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THE POST-DEMOCRAT, MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOV. 17, 1950. |TEMS ABOUT

HIE POST-DEMOCRAT a Democratic weoxly newspaper representing the democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 10th ungressionai District. The only Democratic News- • a per in Delaware County Watered as second class matter January 15, 192J, rt the Post Office at Muncie, Indiana, under Act of id arch 3, 1879. PRICE 5 CENTS—$2.00 A YEAR MRS. GEO. R. DALE, Published ^ fllfi West Main Street Muncie, Indiana, Friday, November 17,1950. China Must Understand It is plain now that Communist China intends to do just what several divisions of her troops have been doing during the last week—that is, prevent complete United Nations occupation of Korea. The communique of General MacArthur to the UN makes clear how serious is the military problem posed by this situation. For the UN there is the still greater problem of statecraft— how to punish North Korean aggression and yet avoid precipitating full-scale war with Communist China. The goal of UN policy must continue to be the establishment of an independent Korea in full possession of its territory to the historic northern border, the Palu and Tumen Rivers. This is no encroachment on Manchuria and no threat to China if the Peiping government is willing to accept self-dateiv mination on the part of its neighbor peoples. Though United States and South Korean troops ae predominantly involved, the decision as to use of air power beyond the Yalu River is one to be made not merely by the United States but by the United Nations. UN troops should not be obliged to meet solely on the ground the thrust of Red Chinese armies supported from Manchuria. Chinese troops have no legal right to be in Korea. So long as they stay there, UN forces should be free to strike by air to cut off their supplies of munitions and reinforcements even within the Manchurian frontier. The United Nations should call upon the Chinese Communist Government to withdraw its troops from Korea to its own soil. The UN should allow a reasonable time for compliance with this demand, meanwhile strengthening its present line with forces from as many nations as possible. It should serve notice that if Chinese troops are not removed within the specified time, the UN air power will bomb bridges, highways, railways, troop concentrations, airfields, supply depots, and similar military targets within a reasonable zone behind the lines whether in Korea or Manchuria. This might extend to other targets, such as hydroelectric plants, if Red intervention continues. There should be at the same time, it Seems lo us. a positive declaration bv the UN that its ground forces have no desire to extend their occupation across the Palu and Tumen Rivers, that the power plants will be allowed to continue peacetime service to both Korean and Manchurian users, and that bombing will be aimed solely to produce a withdrawal of Chinese troops from Korean soil. Finally, the utmost possible use should be made of propaganda leaflets, radio broadcasts, and other means of psychological warfare to tell as many as possible of the Chinese people what are the real aims of the UN nations, including America, and where these aims stop. Maj. Gen. Chung II Kwon, South Korean commander in chief, believes this would be particularly effective, since more than half of Communist China’s troops are said to be former soldiers of Chiang Kaishek’s Nationalist armies. The propoganda campaign which the Communist government has whipped up in China lately against the western nations requires a calm and effective answer. We believe the first part of that answer consists of making crystal clear to the Peiping government what the consequences of continued military intervention will be. The secopd part, we are equally convinced, consists of reassuring the rank and file of Chinese people that America and the West have no imperialistic or exploitative designs against them.—Christian Science Monitor. What The Russian Reads As a matter of policy, the Soviet government does everything possible to create fear, distrust and hatred of America among its people. Those who would like an insight into some of the techniques pursued would do well to read an article in the November American Mercury by Louis J. Herman, a specialist in Russia propaganda, called “America Through the Kremlin’s Eyes.” The tenor of his article is found in this paragraph: “Did you know that Walt Disney was an arch-reactionary? That movie attendance is falling off because of public indignation at Hollywood’s vile anti-Soviet propaganda? Or that crime is flourishing because the police are all tracking down progressiveminded Americans? Such cockeyed facts might be news to you, but every one of them is true — at least it says so in the Russian press, which is currently embarked on an extraordinary campaign of popular enlightenment about America and Americans . . . For sheer volume, the current campaign to expunge the last trace of war-time affection for America from the Russian mind is in a class by itself.” In the field of sweeping generalities, Mr. Herman quotes this picture of America from a piece in the New Times, a Soviet weekly: “A handful of plutocrats wallow in wealth and enjoy unlimited power, while tens of millions of ordinary people suffer privation and oppression. ... In their crusade against

