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tack of Planning for | “Expanding Commuhities of : The serie
schools. I ‘many shurban communities the lassrooms
suburban communities of Marion County is a ness in public planning here for the future. of articles by Bob Bourne in The Times
ever ino cafeteria, roc o half-time class periods. | Le jast £4 yout is | velopment in Indianapolis’ su Et Dar rise TO 16,000 for te Tal term beginning next month.
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the tami boss as npr NT oor howe ats ; sudden surprise, The trend toward expanding suburban 4 communities was apparent 10 years ago and even before : that in some degree. 3 County school officials merely eavlnin the predicai ment by saying the increase was “much more than we } expected.” { There were plenty of warning signs then and more of i them now as to the kind of planning that will be necessary 8 here in the future if the needs of the people are to be met | © at costs they can afford to pay. & e » 0» . = 0»
| CONSOLIDATIONS of government operations on a
ered for long-range planning to keep public facilities abreast “of population growth without exorbitant taxes. The township system of school administration (nine separate operations in the county outside of Indianapolis) is the first to be hit by lack of metropolitan planning. Breakdowns in other public services will be commonplace unless there is more efficient operation and planning ahead for this metropolitan district that is still growing and
come,
France Wants a Free Ride
RANCE'S offer to increase her army from five to 15 J 1s as a contr to the North Atlantic defense
an “iffy” proposition it sounds as if it
‘were drafted f F ed Pout Too Ulta Htaee,
| guarantee them against attack they will give limited * support to the military assistance plan. As an initial condition, France expects the United . States to supply a substantial part of the raw materials, armament and money she would require for rearming. That might be entertained as a basis for discussion if there were no other strings attached.
~8 . » . . » HOWEVER, the French insist that their own rearming - would be quite useless if the United States and Britain did _ not increase their forces in continental Europe to the point . where the maintenance of peace would be assured. . That is an impossible condition which neither government could consideg. For it would mean garrisoning Europe, . with igo Anierican snd British srities Sor 2 an indefinite
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L Even then, Traves Isn't ig very oy and "I nothing very soon. Troops are needed now, and the French program would be spread over a period of three years. — France has 659,000 men under arms, including her federal police or gendarmerie, which obviously are included
in her presentation to “this total, 150,000 of her effective troops are tied down in Indo-China. France has about two divisions of ground troops in Europe, which with the 15 new divisions proposed, would represent a maximum potential force of “not to exceed 255000 men.
THAT is a trifling contribution to the defense of Western Europe compared with France's mobilization of . 8,410,000 men for World War I, and 5,000,000 for World War II. The French like to refer to these major contribu‘tions to past struggles when contending that someone else should assume the burden now. But that is a futile expectation. Each generation must meet its own challenges. A | government which will not. defend itself cannot expect other governments always to come to its rescue, The United States by being too free with its money,
with Europeans for the troops those countries need for their own defense. The farce has been carried to the point where many Europeans assume that their fate is , of more concern to us than it is to them. They've got to ~ get over that notion if they hope to survive and maintain their freedoms. This country probably will have to become as tough _ as it has been generous before our friends are convinced that Santa Claus can go out of business. Our Korean experience has shown us the error of our course, and our Allies must understand that in the future we will expect more from them than their good will.
Crystal-Ball Stuff
Oak Ridge, scientists have now found out how to tell whether an unhatched chicken has a cold. Idea is to further the research into cause and cure of the common cold. ~ But in the meantime it's good to know that we can use
* say, to count our chickens before ghey're hatched.
county-wide, metropolitan district basis should be consid-
us only a8 window dressing. Out of
USING a Geiger counter and radioactive phosphorous from
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LURE of school facilities to keep pace with the rapidly
d up the seriousness of overcrowded county
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" necessary for the United States
will continue to grow bigger every year for some time to.
e political consumption, rather thay...
