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Evening star., 1952-07-24
Not Beginning, but
Continuing Crusade

The Republican nominee for
President of the United States,
in his acceptance speech, deliv-
cred from this platform, said
that he was going to lead a
great crusade, a new crusade, by
the Republican Party in con-
nection with the Government Of
the United States. Well, if he
leads a crusade or if the Re-
publican Party in this campaign
INDUCES in a crusade, it will be
new because it has never yet
crusaded for anything that
meant the welfare of the Amer
lean people.
We are not beginning a cru
sade; we are continuing a cru
SADIE. We are continuing a cru
SADIE we began 20 years ago and
more-a crusade first to lift the
American people out of the
depths of a despair which had
befallen them after IL years of
Republican inefficiency, inepti-
tude and mismanagement in the
affairs of our Nation; a crusade
to get the farmer out of the
ditch of dependency, place his
feet upon the firm foundation
of economic equality that all
other groups of our people en-
joy; a crusade to establish a
sound and stable banking syS-
tenn; q crusade to give the
Evening star., 1952-07-24
BY The Associated Press

CHICAGO, July 24.-The peo-
pie who helped whistle up the
draft-Stevenson move find it's
blown them clear out of campaign
buttons.
A week ago they had 5000 of
them-big. shiny red-white- and
blue buttons saying, America
Needs Stevenson for President"
Today: Not a one that isn't
pinned to somebody.
No use asking the volunteer
band that set out six months ago
to win the top Democratic nomi-
nation for Illinois Gov. Adlai
Stevenson.
Their headquarters, on the 18th
floor of the Conrad Hilton Hotel,
is fresh out, too. ts<A
I'm just breath1ess," said Mrs
Barbara Simpson, a striking blue
eyed blond. We've been out of
buttons since Tuesday. 1 wish
those others we ordered would get
here"
Another worker, Miss Mary An
derson, came in with two teen
ayers in tow, trailed by a photog-
rapher. The trio posed, proudly
displaying Stevenson buttons, and
the flashbulb popped.
All right, girls" called out Mrs.
Simpson, take them off and lock
them up. That's the last three
buttons"
Evening star., 1952-07-24
Barley Passes Political Torch
Other Hands Amid Ovation

labor men indicated they were
behind Senator Kefauver.
The Vice President declared he
expects to keep going for many
more years. Whether he ever
holds another Office or retires ito
the shades and shadows of private
life" he added, he intends to
keep on fighting "for the things
in which I believe and you believe
and in which the American peo-
pie believe"
Indirect references to his ILL
fated drive for the nomination
were couched both in serious SEN
tlment and in the kind of folksy
story for which he is famous in
public and private life.
Mr.. Barkley, talking without
notes but with unhesitating vigor,
tore into the Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower's campaign plan to
lead a great new crusade.
WELL" the Vice President COM
mented. "if he believes in a cru
SADIE or if the Republican Party in
this campaign indugles in a cru
SADIE, it won't be new because they
never yet crusaded for anything
that meant the welfare of the
American people"
The frankly partisan attack
held that the Democrats are "con-
tinuing a crusade we began 20
years ago and more, a crusade to
lift the American people out of
the depths of despair which had
befallen them after IL years of
Republican inefficiency."
Recounting Democratic meas
ures and policies which he said
saved the American people from
economic, social and political
disaster. Mr.. Barkley contended:
I'm spite of the deficiencies, in
spite of the acknowledged mis-
takes and defects, the admins
trations of Franklin D. Roosevelt
and Harry S. Truman have given
the American people a greater
share in the enjoyment Of the
fruit of their labor than any other
administration in the history of
the United States"
Delegates and galleries wouldn't
let him get away with what they
considered such an understate-
ment by a good and faithful pub
lie servant and party salwart.
The demonstrations. however.
were as much of personal &C
claim as a political recognition.
Finally they came to an end and
Mr.. Barkley and his lady went
away at the band played the last
fading notes of MY Old Kentucky
Home-Good Night"
Evening star., 1952-07-24
Hos Helped to Build
Stounch Edifice

