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Democratic Seminar
Chicago Rally Emphasized Strategy
Of Getting Out Big Vote

here affords some general clues
The welfare program is more pop
ular by far. apparently. than the
noise Of the American Medical AS
ISOLATION lobby would indicate
There is certain wariness about
economical planning. The Ad-
ministration is so firmly commit
ted on civil rights that there is
very little prospect of compromise
Foreign policy is acceptable. The
Brannan plan has not caught on
Humphreys Theory.
One Of the success stories OF
1948, Senator Humphrey of Min
nesota. thinks everything depends
on the candidate himself. that he
has got to deliver his own votes
by strenuous campaigning these
days. The Senator, whose enc
mics complain he is glib and
whose admirers concede he is I'M
usually articulate, edited the
presidential press car one night
with his theories.
when I announced for the
Senate, the reporters came in and
said. who asked you to run?"
Humphrey said. Il told them,
"A fellow named Hubert Hum
phrey; he took me into a smoke
filled room and talked me into it.
Then the labor leaders came
around and said, That's fine, our
boys will vote for YOU I said,
Yes, sure. Just go out and get
up some meetings and junior will
talk to the boys himself. How
do I know you'll be for me next
week?' That's the story: Talk to
the folks"
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, Incl
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them Of shelter half. Just when
they had made deep. good friends
Of spiders. centipedes, mud. dust.
sweat. and dehydrated potatoes.
they would have to leave for a
little while.
Back they would have to so to
a spot where there was an officers
club. with lights. a waxed floor. a
load Of beverages from a fat ca"
plane. and. worst of all. ship
ment of WacS. Army nurses. and.
in the case of the deep Pacific.
such delightful critters as kiwis
from New Zealand.
What would these men have
done had they not been able to
look upon a foxtrot or a Bacardi
with a knowing eye? What would
have been their excuse had they
had to admit that the Congo was
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and We'll keep power; drift and
we're in trouble. Chairman Will
liam M. Boyle. jr.. estimates that
to 5 million votes more than
normal for an off year will be
needed in the upcoming elections.
One aspect of the New Deal days
is missing. No theological tests
are applied to any candidate. Any
body who can reach Congress
under the Democratic label and
help organize it for the Democrats
will be welcome. Labor and liberal
groups are encouraged to do their
stuff in primaries but, once the
Democrat is named, he gets the
imprimatur.
"Organize" is the clue to the
Boyle regime. The efficient
methods of the Pendergast school
of practical politics are being ap-
piled by. Mr.. Boyle and other
Kansas City alumni who now con-
troll the committee, except the
women's division.
Mrs. Edwards Recognized.
Mrs. India Edwards, head Of
that division, was signally recog-
nized at Chicago with election to
vice chairman. If her fight for
the women. her austere fidelity
to the program. ever irritates Mr..
Boyle, the pragmatist, he doesn't
show it. He is, in fact, more help
full than his predecessors.
Now the candidates are on their
own. how much does-or can
the President and headquarters
help them?
Reporters who sped across the
country with the President Ger
tainly can't tell. Eighty per cent
of the time they are cooped up
together in the limited train space
and the unfamiliar newspapers put
aboard seem like reports from
another planet. They can judge
the Presidents performance. the
size and spirit of his crowds
and that's all. They were, in
cidentally. unanimous that he did
fine this time.
Attendance at the seminars
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This Changing World
Turkey Becomes Genuine Democracy
In Surprising Defeat of Inonu Party

The peaSantry. which forms the
bulk Of the voting population. was
allowed to vote freely, in spite OF
the fact that local officials and
gendarmes could easily have in
fiuenced their votes.
The result surprised not only
the Inonu government but also
the vast majority of foreigners
who were skeptical about the gov
ernment's promise of free elec-
lions. Mr.. Inonu and his followers
have been swept out of Office by
the five-year-old opposition party
The reactionary Millet Party OBJ
tanned only five seats in Parlia-
ment of over 400 members.
Genuine Democracy.
Quietly and unobtrusively Tur-
key now has become a genuine
democracy where even the many
illiterate but politically minded
peasants are able to cast their
votes freely and to choose the ad-
miniStration they think best.
