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ail editions By Reg Manning Arizona Republic Staff Artist Veterans' Day The Arizona Republic thc sum mmam mwmnt Tage 6 Thursday, November 11, 1954 Where The Spirit Of The Lord h. There Is Liberty II Corinthians 3:17 TODAY THE. NATION SALUTES Published Every Morning by PHOENIX NEWSPAPERS, Inc. 120 East Van Buren, Phoenix, Ariz. ECCEXE O.

Pt'IXIAM. Publisher ITS WAR VETERANS, WHO PROVED THEIR. DEVOTION IN 1 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is-light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life. Proverbs 6:23. TIME of Veterans Day As one war another in this has merged almost imperceptibly into harried century, the observance of the which ended World War I has become of an anachronism.

True, the veterans deserve the nation's gratitude, but so do Armistice Day more and more of World War I the veterans of ANb LET US NOT World War II and of the Korean war, of the veterans who have stood guard FORGET THOSE SPECIAL to say nothing at all the bleak outposts of the world these past years. VETERA THE RESERVES, WHO, HAVING SERVED, KEEP THEAS ELVES PREPARED So today the nation observes Veterans Day, in place "of the old Armistice Day, and says thanks to all the men and women who served in the armed forces in peace, in cold war, and in hot war. Veterans are no rarity any more, because of modern warfare's insatiable demand for personnel. But their country owes them all a mighty debt of thanks, which it tries to express in small measure today. TO SERVE AG At A SHOULD THE NEED ARISE Inside Labor Vote Count Shows AFL Jinx Failed By VICTOR REESEL DALLAS To discover If labor leaders can purge political leaders they dislike, I've talked to candidates in eight states In eight days.

I've gabbed with nominees who were bomber pilots, doctors, lawyers and just professional politicos. Some of them campaigned by air, some on horseback and others through special "coffee hour" broadcasts over TV. At least In this elevation it seems that labor cannot purge its critics nor actually elect its friends that is, as a general rule. It appears to me that the vote went strictly along local lines. On June 9, for example, the AFL issued what In effect was a blacklist It marked 60 Republican members of the house of representatives for purging since, by labor standards, they had voted "wrong" all the time.

Of these 60 blacklisted candidates, 43 were re-elected. Five did not run for re-election. But Republicans whom they endorsed won their seats over labor opposition. Only eight of the 60 blacklisted by the AFL were defeated. Republicans were leading In the four other races at the latest count available to me.

Those whom the AFL-Democratic coalition seems to have defeated are in Delaware, California, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, West Virginia, and Indiana. OF ALL THE LABOR machines, the one which came through most powerfully was In Michigan. This seems to be a victory for Walter Reuther and his CIO Auto Workers' Union. They were not only able to defeat Representative Kit Clardy of the house un-American activities committee, but Sen, Homer Ferguson as well and the latter had the support of Jim Hoffa's powerful teamsters' union organization. The Reuther-AFL coalition In Michigan, with the exception of the teamsters, put over an unknown by the name of Pat McNamara, who was given virtually no chance.

Apparently Reuther's radio, television and educational programs financed by his auto union did pay off in that state. The national count also shows that John Lewis Is either a terrific picker of candidates or runs a powerful, though virtually unnoticed, machine called Labor's Non-Partisan League, supported entirely by the United Mine Workers' Union. Lewis did better than any other labor leader. His political league backed 26 candidates and only two of them lost. Incidentally, 25 per cent of the congressional candidates endorsed by Lewis were Republicans in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington.

LEWIS'S PEOPLE worked hard for the reelection of Alben Barkley. Now watch Barkley and Lewis make some startling news in the early part of the next congressional session. Barkley has promised Lewis strong support for measures to help the ailing coal Industry. The election may mark the end of the house un-American activities committee, started back in the '30s by Rep. Martin Dies (re-elected in Texas).

The probable chairman, Rep. Francis Walters plans to ask the house to wipe out this standing committee. Odds are that the house will turn Walters down. But reports indicate that Walters would then strip the committee of its investigators and keep it inactive by refraining from holding scheduled hearings. Sources report that the committee probers have full files on the Communist-line activities of the United Electrical Workers' Union in defense industries, on the Commies' attempted re-infiltration of Hollywood, on Communist cells in New York television Industry and on the Broadway stage.

