Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1949 — Page 12

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Memorial Day “Musts” ~~ . ITs not enough to observe Memorial Day merely by staging a patriotic parade and decorating the graves of the fallen heroes of past wars. : ast +0 In order to pay any real tribute to the war dead we, the living, must lend what help we can to the forces trying to establish future peace for free men everywhere so that another generation of young men will not have to go to their deaths in the struggle of useless conflicts. : “1 We must help bolster the democratic way of free living and make ourliberties meaningful for all because these are

HEE We must work at all times for the uplifting of all society to a plane of individual dignity and personal fulfil-

to follow out of chaos of the past and present. ' T-Day Arrives

| "THE dawn broke today over the long-awaited birth of television ini Indiana.

- infant of see-and-hesr communication delivered the 500-Mile - Race onto the screens of more than 3000 television sets. ¢ No oné's imagination is broad enough to see even the . thin line which marks the horizon of transmitted imagery, ‘with sound, But if experience of other cities serves us well, {t should in the next five years change our way of living for the better, making existence more convenient, more bear _ able and infinitely more pleasant and informative. | = FR a. ® © TTI8 our candid opinion that television will not sweep - "forward to the 60-million-set status of radio in even a year "or two. Television is limited by its usefulness which, is, in turn, os

. 1, gauged by its audience. Bae ; |. Without the support of sponsors, programs dannot im- | prove at the pace achieved by radio. And without programs the demand for sets, especially when they cost approximateth as good radio receivers, will be limited. But the combination of sight and hearing in electronic : communication is an immeasurable asset to Central Indiana grateful to Harry Bitner Jr. fon his courage in making this: contribution to the citizens and s of his state,

* (I's a Hard Road = od AN example of the bumps in the road to government econ- : 7 omy, consider what is happening to one proposal to

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Is for a cutback of the Veterans Administrafino: re In Ris, bid at fess 8 fast uman said he had found that.gonstructioh |

oyerbuilding, in terms of beds needed to ‘ements.” di x a recommenda-

{tion 'by te init airs that 24 of | $279 million, but “still make it possible to provide for all _ to provide an even more liberal allowance of beds for non-

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SE lL se 8 | THERE were loud and immediate howls’ of pro { They came from veterans’ organizations; from business interests in every locality which had expected to get one of the 24 new hospitals; from Senators and Representatives whose states or districts would be affected. : _ These have been so effective that the House | insisted on voting all the money Mr. Truman had proposed . to save. And now Sen. Pepper of Florida, and many others “are urging the Senate to do the same, 50 that the full hos-pital-building program can be carried out. : The cutbacks advocated by Mr. Truman, says Sen. Pepper, were made on the basis of “cold figures.” He adds: “I just can’t believe that the President didn't get inaccurate, though well-intentioned, advice.” © “% For our part, we just can’t imagine that Mr, Truman didn’t seek thoroughly accurate advice before he proposed something so certain to be so unpopular with so many people !. asa reduction of the veterans’ hospital program.

Ah, Le Sport! i THE Mediterranean Friendship Club is sponsoring a soccer tournament in Greece as a means of fostering good feeling among the participating nations. In a game the other day between the Italian and Tur. kish teams, everybody felt so good that the Greek referee “was beaten up and an Italian player got kicked so hard he had to go to a hospital. ¢ Get the hand grenades ready, men. i peace-loving lads from

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¢ Friend of the Docs > JE wos nice to see the whole country paying tribute to Dr. § 7 Gilbert Grosvenor on his 50th anniversary as director of i the National Geographical Society. . § But we're disappointed that our doétdrs and dentists § didn’t make more of the occasion. kg § After all, how could a doc run a successful office with. : out a National Geographic Magazine for his waiting room?

King-Sized Candy Store ! i HE retail business done by the armed services in post Ir the output of 588 retail units worth of goods for the 12

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Inflation Might Be Worse * Than Red Military Attack

HONG KONG, May 30—Both here and economists

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s Canton, , ‘have depreciated in terms of U. 8. dollars by 80 per cent in the past month, with accelerated at an alarming rate in the past week, - devaluation of

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currency. Some British speak of the process with bitter exaggeration as “Americanization” of |

They are now disgorging them on the local money gnarket, seeking American money,

Warning to British CHINA'S horrible example of inflation glands as a grave warning to the British authorities. The simplest problems are nighty complicated. Economic stresses have duced social strains between wage levels and the cost of living that were worth armies to the

® just what the Marxist doctors ordered. ; — cate : POSTWAR TRAGEDY . . .