In brief, the French have informed us that if we will
Pledge to Equip 15 New Divisions Is Short of Mark
“WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—Franee’s pledge to rafse and equip 15 new divisions, provided the United States helps to pay the bill, is far short of the mark. : The three-year period she wants for this pur-
now generally recognized As grossly inadequate, The Korean War has forced an upward revision because of the demonstrated high gqualiy ot Rusis's satellite di-
tie line. oe Eo Es = aes Three Plans
. THERE are not many ways this need can be met. One is by France putting in more than
3 now willing to do. Another is by larger utions from her continental allies, espevis um and the Netherlands. The third
way is to arm the West Germans. : The last aiternative. is for Britain and: th United States to station more ground troops on the continent. A France recognizes the inadegoncy of her proposed 15 divisions. But instead of suggest ng one of the other alternatives, she says: “It is and Great Britain, in particular, to be able to pi Fiery in this defense with a suffidlent number of divisions stationed in continental Europe.” This, of course, is ‘impossible. More AngloAmerican troops may go to the continént in “peace time.” But the increase at best would be small, and nowhere near “sufficient” to fill the. great gap. = .
Disturbing Factors
FRANCE'S excuse for the relatively small number of divisions she will raise is that she must defend Indo-China, which now takes a large proportion of her combat troops. But the far larger global obligations of both Britain and the United States prevent the ad-
vance concentration of Anglo-American forces in To a hog; “or, if that sounds offensive, a .
Western Europes which she suggests. Behind the unsatisfactory French plan are several very disturbing factors. She seems to be breaking away from the earlier Atlantic Pact agreement under which France would concentrate chiefly on ground forces for the initial period, while depending on Britain and America
for pea and air support,
‘She tends to think more In terms of what others can do than what she should do for selfdefense, And too many Frenchmen are still vie-
of the defeatist 1 of the A ra Ce dvientins sevcholagy of the past way, 2
AGAINST THE STORM
The dove of peace clings to he nest, Her mission seems in vain . Unheeded is her low sweet call’ Tho bring to life again e harmony that comes through love, The brotherhood of man Which give all nations of the world Accordance with God's plan. - Sustained by hope she tries again - Her tattered wings to raise Against the storm of hate and greed, While a weary nation. prays.
~Florence Hinchman, North Vernén, Ind.
..CLAMOR ON WAR... By Marquis Childs : Political Reaction?
“the Yace by time and-space- has ie i
Reserves of men and arms have reached South Wore. to “prevent American “troops fighting under the United Nations flag
from being pushed off the peninsula.
pose is too long. And Su iota) manpomer 3s toy po
quickly to make room for the new crop. Why not do a little thinking for ourselves and see
__ whether this new crisis is isn't Just: some more
Missouri hog-wash? ‘The American cannérs have been trying to move wut last Yours puck to Wake Youu far the 1950 pack. - Te 0 0 ‘ IF THERE is. danger of an atomic Domb “attack, is it sensible to store all of our food
it common sense to disperse the targets and, in the case of the food reserve, wouldn't it be better to have it scattered throughout thousands of homes than to have it concentrated in a few
CLEAN OUT THE STORE... :
Household Hints for Hoarders
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The following, here reprinted from the Congressional Record, was written by David L. Cohn of Washington, D. C.) . ~ ”
Get in there and shove, mama. Push the others out of the way, sis. Strip the shelves to the bare boards Where lie the tiny droppings of Winignt 1 mice, r anything and everything. ~ Clean out the store. Then run to the wrapping counter Pursued by the barehanded As barnyard hens pursue the lucky one that has a choice bit in its mouth. This still being a free country Every citizen has certain inalienable rights. Among them the right-—especially dear when The nation’s life is at stake—
Buy tea, TY hen, spices, canned goods—anything ~ Btore it, hide it, bury it. You'll agree with me that there's no sweeter fat than sticks to your own bones. Ignore the President. Give him the razzmataszz. You're no godless Communist trying to destroy -this country; a blind but destructive termite, On the contrary, you're a church-going, taxpaying, God-fearing patriot, with a passion-
__ eternal, inexhaustibly precious self. So think now; as men die for you. Of your gut. Of your dear, precious, well-beloved gut, Of the whole 228 feet of it coiled in your abdomen... In time of peril men instinctively think of what is most precious to them. Soldiers die for an inch of ground. But don’t revere them for it. That's easy. For, as simple arithmetic reveals, You must stand guard over 2736 inches of gut, -Well-larded, cofled, greedy, peristaltic. gut. The ancients believed that ent soul resided In the bladder, But we know better, don't we?
