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evening . . . and not without provocation, either . and sapped a wisecracking motorist who offended him. He was suspended from the Muncie force . «immedi ately. hi An interesting case, that.

safety, nor anybody at all responsible for police administration in Muncie tried to “brush off” the incident as a play-

body assigned the guilty policeman to “investigate” the charge against himself. Nobody turned in a “report” to the mayor of Muncie exonerating him . . . carefully

even suggested that the motorist wasn't a very nice mo-

A TICE i se vt i tempeh ti

Apparently neither the mayor of Muncie, nor the chief of police, nor the board of

leaving out all the known evidence against him. Nobody

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‘torist and probably needed slapping. Not at all. Responsible police and city officials of Muncie just acted promptly and surely and properly, as

such cases. Well , ., ailment anywhere.

LJ n » APPARENTLY, in Muncie, responsible administra. tion officials don't intend that their police force shall be turned into a gang of juvenile “tough guys” who hide behind their badges while they slug and beat up anyone with whom they become annoyed. coo... They look from here, too, like men who hold a decent regard for law and order afd a good deal of respect for the honest, hardworking, conscientious men who form the big majority of the Muncie police force, or any other police force. They've made that very clear, In Muncie.

Russia Wants Trouble

has resumed its seat in the, United Nations Security Council for the sole purpose of destroying that organization's usefulness as an agency for world peace. Moreover, the speech by Soviet Delegate Jacob Malik seemed to close the door to any understanding between _ Russia and the free world except on Russia's terms. alik, on & one-month term as president of the council, not only denounced United Nations intervention against Red invasion of South Korea as an act of “American aggression,” but also clearly indicated that Korean conquest is only one of Russia's 8 shiestives in the

BY CHARACTERIZING Americin ia the Philippine republic as an unfriendly move against the Filipino people, Mr. Malik left little doubt that the Soviets themselves have designs on those islands. It is a custom of the Russians to accuse other nations of planning things which - the Kremlin means to do. It would be disastrous to underestimate the implications of the Russian attitude so coldly stated by Stalin's official spokesman. Russia has returned to the United Nations determined to wreck it. : It seems clear, too, that Russia is back in the organization to stick to the bitter end. Had Mr. Malik intended to take another walk, he would have done so when the council voted 8 to 3 against his ruling which proposed to unseat the delegate of Nationalist China.

” # ® » . . WITH Russia remaining in the organization, any future attempt to secure approval of United Nations intervention against Red” EES aiidy =n “will” be countered” bya

only by Russia's expulsion. Meanwhile, the United States should proceed with full mobilization of all of its resources without delay. Possibly the Kremlin is putting up a colossal bluff. But we dare not assume that. And, if the Russian ae. not. A fing, they are preparing for all-ou meres .

Verdict Upheld

"THREE Federal Appeals court judges in New York have affirmed the jury verdict that 11 Communist Party ‘leaders are guilty of conspiring to teach and advocate violent overthrow of the U. 8. government. They hold unanimously that the Smith Act is constitutional. This is the law under which the Communists were . . convicted and sentenced to prison terms last October after “atrial that dragged through almost a year. The main opinion, written by Judge Learned Hand, one of the ablest, most respected legal authorities on the federal bench, upholds and praises the wise and patient trial judge, Harold R. Medina,

Le IN THE Smith Act, the opinion oy, "Congress made valid use of its power to preserve our government. Suffi- ~ cient evidence was presented to justify the verdict of guilt. _ And to the Communists’ contention that their rights have. been denied, J udge Hand d replies: “We know of no country where they would have Yeon. allowed any approach to the license here accorded them: and none, except Great Britain, where they would have had 80 fair a hearing. Their only plausible, cmplaint is that “freedom of Speech, which they would have been the first to : destroy, ha# been denied them. . . . That freedom is not “always easy to protect and there is no sharp line which “marks its scope. We have tried to show that what these men taught 2nd advoested | is. outside the zone.” » » . » ” THE convicted Communists—except Party Secretary - Eugene Dennis, who is in jail for contempt of Congress— . will remain at liberty on bond while they carry a final appeal to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, they will continue to pose as martyred vietimes of American injustice, oblivious to the fact that in heir beloved Russia 11 men convicted or even. suspected conspiring to overthrow the government would have beme L cor piucs Hany, months Bg vo

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__capable police. and city officials act. anywhere in dealing with

“demonstrating that it~ years for the United States

; next few days, the United Netons tai can be. saved o

Total Preparedness Coming?

