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Show THE TIMES- - NEWS, NEPHI, UTAH HOITIE ' 'JV lJaVgwi Toiun f dr mm SELVBCE BlSiSEAM IN WASHINGTON Hybrid in Politics, Too ASIDE from some possible jl animosity and resent- ment against President Truman engendered when the President kicked him out of EDITOR'S NOTE: This newspaper, through special arrangement with the Washington Bureau of Western Newspaper Union at 1616 Eye Street, N. WH Washington, D. C, is able to bring readers this weekly column on problems of the veteran and serviceman and his family. Questions may be addressed to the above bureau and they will be answered in a subsequent column. No replies can be made direct by mail, but only in the column which will appear . in this newspaper regularly. Land Of Hoosiers Heart Of America the cabinet for refusing to "play on the team," Henry Wallace Is as dead serious and sincere as a man of his mercuric temperament could be in his independent and forlorn bid for the presidency, your Home Town Reporter is convinced. This column often has lauded some of Wallace's ideas, and you ber 1, 1947, Veterans' administralust cannot shrug tion says that 2,800,000 are in school ',"'Sk ' " s or laugh off some of or training, 395,022 were unemployment compensahe stands. For this drawing tion, 2,191,759 were drawing disabilreason it is all the ity awards, 107,483 were in veterans' more pitiful that or homes and 17,975 were his action may de- hospitals hospital admission. feat the very pur- awaiting The November figures reached to poses he wishes new peaks in all categories with the achieve. But his exception of training, politics Is as hybrid which has declined for the tenth as the seed corn ha consecutive month. WALLACE raises, and his anMost of the G.I. bill trainees were nouncement speech and platform studying in schools, with 1,150,000 re confused and contradictory. enrolled in colleges and universities His charge that the Marshall plan and 651,000 taking work in other bypasses the United Nations was schools below the collegiate level. debated freely on the floor of the Institutional or school trainsenate along with the emergency re- ing attracted 199,000 while 545,000 lief for western Europe. It was were enrolled in training. deemed impractical by both DemoVA reported that with 18,284 cases crats and Republicans with three pending, there were 489,262 cases in exceptions, Taylor of Idaho, the which it was paying death compensation or pensions. cowboy senator who may be Wallace's running mate; Pepper of Florida, and Langer of North DaQuestions and Answers kota. Q. I read your answers in the Cincinnati Community News and would With Russia using every effort like some information about my to defeat the plan and possessed husband who is still in service. He of the veto. It would be bnpos-is overseas and in event something aible to use the United Nations happened to him, which I pray not, for the purpose at this time. do about his terminal Wallace would have this country what would I which has not been disarm and he denounces military leave bond or endorsed by him as yet? signed would he the have training, yet He does not know exactly when he United Nations with an "internaever be back home, so this will tional police force stronger than the puzzles me. What shall I military establishment of any na- question V. E. R., Covingtion." He utterly ignores the patient do about it? Ky. and conscientious efforts of our state ton, A. Would suggest that your husdepartment and the United Nations, band either make a will making you which for two years have sought to executor of his estate or give you secure international control of of attorney to sign the bond. power atomic energy as the first essential is with the occupation son Our Q. all step toward disarmament forces in Germany. We have not .blocked by Russia. heard from him for several months and the last address was at FrankEffect of Candidacy fort, Germany. We have written to Republicans are gleeful that the him regularly and sent him several Wallace campaign will hurt the parcels but have received no anDemocratic chances of electing swers. Can you suggest how we can Mrs. President Truman. Your Hometown get in touch with him? Reporter is inclined to take the A. R. G., Wilmington, Del. A. Address a letter to either the opposite view. For the past several campaigns the GOP has effectively chaplain or the commanding officer, used the threat of "communism" to or both, of your son's outfit at his keep independent voters away from last address. Or you might, in the the Democratic party. With Wallace interest of time, write a letter direct coralling the entire Commie vote in to Central Postal Locater, care of this country and the enthusiastic your son's APO number in New liuzzah of Communists in Russia, York City and give them your son's Germany and France, the commu- last address and ask them to locate nistic onus is removed from the him for you. Q. Is it possible for a veteran takDemocratic party. true liberal ing a college course under the G.I. The bill to complete one semester and In Americans for Democratic .Action have denounced Wa- then work a semester and then go llace's candidacy. But where Wal- back to school? I am a married lace may hurt the Democrats is veteran with