Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1950 — Page 18

The Indianapolis Times

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ROY w HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ President Editor Business Manager

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Unloading a Liability .

EFENSE Secretary Louis Johnson’ s resignation came as no surprise, despite President Truman's recent statement that Mr. Johnson and Secretary of State Acheson would never leave his cabinet. This is an election year. ‘Some of the Secretary's deci- " sions, the bad consequences of which have been revealed by the Korean War, had made him a political liability. Mr. Johnson's hard-boiled economy program made him many enemies. He accepted the -popular thesis that victory in war could be achieved by air power alone, and more particularly by strategic bombing. When the United States became involved in a war in which the atomic bomb could not be used it found itself with a defense establishment not geared

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SO Mr. Johnson became another. casualty of Korea and of politics. Long before he took office, blunders in American foreign policy—blunders for which Mr. Truman has basic

Nationalist China and the eventual Communist invasion of Korea. Secretary Acheson sponsored many of the unwise policies which contributed to Mr. Johnson's undoing. Mr. Acheson inherited those policies, especially the disastrous China policy, from his State Department predecessor, Gen. George C. Marshall.

. . 2 . » ” YET, President Truman has selected Gen. Marshall to succeed Mr. Johnson, and will ask Congress to make that possible by changing the law which forbids appointment

has been an active officer in the regular Armed Services. Gen. Marshall is a professional soldier. ] But the law which requires the Department of Defense to be headed by a civilian is a wise law, supported by sound American traditions. crption in the case of Gen. Marshall would establish a dangerous precedent. The Times believes that Congress should ~ hot change it. en “"Moréover, the" GeneHTs TF of Lh) in “State Departmeént policy would handicap him heavily as head of the Department which now must try to overcome the consequences of those mistakes. Calling up a big name from retirement for that job impresses us as a political attempt to gloss over a situation distasteful to Mr. Truman.

Our Reluctant Chief of Police

Two months ago two Indianapolis policemen arrested a . man, turned him over to a couple of parking lot attendants and stood by watching while those junior-grade goons, under tacit police protection, savagely beat him, knocked him down, kicked him and trampled him. The man was guilty of no crime whatever and was acquitted in court of the trumped-up charge the policemen eventually brought against him. Sworn testimony of unimpeachable witnesses who saw this disgraceful incident was Immediately presented to Police Chief Rouls, and their statements were further substantiated by testimony in court.

» " . ¥ . . CHIEF ROULS has stubbornly refused to take any, action whatever in the matter. The two patrolmen. have never been suspended, nor fired, nor even censured. Police department officials undertook to suppress and conceal the clear evidence of their guilt. Chief Rouls himself has delayed, and stalled, and evaded and plainly tried to whitewash the whole affair. ~The: victim of this assault; meanwhile; has been driven ot of town under obvious police intimidation. A “hearing” of the charges against the two policemen that finally was scheduled under public pressure was delayed until witnesses were unavailable, and then postponed again . . . to Sept. 12. “Yesterday was.Sept. 12. There was no hearing. There is no date set for a hearing. Chief Rouls brushes it off on the grounds that he's too busy running the Police 2 Department ... . to run the Police + Department. ; - I . ss 8» IT SEEMS TO US Chief Rouls now has made his position in this case completely clear. He has frankly stated that he does not consider what these policemen did is serious or even improper. He has clearly demonstrated that he has no objection to the brutal beating of prisoners in police custody. ’ | Competent police officials do not agree with him. In Philadelphia. this week, a federal grand jury indicted two policemen involved -in the beating of two suspects under arrest . . . for ¢riminal violation of the 14th amendment of the Constitution of the United States. In several other ~ cities, while this case has been stalled along, similar incidents have ariscn and have been dealt with efficiently, _

after they occurred. : In our opinion Chief Rouls should deal mediately, and adequately with this serious case .. . or be replaced by a police chief who will. . ;

Government as Usual NyHEN Robert P. Gerholz, president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, was in town yesterday, he left, as a parting gift, an idea. © What he wondered was that if business is s expected to cut down to bare needs for the duration, why the government isn’t doing the same. ~~ And he also wondered, if the people are asked to stop hoarding, why the government doesn’t do : ‘What he meant was that with prices: dy high, the : t is fighting inflation and high prices on one and buying eggs, butter sud potatos to kesp prises

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WORLD PROBLEMS .

