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The Stevenson Visit OV. ADLAI STEVENSON got the enthusiastic welcome in Indianapolis that we expected he would get yesterday, and he charmed a huge crowd with his own magnificent personality and his smooth, sophisticated wit. We were disappointed, ourselves, though in what he said in Indiana — or rather in what he didn’t say.

We had hoped for a forthright straight-forward statement that would explain the two lush “funds” he appears to have been raising in Illinois — on who gave the money, and how, and what for.

He didn’t mention them. Gov. Stevenson had previously admitted raising a substantial extra-curricular fund, composed of gifts from private citizens, to augment the pay of some of his state administration employees. But this week Times Writer Irving Leibowitz and Scripps-Howard Writer James Danial were told by an ex-Stevenson aid about another and much bigger “fund” — amounting, it appears to more than $100,000 — contributed by businessmen who sell the state of Illinois some $35 millions a year worth of goods and services. Gov. Stevenson hasn't explained that one yet, either. = » . » » = WHEN HE COMMENTED on the expense fund set up for Sen. Nixon, Gov. Stevenson said it would have to be judged on the basis of the answer to these questions: Who gave the money? ; Was it given to influence the Sénator’s position on public questions? Have any laws been violated? We believe these questions are entirely proper. We believe they apply to Gov. Stevenson's fund just as properly as they do to Sen. Nixon's fund. Along with some others: : How big was this slush fund? William J. McKinney, former aid to Gov. Stevenson and in position to know, sa - it was more than $100,000. What was it spent for? Mr. McKinney says some went to pay entertainment expenses for the Governor, some to cover his charitable contributions, and some to support friendly candidates for the legislature. Ee ’ : How was the money solicited? Mr. McKinney says it came from imdividuals and companies doing business with the state of Illinois? What are the morals of that procedure? How many people give away as much as $5000 in a single shot just because they are asked for it? If Gov. Stevenson goes to Washington will he solicit the same kind of funds? . 4 - s ” = ” GOV. STEVENSON HAS answered none of those questions, not even his own. He has said he will tell, soon, about the smaller fund he has admitted. He has not, so far, even mentioned the larger, and it seems to us more dubious, fund that Mr. Leibowitz and Mr. Daniel discovered.

It was Gov. Stevenson's friends who raised the question of “special funds” in the first place — when one appeared likely to embarass his opponent. ‘They demanded an ipnmediate and full explanation from ~ Sen. Nixon. : 2 They got it. That, if nothing else, would seem to us to place Gov. Stevenson under a definite obligation to explain his own funds, candidly and completely, and ‘without delay. = = - =" n ” APART FROM THAT GRARING LACK, Gov. Stevenson's speech in Indianapolis was well-geared to Hoosier thinking. He advocated greater “states rights,” a view overwhelmingly supported by both Democrats and Republicans in Indiana, though directly counter to the course of his own party administrations of the past 20 years. He spoke at length of economy, another subject dear to the hearts of Hoosier tax-payers. His recommendations were general, and not specific, in both those fields. He would leave the states “state rights” so long as they do not become “state wrongs,” with the plain implication that the individual states could be allowed to govern themselves as far as they do what the national administration wants them to do—but no farther. He would get economy in government by making sure we get full value for every dollar spent . . . a worthy enough objective so far as it goes, but holding no prospect of any substantial cut in the present size of spending or taxes. He scoffed, in fact, at the “meat ax” cut in federal budgets he said were proposed by Gen. Eisenhower as impractical and impossible, and even alittle bit funny. _ We don’t agree that they are. On the contrary, when a budget gets to the size ours is now it seems to us that what it needs most is a good, heavy, and preferably dull, meat ax, with a lusty swing behind it. Hearing him speak, last night, of economy we somehow kept thinking of Franklin D." Roosevelt in his first campaign, 20 years ago. The one definite pledge Mr. Roosevelt made in that campaign was to cut federal spending by 25 per cent.

Just About ‘Ultima,’ Too

“THULE” is the name aptly chosen for the great air base that is being constructed in Greenland backed by the wall of the icecap and fronting on Baffin Bay. Thule, to the Greeks and Romans, was the term employed to describe the northernmost points they knew. One Pytheas is said to have reached Thule somewhere around 300 B. C. by sailing straight north six days from Great Britain. There is a wide variety of speculation as to what bit of land the ancients had in mind. Some said Iceland, others one of the Shetlands and still others. Norway.