one child and we find our subsistence allowance Is not sufwith the Negro vote. ficient for ua to live on and go to If he can stir up enough fire school without working. Can you adIn the abuse of civil rights on vise ua? Veteran, Bloomlngton, such Issues a segregation, the Ind. poll tax and the FEPC, he could A, Yes. it is possible to go to take Negro votes away from the school a year and then work a year Democratic party In Indiana, since you have four years from the Illinois, New York, Pennsylvatime of your discharge, or after end nia and California. Otherwise there is Just as much of war, whichever is later, in which chance of him driving more isola- to start your educational course and you have nine years after the end of tionist and independent conservatives into the Democratic column the war to complete it. There would be nothing to prevent your getting than the liberals and the job to help out on your 'lunatic fringe" he may take away. a part-tim- e subsistence even while you are going to school. Q. Will veterans who are still In If, as it looks now, the national the army and not eligible for disIncome continues on Its present charge be entitled to a terminal level this year. It Is almost cerleave pay bond? Mrs. O. R. T., tain that congress will pass and Tupelo, Miss. President Truman will sign a tax A. If the veteran was In the army reduction measure. at the time terminal leave pay bonds were issued he probably has received the bond if he had terminal Solons Veteran leave pay coming. However, the Three men in the senate have army says those entering service seen more than 25 years of continu- after that time will be paid in cash ous service. They are Senators the amount of their terminal leave, of Tennessee, since 1917; upon their discharge. Q. I am the wife of a World War tapper of Kansas, since 1919, and George of Georgia, since 1922. II veteran and I want to know if the Eleven men In the house have seen wife of a veteran give him can quarter century of continuous for a separation and they don't sepaservice. They are Sabath of Illi- rate, and they live together from nois, since 1907; Doughton of North the date of marriage until be dies, pension Carolina, since 1911; Rayburn of will she be entitled to Texas, since 1913; Vinson of Geor- when the veteran dies, If all other gia, since 1914; Bland of Virginia, requirements have been met? since 1918; KnuUon of Minnesota Mr, a. W., Adamsvllle, Tenn. A. If you art the legal wife of the and Lea of California, since 1917; Drewry of Virginia, since 1920; veteran at the time of his death and d all other requirements have been Reed of New York, since 1919; of Massachusetts, sine 1922, met you would be entitled to a pension for life, or until you remarry. and Rankin of Mississippi, sine 1921. Q. My husband has reentlated In the army for two years and 1 am wondering If he couldn't get a O.I. New Parity Formula loan so that In the meantime we Farm economists art looking with could be paying on a little borne and Interest at a new form of parity. II have It pretty well paid for when he Is a formula developed to control cornea out. Can you advla me? the milk price In the Boston area Mrs. O. O. T., Orlando. Fla. A. No, your husband is not a vetand is said to be a yardstick which might be applied to other eran as long as be is a member of farm produce. It is rather compli- the armed services and the law procated but Involves a formula which vides G.I. home loans are available have been disgears the price to rise and fall with only to veterans whoarmed services charged from the cost of production, general wholesale prices and business volume. It under conditions other than is a ntw concept of agricultural pricing. W4 (Editor's Note: This is another Stories of the States series.) in the fell SH&FSE-- ' ' Released by WNU Features. Accuracy of Straw Polls cast in the UNTIL the votes are election there vsio Ysser8!' Originally much of Indiana was covered with a heavy growth of forest, mostly bard-woo- d trees. The first hundred years of its history were marked by a hectic series of events involving Indian tribes, wars, French traders and English explorers. After the Revolutionary war the Americans pushed Hfo&z r?ry say farther west Into the wilderness. They were the first Hoosiers. They built permanent settlements. They drove out the Indians remember reading about the battle of Tippecanoe and General Harrison? In 1800, Indiana was made a territory. The state was admitted to the Union 16 years later. Its progress had been rapid. Lands were cleared, roads were opened, towns had sprung up, industries were established. And the rest of the world began to hear, about the Hoosiers. William Henry Harrison, first governor of Indiana territory, became president of the United States. Benjamin Harrison also was president. Vice presidents of the U. S. included such Hoosiers as Schuyler Colfax, Thomas A. Hendricks, Charles W. Fairbanks and Thomas R. Marshall of "five- cent cigar" fame. Home of Inventors. In the field of invention, James Blake, a pioneer of Indianapolis, built the first steam mill and factory. Elwood Haynes built the first "horseless carriage." James B. Eads Invented the diving bell as well as building the famed Eads bridge over the Mississippi river at St. Louis. gan