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Let the P Past Wait ite IR mts Vos se tremendous responsibilities America grave international crisis. Natiqnal unity is a compelling need. 7 The slightest evidence of internal dissension will be seized upon and magnified by the Soviet propaganda machine in the hope of undermining our leadership in the United. Nations. . _ Those Republican Senators who are demanding Secretary of State Acheson's resignation at this time risk supplying Russia with ammunition to be used against us. This newspaper has frequently disagreed with Mr. Acheson, particularly on Far East policy. But the Secretary of State has declared himself in complete accord with the measures President Truman is taking in the Korean crigis, and that is the overriding issue now, : wm ” ” DISCUSSION OF past errors can wait for less erucial days. The immediate job is too important. ... ~~ Former President Hoover said this week: : “Like others, I have opposed many of our foreign policies, but now is not the time to argue origins, mistakes, responsibilities or consequences, There is only one way out of such situations as this, that is to win. To win we “must have unity of purpose and action.” Sound counsel, that. ‘This is.a time to close ranks, for win we must if the world's lope for peace is to be realised. 5 e to put politics and personalities aside.

L Pike and Hickenlooper

3 THE saualey has a right to know exactly why Sen. Hickof Iowa opposes President Truman's nomination of Sumner Pike for a new four-year term on the Atomic “~~ Mr. Pike, whose present term ended yesterday, been serving as the commission's acting chairman,

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was, have been confirmed by the Senate. And all three have publicly expressed their confidence in Mr. Pike and : hope that he, too, will be’ confirmed. ah Le ML _ SEN. HICKENLOOPER has not publicly explained his objections to Mr. Pike, a fellow Republican. Sen. Hickenlooper has been working busily, under cover, to block Mr, - Pike's confirmation. ' pm a a4 vorable report-on the Pike nomination from { sof the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy

pe with Sen. n. Hickenlooper Against Mr. Pike were of Colorado,

for Mr. Pike were Democrats McMahon of Connecticut, Connally of Maryland and Russell of Georgia.

_ that Mr. Pike is an exceptionally able public servant and that the country needs the coftinued benefit of his experi. ence and knowledge as a member of the Atomic Energy

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into the open long 280. Certainly the Senate should bring the Hickenlooper ob jections, good or bad, into the open now. : It should consider the nomination without delay. And, ‘unless Sen. Hickenlooper and his associates can produce “evidence to justify their opposition, it should give Mr. Pike sim deserved Vote of confidence by confirming 1 that nomination.

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IE IT IS TRUE, as reported, that the State Department “Loyalty - Board. has found career diplomat John Stewart Service a good security rigk— ~ And if it is true, as reported, that the board had avail. - able to it an FBI transcript of an over-heard hotel room conversation in war-time, wherein Mr, Service talked with

Then, how does that add up to make sense?

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by DISTURBED hecause East Berliners can wander into the city's. western zones and see attractive goods for sale in

shop windows, the Soviet-run stores of the eastern section “have hit on a solution. 2 «They are now displaying their own attractive array of consumer items in the windows. There's only one hitch “you can't buy the stuff. Apparently it's just laid out to prove that the Communists can at least make it, even if not in volume to sell. : the recent heralded German Red youth rally in is ee dhametiad o trans The government put

sh Sn fy a he She at cl lpn, the Conia ote | their loan. The strings of sausages disap \ f Ietatuing 50 the Government Sausage. ¥ She Rell kp sich trons.

wage has assumed-in a_ state area. The

Three other members, renominated at the same time he

‘Knowland of California, Bricker of a doin and Democrat Johnson of Colorado. Voting:

Texas, Tydings of The Times shares President Truman's evident opinion

Tw Sen. Hekanoopr has good» reasons ‘to “believe that , Pike i ri should have brought them ™

= A Editor Philip Jaffe about a secret military plan— WAYS 10-- consolidate - services -to-—avold

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i Sertiopmentl tie, however: or some 80 and hour law inspectors in this four-

conference was held at Turkey Run State Park, Indiana, It got practically no publicity.