Hearings on all these problems were tentatively scheduled to begin in New Jersey and New York the early part of January. Representative Walters has said he wants the un-American activities committee abolished and its work done by the house judiciary committee. 'McNngM Syndic lac? The People Speak Please briefly. Sign name and street address (Omitted on request) Fair Unfair To Viewers Of Postponed Auto Race New Look In Legislature From every indication the Arizona Legislature will organize along party lines when it meets next year. The coalition system will go out the window.

Instead of a group of Democrats and Republicans forming a majority and dividing committee chairmanships among them, the Democrats will form the majority and all committee chairmen will be Democrats. We think this is a fine idea, and we hope it isn't abandoned. For the past two years it has been almost impossible to blame either party for bad legislation, or credit it for good legislation. All credit and all blame went to the coalition majority, with each party trying to extract all the credit and duck all the blame for the coalition's actions. Take the state's new income tax law, for instance.

It was passed by a coalition majority in a Democratic legislature. But in this year's campaign the Republican Party apparently was held to blame for undesirable provisions of the law. This couldn't have happened if party responsibility had been established when the legislature was organized. Unless present plans are upset, the Democrats will organize the lower house of the legislature by electing Rep. Harry Ruppelius of Maricopa as speaker.

The Republicans will form the minority, presumably with Rep. Robert A. Myers of Maricopa as minority leader. A similar party alignment will be made in the senate. In both houses Republicans will be assigned to committees, but the all-important chairmanships will go exclusively to Democrats.

One result will be that one party, and only one, can be held responsible when a law is killed in committee. That, of course, will be the majority party, which holds the chairmanship. There are 60 Democrats in the house, and 20 Republicans. The senate is split between 26 Democrats and two Republicans. Party lines will undoubtedly be crossed on specific bills.

Some conservative Democrats may vote more often with the minority than with the majority. Some liberal Republicans may find themselves usually lining up with the majority. Calling The Turn Cartoonist's Letter Recalls Old Days By WESTBROOK PEGLER A letter dropped out of my past a few days ago from E. W. Jamieson, the cartoonist and one-man art department who occupied a dusty little roost on the balcony of an arcade In the Des Moines Daily News in 1913 and 1914.

Jamie" now lives in San Francisco and he writes that his vision, was so bad then that he wore specs like the bottoms of a couple of milk bottles, has improved with senility so that he now wears no glasses at all. His eyes were always irritated and red-rimmed by the dust of the chalk-plates which were used in' those days in newspaper shops which had no etching facilities. This process called for fine skill in the artist and Mr. Jamieson was about the best chalk-plate man in the country. To produce a pen-and-ink drawing you outline it first in pencil, then go over it with Higgins'i ink except, of course, that the indolent stars who do the strips these days have ink-monkeys, or forgers, to do their inking and lettering.

A chalk-plate takes place like this: First you do your, sketch in pencil. Then you thumb-tack a sheet of transparent paper over the sketch and trace It. Then you trfumb-tack the transparent sheet over the chalk-plate, which is a steel plate about a foot square with a layer of chalk paste baked hard in some kind of furnace. With a stylus made of glass you next trace your drawing into the chalk surface. Now you discard the tracing and get busy with steel routing tools, something like nutpicks.

Black lines and surfaces will show up when you clear off the chalk down to the steel base and your eyes and nostrils fill with the dust as you blow it away with gusts of your breath. The plate then goes into a casting-box in the stereotype room and metal pours into the lines and cleared spaces. WE HAD ONE of the greatest black and white artists in the world right there in Des Moines. This was Jay Darling, whose signature, was known all over the world. He was a wonderful draftsman, working in Ink with little brushes.

He could draw you just anything and his cartoon of a spectral Teddy Roosevelt' on a Western horse, waving farewell to the world, was one of his best. Ding came to New York for a few spells and worked for the Tribune and Herald Tribune, but he didn't like New York life and kept going back to Des Moines where he knew everybody. The political cartoonist used to occupy a big square right smack in the middle of Page One above the fold, on many of our morning papers and on some, though fewer, of the PMs. That peculiarity has almost vanished now. The Chicago Tribune still runs Parish, a great caricaturist, on Page One, in rotation with other survivors of a vanishing institution.