NEW YORK, Sept. 13—So you got problems? Any one of the West's Big Three foreign ministers could ask the other two that question and spend hours supplying their own answer. At their conference at the Waldorf-Astoria, they'll confine themselves, of course, to probJems which Secretary of State Dean, Acheson has called greater than any in the past 50 years of peacetime. But if they did get down to comparing pernal notes, each of the men could ; PE Ee STE 3 Britain's Ernest Bevin

-argued- = raise fon British dockers. He had little formal schooling, but he managed to learn enough words along the way . from: orphaned farm boy to shop worker and

through the rough-and-tumble of British trade 2

unionism. His rise to the post of Foreign Minister

; MILITARY pes By Andrew Tully Army Reserve Call is Costly

Trip for One Indiana Group Estimated at $3000

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13-—The Army apparently is still doing some things the hard and expensive way—for example, the calling up of reservists to active duty. Each reservist must pass a physical examination and submit to certain paper “processing” before being accepted by Uncle Sam. This sounds simple enough, but the way the Army is doing it it's costing the taxpayers a lot of dough. One hundred and fifty-two officers and enlisted men from Evansville, Ind., were ‘“processed” recently for probable calls to active duty. To accomplish this, the Army transported all 152 men more than 150 miles to Indianapolis, at a cost to the taxpayer of from five to eight cents per mile per officer and from three to five cents per mile per enlisted man. In addition, each man got a day's active duty —with pay. Estimated cost to the taxpayer for this trip: $3000. The situation is the same, in varying degrees of costliness, throughout the country. Under Army regulations, unless a reserve unit has a medical officer, reservists must take their physicals at either the nearest military-medical facilities-—meaning a military post with some Army doctors on it—or at the nearest main recruiting station.

Heavy Travel Expense

TECHNICALLY, these posts are supposed to be scattered strategically across the country so as to make the process economical. Actually, many reservists have to travel hundreds of miles—at ‘taxpayers’ expense—in order to get his physique okayed by Uncle Sam. Indiana probably is the prime example. There

_is only one military-medical installation in the

state—in Indianapolis. There also is only one main recruiting station—also in Indianapolis. That means that no matter where in the state a reservist lives he has to go to Indianapolis to be processed. Luckily, Indianapolis is in the - center pf the state. The same is true in a score of other states, each of which has only one establishment where physical examinations are available. These include Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Arizona, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Wyoming, Kansas, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, West Virginia, Oregon and Delaware.

One Medical Center

RESERVISTS in other states are a little

better off, but not much. Ohio; for instance, has

only one military-medical installation-—in Dayton—and six main recruiting stations. New York has a-total of nine points where physicals are given; Pennsylvania, 11; California, 24; Tennessee, six, and Texas, 21. Only recently has it occurred to the Army that it might be more practical to bring the doctor tothe reservist—in cases where transportation of a large number of reservists is involved. The experiment of sending out a mobile medical team to outlaying sections is being tried now in Syracuse, N. Y. But the Army says it hasn't been decided yet whether this is economfcal. Army spokesmen insist the present manner of handling physicals is the most practical. They point out it is not merely a question of sending Army doctors out to examine these men —but also a complete laboratory fitted with X-ray and other specialized equipment. As for using local doctors and local equipment, the Army’s answer is that there is a scarcity of both. :

“Reserves Called”

TO DATE, the call has gone out to.109,000 reserve. enlisted men, 8432 reserve captains and lHeutenants and 1582 medical, dental and veterAdded to thif total is an undisclosed number of reservesunits—from division

. size down—whose- strength is secret,

Under present procedure, the men are sent home for 21 days after getting their physical.

* examination in order to give them time to .set-

tle their affairs. The Army points out this is an , improvement

"over the old system, still used by the, Air Force, ——of calling'the men-up-and-then-not-giving-them--

their physical until the eleventh hour. Under the old system, many men. settled their affairs after getting their call, then found themselves

-. rejected because of physical impairments.

SIDE GLANCES

. By Peter isugoi Big Three fen Ministers Handicapped i in Conference

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wasn't in the tradition of Whitehall, would have been a perfect plot for a novel of the typical British hero. Where Bevin came off the denim bolt, Acheson and France’s Robert Schuman were cut from more familiar cloth for diplomats. They came from well-heeled families and studied law at the best schools. Both are urbane and polished, cool techni: cians in statecraft. Though less suave and less thie logician, Bevin is said to have forgotten few lessons in such diplomacy as was countenaneed

TRUMAN'S VETO .

