Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1950 — Page 24

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Education in a Squeeze ATUR Central School is crowded. It was overcrowded as far back as 1947. Herbert H. Edwards, head of the County Board of Education and Decatur Township trustee, proposed the construction of a grade school building in Mars Hill, The State Superintendent of Public Instruction refused the grade building and recommended consolidation. By 1948, the school was so crowded something had to be done. Mr. Edwards built an annex—a two-room frame building at the rear of the high school. j The fifth and sixth grades were moved outside. Last year, a committee received $7500 from the fed- | eral government to plan a new building across the road | from the present structure in Valley Mills.

~ » » . ? MARS “HILLS residents killed the measure with a i | remonstrance petition, and the school board, headed by Mr. Edwards, built another annex. This was a quonset hut next to the frame structure of 1948. The music department moved into this one. This spring, the $500,000 high school was proposed again. Again a remonstrance killed it. Here it is July. School will begin in about six weeks. Nothing has been done. What will it be this year? Another annex? Will the gymnasium be appropriated for classroom space? Will they utilize neighborhood churches? It is inconceivable that residents of one township can not get together and work out details that will give the school children—the community’s most important asset— adequate facilities for a good education.

Tangled Tune T= Communist Party's Daily Worker harps doggedly along on its familiar theme. What's going on in Korea, according to the Daily Worker, is “Wall Street's armed intervention” in behalf of America's “big industrialists and powerful bankers” who plot to “mint profits from the lives of plain people” by bringing on another world war. Since the Reds invaded South Korea, prices on the stock exchange in Wall Street have been going down, down, down. . In less than three weeks more than $8 billion has been carved from the value of securities listed there.

SHARES of "companies which would be "expected to fill big war orders have been plummeting with the rest. General Motors stock, for example, is down 17 per cent; See, 13 per cent; Du Pont, 15 per cent; Allied cals, 18 per cent, and so on through the list. { al authorities say the costly liquidation is due to investors’ fear that spreading war may curb production of peacetime goods, bring strict government economic controls and require profit-eating taxes. Maybe Wall Street is neglecting to read the Daily Worker. s Or could it be that the Daily Worker s editors are so busy playing propaganda tunes for Uncle Joe they don't haye time to read the news from Wall Street?

A Lunatic Tax : A TAX of $40 a ton on imported copper, suspended at the beginning of World War II, has been back in effect since July 1, Permitting this tax to remain in effect would be economic lunacy. Even before the Korean crisis, this country’s industries were using far more copper than its domestic mines produced. ~~ Now the need for copper is tremendously increased. Weapons for Americans who are fighting in Korea will take a lot of copper. Our inadequate stockpiles of this and other metals should be built up fast against the menacing possibility of a bigger war. And the foolish tax endangers. relations with our South American neighbors, especially friendly Chile, main source of our copper imports. . The House Ways and Means Committee has approved 8 bill to suspend that tax for a year. The House should pass this bill in a hurry, and the Senate should follow suit.

We Must Exact Lawful Vengeance da war in Korea is less than a month old, but already km we've had the first report of atrocities committed against erican soldiers. Knowing the contempt for human life which Communists display everywhere, we really shouldn't be surprised. The Reds live by.a creed of brutality. * It will not always be easy for our own men to resist the temptation to reply in kind. War breeds brutality, and

Soldiers who see their comrades murdered cannot help but boil with indignation, 4

Yet the answer to any crimes the N commit lies in a different realm. World War II set the pattern. We must document these atrocities carefully A completely. The guilty enemy soldiers must be found and brought to justice ih the same fashion as were the Nazi and Jap war criminals, The lessons of the German and Japanese war crimes trials apparently have not been taken to heart by the Com‘unists. We shall have to instruct them, personally. This We must now resolve to do. And we must inform them over and over again, by radio and leaflet, what fate awaits the ‘Who descends to such levels,

, Not Candy, for Morale

: the reports filtering back from Army headquarin the Far East is one which tells us that the mili-

swiftly to set up post exchanges and ‘imorale-building” facilities in embattled

of American soldiers shot in the

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pl s Times Editor's Notes Lie By Walter Lotkome

; “Hush- Hush’ Boys re! At It Already In Korea

ONE pretty good way 4s omo.a. wat & keep all the bad news secret. If a military “brass-hat” fumbles and blun- - ders , . . cover it up, so he can go on fumbling and blundering. If a civillan politico falls down on his job . keep it quiet, so he can go on falling down on his job. If our side is losing « » . maybe because we haven't sent enough troops or given them enough guns . . . hide it and make the public think its all easy glorious victory so we won't try very

hard at home to help. ~ » ~

WE'RE REMINDED of that just now by the manner in which two top-flight reporters were barred from Korea yesterday . .. because they told the truth.

