Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1950 — Page 36

The White-Wash is too Thin :

a genuine investigation of the two patrolmen who held a prisoner under arrest and let two parking lot attendants savagely beat him. The “investigation” on which Police Chief Rouis made his “report” to the Mayor took the police department eigh full days. : No “investigator” had ever seen, or called, or questioned the three reputable witnesses who saw the whole shameful affair . . . although they had voluntarily offered to make sworn statements of what they saw.

» » » 3 T ” ~ » ‘ INSTEAD of trying to learn the facts Chief Rouls ‘first tried to brush off the whole thing as routine police operation which he didn’t consider “too damned bad.” When that didn’t work he tried to white-wash the charges with a “report” that carefully left out eye-witness evidence Chief Rouls personally knew was available, That evidence is still available. : Those three men saw this prisoner brutally beaten. Others saw him when policemen finally took him to police headquarters . . . bruised, cut, bloody, shaken and There should, indeed, be a real investigation of this affair. We'll have to admit that our own confidence in any | made by Chief Rouls or the police department, after the “report” they've already turned in, will be somewhat less than it might have been, say, a couple of weeks ago.

Time's A-Wasting

(CHAIRMAN VINSON of the House Armed Services Com- : mittee, a member of Congress during both world wars, took one look at President Truman's emergency war budget, then said: “Good, as far as it goes, but not enough.”

tion that nothing is good that doesn’t get the job done. This program won't do it.

344,600,000 is for aircraft, which may be adequate if some production miracles can be performed. But, compared to needs, the $2,646,000,000 for tanks, guns, field artillery, elec{tronics and “other major procurements” is a drop in the bucket. : : » ” » . . . THE $185 million for ship construction, including submarines, is too little. Much more consideration should be to an anti-submarine program. That will require both ships and planes. Mr. Vinson points out that Russia's submarine fleet outnumbers by six to one the fleet of 50 U-boats with which Germany almost ran us off the seas at the start of World War II Russia has 40,000 tanks, outnumbering ours at least seven to one. Some of her tanks are far superior to any of ours, according to Mr, Vinson. Red tanks in action in Korea have shown what they can do.

this deficiency it should be moved onto production lines at once. :

thing is delaying full mobilization of the National Guard. Meanwhile, Russia has 175 divisions to our 10, and only one of those 10 is now at battle strength. The 600,000 man increase the President has requested fof the armed services might answer immediate demands, if we had that many men in uniform now. But at the rate we're moving months may pass before they are ready for action. Figures on paper won't defeat men with guns. » » . » LJ ” THE genius and productive power of American industry is, as Mr. Vinson says, our greatest asset, but that potential will not be realized unless it is put to work. It should be called to the colors now. The time lag of one, two or three years between ap_propriations and actual arms in hand and in the field must be tightened up. Instead of years or months we may have ‘only weeks: We were perilously unprepared for a relatively minor war in Korea. Far less are we prepared for a major war. :

A UN Police Force

UNITED NATIONS officials are considering the idea of ’ * forming a volunteer international! legion to fight in Korea. NEE Since months would be required to- recruit, train and equip such an organization, the objection has been raised “that the war in Korea might be over before the unit could ‘be put into the field. However, the United Nations needs a stand-by police organization in any case. It would have had one now, but for Soviet objections. While the Russian delegation is on strike it is a good time to remedy that deficiency. i .® = ® ss = = : HE international legion isn't ready sooner, it will eded after the Korean affair has been settled to mainthat country — an assignment the United uate 1 seems safe to assume that Korea A y place where such a police organization

even before the Korean situation is in A 3

MAYOR FEENEY was quite right yesterday in ordering

That is The Times’ own conclusion, with the reserva.

Of the $10.5 billion the President has requested, $3,-

If we have anything on the blueprints that will remedy :

OUR greatest weakness is in ground troops, yet some-

CREDIT BUYING . . . By Earl Richert

People Going Deeper Into Debt

WASHINGTON, July 27—The Korean War is giving the government a good reason to do something many officials thought necessary anyway: Slow down the break-neck rate at which people are going into debt. In May (the last full month before Korea) the public went $500 million further into debt on charge accounts and installment buying alone—bringing total consumer debt to an all-time peak of $19.1 billion: The May increase was 66% per cent greater than the average monthly expansion in consumer debt since the end of World War IL Federal Reserve Board officials say they were gravely worried about the way things were going in installment and home mortgage credit before Korea.