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13— President Truman has said he will veto the McCarran Bill to tighten controls on domestic Communists, and the likelihood is that he will cite the old alien and sedition laws as a reason. To a lot of Americans these laws are only a forgotten chapter in. an elementary history book. The alien and sedition laws were passed during the, presidency of Federalist John Adams

in 1798 at a moment when the young United

States was jittery over seemingly imminent war with France. Relations between the two governments were seriously strained, and on this side there were plots and rumors of plots by Frenchmen to extend the French power on this continent and try to drive a wedge between this government and its people. The ‘alien act thus empowered the President in time of war to arrest, imprison or banish aliens with whose motherland we might be at war. It was objected to because of the great arbitrary power it gave the executive. Actually John Adams made little use of it but many Frenchmen fled the country merely because it was on the books.

Invoked Against Editors

THE Sedition Law was. something else—it Was. invoked. in a.couple.of.dozen cases

cases.against.... men who had written or spoken against the

government. Most of those prosecuted were newspaper editors or pamphléteers. There was widespread conviction that judges were biased and juries

packed in these cases, and the editors punished *

wére ‘Republicans who generally supported the Jefferson as against the Federalist idea of government. The Sedition act made it a high misdemeanor

. “unlawfully to combine and conspire” to oppose legal measures of the government, to interfere

with an officer in discharge of his duty, or to

engage in-or-abet. “insurrection, riot, or unlawful...

assembly or combination.” Publication or utterance of false or malicious statements against the President or Congress, with intent to defame them or bring them into

By Galbraith NEW DEFENSE WEAPONS .

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progress of guided missile development so far because of the tight surrounding all phases of it. But in spite of inter-service conflicts over administration of the program, it is pretty well known that ‘some fairly good guided missiles are in an advanced state of development. ; And it’s the progress that we have ‘made in this field so far which really complicates the question of whether or not Uncle Sam should disrupt the present program to concentrate on the rapid creation of one type of super missile. There's “no question that an effective missile capable of delivering

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WASHINGTON; - Sept. 13—A Pentagon spokesman admits 1 that the cost of doing a rush job on developing an effective intercontinental guided missile would be less than the cost of producing the first atomic bomb, which was about $2 billion. - There has been considerable discussion among top-level defense officials about the possibility of giving an assignment to a

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handicapped by illness - which kept him away from the British foreign office for months, during Which the Korean crisis broke.

His government is faced with the job of

: pitching into a rearmament progeam just when

. By Charles Lucey

Old Sedition Law May Be Cited

disrepute or excite hatred against them or to excite sedition or opposition to U. 8. laws or to aid a hostile nation against the U. 8.—all such acts were banned. Some of the writings that drew a prosecution in those days sound about as millitant as a call to action at a temperance league meeting compared to the diatribes the Communist Daily Worker gets away with every day in 1950. But they were regarded seriously enough then to bring action against editors in” Philadelphia, Richmond, Boston, New York, Hartford, New London, Conn, and Mt. Pleasant, N. Y.

Vigorous Men

SOME of these papers were edited by vigorous men who hit hard at the Federalists. If they could be silenced then a blow was struck at the opposition to the government. And the Republicans (in that day the followers of Jefferson who opposed a strong, centralized government) believed this was indeed an effort to drive them out of business." There were other minor cases, as the action growing out of the erection in Dedham, Mass., in October, 1798, of a “liberty pole’ bearing the inscription: “No stamp act, no sedition, no alien bills, no land tax, downfall to the tyrants of America. peace and retirement to the President, long live the Vice President (Jefferson) and the minority.”

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formidable »e of Churchill, lieves there's been too much dragging of feet. And he will have to come to grips with the fact that Britain’s policy China is far afield from that of its benevolent ally, the United States. Schuman is a skepticism at heme thdt borders on defeatism, by the everpresent threat: fabor and the

arriiy, by ancient fears of a strengthened Ger-

attitude toward China, Formosa or Southeast Asia, he will be by the cer-

inhibited tainty that the attacks won't Jot up before November, at least. But in any case, neither of the three men speaks for himself. They come from represen- . tative governments with their directives and . they must report back to those governments,

"I do not agree with a word that say, but | will defend to the death your rig to say it." “Not Following Facts’

