Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1950 — Page 18
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‘Why Pass a Law? Ss a new state law setting a speed limit on Indiana high- '* ways will save some lives by all means let's have a speed limit. Unfortunately there isn't any good evidence to indicate that a statute will make the highways safe, or that it is | even the best way to go about promoting safety. ; "Indiana's state police, it seems to us, have in their ‘hands right now a better weapon against death on the high‘ways. They make some use of it. They could perhaps make ‘more. . LJ . » vy » » . THEY already have power to set speed limits in specific places, and apparently on specific highways. It may be that authotity needs extending, or needs to be more, clearly stated in the laws. It can be much more useful, and much more effective, than a state-wide over-all speed limit. Speeds up to 60 miles an hour or more may be reason- . ably safe on wide, straight, trunk highways. Speeds of 40 miles an hour may be dangerously high on narrow twisting secondary routes. Any statute fixing speed limits for the ‘whole state is almost certain to fix them too low for some ‘roads, and too high for others.
- ” ” ” : THE state police, who know more about highways and traffic and safety than anybody else, are quite capable of fixing the safe limits for each route in Indiana. A system ‘of markers along each route would set forth those limits, ‘just as they do now in the areas where they already have i set speed limits, If they need authority spelled out more fully to be ‘able to do this on a state-wide basis we believe the legisla‘ture should give it to them. Such a program, we feel sure, would do a lot more for highway safety than just a move to “pass a law” which hasn't worked -so very well in other states and probably wouldn't solve the problem in Indiana.
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Korea and Formosa SOUTH KOREA and Formosa occupy similar positions on the receding anti-Communist front in Asia. Both areas were liberated when Japan was defeated. Today both have become isolated outposts, flanked on the mainland by Communist-held territory and superior Red forces. South Korea is marked for early attack by the ‘Russian-sponsored Communist forces in North Korea. For- ' mosa is a prospective target of the Chinese Communists, when they are equipped for aid and amphibious operations. Of the two areas, Formosa has more strategic importance to the United States, because of its geographic position and because it could be more easily defended. It is
an island | off the China coast, open only t ¥ and air a ‘South Korea is on Bl Bo of a penis 1% and threa ‘By superior Red forces across its land frontier, as well as by air.
” » FORMOSA is economically self-sufficient under normal conditions. South Korea is not. : In the face of these facts it is not surprising that the State Department's plan to abandon Formosa, while continuing to support South Korea as a “bulwark against com‘munism,” has failed to impress Congress as a sound policy. ‘Both areas face a hard struggle to maintain independence, now that China is under Red control. Neither isstrong enough to stand alone against the forces which can be raised against them. Neither is a good risk, if American assistance is to be limited or half-hearted. Our moral support is as important as our financial support, at least in the case of Formosa.
» Ld » - DEFEAT of the $60 million Korean-aid bill in the House has won the grudging consent of Secretary of State Acheson to limited economic assistance for Formosa. But, if this promised aid would be subject to the same administrative skulduggery which nullified the China-aid bill of 1048, it had better not be voted. The $60 million appropriation sought for South Korea is not the end but the continuation of a refief program which began in 1945 and which would have to be carried into the indefinite future. The country is in its industrial infancy and under a new government in no respect more capable than the Nationalist regime in China which the State Department has so roundly condemned. A continuing investment there should be studied in this light.