Store Sales Soar

PEOPLE were just getting too much into debt. - And since Korea, the debt expansion has been greatly accelerated. Department store sales in New York City were 29 per cent greater last week than in the corresponding week a year ago. In Philadelphia, the increase was 31 per cent. Countrywide, sales were up 24 per cent in the week ending July 15. ‘In the home mortgage field, the country has seen the greatest increase in mortgage debt in its history. In the first six months of this year, new mortgages on homes amounted to about $815 billion. Counting repayments, this produced a net expansion of mortgage debt by $3 billion to bring the total mortgage debt to about $40 billion. This $40 billion is twice as much as the total mortgage debt at the end of the war, ; The present situation, Federal Reserve Gov. R. M. Evans told the House Banking Committee, requires prompt action to halt debt expansion if the country is to avoid spiraling prices and serious problems of gray markets. The action proposed by the government in the consumer credit field is to reimpose the

What Others Say—

THE economy is not working properly when a man who wants to work can't find a job.— Leo Teplow, associate director of the Industrial Relations Division of the NAM. * > » I DO know that State Department officials in China and in the State Department at Washington did sabotage the American policy in China.—Patrick J. Hurley, former U. 8S, ambassador to China. * > 2 NEVER has a system resembling that which we have In view been attempted.—French Forelgn Minister Robert Schuman, on West European agreement to pool heavy industry.

WEAPONS . . . By John W. Love

Tool Bottlenecks

OUR KOREA undertaking starts with the weapons of the last war, for the most part, and so would a general war have to be if one opened suddenly. But immediately the new tools of war would have to be turned out in gnormous quantities, and with them the tools to make the tools, namely, the machine tools.

old regulation which required one-third down payment and a limited time in which to pay the balance on such items as automobiles and refrigerators. Charge accounts also could be controlled, as they were for a time in the last war. In the home mortgage field, something new is proposed—power to require specific down payments for every size of real estate loan and to state how long each loan can run. This would apply to home purchases made solely through private loans.

In Government Field

THE tightening of home credit so far haj been in the field of govérnment credit—such as requiring that veterans must pay 5 per cent down in cash on a house and pay all settlement charges. Previously, the government had made it .possible for many veterans to buy with no down payments. The new bill under consideration in Congress would give the President further power to tighten up on the government end of housing credit. : “If mortgage and consumer credit is appropriately limited now it will be in a better position to play a necessary and desirable role whenever adequate productive capacity is once more available to meet freely consumer demands,” Mr. Evans sald. Rep. Jesse Wolcott (R. Mich.) asked Mr. Evans if he considered what had been going on as the same type of credit inflation which preceded the 1929 crash. “Yes, I think we'd look at this the same way,” Mr. Evans replied. :

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

TAMPA —A lady asked for divorce because she said her husband insisted on using her as a target in his vaudeville knife-throwing act. Our litle story for today Should point a clean-cut moral: It's time to put the knives away When spouses start to quarrel,

By She may have been an ardent wife, Who loved her hubby's kisses.

But, brother, when he aimed that knife, Her thoughts were for his—missea!

SIDE GLANCES

HENRY A. WALLACE has announced his resignation from his own Progressive Party due to its sympathy with communism. Inet dentally the Progressive Party is now little other than a Communist front organization. Walter Ruether, who once wrote a letter to friends in Detroit praising the Communist system to the skies, now wants to spend a tril-

lion dollars to beat communism.’ Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who always sur-

rounded herself with pinks and pinklets while living in the White House is now taking a few pot shots at the Communists. : : is > % WE MIGHT go all along the line of the supposedly great liberal boys of the press and radio, who now seem to have had their eye teeth cut on communism, These folks are all today lambasting communism just as they were praising the pinks to the skies back in the days of Roosevelt, If any one would have made some of the remarks about Communists back in the Roosevelt days, that these great liberdls are now making,” he would have immediately been labeled as a reactionary. I suppose that means a person that doesn’t change with the times, * % ao oo WELL, these so-called reactionaries didn’t have to change. They had Joe Stalin's number all the time that Roosevelt and his New Deal-

