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Evening star., 1952-10-03
Productivity Produced
Highest Living Standard

This tremendous productivity
has given us by long odds the
highest standard of living in the
world.
The party in power during the
last 20 years blandly assures US
that they planned it that way.
I think we ought to seek a
more informed explanation. We
should examine the real basis of
prosperity, and not accept at
face value the stories ground out
by the propaganda mills in
Washington.
The American economy, ever
since the founding Of the Nation,
has produced decade after de-
cade a steady improvement in
the living standards of its.people
under peacetime conditions.
Today, the party in power is
attempting to take credit for all
Improvements in living stand
ards during it's 20-year regime.
The blunt fact is that the only
improvement achieved in these
20 Democratic years was during
the f1ve-year period Of World
War II.
It would be grossly unfair to
Evening star., 1952-10-03

solved the unemployment prob
lem. In 1889, after seven years
of New Deal doctoring, 9.5 mil
lion Americans were still out of
work. This is the figure that the
Administration ever since has
tried to fuzz over. They would
like to have you believe that
they solved the unemployment
problem prior to World War II.
While our Government was
failing to get people back to
work. the nations of Western
Europe were doing a better job.
Yet the depression bore more
heavily on them than on us and
their unemployed made up an
even greater percentage of their
working population.
Then came World War II.
Under its stimulus, Americas
Evening star., 1952-10-03
Always Looked Ahead
To Something Better

Has 1t ever occurred to you
that you might be earning the
same pay that you are today
and more-and that your take
home pay-after taxes-might
be larger than it is today?
Tonight I shall not take time
to expose the falsity of the cry
you never had it so good" But
I want to put this question to
you "how would you like to have
1t better?"
In the American scheme Of
things. it's never been our goal
simply to keep things as they
are. We have always looked
ahead to something better. We
began striving a couple of hun
dred years ago for a better way
OF life, and unless we've lost
that basic American virtue, we'll
keep right on striving for some
thing better.
Some of the Government fig
ureS sound impressive when we
hear the Washington bureau
Gratis argue that we live in a
paradise Of their making. But
what's happening to your bills
and to your savings is another
story. Every one who works for
a living today knows that he's
on a treadmill-no matter how
hard he runs, he has a hard
time standing still.
Here's a part of letter I re-
ceived just a day or so ago from
a bus driver in Maryland. He
was telling me how he was
getting along with the Fair Deal
and this is what he wrote:
For a while 1t looked like
everything was working fine.
The cost Of living would go up
a little, but wages would 60 up
a little bit more. Taxes would
clip the pay check q little but
not too much. But then the
cost Of living caught up with
and passed the wage raises and
the tax bite got deeper and
deeper. And this rat race keeps
going on and on. Unless there
Is change. we will all be plowed
under along with the pigs and
potatoes"
Evening star., 1952-10-03
Few Willing to Figure
True Worth of Money

It Is hard for us to believe
these facts.
One Of the reasons for this
belief is the seven-year barrage
of propaganda claims put out
by the Fair Deal.
Another reason is that this
imitation has put more and more
dollars in your pockets. Han
ding more money tends to make
you feel more prosperous. Very
few people are willing to go
through the arithmetic of find
ing out the real worth of the
money in their pockets.
War, not the Fair Deal,
brought about the end to unem-
ployment. The legacy of war,
not the Fair Deal. helped to sus-
tain a high level of economic ac-
tivity. Nearly one-third of the
high level production Of the first
five years after the war was due
to making up the shortages
created during the war-in auto
mobiles. refrigerators, houses.
Those things were largely paid
for out Of the $40 billion saw
ings which Americans had ac-
cumulated by the end Of the war.
Just as these war-bred short
ages began to disappear, and
the economy was beginning to
weaken. along came Korea. De-
fense production again propped
up the economy. If it had not
been for the post-Korea re-
armament program, Fair Deal
policies might well have headed
us right into the middle of a Sc
rious business recession.
That brings the picture up to
date. And what does the pic
ture show?
1889 standards Of living at the
same level as 1929.
1852 standards Of living
slightly below the level of 1945.
And, in between, the gains borne
out Of World War II.
II the economic facts Of the
past 20 years mean anything,
they mean this:
The slogan, you never had it
50 good" is q slick Fair Deal
paraphrase for, You'll never
have it any better under us
Evening star., 1952-10-03
Sound Policies Can
Spur Production

