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Valley frontiersman., 1952-05-01
HOW TIE PALMER PRECINCT VOTED
 DEMOCRATS REPUBLICANS
DEMOCRATS

Delegate 10 Congress F. [. Bsrtlett-l71 Robert C. Reeve-32i
 Auditor of Alaska Neil F. Moore-147 Anita Garnck-l22 Robert [. Sheldon-92 Albert E. Goctz-I0I
 Highway Engineer Frank A 1IetcaIf-192 Irving Reed-263
 Senate Short Term JacE: Conrtght-I20 Paul r. Robison-279 Karl Arrnst-Ong--56
 Senate 4-year William A. Egan-110 John Gorsuch-272 Steve McCutcheon-I07 Marshall HOppin-I67 10 High Territorial House of Representatives Betty Mears-202 NJ D. Snodgrass-307 Wendell Kay-I28 Lee McKiney-280 Ed BaldWin-105 L. C. (Clair) Stock-275 z. J. Loussac-96 Dorothy Prior-255 Buell. Nesbet-95 Barbara Dirnock-242 C. A. Pollard-9O Lloyd C. Olsen-23O Irene Ryan-84 Howard Pollock-189 E. c. Baiey-81 Bert C. Rutherford-160 Earl D. HilIstrand-68 Herald Stringer-170 s Cruthers-62 Fred Willamson-157
Valley frontiersman., 1952-05-01

IN JUNEAU count of Tues days election ballots was inter- rupted in the big No. l precinct when the poll workers pleaded exhaustion early Wednesday morning.
Valley frontiersman., 1952-05-01

N FAIRBANKS the Chem River went out at 2:43 pm. Tues day. April 29. Oldtimers are pre- dieting that the Tanana will go out tomorrow. May ?.
Evening star., 1952-09-27
Congress Also Needs
Help on Appropriations

Last week, in Virginia. I sug-
gested that the President be
given the item veto-the power
to disapprove individual items in
an appropriation bill, without
having to veto the entire bill.
The President could then WELD
q sharp scalpel against special
interests without bringing the
machinery of Government to q
stop. Three fourths Of our
States, including my own, have
long since adopted this useful
tool and I think it is time the
Federal Government adopted it,
too.
The Congress, too, needs more
help on appropriations. Until
recently, the House Appropria-
tions Committee has had only IL
busy Congressman, assisted by q
four-man staff, to comb through
the staggering cures Of q $50
billion military budget. The
Congress just this year voted it
self some more help, which
should enable more Congress-
men to be sure they know what
they are talking about when
they propose cuts in appropria-
tions.
A fourth step for saving
Evening star., 1952-09-27
Living Within Means
Has Not Been Easy

Like Gov. Schricker, I have
had practical experience with
this problem. In Illinois, we
have lived within our means
these past four years without
increasing taxes except to re-
store our worn-out roads. TAX
ing into account our needs and
the increased cost of everything.
1t has not been easy. And I had
to live with a Republican legis-
lature. but, strange to say, we
got along pretty we'll, and more
than once I was reminded of the
words of your Hoosier philoso-
pher. Abe Martin, who said:
Nov an then an innocent man
Is sent to the legislature"
But during the last session Of
the Illinois Legislature, what do
you think they did to the thrifty,
closely balanced budget I pre-
sented to them? They cut out
100000 and added $50 million!
But I vetoed most Of it; vetoed
more appropriations than any
Evening star., 1952-09-27

