Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1950 — Page 20

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| __ Pre __"T'HE American people are HA what 2 happening in Korea and the threats against other areas, that it is Russia's ‘apparent intention to sick her satellites on us one by one. : Thus, she would wear us out while she sits smugly behind the Iron Curtain, holding her own forces intact . and in training, ready to jump on us, when we are ex-

FE. Stassen, th © Mr. Stassen says we should ask the United Nations to approve this.policy. He also asks for arms aid to other nations, plans for preparedness and controls, the taxes that will be needed to pay the bill, and drastic cuts

In domestic spending.

aims to destroy this nation. The danger is real, great,

done to deter the Soviets from “= « . » . BUT the order in which we do these things is im4 Forgetting business as usual, politics as usual, and nondefense spending as usual, we must adopt price and wage controls and rationing and go all out for military preparedness. We cannot deliver an ultimatum to Rs sin until we are prepared to back it up. i Arms aid to other nations? “= The showdown in Korea demonstrated that we must ‘mot put too much dependence on allies and prospective allies. There were only a few responses when we asked for help, and some of these were hesitant and offered little. We should waste no more money on governments which will not go all the way with us in a collective effort to

aggression. ’ »

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Blames Crisis on Failure .To Follow 80th Congress WASHINGTON, Aug. 18--Dear Boss—Tha

dean of the

In a

‘policies laid down by the 80th

: Congress. of course, was the GOP Congress of which Mr, Halleck was House majority leader. ; ___ President Truman got himself elected in 1948 3

| “whodunit” stories , . being authored by both parties in this campaign year to explain the disaster in Korea. : broadcast last night from Chi- ; cago; Mr. Halleck blamed our present fallure of President Truman to

on the

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~ *Can’t Police gr By C.D. C, Terre Haute. rg fe fy 1 have noticed an article in the Forum signed by “A Reader” who claims isolationists like my"self are living in a dream world and on a dream"boat, whatever that is. ;

While I do not have a desire {o beat anyone’s ears down, the arguments are so thin I

that Jos Stalin way an when he invaded Finland, something

the writer &s a tin-

eryone ¢ horn female politician who has been a regular tributor for several

I years who doesn’t want

con “the public to know any longer she still wears the family pants. However, as one “well

uN Thomas

‘These proposals are sound. We face a power which

“and immediate. We dare not delay doing all that must be ~

lican national candidates. Gov “E. Dewey and Earl Warren, took such a dim view of it themselves that they tried to ignore the 80th congressional record. > It now turns out that the Halleck-led Con-

Mr. Halleck pointed that out clearly in his

by the 80th Congress, which his | t

- BUCH highly partisan speeches as Mr. Halleck’'s have now become epidemic among both Republicans anit Democrats. Each blames the other for everything and then both conclude that we must have “unity.” - We won the war and lost the peace, Mr. Halleck sald, adding: ; “It is a sad commentary on the quality of our national leadership that they have failed ““Yoreign ®oil in South Korea, because the leaders of our government betrayed the principles of lasting peace in secret deals made at Teheran, Yalta and at Potsdam and subsequently failed to understand and properly appraise the Russian threat.” - That idea has long been touted by Sen. Wil-" liam E. Jenner (R. Ind.), who pioneered in such business, but Mr. Halleck added this contribu

n: “It was my great privilege to serve as House majority leader for the Republican 80th Congress. 1 am proud of the outstanding record made by that Congress. I think the American people should know that it was only at the insistence of the Republican 80th Congress that aid to China in its resistance to the Communists was included in the original Marshal Plan proposal.

Sabotage of China “BUT the Truman administration refused to take a firm stand against communism in Asia. They not only, had handed Manchuria te Rus-

—— maintain peace: { We have pledged ourselves to defend all the nations of Western. Europe who signed the North Atlantic Pact, Including Norway, on Russia’s border. But this was to have been a mutual-assistance program. Now France is " asking us to send more American troops to Europe to protect her from attack while she rearms at her leisure, » though she gives us no real assurance that she intends to pearm at all. iN La a aN » THE State Department has not furnished the necessary leadership to guide us through the present crisis. Some of its mistakes of the past might be forgiven if