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

War May Bring Unity of Labor

AFL and CIO Chieftains Working Hard for Merger

WASHINGTON, July 15—Dear Boss: Organic unity of organized labor may be one of the first fruits on the home front resulting from the fighting in Korea. A meeting of AFL-CIO chieftains has been set for July 25 at the Statler Hotel here. Daniel Tobin, Indianapolis, long-time president of the Teamsters Union, is one of the AFL hierarchy scheduled to attend. By joining forces, the two great unions with their mililons of members, expect to demand a full share in forming home-front policies should mobilization for total war become necessary. % Union leaders already have had informal talks regarding labor's part in wartime mobilization with Chairman W, Stuart Symington of the National Security Resources Board. During World War II, former Indiana Gov. Paul V. McNutt, then Social Security Administrator, was named War Manpower Commissioner by President Roosevelt. He was able to freeze workers on necessary jobs and move them to war plants without too much complaint.

May Repeat Feature

THE GREATEST gripe came when wartime workers were required to join the unions and pay entrance fees and dues, although given only temporary status in the trade. This lush take put many unions’ treasuries into the multimillionaire class. It likely is a feature which will not be neglected if all-out war comes again, AFL President William Green and CIO President Philip Murray jointly announced the unity meeting to be held here. The AFL will be represented by Mr. Green, President Charles MacGowen of the Brotherhood of Boilermakers; President Daniel Tracey of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Mr, Tobin. CIO will be represented by a committee comprising Mr. Murray, James B. Carey, sec-retary-treasurer, Vice President Allan 8S. Haywood; President 1. 8. Buckmaster of the United Rubber Workers; President Joseph Curran of the National Maritime Union; President Walter Reuther of the United Automobile Workers; President Emil Rieve of the Textile Workers Union and Frank Rosenblum of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. The theme of labor unity has run through discussions and writings in both the CIO and AFL throughout the post-war period. In 1947 a joint meeting was held and both Mr. Tobin and President William Hutcheson of the Brotherhood of Carpenters, Indianapolis, were present,

Four Steps Proposed THE CIO proposals placed before that meeting called for four steps: ONE: Emergency joint action against antiunion’ legislation. TWO: Proposals for an AFL-CIO agreement to eliminate jurisdictional disputes and prevent intra-union boycotts and raiding. THREE: Recognition in the unified labor movement of the principles of the industrial organization autonomous rights to irternational unions and creation of effective labor political action machinery. FOUR: Exploration by AFL-CIO unions in each field of the possibility of eliminating jurisdictional strife and seeking common programs, The AFL presented these three proposals: ONE: That the various unions of the CIO simply affiliate with the AFL, as the United Mine Workers, now unaffiliated, on orders of President John 1. Lewis had already done. TWO: That this “jointure” be completed by the October, 1947, convention of the AFL, where the various unions would have delegates in attendance, THREE: That the joint committee continue to meet to work out details and to help pool labor's efforts in the economic and legislative fields.

Adjourn in Disagreement THE committee adjourned after a two-day session, in disagreement. They issued a joint statement, however, declaring that their “unanimous opinion” was that “organic unity should be established within the American labor movement.” The statement said that the two groups would “devote our energy and purpose toward the realization of this common objective, In the meantime, we shall continue our efforts to prevent the enactment of highly objectionable anti-labor legislation now being considered in the Congress of the United States.” They meant the Taft-Hartley Law which was promptly passed over President Truman's veto by the 80th Republican Congress,

Nine Lives?

We are definitely not winning yet, in Korea Peter Kalischer and Tom Lambert said so, in front line dispatches that were calm, unimpassioned, factual accounts of what they saw with their own eyes ., . accounts that were pure stark drama because they were calm, unimpassioned and true.

By yesterday, because of that factual report-

ing, all of America knew that the action in Korea wasn’t going to be any week-end picnic, and was rid of any delusion that nothing much needs to be done to support it. s » » © YESTERDAY Col. M. P, Echols, Army press officer in Tokyo, told Mr. Kalischer and Mr. Lambert they couldn't go back to Korea. He sald he didn’t like the stories they had written about the series of defeats of our forces

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FOR A GUY NAMED JOE .