save a few dollars, but others
save millions. It is no criticism
of the present management of
the Defense Department to say
we need to 60 much farther, as
fast as we can.
It was only this year, in an
amendment sponsored by Sem
ator O'Mahoney of Wyoming.
that the Congress gave the Sec
retary of Defense the clear au-
thority he needs to control the
supply activities of his depart
ment. This authority must be
used vigorously. We must never
relax in our drive to make sure
that our tax dollars buy the
maximum security for the
money.
I know something about what
can be done, as well as what has
been done. I spent a good deal
of my time in the Navy Depart
ment during the last war on the
problems of organization and
the economy Of manpower and
money in naval commands and
installations. But it can only
be done by relentless action
Republican oratory never saved
a nickel!
My fifth and last method for
reducing Federal spending re-
.quires action not by the Fed
eral Government but by the
States and localities and plain,
ordinary citizens.
We can do much more to make
our smaller units Of Government
strong and vigorous and efficient.
I have put considerable sweat,
and some tears. into this en-
deavor in Illinois, and so has
Gov. Schricker here in Indiana.
I have never believed in
States rights when they are
used as a cover for States
wrongs. But firmly believe in
States rights when the States
assume the responsibilities they
ought to. AS I said over at the
Illinois State Fair in August,
I hope you will sweep me into
Washington in November, but I
hope you will not sweep any
more responsibilities to WASH
ington that the States can
handle.
In addition. I think it is time
for a kind Of national stock
taking and a good deal more
elf-discipline in what we ask
our national Government to do
for us. Perhaps you have heard
about the Chamber of Commerce
that sent of two letters to q
Senator in the same mail. One
of the letters demanded an i'm
mediate and drastic reduction in
the Federal budget. The other
demanded a $40 million ap-
preparation for a harbor i'm
provement which the Chamber
of Commerce wanted for its Il,
home town. won't mention the
name Of the town; it's in an
other State. I'm sure nothing
like that ever happened in
Indiana.
Evening star., 1952-09-27
Confronted With Hostile
And Ruthless Enemy

You know and / know that we
are confronted with a hostile,
inscrutable and ruthless enemy.
To deter that enemy and to
defend ourselves, we must have
what it takes, and quickly. We
are building an Air Force of
143 wings. and it is going to
cost us billions. Once we have
built this Air Force, it is going
to continue to cost us billions to
maintain it. No honest man can
say how long we shall have to
maintain it, but you can be sure
it is likely to be for a long
time to come. If I told you
anything else, ! would be de-
ceiving you or myself. Deceit
may win elections now and then
but it will never win wars or
save civilizations.
I will leave deception to the
Republican orators. They have
been practicing it day and night.
They promise one day they will
cut your Federal budget by $40
billion, or $40 billion, or $40
billion. depending upon which
one is talking and to whom.
And the next day they say they
are going to increase Americas
armed might.
This is nonsense. It is worse
than that-it is the oldest and
cheapest Of political tricks. Cut
taxes but spend more money
in the name of common sense,
have we not outgrown such
childishness?
The only way you could cut
Evening star., 1952-09-27

Governor in Illinois history. So
you will understand when I say
that I think the carefully culti-
vated legend that all Democrats
are wasters and all Republicans
economical Is the bunk. think
this is a time for barcelona
economy and the Republican
legislators in Illinois can tell you
! mean what I say.
We frightened up our spending
in. Illinois in other ways, too.
We rid ourselves of political
parasites. We stopped graft. We
overhauled the highway and
building construction and the
purchasing systems. We enlisted
the services of excellent men
and honest men, who knew their
jobs.
AS a result, we saved money
where it could be saved, and we
were able to spend money where
it needed to be spent. We were
able to greatly increase State
aid to common schools, enlarge
and improve our facilities for
the care Of the mentally i'll, in
crease public assistance grants
and workmen's compensation
and all without any increase
whatever in the general purpose
taxes. The current biennial
budget I submitted was actually
lower than the preceding one.
The cost of State government in
Illinois in relation to the in
come of its citizens is one Of the
lowest in the country.
Evening star., 1952-09-27

certainly ask the Congress to
extend it. Improvement in or
ganization is q job that has to
be worked at day in and day out.
Efficiency in Government also
requires that we reward people
who find ways to save money,
and that We promote supervisors
on the basis Of their ability to
get the job done at minimum
cost and with the fewest sub
ordinateS. I think also we need
some improvement in our civil
service system, to make sure the
strong safeguards we need
against arbitrary or unfair dis
charge do not strangle our
ability to hold employe to strict
standwards of efficient per-
formance.
The third method for saving
money in Washington is to i'm
prove the machinery for scrutin-
iZing appropriations, so that the
budget presented by the Presi-
dent and the money bills voted
by the Congress will be based
on cold fact and not hot air.
As a candidate for the presi-
dency, I am disturbed by the
knowledge that there are now
several hundred people in the
Pentagon preparing the military
budget for next year, and only
80 people in the Presidents Bu-
reau of the Budget to review
those estimates. The Republi-
can candidate, incidentally. had
some harsh words to say the
other night in st. Louis about
replacing the present staff Of
the Bureau Of the Budget. I
think he would have been better
advised to recommended enlarg-
ing that staff-a step that has
frequently been proposed by the
President but blocked in the
Congress.
Evening star., 1952-09-27
Economy-Minded Civilians
Is First Requirement