By E. W. Urfer, 923 Massachusetts Ave. To C. D. C. of Terre Haute: For many months you have been flooding the. Hoosier Forum with your blasts at the three Democratic Presidents, Wilson, Roosevelt -and-Truman: Your contributions were so absurd,

so biased, so absolutely contrary to true historical facts. You wrote: “Woodrow Wilson solved our

economic problems by taking us into war,” ete. Now, really, C. D. C., you know that you did not believe that when you wrote it. Would you have the readers of the Forum believe that you are so dumb that you think that the President has the power to take us into war without the consent of Congress? “1, for one, believe that you are resorting to the Soviet type of propaganda—trying to influence the ignorant and unthinking. For what purpose I do not know—unless you get an intense satisfaction in forcing your convictions on others, * SS ANY history of the U. 8. written since 1918 will stress the fact that Woodrow Wilson made every effort humanly possible to avert war. You lived through that period, and you know as well as I do, that he was criticized, reviled and condemned for his efforts to prevent war, His severest critics were the Republicans. You never once mentioned the fact that it was a former Republican President, Theodore Roosevelt, who was most violent in his condemnation of a President who used “milk-and-water tactics” against a nation who believed only in “a policy of blood-and-iron.” And it was TR who described the sinking of the Lusitania as “an act of piracy” and demanded immediate

“war. It was the Republican papers that ridi-

culed Wilson's “too proud to fight” note. No, C.D. C, you never brought that up because you never have a word of criticism for Republicans, or the European warlords. You

- criticize only the Democrats—they are always

~The-pole: had-been-erected bya ‘man named

David Brown, who was of probably advanced social and political thought for that time. When arrested he had in his possessipn certain papers concerning a spirit of unrest in many Massachusetts towns. He feared the U. 8. was returning to a system of “Lords and Commons” and saw a few gaining all the wealth to the détriment of the many.

Pardon Refused

MR. BROWN drew a $400 fine ard 18 months imprisonment.. He sought a pardon from President Adams when he had served most of his

quickly. when Jefferson became President. Public support for those arrested led gradually to a dying-out of Prosecutions under the law,

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reany x a =» is that the U, HERE are some of the fa¢tors being weighed in, the mattei: * There are, four general classes of guided missiles, sur-face-to-surface, surface-to-air, air-to-air and air-to-surface. Each one involves special, different complicated problems. Each one has an extremely vital mission. But if all effort were to be concentrated on the intercontinental missile, which is the surface-to-surface type,

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The one great lesson the KoWar has demonstrated . 8. must have a balanced force. a lesson very well learned if we-were to-unbalance our de- - velopment program to try to bad balance in our

- ” SUPPOSE, for instance, the government put all its eggs in intercontinental - basket and one hatched. Then the U. 8, gets in an all-out war with Russia and in the first day of fighting Red planes" swarm over the U. 8. droppin

of Russian cities had been

wrong. But, in spite of all that unjust criticism, Wilson continued his efforts for peace. There * was his “plan to compel peace,” Feb. 22, 1916, when Col. House and Sir Edwin Grey met. Here again Wilson showed his deep desire for peace. > 4 ¢ IN the face of these historical facts you persist in claiming that Wilson “took” us into war. On the same day your letter appeared, there was also a letter by John C. Hazlitt. That short letter of his was packed with common sense, In the present crisis, he puts the blame squarely where it belongs—in Moscow, not in Washington. The mere fact that the Kaiser, Hitler and Stalin tried to carry out their plans for world conquest while there was (and is) a Democratic President in the White House, is no reason why they (the Presidents) should be blamed for the wars. The shallow thinking of those people who link “the three wars with three Democratic Presidents” shows either a dense ignorance of world affairs or a hide-bound partisanship which makes one think of the old adage, “None so blind as those who will not see.” Surely, these people do not believe that, if a Republican President had been in the White House it would have deterred those scoundrels in Europe from carrying out their nefarious plans,

I THINK-one of the.weaknesses of the movies is that producers type cast an actor on the basis of their personal opinion and feeling about him instead of his ability to perform.-— Ronald Reagan, movie actor.

I NEVER did perform . .. in the nude. T only create an illusion of nudity. But I won't tell how [do it. My act...is art.—Sally Rand, fan dancer.

FORCE is the only language an enemy - of .peace understands.—Geerge. N..Cralg; national commander of the American Legion.

THE free nations of the world for once have taken time by the forelock.—Robert G. Menzies, prime minister of Australia.

. By Douglas Larsen

Creates Problems

process is liable to result in delay, with no guarantee that the ° final result will ‘be achieved

- in buying one ‘type at the expense of another.

. » . IN THE discussions of creating a Manhattan Project type organization for the development of a missile there is mentioned the possibility of having it include the develop--ment of all four classes of missiles. Evén that isn’t as easy as it sounds. Spending two dollars on research doesn't give you twice as much result as one dollar. . Two scientists don't work twice as efficiently on a research project as one. And there's the problem of taking scientists off other projects and waiting until they get sufficient briefing on AR

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