Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 21 July 1950 — Page 2

TWO THE POST-DEMOCRAT, MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1950.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT & Democratic weekly newspaper representing the ‘emocrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 10th imgressional District. The only Democratic Now* per in Delaware County Watered as second class matter January 15, 192], rt the Post Office at Muncie. Indiana, under Act of viarcb 3. 1879. PRICE 5 CENTS—$2.00 A YEAS MRS. GEO. R. DALE, Publisher 916 West Main Street

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At Cleveland, Ohio, a church club had an auction in which sealed gifts from various “celebrities” were auctioned off to the highest bidder. For $16 one lady bought a chance to get an autographed picture of Senator Taft, who is running for re-election. The lady was offered her money back. She took itll The California Democratic Congressional Delegation met in Washington last week to discuss ways and means of effecting efficient coordination and cooperation in the 1950 campaign in California. 1 Present as a guest at that meeting was James Roosevelt, Democratic nominee for Governor of California. There was complete agreement by all those present, including Mrs. Helen Gahagan Douglas, Democratic nominee for the United States Senate, that practical reasons dictate establishment of campaign headquarters in both northern and southern California. The delegation agreed that Congressman John Shelley, 5th District, should be appointed the coordinator of the Democratic campaign in northern California, and that Congressriian Chet Holifield, 19th District, should be named to coordinate the campaign in the southern part of the state. The complete unanimity evidenced indicates the serious purpose of the Democratic Party of California to take the steps necessary for a sweeping victory in the fall elections. Democrats throughout the nation will welcome the return of the Honorable James W. Gerard to a post of active duty with the Democratic National Committee. Last week I named former Ambassador Gerard as Honorary Chairman of the National Finance Committee which will co-or-dinate fund-raising activities for the coming elections in November. Mr. Gerard has served in financial posts with the Democratic Party for the past thirty years. He is world famous as a lawyer and diplomat and has a long and honorable career of achievement for his country and his party. A former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New York and former Ambassador to Germany, Mr. Gerard was Chairman of the Finance Committee for the Democratic National Committee in the important election year of 1932. In 1934 Mr. Gerard was again Chairman of the Finance Committee, and was namerl Honorary Chairman in 1936 and again in 1940. We are fortunate that he can again accent this imnortant ,nost and continue his able service for the Democratic Party.

There has been great disillusionment in this country over the United Nations. The hie-h hopes for world amitv and civilized solutions of international difficulties that were held out when the organization was created have not materialized. And so. in many minds, a feeling has arisen that the UN is a dismal failure, and that it might as well follow the League of Nations into oblivion. But there is another side to this great question. It was well expressed by Raymond Moley in one of his newspaper columns when he wrote: “It is to be hoped that public opinion in the United States will modify its pessimism concerning the United Nations . . . Walter Lippman . . . made the strong point that the United Nations is the only means by which Asiatic interests can be mobilized in the interests of security. That is because the remaining independent Asiatic nations must themselves participate in stabilization, and in so doing work side by side with the nations of the West. “Our own stake is enormous. We must not forfeit the assets of the Japanese potential or neglect the Philippines. For once the Soviet appears in the warm waters of the Pacific, it will develop sea power and challenge our position in the entire ocean. “The United Nations must do or die, and if it does, civilization everywhere will be in grave peril.” The failures of the UN—which have been very largely due to Russia’s constant use of her veto power in any matter that does not further the Soviet policy of world communist

expansion—have overshadowed its achievements. The UN has brought together the nations of the world, and the vast maiority of them are on the side of the West. Countries with a total population of something like a billion people have formally expressed, through the ON, their opposition to the communist invasion of South Korea. And the UN acted promptly, and to the limit of its existing capabilities, when the Korean crisis arose. The UN has protected our own position in Korea. There we are acting, not just on our own hook, but as an agent of the UN. We are following exactly the provisions of the UN charter, which are to block aggression wherever -it rhay appear. We are, therefore, taking on the job of policeman in that tragic little country. It riiay be a long time before the world learns what the Korean war will lead to. For us to lose in Korea would be the final shattering blow to American and United Nations prestige throughout the world. This is what the Russians are hoping for. It would be the greatest victory the Soviet could gain.

