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Picking Up the Pieces IE dl i ti a i 8 Questions Answers By Rax Tucker Chicago, July 12 "Was the filing between the Taft and Eisenhower people at the convention as bitter as generallv reported," asks Mrs. T. L. of Niles, "and do you think it will hurt us Republicans in the November Answer: The Taft and Eisen hower boys -were rather rough on each other. They were not play ing for marbles.

In addition to the nomination itself, future control of the party organization, national, state and local patronage and in fluence were the prizes. Although it" is possible to over simplify this question, it was a battle between the haves and the have-nots, between state and national leaders, between veterans Family Obligations Among the numerous meritorious measures approved by the 1952 Louisiana legislature was a bill permitting the state to join with 30 others in clamping down on runaway husbands and wives; For many years wayward, worthless and irresponsible husbands had been able to dodge responsibility for supporting their families simply by moving to another state. No federal law could force such a husband to perform his obligations as set forth in the laws of the state where he left his family. In lesser number, wives took advantage of this vacuum in legal control over responsible family heads. A few years back a movement began, sponsored by persons in touch with the wide injustice then existing, and soon several states had adopted laws which in effect made all of them co-operating agents in bringing about enforcement of laws relative to runaway husbands and wives.

As time passed, more states joined and Louisiana becomes the 31st. No doubt in a few years all of the states will come into the compact. The result then will be that no husband can abandon his family or ignore his monetary obligations to his family by moving to another state. All of the states will be on the alert for such evaders of serious obligations. An evader detected in one state will be returned quickly to the state where his obligation exists.

The practical, day-to-day effect will be to remove from welfare rolls many mothers and children now left stranded there by missing husbands. In a broader sense, the legislation will tend to make more firm all laws bearing upon recognition of family obligations. Surely that is a goal toward which every state should strive. and relative youngsters. The embattled men on each side had a keener realization of the long-range importance of the outcome of this struggle than did the delegates, the general public and 5'.

lfWEM even many reporters on the scene. Bob and ike were, in reality, only the visible symbols of this underlying conflict. It should be said on behalf of Taft, Eisenhower, Warren and Stassen that thev behaved in a far more gentlemanly manner than some of their backers. I would say that the man who antagonized most people, including his own coterie, was Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York.

He Is, perhaps, the most hated man in the Republican party. Regardless of the decision in November, I shall be surprised if he has a bright political future. He would add no strength to a Republican administration because of the antipathy toward him within the organization and among GOP members of congress. w' Ai TrAt It Priceless Water By JOHX TEMPLE GRAVES However, the 1952 feud at Chicago does not match other historic intra-party mud-throwing. It was conducted on a higher level than the Lincoln-Seward rivalry in I860, the Jackson-Clay duels, the Bryan-Parker fray in 1904, the Taft-Roosevelt split in 1912, and even the Roosevelt-Smith controversy in this same city only twenty years ago.

More precious than oil or iron ore, sweeter than wine, is the Sometimes these exhibitions of TIiis Slrong Invitation Written plainly in the Republican party's platform of 19o2, adopted at the Chicago convention, is an invitation to the whole South to break away from the Democratic party in the November presidential election. The invitation is emphatic, not just a gesture. It is emphatic because the Republican party platform endorses state's rights to the hilt. That firm stand, on a solid principle, brings the Republican party's doctrines of 1952 far closer to the traditional precepts of the South than New Deal-Fair Deal party doctrines have been in many a long year. The important phase of the civil rights plank is statement: "We believe that it is the primary responsibility of each state to order and control its own domestic situations, and this power, reserved to the states, is essential to the maintenance of our federal republic." It may be claimed that "fringe" concessions and political dickering will eat away the effectiveness of this declaration if the Republicans triumph.

But that is merely an assumption. The quoted words must be persuasive, if the Republicans should win, in keeping state's rights dominant in action on civil rights Deserving particular notice, also, as an evidence that the Republican platform is an invitation to the South, is the assertion that the party will uphold state ownership of the oil-rich tidelands and wipe out recent greedy federal encroachments. This tidelands stand was strongly favored by California, not a Southern state. But most of the other zealous advocates of state ownership, possessors of rich tidelands resources, are Southern states Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida. All along the line, elsewhere in the platform, the Republicans have asserted themselves as opponents of overpowering federalism and as advocates of separate states operating within the framework of the republic the design of government contemplated in the Constitution.

