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Let Reservists Know

\F ALL the men who face the possibility of military serv*7 ice as our armed forces expand, the greatest burden of uncertainty is borne by the reservists—both officers and

enlisted men. {Prospective draftees have a pretty fair idea where they gtand. So do national guardsmen. But the mass of reservists are still in the dark about their recall status. : “This is unfair not only to these citizen-soldiers but also fo their employers. Worse still, there are increasing reports that some business firms are discriminating against reserv-. lists because they are subject to active service.

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"THE Reserve Officers Association says it has received complaints that some companies will not consider an applicant for a job, or an employee for promotion, if he is a member of the reserves. One man was summarily dismissed on the excuse that he was about to be called up, though he had had no such notification. In another case, an Air Force Reserve officer was refused a business loan because of his doubtful mobiligation status. : It's true that, in event of an all-out mobilization, all reserves of all ranks are slated to go. They knew that when they joined the reserves—joined voluntarily and with patriotic motives. But short of such mobilization, as we are today, the armed services have permitted a wide margin of obscurity to grow up. : : : . r . r - .. TO clear the picture, a committee has now been established in the Defense Department under Brig. Gen. Melvin J. Maas, former Minnesota Congressman. It will poll a selected group of employers, find out what data they need to feel safe in hiring and retaining reservists, and then recommend to the defense authorities a sharper pattern on call-ups. Also, it will try to get some assurance on the length of time reservists might have to serve in the absence of an all-out emergency. This is a wise step, for, as Gen. Maas observes, if the answers aren't found soon, “there isn’t going to be any reserve when this is over. No one is going to risk his civilian future to join units.” :

Don’t Let Down

THE welcome good news from all fighting'fronts'in Korea cannot justify any tendency to let down on the home front. Complete and early victory in that relatively minor war . is an earnest, and may be an attainable, American hope. But it will be achieved, if it is achieved, by throwing into the struggle practically all of the military power this country now has ready for action. And it could lead to ultimate, world-wide defeat if it should lull the American people and their government into «+ relaxing, instead of increasing, efforts to build greater military power with utmost speed. : » . # » # # . - IT WOULD, more probably than otherwise, encourage . the Kremlin to order Communist aggression elsewhere, thus offsetting the American prestige which would rise as a result of quick collapse of Communist aggression in Korea. No sane and patriotic American would advocate ceasing all rearmament and mobilization effort and trusting a foolish hope that the Kremlin gangsters will change their minds about wanting to conquer us, or that their tyranny will collapse, or that something else will happen to assure future peace. : : : But some would continue to believe that a gradual effort, small and slow enough to avoid seriously disturbing business and’ politics as usual, is.enough.

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SOME would continue to be for arming Western Germany, but only a little bit. ’ Lor £55 . And some would continue to be for arming our Allies . in Western Europe, but only a little bit. There is no safety in such half-measures. What's needed .is to make the free wbrld's potential strength actual, so that the Communists will be deterred from attacking or can be defeated if they attack. - If we have décided that the West Germans should be prepared to resist invasion from the East, then let's permit, urge and help them to prepare to the fullest.

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IF WE want to prevent Western Europe from being overrun, then let Western Europe do all she can to make herself strong by her own fullest efforts aided by ours.

If we don’t want our own cities bombed and our own

shores invaded, then let's go all out for preparedness. It would be cheaper and easier to attain half safety. ° But half safety, in the world as it is today, is né safety

at all It is total danger.

