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No omaromies With Crime’.

APPOINTMENT of Arthur Campbell, ediidato and businessman who has no law enforcement experience, as the mew superintendent of state pelice, was Gov.-Elect Henry F. Schricker’s way of settling a lot of political bickering among Democratic leaders over the selection of that important key state administrator. ‘Also many officers of the State Police Department have been advocating strongly the selection of a superintendent ‘from the ranks on a merit system basis. Mr. Schricker is known to have considered this method of making the appointment but in the process apparently reached the con"clusion that promotion from the ranks to the superintend-

' ‘We are not making an issue at this point about the channels through which a state police superintendent is selected but we are vitally concerned with hard-hitting Sfclency in law enforcement. . . ” . . ' IF THE new superintendent can build the state police force into a crack law enforcement arm of the state government it matters little in the end whether his appoint"ment was from the ranks of a political party, the depart- ~ ment’s personnel or ‘private business. In making the appointment Mr. Schricker expressed _ his main concern: “There must be no Sompromise with

law violators." And that, we believe, expresses the goal the people of Indiana expect a police department to reach in curbing

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Gen. lke Returns

Tue temporary recall to Washington of Gen. Eisenhower as an adviser to Secretary of Defense Forrestal is an excellent move. We hope he can give full time to this job for a period of months. Not that he has all the answers— indeed his open-mindedness is one of his virtues—but his

experience is invaluable. “We are not prepared to withstand another sneak attack. We are not geared, if an enemy strikes, to take the offensive away from him quickly and follow through with blow: ._Our actual weakness is obscured by the

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* vastness of our superior potential, and especially by our possession of the atom bomb. Neither the bomb by itself,

The reasons for our failure to achieve a higher degree of Preparedness are more Humerovs sand complex than some

3 . = - Te 8, : THERE is the scandal of lack of genuine unification, despite the law and the need. The Times feels strongly on that subject. And yet the failure is not due altogether, or even. \ chiefly, to service rivalry in the petty sense or to the personal ambitions and narrowness of certain admirals and

Here aye Tearfully important. issues at stake on which _- sincere and competent officers differ, and on which none but a fool would claim to have the complete answer. ‘So’ this clash of opinions is a healthy and saving thing— always provided it can be whipped into disciplined team- _ play on the basis of clear decision before too late. ‘Likewise the matter of money. We are not getting enough for the taxpayers’ billions. Waste and duplicating facilities are being eliminated too slowly. There are still far too many service-trading appropriations. But it is not _ simple, partly because of rising costs and partly due to the Hleuity of quickly retooling an intricate defense aghie, » .. 8» » . . ~~ THEN thet® are two basic problems" which the svilisnand military heads of our defense establishment cannot con“trol. One is the unwillingness of Congress and of public opinion in ‘Some places to grant the necessity of universal ry. tr Che other is. the fuzzi oF. Soe. of. QU. =o) S158 Policy. 00 often e White House and State + partmen blunder nto foreifm commitments beyond ro - , knowledge of or the strength of our military forcés to de- ++. fend if challenged. ~—'Thig raises the question of how large a defense pie we must bake and how we should slice it. What portion of our limited weapaps. should be fed inte. new. American. units, and |

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Whine bases will be a us if attacked? It Is easy to say that we must send arms to Greece, Turkey, China, Latin America and the new Western European alliance. It _I8 hard to'say where and when and how much, while there Is no surplus to divide, . + Because of the difficult decisions required on these and related questions the advice of Gen. Eisenhower to the Defense Secretary and Chiefs of Staff will help. In the end, ‘however, the decisions must be. made by the President-Commander-in-Chief with the support of Congress. The President and Congress should realize that these decisions cannot be delayed much longer without peril to the national security. a

Wrong Direction

VENEZUELA'S deposed President Gallegos still says that : American il interests had a hand in the bloodless revolution: that ‘ousted him, in spite of State, Department denials. He also says that a friend saw an American military attache in a rebel barracks at the time of the coup. We don’t know whether the officer was there, or what he was doing if he was. But we think it safe to assure Mr. Gallegos that Washington would have no interest in seeing the overthrow of the one South American goverment most like -our own.

