Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1950 — Page 10
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| HE United Nations Security Count acted with adr able dispatch in convening in extraordinary session and demanding an immediate truce and cease-fire order in the phony civil war which hag flared up between North and South Korea. “But unless there is quick compliance with this demand ‘the organization must be prepared to take such steps as are necessary to prevent this mow localized conflict from ~ touching off a third world war. 5 Determined action now also probably would discourage future entures of this kind in other parts of the world. * While the Red invasion of South Korea must have had its inspigation from Moscow, it does not follow that the Russians themselves wish to assume an aggressive role at this time, in Asia or anywhere else. More probably, this attack is a feeler, designed to see how the nations in The Puce camp tepst againmt & maneuver of this Kind. . 8 =» IF THE “civil war” technique is successful it doubtless will be employed in Germany and in other similar situations. But, if the invasion is turned back by prompt collective action; the expedient probably will be abandoned. For all their noise and bluster, the masters of the Kremlin “prefer to play it safe when they can. The appearance of 'a few bombing planes over the area might be all that is needed to send the th Koreans scurrying for cover, back across their own border. They probably intend to go only as far as they . can without encountering real opposition of the kind Gen. Douglas MacArthur could dish out to them, ° However, this is distinctly a job for the United Nations, and not one for the United States alone. On the surface, at least, it is an internal revolt, and we could | Mautwehe with propriety only: as an agent of the United
‘ Organization who want to keep the peace. Supplying arms alone is quite another matter, for in South Korea we are dealing with a legal, constitutional : vith which we enjoy full diplomatic and com-
mercial relations. : MR - yy = : THE State Departmait has taken the correct view of thig situation and is to be commended for bringing it promptly to the attention of the United Nations. ~~ But demanding a cease-fire order and branding the invading North Koreans as aggressors, as the Security ‘Council has done, may make little impression upon Moscow's Korean stooges unless they are convinced that the United Nations is prepared to enforce its demands with hot lead
\ Chuckhole Goes to Court ‘RE NOT surprised, much, to find a motorist filing ~~ suit against the City of Indianapolis for damages he got when his car hit a chuckhole in the street. a That it hasn't happened before obviously was not due - to any lack of suitable chuckholes. ~~ We don’t know how he'll come out . . . maybe the courts will find that the holes in the streets are so common it's up to everybody to expect them and drive accordingly +++ but the fact is our streets are in pretty bad condition +. « worn, bumpy, full of holes. It is just one of several shortages around here . . . most of them eritical because the equivalent of a whole new city the size of irre Haute has moved in to live with us and we haven't any rooms to our municipal household to take care of the addition. We haven't bothered to call City Hall about this lately because we know pretty well in advance what the answer - will be . . . “No money.” Unfortunately it's the correct answer. 11 But, while we haven't money enough to provide sewers or good streets, we still manage to maintain two complete fluplicating local governments for one community. 5 _ The time to move toward stopping that waste is now . while it can still be stopped. «
Copper ‘Danger
are many reagons why the tax of $40 a ton on i imported copper, which was suspended when World War IT began, should not go back into effect on July 1 This country still needs far more copper than its doWmestic mines are producing. ::' If the tax does go back on, a few copper producers in ‘Western mining states will get the benefit of a “protective trier Witieh Current circumstances can not Justify.
- A LOT of speculatons. who have been buying scrap copper in expectation that its price will soar as soon as the tax is reimposed, will reap some fancy profits, Ordinary . people who buy automobiles, radios, television sets, electric motors and countless other manufac‘tured products in which copper and brass are used will ‘be soaked with higher prices. ~~ And our government's good neighbor policy toward ‘Latin -America will suffer a damaging blow. : Most of the imported copper comes from Chile. That
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PERMITTING the $40-a- ton ifaport. ti to resume ‘would be a kick in the teeth for the Chilean government, end. It would be a big help to the Comho are enemies of that country’s gov-
©. President hwy Secretary of State Agheson, Secre“tary,of Commerce Sawyer and our defepsé officials all are { Ovposel to reimposition of the tax , because of the economic tical ‘damage it would 0 in Latin America and and other Sofense © efforts. ss should snap into agtion and wiki through ep. the copper § Fas Napoitod for two
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| MR.X... By Ludwell Denny
New Fran
woz Job Confusing
Speculation Rife on Role "7 He'll Play Present and Future
WASHINGTON, June 26 After a week of
speculation, Washington insiders are as mystl | fied as the gossips as to the meaning of the .