at Gary and Indiana Harbor. Famous Hoosiers, men and wom- A 1944 industrial directory reveals en of today and yesterday, are found 4,420 Indiana manufacturing estabin many fields of achievement. John lishments in 359 communities with S. Bobbs was the first surgeon to a combined population of 2,113,399 operate for gall stones. Eli Lilly persons or 62 per cent of the state's founded one of the world's largest population. The state does not depharmaceutical plants. Isaac Coe, pend on any one type of manufaca celebrated pioneer physician, was turing, but lists 132 general types one of the founders of the First from abrasives to woolens. Presbyterian church. John Stude-bakLeading Farm State. and four sons, Clement, is another of Indiana's Farming Henry, Peter and John spread great industries. It covers 19,800,000 the fame of Indiana over the nation. acres of the Stat and 0 employs Hoagy Carmichael is a Hoosier. people. It consists of 184,000 inPaul Dresser and Cole Porter, the dividual farms with an annual incomposers, were other Hoosiers. come near the $750,000,000 mark. Such names as Ford Frick, Knute In the northwestern part of the Rockne, Kenesaw Mountain Landis state is a big dairy Industry. The and Wilbur Shaw remind sports fol- lowlands of the Kankakee are valley lowers of Indiana. George Ade's devoted to grain and pasture. In "Fables in Slang" and Edward the southwestern part corn, wheat Eggleston's "Hoosier Schoolmasare grown. In the and truck ter" still cling to library shelves. southeasterncrops part is the hay and The Hoosier twang in Elmer Davis' tobacco But all of Indiana region. voice reaches the ears of those who engages in Indigeneral listen to radio. Theodore Dreisser ana is famous for itsfarming. canned vegegave us "The American Tragedy." table products, and of all Prominent Hoosiers. the peppermint and spearment oil Kin Hubbard, Joaquin Miller, produced in the United States comes Gene Stratton Porter, George Barr from the muck soil in northern McCutcheon, Meredith Nicholson, Indiana. James Whitcomb Riley, Lew WalIndiana coal mines are apparentlace, Booth Tarkington, Kent Coop- ly inexhaustible. There are 277 er, Albert J. Beveridge, Vincent companies in Indiana, 1 frk. L. - i, win, in" niajj.ii.ii mi )'mi" "" lW'nw.u. ,.iiiiwii.iJ.j.iyajaaaya'wwaBBaaaw term "cold war" is an the phrase "cold November pogrom" which was current in Gerwill be many straw ballots taken, many during Hitler's economic and and most of them will be reasonably social persecutions of the Jews in the accurate at the time they are re- f f corded. thirties. The cold The idea of a national straw ballot pogrom later beon the presidential election origicame the hot ponated with the Literary Digest. It grom, and there was taken by mail, not by thousands is apprehension of paid balloteers, and was a long among Americans that the present and expensive process. One straw cold war will beballot only was taken preceeding come a shooting each presidential election. Through war in the modern, several campaigns the results had scientific sense. been reasonably accurate. Laymen cannot visualize the In the campaign of 1936 the physical reality of such a war. Literary Digest mailed, early in Generals, admirals and civilian July immediately following the officials responsible for defense are convention, ten million postalmost desperate because they are cards to names taken from the unable to depict the nature of the telephone directories of the nanext war, if any, to the people. It tion, including those of the metmight not be a shooting war at all, ropolitan centers and the rural in the sense of bodies of soldiers sections. Those names were presumed to represent a reliable firing rifles or cannon or dropping n of the people of noisy bombs. A directed plague of disease, a blight of crops or a politithe nation. The returns were In before the cal stratagem might settle it end of July, before the real cam quickly. Such speculations may be paign opened, before the oratory scoffed at as the stuff that Margot under way, before either canditian comic strips and Sunday date had made any speeches. It was features are made of. The Japnot until September that the final anese of Hiroshima probably tabulation was completed and anwould have ridiculed warnings nounced. It gave Governor. Landon of the power of the atomio a slight majority in both the popular bomb. and the electoral vote. Party workThe political bomb with the long ers at Republican headquarters in fuse is not theoretical. Hitler capChicago were jubilant. tured Austria by radio. After careCORRECT FOR JULY, 1936. ful political preparation he demandactuvote At the time that straw ed the resignation of Chancellor von unally was taken, early in July, it threatening otherwise Schuschnigg, doubtedly represented an accurate to invade Austria with 200.000 standing of the two parties. It was troops. He replaced von Schuschthe speech making that followed t, a traitor with that changed millions of votes. Ev-- 1 nigg to any of the leading comparable for or Landon ery speech made by American Communists of today. He him lost votes for the Republican insisted on absolute freedom of cause. The governor fully approved action for the Austrian Nazis, whose the policies of the New Deal, but relative position