We would suggest that Mr. Gallegos at least cast 1 a suspicious eye southward, where President Peron is solidifying his dictatorial rule of Argentina. Sources in Chile ‘and Colombia have accused the Argentine government of stirring up trouble in their countries and plotting to install cist. governments all over South America. And Venea vavolitionasy fusts has al the earmarks of of a Peron-

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Barton “Rees Pogue | FAIR INDIANA

Not resting on the laurels won By early ploneers, Fair Indiana forges on Throughout ensuing years.

Extremely rich, in myriad ways, Bhe slackens not her pace, But garners wealth from every source Unto her stalwart base,

From family enterprise at first, Through each hew era's span, 8he masters every mounting step Within the power of man,.

As monuments of note arise, Through war and peace the same, Outstanding on each plaque we see Fair Indiana's fame.

Her lineage, from worthy stock, Surpasses doubts and fears—— .. Her heritage, a treasure trove, . =~. On history's page appears,

And when the final script is made, Alike by bard and sage, Fair Indiana's name will stand A BTATE for every AGE!

MARY HaeLER LSMASTERS, Franklin

ONE YEAR 10 LIVE

One year, dear Lord, to do a lot of loving, One year to straighten out life's tangled thread, One year to weave a tapestry of mem'ries Ta live on through the years, when I am dead. Lord, let it be so full of joy and laughter. That there will be no room for fuss or fret, ‘And let it be so full of work for others That there will be no moment of regret.

—BINA T. SARVER, Crawfordsville ¢ % o

THAT LIGHT

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——— Some used will be edited but content will be pre served, for here the People Speak in Freedom.

‘Dime Will Carry Load H—"

By V. M. Potter, P. O. Box 1854, City. They tell us a dime won't carry the trolley and bus load and it won’t if that load is like the one I saw Wednesday morning. I boarded a W. Michigin bus at North and East Sts. In the next two blocks somewhere a supervisor told the motorman to ¢hange his sign—he did—to “Illinois and Washington,” and as I wanted to go on out W. Michigan, I went up to inquire of -the motorman if he was not going on west so I could get a transfer. When I asked if he was not. going out W. Michigan, he said he was, + At Senate and Washington there were Just five people left on that car, while dozens of my coworkers were left standing along the 10 or 12 blocks, who, of course, did not get on a car

dental college, Board of Health; etc. Did they ‘care how many patients, perhaps needing care, maybe with an appointment at hospitals, were left standing there 15 minutes to a half hour waiting on another car while this one made the trip using the same gas? By the time I got to my destination, there were just three of us on the car and still a long way from the end of the line. So if they just carry five passengers and pass up all the rest, I'm sure a dime won't carry the load either. Now. in all fairness to the company, there are a lot of riders who do not help matters, Sixty-five per cent of the customers will not move to the back. As soon as they get on they stand there, never giving a thought to the ones waiting behind them who may want to go home, too. They will not move back when asked to. A dime would carry the load if the streetcar company and the patrons would both do a little considering ang-giving.

The music of the spheres, "And it said that Christ was born, And I need have no fears,

As I looked I saw the star, Then my night was passed away, And I heard the Angels sing... I will follow Him today.

And that light shall pierce our chaos, And the dark will disappear, Then the message of the Angels Every listening ear will hear.

—ROSE ELLET BOUSE, Indianapolis ¢ oo

ON POLLUTION DILUTION --

May we calmly seek solution For our city’s air pollution As we grope on through choking, blinding smog.

Politicians wine and: dine us But our common burning sinus Makes each of us a croaking, croupy frog.

All our food has lost its savour - Dut to added sulphur flavor And cleaning is an almost useless task.

