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5 Chiang Offers Aid

FP DEMANDS for ground troops in: Korea continue to mount, the State Department may have to reconsider its: cool reception of Chiang Kai-shek's offer to support the : United Nations field forces with 33,000 seasoned in- _ fantrymen. Wa have aiitied one American Army division to thé Korean campaign and a Marine division is on the

way to join it.

cio may be needed to meet the situation. . The United States cannot afford to commit that much of i limited ground force to any one of the several danger “spots in the world. All told, the Army has only 10 divigiohs and the Marine Corps only two. We have 18 National Guard divisions, at least on pipen, but they are not upto full strength and have not been called into federal service, : Britain, Australia, the United Nations forces, but only Nationalist China has offéred ground troops.

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* BRITISH forces in the Far East have their hands ful with a small Communist war of their own in Malaya, and do not regard it expedient to weaken their Hong Kong garrison. As it is, they are getting some support from Australian forces in the Malayan campaign. The war in = Indo-China demands every man the French can spare. The Netherlands has not fully recovered from its disastrous war in Indonesia. . The troops Chiang has offered are the only large reserves in sight. © Chiang’s offer. deserves more serious consideration thn: the State Department seems to have given it. We are dealing in Korea with a problem which may be with us ‘much longer than we now hope and which may require all the help we can obtain,

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Sins Mistake

GRE S has permitted the $40-a-ton tax en imported ym opp, r, suspended since the beginning of World War on ‘to go back. into effect. ‘In 80 doing, Congress has made a foolish and costly

mistake. . Among metals, copper ranks next to iron and steel asia raw material for American industry. The effect of the tax is to increase the price of copper and of the countless manufactured products in which copper is used. : © This at a time when the country’s industries are using about 50 per cent more eopper than its domestic mines

And at a time , when the goverament has urgent need to build up its stockpile of copper and other materials gf which would be essential for production of weapons if i the world should be plunged again into war. © Resumption of the import tax gives mine owners in a few western states the benefit of an unjustifiable “protective tariff.” It means profits for speculators who have

- BUT IT 18 injurious to many copper-using industries

~7 It is a serious blow to the economy of a friendly South American country, Chile, from whose mines most of our r imports have been coming. - It is a threat to our neighbor policy in Latin America. +Late Tast month the House did pass a stop-gap resolu-

Es beyond July 1. That would have provided time for Con- - gress to consider, in the light of the Korean crisis, whether thé tax should be kept off for a longer period. But the ~ Senate failed to act on that resolution, 2 ; So, great damage has been done. : alle ar tur damage ou ought Hiow to be undone. “and the Senate should proceed quickly to enact legislation suspending the indefensible import tax on copper. for at = least one year: 3

- “Only” $3,122,000,000 ‘HE FEDERAL government's deficit for the fiscal year . *%. which ended on June 30 turns out to. have been “only” ~ $3{122,000,000. . Expenditures were $40,167,000,000; receipts, $37,045,000,000.

As much as pos-

forecasts a month ago that the deficit might be in the

~ ernment would wind up the fiscal year over five and a half billions in the red. * =» ~~ » . . BUT that deficit is smal only in a relative sense. Its 3,122,000,000—is greater than the total cost of ] g the government as recently as 1928. The main. Ee it's not much larger. is that in the last few agencies spent money more slowly than rs fad jes no impression that the

Business Manager _. Friday, July 7, 1950

i: ‘military authorities say that three to six divi-

New Zealand, Canada and The" Netherlands have pledged air or sea support, or both, to

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__been buying copper in expectation of higher prices.

and £o-4ll the consumers who buy their products,

don to continue suspension of the import tax for 60 days

“The House

" That's a eonsiderably better outcome than the official

neighborhood of four billions. It's a great deal better than - Prgsident Truman's estimate last January that the gov-

