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Inside Labor Gallup Most of Independents BINGHAMTON PRESS ALBERT B. EN'GELBERT. Cenvtl Manager TUZO W. STEIN. Editor Published by Binghjmtoo Preu Company.

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alities, the uncertainties about Mr. Stevenson's actual positions may cost him support There are issues, as Ike points out, that are not. funny. There are issues calling for weightier handling than exists in quips and sarcasms. Continue in Ike's Corner Engelbert.

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By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion GOP Won't Woo Chiefs Of Labor One year On month DAILY BATES BY CARRIER $15 .80 One week SOe 1 34 Single copies tc DAILY RATES BY MAIL Ike's AFL Speecli 1 mo. 3 mo. 8 mo. 1110 (300 8500 1 75 4 50 3 50 1 yr. 89 00 15 00 1st a ad 2d zone 3d to 8th zones One year Six month SUNDAY JtATXS BY CARRIER 35 20 Three month II 30 2.60 Single copies 10c SUNDAY RATES BY MAIL By VICTOR RIESEL 1 mo.

3 me. 8 mo. 50c 31.30 $2.60 80C 2.00 4.00 rr. $5.20 8.00 platform of the world's most powerful union federation, '1st and 2d zone 2d to 8th zone the Republican Party dramatically and unexpectedly warned the Entered at the Postoffice at Binghamton, N. as 2d Class Matter MEMBER or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 6 Friday Evening, Sept.

19, 1952 labor leaders that the GOP would not woo them in this campaign. The moment came in the open- changed to the point where 57 per cent of the independents voted for Truman and third parties, 43 per cent for Dewey. In the 1944 election, also the Democrats held a big advantage with the independent group, polling 62 per cent to 38 per cent for the GOP. The only previous national election in which a majority of Independents were on the Republican side on election day was in the 1946 congressional contests. The shift was a decisive factor in giving the Republican Party control of both House and Senate in the 80th Congress.

WILL THEY STAY PUT? General Eisenhower's managers would be making a mistake, however, to assume that the independent vote this year is safely in the Republican bag. The very thing that distinguishes an independent voter is his tendency to shift sides. Typically he is far more open to persuasion than any regular Republican or regular Democrat. In fact, that was clearly shown in an institute survey of a month ago in which voters were asked whether they thought there was much chance that they might change their minds by election day. A substantial number of independents said they might, whereas few of the regular Republicans or Democrats said that.

Here are the figures: ing minutes of the AFL's seventy-first annual convention here. Slim, unruffled PRINCETON, N. Independent voters of the country who represent approximately one-fourth of all voters continue to favor Elsenhower over Stevenson today. Past experience would indicate that independent voters are most influenced by political campaigns. They are the group most responsive to political arguments and are most likely to switch parties during the course of a campaign.

The switch of the independents to Truman in the closing days of the 1948 race was an important reason for Truman's victory. Questioning of the Independents by institute interviewers throughout the country shows General Eisenhower enjoying a substantial lead at present, as followsr If the presidential election were being held today, which political party would you like to see win the Republican Party or the Democratic Party?" Those' independents willing to express a preference or a "leaning" toward one party divide as follows: INDEPENDENT VOTERS Republican 51 Democratic 32 Still Undecided 17 In a similar survey in August, the results were substantially the same as today. HOW THEY STOOD IN 1948 For purposes of comparison, at approximately the same time during the 1948 campaign institute surveys showed Dewey polling 47 per cent among the independents, as compared with Eisenhower's 51 per 'cent today. A total of 15 per cent were undecided in 1948, as compared with 17 per cent today. By election day in 1948 the situation had SS Tom Dewey was V.

1 1 1 1 over- 2111 matched, but he si single handedly Jtook on some 700 WJ in MB. KIESEI influential democratic union chiefs and told them bluntly to keep the AFL's "nose clean" politically. He had won several times by hundreds of thousands of votes without labor's help and the insinuation was that General Eisen Honesty of General Eisenhower's speech to the American Federation of Labor convention won for him new esteem in the nation, and it probably cost him no votes in the ranks of labor. THE EISENHOWER SPEECH had none of the double-talk of the Stevenson speech at Detroit; neither did it have the sinister half -stated coercionist philosophy of the Stevenson pronouncement. Ike's speech did not contain the spurious promises of a Truman philippic.

