Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1950 — Page 16

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"More Money for More Policemen

“more money and more men for next year is a modest one.

"The funds asked by Chief Rouls would add 65 men to ‘the present force, and provide for 24 motorcycle patrol‘men to be on duty 24 hours a day. With the traffic problem

‘Indianapolis has that certainly doesn’t seem like too many.

‘new budget would eliminate that, and should result in im‘proved police work. : jo : i. The proposed pay increase of $100 a year for motor‘cycle men is justified, and reasonable, Police pay is gen‘erally too low in Indianapolis, and we feel should be raised all along the line as rapidly as city finances can stand it.

THE biggest obstacle we #ée to better pay for police. in8 fo ne ) = hee damned -attitude-at- Pelicos nod AE PT ET a ee Te Seen A on —— >

“init; Piough; is the-“public:

‘officers to bring their force up to normal standards of ‘behavior on duty. - : © When the chief of police himself makes it clear by protecting the guilty that he expects policemen to act like ‘hoodlums and will not correct those who do, he is bej ‘anything but helpful in getting public approval for a bet ‘police pay scale.

‘New Schoolmaster Ni ‘THERE js every indication that the Indianapolis School '* Board has made a wise choice in heming Dr. Herman 1...Shibler as the new superintendent of Indianapolis public schools. : —+ He has shed record, both as a teacher and ‘as a school administrator in Ohio and in Michigan, and

from small town to big city public school systems and on through college and university teaching. Still a comparatively young man at 48, he has nevertheless packed 28 years of widely varied top-level educational work into his background. | Dr. Shibler has been an active citizen of the communities he has previously served, taking part in the best of

*. {JT SEEMS to us, as Todd Stoops told City Council Mon- | day night, that the request of the Police Department for

- We've never believed 8 policeman should be asked to spend.

Two--that . Russian delegate and A: United Nations Security Ce il at Lake SucHi

~~ Tuture fighting. .

-this- experience covers almost every phaseof school work.

joommunity enterprises. He will find a warm welcome in

reasons, ; 3 At first the purpose was largely diplomatie. ‘The very heart of the issue is that this is not a ‘balance-of-power war between a Soviet catellite

DEAR BOSS ... By Dan Kidney

loseup of War

"Long-Range Russian Invasion Plan Seen

One that Soviet ve that the last shot was fired in World War IL.

the return of Jacob A. Malik, chairman of the

cess, is high tribute to technique

tler and his Nazi of the big lle. . .

ing force: two years—unaided,

‘Headquarters and the stubborn refusal of top department / Blames U. S.

- YET that is just what Mr. Malik contends - ‘was done and insists that the Soviet Union had nothing to do with the North Korean Communist thrust, i’ He blames the U. 8. A. for “aggression,” despite the fact that we are carrying the burden of the fighting alone, although only three of the 50 members of the United Nations failed to vote for upholding the United Nations decision to maintain the 38th parallel by force when South Korea was invaded. Twice daily there are press briefings at the Pentagon, For an over-all picture of the war, there is no better spot. For all last minute communiques are read and they come directly from all fighting fronts, as well as from Gen. MacArthur's Tokyo headquarters, Here the long debated Defense Department unification works well, Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines all send excellent officers to tell what the terse communiques mean in terms of

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16—Dear Boss—As a Pentagon reporter, seated in an air conditioned briefing room on the second anniversary of the freeing of Korea from the Japs and following

rest, Suet Soviet Russia » troops f. orean or the South Korean invasion from the moment

For no nation in history created such a strik4 short period of —§

"To make that clear to the world, it is essen tial that Gen. MacArthur's forces be international in fact as well as in name, This has become more important with the return of Russia - to the Security Council. She is using the council as a sounding board for propaganda lies that the United States is the aggressor, and that

United Nations action against her satellite illegal because Russia and Red China were not represented in that vote.

In addition to the international Jolitieal litieal reason for showing a united front to, ag-

n, there is now a domestic political factor

SEE THE BOY —

SEE THE BOY— THE BOY WANTS TO BE

ell Beene eekSB.. ~~ BIG LEAGUES!

THE BOY HAS GOT TOBE A SOLDIER — JUST THROW

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WiLL HAVE TO GOTO} A TRAINING CAMP * TWO OR THREE MONTHS EACH YEAR AND PLAY

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THE BOY A GUN AND

KISS AIM ] GOODBYE ~ THE. BOY

0 THE MINOR LEAGUES TWO OR THREE fib lnsrsasingly ser

will defend fo the death your right fe say it."