‘Great Fisherman’ | UREAUCRATS often are accused of pressuring Congress for bigger appropriations than Congress considers necessary. Well, let's look into the official published report of hearings by a House subcommittee on appropriations, held Jan. 13. Rep. Michael Kirwan (D. O.), the subcommittee's chairman, questions Director Albert M. Day of the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service, as follows: Mr. Kirwan: “What do you get for fish and wildlife service? What did you get last year?” to Mr. Day: “The 1950 appropriation totaled $12,815,800." Mr, Kirwan: “What is the total this year?" Mr. Day: “$14,350,500.” Mr. Kirwan: “That is an increase of just $2,000,000." Mr. Day: “$1,534,700.” Mr. Kirwan: “Now, do you think you have asked enough of an increase 7" Mr. Day: “No.” Mr. Kirwan: “Well, why didn’t you?” Mr, Day: “Because of the regulations under which we prepale Dug rets.” A x rt . Mr. Kirwan: “Do you mean you are only allowed to ask the Budget Bureau for so much?” : Mr. Day: “We can only ask Congress to appropriate what the Budget Bureau has approved.” ' Mr. Kirwan: “Couldn't there be some way that you could ask this committee?” : A _ Mr. Day: “1 think not under the regulations under
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DEAR BOSS... By D nkiney E Cocktail Party
Introductions Get Vague And Talk Is Confusing
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 — Dear Boss: You
once asked me to give an inside report on the _ much-touted Washington cocktail party. I've been to a few and somehow frying to describe
em afterward never seemed to be my forte, prefer writing about polities and politicians, 80 today I am taking a column from Tom Donnelly, the Washington hea t who
does such things for Scripps-Howard's Washing-
ton Daily News. All I can say is “it's authentic.” Title of this Donnelly column is “I Never Heard of You Either.” Here it is: “You promised to introduce me to Sen. Taft," I said to my hostess as I plunged into the cocke tall party. ; “Isn't here,” she said. “Have you met Mr, Blanko? But of course you have. You journal ists must all know one another.” Mr. Blanko said, “Let's see now, you work for the Times-Herald?"” te I said “No.” } He said, “I've got it. You write a civil service column for the Post.” I said no again and Mr. Blanko, bored, drifted away.
Frosty ‘Apathy : I WAS introduced to a pale, high-domed, weary man who looked at me with frosty apathy over his martini. “My God,” I thought, “It's Walter Lippman, at least.” Turned out to be somebody who gathers news which is read by somebody else on the radio. “Stupid business, radio,” he said majestically. “You John O'Donnell?” 1 said “No” and he went away. A Miss Lake, a Mr, Mountain, and a Mrs. Jackson, all journalists, all confided cheerfully that they had never heard of me, though Mrs, Jackson once knew a Vincent Donnelly in Shanghai. I had never heard of them, either. They found this hard to believe,
A large brunet lady approached me. “The Alger Hiss case will be discussed long after you and I are dead,” she announced, I could not dispute this.
‘Way of Life Ended’
“IT WILL have far-reaching repercussions. It may mean that a way of life is ended. And, just think, they didn’t get him on spying or disloyalty. They got him on perjury. Faugh!” “Oh, I don't know,” I said. “Look at Al Capone. They got him on income tax, but it meant the end of the gangster era.” “Nonsense!” said the brunet lady, as she turned her back on me, My hostess came. over with a group of four. She was working very hard to turn me into an asset. I had once written a column about Pyramid Clubs involving an imaginary character named Gwladys Cesspool. This name was the only thing my hostess had retained out of all my columns, S8he now said brightly: “This is the man who writes about Gwladys Cesspool.” And she left me. The new group stared at me with blank intensity. I could think of no way to justify my existence, and I quitted them abruptly.
Best-Selling Books
I WAS introduced to the wife of a man who writes best-selling books about Whither Capitalism? “What do you think about the Alger Hiss case?” she asked. “It will be discussed long after you and I are dead,” 1 sald. “You must remember that they didn't get him for spying. They got him for perjury.” “And you must remember,” she said, “that they got Capone for income tax evasion. And yet it meant the end of the gangster era.” "“Faugh!” I said. My hostess fragereg i the distance. I hurrill over to Her. “And where is Sen. Taft?" I demanded. “Oh, he’s gone,’ she said, “been and gone. Have you met Mr. Bong? But of course you have.” And she was off again.