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—The Korean War

has let the United States in for perhaps 10

years of total preparedness effort. The fact

is gradually emerging from the confusion of present defense planning. Proposals sent to Congress by President Truman thus far are just -the beginning. It will take two to three

to get ready. It will take the Soviet Union about the sameiy time to get ready for a total war in which Russian troops would be used. This is the theory that many military ex- _ perts have held for some time. They're still sticking to it— Get ready for war by 1952, Russia has the manpower #5 = and the miiltary potential now. a It may not have the industrial Mr: Edson potential, in at least a dozen critical materials such as steel, petroleum, an atomic bomb stock-. pile and so forth. The Korean incident is still not regarded in

washington as ‘it”-—meaning the start of a

third world war «(After or the Korean incident is cleaned up—per- : before-othér similar outbreaks are expected. Nobody knows . Iran was considered a likely trouble spot, but is not considered so now. The reasoning is that the Russians would have to use thelr own troops in Iran—not satellites.

Bleeding U. S. White

- PURPOSE of all Communist uprisings and ns is regarded as an effort to bleed America white. The theory is that the Ameri ean people won't stand for 10 years of police action all over the world, involving total mobiHzation, high taxes, big military budgets, short ages of consumer ‘goods, allocations and other economic controls. There is some belief that Russia will not strike at the U. 8. direct until after this bleeding process has been well advanced-—until American ‘people are softened up and ready to

* revolt against defense burdens.

On the other hand, some Congressmen are . Impatient to have this country strike before Russia is fully prepared. Congressional appro__priations committees pprove far

the Presid t

sly ee military planners, Lg get at "em and clean out the commies” is considered necessary until the United States is itself ready. Also, it is traditional U. 8. pol_ley not to attack unless it is itself attacked. Total -cost -of the U. 8. preparedness effort over the 10-year period cannot be estimated. The. present fiscal year's $13 billion re,

“Hay APPrOPHa tion PRIN the STO Bien sip.

plementary request is a minimum starter.

Growing Costs THIS ‘$23 billion may gLrow “to. something

like $35 billion before the year ends next June

30, if everything is added in. It would inchide $1 billion now appropriated for foreign military assistance, plus another $4 billion or so for the same purpose, to be asked for the next several years,

SIDE GLANCES

owithout: putting on well-eut SIAEKE “of they'll”

Bl : “more than $10 bBillon adiitonal military spend- say “Menjou 1» slipping. »-_ Adolph Menjou, ig el RIESE Pe

ie" sentime Curbing this strong impulse

By Galbraith

x COPR. 1960 BY NEA SERVICE, OKC T. 3. REO. 8. 8, MAT. OFF, . - “ls there a spac prayer for people. trying to reduce?"

It would also include the $3 billion Marshall Plan fund, $1,250,000,000 for atomic energy, additional naval aviation and military construction funds to be asked for later on. Voice of America and Point Four funds to carry on the cold war should also be included in military

- appropriations,

A $30 billion to $35 billion for the next two or three years at least is therefore in prospect. If present U. 8. policy against building up armies in Japan and Western Germany —- or building up Franco Spain — is changed, the totals will rise. Whether the United States can or will stand this strain is the multi-billion-dollar question. The idea that the country can and will accept it is based largely on a belief that a $35 billion

-- defense effort will absorb" only & sixth of the

national income.

Match Russia

SOME extremists think the U. 8. should devote a fourth of its national income—or up $55 billion a year—for national defense, in _order to match Russia's effort,

“This, then, is one informed estimate of the

outlook for the next three-to-ten-year period. For an ultimate solution of the Communist menace, no one in authority seems to have any clear ideas. The only hope now is that by adequate American preparedness, Soviet Russia

can be prevented from starting a third world

war, tained.

What Others Say— THE ECONOMY of the United States is stronger than ever, What (Sen. Robert A.) Taft and others call a welfare state is in reality an insurance policy which has avoided

and will avoid major depressions.—Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin.