Even the derivation of the word is mysterious. The Romans called it “Thule” and the Greeks spelled it ‘“Thoule,” but just why is another matter. Some students figure it may have come from the Gothic “Tiule,” meaning “the most remote land,” but others feel there is a closer connection ‘with the Greek “telos,” meaning “the end,” and sg it goes. * Anyhow, the is well named. “Ultima Thule” meant the end of the world and this vast field very nearly merits that designation in some ways, even though it will be busy ¥ with air traffic, . § . |

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PRIDE . . . By Richard Starnes Naguib Spurs Egypt's Hopes

CARIO—The big question two months after Gen. Naguib's seizure of power is—can he make it stick? The answer seems to be’ yes, with reservations. Tanks and soldiers still are very much in evidence in Cairo streets but there can be no question that the tough little soldier is a hero to most Egyptians. His unannounced appearance on the streets is a signal for spontaneous cheers. Invariably people turn to foreigners — who presently are well thought of in most quarters— and say: “Yawa (Lt. Gen.) Naguib is such a good man.” Gen. Naguib has given the people two things they lacked under King Farouk: pride and hope.

Good Start

BUT WOULD BE wishful thinking to believe Ni ib could undo the wrongs of centuries in a few weeks. So far, all that can be said for General Naguib's government is that it has made a good start. Reform for Egypt means one thing above all others—an attempt to relieve the misery of the unbelievably poor Fellahin (peasants) who work the lush Nile valley and who live in the world’s worst,agricultural slum. * Land reform, Gen. Naguib's first order of business, was a difficult hurdle for him. Skeptics who visited his headquarters in the early days of the coup and found confusion

_ scoffed that the man who couldn’t run a head-

quarters certainly couldn’t put over a complex land reform program. But Naguib and his Free Officers Committee have ironed out the administrative kinks and have launched a workmanlike land reform plan. Under it, the land-owning Pashas—most of whom are sulking in Lebanon, Cyprus or the Riviera—will get non-negotiable three per cent bonds for their land. The Fellahin will then be permitted to buy land under long and easy terms. /

Sneer at Bonds

PRESUMABLY, when the peasants begin to pay for the land the bonds will be redeemed. But the deposed landlords sneer at the ‘“worthless” bonds and doubt they'll get any money for their land.

Another important step taken by the new

government was ordering the army to shed the tarboosh. Abandonment of the tasseled red hat was dramatic notice that the army intended to break the links with a tarnished past when it was often betrayed by corrupt rulers.

Bosses Jailed

IT'S TRUE the Wafd bosses were tossed in the pokey whefi they refused to clpan house. But the Wafd remains the country’s most powerful party. Asking it to clean up is like asking the Democrats to give up the postmasterships. Finally, Gen. Naguib has begun to hear rumblings of dissatisfaction from elements of the shadowy, powerful Moslem Brotherhood. anti - Christain, antiforeign religious fanatics who pine for the day when all foreigners will be gone from the Islamic world, = Religious firebrands believe Gen. Naguib has gone too slowly and they're needling him to get the move on. Right now, it's a headache but it could become a serious problem if enough people become disheartened by the deliberate pace of the new government.

ATOM TOWN . .. By C. Farnsworth

Los Alamos Needs Roots

y LOS ALAMOS, N. Mex.—What is a home town without a cemetery? Of all the differences between other American communities and this town, birthplace of the A-bomb and continuing center of hush-hush research, the standouts are: : Security of the FBI kind in great gobs. But almost none of the own-your-own-home-and-family-plot kind of security. The U. 8. is landlord here. There is no cemetery—not even an undertaker. A human may be born in the new 110-bed Medical Center, with the help of an obstetrician who lately sends his bill instead of drawing a government salary. And when one dies there may be a funeral in one of the 14 churches, three properly housed. But the body will have to be embalmed by a Santa Fe undertaker (cleared for admission into this highly restricted community) and shipped to another home town for burial.