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chambers.” The American press—which, according to the official Soviet view, is almost 100 per cent pro-fascist and anti-democratic—natur-ally comes in for its full share of attention. The heaviest bombardment falls on publications of wide circulation, such as Time and Newsweek, and the New York Times and Herald Tribune. The following view of goings on at the National Press Club in Washington is offered: “Here, over a glass of whiskey, around the card or billiard tables, rumors and insinuations are born, domestic and world news is manufactured, vicious, lying stories are penned at the warmongers’ orders.” American business gets the works time and time again, with particular emphasis on the devils of Wall Street. The whole country, says the Russian organs, is run by trusts and monopolies, with the connivance of the labor unions. Thus, it is said, the officers of the CIO and AFL “besides abetting the monopolies on all major domestic issues . . . openly support the imperialists on the international scene.” William Green is described as “a lackey of monopoly capitalism, political bandit and provocateur.” To list the individuals who come in for Soviet compliments of this nature would take many pages. Walter Lippmann is a “malicious warmonger.” Dorothy Thompson is “the well known pro-fascist.” And Upton Sinclair, of all people, writes his books on the “assignment of Wall Street.” So it goes, in huge volume. How many Russians believe it no one knows. But the fact is that very few of them have access to any other point of view.—Industrial News. Phooey! To a Guy Named "Joe" There can no longer be any doubt about the aims of Joe Stalin- or of the threat his heinous ideologies hold over each of us. Stalin is out to force his way of life on the peaceloving peoples of the world. Down deep most of us had realized that he and his kind are stinkers. We hoped desperately for peace and let ourselves be lulled into accepting a tragically false picture of Joe and his ambitions. He was depicted as a rotund old man with a huge mustache and crinkling eyes who would enjoy sitting out in the morning sun, but who somehow had got tangled up with a bunch of yapping, albeit harmless, political fanatics. We called him “Uncle Joe” and tolerated his stubbornness, telling ourselves that we’d knock his ears down if he got too gayNow we know these hard facts: Communism seeks to dominate the world, to uproot our government, schools, churches, families, everything we hold dear. The world is grapefruit size; distance has lost its meaning. Red Russia is an encroaching neighbor. We have known no real peace for more than a decade; for the second time in less than a decade U. S. soldiers are fighting on foreign soil. And we’re not likely to know peace as long as Joe Stalin and his gangsters tread their criminal paths. The future will not be easy. A fundamental fact, too often overlooked, is that freedom and security don’t just happen but only come with struggle and sacrifice. That’s the way it is in our time. — The Shield, Indiana State Police magazine. I Keep Grass Root Support Alive The investigation of the House Lobby Committee has shown how selfish interest lobbies put great local pressure on individual Congressmen and Senators to vote against legislation to carry out the platform of the Democratic Party. These lobbies are expert at thinking up plausible reasons why decent housing, or a higher minimum wage, or broader social security, or rent control, for example, were fine things when the candidate was campaigning, but should not be enacted when the measures come up for vote because of “changed conditions” or a hundred other reasons. Constant grass root support for the President and members of Congress in carrying out a successful bi-partisan foreign policy and the progressive domestic program is a vital necessity. 1850 Tactics Still Used The tactics of branding every act of the Administration that looks even slightly progressive as another step toward socialism, used so widely by the Republicans in the 1950 campaign, are nothing new on the American political scene. As far back as 1850, a conservative New York paper, the “Freemen’s Journal” commented on the repeal of what it considered a radical move in these words: “Hurrah for Repeal! The law voted blindly at the general election last fall has been submitted anew by the Legislature to the popular vote. “Many thanks to the Legislature for the opportunity thus afforded us for making our step backward from the downward dourse of state monopoly, state despotism and state socialism into which recent legislative movements have been hurrying us.” And what was the law that so terrified the opponents of “state socialism?” IT WAS A LAW PROVIDING FREE SCHOOLS.

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France; and Switzerland.

The USS Midway is operating with the U. S. Sixth Fleet, which is under the command of Vice Admiral John J. Ballentine. The Sixth Fleet is cruising in the Mediterranean under the control of Admiral Richard L. Conolly, Commander-in-Chief, U. S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and

Mediterranean.

