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| WE NEED A DEFENSE TEAM

HE big guns of the war department, Secretary Patterson and Gen. Marshall, have presented impressive testimony at the senate hearing on the proposed unified department of national defense. Their reports on the inefficiencies of ~ the present system of separate cabinet departments and fighting services are devastating. Their arguments for a © co-ordinated overall organization seems to us unanswerable. : Secretary Patterson stresses the financial and economic "waste of the present system, or lack of system. * something that even the non-military public understands only too well. _ widespread criticism than the needless duplication of serv- * jces of supply, hospitals, airfields and many other facilities. © A merger would save much money for our over-burdened i taxpayers, and at the same time greatly increase the quality "and efficiency of such agencies. The army chief of staff, whose wisdom is written for i all time in allied victory, emphasizes that unification is an urgent military necessity: single problem, and it cannot be provided on a piecemeal Unless ‘the sea, air and land arms can be brought together under one department and head, there is no © chance of the balanced preparedness which is our best peace

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insurance. n * x a * nn . ONE of the most serious needs is a single intelligence 5 service. If there had been one before we would not

. have been caught so unprepared, and Pearl Harbor doubt-

unification.

of staff.

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this cost,

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. (YHEERFULLY,. the National Association of Retail ~~ Clothers and Furnishers reports the male shape hasn't changed much during the war. Realistically, they'd better changes, however, after servicemen drop |

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Jess would have been “alerted” in fact.

: Gen. Marshall puts his finger on the inter-service rivalries which are inevitable under the present competitive _ setup. Even under the stark pressure of combat the old habits of jealousy persisted. He says what every American ~ knows to be true, that during the war army-navy co-opera-"tion “was very difficult to bring about and much too long delayed in many instances.” With the compelling necessity of battle against a foreign foe removed, the old inter-service rivalries will revive and multiply again—unless there is

Minority opposition to a single defense department is based chiefly on misunderstanding of the proposed system. t is important that the congressional hearings and debate make clear that the reform would not destroy values of . the existing order. The navy and marine corps would not lose their separate identities and treasured traditions.

There would still be sea, air and land arms, commanded * by their own officers as now. "a high civilian official for each. Only all would be under . a co-ordinating head—one cabinet officer and one chief

i The air service would obtain equal status with sea and * land services, but not dominance over them. The line would ~ continue to be the line, the backs would continue to function © as backs; but all would be parts of the same team. » JT is teamwork that wins wars, as most of our great © © combat commanders of sea, land and air insist, and it 1s . teamwork under a unified department of defense that can give us the best balanced, most economical and most efficient preparedness.

SCIENTISTS FOR THE FUTURE

F this country wants supremacy in science, it will have to maintain an adequate supply of scientists. But scientists seldom just happen. They are almost always the product of talent plus training, of natural aptitude plus specialized

Part of war's fearful cost, as former: President Hoover pointed out the other day, is the loss of potential leaders in sciences, arts and humanities—the talented youths who are killed, and the many more whose educations are interrupted and never resumed. Science service and of the Science Clubs of America, now charges that the armed services are needlessly increasing

Many young men who should be preparing for -useful scientific careers are being held to routine military duties, Mr. Davis says. four annual talent searches among American high school pupils, found 117 boys of such unusual promise that they have been awarded university scholarships. "But 58 of them are still in the army or navy, unable to take advantage of their educational opportunities.

HERE might be legitimate complaints of discrimination if some men were given ‘early release from military service to study science while others, equally eager to get back to civilian life, were kept in uniform., We think, however, that a recommendation made to President Truman ‘by Dr. Vannevar Bush, director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, is fair, and practical, and should be adopted.

The armed services, Dr. Bush said, should comb their records for men who before or during the war have given evidence of talent for science. in the services, they should be ordered to duty at institutions in this country or overseas where they can continue their scientific educations. : Prompt adoption of this policy would be greatly to the long-range advantage of the army and navy. National defense for the future, as well as peacetime progress, depends on doing everything possible to avoid a shortage "of scientists. ‘

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REFLECTIONS—

{Arab Lore

¢ By Frank Aston

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20--0il is what comes fo most business minds when Saudi Arabia is mentioned. The Arabs have oil in the ground and interests have been buying and piping Arabia indicates it likes to sell oil to Americans. In return it prefers to be paid of the lend+lease given Saudi in silver coins, The name Arab is applied native and the horse of the country. Arab has always been reluctant legged Arab to any one outside his Experts say the Arabian horse iz the improved breed of the east and has exercised widest influence on horseflesh that has been recorded. A great number have been brought to the United States. , But they are relatively so rare that a horseman here takes a big chance when he says he. owns a purebred Arab.