NOT A BAD GUY

By Andrew Tully

A Russki’s Bluff Is Called

WASHINGTON, July 7-I don't want to be presumptuous, President Truman, but I think I know how you felt the other day when you called the Russians’ bluff on Korea. . I called one on 'em once myself that worked —just as it looks as if yours is going to work. The scene was the east bank of the Elbe

* River during the last days of April, 1945. With

Virginia Irwin of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Johnny Wilson of Roxbury, Mass. our jeep driver, I had just-returned from a quick trip to watch the fighting in Berlin. We'd had no trouble getting over to the east bank of the Elbe on our way to the German capital because we'd done it during a big party the Russians threw for the American brass. On that day, everybody was crossing and recrossing-the river between the U. 8, and Russian sectors on big, raft-like ferries.

Blocked by Colonel

BUT NOW, as we drove down to the river bank in the dusk we found there'd been some ciinges made. A Russian colonel with a fine command of Oxford English told us nobody was allowed to cross. We argued the point. The colonel grinned sweetly and told us no soap; he had his orders. Well, we were dead tired. The trip back from Beriin had been a rough one. Our jeep We decided to spend the night in the village and think about getting back tomorrow, So we drove back to the village and turned into the driveway of the only house in town that didn't seem to be full of Russian soldiers. Inside we discovered it had been commandeered by thrée British soldiers who'd escaped a few days earlier from a German prison camp in Luckenwalde. They not only welcomed us;

they-invited us to help them eat four chickens

one of them had stolen from the Russians and

" which were cooking in three saucepans on the

kitchen stove.

That was a night! We hadn't been in the

house more than 10 minutes when in charged

four Russian privates-drunk as hoot owls and waving their automatic rifles like they were looking for a private war. They weren't mad at us though; they just wanted to be sociable. The only thing was that, if you had tender nostrils, it- was like being sociable with a herd of goats. Those Russians were the dirtiest

~peopie-Fd-ever seemr==and the smetiest—

Poked Around House

THEY poked around the house, lifting the tda-of-the amd-sticking-their-fingeres-— into t d asking Virginia how

“inally, Johnny got to n and asked to see his rifle. The guy handed it over and Johnny examined it and said some pretty things about it and generally did a fime-buttering-up job. : Then, all of a sudden, Ivan grabbed the gun, yelled for attention, and started spraying bullets at the ceiling. Everybody hit the floor. That is;

everybody. but one of the Britishers, a brawny. .

cuss named Kenneth. Kenneth jumped up from his chair, -grabbed the rifle in one hand and Ivar’s hair with the other and let out a roar that shook the rafters. “Get the bloody hell out of here,” he yelled. “This is British territory.” —And-strangely: enough; sians slunk out.

SIDE GLANCES

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THAT, however, was just the beginning. Russian soldiers popped In and out of the house all night, They examined our watches. They felt of my Army boots. They drank up two bottles of cognac I'd foolishly taken out during a lull in visiting hours. They danced with Virginia and with Johnny. And they stole four cans of C rations, my sheepskin-lined flying boots and Johnny's helmet liner. Even after we'd settled down to try to sleep, they kept it up, I woke up once—on the floor of the dining room—-to find one of them trying on my cap. As a result, by the next Horuing we were determined to get over that river if we had to build a bridge with our bare hands. The entire Russian army seemed to be still drunk and any minute one of 'em might decide it would be fine sport to shoot up some Americanskis.

“Down at the river bank, the same grinning

colonel was on hand. He greeted us amiably and offered us some long Russian cigarets. “Listen,” I told him, “never mind the drawIng room stuff. We gotta get across that river. We've got some swell stories about the gallant Russian army taking Berlin.”

