Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1950 — Page 24

They complain that their “constitutional freedom of

speech” has been taken away from them. We can’t quite see how. :

They send out the letters, packed with th Communist “party-line” twaddle, and saying anything they

want to say.

‘Nobody stops them. The United States mail even carries the letters to anyone they want to receive them, at the same postage rates charged anyone else. Seems to

at ‘Rights’ Have They Lost? vo women fired from the state welfare department a " few days ago for spreading enemy propaganda here have been circulating by mail mimeographed protests this

us they are enjoying complete freedom of speech.

> yy =» 8 ” » = : WHAT they really mean, of course, is that their cushy state jobs have been taken way from them. They haven't any constitutional “right” to be on the

state payroll. Nobody has. :

If there ever was any doubt that Governor Schricker was entirely right in dismissing them it seems to us they themselves have dispelled that by their actions and atti-

tudes since.

Wonder how long they'd hold state jobs while they spread American propaganda in Communist Russia, whose

fake “peace petitions” they so eagerly circulate here?

Wonder how long they'd prattle about “constitutional

rights of free speech” there?

Wonder how long they'd even stay alive?

Russia's Next Move

USSIA’S reasons for resuming her place in the United Nations Security Council probably will not become apparent until after her chief delegate, Jacob A. Malik, takes the chair as presiding officer of the Council next

Tuesday. ro TY

*Alphabetical rotation of the Council presidency among its members gives Russia its regular one-month term in " August: Surely, however, this of itself was not enofigh to induce Moscow to end its 29-week boycott of the

organization.

The Russian delegate walked out of the Council on Jan. 13, after failing in an attempt to assign China's Council seat to the Chinese Communists. He declared he would not participate in the work of the organization as

long as Nationalist China remgined a member.

Only considerations of the utmost importance to Moscow would have caused the Kremlin to retreat volun-

" tarily from this position, as it has done,

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USE of armed force in defense of South Korea, authorized by the Council on June 27, in Russia's absence, could be rescinded now only by a majority vote, of which

there is not the remotest prospect.

But similar action against a new act of Red aggression could be blocked by a Soviet veto. So Russia's abrupt reversal of her position may forecast an adventure in some new direction. Formosa, Yugoslavia, Iran and Western Germany are among the possible targets, if new acts of

aggression are contemplated.

In any event, those who herald Russia's return to her seat in the Security Council as a good omen probably are indulging in wishful thinking. Nothing emanating. from Moscow since the attack on South Korea has indicated

any real Soviet desire for peace. » ~ ~ »

IF THE Kremlin is at all concerned about the reaction to the Korean invasion, Stalin may have another phony “peace” move up his sleeve, designed to break the united front which the attack has raised against the Communists. But any peace-at-any-cost governments which would swallow such bait in the face of the present record would be no loss to our cause. The disappointing response to appeals for material support in the Korean campaign has demonstrated that a good many of our Allies are not too

dependable in a crisis, anyway.

Whatever appeasers may see fit to do, our own course

is dictated by the logic of events.

» » # . » ” THE United States took the initiative in urging the ‘United Nations to adopt a resolute position against aggression. Now that the real culprit is returning to the Security Council, we should brand her as the aggressor that she is and demand her expulsion unless she calls off

her dogs of war,

Russia is the only real threat to world peace. If the United Nations organization is not prepared to face up to that fact then it will fail to fulfill its high destiny.

. Farming Future in Indigna

ANE goals for future farming in Indiana were emphax at the 13th annual State Farm Management Tour in Parke and Montgomery Counties this week. For many years Indiana has ranked near the top in

- quantity farm production. Now the trend in

Ing is toward higher quality crops.

future farm-

Through proper land use and better management, the

d for higher nutrition values.

of quality,

produce from the Indiana farm of the future will be de-

~ Experts on the Farm Management Tour are showing farmers the way to soil conservation and the con-

& program will provide more solid foundations agricultural economy and the stability of

he usual

WASHINGTON, July 29—The State Department’s latest reassurance to West Germans fearing attack from the East is a timely try

should have no doubts of our repeatedly expressed and continuing determination to defend the area of the federal (German) republic against a possible attack from the East,” the Department said. At the same time Winston Churchill in Lon-

don was warning the House of Commons that the Western European defenses, in relation to Russian strength facing them, were probably weaker than. those of Korea. The West Germans have better reason than - Churchill to know this fact because they are

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

War Signs Seen Early in Poll

Some Hoosiers Changed

Minds on Military Training WASHINGTON, July 29--Dear Boss--Some Hoosiers sensed war coming before the Korean crisis blew up in the face of official Washington. They had changed their mind about universal military training. They were for it early

this year, although opposed to it in 1949. This |

was shown by two polls taken by the office of Rep. Cecil Harden, Covington Republican. The Harden poll asked eight questions of her Sixth District constituents. One was about universal military training. Last year nearly everyone who received the questionnaire was opposed to UMT, This year the vote was 462 for it and 331 against. Poll figures were tabulated and reported by Paul R. Squires, Indianapolis, Mrs. Harden's secretary, early in May of this year. He admitted being somewhat puzzled by it at the time. Now he feels sure that this grass roots change of heart on UMT must have been connected with another question in the poll, That question concerned the conduct of U. 8, foreign policy.