The present civilians in charge
OF the Department of Defense,
and the President, have saved
literally billions of dollars in
our present defense program.
Secretary Lovett testified that
he and the President saved $19
billion in this years budget by
cutting down the requests Of
the military services. And
please don't mistake my ad-
miration for the generals and
the admirals. with whom I
worked in great intimacy for
three years during the war.
Some of them. even the Repub-
lican ones. are among my best
friends. But from what I have
seen am not persuaded that
either their education or ex-
perience or inclination is the
best insurance of thrift with
public funds.
Rule one, then, is to get
strong-minded. economy-minded
civilians in top jobs. Rule two
Is to give them the authority
to manage their department
efficiently.
This means carrying through
the work of Government re.
organization so ably started by
the Hoover Commission. In
c1dentally. while do not regard
economy in Government as a
partisan issue, I was interested
to learn that a majority of
Republican Senators voted
against Is of the 10 reorganiza-
ton plans submitted by the
President that have come to q
vote IN the last four years
often overriding the direct rec
concentrations of their former
President Herbert Hoover.
The present reorganization
law expires next spring. I shall
Evening star., 1952-09-27
Feeling of Kinship
For Gov. Schricker

My opponent said the other
highland I must say I was
surprised that he of all people
should say it-that men are
known by the company they
keep.
Well. the company I like to
keep in Indiana, or anywhere
else. is the company of men like
my old friend and your old
friend, Henry F. Schricker-and
shall never know a gentler.
kinder, wiser man than the great
and beloved Hoosier that gov.
erns this Hoosier State-Gover.
nor Henry Schricker.
have q special feeling of
klnship for Henry Schricker. AS
Governors of neighboring States.
ne and I have been wrestling
with the same problems. These
are problems which face every
Governor in our times-prob-
lens OF economy. of efficient adj
mlnistration, of State rights.
and OF integrity in government
I want to talk to you about some
OF these things tonight.
In particular I want to talk
to you about economy in govern-
ment. This is a subject on which
nave passionate convictions
and so does that tight-flsted old
banker-Henry Schricker. I am
certain that economy in govern
ment-the most rigorous and
searching economy-is vital to
the health of this Republic Just
as it is to our States.
I think Indiana is a pood
place to discuss this subject. The
Hoosier has always been a hard
man with a dollar-his own
dollar or anybody else's. I think
OF a Hoosier as a down-to-
earth, prosperous, rather gener-
Gus, neighborly fellow-but one
who knows where every piece of
string is in the pantry. He is q
hard-to-beat man. And he's
hard to fool. I remember saying
down In Vincennes at the 15Oth
anniversary of the Indiana Ter
ritory, which included Illinois.
that probably the shrewd
Hoosier business deals were too
much for the Illinois pioneers
so they broke away and set up
their own territory.
And so tonight I want to
talk sense about government
economy.
Evening star., 1952-09-27

money Is to establish more effec-
tive means for controlling ex-
penditures after the Congress
votes the money. This is the
problem Of getting a dollars
worth Of value for every dollar
spent.
Here, too. the problem is
hardest in the Defense Depart
ment. where the need for speed
in obtaining results must be
constantly balanced against the
costs of hurrying. The North
African air bases are fresh in
our minds. We needed those
bases and we needed them fast.
But surely in this case we paid
a high premium for speed.
Let no one think, however,
that Improvement can be &C
complished just by good inten-
tions. 1t takes hard, patient.
steady work. It was only three
years ago that the Defense De-
partment was established on its
present unified basis. Much has
been accomplished in these
three years. Where the Army,
Navy and Air Force used to
compete with each other in
buying medical supplies. food,
lumber, and many other items,
there is now centralized buying
for all three: Where each mill
tary service used to run a
separate air transport system,
there is now one for all; where
the three services used to buy
hundreds of different sizes of
nuts and bolts, they are now
standardizing on q few.
Evening star., 1952-09-27
Ex-Revenue Man Draws
Six Years in Exiohion
BY the Assoeiatsd Press