William L. Cooper Indoctrinated into th£ traditions and color of Naval Life is William Lee Cooper, seaman recruit, USN, of 509 East Jackson St., Muncie, Ind., 208 who received his first military instruction at the Naval Training Center, San De^o, Calif., under the Navy’s recruit training program. At San Diego, the training is designed to benefit the recruit through personal experience and by academic lectures in such diversified subjects as signaling, navigation, gunnery, basic ordnante, Navy customs and terms,

and seamanship.

Having completed recruit training successfully, he is ready for assignment to a Fleet unit on active duty, or enrollment as a student at one of the Navy’s specialized service schools for

further training. Carl Morris and

Clifford L. Tweedy Serving in the Mediterranean Sea are two Muncie, Ind., men, Carl L. Morris, aviation chief structural mechanic, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse M. Morris of 2900 South Madison, and Clifford Leroy Tweedy, fireman, USN, a crew member of the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea. The Coral Sea and other units of the Sixth Fleet are constantly On the move protecting U. S. interests in that area. Opportunity is afforded the crew to visit many of the showplaces of the Mediterranean World. The Sixth Fleet is under the operational control of Admiral Richard L. Conolly, Commander-in-Chief, U. S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediter-

ranean.

HAROLD R. RIGGS Harold R. Riggs, seaman, USN, of 516 Va South Brotherton, Muncie, Ind., is serving aboard the USS Hank, one of the seven destroyers which recently arrived from the East Coast to strengthen the forces of the Pacific Fleet. Riggs, who entered the Naval service in February, 1948, received his recruit training at the U. S. Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, 111. Before entering the Navy, Riggs attended Central High School. EDWARD B. VENABLE Edward B. Venable, fireman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Venable of Muncie, Ind., is serving aboard the USS Charles S. Sperry, one of the seven destroyers Which recently arrived from the East Co^st to strengthen the forces of the Pacific Fleet. Before entering the service Venable was graduated from Central High School. DEWEY FRANCIS MERCER Dev/ey Francis Mercer, boatswain’s mate, second class, USN, husband of Mrs. Helen Lucille Mercer of 1308 West 18th street, Muncie, Ind., is now serving with the flag allowance of the Second Fleet aboard the escort aircraft carrier USS Palau, which is operating in the Atlantic.

SYMINGTON (Continued from Pace One) increases to offset the price increases, in part at least, so the problem is much worse for an elderly couple living on a pension. “Worst of all,” he added, “would be the plight of the soldier’s widow yho is receiving $60 a month.” He promised that “the American people are going to win this fight against inflation.” If controls are necessary, there will be controls. But the real enemy of inflation is production—both the greatest asset and the most outstanding characteristic of the American people.” Production is not only “the only real and permanent answer to inflation,” he went on. “It may mean our survival as a nation,” against the threat of Communism. “What shall we do to hold the peace?” he was asked. “What shall we do to prepare for the possibility of war? What is the best way to stop inflation? What

is the hope for a civilian scale of living that vindicates the American system while we are arming to defend that system. “To all these questions, there is only one answer: Greater production today, even greater production tomorrow.”—Labor.

NATIONAL (Continued from Pace One) canning to tractor maintenance. “The money,” declares Guy L. Noble, director of the National 4-H Committee, “is considered a sound investment in the nation’s future by encouraging these rural boys and girls who have pledged their head, heart, hands, and health To Make The Best Better.” “4-H youth learn by doing,” Mr. Noble stated, “and guiding their efforts are 250,000 volunteer club leaders who work under the direction of the Extension Service of the State Agricultural colleges to carry out 4-H program objectives.” According to Noble, the teen-agers do a man-sized job of becoming independent farmers, while others have already accumulated substantial bank accounts The Congress will not he all fun, entertainment, breakfasts, luncheons, dinners, and banquets. During the four-day session it will get down to much serious business. Among other things it will be addressed by outstanding leaders of education, government, and industiy. The burden of these speeches will incorporate the 1950 theme of the 4-H Clubs, “Better Living for a Better World.” We need have no fears regarding the future of agriculture in America, thanks to the 4-H Clubs, the Extension Service of State Agriculture colleges, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and business and industry "operating through the National Committee on Boys and Girls Club Work, Inc. Here’s hoping these delegates who represent the world’s largest youth group will enjoy to the full their four-day visit and will return to their homes fired with added zeal to win further laurels the while they do their bit To Make The Best Better.