And thus an easy peace can be main-

THE oil industry has already made a considerable contribution to Point Four (Truman program to aid underdeveloped areas) by making extensive investments abroad.—B. Brewster, Jennings, president of Socony-Vacuum Oil Company,

I CAN'T even walk down to the drug store

The German. peop “minds - that they are a part of the free world and that they have turned their backs on dictatorship.—U. 8. High Commissioner in Ger-

—many-John Jay McCloy;

BOTH Stalin and Lenin have said that they

can wreck America only by forci th of { u Noses a 5 rin, Re “TTabIe Yo military person

Her way to'collapse. “Rep. Joseph. Mass.

IN the international ‘realm, vies we cannot stand alope, we have stout and loyal allies; never write off even the least among them.— Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.

THE Germans will fight, not for ideologies, but for whichever side offers them the most.— Arthur L. Mayer, former Cerman military gove ernment executive,

spiralling prices has apparently stirred widespread indignation, o - . THE NEXT stage will be new wage demands. No matter what their own convictions, union leaders will have to go along with those demands if the cost of living has increased substantially.

ocratic'Senators ordinarily with the administration are bent on the added controls advocated by Bernard M. Baruch. ——8¢n, Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Sen. Lister Hill of Alabama are both for the Baruch proposals. phrey has. received thousands of letters protesting the price increases that press down p + hardest on teachers, civil serv- = ants and people living on pennN . ‘sions and small fixed incomes. . ss w' SEN. HUMPHREY says that In the mass of mail and. telephone calls, there has not been one protest Sguin Fo

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PRICES SPIRALLING | a Necessity Boligvad Key to Boom for Controls

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—Not a virtue alone but political necessity seems likely to persuade Congress to rationing controls to. the limited powers over the civilian economy requested by President Truman. Congress is being flooded .with“angry letters on the subject of soaring prices. Almost more than the’ military setbacks, the fact of

~-AM-this explains Why “Defi -fective--.price--and rationing --

Sen. Hum- .»

"Capitol Hill would be all for

“date, when the Korean attack

By Mrs. dames B. Malons, S44 N. Meridian St. Carl Henn is to be highly commended for concise, and instructive article in The Times (Target

). More articles like this will help to dispel the Spathetic attitude of our eltisens, “It can't hapPom hate,

“Sorel Sacrifices Equally’ By F. M,, Indianapolis

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ABDICATION ISSUE . . . By Ludwell Denny Belgium Still Fading Crisis

el giul Aug. 3—Belgium is not out "The © double-talk abdication

for parliamentary action leave room for re-

newal of the civil war threat so narrowly averted this week.

Nevertheless, now “that leaders of the threes

major parties by their agreement on abdication

have restored order temporarily, there is fair

hope of a permanent peaceful settlement. Phat oe not rest on Leopold. In the past two days he has demonstrated again, as he did last spring, his ability to wiggle out of an agreement. He gives his word and then breaks it—or rather reinterprets it to leave

meaning document, unless he hoped to evade final a before Baudouin’s 21st birth. day next year. .. . ;

Fortunately, however, Leopold's capacity tor

further troublemaking is limited. He always will have a small But his ability to bring the nation to civil war depends on holding the Catholic Party. It is unlikely that the Catholic Party—

Leopold statement as a definite pledge—will support the king in any fufure doublecross. All along the Catholic Party has been di-

Saving Face THIS time, as before; the issue was abdication. But in order to. get the Social Christian (Catholic) Party, which supports him, it was necessary to save Leopold’s face. This was to be done by making the king's abdication in favor of his son, Crown

Prince Baudouln, immediate in fact but gradual. -

In name. Leopold, after agreeing to this compromise, tried to sabotage it in two ways. He tried to make the transfer of power to Baudouin temporary, and in a manner by which he could rule indirectly through the crown prince. Secondly, he tried to leave the date of final abdication indefinite, RR “Evén now the words of Leo} nouncement lack precision and are qualified

. by very loose “ifs.” There would have been no °

purpose in his 8 Fejection of the clear and bindpledge, and substitution of this double-

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vided between moderates, though loyal to Leopold and desiring his return to the throne, were unwilling to pay the price of civil war and secession of Wallonia. But, under pressure of the extremists, they reluctantly With the pian to Tepeal the exile law-and him back.