to do it at all, : How to Win World By Mrs. Jankovich, City : 5 : This article I read én a Serbian paper, named Jedinstoo, published in Chicago by John R. Palandaek. It is very good and maybe you will think so too. A 7 : * & 9 “THERE was once a man who said, ‘T need only -three things to conquer the earth: Gold, gold and gold’ He failed, however, and died in misery and poverty on a lonely island. His nare was Napoleon Bonaparte, “There was once another man who said, ‘1 need only three things to conquer the earth: Iron, iron and iron. He, too, failed. His name was Bismarck. “There was still another man who said, ‘T need only three things to conquer the earth: Men, men and men.’ He failed as well, and died by his own hand. His name was Adolf Hitler, * :

“MANY centuries before them there was a man who said, in essence, ‘I need only three

things to conquer the earth: Love, love and

love! And conquer the world He did. His kingdom, which has no end, numbers billions of souls in another world,.and millions of souls in this world who are to join them. His name was Jesus. 7 : “Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ cone quered with a weapon more precious than gold, mightier than iron, and greater than man. He conquered with the love that passeth all under standing.”

As told hy Bishop Nicholal (Velimirovich) in St. Paul's Chapel of Columbia University, April 183, 1950. : i

LEOPOLD IS ISSUE -. . . By/Ludwell Denny

Belgian Uproar

WASHINGTON, July 27—Allied defenses are weakened by Belgian disorders caused by King Leopold's return from exile. Belgium, as the crossroads of Western Europe, is of top ‘strategic importance. For centuries it has been the favored invasion route

for aggressors, Its large industrial production is equally important to the rearmament of the Atlantic Pact nations. All of the Allies are tragically underarmed. Belgian output can make the difference.

Industry Threatened

THAT heavy Industry is now threatened by wholesale strikes and widespread sabotage in protest against Leopold's assumption of power. Within a 12-hour period there have been 48 acts of major violence, including dynamiting of the main trunk railway line, according to the government. She Martial law may be proclaimed. But that cannot restore the gravely needed industrial production. . Only formal or informal abdication of Leopold in favor of Crown Prince Baudouin can do that. : The anti-Leopold parties and groups have a program of “total non-co-operation and active resistance.” There is no reason to doubt either their sincerity or their ability to carry out this plan. They are led by patriots of world reputation and respect, such as former Premier Spaak. And they are supported by a majority of Belgians. That is the significant aspect of this

HIGHWAY BREAKUP . . .

Weakens West

struggle, and in the end presumably it will be the decisive factor, In the June 4 national election Leopold was the issue. The Social Christian (Catholic) Party, which campaigned for his return, won a bare majority of parliamentary seats —enough to repeal the 1945 law excluding him. But if polled less than 47 per cent of the popular vote. So Leopold is a minority monarch. That would be most unusual in any constitutional monarchy. It can be disastrous for Belgium. For Belgium has natural divisions rather than natural unity. It needs a constitutional monarch as a symbol of national loyalty to hold together citizens of different race, of different language, of different religion.

Leopold Splits Nation

THE worst indictment of Leopold is that, in stead of pulling Belgium together, he is forcing it apart. The election figures substantiate that charge. They gave him a popular majority in only one of the three areas of the country. In French-speaking Wallonia and in Brussels the people voted him down, and by bigger majorities than in the national advisory referendum three months eaglier. The old issues of Leopold's alleged proNazism and his unpopular second marriage may or may not be unjust to him. But his willingness to split the nation in this time of inter national peril does not endear him to democracles abroad. - There is some hope, however, that moderates in the Social Christian Party will work out a compromise with the Social Democratic and Liberal Parties to seat the Crown Prince.