National allegiance may easily be perverted

to ideological dogma, quite aside from the quess

tion of validity of the point of national patrie otism itself. The present era marks a state of

the claims of a higher nee

aa | Increasing - share of attention ding

‘More Prayers Needed By Mrs. R. A. F., New Castle I feel the time is highly overdue for the country to ask formally, openly and unitedly for God's help in the present conflict and with any involvements into which this war may lead.

Our founding fathers were not so reluctant about calling

There follows the customary press confer-

ence question period and the whole Ea is tape recorded. Thus alleged misquotations

can be promptly checked.

On Korea's second birthday, an Army colonel was first to speak. He mounted the rostrum - and stood behind a pulpit-like stand. On the back wall is the battle map. An officer armed with a pointer follows the course of the coms muniques and the meanings made from them,

‘Zone of Decision’

ANOTHER map, at the speaker's right, shows how small and desperate is our Korean toe-hold. It carries the title: :

i Sa AgnurT—

. Indianapolis public schools have become one of the ‘higgest business enterprises in town . . . and very possibly ! The board has been carefully seeking from a list of unusually able applicants for a man who combined proved ability in the business of administration with thorough knowledge of actual classroom teaching. In Dr. Shibler they appear to have found him.

We Need UMT

PRESIDENT TRUMAN believes in the principle of universal military training and would like to have such a law. But he believes its enactment can be delayed until the passage of legislation which he considers more pressing.

We think that upon mature reflection the President

will reconsider this decision and call for UMT now. The United States needs a well-balanced defense program which will serve for a period of years, That requires trained reserves that could be called up on short notice at

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"peace. : i . 5» : h is. . ONLY a sound system of universal military training will produce such a reserve force. : ” We must have a large Army now because we have not had. a training program to build such a force. But once

the training program is in operation, we will be able to get ‘along with: a much smaller standing” Army unless there’is

"an immediate threat of attack.

On a long-range basis, a universal military training

system will cost less money than a large professional Army, and it could be equally good insurance against enemy attack. <

0. John’s New Look

ATEST of our lefties to retool for the duration is O. John Rogge, who has called upon the Soviet Union to “renounce the use of force in Korea.” :

0. John, one of the few foreigners ever to be invited

. to speak before the supreme Soviet in the Kremlin and

an original signer of the Communist-supported Stockholm

peace petition; took off ‘for Czechoslovakia, uttering things -

like: “I challenge the dogma that capitalism causes wars.” : ne EET In Prague he is going to propose that the partisans for peace, which originated the petition, amend it to demand the outlawry of aggression. Present emphasis is on racking up the atomic bomb. Paul Robeson was to have been the other official American delegate to the conferénce, but his passport was invalidated by the State Department last week. With Mr. Rogge now going into his switch and Mr. Robeson detained at home, we fear the United States is going to have small voice in the Prague meeting, if any. “They. may even throw me out,” says Mr. Rogge. He could be that lucky.

Next Question?

- W[ARYLAND'S Governor Lane has forbidden the use of

i a state university auditorium for a debate on the - subject,”*Is Communism A Friend of America?” ; ~The governor gives about every cogent reason there is _* for calling off the debate, except the best and by now quite i; one: It just isn't dghatable. © E

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“Korea's zone of decision.”

There had been an attempted river crossing

by Red tanks that morning. The colonel reported that seven out of ten had been knocked out, Also that the Pohang airstrip still is held by U. 8. troops. ; His map talk tells what divisions are fighting now. Ours are given blue markings the enemy red--quite appropriately. Some of our positions are marked “UD.” The colonel said that means the troops divisional unit is “undisclosed.” e . “Are these all front line divisions?” he was asked. “They had better be, because that is where they are,” the colonel answered with a wry smile, ; ; “Are they in contact with the enemy,” his questioner pursued. “They certainly are or their whereabouts would not be disciosed in the releases,” he

auswered, . . .. o-oo An Alr Force officer takes over. He tells

reporters that although our planes have left

-Pohang, it doesn't mean they are. not still based :

Jn Korea. The Pohang loss he estimated at from 10 to 15 per cent of the total air activity me. the shift was made i RIT SR

SS Sa RAL Ie

THEN he told of a single-seated “pacing

plane,” which followed our B-29s and gave di- _

rection to the anti-aircraft artillerymen so that their ack-ack fire became more accurate, This, the AAF major explained, was a new development first used by the Germans in the latter days of World War II. Our men were not able to identify the pacing plane.