Mr. Truman promises Utopia, then delivers a Barmecide's feast. He promises repeal of Taft-Hartley, which his own party, he knows, will not vote. Mr. Truman gives working people "prosperity" the Truman kind in which a third and more of the worker's pay in 53-cent dollars is taken by taxes, direct and hidden.

Ike frankly told the AFL he did not favor repeal of Taft-Hartley. However, he did favor, he said, certain amendments to make it fairer and more workable. Unlike his Democratic opponent, Ike does not favor compulsory arbitration. Ike gave persons in the rank and file of labor something to ponder in his reference to the Fair Deal bent for the usurpation of power as demonstrated when Mr. Truman wanted to draft strikers into the army in the 1946 railroad strike, and demonstrated again when Mr.

Truman seized struck steel on the autocrat's contention of "inherent power." In the first instance, the Truman totalitarian and coercionist bent operated to the potential injury of workers; in the second, to the injury of ownership. In both actions, the President exemplified a political philosophy alien to that of our Founding Fathers. THE PHILOSOPHY TO WHICH General Eisenhower gave words in his AFL convention speech is antipodal to that of the Fair Deal, which, while claiming liberalism, has eviscerated true liberalism. Today's leftist intellectuals and so-called liberals have forgotten the meaning of liberalism, or perhaps, they never were emotionally equipped to comprehend its-meanings. In his convention address Ike emphasized an issue far transcending that of Taft-Hartley repeal the issue of freedom versus socialism.

The earlier Marxists gave socialism an interchangeable identity with communism, an identity that it has not lost in this century except in murky semantics. hower could do it, too. Concerning the 'Big Lies' President Truman, addressing the National Conference on Citizenship, denounced the technique of injecting the "big lie'' into politics in order to "reap personal or partisan advantage." What was it when Mr. Truman in 1948 blamed the Republican 80th Congress for the lack of storage space that depressed grain prices? The truth was that the Agriculture Department itself had disposed of storage space without regard to any action of Congress. The truth never caught up with the "big lie" and half of the farm belt states voted for Mr.

Truman in deviation from their normal political bent. What is it when the Truman administration follows every device known to orthodox economics to produce inflation, at the same time decrying inflation and blaming the Republicans for the inflation? What is it when Mr. Tuman denies the existence of corruption in his administration? What is it when Mr. Truman says "it is a big lie to say that we (meaning his administration) tolerate Communists and other disloyal persons in our What of the "big lie" carried into action, such as the Tydings Committee's whitewash of the State Department, the penetration of which by Communists and sympathizers was indicated by voluminous direct and indirect evidence? CHANGE YOUR MIND? THE GOVERNOR was here to welcome the delegates and not make a political speech. But be Republicans 13 78 11 Demo- Inde-crats pendents 15 37 72 44 13 19 Yes, might change No, will not Don't know fore he got around to the most beautiful state in the country from "the beaches to the Cat- skills," he created political history Letters to the Editor Ike's Election Called Way to Unity by warning the AFL in effect to stay out of politics.

This came just 48 hours before General Eisenhower spoke on the same platform obviously now to be rebuffed by the AFL which is preparing to campaign against Senator Taft instead of General Eisenhower. the GOP high com Always Corruption mand has decided to snatch up the cnanenge ana get tough, There is Republican unity on this tUmntv'-the Shush-Shush Issue strategy now in a triple assist running from Governor Dewey to Senator Taft to General Eisenhower. It was all decided over the past weekend. Oneonta, N. Y.