deceptively demure expression, but also serves to shade their eyes from the desert glare.’ The Arabian camel has one hump and can be trained to go 100 miles in a day, although its gait as a desert freight er averages 2% miles in an hour. The Arabian horse is strong and fast, but horsemen say our thoroughbreds can outdistance it. All Arabian horses are not white. ‘

Use All the Camel ARABIAN aristocrats raise horses and camels. Ordinary people raise sheep and goats. Arabs who drink goat's milk say it makes them fat but not strong. Women make butter by rocking a skinful of milk on their knees. Goat hair provides material for the black tents of the Bedouins. Camel hair is woven into cloth for making mantles for local aristocrats and overcoats for American theater managers. Arabs consume the camel's milk and flesh; they utilize its hide and bones, Every newborn ‘Arab is supposed to receive a gift. Choicest of birth gifts is a baby camel or colt. The gifts remain the child's property. An Arab infant is named on the 10th, 20th or 40th day after birth when the relatives gather for a feast and baby around from guest to guest for intimate iny. The child generally is named after a or plant. When a Mezeyn Arab wants to marry a chases her. She runs hard, but he always When he catches her she is seated beside a stack

of provisions she has arranged ahead of time. As soon as he catches his breath they start to eat the provisions. ' They remain in their retreat until the

food is exausted. Then they repair ‘to the home of one set of parents and the girl stays there until a baby is born, *When an Arab says “three hundred” he means “many,” An Arab believes the flesh of a wolf eases pain in the shins. Most Arabs like poetry, Education is generally confined to the home where one of the main courses is in politeness and restraint.

Cousin Has First Call WHEN ONE Arab leaves another he may say, “May your day be white.” The response: “May your day be like milk” Among Arabs of Sinai a girl's purity ‘was judged by the number of tears she shed on her wedding day. A man has first right to the hand of his cousin in marriage. Although he may pass her up, she can't marry any one else without his permission, Bedouins think it's bad manners to stop in front of a tent without having some food. They like locusts. Early in the morning, when dew weights the locusts’ wings, the natives gather locusts in baskets. They serve them roasted, fried, stewed or mixed with batter. Some travelers report the dish isn’t bad. Southern Arabs are crack stone throwers. They kill rabbits with stones. Mecea is the city in Arabia to which Mohammedans make pilgrimages from all over the world. Its stationary population before the war was about 60, 000. When the pfigrims gathered once a year the population trebled. A railroad now runs to Mecca from Damascus, but the orthodox prefer’ camels, Citizens make their living by selling souvenirs to pilgrims. They're so busy with this that the eollege in the city has fallen into decay. In Mecca they yay not study much, but a good many persons get Tr A camel gives three pints of milk twice a day.

IN WASHINGTON—

' Hospital Aid

i By Daniel M. Kidney

: WASHINGTON, Oct, 20.—~A revamped bill for federal aid to hospital and health center construction is ready today for approval by the senate education and labor committee. It will provide for federal grants amountAng to $75,000,000 a year for five years. In addition, t appropriates $5 million for a survey of the nation’s hospital and health center needs. Originally introduced by Senators Hill (D. Ala.) and Burton (R. O.), it was rewritten in a subcommittee of which Senator Hill was chairman.

Basis of Distribution

UNDER THE revised measure a formula is provided for distribution of the funds on a population and per capita wealth bases, It will give 15 of the poorest states, mostly inthe South, 47.8 per cent of the funds; 16 middle bracket states 18 per cent and 18 riches states 31 per cent, Territories would get 3.2 per cent. : The original plan for matching funds for public and non-profit hospitals on a 50-50 basis was abane doned. Instead, the federal contribution will range from 38 per cent for the richest states to 75 per cent

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THINGS TO COME

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for the poorest. No state. can obtain a grant of less than $10,000 a year, but it may borrow federal funds for matching purposes. Should all funds be-used annually it would mean a total expenditure of $139,178,000, the state contributions being $68,178,000.

