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; $ I : THE VO Expense Funds r2 mr Hoosier Forum: ve) A SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWSPAPER | "1 do hot agree with 8 word that you ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ oe 0 say, but | wil to the desth your e : President Editor Business Manager tagger riti 5 right fo say I.” z etl 2 ) Tuesday, Sept. 30, 1952 : > : " By SAMI PAGE 14 eadsy P LONDON-—The publicity about the expense TWO GI accounts of Gov. Stevenson and Sen. Nixon has ’ wet Rd ublished daily by Indlanspolls Times Pher of revived demands by Britain's $2800-a-year J ike's AFL Address past stand Unt preks Hpps-Howard Newspaper -Alliance. NEA Serv- legislators for a pay increase. MR. EDITOR: Gen. Dwigh ice and Audit Bureau of Circulation ; : il But chances are slim. TR 1 was surprised at your editorial comment o's olforts tor" BiB aly. "Sl SE BY hier rand gin a Prime Ministef Winston Chufchill's govern- on Gen, Misenhower’s address before the AFL th IO weak, dally orfly 30¢ sunday only i106 Mall rates Ja diana ment 18 going to extraordinary lengths to en convention in your Friday, 19, fssue. You e ele ALT £700. al ner states. US possessions, Canada anda force wage restraints everywhere and certainly “printed two tions his address 11 Southern Mexico daily $1.30 a month, Sunday 10c & copy. is. not going to put itself in the position of only were One is the

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Not-So-Creeping Death THE DEFENSE ent’s latest casualty report for Korea raises the total since the start of the war to 118,560. The week's increase included 114 new dead and raises the total of known dead to 20,830. That i8 not an up-to-the minute figure, because of a notification tite lag of between 2 and 3 weeks. Unquestionably; the real total of dead is now in excess of 21,000. In addition, there are 12,654 missing, many of whom must be presumed dead. Death, therefore, is anything but creeping in Korea. ; And where is the end as the so-called “truce talks” go on and on ad nauseum? The bulk of this country’s fighting forees are pinhed down if a country whieh the war has almost completely devastated. If there was hope of victory —if there was something tangible gained for freedom’s side —we could, at Jeast, grant that the brave had not died in vain. ® ; As it is, there isn’t a grave in Korea which isn't a stark and lonely mt nument to gross political bungling, to military subsetvierice to political domination and to the prevailing State Department policies of appeasement. And there isn't a quiet grave which doesn’t shriek for an accounting from those by whom the dead were betrayed.

Party Line and Olympics nus IAN coment on the Olympics was, first, that the *% Soviet Union had won, and second, that it had tied the United States in point totals. After so long a time it was at least suggestéd that the comrades had been outscored because of silly systems and biased officials. Konsomolskaya Pravda, the official organ of the Young Communist League, more recently carried a long editorial crititiziig the Soviet athletes and their trainers. Coaches were accused of ighorancé and laziness, while individual athletes were charged with conceit, self-satisfaction, lack of will to win, breaking training and aversion to hard hitting. : ® rhe unfortunate féllow who got the most severe lashing was V. Brazhiik, a pole vaulter. Citing his conduct as positively amoral, the editorial said Brazhnik “never trained seriously and hid no wish to work.” By far the worst of all, however, was the allegation that Brazhnik “never troubles hifigelf and tries only to pass the time pleasantly.” We get the impression that this gentleman is already on his way to the salt mines. All in all, the editorial indicates bitter disappointment that the Soviet Union's athletes scored too poorly in track and field events. It also shows that the party line runs through sports: All fault lies with the individual, that is to say, and hone with the system. It is an inferesting and re: vealing by-product of the theory that thé state is all and the individual nothing except as he may serve its purposes.

A Bible for Today | HIS is a notable year for Christendom. Church attendance has increased remarkably and important revisions of the Bible have been made or are in progress. This week, Protestants will receive the new King James version, on which a committee of scholars has labored 15 years. Catholics will see the first portion of what will be a new translation of the Scriptures, the first by apd for American Catholics.

