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Of Course It's Only Money . . . VWWHAT could the City of Indianapolis do right now with haif a million dollars? Plenty of things at once suggest themselves. A new bridge. A new swimming pool. A new parking garage. Some more . . . or maybe just some smoother . . . streets. Any number of improvements that would make our city better. Only we haven't the half-million. We had it. The taxpayers paid it in and it passed through the city treasury, over past years. All we bought with it was a set of figures on our municipal books. : As David Watson points out, today, in the first of two interesting articles, we've been borrowing money we didn't need to borrow, paying as much as $20,000 a year interest on loans that weren't necessary . .. for the last 40 years. We still do. It goes right on because nobody so far has bothered to do anything about it.

. » » ” » » f THE CITY is compelled to keep its books that way because of state law. Accidental state law, of course. Nobody ever planned it that way. >: So city governments, alone, can't do anything about it. In 40 or 50 years it apparently hasn't ever occurred to anyone to get the state legislature to do anything about it, either. : In each of those years it has cost us anywhere from $10,000 to $20,000 . . . to do nothing about it. The situation points up, again, the inefficiency created

change even a minor law and plug up even a small leak like this one requires action by a couple of hundred members of the legislature who live elsewhere and have no immediate interest in Indianapolis. Both political party platforms, this year, pledge “Home rule” for cities in Indiana, promise to take off the halter that enforces such absurdities on municipal governments. That has a sort of familiar ring, as if maybe we'd heard it before, sometime. : This time we hope they'll carry it out. Indianapolis certainly could use that half-million dol-

lars.

Who Wanted War?

or THE 52 governments supporting the United Nations’ action against Red aggression in Korea, only National ist China, Nicaragua and Thailand (Siam) have offered to send ground troops to join Gen. MacArthur's command. Britain and Australia have committed air and naval units to the campaign. France is preparing to do so. With no troops readily available, Canada is sending warships and an eight-plane air transport squadron fo assist the field forces. x Greece has offered six transport planes, explaining that to supply ground forces would weaken home defenses, Sweden is providing a field hospital, with doctors and nurses; Denmark, 10 ambulances and medical teams. Chile is contributing strategic ‘war materials such as copper and nitrate. :

. 0» . » nm ; THIS limited response to the appeal for assistance te Gen. MacArthur is notia true measure of the sentiment against Red aggression. On the contrary, the nations mentioned ‘ahd many others are wholeheartedly behind the United Nations’ actions. But their feeble support of that action is a measure of their present state of preparedness, The unexpected call to arms found none of the free nations prepared to fight a foreign war. Our own shortcomings have been revealed on the battlefield. But most of our Allies aren't even prepared to get to the field with enough power to make their presence felt. This alarming state of affairs calls for superhuman efforts to correct it, by our Allies ax well as ourselves. But it is a complete answer to the constant charges of warmongering and imperialistic designs leveled against the United States and other non-Communist governments by the Kremlin and the Communists here and throughout the world. The attack on South Korea found Russia and her satellites armed to the teeth, and all of the free nations disarmed. That should silence the big lie forever. : 3 5» » » I » ANYONE who hereafter gives any credence whatever to Communist peace petitions and Soviet di ament pro- - posals must be regarded as a fool or a kdave. . South Korea had no tanks or other weapons of aggression. The tanks Russia supplied North Korea in such numbers could have had only one purpose—an attack on the Korean Republic. And that attack would not have been de without Russia's consent, probably not without prs from Moscow. All of which is tacitly ad-

d should mean forearmed. Nations

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HENRY W. MANZ ‘ Business Manager

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by the tight grip the state holds over the city's affairs. To

must be prepared to fight for it, as the

Another week of Korean fighting has without any sign from Moscow | ernment |

wants a world war. No

it is war with the free world, led by the United States. the Kremlin seeks, then the deadline is near. To wait longer would be a form of mad. ness that doesn't exist even in the Kremlin. - Up to this week. the Korean fighting has remained localized. Had Russia wanted to invite a major conflict, all that would have been necessary would have heen the torpedoing of American ships carrying a fresh division to the amphibious landing on the east coast of Korea. That would have signaled the outbreak of World War III. The fact that Russia decided against interfering with the movement of the United States task force from Japan to Korea lends encouragement to the belief that full-scale war