Requires U.S. Approval

A STATE agency, such as the state health department, will make the necessary surveys with the approval of the U, 8. surgeon general, who also must pass on all hospital and health center plans. Beds for tuberculosis patients shall not exceed two times the average annual deaths from the disease in the stat® over the 1941-45 period. Beds for mental patients shall not exceed five per 1000 population and for chronic disease patients two per 1000 population. Public health centers shall not exceed one per 30,000 populatiorf, . Special considération is to be given to hospitals serving rural communities and to areas with ly small financial resources. Although the bill that hospital facilities must be open to all discrimination on account of race, creed, or color. It allows for special facilities for separate population groups if “equitable.” : Special provision must be made for persons unable to pay. .

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“SAME OLD STUFF, JAPS NEED FQOD”

By Ivan C. Clearwater, Indianapolis I read Hugh Baillie’s account of his interview with Emperor Hirohito of Japan. This article appeared on the front page of The Times, Tuesday, Sept. 25. What iriterested

me especially was the first sentence of the third paragraph which read, “Hirohito said that Japan was in urgent need of food.” Same old stuff again. What has surprised me is that the “Society of Suckers of the U. 8. A. hasn't already started a “drive” to feed the poor suffering Japanese, It certainly would be pitiful to let them starve—they have done 7/so much to enlighten the world. I spent over two years working in a war plant in Indianapolis and I too have been in “urgent need of food” many times—but couldn't get it. I'll not go into detail on that subject now that the war is over and I notice that both management and help are showing a trifle more courtesy to the public. In conclusion I might add that the letters published under heading of Hoosier Forum in The Times of Sept. 25 were all worthy of mention and rated 100 per cent. To the writers of the three letters having to do with G. I.Joes I can only repeat something that an old army man once said to me, id est: “There are three ways to do anything, the

way the army does it.”

“ # » “LET THE YOUTH GET BACK INTO SPORTS” By X. XY. Z., Indianapolis 1, like the rest of the people of America, take my hat off to the children (boys especially) who so gallantly and graciously gave up their free time that they might work after and Saturdays to help else the labor shortage that existed, Well, to my way of thinking they have served their Knowing boys as I do, I feel most of them are being forced to work by parents who think only in terms of the almighty dollar, For every three thus

have a job full time. Of course they should be paid more than 35 cents an hour, But are these boys being paid their true value? Let's revive the saying, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”

young shoulders.” Let the youth get

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(Times readers are invited fo express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions ' set forthhere are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsi. bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

“WHY NOT GIVE DEFENSE WORKERS CREDIT DUE”

By A Former Defense Worker, Indianapolis When I read Sarah L. McMath’s monologue in the Hoosier Forum Sept. 27 to the effect that war workers should have been prepared, I thought so what— The United States government should have been partially prepared, too, for peace time conversion, but it wasn’t. So why not give the defense workers all the| credit due them. | Speaking from my own experience, I think they are the finest, most generous and co-operative people I have ever known. Everyone doesn't have an equal chance for an education or even to plan far ahead for the future. What if all the people in defense plants had their minds on postwar jobs and not on the work they were doing. Maybe Japan wouldn't have been licked yet. Any-

hours, Sarah, spent going over those personal files. I know her present employer doesn’t have a thing to worry about now that she is in the office. I feel sure that if she ever tried to write a song in would go somethin like this: I came along. she didn’t let any grass her feet. You are remind rolling stone gathers no moss, but

But what worries me is why I should get so hot and bothered about the defense worker's future when knowing them and understanding them as I do I have all the the faith in the world that they can work out their own pere sonal unemployment problems, without burning the midnight elec tricity trying to work off a slam

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“I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.”

RECONVERSION— | Taking Stock § By Thomas L. Stokes

BOSTON, Oct. 20.—A ferment is going on: in New England that quizk'y detected by the outsider in conversations with representatives of business and labor. : ; It is perhaps significant that this becomes anparent in discussing New England's reconversion problems. Apparently those problems have prodded New England to take a closer look at itself. There is a questioning of its business and industrial approach, with the implication that New England is still rigid and old-fashioned in some respects, often adverse to new methods, still in the grip of old families, some of these with a lack of public and community responsibility which was such a matter of pride and tradition with the original member. Some of this is illustrated in the familiar story of one bf the owners of a once great textile company. It was suggested to him that the company go inte rayon, “We'll make ginghams,” he said with blunt finality, The company went out of business a few years ago.