War's Hidden Damage to Minds

INDIAN TREE LANGUAGE Indians

The forest early Indiana called the dogwood tree the “arrow wood tree” and carved from it many ts for their daily

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‘Not Truman's Fault’ By Alfred Baker Lewis. ; It is natural that the liberal and pro-labor voters should be greatly disappointed over the failure to pass a new labor law and the failure curb the “right” to filibuster

. rights measures. Conseguen y © Actually it is not the fault of the President or the Fair Deal Democrats who support him. The Republicans almost have made Common cause with the reactionary Southern «Dixlecrats to block the President's program. The 1948 election resulted in the defeat of 75 Teattionary Republican representatives and nine Teac Democra

18 In the Senate. But many of the reactionary measures in the House and Senate were carried by-greater majorities in the 80th Congress, That was true, for example, of the enactment of the Taft-Hartley law and the passage of .the Republican attack on social security. In

jority in the House and 18 in the other orgs there is still a majority in the . presen who voted. wro : crucial issues in the past Co "E98 it is the lb-

ngress, - Instead of blaming the President duty of true liberals fo work to elect more

“Trickery of Designers’ By Sossies Forbes x dowdy age. A man in Paris started it because he loved and revered his r

so he said. 7’ y Gone is the slim, chic, smart-looking woman

By Marquis Childs

of yesterday. Today we have only replicas of grandmother, ambling along in loose full-backed coats, resembling nothing so much a8 the ancient ‘“Mother ' Hubbard,” with full skirts swirling about heelless slippérs and ankles and a small hat worn back on the head with bangs, Shades of granmother! What next?

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Saddle shoes, and pin-up curls! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And the merry crooner tunes; With thy red lip, redder stifl by at thy will;

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Bobby soxérs in knee pants! =MASCELIINE 8. BRUCKER, Indpls.

& | WOULDN'T MIND 1 do not seek nor crave great fame Nor wealth of various kind. I would not care to do great deeds 't mind—

«+ « 1 wouldn' helped . . . somehow Some tangle to unwind \ Which somehow helped so soul to gain Contentedness of mind! A ; SANNA E YOUNG.

SPRING CAN BE

Spring can be so many things In one—

A yesterday that lives in happiness, A bran-new hope for every sorrowing heart. DAISY MOORE BYNUM, Sanddborn.

WASHINGTON, May 30—Out of the

other : es to relieve . The the destroyed cities of Europe are slowly being Dy Their “tote body vain. The honey locust put together again. The long and painful task berry the “surrounding berries tree” and the of bringing back America’s war dead is nearing te ash the “brittle tree.” The yedwood tree | COMPletion. : Mog sallsd “Tedwood” by the Delaware In- The physical scars of the war are being dians. Indiana's famed sycamore was called the | effaced. The farmers of Western Europe are wihedding bark tree” and the cottonwood the sowing, even in the battle areas, for a

But even that may be, like the part of the fceberg that is above the water line, only a fraction of the toll. — In his great book, “A Study of History,” Arnold Toynbec charts the course of the civilizations that have risen and fallen in the 5000 years that man has been keeping records. Mr. Toynbee observes that when a civilization

its neighbors, there are almost immediate signs of a new and beginning cycle of fairly short duration. A kind of ossification begins to take place. Rigid controls are imposed and ‘one symptom is the every-increasing dominance of the military.

In civilization after civilization this has been the

‘prelude to decline and downfall; the decay of

religion, the arts, science.

Real Issue Lost In the outcry over the fact that a deluded got a fel-

Commission the real issue was lost sight of. With the government checking on the political beliefs of all applicants for scholarships paid for out of tax money, the real and present danger is that government will dominate education and research. Furthermore, the tendency would be for the lowest common denominator of politics to dominate. : The idea of giving a scholarship to a young man who i a Communist is repellent at the very time the Department of Justice is seeking to prove the Communist party a conspiracy to overthrow the government by. forge and. vio: ,

lence. It goes against common sense, As a |.

number of letter writers have told me, But in order to eliminate one such mistake— one out of 400 or 450—we concede the right of government to apply the test of politics in an important and ever-widening area of science. The mistake was not irreparable, since the scholar would not be allowed in any fleld even remotely labeled secret.