‘It Is Prohibited’

THE COLONEL shook his head. “I am very sorry,” he said. “You cannot do that. It is prohibited. I cannot authorize.the use of our ferry.” I told him okay, I'd vell across for the Amerfcans to come and get us. The river was only three or four hundred feet. wide at that point and we could see American GI's bustling about on the opposite shore. For the first time, -the colonel’s face grew grim. “lI wouldn't do that” he said. “I really couldn't be responsible if you did. That sort of "thing is not allowed.” I looked at the colonel, then looked back at the village. I wiggled my dirty feet in my

» boots and thought-about nice, clean chlorinated

U. 8. Army water and GI's who didn’t go around shooting off guns except at Germans. I decided I did not want to spend the rest of my life with the Russians. To me, that was the fate worse than death that everybody was always: talking about. -

Heard in Hackensack

SO 1 stepped down to the water's edge, cupped my hands to my mouth and let go with a shout that must have been heard in Hacken-

sack. The gist of if was that we were Amer.

~jeans and we wanted to come back home; so please send over some shipping. The colonel just stood there, polishing one of his six medals with the heel of his right hand. Whether or not I was heard in Hackensack, 1 sure was heard in Torgau, Germany, over on the west side of the Elbe. Within a couple of minutes we saw a raft shoved off and in an-

other five minutes we were shaking hands with

three members of an engineer outfit. We drove the jeep aboard and cast off. AS the raft hit the current, I looked back and waved to the colonel. He was just standing there. smoking a cigaret. He waved, then held one hand aloft

. with two fingers forming the V for Victory sign. as-long as you

Not a-bad-fellow; I~ didn’t take him too seriously.

By Galbraith VINDICATION .

since the war; the favorable working conditions in our factories, good wages, the desire

of capital to avoid another depression for their -

own and the country's benefit, Strong labor unfons have also had a great part in bringing. about these favorable conditions. }

In another paragraph he says much of our " present day slavery is caused by Roosevelt's

it’s not hard to see the mistakes of Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta. But before we condemn an act we should have the causes clearly in mind. At the time of the Yalta conference it was the aim of both Rovseveit and Churchill, backed

DEAR BOSS .

that they endeavor to al present certain aspects which are favorable to the . These have great weight for reason there are so many people who think deeply and are readily deceived.

: ‘GOP Needs Reversal’

By A Times Reader > Your editorial “Liberty and Taxes” is just fine but—I am a Democrat (or was) and wish to vote against all these “give away” programs and I mean ALL of them. The | ican Party seems to be determined to be for the give away stuff too or more of it with (don't make me laugh) a reduction in taxes, So what to do? . = The politicians seem to think the people want to be slaves and maybe they are right—I wouldn't know. But anyway I'd like to see the ‘people show some independence or enough to ‘convince the Republicans that they can. win with a complete reversal of the present trend. Then I would vote for them with a good heart, Why not tell the people that socialism and communism are not permanent states but roads to slavery or the servile state as explatiel by

~ Hilire Belloc 40 years ago?

. By Dan Kidney

Hoosiers Give Lift to Capital Fete

WASHINGTON, July 7—Dear Boss—By this time next week, Indiana will have done more to give a life to the bogged down sesquicentennial celebration of the founding of the nation's capital than any state in the Union. Gov. Henry F. Schricker is due here on one of five special trains from the state next Monday. He will be the narrator for the cantata “Hoosier Heritage,” to be staged on the Capitol grounds Wednesday night, by 3000 farm women members of the Home Economics Club choruses from 92 Indiana counties. Nothing of similar magnitude has been or is likely to be done in Washington this sesquicentennial year. The cantata was written by John A. McGee, Chicago, formerly of Purdue's English department. Direction will be by Albert P. Stewart, head of music at Purdue and one of. the nation's outstanding choral conductors. The choral arrangements were made by Ronald R. Williams, who with Director Stewart is expected to be back from the European tour of the Purdue Glee Club in time to stage the cantata.