Socialized medicine is opposed; the use of government authority and money in socialistic power projects is denounced; federal interference in education draws fire, as do other forms of federal dictation and compulsion. The whole theme of the platform is anti-centralization, anti-federalism. It stands, we repeat, as an invitation to the South to "go Republican" in 1952 by far the strongest invitation the Republican party has ever written. Canada's Dollar Americans like to think that their dollar is the world's best money. Even in times like the present, when the dollar's worth at home has diminished, the average citizen asumes that currencies elsewhere have fared worse, and that the dollar still ranks at the top in international value.

Actually, there's nothing sacred about the dollar. If it depreciates greatly in value at home, its standing in relation to other currencies is inevitably affected. So it is that the American tourist who enters Canada in this summer of 1952 finds that his dollar is only worth 96 Canadian cents. The tourist who buys something in a Canadian department store, paying for it in dollars, finds that the purchase is subject to a special four per cent charge to take care of the difference in value between the Canadian and American dollar. From September of 1949 until last December, the circumstances were reversed.

During most of that time, 90 cents in American money would buy a Canadian dollar bill. When the Canadian dollar was unpegged last December, with government controls removed, its value immediately rose above that of the American dollar. Only when the rise became appreciable, early this month, did Canadian business interests decide that they had to protect themselves. They could take a loss of two per cent without too much anguish. When the loss rose to four per cent, they had to have more pennies than the American dollar could buy.

Although this isn't the first time that the Canadian dollar has stepped ahead of the American dollar in value, there seems cause for regarding the reversal of positions with concern. The evidence is clear, in every report from Washington bearing upon government finances, that a. terrific debt is being combined with a terrific spending deap and different feelings over personalities and principles are a tonic to a party, and the GOP is desperately in need of vitamins. It must try a new kind of medicine, plain, old-fashioned H20 with -which heaven fills our streams and wets our fields, more generously than anywhere else in America. For industry and all other purposes, water has come to be an asset beyond compare, a raw material with if it is to escape a fifth successive defeat in national elections, which could mean extinction.

out which there can be no finished ones, and we are blessedly over When a major party nominates run. responsibilities which rest on General Ridgway's shoulders. But it is simply not common sense to say that in any and all circumstnees, no one armed service should get priority. What General Ridgway proposes is a policy which will keep the top leaders of all three services reasonably happy. "What the country wants and needs is a policy which delivers maximum military value to the nation if an emergency arises.

It is by no means certain that these two policies coincide. The American people were right when they contended back in the early 1930s that the United States should have more air power. The men at the top in our military affairs were wrong tragically wrong in holding down air power. Perhaps that same ghastly blunder is being repeated now, under the philosophy which General Ridgway enunciates. He should be warned that the American people do not share his concern for keeping aft even balance between the three armed services.

They want more air power, just as they wanted more in the early 1930s. They realize that in the atomic age, air power is vastly more important than it was before that age began. Twice in July Election-wise, this is an unusual July for Shreveport. There are two voting dates, each important. On Tuesday next, July 15, the local option election is scheduled.

Public interest has been aroused and there a ticket and frames a platform in an atmosphere of churchly calm. It rains in the South. Water is as the Republicans did with Hoo er in 1932, Landon in 1936, and even with Dewey in 1944 and 1948, it now principal base of a spectacularly growing chemical industry which must have it for proceessing. James F. Crist, executive vice presi frequently reflects a lark of is "Ourselves Speaking" There will be much discussion in the months ahead about changing the national party conventions.

Radio and particularly television have brought the whole convention scene, and all convention proceedings, before the public in full detail. The public becomes a guest not only on the floor of the convention but in important committee sessions. As television is extended across the nation and new stations begin operation, a great majority of Americans will have ringside convention seats. So the fundamental weaknesses of the convention system will continue to be exposed, and exposed more widely. At the outset of the coming discussion, there are certain aspects of the party convention question that merit consideration.

Anne O'Hare McCormick, writing on the editorial page of the New York Times at the beginning of this year's Republican meeting, brought out these points effectively: "The convention is an American institution, as indigenous to this soil as the goldenrod. It is clung to because it satisfies a national craving for participation in events. Like old home week, class reunions, Rotary luncheons, it fills our need to get together and talk. "Now the eyes of the world are upon us. The fate of many nations is closely linked with our choices of leaders and policies.