Unemployment (Continued From Pane One) ion’s 29 offices reported a total of 2,503 unfilled professional and managerial, clerical and sales, and skilled occupation job openings, about half of which were in Indianapolis and South Bend. Lack of qualified applicants for existing openings was the prime reason employer requests were unmet, according to Mr. Crise. He added, however, that, in some instances, such factor as too stringent employer specifications; low pay or straight commission remuneration; shift hours; parttime or temporary work; and poor transportation facilities had added to the difficulties of finding takers for the openings. The range of unfilled orders at various Division offices extended from a minimum of 3 (with 5 offices reporting fewer than 10 each) to a maximum of more than 750. Five offices had no openings in the professional and managerial group; three had none in clerical occupations; three had no sales openings; and one had no skilled job openings unfilled at the end of September. Mr. Crise pointed out that many Indiana employers may have , to mollify unrealisticaly strict hiring specifications, par-

Legal Notice NOTICE OF ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION AND AMENDMENT OF BUDGET SCHOOL CITY OF MUNCIE, INDIANA NOTICE is hereby given that -the Board of School Trustees of the School City of Muncie, Indiana, has determined that an extraordinary emergency exists for the appropriation and expenditure of the sum of Fifty-four Thousand Dollars ($54,000.00) out of the Special School Fund, in excess of the amounts set out in detail in the published budget of said school city, for the year 1950, to be used for payment of teachers’ salaries, amounting to Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00i and salaries of custodians, amounting to Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00). The above transfers will be made front excess funds not otherwise appropriated. The matter of said appropriation 'and additional expenditure for such purposes will be considered by the Board of School Trustees at a public hearing to be held at the office of the Superintendent of City Schools, in the Central High School Building, Muncie, Indiana at 7:30 o’clock P. M. on Thursday, December 7, 1950, at which time all taxpayers and other persons interested shall have the right to appear and be heard thereon. Dated at Muncie, Indiana, this 17th day of November, 1950. School City of Muncie, Indiana By Marie W. Owens, President Joseph L. Douglas, Treasurer H. Arthur Tuhey, Secretary Board of School Trustees. Bracken, Gray, De Fur & Voran, Attorneys iPDi—Nov 17-23.

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We Ask That Fares" Play Fair

Judge Cunningham was telling about a taxi ride he took over to the County Seat last week. The cab was all Uttered with cigarette butts, plus candy and gum wrappers. This annoyed the Judge and he spoke to the driver about it. * To his surprise the cabman answered right back. “Don’t blame me,” he said “Fast as I clear this taxi out, the fares just mess it up again. I like a clean cab as well as anybody, but a man has to have some co-operation!” Judge figures the fellow was in the right, and maybe we ought to

do a little campaigning with the public. I agree with him—that’s why I’m writing this article. From where I sit, it’s important for us to remember the fellow who’s going to get in the cab after we leave it. Because he pays the same as we do, he’s got the same right to a clean, comfortable ride— just as he has the same right to enjoy the beverage of his choice (be it coffee, beer, lemonade, or what have you).

ticularly with respect to nonper- are most of the other mobiliza-

tion agencies.

Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan will be responsible for food, fertilizer and farm implement problems. Food production and distribution will be part of Agriculture functions. He will work with NPA and other agencies on proper use of fertilizer supply and of farm implements.

formance factors such as age, weight, height or sex. He suggested that training by employers may be the only practical solution to the rapidly developing shortages of trained workers in many occupations. The mobilization program is likely to increase in size insofar as administration goes, but the agencies already designated by the President are likely to be the chief ones in which responsibility for doing an emergency production job is concerned.—Team-

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INDUSTRIAL (Continued from Page One) under this program: prices and wages. The price control set-up has not been developed and no director of price control had been named at the time this article was in preparation. The wage board head, however, had been appointed. Cyrus Ching, long time director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service was appointed. Manpower A Problem. Of major importance in the defense program will be manpower. In World War II the nation had the War Manpower Commission. The general responsibilities in this field have been allocated to Labor Secretary Maurice J. Tobin. He has in his department a number of people who were with the Whr Manpower Commission and are familiar with the basic problems.

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(Continued from Page One) China-Burma area, they would then have the surplus-food producing area of the entire Orient

under their control.

What would this mean? We would then have to ship food to hungry Orientals outside this area, or see them go to the Communists to keep from starving! It is also no accident that 85 percent of the European fertilizer supply is tuckekd securely behind Russian occupation lines. One result of this is that 60 percent of our gigantic European aid shipments was food. American farming stood up well under that load. But don’t let anyone tell you we can feed the world. We can’,t come anywhere near it,<

the article warns.