Theologians differ as to the extent to which the original

authors of the Bible were divinely guided. But they did, after all, write in their own ancient languages, and translation into modern tongues has been an endless task. Biblical scholars only recently found the precise meaning of certain words in the original Scriptures. Some still are unknown. Errors by earlier translators hawe been discovered. Meanwhile our own language changes; certain English words do not mean what they did a century or two ago and the proper ones had to be substituted.

s 8 s MANY archaic expressions have been replaced by modern ones in the new King James version— thou” and “thine” remain only when God is addressed. Even the Lord's Prayer has been shortened, because scholars found that the ending we have been using did not appear in the original Greek. Traditionalists need not fear, however, that the modernized Bible is anything short of the greatest’of all books. As Dean Luther Weigle, chairman of the revisers, aptly puts it: “We haven't been changing the Bible. We have really been recovering it. In that sense, this new Bible is actually the oldest.”

One Side, lke and Adlai

TF Ike and Adlai will excuse us for a few days, we have some important business to transact. It's called the World Series. The Series starts tomorrow and, until either the New York Yankees or the Brooklyn Dodgers prevail, we shall find it hard to care & hoot what politicians are saying abolit each other. For a World Series is serious business; it takes up a man’s whole thinking time.

$= ’ Lt s QUITE possibly, the world will deride a national attitude which ‘can take time off at such a critical period to worry about whether Mickey Mantle will go for bad balls, or whether Preacher Roe’s arm is sound. Another indication, we can hear Moscow sneering, of Uncle Sam's capitalistic frivolity. Well, it can’t be helped. That's the way we are, and all we ask is that Moscow keep its voice down so it won't interfere with the radio reception from Yankee Stadium and Ebbetts Field.

hither Away? f .. RESIDENT Tai asked the Federal Trade 'Com- + mission to make a study of where the consumer's dollar goes—Liow much to labor, to materials, to'distribution costs, While the commission is at it, it almost might try to find out what Happened to the more than 25 cents of the

dollar's vilile which has yanished since Mr. Truman became Preiident. ¥

denying wage increases to workers .while approving them fof Jagsinens.

IT WILL BE even more difficult ih view of the average w for British workers. The average for all industries éxcept eoal is only $20.60 per week, Ineludin

33 weekly, ul Former Socialist Defense Minister Immanuel Bhinwell and Conservative MP Beverly Baxter started a campaign for more money for House of Commons members a few weeks ago. Today, in the wake of widespread publicity on the Nixon and Stevenson episodes, Socialist Mp Jliehae] Foote—a Bevanité—picked up the rch. “There 18 no free Parliament in the world which pays its MPs worse than Britain” he

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MR. FOOTE estimated that even allowing for‘differenceés in the cost of living, an American Senator is 10 or 15 times better. off than his British colléague. Even so, only in the last few years have British MPs been paid even a thousand pounds. Their salaries never weré set with the intention to compensate for full-time work. In British history, members of Parliament were supposed to be citizens of rather substan-

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BUT TODAY a great number of MPs are not men of substantial means and have no profession or business which can be earried on at the same time. This is especially true of many Socialists. Members from the provinces, like

~ “Scotland, also must maintain two residences.

The American controversy was a natural to stir up comparisons between the two Englishspeaking countriés. For example: An American legislator—a salary of $12,500 plus a $2500 nontaxable expense; a frée office in Washington; secretarial allowances running up to $60,000; free franking privileges. A British legisiator—a salary of $2800, all of which is taxable; no free office; no secretarial expenses; free postage only on letters to government departments; free railway travel between London and their homes and constituencies: liberal income tax deductions for par« liamentary SSpensts. a

MOST BRITISH MPs aren't seeking to match the American scales, but would settle for $500 or $600 tax free expense allowance. The British MP still Has one technical advantage over thé Americar Congressman. Here it is a perfectly proper and general practice to obtain money for actual or even token work outside Parliament. . Trade Union MPs get an annual grant from their unions. Many supplement their official salary by lecturing or writing for newspapers and n.agazines. Bo : All professional fthembers carry on their practice and the Tory side of the House includes many Who collect director's fees, business salaries, etc. But Mr. Shinwell estimates that some 200 of the 625 members have no supplemental income.

