Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1948 — Page 22

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A-Bombs, U-Boats and More WEEN the Defense Secretaries appeared before the draft law and a $14 billion security appropriation, the main excitement was over A-bombs and U-boats. That

is natural enough, but it would be unfortunate if the less spectacular aspects were obscured.

weapons, or Combating the new submarine menace, or getting and holding air bases. :

did not yet have the atom bomb or the ability to produce

. Knocking out Moscow and the main cities of European

‘Senate Committee yesterday to ask for a 19-to-25

Manpower, strategic materials and organization retals—whether the“job is use of atomic

Secretary of Defense Forrestal testified that Russia

it. That is probably a good guess. But it is nothingto bank on. . Actually nobody outside of a few high Soviet officials knows precisely what the Russians have, or how rapid is their progress in producing atomic or other advanced weapons. We do know, however, that they have thousands of top German scientists and tens of thousands of German technicians working for them. So it would be foolhardy to undertate their capacity. Even assiiming the official guess about Stalin's lack of the A-bomb to be accurate, our possession of it does not automatically assure American victory in event of war. Russia is less vulnerable to atomic weapons than more highly industrialized smaller nations; because of the wide dispersal of her industries over vast interior areas, and because of her tremendous but scattered population.

Russia would not paralyze the enemy. : any cas®, there could be no sustained and effective bom campaign against Russian aggression unless America had a large, well-balanced team of ground and sea forces to protect and supply advance air bases Certainly the Air Force needs the 70 groups recommended by the President's Air Policy Commission and the onal Aviation Policy Board as an operational minimum. But they can't be self-supporting or function in a military vacuum. ae Exposure from our sea lanes, as well as from the air, was dramatized yesterday by Secretary of the Navy Sullivan’s testimony that foreign—namely, Soviet or satellite —submarines had been sighted recently off our coast. That should not have come as such a surprise. The press repeatedly has published the fact that Russia is turning out German super-subs in German shibyards with German

- Stalin now hag 250 of these submarines, or five times as a8 Hitler had when he started World War II. W A Eoatibst the ttle of the Atlantic last time. , ‘The really startling information given by Secretary Sullivan t that some of these Hammer-and-Sickle subs have been nosing around off our shores, but that we have not yet developed adequate defense against them. In his words, “a complete solution will be most difficult.” The more Congress and the public learn about the

facts of oun puny and disorganized defense system the less opposition there will be to balanced rearmament, backed

by strategic stockpiles and by trained reserves through

UMT arid a limited draft.

Sold . . . for $15 THERE is'so much'in the news dispatches these days of “woe and lamentation, of bullying and bullyragging, of greed and Avarice; of trial and tribulation, that sometimes you think it could not possibly ke that this globe is inhabited by a “human” race. But over the ticker this week came a little story from Bedford, Ind., of ‘a war widow with five children, living on an income of $25 a week, who was about to lose her small home at a tax sdle. To the assembled crowd of bargain seekers the County ‘Auditor told that simple story. The auctioneer banged his gavel, and explained that it was a public auction and anyone could bid. ‘How much am I offered?” There were no bidders. Finally the widow, in a small, desperate voice summed up the total contents of her purse: “I'll bid $15.” The auctioneer didn't wait to say, “Going, Going, Gone!” He rapped his gavel. “Sold to the lady for $15.” Tomorrow's dispatches may tell of Russia snuffing out the life of another nation and the freedom of several million more people. It may tell of John L. Lewis strutting his power over coal miners and coal users. It may tell of corporations making fantastic profits and of politicians making votes by tax cuts. But it is comforting to remember that all over the world there are places like Bedford, Ind., where folks act like folks.

Phone Company Changes

IT IS with mingled feelings of pleasure and regret that we

read the news from the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. this week

vice president to president of the company.

Regret that Bill Hughes, who has been president, is

leaving Indianapolis for another post.

They have both earned a solid place in the esteem of

the community which they have so largely made their own.

And both have made many important contributions to the

welfare of this city.

The best wishes of Indianapolis go with Mr. Hughes

to his new assignment—and remain with Mr. Hanna in his.

