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Evening star., 1952-09-17
Doris Feeson:
The |nspirotiono| Approach
Eisenhower Seems to Satisfy Great Crowds With 1t
In Midwest, Whatever the Outcome in Votes

ministration was under heavy
fire for corruption. There is
no Senate race to complicate
the situation this year.
In Minnesota, a Republican
of the Eisenhower brand, Sena-
tor Edward Thye. is up, a nice
change from the usual rule in
the Midwest. Local reporters
declare the Eisenhower -Thye
combination is very strong
there.
President Truman carried
both Illinois and Minnesota in
1948. in each case helped by
strong candidates for Senator
Paul Douglas and Hubert
Hump hrey. respectively. He
helped himself. too, with his
farm-policy speeches. and one
is reminded here that Gov.
Stevenson made much more Of
a hit at the national plowing
contest in Kasson. Mimi, re-
Gently than Gen. Eisenhower.
Random crowd samplings
show clearly the Democratic
nominees greatest drawback.
It is that he is almost unknown
compared to the allied COM
mander. This was q calculated
risk Gov. Stevenson took when
he decided he wanted to be
drafted at the convention in
stead Of appearing to be the
Truman heir; the time now is
very short for the kind Of ma
tional build-up he needs.
(Released By the Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
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whether he wants q change"
he is more likely to ask change
what?" or change to what?"
This makes the issue personal
when it isn't personal at all. It
isn't necessary to get sick one
self to understand the impor-
tance of having honest inspec-
tion of meat.
Hence the real question is
whether the administration has
made the kind of record that has
made it undesirable to reward
the Democratic Party with an
other four years Of power.
The bank cashier who repeat
edly failed to lock the cash
drawers of the bank may select a
vigilant cashier as a successor
and might recommend a friend.
too. Does that mean the negli-
gent. careless cashier goes scot
free and suffers no penalty for
allowing the robberies to hap
pen?
While the issue in the ''mess
in Washington" involves sew
eral dishonest persons in the Of
fetal encourage, the question
isn't whether Truman is hon
est or Stevenson is honest or
Eisenhower is honest. All three
are men Of integrity. But toler-
ance of dishonesty by the adj
ministration in power is bad,
and delay in roofing it out is
indefensible. A political fidelity
which supersedes all other in
stincts is in some respects even
worse. This has been a pri-
marily political regime here
political in its worse sense. It
has covered up" scandals.
It's the political system in
Washington which smells to
high heaven and, if the Ameri-
can people don't mind the
stencil and think it will be
ended merely by putting in an
other Democrat as President,
there isn't much doubt about
the outcome of the election-it
will be a landslide for Steven
son.
If, on the other hand, the
American people are sick and
tired of the mess in WASH
ington" and want to show their
indignation and disapproval of
political immortality, with it's
unsavory ramifications in SO
many different departments and
agencies of the Government,
then the outcome will be a de-
cisive vote against the Demo-
cratic Party. which means q
landslide for Eisenhower.
It doesn't seem to this
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others that he listed in his mes
sage to the American Fedora
ton of Labor convention on the
eve Of Gen. Eisenhower's ap-
pearance there.
In that message and in his
speech before the American Hos
pital Association at Philadelphia
he gave a sort Of rehearsal of his
later campaign tour.
For example. just before Gen.
Eisenhower left New York on his
current Midwest tour, the Re-
publican candidate handed out
the familiar American Medical
Association "socialized medicine"
pill and handed it out raw and
without any coating in the way
of means of improving our pres
ent recognizably inadequate
medical services.
What the general said, badly,
was that experience has shown
that American medicine out
stripped the world on q volun-
tary basis, and on that basis,
plus voluntary insurance plans,
together with locally adminis-
tered INDECENT medical care for
those unable to participate
the needs Of Americans will
most adequately be met"
The President picked up the
phrase locally administered in
digent care programs" and made
it sound very forbidding, as it
is, of course, to our people who
resent the charity patient" at
titude and millions of whom
now are deeply concerned about
getting a workable program of
insurance to which they can con-
tribute. That is what President
Truman is seeking through the
commission he appointed sew
Z eral months ago when it be-
came clear that his own health
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writer that there is going to be
a close election. The time will
run decisively one way or the
other-either in approving the
Democratic record as subject to
a cleansing by anew Democratic
executive or as disapproving the
entire record and mess" COM
pletely and calling for q new
administration to clean 1t UP
from top to bottom.
Neither Gen. Eisenhower nor
Gov. Stevenson is making a very
good campaign in a strategy
sense. Thes Republican nominee
is somewhat better than he was.
He seems to recognize now the
Importance of attack as a tactic,
but he hasn't become specific
and hasn't told the country
what 'the Washington mess" is
all about-giving chapter and
verse.
The Democratic nominee, on
the other hand. Is relatively un-
known and isn't making himself
any better known by highbrow
and witty speeches on subjects
rather difficult for the average
man to understand anyhow.
The late Franklin d. Roosevelt
would have used a different
style in speech-writing.
It looks now as if the most
spectacular part of the cam
paign will be the Truman-Taft
battle on the stump. Each is a
seasoned campaigner. but Pres
ident Truman will lack the pres
tige he had in 1948. For he has
made so many blunders-par-
ticularly last spring in the steel
seizure "mess"-that his words
will not carry the weight they
carried four years ago. Senator
Taft, on the other hand, has
risen in stature and stands be-
fore the American people as q
good loser, q man without ran
cor and q man who wants to
debate details as well as prin-
ciples.
The Taft-Truman debate may
turn out to be an influential
factor in the campaign. for it
seems probable that Senator
Taft will not hesitate to spell
out the Truman record. Not only
the President but Gov. Steven
son will be unable to ignore his
specific attacks. II Taft does a
job Of explaining the "mess,"
the resentment against the
things exposed may run deep
enough to defeat the Democratic
ticket.
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Boss Gongsters' Moves Waited
U. S Diplomats and Military Seek Light on Happenings
In SovietRed Chino Porey Behind KremIins Walls