Twenty years we have waged
that crusade. Twenty years we
have built and laid the founda-
tions of an edifice of equality.
of justice to all classes Of
people in all parts of our coun-
try. During that 20 years we
have tried to build an edifice
in which all Americans might
dwell with pride and satisfac-
ton and content in order that
they might not only have life,
liberty and the pursuit Of hap
piness but that they might have
life more abundantly, that they
might have liberty and dignity
and freedom; that they might
overtake freedom and enjoy it
and take it to their bosom as
free men have a right to do.
In the building of that edifice
for labor, for agriculture. for
honest business, for banking-in
building that edifice for inter-
national trade and cooperation
so that the products of Ameri-
can labor might find markets
among the other nations of the
earth-in the construction of
that edifice I am proud to have
been a humble mechanic, laying
here a brick and yonder a stone
and yonder a joist and here or
there hanging a door in order
that people might come and go
freely in that edifice built for
them.
I do not know what the fate
of the world holds for us: have
no crystal ball. I am no prophet.
I cannot see into the future
Evening star., 1952-07-24
Stevenson Bockers Do So Well
They're Clear Out of Buttons

Mrs. Simpson is easy to inter-
view. You Just ask for a button
and it's like pushing one-out
comes the whole story:
We're just rank amateurs here.
I don't know what the political
pros, or whatever you call them,
are doing out at the convention
hall.
"All I know is we started here
with one room, no money and no
candidate. Now we've got seven
rooms. more volunteers than we
can use. donations coming in all
the time and-even Gov. Steven
son is starting to sound like he
would run"
The committee, she went on,
got started last January in Chi
cago. Its co-chailmen are Walter
Johnson, Chicago University pro-
fesser, and George Overton, Chi
cago lawyer. It's called a national
committee but most members are
Illinoisans, like Mrs. Simpson.
Actually" she whispered, IT
come from a long line of Vermont
Republicans"
The blue eyes sparkled when
she added:
Il never was much for politics.
I don't even remember whether I
voted for Stevenson in '48. But if
this thing works out, nobody will
ever convince me democracy is
endangered in this country"
Evening star., 1952-07-24
Spurned Tent to Eat
With Rest of Soldiers

And when we arrived they had
arranged a tent for me in which
to eat my meal. I said, II do
not want to eat in this tent. I
want to take my place in line
with the rest of our soldiers, and
with my mess kit take my share
of food with them"
I got my share of food and on
that snowclad mountain we sat
around in groups, eating that
food. Over to my right was a
Negro soldier from Birmingham,
Ala; to my left was a white
soldier from Cincinnati, Ohio; in
front of me was another Negro
soldier from one of the Caro-
linas, and behind me were white
soldiers from all over the coun-
try.
AS I sat there and ate our
Evening star., 1952-07-24
Will Garry Message
To Garcia in Homes

We will press these issues to
the American people-We will
carry our message to Garcia
and we will find Garcia at home
when we deliver that message,
in every home in every section
of America. And when they
have heard that message and
have learned that truth. they
will again respond not only on
behalf of our great economic
domestic problem but in behalf
of our great foreign policy,
carried on by Franklin D. Roose-
velt and now by Harry Truman,
than whom there has never been
a more courageous President of
the United States any time in
the history of America, and
when the American people have
rendered their verdict in behalf
of this great program and our
people will go forward to COM
plete this edifice of which I
spoke moment ago, we shall
have fuller, happier, freer life
in this Nation, and we shall
return to the world peace and
all of mankind, all of the 2.5
billion humans, who today are
burdened with the weight of
privation brought on by war
and the fear of war; until the
day shall come when they shall
all rise in their stopped posture.
standing erect before Almighty
God and before all mankind, as
free men and women-when
that day comes we shall all
rejoice without regard to posi-
ton, without regard to politics,
without regard to race, creed or
color, without regard to eco
nomic conditions-We will all
rejoice in our part in bringing
these things to mankind, these
things to the world. God grant
that it may come in your day
and mine.
Evening star., 1952-07-24

