Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1949 — Page 10

~ PAGE 10. : Saturday, Aug. 6, 1049

~The Chine “White: Paper’ Ps State Department finally has award the ques“tions of exactly when and why the United States aban- ~ doned its ‘historie position as an ally of Nationalist China and assumed an attitude of neutrality between that government and the Communist rebels. Thé course was qavided by Gen. George C. Marshall in July, 1948. “According to the White Paper” on China, “Gen. Marshall was being placed in the untenable position of mediating on the one hand between two Chinese groups while on the other the United States government was continuing to “supply arms and ammunition to one of the two groups, namely, the National government.” 80, in order to let Gen. Marshall continue his efforts, American financial assistance was withdrawn from our war- - time ally, and an embargo was placed on arms shipments to China. Unfortunately, however, the general's decision did not prevent Russia from supplying the Chinese Communists with J apanese arms captured in Manchuria. == Apher the Marshail decision was made, Chiang Kai-shek | wis winning the war against the Communists. Later that | same year, 1046, the White Paper admits the Nationalist government reached “the highest point of its military posi tion after VJ Day.” But, “in 1047 the strategic initiative passed from the government to the Communists.” When we again began to supply arms to the Nationalists late in 1048, it was the old question of too little and too late— North China aud Manchuria had fallen.

= 2 ya ; FE a PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT and Winston Churchill

that it was “unfortunate that China was not previously consulted.” This deal was made at Yalta in February, 1945, - and Chiang Kai-shek wasn't to about it until the middle .of June, department comforts itwelt with the -observation that ‘Ht no time did President Roosevelt consider that he was compromising vital Chinese interests.” ‘Most of the story of what our secret diplomacy did to China is in this White Papér—when it is pieced together. ~ The long-suppressed report made by Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer also is made public. But the explanation that it was “withheld for two years to avoid doing injury to Chines. prestige doesn’t hold water. The White Paper itself reveals - none of thig reluctance. Yet China's situation today is more

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= ge territory in exchange for Russia's intervention in | ‘the Pacific war, and the White Paper remarks | prelens

"But Headwin-Sand Atitede Not Expected to Get Far

r WASHINGTON. Aug. 8—Isolationism evi WHEL of K Tevival-in- the

ferry of Nebraska, Republican floor jeader, is working hard for the isolationist’ crown held in prewar days by former Sen. Nye of North Dakota Sen. Wherry has considerable company - in. the Senate. Several Midwestern |. Senators say their mail from home is heavily | ~ against new and stronger foreign commitménts_ by i. country.”

often it simply reflects pressure [rom organised groups. oF thé fact that peoples against someéthing seem to he more vocal than people for it. But.it 1 probably safe to assume that some substance exists to support reports of a resurging isolationism,

Hard to Imagine WHAT about it? For one thing it is hard to imagine this attitude could ever again spread as wide and deep as In préwar times. The atom bomb and the guided missile are tty persuasivé arguments against a cccoon-

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pre like futuré for the United States. These w ranean that the nation’s once.cherished physical isolation behind the oceans is ended. None of our military experts has left any doubt of that.’ This revived isolationism can have no basis in geography as it formerly did. Now and hereafter it is purely a state of mind. The viewpoint has never been dead, for it . has always been a refuge for all who have a dislike or distrust of «foreigners, especially Buropeans. Butts current comeback likely reflects to a markéd degree a new retreat from uncomfortable reality. It is retreat by people who are discouraged and disgusted with the turmoil of world conditions and want a haven of Pence and qua,

“No Haven of Security

THIS attempted withdrawal is unieriiand: able, but not. very sensible. For there 1s no island of security Anywhere Any more, No one ean ecreats one just by wishing it. Furthermore, the new isolationism, like the old, is 4 wholly negative outlook. Advocates say they are for America first, but who is not? The Communists are the only real renegades on this score. The fact is, isolationists have not now and never have had a positive program for solving the problems which embroil the United States with the rest of the world. They propose only to the problems don't exist.