Mr. Mayor, heed your clients Please enlist the ald of science Or provide each patient voter with a mask.

—JOHN M. MONTANI, indianapolis

I'M HAPPY Come here to the window, my dear, and see ~“How the hoon 18 cleaving those high sky-foams. It lays its warm beams on bare bush and tree, And spreads its clear light on hills and roof combs, The waters of the lake are mute and content, Reflecting that benignant face above... How still it moves through the firmament A Symbol of Heaven's patience and love, I'm glad we live in the country, my dear, Where there is a wide; unobstructed view, ,, 4 The way past each obstacle is so clear. .. I'm happy in the country, aren't you? ~ELSIE PEARL Juve, Greenwood &

A PRAYER

leach me to spréad joy along my way, Lei me the part of a jester play So others may laugh. . Let me bury deep ‘Neath a heap of smiles, the tears I weep So none will suspect if I go down, In Life's parade, let me be the clown, ~~MARY- LOCKE JOHNSTON, Winchester .

LESSON OF SCROOGE . . . By Marquis Childs

Europe Needs Help

OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov . J~In Charles Dickens’ p “Christmas Carol” the miserly and embittered Scrooge was made, if it were possifle, more bitter and more mean by the jollity CVE THRE go With Christies: When Hi poor but warms _ hearted nephew came to wish him well on ‘Christmas eve, Serooge delivered himself a blast meant to wither all good will. “Merry Christmas!” said Scrooge. “Out upon Merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer? A .time for balancing your books and having ~ every item in ‘ém through a round dozen of” months presented dead against you? “It 1 could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, “every idiot who goes about with Merry” Christmas” on his Wily should ©

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Swi pudding.and holly through his heart. He should.”

Gift With Rich Reward

SCROOGE'S t! t about paying bills without monéy strikes home in this. year of inflation. , It sometimes seems that the spirit of Christmas is more and more corrupted by lavish giving and overlavish observance, To find the money to pay the bills makes Scrooges out of many, But there is one gift that will bring a rich reward. It can mean a sense of shar.ng, of true giving such as is too often lost in the commercialization of exchanging expensive, and often useless, presents. For §1v you can send a food package to a German child and thus participate in Gen. Lucius Clay's fund for German children. In Berlin and almost everywhere else in western Germany outside the farming areas this will be the third Christmas of a peace that has meant hunger, cold and. ruin. 3 « Oh, of course, the Germans brought it pn themselves, you can say. But the children had no part of that. The currency reform in the western zone has meant new bardships for many. Nearly half the students in German universities have had to leave. The need. is great to Austria. In France the continuing pinch of grave inflation causes acute * suffering among millions, The Lesson of Scrooge UNFORTUNATELY, voluntary giving through CARE and other channels has greatly fallen off. There is a complacent assurance that the government, through the European Co-opeéra-tion Administration, is seeing to all that, But even if it means a real sacrifice, such a gift seems to be supremely important. That, after all, is the lesson of Scrooge. Whatever its actual contribution to the welfare of Europe, voluntary giving by American citizens is oné of the few links with-that-other world, We-here-in- America are. so.cut off from that world and the spiritual and political current that have come out of misery and suffering. In this there is a peril. With its ever-accelerated tempo of spending, we shall take it more and more for granted that the government is up Europe. And if it isn’t, then where is all that money going? But that is .not enough. Saderstakding | is essential, and not by just a few government officials at the to There are indications that Europe has reached a kind of plateau of recovery. The upsurge that came in the immediate aftermath of the war seems for the time at least to have spent itself, More than ever, Sanprthasion is negessary of the toll of

COSTLY MISTAKES .