in our country toinsisted he could carry out those is occupied by our Communists. same policies more efficiently. If day NAZIS JUST MUSCLED IN. New Deal policies were to be the Seyss-Inquawarned the Austri-an- s national program, the voters prewas futile, and resistance that ferred to entrust the administration to Hitof such policies to those who had piously delivered the country ler to peace and save the inaugurated them, and they changed lives ofpreserve his countrymen. to Roosevelt. On March 11, 1938, German troops Could that election have been took over Austria. It was not a fight held in the middle of July, 1936, but a parade. Two days later, Hitler Landon would have been electrolled in triumph to a reviewing ed. It was not the straw vote stand where he took the salute of that was off at the time it was his victorious legions and the tribute votes Landon lost taken, but the of his agent, Completduring the campaign because of the work of the silent bomb of ing what he and others of his camn the political war. Hitpaign orators said in the ler caused his Austrian "governspeeches they made. ment" to proclaim by law Austria's Accurate though it was at the reunion with Germany. time in early July when it was rt Hitler and had taken, that straw vote proved to be been bellowing about the mena catastrophe for an old established ace of .communism in Austria. and stable publication. The people The Communists were stronger not did understand the conditions, than the American journalists and the results registered in the No. and diplomats in the region vember election so discredited the ever admitted. Austria was the Literary Digest that it did not long strongest and nearest Commusurvive. Its death, as well as the nist outpost to Germany, except Republican hopes it had engenFrance, which was rotten with Communist corruption. In her dered, were the result of too much oratory of the wrong kind. turn, France suffered from their Present-da- y methods of taking treachery when the Red registraw polls provide quick results. ments surrendered or ran away The thousands of balloteers emin the disaster of June, 1940. ployed, asking a well considered Most of the American think-writeand concise question, makes posin Austria were propagana of sible the taking and tabulating dists and strongly anti-Nabut national straw poll within a few Almost all of them days at the most. Since 1936 the minimized the Communist danger several national polls have been and strength. American ambassareasonably accurate in recording dors and ministers looked with sustrends in public sentiment. They picion on journalists who held Com-- . show to those directing a campaign munists and Nazis in equal abhor-- . the effects of their efforts and the rence. That was one perfect opera possible need for changing the tenor tion of the silent political bomb of the campaign oratory. That is an which conquers a country without did not enjoy. advantage Landon resistance or bloodshed. a RUSSIA 'PROTECTS' POLAND. Sales Totals Deceptive Although Russia now holds PoIn 1929 we boasted of our pros- land, Russia never did declare war perity. In that year retail sales on Poland. Instead, Russia stood on throughout the nation amounted to her own goal line until Hitler had more than 48 billion dollars, up to smashed the Polish nation, then e record. The moved up to the line of partition. that time an past year, 1947, retail sales were Russia announced that Stalin and more than twice the 1929 figure, a Hitler had agreed it was "their task staggering total of 109 billion dol- to restore law and order and insure lars. The greater part of the differ- nationals (people) living there an ence was represented by the existence corresponding to their nachanged purchasing power of the tional character." dollar. In 1929 a dollar bought It seems that "the former Po100 cents worth of commodities; in lish state" had "disintegrated." 1947 each dollar bought only about The "nationals" (people) living 40 cents worth of commodities. That In the Russian tone had been difference represents the extent of Catholics, and Catholicism was the inflation from which we are sufthe religion of the nation. Yet the "existence corresponding U fering. Our 1929 dollar was backed their national character," fby gold. We could get 100 cents worth of gold for each dollar we inally "insured" for the whole had. The dollar of today is backed country by the Lublin committee under Soviet patronage after only by government credit, and that credit Is not as good as gold. It was Germany fell. Is that of a Comnot that w bought more commodimunist colony of Soviet Russia. ties In 1947 than in 1929, but we paid BALTIC STATES ABSORBED. twice as much, or more, for what The three little Baltic republics, w bought. Eslhonia, Latvia and Lithuania, bea gan in 1939 a process of asphyxiaBecause Europe has spent those tion by means of the silent political American dollars we gave them and bomb. They joined Russia in omibecause the American manufac- nous "mutual assistance" parts. turer prefers to sell to the home They gave Russia "air bases and folks for cash rather than to foreign- military rights," which meant that ers on credit, exports have dropped, Russia was allowed to make a total and are dropping rapidly. This military occupation with banners should mean we home folks now flying. In June, 1940, Russia disshould be able to buy some of the covered symptoms of Insincerity. American-matreacherous litU fellows things we have The were fixing to gang up on her. So. been wanting. a In brief, Russia delivered ultimatums and the little republics agreed Every time you buy coal just to "form new governments" which remember the 1 cents a ton would honor their obligations. "tax" yau pay to John L. Lewis. THE of . Seyss-Inquar- BwwmjjjjiwwwMM..