The Washington Star has Berryman, son of a father who occupied the same spot for many years, and the St. Louis Post Dispatch uses on the editorial page Fitzpatrick, who adopted the so-called shoe-brush style back around World War I when Kirby, Minor, and several others in New York were experimenting with it. It is done mostly with black crayon. A funny little guy named Corey, barnstormer who rattled around the country, did political or editorial cartoons on the Chicago Journal and some Denver paper for years and years with a style that looked like horse-hair. He used miles and miles of lines.

Burris Jenkins of the Hearst concern, a minister's son from Kansas City, is the best draftsman in political practise. JOHN McCUTCHEON and Darling, ranked up with Homer Davenport and F. Opper, who worked for Hearst, and Thomas Nast. There, I think you have the most best so far. Nast Invented the tiger, the donkey, and the elephant as political symbols, but he was savage, never funny.

The political cartoon has never been a very good seller as a syndicate feature. Some syndicates throw one in with the "package," but you have to resort to ideas like spring and groundhog day, and then you haven't got a political cartoon at all. Someone manages to peddle Herbert Block of the Washington Post, who Is always winning left-wing awards. Rube Goldberg's second blooming Is a strange thing. This character used to do nothing but funny comics, and they were about the funniest funnies we ever had, largely because his style was so inartistic.

I doift know yet whether Rube can really draw or not. But after his comic trade suddenly conked out, he turned to political cartoons and won a Pulitzer award, which is the Big Casino in that line, although it doesn't mean a thing in reporting since they gave it to a H-T man for a series called Washington Witch Hunt, which was nothing but a handout from a law office with clients who were getting their lumps from the Joe McCarthys up the hill. Do You Remember? Five Years Ago Today, Not. 11, 1949 Temperature high 68, low 53, cloudy. Vigilantes are riding Arizona highways.

Some 50 citizens, volunteers, who constantly drive on the highways of the state, have been organized by Andrew L. Case, state supervisor of traffic and safety education, to fight flagrant traffic violations. They will be equipped with special report cards on which to note violations and take down license numbers. Warning letters will be sent to the violators noted. Resignation of Leo H.

Crosson as manager of the Arizona Dawn Gardens, date growers and processors on East Indian School Road was announced yesterday. He will leave tomorrow to join the InterChemical Company, Rock Hill, S. as technical expert in its color and pigment division. 20 Years Ago Today, Nov. 11, 1934 Temperature high 79, low 59, cloudy.

T. G. Grieder, Winslow superintendent of schools, was elected president of the Arizona Education Association yesterday In the closing session of the 1934 convention. He succeeds Anna A. Rogers of Tucson.

Armistrice Day will be observed tomorrow by the military units, service organizations and civic clubs In the city with a parade in the morning and exercises at the state fair ground In the afternoon. Sheriff O. C. Williams of Navajo County and his deputy, Lafe Hatch, were en route to their homes in Holbrook last night after taking a prisoner to the state prison at Florence. 40 Years Ago Today, Nov.

11, 1914 Temperature high 83, low 60, rainfall, .08 of an inch. Those for whom the clouds held no terrors, and there were many, visited the state fair yesterday and passed several hours in the various buildings that house Arizona displays. The racing program was cancelled because of the mud and inclentent weather. Arthur E. Price, who- for several months has been acting as justice of the peace for the Chandler district, has resigned and a petition to the county board of supervisors to appoint D.

M. Arnold to the position is being circulated. 2 Beaten Candidate Announces For '56 Editor, The Arizona Republic: A sincere "thank you" for your splendid coverage of the campaign for sheriff of Maricopa County, recently concluded. The vote of confidence given me by over 40,000 citizens of this county is deeply gratifying to say the least During my recent campaign speeches I pledged a new era in county law enforcement. Two years from now I shall make the same pledge again, and I am sure enough people, in addition to those who recently cast their ballots for me, will rally to my support so that Maricopa County will elect Frank M.

Wal-dron as sheriff. They may rest assured they will receive the protection that they as taxpayers are entitled to receive. I wish to thank my opponent for his co-operation in a clean campaign. I do not believe in bringing personalities into a political race. I have always and still do believe a race should be won or lost on the issues only.