Only Living Can Stay IF THIS atomic Main Street is to be fully Americanized, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) is going to have to clear titles for home ownership (complete with mortgages and easy payments) and establish a Forest Lawn, a Greenlawn—or some other kind of lawn—that people will like to be buried in. With Chamber of Commerce instinct (though there is no C. of C.) Los Alamos civic leaders fret about the feeling of boomtown temporariness that comes naturally to people in Los Alamos. A slick-paper brochure about the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, operated for the AEC by the University of California, faces this campingout feeling but fails to touch the heart of the matter. The lab, Los Alamos’s reason for being a town, was set up in the spring of 1943 to manufacture the first A-bombs. Scientists and their helpers arrived in growing numbers to live in temporary buildings and a vacated ranch school for boys. By the latest count, Los Alamos now numbers 12,611.

It's No Camp Now SET ON a canyon-cut mesa; up against one of the Jemez mountdins, about 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, the place suggests a resort more than an atomic workshop. Though the community is going on 10 years old, the. university brochure points out, “many people still think of it as a temporary establish ment. This is, however, far from the truth.” Maybe the still temporary buildings give p2ople that idea, the brochure concedes, but a $100 million building program is under way and Los Alamos is a modern city with permanent homes and shopping facilities of many kinds. But family housing has fallen short so far. Get away from “snob-hill" — where trim adobe-type bungalows flourish on big sloping lawns—and you will find whole families living in houses of the shape and size of halved boxcars,

No Mothers-in-Law HOUSING has been accorded on a basis of family size and first-come-first-served with no provision for subsequent adjustments. Housing’is provided only for the employees (often both husband and wife), dependent wives and chil« dren. No depéndent relatives. : Monthly rents range from $10 to $100, with an average of $50. A 3-bedroom bungalow in the western area (which less fortunate residents, not I, call “snob hill”) runs $73 basic rent, $16 for utilities and, if fenced, a small charge for that. The highest salaries are $14,000. At the other extreme, laborers earn $1.15 an hour. The total annual income of the Los Alamos breadwinners is about $24 million—which could pay for a lot of homes if they could be bought. No adult may live here who is not directly or Indirectly engaged in nuclear research or serving those that are. : - Anyone visiting Los Alamos must have a guarantor and a pass. This may look like a fine solution to the problem of unpredictable house

¢Suests—but it doesn’t help make Los Alamos a :

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ALLIED DISPUTE . . . By Ludwell Denny Pacific Defense Pact Blocked By American-British Conflict

WASHINGTON — This row between the United States and Britain over a Pacific defense pact is getting worse because there is no quick or easy out. } On the surface, it seems that Prime Minister Churchill is right and President Truman is wrong. But a deeped look shows the President has a strong case. It really is one of those wrong. But a deeper look shows the President only possible solution, and unless the two governments can co-operate toward that end, they will sacrifice the Pacific defense on which both are dependent. The dispute began when Britain wanted to be represented in the Australian-New ZealandUnited States (ANZUS) Pact negotiated in September, 1951. Washington refused. When the ANZUS conference was held in Honolulu last month to set up pact machinery, London asked to be represented at least by observers, and was turred down again.

Feeds Suspicion THIS HURT British pride. It also violated clear British interests. Worst of all, it fed the increasing suspicion of many British conservatives, as well as Laborites, that Washington is trying to loosen London's bonds with the commonwealths. At best America’s dominant wartime role in the Pacific and America’s postwar economic superiority have created a flock of embarrassing situations, in Canada as in Australia and New Zealand, in which the commonwealths look to ‘Washington instead of London. The ideal solution of an American-Com-monwealth-British military and ‘economic federation is not around the corner. Meanwhile, all of the governments involved recognize the

necessity of the closest co-operation of mutual advantage. But the practical application of that enthusiastically accepted principle is the rub. In this case all three Anzus governments admit Britain's interest in the Pacific because of Hongkong and Malaya, and because London at once would jump to the defense of Australia or New Zealand if they were attacked. . Therefore, all three would ‘like to have the United Kingdom represented in a larger Pacific security system.