O'Malley, ex: the four-state

Sigtant regions] director. They brought in their inspectors to review five months" experience under the amended wage-hour law which, among

other things, raised the minimum wage stand—ard to 75 cents an hour, 2

When this new minimum wage was being considered by Congress, it was predicted by some witnesses that the jump from the former 40 cents an hour minimum wage would put many small business firms out of business, To date, not one report has been received in this

PROPOSALS . . . By Bruce Biossat £ Foreign Aid ‘Strings’ Argued

Some Senators Would Use. Money to Block Red China

"WASHINGTON, July 1—A number of Senators have bobbed up with proposals -to make foreign economic and military aid conditional Spon certain specific behavior by Teciplent nans. In one case an unnamed group of Senators wants to chop ald to Britain by 50 per cent unless the British join the Schuman plan cailing for a pool of Europe's coal and steel resources, In another, Sen. William F. Knowland, California Republican, proposes to impose a sevenmonth limit on all economic and military assist. ance as a warning to recipients not to vote for the admission of Red China to the United Naons.

Makes Review Possible : SEN, KNOWLAND'S idea is that Congress “thus would have a chance to review ald programs when it returns in January; and an opportunity, of course, to punish any country that has supported Red China's entry in the meanme, Neither of these ‘proposals seems The fact that many nations need our wan doesn't give us the right to dictate how they shall conduct either their internal or their ex- ~ ternal affairs,

—The recovery program “has its selfish side, - for we believe a revived free world is a powerful antidote to communism, But the plan also has . - {ts nobie aspect: It extends our hand in friendship to people in distress. “To turn the program into an instrument of compulsion, a club over the heads of our friends,

. would be to distort and discredit it. And also "fo" yndermine the “Miperd gains the free world

ir 5 sinte the Marshall Plan was started Whatever the U. 8. may think about Britain's short-sighted attitude toward European - unity and the coal-steel pool, whatever we may think about United Nations recognition of Communist China, we cannot ram those views down others’ throats.

“Exact One Price = “THE only price we may exact from countries which get our aid is that they be sincerely dedicated to the preservation of freedom and the containment of communism.

80 long is we are convincell of this, we must _ 3 allow them the privilege of serving freedom and

ing communism in their own individual

-oppos fashion. We can't automatically impugn their

motives just because they disagree with us. ~The suggestions by Sen. Knowland and other — unidentified Senators would be self-defeating. They would not promote the security and welfare either of the U, B, or its friends abroad. They would only help the cause of communism. They should be pigeonholed and forgotten,

3 TIS SAID Rigidities keep the high cost of living up. In that -case sgimeons should ‘shoot _ a pin in —the- ~dirigivie

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Memo to Congress: Sixteen different government agen“cles are engaged at cross purposes in wild life preservation. «

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. By Oland D. Russell :

‘MacArthur in: Now. Career Test

WASHINGTON, July 1~Gen. Douglas MaeAstiiip is five months past 70 years old. e was graduated from West Point before the — brothers learned to fly. He was an American Army observer during the Russian-Japanese War in 1905; he was an —aide of President Theodore Roosevelt; he fought at Vera Cruz in 1914, and he was a 37-year-old major when World War I broke out. In World War I, he was wounded twice, deco- - rated 13 times and cited seven additional times for extreme bravery. He retired in 1937—he was 57 then—in order “to. accelerate the promotion of junior officers.”

He was made a field marshal that year by the

—PHIppine government and began "to create a Philippine army and to develop the Philippine scouts.

Recalled to Army

IN JULY, 1941, President Roosevelt called

-Gen. MacArthur back into the U.S. Army and placed him in command of all American forces

pletely accepted. And, as a crowning touch, the

five-star general is given the go- -ahead to put it into effect.