MONTGOMERY. Ala. Sept. a
Six years in Federal Prison was
the sentence handed q former
deputy collector of internal rev.
|enue convicted yesterday Of writ
ing extortion letters to three
prominent men here.
Gaines r. Moore pleaded guilty
when he was arrested two weeks
ago. but yesterday his attorney
sought to withdraw the plea and
have a trial by jury on plea of
insanity.
Judge Jennamer ruled. however,
that the 38-year-old former Gov
|ernment employee knew right from
wrong when he demanded $47, 900
from a Negro physician and two
white businessmen on threat Of
harm If they refused to pay.
Evening star., 1952-09-27
BY the Associoted Press

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. IT,
The tert OF Coz. StepenSon's
address at the State Fair
grounds last night tollo,Ds:
These introductions always
remind me of a Hoosier who
had a more direct way of in
PRODUCING himself. He used to
say:
I'm an Indiana farmer and
I want it understood that I
make an honest living and my
regulations good"
I am hopeful that my own
reputation is reasonably good
in Indiana. because I've been
a close neighbor for a long time.
I feel perfectly at home here.
AS you may have guessed, I'm
here on a political errand, and
I know that politics comes as
naturally to Hoosiers as plain
speaking.
We could use q lot more plain
speaking in this campaign. And
on some rare occasions when my
distinguished opponent, the
general, has ventured to talk
plainly. he has advanced some
startling ideas: The idea, for
example, that people should
vote this fall for all Republi.
can candidates, whatever their
character and ability. He wants
us to elect them all: Good, bad
and outrageous.
Until a few days ago, I had
believed this was a new theory
of politics. even in the Repub-
llcan Party. I am told, how
ever, that it actually is an old
and familiar tactic in certain
Republican circles. In 1925, for
example, no less than the Chief
Justice OF the Indiana Supreme
Court advised the young people
of this State to vote the straight
Republican ticket, regardless of
the qualifications of the candi-
date -. even though you know
man to be incompetent" he
said, even though you know
him to immoral v0te for him
because he represents the Re-
publican ticket"
But this kind of barefaced po-
lltlcal cynicism has never won
much favor in Indiana or any,
where else. And I don't think
1t will be successful this year.
Evening star., 1952-09-27
Thinks Methods Will
Work in Woshinqton

I think the methods we used
in Illinois will work in WASH
ington. want to give you five
concrete rules-rules I know
from my experience will work. I
emphasize that they require
action, not just words. It is
cheap talk to say we must spend
less and tax less. We have heard
such talk in abundance. You
always hear it loudest and often
est at election time.
To manage the public purse
efficiently and economically is a
brutal job, and let us make no
mistake about 1t. I have served
my apprenticeship and tell you
the man who says he can move
In and work miracles with a
meat ax-or with mirrors-is
kidding the people or revealing
his own inexperience. Nomina-
ton to public Office and a round
Of speechmaking do not auto
matically qualify any one as an
economical administrator.
First. saving money in Gov
ernment requires, above every
thing else. hard-headed. tight
f1sted. vigorous leadership-by
men who are passionately con-
cerned with getting the job done
at the lowest possible cost-men
who will instill a deep feeling
for thrift in all branches and at
all levels of the public service.
I have found such men In
Illinois and managed to per-
suade many of them to take on
the exacting tasks Of Govern
ment, often at q substantial
sacrifice in salary.
In Washington, civilian lead
ership is most important in re-
lation to the military. because
that is where the great bulk of
our tax dollars are spent. We
must make sure that wastage of
our silver is not a privilege Of
our high brass.
In this connection I am
obliged to say that I think
the Republican suggestion that
q general can best cut down
on military waste at least de-
serves examination. I call as
witness the bipartisan Senate
committee now investigating our
preparedness program under
the chairmanship of Senator
Lyndon johnson of Texas. These
Senator's. both Democrats and
Republicans. have concluded
lit is not an easy task to
change the deeply ingrained
attitudes of military men who,
for centuries. have operated on
the theory that cost is not q
compelling consideration"
Evening star., 1952-09-27
National Viewpoint
Needed on Spending