Since American aid to Turkey
started in 1947 there have been
many blasts. particularly from be-
hind the Iron Curtain, charging
that the last vestiges of freedom
and democracy in Turkey were
being w~ed out. American i'm
perialisS aid, it was said in num-
berless broadcasts. was bent on
strengthening the hand of the re-
dictionary Inonu politicos. More
over. it was said, the Turkish
peasants and small businessmen
and craftsmen. who were suffering
and starving, would not be al
lowed. so long as the Americans
were in Turkey, to rid themselves
of that "insufferable yoke"
The Moscow commentators were
as wrong in their forecasts of the
election outcome as our own were
in November, 1948. The Russian
specialists" proclaimed loudly
that Mr.. Inonu could not be de-
feated because the police would
see to it that the votes were cast
the right way. American military
they said, could not at
ford to see the opposition win,
because that would mean the end
of American domination"
AS it happened, however. the
Turks intimate contact with the
appears to have stimu-
lated their free exercise of the
right to vote. Turkish officers were
impressed with what they were
told about American freedom of
elections and these officers, who
are close to the thousands of
peasant soldiers, in turn helped
indoctrinate their subordinates.
There was no indoctrination
against the government, but
merely advice to exercise their
constitutional rights the best way
they thought fit.
Today the Turks have won the
right to be taken into the family
of Western democracies. The elec-
ton has changed the administra-
ton. 1t may spell the end of some
domestic policies, but Turkey is
as strongly on the side of those
who oppose totalitarianism as
during the Inonu regime.
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n
ated by Renal Ataturk, the
father" of modern Turkey an6
the hero of the war of liberation
Originally, during Turkeys transi-
ton from an Oriental state to o
Western republic. the party was d
disguise for a mild form of totali-
tarianism. 1t was very much like
the Falange in Spain today.
After Kemal's death Ismet In
onu, his chief of staff, stepped into
his place. A far milder man thar
Renal, Inonu lcosened some OF
the strict controls established I'M
der his predecessor and held cleo
tions-with one-party ticket.
Under the impact of closer asso-
citation with the West after Tur-
key had gotten back on it's feet
politically again, Mr.. Inonu him.
self suggested five years ago to
Celal Bayar, his friend and former
prime minister under Ataturk,
that an opposition party be
formed.
Many Scoffed at First.
Suggestions from the president
Of Turkey are tantamount to Or
ders. The new party came to life
and many skeptics made fun of
it. 1t was to be. they said, a loyal
opposition with a prescribed num-
Der of seats in Parliament, just
enough to give the necessary flaw
oring to what then was said to be
a mildly totalitarian form of gov
eminent. AS a possible antidote
to the Democrats. Marshal Cha
nak-one of the Big Four of the
Turkish war Of independence-or-
ganized the Millet Party, a
strongly reactionary group.
The constitution provides for
elections every five years. This
provision has been carried out.
The Inonu administration, which
had been in power since 1898,
lived up to its pledge to hold free
elections. 1t interpreted the word
free" in its full meaning. Ali
candidates were allowed to cam
paign without interference from
the authorities and the we'll
known method of stufing ballot
boxes and having dead men vote
for the administration-used III
old, advanced democratic coun-
tries-was effectively prohibited
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-17
By Thomas l.. Stokes

The growing moderate type Of
progressivism in the South is I'M
der threat in this years congress
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just a river to them. and Scotch
was just nation OF people?
Thank goodness 1t didn't hap
pen. and the House will have to
shoulder the blame II it happens
in the future.
Speaking as one man 10 the
whole House. I just want 10 say
that I had my sights set on q
second lieutenancy in case Of fur
ther trouble, but the House has
killed my ambition completely.
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and alarmed by
an action of
the House in its
house in Wash
ington.
The H ouse
voted to ban
"r e c rea tional"
courses, such as
d a n c in G and
b ar I e n ding,
I r o m t h e
schooling pro-
gra m Of the
CT Bill of
Rights. ...
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tional Commit
tee did their
part. They gave
seminars on the
issues and pro-
duced virtually
ii the party
brass to meet
t The S t a t e
p e Cpl e a n d
promise Coop
Grafton.
Over and over
again, the sim
pie lesson was
repeated: G e t
ont the Nnfa
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~
R e G VI arly
every two years
in congressional
primary cleo
tions which are
decisive in the
ne-party South
there reappears
a long
movement to
defeat progress
sive candidates
a n d substitute
D e m CORA tic
conserva tives.
The latter will
inin with Re.
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born hve years
ago more as
window . dress
ing than as ali
actual party of
opposition to
the established
Peoples Party.
won the cleo
ton by a land
slide. The vic
tory was as
spectacular a S
it was surpris-
ing.