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Washington's

Windy Battle On

Democrats Berate Both

Of Indiana's GOP Senators

WASHINGTON, July 22—Dear Boss—Both Indiana Republican senators now have been berated by Democratic Senate Committee chairmen for their failure to support bipartisan foreign policy measures, thus causing their votes to coincide with the Communist party line, Sens, Homer FE. Capehart and William E. Jenner have been outzpaken foex of communism, however, and were particularly critical of alleged Reds in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. The venerable Sen, Tom Connally (D. Tex.) chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, took out after Sen. Capehart, and sharp-ton-gued Sen. Millard Tydings (D. Md.) castigated Sen. Jenner. Neither did so with the classie restraint expected in “the greatest deliberative body in the world.” That was right down Sen. Jenner's alley. He answered the Tydings’ speech in his best stump-thumping manner, Such short-tempered displays are one of the byproducts of the Korean War. It could be «called the windy battle of Washington. Should the Russians ever reach here with an atom bomb, senators and congressmen would probably still be arguing about who made it possible.

Galleries Packed

AFTER the Jenner spéech on Friday, Sen. Tydings did get back on the beam. Instead of answering it, he introduced and obtained action on two important war bilis. The galleries were packed during these debates, Listening in on the conversations of this multitude of plain American taxpayers. you learned that what they want mostly is to win the war and find a formula for perpetual peace. This “Who killed John?" debating they consider a pretty sorry boondogle when Americans are being massacred in Korea. The Indiana senators gave their views about the fighting there in broadcasts over the weekend. Sen, Jenner's speech was broadcast from Louisville and Sen. Capehart’s from Chicago. The latter is up for re-election, Both blamed the secret deals of Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam for causing the Korean crisis, Each pledged all-out support. Then both painted a black picture to prove that citizens should place no confidence in American leadership. Bince that leadership must be accepted, so far as the presidency is- concerned, until the 1952 elections are held, this approach to solving present problems appeared a bit puzzling. Of course they didn't advocate Yevolution, which would be the only other alternative besides impeachment or assassination Here are some of the things Sen. Jenner said:

‘Millions Betrayed’ "IN 1943 at Teheran, 100 million people of Eastern Europe were betrayed intdb the hands of Russia. Jn 1945 at Yalta, Asia was partitioned, and Korea, China and Manchuria were sold out to Stalin. At Potsdam. This government agreed to destroy Germany and Japan, and followed the pro-Communist line by their relentless attacks on the natural nations such as Spain. : “This adminstration also financed the expansion of communism to the tune of over 30 hil Hon doliara, including 12 billion dollars for lend-lease, and 14 billion dollars in reparations and countless other handouts since the end of the war R “The tragedy is the President's message on Korea has not changed a single one of the basic policies and programs to which we have been committed on the domestic and international scene, except for the fact American Gls are now fighting and dying in Korea”

Wants Agreements Ratified ACCEPTING the Jenner premise that everything done by us has been wrong. Sen. Capehart's speech was somewhat stronger in supporting the war. He also proposed that when peace comes, all agreements be ratified by the people and no more secrecy condoned “We are fighting a Godless foe today,” Capehart said, “and in such a fight we cannot be wrong. There is but one course now, That is to fight and to win. “What is past is past. We look to the future now. We look to an early ending of the war and a settlement of the issues to insure a lasting peace.” Those Senate gallery visitors would surely gay “amen.”

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BLOOD AND TEARS . . . By Clyde Farnsworth

Nurse Cries as Her Warrior Dies

A U. 8B. AIR BASE IN JAPAN, luly 22

. When 1 asked her later why she had cried she

said simply: “Most nurses cry.”

That wasn't much of an answer, but vou .

can't expect people to write captions on their feelings and pass them ardund like vacation snapshots. She had never seen the boy before, and she never would again. Yet it would have; taken ‘a lifetime—lifetime of a} 29-year-old Brooklyn nurse-—j to tell you what was in her § heart when she cried over him. She seemed all at once to be his mother, his sister, his girl friend, or maybe even his wife; although he was young -— 18 or 19. 3 Little Ginny Pecan squatted Mr. F at the side of his. stretcher, her face half-hidden by a long-peaked fight cap and as her blue eyes filled up she would wipe them and her nose on the knees of her suntan slacks. } There was no other way. red -with blood. At that time the air evacuation plane on which we were riding was more than a mile in the sky over Korea, en route to this air base in Japan where ambulances waited to hospitalize the wounded men we carried. The most serious stretcher case had heen the last to arrive. “We've got an emergency still to come,” said one of the medics as eight other litters and five “walking wounded” were loaded -on the C-47,

