced to reconsider Korean policy before it is too late. When he asks oir military men what it will take to win the Korean war, he is likely to be told they require permission to bomb the enemy’s Manchurian bases and also additional divisions for replacement. Then if our European allies will not. 0 cane not send more divisions for our one-sided de. fense of Korea, the choice will be between a much larger draft of Americans or taking some Nationalist Chinese divisions-to fight the million Red Chinese troops.in Korea. In that case, defaulting Allies would sacrifice their right to veto use of Chiang's forces and American public opinion probably would insist on using them as an alternative to more U. 8. divisions.

A STORY ABOUT TURKEYS . . . By Charles Egger

Gather Around, Children, Here's A Lesson in Federal Arithmetic

WASHINGTON—Hey, kids, look what's coming up in school starting next month-—roast turkey. Your rich Uncle Sam is putting it out. Good deal, huh? The reason you'll get roast turkey without even voting is kind of complicated, like fractions. s In the first place, the poultrymen are growing a lot of turkeys this year—»59 million, they figure. That's more than ever- before, and amounts to six pounds for everybody in the country. With all those turkeys, the price at the store ought to go down, shouldn't it? You know, supply and demand—the more they put out of a certain thing, the cheaper it is. oe oe <> BUT THAT'S not the way the government men do it nowadays. They don't want those store prices to go down because they're afraid the men who grow the turkeys won't make enough money. So the Agriculture Department is buying a tot of those turkeys. They call that “surplus removal.” The idea is to keep the store price from going ‘down. The Agriculture Department already has

* bought 197,000 pounds of turkey. They're frozen

and ready to cook. And it has offered to buy more each week for the next 412 months. Nobody has any idea how many turkeys the government will buy. They say at the department the only limit is the ‘extent that they have outlets available.” ob THAT'S A kind of silly grown-up way of saying how much turkey you kids can eat, because all the turkeys they buy will be donated to the school-lunch program.

They won't say either how much they're paying for the turkeys. They say they're afraid the growers would only offer their turkeys at

a’ certain price if they knew how much the department was willing to pay. That's kind of silly, too. You know, the growers talk among themselves and find out how much the department is paying. ' Sob ob THERE'S another funny angle, too. The Agriculture Department spends a lot of money trying to find ways for the growers to raise more turkeys and other things without spending so much. One purpose is to make the turkeys cheaper at the stores. But when they have turkeys all over the place, they buy the birds so they won't get cheaper. 2 They do this with other stuff, too. Last spring the Agriculture Department bought 81,720,000 eggs. They cost the government $3.5 million. They'll also go to the school-lunch program. Sama way with pork. *

The government spent $13.5 million last spring to buy more than 26 million pounds of pork. Now they're giving it to the schools. They're doing the same thing with fresh Bartlett pears, sour red cherries, cheese, concentrated orange juice and apples. dey 3

THE AGRICULTURE Départment does this because Congress told it to. Congress said the money they buy all these things with should come from tariff receipts. That's the money that has to be paid on stuff sold in the United States from foriegn countries. But you can figure how it really is your Mom and Pop's tax money. After all, they could use those tariff receipts for other things.

HEAD IN SAND? . . . By Parker La Moore Adlai’s Plan to Negotiate With Russ Recalls His 1943 Remarks

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ALDAI E. STEVENSON'S plan to seek an understanding with Russia through negotiation has prompted a pertinent question from Alfred Kohlberg, a New York businessman, He asks the Democratic presidential nominee if he considers himself more competent to deal with Stalin than President Roosevelt was at Tehran and Yalta or than President Truman was at Potsdam. ” ”n » THE United States certainly was in a relatively stronger military position on those occasions than it is today, Mr. Kohlberg said. However, what Mr. Kohlberg may not know is that Mr. Stevenson's conviction we can do business .with the