Saw War Coming ONLY 151 approved and 541 were against it, “I think that the deteriorating in our foreign policy caused the switch on UMT,” Mr. Squires said. “They thought the matter through for themselves. For UMT agitation via press, radio and various organizations was far greater in 1949 than early this year. In fact it had slowed to a stop when this poll was taken. That was why we had difficulty In understanding it at the time. “It's quite clear now. And it sort of makes a sucker out of old Thomas DeQuincy saying in one of his essays that ‘the public is a bad guesser.! Those Sixth District voters seemed to have guessed this war was coming.” In reporting the poll results on May 5, 1950, Mr. Squires had offered somewhat the same comment. His press release at that time said: “The heavy vote against our present foreign policy--nearly 5 to 1 coupled with the surprising showing made by the universal military training question—4 to 3 for—indicates not only a lissatisfaction with the handling of our foreign affairs by the administration but it also indicates a growing fear of war in the minds of the public.”

Full-Time Job

NOW the American Legion is back in the business of making UMT a full-time job. Commander George N, Craig has called upon his organization to drop other objectives and concentrate on UMT. : This business is like “old home week” for the Legionnaires. Between the - two world wars they constantly! passed resolutions for UMT and again picked it up at the close of World War II. Should the Harden poll be a straw in the wind showin that the home folks are for it Commander Craig and his co horts might even be able to convert Congress. They turned it down when President Tru man requested it. ; Accompanied by Elmer W. “Little Doc” Sherwood, Indian- Mr. Craig apolis, Commander Craig, whose home town is Brazil, Ind., spent all week here doing a legwork job of buttonholing Senators and Congressmen to get action now on UMT. Most of them heard or read the speech Commander Craig made in Indianapolis announcing the new Legion policy of dropping demands for new veterans benefits and concentrating on UMT. Most of them told him that they liked it. Some said it was the greatest in . Legion history.

Bill Due Next Week

EACH night Commander Craig has entertained a few Senators and Congressmen at dinner at the Army and Navy Club to talk up the UMT idea. The bill the Legion wants will be introduced in the Senate next week, It will be a bipartisan move, with both Republicans and Democratic members of the Armed Services Committee joining in the introduction. Sen. Millard E, Tydings (D. Md.) is committee chairman. Democratic members are Sens, Russell, Byrd, Chapman, Johnson of Texas, Kefauver and Hunt. Republican members are Bridges, Gurney, Saltonstall, Morse and Knowland. Had the UMT plan been adopted immediately after the war, we now would have 5 million - youths with one year of military training. Maybe there wouldn't have been a Korea then.

The Home Front

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YOU MIGHT ROCK THE BOAT!

ELITE CORPS . . . By William Cooper First Defense Line in Europe

STUTTGART, Germany, July 29—America’s first line of defense in Europe is a tough, littleknown outfit called the United States Constabuiary. : The U. 8S. Army regards it as one of its crack armored divisions. The constabulary, complete with unglamorous name, was organized four years ago to police beaten and disorganized Germany. Its officers say it still has the same mission—*“Security for Americans and Germans alike.”

But in the last two years its eyes have turned away from Germany and across the Eastern border, where any Russian attack would come, The well-armed constabulary is one of the few elite corps in U.S. Army history and, outside of Korea, probably is on the hottest spot of any Army unit today.

First Shock of Attack

ITS jeeps, tanks and reconnaissance planes are charged with patrolling the twisting U.S. zone boundary that runs along Soviet Germany and Czechoslovakia. If war comes, the constabularly will have to bear the first shock of attack, and fight on for time until other U. 8. units either can come 10 help or cover withdrawal to defensive posions. The constabularly is well designed for its job, even though it grew up something like topsy with its organization changing every time the international situation changed. Its basic unit, now as ever, is squadrons of armored , cavalry for which the old Second Armored Division provided the nucleus,

TIS SAID

You can take no credit for beauty at 18 but if you are beautiful at 60 then you can be proud of it. Maris Stopes to the contrary, some of us are so furrowed at 60 that we don't even care,

B. O.—Indianapolis

WAR IN KOREA .

The North Korean armies

Added to this have been three battalions of infantry, the best medium tanks the United States can provide and enough engineer and service troops to make a compiete unit. Its strength is almost a division and a hdr. The constabulary even has a special uniform. Added to regular combat garb is a bright yellow scarf and a striped helmet liner, adorned with a bolt of lightning. :

The Germans, who respect the constabulary heartily, call it “lightning police.” But since 1948 almost all police duties have been given back to local authorities while the constabulary embarked on one of the toughest training programs any U.S. unit ever tackled.