No Pact in Sight THE D cific pact cannot be created under present conditions, and that British association with Anzus now would retard rather than advance that essential development. There can be no general Pacific pact now because: Key countries such as India, Burma and Indonesia are “neutrals,” who refuse to join. Two different Chinas are recognized by America and tain. Indo-China and South Korea have protectorate status in fact. And Japan is neither armed nor acceptable to Australia and New Zealand. '

Merger of Pacts : THE OBVIOUS first step to enlarge the Pacific security system is to tie together the three existing American pacts—those with the Philippines, with Japan and with Australia-New Zealand—into a single Pacific council. Such a council could add Britain, and perhaps unify China policy and enable some neutral nations to see the advantages of a regional collective security system. Meanwhile Churchillian feelings are hurt and Truman is on the way out of office.

SOVIET SMOKE SCREEN . . . By R. H. Shackford Russians Talk German Unity,

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But Do All They Can to Block It

LONDON —Russia is not expected to accept the Allies’ latest proposal for a Big Four Conference limited to discussion of all-German free elections. Stalin doesn't really want another conference—except on Russia’s terms. The West's terms haven't changed and are unlikely to do so. They are that first things must come first in dealing with Germany. And the first. essential — if Russia means anything other than propaganda in the talk about German unity—is an impartial investigation to determine whether conditions for

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such a procedure, the West then would be willing to sit down with Russia and the new all-German government to discuss a German peace treaty.

But free elections in East Germany today are as impossible as elsewhere behind the Iron Curtain. Therefore, Russia wants to reverse the process — discuss the peace treaty first and presumably impose it on Germany by Big Four rule. s = ~ UNTIL LAST May, there was some sentiment in the West that the Rusisans really might mean business this time. Once treaties with West Germany and the European Army were signed by the West, however, it became obvious over-

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night that Russia’s only object was to prevent the rearmament of West Germany and

her intergration into the Western Defense System.

Everything the Rusisans

and their East German stooges have done since shows their loud babble about ' German unity is only a facade to cover up their real intentions—solidification of the partition of Germany between the Kast and the West. Here are just a few of the things they've done while

shouting “we want unity.” s n 2

CLOSED MOST of the roads between East and West Germany, leaying only five crossing points on a frontier of more than 500 miles, Severed all telephone and telegraph communication between West Berlin and the areas under Soviet control and drastically reduced others. Created a no-man’s land zone

three miles wide along the en---

tire East-West German border and expelled all ;persons living in that zone. Forced East Germans wanting to visit relatives in West Germany to obtain not only a Soviet pass but two separate police certificates and recommendations from a Communist

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THE" COMPLETE Sovietiza

tion of East Germany, All local governments have been abolished and all power concentrated in the center.

Openly proclaimed creation of an East German Army, Saree for which existed in_the police force. As long as 1950, they had a Phi Rg if force of 50,000, equipped with artillery and tanks. That's now being expanded by “recruits”

from Communist organizations.

Thus, when the Russians piously claim all they want is the reunification of Germany and charge it's the West that's obstructing it, the Western Powers should reply in the idiom of that famous American General, Tony McAuliffe, at

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Hoosier Forum “I do not agree with a word that you

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Let Democrats Clean Up MR: EDITOR:

Now that the election is near, many think of cleaning house by changing the party in power. Why not keep the Democrats in and have

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them clean up? They cannot get worse so they .

may get better. It is a big mistake to be changing parties for no good reason. Like unnecessary moving, it causes much disruption and expense. The Republicans were in for 24 years (1861-1885). Let's give the Democrats the same ten period, also. We do not want Truman, chiefly because the job is too big for him to handle. . vores Nei THE Republican Party is the rich men's party. It stands for a “master and slave” economy. They are, of course, the masters. They believe strongly in and want the private enterprise plan, because‘they furnish the money, and those without a command of finances provide the labor on the moneyed men’s terms and at their bidding, They wish for this advantageous condition to continue indefinitely and stigmatize al efforts to improve the lot of the masses by calling ‘them socialistic, although benefits for the classes are 0.k. If the Democrats stay in we won't have a depression. for the next four years. And ir the Townsend pension is put into effect, we'll never have a depression nor even a recession. oid Cd I BELIEVE that war with Russia is inevitable sooner or later. I also believe that the Korean War serves a purpose and was not engineered by the Democrats; nor is it kept artificially going by them all of this time merely to provide and to maintain prosperity. The Democratic Party was and is the common men’s party. It must really clean house