egy. using the Spanish loyalists
as guinea pigs as they are now
doing with the Chinese and
North Korean Communists.
The Russian MICS proved
highly efficient in Korea when
they were launched in battle.
particularly after the armistice
negotiations started last year.
So were Russian tanks when
they were pitted against the old
er types we had in Korea in the
early stages Of the war. But as
we began to send across the
Pacific our latest planes and
modern tanks. Soviet officers
who are at Red headquarters in
large number began to realize
that our air and ground equip
ment was 1qualitatively superior
to theirs. They also discovered
the vast superiority of our
strategic concepts in a war in
which we had. to face not only
greatly superior ground forces
but also climate to which
American fighting men were not
accustomed.
I'ne Soviet aviation has not
engaged in any real offensive
actions so far. Its sorties were
intended merely to test their
planes against ours and the
quality of the white and yellow
satellite pilots. In this Korean
war laboratory" the Russians
have discovered many short
comings in their air and ground
equipment which they are be-
lieved to be attempting to rem
edy. Whether they will want to
test some OF their latest weapons
in the Korean skies and on the
ground remains to be seen. On
this decision depends whether
we shall have an armistice or
be faced with a winter offensive.
All the Muscovites risk from
a renewal of hostilities is a
quantity of war material which
would have to be tested and
Junked in any case. They will
lose no lives. The cannon fod-
der will be provided by their
Aslatic satellites and they are
expendahle.
Evening star., 1952-09-17
Doris FIeeson:

ABOARD EISENHOWER SPE-
CIAL TRAIN, Sept. 17.-"He
speaks so sincere. 1t gets me. "
The plainly dressed woman
was turning away with her hus-
band from one Of the aStonish-
ingly large crowds Gen. Eisen-
hover has been consistently
drawing on his Midwest tour.
1t was the after-supper audience
in Aurora, ILL.,, and the gen.
eral had delivered one of his
customary 'inspirational" ad-
dresses.
incidentally, the word "inspi-
rational" is one he does not him
self shrink from using. Coming
from him. as the woman said, it
sounds sincere. That sincerity
is certainly a great Eisenhower
asset.
There is endless discussion,
however. among the sophisti-
Gated correspondents aboard this
train as to whether the voters
will be satisfied with the in
Spirational approach. No one
can possibly quarrel with the OBJ
jectives the Republican nominee
sets forth; the question is
whether they are adequate in
these difficult times.
His simplicities and, above
all, his turgid rhetoric have pro-
duced a record-breaking crop Of
wisecracks and campaign dit
ties. A reporter announces 1--WE
have just crossed the 38th plati-
tude," and another asks whether
Evening star., 1952-09-17
Constontine Brown:

The month-long negotiations
between the U. S. S. r. and its
Chinese puppet have ended. The
official communique from Mos
COW is meaningless. of course.
American military leaders and
diplomats are now awaiting
some action which will throw
light on what actually happened
behind the Kremlin walls where
Prime Minister Chou En-lai re-
ceived instructions for whatever
future steps the folitburo may
consider to its advantage in
Korea and in other parts of the
Far East where Red Chinese
armies are now concentrated,
The publicized agreements re-
garding the return of the Man
churian railways and the con-
tinued occupation by the Mus
covites Of the important naval
base at Port Arthur are incon-
sequential. The alleged return
of the railways is merely a book
keeping operation. The Junior
partner has been allowed to
have his name on the door. But
the actual control remains in
the hands of the Kremlin.
Washington is waiting anx-
iously for signs Of what the boss
gangster has ordered his goons
to do in Korea.
Our top military men are con-
vinced that the campaign against
South Korea was ordered by
Moscow in 1850 to try out its
ground and air equipment in
actual combat. It wanted to test
its new tanks and particularly
its new planes against those
Of the United States.
The Korean campaign. in the
opinion Of many distinguished
Army. Navy and Air Force off,
GERS, is another laboratory Of
war, as the Spanish civil war
was for Hitler's latest weapons
in 1886 and 1899. The Russians
who had large military missions
IN Spain at that time did not
try out new weapons-they did
not have much new-but they
old test their infiltration STRAIT
Evening star., 1952-09-17
Election Result Won't Be Close
Tide Will Run Decsvek in Approving Democratic Record
Or Calling for New Administration to Clean Up Mess
Dovid Lawrence:

People are writing in even at
this early date to ask for pre-
diction as to who will win the
presidential election. There Is
one all-important question, how
ever, which has to be answered
first: How intense is the resent
ment against the party in
power? Is it deep-seated or
just superficial?
If the American people dis
approve Of the Democratic
Party's record in Washington,
then by this time they already
have made up their minds to
vote against it. If, on the other
hand, they approve of the record
as made by President Truman
and his administration, then
all the campaign speeches, tele-
vision shows and "whistle-stop"
tours of the Republicans aren't
going to change it.
For the real issue is the
record of the last four years in
Washington. It isn't a question
of which candidate is superior
the electorate for the most part
will hardly have a chance to
make minute comparison or a
balanced judgment in the next
month and a half. Many people
are writing in already saying
they are bored with the speeches
of the candidates. This to some
extent has always been true
candidates influence the votes
of a certain segment. but the
basic trend is influenced by
what has been happening and
by what has been said in four
years and not just in the last
four months before election
day.
What do so million people
think about? Mass opinion gen.
orally is influenced by funda-
mentally simple things. The
voters usually are influenced by
an impression they form as to
whether a party in power has
made a good record or a bad
record. What do the voters
have in common?
Sometimes. for example, bad
mail service tells them that an
administration which can't de-
liver letters promptly is prob
ably bad in other respects, too.
This happened in 1920. It could
happen again.
The issue isn't change" as
such. Gov. Dewey argued in
1948 that ''it is time for a
change" But the average man
doesn't understand change" as
q political issue. If you ask him
Evening star., 1952-09-17
Thomas L. Stokes:
Set to Shoot When Time Comes
rurnons WhistIe-StoP Campaign Stint Across Country
Likely to Be the Decisive Factor in Coming Election

1t is probably risky to try to
"call" the presidential elec-
ton until after fellow
named Harry Truman has done
his "whistle-stop" stint which he
will begin toward the end of this
month across the country.
The President is likely to be-
come quite a factor for two
reasons:
l. Because Of his experience
here in the last seven years with
the intricate problems Of Gov
ernment such as neither Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower nor Gov.
Adlai Stevenson has had. That
has given him an intimate
knowledge of what's really hap
pened and how it's happened
that is, how the presSures are
brought on Congress and by
whom.
2. Because of his ability to
tell this story simply and trans
late it into very human terms,
as he did so successfully in 1948.
President Truman has been
quietly analyzing Gen. Eisen-
hower's campaign, jotting down
notes for future reference. He
will be ready to shoot when the
time comes. While Republicans
have devoted considerable effort
to presenting the President as a
liability, which he undoubtedly
is in many quarters, they prob
ably have overlooked the very
patent fact that he also is an as
set for the Democrats with mil
lions and millions of Americans
who still regard him as their
champion, and these he can
arouse as no one else can. Among
them he will talk of the simple.
basic things-better and cheaper
medical care, decent housing, re-
moval Of inequities in the Taft
Hartley law. civil rights ts-among
Evening star., 1952-09-17

