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A4911 1101xcammomMulimel.10.1balimemoloo.pio.a., ,117, II, rmowormiwelami.gwomormammalommoo7twougmwonompoonommaa, um WNWMEW 08.101.0100010004 IMMIS 0 00000000, I 0 el I 0 0 lti AntrnDIAI PAC4F VAI I PY 7.1k fPc rAvore crirt Fornrinrin VrillAv 20 EDITORIAL PAGE VALLEY TIMES Covers Entire San Fernando Valley 7, 1956 FRIDAY, AUG. VA 'Be informed to understand; vigilant to detect; vocal to sound an alarm! --At -1-3) 1 0r; aSTEYENSCA -1 11-1 1 vkikk-v- STEYENSOP4 z----, qtz IA GEORGE TOOT'S OPINION 1 I Truman Power Is Destroyed In Buildup of Stevenson I The Reuther-Ruled Democrat Wing a a kf '74 If I Itt IN 6 4 --A ,2 )(-. 1 153 0 -k ---vosoo 11 i-C Ilp a vi00 4 -1 t- -i- 1 54 55" Is qt Pt IC 1 kV If 1 OM. I 1 0 1 I 5C) ILP 1 i 1 i IcArl 1 1) ---ziSt-----r, Pbd- Nii, 1,, c2 A ,1, () c.or :11 7 e41 Of ev a ri he Pe he int in his confidence. By that policy he scored well with the people, at the same time he was winning the convention bat.

tie. Victor over master politician Truman, he. holds a position considerably better in the psychological sense than would have been possible for an unchallenged candidate, an untried battler. But there are numerous incidental questions about the source of the new strength. Leading Candidate Stevenson previously had assumed a rather independent attitude about the Kefauver case.

When Senator Kefauver threw in the sponge and struck off on a line of talk suggestive of alliance, Stevenson rave the outward appearance of one feeling that he did not need to pay any mind to that sort of gestures. At that time he didn't stop at the mere denial of deal-making. lie implied that there would be no thought of anything of that nature, not even consideraiton of a Kefauver vice presidential nomination. Likewise Mr. Stevenson then assumed a very independent attitude about his own stand in regard to civil rights, Supreme Court and racial segregation issues.

'But in the period when the Truman-made pressure was at its threatening peak, there were many reports of closer working arrangements between the Stevenson and Kefauver camps, reports even that Stevenson was urging Kefauver to work harder to line up the former Kefauver supporters for the Stevenson bandwagon. Then the scramble for delegates took many forms. One form consisted of just about all sorts of maneuvering for a workable compromise on civil rights and other controversial planks in the party platform. Stevenson maneuvering was behind Much of the off-stage play connected with the effort to reconcile conflicting viewsbetween liberals and conservatives, northerners and southernerson civil rights. What involvements for the Stevenson candidacy may be represented in the final outcome is not certain.

Apparently the Stevenson's "moderation" position stands, but the extent to which the nominal position may have been compromised under the pressure of necessity to counter the Truman effort is not known. That explains why much of the question about strength, gained or lost, for the Stevenson candidacy cln't be answered now. Does the Adlai Stevenson candidacy gain nr lose strength from Harry Tru' man's ill -advised and unsuccessful blocking efforts? Part of the answer can be found here: The Stevenson bandwagon never aCtually stopped. Jolted considerably, it slowed. But it never looked like a truck about to start a backward runaway down bill.

Pickup of new speed and mentum, following recovery from initial shock, stands as something for the record books of nomination contests. The Chicago convention and the people throughout the nation heard it when the engineers shouted: "We are rolling all but over the hill already." There's your answer about Steven' son's candidacy strength in the nomination phase. But the nomination phase is merely the qualifying heat for a race yet to come. The question of Stevenson candidacy strength eventually must be directed beyond the nomination stage. In effect that was what Harry Truman was saying, what he tried to say with action, stop-Stevenson action.

r- But the fact that the Truman test took place in the nomination field means the results here must be evaluated before the case is projected further into the future. Harry Truman himself, his plight on coming off the stage, which he constructed for himself and on which he shone boastfully for a brief time, symbolizes and personalizes one set of resultsup to the present stage. Harry Truman is a pathetic figure. Ile emerges as a political has-been. He is a broken power.