Coupled with future tax cuts,
another powerful incentive to
expand production can come
from sound governmental poll
cieS affecting labor, agriculture,
finance and other domestic and
foreign economic matters.
Instead Of high-handed inter.
ference and regulation. which
hamper production, these Gov
ernment policies must give free
play to the individual and curb
the unjustif1ed expansion Of
government.
Moreover. fair play in gov
ernmental dealings with the var
ious groups of our people will
bring about confidence and
greater production. If you are
in doubt as to what I mean, I
suggest that you get in touch
with the soybean farmers Of
your own State.
Our policies must be geared
to increasing production. Only
a stable expanding economy
can provide a rising standard
OF living and full protection to
its citizens against the hazards
Of modern life, unemployment,
old age and disability.
Third. we will give positive
support and encouragement.
that has been lacking for 20
years. to new industry develop
ment. Before us are new from
tiers OF expanding opportunity.
far greater than the geographic
cal frontier Of free land. New
vistaS for America can be
opened that will dwarf all past
achievements. We will do this
by stimulating basic and ap-
piled research and by use Of
new methods Of marketing. We
shall encourage venture capital
investment at home and abroad.
We shall support q foreign eco
nomic policy that encourages
growth throughout the free
world. Huge new industrial ex.
pansion out Of scientific devel.
opment in chemistry. aviation
(See TEXT, Page A-8.)
Evening star., 1952-10-03
BY the Associated Press

PEORIA, Ill.,, Oct. 3.-Fol-
lo,ring is the prepared tert OF
Gen. Eisenhower's speech de-
huered at Peria last night:
I'm going to talk with you
about a single subject tonight.
This subject is the shouted as
sertion that seems to be the
Administration answer to every
question raised in this cam
paign.
That assertion is-"You never
had it so good''-that is the
ever-ready excuse. And it is
false.
When confronted with the
mess in Observation-Disclosures
tration Spokesmen say, What
If it is little messy? You never
had it SO good"
And when confronted with
what their policy of high taxes
and high prices for things you
buy is doing to the family
budget. they say, What if taxes
and prices are high-you still
never had it so good"
And so it goes. To its end
less record of failure, the answer
is always the same.
But let us suppose that we
are foolish to worry about lack
OF progress toward peace, about
stupendous expenditure pro-
grams, about high taxes, about
a cheapening dollar, about cor
ruption in high and low places
in government. Let us suppose
that all these matters are not
as serious as we think. Suppose
they don't bother us.
Tonight I want to ask you
another question. Why shouldn't
We have it better?
Has it ever occurred to you,
for example, that you might be
earning the money you are
making today-and more-but
that your earnings could 90
farther when you spend them?
Evening star., 1952-10-03
pIOyment disappeared.
Unemployment Solved
Output Increased.

O0SHUS suSIS0SSO"
World War II did what the
New Deal was unable to do.
War not only SOLVED the unem-
ployment problem. Our coun-
try's danger quickly modified
the incentives of all the Ameri-
can people-something the Ad-
ministration program had never
been able to do. AS a result, out
put per person went up more
than so per cent during the war
years. This phenomenal growth
was inspired by the patriotism
OF our people and was directed
by bipartisan effort in WASH
ington.
Now let us look at what hap
pened in the postwar period,
under the Fair Deal.
In spite Of the illusion of i'm
provement created by larger
dollar signs on payrolls and
prices. there has been since the
war no economic growth and no
rise IN living standards.
Put in terms of figures, the
average family of 1945 had an
income of $3,561. After six
years of the Fair Deal, that
same family was handling a lot
more dollarS-$4,773, about a
third more-but the double toll
OF high prices and high taxes
wiped away all the gains. That
average family's 1851 income
was worth less to it than was
its 1945 income. And the same
is true. whether we are talking
in terms of wage earners or
farm families.
That is the treadmill on
which we find ourselves. In
stead Of growth and rising liv-
Ing standards, Fair Deal man.
agement has so organized things
that you have to run harder
and faster to get enough more
Fair Deal dollars to keep you
where you were.
The source of these figures, I
might add. is not the Republi-
can National Committee. It is
the Government of the United
States. These facts conclu-
sively prove that the net eco
nomic result of Fair Deal poll
Evening star., 1952-10-03

spending to something like $50
billion within four years. Such
cut would eliminate the deficit
in the budget, and would make
way for substantial tax reduc.
tion.
Evening star., 1952-10-03
Depression Thinking
BY Economists