Which is another réAson WHY & more mature | “ America, toughened by World War II and its aftermath, probably will be more resistant to the isolationist bill of goods than in. former times.

THE IVY VINE

Staunch and sturdy the wiry vine Clung to the old ‘home many years, It heard the children’s gleeful.laugh And saw the mother’s prayerful tears:

Ita spreading fingers upward crept, *. "Caressing still another brick, Until the glossy green leaves spread ~ Upon thé old house mossy thik,

Then when the laughter ceased to sound Within the ivory-tinted halls, And those who loved the old homestead Had left the shelter of ita walls,

desperate han 3 was then,

# . * GEN. WEDEMEYER knew more about the Chinese military situation than any other American. It was his view, as_of September, 1047, when he made ‘his report, that it cotild be saved. He submittad a program, conditioned @n-Ching’s scoépting American advisers in military and economie. fields to insure that our aid was properly used. This “condition agresabie’ to tHe Chitiese govern: ment, a& its spokesmen repeatedly have declared. But the ‘report was suppressed, and nothing was done until Congress intervened in April, 1048. Then the first of the military supplies weren't delivered until last November, by

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devotes page after page to alleged inefficiency and corruption __in Chinese officialdom. Nor does. it explain. why the department ignored the epeated warnings it received from the American embassy in Moscow on Russia's aspirations in China. co Portunately most of .the.gaps in.the White Paper. can be filled in from books written by on-the-ground witnesses, books not subjeet to editing by men interested in defending their own mistaken polisied,

Children Must Be ‘Supported

NE of the major factors in the continuing rise in welfare costs in Marion County and elsewhere is public care of many, dependent children whose fathers have de“serted their families and Tailed Yo provide’ support for them. We heartily support the: campaign started by Juvenile ~-. Court this week when erring fathers were served notice + that they must support their children or go to jail. year- -old father was sentenced to serve six months in jail and fined $500 for “repeated failuré” to support two ohildren of his estranged wife. - This may seem Harsh treatment but the basic law of ' this or any other staté in relation to family responsibilities Is the inescapable provision that fathers be made to support JLheir Enmilive.

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‘. Pip ] ITIS a "jun law necessary to protect all 80C ety against the impossible burdens that would" arise if many fathers chose to dump their families on to the’ taxpayers for support. The trend in that direction already has gone t06 far.

fathers deserted them. The proposed increase of more than million in the local welfare budget for next. year is an ample warning signal that the courts have no alternative but to “crack down" on erring fathers who" are ‘Physically able to support ‘their children.

Dream World

i DURING the past year and a half, the Soviet Union has

“and practical Invention known. to man, possibly excepting “the'wheel, Now we hear that the Russiaps are planning to assem-

as a tribute to Soviet ingenuity. ; : We trust that if any great American librariés fall heir B this set they will lodge the volumes where they belong Shelves ‘with Alice in Wonderltind and other cele-

which time the Communist forces had reached the Yangtse |

“The White Paper does not explain how this arms pro- | gram was sabotaged by Washington bureaucrats, but it =

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eee SF fr OF “the-Marion- County Welfare Department show. fv hundreds of children on the rolls simply because their

been steadily laying claim to almost every scientific -

ble these claims in a vast 22-volume work that will stand .

The ivy grew for quite a while * To shut the world away it seemed — That in the solitudé it held The wirey vine clung close and dreamed; | its.” Of summer nights and dancing feét Of wintér and the sleigh bell's ring, Until ane day SHE green leaves fell And he was such a blessed thing.

"Al Medl REA BE0AOAY:; DILETANTE'S DOGMA

1 spurh all fleas And only fight tigers. 1 abhor all leaches— } On the banks of thé Tigris

any year.

For the best cravat designed, “A bright thought at once arises: ] Give them ties that really bind Why net neckties strong and hefty, To bring common folk some hope? | For each overbearing lefty-- ! Twenty yards of one inch rope! |

_ Any one year.