Ile staked his per-tonal and political prestige and power on a gamble, which he apparently took to be a sure thing. But he lost. The pa' rade is now passing him up. The painfulness of it is evident in his attitude of bitterness, his attempt to blame his failure on the way the press treated his stop-Stevenson move. However, the picture thus, far presented does not necessarily carry a clear answer to the far more potent question of effects on the Stevenson candidacy that is just now about to start.

Will Stevenson entering battle against the nationally and internationally popular Eisenhower be stronger or weaker in consequence of the Truman-for Harriman encounter? Stevenson didn't run away from the Truman attack. He stood and fought. Outwardly at least, he never weakened 'Ten wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray! In Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in DANIEL D. EMETT, Dixie Land. As the Democratic national convention opened in Chicago, certain northern radical among them Walter Reuther, AFL-CIO political action boss 'was demanding that the traditional Democrats of the South must bend the knee in abject subservience to Labor-Socialist 'ideological demands of his northern radical wing or run the risk of being driven from the party.

In such a case, whether Reuther would invite the southerners to depart, or vice versa, is not quite clear to this writer. However, the situation is fraught with splendid possibility. If such a dismemberment of the Democrat party actually took place, it would at least put ideological "birds of a feather" in separate nests where they undoubtedly belong. For there is no longer any resemblance in anything except name only between northern and southern Democrats. They are poles apart, not even good friends any longer; and theirs is and has been for some timemerely a marriage of political convenience and expediency.

What will occur? Will the southerners actually bolt the party? The Democrat party cannot possibly win a national election without the South. Is Walter Reuther bluffing? Are the Northern "liberals" making last-minute concessions in stormy back-room sessions? This seems doubtful if Reuther can be believed. He had insisted on "no concessions whatffiever" even threatening to bolt, himself, and form his own Socialist-Labor party if the convention refused to allow him his harsh, arbitrary way. How much of all this is histrionics and how much is truth will Only be resolved when we see the final results On the line at the end of the convention. All else is merely speculation, What will happen will happen, of course, and only God knowsat the time this is writtenwhat it is to be.

we ve an interesting thought has occured to this writer: what would happen if the real Democrats of the South decided to let the unreal Democrats such as Mr. Reuther and his comradestake a walk from the Democrat fold, instead of a drama staged the other way around? If they let the controversial Mr. Reuther departhail and farewellis it not conceivable they might thereafter pick up 20 or 30 millions of the 58 millions of voters who stayed away from the polls in the last presidential election? These absentees did not refrain from voting merely because they were too lazy to vote. In the case of the Democrats, they simply stayed away because they citel not want any part of a party platform or its captive candidates Nstilich had been dictated behind'the-scenes by the CIO labor dictator and his left-wing ideological associates. The actual truth is that the old-time Democrat party, 'lbw al- exclusively centered in the South, could win a tremendous of the nominal Democrats in the North who bitterly resent control of their leaders there.

Nor Is the resentment 'confined to Reuther alone. The powerful Americans for Democratic Action is also an organization thoroughly disliked and leered by every Democrat who EMI thinks of the party in terms of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson. Woodrow Wilson, or Al Smith. Given a choirebetween a party loyal to the traditions of ithese great Americans on the one 'side and one delivered to Walter Reuther and Joseph Rauh on the (it.tier sidemany millions of the faithful outside the South -would know for themselves what to choose. But the real strength that such a restored.