In the past four years, free mailing of the Rumely Lobby’s propaganda cost American taxpayers at least $240,000, and some estimates are as-high as $300,000. The free mailing was done by Senators Byrd of Virginia and Eastland of Mississippi, ^ and by Congressmen Gwinn of New York, Smith of Kansas, and Hoffman of Michigan. These members of the Taft-Byrd combine afe always shouting for “government economy,” but were willing to spend hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to mail reactionary propaganda and they say the postal department operated at a tremendous loss. Two Good Candidates Two young candidates have been nominated by the Democratic Party in California for the Senatorial and Gubernatorial races. Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas is the senatorial nominee and James Roosevelt is the party’s candidate for governor. Under the California cross-filing system both defeated efforts by Republicans to win nominations as Democratic candidates. But they still face the problem of defeating Republicans seeking to masquerade as liberals who are really Democratic at heart. In the primary, Congressman Richard M. Nixon, the GOP Senatorial candidate, actually misrepresented himself as a Democrat. He sent out material seeking Democratic votes in the Democratic primary with the caption, “As One Democrat to Another.” Governor Earl Warren, having been Governor Dewey’s running mate in 1948, could not be quite so brazen, but he sought to convince voters he was even more Democratic than the man who defeated him in the Democratic primary—a real. It appears that in the election the Republican candidates will continue their efforts to confuse the voters and to break down party lines and party issues as they tried to do in the primary. Governor Warren is trying, of course, to get enough Democratic votes in the general election to regain prestige lost in 1948. This he will fail to £0 if the California voters who rejected him in 1948 and carried that state for the Democratic party, recognize that Warren is still a foe of the liberal program of the Democratic party and go to the polls and vote as they did two years ago. Congressman Nixon does not have the handicap in his efforts to confuse the issues of having been a Republican Vice-Presiden-tial candidate. However, his bad voting record on such major issues as low-cost housing, slum clearance, rent control, extension of social security coverage and broadening benefits, minimum wage increase, his antilabor votes on the Taft-Hartley Act, and his opposition to important phases of our foreign program show that there is no doubt that he is a genuine Republican of the Taft-Wherry-McCarthy-Martin-Halleck school Both Republican candidates have been adept at diversionary tactics. Governor Warren has a knack of talking for liberal programs but of not fighting hard enough to get them through. Congressman Nixon has a habit of voting to cripple liberal legislation with amendments or of voting to recommit liberal bills and then switching to vote for them on final passage. The main issue before the voters of California will be whether they want Dewey Republicanism or Truman Fair Deal Democracy. When Jimmy Roosevelt and Helen Gahagan Douglas drive that point home to California voters there can be no doubt that the outcome will be a Democratic victory. Truman A Real Leader President Truman has brought a new unity to the nation—a unity founded firmly on an aching desire for peace in an orderly world. For five long years the United States under the leadership of the President has been preaching the principle of collective security to the free world. In 1947 in Greece the Truman Doctrine pointed up our willingness to back with deeds the policies which we advocate. The Marshall Plan of economic aid to check the spread of communism gave further evidence of our determination to stand firmly by our commitments and our beliefs. Now, in Korea, we are faced with a chal-

lenge, brutal in its ‘cynical use of armed strength. For the first time organized warfare has been used to further the onset of commuhism. Whereas in Greece guerrilla warfare was the weapon suited to the Red Hand, in Korea it is outright aggression. The President moved and moved forcefully. Once again an American President, a Democratic President, has acted in the support of the noble principles of the Atlantic Charter and the Charter of the United Nations. Police action taken by the United States to check the tide of the Red onslaught‘has been approved by the Security Council ot the United Nations, and by most of the member nations of the UN who are not satellites of Russia. It was the United States which took the lead in forming the United Nations. It was the United States which wrote into the Charter of the UN the principles of trusteeship for the dependent peoples of the world and gave the lead in establishing the new Republic of Korea which has now been attacked.

It is fitting that it is the United States vhich now has taken the lead to protect the iny nation which it helped to launch. When we withdrew our forces from Korea ollowing the election of a Free Korean goyrnment—an election carried out under the matching eye of a UN Commission — our brces in a gesture of friendliness eft with he Korean defense establishment all ol then irms to give the new nation sufficient frength for internal security. The extent of this military aid has been argely forgotten. Last week a confidential eport to the House Foreign Affairs Commitee revealed for the first time the true ex-

When our occupation forces were withdrawn, the report shows the United States turned over $110 million worth of anti-tank weapons, artillery and other equipment to South Korean forces.

Thus it is readily apparent that the United States has sought to carry out m a material way the commitments we have made to the new Republic.

With a quick, sure hand the President leads the way through decisions which have won the world’s approval.

Thus we stand before the world as leaders in a new unity. Mankind sees us as the symbol of their hope for freedom of the individual in a world free from oppression.