The Peoples
PARTY was cre-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-17
By Doris FIeeson

CHICAGO. May 1.-THE DEM
ocrats' Chicago rally was staged
more for the party than for the
public.
President Truman and the Ma
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posts in the District Of Columbia
jumped from 1929 millions in 1889
to $1.37 billion in 1949. The
private property economy has re-
suited in developing here in the
United States the most amazing
prosperity ever enjoyed by any
people at any time.
This prosperity enables US to
bear the burden of the fight for
freedom. Communist propagan-
dists tell the world that capitalists
are too greedy to defend them
selves. 1t is not the case. There
are greedy capitalists. of course,
but the leaders of our economy, in
government and in business, know
that the world Is now locked in
an theological struggle between
totalitarian dictatorship on the
one hand and political and eco
nomic freedom upon the other.
The profits of the profit system
must be willing to go to war to
defend this system. If profits
should be permitted to escape,
flesh and blood which does not
escape will exact an eventual
penalty.
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Van TiIburg Clark
Story Collection
Wins Praise
THE WATCHFUL GODS
And Other Stories

THE WATCHFUL GODS
And Other Stories
BY Walter Van Tilburg Clark.
random House; $2.75.)
Mr.. Clark looks benignly on man
and beast and seeing man against
nature can Judge his true value.
His descriptions of the Western
sea and mountains are fine and
heartfelt. His story of a home
coming old prospector heading
for town after a summer in the
hills is a beautiful piece of mar
ration of compassion and rueful
humor. He also writes convinc-
ingly Of animals, notably in the
story of the life Of a hawk with
its full circle of feasting, fighting
mating and death.
The longest story, which gives
the collection its title, is study
Of a 12-year-old boy with his
first rifle who all of q summer
morning learns the difference
between good and evil. as SYM
bolized by a rabbit and q snake.
If ,trif1e tenuous. it reveals fully
his sensitive yet sturdy magma
ton.
MARY McGRoRY
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kept the Russians from starting a
full-scale war.
Some argue that Russia Is de-
ficient in atomic weapons. To
support this they cite the fact
that Russia has not openly taken
part in the Korean war and that
Russia has vigorously pushed the
phony Stockholm peace resolu-
ton. Mr.. Dean takes no stock in
these arguments.
Disagrees With Lilienthal
st would make one generaliza-
tion," he said. 1--WE should not
underestimate Russia. If one as
sumes, she really started on the
bomb in 1945 she was able to
produce it in four years. She has
unlimited labor-slave labor. She
has able scientists. She has ire
natural resources. And
there is the iron curtain which
keeps information from getting
out"
One important question about
the commissions work has been
raised by its former chairman,
Mr.. Lilienthal. He has argued in
articles that competitive
industry should be given a chance
now to develop atomic energy for
civilian use.
Mr.. Dean said he read Mr.. Lili-
enthals articles two or three
times" but that he does not go
along with him, at least not at
this time.
II see couple of very definite
to such a program"
he said.
First. there is only so much
uranium ore and an intensive race
to get 1t out of the ground
both east of the iron curtain and
on our side. One of the first
problems Is to get this ore into
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Ia practically unanimous vote
agreed the Government must as
sumo. is clear indication that Mr..
McKenna would be in no position
to criticize the sponsors of the
.eXcess-profits tax amendment,
even if he could anywhere find
any statement of theirs support
ing his allegation that they
thought it would be adequate to
meet all defense expenditures.
Why all this timidity about tax
ing excessive profits? Why all
this argument that more time
for study is needed? Why the
charge that under the Connally-
O'Mahoney amendment big bust
ness, which enjoyed abnormal
profits from 1946 through 1949,
would have been called upon to
pay only a small amount?" Why?