Won Fame

THROUGH long, 14-hour days its tank crews have driven through combat ranges, firing at moving targets that pop up by surprise and simulate war conditions as much as possible. Since Korea, its reconnaissance pilots have spent as much as 12 hours a day in the air, combing the borders for any sign of trouble. Its engineers won fame a few months ago by throwing a practice bridge across the floodswollen Rhine River under conditions which other engineers called “impossible.”

Many American officers in Europe think the constabulary is the toughest man-for-man outfit we have, even though the unit's history is brief. Morale is so high that for one period last year the constabularly exceeded it's re-enlist-ment quota by more than 500 per cent,

‘Hardest Hitting Force’

IT was organized by a fighting general, Maj. Gen. Ernest N. Harmon, and is commanded today by Maj. Gen. I. D. White, war-time leader of the famous Second Armored Division. For a tough unit with. a tough job, Gen. White has a simple formula. He asks only that the constabularly be the “hardest hitting, most highly mobile armored force in the U.S. Army.”

. . By Marquis Childs

IT SHOULD be said, first of SOVernment.

all, that the South Korean army, in spite of almost over-

and perhaps major defections to the enemy. After centuries of feudalism, and more than 40 years of oppressive Japanese rule, the Koreans were very new to the T ss 8 » . concept of democratic self-

/ » » ” . THE WONDER is not that the government of crabbed old Syngham Rhee had faults and n weaknesses. The wonder is that South Korea could hold a free election on May 30th of

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‘Organized Crime Groups’

By A Disgusted Citizen = May 1 add to your editorial, “How to Ruin a Police Force,” the postscript that it shows also how to ruin a city, a gtate and a nation. The extert to which organ crime has taken command of our leading cities, is infiltrating legitimate business and even country districts,

was just coming to public notice when the sud-

den excitement of war “took the heat off.” Any further action to preserve, a decent way of life and protect communities from the dictatorship of organized vice, gambling, bribery and “big-shot” control is being ridiculed and attacked as unnecessary interference with individual freedom or distracting attention from the war effort. One of the most disgraceful crimes of the last war, the murder of a WAC in a hotel, was never solved by Indianapolis police. * >

AFTER seeing two farm youths who had come in to get war work dragged from their room at night and mauled by eight burly police men in the lobby and refused the right to telephone relatives, the rest of us were afraid of the police and of being framed. Now, apparently these things are done openly on the streets, too.’ Your paper recently published pictures and reports of a big party given for all city and county law enforcemeht officials at the same time a gambling syndicate took over in Indianapolis. All citizens, especially those who enjoy gambling, should read “Lords of the Levee,” a current book which tells what happened in Chicago when organized crime controlled whole sections there, and still does. The Times is not likely to get action in protesting police brutality and so are the general run of citizens for the underworld protects its own, as long as they follow orders.

‘Prices Rise Before Wages’

By A Noblesville Reader ‘ What came first, the chicken. or the egg? No one knows. But high prices have always been blamed on the worker asking for higher wages. I heard on the radio recently a commentator asking workers not to ask for a raise in wages. It would cause high prices. But what about prices now? What percentage have they gone up? Pitiful. But wages? No. Just let a worker ask for a raise. No, it would cause high prices. Which came first—wage increases or high prices? Just go to a grocery store.

‘Back Door Dealing?’

By Charles W. Williams, Terre Haute It was gratifying to see our government work through the United Nations on this Korean affair, But, why, in each unfortunate country, are we always associated with a corrupt, undemocratic government that does not have the support of the people . . . where, when it comes to war with the Communists (as it always does), the soldiers do not fight much and the people are not sympathetic and we pay the entire bill? oon

WE honestly have more to offer these people than communism as it is practiced—that our

. present form of government is at least more

benevolent than communism. If my belief is accurate, why must we deal only with backdoor Sictatorig Is there sorfething shameful in all our involvements that necessitates back-door dealing? If this diplomacy harmed only. the diplomats, generals and officials involved, I would have no objection at all, but it's costing me money and it could get me into another war, and I have an objecion. I'd suggest the big phrase-makers tell us why we can’t trust democratic governments in “protected” countries.

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What Others Say—

THE increasing stealth and deceit employed by subversives. make the work of the FBI increasingly difficult. — FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. o> o> oe I EARNESTLY urge you to study this trend toward the centralization of government in this country.—Gov. Allan Shivers, D., Texas. <>

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STRIVING for peacé and preparing for war are incompatible with each other.—Professor Albert Einstein. > & 4

I'M MORE relaxed than I've ever been in

more years than I care to remember. New

York Gov, Thomas Dewey, after announcing he

would not run for re-election.

Gangster Operation Behind Red Propaganda

WASHINGTON, July 29.—A number of letters indicate confusion on the question of North Korean aggressiveness vs. South Korean resistance or the lack of it. Americans are dismayed because “their side” had done so well and “our side” so poorly. A stereotype is ready at hand to explain it. This piece of rubber-stamp thinking goes more or less as follows:

force was built up with all the techniques oft indoctrination, intimidation, bribe and reward, threat and reprisal. Then, this force was equipped with the modern weapons of aggression.

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