anymore than any other man,
but I know one thing: That in
spite of it's deficiencies, in spite
of it's difficulties, the adminis-
trations of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman
have given the American people
a greater share in the enjoy
ment of the fruits of their labor
than any other administrations
in the history of the United
States. ...-.
Now, I am proud to have been
given the opportunity by the
American people to play a hum
BILE part in that great work, and
whether I ever hold another Of
flee or whether I shall retire to
the shades and shadows of pri-
vate life, I shall carry to my
dying day the cherished memory
of that program, and as long as
I shall eat the bread of life, I
shall fight for these things in
which I believe and you believe
and in which the American peo-
pie believe.
So much. my friends. for our
domestic affairs. So much for
the work we tried to do for the
American people. Let me dwell
now for just moment upon our
international policies which af-
feet the lives and welfare of
every home and every hearth
stone in every family, every
man. woman and every boy and
girl under the flag of the United
States.
What may happen in the
most remote and backward part
of the world may affect our
destiny and our welfare. The
world today is divided three
ways. One-third of it living
under democratic institutions,
one-third of it living under
autocratic protalitarianism, and
one-third standing on tiptoe,
with shaded eye, screaming the.
horizon to see what the tomor-
row may bring to him and to
their children. Twice in a gen.
Grafton we have been drawn un-
avoidably into a great world
war. We have not sought other .
territory. We have not sought
to take away from any people
any economic or other right to
which they have been entitled.
We have sought peace. We
have sought democracy. We
Evening star., 1952-07-24
League of Nations
PowerIess in Crises

At the end of World War I, a
great adventure was launched
under the League of Nations, but
it became impotent and power
less to stop aggression and pre-
serve the peace. The League of
Nations could not stop the Jap
anese when they invaded China.
The League of Nations could not
arrest Mussolini when he in
vaded Ethiopia. The League of
Nations could not stop Hitler
when he went into the Rhine
land and the Ruhr, into the
Sudetanland, into the other
lands, and across the Polish
border and brought on World
War II. Into that war we were
drawn, to defend our institu-
tions. Into that war we were
drawn because there was no
other honorable course that we
could pursue after the attack
upon Pearl Harbor by the treach-
erous military clique in the Jap
anese Empire.
And when our Republicans
say that under Democratic ad-
ministrations there have been
two great wars, I ask them to
tell the American people what
they would have done if they
had been in power on December
Z, 1941, when Pearl Harbor was
attacked by the armies of Japan.
At the end of World War II,
we asked only for the oppor-
tunity to begin to organize the
world for peace through the
United Nations.
The United Nations tried to
organize a world of peace. to
preserve peace, to put down
aggression, and I say, as every
man and woman in this audience
and in America knows. that if
the United Nations goes the
way of the League of Nations,
the last hope of mankind to
organize the world for peace will
perish in our day, and it may
for a century.
That is why we are in Korea.
We are in Korea because we
pledged our word in San Fran
cisco that as members of the
United Nations we would come
to the defense of any member
nations under aggression at
tack anywhere in the world.
Last November, my wife and
I journeyed into Korea. I had
my Thanksgiving dinner with
our men in uniform in Korea.
Two days later celebrated my
birthday on the snowclad noun
tainS of Korea with the men in
uniform. 1t was the best birth
day I have ever had, but it is
not the last one I will ever have
by a number of years.
Before we got to the mountain
beyond the 38th parallel, I said
to Gen. Ridgway, II will eat my
birthday meal with the boys in
the front"
Evening star., 1952-07-24

food, said to this Negro soldier
from Birmingham, Ala, How
do you like it over here?"
Well" he said, "if I had my
choice, I would rather be back
in Birmingham, but if they give
me the green light, I am ready
to march into that Yalu River,
no matter what the sacrifice
may be-"
And I listened to that COL
ored soldier in the uniform of
the American Army, telling me
that he was ready, upon the
flash of the green light, to
march to the Yalu River. I
said, Il wish to Almighty God
I could transmit some of his
stout heart to some of the cow
ards in our country who for
some reaSon-who for small and
petty political reasons would
make it harder for him to
march to the Yalu or for him
to march to any other river.
which means the defense of our
institution of civilization and
the democracy of which we are
proud.
My friends, let us not deceive
ourselves. Let us not go astray
with false gods and false doc
trines and illusions. Let us not
DO that because in many deserts
in many parts of the world, the
Republican Party has been a
glamorous show window before
their place of business. Let us
not be deceived by that f1ashy.
glamorous window. Let the
American people go inside and
look on the shelves to see what
good things there are on the
shelves of the Republican store
house, and when they do, they
will find that in spite of the
fiashy, glamorous show window.
they will find on the shelves the
same old shop-worn. moth-eaten
tinseled, shoddy goods they have
had for the last generation. for
sale to the American people.
Evening star., 1952-07-24