_ there, He ‘admitted the stories were all true, didn’t even question any detail of them. But he said they “made the Army look bad” and “gave ald and comfort to the enemy.” Poppycock, Colonel, The fact is they made the Army look pretty good . . . or at least the ill-equipped little hand-

ful of soldiers who are in there fighting cour- °

overwhelming odds with in-

ageously against adequate weapons. If anybody “looked bad” it

might have been those who misjudged the whole Korean situation . . . and the whole Asiatic situation, for that matter . . . and thus made these defeats inevitable. Maybe that's who the Colonel meant. :

~. And as for “aid and comfort to the enemy” +». We'd guess the enemy knows who won. They were there, too.

By J. Hugh O'Donnell

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Enough This Time—In Time

I AM a guy named Joe and I was killed in World War I, or was it World War II? There have been so many wars and so many guys named Joe, I can't be sure. : Perhaps I was a mechanic, or a shoe clerk, or maybe an insurance salesman. I don't know. There are so many things I might have been, or could have been. Maybe I was killed at the Marne, or Chateau Thierry. But I was at so many places I can’t be certain. It could have been at Iwo Jima, or in the Ardennes in the Battle of the Bulge, or at St. Vith whén we squeezed the life out of Von Rundstedt's elite Panzer units. Again, it might have been at the Rhine, somewhere near a bridge called Remagen.

War to End War?

I MIGHT have died in the war to end wars. That was the first one. .Remember? Or in the war for survival. That was the second. I fought against a guy named Jerry and with a guy named Tommy. And there was another guy on our side that second time named Ivan. But he seems to have moved away.

3 . Foster's Follies GLEN COVE, N.Y, July 15--A Soviet United Nations delegate rented a house for “the use of his family” then moved in 71 beds,

Ig he just a home-loving pappy, . Who in a large family takes pride?

And dreams of the day he'll be happy With many more kids at his side?

More likely the guy's had a vision Against which he wants to provide. He knows that with one wrong deeision He'll need some good places to hide.

KEY TO ASIA CRISIS? . Chiang Has Manpower to Turn Korea Tide

WASHINGTON, July 15 if the Chinese Communists reinChiang Kai-shek may emerge as the TE man holding the key to the Asiatic situation.

force the Korean Reds,

WHR He has the manpower.

The army of 500,000 men he has assembled oh his island stronghold of Formosa far exceeds the combined forces of the

free nations of Asia. It is trained and ready for action. It was popular, until quite recently to . scoff at the - fighting ability of Chiang's® * troops —— forgetting how they distinguished them-

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some of the nd best troops of! oR Japan. But = Chiang’s fail- m. Cllgug . . ure to defeat Forces : _the Commu-

Now there are some more Joes fighting in a place called Korea. They're moving fast this time. we were against the guy they called Kaiser and the egomaniac known as Adolph Hitler. I like that! Looks like there won't be any more Munichs, or weak men with umbrellas. No more Pearl Harbors, I hope. I knew a guy named Joe who was there. I wonder how it might have been if air and sea support had been slammed in against Jerry in the Sudetenland or, even earlier, in the Ruhr when first it was remilitarized.

And Now in Korea

MAYBE it wasn’t useless, after all, that we

" lied. Me and all the other guys named Joe.

There are some guys named Joe now in this Korea affair. They'll die on battlefields as yet unnamed. But we're moving fast, planes and tanks and ships and men. There'll be no creep-ing-up-on-you war. It's chips on the table, put up or shut up or showdown. I like that! Stop -'em in their tracks when they first move. Don't wait until they creep up nearer and nearer home. Remember the time they scuttled the League of Nations? This time, it looks like we're going to scuttle the would-be scuttiers of the United Nations. The free world is beginning to march quick time.

The Farther the Better

TAKE it from me_and thousands of other guys named Joe. The farther away from home you die in a war the better. : Dying isn't so bad. It's the figuring you

might have really done something that counts,

Maybe you built one more prop under the beautiful abstraction they call freedom. Maybe you help knock out one more guy called Hitler, or Mussolini. ; Fight ’em where they start it. Don't let 'em slip up on a blind side. Slam ’'em, bomb ‘em. Send big guns, and big tanks and plenty of planes and enough guys named Joe.

civil war, and the same veterans are being used against our men in South Korea. » »-® CHIANG'S defeat was due in large part to a breakdown in morale, resulting from his insBHAMY"To pay and supply his fighting forces. Even rifle ammunition was lacking in the latter days of the campaign on the mainland. The supplies the United States’ belatedly agreed to send him did not begin to reach him in any volume until the war was lost.