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—Faulty intelligence reports almost had Uncle 8am in a war early this spring, but the mistake was caught in time, the Hoover Commission's Committee: on National Security Organization, revealed today. The committee, headed by Ferdinand Eberstadt of New York, puts it less bluntly. It says it has evidence that a mistaken intelligence report, prepared by one of the services, “in the spring of 1948 stimulated recommendations— which, if followed—might well have had serious consequences,” but that the central intelligence agency later “correctly evaluated available information in good time.” The committee said it “found disturbing’ inadequecies in our intelligence system.” In general it found the defense establishment created by unification “soundly constructed but not yet working well.” . The report, which goes to the Hoover Com--mission for approval, may be regarded as a victory for Defense Secretary James Forrestal. _ sustained his ‘idea of ‘progress by “evolution rather than revolution.” changes he already has accepted and it rejected more drastic remedies.

eo © Weak in Operation © THE Eberstadt committee reserved its most scathing criticism for military intelligence and the defense budget. ~The central intelligen sound in principle but weak in operation. “The relationship of this agency to other intelligence: agencies—notably Army G-2, the FBI, the Atomic Energy Commission and the State Department—have been, and unsatisfactory,” it said. “But even more important, “the committee is convinced that too many disparate intelligence estimates have been made by departmental intel--ligence services; have been biased, that the capabilities of potential enemies have frequently been misinter- - ‘preted, and that a more: comprehensive - collection system, better co-ordination and more mature and experienced evaluation are impera-

As a result, it said, national policy does not now come from the top down. military have picked up the ball of national policy and are starting lown the field with it.” Congress, it said, “is practically helpless.” ’ “The central intelligence agency has not yet achieved the desired degree of proficiency and de

the long, dark years of the war.

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Weak U.S. Intelligence Charged

“Without it, the National Security Council cannot succeed in assessing the objec-

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Doubts Justified

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By 4 | GOPR. 1948 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. BL REQ. V. 6. PAT. OPK,

“I'm not hinting now that we should yoy for dinner, but we're both just wild to see your new se of imported dishes!”

CARE is a slender bridge

ross the water. Ten dollars sent to CARE, Washington, D.C,

will work magic in a European household.

Sending the huge prize turkey around to the family of his ‘poor clerk was the kind of joy and reward for’ Scrooge that we, in’ our time, could experience by sending a CARE ‘package to a needy family in Europe. a A stéamer recently landed with 16,000 canary- bir predict a nice winter for house cats. : ® + 9 Young couples seem to get along best when near relatives are far away.

® & 9 : x It would take a prodigal son, indeed, to expected a fatted ealt these days. * ¢ ©

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commitments and risks of the United

As far the budget, the committee “failed to find in the military establishment a sense of the military services are far too prodigal with government funds.”

AS AN example, it said we built 85, 000 tanks but only 25,000 were on hand at the war's end. The Army could account for only 16,000. The “committee found the Army had asked for money in next year's budget to repair 103 more tanks

In another case,” a misplaced figure added $30 million to the.defense budget. “The military budget needs a major over“At none of the sucreview, sional adoption—are there adequate means for checking, auditing and contfol. The committee said the Armed Forces first asked for $30 billion next year and “it has required the most earnest effort of the Defense Secretary, supported by a specific directive from the President, to reduce these totals to a more

+ The research and development hoard, it said, feels $600 ‘million is all it can spend efficiently next year, but the three services are asking $1.1 billion although “there is little evidence this request is closely related to strategic needs.”

“THERE is widespread. doubt whether these huge sums are being spent in the most efficient way. . . . In the opinion of the committee, these doubts are justified. . . . In the year preceding ‘World War I, the military establishment cost $2.25 per capita. . . . For the current fiscal year,

“Victory by bankruptcy may be the machievellian aim of the Kremlin, It is clear that we face in the immediate future no period of calm, no sudden relaxation of tension, but a continuation of recurrent crises. . . such as we are now bearing, if substantially increased, might become intolerae. . : is a serious question whether ofir « economy can indefinitely carry the load presently imposed

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‘We Have Red Competitor’