Should Moscow have decided,
however, that 1t needs more
time than it first anticipated to
change and improve the types
OF planes and flrepower, we
must expect another peace Of
fensive, with the cease-fire me-
EQUATIONS transferred from
Panmunjom to the United Ma
tlonS headquarters in New York.
The ground work for this has
been laid by the Mexican Gov
eminent which offered the sug-
sestion for discussion of the re-
turn OF Chinese prisoners of
war before the full membership
of the u. N.
The Mexican proposal that
those Reds who do not want to
return to their homeland be
considered political refugees and
given asylum in other countries
is likely to be rejected eventu-
ally. But once these military
negotiations are taken over by
diplomats the cease-fire can be
arranged.
AT present the bogged-down
armistice pourparlers are being
conducted by American officers
in the name of the u. N. They
cannot bulge from their posi-
t1ons regarding the prisoners
because the American Govern.
ment has given it's word not to
give up those Chinese who sur
rendered or. Americas pledge
that they would not be forced
to go back to China. United Ma
tionS diplomats are not bound
by the solemn pledges of the
American Government. We are
likely to hear that America s
promises do not affect the ma
jority Of the other SO members,
many of whom are anxious to
satisfy Peiping and Moscow.
The Russians believe that
within a few months after an
armistice is signed at least 90
per cent of the American and
allied troops will have been
withdrawn from Korea, regard
less Of the armistice terms, leav-
ing the South Korean army face
to face with its present enemies.
Evening star., 1952-09-17
Fletcher Knebei:
Potomac Fever
LOUIE

The presidential campaign finally hot issue Will the
jury get mad at the defendant for wise cracking during dera
ton OF the prosecutors generaties?
Gen. Ike whose special train has the Ahead
Neghbor says this campaign is laughing matter
ahead. nelghbor'-and wipe that smile off facet
Stevenson kes great crusade"
surrender to Taft The Democratic the other hand
based on complete eedoAda going attacking
mess In Washington that President Tmans going around
Ike he's deadly serious" that going
paign like Bob Hope Ike believes this campaign
he's making his oratory as pedestrian as possible.
The administration housing credit
The administration thinks there's nothing
tonexcept holding election without enough of blame
the Republicans
The Russians claim they invented
Russians are so baseball minded that the most humble kid
born with third strike on him.
The Federation of Labor listens Eisenhower before
indorsing Stevenson.
mind that it can't even hold the evidence
Evening star., 1952-09-17

we had both subject and predi-
cate with us for a change.
The crowds are still immense,
bigger than any since the hal
cyon days Of Franklin Roosevelt.
They are family crowds, many
young people, fathers and moth
ers holding up their children
to see the great man. It
touches the general and his
voice gets a little husky as he
says THANK you this is
really inspirational from
you I gather strength to make
this fight"
Whether he garners few or
many electoral votes, Gen.
Eisenhower is a national hero.
People are glad to see him in
their midst and they applaud
him warmly.
Republican leaders say the
party is well organized in this
region ana deserves some credit
for the crowds. The general
also has been lucky in the
weather; this is the most
lovely Of all seasons in the
Great Plains States and the sun
has shone every day.
He was told in Illinois that
he could surely take it away
from its own Governor, his
Democratic adversary. Repub-
licans argue that Gov. Steven
sons record-breaking plurality
in 1948 was chiefly due to hos
tility to the incumbent Repub-
lican. Dwight Green. whose adj
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insurance program Is doomed in
Congress.
Gen. Eisenhower likewise was
caught up by DIR. Charming
rockingham, prominent Boston
physician who is head of the
Committee for the Nations
Health. The doctor expressed
surprise that Gen. Eisenhower
wastes words in attacking q
scheme of federalized medical
care which has never been pro-
posed in any bill before Congress
and which is supported by no
body, least of all by those who
support the decentralized free
choice doctor plan of Ma
tional Health Insurance and
which is backed by the Presi-
dent of the United States, the
Congress Of Industrial Organi-
cations. the Committee for the
Nations Health and many other
organizations.
"The physicians and laymen
Of the Committee for the Ma
tion's Health. are aware that the
American Medical Association
has spent millions of dollars in
advertising. pamphlets and ra-
dio to misrepresent National
Health Insurance as regimented
Federal medicine. We are sorry
that Gen. Eisenhower has fol-
lowed the ANA lead. The gen.
eral has fought too many of this
Nations real enemies to spend
time now fighting a straw man."
Gen. Eisenhower will find
that any more such misrepre-
sentations will be detected by
President Truman who, come
late September and early Oc-
tober. will pick them up and
tell the folks about them and
in language they can under
stand.
Evening star., 1952-07-13