Until It's Too Late? Two hundred and seventy-odd days have gone by since the House Armed Services Committee approved the Towe Universal Military Training Bill without a dissenting vote. That was June 26, 1947. - Eighty-five days have passed since the Towe Bill

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he Indianapolis Times] ~ ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ Editor Business Manager

Pleasure at the advancement of Harry S. Hanna from

reached the House Rules Committee at the start of this sesbeen in the same pigeonhole ever since. 85 days—hasn't even discussed the bill.

In Tune With the Times

“ THIS IS YOUR SYMBOL

This is your symbol That men must make, Your sign forever In Life’s high stake; The way supreme Thru suffering. Thus, bear your Cross, at home, church, street, In business, court or when as strangers meet; Through hate and war, sickness and low deceit, In death and failure, woe and final hard defeat. This is your beacon, Your burden load Upon your weary back O’er life's rough road. Through every kindy deed Your share shall be, A greater love Of truth and constancy. Through ills and pains Your share shall be, The keenest far For those of fallacy. With courage grand, Endow the humble, meek, - And for their lives The Lord shall seek. This Is your sign Eternally to bear, Bring joy and peace To all who care. -—S8. B, T. ¢ & 0) Among articles left behind in a streetcar was a radio set. It's an idea! >

EASTER PARADE

Easter, gay and golden In her dress of softest yellow Has a sunny sort of ¢heeriness For every girl and fellow.

The girls from six to sixty Arrayed in finery to beguile Parading down the avenue Easter greeting in each smile.

And the boys from nine to ninety Out, as everybody knows, To intrigue some passing pretty In their brand new Easter clothes. ~SUE ALLEN, 1 U. Medical Center. SH ob The man who invented work made one bad mistake—he didn’t finish it. 4 ® & 2

THE SAVIOR'S COAT

They gambled for the Savior's coat Beneath his bloody cross; The soldiers cast the dice of chance For things that were but dross.

The clothes to~them meant more than life, That slowly dripped away Through cruel wounds in sacred hands, That they had pierced that day.

And thus has been the way of war, The way that's stained so red With color from the innocent Who from the cross have bled.

Whose lives were gambled by the few And bartered for a price, Whose rights to live were held as dross, Worth scarce a toss of dice. ~~STAN MOORE. ¢ & @& A close shave still makes the course of true love run smoother. ' * © o

EASTER LEGEND

Rs you think the little robin " Bitting there . . . upon the Cross Somehow sensed the Saviour’'s suffering And of friends. , .. the bitter loss?

Yes . .. I think as I recall That legend of the splotch of red Which has stained the robins’ breasts I really think it could be said—

. The robin tried to ease the pain As he plucked away the thorn, And I think the robin knew Christ would arise on Eastern morh! ANNA E. YOUNG. & » Young golfers soon wiii ve out io take “the cake”-——and they'll do it slice by slice. > @

&» FOSTER'S FOLLIES

“CLAYTON, N. M.—Autopsy upset; ‘Victim’ Walks In.” «Charging gross exaggeration In reports which he had heard, He caused passing aggravation But they took him at his word.

For his proof brooked no denying, It was absolute, you see, When he startled all by: crying:

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You'll Be S-o-r-ry

NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs

A ‘Hollow Shell’ for $11 Billion?

WASHINGTON, Mar. 26—Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee listened with solemn and growing concern to Secretary of State George C. Marshal as he explained why the world situation called for the draft and Universal Military Training. Most of the members came ay convinced, and they will carry their convictiof to the floor of the Senate. 3 2 But dt the same time many of these members harbor serious doubts about the efficiency of the leadership of the Armed Services. What is especially disturbing is the fact that there is so little readiness for the present emergency. The Pentagon seems to be as completely taken by surprise ‘as the average citizen. A draft bill was not ready for presentation to Congress. It has been necessary to improvise one while Congress waits, In terms of action on the program, this is not serious. It is, however, a serious reflection on the preparedness of the Armed Services. . The war in Europe has been over for nearly three years. Yet there is no evidence that anyone has made any over-all manpower studies to show how the human resources of the nation can be most effectively and intelligently used in an emergency. Such a general and comprehensive study is necessary if the blunders and mistakes of the past are to be avoided. Draft policy in World War II took no account of the real demands of total war. It was an oldfashioned seine that scooped up men wholesale without regard to the effect on science and scientific training and the nation’s all-important technology.