Wrong Publication
“AH, YES," 1 said. “You're with the Luce publications.” Mr. Bong said he was not with the Luce publications. He was with-—-and he named a newspaper I had never heard of. “You're with , .. ?" he asked. “The News,” I said. . “Oh, yes” he said. “You're in the Washington Bureau of the New York News. Have you met Mr. Widdletop. He's with the Philadelphia Inquirer.” “Name's Topwiddle,” said the new introducee. “I'm with the Chicago Tribune.” He looked at me, “And you are?” “Samuel Clemens,” I said irritably. “Oh? Any relation to Mark Twain?” I said flatly. “I am Mark Twain.” Mr. Topwiddle didn't bat an eye. “Always wanted to meet you,” he said. “ ‘David Copperfield’ is my favorite book.” And he fell flat on his face.
NATIONAL DEFENSE . . . By Marquis Childs
Magic Security?
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—For 10 years before 1940 the French spent hundreds of millions of dollars on their Maginot Line. It was a kind of magic formula for security. Behind this magic the divisions and dissensions in politics as related to mili-
tary policy could be ignored.
1 suggest that we are in danger of erecting the atom bomb
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By Jim G. Lucas ‘What Are Russians Up To Now?’
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—Russia’s renewed blockade of Berlin—an off-again, on-again affair so far—might mean another airlift. Air Force men say no special plans have been made for a second Operation Vittles because it isn’t necessary—the plans are ready. They say the airlift could be started again in ample time to avoid suffering in Berlin. We have the planes, the trained men and the knowhow. Loading and unloading, scheduling and flight plans have been reduced to a science. The decision to start again will have to be made by the National Security Council, It ordered the first airlift in May, 1948. So far, there have been no official discussions. Un-
officially, the big—and so far unanswered-—--
question is: “What are the Russians up to?”
Calculated Risk
SOME say they want to test our determination to stay in Berlin. One defense official pointed out that the 1948-49 airlift was carried out while Gen. George C. Marshall was Secretary of State. Gen. Marshall accepted as a calculated risk the fact that it could lead to a hot war. On several occasions, the Russians announced they would hold target practice in our flight lanes. They buzzed airlift planes. But when we refused to back down, they did. Now, however, Gen. Marshall is gone. This official believes the Russians are curious whether his successor, Dean Acheson, is “made of the same stuff” and willing to take the same risks. The defense official pointed out that Mr. Acheson recently justified refusal to help the Chinese — Nationalists hold Formosa onthe grounds that it might lead to war. Russian timing puzzles many Air Force strategists. One former airlift official pointed out they must know that to make it really tough on us they should have started in November or December. Those were the worst flying
‘months in the first lift. Now, Berlin's best
flying days are ahead. One airlift authority predicted that we could fly in an average of 6000 tons a day within a month. The Army is equally as puzzled—but for a different reason. One top Army man pointed out that another Berlin crisis might guarantee our
SIDE GILANCES
retention of selective service—otherwise a doubtful issue. “It almost looks like we're working in cahoots,” he said. “Everytime we ask for a draft, the Russians oblige by producing a crisis. You'd think they'd wise up.”
Work as Team
THE Air Force says it has 225 to 250 B-54's, enough pilots and crews to provide three shifts for each plane, a “tremendous pool” of controllers, radar men, logistics experts and a network of fields from which to operate. Also “valuable lessons still fresh. in our minds.” Army, Navy and Air Force men have
‘Jearned to work as a team.