American people honest, free
and efficient industry; a crusade
to give to labor new charter
of liberty so that they might
have the right with equal power
and representation to sit around
the council table with their en-
ployers and adjust their diff
ferences of wages and working
conditions fairly and honestly
in the American spirit; a cru
SADIE to see that every American
has a decent home in which to
live, with not only all Of the
necessaries of life, but some Of
the luxuries of life as we'll; a
crusade to see to it that every
child born of woman under the
American flag should be born
under conditions making it
fairly easy for him to live in
normal, wholesome atmosphere;
with a chance for education to
prepare himself for the burdens
and responsibilities of life; a
crusade for all of our people:
a crusade to preserve the wasted
soil of our land; a crusade to
protect our river valleys from
destruction and waste and dam
age; crusade to give every
American farm home the boon
of electricity and to lift the
burden of housework from the
back of the farmers wife and
give them power with which to
produce the necesSarieS of life
upon which we subSist.
Not only a crusade to make
our lives happier and freer and
fuller, but a crusade to bring
peace and hope and co-opera-
tion among the Nation and the
peoples of the world SO that
our inventive genius might be
turned from the destruction Of
mankind toward the construc-
tive activities that would mean
happier, fuller and freer life
to all mankind in the years
that lie out before.
Evening star., 1952-07-24
By Robert K. Walsh

CHICAGO, July 24.-Alben w
Barkley has passed the po.itica.
torch to other Democratic hands
The Vice President did it in q
way that built a roaring fire unde:
the Democratic National Conven-
ton. It scared the Republicans
And it brightly surrounded him
with a heart-warming glow to
climax his 40 years in public life
and in friendly association with
thousands of people.
Delegates today still noted what
he said at last nights session. He
told them to bring home to all
Americans the domestic and inter-
national record of the party. He
predicted that the voters then
would respond as they did in 1948
and he urged fellow Democrats
to continue a crusade" he prom
ised would bring honorable peace
and human welfare throughout the
world.
Returns Again and Again.
But the convention, with its
present and remote spectators,
certainly cannot soon forget what
Mr.. Barkley did there. He said
"good-by-and he insisted he
meant it despite curtain calls
that made him return again and
again and again to the rostrum.
The Dear Alben" which back
In 1914 was sometimes heard de-
risively became a meaningful and
moving tribute. Scores of Sem
ators, other party leaders and
prominent associates grasped his
hand or embraced him at the close
of floor demonstrations which
could we'll turn avowed presiden-
tial candidates green with envy or
pale with apprehension.
At the outset of his speech
"from the heart and not from a
piece of paper" following a 25-
minute outpo,lring of noisy affec-
ton from the floor, Mr.. Barkley
announced he was not candidate
No Hint of Preferences.
In a side-jab apparently aimed
at Senator Kefauver's personal
appearance which touched off
demonstration yesterday after
noon, he explained:
IF I were a candidate, / would
not be here at this hour, because
I recognize the proprieties that
ought to prevail among men who
seek Office"
He did not name any candidate
he dropped no hint as to his pref
erence, nor did he mention his
announcement of last Monday
midnight that he was withdrawing
from the presidential nomination
race. That withdrawal resulted
largely from the unwillingness oi
some labor leaders to support him
They said his "a years were tot
great q handicap. Some Of thl
Evening star., 1952-07-24
by the Assoeiaisd Press