It has often been said that only by deeds can we be judged. I am confident that in the judgment of history our stand will be hailed as the decisive step toward a realization of the desires of all men for peace and dignity and the right to live and worship as they please r

Ewing Gives Facts Last week we gave you the facts about voluntary health insurance plan coverage so you would be able to understand and answei the expensive advertising campaign of the American Medical Association, which is designed to sell the idea that voluntary plans make national health insurance unnecessary. This week we want to give you the facts to answer the other phase of the AMA campaign, which will try to sell the public the idea that the Administration’s health program for the nation is “socialized medfcme.” Oscar R. Ewing, Federal Security Administrator, is head of the government agency entrusted wiht our national health standai ds and our national health problems. He has studied at first hand the national medical program in Great Britain and talked with the persons who are running that program. Recently he made a speech in which he compared the two programs and told why he was AGAINST “socialized medicine.” These excerpts from his speech give you the FACTS which show that the Administration’s health program is the best way to give good medical care to all Americans and to AVOID “socialized medicine.” “A few months ago, while I was in England on an offciial mission, I looked into the workings of the British Health Service. I was especially interested to see what they had done with theird hospitals. As you may know, the British government took over the hospitals Jock, stock and barrel. Nearly every hospital in Great Britain today is government property. While I was in London, I had several conversations—you might , even call them arguments—with the Minister of Health, Aneurin Bevan. He tried to persuade me that you cannot improve the health standards of a nation today unless the government owns and runs the hospitals. I told him flatly that he would not get the President of the United States to agree with him, or the Federal Security Administrator, or anyone else in the government of the United States. “We think our hospitals are well run. We do not believe that the Federal Government would run them better . . . “Now I am going to let you in on a secret. This one may surprise some of you. “Just as I am opposed to Federal control of hospitals, so too I am opposed to Federal control of medicine. I am against socialized medicine. Perhaps I ought to repeat that, slowly. I am against socialized medicine. “I am AGAINST any system whereby all doctors work for the government, and must treat the patients that the government sends to them. “I am AGAINST any system whereby all

patients—meaning the public—get their medical and hospital care paid for out of general taxes, and must accept the treatment of the doctor that the government assigns to them. “I am AGAINST any system whereby the government can tell a doctor exactly how he must treat a particular illness, what drugs he can or cannot use, how much time he or must no spend on a patient. They have that kind of socialized medicine in Russia, and I don’t want any part of it . . . “But I would not be fulfilling my Responsibilities as Federal Security Administrator if I stopped the^e . . . “Our health, by and large, is good in America—better than in any other great nation of the world. We have some of the finest doctors in the world. We have some of the finest hospitals in the world. We have made some of the most miraculous medical discoveries in the world. “But it is not enough . . . “Tens of thousands—even hundreds of thousands—of Americans will have died this year because they could not afford to pay for the medical and hospital care that might have saved their lives . . . “The problem i£ mathematical—how to arrange for people to pay their own way, so far as medical and hospital care is concerned, without setting up the kind of socialized medicine, the Federal control of medicine, which none of us want. “Now I am going to tell you another secret. I am not wedded to National Health Insurance. It is altogether conceivable to me that there is some better way to solve this problem than by the insurance method. I would gladly give up the proposal for National Health Insurance—and President Truman would gladly give it,, up — if someone would come along with a better way to do

the job.

“Somehow, some day soon, we will solve our health problems. We fill make sure that the dollar bill need no longer stand in the way of good health. We will have the doctors and nurses and research workers that we need ... “Does that sound like ‘socialized medicine’ to you? It doesn’t sound like ‘socialism’ to me and I think every American WHO HAS THE FACTS will agree.” Another 'Stockholm Appeal' In the very city where the Soviet launched its fake peace petition an effective answer has just been made. Elinar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway, called for another appeal for peace—to be sent first of

TRUMAN (Continued From l*afire One) The President moved and moved forcefully. Once a^ain an American President, a Democratic President, has acted in the support of the noble principles of the Atlantic Charter and the Charter of the United Nations. Police action taken by the United States to check the tide of the Red onslaught has been approved by the Security Council of the United Nations, and by most of the member nations of the UN who are not satellites of Russia. It was the United States which took the lead in forming the United Nations. It was the United States which wrote into the Charter of the UN the principles of trusteeship for the dependent peoples of the world and gave the lead in establishing the new Republic of Korea which has now been attacked. It is fitting that it is the United States which now has taken the lead to protect the tiny nation which it helped to launch. When we withdrew our forces from Korea following the election of a Free Korean government—an election carried out under the watching eye of a UN Commission—our forces in a gesture of friendliness left with the Korean defense establishment all of their arms to give the new nation sufficient strength for internal security. The extent of this military aid has been largely forgotten. Last week a confidential report to the House Foreign Affairs Committee revealed for the first time the true extent of this gift. When our occupation forces were withdrawn, the report shows the United States turned over $110 million worth of antitank weapons, artillery and other equipment to South Korean forces. This equipment, sufficient for 50.000 men, was available to the South Koreans when the North Korean communists invaded the

south.