. During the war Japan doubled Korean rice production—a phenomenal feat—by heavy dosages of nitrogen from Korean fertilizer plants. True to form, the Russians took over that area. This left us with the problem of how to keep Korea’s rice production high enough to feed her people—

To discharge the function for-; without shipping her practically merily handled by the Office of the entire United States produc-

tion of nitrogen fertilizers. Aside from Russia and Soviet

Defense Transportaiton, the President designated Commissioner James K. Knudson of the Inters t a te Commerce Commisison. Knudson has established within the ICC the Defense transport Administration. Motor transport as well as other forms of transportation in the defense program will come under his supervision. Power, fuels and minerals supervision insofar as mobilization are concerned are under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the j Interior, Oscar L. Chapman. There has been set up a Minerals and Fuel Administration in Interior. Thus far a special petroleum agency has been set up and additional companion agencies may be established for power, fuels and other minerals. This program is still in the making as

controlled Chinese lands, the only other immediately available supply of rich soil outside North

America is in the Argentine. Food from this area was part of the prize Hitler sought in that country. To balance these food-produc-ing areas over the world, the U, S. has a frighteningly narrow strip of high-producing soil. And we should be ashamed of the care we are taking of it. We have lost 100 million acres of cropland completely by allowing water to wash it away.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES “Soul and Body” is the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, November 19. The Golden Text is: “The Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly” (Psalms 84:11). Among the citations which comprise the Lesson-Sermon is the following from the Bible: “And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven: And he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepeth covenant and mercy wit)) thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart” (I Kings 8:22, 23). The Lesson-Sermon also includes the following passages from the Christian Science textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy: “Spirit, Soul, is not confined in man, and is never in matter” (p. 467). “Soul is Spirit, and Spirit is greater than body” (p. 223). “The Science of being shows it to be impossible for infinite Spirit or Soul to be in a finite body or for man to have an intelligence separate from his Maker” (p. 309).

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This Thanksgiving

a In the truly humble sense of American thanksgiving, the electric companies of this State are thankful they have been able to continue building the new electric power capacity necessary to serve the fast-growing needs of Indiana electric users. In terms of capability, Indiana’s power supply has jumped from 931,700 to 1,919,400 kilowatts between 1940 and 1950, and construction providing another 581,000 kilowatts will be completed by the end of 1953. During these same 13 years, the electric companies will have invested over 500 million dollars to provide the power required to meet the increasing electric needs of Indiana industries, stores, farms and homes. Obtaining this money requires the sale, to the investing public, of additional stocks and bonds. No matter what the future brings ... of this you can be sure, the electric companies of Indiana, directed by thoroughly experienced managements able to expand their companies under America’s system of free enterprise, will continue to build ahead . . . will continue to provide dependable electric power when and where needed, no matter what the job! NOW—Stec&Uc 'Pgua&i AND MORE TO COME! 1PF"

Twin Branch Station of Indiana & Michigan Electric Company, located along the St. Joseph RiVer near South Bend. This plant, the largest in the I & M System, contains five units. The last installed has net capability of 150,000 kilowatts and was put in service in August, 1949. The station’s total capability is 393,000 kilowatts.

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The Harding Street Generating Station of Indianapolis Power & Light Company in Indianapolis. Its four units have a total capability of 160,000 kilowatts, the last of which was placed in service in 1947.

The Michigan City Electric Generating Station of Northern Indiana Public Service Company, designed for a total capability of approximately 195,000 kilowatts by 1951. The first two 65,000 kilowatt units are already in service, and the No. 3 unit is scheduled for completion during 1951.

The Dresser Generating Station of the Public Service Company of Indiana is located on the banks of the Wabash, near Terre Haute. It has a total capability of 225,000 kilowatts.

Ohio River Steam Generating Station of the Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company at Evansville. Station capability has been increased 75% since 1944. Another turbo generator, now being installed, will make the total increase 115% by 1951.

INDIANA & MICHIGAN ELECTRIC COMPANY AND THE OTHER ELECTRIC COMPANIES OF INDIANA Indianapolis Power & Light Company Northern Indiana Public Service Conipany Madison Light & Power Company Public Service Company of Indiana, Inc. Mooresville Public Service Company Rockport Water Works Company, Inc. Southern Indiana Gas & Electric Company

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