the present demands upon him. Nothing has been done ~ to put real iron into the North Atlantic Pact. Nothing has been done to b about a co-ordinated allied policy in Asia. We've been stuck on dead center in the United Nations ever since Russia resumed her seat in the Security Council. When Mr. Stassen says that the men with responsibilfties for our country’s administration have been almost unbelievably confused and inefficient, wasteful and neglectful, his charges cannot be dismissed as mere partisanship, because every allegation is supported by the record. We must have the power to back up our words before we can challenge Russian aggression. We once sent An ultimatum to Japan which we were not prepared to ‘support, and the result was Pearl Harbor and Bataan. That mistake must not be repeated. Before President Truman can have a showdown with * * @talin, he must put his own house in order, Strength must begin at home. a a of Pennsylvania's and only. a.small-fraction-of that st ‘resources and productivify, can hold the armed might of the United. States at bay, our nation’s manifest to all.

‘May-day’ in Congress

E'RE GLAD TO note that Andy Jacobs, our Repre-

out of the mawkish “tribute” to Andrew May in the House the other day but the courage to speak out against his fellow Democrats who instigated it. This May, while a member of Congress himself, just collected bribes from some shady characters to help them defraud the government on war contracts and in effect to sell out American soldiers who were then fighting a desperate war. He was proved guilty, convicted and sentenced to prison, where he now is. - We don’t for a minute doubt that he was a pleasant fellow around congressional cloak-rooms. - Most party hacks are. That doesn't wipe out the fact that he was guilty of about the most despicable crime a public official ean commit. Whatever “service” he ever had performed for his country . . if any . .. was pretty well cancelled ..out by-his betrayal of the trust his.country. placed in him: The ill-advised Representatives in Congress who now try to smooth over that offense and condone bribe-taking are setting an example on the same moral level ‘as Dean Acheson's defense of Alger Hiss. It's good to know the standards are somewhat higher from the 11th District of Indiana.

Col. Bullard NDIANAPOLIS and Indiana are losing a friend in the promotion of Col. Peter C. Bullard, chief of the Indiana Military District, to command of Camp McCoy, Wis. Col. Bullard, a soldier of 40-odd years and the son of a distinguished lieutenant general, has served the community well from his headquarters at Ft. Harrison. Whatever the role the Fort will play in mobilization, he will be sorely missed. We are fortunate in the appointment as his successor Col. Harry A. Welsch, ‘senior Organized Reserve Instructor, who has been in the headquarters for 18 months. ~_ During his more than two-year service as commanding “afficer & 40,000 Army troops in. Indiana, Col. Byllard has consistently pushed for preparedness and at the same time economy of operation. : =

‘Becretary ~Acheson ‘showed some signs of being equal to

ate's

ime SENIALIVE In Congress, not. only had the decency. fo. stay.

sia, they sabotaged the Nationalist government

_boys are again fighting and dying on distant

of China and permitted the Communists to take -

this vast mainland. “Secretary Acheson was even considering American recognition of the Communist Chinese government, and had publicly stated the United States would not resist by its veto power the seating of that government in the United Nafons, “Just a year ago the Truman administration withdrew troops from South Korea, and out of the $10 million appropriated by Congress to aid South Korea only $200 worth of military equipment was sent to them. And just a few months ago Secretary Acheson had publicly indicated that the United States would not defend even the island of Formosa, let alone the peninsula ~~ of Korea.

SETHE truth 18 THAT The TRUMAR Administra:

tion was following the Owen Lattimore recommendation of permitting the Russian Communists to take over practically all of Asia. The inevitable result was that the Communists were encouraged and able to move into South Korea. They did not anticipate any armed resistance from the United States. As a matter of fact, the record discloses the Truman administration itself did not anticipate making any resistance,

Reversal of Policy “BUT suddenly, without prior plans or preparations, to the great surprise of the Congress and the American people, the President announced to the world that we would defend South Korea with our Army, Navy and Air Force. . This was a complete reversal of the administration's foreign policy in the Far East. With the few men available and all too little equipment, our boys were thus called upon to resist with-their lives the overwhelming manpower and equipment of the Communists. “I assert that if the administration had fol“lowed the appeals and urgings of the Republican members of Congress with respect to our foreign policy in the Far East and our national defense needs it is very doubtful- ind [)

SEA ; : ounhtry would

-.have.been. fully. prepared for-such-in advance.” -

ATER WETT TT peril should be NOBODY LIKES IT . .. By Andrew Tully

Tito Troubles Grow

‘West Coast transmitters.