Well-Deserved Honor

; THE HONOR that goes to Dr. Ralph Bunche as winner of .

the Nobel peace prize is auspicious and richly deserved. It is all the more heartening because he is. an American and a Negro and was functioning as an official of the United

Nations. It was, to be sure, only a small spot in a troubled

world that he was assigned to pacify—Palestine. But it was

a particularly nificently

: IN such times as these we may have forgotten that, there is still such a thing as resolving bitter iriternational high-minded and irresistible appeals to reason, by force of arms. It’s a pity that Soviet Russia such

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NO TIME TO CHEER . . . By Oland D. Russell Four Asia Danger Areas Seen

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25—Four trouble spots in Asia—three of them with a strong potential for new Communist aggression—will bear close watching for the next few months, according to Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault (ret.). ’

Despite the apparent success of the United Nations invasion in the Seoul area, it's no time to sit back and wait for the cheering, he believes, so long as Moscow has cocked guns aimed in four directions. Recently arrived from the Far East, the former head of the war-famed Flying Tigers of China in an interview painted a grim picture of the whole broad situation in the Orient. Biggest drawback to a realistic, co-ordinated Allied approach to the over-all problem, he says,

is the British policy of trying to play ball with —

the Chinese Communists.

Fool's Dream

“THOUGH they've lost practically all their investments in China, the British still have a fool's dreapi 9f getting them back and doing a profitable business with the Communists by appeasing and trying to nurse them along,” said Gen. Chennault, “If we can't induce the British to go along with us in a hard front against the core of Soviet communism in China, we're in for a lot* more trouble than we now anticipate.” The four areas he named are: (1) the Muk-den-Antung-Yalo river triangle of Manchuria; (2) the China coast opposite Formosa; (3) Hong Kong, and (4) that region of south China lying along the French Indo-China border. : Most immediate threat is from Manchuria. The Chinese Communists have 150,000 to 200,000 well-equipped troops just across the Yalu river from North Korea under tough Gen. Lin P'iao, whose masterful strategy conquered Halinan island last spring from a much larger number of Nationalist forces. ?

. Could Make Move

. AS “pacifying” forces they could move into North Korea in a matter of hours and effectively stop us along the 38th Parallel—even if they didn't go farther south. to gave or recapture Seoul for the Communists. Regardless of adverse weather, Gen. Chennault thinks the Communists still will take ad-

-—vantage of any opportunity to move on Formosa.

Such an opportunity might arise if it became necessary to send more ships of thes Seventh Fleet to Korea thereby weakening our ~ patrol of the Formosa Straits, ST The Chinese Reds have their invasion army,

plus a Russian-plane air cover and landing ves- *

sels, poised along the coast from Swatow to Ningpo.

_ They can, of course, take Hong Kong —

ever they choose. They've seized and fortified islands in the vicinity and have the British colony well surrounded. Dispatch of two battalions from Hong Kong to Korea was a British‘ gesture, Gen. Chennault believes, to show a false confidence that

. the Communists would hold off-—a whistling.

past the graveyard. As for Indo-China, Gen. Chennault thinks

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an invasion thrust is inevitable from Red China. Communist forces are massed along the border westward from Nanning; they have completed a highway down to the border from Liuchow and are now working on a railway obviously to move. supplies to the Indo-China Reds and their own forces. : It could be a second front ordered by Moscow to relieve U. 8. and United Nations pressure in Korea—If we fall for it.

irked at British

~. ASIDE from their policy which tends to weaken the Allied front in Asia, Gen. Chennault is- particularly irked at the Hong Kong British for impounding a fleet of 71 transport planes which his company purchased from the Nationalist government last year. The planes, paid for largely by United States taxpayers and turned over the Chinese through lend-lease, UNRRA and ECA, are gradually being stripped while in British custody and turned over piecemeal to the Peking Red government. Propellers, radios, instruments and in some cases engines have been taken from the transports. and shipped northward to stockpile the Communists. :

"TOLERANCE"

Oh could but I with words and pen . . » teach tolerance for all . . , and show each human how it feels . . . to rise only to fall . . . to instill in each misled heart . . . that peace itself depends ... on how we treat our fellow man . . . and what our heart contends . . . the futile wars, the death and hate . . . that helpless souls endure . . . because this world has grown too big . . . to tolerate a cure . . . we do not need elaborate plans . . . to fly the dove of peace . . . just understand and tolerate . . . make that our real lend-lease. —By Ben Burroughs.