Again, thanks to this newspaper and my many friends, both Republicans and Democrats alike, for their tireless efforts on my behalf. Now that the political dust has cleared away, let us all, as good citizens, reunite to give our whole-hearted support to our elected public officials, and continue to make Arizona the greatest state and America the greatest nation in the world. FRANK M. WALDRON But party responsibility will be fixed. If the tax rate goes up (or down) the voters will know where the re see the race torriorrow.

Saturday they were too greedy for the dollar to prepare the track for today's event. I sat in the $5 seats and from where I was I could see, I'm sure, at least 10,000 people who paid their way in. Figure out what they spent for everything, soda pop, hot dogs, plus their seat, yet for a few hundred, in comparison, watching the horse races, they wouldn't cancel them or give them another day this week, to prepare the track for the big moneymaker race. When, oh when is this state going to wake up and give Johnny Q. Public a break? To get appointed to jobs as department heads, in this case at the fair, you must be one of three things, a very good friend of someone or other, be a close relative, or have an IQ of 12 out of a possible 200.

TYKO H. HELLBERG Wickenburg Pegler, Again Editor, The Arizona Republic: There was a letter in this column some time ago condemning Westbrook Pegler's style of writing. It said something to the effect that it was vulgar, profane and bad in every way. I think he has a wonderful power of expression and digs up a lot of facts and information the public should know about. However, he does prostitute his ability and is dishonorable in his writing, for he often tries to put over false impressions, misinformation, and is continually blaming certain individuals for what our entire political and economic history and the majority of our whole society in its every phase and walk of life is actually to blame.

In that way he appeals to people's gullibility, prejudices and foolish emotions instead of to their common sense and intelligence. C. F. iATHAM sponsibility falls. If the pressing school problem isn't solved, the Democrats will be unable to blame it on the Today 8 Postcard Editor, The Arizona Republic: Sunday I had the pleasure of visiting the state fair with the primary reason of my attendance being the 100-mile race.

I would like to give you my opinion of that race not of the drivers, but rather the heads of the various departments in charge. When an attraction of such magnitude is to be given the public, and the public is made aware of it through terrific advertising in your paper and over the radio, one fact stands out and that is prepare for it. The only thing that was well prepared and thought of was to have enough ticket sellers on the job, and to be very sure that all the seat prices were well displayed. Even the ushers were very well trained and enough of them. They worked for free of course, under the guise of doing their good turn for the day.

As to the track proper, the one most important phase of this gala event was given, I'm sure, just a passing thought by some incompetent department head. I'm sure the reason why it was treated so lightly was that the water needed to wet it down and the gas that is consumed in doing so, cost money. You know these incompetents running the show must, above all, make a very good showing on the money taken in, and to be sure that darn little goes out. I'm sure they like their jobs and want to be there next year, so let's buckle down, boys, and see how much we can save! As for the public, the ones that pay all the bills, the ones that look forward all year to attending, the ones that lay out their hard earned money at $3.50, $4, and $5 a seat to see a top-notch race, well boys, don't worry about them too much, they'll always be here, they're just a bunch of suckers. I'm sure 99 '-a per cent of those that attended are working people, yet we are told to take a day off from work and come back to GRIN AND BEAR IT Republicans, as they did this year.

This is a new look in Arizona politics. Never in the history of the state, according to the legislative experts capitol, has the legislature organized along party lins. From 1930 until 1952 there simply weren't enough Republicans to matter. And from 1952 to 1954, the Republicans smothered themselves by joining a coalition. We think the Democrats will help the Republican Party as well as the state by establishing party responsibility in the next legislature.

All-WAC Army May Be Good Idea By STAN DELAPLANE The first lady soldier I ever saw was down by Sentani Strip at Hollandia in New Guinea. She was sitting in a muddy tent, filling out forms, on GI clothing. And vice versa, you might say. After I got over the shock. I Merit Alone asked her if she would be interviewed.

