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EC ARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ ROY W. HOW YAN:

PAGE 10 Saturday, Sept. 2, 1950

But When, Mr. President? RESIDENT TRUMAN'S speech to the American people "on the Korean War called for firmness of purpose and a dear course of action in meeting the challenge of the Kremlin gangsters. : : It was an inspiring message which we can indorse in ‘But it is disillusioning, when that stirring’ call to arms is measured against his administrations performance. Most

= of the things the President says we should do are not be-

ing done. Congress is preparing to adjourn or recess without even having been asked to do many of the things the

Even the fundamental issue'confronting us has been beclouded by recent events. ° REE In his statement of June 27, when we went to war in Korea, the President listed measures he also was taking to

defend Formosa, the Philippines and French Indo-China,

apparently drawing a line in Asia which the Communists would cross at their peril. = -- His statement of Thursday that the 7th Fleet will be

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withdrawn from Formosa at the end of the Korean War is

a retreat from that position, if not an abandonment of it. Korea in Communist hands would be a threat to Japan. “But if Formosa becomes a Red base it will be a direct threat to the security of the United States, as Gen. MacArthur has so convincingly explained. What are we fighting for, if our own security is of no concern to us? As Mr. Truman observed last night, “if the hisfory of the 1930's teaches us anything, it is that appeasement

of dictators is the sure road to world war.”

Yet obviously, the promise to withdraw from Formosa

was intended as a friendly gesture to Red China. It was. -

born of the fear in London and Washington that the

Chinese Communists are preparing to support the Korean

Reds against the United Nations’ forces.

But totalitarian aggression has never been discour-

aged by an exhibition of timidity, ~~ Moscow will determine the mafter of Chinese inter-

- None of the calm optimism which pervades the President's entire message can be based upon what is happening on the front in Korea. - Our troops are taking terrible punishment there, with only insignificant aid from our Allies to whom ‘Mr. Truman pays such warm tribute. More aid is on the way, he said. But when will it be on the line? : x - Our own military establishment is to be increased to nearly three million men, Mr. Truman said, and further increases may be required. @@@ == Si When? RR We are still outnumbered in Korea. An attack in some other part of the world right now would find us

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““““TOR THE home front, Mr. Truman was equally reso-

‘lute in laying down a future course of action. \

“We must,” he said, “step up sharply the production

of guns, tanks, planes and other military equipment. We shall also have to increase our stockpile of essential materials, and expand our industrial capacity to produce military supplies. :

“To do this will require hard work and sacrifice by all

of us. 1 know all of us are prepared to do whatever is

~ necessary in the cause of peace and freedom.

They are brave and true words. But 10 weeks after the fighting started in Korea, the home front is not yet directed along the rough and difficult, yet clear, road to aceomplishment. Co . Yesterday Congress passed the “Defense. Production Act,” giving the President even greater powers than he

War II (and who can read who doesn't?) know that it is a half-hearted measure, and won't get the job done. The President did not ask for price and wage controls. He

economy as of the day troops marched. Yet, in yesterday's legislation, the President was authorized to lay price and wage controls. selectively. He was left only with the requirement that if a price on a product was fixed, the wages of the producers couldn't be permitted to make that price uneconomic. : For instance— nt If the President fixed the price of steel, he would have to put a ceiling on. the wages of steel workers. Yet

- there is no requirement that the President fix the price

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of ore or of scrap iron or of coal, that go into the making of steel, or. the wages of workers in the ore, scrap iron or coal industries. And no automatic freezing of the prices steel workers must pay for necessary food, clothing ‘and housing, : i Re . We can only hope that Mr. Truman_.and those who surround him will have the wisdom and freedom from

political influences wisely to administer this too-flexible

law. That means we're hoping they're wiser and more

courageous than President Roosevelt and those who helped him mess up things in World War II. : . »» ® » = :

ASIDE FROM real wage and price controls, other steps will have to be taken: It per En ONE: Cuts in nondefense spending. Little has ‘beenTWO: Curbs on credit. Installment buying on consumer goods and government-guaranteed credit on home-

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. building are at a peak—and no real sacrifice has yet been - asked ie Sr pany

.- THREE: Taxes to pay added defense costs. The $4%

‘billion increase in corporate and personal income taxes

doesn’t begin to(fill the bill. ~~ We could go ! to “ys” an well go with him.