Scientists Got Nowhere

THROUGHOUT the war, leading scientists re_peatedly sought to bring about a change in this policy. They understood how deep were the inroads being made in the nation’s basic research and, even more important, in scientific training. But they got nowhere. Contrary to-the policy in every other country, the teaching of science was brought virtually to a standstill in the United States. A four-year gap now remains te be made up. Still in charge of the office of Selective Service records is Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, who was responsible for World War II draft policy. This

“He's not I at all, I'm me!”

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By Fred Sparks

advice to restrain comm

ing the Democratic National Convention.

But Life Is Pleasant

hear a nervous Yank shrieking into his phone.

the American Mission, the Embassy or one of

and airstrips.

screwy nightclubs featuring Chinese acrobats,

government finally padlocked the clip joints.

How About a Thousand?

pants pocket by nightfall. : And there is no shortage of ‘‘dracks.”

live on their subsistence, and 'bankitheir

uch longer can-hat sort of thing goon?

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here—they

YOU CAN WALK by any room in the King George or the Grande Bretagne Hotels—where most Americans reside—and

For some 2000 Americans now in Athens, life is a pleasant, lazy sort of day-dream. While the nipping winds occasionally { demand a topcoat, you can always smell spring. vards are lined with coffee shops, where for a few cents you can fondle a thimbleful of Turkish coffee and watch life slouch by. Most of the Yanks presently residing here are connected with

firms redrawing the classical landscape with bridges, paved roads

War seems far away from Athens. To Americans—who do regular 40-hour-a-week office stretches—the only sign of war is the ever-present pistol-packing GI—and an occasional parade. Many Americans were fortunate enough to snag apartments, and they fill them with guests quite regularly. There were a few

and Greek singers struggling with “Bongo Bongo Bongo.” The

WHEN YOU SAY “Let me have one thousand, Eddie” it doesn’t mean you're a cattle tycoon. “One thousand” here is just | that number in drachmae—and it's worth about a dime. Yanks here have forgotten what silver money is—every drachma is printed on flimsy paper, and winds up as a gooey ball in your

Mission employees knock down 90,000 “dracks"-—about $10 for daily subsistence. A Greek could live in highest possible madness with all of Tommy Manville’s wives on that tidy sum. Ninety per cent of our people

time, however, members of Congress are likely to

scrutinize the bill more closely to try to prevent the kind of mistakes that were made before. This is merely one of the doubts that members of the Senate Armed Services Committee are expressing among themselves, and without regard to party. They are wondering why the services were not immediately ready with a statement on their

exact manpower needs when the President made -

his call for a draft. Puzzling, too, to the committee is the fact of an off-the-record meeting with Secretary Marshall two weeks earlier. At that time he was asked about the possibility that a new draft would be necessary. Marshall brushed the question aside as though such a possibility would never occur. i Doubts such as these were behind the demand of Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon and others for more facts. They believe that, in order to vote for a revival of the draft, they must have more specific information to make the case for the folks back home. Mail is running approximately 9 to 1 against a renewal of the draft,

Where Is the $11 Billion?

IF SECRETARY MARSHALL can describe our military establishment as a “hollow shell,” then, Senators are asking, what is happening to the $11 billion currently being spent by the three services? In terms of what America has spent in peacetime before, this is a prodigious sum. Dismantling the military apparatus of World War II—putting a large part of the Navy in mothballs, for example—was a very costly process. But in spite of this cost, members of the committee feel the nation should be getting more than a “hollow shell” for $11 billion. 3 Criticism tend$ to skip over Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, who is not held accountable for administrative detail. The three service secretaries, Kefineth Royall for the Army, John L. Sullivan for the Navy and W. Stuart Symington for the Air Force, get the brunt of it. Their presentation, or lack of it, brought caustic criticism from committee members. All this has stirred talk of the need for a watchdog committee which would concentrate far more closely on what is happening to defense billions. This is rapidly becoming a familiar pattern—a committee to look over the executive's shoulder. And here at least such a committee seems to be called for.