What, Others Say—

G. B. 8. is really modest. He regards himself as cleverer than most of us, He rather laughs at Shavians and their Shaw worship.— Miss Blanche Patch, secretary to George Bernard Shaw, wit and playwright. 3 eo oo THE breakdown of all communications and centralized control (through atomic bombing) might well enable the brave Russian peoples to free themselves from a tyranny far worse than that of the czars.—Winston Churchill, English Conservative Party leader. Ts R$ TE I DO think it is the height of immorality to call young men . . . send them off to a war from which they may nevér come home . . . and to leave others to profit and profiteer.— Bernard Baruch, World War I -mobilization director. ‘ } ¢ © ¢ , IT 1S clear that not all members of the United Nations are supporting the vital peacemaking, effort of the United Nations.—Warren R. Austin, U. 8S. delegate to United Nations.

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cal -attention than the average quiréments of combat.

experts now, frankly admit, there was-a gross waste of doc-tor-power in the services. It soured a big section ‘of the “medical profession on the servfice, and that, more than money, is why they're having to force doctors into uniform today. 8-8 » LOOKING back at World War II experience the legitimate gripes of doctors against the Army and Navy are numerous. Highly qualified specialists were given general assignments which consisted * mostly of diagnosing stomach-

- morning. A trained enlisted man could have done the job. just as well. © rit Highly skilled medicos foun themselves taking orders on how- to administer medicine from higher “ranking regular Army doctors who hadn't read

. “| do not agree with a word that you say; but | will defend to the death your right

‘Stop Liquor Advertising’ By Mrs. Arthur Howell, Pittsboro We all realize the benefits of the radio, in both entertainment and education, but the majority of us are very much alarmed by the

_ extensive advertising of liquor on so many of _ our otherwise interesting programs.

Not only should we be concerned by these liquor firms blaring forth their advertising op these programs bringing entertainment into our homes; but I feel something should be done to let our broadcasting companies know how we stand on this matter. f Considering the alarming increase of traffic fatalities due to drunken driving and the terrible atrocities committed against innocent children and women by those under the influence of liquor, I feel we should do everything in our power to protect our impressionable boys and girls against such glorification of liquor as we now hear over our radios. © o

IT IS impossible for many of us to furnish funds day after day to broadcast programs as the brewers can, but we can at least let the radio companies know where we stand. This should have some influence on their policies. I believe our views will be welcomed by these companies who ask for cards and letters to be sent to them advising them of our opinions on the products advertised over their networks. I believe this is a challenge to every good citizen to put forth every effort to see to it that our children get the best of programs and not be cluttered up with advertisements that degrade and demoralize them. -

I would also like to commend the radio stations for the good, interesting, religious educa~ tional and fine musical programs they broadcast,

‘That's Enough for Me’

By A Republican, Indianapolis To C. D. C. of Terre Haute: Don’t let that man get you down who wrote this week about you. There are many of us who agree with you whole-heartedly. There are some who just can’t take the truth. I've been a Republican all my life, but all I've ever known is taxes, wars and Democrats, I'm only 0 and a woman, but I'd still like to have a few peaceful years in my lifetime. First, there was the depression. Well, everybody blamed Hoover. He had a Democratie Congress and his hands were tied. Yet every time the country gets in trouble, Hoover is always called upon to help straighten the ~trouble out. e & ¢

THEY SAY we'd have wars whoever was in and that the President has nothing to do with them. Yet, 33 years have passed and we have had three wars under Democratic admin {strations. That's enough for me. At least the Republicans can’t do any worse than the Democrats have. ~ . Besides, when the Republicans run a man for President if they would run a Republican instead of a Democrat turned over, maybe they could do something. Hoover and Willkie were both ex-Democrats and if Willkie had been elected it would have been just another F. D. R.