Moreover, one Air Force official said, our planes have just gone through major overhauls and “probably are in better shape than when they were new.” The fuel situation is better than for some time. Many of the planes and much of the old airlift personnel have been scattered—to Alaska, the Far East and throughout the United States. But the Air Force says that is .a minor problem. They can be reassembled-—over a week-end if necessary. The last time we spent $71.4 million on that phase of the operation alone. And, in a showdown, we'd probably do it again. In addition, it was pointed out, the Air Force kept open its airlift training school at Great Falls, Mont., for several months after Operation Vittles closed down in September. That will more than take care of replacements,
31 Men Killed
OPERATION Vittles ran 15 months and cost the United States $266 million. Planes and crews were brought in from Tokyo, Hawaii, the Caribbean and Alaska. More than 30 planes were wrecked and 31 men were killed. But Vittles saved American face in Europe. In one respect, however, the Air Force still has a bitter taste in its mouth. Congress
“ promised a special appropriation to pay for the
airlift. Recently, the Air Force was told to pay for the operation out of its current budget. That meant buying fewer new planes and a reduc-
tion of normal peacetime operations,
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ever, the Republicans did manage to balance the budget on a reduced income, which is the only time since 1932, ore She also tells us of owing $45 billion in taxes but forgets to mention the 260 billion dollar debt that was created by the Fair Dealers. Mrs, Haggerty also mentions a new plan of paying off our war debt by burning our bonds. This, too, sounds about as sensible as most of the crackpot theories put out by the New and Fair Dealers. But after all, why burn them. If the government continues deficit financing, I want mine to put away with some nicely engraved oil stocks and gold mining stocks that tried running their business on a plan of deficit financing. After all, they make nice keepsakes for one's grandchildren and might remind them
that the government goes broke, too, when it
spends more than it takes in.
What Do We Need in 1950?
‘Social Science’
By Henry Graham, Secretary, Family Service Association. . Throughout our city there is an: increasing concern that the family is not preparing its children for life experiences. The files of our family service agencies and courts are full of examples of young couples who are {ll ( equipped for marriage, who ¥ know too little about how to get along together, how to make a going concern of their households, how to budget their © incomes and less about the do’s “and don'ts of rearing children. At the same time our social scientists have learned a treméndous amount about the causes of family trouble and “how to prevent it. We desperately need to bring the skills of social science to families, before they get into trouble. A start has been made in the family life education program of the Family Service Association, the new family courses in our ‘public schools, the premarital course offered by the Maternal Health League, and a few others, but
Mr. Graham
_ together these efforts to stem the tide of family
trouble are reaching too few people. In 1850 we need to develop, co-ordinate and expand the existing family life education resources, “What are your ideas on ways to improve In. dianapolis during 1950? Send your suggestions to: “1950 Editor,” The Times, 214 W. Maryland St. .
What Others Say
YOU can’t occupy it (Formosa) with a few tourists, two or three Senators who went over there and would go into holes at first shot.— Chairman Tom Connally of Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
COLD WAR... By Ludwell Denny
. Allies Wavering
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27-—Stalin’s new cold war offensive from Asia to Berlin catches the Allies at a bad time. They are divided and wavering, if not in actual retreat. This may be temporary, but is exceedingly e Russia rarely has attacked the same time. Usually the familiar tactics have been used of
rrassing at best. so many widespread fronts at
into the same kind of magic. That danger is doubly great in view of the issue of the proposed hvdrogen bomb. Only tiny grains of information have trickled out from under the curtain of secrecy. John J. McCloy, who had been assistant Secretary of War and right-hand man to Henry L. 8timson from 1841 to 1945, made a speech on security in the atomic age that touched off a wave of speculation around the-world. In it he ~sald: . » “FROM firsthand information given to me by the scientists whose prophecies were uncannily perfect during the course of the war, there can be little doubt that within the next 10 years, to be conservative, bombs of a size of the power equivalent to 100,000 to 250,000 tons of TNT can be made, something over 10 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. “And if we can move to the other end of the periodic table ;and utilize hydrogen in the generation of energy, we would have a bomb somewhere around one thousand times as
power:
bomb. I have been told by scientists who are not mere theorists but who actually planned and made the bomb which was exploded in New Mexico that, ‘given the same intensive effort which was employed during the
war toward the production of .