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DEFENSE By Ludwel Denny Britain's Arms

Military Increases Regarded By Many as Inadequate WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—Prime Minister Atlee’'s announcement of the British government's

plan for military increases arouses no enthu-

siasm here. On the basis of advance knowledge it had been discounted as inadequate. This disappointment is not expressed publicly because Britain has been spending more of her national income on defense than the United States—about seven and a half per cent compared with our six per cent. For the next

three years the proposed expendifures of each

country are roughly the same at 10 per cent.

Moving Too Slowly

NEVERTHELESS, many here share the feeling of Winston Churchill that the Labor government has not responded with sufficient speed and leadership to the world crisis created by the Korean War. :

. Even the British Defense Minister, Emanuel Shinwell, in proposing a $280 million budget increase, admitted that this was “no more than a small part of the cost which would be involved fully to equip our forces. to fight.” Mr. Attlee last night said he would ask Parliament to extend the service of draftees

from the present :18 months to two years. To -

attract” volunteers service pay is to go up— Jprivates are to be raised from $392 a week to $54. i

‘These reforms are long overdue. Volunteer recruiting has been until it is now only about half the annual rate of 100,000 three years ago.

Small Army

- Li SNGTHENING Ahe draft period will add.

an. estimated 76,000 men, including 55,000 for the Army. Even then the Army will total less than 250,000. But the troops will be better trained under the new system-—the 18 months period was too short. : Aside from the question of the size of the armeéd forces, there are issues of organizatio and armament. - pv The civilian heads of the defense departments are not outstanding leaders by any standard. Organization is slack apd morale not

The main problem, however, 1s how to get the money and productiori facilities for all-out rearmament. i - Not only Britain but all Atlantic Pact nations are pitifully under-armed compared with Russia and. her satellites. A minimum of two years- is -réquired to produce heavy tanks and

Key to Mobilization BRITAIN as the largest industrial nation among the democratic European powers is the key-to-Atlantic Pact industrial mobilization, second only to the United States.

Unlike most of the others she already is

carrying a virtual limit of tax burden. She cannot convert to large armament production without reducing-already low living standards, without cutting welfare subsidies and civilian production. That is the necessary major operation—with all its economic and political risks—which the Labor government is unwilling to undertake.

* Perhaps only a coalition government would be

able to perform such an operation successfully.

IT'S NICE TO BORROW

It's nice to borrow sugar When the sugar bowl is clean, It’s nice to borrow groceries When the larder’s goods are lean, ~ It’s nice to keep the baby For the girl that lives next door, And to borrow from its childhood As it plays upon the floor.

Oh, everything of beauty Has some wealth that it can loan, From the flower by the wayside: —To-the fiddle’s mellow tone, But remember when you borrow There's a lesson taught in school, That more pleasure's gained in giving Than receiving as a rule.

~—Opal McGuire, 814 Broadway.

- FOSTER'S FOLLIES

N\ NEW HAVEN, Conn.—A police chased. for protection following five previous holdups,\watched indifferently as a burglar robbed a liquor store. y raught In" as canine protection, This dog guarded wise, but not well. To those who might call it defection, Here is the sad tale he might tell:

“These liquor store burglars I'm scorning. “A bite means a sad epilogue.

“You know what they’Ik want in the morning “A bit of the hajr of the dog!” .

SOCIAL SECURITY . 7. By-Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—Increased 8

3 Social Security benefits a ~under-the new law just passed by Congress are not entirely free,

They -are -paid for by deductions from

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HIGH COST OF ARMS . .