Some Republican Congressmen have maintained that U.S. arms aid was “too little and too late.” The equipment turned over by U.S. troops included more than 100.000 rifles and other small arms; more than 2,000 anti-tank bazookas with 40,000 rounds of ammunition; more than 4,900 vehicles and “a large number” of 37 and 57-mm. anti-tank guns, 105-mm howitzers, 60 and 80-mm. mortars, with more than 700,000 rounds of ammunition for these weapons. The American troops also turned over 40,000 Japanese rifles with ammunition. The report said that 79 vessels, including mine sweepers, landing craft and picket boats were given to the Koreans along with about $150,000 worth of scare parts. American occupation forces were withdrawn from Korea in July,

1949.

all to Russia. He would ask the Soviet to really do something for peace—by calling off its stooges in North Korea, by cooperating in the United Nations, by agreeing to effective atomic controls, and by joining in genuine peace treaties for Austria and Germany. The list could be greatly expanded, of course. Stop its campaign of hate and lies, reduce the Red Army by a few million men, disband its fifth column in free countries— all these might well be asked of Moscow. Those who were duped into signing the Stockholm petition’s deceptive call for outlawing the atomic bomb should at least have insisted that the appeal include free and effective international inspection to enforce the outlawing. Korea is really the clearest answer to Communist peace appeals.. As Mr. Gerhardsen points out, the pretense that South Korea was the aggressor reminds us that Mussolini wanted us to believe that Ethiopia threatened Italy and Hitler tried to make us believe that Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland were bullying Germany. Low, the famous British cartoonist, has put it more humorously in a sign carried by a Soviet propagandist: “South Korea in the boot with the seat of its pants.” The Stockwhen you come back! HAVE A HOME TO COME BACK TOd Are you going away for a vacation or a long vacation or a long weekend? You’ll have a better chance to have a home to return to if you make a “fire checkup” before you leave. The National Board of Fire Underwriters has made some simple suggestions which should be followed to the letter before you take off. Here they are: Inspect every room for cigarette butts, and empty ashtrays and wastebaskets. Turn off all electric appliances—radios, fans, lamps, and so on—and all gas jets. It you’re going to be away for a month or more, pull out all flexible cords from the electric outlets in the walls. Inspect closets and basement for accumulations of combustible rubbish and clean it

out.

Remove all water-filled jars and bowls from near windows—sunlight shining thru

such vessels has caused fires.

Have a neighbor inspect your home about once a week, just to be sure*everything is all right. Probably he’ll be Jble to spot any

trouble before it gets serious.

These are all little things—but it’s the little things that can save a home and a life

The report said the arm? were £iven the Korean Republic ‘to preserve internal securitv. prevent communist border raids, and deter “armed attack or other aepression by the forces from North Korea.” But military aid was only nart of our huge program to restore Korea to its ancient independence. Assistance to Korea orovided by the United Statec- from the end of World War II until the beginning of the Fconomic Aid program totalled $350 million. And in the closing months of 1948, the first year of the ECA. Korea received mor» than $30 million in aH. consisting of shinrr°nts of 75.429 tons of ric°s: 54.451 tons of wheat: 12.362 tons of barley: 150.775 tons of salt- 3.244 tone of dried milk: 190.967 tons of coal (from Jenanl: 143 096 tons of ammonium nitrate: 39.329 tons of ammonium sulnhate; 12,352 tons of lime phosphate: petroleum. raw gum. cotton, wool, machinery and cable cars totalling 679.807 tons. Dr. Edgar A. J. Johnson. Director of fho Korea Aid Program of the EC!A, revealed that as of T ulv 5. 1950 and since January 1. 1949. tv«e ECA had authorized a total of $113 million additional in rommoditieg to aid the new Remihlip. Tedmicianc and “know how” were also exoorted to the .South Koreans to heln them nut their country on a financially sound

basis.