PRICE SUPPORT - . . By Earl Richert -

U.S. Deep in Butter

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miles long and you havé an idea of how much butter the govern: ment now has on hand

prices to farmers. It has enough in storage to fill 800 boxcars (it buys in car-

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25,000 pounds: Monday of this week saw a record-breakin of 80 earlots: 49 were purchased Tuesday and 47 Wednesday.

Agriculture Department a week ago boosted the price floors under mifter. by three éents aA pound--a séasonal price Incense that * originally was scheduled to become effective Sept. 1, Thé depaitment said the increase was put intq effect at this time plus a new price-support program for cheddar cheese, to give more effective government support t4 the price of milk going thto manufactured dairy products,

Pressed by Bankers

AGRICULTURE officials suspect. that much of the present’ dumping on the government is being done by butter buyers who are being pressed by their bankers. They can sell grade A and grade B butler 16 the government for 82 and 60-cents-a pound respectively -~three cents a pound more than they paid for it-if . they bought at the old. floors of 59 and 57 cents, But these buyérs won't be able tb buy more butter any cheaper because tiie government will maintain the present price floors through December, onelofficial said. anrfouncing it stands rekdy w take all butter offered at the support prices,

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million, pounds have cost taxpayers 80 million. “We have a reasonable chance of disposing of all this butter ‘at cost,” said Assistant Dairy Branch Director D. 8, Andérson.

Hope to Sell It

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butter during the slack production months this fall and winter. The department will sell at the puréhasé price, plus Siarage and other Coats. v If the domestic market doesn’t take’ the butter, much or aft of it will be given to public institutions, school-luncly and relied programs. - One unfavorable factor is that 100 million pounds of butter are now in commercial storage as compared with 54 million pounds 4 YeAr ago. }o Mr. Anderson contends that the over-all butter price support Program isn't costing consumers Anything either. Without the

“taken off the market to hold up butterfat

lots) and is acquiring more at a rapid Clip. A carioad averages

one-day purchase

The government's pride butter holdings of more than 15

UNENPLOYIENT . . Jobless Exhausting Benefits

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8-—-Exhaustion of unemployment {nsurance benefits by workers is another recession headache that must soon be faced. Since the laws governing unemployment insurance vary in every state, it ls difficult to make-a-national roundup on this subject that will fit all cases, may be stated in general terms. The weakness of the. unemployment insurance systerh is in combating depressions. system wad "designed primarily to give temporarily unemployed workers some income between jobs, If the country is now heading into another period -of. continued low employment such ad it went thrgugh in thé 1930's, that's where the trouble wifl come. The 33,000,000 workers now covered by the various state systems become eligible for unemployment insurance as they build up “wage credThe more steadily workers are employed | in any year, the. more unemployment insurance

they are entitled to, up to the maximum: set by each state, New York has the most liberal unemployment insurance terma in the ‘nation. Un-. | | employed workers there may drav a maximum god 406.4 week. for. ii of, 26 weeks In

Payments Stop

3 WHEN a worker exhausts his unemployment insurance benéfits in any year, he may not becoma eligible for more unemployment insurance until a new “employment yéar” begins. determining the limits of this employment year

Massachusetts and 15 other slates have unt ... form. bdnefit. years, beginning. Apr. 1. mum benefit” in Massachusetts is 23 ‘weeks in When a Bay State worker has used up all his wagé credits and drawn benefit payments for 23 weeks, he cannot again become eligivie for benefits until after the next Apr. 1

“WANHINGTON, Aug: $= Visuatise -a~train-of boxoats Axe

This spurt in butter sales to the government came after the |

The govérnment buyf by

IT 18 hoped-the domestic market will purchase this surplus |

“ ahead of last because of the shedper prices.

support program, butter eaters would have been able to buy butter '

Much cheaper during the spring mdntha. - But such cheap Butter; he Argues, “would ‘ave resulted in

"greatly increased consumption, & great

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ignorance of what is meant socialism” for he offers as ry that it “wild not work” & of how things were

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when he has exhausted his be

claim,

But the nature of the problem

up wajge credits for the followl ensuing year this worker will

The ployment.