Measuring Truck Road Damage

LA PLATA, Md. July 27-—The most deliberate beating ever given a highway is being pounded out by a fleet of heavily loaded trucks lumbering along day and night, back and forth over ‘a mile-long strip of road near here. So far the highway has survived better than the drivers. Two seasoned truck jockeys quit after one week of ‘their monotonous grind to nowhere,

' Provide the Answers

BUT when the test ends in mid-December,

some highway officials think the three-lane stretch of concrete road may be ready to give up, too. At least it will provide engineers with the answers to the big puzzle of the highways: Do big trucks break up our roads? If so, what load weight does the serious damage? And how fast does the break-up occur? Eleven states and the U. 8. Bureau of Public Roads are sharing the costs of the test, which grew out of a suggestion by the Maryland State Roads Commission. : Although only eight trucks are being used,

By Galbraith

control:

their operation has been scheduled to pound out the equivalent of 20 years of normal wear in six months, The trucks roll day and night, rain or shine, seven days a week. On an average of once every minute, every slab of concrete in the test strip gets a muilti-ton jolt. Drivers work eighthour shifts—and they have no pleasure traffia to worry about. The road is a section of U. 8, Route 301, bettveen La Plata and the Potomac, and it has been closed to the public,

Jolts Measured

TO measure what the repeated jolts do ta the road a corps of technicians has set up instruments that produce charts, graphs and pictures of the beating the road is taking. The trucks operate in pairs, each pair being loaded with a different weight, Lightest load is 18,000 pounds, the heaviest 44,800. Each pair has its own section of the test road, and thus engineers ¢an compare from day to day the rate of damage under the lighter and heavier loads.

FORCING CONTROL? . . . By Bruce Biossat

Hoarding Is Costly

WASHINGTON, July 27—From President Truman on down, we've had repeated warnings that foolish hoarding of food and other necessities can lead only one way—to rationing and price

As everyone recognizes, it isn't the occasional housewife alone who accounts for this rush to stock up in fear of ware induced scarcities,

The builders of this machinery are not pleased at what they

take to be complacency in Washington toward this most essential industry. Some of them think the needs of the present are as far in advance of the thinking there as they were in 1939--that the govern-

ment has too many “armchair

strategists” as far as comprehension of war's industrial problems goes. ! ya. THERE are a great many more tools in existence today than in 1940, but a recent survey showed over 379,000 machine tools were more than 20 years old and therefore dbsolete. The industry has made considerable advances ever since the war in adapting its product to the new cutting tools and abrasives and cooling compounds. According to several industry statements in recent monthd, this country’s manu-

» ~ ol FOR this and other reasons the machine-tool industry has about a fifth of its wartime peak employment, says one industry leader, A few concerns are working a four-day week. “We have all been furnished with national emergency production schedules or phantom orders,” the industry leaders said. “But if we were called upon today, it would be imposgible for our industry, starting from its present operating level, to produce these machines within the time demanded by the emergency.” - s -

ANOTHER manufacturer says the industry is in no condition to move as quickly as it was in 1939, Opinions on the time required to reach the old ‘peak of capacity range up to 18 months, A’ G. Bryant, Chimanufacturer, said last

cago : fall it would take six months.

“The obstacles are chiefly in

manpower and available plant. . There are nearly as many

ox __GOPR 1990 BY NEA SERVICE, WG. T. M. REC. U. & PAT. OFF. "I remember when he used to make that kind of fuss over me—— f ~ won't Daddy ever grow up, mom?" :

In times like these, there are always some merchants and speculators who give scarebuying an extra shove in their selfish desire to reap rich returns while the getting is good. = = ” ” . THE threat of control only spurs such individuals to greater effort to beat . the clamping down of the lid. And so the pace of the trend accelerates, Most people, of course, are = too sensible and patriotic to indulge in hoarding, especially when there's so ‘little excuse for it as now. And most businessmen won't stoop to encouraging such practices, ei-

ed firms have taken up the cry against them.

this comes from Macy's, the huge New York department store. Its appeal for sanity was set forth in full-page ads in the New York newspapers. Macy's message makes a perfect editorial on the subject. Some excerpts: “80 far ‘as we can see, there's no important shortage. of 13 ing. right now. Our

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with just about everything exe cépt a stampede of hoarding and panic-buying . . .

4 ” » ” “THE struggle in Korea may well last for a long time, But many experts believe it will remain limited in area and scope. “Yet suppose the worst happens, suppose we do, despite all we hope and pray for, become involved in another full. scale war? “All the more reason why every sensible American—and every decent American—should

look on hoarding with revul.

sion. It always plays squarely into the hands of our enemies,

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