Risks in War

IN WAR there is the calculated risk. Millions of American knew what it was to take. such a risk and many never came Back. In the wise use of great power and the acceptance of great responsibility in peacetime there is also the calculated risk. % Freedom itself is a calcdlated risk—the #flsk that most men will act with responsibility and maturity. When we shut the door on this calculated risk and look to government to police men’s minds and beliefs, then the great base of our free civilization will be threatened

The amazing paradox is that women fell for dds desigh eg plot lo put women back’ in their he home, ey had beco - dependent. y » REO To. ®* & ©

& . ‘Limiting Business Volume’ By Albert G. Metter. Fr and banks are limiting thelr bu iness volume quite stupidly. That 2 the Go ernment only insures GI housing mortgages. Have the banks and builders considered the advantage S de Business if the Federal Governnt insured all mortga, for new h both Civilian and ver Ouings : ouldn’t we petition our congressmen pass a bill accomplishing the above? Wake Bo

What Others Say—

IT (President Truman's medical rogram is the discredited system of ets Sgtam) which are now living off of the bounty of the American people—and if adopted here, it would not only jeopardize the health of our people, but Fravoly Sndsnigur our freedom.—Dr. Elmer L. enderson, chairman, Board of Trustees, American Medical Assoeiation, ® ¢

WE have not yet won (our freedom) fully, . for a portipn of our country still remains cut

away and occupied by Britain against the will of the overwhelming majority of Irish people. — Sean MacBride, Irish minister ¢® oxternal af-

® © NO government can be regarded as who Just that does not protect ail the rights to i a free people are entitled, not only in the preservation of democracy but in the enjoyment of the privileges to which all men are entitled under

it.~Vice President Barkley.

NATIONAL DEFENSE . . . By Jim G. Lucas

Navy-Air Force Feud

ASHINGTON, May 30—The Navy-Air Force feud over the B-36 bomber is headed for another shggvdown-—this time in Con-

Rep. James B. Van Zandt (R. Pa.) has called for a special House Rommittee to “investigate the nature and circumstances surrounding procurement of military aircraft.” Mr. Van Zandt, a Navy reserve captain, said he had informa-

tion “regarding unusually large {of B-36's) from Con-

. solidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. controlled by Floyd Odlum, a : heavy contributor to the Democratic campaign, and a company |

of which Louis Johnson, was until three days after his nomination as Secretary of Defense, a director and Washington counsel. He charged the Air Force “ruthlessly” had cancelled orders from four other aircraft companies—Boeing, Northrop, Lockheed and North American, Earlier, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted to have Mr. Johnson explain rumors of irregularities in aircraft purchasing, It voiced full confidence in him, however, and rejected a move by Chairman Millard Tydings (D., Md.) to name a civilian investigating committee. The House Armed Services Committee previously had asked Mr. Johnson for a test between the B-36

matter now is before the joint chiefs of staff.

Denied Handling Orders £3 MR. JOHNSON denied he had handled B-36 orders. He said they were signed before he became Defense Secretary. After he took office, he said, one paper came to him for signature, but he sent it to the joint chiefs for thefr opinion. They recommended that he sign, Mr. Johnson sald. : The latest flareup promises to be bitter. Some Navy officers believe that Mr. Johnson has put the FBI on them to find who is leaking secrets to Congress. Mr. Johnson denies that. An FBI spokesman referred questions to attorney General Tom Clark. Mr, Clark’s office had no comment, At least two congressmen say it is true. A high-ranking Navy officer sald his wires were tapped. Mr, Van Zandt said four Navy cers and a writer had been questioned by the FBI He said he was warned his office was being watched, and he has told his Navy friends to stay away, He says they meet him one at a time in civilian clothes at different places, As of today, the Air Force has 169 B-36's on hand or in pro-

and Navy fighters—presumably the McDonnel Banshee. The

. fluction—94 ordered In August, 1044, at $4.2 million per ship;

39 in January 1049 and 36 in April. Between 1944 and early 1949, there is evidence that the Alr Force was not completely sold on the B-36. The Navy says Alr Secretary W, Stuart Symington told the joint chiefs in May, 1948, that it had “been evaluated and appears to be a good bomber for roles comparable to that of the B-20," It says he told the joint chiefs he was considering accepting only 50 ordered in 1944 and cancelling the remaining 44.