Because Mr.. McKenna clearly in
dicates that like many opponents
of taxation upon those able to
pay, he would apparently prefer
that the burden by borne by the
millions who are at the bottom
of the economic scale. Increased
excise taxes and a general sales
tax, he believes, would be better
methods of raising revenue" !
quote his paragraph:
although there are many
other and perhaps better meth
DDS of raising revenue (such as
boosting corporate and indi-
vidual tax above the presently
proposed levels; or by boosting
the excise tax, which the in
term bill now before Congress
originally proposed reducing;
or maybe through imposition of
a general sales taxi. an excess
profits levy will be enacted early
next year. 1t may even be eff
ective retroactive to October /:
maybe to July /, 1850. Indeed,
an excess-prof1ts tax is ines
capable-if for no other reason
than on psychological grounds"
The general normal and surtax
rates on corporations might very
we'll be increased. 1t probably
will be necessary to raise indi-
vidual rates, too, although they
were, in the Senate bill, prac-
tically restored to World War II
levies. But to use increased ex-
else taxes and a general sales
tax as a method of avoiding an
excess-prof1ts tax would be mere
ly to place the heaviest burden of
meeting the defense expenditures
upon the shoulders Of those least
able to pay. A most amazing rec
ord of corporate prosperity is
shown in the statistics on cor
porate earnings since prior to
World War II. The national in
come, that is to say the income
of all the people, for the years
l947-1949, was 1862 per cent great
er than it was in 1910.
Salaries and wages were 1854 per
cent greater. But corporate
profits before taxes reached the
extraordinary peak of 220 per
cent above the level of 1910
Corporate profits showed the
greatest advance in the most
prosperous f1ve-year period that
this country has ever enjoyed.
When the World War II excess
profits tax was imposed. the base
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New Atomic Chief Wants His Motives Clear to All
EducutionuI Job
Necessary to
Avoid Suspicion

father was Baptist minister and
his calling meant that the family
moved frequently. Young Gordon
Dean went to high school in Chi
cago. New York and Pasadena.
After high school he went to the
University Of Redlands, Calf.
One of the students he met there
is now Mrs. Dean. Their daugh-
ter. Miss Martha Dean. is now a
freshman at Redlands.
While he was q student, Mr..
Dean held down a $25-a-week job
as a reporter in Pasadena. His
ambition was to be a newspaper
man. Then he decided to be an
English teacher and. finally. to be
a lawyer. He took his law degree
at the University of Southern
California. Then he did graduate
work in criminal law at Duke Uni
versity where he became an in
structor and assistant dean.
Practiced Law
In 1884 he came to the Justice
Department criminal division and
helped draft the National Fire
arms Act and amendments to the
Lindbergh kidnapping Act. The
firearms act was aimed at keeping
machine guns, submachine guns
and silencers out Of the hands of
gangsters. In the Justice Depart
ment Mr.. Dean became head Of
the appellate section of the Grim
inal division, special executive as
sistant to Attorneys General
Homer Cummings and Robert H.
jackson and then trial attorney
in the Anti Trust Division. He left
in May, 1910, for private practice
in partnership with Brian Nc
Mahon, now Senator and head OF
the Joint Atomic Energy Com
mittee of Congress, and Walter
Gallagher.
His association with Senator
Mcmahon gave rise to the init
nation when Carroll L. Wilson
resigned recently as Acc general
manager that the Senator's voice
would have undue influence with
the commission management. Mr..
Wilson warned that the joint
committee was becoming super
board of directors" MIR. Dean
says this is not so.
Law practice was interrupted
by service in the Navy. Then Mr..
Dean was made assistant to JUS
tice jackson in the prosecution OF
the major Nazi war criminals at
Nuremberg. After that the Deans
went back to California and that
ranch home, with Mr.. Dean re-
Stunning law practice and teach
ing law in the University Of
Southern California.
That was in the spring of 1916.
Three years later President Tru-
man asked him to come to Wash
ington for an interview. The up
shot was Mr.. Deans appointment
as a member Of the commission.
It required Senate confirmation
and appearance to answer ques-
tons at a Senate committee hear
ing, not entirely joyful prospect.
But Mr.. Deans confidence was
bolstered by this wire from his
daughter:
Dear Pop: You're just the man
for the job"
Mr.. Dean remarked, "Since she
knows my weak spots. that was a
comforting thing" ..-
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ProminentD. C.SchoIars
Force School Hos Roster of Names Including
Sons Of Presidents, Military Men
By John CIoqett Proctor

Douglas Macarthur attended the
Force School.
Mr.. Patterson continued at the
Force School until October, 1892,
when he was transferred. Miss
Frances Fairlee served until the
appointment of Benjamin w.
Murch. Miss Fairlee died while
principal of the Park View School.
The late assistant superintendent
of public schools, Stephen e.
Kramer, was also a principal at
the Force.