Pre-Trip Concert

THAT Purdue Glee Club flew overseas from here and gave the Washington sesqui a shot in the arm by presenting a concert the night before their take-off. They were sponsored by the Indiana Society of Washington. Mrs. Esther Costa, society secretary, and Marvin Myers of the Purdue Music department also have been busy with the cantata arrangements. The national capital Sesquicentennial commission can well credit them with “putting a little pep in the Lord Mayor's show.’ The cantata features: the tife-of- the - great Hoosier poet, James Whitcomb Riley, and many of his widely known verses are used in the work by Mr. McGee. Several orginal songs also are included. A description of it, edited by Tom Johnson, the great Purdue press agent, contains - these paragraphs: “The program tells of Riley's early life with his inability to find a job that suited his talents, his serious poems which were overshadowed by the ones that achieved national popularity, and his failures and successes.

WANTED BY HOSPITALS . Surplus Potatoes

WASHINGTON, July —11 East German ‘Communists can get tons of surplus U. 8. potatoes at one cent a bag. why can’t our financially hard-pressed hospitals get some at half the market price? " That question has bothered Sen. George Aiken (R., Vt.), ranking Republican member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, for some time. But he’s never been able to get any place with the Agriculture Department. Agriculture will give the hospitals what they need for charity patients. But it won't sell sur-

“plus potatoes at reduced prices just because aT

hospital is having a hard time making ends meet. That would keep the hospitals from buy-

“The author places particular emphasis ons hoax in which Riley participated. The poet, in order to prove that literary critics placed great importance on a man’s name, wrote a poem, ‘Leonéinie,” in the style of Edgar Allan Poe and had a friend ‘d.scover’ it. Critics imme-. diately acclaimed it as a masterpiece. The cantata tells how, when the plotters were found out,

- the people of Indiana rallied to the support. of

the Hoosier poet and helped overcome ~the indignation the hoax had aroused.”

Sycamore Tree Concert ON Tuesday the Navy Band will give a special concert for all Hoosiers, visiting and resident, at the sycamore tree on the lower Capitol gro & where a plaque commemorating Sen, Daniel Voorhees, who planted the first tree honoring Indiana, is to be. placed by the state society, Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.) is scheduled to make the dedicatory address. Sen. Voorhees was the first Senator to be buried in the Congressional Cemetery here. The 3000 chorus women will attend and later will go to the Potomac Watergate for a special concert in their honor by the National Symphony Orchestra, The Brazilian director, Burle Marks, will ‘direct the first half of the concert which will be confined to the classics. The regular director of the orchestra, Howard Mitchell, will use his baton to turn the second half of the evening into a “pops concert,” with songs from South Pacific and solos by the radio singer, Eugene Conley. Sixteen hundred Hoosiers have already paid admission to this event, Mrs. Costa reported.

Marine Band to Play eo

FOLLOWING the cantata ‘Wednesday ‘night, the U. 8. Marine Band will give a free concert on the Capitol steps, During the day's free time, the visitors have been invited to the special sesquicentennial exhibition of American art at the Corcoran Gal. lery, where 350 works valued at over $3 million are on display. Included is “Raft on River,” an oil by an unknown Hoosier artist of the period 1840-1850, which is on loan from the Indiana University Library, Bloomington.

. By Earl Richert

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" “I know the government cannot start selling its “stocks to one and all at réduced prices because

that would simply break the market and the government would have to buy more.

‘Use Judgment’ “BUT THERE'S a place to use a little judg‘ment. The hospitals could be helped by selling them potatoes, butter, dried eggs and dried skim milk at reduced prices. And not enough quantity would be involved to affect the commercial market.” "Sen. Aiken said the hospitals undoubtedly

‘would use greater quantities” of the type of =~

commodities in surplus if they could buy at reduced prices from the government. And the government - ‘would reduce its stocks:

ing needed potatoes at the high _prices of the “commercial market. v

Government Holds Stocks ns

AN OFFICIAL. of .the Brightlook Hospital at St. Johnsbury, Vt, called Sen, Aiken to protest that he was unable to buy any but high

priced. early’ southern potatoes at $4.25 a 100.

pounds. The hospital, the Senator was told,

couldn't buy any 1949 northern potatoes ‘because :

the government held thé remaining stocks, “The Vermont Senator sald he had received complaints from many hospitals. One hospital official “told the Senator the hospital could get only three bushels of potatoes from the government every two months — the exact amount needed tor charity patients. tal--in—the country is a financial difficulties,” Sen. Aiken said.