The administration spokes-
men aren't fooling that Mary
land bus driver. And don't be-
lieve they are going to fool you.
II it is true you never had it
50 good. one thing is certain:
Under this administration or
Evening star., 1952-10-03

cies has been imitation as q sub
Stitute for growth.
Evening star., 1952-10-03

(See TEXT, Page A-8.)
Evening star., 1952-12-04
Gas-Fed Flash Fire
Wipes Out F Family Of I
BY the Associated Press

YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio, Dec. 4.
-Firemen today blamed leaking
propane gas for a raging fire that
flashed through a frame dwelling
and wiped out family of seven
Assistant Fire Chief Frank
Iehnerd said the gas, used for
cooking, probably overcame all OF
the victims before the fire broke
out last night.
Killed were Henry Tochman, "a
a bakery route statesman; his
wife. Catherine, 80. and their five
children. Henry. jr.. 13; Patricia
10: Carol, 8; Mary Grace, 4, and
10 Ann, 2.
Their one story home just
northeast of this city was burned
to the ground in the inferno that
could be seen for miles.
Bodies of the father and mother
were found in the living room
They were believed to have been
watching television when the fire
started around 11:15 pm. -Four
of the children were in beds in
two bedrooms.
The other child, Mary Grace,
was taken from the fiery dwelling
by neighbor, but was dead when
she arrived at hospital.
Evening star., 1952-12-04
BY the Assoeiofed Press

MOSCOW, Dec. 4.-Pravda has
brought to light a new swindle
in the Ukraine, built around the
production of a new kind of wine
made of grapejuice and Vodka.
Another group of swindlers
also was exposed. This group
wrote off $50 tons of cabbage as
unfit for consumption. fabricated
an order that the shipment be
destroyed. and then sold the
perfectly good cabbage at 10
rubles per bucket for a neat profit
of 250,000 rubles.
These disclosures followed the
recent announcement that three
former trade and light industry
officials in Kiev. Ukrainian cap
ital. were sentenced to death by
shooting as enemies of the peo-
pie" These and two others, who
received 25-year sentences, were
said to have confessed stealing
and selling cloth and merchan-
disc intended for sale to the gen.
eral public. pocketing hundreds of
thousands of rubles.
Caught in the latest swindles
we're Comrades Shevarikhin, chief
of the workers supply department
of the Dzerzhinsky coal trust:
Borodin, his chief accountant:
Belly, chief Of a factory making
non-alcoholic drinks; Leikin. a
supply agent: Popova. a woman
who headed the vegetable base
department Of the drink factory,
and Fedin, head of the workers
supply administration of the Ar
tenn coal combine.
The group headed by Belly de-
Evening star., 1952-12-04
Vodka and Cabbage SwindIes
Exposed by Moscow's Press

cided to create a new wine to
be called "Shcherbinov sweet red
wine" They added vodka instead
OF alcohol to grapejuice. The
worker supply department paid
them two rubles per liter. In all
they received 32,2O6 rubles. Since
vodka costs less than alcohol
there was a profit of 10000 rubles
in the deal.
The group headed by Popova
pulled the cabbage deal.
The Moscow party newspaper
said stories about these gratis ap-
peared in the Ukraine press, but
the culprits got off with only a
scare and some even went higher
in their careers. Even the Dis
Itrict prosecutor was the guest o1
the people he was supposed tc
have prosecuted, it said.
do the comrades in the Oblast
committee" Pravda asked. really
maintain the old formula: Do your
own job and let the devil take
care of the rest?"
Evening star., 1952-12-04
|Trygve Lie Names Greek
AS Successor 10 Fe||er
By the Associated Press