Bare Majority

THIS was possible because, in election on this issue, the Catholie is Party won a bare parliamentary majority with minority of the. popular vote. majority in ohly one of the. :

chance to lead in the urgent task of national reconciliation and unity. The probl —Soclalist and Liberal leaders ro to followers to co-operate, -

. By Fred W. Perkins

Gl Insurance Change Proposed

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—A less wasteful system of insuring the lives of members of the Armed Forces has been proposed by the House Expenditures Committee,

The committee found much to condemn in

the administration and operation of the National Service Life Insurance Act. This law, hurriedly enacted in 1940 without committee hearings and. with no advice from insurance experts, has cost the government about $8 billion, ky This cost, which is in addi- | the prémitins paid b;

spent if the government had § ‘Paid a" fiat $10,000 to the dependents of the 374,339 who died In service from all causes between Pearl Harbor day and the end of the war. The committee recommends the flat-payment for all men now in the Armed Forces, to take

Shifts Needed

AT LEAST, the committee says, there should

-. be a change in the present practice of insuring

the life of each aviation cadet with the govern-ment-paying the premiums and with the dividends, if any, going to the cadet.

It would be tens of millions of dollars less

costly, the report declares, “for the government to assure each aviation cadet that his depend-

By: ‘Marquis Childs -

to add price and

forced In: the

possible imposition “of price and wage controls. Even businessmen are urging that action be taken as quickly as possible. Many of the letter writers refer to the difficulties they underwent in the first months of World War II before ef-

controls were imposed. Some: come from persons trying tq complete homes in the face of price boosts in material and 2 equipment. . :

THE “LIKELIHOOD is for standby powers which would give the President the power to impose price and wage controls when he felt they were necessary. The pressure from

‘easy, -

immediate use of the powers to roll back prices ta the level of June 25 or earlier. On that

began, there had already been = way in xviolting the tragic of high prices > and will there. some infla upward push inadequacy of American forces fore vote for the “outs.” So Sit ot nwa var in Korea. They belleve the betwesp these two pressures psychology. party in power will ~ Congress may take the plunge. 4

- gations;

Some in the administration are troubled by a major doubt over use of price and rationing powers—can they be en-

which is somewhere between cold and hot war?” Thousands of willing volun- . teers are ‘essential to make a rationing system work.

o - - SENATORS concede the difficulties in enforcement. But they quickly add that a really stiff tax .program would sop up most of the superfluous purchasing --power—and make enfor c¢ emen t comparatively

The reaction of the public, or at any rate a large and articulate section of favor of rationing and price control, is one more fHustration of how the Korean war has upset the political applecart. Political guessing about the November elections. were altered fompletely on June 25.

MOST politicians who are candid confess today that they are still fn the-dark. The Republicans intend to go all the.

ents in the event of his death train. ing would receive a ie aah, deg bo wut

But if the present plan of government Ine surance is to be continued, the committees says, some reforms should be made. These would change the calculation of gov. ernment liabilities to the insurance fund; re. duce the rate of interest on invested insurance funds to the usual figure for government oblie get rid of a 100-year-old ‘mortality table which increases premiums of the insured and also -costs to the. government; eliminate inequities in coverage among servicemen and in. payments. to. beneficiaries; . make. more -effi~..

“cient the jrosent.. system of administration, - ¥ hi 1a .

costs of

a AU ority Crificizec Cop THE.-report-is-the-result -of-seversi- weeks

“ot hearings and nine months of study by a sub

committee headed by Rep. Porter Hardy Jr. (D..Va.).

The: committee algo criticized the authority

~“wielded over the insurance system by Veterans

Administrator Carl R. Gray Jr. Lhe: position. of the Veterans:

m- CVA); the report dectarsd; “is predicated on the

premise that dictatorship is the most efficient type of administration.” This charge is supported by details of dis. agreements of present and. -past VA adminis trators with the General Accounting og and the Budget Bureau, in all of which the VA prevailed. The report also cites instances in which “the VA disregarded or procrastinated in carrying out recommendations of congressional committees.” »

take the rab for defeat and retreat.

If Congress gives the President power to control prices and wages and, if thereby.the “economy is stabilized, it may do much to ease the at home. At the very least it would encourage the belief that all were being treated alike,

present phase

— ” » IN URGING the steps he considers essential, Mr. Baruch was certainly not thinking of the. political--future of the Democratic Party. President Truman broke with him in the campaign of 1948 when Baruch declined to ‘become chairman it, In

the. White House since then, although he was a frequent _ visitor prior to that date.

"failure to put in adequate cone - trols at once will open the way to an inflationary spiral. Ofs .

fice holders seeking re-election are fearful that

body of extreme followers,

Mr, Baruch is convinced that

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