Sept. 9, 1952 To the Editor of tho Press: Because of years of study of the American scene I am forced to laugh at the current shrill cries of "corruption" a "mess" in, Washington coming, of all people, from politicians! Washington always has been a "mess" in that respect from, the founding of the republic. During most of last week, those who were thinking about Ike's statement to the Fair Deal AFL convention were prepared to ask Many issues have been at least done over lightly in the campaign so far. But no one, major or minor, is saying anything about Universal Military Training. GENERAL EISENHOWER IS on record for "UmDtv." But so far in the camnaisn he has not tisenhower to come out for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Labor- Portraits By JAMES J.

METCALFE This Much I Mean So many readers seem to think That when I write of love It is the woman of my life Whom I am thinking of The pirl I married, long ago When both of us were young With straggles and with hardships and Our glories yet unsung And that is true when you peruse My words of gratitude To her who has inspired me In every thought and mood But tchen you read of broken hearts And love that did not last I do not mean my darling wife Or someone in the past My lines are merely meant to help The lovers young and old When they have had a falling-out And life is getting cold. I Management act in his Wednes day speech. The General had Just A Moment espoused Universal Military Training, and he can hardly tentatively agreed, although he had not yet studied the entire speech nor its implications. da so without irrit.at.incf fJDP flpmfnts vuhn have fniicrrit THEN CAME THE breakfast with Senator Taft who set the There have always been peddlers of influence and "receptive" individuals in all. departments of government.

There also always have been those willing to pay their price. Remember Albert Fall the $100,000 in the black bag-Harry Daugherty? These pretended Sir Galahads in the Republican Party have just as much larceny in their ranks as in those they seek to oust, so why keep up the farce? Why don't they discuss the policies upon which the parties are divided instead of they, the pot calling the kettle black? A.B.H. it. For instance, Senator Taft, while not opposing its ultimate adoption, is not in favor of it at this time. Governor Stevenson similarly would pain certain Democratic elements if he came out for or against Both party platforms shun the issue as though it were the black death.

It could, of course, be argued that "Umpty" is not "a partisan issue. When Congress last year took first steps, in the draft extension act of 1951, toward UMT Vishinsky is nervous; Malik is a heart case, and Joe is but a shadow of his old self. Could it be a diet deficiency? Are the boys getting enough nails? A nudist organization considers going to court to clear up its legal status. If there is such a thing as the unveiled interest, this could be it. A Today's youth is taller, wider and heavier than its father, but only the ill-conditione'd offspring will address the old man as Bub.

"irst Suffragette Kirkwood, N. Sept. 12, 1952 ike Dubbed Tool To the Editor of The Preu date before the AFL convention so the pivotal labor issue, which may well determine the entire election, might be discussed over ham and eggs. During much of that private talk the senator outlined his position on the law, the hostile attitude of the national labor chiefs and his victory in Ohio, especially in the heavily concentrated industrial areas. In effect, the well rested senator said, a strenuous campaign reaching over the heads of organized labor for the rank and file vote would repeat nationally what had been done in Ohio.

Word now is that General Eisenhower agreed. He planned to state his position at the AFL convention, offer to work with labor and management, but not woo the Johnson City, N. Y. 13, 1952 Ta the Editor of the Pita In spite of the honesty and eloquence of Governor Stevenson, I think the best thing for the unity of the American people would be the election of General Eisenhower. President Truman's election in 1948 did not bring unity.

But Governor Dewey's defeat demoralized the Republican leadership. General Eisenhower's election will give the Republican Party a rebirth and an awareness and responsibility and make sure that we retain our traditional two-party system. L.N.B. World Cleavage Binghamton, N. Y.

Sept. 10, 1952 To tho Editor 01 the Preu: We are gradually putting ourselves into a fantastically dangerous position by cleaving the world in half. The essence of modern world freedom is built from a tough equilibrium, but equilibrium is far from being cleavage. Divorcement creates fear and hate which lie at the base, psychologically, of any war. Continued cleavage, it seems to me, ends up in war.