Democrat party could draw from are the uncommitted tens of millions of our citizens who will not go to the polls to Ivole todaybecause they do not 'believe there is enough difference in the fundamental issues between the parties, as presently constituted. That is to say not enough for them to concern themselves about going to the polls and voting. These non-voters constitute the great untapped reservoir of ballots which are lying around ready to be tapped. Here is where elections are to be won In the 'years ahead. For Democrats to woo a few million Republican votes, or for Republicans to woo tlie same of Democrat votes, is like digging for peanuts and overlooking a gold bonanza strike nearby.

Eut the two-party system in the States needs a shot-in-thearm today to bolster interest 'among the 'voters, themselves. knows there is too 'much of present apathy. But it will takesome real issues and stands not imitation by one party of the other to get of new voters to the polls. One such way to make this happen rould be for the southern Democrats and Walter Reuther's Labor-Socialist faction within the Democratic party to come to a realistic patting of the ways. Whether or not this is going to happen, now or in the future, remains to be seen.

But as I remarked earlier. this situation is fraught with splendid possibilities. There are vast numbers of solid American people who think this is the best thing which could happen to the Dembcrat party and the nation as a whole. PULL UP A CHAIR By NEAL O'HARA THE NATIONALi WHIRLIGIG By RAY TUCKER 1 A Veto Here, A Convention There 11): i The biggest "bingo" party in all history is planned In a Minneapolis charity drive. To be held in the baseball stadium, it's expected to raise $120,000 for the 12 game prizes which include automobiles and large bundles of cash.

The Republic National Bank of Dallas has Instituted an annual scholarship for policemen. Each year it will provide a young officer's tuition for a nine tnonths course at the Traffic Institute of Northwestern University. On the opening night of a new play, New York's legit theaters raise the curtain at 7:45 p.m., a practice which the New York Daily News' drama critic, John Chapman, fiercely protests. The other evening when a new musical show premiered, he carried a dinner pail with him and it wasn't a gag, either. It contained the critic's evening meal.

Thoughts while shaving: With the Great Britain and now the Soviet Union declining to finance that Aswan project, that seems to leave Egypt's head man, Nasser, wondering just who'll give a dam. Observes a cynic: "An heirloom is some old thing nobody liked well enough to wear out." (Ro hymned by Mc Syndienty. lre passed out that, if the Democrats won the presidency and Congress next November, the present low rate structure would be continued Indefinitely, perhaps permanently. Kerr's proposal, so to freeze rates on all federal projects, not in the Southwest alone, passed the Senate. It got through the House, but only after it was amended to apply only to the Southwest power Administration's system.

It was approved by the lower chamber largely because SWPA is popular Speaker Sam Rayburn's "baby." SUBSIDIES ATTACKEDThe subsidies granted to spell firms as Kaiser Aluminum, the Aluminum Company of America and to Reynolds Metal, to mention only a few, came under severe attack in House debate. Members were amazed to discover that almost two-thirds nf all the power generated at federal projects paid for by remote taxpayers go to industries and private utilities once denounced by F.D.R. as "economic royalists," and by Truman as "special Wall Street interests." RY)paged by Meriting NOWIIParOr SlYbdientl. Mid Promise In Nasser Move I A DULL CONVENTION By JAMES MARLOW Politicians Fa! As Showmen .40 WHAT YOUR NAME MEANS By LA RENA RULE WASHINGTON While Oscar Chapman was denouncing the Administration's alleged "giveaway" program ort national resources at the Democrat convention, Prfsident Eisenhower was vetoing a measure designed to continue costly subsidies to private and public power interests under contracts negotiated by Truman's former Secrctary of the Interior 'Chapman himself. Ike's pocket veto and "memorandum of disapproval" was hardly mentioned in the press because it collided with his daring veto of a $1-6 billion Public Works Bill, always a favorite congressional sop to the voters in a reelection year.