She said she could be interviewed after 6 o'clock. And that she must be Interviewed with another girl and another gentleman present. And we must have a jeep and be armed. "Madam," I said gallantly, "I need not pack a .45. For I trust We are happy to hear President Eisenhower apparently feels he has paid off all the political debts incumbent on him as far as the United States Supreme Court is concerned and has made his most recent appointment on merit alone.

Mr. Eisenhower's first appointment of Earl Warren as chief justice certainly must be classed as political. That isn't true of his second appointment to the court. John Marshall Harlan comes from a long line of distinguished lawyers. He is a graduate of Princeton University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.

He has been an assistant U. S. attorney, a special assistant attorney general for New York State, chief counsel and general counsel for the New York State Crime Commission, and has served on the bench as a federal district judge. Mr. Harlan has long been an active partner in a distinguished New York law firm.

His grandfather, also named John Marshall Harlan, was an associate justice of the supreme court from 1877 until 1911. It is our sincere belief that the United States Supreme Court should be above politics and that appointment to it should be by merit alone. Congratulations to President Eisenhower for returning to this policy. Let us hope there are no further deviations by any president By Lichty Time Wasted Editor, The Arizona Republic: I cannot quarrel with the erudition or the articulateness of the very erudite and articulate Tom Foley (letter Nov. 10) but I certainly must chide him for his obvious inability to recognize a tongue in cheek which has swollen the jaw to the proportions of a good case of mumps.

He quotes Lydia Burnham (letter Nov. 5) as listing four categories of descriptions by which "unthinking people" identify Communists and then proceeds to have the poor woman describe herself as "unthinking" by assuming that she, herself, accepts those descriptions as accurate. Why else take the lady's categories and at great length prove them to be so demonstrably incorrect? You wasted your time, Tom. Go back and read Miss (or Mrs.) Burnham's letter again. If she wasn't trying to show that those descriptions are completely fallible when it comes to separating the Reds from the just plain rogues, I'm a monkey's uncle or rather, a monkey was my uncle, which I rather suspect to have been the case.

THOMAS K. SANFORD Pyle Running Editor, The Arizona Republic: Now that thiselection is settled, I wonder if the Democrats-For-Pyle Club is now a defunct organization, or will it be able-to function in the 1956 campaign? B. HALL Show Low you. And I see that you are a lady." "It is not against us, it is against the enemy," she said. Since there was no enemy within several hundred miles, I have often wondered.

But, oh well Well, I simply thought we should speak of the armed forces this Veterans Day. The best part of the armed forces is that they include ladies. IF PICASSO would draw me a dove, I have a terrific idea for world peace. Make all armies all women. If all armies were all women, there would be very little war.

Mostly things would be fashion parades. We would put our Mainbocher models up against the Red Square entries. Instead of jungle greens, our lady soldier would wear jungle prints. The helmet would be redesigned into something useless. The present helmet is pretty useless.

But this would be even more so. Like a lady's htft. You would not be able to wash your socks in it anymore. I DO NOT LOOK for much fighting in the new army. A little bickering, maybe.

But mostly among ourselves. Why pick on those kids across the sea when there are so many cats right here? The Korean command is hereby closed. A men's auxiliary to the regular army is hereby created. It will be known as the MACs. Enlistments are limited to gentlemen who are young, handsome and rich.

Any MAC who marries outside the regular army shall have his buttons cut off and be drummed off the post. Lady soldiers who have had an unhappy love affair or get a "Dear Joanna" letter, shall get a free trip to Hawaii and a Purple Heart. In this war there shall be no armistice. Who ever had It so good? llim Barely Indecent We view with pride the reaction of the American Sunbathing Association to the suggestion recently made by the British sunbathers (nudists) which we view with alarm. tThe British group has proposed that women go down to the sea for their sunbathing bare to the waist.

"We want the American public to know the ASA is entirely opposed to such an idea," the president of the American barers announced without hesitation. So are We. We think this trying to put over the nude on the general public inch by inch is a waste of time and will cry out against it wholeheartedly and at length. We don't think the moustached male chest is any adornment to the beach or the pooL But we're already stuck with that bit of exhibitionism. From here on we intend to dig in and hold the line.

No buts and certainly no busts. Keep your ideas to home, British cousins. "You must control your nerves, madam! The child has a feeling of Insecurity, induced by the fear of your not being able to stand much more A.