Matter of Fact
Joseph AIsop
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OMENS ON ROUTE TWO
Greenfield, I n d. No sen
sible man could resist the
comfortable charm of a jour-
Iney along
Rural Route 2,
I which wanders
vaguely
through the
I soybean fields
and cornfields
of Indiana's
Hancock
county.
This James
-iospb Aiiop wnucomo rti
Riley country is rather flat
and featureless. But the peo
ple are full of savor and won
derfully friendly. (Where else
would two wandering, totally
unknown reporters have been
generally welcomed at an
afternoon meeting of a ladies
aid society?) The fat land and
the big barns and the small
neat farmhouses in the groves
of trees, all brightly gilded
by the autumn sun, make a
fiiie scene of peace and plenty.
For the philosophic eye,
even the vast brood sows wal
lowing by their roadside pens
have the beauty of visible
prosperity. But for Republi
cans in 1953, this Rural Route
2 is an ominous road, figura
tively crawling with adders,
shaded my poison sumac, and
leading onwards to probable
disaster on election day.
WHAT makes this road so
ominous for Republicans
is the simple fact that it used
to be a Republican glory road
but has changed sharply in
the past two years. The fig
ures teli the story. In a long
day's work, the professional
poller, Lou Harris, and this re
porter talked with 36 quali
fied voters on Route 2 and the
intersecting and similar Rural
Route S. The farmers who
broke off their soybean har
vest and the housewives who
interrupted their canning
spoke with equal frankness.
Of the 36, one had been too
young to vote in 1956; five
had voted for Adlai Steven
son; and no less than 30 had
voted for President Eisen
hower. Some of the younger
voters had been out of the
-state and some of the women
had not voted (as a surprising
number of women do) except
for the presidential candidate.
Thus there were nine non
voters for the governorship in
1936. Even so the remaining
votes were split in a richly
Republican manner, 21 for
Governor Harold Handley and
only 6 for his Democratic
opponent.
AMONG these 36 men and
women, Gov. Handley is
still losing the same six votes
in his race for the Indiana
Senate seat that he lost last
time in his governorship race.
Eight additional former Hand
ley voters or new voters have
already made up their minds
to vote for the Democratic
Senate nominee, Mayor Vance
Hartke of Evansville. Five
more voters said they were
undecided; and of these, three
were ladies at the aid meet
ing, where it was an act of
courage to talk like a Demo
crat. Finally, two former
Handley voters were now too
disgusted to vote for either
party.
"I just can't make myself
vote for a Democrat," said
one leathery farmer of the
antique Republican stock. "So
by God, I'll just have to vote
pro-high (which, being inter
preted, meant "Prohibition
Party") if I vote at all."
In- other words, in this
u 1 1 r a-Republican territory
where he won by more than
three to one last time, Gov.
Handley is running only a lit
tle better than even today. If
this shrinkage in the basic In
diana Republic asset of farm
votes is repeated along the
other rural routes in the other
farm counties of the state
which is not proven Hand
ley is going to take a licking.
Judging by Rural Route 2,
furthermore, Handley will be
licked although no one knows
much about his rather dim
and dingy Democratic oppon
ent, and simply because Hand
ley is thought to be even dim
mer and dingier.
VlfE made a good many fas-
cinating discoveries along
Rural Route 2. From a" loyally
Republican, sternly Lutheran
old lady, we even heard how
her family had fled from the
part" of Germany that Napo
leon devastated, and how her
great grandmother had virtu
ally been sold as an inden
tured servant and how her
"people had Just gone on
votin for the Republicans
since Abe Lincoln's day."
But there were two discov
eries that stood out. On the
one, desertions from the Re
publican party were just as
common among the richer
farmers, with their two or
three hundred fruitful acres
and their many thousands of
dollars in machinery, as
among the small farmers who
eke out .their incomes with
part time jobs. '
"It takes two of us now
adays me in the factory and
my boy in the field to feed
this family," said one of these
smaller farmers angrily. "So
I'm votin' for the Democrats
because they're for people
like us, and let the others go
Republican." .But he was
wrong about "the others." His
neighbor, who must have
been worth above $150,000 in
land, plant-machinery and
stock, was also voting for the
"Democrats "because it's time
for a change."
On the other hand, there
was no real love for the Demo
crats among the Republican
deserters, as is indicated by
the size of the "don't know"
and "plain disgusted" groups.