It is Just a matter of time. The mechanical cause of the war will be economic a fundamental antagonism in basic economies which will display itself in time in a hundred ways. But that still does not contradict the preceding; it actually helps to bring it about Another war with its fantastic devastation seems to be the easy way out the fear-sodden ma who lashes out to destroy his tormentor in hope that he will rid himself of his torment and thus become free. I'm looking forward with great interest to what the two political candidates will say on this matter. Let's hope they will -at least try to look at the problem and lay down some fundamental pronouncements.

We cannot go on in this labyrinth of confusion for another four years. There has been so far very little attempt, it seems to me, for our statesmen to define our position and try to make the people see it clearly. This should be one of the major obligations to any man who seeks to be our president The people simply have to get clearer idea of where they are going. J- H. B.

She Sees Again Blind for 10 Years, a Young Mother Recovers Via Science By ROBERT C. RUARK in mc xuiuic, a iiiuuuii in uie oenaie 10 arop irom uie bill was opposed by a majority of both parties. A similar motion in the House was beaten without a record vote, but the bill itself was passed with little opposition from either party. In 1952 the House accepted by a three to two vote a motion to postpone further steps toward Universal Military Training. IT COULD BE ARGUED also that as long as the.

Korean war and the draft continue, such a program couldn't be a legitimate campaign issue. Legislation pushed by supporters provides that such a program was to go into effect only when and if it wouldn't interfere I believe the following would be of special interest during an election year. It's an answer to the question, "who was the first woman in America to demand the right to vote?" Raphael Semmes, author of "Captains and Mariners of Early says that Margaret Brent, attorney for Leonard Calvert, one day in the winter of 1647, requested "to have vote and voyce allso in the howse for her selfe." MRS.H.Z.B. NEW YORK The lively blue eyes twinKiea, At leasi I think they were blue. Anyhow, they twinkled, even if they didn't actually belong to the owner.

This young lady, who owned the eyes now, was wearing somebody union chiefs as originally planned. However, the new Republican policy of urging labor to stay out Owego, N. Sept. 6, 1952 To tho Editor of Tho Presi The Republican National Convention, in a desperate effort to regain power, nominated a national military hero "for president, without one thought of his capacity or experience in civil affairs, on the theory that a feeling of gratitude f6r military services would enlist popular favor and garner many votes. The old line politicians the knowing kind are aware of his unfitness for administrative duties, but they expect to use him as their tool to regain power.

They are now advising him and formulating his mode of campaign. Anxious as the general is for the presidency, he fears to fall out with them and has agreed to indorse McCarthy and his ilk and turn the tidelands oil resources over tq, the states. He has become severely afflicted with the presidential disease and it warps his judgment, vexes and confuses him. O. G.

J. Real War Party else's eyesignt. une eye ov- of politics was not expected to with the existing draft Drocedure. AN OPACITY of the cornea loneed to 8 dead refugee. The keep Eisenhower from praising the anti-Communist crusade in gradually turned Mrs.

Radzai other to a living woman who was forced to have it removed because of a brain tumor. One eye is totally blind when she was 18. Europe directed by Irving Brown, 'Not Funny' Election Issues She had made as nearly perfect the AFL international representative, who worked closely with and adjustment to blindness as is pos has lectured at the NATO head nearsighted ine other is farsight-ed. But a tiny wom quarters on the continent under sible when the head of Miami Lighthouse, Dr. Bascom Palmer, told her there was a chance that a corneal graft could be success Norwich, N.

Y. Sept 9. 1952 To tho Editor of the Preu: The American people had war under Wilson, repeated war under Roosevelt third war under Truman. And now the New Dealers are asking us to continue graft, reckless spending, bungling foreign policies, billions of dollars of debt spies and crooked politics; spiraling inflation and socialism under Stevenson. H.

N. B. direct observation of General Eisenhower. ful in her case. She had to wait an named Alett Radzai of Miami doesn't care about a few flaws in her vision.

She can The word "nerve" originally for two more years before the eyes could be-found. There was meant tendon, but now refers to the structures through which the the other long wait, motionless see again, after 10 years of living brain sends messages to the body, including much of the brain itself. in the dark. She her head braced firm with sandbags, while the graft operation healed first the one eye, then the other. And finally she could is seeing her husband for the first It Pegler Had Ilia Say: see.