UNITED NATIONS. N. Y, Dec.
4-United Nation Secretary-Gen-
aral Trygve Lie yesterday ap-
pointed Constantin Stavropoulos
Of Greece as his chief legal counsel
to succeed Abraham H. Feller, who
committed suicide November 13.
Mr.. Stavropoulos has been di-
rector of the U. Ms Division of
Immunities and Treaties.
Among other duties, he will
represent the U. N. in dealings
with future Investigations by
American congressional commit
tees or Federal grand juries. DR..
Lie blamed Mr.. Feller's death on
the strain of that task.
What the effect would be of
having a lawyer not a citizen of
the United States in that capacity
was not Immediately apparent.
Mr.. Stavropoulos has had a
distinguished career in the field of
international law.
Evening star., 1952-11-28
Porking Crisis Creates
sydney Business Log

SYDNEY, Australia (CDN.-
City officials here are finding that
their attempt to solve one kind OF
problem is creating others.
The first problem was traffic
congestion. Authorities have tried
to solve that by banning parking
in downtown city streets.
The Retail Traders Association,
now reports that stores have lost
$1,462, 500 worth of business dur
ing the month-old ban.
Merchants are also warning that
they'll also have to fire many OF
their employees If their turnover
continues to fall.
Evening star., 1952-11-28
AII-AIuminum Auto
Scheduled for Testing

CHICAGO.-A leading metal
company plans to bring out an
all-aluminum automobile in 1858
for testing by various automobile
companies. It will have an all
aluminium engine and will deviate
from today's styles, with softer,
more rounded lines.
The finish will never have to
be polished, just cleaned OCCASION
ally, and the extreme light weight
of the car, combined with excep-
tional strength. is expected to
make for one-third greater econ
ony Of operation, increased tire
life. better braking and improved
roadability.
Evening star., 1952-11-28
Planes Sproy Dryer
On Standing Gruins

IONDON.-LateSt bit OF agrl-
cultural machinery for crop har-
vesting is-an aircraft. Planes
previously used for crop spraying
with insecticides now are being
tried out in Britain to dry stand
ing crops from the air.
A chemical known as dessicant
is sprayed on wheat or barley
about a week before cutting. The
dessicant prevents water from
moving up from the roots to the
head and leaves Of the grain
thus ensuring the dry crop can be
harvested and stored safely with
out risk Of rot.
Estimates are that aerial spray
ing costs about half as much as
artificially drying a crop IN store.
Evening star., 1952-11-28
Illinois Surgeons Hope
To Separate Twins
Joined Head 10 Head
By Arthur J. Snider

CHICAGO, Nov. 28.-The Sia-
Ease twins, joined head to head,
braced their sturdy feet against
opposite ends of the bed and rose
together in a 45-degree angle.
It was as close to an upright
position as nature would permit.
Then the husky 14-month-old
babies rolled their end-to-end
heads to the side and turned up
their faces so the admiring nurses
could see their triumphant smiles.
They babbled gleefully for sew
eral seconds and, exhausted. slowly
sank back to a prone position.
While Roger and Rodney Brodie
thus frolicked at the Illinois neu-
ropSychiatric Institute, all the
knowledge of medical science was
being brought to bear in the hope
of giving them separate lives by
surgery.
At Parents Request.
The parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Roytt
Brodie of East Moline, ILL.,, have
requested it.
They know the risk. Odds are
heavily against q successful out
come. Only two such operations
have been tried for the condition.
known medically as craniopagus.
Both were attempted in foreign
countries. Both ended fatally.
The surgery. slated to take place
soon, was sanctioned by doctors
only after it was first determined
that the handsome, blue-eyed in
fants have independent blood sup
plies.
Each has an intact carotid and
vertebral artery on either side of
the neck to nourish his own brain.
Each has his own system of return
flow.
However, they share common
bony plate and soft tissue at the
POIuG VI Ju1lCCuIe.
Preliminary Operations.
Preliminary operations have
been carried out during recent
weeks to assign a portion Of this
tissue to each twin and to induce
nouriShment of the respective por-
tions by individual rather than
Joint blood supplies.
The medical team, consisting of
the university's top-f1ight neuro-
surgeons, neurologists, pediatri-
clans, radiologists and plastic
surgeons, have pored over X-rays
and test findings for weeks in
order to anticipate problems in
the operation.
But, despite all precautions, the!
chance for shock or of fatal
block in the blood vessels is ever
present.
Doctors consider the possibility
of having one twin at the expense
Of the other unlikely.
Any adverse effect in one is al
most certain to be reflected in
the other. they believe.
Meanwhile, the twins, who have
had only a hospital for home
since their birth September 16.
1851, have had no lack of loving
care.
"AIl of our nurses fight for al
chance to take care Of them" said
Ruth Ellen Finn, head nurse in
charge Of the neurological pedi-
atric ward.
(Chicaso Daily News.)
Evening star., 1952-07-15
SEE interesting,
Intriguing French
street scenes