Military Men on Roster
The military branch Of the
Government is more than repre-
sented in Force graduates, and here
for instance are just few names
which were given the writer:
1t. Col. Dean Halford, @. M. c.,
retired; 1t. Col. Frank Halford,
U. S. M. c., retired; John Hud-
son Poole, former major, U. S. A.,
Philip Sheridan, son Of the famous
general; Gen. John F. Myers,
U. S. M. c., to whom the Spanish
flag over Guam was surrendered
during the Spanish-American
War. and Gen. William M.
Cruickshank. Robert Wallach,
son of Mai. Richard Wallach.
became an Army officer, and an
other scholar, David D. Porter.
led a detachment of Marines.
The late Fleming Newbold of
The Evening Star and his broth
ers, John, Thomas and Henry,
also attended here. as did Craig
and James Wadsworth, cousins Of
former Senator Wadsworth; the
sons Of w. S. Patton; Charles G.
Sawtelle. jr., Army officer. and his
brother, sons Of Gen. Charles @.
Sawtelle; Ewing Cockrell and
brother. sons Of Senator Cockrell;
Randall Hagner. John c. Arm
strong and his brother. w. Spencer
Armstrong, and their sister, Miss
Bertha j. Armstrong.
The Force School also had as
students the Langhorne brothers,
Marshall and Kerry, and Lady
Nancy Aston; Hayden johnson, q
former chancellor of the National
University; Brig. Gen. Joseph P.
Tracy, the Purman boys, sons Of
DR.. j. J. Purman; John M. and
Edgar Henderson. Arthur and
Charles Bryant, and the writer's
wife. when she was Annie Maud
Crown.
Lieut.. Howard S. Fisk, for many
years a writer for The Star, and
his brother. Harry C. Fisk. OBJ
tanned part of their education
in this old building, as did George
and Elroy Curtis, sons of William
Elroy Curtis. a newspaper cor
respondent; Edward j. McQuade.
Paul Cockerille; Marian. daugh-
ter of Senator F. M. Cockrell, who
married son of DR.. E. M. Gal
laudet; William r. Eastman, John
O'Hagan. DR.. Clarence A. Weaver.
Horace H. Westcott, realtor;
Charles Westcott. Miss Kate Hop
kins. who married a son Of Judge
Andrew Wylie, and Col. Spencer
Crosby, John and Robert Wilkins.
sons of Beriah Wilkins, one of the
former owners of the Washington
Post
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Understanding
Means Less Risk
Of Controversy
By Francis P. Douglas

Gordon Dean came into Gov
eminent to help stiffen the laws
against weapons for American
gangsters. He has now settled
down into his new job Of direct
ing the program Of making 1t un-
profitable for international gang
sters to handle atomic bombs
recklessly.
The craftsmanship Of the Atomic
Energy Commission. which he has
held for a little over two months,
has meant forgetting some per-
sonal desires.
I'm not looking forward to
anything now except getting the
lob done" he said the other day.
Gone from his Office wall was a
picture of his ranch home IN
California.
In northern San Diego County
it is a white, low-lying house
under big trees. The ranch-in
this area 1t would be called a
farm-prod oranges, lemons,
lines and avocados. It repre-
sented the achievement Of an
ambition for Mr.. and Mrs. Dean,
their daughter and son.
Big Selling Job
1--WE just sold It," Mr.. Dean
said. IT had to. You can't run
a ranch 5000 miles away" He
took down the picture so it would
not be a reminder Of parting with
that home.
The job now is forging ahead
in the race Of getting uranium
out of the ground, turning 1t into
fashionable material and fabricat-
ing that material for weapons.
He sees as one important as
pect Of this job the necessity for
the commission to win the under
standing of the public and others
in Government. That he would
realize the Importance of this
might be expected from a man
once a newspaper reporter and
who at one time directed the pub
lie relations of the Justice De-
partment.
If this aim of understanding is
attained there will be less risk
of the controversies which swirled
around the commission and its
former chairman, David E. Lii
ienthal.
Soon after Mr.. Dean became
chairman he told the staff that the
commission would have to do some
selling-"not by asserting our per-
lection but by demonstrating our
skill and our sincerity"
There is a big educational job
to do with many groups" he went
on. This includes the Congress,
the military, scientists, industrial
concerns and the public. .. If we
are not understood we will always
be suspected. And it will be one
of my policies to make this pro-
gram understood in all quarters.
We will need support and not OPP
ponents."
The primary job Of the COM
mission is atomic weapons. The
halinf &c uonaro1- II &c ctorad
by Winston Churchill-that our
stock of atomic bombs and our
ability to deliver them is what has