Special Design NAVY men say Mr, Symington's 1948 description of the B-36 contradicts his statement of last Feb. 12 that it was “designed and built as an intercontinental bomber." "The Air Forces answer is that Mr, Symington and Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, his chief of staff, did come convinced the B-36 was an intercontinental bomber. Between May, 1048, and February, 1049, they say, B-36 performance tests made them realize it was far superior to any previous estis

mate, i i 4 32 * B- 's did not figure in the Alr Force's $1.3 billion kick-off its program, announced May 6, 1948. That went for B-50's, 51 North American B-45's; 30 Northrop B-49's;

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SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

30 ’ BS ii a ra i “When | grow up | hope I'm not so repulsive | have to go to all that trouble!"

400 Republic P-84's; 458 Lockheed P-80's; 458 North American P-806's; 88 Curtiss-Wright P-87's, and a number of transports and trainers. The Curtiss-Wright P-87's —purchase announced on May 6-— were cancelled on Oct. 19. The Air Force sald it needed the money for other planes. On Oct. 28, the Air Force announced it was spending $80 mil the year's total to $1.5 billion—for 125 planes Boeing B-47's, Northrop C-125 transports, helicopters, liaison planes and trainers. : The B-36 came into the picture-—and became an issue—on Jan. 11. Then, Mr. Symington announced cancellation of orders for 288 bombers. It cost approximately $70 million to cancel those contracts, records reveal.

The last batch of 36 B-36's was ordered April 5. At that

time, the Air Force announced ¢ ig of orders for all B-54's (improved Lucky Lady II'sy but also bought five more B-4Ts. It said it wanted to put its money “into as few models as possible” and selected the B-36 “because of steadily PereRt eid the funds sh sa n ift was approved by President, the Bufhu'af he Buta. tn nk Chet of s former Defense tary James Forrestal and Mr, Johnson, '

"In the Potomac, and is assigned to the Secretary of the

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NEWS NOTEBOOK . , . By Peter Edson

Behind the Scenes

WASHINGTQN, May 30—Recent Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, lampooning government officials, revealed a new unofficial flag for the Dixiecrat-Republican alliance, Over the center of the Confederate red-white-and-blue “stars and bars” flag was drawn in heavy black lines on a white background the laughing head of a GOP elephant, rampant.

Nautical Maneuvers

WASHINGTON reception for new Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews was a grand snafu. The Navy plane which flew him in from Omaha arrived 10 minutes early. Only Undersecretary Dan Kimball and a Navy éaptain were there. Matthews had never heard of Kimball, but he recognized the Navy uniform. That caused much confusion as to who should be in the pictures which one newsreel and one still photographer wanted to take. After Matthews, Kimball and thé captain left the airport, retiring Becrqtary of the Navy John L. Sullivan drove up. When he learned Matthews had gone, he dashed back into his car and ordered his driver to follow in hot pursuit, They all went to the naval yacht

where a some-

: Sequo what strained dinner was served. Nobody Ww whether Sulli-

van was Matthews’ guest or other way d. Sullivan had resigned, but Matthews hadn't been sworn in, ‘Since that time, Matthews has been living aboard the Sequoia, which is anchored Navy. Though his previous nautical experience was confined to owning a rowboat, the new secretary says he likes this'sea duty,

Quick . Change of Mind

CHINESE government radio at Chungking recently ane nounced appointment of a Legislative Yuan committee of 29 to investigate T. V. Soong, H. H. Kung and Chang Kia-ngsau in connection with their disposal of one billion dollars In economic funds. . Two hours later the same radio announced that the same committees of 29 had decided to ask the same three ware time Chinese finance officials for a loan of one million dollars, for use in remedying the critical position of the Kuomintang government,

trying to put over propaganda campaigns, they always come to grief. Typical comments now thrown at the Afr Force about the B-36 are: “The best five-engine bomber the Atr Force ever had.” And: “It may be invulnerable at 40,000 feet or over, but it's a sitting duck for everything that flies at 32,000 feet

Lodge | k, Senate Tickled ; ! RY CABOT LODGE of Massachusetts, often rated Banas And best-dressed man in Congress, is the first law er to' wear one of the fashionable new pink

time he walked on the Senate floor garbed in this finery, he drew laughs from the gallery. oy i

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