President's appointment of W. Averell Harriman as his special assistant for foreign affairs. It jsn't even clear that the President himthink the job may begin as one thing and turn out another. Whether Mr, Harriman will wind up a Truman boy, an administrative super-
clerk, another of a long list of 2o-ordinators,”
assistant president or the next Semare et State, probably will depend on himself a | ‘on political developments,
Meanwhile several factors seem to have mioved the President to bring into the White House a tried and true trouble-shooter to help him ih the many-sided foreign problem. The most obvious is the political factor, Bi-partisan foreign policy has broken down. Not only Republican senators but some Democratic leaders in Congress want to get rid of Secretary Acheson,
Natural Selection
HOWEVER much Mr. - Acheson might wish
“10 relinguish his difficult and unap
work, and however much the President might be disposed regretfully to let him retire, neither will surrender under attack, But if the Secretary of Btate insisted on retiring after the election, Mr. Harriman would be a natural selection. : Mr. Acheson's earlier suggestion that the new White House job be created, and his sincere praise of his old friend Harriman as the perfect choices, therefore have not ended the speculation that the latter may be the next
Becretary of State, F
A second factor is the increasing influence of the military in foreign policy. This is in-
herent in the nature of the cold war, rather
than by deliberate design of the generals and itis something the President wants to corre¢t by adding more
. Strength to the civillan side.
Needs Assistant
FOR sheer administrative reasons, almost
. everyone agrees that the pver-worked President
needs a high-powered special assistant with
cabinet rank for. Haison duties. Not only the
departments of State, Defense, Treasury and Commerce, and the Marshall Plan administra-
tion, but. most government agencies are involved
in foreign affairs. That becomes more compli cated with development of Atlantic Pact interAllied organizations, But probably the basic factor is the usual urge of a President to be his own Secretary of State, which requires some kind of aiter ego like Col. House or Harry Hopkins. The constitution, which makes the President responsible for foreign policy, invites this. Some Presidents prefer that such an aid be unofficial or semi official. Mr. Truman apparently thinks such an’ arrangement #hould be entirely open and official, and therefore responsible, Though some rate Mr. Harriman higher than
- others, none questions his integrity and wide
experience. As former Secretary of Commerce, ambassador to Russia and Eritain, and am-bassador-at-large for the Marshall Plan, he ~ knows the ropes here and abroad,
Barbs—
BEEFSTEAK has no curative value when
$0 a black eye, says a doctor, But &
good, old-fashioned beef often causes a nice shiner.
YOU can’t blame firemen for @isliking false alarms. How would you like to be told to go to blazes for nothing?
. Television brings a dilemma for young couples—whether to watch wrestling or try a few holds themselves,
MANY college students have taken a course in pharmacy so they can sell sandwiches and malted milks this summer,
WHEN the cat hides under the davenpont or stays down in the basement, you'll know that grade school is out.
TWO Ohio men pleaded not guilty to stealing 25 gallons of cream. Maybe it was vanishing cream’ : THIS is the time of the year when a man is boss in hid own home--if the rest of the family is away on vacation.
In a Kentucky town a pickpocket robbed a girl in the sheriff's office. Two deputies present escaped without loss. A STOCKYARD reports an increase in the purchase of meat. Maybe prosperity is just around the cowshed, AN Eastern woman had ‘a cat insured for $3000. If it is the kind that sings on back fences, that's a good investment, AN Arizona musician was arrested for having two wives. He wasn't much on the harmony.
IT'S nice for folks to be important in their own way-—until they get in the way of others,
ROAD PROBLEM . . . By Kermit McFarland
Governors Rip Trucks
THE GOVERNORS of the country regard the big-truck problem as the leading question facing them at the moment. That was made clear at the governors’ conference this week at White Sulphur Springs. At.a session on highway safety and truck regulation, the states’ chief executives lashed out at the
“highway box cars” for overloading. They said the big trucks
FACTOR IN BOOM?
«=» By M
arquis Childs
Inevitable War’ Talk Harmful
WASHINGTON June 26—With the forthrightness and the forcefulness that have characterized his direction of ECA, Paul Hoffman the other day hit out at the “inevitable war” psychosis. As he sald in his speech to the governors at White Sulphur Springs, to talk about an inevitable war is to play right into the hands of the masters of the Kremlin. It lets them monopolize a peace offensive while they quote the war talk in this country as proof that we are big, bad imperialists bent on armed conquest of the world. At the same time, Mr. Hoffman peinted fo another phase of the “inevitable war” mentality. ‘That 4s the effect it may be having on our
economy here at home, Theres is reason to
believe that many Americans are ng more
' and buying earlier than they normally would
in the belief that war may prevent them from buying at all.