MacArthur's Belief

ALL this fits in with his often-expressed con~ viction that communism is the gravest threat in ‘the werld today, that a-thisd word ‘war would destroy civilization, and that no mission is more important than meeting this challenge. : Recent visitors to Japan who have seen Gen. MacArthur say he still looks years younger than hissactual age, that his mind is as sharp

as ever, but there are tired lines in his face as though the strain of his job was finally catching

“up with him, He is still “trim, dapper and dare haired. His day is full, but he never has the air of - ole fn a hurry. In the nearly five years of the “occupation he has never missed a day, including Sundays, at his desk, frequently staying as late as 10 p.m. Yet a recent report by one of his medical officers said the general appeared to be

hilippine Physically indestructible; and fitter than most

“in the Far East. The general's little Philippine

army was inducted into the American forces. Gen, MacArthur's victorious island;hopping —campaigns of World War II—which carried him from Australia to Tokyo—again demonstrated his brilliance as a military strategist. - His par-

ticular pride was the low casualty rate among his forces, a ‘feat which was accomplished in ~

large part by by-passing many islands, thus leaving the enemy to “withér on the vine.” He stayed on after the war to finish a job in Japan—and now a new job has come to him. He has been given command of a striking force whose-mission-ts;-tmplicitly; to Ibealize the KoERNE Hand prevent the "outhrenk or-Worte™ War III. -

It is a stupendous and delicate job, but in

the torrent of comment yesterday no one even

suggested a better man might be found.

It 1s, moreover, a resounding vindication of "his own theories of our defense in. the Western

Pacific.” Instead of abandoning Formosa, the Truman administration abruptly swings around

“to the MacArthur viewpoint that the Communist

forces cannot be permitted to conquer that island. sinshort the MacArthur- -poncept-of- a defense line running from Japan and Korea through Okinawa and Formosa to the Philippines is com-

By Galbraith “SPECTACLE OF THE SENATORS .

Latin Friends of U. S. Get Slap in race

©hief- source of income from exporis—copper, war when the demand for copper was overwhelming, the tariff of $40 a ton was lifted. Now, unless the Senate takes affirmative action that tariff will be put on again. Such -

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WITH industry hitting new

WASHINGTON, July

other things, coffee, homosexuals, crime in government and

the gambling syndicate § pap ticular, Given a little m time, -they might Have got

traffic In marijuana, - a . a

IN anything times -all this might have been

living "times. And, as Sen. Gillette's ‘little exploration of the coffee business now has shown, "it

when we need ur-

: 1~The spectacle of Senators in a € “pétiover whether intelligence agencies had advance information of the. North Korean attack has a grim kind. of humor: what kind of intelligence on the eve of this newest crisis “were the ‘Senators themselves absorbed? —- - = ’ They were Investigating or about to investigate, among

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men’ years younger. Indications are that he will set up a field headquarters, which will take Him away from

the modern downtown bulding in Tokyo where ‘he now has his offices. Born on an Army post in Arkansas, Douglas MacArthur first heard the sounds of battle at the age of 4 when his father’s fort was attacked by Indians in New Mexico. ;

Unequaled Record

HE was graduated from West Point in 1903, _ With™ the best scholastic record in 25 years and “HO ONE EItE NEE Site Hn reroTa “of Heng first in both military and scholastic standing.

He was the youngest divisional commander:

in World War I, the youngest superintendent of West Point; and the youngest chief of staff in - U.S. Army history. -The.whole MacArthur story canbe told only. in superlatives, yet future historians are likely to, argue which is the more impressive, his briltant leadership and strategy in World War II or-his-genius-as an occupation head of defeated Japan. =e And now: history gerving: anotter test of his amazing, fateful career, the

like of which no fiction writer would dare’ touch, :

. By Marquis Childs

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figups would be around $500 million. And the Latin coffee . growers say that both esti. "mates are unjust, since they ~-aré based on a comparison with prices so 'ow as to make . the comparison out of line _with other commodity price changes,

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will have to walt court clarification, as congressional statements of intent are in conflict with the language of the law. In general, however, the transition has been pretty stooth and few of the anticipated difficulties have arisen. When the wage-hour law was first enacted, violations were found in about 15 per cent of the cases. When the minimum wage went to 40 cents an hour, there were violations in about 25 per cent of the cases. Under the new law, violations have been about 10 per cent, Most of ig come in fringe industries. In other words, the principle of this law now seems to have been established and accepted.

Hoosier Forum

” do not agree with a word that you say, but | * will defend to the death your right to say it.”