Desertion had plainly been en
couraged by the character of
the Indiana Republican party,
which is rent with feuds and
stained with scandal. But de
sertions on the scale we found
would never have occurred if
the enthusiasm still persisted
that had made five out of six
of these people vote for Eisen
hower on the national ticket.
Amonjj too many, that enthu-
Editorial Comment
A FINE OPPORTUNITY
Organization of the Federal
Aviation agency scheduled to
become operative on Jan. 1,
1959, provides a fine oppor
tunity for sweeping out many
of the old cobwebs that have
cluttered the civil aviation
picture during the postwar
decade, and taking a fresh,
technically modern and eco
nomically sound approach to
what is becoming an increas
ingly acute problem. The en
tire civil aviation picture is
badly in need of a new and
well coordinated program
aimed at alleviating the many
technical and economic prob
lems that threaten to curb its
genuine growth potential.
President Eisenhower has
made an excellent choice in
naming Elwood P. "Pete"
Quesada to head the new Fed
eral Aviation agency . . . We
hope this excellent choice
. . . will be followed by the
equally wise selection of
James T. Pyle, present Civil
Aeronautics administr a t o n
chief, as deputy to Mr. Ques
ada. "Jimmy" Pule has
brought a brea'th of fresh au
to the musty CAA and has
the vigor and courage to
battle for the many breaks
with tradition that are vital
to aviation's progress.
One of the major problems
facing the new agency is re
cruiting sufficient vigorous
and technically sound per
sonnel to match the pace of
its administrator.- Simply tak
ing over the - present CAA
personnel lock, stock and bar
rel would doom the new
agency to sterility from the
start. There are able men in
the present CAA organiza
tion, but they are in a minori
ty. On the whole, the CAA
has become a classic example
of how the civil service sys
tem can create a bureaucratic
monolith that Is interested
primarily in preserving a
status quo and shuns all prog
ress and change. CAA's post
war record is a decade of
utter futility in coping with
the tremendous problems
posed by aviation's rapid tech
nical development. The fact
that we are entering the jet
age with a creaking traffic
control system and grossly in
adequate ground environment
can be laid primarily at the
doors of the former lighthouse
keepers and OX-5 engine ex
perts of the CAA whose tech
nical education ended with
the Jennie ...
The selection of Mr. Ques
ada to tiead (the Federal
Aviation agency) has been
widely endorsed by knowl
edgeable groups. All of us
who have fought so hard to
get this type of aviation
agency and vigorous leader
ship must now fight equally
hard to see that it is given
whatever it needs to take full
advantage of the fine oppor
tunity that now lies ahead.
-Aviation W.ek.
siasm has altogether seeped
away.
(Copyright 1958. New York
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Truman Raps Administration
In Attack on Foreign
rs
By RAYMOND LAHR
. UPI Correspondent
Washington - (DPD - Former
President Truman, praised by
top Republicans last week for
soft-pedaling foreign policy in
politics, attacked the Eisen
hower administration today
for "blunder, bluster and
brinkmanship in foreign af
fairs." That was his answer to the
foreign policy remarks of
President Eisenhower in a
Los Angeles campaign speech
Monday night and of Vice
President Richard M. Nixon
Tuesday night. Both spoke
out against appeasement of
Communism and asserted that
peace had been preserved un
der six years of the Eisen
hower administration.
Both Eisenhower and Nixon
praised Truman last week for
taking the position that for
eign policy did not belong in
the 1958 congressional elec
tion campaign. In a few off-the-cuff
jabs, Truman" later
replied the Republicans had
made campaign debate on for
eign policy inevitable by do
ing it themselves since 1952.
Gives 'Price' Version
In a speech prepared for a
Democratic rally today at
Wilmington, Del., the former
president gave his version of
the "price" the nation has
paid for the Eisenhower ad
ministration. This included an
all-time high cost of living, a
S12 billion federal deficit,, a
$20 billion decline in farm in
come, a doubling of the rate
of small business failures and
a "dangerous delay" in the
strengthening of national de
fense. His final item in the "price"
was "a decay of our world
position, through blunder,
bluster and brinkmanship in
foreign affairs."
' The Truman attack came
wjiile Eisenhower was in Chi
cago preparing for his second
major campaign speech of the
week-this one over a national
radio and television network.
Before leaving the West
Coast Tuesday the President
told GOP workers the nation
should elect a Republican
Congress to insure passage of
legislation to "fumigate" cor
rupt labor union leadership.
