Socialists Planning
To Offer Presidential
Candidate on Ballot
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington U.R) The So
cialist party boldly has announc
ed that it will put up a presiden
tial candidate again this year.
The national convention takes
place in Cleveland May 30-31.
The Socialist Call devoted less
than a column to its convention
announcement and the mention
of a couple of likely presidential
nominees. Inside the paper has a
full page discussion of what the
Socialist party Is up against,
which is plenty. And what it
should do, which is a matter of
dispute.
Voters Desert Party
The Socialist party is up
against the fact that most of its
voters have deserted it. The de
sertion began in 1936. Socialist
presidential candidate Eugene
V. Debs polled nearly 1,000,000
of about 15,000,000 votes cast
in 1920.
Socialist Candidate Norman
Thomas got nearly 900,000 votes
in 1932 of 39,816,000 cast. Eco
nomic depression is body build
ing food for Socialists. Franklin
D. Roosevelt's New Deal-Demo
cratic coalition sapped the So
cialist party's strength.
The Socialist vote fell to little
more than 80,000 In 1944; was a
mere 139.000 in 1948. Hundreds
of thousands of Socialist votes
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Found Underage
Marshall, Mich (U.PJ A
Korean veteran who. enlisted in
the army when he was 15 is back
home trying to readjust to civil
ian life.
Corp. Mack Hall, now 17, was
discharged for being underage.
The husky youth was keeping
his age a secret until, he says, a
girl friend in Kentucky reported
him to the secretary of the
Army.
Hall kept his secret so well
that he was sent to Korea,
where he served as a machine
gunner with the 5th division un
til he was wounded.
He was so anxious to get back
in uniform that he tried the Ma
rine Corps. That branch of the
service accepted him until It,
too, found out his true age.
One month later he was back
in civies. '
Hall thinks the armed forces
are on to him now so he'll just
look for a job.
were not being cast or they had
been absorbed into the coalition
created by FDR and led in 1948
by President Truman.
Socialists are disputing what
to do about that. The full page
discussion in the Socialist Call
was an argument for getting out
of the presidential candidate
business altogether. The nomina
tion of a Socialist ticket is as un
realistic as little children play
mg house.
Socialists were advised, there
fore, to adopt the bare knuckled
realism of British Socialism
which set out just more than 50
years ago to kidnap a political
party and, . thereafter, to take
over government in good time
British Socialists did just that
The party they took over was
the Independent Labor party
although that one was not their
first choice.
To Scatter Selves
The Call article counselled So
cialist! to scatter themselves
among left wing organizations.
This infiltration or penetration
was to lead finally to independ
ent Socialist political action
That independent action, appar
ently, would come finally with
Socialist domination of an estab
lished party or by the shaping
of existing left wing groups into
national political party struc
ture. '
Specifically tagged for pene
tration were: Liberal Party New
York, Americans for Democratic
Action, CIO Political Action
Committee, AFL Labor's League
for Political Education.
The slump in the total Social
ist poll suggest that many thou
sands of Socialist voters already
have moved In those directions,
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Wednesday, May 21, 1952
Burlington, Vt. (U.PJ Only
one out of every 10 murders in
Vermont ever is discovered, ac
cording to Joseph Spelman, state
pathologist.
He said it was easy to get
away with murder in the state
because Vermont is the only
state which has neither coron
ers nor medical examiners to
investigate voilent or sudden
deaths.
Vermont reports onlv .71 ho
micides a year per 100.000 pop
ulation, while FBI statistics for
the country s rural areas as- a
whole show 5.05 annual mur
ders per 100,000, Spelman said.
The cases of aggravated as-
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Suggestions Made for
Housewives1 Planning
Of Potato-Less Meals
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Washington (U.R) Agricul
ture Department food experts
advised housewives Wednesday
to plan potato-less meals around
such nutritious substitutes as
rice, baked beans, spaghetti or
that old Southern standby,
hominy.
They said all these foods are
plentiful, Inexpensive, easy to
prepare and healthful.
Remedy for Husband
They concede that some habit
ridden husbands may go right on
demanding plain potatoes with
their meat. But there's a remedy
for that too send him out to
find, and pay for, a few pounds
of spuds.
Agriculture Department offic
ials see no hope for relieving the
present "potato famine" until
the new crop starts coming into
the markets next month. Even
then, there's no guarantee that
potatoes will be cheap or plenti
ful. Farmers simply haven t
been planting many potatoes
since the government dropped
price supports on them last year.
Appeals to Housewives
Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall,
who has scores of agents at work
across the country trying to
break up a flourishing black
market in potatoes, appealed to
housewives earlier this week to
cooperate by giving spuds the go
by until they are offered above
the counter at ceiling prices.
The food experts said house
wives will find it easier to com
ply with Arnall's request than
they may suppose.
High on Substitute List
Spaghetti, macaroni and
noodles all made from wheat-
are high on all lists of potato sub
stitutes because they are already
familiar to the cook and her
clientele in nearly every Amer
ican home.
Rice, which many families
have "discovered" since the po
tato shortage began, is also high
ly regarded by the professional
menu-planners.
The. experts don't feel that
sweet potatoes offer much conso
lation to pinched pocketbooks
these days. Last fall's crop was
not large, and current sweet
potato prices are high with re
maining supplies of poor quality.
MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Many Vermont Deaths Said Undiscovered
saults are on par with other
rural areas.
"My opinion, therefore, Is
that many murders have been
committed in Vermont in the
past several years that haven't
been recognized as such," he
said. "These rhurdcrs have been
ruled out as suicides, accidents,
or as deaths brought on by nat
ural causes."
Spelman said it not only was
easy to get away with murder
in the state, but that it was a
simple matter to dispose of a
bodv.
' "Within' the past three
months," he said, "I have heard
of three instances where a body
either has been buried or taken
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