_1% hours of program weekly, The Russians

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* Russia and that when

FAR EAST RADIO . . . By Charles Lucey :

Reds Beat U. S. on Propaganda

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—The United States is being out-gunned by Russia today in the propaganda“battie to explain the Korean War to the Far East. i The Communists have a geographical advantage over us. They also have superior facilities for pumping the Moscow line from Mukden to Melbourne, . The Far East right now is the chief target of Red propaganda. At the United Nations, Soviet Delegate Jacob Malik strives day after day to convince Asia that the 1. 8. and

direct Korean language broadcasts weekly, or about four times our 5% hours, The U. 8. Korean schedule is being stepped up a little this week, but in the confusion of war we're uncertain how much Koreans hear. President Truman asked Congress for $82 million more for the Voice of America to try to match the Russians around the world. ; ol House hearings have ended and Senate hearings begin soon. This would enable the Voice to improve its propaganda penetration in the

“beating {hem [ato une

Wallace and his brother inte

vaded. 1 also understood that both Germany and Japan had long been tyaditional enemies of Franklin D. Roosevelt was building up the Communists of Russia with - Lend-Lease and taking us into war that he was merely trading Sistaters. + 3 :

hing that Henry tionalists didn't

seemed likely to destroy our free world. I think

the Internationalists must agree with me at this | iste date, or they a V Wo ula ‘not’ Ww ant to" ag in Te RC

arm the Germans and Japs and turn them again into armed camps. ; However, since FDR and his internationalists have muffed our best chance for peace, we siiil have to look forward to the future. The first thing we have got to understand is that we are not big enough and do not have enough money to police the world. While I do not object to helping any country who is willing to furnish men, materials and equipment to fight communism, I do strongly object to the admin-

about us or our form of government except to hold out a tin cup for more help. eS » FURTHERMORE, a large part of the world is not capable of governingfi themselves in the Same sense that we are and do not have any desire to do so. > ; Communism, of course, is a threat and the best place to start housecleaning is right in our own government. This should have been done long before FDR took Alger Hiss as his ad-

.viser to Yalta, and when our state and atom

secrets were being given away. However, it has been proven that Communists in our government are not all red herrings and it is easier to whitewash than clean house, Qur best chance of peace would seem for the people to vote out the administration that has made all the mistakes in the past and try to replace them with someone who thinks more

about defending our own count the rest of the warld Ty and less about

..istration’s’ proposals. io force the Fafr Deal . .. “Ideology on other nations who care nothing

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not Russia is the aggressor in Korea. He says we are trying to extend our imperialism into Indonesia, Indo-China and the Philippines, and the whole United Nations effort is only a pro-

' jection of British, French and Dutch colonial-

ism, ; U. 8. replies to Delegate Malik have toughened in recent days at Lake Success—but it is the Malik version, of course, which the Communist radio is peddling in volume in its mas-

" slve attempt to sway Asia to its side.

Broadcasts Relayed

U. 8. BROADCASTS to the Far Kast go by land-line from New York to a battery of Our first relay point is at Honolulu, where we have two short wave

“transmitters, “and “the “wext relay point “is at

Manila, where we have three short-wave and one medium-wave transmitters. In Japan we have one relay point at Fukuoka. These relay points are in effect booster stations, But the Russians blanket the Far East with powerful direct broadcasts from groupings of transmitters at Vladivostok and Khabarovsk in Siberia. They now control the radio facilities of Communist China, concentrated largely in coastal cities. And for the time being at any rate, they've taken over most of the Korean radio system, centered at Seoul, and which was used importantly by the Voice of America before the war began. . One recent add-up on comparative radio time devoted to the Near East and Southeast Asia showed Russian brpbadcasts originating within the Soviet Union totaling 79 hours a week as against 14 hours by the Voice of America. . : Broadcasts directly out of Russia beamed into China in Chinese total 2414 hours a week compared to our 14 hours, Te

More’ Red Broadcasts

ot Tn there with 315 hours. The Russians hit Korea with 22% hours of

BELGRADE, Aug. 18 You can hardly blame Marshal Tite

If he sometimes gets cross with the people of Y 5 rARcone-of his gold-plated tenty =m It seems that no matter how the poor guy sugar coats his

private brand of communism, nobody likes it,

lavia and

SIDE GLANCES . =

Far East and elsewhere — some 341 million would go for radio transmitter facilities. It would mean more broadcasts, including some in languages in which we are not represented today, We can get into India now from our Manila relay with a fair radio signal but we have no Hindustan broadeasts—only English. Similarly we do not hit Pakistan in her dialects, - :

Not Favorable to u. S.