"I could see swell but I couldn't time. Also her three kids. She says the husband coordinate at first," she was say Britain Should Keep Charlie Chaplin mb. xuabk turned out pretty good. Also she is highly pleased ing.

"I would see something over here and reach to pick it up and my hand would go somewhere else. You see with your brain, I guess, and not with your eyes at with the kids. I was talking to the little woman the other day. She Is up here on a fund-collecting drive By WESTBROOK PEGLER Ruark on Adlai all. It took some time before I NEW YORK Charlie Chaplin has been in New York on his for the Lighthouse of the New I walked down Hollywood Boulevard one evening.

My car waa following me as usual A few steps ahead I saw a forlorn little girl, frail and poorly dressed. She looked so tired that I walked on ahead of her, looked back. Some- could get my brain and my new eyes to work together." York Association for the Blind. way back to his native Eng She has been working again at her art, via a course purchased land. He was reported to have said that if Eisenhower and Nixon Lthing in her face appealed to me.

for her by the Florida Council for the Blind. The course comes from This is quite a happy girl. She was studying to be an artist when the lights went out in 1940. Now she is studying again. And Al Dome stakes his reputation as one of the top commercial artists of the company that he will have her making a good living from 4 were elected he r-vf1 would never come Ihark ThanUn in i her art within three years.

"Binghamton, N. Y. Sept. 12, 1952 To tho Editor of tho Vfmt 4 May I suggest that you reprint the article by Robert Ruark titled "Adlai Perfuming Harry" as a front page feature? Too many people do not read the editorial page and will miss this excellent article unless it is further publicized. It is much too good to pass up, in my opinion.

Let me also compliment you on the editorial "Yes, Take It Away" in the same Press issue. My husband and I get so much out of this page and have talked for a long time of writing to tell you so, but it took the Ruark article of Sept 11 to get us past the talking stage. R. A. D.

Governor Stevenson's quips and banal treatment of grave national issues make him vulnerable to attack and questioning. And General Eisenhower exploits this vulnerability when he points out to voters that the times and the issues are too serious for amusing treatment. IKE IS RIGHT IN SAYING that Korea, corruption, and communism are "not funny." Mr. Stevenson's double talk on such issues as Taft-Hartley, public power, offshore oil, "time for a change," and the like arises in part, of course, in the politician's inclination to appease all points of view and to appear to be all things to all men. But the double talk, the quips, the sarcasms, the garbing of half-truths with dancing words may have obscurer meaning.

Mr. Stevenson, turning steadily to the left and tending to take positions identical with Mr. Truman's, follows a course that may be revolting to his inner self. His instincts struggle with the political need to defend the indefensible. He escapes from the political inexpedience of admitting his true feelings by resort to repeated quips, banalities, and sarcasms.

THOSE WHO STUDY the Stevenson speeches see their evasiveness, an evasiveness that is not as immediately apparent to listeners who are beguiled by wit and ironies. The effect is to produce doubt about Mr. Stevenson's sincerity, or beyond that, to produce a questioning of his standards. Mr. Stevenson is an individualist, a man of extraordinary intellect who accepts no ready made solutions, a student who in perusal facts arrives at singularly Stevenson conclusions.

And his convictions are probably firm and deep, but he does not reveal what they are. THE ILLINOIS GOVERNOR in his adroit use of words produces effects of his own choosing, but too often his speeches fail to provide a clue to his convictions. To obscure his own convictions rather than reveal wherein they may differ with prevailing policies of his party is Mr. Stevenson's apparent intention. In a year in which issues may be-more significant than person the Institute of Commercial Art in Westport, a rather unusual home-study art instruction which is supervised by such as Mr.