.. It lies in the gut
In the well-larded, colled, greedy, peristalic gut,
“SIDE GLANCES
ate Interest in yourself; your Hubble,
The reason for the caution is plain enough. Too-often-re-peated reverses have made the communiques out of the war in- -
- undercutting the defense plan-
the fat and leave the muscle. He is accused of deliberately
ning of his predecessor, the
Be sure to store plenty of sugar, If your neighbor can’t get any, that's his fault, For, as the Good Book says, Where there's no vision the people perish. (And soap. You remember the song “Soap and water will surely wash you clean.”) Sugar’s good in time of war. Its sweetness cuts the gall-bitter taste of defeat which, to the palate, is as the stinkingness to the nose of the pus-running of soldiers. Beforehanded with sugar, you can have your cake and eat it too, One la In tender token of your patriotism, And example to your children. Grab all the nylons you can. Grab 'em, lady, before they become Parachutes. Lucifer, you know, thrown from heaven's ‘battle“ments; m Fell from dawn until dewy eve. Well, by God, there’s nothing that he did that a GI—your own son, perhaps, can't do, In short—this is my final advice— Buy everything that isn’t nailed down. Go the whole hog, as we say. ’ And if the worst comes to the worst, And if the bomb gets you, You will die with viene overflowing, i recording that you were caught napBut ng, But not—praise the Lord—caught short.
What Others Say—
JUST as we have backed the United Nations
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"by the force of arms, so must we aiso back it
by the force of public opinion. Action of our military must be accompanied by actions of our information services. — Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
THE only foreigner in what apparently is
nothing more than a civil war is (the United:
States). We must stop competing in an armament race and start competing in service to the people.—Rev. Jack R. McMichael, executive secretary of the Methodist Federation for Social etion,
r blood-red. in memory of the war dead:
“28th National Guard I
“warehouses? Of course, we realize that it doesn't .
require “the services of a dozen government
clerks to get a can of peas ‘off of the pantry ° shelf. . 0
to buy fobd and to build warehouses in which to store it. He offers meat at 5 cents a pound and butter at 15 cents a pound to foreigners. And what do our Representatives and Senators propose to do for “free” people of the United States? You are to be branded as a felon, thrown into prison for a year and forced
: to pay a fine of $10.000, if you stock your larder
and deny to Mr. Brannan the pleasure of spending your money to withhold food from the mouths of your children, How we long for an opposition party with enough fortitude to challenge the right of political hacks, who would take from the American Jen). Be the right to live for their country, as well as enforcing an obligation to die for it.
‘Why So’ Mary Army Employees?’
By L.A. B, City
et
“MR. BRANNAN asks for billions of dollars
There has been much speculation as to why, after spending $80 to $100 billions and with a
~ “civilian personnel of approximately one million
employees, our Defense Department is not how able to muster over 10 or 12 infantry divisions throughout the world. Partial explanation is found in the announcement that 3000 civilian employees are desired to put Camp Atter! division, recently ‘alerted for service. National Guard Divisions, as are Regular Army Divisions, are supposed to be fully and adequately equipped for the field. Why, then, does it require 3000 civilian sEployses to Po. pare a camp for such divisions?