“Prejudice and distaste have cursed and confused our thinking about Russia. We have come to accept anything mischievious about Russia. But prejudice and national selfinterest must not be confused. “The Russians have been suspicious, too. For a generation they have lived in apprehension of invasion and counter revolution, building up the war machine that has saved the Eurasian continent and more than a billion people from domination by the tyrants of Tokyo and Berlin, ” n - “It IS well to remember that we don’t have to have the same form of government to have the same interests. Policy based on prejudice is the antithesis of realism. The Russians don’t work that way and

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he does not know is whether we in the United States will keep and use this stupendous power, whether we will play our part. And that's up to you and me.” ” ” 5 IT MAY be said in mitigation Mr. Stevenson was not alone in indulging in such wishful thinking back in 1943. But his oratory lost all relation to the facts when he credited the Russian war machine with having saved the continent of Eurasia from the tyrant of Tokyo almost two years before Russia entered the war against Japan, Nor did he allow himself to be handicapped by facts when he overlooked the Hitler-Stalin pact, the joint invasion of Poland and Russia's brutal ate tacks on Finland, Lithuania,

: . : + + « this unknown hand has many names . . . The sum of $231,578.17 may be small for Russians antedates Potsdam, neith was He Is the gangster who wouldn't testify before the Kefauver and no doubt we all know . . . that it controls Mayor Clark and his sycophants but this is a Yalta and Tehran. He discussed ities must we. and needs a Fsionla and Latvia iu ble Crime Committee because, he said, he might incriminate most everything . . . even the tides that flow far cry from the economy in government that this problem at length in a gable world more, if anything, intentions mor +. « Mo matter what we say or do... it always ‘he Republicans prate so much about. Even speech at Chicago, Oct. 8, 1943, than we do. Britain and Amer- It was exactly this kind of . ; : wins the game ... and it tan even trump a Tore important, however, than the amount of and the following quotations ica will have all the sea power head - in - the Yi thinking Uncle's tax collectors were after Guzik, too. They said failure . . . with immortal fame . . . so that is money is the principle involved. With. these will indicate his thinking at and most of the air power. which led to the blunders at non he didn't pay enough in 1924-1928 and in 1936. So they why 1 go along . . . with all the other bards reshonsitle Repuplicans In office a contract that time. They will be a great comfort Yalta and Potsdam and which filed laim for $890.000. includi : y « «+ ~ knowing life itself depends ... on what is 0! e city of ndianapolis is as empty as a “My guess is that they (the to us. And the Russian realist could get us into even more 459 a claim for § ,000, including penalties and interest. in the cards. communist promise. . . Russians) want friendly rela- knows they are prerequisites serious trouble in future nego Suaik sottjod in ips 0 $100,000. —By Ben Burroughs. —By John J. Meiser, 2258 Admiral Dr., City. tions just as much as we do. of a stable world, until we can tiations with Uncle Joe. tinu . Guzik obviously didn’t give up all but his last dollar, i On his.own returns, his income for the six years between SIDE GLANCES B Galbraith MAKING TIME B F d i k C Oo h 105 \ . . . . 1936 and 1942 was $249,807. Yet he got off for only 11 y y receric Pimon ecnts on the dollar, L ’ R d A ! } T Shi he amar’s Red Apple tor Truman Slightly Sour Au * WASHINGTON — It is bad ent to show him we were think- the chairman, couldn't under- (this was | mor y ’ . $ n t | The Chaplin Case : business to present a razor to ing of him.” stand why these distinguished and I didn't he fa. 18) GREAT ARGUMENT is going on in Canada over what a man with whiskers. A jug of Mr. Caudle said all this, of tourists chose a cigaret box for - it the way I would have liked. to do with the s av > . rum to a fellow who never course, in accents so richly President Truman, who does So he wr : , ot he surplus money the government has ac touches the stuff. Or a cigaret southern that I'll make no at- not smoke. the Chief gis 2 We nots to lin’s right to re-enter the country may be questioned. box to a gent who doesn't tempt to reproduce them here: vey. 1. He Oniel, i oR i undet the However, we suggest to the outraged London press smoke. He's likely to conclude my principal problem was to h I DIDN'T KNOW whether = 4p 0 President, probably the that the British assume, as we do, that there is some basis ds’ sled ope: i g for hi undersiatd him, he den : Oe : ak only man in the White House ; : . ‘orking fo m “ so . : : + who © : h for the attorney general's action, and that justice will and this usless gift is in the vas er sald Ie a But we Jicad the lopks of int ba Tue t ht nature of a red apple, he may “And v " that box. We sure did. So we gy phy . pature continued. “And we went in and counted up what money we had lation. On Oct. 29, it came: Mr. Chaplin has chosen to retain his British citizen- XB, So there was m_ Lamar Saw Hs beautiful Sigaret case left, saving enough out for our ar, bega Presi- ; : . ‘ ; ; ! v % ap Noy en made for the hotel n. “Thanks a lot « ship during his long residence in the United States. That 2 0 Caudle. who [etually was fired Count of Rhodesia. I think it Rot a ! nn Abo for the cigaret case. It is one was his right. But it is our government's right—and in Tray To ent They vere unt Of Rhodesia. in. We had enough between us, Of the Most beautiful I have } F fact its duty in these crucial times—to take a good lock ‘ } sistant attorney general, look. Te he > Jappiug Malta: ay We. nought it ve ev ” | : bg : 8 ' n an e clerks, an “It came i ¥ at aliens who are willing to enjoy all the privileges of J Ing _ ae Drtsls Sights iu can't be rightly sure. But there box, with a 2 little Pagteboard ROS NO yt ack Te living here but unwilling to accept the responsibilities of Y his well-heeled pal, Carmen just whatoo Sous, POX. It was bands around it. When I got odd. In all revious 1 tie ya itizenshi d’ Agostini io Just what we wanted.” back to Washington, the Pres- ; P tiers citizenship. . gostino, the New York Rep. Frank L. Chelf (D.Ky,), ident was going to Calif . our giver of gifts, the President champagne magnate, who'd orn called him, “Dear Mr, Caudle.” H C di footed the bill for their jaunt : “Yes, sir, that was the first o Europe. ' ' time I ever received a letter 5 appy Canadians “We were out shopping,” T. THE STORY from him beginning, ‘Dear La- :