By Edward G. Goeke, Evansville, Ind. To all Americans: We are the sole shareholders of the biggest corporation known, and we have a shrewd Red competitor who would like to own our resources and .our liabilities to combine with his own. Now the head of our legal department tells us there is no need for alarm and we need not be concerned about the secrets he might learn. Even the President of our corporation has prepared for us shareholders a rare new dish, red herring served in a pumpkin, and with it he sends. a happy holiday wish. But our deficit continues to grow and dividend checks, I note, are being mailed to certain shareholders who are always-on hand and ready to vote, Another bond issue is in the making to protect the bonds we already have—just a plain case of pyramiding. 3 Just-a-word to you shareholders who never raise your voice: The minority in any organization will always get you caught in a vice. You better attend every meeting and vote when you can or your stock in this corporation will be worthless in the end. Instead of having stock of value, you will have a hammer, sickle and rake, for don't forget this competitor is rather fast on the take.

What Others Say—

CONTROL in the western Pacific is Tow passing to the Communists.—Adml Charles M. Cooke, Jr., U. 8. Navy retired),

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IF a major Ais or recession should conte, which -do not -1t will. not. be justified by our economic situation, but would be man-made—(made by) those people who would scare us into it.—Rep. Sam Rayburn Ce (D) of Texas. . 4

I'M in favor every man reaching his own conclusions and his own confusions, . . . There have been too many statements by too many people.—Former Vice President John Nance Garner, 3 °° *

IF you ask my opinion of the trial (of Tapanese war leaders), I should call 4t-a trial by conquerors. — Hideki Tojo, former Japanese

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THE bill for sports and pastimes in the {/nited States far exceeds the bill for medical care. Certainly individual planning in a democracy is just as important as government planning.—Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, opposing tederal health insurance.

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— | Question On U.S. Aid

PARIS, Dec. 17—The statement of economic co-operation administrator Paul G. Hoffman that Marshall plan aid might be given to. a Communist coalition government in China is causing ~ speculation in Europe whether the United States is weakening in its resolve to halt *he spread of communism.

policy announced by Mr. Hoffman in Shanghai on Monday would be applied in Europe. No one, however, was willing to be quoted to that effect.

~ government which represented “ail” the Chinese people were set up there he would. “certainly recommend” that American aid be

officials have taken quick action on several occasions to strength« en the present French government's hand to. forestall formation _.of any coalition regime. .

Against Any Deal With Reds

IN GREECE, where as in China there is a Communist revo lution against the legal government, American policy up to now has been emphatically against any “deal” with the Communists, In Italy American policy similarly has opposed ‘any Coms« munist participation in the government. There are no Communists in the cabinets of any European nations now receiving Marshall Plan aid. In a Washington press conference on Sept. 10 Mr. Hoffman said: “The whole legislative history ind the assistance act points clearly to the fact that if a country goes Communist our ECA aid should be stopped.” One section-of the ECA law applying .to China says the policy of the U. 8. is to “encourage the republic of China in its efforts to maintain the genuine independence and tive integrity of China and to sustain and strengthen the principles of individual liberty and free institutions in China through a program of assistance based on self-help and co-operation.”

Principles of Liberty '

THE SECTION of the law applying to Europe is almost identical, It says American policy is “to sustain and strengthen the principles of individual liberty, free institutions and genuine ‘independence in “Europe through assistance to those countries which participate in a joint recovery program based upon selfhelp and mutual co-operation.” Up to now this section has been interpreted to bar Come munist regimes, or regimes in which Communists play a leading role, rom 3 Jartieipation in the Marshall Plun. Hoffman's China statement however seemed to be an Et lion to thé Chitiese to forma Communist-coalition The statement was given prominence in Paris newspapers. The ECA administrator qualified the invitation, according to press reports, by saying that if the.proposed coalition in China were “completely Communistic,” aid would not be .continued. Some American sources said the Hoffman statement would ‘ not change our anti-Communist policy in Europe ‘but that it did reflect the vast difference between u. 8. Policy here and U. 8.

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