. By James ‘Daniel

“The government is permitted to sell at re-

duced prices when its stocks of surpluses.are in danger of spoiling.

There's No Reason’ “THERE is no reason” Sen. Aiken said, “why the government couldn't make surplus potatoes,” eggs and butter available to hospitals that have been _consistently- losing money year .

7 after’ year.”

“He said the government would not have such Hoge hoards of dried eggs and butter if a “common sense” method of” disposal were used in Washington. U8. officials recently announced in Franke _furt, Germany, that 50,000 tons of surplus U. 8.

potatoes governed East ‘Germany at one-cent a bag.

War Justifies Taft Position of 6 Months Ago

WASHINGTON; July

7--8ix months ago Sen. Robert A.

a Taft (R. 0.) was eriticized for suggesting that the U. 8. Navy should patrol the Straits of Formosa to prevent a Red invasion of that island from the mainland of China. The United States do-

nothing policy toward Chinese communism was a from American foreign policy everywhere else in the world, Mr.

Taft said, After he sald his piece, Mr. Taft began collecting: clippings of the harsh things that were said against him. On June 27, when President Truman ordered the U.'S. Navy to guard Formosa, incidental to sending aid to South Korea to repel an : invasion, Sen. Taft brought out his souvenirs. : There. was the sarcastic comment from Mr. Truman that he didn’t know the Ohio Senator was a military expert. . And Secretary of State Dean Acheson had spoken of “this . distinguished statesman” who is “often in error, but never in doubt.” There was the statement by Sen. Tom Connally, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Commies. that had an “impregnable” line of defense in the Pacific, without Formosa.

“departure”

Acheson for his “able enunciation of thé administration's realistic Formosa position.” ADA said if the “Formosa firsters believe that propping up a dictatorship on an island outside our main defense line is more important to the United States than nurturing democracy where it ‘has a chance to grow, we demand that they say so publicly.” Some Washington newspapers editorially sided with Mr. Acheson against Sen. Taft. The Washington Post said Mr. Acheson's reply to Taft, in a speech to the National Press Club, had “pierced the certitudes which Sen. Taft has

imparted into his on Far Eastern i, jc It

said Acheson was “devastating

in his refutation of the thesis

that Sen. Taft shares with

others that the conduct of our

Joreifn policy should be stand. A SetiocIboy. Jet alone ng ey : the eminence

American adventurism in Formosa.”

. . ” THE Washington Star called Mr. Acheson's answer to Taft “brilliant and far-reaching.” The Star said it should be “required reading for all Americans who have let their emo-

" tions get the better of their

heads” over China. Some columnists were strongly for Mr. Acheson.

Doris Fleeson confided that

the “Truman Doctrine is dead.” That, she said, was the true significance of Secretary Acheson's Miss could be “categorically disclosed that (Gen. MacArthur) never considered Formosa as a ‘critical’ area — which, in military parlance, means one

worth the use of force to re-

- - . 2 : COLUMNIST Lowell Mellett reached back to pre- - World

speech. Fleeson also said” it:

practical aspects, it may be true that ‘there is not the slightest evidence that Russia will go to war with us hecause we interfere with a crossing to Formosa.’ Russia could be happy to have us do just that. It would help intensify Chinese hatred of . America and help divert attention from Russia's encroachment on Chinese ter-

‘ritory.”

The Chicago Journal of Commerce said Sen. Taft (and former President Hoover) had added their voices to the let's-defend-Formosa chorus. “To us,” said the publication, “it is a silly symphony. The idea that Formosa is strategically vital has little merit.”

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