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney HE Capehart ‘Dodges’ Jenner Stand

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25—Dear Boss—When Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.) arrived here to vote to override President Truman's veto of the anti-subversiyes bill, he wanted no part of Sen. William E. Jenner's (R. Ind.) assault on the appointment of Gen. George C. Marshall as secretary of defense. Back in Indiana when Gen. Marshall was confirmed, Sen. Capehart said he didn’t want to take sides in that business upon his arrival here. He was not paired either for or against the general. The appointment was confirmed 57 to 11.

Speech Praised AS SOON as Sen. Capehart arrived in the Senate chamber Sen. Jenner rushed to his side, however, and got him to put the few editorials commending the Jenner speech against Marshall into the Congressional Record. He told him that he had received numerous letters praising the speech both from Indiana and throughout the country. Next day Sen. Capehart answered the challenge of his Democratic opponent, Alex Campbell, regarding the Jenner speech by saying that he would let the Junior Senator debate the matter with Mr. Campbell on the stump. That milk-toast statement revived the rumor here that the Senior Senator isn't being supported too ardently by the Junior Senator from

Indiana. Se Sen. Capehart, the businessman-in-politics,

"is used to giving orders, not taking them. He

realizes that Sen. Jenner controls the GOP organization, however. For the only good word for his speech calling Gen. Marshall a “living lie” and “front for traitors” came from Cale Holder, Indianapolis, whom Jenner put in as Republican state chairman. This political strength of Jenner's was enough to make Sen. Capehart plunk for him for gov-

ernor two years ago when they both got beaten by then Gov. Ralph Gates. x Gov. Gates set up the nomination for Hobart Creighton, who was a pushover for now Democratic Gov. Henry F. Schricker, The two Senators had their revenge on Gates by barring him from the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee.

Wants to Be Governor LATER, however, Gates and Jenner “kissed and made up.” Gov. Gates is now counsel for the National Committee, but he doesn’t give much time tb it. Sen. Jenner still wants to be governor, His speeches here, with their unmeasured language, are based in part on his hatred of Washington. He doesn’t like any part of the national capital. : Thus two years hence, Sen. Jenner can be expected to try again for the governorship. He may consider it advisable not to have another southern Indiana man in the Senate at that time. For he could give the senatorial nomination to Gates and take the governorship and thus have a ticket balanced geographically North and South. ; :

Isolationist Sources

THE pieces praising Sen. Jenner's speech, which he got Sen. Capehart to put into the appendix of the Congressional Record, largely are from isolationist sources. ? However, Sen. Jenner says he had received considerable subrosa praise from fellow Senators, including Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D. Va.), who made a speech in favor of. the Marshall appointment. “They like hard-hitting speeches,” Sen. Jenner sald. “If I hadn't made it strong nobody would have noticed me. After all I am just a fresh man here.” :

CHARACTER STUDY . . . By Andrew Tully

Marshall Displays Lack of Warmth

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25—He is a little older and a little more wan and there is a certain poignancy to his manner that is new, but basically Gen. George Catlett Mashall hasn’t changed a bit since his days as Secretary of State. He sits in his new chair—a straight one without a swivel—as Secretary of Defense, and

there is that same old aloofness toward the.

layman’s world. Toward the intruders from that world—the newspaper reporters—he shows the same uneasiness, the same inability to get down on their level and talk with them. It is still too easy for Gen. Marshall to resent questions which he considers’ either impertinent or an affront to his dignity. And it is obvious the general has no intention of permitting anyone to regard him as one of the hired hands. He is, instead—you can almost hear him saying—a man doing his duty to his country, who would like to be let alone so he can get on with his work.