that bomb, we were within two years’ time at the close of the war of producing a bomb of the hydrogen-helium ‘type, a bomb of approximately one thousand times the power of the present bomb ee " ;
THE cost of the Manhattan project, which produced the Hiroshima and Nagasakl bombs, has been put officially at $2 billion. That money was spent over three years, 194245. It is safe to assume that the spending gathered momentum as the project grew. Thus two years more at the same intensive rate would put the cost of the hydrogen bomb at under $2 billion, but probably not very much below $1.5 billiof. If something like that amount is spent over the next few years on the new bomb, it will almost certainly come out of defense and foreign spending. No better indication of that could be had—and along with it a perfect illustration of the Maginot magic psychology --than the reaction of Sen. Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska, Of course, said Sen. Wherry, we should make the hydrogen bomb and make ourselves strong and quit all this foreign spending. . » SINCE economy is almost certain to prevail, there is, in
my opinion, a serious public
that will be available shall be spent, Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alaska once again has warned of how defenseless is that northern and highly strategic outpost, Many other examples could be cited But there is a larger question that gets more di- + rectly at the danger that we may be hiding ostrichlike behind the atom bomb. | - In- his highly significant book, “Soviet Arms and Soviet Power” (Infantry Journal
COPR, 1900 BY NEA SERVIOL WG. T. M. ASO. U., & PAT. OPR.'
“Yes, his grapefruit-and-eqgg diet ended last night—it's perfectly safe to speak to him again!”
Press), Gen. Augustin GullIa w ench military attache in Moscow from 1946 to "48, sums up:
~ » ~ “HITLER was defeated on
" the Eastern Front because he
never realized the true import of the deep transformations that had occurred in the USSR in every field of endeavor from 1917 on... and he did not accurately judge the capagity of the Red army for resistance, for he total
Comparisons, with circum-
stances So entirely differe
may not be too significant. Yet it is worth noting that this country is spending from 6 to 7 per cent of its total production on defense, The best guess at a comparable figure for the USSR is 25 to 30 per cent. And Russian spending, we may sure, covers the transfer afd dispersal of vital industries to -widely separated areas. In other
words, they are realistically to resist strategic attack by atom bs under the conditions of warfare.
shifting from Europe to Asia and back to Europe again. This time, while Soviet pressure is still widening in the Far East, offensives are started also in the United Nations, in southeast Europe, far to the North in Finland, and in Berlin itself. . . . THE first reaction to this is that Stalin must feel himself very strong to dare extend himself over such a vast area. Obviously that is the impresston he wants to create. It may not be true, however. His timing certainly is based on Allied weakness. And probably it is based on his own weakness more than strength. His chief strength is potential rather than actual. It is not something that would be decisive if thg cold war turned info a shooting war tomorrow. That is true of his atomic weapons, which could hardly have caught up with our longer development. It. is also true of his China gains, which are still unconsolidated, » . .
IN EUROPE he is weaker oi) LEO aly, France and the Benelux countries the Reds have fewer members and less political power in the labor movements; while in Britain they are at their postwar low.
In Eastern Europe he has lost
Communism has failed so completely in Western Germany that the entire party leadership has to be reorganized. And certainly Finland is not giving in. ~ » . SO HIS weakness in Furope calls for a show of strength even if it is phony—to impress his wobbly eastern satellites, to revive his West European parties, and above all to deceive the Allies. It is.even clearer he is taking advantage of Allied weakness. Whenever there is a major election in the West he gets busy--there are elections this year in Britain and the United States, and probably also in France. And whenever Marshall Plan appropriations are coming up in Congress, he gets active. : ” » . WITH the Truman administration and Congress fighting over Far Eastern policy, with foreign aid facing drastic cuts
and the military budget being trimmed; and with bipartisan
ing down here, the situation invites Stalin's activity. ; When disputes between America and Britain advertise Allied ‘weakness, Boviet offensives in the cold war follow almost automatically.
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