. By Earl Richert

Defense Dollar Melting Away

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—Rising prices are adding billions to the cost of our defense efforts. They're melting away the purchasing power of the defense dollar—just as for all dollars. Wholesale prices on the average have climbed eight per cent in the past four months. That means the Defense Department must - spend eight per cent more on the average than

it would have only four months ago to get the

same items. (The military buys at near whole--sale prices in most instances.) Fatetiatgies > It means that what we're now having to pay $18 billion forthe amount Congress is voting for procurement, maintenance, research

- and ‘construction—could have been bought only : four months ago for about $16.5 billion.

-Up Over 8 Per Cent

Spiritual millionaires while. our men. are dying.

You Will Pay More

has said that if he had to exert such powers he wanted -.to be left free-to-pick- and choose. The wisest course would : have been for Congress to put a ceiling across the whole the employee's pay, ) . matched by an equal contribution from the employer. The present tax is one and one-half per cent on the first .

PRICES of many commodities affecting the military have shot up much more than the eight per cent average. Crude rubber, for example, jumped 161.9 per cent from the April price of 21 cents a pound to the current price of 55 cents. Lead has gone up 33 per cent in price since April; tin, 36.8 per cent; best wool, 52.1 per cent; steel scrap (Philadelphia), 52.1 per cent: burlap, 36.6 per gent; sugar, 15.2 per cent. On the West Coast, the government is now paying 54.5 per cent more for fuel oi! than it was in April and 12.4 per cent more for gasoline.

What Others Say—

BECAUSE of their high cost and limited supply, atomic bombs will be aimed at large

military or industrial targets and areas with

concentrated population.—Gen. Lucius D. Clay, chairman of New York state civil defense com- . mission. . ¢ ¢ @¢ I AM an optimist. If I were not.an optimist I don't think I could have been Secretary-Gen-eral of this organization for five years.—Trygve Lie, secretary-general of the United Nations.

pur- ] © w% . IN Korea the flower of our manhood is dying In agony. . . . No longer can we afford to.be

Mass must be said within the sound of the

cannon.— Archbishop Richard Cushing, of Boston,

% @ “- EVERY dollar, every pound, every franc available should .be devoted to providing the implements needed for the protection of the free, world.—John Foster Dulles, Republican foreign policy spokesman.

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SIDE GLANCES

The government is paying $1.53 a barrel for fuel oil against an April price of 99 cents, and $4.38 a barrel for gasoline against an April price of $3.90. For diesel fuel, bought on the Gulf Coast, the government now is paying $3.36 a barrel, - a 15.1 per cent increase over the April price of $2.92. ?

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By Edw. J. Rinsheim Sr... Anderson,

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‘Nasty Propaganda’ When I opened my Times recently it had odor which bothered me until I reached the. blank form we are to sud gn Congress siden suggesting that waste in n . If actually there is waste, then. I'm fully in favor of ending it. - But I have taken a definite dislike to the way anti-administration papers are twisting statements into nasty propaganda.

azines until they pay their own way? How about halting the foolish caused by unnecessary legal advertising? How about having airlines, railroads and steamship lines carry their own weight by -ending all payments other than for actual services rendered” How abotit having Capehart, Jenner and Noland refuse support to any further dam building and flood control in Indiana until military measures are ended? All of this is included in that word you used —“boondoggling”—but 1 doubt if that is what you wanted to suggest. PG | TOO, let's allow your most close-fisted man in Washington to squeeze every drop of water out of the budget. And then see how silly it sounds to infer that this $5 billion or less would end needs for a tax increase as we appropriate $16 billion for national salvation. You know it and I know it but it does make fine politics to print it, doesn’t it? } And why throw in that fourth point? Just as long as the people are allowed to vote at legal intervals for men nominated openly and without restraint you do have complete democratic principles. Isn't it time for the press to Brow up and ‘realize that all of us know it is weighed against advertising income from big business? Isn't it time to realize that “free enterprise” fought this same battle for profits against so-called “socialist economy” measures which are now accepted as part of the American way of life? Boo! You scare me. Let's start fighting the real enemy no matter who is elected in November, ~

(Editor's Note: Tue Times for has advocated cations.)