They also built the House and Senate
wings of the Capitol and its dome.
They built the south-bound Four
teenth Street Bridge in 1906, went
upstream to build the more monu-
mental Key Bridge during World War I.
For tops in enormity of project, the
Engineers supervised the building of
the Pentagon long after they had the
say in construction of the Library of
Congress, the Pension Office and many
bridges
For refresher purposes, a master
sergeant from the office of the Chief of
Engineers recently conducted tour for
enlisted men and women from Fort
Belvoir's Engineer School through the
corps accomplishments.
Evening star., 1952-07-13
The Army Engineers Role in the Development Of Washington

II T. MEIGS estimate of Washington's
IL water needs has fallen short by
364 million gallons daily But the 100
year-old error is understandable.
In 1852, Congress directed the under
taking of surveys, projects and esti-
mates for determining the best means
of affording the Cities of Washington
and Georgetown an unfailing and
abundant supply of good and whole
some water"
1t. Montgomery c. Meigs, Army Corps
of Engineers. had the foresight to tag
the Potomac River above Great Falls as
the source of the water and proposed
that it be conveyed by gravity. He
estimated the cost at $1,921 900, for
which he guaranteed IAN everlasting
Evening star., 1952-07-13

The Engineers still play the big hand
in Washingtons water supply. They
remain in charge of the Potomacs de-
velopments along the Washington water
front and its ship channel maintenance
downstream. BY 1892, the dredging Of
the channel was we'll along under di-
rection of Col. Peter c. Hams, for whom
Hams Point was named.
Potomac Park and the Tidal Basin
were created from dredge material
taken from the river.
The Engineers built National Airport
by creating 700 new acres out of 20
million yards of earth from the river
bed and built Mount Vernon highway
in time for the bicentennial celebration
of the birth of George Washington.
Evening star., 1952-07-13

supply of So million gallons daily" To-
day, the Army Engineers are building
for 400 million gallons
The Engineers work in Washington.
aside from the hand that 1t. Meigs had
in it-and he had both-goes far be-
yond the water supply. To his credit,
the longest stone arch bridge, an
engineering marvel in its day. is still
in use, the conduit over Cabin John
Creek
The Washington Monument was only
one-third completed, after Is years eff
fort. because funds were lacking, when
Congress picked up the tab in 1876 and
directed the Engineers to finish the Job.
They strengthened the foundations,
tossed it up to it's present SIS feet.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-07-25

If we would impugn the adoption of this present
law on this basis, what is there to keep us from
ridiculing any law the same basis?
For instance, why not abolish all laws against
stealing because you cannot drive greed out of the
human heart by laws? Why not do away with laws
governing offenders, because you cannot drive
concupscence out of the human heart by laws?
You could go on indefinitely
Laws are not directed at changing from within
the department of individuals but rather in guaran-
teeing of action consistent with and based
on the Supreme Law of Almighty God.
The argument that such law would clutter up
the courts with is utterly dsproved by the
perience of two states, New York and New Jersey
which have had FEPC laws on the Dool:s for several
years. In New York, not single case has been
brought into court under the law and in New Jersey
only one. These states have extremely large color
ed populations and there can be little doubt that
violations of fair employment practices would be
met by appeals to the courts. Certainly prior to
the passage of these laws reports Of unfair dis
elimination in employment practiscs were frequent
enough.
Thus the argument that FEPC law is useless
because you can't legslae hatred out of the human
heart is the most muddled kind of muddled think
ing. Until all men have proved themselves willing
to live in strict accordance with divine law will
need secular laws to keep the recalctrant in line