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Side Glances—By Galbraith -

Athens Like War-Time | London to Americans

ATHENS, Greece, Mar. 26—This is the only remaining capital in the Balkans where Americans still find a welcome mat. Here Americans ‘are working with their dollars and their ism. Each plane or ship reaching Greece unloads a cargo of stateside citizens or supplies. Daily this ancient city takes on more of the appearance of wartime London. Greek, British and American uniforms edge each other aside for elbow-room at the bar. Members of the United Nations Special Committee jabber in various tongues. : Telephone operators are hopelessly confused. It is partly their own fault, because job-hungry Greeks insist they speak English— even if it is only enough English to ask for a. raise. On the other hand the only Greek most Yanks here know is “embros,” which means “hello,” and “oxi,” which means ‘“no!” It is an American instinct to assume that the foreigner understands you better when you shout at him as if you were address-

“ GOPR. 1948 BY WEA SERVICE, WNC. TW. REC. U. 8. PAT, OFF. -

the Senate.

ices Committee

Styles Bridges

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Cretian dancers

“I'd have come to this home for the aged long ago if | hadn't thought you girls would be too old to enjoy gin rummy!"

x thing to do with the natives. Few Americans have ever crossed a Greek threshold, and outside of the elevator boy, hash slinger and PX clerk they never chat with a local. It is amazing how little interest most Americans show in the | city that fate and the Truman Doctrine chose for them. Most | can't walk three blocks from their hotel wtihout being as thoroughly mixed up as a mouse in high-speed washing machine. While our good Yanks are conscious of the acropolis, which peeks down your neck, they have made little effort to study ancient Greek history. This would be a heaven to most high school teachers, but to our new-born crop of stateside imperialists

its just a lazy place to settle.

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Who Made the Wars? ! By C. D. C., Terre Haute, Ind. , : As an independent voter I hold no brief fop a weak Harding, a cool Coolidge or a rege. tionary Hoover, 50 I assume many of the thingy Oscar Houston of Ellettsville says about thy Republican Party is true. However, when hy speaks of the great gains the masses hayy made under the Roosevelt dynasty I differ, - Is a government debt amounting to proximately $3000 for every person in the U., § including children, any gain for these ; Are the millions of dead, maimed and in a war that merely traded one dicta Europe for another dictator a gain? A millions that will be spent in the future hospitalization, benefits, pensions, etc, from

Don’t blame the Repub peans hating us. We are by more people than any soon as our money runs out, us too. ; : : ot Study lesson a lit It wasn't the Republicans and who got us into wars. It was and Franklin D. Roosevelt wi ideas who got us into wars, Rémember what Jim Farley says. He most world leaders agree with him that of our troubles of today were ca by the. late Mr. Roosevelt in his third and 1 terms, .

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Court's Rent Ruling By J. F. Frantz, 750 Ketcham, City

Our Supreme Court took a look at rest control and upheld its constitutionality, This interesting constitutional freedom is only visionary. Is this the intention of those whe gave us our greatest heritage? 3 If we look in our Constitution, what provi. sion is forbidden? The mast cherished—those of life, liberty and property, The freedom that our Constitution endeavors to preserve for us. If it is now closed to us, why does a judge still solemnly swear to uphold it? yoy In retreat from the so-called police power, rental property is sold and the police power is over. The political victim of the law is homeless. The door of rental property is now

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inevitable under the law and an unjust result must be endured by the tenant. But he likes it. It is his law upheld by the highest court,

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Cure 'Em By E. Adelman, 2851 N. New Jersey, City

I wonder when we will become civilized .enough to abolish capital punishment? Substi. tute the word “sensible” for “civilized” and wa might get someplace. oh Can't authorities realize that killing the criminal hurts his family and friends far longer than the wrong-doer himself? If he stays alive, his punishment lasts longer, doesn’t it? A dead man has no regrets. ja Statistics show that the death penalty dos not retard crime; certainly punishment is & better weapon. J When will we become sensible enough te abolish capital punishment? Cure ‘em-—don't kill ’em, i! 1 ¢ © ¢

Spending and Votes By Harry L. Wright

I am a taxpayer and one -of the boys fhe: served overseas and came back to higher living and higher taxes, ' hae Senators William E. Jenner and Capehart and Mr. Springer and President Truman are supposed to lower the taxes. What are they doing about it? Nothing. Then election time comes and they send their stooges around to get your votes. They are sending big money to foreign countries, but they don’t have to pay it. We do all the paying. When I was overseas I couldn't see Wher they were starving. Now the war has bea over two years or more. My taxes are twins as high. I think it is time to have a change.