‘Got What They Voted For’ By C. D. C., Terre Haute _ In a criticism of Rep. Halleck, E. Bowman

MARY years increasing postal rates on publi-

says: “Every enlightened citizen knows the

United States is not fighting the North Koreans, The United Nations ordered all nations to go to the aid of South Koreans and the United Statés is fulfilling its obligation by doing so.” That all makes some of us wonder when the American people are going to come to their senses. 5 Of course, the other nations voted to fight In North Korea because they had to

~The need for increased supplies of high octane aviation gasoline has required the use of some high cost plants and practices. And this additional aviation fuel is costing the government 30 per cent more than normal supplies. Resistors, actuators and other electronic equipment for aircraft are being quoted at prices that are as much as 175 per cent above two months ago.

Costs Doubled

"YOU really run into startling figures when “you compare today's costs with those of 1839. If ‘today’s dollar had the purchasing power it ‘had in 1939, the items on which the Defense Department is expecting to spend $18 billion could have been purchased for less than $9 billion. Today, the military figures it costs. $1 per - day to feed a man, or $365 annually. In 1939, military food costs amounted to only 41 cents per day, or $150 per man annually, Current cost of clothing and individual equipment per soldier is now estimated at $377—or more than 200 per cent above the per man cost of $122 in 1939. An Army jeep today costs $2700 as against $1100in 1939. - - Costs. of planes and tanks have quadrupled over 1939. But these reflect superior equipment as well as. increased prices. The .old B-17 bomber cost $330,000 in 1939. Today's B-50 costs from $1.2 to $1.4 million; the B-47 from $2.7 to $3 million per plane, and the B-36 from $3.2 to $3.5 million. Today's jet fighters cost from $175,000 to $275,000 per plane. The 1939 F-51 cost $67,000 and the F-47 cost $113,000. :

A light tank today costs $225,000. In 1939, a

light tank cost $27.000.

THE kind of destroyer our Navy likes now,

a: 3650-ton vessel, costs $40 million, including -

ordnance. The destroyers in style before World

~ War II, 1630 tons, cost $7 million.

- When you consider today’s higher pay for military personnel, and the prices paid for goods. it is easy to see how the Armed Services can use up $25 billion a year without flooding the country with armaments.

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the money and the men to do. the fighting and according to no less a person than Winston

- Churchill, Socialist England is selling Commu-

nist Russia materials of war. : > 4 @ IN FACT, the naval help England is supposed to be giving us is nothing more or less than protection of their own interests in Hong

; tong. After plenty of pressure, England has at

to send 1500 soldiers and France, 400, which is about enough to unload one boat

“at a time.

‘This reminds all of us who were being be-

rated as isolationists in 1940-41 that if we would

have had fewer rubber stamp Congressmen and more ‘men like Rep. Halleck things weuld proj ably be a lot different today. : If that had been the case Hitler ani Stalin would have been allowed to take thelr

loyal stooges and destroy each other. . *

«oR A MILLION American boys who helped fight a useless, futile war would probably be aliv2 today, and thousands of maimed and crippled would be living healthy, normal lives. Furthermore, we would not be living in mortal danger of being attacked by the Kremlin and we would -not_have a debt hanging over our heads - Neitheg..am 1..able to-understand why the New Dealers and Fair Dealers are now griping about good old Joe Stalin, because he was just the same cruel, inhuman aggressor when he invaded Finland that he is today. " “After all, they have got just what ‘they voted for so they shouldn't complain.