Saved a Place for Him OURS was to be the last transport off that field. Flight Nurse Lt. Virginia Pecan supervised the loading, saving a place on the floor for the emergency case. Bottles of plasma and whole blood were hung up. The ambulances came one after the other. Their big Red Crosses were scratched off or smeared with black grease for concealment from an-énemy that fights by different rules or none, The emergency case took special handling, for the patient had been receiving plasma and blood in the ambulance and the upturned bottles and long thin tubes to his left wrist had to be moved with him without disturbing the connections, Only his bare left arm, shouider and grimy, unconscious face could be seen. Clenched between his teeth was a plastic tube to keep his tongue depressed and for him

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ROME, July 22.

The Italian army

to fight.

next through Yugoslavia and not through Iran as earlier expected. The experts point out that Moscow . oe would have to use their own troops against | Iran but could § use Hungar- % ian, Bulgarian and Romanjan troops against Yugoslavia a n dj thus escape formal re- rai : pon s ibility Mr. Tully or War, If it happens that way, the Italians fear Italy will be next. And they just don't have the equipment And supplies to support a major war effort. Ta protect the northern border, Italy has a patontial of 12 divisions, some of which already are rd, Ea

is to be com-

- Italy's position in event of outbreak of another war can be summed up in one short, tragic sentence has only enough ammunition for one week's fighting. Yet any day Italy feels she may be called on

For the expert guessing here today is that Russia will strike

constituted, Each of ~~ States and ¥

- one of motorized light Infantry,

ald transports, most of which

to breathe through. Before the plane got into the air Ginny Pecan was on her knees with an air syringe clearing the tube of its bloody froth. Her assistant, 8. Sgt. Harold Miller, San Jose, Cal, stood beside her in the aisle between the tiers of litters, waiting for the takeoff, steadying two other unconscious patients against any lurch of the plane.

Anxiety in Her Face

THE walking wounded sat on the floor to the rear of the litter cases. Maj. Harry G. Howton of Birmingham gunned .our C-47 into the air. Engineer T. Sgt. Harry J. Strickland, Grandin, Fla., hitched himself into the astrodome to watch for Yaks. Nurse Pecan already was hanging up another bottle over her emergency patient—600 cubic centimeters of refrigerated, anticoagulant, universal type, whole blood. Her fingertips were erimsoned when she had made a new insertion in the wrist vein. . We had been airborne nearly an hour. The nurse had been hovering almost constantly over this patient. Now: and then he would tiredly roll his tousled head as if protesting some

nightmarish horror that invaded his coma.

But even these movements became less frequent. Nursa Pecan sent Sgt. Miller to the rear of the plane for an oxvgen kit. Sgt. Miller broke it out quickly and the nurse cupped the black rubber mask over the mouth and nosa of the patient, Sgt. Miller adjusted the flow to fuel the life that flickered beneath the rongh wool blanket.

Searches for Life

THE NURSE held the mask with one hand while the other roved seafchingly from the forehead to the heart, to the abdomen of the dying boy. There was one feeble roll of his head-— the last—but I was not sure he had died until I- saw Ginny Pecan's tears. Ginny Pecan, who made up her mind to be a nurse when boys the age of this patient were carrying her high school books for her, just squatted on the floor and for a long minute was womankind mourning for the warrior dead of all ages. Some of her close-cropped reddish curls had escaped from under her mannish flight cap. Pwo men in opposite stretchers stared mutely at her hunched, beaten figure. She was still erving when she untaped the blood and plasma inserts and folded the left arm under the blanket, removed the breathing tube and pulled the blanket up over the young face,

LITTLE AMMUNITION . . . By Andrew Tully

Italy May Face Red Invasion Unpreparéd

poses.

stroyers,

infantry, one regiment of light armor and four of five regiments of artillery, for a total of between 12000 and 15,000 men. 3 : v » =n BESIDES these “potential” divisions, the Italian army has th one armored brigade, composed of one regiment of tanks and

and two Alpine brigades. Under terms of the Peace Treaty with the World War II allies, Italy was limited to a maximum of 200 tanks. Only a few of these are the heavy type, and most are World War II American

bs. Italy's Air Force of 25000 men has only 200 obsolete World War II fighters and re: connaissance planes and 150

for them.