A GREAT ARGUMENT is going on in Canada over what to do with the surplus money the government has ac-

Lamar told the fascinated members of the House subcom-

WE MET and then we mapped our course + +» + we charted out the way ... we laid our plans and figured out . . . the price we'd have

mar.” agreed Mr. Caudle. “I really thought I was making

: ; mittee investigati lleg I" cumulated, since tax collections have exceeded expenditures : : o£ ; monkey business in the Depart. to 2ay 1... we Joined our hands. and locked out “In nll as it turned out. in each of the past five years. Some Cana dians say it should PR i 3 ~~ : frent S Justice. “I was looking ro on 2 fom er, vest Smbrape, . and : Less than a month later he was be spent on welfare projects, and others say taxes should “eb Eo Meninn, At oe” for my litte Ing Place 2 TS ond as Jong aud some. 2 Ee oa n i eT . me : : rough . . s was our gain . . , = ; be out. a | | ll q.2y 9 NOTICED This Jewelry til tue love brought us to a place . . . beside gifts, of course, but I stil We'd like to offer some helpful advice, but we can't. Brion dahon a shady lane . .. you might have guessed, Shiske Mr, aula, have : A ote vice, i Tae tr a a Slope full of fancy silverware we'rs married now . . . and live quite peace- been wiser ip give the Chief Nobody aroun ere remembers what a government surplus "Why ‘be ashamed to wear a four-year-old coat, dear? Some rare i a Carmen : a voi atme rig SMI Wiednys wi’ thing Bg ht od Vid see Liked hoses Me, fle - ape Se ; ian +day you can brag about it when you write your memoirs," $hing to bring the chief a pres- . | —By Ben Burroughs. hand-carved metronome.

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