YET these are areas where effective, truthful telling of the American story can be vastly important—areas which will help decide the course taken by what is left of nonCommunist Asia. Recent public opinion re-

I ER ema The proposed Voice program does not call for much expansion of the existing program

“but for concentrating efforts on the critical

areas. One stiidy showed only 15-20 per cent of the Soviet-beaméd American hroadecasts getting past Russian “jamming.” New facilities will fight this situation.

WHERE FREEDOM RUNS

I live in a land where my song may be heard As far and as free as the song of a bird, : Where thoughts may run deep as the water of streams Or idle their way through the valley of dreams. I live where my lips may unroll reams of truth Imprinted with beauty for age and for youth, Where doctrines of brotherhood widen the scope Of melodies, wakened to foster the hope That life for all people holds nothing but gain

Where freedom runs blessed through competi- .

tive vein. 3 ; ~Elsie Pearl Oliver, Greenwood, Ind. _TIS SAID

eturning it proves she can't really do without the United. Nations, RE. A.—City.

"benefits from 70 to + - ficiaries here wonder if it- will be more than a temporary help.

“advanced . ,

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wora;

‘Letters on License Plates’ By W. H. Richards, 1237 Central Ave,

If, on auto license plates, letters were used instead of figures, 22,281,376 combinations could be made without using more than four figures in each. Many of the four-letter combinations would spell actual words, which could be seen at a glance and easily remembered. It is obvious that no more than 9999 could be made with figures if only four were used. A hit-and-run driver can easily speed away while a bystander is searching his pockets for an envelop or card on which to write a long ‘number and finally has one figure wrong, so he

ports from India have not been favorable to Das no record of the right number at all.

What Others Say

IT WOULD be very unfortunate if the United States used the atom bomb against anybody again, especially when we hear. that the . Russians have the bomb too. The use of the bomb by both nations would signal the end of civilization.. -—~ Shinzo Hamia, mayor of Hiroshima, who was in his office when Hiroshima was hit by the first A-bomb. ' ;

IN three years the U. S.—we hope—will be the first nation to possess the atom submarine, and so lay the foundation for a fleet which will outrun, outfight and outmaneuver the most

« types.—Vice Admiral Charles A, ‘Lockwood.

WE see no cause for alarm unless the American people become panicky and start hoarding foods, which creates scarcities and higher

prices.—Paul 8. Willis, president of Grocery Manufacturers of America.

I'DON'T know. It's strange and sounds bad. I can’t understand it at all:~Ja

~ New Pension Idea

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—Coigress is about to turn out.a J |

Co pign. that will. 90 per cent, but a group of prospective bene-

Tito and his big: brass took a quick look at

about six months ago and decided why there weren't

enough potatoes on the table. .

It was all the fault of those bureaucrats in Beigrade—present company excepted, of course. It seems the bureaucrats were trying to run everything right down to the final decision on what color to

paint the powder room walls"

in that new jailhouse at .Dubrovnic. "nn ~ WHAT was needed, Tito and Co., decided, was decentralization. So, with a whoop and a holier and a couple of well“publicized ~boola-boolas; they decentralized. Henceforth, it was decreed, responsibility - for production would be strictly on a local level, A man’s own neighbors would tell him how many pigs the government wanted in a certain month and, in hail-fel-

low fashion, see that he pro-

duced and delivered 'em. ~ x »

WHOLE ministries were abolished and replaced with advisory councils who were supposed to keep their noses out of administration and concern themselves only. with over-all planning ‘and general operations, !