Highest Prosperity Level
HOW much this has contributed to the present boom one can only guess. But it is unquestionably a factor. Chairman - Leon Keyserling of the president's council of economic advisers now says that the nation is at the highest levels of postwar prosperity, exceeding ‘the previous highs of 1948, Mr. Hoffman told the governors that he had an automobtie business in Los Angeles that ex-
perienced a few weeks ago a sudden rush of
customers. In checking, Mr. Hoffman reported, it was discovered that the explanation was a rumor that the Cadillac plant had been converted to the building of tanks. Therefore, buyers were playing it safe and getting a new car while they still could. Recently, a letter from a reader in Iowa taxed me with representing the country as complacently accepting the inevitability of Werld
War III. My correspondent, a substantial citizen
in the community, placed the blame on the govérament. He cited in proof of this three re-
ONE: The government was about to buy back an ammunition plant near Des Moines acquired by the John Deere Co.
Memo to Congress: Four different federal offices each with a separate organization make short-term loans to farmers. ¢ Te & @ ‘Consolidations in public services would eliminate duplication of functions. .
extraordinary ‘buying Spree. Gish
Danger, Curve Ahead
TWO: Former employees of a bomber plant at Omaha had been asked td stand by for almost immediate reopening of the plant. THREE: Other ammunition plants in the Midwest were to be reacquired by the government. After an exchange of letters, my correspondent decided to investigate these reports. He found that they had very little basis in truth. The ' government has no interest im former ammunition plants. The notice to former employees in the bomber plant was merely routine preparation for a possible future emergency.
Rumer Widespread
THIS —— rea ol the type of rumor — Mr. Hoffman referred to is widespread throughout the country, It is a phase of the boomtime atmosphere that has sent Americans on an
of government for this psychology is twofold. In part it is unavoidable. Planning for the successful prosecution of a war if it comes is a paramount ibility. Any government that failed to plan in view of the presént world situation would be suicidally remiss. This means Hning up former bomber-plant employees who would be available if and when the worst should happen. Some critics feel that Washington is not doing nearly half enough of this kind of planning. On the other hand there are the blustering statements made by such highly vocal gentlemen as Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson. Mr. Johnson is given to saying that we can lick the Russidns before breakfast with ene hand tied behind our back. That kind of bluster serves no
good purpose and it does feed the war psychosis.
In a somewhat different classification are the official statements to Congress in connection with requests for arms and economic aid to back up the administration policy of containing Commuynism through strength. On the theory, apparently, that the American people must be scared to death in order to get any action, these statements have often heen highly alarmist in tone—~the Communists. will get you if you don't watch out.
Learn fo Live Calmly IT IS time for all of us, both in and out of government, to learn to live as calmly as possible in a dangerous world. Security in the old complacent senge is gone forever. “To the degree that it is fanned wp by unural and panicky buying, the boom is harm- . It can come down in a dead-stick bust. And that is playing even more directly into the plot of the bosses of the Kremlin who want above everything else to see their predictions of internal disaster for the West come true.
tional
‘of women voters-—why don’t they speak
STILL HAS INFLUENCE . . . By Bruce Biossat
Dewey Not ‘Through’
WASHINGTON, June 26— Decisions in politics never seem to have quite the firmness they do in other areas of life, but there's a definite air of finality about Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's ° statement that he's out of the 1950 New York governorship race. There's no reason to believe Gov. Dewey has thus eliminated himself from the presidential sweepstakes for all time. But he has unquestionably bowed out
By H. E. Marts,
A Serespondet 1 The Times asks me to re The
1 am not its author, but merely one who be-
lleves that an intellectual and pragmatic appreciation of its teachings wil help to dispel the sentimental, emotional approach
largely defeated Homa A RL oa 1a my Provions Teter, the Bible
does not urge us to Christian activity only on condition of
of a reciprocal attitude in others, but
emphasizes, on the contrary, the unilateral application of its injunctions. .
World Government’
failed to prevent war, It is time that we considered a method not tried before: That of world government and ‘world law. It anyone would like to be notified of the
—pext meeting of the Indianapolis group of
United World Federalists ‘and would like to attend, please contact the writer and a card or a telephone call will give you that information,
‘Bribing Farm Vote’
By J. M. 9 In Washington the Commodity Credit Corp.