Few Presidents have dared to withhold sanction. But his defeat of the Democrats' scheme to gain ballot-box support of public pcsver enthusiasts, farmers, REA co-op members and a few great industrial Interests, principally profitable aluminum firms, will mean an even greater saving to the taxpayers irt the long run. Briefly, Ike blocked a plan to provide power from federal pro)- eels to private and public customers, at what the President called "unrealistically low rates." So fact, that they are less than the cost of production, and therefore tending to place the taxpayers deeper in debt to the Internal Revenue Bureau, TAXPAYERS' MONEY Here is the complicated background story, which throws an eerie light ad so-called liberals who are so generous with of her people's money, especially that of the While seven federal power projects and transmission lines in the Southwest were still under Chapman fixed the 1 rate in 1916 for public farmers and co-ops at 5.5 Imills per kilowatt hour. For secondary and less desirable power, to be sold only when it was available, he charged only 2.2 mills per kilowatt hour to great industries eager to take advantage of this source of energy. ON GUESSWORK Chapman based these rates on a vague and guesswork estimate that the power system would cost only $111 million.

But the Army engineers, who built the dams, subsequently reported that the actual construction cost was $200 million. As a result of this juggling of figures, and rates Sc) low that they do not even pay interest charges on the power allocation of costs, the government is losing $23 million a year. Nevertheless, Truman and Chapman renewed these ersstly contracts on the eve of the 1952 election for six more years, although the move failed to carry any of the affected states for Stevenson. join in the London conference, which was called in an effort to find an internationally acceptable solution to the crisis which he created by his arbitrary seizure of the Suez Canal. But then he hinted that he might be willing to look with more favorable on a conference held elsewhere and constituted differently.

lie didn't put it just that way, but it was clear he meant one more heavily representing the Communist bloc. When he sends a top-ranking spokesman of his dictatorship to stand by in London his action takes the form of a hint that he expects this London meeting to turn into a preliminary to something else. We speak with reservations, but we see the possibility that something-on that pattern may emerge and start toward a Suez settlementwithout war, either local or general. A half-way measure of optimism attaches to the decision of It gypt's Dictator-President Nasser to send an "unofficial observer" to the Suez confer' trice in London. The roan delegated to the non-participating assignment i3 a top hand in the Cairo administration.

That point goes to the credit side of the balance sheet, from our side's point of view. Wing Commander Ali Sabry is variously identified with respect to his offi'Val position. Generally he is called Nasser's "Political Director," a capacity which might receive a measure of upgrading when one remembers that Upstart Nasser, totally inexperienced in international affairs, is a military man, a young onei in political power entirely In consequence of a military coup. Nasser first rejected an invitation to Pk POW Dear Miss Rule: Could you please give roe a getlealogy of my maiden name Garber. We have no idea of its derivation.

Mrs. MX. Dear Mrs. The surname Garber provides us with the definition of your ancestor's occupation, for he was a tanner of hides. "Garber" is a provincial English spelling.

of "gerber," the term for a medieval leather as a surname, was the ancestor of the lineage in England, Wales and Ireland. In subsequent records are Thomas Herbert, 1272, and Richard, son of Herbert, who lived in Shropshire In 1273. The Norman Herbert lineage settled in Ireland in the 1100s in Kildare, Limerick and Meath, and were related to other Herbert of Monmouth Aire, Wales. The family's striking coat-of-arms had 3 silver rampant lions on a shield divided down the center, one half blue and the other red. CHICAGO This convention has moved along as a dull affair.

From the start no great visible enthusiasm here for the nomination candidates, any of therm The convention rule of conduct has been just cold horse-trading in hotel rooms for delegate votes. Newsmen have been saying that things may pick up. They'd better if the Democrats hope to win the election. President Eisenhower looks like an odds-on winner next November. He'll look even more so unless the Democrats can pump more life into their campaign than they have shown in their convention.