‘Benefits Exhausted

months of this year

‘Income,

in about 19 weeks.

lief and public welfare tolls.

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exhausted - théir/ benefits.

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much Bigher butter Pricez during the siack period this fall and

winter:

‘During the past tow years, the Ua8. has beert eating all the butter it produced and .démand was so great only 18 months Ago that butter was selling in groceries at nearly $1-a pound. * * Butter consumption this year is running 12 to 15 per cent

48 up 18 per cent.

The cheaper retail butter prices now sound 71 gents as com- | ned the demand | pee, production i

pared to about 92 a year ago-—-have greatly | forgbutter's old adversary, mare. And, is faling apy; vy

But butter production E

In other states, the usual pattern is for each worker's employment record to begin on the aay | he files his initial claim for insurance. Then

again become eligiblé for more une: insurance until 52 weeks aftér he filed his first

When a worker is drawing insurance for from 20 to 26 weeks, he obviously is not building

" gible for--roughly—Iless than half as mitch Ine . surance as he got In his initial year of unem-

NATIONAL statistics on the existing 48 | state unemployment insurance systems, as #8 collected by the Bureau of Employment Security / in Washington, reveal that for the first three , 380,000 of the 2,110.0 workers now ins unemployment in had exhausted their benefits. Figures for thé second year, now being compiled, will probably show an increase in exhaustions. For the thi quarter the situation will réally become critical unless there”is a, pick-up in employment. For when a worker carn draw no more bensfits, he THA gO on refiet {there 1s-no other gource of |

CIPFA THe HPA uavier bf 1949, Wea = uiemployed worker exhausted hia wage credits 86 any unemployment lasting more than five months ean easily swell re-

OF THE 10 principal labof market areas re-

Of the 16,000 drawing unemployment insurance in the New Bedford, Mass. Area, 4000 have New England employment officials expect 75,000 workers in that region will have exhausted theft benefits by

§ President Truman seeks for Western - Europe.

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which aré never kept. Oh Ar ee waking up to S¢¢ that by the oid system two-thirds of the value of products goes ae « gooth wn Ee essilitos us of n ar gies non whe a ucéd all wealth. | Be mise uly-at.the... : Ey a sure to take n an “election in. vote gh 16 17 he wants itor against

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with his. approval, but benefits, he not | 1t If it doss not meet | the facts. $loyment | know ‘We * ‘Political Sniping’ . By R. Sprunger, Olty n this Franéis Chitin} Spellman. who is also an erétore bi be ¢li- | exploiter of labor, is quite t at those whe opposs the use of federal poly Tate schools

Article one of the amendments to the Con. stitution of the United States states In. part: ss shall make no Jaw réspecting an | dnaliabment of religion . The Constitution of the / paste Jaw of the 1480, and 1 see this revolutionary document rity set aside éven if the least ‘of poiticiant dang thee poit clerical garb.

no reason why Be Arditra. food 4 bunch sniping cove

Views on the News :