. by ceasing its widespread and prolonged med-

dling and controlling; by severely curtailing expenditures (especially reducing ‘amounts of money to foreign countries and increasing them for our own use); by solving the housing problem for everybody; by stopping inflation in all forms everywhere; and by curbing racketeering and communistic strikes. All of these things can be done by the party in power and, if done within the next four years, will redeem it from the terrible and inexcusable mismanagement in the past. So vote Democratic if you are a worker for daily wages in order to retain your present favorable conditions.’ ' ~—Observer, City.

Calls Adlai Crafty MR. EDITOR:

1% is a very crafty campaign that Gov. Stevenson has planned. First, he has laid a groundwork of lofty speeches, heavily seasoned with wit which has a two-edged purpose—to ridicule Republicans and to entice listeners. This is apparently part of his plan to overcome the handicap of his being comparatively unknown. He pulls in his Jisteners and TV-viewers with the attention getters, the gags. Then he eases into his slow and somewhat involved expatia~ tion of the issues—with an always honest, forthright approach. The voters will tune him in for his humor— and will stay for the main course. What the voters think of the main course— his masterly exposition of issues—is yet to be seen. But he will lure a great number of them in to his speeches, and he will get a wide hearing —and seeing. His gags in themselves have alre had tw profitable effects, They nin ind helped to push Eisenhower into the Taft camp. And, starting with this week, he actually has Eisenhower helping publicize his sense of humor —and presumably creating more interest in Stevenson's future talks.

—By Richard Griffith, 2158 N. Arlington Ave,

Safeguard Children

MR. EDITOR:

A couple of weeks ago a hoy was killed and a girl seriously injured on the West Side as they were crossing the street on the way to school. Day after day we read about these accidents and the papers have a big writeup. The police step into action—afterwards—yes, after things happen and after it is too late. . I just want to remind you of the order our police chief issued which got a big play in the paper with photos and all. I have checked the last few days and, on the north side, out of five school crossings, there is one policeman on duty. What happened? Is that accident of two weeks ago forgotten already and must we have another one to get action? The safety council has recommended a 15mile speed limit in school zones, very recommendable indeed—if, if it will be onforced. But will it? Judging by the past records of our law enforcement agencies it will not. Why don’t we put the blame where it belongs? : This state has one of the worst records in the union and why? Because drunks, arrested many times get out of it scott free. If our judges could see the agony of a child hurt in an accident, and the misery brought to a family I believe they would change their tune, But until they do, I think it is up to our news-

papers to do something about it, not just when °

an accident happens, but always. Keep the records of our law enforcement officers:in front of the public and when the time comes to elect those fellows, let them stand or fall, regardless of party. politics, on their own record. The families of school children will get rid of these guys who seem to think more of their own advantage than of the life of a child. Then it could not happen that a business man gets convicted a hundred times and is still allowed behind a wheel, or a notorious drunk is allowed to go back to kill and injure some more children. y : The driver's license should be taken away permanently from those men. Let them worry instead of the victims. And clamp them in jail for any length of time until they sober up. Our streets can be made safe, if we, led by a progressive newspaper -such as yours, do something about it, not just talk about it.

J. J. Gross, City.

Thinks Lights Are Enough MR. EDITOR: Would like to express my opinion with reference to traffic control in downtown Indianapolis. ; I have found the “Don’t Walk” signs to be difficult to see, especially when the sun is bright. By using a battalion of policemen constantly, the people of Indianapolis might become educated to obey these signs; however, we will always have strangers from nearby towns aig a uray Places oe will not. be aware oO ese 8 un ey unknowingl disobey one of them, so no matter how pon 4 effort and expense, there will always be

"violations,

The red and green “stop” and “go” signs are easily interpreted and I cannot see any good reason for the “Don't Walk” signs which appear t.

to be a duplication of expense } benefi Indianapolis people do not like be bossed around unnecessarily, our good citi-

zens who make every effort to obey all laws but once in a while make a mistake. I am very much in favor of discontinuing these “Don’t Walk” signs. Remove them and repeal the

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