One wit, thinking of the reaction of people at home and what they've been seeing on their TV screens old-fashioned speeches, hackneyed phrases, the same old cliches, synthetic floor demonstrations said: "This convention has set television back 15 years." And the Republican convention in San Francisco next week will be even duller unless there's a fight over renominating Vice President Nixon. The whole dragged-out nature of this conventionusing Monday and Tuesday for speeches that couldi have been cut in half or left unsaid altogethercaused some wonder: Isn't it about time the politicians got wise to themselves and began thinking in modern terms by either shortening their conventions or putting new idtas into them? And somewhere there must be a prize waiting for the first person who can prove that a brass band there are brass bands for the candidates here ever won a single vote for anyone. The whole meat in the coconut is that Adlai Stevenson came here after working his head off in the primaries to win delegates way out in frdit and he's stayed there, former President Truman notwithstanding. Truman tried to build a' fire by coming out for Gov. Averell Harriman.

But from the beginning evidence was lacking of anything better than a small blaze. It may be that all be was to provide enough light for him to see that he exaggerated his own importance among Democrats and that the influence he had as President is gone. But his performance remembering he has been a faithful party Democrat and is an old pro in politics is astounding. It's not that he's bent on ruining Stevenson. It's the way he tried to ruin him.

He said once that he doesn't think Stevenson could win the election if this convention nominated him. Now if Stevenson gets the nomination, Truman has handed the Republicans ammunition to use against the Democratic party can PAT 0' MALLEY LOOKS AT THE VALLEY Dear Miss Rule: NVould you please give the analysis on the name Herbert and its origin. Did it have a coat-of-arms? Have understood the name to be Irish but many times have heard it is S. Dear Mrs. The ancient Teutonic given-name "II tie meant "shining army" in its first spelling In A.D.

1000 Saint lierebert was archbishop of the city of Cologne, and at that time his name became extremely common among the French nobility. Several generations' later. in about 1055 a French-Norman settler brought the name to England. This man, who was the first to use Herbert George Pinzel hit what he thinks or as the peak in the entertaininent world. The act called for stooge.

From the audience. And so this evening they called a volunteer to the stage. A tali, athletic, young man came forvilird, Dear Miss Rule: Could you give me some information on my married name Hungerford. Mrs. R.L.H.

Dear Mrs. R.L.H. The English surname Hungerford had been traced back for over 500 years. The family owned Farley dastle in Somerset, where Sir Walter de Ilungerford. was Lord Treasurer under King Henry VI.

Sir Walter was summoned to Parliament in 1426. "Ilunger- ford" was originally a place. description, denoting a ford or river crossing belonging to a man called "Hun Car." "Hun Car" meant "spear of the Hun," the Huns being a Germanic tribe. The coat-of-arms of the Hungerford's of Farley Castle was a black shield xvith 2 silver bars across it and 3 silver Ming at the top. Their motto, "Et Dieu mon Appul," meant "And God my support." Among early settlers of Maryand in 1650, records shows! a William Ilungerford.

1 LIFE'S HIGHWA yidida.te. YOU WANT to know what soldlthe United States end Canada. i "a the Valley to a lot of people? They had seen the world. Sunshine. Clear, beautiful, aro- So they bought two acres.

Later rnatic sunshine that warmed your they returned. Gave up the thee while it warmed your body. ter Immediately after being held It was thus on a day in the dim, over two extra weeks at the dark, long-gone days of the de- Roxy In New York. Which is like 1 pression when there was a little winning the championship title. lean-to at Sepulveda and Ven- And today they operate the tura, where they sold re-possessedicresham posalty company in Sc- land iputveda, on one of the two rig- The famous comedy team oflinal commercial aeres.

Lee GrestCresham and Blake found them- ham and Gladys Blake, rerneinselves there one day, and bought ber? Mr. and Mrs. Loren Gresf a couple of commercial acres. Al- ham now. most on the spur of the moment.

I HERE'S A DREAM vacation THEY HAD done a picture on trot you. Rev. Charles Hasselbach. Warner Bros. lot in the pastor of Lutheran Churrh of and noticed the sunshine.

They ithe Redeemer in Sherman Oaks. were staying with relatives in ils taking it. e''ISouth Gate at the time. South I Ile and his family len the fito had fog until after noon inf the month, on a trip up the every day. jcoast.