professor sah sayh hé has heen shows “deientifieally” for 14 for the un+

A NEW py stud burlésque ying } dossn’t take that long

Seen 1 CAEN on. *» 4% @

CAPITALIEM would be greatly aided if

But love insane Hamlet, that state practices vary widel porting more than 121 per dent of their insured : =. I've got Reuben’s curse — In New York, the raed may become workers drawing unemployment benefits in May, Soon could Invéht & non-collapsible sock And I don't give & damnlet. | eligible for additional benefits at the beginning’ “only one situation has n cleared up. That | Mark ’. 0 } : ~JOHN P. CRAWFORD. of every quartér. The rise in New York's unem- ~~ one is in the San Jose, Cal, aréa, where Sea- - ; : 80 ployment insurance claims from 331,000 as of sonal unemployment .in- food processing areas ONE good thi oat the Supreme Ooburt, h ' June 11 to 425,000 as of July 9 was due in part ~ has beer greatly reduced. the robes add to the judges. FOSTER S FOLLIES to the fact that a number of claimants had The Musiyon= Ich AFA, With 23 por cent > » & : OsCOW == Ruksin- offers pes for K-_ | exhausted their benefits in the second quarter unemployment repor as shown no improve- , me; tie So ') : pr heak of the year. But they became SIgTBIE 16 new ment: —It-is-expeeted-that some. 75,000 workers MAYBE it's the previews that are kééping x At the Commies offer prizes : . & ;phenefits after July 1. in Michigan Wht HFve-exiiaited their benefits | people away from y HI. ’ i

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PLENTY of pastors get into polities by, preaching for others to keep out.

By Galbraith | DEFENSE . . . By Jim ©. Lucas

Arms Bargain Ends

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6—Uhcle Sam is closing the books om ~foreign-ililary-ald program whieh dwiffs the

It wag bargain day for afmies, navies and air foros this aide’ ‘ of the Iron Curtain while it lasted. In all, we sold $10.3 billion wobtth of arms left behind after VJ-Day for $2 billion. - Buyers were Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Belgium, Canada,

|Chile, Chifia, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, the Dominican Republic,

Bcuador, Bl Salvador, fiand, France, Greece, Gtutamaia, Haiti, ig Honduras, Iran, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, the Philippines, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland; Syria, the United Kingdom, Unioh of South Africa, .Uruguay, and Véfiesuela,

é Bargain Basement Closed

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WITH liquidgtion of the Foreign Liquidation Commission, nowever, thé bargain basement 18 closéd, Arma for our North Atiantie PEEt Allies ust bé madé from scriteh. They are certain to be costly. - Bulletd which sold’ for $45 a thousand during the war now. cost $80.- Af automatic rifie bought for $134 in 1945 now sells for $210. Several countries. got in i . France, in Mareh, paid an original $108.2 million, Brazil pald $190,

it under the wire, A million for 262 navy vessels worth .

on Apr. 4 for 18 military planes that

ek cost-$1.3- million. : } During April and May, Venezuela bought 3 PHS WO ag en

"| original $4.2 miliion, for $2£8:000;

! In March, China paid $97,000 for Ammunition and explosives | abandoped by the U, -8. on Pacific Islands. Ofiginally, it.cost us $9.7 million. § op Sti Bought 22 Planes

IN FEBRUARY and Mirch, Colombia bought 22 fates once worth $2.5 million fof $182,000 ; Last spring, Iran plufiked ‘down $480,000 for Alferaft parts, | ammunition, weapons spare parts, pistols and Binocular worth » $2.3 million whéh they Were new. ‘Peru, on Mar. 14, paid $21,000 for six coast guard cutters and a landing Boat once worth §703,000.° OnMay 8, shé paid wo, $39,000 for tion and artillery shells orice costing $510,000, ‘Mexico $481 To7 18 throwers worth $4515. | Eeuador spent $38.30 for 10 rocket launchers woth $382.50. The: “Netherlands paid: nd for a demliitatised P-38 which cont.

$105,000 new. Uncle Sam madé a profit on ‘some deals. For instance” three ured German mines And a stéaniship went io Italy | for $518,000. aia ‘a oa Nazi Bl dtydpek for $400. 000. Belgian Nationals ‘up $97, for three Gérman ships, Norway paid for the I atéamship, , four

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were vacant @ A rent offic vacancies indi for rent ar sale. Of the “were occupiec two “weeks. | found -vacant controls, the Charles B, ¥ ber, reported advertisement anapolis news

hat more nte could J esent housing expec trols here.

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