OHIQ . . . By Vinton McVicker

Taft Boys Are Cheering Up

COLUMBUS, 0.—Ohio Republicans are far more hopeful about election prospects today than they were a few weeks ago. The reason is largely Ohio's senior Senator, Robert A. Taft. : GOP optimism got a big boost when Sen. Taft jumped actively into the fight. It was stimulated still more when Dwight Eisenhower toured the state from corner to corner and drew big crowds. Sen. Taft is the key man in the drive to win Ohio's 25 electoral votes for the EisenhowerNixon ticket. oOo HIS LONG-TIME Ohio friend who Spearheaded his campaign for the White House nomination came from Chicago disheartened and resentful. J To the Ohioans, Sen. Taft was—and is—Mr. Reptiblican. They felt his record of battling for the party entitled him to the big prize. They had little ‘nterest in working for Gen. Eisenhower, in their eyes a rank outsider. They had none of the crusading spirit that brought Sen. Taft's re-election to the Senate in 1950 with a smashing 431,000 majority. And Mr. Taft's own silence for two months after the convention gave Ohio GOP leaders no help in reorganizing their shattered forces. Then the picture changed. Mr, Taft met Ike in New York. He sald he and Ike were in accord. on the basic issues. He called on his friends to join in active support of Gen. Eisenhower. He announced a speaking schedule to take him into 18 states outside Ohio—most of them states where he had heavy delegate strength, , - ¢ ¢ o MR. TAFT opened his drive with a speech declaring himself whole-heartedly for the ticket. Then he and Ike rode the Eisenhower campaign train through Ohjo, standing side by side on platform after platform. Whether all this has wiped out the earlier apathy and can be converted into a hard drive for votes, nobody feels certain. But GOP leaders view the latest developments as encouraging. Ohio divided its Presidential votes almost 50-50 in both 1944 and 1948. Mr. Dewey carried the state in 1944 by a scant 11,530 votes in a total well over three million. In 1948, Mr. Truman won by T107. The 1048 shift of Midwest farm votes to the Democratic side helped give Ohio to Mr. Truman that year. A very slight swing the other way could put the state back into the Republican column. ? ; ¢ & 4

IN RECENT off-year élections of U. 8, Senators—Bricker in 1946, Taft in 1950—Ohio has been heavily Republican, Mr. Rricker's Democratic opponent in his second-term try this year is Michael V, DiSalle, former Federal price stabilizer, Mr. DiSalle is hewing closely to the New Deal-Fair Deal line. . He {s using the new “talkathon” technique—

a seven-hour television and radio appearance,’

in which he gets hundreds of telephoned questions. At the first 0 these Sen. Bricker dropped in by invitation and put on an impromptu debate with Mr. DiSalle—using over a half-hour of time that. was costing Mr. DiSalle $1000 an hour. Hardly anybody thinks that Mr. DiSalle can beat Sen. Bricker, who has been one of Ohio's best vote-getters. >. . EVEN IF the state should go Republican for President and Senator, Democratic Gov. Frank J. Lausche’s prospects of a fourth-term re-elec-tion are considered nent is Charles

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Funds and lke Can Have His Book

. WASHINGTON—Looks like everybody's got a special fund, or two or three, except maybe me, Democrats are contributing to Républicans and, of course, vice versa. he papers are full of politicians’ adcounts, as audited by certified accountants and which, as a consequence, make no sense to me. You might say I am confused. The amount of the income taxes paid by the Messrs. Ike, Adlai, Dick and John are of the slightest interest to me; I presume they all paid what they owed, else Honest John Snyder would have slapped ’em in jail. As for that k deal Candidate EisenHower, who paid only a capi l-gains tax on his autobiography because writing wasn’t his business, it doesn’t make me unhappy, either, It was legal. He got an official interpretation from Charlie Oliphant, the general counsel of the Bu reau of Internal Revenue. Now thé¢re was a tough guy. . Once when the management sent me to Paris, I strolled down the Rue de la Paix and in a velvet-draped sanctum there I bought Hilda a hat with a feather in it. This cost me $65. She

said it was the most elegant chapeau she'd ever owned. :