~~ “Could It be Russian?” Er Preident Truman has enlisted truth ay one

of the weapons on our side. The briefing offi-

cers made no attempt to put a Red label on.

the pacing plane, Only comment came from the colonel. He made the point that for a country that is just two-years old, North Korea has indeed come a long way in learning the la in battle techniques. s

We leave the lying to Mr. Malik.

SIDE GLANCES

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Professional Army Available

WHILE MOST of the governments of Western Europe seem unable or unwilling to enlist the manpower needed for their own defense

the challenge of Russian communism, .

continental Europe is over-run by unemployed veteran soldiers, able and willing to fight for anyone who will pay them. : And they wouldn’t expect to be paid much. This paradox is one of the by-products of World War II. ; Responsible governments hesitate to tax their own people to pay the soldiers needed for their own defense because it would mean the sacrifice

_of “social gains,”

Most of those anxious to become professional soldiers are Germans, Poles, Baits and Slavs who are opposed to communism. They are offering their.services at military

: posts and American consulates in Europe, and at many of our legations or government agen-~cles-in-Africa and-Asia.- : TT

2500 Recruits 4. tL ? Se Su SERRA ob-EH00 Pehl but that's only a drop in.the bucket compared with the horde of applicants. The French Foreign Legion, offering much less than we do, recently had to close its enlistments to Germans to prevent that famed unit from becoming an all-German outfit. 3 There are more than 100,000 veterans of

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‘Gen. Anders’ Polish army in Europe, who served .

under the British against the Germans after their own

these men would like to fight the Russians. in“the case of hundreds of thousands of Germans, fighting is the only trade they know. Sen. Warren G. Magnuson of Washington recently proposed enlisting Japanese veterans to fight in Korea. He suggested they be paid half the American scale. We could get thousands of

European veterans for much less than that, ac- -

cording to officials there. v American recruits are paid $75 a month, and

they are truly frightening. It is very much like the story of the early years of World War II when raw material deficiencies caused such harrowing wg as Nazi submarines k American-cargo ships alsmost at’ will. : “ # . IN VIEW of this, it is astonishing to discover a behind-the-scenes -dispute in which the same old forces seem to be dragging anchor. The dispute is over manganese, one of the scarcest metals and one that is absolutely essential. It is the

every bit of steel that is made. The only country in the world with large known deposits of high-grade manganese is Soviet Russia. In the pas a considerable share of our imports has come from Russia. But in the Jast two years this has been reduced to a trickle.

tive to develop new sources of

$80 a month after four months’ service. The corresponding French scale is $2 and $8 a month. Their top for non-commissioned officers is less than $100 a month. Ours is $198.45, without counting longevity allowances. The British pay scale ranges from $17 to $79.

$15-$20 a Month

WE probably could hire all the fighting men we need on the open market at $15 or $20 a month, without the additional benefits granted to American soldiers. . The idea of using mercenary troops is contrary to the American tradition, but elsewhere the practice is as old as war itself. The British used Hessian mercenaries against

the American colonies in the Revolutionary

War, and had 3 German brigade in the Napoleonic wars. : Satellite troops are fighting for Stalin in

- Korea, and many of the same troops are be-

lieved to ‘have served in both the Russian and China arn SE

with the discussion of plans for a Western European army. The Western powers are looking for some way to employ - German manpower without rearming a German government which might be difficult to control. : .

Another ‘Korea’ Brewing ANOTHER Korea is in the making in Germany, because the German -Communists are

‘being organized in combat units while the West Agreement. The Allies believe they have suf-:

ficient troops in Germany to keep the Germans in hand but they admit their occupational forces could not deal with the combined forces of Russia and East Germany. $ Our European Allies do not appear able to make up this deficiency without calling on the Germans for assistance, which France, in particular, is reluctant to do. :

LITTLE MANGANESE . . . By Marquis Childs §lllll Stockpile Deficiency is

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16—One of the things that almost no one in Washington talks about—publicly—is the status of - stockpiles of strategic materials. This is a grisly kind of secret because nobody wants to expose the deficiencies to public view. On vital materials such as aluminum, copper, manganese, tin and rubber the totals give no-comfort at; alli In some: instances

‘are blasting all night, arguing and fighting, Also the motorcycles are

about giving Him His due place in the affairs of

men. Anyone can see that the so-called progress

and material developments of the past 50 years

have not brought us any closer to that for which we all long—peace. - Are highly placed persons ashamed any more to plead for God's guidance? Lincoln certainly wasn't. Have we forgotten that God is almighty, Smmipetent; that He is real?