‘Speed Not the Problem’ By A. J. Schnéider, 504 W, Drive, Woodruff Place

I read “Traffic Deaths Rise 53 Per Cent De- _ spite Drive.” This is indeed a sad commentary on the effectiveness of. these “drives” and the juvenile mentality which sponsors them. So long as the emphasis is on speed alone, without any reliable facts to prove that speed alone is an important factor in the problem of trafic accidents, such headline will be commonplace. Indeed, I would wager that if as many as 20 per cent of the motdring public rigidly adhered to the speed limitations, city traffic would be in such a tailspin that the very silly people who are today sponsoring such ge to curb speeding would be first to urge boosting the limits, The silliest part of all, however, is the very frequent comment about proposed inovations “to spec up the flow of traffic” while others are

_ over exerting themselves to throw a monkey

wrench in the well-oiled machinery. My contention is that incompetent drivers are more of a menace at 10 miles per hour‘on our streets than competent drivers at 75 miles. But so long as we continue to clutter up our streets and highways with drivers who cannot drive a car in a straight line, who eannot stay within their lane of traffic, who in one-way ° streets of several lanes find themselves in the middle lane when desiring to make a turn and —who cut in front of the right or left lane without. warning, ‘and drivers who must always swing the width of a car in the opposite direction from that in which they are planning a turn, just so long will the traffic casualty rate slide upward. Those are the drivers who cause the accidents and they are a menace to life and property at any rate of speed. : It does not take a scientific engineer to dis cover why wa. have the worst traffic record in ° the country. Nor does it take a genius to dis. cover why to be called a ‘damned Hoosier driver” is a fighting -epithet in the rest of the nation where most people seem to know how to use a motor car. As a native Hoosier, I one time resented that curse, but when I returned here it did not require much time to discover why Hoo--giera. earned that low rating... - ‘ It would seen to me that a campaign to eliminate drivers who do not know how to drive ~ would be much more effective than period “drives” on speeders with most of the speed traps at the foot of grades where a car casting out of gear would exceed the speed limit.

NOWHERE except in the United States can

average factory uy & car today.—Paul G. Hoffman, ECA administrator.

LET'S not call anybody ‘a Communist who may be just a little bit brighter than ourselves, - —Gen, Dwight D, Eisenhower,

CHRISTIANITY is intellectually respectable Jk today, whereas it was not 20 years ago.—Dr. G.' Elson Rutt, editor of the Lutheran. r

BT TRUMAN -heads-a- wartaresather-thaf-— a welfare state—Norman Thomas, perennial presidential candidate,

“THE educational institution must make up...

“its mind whether it wants to see a completely

secylarized society such as now exists in. Soviet. Russia (or) cast its influence on the side of a spiritual interpretation of life. ~— Dr, Samuel ~ Cavert; 1 -seeretary of - Council

Bomber speeds with -§O--up-— to 600 miles an hour.—Gen. George 0. Kenney, commanding officer of the Alr Force University,

> pushed . to increase the tarift on Venezuelan crude oil from 10% cents to $1.06 a barrel This was backed in the first instance by independent oil producers in this country. : They have been somewhat

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d. In 1948 Venezuela had $679’

_. spend and most of it was spent his soynity for auto-

Ch ~~ © of production made by highly paid American WHAT gots the Latin so flow of Chile's copper. ade by this $679 miltion in “riled is the sharp contrast be- Virtually every phase of . g5uar exchange, 57 per cent tween United States preach- national self-interest points t0 somes from the sale of crude ments and United States prac. a fariff-free U. 8. policy on oi To cut into that supply tice, Senators who © copper. Supplies In this country ,¢ gollars will work harm both plot to “rig” the coffce cn are ‘dwindling. .. Way ‘ here and in Venezuela. are, themselves, working as tO conserve what is left is to a : hard as they can to keep the keep it underground until it Glog 8 8 8a FO Prices of American farm com- ~ is needed In. another emer. TO the thinking Latin modities at’ thie highest pos- ney, Which “at this moment American it must often apAe MEL att Ay treats SARE te A by 5 peas was the colossus of the { . Mqre impor : fe + i y ! R ipse E to en to take a will break in the copper trade,

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