Reaction to Questions

THE result, of course, is that it's just as --tough to get anything out of him as it was ‘back in the days. of those frigid press con- ‘ ferences over at the State Department. To some questions he reacts with a studied astonish-ment-—“Do you expect me to answer that?” To others—like the one about whether his appointment was a temporary one—he shows a real ‘and vigorous anger. As for the most of the rest, he brushed them off with a terse “no comment.” Probably Gen. Marshall's biggest disadvantage in the customary free and easy maneuverings of a press conference is ‘his apparent lack of a sense of humor. Even in the discussion of the most insignificant detail, the general doesn’t seem able to relax. .

LEARNING BY EXPERIENCE . . : By Douglas Services Act to End Doctor-Power

For instance, a reporter noted that when President Truman was asked how he felt last week, the President replied he felt fine and said if anybody doubted it, let the doubter step up and try him out. Was that the way the general felt? . Gen. Marshall barely smiled—and almost

harrumphed. “Ah—no comment,” he rumbled.

Folksiness Falls Flat

HE DOES occasionally lapse into a show of folksiness, but it is the strained folksiness of a

man who's never practiced it much. Thus it.

falls flat when the general, recalling the photogs raphers who greeted him the day after his appointment, remarks, “That was where I came in 10 years ago.” A man like President Truman—or even a Dean Acheson—would have built something colorful out of an anecdote like that. : Yet, despite the total lack of warmth in the man, there is a certain aura of sadness. about him these days. You see him as a'man who has devoted his entire adult life to his country, a man who will be 70 years old in December, and a man who is tired and deserves a rest. For all the spruceness of his neat blue suit, his white shirt and carefully knotted tie, Gen. George Catlett Marshall is weary. And for all “the reassurances of all those doctors at Walter Reed Hospital,:he obviously is not as strong as he once was, ’ Then he speaks of what his appointment has done to Mrs. Marshall, of how it has plunged that gracious lady once more into what the genéral calls “an abnormal life,” and the figure of that man sitting uncomfortably in

that uncomfortable chair takes on an air of -

tragic gallantry. If nobody was looking, you'd

"be tempted to toss him a quick salute.

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a medical journal in years. oe ; Fare

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25—During World War II the services took 40 per cent of all the doctors in the U. 8. to take care of the 7 per cent of the population that was in uniform. This was done in spite of the fact that the average soldier needs less medi-

civilian, including the extra re-

the use of doctors by the services. Although it is a fact that the average civilian has more need for medical attention than the average man in service there is a reason for having a greater proportion-of doctors in uniform. The biggest rezson is geographical. Small -segments of the armed services are. scattered all over the world. But hospitals and medical services have to be available to all the men wherever they are. : 3

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per cent of the total popula-

tion under arms, and to take "only eight per cent of the doctors to take care of them. This is a far better average than ‘was achieved in World War IT. And here are some of the ways it is going to be accon i

will be given many more jobs

providing first aid and giving inoculations. A division needs about three doctors for ordinary sick call and 42 when in combat. Former practice was to keep about 70 doctors with a division whether it was in combat or not. New practice

will be to keep only three doctors with a division for sick call and increase it to 42 only when it goes into combat.

OLD practice was to organize field and evacuation hospitals with a full complement of nurses and doctors befare they were sent overseas. New methods will be to have three

doctors and ome nurse train .

‘enlisted staff of such hospitals

4n the states and only build up to full doctor strength when the hospital gets into actual -

operation. This saves hundreds of doctors for other employment,

rather than letting. them sit.

istrative duty. This work will

- be done by specialists who

aren't doctors.

" = n ~ ONE of the biggest savings of doctor-power is the flying of wounded back to the U. 8. from combat theaters. Féwer doctors working in efficient

hospitals back here can do’

the work of many doctors a hospital overseas. And the men get better attention. 'It also saves the doctors’ time one-way on-hospital ships. - There is no bitterness among Pentagon officials about have ing to draft the doctors who were trained by the govern= ment during the last war. Such training cost the

r about $25,000 per doctor. A‘ Pentagon spokesman puts ‘it:

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