Dome, Norman Rockwell, Steve Dohanos, Harold von Schmidt and a handful of other famous professionals. AL DORNE WAS in the hotel when we were talking. Dome is good enough to have made a I IMAGINE THAT for "an artist to get her sight back, after 10 not a citizen of this nation although he has lived among us and imposed upon us by flouting our ideals and degrading our morals and standards in entertainment for almost half a century. years, is somewhat like a musi clan having his hands restored Americans will join me in hoping that the British will do 'this. In that case be probably would have to hand over most of his American wealth to the British Government, accepting depreciated bonds in return, and would have to live on the dismal diet of the British austerity program and make do with the small ration of coal in winter, except of course that his wealth even in pounds sterling would permit him to enrich his material life in the black market MISS HEDDA HOPPER is one of a number of Hollywood characters who has written reminiscences of long acquaintance with Charlie Chaplin.

In her biography entitled, "Out From Under My Hat," she wrote that one night as Chaplin was driving her and certain other prominent persons home from a party in his Rolls-Royce Charlie recounted his affair with the young woman whom he later tried to railroad out of California, pregnant, with a railroad ticket and a box-lunch. His responsibility for the girl's pregnancy later was proved in court and he was ordered to pay. In Hedda's version of his narrative, Charlie said: "Not long ago unexpectedly. This kid had gone bravely about the business of 4 raising a family and losing one of four babies bucking some couple millidff bucks with his hard times financially, and wham If he ever fingers in the past 15 years. "This kid's got it," he said.

"No matter She can see again. She can see xhould annlv for whose eyes she's using. If she'll the babies she never saw, the mb. rtGLEB dtizenship during husband she never saw, and, her I turned around, walked back and said: hungry, aren't i "1 HAVEN'T EATEN for two she said simply, like a child. I said 'Would you allow me to buy your dinner? She was so grateful she nearly fainted into my arms.

I drove her to my house and fed her. "Chaplin gave a bored sigh and a shrug. 'She stayed with me for three days. She was Speaking softly, rolling a remembered morsel on his tongue like the taste of good wine, 'I experienced a new kind of thrill. I had never met anyone quite like her.

Then I had the chauffeur drive her back to Hollywood Boulevard, and let her out. Would you believe it, the following night she found her way back to my home and begged to be let in? Of course, I had the servants turn her "He gave another sad sigh. 'When will girls learn to know when I am he said peevishly." The campaign to revive and continue the career of this repulsive character that has been waged in portions of the American press in the years of his decline has had almost the aspects of a conspiracy. my life, I will intervene to oppose drawing board. TH Law Protection his naturalization on grounds oi moral turpitude.

She's a kind of funny kid, work at It she 11 be making a good living at commercial art in three years or less." This could be might not be. But I went away into the rain thinking what a wonderful thing it is that a woman can be blind asked her about the first thing she did when she got out of the HIS TREATMENT of a desper hospital with a new set of some body else eyes. ate, pregnant young American girl and an attempt by local officials to railroad her out of Cali "I went home to cook dinner," she said. "I was making Spanish fornia because she appealed to for 10 years and then, due to the marvel of modern medicine, not only see her visually unknown family, but entertain again the Chaplin for help may be weighed in the adverse pan of the scales. rice.

I put in the rice and the peppers and the saffron and the rest of the junk I always used Binghamton, N. Y. Sept 9, 1952 To tho Editor of tho Preu: How many members of labor unions who clamor for thp repeal of the Taft-Hartly Law realize that they are asking for the abolition of protection for minority groups? Section 8 of T-H provides that a man, if he is excluded from a union because of his race, still has a right to employment It was a Republican who gave this protection to members of labor. R.R. hope of being an artist.

Upon inquiry I have been tow Whereupon I called upon my and it looked funny. I called one of the kids over and said: Hey, that Chaplin probably has a right to re-enter our country. But I am given to understand also that A Text to Remember I am as one' mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn. JOB 12:4. doctor for a check on my weary machinery.

Maybe someday they'll find a way to graft a new set of animals into a creaking torso. Both Al Dome and I could use has this stuff always looked this The kids said, sure mom, it always looks this way. I hadn't known that Spanish rice could be Great Britain's government could detain him there for the rest of his life simply by refusing to give him an exit visa. I believe other some. 1 so bright and pretty..