This move, Tito proclaimed,

had a two-fold significance. First it was bound to increase production. And second, .it would show the world that after only five years Yugoslayia was ready fo apply the pure Marxist theory of government by your neighbors, while Soviet Russia still wa): lowed in reaucracy, ? v

the morass of bu-

are still holding out on "their

the country » "= » y THAT was six months age ——-and it ain't exactly working out that way. All you have to do is follow the local newspapers to find out that peaple

government. The newspaper Glas got real red-faced about it the other day. It seems the plan had called for supplying the 31000 inhabitants of the town of Kragujevac with 3,700,000 kilograms of fruit and vegetables this year. ¥ To date, said Glas, getting more apoplectic’ With every syllable, only 8.7 per cent of this amount had been suppligg. More important, the peas collectives contributed only 2.7 per cent of this figure; the other 6 per cent coming from the so-called “private sector.” These are farmers whose plots are so small they're exempt from quotas. » » »

GLAS. said the slackers should be prosecuted and they probably will be. But it won't do any lasting good. Things are so tough here, every man is more worried about how he does today than what the government will do to him in retaliation tomorrow. Many peasants, especially those dealing in perishabies, have worked out a sly dodge." They sell all their best fruits

"How do you

same,

dark -mines,

and végetables to the free markets, which deal in pro: days and then duce that is supposed to be surplus after government quotas have heen fitted. The in- hungry

ferior stuff, or real surplus,

goes to the government, aroynd in every!

CONDITIONS in heavy industry are pretty much the The government has drafted peasants to fill the work force, and the peasants don’t like it. Particularly, the peasants don't like those with their bad air. They work two or’ three

iam. There i= a "no-work, noeat” law, but even when the fugitives return to their jobs they just stand

OPN, 1900 BY NEA SERVICE, BIG. LS. REO. K § PAT. OFF,

figure we're going to settle this business in Ko-

rea, Mr. Wadsworth? Remember, I'm a veteran, too!"

don’t do enough work to earn their keep.

~ » » AS NOTED before, this is very aggravating to Tito. But it's even more aggravating to the. man-in-the-street in Belgrade. To him it means that he doesn’t eat and has to go in hock for three months to buy a pair of shoes. And he can't help recalling the good old ‘days of capitalism when he ate sausage every day and ‘his brogans were the snvy even -of those snobs in Zagreb.

out

take it on the

body’s-way and

Because they fear another upward spiral in the cost of living,

" Labor

they have advanced a new idea.

fits to the cost of living. They suggest the ‘“consumers’ price index” of the 1I. S. Bureau of Statistics, which already has been adopted in some big industries, including General Motors Corp. for wage adjustments. n o » THE plan is proposéd by the Washington chapter of Mature Americans, an organization of citizens beyond’ 65 who heretofore have concentrated on frying to obtain useful work for its members. E In a resolution it. urges Congress to “amend the existing Social Security laws so “that payments in fyture shall be tied to the cost of living. Such action is necessary so that as prices of the necessities of living increase during the years to come, the beneficiaries of this act shall be assured of at least that minimum of financial assistance which Congress intended when the original law was approved.” » = a MRS. CLEONIS COONLEY, president, Schmalback, secretary of the Washington chapter, were into get copies of the resolution to members of Congress. called to attention of the national “conference on the aging,” which the Federal Security Agency is arranging ta open here Sunday, Aug. 13. The official consumer's price index now stands at 170, based ‘on 100 for the four years 1935-

39. when the. Social Security

Law began to operate. That means the average 1950 dollar buys only a= much as 588 cents bought in "1939.

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and Siegfried .

It is expected to be.

That is to hitch retifement bene-

THE plan sponsored by Ma-

ture Americans has been stud:

ied by experts of the Social Security Administration, that agency says. One difficulty

“was said to be the mechanical

-one -of frequently changing the

amounts of retirement pay-

ment checks. Also, beneficiaries might like the system as long as prices are rising, but might object when prices fall,

” » - UNDER the present law the maximum monthly benefit possible for a single map, is $45.60, and for a retireq .man with a wife, $68.40. Under the new law these figures will rise, respectively, to $80 and $120. Both sets of figures are based on maximum earnings and length of coverage.

Barbs—

YOU HAVE -to make allow-

ances for college Says a professor. weekly!

students, Yeah —.

PEOPLE who don’t waste time wondering what makes the world go around are the ones who keep it ‘Boing.

+ NEWLYWEDS should start with a smal home, says a

- Woman's page writer. So there

won't bé much room: for ar< gument? ;

i FOLKS who save money by not taking a vacation figure a big roll is better than a loaf.

WHEN a couple of teenagers are talking, why doesn’t ‘the operator just tell us the line is dizay? hes

meen 4 ei

SBIE..(Rrinoess Nargaret-of Great Brita) = § 1 floored me by knowing so much about music, Frank Sinatra, crooner.

By Galbraith WELFARE BENEFITS . . . By Fred W. Perkins