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TO MAKE my point clear, let us go back te 1016. The National Guard in June, 1016, was
~~ called for active duty on the ‘Mexican Border,
They were not alerted 30 days before the call,
~ There was not the slightest intimation that
such a call was being made. They reported the next day. They were immediately distributed along the border from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. There were no “prepared camps, They were detrained in a wild expanse of nothing but mesquite and cactus. The troops cleared the land for camp, erected their tented camps, dug ditches, made roads, ete. Why not now? Present mechanics, as the mechanics in 1916, can erect their own mess. shacks, floor their tents and prepare their mint mum requirements. ‘Joe Stalin is calling the shots as to where these troops serve. There will be no prepared camps. Such procedure would not only save money but would provide excellent and needed training.
“By Galbraith "RED PROBE . + + By Frederick Woltman
goes home.
McCarth Fi
v “Tydings report up Joe McCarthy. te anything, they served as a shot in the arm. : The Senator intends to remain in Washington if Congress - From here, he'll continue what began as a one
hts On
' in shape to receive the. |
_ sound like “terided to lull the-American public. ’ - = & La os THE long chain of reverses has produced an explosive re-
.. action in this country. Not all
has got itself into the ridiculous position of bargaining. .
that Gelger apparatus, contrary to what the maxim-makers -
“munist
the consequences of that reaction are now evident. The belief is growing that one consequence will be the repudiation of the party now in power at the polls this coming November. Korea has touched off the ever louder cries, “Acheson must go” and “Johnson must £0,” with particular emphasis on the Secretary of Defense. If there is now to be a breathing spell while forces are built up for the drive to push the Cominvaders northward, this clamor is likely to grow louder, % » - »
IT WOULD be out of char-
acter-with-everything in Presi.
dent Truman's make-up if he were to drop the two principal members of his cabinet while they were under fire. It would also be bad politics. It would be taken as a confession of failure. And not even Truman's bitterest enemies have accused “"him of being a poor politician. But quite apart from any political gain or. loss resulting from the Korean crisis, . the average citizen wants to know why the sudden discovery that the Western world is virtually defenseless. He had been told by Secretary Johnson that this country was ready for any
eventuality and by President Truman that peace was nearer
~-the Forrestal family-will:short-
than at any time in the past
five years, 3 . ” . : BECAUSE of his vainglorfous talk’ Mr. Johnson is an easy scapegoat. Mr. Johnson is held up as the political opportunist, boasting about econo-
mies that would merely cut off
--and sensitive individual who
Jate-James-Vi-Forrestal:~ Mr; ~ Forrestal appears as the noble
_ nist aggression.
patriot struggling against hopeless political odds to prepare his country for Commu-
“Fortunately for the “citizen groping for knowledge, a docu ment is in existence that bears directly on the whole question. It is the diary that Mr. Forrestal left behind when he took his own: life in May, 1949. ~ ” u ~ SHORTLY before the nervous collapse that preceded his death, Mr, Forrestal took his diary to the White House and left it there for safekeeping. The document was put in the safe of Rear Admiral Robert L. Dennison, naval aide to the President. At the White House it is said
_ that the diary was kept under
seal unopened until it was turned over to Eugene 8. Duf-
field, one of Mr. Forrestal's~
war-time associates, acting for the executor of his estate. Clarence Dillon, of Dillon, Read & Co., the executor, has now returned to this country from Europe. It is reported that he with the members of
ly decide how and when the diary should be published.
¥ » “ ” ; IN MY opinion there is a strong public. obligation to make it availablé, with proper editing, at the edrliest possible
" date. We should learn more - from it than from any other
conceivable source. Those who have read the diary say that it does—throw extraordinary light on how we got where we are today.
It is also the deeply moving -
record of a highly intelligent
sees the pit of destruction prepared for his country; and yet, as though moving th a terrible
. and timédlas wighimare, he can
COPR. 1980 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. ML. REC. 4. &. PAY. O97. "You know | never borrow your ties, dad! They're too youth hs for mie!"
--do nothing to avert disaster,
This, too, we should face up
' to—the kind of ordeal to which public servant,
a responsible can be sublected.