Out of the $113 million in ECA aid received in Korea since January 1. 1949. 331 minion was for fertilizers: $16 millions was for roal and oil; $6 million was for machinery. A? a result of our technical *id the industrial cutout of South Korea was increased 62 percent ’n 1949 and has shown a corresponding increase in 1950. The fertilizers shipped to rebuild the worn-out ?oil of the South Korean agricultural lands have been resnonsihle for an increase in the rice yield per acre from 23 bushelc; in 1947 to 30 bushels in 1950. Of this Dr. Johnson said: “In 1950 there was a grim threat of failure of the rice cron” as a result of the failure of the monsoon. Increased p r o d u ctivitv through good agricultural nractices and the use of American furnished fertilizers abated this

threat.

As for subsequent military aid. some $27V? million was orovided in the 1950 military assistance program to cover Korea. Tran and the Philinpines. ($16 million more for Korea and 1 the Philinnines is contained in the 1951 bill just nassed in the Congress.) Thus it is readily apparent that the United States has sought to carry out in a material way the commitments we have made to the new Reoublic.

when it comes to fire. Have a fine vacation [ lead^thfwaymroqgh and make sure you re home will oe there | decisions which have won the

Training Center ^ For WACS Is Fort Lee Ft. Benjamin Harrison(, Indiana,—The Women’s Army Corps Training Center at Fort Lee, Virginia has the important mission of molding selected young women into alert well-adjusted ntilitary personnel for possible further special training or direct assignment and best utilization within the Army. From the day the new “recruits” arrive at the Training Center from all points in the nation, to the day they receive Certificates of Completion from their basic training companies, these young women undergo a thorough and well rounded training program. It is designed to develop military knowledge, physical fitness, pride in the traditions of the sendee, and a fuller appreciation of their heritage as citizens of the United States. During the initial week of training, the first steps in the gradual transformation from civilian to WAC begin. At the clothing warehouse, silks and satins are exchanged for the various items of the WAC uniform—platform soles are replaced by more conservative GI footw e a r. A thorough physical check given at the Station Hospital. Then follows a series of interviews and tests to determine the new recruits’ abilities and aptitudes for future assignments in the many special fields and jobs the Army offers career minded women. In the following twelve weeks, the recruits attend classes regularly each day. Instruction is given in Military Customs and Courtesies, Traditions of the Army, the Organization of the Army and its place on the defense team. Recruits also learn Individual Standards and Social Concepts, Military Justice, First Aid, and other subjects designed to acquaint the civilian woman with the scope and significance of military service. In the eleventh week of their basic trailing, the recruits have five days ’^of Bivouac training—. living in tents out of doors acclimating them to field conditions. Here, the new WAC gets training to insure her general welfare and safety should the need to live under rugged emergency conditions arise. During the over-all training period, the new recruits learn the value of proper health habits. Balanced diet, regular hours, and planned physical training combine to step up general well being. Organized sports an. dinstruction in sports are also part of the new WAC’s training period. The WAC Training Center maintains a Post Exchange, Theater, Service Club, a well equipped Hobby Shop, and h^s a large swimming pool for off-duty recreation. Completion of basic training brings many new opoortunities. Assignments may send wom^n to technical or specialist schools throughout the country, or, if civilian training has already provided a skill, women may go directly to interesting field jobs. Others can advance to Leadership and Officers Candidate training. Eventually many will see service overseas, with the occupation forces in Europe and the Far East, and in the Caribbean and Pacific Commands. Since it opened in 1948, the Women’s Army Corps Training Center at Fort Lee, Virginia has been the springboard from which over five-thousand well qualified women have gone into interesting careers in the Army. world’s approval. Thus we stand before the world as leaders in a new unity. Mankind sees us as the symbol of their hope for feredom of the individual in a world free from oppression. It has often been said that only by deeds can we be judged. I am confident that in the judgment of history our stand will be hailed as the decisive step toward a realization of the desires of all men for peace and dignity and the right to live and worship as they please.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ' SERVICES “Truth” is the subject of the Les-son-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, July 23. The Golden Text is: “God shall send forth his mercy and his tnith” (Psalms 57:3). Among the citations which comprise the Lesson-Sermon is the iollowing from the Bible: “Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of hiy mou^x. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and ri#ht is he” (Deuteronomy 32:1-4). The Lesson-Sermon also includes the following passage from the Christian Science textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy: “To seek Truth through belief in a human doctrine is not to understand the infinite. We must not seek the immutable and immortal through the finite, mutable, and mortal, and so depend upon belief instead of demonstration, for this is fatal to a knowledge of Science. The understanding of Truth gives full faith in Truth, and spiritual understanding is better than all burnt offerings” (p. 286). The University of Paris was founded almost 800 years ago, according to the Encyclopedia Bfitannica.