CHICAGO, July 2l.-Here Is
an UNOFFICIAL transcript of the
speech to the Democratic Ma
tional Contention last night By
Vice President Barley:
Mr.. Chairman, Senator Lucas,
delegates and guests Of this
great convention:
I have been a delegate at large
from the State Of Kentucky at
every Democratic convention
since 1920. I am more firmly
convinced of the Righteousness
Of the Democratic cause tonight
than I have ever been before in
my entire life.
I wish first to express my pro-
found thanks to the Honorable
Frank Mckinney, chairman Of
the National Democratic Com
mittee. for his generous invita-
ton to me to address this con-
vention at this hour. I am not
here as a candidate for any
Office that this convention can
confer. If I were here as can
didate. I would not be here at
this hour because I recognize
the proprieties that ought to
prevail among men who seek
Office. I am, therefore, in some-
what the situation of the coun-
try gentleman who for many
years had gone to his county
seat every Saturday in his farm
wagon drawn by two mules.
On all of these occasions he
came home intoxicated. He had
a gentle pair of mules that knew
the way home. They drove the
wagon home, drove up to the
locked gates and stopped in
front of the house. Each night
the boys would 60 out and un-
hitch the team and take it to
the barn and take the old gen.
tleman in and put him to bed.
On one of these Saturday
nights, the boys unhitched the
team. took it to the barn, but
left their father in the wagon
bed. AS the sun came up over
the horizon. he aroused himself.
rubbed his eyes and stood erect.
He went to the front of the
wagon and looked out over the
tongue and saw no mules. He
went to the rear and looked out
over the hind gate and saw no
mules. He went again to the
front and looked out and said
to himself, Il either lost a damn
good pair Of mules or found
a damn good wagon"
Evening star., 1952-07-24
Of Spirit as Well
As of Mind

While, of course, in part de-
mocracy and freedom represent
a political formula, democ-
racy and freedom are things Of
the spirit as well as of the mind.
They are things that appeal to
the hopes and ambitions and
aspirations of mankind every
where and I believe, as I be-
lieve that I am standing here,
and as I beliemve that this
convention will give to the
American people the next
President and Vice President of
the United States-I believe
that without regard to form of
Government, without regard to
geography, without regard to
religious or racial precedents
or anything, that SO per cent
of the worlds population yearn
for liberty. yearn for freedom;
that the shackles that now bind
them may be loosed from their
ankles and that they might
stand before Almighty God and
before all mankind free, inde-
pendent men and women.
We also know that while in
the first amendment to our
Constitution as a part of the
Bill OF Rights. we have separa-
tion of church and State organ
ically in this Nation. We also
know that democracy and reli-
gion are handmaids that go to-
gether and there are innumer-
able instances in the lives of
every man and every woman,
every nation and every group,
where it is not easy to determine
the difference between a mans
civic and his religious duties,
and we know also that in this
great Nation of ours, ITS years
old. that our democracy, our
freedom, our civilization and
our way of life have been
founded upon and buttressed by
our moral concept of religion
without regard to religious
denominations
It is that thought Of demo-
cratic inception for which the
Democratic Party, of which you
and I are members, stand to-
night. We have been taught to
believe in and to observe free
dom OF worship, freedom of
speech. freedom of the press and
freedom Of assembly. These are
the fundamental four freedoms
of our democracy, of our civil
ization.
But. my friends, freedom of
worship, freedom of speech,
freedom Of the press, freedom of
assembly, are but idle words
unless we have freedom of
thought, that men have the
right to think and to think out
loud because out of the abun-
dance of the heart the mouth
Speaketh.
I am here tonight, in what
brief words I can utter, to try to
present the spiritual values of
democracy. I am here tonight
in no narrow, partisan spirit. I
am here tonight as an Ameri-
can first and a Democrat Sec
ond. For I believe that the prin-
ciples and policies of the pro-
gram of the Democratic Party
from Thomas Jefferson, it's
founder, to Harry Truman, it's
preserver, are for the greatest
good for the greatest number Of
American people, and if I did
not believe that I would join
some other party I thought did
believe in those eternal and i'm
Yn0rto 0rinrir,1eS
Evening star., 1952-07-24
Birth Rote Stuys Steady

NEW YORK R.-The Depart
ment of Health reported the city's
birth rate during the first six
months of 1852 was an average
of 449 daily. compared with 454
for the same period a year ago.
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1851 Carver eleven that won eight
games of a ten game slate. Just
prior to his departure for Dallas,
a Midland Citizens Committee
headed by Marshall, King, local
business man, Prof. z. L. Jordan,
his high school principal, Elijah
Sanders, and Mrs. Annie Belle
Eatmon, his mother, gave the popu-
lar youngster a fine sendoff party.
Among the many gifts that he re-
ceived was a handsome two-suiter,
many clothing items, aAd almost
seventy dollars in cash.
Though considered a catcher by
trade the versatile youngster readi-
ly admits that "I'm just a ball
player who wants an opportunity"
He is only a mite" in size, but this
lad packs "heavy stuff" in baseball
knowledge and ability.