But as I explained ih & subséfuént dispatch, 1 did not consider this an extravagance, bécauss I intended to deduct it as a business expense. My business was writing pieces for the paper. If I hadn’t bought the hat, there'd have been no story that particular day. Mr. Oliphant immediately took pen in hand. He said he had his eagle eye on me. I could deduct that $65, all right. He wouldn't kick. But if ‘Mrs. O. didn’t add it to her own tax return, he said I'd hear from him, instanter. 2 I told him I wasn't giving Hilda any 865, but merely a small plece of black velvet with one large gray feather and one extremely fancy label with an intrinsic value of maybe 45 cents. And, anyhow, we filed our returns jointly and how would you go about figuring out that? Well, sir, our correspondence languished because Mr, Oliphant by then was making daily appearances before the King investigating subcommittee of Congress, explaining why he accepted hospitality of big-time tax-payers. He resigned under fire and from his successor I have heard no more about that trick hat.

TRACING A RUMOR . «+ + By Peter Edson Columnist Reveals How He Got Story on Nixoén Political Fund

WASHINGTON — It often happens that, when a reporter is hot able t6 trace down rumors to their source and effectually dispose of them one way or another, a direct inquiry to “headquarters” may bring .out a reply, and the truth,

That is all that happened in connection with the story which Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Richard Nixon authorized me to publish last week regarding a fund

been raised by a committee in Southern California, to help pay Nixon’s political expenses. As related by Sen. Nixon in his television and radio broadcast last week, I asked him about rumors of such a fund Sunday night, Sept. 14, after I had appeared with him on another television program. His answer, as the Senator reported to the entire country, was that “there was no secret about it.” And, as he said over the air, he told me Dana Smith of Pasadena was ade

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ministrator 6f the fund, and how to reach Mr. Smith,

2 LJ 8 ON MONDAY, Sept. 15, I telephoned Mr. Smith in Pasadena from Washington, Sen. Nixon had said, as related in my story, that he did not personally know much about the details of the fund since Mr. Smith handled it, but that Mr. Smith would tell me. He did. I first heard the rumor around the Conrad Hilton Hotel during the Republican National Convention. It was to °' Whom he knew so well. the effect that a group of 100 Southern California business- about Sen, Nixon and menmen had each’ contributed $200 to give Sen. Nixon a supplemental salary <of $20,000 a year. My first inclination was to dismiss it as just another one of those things a reporter hears, but I asked a number of California correspondents about it. They said they had never heard of sych a fund.

= s » AMONG the newsmen, I talked to about it was Jim Bassett, now Sen. Nixon's press secretary. He was then

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political editor of the Los Angeles Mirror, I had known him a long time. He had covered Sen. Nixon's campaigns and knew Southern Californi politics, But he said he h never Heard the story,

2.» @ BACK IN Washington, after the Democratic Convention, I found awaiting me a letter from 4 California editor which commended to my attention this Young California Senator

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tioned the rumor that had been prevalent in Chicago. .A very full letter about Sen. Nixon's rise was received in reply. It told about a “fact-finding” committee which had scouted the district to find a candidate for Congress, and how they had finally picked young Dick Nixon.

“It was naver ‘a group of 100 businessmen’ who would rule or ruin,” the letter said. » = 8 I WROTE to other California editors during August and got no more information, I asked other California newspaper men and other Californians about it. One ‘of them called to my attention an organization known as “Republican Associates.”

group of California employers who were conducting a mail campaign among their employees in support of Republican political candidates. So this wasn't it. . s » MEANTIME, I was asked to be on the panel of four reporters questioning Sen. Nixon on “Meet the Press.”