Most observers on the sidelines agree that the convention in its present form is no longer a dignified or effective way to nominate presidential candidates. The delegates from the states, however, helpless as many are to express their personal choice, are not so certain. Their objection to changing the process is rooted in the feeling that with all its exaggerations it is the democratic way, and particularly the American way. "What hits you here, of course, is America. When the Nazis were in their heyday there was some controversy as to whether Fascism could or could not happen here.

One thing to be sure of is that the political convention as we know it could never happen anywhere but here. For better or w-orse, this performance is ourselves speaking in our own character and in an idiom that cannot be translated." Moving on from this line of thought, one can see the possibility that television, fully developed nationwide, will bring about a cleansing of the convention process. Unquestionably it already has an effect upon the conduct of many delegates. Perhaps future, "conventions in the limelight" will automatically purge themselves of most convention faults. sues and interest.

The GOP lost out in all those years because it did not have enough spunk or spirit to fight among themselves dent of The Southern company, told the Southern Association of Science and Industry last week that chemical processing is today "the largest ana most profitable industrial activity" in the South, surpassing even textiles now in volume of annual sales. "The chemical industry, which Is growing faster than any other large industry in the nation," said Mr. Crist, "located more than half of its new plants in the South last year, attracted by the South's "vast mineral resources, plentiful fresh processing water, attractive markets and suitable utility service." Modest about the "utility services" since he is one of the servers, Mr. Crist will agree that this, too, is a tribute to H20, since the electric power comes from fall of water or boil of water. "Of love that ever finds your face more fair Last night, ah yesternight, I dreamed of Betty Furness, the refrigerator ladr.

I dreamed that the Republican" national convention, in session access of something or other, nominated her by acclaim. And I also dreamed that the election was on ice. or against the Democrats. Whether the bitterness engendered here will weaken the GOP in November depends on how the candidate and his managers conduct the campaign. By studying the Dewey ventures of 1944 and 1948, when he operated through a small overbearing clique rather than the organization and its independent aides, they can learn how not to reunite a party.

"Is it true," inquires M. T. of Chester, "that the delegates are mere automatons at these conventions, sitting around in hotel lobbies until they get word from so-called 'bosses' on how to vote? Isn't there a more democratic way to nominate men for the presl dency than the present systerp." Answer It is too true that gates at these affairs usually vott as told by political higherups. such as local, county, state and nation al leaders. They do sit under hotel palms, go shopping, attend night cluhs and do some sightseeing until the decision has been reached by a small group of politicians.

They take orders. Several pending measures ir congress suggest what may be i means to assure a more representative selection. The obvious method would be a federal law providing for binding, nationwide primaries, with the man obtaining the largest popular vote becoming the party candidate. Even with this procedure, the same old political faces and forces would eventually learn how to manipulate the machinery. The only real way to assure a less boss-controlled convention is for more poeple to take an interest in politics instead of regarding them as sordid and beneath their' consideration.

I must say, however, that dele gates at the GOP convention showed an unusual degree of independence. The divisions within so many delegations in the rules and credentials floor fights was a most inspiring and heartening sppctacle. I imagine that the Democrats may also have a few surprises for the feudalistic lords, from Truman down. -o- Who has taken the 'ic" out of the party of our fathers? All Republican orators, and everybody else on the Chicago scene, called it the "Democrat party." This must be their way of reminding us that the Democratic party isn't what should be an exceptionally large vote. But it will do no harm to make up your mind now to be at the polls and perhaps to take others with you.

-The second July election will be on the 29th, when a representative of the Fourth district in congress will be nominated. Some parish school board memberships will also be up for vote. This, too, will be an important election, and a large vote should be cast. In such elections as these, with a short list of issues or candidates, voting machines are a full-fledged boon. You can cast your ballot in a jiffy, a small investment of time for any citizen.

"A Human Fellow' Asked for comment on the Eisenhower nomination, Averell Harriman told reporters in New York city that the general will be beaten in November "because of his ignorance of domestic matters." Then Harriman went on to predict that he would be the Democratic nominee. In brief, Eisenhower and Harriman are already in the ring and Harriman will be the winner. The magazine Freeman has a pleasant little department, consisting of quotations from prominent persons in past years. The title of the department is "That Is What They Said." And the current issue contains the following gem from Harriman a statement made in 1941: "Stalin is a human fellow to deal with. He has a keen sense of humor, which he allowed full play even in conference." So here's another top level government official who once thought Stalin was "good old Joe." The country was plagued during the 1940s with an epidemic of gullibility in high places.