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By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, City

There is evil in both the Democratic and Republican Parties, . Perhaps the remedy it in the third party, We want no Southern Democrat or Northern Republican. Henry

questioning of Mr. Forrestal. Sen. Morse prefaced his 4 by declaring that the ‘people in the grass roots were aski facts to support the need for this new military plan. Was it true that the Army was now turning down enlistments? Secretary Royall admitted this was so. g Mr. Morse then asked if it were true the Army was tml} down half-the volunteers because they couldn't meet requirements with a grade of admitted this

Wallace should have been President right now. No one voted for Harry in the first place.

IN WASHINGTON . ..By Peter Edson

Military Effort Needs A Good Selling Job

WASHINGTON, Mar. 26—President Truman’s new Selective Service and Universal Military Training program is headed fof | rough going in Congress. The combination of election year psychol: ogy, the fear that UMT and the draft aren’t popular with the voters, plus the desire to hold down expenses and cut taxes, will slow up action. Whether the House bill to establish UMT can be forced out of the Rules Committee, where it is tied up by Chairman Leo Allen (R. Ill) is doubtful. So first action will have to come from

Chairman Chan Gurney (R. 8. D.) of the Senate Armed Serv

is planning two weeks of hearings. Rep. Gurney

says he has been for UMT for 25 years, but he doesn’t know about peace-time Selective Service. His committee views the whole business with a pretty fishy eye. On it are such economy-minded and anti-Truman Senators as

(R. N. H.) and Harry F. Byrd (D. Va). Thef

want to know what it's going to cost and where the money's com ing from. They can’t understand why a national defense lishment costing $11 billion a year should be termed by Secretafy of State Marshall, “a hollow shell.” Defense Secretary Janfes V. Forrestal, apparently. not liking this “hollow shell” description, says his unified force should more correctly be referred to as a-“foundation.”

Service Heads Off to Bad Start : SECRETARY FORRESTAL, Army Secretary Kennet 2 Royall, Navy Secretary John L. Sullivan and Air Force Secre re W. Stuart Symington didn't get off to too good a start be the Gurney Committee. They didn't have all their plans out. They were still pretty uncertain what it was going to They didn’t know whether men in the reserves could be back. They didn’t know whether men in the National Guard would be exempted from Selective Service. Navy and Air Force officers who didn't go for UMT 2 were forced around to that way of thinking by the fundamen arithmetic of the situation, said Forrestal. Secretary Sullivan the Navy was now getting 11,000 new enlistments and enlistments every month and still wasn't able to keep up thorized strength. So the Navy and the UMT and the draft.

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One of the eve: ing session ‘will by Quiz Program” a of the audience stump the expert: fish and game. dience in the rol be William B; I Robertson projec Hughes, director game division; Ricker of Indians is in charge o stream survey, patrick of Purdy Other morning deal with the ponds for fishing wildlife research ing on Oliver I tailed deer in In 8 10 1948. The q of special intere being made for 3 some steps to re tion of these ani;

List Pollutior The ever-pr problem will b afternoon sessioy @ Secretary of the Control Board. talks will deal + hunting and fist ment, conservaf tions, the legac) and sportsmans men, Dr. R. W. E Tennessee Valle the banquet Sing, “The Fishe Reference to th ments,”

Talk Reimb: b During the Y 13 of the 16 Advisory Comm honorary mer Grabow, Bedfo Chairman of 4 Partment Amer L. V. Miller, Fr: of the state ague, the iss bursement for - fishing permits Was revived The fact th free permits ha a gift of the s Téimbursement game division nt on the inco of fishing ang hag n an "pot with cor A number of y 0 quarrel with the veteran put Mate should ¢