IN POINT of tact the diary is not.a connected day-to-day, diary. Because it is more or less disjointed and lacking in chronology, it will take a greal deal of editing. : This editing should be done by someone like Do | Southall Freeman, an historian of the highest stature and responsibility, There should be complete confidence that no interest nor any individual has been con-
sidered in the editing process,
a bequest—a bequest of truth— to the American people. The things that Mr. Forres tal did not say during the last tragic year or two of his life, “for what ‘he ‘believed to be good and sufficient reasons, he put down in this last despairing warning of the shape of
things to come;
» 8 ” FOR here is a voice that can,
speak above and beyond partisanship.. In. the broadest
sense this is not alone a be- va one
quest t&
-
Barbs
YOU may know your onions, but it's just as important to know : your beans, corn, ete, this summer,
A MICHIGAN robbed a man to give mon to her husband. But it's haf’ to: train. them that way.
MAKING them write home good _thipg
woman
that being. family ang heirs. Tt Is broke does for young folks.
man war on the State Department. Speaking demands alone
will take him through to the 82d Congress. His hectic five-month cru-
. sade left Sen. MeCarthy just dropped 15 pounds—not- from
physical exercise. Nowadays, if he ever retires before
“ting Communists.
AT FIRST, when he started .
to cite mames and numbers, Mr. McCarthy expected to wind up’ politically a dead duck, That fear has-gone, he says, thanks to the Tydings report. “Its extreme bitterness toward me, its violently partisan tone, .its failure to admit the existence of Communist influence in the State Department, satisfied no one. But it did solidify the Republican ranks In the Senate. “Thank . Sen, that. »
Tydings for
» » ” i THE 41-year-old junior Senator from Wisconsin has his sights set on a larger role. He's the ranking Republican on the Senate's powerful special ‘investigating committee, the one President Truman formerly headed. If the Republicans take the Senate this election, Mr, McCarthy stands to be.chairman,
tifled continuing his attacks in face of the Korean crisis, This is how he put it: “This is all one war, a war against . the: Communists in
Korea ‘and a war against the.
Communists here. You can’t fight the Reds in other parts of the world and .coddle them
here.”
ho) - 8 =» . MR. McCARTHY has a quick wit and warm personality that -charms skeptical strangers. But when it comes to dealing with the Com-
'tounists, he says he's a “brass-
knuckle guy.” - _ “This is no lace-curtain, pantywalst job. The Com- -
1 a. m, the Senator considers the day lost for bat-
a He was asked how “he jase :
maunists use lumberjack tactics and that's all they understand. Natura: 3 you get scarred up
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in lustro mated with soli green 0 flash, ti worries these lo
i aE say, ‘That McCarthy is a no
good so-and-so but he is ex- 2
posing Communists.’ That's all right with Je ”.
INCOMING 16tters a.
dropped to around 15,000 a
‘week, which still swamp his _ office staff of 13, he Wisconsin rates first, Califors
nit second, as Sou One American woman mailed $10 anonymously from France. “This is no tribute to MeCarthy,” he says. “And it takes no intelligence to get such a response. It's just that the American people are getting more and more disturbed about the Alger Hisses, »
_MR. McCARTHY laughed as he Yemarked: “Mother used to tell - me: ‘I think there may be one place in this world for a man with--guts--and a tough skin who is not overly endowed with brains.’
“My mother was my great"
est- deflator. person.” Mr, McCarthy invented a new speaking technique: pas-
A phenomenal
sing out to each member of ‘the audience photostats of
checks, letters, etc, to give a documentary effect to his arguments. To date, he figures he has distributed a half mile lion such pieces of paper. HE. works at an intense pitch; eats only when the hunger pangs get overpower-
ing, then he takes on several
steaks in a row. He rarely re
laxes, except around midnight,
over bourbon in ginger ale. By 1952, when his term ex« pires, Mr, MeCarthy is certain his Red charges will be proved and He'll be re-elected. - i wouldn’t trade this job for anything,” he says. Senate's the forum in the ‘world. It represents What all the people -think.”
lot of people
“The '