‘Praise for Firemen’ By Mrs. A. Peelle Connor, 1512 N. Meridian St. Just a word of much deserved praise to the

. brave firemen and others who did such a splenAid job the past week when the, Crystal Flash

Oil Company had its fire. The firemen who directed the streams of water playing on those huge tanks of gasoline are something to be proud of. . I rode through the area after the fire had been extinguished and I could not help but marvel at the slight damage that had been done to adjacent property. A good job, well done by all who had any part in it.

WAR LABOR PLAN ... By Fred W. Perkins

Hearings Called Off WASHINGTON, Sept. 2--Senate. hearings: to develop plans

“for handling labor-management disputes during the Korean War have been called off.

Politics and blamed by some

The hearings were to have started next Tuesday, and about

a disagreement within the administration are Republican Senators and a few Democrats, -

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$3000 a year. The tax on the employee, in each case) is matched

by an identical payment by the employer. Starting in January the tax will be collected on the first $3600 earned. The tax rate will. go up to two per cent on each worker and employer in 1954; to two

;and one-half per cent in 1960:

to three per cent in 1965, and reach its peak of three and

. one-quarter per cent in 1970.

Some 4,700,000 self-employed nonfarm workers are now brought’ under the act for the first time. But only self-em-ployed people earning more than $400 a year will be covered, :

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out of the 61 million people now in the U, 8. labor Yorce will be eligible for Social Security’ coverage after next Jan. 1. Every employee covered would contribute, at the most, $54 a year for the next three years. His employer will ¢ontribute a similar amount. Now take a look at who will

be. eligible to receive Social Se-

curity benefits and what they amount to. First take what's

* known for short as OASI—Old

Any government - insured

- worker . can get this pension

when he reaches age 65. This

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than $50 4 this limitation is removed. It & Social

can keep on working and still ; draw b if he earns less month. Over 75,

get a pension equal to half her

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_culated as follows: First “the worker's average monthly wage

worker's wife is 65, she wilt

husband’s pension. \ If they have dependent children 18 years of age or unde a pension will be given to the \ wife, regardless of her age. The pension for dependent children

band's pension for the first child, half pension for other. children. : : ’ > A OF WIDOWME- and dependent widowers, if" 65 or over, will get three-fourths of the pension due the insured worker. Children of a deceased, insured worker and their mother will get pensions equal to half the insured . worker's. benefit, .as under the old law, but the

also is no change fromthe former law, ob % g.on 8! 4 BUT an important change is _ ‘ exactly manly in that lump-sum ‘death benefit ? : 3 :

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.THE um prim: mary benefit. = © $100, or $50; plus 15 per cent” The primary benefit ‘T& cal- of $200, or $30. Total, $80 per_ month.’ This would be for a - workér with ‘one and a half Is calculated for the period he. = yéars or more of insured emhas been covered by OASL The ployment under the Social Se- ; primary’ benefit is. then cal: - cu te culated as 50 per cent of the first $100 per month of average

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60 witnesses—prominent ~figures in industry, organized labor and government agencies --had accepted invitations to give - their views. . But Sen. James E. Murray (D. Mont), chairman of--a Senate ~ Labor Subcommittee " which had arranged the sessions, suddenly announced _their indefidNte postponement.

. - = - - THIS move followed a meeting ‘in offices of Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin. Attending were about a dozen of the former members of the War Labor Board of World War II and present government officials. The latter included Paul M. Herzog, chairman of the National Labor " Relations Board, and Cyrus 8S. Ching, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation

A request to cancel or postpone. the 5 Was re- ~~ ported to have gone from Sec- _ . retary Tobin to Sen. Murray after that meeting., But the Senator said Mr. Tobin had not asked the postponement but merely “concurred” in it, - and that the reason was the ‘press of congressional -busi-

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that he would back such a ~

controls of prices and profits, Philip Murray, CIO president, said he-did not think the time had come for a no-strike

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