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ammunition for training pur-

The navy is almost a joke. It consists of two obsolete battleships, four cruisers, four de16 steam torpedo boats, of which seven are 30 vears old, 19 small corvettes, and eight antisubmarine boats.

= ” ALTHOUGH Italy was assigned the Atlantic Pact mission of fighting submarines in ¢ Mediterranean, Treaty terms forbid the navy even a single submarine to use for training purposes, Randolfo Pacciardi, minister: of defense, says Italy could "8 » put 40 divisions, or around one million men, at the disposal of the Western Powers if it had the necessary arms. Most of these men already have served their regular conscription terms and have had specialized training along modern . lines, But there's no equipment : ) azine editor did the other day, To be sure, Italy has had five small shipments of Atlans tie Pact arms a i of these are in services. There Sr bata |

bers of transports, mine sweepers, destroyers and rocket ships.

into the Russian mind the idea that another war should be avoided. ‘Again, under Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the process of by-passing the enemy with amphibious landings has started. It is the same strategy that took American arms from New Guinea to Japan, Before the present aggression is put down in Korea, the combined naval task force will have grown beyond its size in World War II. It will be the means of establishing a new order of peace.

OOS\E AE ORUM

‘Blunder in East’

By Clarence Love, Box 246, Marshall, Ind MANY Republicans seem to think that the administration blundered In the Far Kast. I

doubt any government or party could have done .

any better, The first long range mistake was made when Korea was split, the north with 11 million people with the mining and timber and the south with 19 million, generally agriculture. This was unsound economics: the same as dividing Europe, separating agriculture and industry, It had more to do with World War II than any other factor. Of course, the ideological conflict created by economic inequity obscures the basic reason. > > @ THE commitments we have assumed in Korea are not small. We are now responsible for the government of South Korea as well as the north when we take over. Another 30 million people with a destroyed country to succor when the war is won. Of course, we have Allies, but most of whom can't support themselves and have their own troubles; It is hardly necessary to say that we will do most if not all of the fighting. The success of “One World” notion is not assured; that the price will be high is evident. Our actions are determined by factors we do not control. * 4

‘U. S. Unprepared’ By Bud-Kaesel, 524 Rochester, City IN A letter to the Hoosier Forum four months ago I wrote a letter called “Stop the

" Red Army” in which I appealed to Congress

to stop the aggressor nation before it was too little-too late again. Again we were caught with our pants down because of a few selfish and greedy men in Congress and the Senate, while Stalin's Red army was getting ready to spring a trap on Korea. These men were arguing about a silly thing they called Oleo Margarine; whether to put a tax on it or leave it uncolored. The reason 1 believe we can't rely on Stalin's promises is because the only way he gets anything is by force. How well do I remember in

the year 1929 when this same Stalin ordered -

all churches destroyed and made cattle stables out of them and made children adore him as their god. > 9% ¢ I COULD go on telling you of many more things Congress has failed to do, but which is water over the dam. But we can give our answer in the next election. Stalin is out to destroy and conquer the world by force if he can get by with it. This Korean army was being trained in Manchuria while we were cutting ours down. As I write this lettef I fear Stalin's Red army will attack some small country like Turkey, or Yugoslavia and plunge the whole world into the fight for freedom or slavery for mankind. The most effective blow would be for all of us to get down on our knees and pray to God for the destruction of these ruthless lead ers and for guidance and safety for our President and Congress and the men in uniform who are fighting and dying for the freedom of the world. The sooner the nations of the world get back to His ways we will have peace. Until then there will be no peace on the earth.

What Others Say—

WOMEN have gone to extremes in nudity. Actress Ann Sheridan, > > » I PERSONALLY don’t like to mee hlanket accusations against groups of individuals or individuals standing alone.— Gov. Earl Warren of California.

ONLY shred of silver lining in the picture is the army's

There are few Communists in the armed services and those are watched closely by Italy's sternly anti-Communist officer corps. Reasonably objective ob- » servers here insist the Italians will fight this time will all the strength and courage they can muster. They will do so, it is sald, partly because the average Italian distrusts communism, but mostly because this time the Italians want to have their money on the winning horse.

Peace

NEVERTHELESS, most Italians are pessimistic. They

help from the outside Italy would fall to a concerted Rus-

three weeks. They even try to joke about it, as a local mag-

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