All Stalin had to do was wiggle his moustache. The Americans would fall into fits of laughter while he stole their shirts. Perhaps the day is coming when nobody in Washington will call Stalin "good old Joe" or have a record of calling him that. Harriman, of course, won't be there. it used to be.

Would South Carolina follow James F. Byrnes if he asked its Democratic party to endorse the Republican nominee this year? Some betieve it, would. The most Democratic of all the Southern slates is the most reconciled this year to Republicanism, it is said South. Carolinians would still be Jamcs T. Manry Bossier parish lost a venerable citizen of much more than ordinary attainments in the death of James T.

Manry, resident of Plain Dealing since 1901. He had reached the age of 100, and could look back upon 10 decades of wholesome and constructive living. A native of Georgia, he came to Bossier parish in 1876 as a young man. Attesting to his interest in government, and in the civic problems connected with it, was his service as a Louisiana legislator, and as a member of the Bossier police jury for many years. The span of his long lifetime included close friendship with Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus stories.

It included also experience as a newspaper man, in which he displayed not only writing ability but an exceptional knowledge of the history of our immediate area and Louisiana as a whole. His service to his church was constant and unfailing. There is lustre in a life extending over the span of more than 100 years, for that length of being in this tumultous world is in itself evidence of unusual character and vitality. The Times joins the many in Bossier and elsewhere who mournMr. Manry 's death.

voting Democratic, of course, even though for the Republican nominee. Great history lies in that di rection, and it has come to pass that the best and only starting place is the state of John Calhoun and the firing on tort Sumter. "Unwilling to vote Fair Deal or Republican," says Lditor Tom War ing in The Charleston News and Courier, "and unable to find a leader willing to bolt the National 'Democrats, where can Southern States' Kighters turn? The News and Courier has made a suggestion and repeats it today, it is mat Southern Democratic parties declare the Republican nominee to be a Democrat. Then they can vote for him with a clear conscience." Amen! the Gentiles, and kings, and the pace and that both would be a most onerous burden to our country should its trade slow down. More conservatism is needed in the federal government.

With saner policies neing pursued, tnere would be no cause for anxiety over the dollar's ups and downs. A Novel tv Already it is apparent that the Kennon administration has made a good start on its four-year journey. And it is even clearer that the secret of the accomplishment is the administration's reduction of taxes. Lowering the gasoline tax and increasing the exemption on state income taxes proved such a novelty for the Louisiana electorate that criticism of other mistakes or possible mistakes during the 1952 legislative session is subdued and moderate. Time will reveal, of course, whether the two reductions represent sound fiscal policy.

For the present, the humble taxpayer is content to know that there is such a thing as tax reduction and that it is being enjoyed in our tax-burdened state of Louisiana. -It is to be hoped that governing authorities everywhere, throughout our state if not beyond its borders, note the gratitude with which Louisiana citizens have received these tax cuts. The hour is too early to say that a new formula for political popularity has been deviled. But perhaps events are moving in that direction. children of Israel.

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This bill continues the policy of preferential treatment for Europeans. The president implies it is a violation of basic American principle. It is funny how things that have existed in America are being called his hands on him, said. Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared iinto thee in the way as thou earnest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, Balance or Maximum Power? Gen. Matthew B.

Ridgway, supreme commander of the Allied powers in Europe, told a news conference in London the other day that priority for any one of the armed services at the expense of the others is "basically and essentially unsound." "If you sacrifice any one of these (air power, sea power or land power), you run the risk of lowering the potential power of the forces as a whole," he said. His remarks were made at a time when the question of putting greater stress on air power was in a small degree in the political spotlight. Republican platform-makers were taking the view that greater air strength is needed. One hesitates to question the wisdom of a general in a matter of this kind, particularly a general bearing the Meditations Morning ACTS 9: 8, 13-18 July 13, 1952 And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw tt man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. Then Ananias answered.

Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem: And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name. But the Lord Mid unto, him. Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before violations of American principle. In Mr. Truman's theory the Iro-! rots are as desirable as the English, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.

And immediately there Ml from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized. Horoscope This Is a very strong day, giving quick perception, great adaptabil- or should be admitted as freely. A nation can get killed that way. itv and a very able nature. You should succeed in many ways as a teacher or trainer, but though the hopes will probably be realized, there is no breat pre-ecinence over your fellowa.

Khreveport, Ldu, July 13, 1933.