FOR too many years we bowed and scraped to Russia’s atheism—we left God out of the United Nations charter in deference to Russia. Bah! It's about: time we returned to the redblooded Americanism of Washington and Lin-

daily lives.

"| do not agree with a word thet you say, but I

—Let's-have-a national day of prayer. Yes, let's have many days of prayer. This belief in God is our most fundamental difference with Soviet Russia. Let's develop that difference. It's surely to our advantage to have God on our side. Let's act as though we merited His help<let’s ask Him for it. .

‘Too Much Noise’

‘By A Discouraged Mother

May I please put a few words in the Hoosier Forum concerning the noise in our City of Indle anapolis. It is most annoying to folks who work, When night comes we need our rest if we are to continue to do a day’s work the next day. Instead of sleeping, we listen to loud radios until midnight and after, It has continued all night. Then the cars parking all up and down the streets, doors slamming all hours of the night. When they start the car it roars and back fires several times before they get going. Car horns

noise makers, : : What has happened to the noise ordinance of Indianapolis? I thought it was enforced. Many

of us have boys in th : rea cS ¥ . pL eri isis in Korear

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more we'll use women.—Maj.-Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, draft director. : Po & I TAKE this publicity about his (Ezio Pinzs) being “the greatest lover since Barrymore” with a grain of salt. . . . Ezio still is the same man

. 1 married.—Mrs. Ezio Pinza.

Grisly Secret coast of Africa. This was a high producer. But in the first months of World War II only five out of 100 shipments escaped German subs, accord- ’ » »

need to build up stockpiles; put his influence behind the New Mexican project. There is every likeithood now that a contract will be signed for

= southwest.

‘think women should be registered the same as ‘everybody else. The tougher the times get the

“100,000 tons of ore trom ‘the ff

“cement” that must go into .

fe THAT has made it impera-

ganese deposits their company had staked out in New Mexico. Because the New Mexican deposits are not so rich as the ore imported from Russia, the processing cost is naturally higher. The independent company proposed to install a processing furnace—these are in surplus left over from world War II—at Deming, New Mexico, to do the job. 5 =» » IT WOULD seem to have been a natural in view of ‘the acute shortage of a metal that is in reality more precious than the gold hoarded in Ft. Knox. But, just-as in World War II,

‘the company’s representatives

in Washington found officials

either strangely reluctant or, in

some instances, deliberately obstructive. a They became convinced that

‘this was due to the influence

of the ‘world steel cartel which has long dominated the manganese picture. The United

"States Steel Corporation had

pushed the development of a manganese project in the gold

THE mysterious dragging of feet continued. The Bureau: of Mines “lost” a report on the extent of the manganese deposits in the southwest. Secretary. of Commerce Charles Sawyer was urging development of manganese in Brazil. At this point the frustrated promoters told their story to two officials who immediately

saw its significance. One was

Sen. Clinton Anderson of New Mexico, the other Secretary of Interior Oscar Chapman, - » » SEN. ANDERSON promptly began to investigate. He says that what he found out startled him. One manganese mine in the southwest was bought up by a large company and promptly closed down. A rich deposit in Mexico, just across the U. 8. border, had gone undeveloped because the price offered by the steel-manganese cartel was impossibly low. Mr. Chapman, who for severgl months had been riding

_ the munitions board about the

» ” » = A YEAR and a half ago Rep,

Wilbur Mills of Arkansas put a statement in the Congres sional Record that the stockpile of manganese was then

1,840,000 tons, little more than-

a year’s supply at the then level of production and probe ably less than that with the present record use of steel.

Edward Newton, a mining engi-.

neer at one time connected with the Bureau of Mines, testified: “I urge that further cone sideration be given to this sub~ ject, with a view to continuing the investigation of processes of realizing the potential wealth that lies in the manganese deposits of this country.

‘We are tackling a difficult

problem and one in which the

‘competition of the foreign sup-

plies is against us, but it is a patriotic and selfish duty to try to develop our own industry and through public and private stimulation the work should be continued.”

That advice was given im. 1919, Git :