They expect maybe they'll And every dny the picture wasiget as far as Canada. Maybe. out in the sunshine, where! They took a trailer, large )they held these big reflectors tocnough tt.) sleep the family of the scene by reflected sun- Ifive, And fishing tackle. If the LW nir tit beams, By GORDON MARTIN ,41, :,...6,) 1 ONTO THE STAGE he stepped, to play stooge to George Pinzel. his name now is Duke of Edinburgh.

Be is the husband of the Queen of England and AU The Dominions Beyond The Sea. He received the same treatment as other stooges through the years The audience toyed it And George Pinzel remembers it with a soft glow in his veins, George now svorks at Marimardt Aircraft Company in Van Nuys. In the maintenance department. And remembers the days of footlights and applause. And the tall, lean member of royalty, There's scarcely anything we buy that isnt taxed, I guess: but taxes kept on coming, much to everi-one's distress.

For not a single day goes by but what scme eager guy will rise in halls of government and raise It's a strange performance for a man who knows politics as well as Truman. It raises a question: Is his feeling against Stevenson strictly political? Or is it also deeply personal? Everybody here is extremely ''moderate' including Harriman, who denounced moderation as if somehow this were the golden key to the future. But the Democratic politicians' memory seems short. 11191R, in a shattering light over civil rights, the Democrats were split wide open at a time when the Republicans' candidate, Thomas E. Dewey, looked a sure winner.

But Truman and the Democrats won. In 1952 the Republicans put on the harshest convention fight of a generation the struggle between the Eisenhower forces and the supporters of the late Sen. Robert A. Taft but they went on to w41. IKE MAY SUEInterior Sec.

Iretary Fred A. Seaton has proposed an increase of Southwest's rates ta public And co-op customers from 5.3 to 7.3 mills nrr killowatt hour, which would mean an extra a year to the average rural consunier, Ike has indicated that the government will sue to break the SO-year agreements under which private industries pay only 2.2 mills. Oddly. Truman and Chapman forgot to provide that these industrial contracts should be subject to periodit review. IF DEMOCRATS WIN-1n order to block the proposed increase, Senator Robert S.

Kerr of Oklahoma introduced a measure to prevent any tale revision until June '2i1. 1137. The v.ord v. as 6. I io-r 1 i 4 1 41 1 ---1 I 50 14514 fit000l i Ik.

of SURVt1S 1 I a r- 110. 0 COUNTRY EDITOR SPEAKS the hue and for something new we've got In have, if we HI NABOR ould push ahead though taxes won't be boosted much, it's By CLUE MILLER vet), often- said. Ss- through the years we've taxed and taxed and thus expenses mount till taxes are so numerous nobody cares to count. We only know that when h4I we look at tax receipts, we frown and sure as death and you- know'. hat, the cost is never down.

At hopes for no new 'taxes, I'm a man inclined to faint, 1 know, if ever it hcy should tako an old one ntr. 3PC1 ryfnertil FftAtIPPS COT Ifish bite good, they won't get to '7 They put their beads together, iCanada, No fish, then they see two to note the comparison. Canada. traveling for 20 years, they Atad found where they wanted to ANOTHER FORMER They didn't even know theiLNER living in the valley is of the place. Pinzel, a member of the tfamous acrobatic team known as CRESHAM AND EL AK Maxellos.

of the place. pn z(, cm er of the Itarnous acrobatic team known as CRESITAM A ND EL A Istax-ellos. more imps. Ilit to speak ill of the dead than living, but its a lets safer, mere imps. to speak ill bo dead than but its soor.

The only money' that goes as fat today aS did 30 years SgOil is the dime that rolls under theii every theater In New York 1 It was a pleaant eveninz In Nd. they flayed every city In 'the l'alladium; In London. herd Indiana Telephone News. 'lie says the hest trne to Pont A farmer is not when he's rushingi to get his hay in!" I 1 S. VIP.001.11.

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