—the agency that makes payments to farmers
is being given a $2 billion boost, so that it is to have a total of $6,700,000,000 for the farm payments, Note that this is being done in an election year, Surely this virtual bribing of the farm vote is reaching the proportions of a na-
disgrace. One wonders why the bg § Jroups in the cities don’t object to it. The big CI AFL union groups, why don’t they Front Surely they can see, on their very pay checks, how they are being taxed. And the women's city clubs and the 5% lnagues
up— surely the women are hit by the big food prices? And the big medical groups and the fraternal .
prof these show a touch ef intellectual leadership? Surely that isn't too much to ask. ' What is needed is a city voters’ league, with
money to “office.” If that were done, the politiclans would be stopped in their tracks and the “farm problem” would be solved in short order.
‘Not Fair to Old Movies’ By Paul Western = aT A horrible thought just came to’ me. With all the re-releases of old movies, what kind of taste will our children think we bad back in the “olden days?” I remember the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette Mee 3 Donald operettas, the Laurel and Hardy pictures 1 and many others. If they must show old pictures, why not some of the best instead of the worst? What we are seeing today in the old pictures is not a fair showing to either the producer or retailer or customer. Any other commodity would have been ignored and forgotten long ago by the buying public.
TRANSITION
It's Juné again, and my thoughts go back To a thoroughfare I knew, Where men took pride in their trees and lawn And business was taboo. Then traffic moved at a languid pace. On a street of wooden blocks, And “tramping down” for the signal's change Was adjudged unorthodex. I still remember the stately trees § That flanked in uniform rows; The mansions too, with their marbled halls And their gracious porticos. But as I tour the congested lanes Through a pall of acrid fumes, Converted dwellings and used car lots Share the fore with dining rooms. The neon signs seem to flaunt this change To a scene so mercantile, That those whose homes still resist the trend Feel decrepit, out of style. -~J. M. M. :
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‘country expanded its production in order to supply, at fa.
were severely damaging highways and charged that much of the damage results from “deliberate overloading.”. —*
" ” # A IN this attitude, they were backed up by Thomas MaeDonald, commissioner of the U. 8. Public Reads Bureau. Mr. MacDonald urged the governors to freeze present state limits on truck weights until the Public Roads Bureau completes a series of tests now under way. The Council of State Governments, backed by state highway officials, has made a similar Feconpnendation.
MR. MacDONALD said the number of trucks using the public highways had increased 30 times since 1923, Leading the assault on the trucks was Gov, Val Peterson of Nebraska. He sald recent studies by the University of Nebraska showed that big trucks (more than 1315 tons) were paying only three and sig-tenths times as much as small trucks and passenger cars, per mile of use.
BASED on damages to high- _ ways, he said, 4, the Jerety Ska
The Nebraska governor-and Gov. James H. Duff of Pennsylvania also ripped into the trucking industry for the methods they charged it uses in opposing anyone who {tries to keep them in line. Because he tried to enforce Pennsylvania weight limits on big trucks, Mr. Duff said he had “the entire opposition” of the truckers in his recent primary election. ”
- - GOV. FORREST SMITH of Missouri charged that big trucks “are going through our state, paying nothing except the gasoline tax, and destroying our highways.” He said
Missouri was just starting to °
compel overloaded trucks to reload, when they are caught. Gov. Preston Lane of Maryland said his state had found a “high degree of repeaters, evidence that the violations are international.” 3 ~ t 4 - GOVS. FRANK J. LAUSCHE of Ohio, Henry F, Schricker of Indiana and Gordon Browning of Tennessee all tied into the truckers for déliberate viola-
cent of the trucks caught were overloaded. Now, he said, the penalties have cut the viola-
tions to less than 3 per cent.
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“THESE violators must be
stopped,” “hie said. “We're not
“If these heavy trucks want highways to accommodate their weights,” said Gov. Browning, “let them build them. In our
state, they deliberately wviclate
the law-—they come into the state with the fine money in
as a 1962 GOP possibility. # . » HIS action means, first of all, that the New York delegation te the 1952 Republican convention will be controlled by somebody else. But insofar as Gov. Dewey has personal influence with his party in New York and the nation, he will undoubtedly seek to use that weight at nominating time. The governor is realistic enough + not to imagine he could employ it to achieve a
. third straight GOP nomination
for himself, especially now that he has pul himself out“side the -active political circle. Everything suggests he try, however, to promote the choice of a candidate who shares his
hand-picked candidate over for governor of Pennsylvania, this
wing will have a stfofig-nucle,
progressives’ can-
dropped no hint to support the rumors,
~ » ~ THIS much ¢an probably be said safely: Gov. Dewey and other top figures in the GOP liberal camp will buck the nomination of Sen. Robert A, Taft of Ohio. The governor has no lovefor the Ohioan and the feeling seems to be mutual. Gov, Warren, if successful, is unlikely to put his powerful California delegation behind so conservae«
in 1952 if Gov. Dewey came to
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