I had no chance to question him before the program went on the air, And I couldn't very ; wall rr him Publicly if he was ‘ Pp a second salary when I had nothing that confirmed the rumor. So I had to wait

questions. . i we aa oe was still k aro ihe : asked him what there was “Is that the story you asked Jim Bassett about?” he asked me with a smile. I told him it was. # J a ¥ Without a moment's

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say absolutely untrue. They have no . whatSever except that given them by rank and

file of the member You further state he would retain such fea of the Taft-Hattley law that gives union members righ cide for themselves on what terms they will work or not work. (The law does, but with some reservations.) Also the right to know what becomes of the dues they pay, and it them against their union bosses and their right to organize, ete. The standard unions have had all this long before the Taft-Hartley law even came into existence. * ®

DURING the life of Edward W. Scripps, the founder of the Scripps-Howard papers which were at that time considered a liberal press, you would have found such quotations from Gen. Ike's address as follows: “I resent those Who address slanted appeals to American labor”; “I do not believe that the American worker will ask anything more than justice and fairness from his government”; “I don’t want arbitrary power over either labor of industiy”; “I will not support any amendments Which weaken the rights of working men and women”; “I Rhow that the law might be used to break unions.

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licensing union busting. Neither do 1.” He thinks it unfair to require union leaders to sigh an anti-Communist oath and not to have the same requirement for the employers, It is my opinion your editorial comment in this case did Gen, Ik8 more harm than good from a political standpoint. It would have been Hilich better to have told the whole tfuth than e ve the impression that Gen. Ike was a fullreactionafy of the Taft, Jennér and b> 4 ¢ : I THINK Gen. Tke's address did eredit to him and was food for thought for unjon leaders and the rank and file L.jabor as well as the public and government of 5 ow aA I still think the editor of The Indianapolis Times has the welfare of the local citizens a heart, and is 100 pk cent neutral so far as politics is concerned in who it criticizes or &xposes. But on national questions théy are fot permitted to refute the opinions or the - ganda of their superiors whic bee oY reactionary and Foy Howard. la rin

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\ Will Vote for Adlai MR, EDITOR: = : In 1932 the feeble explanation of the Républican party regarding the reason for the depression was overproduction, Haye you forgotten the many shacks built along White River in the vicinity of Oliver Ave.? Little children with shrunken bellies were living in hovels that were constructed of paper, tin, fruit boxes and driftwood. Hundreds of empty houses in the city, hundreds of people in soup lines, thousands “of shoe workers walking the streets harefooted while stores had théir shelves stacked with shoes. It was never overproduction, it was undér-consumption because the working people had not efiough earnings to buy in the market place. . Plenty of people begging for work at 25 cents per hour; corn 15 cents a bushel; hogs $3 a hundred; farm foreclosures with pitched battles of farmers and neighbors resorting to mob action for what they belieyed was a principlad matter, evicting people from homes that represented life savings. a Washington is in a mess today. Democrats, Republicans, Dixiecrats, bureaucrats and polecats with few, exceptions tapping the tin at every opportunity, playing the old game of petting mine too, but yelling, wasn't me. Where are the true Americans that can lay politics aside and honestly work together for the betterment of the country as a whole? The parties have passed their day of usefulness. A direct primary is needed that the people may pick their President and Senators and have a run-off in the fall election for the two highest nominees. A law is good or bad upon its merits and lining Up as parties againgt a bill in Congress 1s not good government. Stevenson is stating direct upon his beliefs. He has somewhat bf a program, not exactly to my liking. I join Ike in combatting communism but he harps on it so much he has me looking for them under the beds. In fact, he spends 80 much time at yelling Red he has not adopted a program. All of this confusion leaves me one choice. I must pick what I believe to be the lesser of two evils, so I pick Stevenson. —William M. Taylor, Morgantown.

Sees Crcoks’ Paradise MR. EDITOR: We can see bank robbers and criminals for years to come modeling their appeals in court on the Nixon speech trying to wring tears and support from a combination soap opera and disc jockey approach in his solicitation of sympathy and begging for messages of support for his “program,” If we follow out the logic that it is right for a Senator or other supposedly. public servant to accepts-ahem—gratuities just because others do it, that is. equivalent to saying thdt one bank robber or bribe taker mdy be bad, but if he has 2 lot of equally guilty fellows in crime, then the action is perfectly all right. Such 4 thesis will be hard for even reasonably rigid moralists to swallow.

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