You know how it is: anything
that helps the other fellow is
extravaganza: anything that
helps you is a necessity" An
Iowa farmer may be tempted to
think it wasteful for the Gov
ernment to construct a petro-
leum experiment station in
Pennsylvania. And q New Jersey
businessman may think build
ing a dam in Oregon is fantas-
tic. What each of us must do is
to stretch our minds and look at
these things the way the Presi-
Evening star., 1952-09-27
Administration Policy
On Tide|ands Called
'ThieveY' by Nixon
By Cecil HoIIond
Sior Stoff Corrsspondenf


ON THE NIXON CAMPAIGN,
Sept. Ex-senator Nixon of Cali
fornia wooed voters in the border
States of Oklahoma and Tennessee
today in winding up his first
major campaign tour for the vice
presidency.
The 39-year-old Republican
nominee, closing out a cross
country swing. put his speech
making into high gear with slug
ging attacks on the Truman ad-
ministration on his favorite issues
of foreign policy, corruption, in
fiation and Communists in Gov
ernment.
He brought into his campaign
repertoire a new issue when he
spoke last night in Amarillo, Tex,
and bid for the votes of rebelling
Texas Democrats on the matter of
tideland oils.
5000 Hear Speech.
Before an estimated audience
Of 5000 which frequently indulged
itself in ear-splitting rebel yells,
Senator Nixon described the Tru-
man administrations claim the
oil rich tidelands of Texas and
California for the Federal Gov
ernment as outright, downright
thievery."
He also took occasion before an
audience distinctly friendly to at
tempt to pin on Gov. Stevenson,
the Democratic nominee, a mirth-
provoking label of "a side sad
dler."
Gov. Stevenson, the Senator
said, was saddled on the Truman
horse" While he would like to
keep it corralled in Washington,
the nominee added, he had to ride
it. He said it seemed that Gov.
Stevenson was attempting to get
out of his predicament by riding
'side saddle" and like all side
saddlers his feet hang well out to
the left"
He added that Texans should
decide whether they wanted toI
vote for Gov. Stevenson who fa-
vored taking their tideland rights
or for one born in Texas"-Gen.
Eisenhower who believes in
State sovereignty"
Amarillo Speech Is Highlighted.
The Amarillo speech before al
Tri-State Fair crowd was the
highlight of a sky-hopping tour
that began in Salt Lake City,
Utah, touched two strong voting
sections in Colorado - Grand
Junction and Colorado Springs
and wound up before a high school
football crowd-with the game
well over-at Muskogee, Okla, at
10 pm.
Because Of the lateness Of the
hour or for other reasons, the
Muskogee reception was the chill
liest received by Senator Nixon in
his three-State campaigning of
the day. &c.,.
Despite that, the Republican
candidate seemed refreshed and
fully recovered from the physical
and emotional strain of the furore
and the party's crisis over his
$4,000 expense fund. tst4
Interrupted by Cheers.
In Utah and in the stops in
Colorado and Texas he was re-
ceived by crowds estimated from
$500 to 5.000-and cheers fire.
quently interrupted the more or
less set pattern Of his campaign
speeches.
On the final day of his current
campaign swing today, Senator
Nixon began at $3.50 am. with
the first Of series of talks in
Oklahoma City, where the Nixon
party spent the night.
Also on the schedule were stops
at Tulsa and two in Tennessee at
Nashville and Knoxville. The
party is due back in Washington
early tomorrow.
Next week Senator Nixon's
schedule calls for excursions into
Maryland and Virginia.
Evening star., 1952-09-27

dent and the Congress have to
look at them-from the stand
point Of the whole Nation.
These five points are the
framework I propose for a real
economy drive-one that seeks
results, not headlines; first. get
tight listed executives; second,
give them the authority to run
their organizations efficiently;
third, scrutinize appropriation
requests with a cold and pene-
trating eye; fourth, spend ap-
preparations frugally; fifth, don't
do in Washington what can be
done in Indianapolis, and don't
ask Uncle Sam to bridge Cat
bird Greek If you can help it.
Simple rules Nothing spectac-
ular. But I know they work on
a smaller scale in Springfield,
and I believe they will work on
q larger scale in Washington.
At least, I would like to try them
which will take a little help
from you!
Let no one deceive himself.
Pinch every penny as best we
can. our Federal budget is still
going to be large-much larger
than we would like.
And why is this? It is be-
cause about IS per cent of our
budget-$69 billion Of our $79
billions going for national
security. including the cost of
past wars.