- jwg . mm a rt Seyss-Inquar- '; - 1 i ly.. FIRST ELECTIVE OFFICE . . . Gov. Ralph F. Gates, who took office in January, 1945, is a native Indianan, born in Columbia City on February 24, 1893. The governorship is his first elective office. An attorney for many years, he has been in partnership with his late father and two brothers. During World War I be was s navy officer. Elkhart claims to be the band instrument capital of the world and has 113 industries producing 38 types of goods. Kokomo has the Continental Steel corporation, Haynes Stellite, Delco division of General Motors, Chrysler corporation. General Electric Kingston corporation, American Radiator and- Standard Sanitary corporation, and others. Fort Wayne boasts of the General Electric and International Harvester plants. Anderson has thousands of its people employed by General Motors. Columbus has the Cummins Engine company (diesel) and the Noblitt-Spark- s radio and accessory plant. Approximately tons of coal are mined in Vigo county, of which Terre Haute is the county seat. Land of Allure. But Indiana isn't all farms and factories. You'll have a good time in the Hoosier state, which has rocky canyons, virgin forests, sand dunes, rolling countryside, attractive residential areas and more than 10,000 miles of paved state highways, supplemented by 51,000 miles of secondary roads. There are 14 state parks and 12 state forests. Indiana has rivers and streams and more than 1,000 lakes, not including the southern shores of Lake Michigan. There are historic memorials to such national figures as Abraham Lincoln, who spent 14 years in Indiana, and to George Rogers Clark, conqueror of the Northwest Territory. There are fishing, boating, swimsports in all of Indiana. ming, hunting For more than M years Indiana has been the center of the nation's population. "See Indiand you'll tee and feel ana the heart of America," Is s state claim. It has airways, highways, waterand is close to its ways, railways markets. Indiana is populous, productive .and powerful. Typically American, It Ilexes its muscles, feels Its strength, and faces the postwar world with all the confidence It has drawn from a rich land during tha past 150 years. - THE HUM OF INDUSTRY . . . Indiana la primarily an Industrial state, with manufacturing plants, large and small, dotting the landscape. Typical of Indiana's tremendous steel industry Is this blast furnace department of U. S. Steel corporation's Gary plant. Bendix, Will Hays, Roy Howard, ope rating 104 rail mines and 193 but the list grows truck mines, and employing some Don Herald long before even a small portion 12,000 miners. In normal times these miners produced 17 million tons of of the great Hoosiers are listed. coal each year, but their wartime buniness actors, Authors, production went up to 28 million leaders, politicians, editors, entons in 1944. Other mineral prodgineers, radio and picture stars, ucts are limestone, mineral wool, inmovie producers and great Portland cement, coke, petroleum, dustrialists bave come from Innatural gas, gypsum and pig iron. diana to make the world better, more pleasant and more profitBedford, the atone city of Inable for others. diana, Is famous for Its quarries which bare provided conIn Its workaday life, Indiana Is struction material for Rockefelprimarily a manufacturing state, ler Center and the Empire State with diversified industries in both building In New York City, for large and small cities. Its steel busithe enormous Pentagon buildness is tremendous. Manufacture ing In Washington, as well as of auto parts, furniture, glass, for the Indiana state capltol and farm implesos p. refrigerators, the Soldiers' and Bailors monuments, pumps, clothing and hunment la Indianapolis. imdreds of other products is most Other Industrial Indiana cities Inportant. On of the great industrial centers of the world is the Calu- clude South Bend, noted for Its met region, including Gary, Ham- Studebaker factory, Oliver steel mond. East Chicago and Whiting, plow works. Singer sewing machine with great harbors on Lake Mlchi- - factory, Bendix factory and others. Ug n'estbrook Pegler How Dictator States Conquer cross-sectio- 250,-00- two-thir- - 'rST f er ar Gif-for- A8 M EMERINE By EDWARD WNU reatarea Indiana is the Land of the Hoosiers. And the Hoosiers are that particular breed of people who do things and make history. "Hoosier" is no mean sobriquet. The word embodies the good soil, the gentle climate, the perseverance of pioneers in the wilderness, the courage of G.I. Affairs Reviewed strong men and women in the face of Indian attack and the will to win Of the total number of World War II veterans, 14,685,000 as of Decem- recognition against all odds. -- wmmr JT t. ultra-moder- Seyss-Inqua- rs all-tim- d o |