Transport q bit Of Poris to your living
room wall. Plo> up your interests with
picture-coIeetions of autos, corrioees,
flowers o, birds. Pair or group Of these
Art Publishing Co. pictures over mantle
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den Framed under gloss in deep green
or brown, in sizes 4x5 inches to lxl4
inches Observation-Disclosures each, ST
Evening star., 1952-07-15
Check Your Appearance
n, FMII-ViesU,
Grooming Mirrors

Hang grooming mirror in each bed
room, and you'll never be embarrassed
by honeine slip Or crooked stocking
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you. in time to correct any errors. CystoI
clear glass gives true reflection Of the
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Evening star., 1952-07-15
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Evening star., 1952-07-15
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Designed primarily for chiIdren's rooms,
but SC universally appealing, you'll want
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pose with foiY-smoI instruments. Be-
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ward Greemon.
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Evening star., 1952-07-07

ception when she was wheeled
onto the stage. She wore a water
melon pink chiffon dinner dress
with a pearl necklace and a cor
sage Of yellow orchids.
Mrs. Darrah Wunder, Mrs
Taft's friend and companion, held
an impromptu press conference.
She conf1ded that the Senator
ANNOUNCED recently that he was
OF his golf game for having
shaken so many hands.
"The Senator is the least i'm
patient man I know" continued
Mrs. Wunder, who told how he
was all dressed up in white tic
and tails one evening last spring
but couldn't find his patent leather
shoes to wear. It seems that his
son, Horace. had taken them
But instead Of blowing up like
most fathers" said Mrs. Wunder
"the Senator simply polished an
other pair and wore them"
Vaudeville Acts Presented.
All four Taft sons were in the
crowd in the ballroom, where q
Evening star., 1952-07-07
Big Spending Charged
In Missouri Race
By The Assoeiused Press

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, July Z
Campaign managers for j. E
Taylor and w. Stuart Symington,
candidates for the Missouri Demo
cratic nomination for United
States Senator. yesterday called
for investigation Of the rival can
didates' campaign expenditures.
Their requests were made in
kilograms to Senator Gillette,
Democrat, Of iowa. chairman of
the Senate Elections Committee.
Stephen X. Owen of st. Joseph,
campaign manager for State At
torney General Taylor, said "eyery
indication points to the fact that
lSymington Is spending huge and
Illegal sums of money" in his cam
lpaign.
In reply, James H. Meredith,
Mr.. Symington's manager, de-
|clared Mr.. Taylor has used State
employees and State money in his
campaign. He also requested in
vestigation Of alleged activity OF
Federal employees in behalf Of MIR.
Taylor.
MIR. Taylor has President Tru-
mans backing for the nomination.
MIR. Symington. a wealthy st. Louis
businessman, has been a top ad-
mlnistration trouble shooter.
Evening star., 1952-07-07
3 Go on Trial in Yugoslavia
As Forgers Aiding Priests
BY the Assoeioisd Press

LONDON. July Eight per-
sons went on trial in Yugoslavia
today on charges of forging orders
to get Catholic priests out of
prison.
Belgrade radio said the priests
were war criminals" and that the
EIGHT defendants had composed
forced decisions Of the presidium
LOT the Yugoslav National Assem-
bly," to free them. Five Of the
defendants are Catholic priests,
the broadcast said. The trial is
taking place in the town Of Mostar
in Herzegovina.
The broadcast said the chief de-
fendant was Father Smiljan
Zvonar. guardian Of the Fran
Iciscan monastery in Mostar, and
that he pleaded guilty.