He blamed the present Demo
cratic Congress for killing his
labor program this year.
Says Budget Too Big
Eisenhower also said the
Death Deepens
Shooting Mystery
New York (UPD- The mys
tery, of why four men were
killed in a Broadway bar
early Sunday deepened to
day because of. the death of
the man who pulled the trig
ger Patrolman James B.
McDermott.
The 34-year-old officer, fa
ther of four children, was
gunned down by fellow po
licemen after his unexplain
ed shooting spree. With five
bullets in his body, McDer
mott clung to life until late
Tuesday.
He died in Roosevelt hos
pital without revealing any
motive, police said. '
Grange News...
Shady Cove Grange
The Shady Cove Grange
was host for the local 4-H
Achievement program Satur
day, Oct. 15, at the Shady
Cove school cafeteria.
County 4-H Agents Miss
Maiilou Garner and Glenn
Klein were introduced by
Master Ed Houston. They each
talked on 4-H work and then
introduced Wes Nissen of the
First National bank.
Nissen presented pins and
awards to the following 4-H
members who had finished
their projects: ;
First year, Judy McKinsie,
Sheri Watson, Sharon Hawks,
Geneva Lowery, Sue Jean
Lowery, Vernon Martin; sec
ond year, Margaret Hanson,
Leonard Hanson, Cheryl Mil
ler, Lois Rodgers, Lloyd Wall
sup, Earl Naumann, Linda
Fay Paulson, Carole Hale, Ce
cilia Kee; fourth year, John
Cox; sixth year, Ira Conner;
eighth year, Robert Peile;
10th year, Velma Peile.
A special award given by
the County Fair board for
Record Books was presented
to Margaret Hanson.
Sandwiches, cake, ice
cream, cider and coffee were
served to 4-H members and
guests by the HEC.
Reed McKay was presented
a birthday card and decorat
ed cake.
At the HEC meeting held
at the Ed Houston home in
Shady Cove plans were made
for a fall dinner to be given
at the Shady Cove School
cafeteria Nov. 23.
The next regular meeting
of the HEC will be Nov. 11 at
the Bert Clark home on Butte
creek with a 12:30 pjn.
dinner.
Next regular meeting of the
Shady Cove Grange will be
Nov. 1. .
federal budget is too big and
appealed to housewives to
join a campaign for less fed
eral spending. And he charged
the Truman administration
with shortchanging the mis-
Boy Will Leave
Psychiatric Ward
New York -(UPD- Melvin
Dean Nimer, the 8-year-old
boy who once said he stabbed
his parents to death, will
leave .the Bellevue Psychiatric
Ward Thursday to be taken to
Utah, to live with his grand
parents. The boy, who is called by
his middle name of Dean, un
derwent six weeks of psychi
atric examination after he al
legedly "confessed" killing
his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Mel.
vin A. Nimber Jr., then re
canted the story.
The child's attorney, Harris
B. Steinberg, said Tuesday
that psychiatrists at Bellevue
found Dean had "an emotion
al disturbance that requires
close psychiatric supervision"
and the condition apparently
pre-dated the Sept. 2 double
murder of his parents.
sile development program.
In his Baltimore speech
Tuesday night, Nixon said the
Truman administration had
followed a policy of "weak
ness and vacillation" under
then Secretary of State Dean
Acheson. He said the Eisen
h o w e r administration be
lieved Communism could be
defeated without war only by
"military strength and diplo
matic firmness."
But he tempered his criti
cism of the Democrats by say
ing "there is no war party in
the United States" and add
ing "there is only one party
of treason - the Communist
party."
Democrats have interpreted
some of Nixon's previous re
marks as applying the war
and treason labels to the Dem
ocratic party.
Johnson 'Notable Example
Nixon called Senate Demo
cratic Leader Lyndon B. John
son a "notable example"
among Democrats who have
supported the Eisenhower for
eign policy. He said the criti
cism came from leaders of the
Democratic party wing
"which is radical in its ap
proach to i economic prob
lems." .
Nixon was scheduled to
campaign today in Hartford,
Conn., Burlington, Vt., and
Provident, RJ.r three states
with both governorships and
U.S. Senate seats at' stake.
In a New Castle, Pa., speech
Tuesday night, Truman said
the GOP was afraid to run on
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socialism" to attack the Dem
ocrats. He also said the busi
ness recession had not ended
and would not end so long as
Republicans controlled the
administration.
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