Joose, however, treble that

Maybe they're better prepared than . .

. By Parker LaMoore

Chiang’'s forces meanwhile “have been streamlined, Tes grouped and retrained. They are commanded throughout by battle - tested officers. Observ‘ers who have seen them in maneuvers in Formosa report they compare favorably with any fighting men.

= » = THEY NEED modern equipment, particularly tanks, artillery and tactical air support. If the United States commits as many as six divisions to the Korean campaign it will be about as far as we can go. If more ground troops are needed, we will have to look to our Allies for them. But most of our Allies are in the same predicament we are, with plenty of raw manpower but no trained troops to spare. Chiang is the single exception. He has offered to have 33,000 © men on their way to Korea ‘in five days’ time. He could figure ‘without weakening Bis position in For-

THE FACT is the enemy is already Rdg noe : sil goout i and Snaking lis or anys

to anyone in where else who cares to tune his short-wave res

‘reliable sources, of course will scoff at enemy

paganda lies. We should, by now, have had expe rience with military Semsorship to know wha! it is and how to use There is every reason for keeping secret anything and everything that might conceivably help an enemy in war time, that might endanger any plan or operation or the life of one single man. singh ag absurd to try to keep secret from? our own people the things the enemy already knows . . . especially when the reason is just so it won't make somebody “look bad.” ” » = “CIVILIAN MORALE” never has been lowe ered yet by knowledge of the facts in war-time, opposite, in fact. Ro found that out in 1914. Army censorship was keeping from the British public the facts about Britain's inadequate, ill-equipped forces in France, allowing a sugar-coated version of the fighting to seep through to the people at home. It would shock civilians into helpless terror to know what kind of a grim, bloody, filthy fight their army was in; the censors argued. And the British people were dragging their feet in apathetic indifference to the war effort, Winston Churchill led the fight against that psychology, got correspondents to the front, got

the whole awful picture of 1914-style battle into

the newspapers. Army enlistments went up 300 per, cent overs night. Bond sales soared. Munitions workers pitched in with redoubled efforts. Instead of wanting to quit the public wanted to pitch in whatever it took to win. Anyone who believes the American people will react otherwise would seem to have a very low opinion of Americans. : = = ” IN THE first World War censorship and public information were handled by one rather mogest office headed by George Creel. Writing about it afterward Mr. Creel remarked that the whole effort at domestic, or internal censorship, came to nothing because everything we tried to keep secret . . . such as production, troops in training and so on . .. inevitably was known to 80 many people that effort itself just looked ridiculous. There was, however, no recorded leak of military information to the enemy that could have been prevented by censorship. In the second World War the functions of censorship and information were divided. The Office of Censorship, a rather small and modest outfit, worked in intelligent co-operation with press and radio and reported at the end of the war that there had not been a single intentional violation of the voluntary secrecy code. The Office of War Information grew into a hap hazard sprawling organization of many thoue sands of men and women, among them a good many pinks and fellow travellers, and proved almost 100 per cent useless. There was, in addition, a military censore ship, however, designed to stop military infor mation at its source, undoubtedly did considerable good . . . and also undertook to conceal every reverse of our armed forces and every blunder by any of their commanders. Up to now there has been officially no cen sorship of news out of Korea. The American public has been well, and completely and truthe fully informed, of all that has happened there, It has been a smail scale action, in which our forces were outnumbered at least 10 to one by an enemy that had more and better equipment. They have been defeated, and they no doubt

. will continue to be defeated until sufficient men

and munitions arrive so they can fight on at least equal basis with the enemy.

If the truth about that “makes somebody .

look bad” we still believe the American people are entitled to know it.

“1 do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

‘One Big Chuckhole’ By Jolted, City. Bought a new car last year. Not the best car in the world, but good, solind and solid. Like to drive my car to work every day, and also like to take rides around town with my family of an evening. Now I'm proud of that

car, and I take good care of it, but it's not a - * new car anymore,

It's not sound and solid, It's. a heap.

My family won't go on rides with me any, more. Value their pride and spines too much, You can't enjoy the beauties of residential Indianapolis if you have to fall on the floor of the car to keep from being hurled out of the

wndow. I still drive to work, but every day I lose a part here and a part there. This can't go on forever. A car has only so many parts and then that's all. ’ What happened to my car? No, I didn’t hit a truck and I didn’t drop it from a 10-story, ouilding. I just happén to meet those ——— ——a chuckholes everyday. No way to miss them, Most of the streets are just one big chuckhole, When are we going to get them filled in?

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