Pressure From Underneath THERE IS no revolution yet in New England,

the trends of the New Deal and resist federal ene croachments. Just now they are much worried over the proposed Missouri valley project because that signifies another threat of federal government de velopment of New England's rivers. The strongly defensive attitude appears to be a measure of pressure from underneath in New England, among her ordinary people, to move into the stream of broad-scale development of natural resources, and join the trend of the times. A growing and alert labor movement is demanding more along the lines of New Deal change in all directions. The self-questioning that is going on in New England is illustrated in two recent studies on “ownership and finance” by a special committee of the New England council, headed by Edward E.

«| Chase, president of the Maine Securities Co. of

Portland. The committee is stanchly Insistent that New England must hold what she has and must finance her own enterprises. It wants a solid development of the smaller, diversified industry which is the backbone of the region. With that premise it makes a number of recommendations. Among them it advocates a more liberal policy of financing New England enterprise by local institue

“CRIMINAL ELEMENTS PICK CERTAIN TIMES”

By Veteran, Indianapolis I am a veteran of both world war I and world war II, having almost 268 years of service. I have talked with numerous people — veterans, military police, citizens of all walks of life. Murder has been done, several veterans have been robbed and killed, This alone is a blotch on the fair name and reputation of the “No Mean City of Indianapolis.” It seems to me that knowing the particular time of the year that crime waves break out that the law enforcement officials would take the pains to see that the proper cohesive action is taken fo deal with this situation. If a gang of criminals is operating and preying not only upon the war vetérans, but now peaceful lawabiding citizens, to, as has been the case just recently, it seems to me it is high time that the law enforcement officials call in the FBI, Department of Criminal Investigation, Provost Marshal Generals, representatives and Mr. Hoover if necessary to break up this situation and convict the guilty parties. * Just such a situation exists in other cities, too; Chicago and New Orleans for example, It seems at certain times of the year a criminal element drifts into the city to rob, yes, even murder, knowing that citizens and veterans are prosper-ous-—they prey upon the veterans with a glib line, lure them to a secluded spot to slug and rob them and kill them if necessary. : Why not call the various enforcement agencies, citizens organizations, veterans organizations,

posts, army camps to fore veterans of this situation thoroughly... Get the co-operation of all faiths and deal with this element as Hoover of the FBI has dealt with criminal elements and unsympathetic -elements the past few years. It fs high time that there be organized a “cohesive law enforcement organigation” or “number of organizations” to deal these criminal elements the blow necessary to break it up once and for all time. A crusade may be Let business organizations with whom these veterans may have been employed offer substantial sums as a reward for the in-

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‘tions, banks and insurance companies with changes in bank regulations if necessary.

| Product Promotion Urged

IT URGES greater responsibility of management to stockholders and to the public, with more interesting and informative stockholder meetings. stresses the need of promotion of New England products, with more attention to sales and research. Holding firmly to the right of private ownership as “fundamental to free enterprise and individual liberty," the committee emphasized that “it is a right which can be maintained only by intelligent exercise and continuous use. Always some one must use it and use it well or it will disappear.” The committee further observes: “In any enterprise performance an essential work or service, when willing owners are hard to find, public ownership will occupy fleld which private ownership has abandoned. The great growth in governmental activities in the business field is due in large part to the unwillingness of individuals to take essential ownership risks in adequate amount at all times. The state will take over when the right of private ownership is neglected, even more quickly than when that right is abused” Something is stirring in New England.

WORLD AFFAIRS—

England Not Scared

By Carl D. Groat

LONDON, Oct. 20—As far as one may judge on short examination England isn't too scared about sociajism-=yet. Indeed, the new socialist regime of the Labor party is in for some headaches, and there is a tendency in some quarters to suggest that an antisocialist hangover may develop. : THere are predictions that only two major

the next two years<nationalization of coal mines and of the Bank of England. Persons who view the problem rationally say that the coal mines almost inevitably have to be nationalized. They see psychological aspects to the problem. In some ways it is akin to the situation in the United States when strikers in wartime plants said they'd willingly work for Uncle Sam and went back to their posts when the government took over.

Miners Protest Exploitation’

A GOVERNMENT man explained the problems here. There has been a tendency, he says, to close down the deeper pits, leaving a number of coa] towns stranded. They are hillside villages with no chance of another industry. "Then, too, he says, there has been resentment among the miners over installation of machinery that produced more dust and, consequently, more silicosis. Rightly or wrongly, miners felt there had been a tendency to exploit them. And the coal flelds were England’s “dust bowl” The miners remember the bleak days of the depres-

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