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Government Propaganda THE booklet styled “our foreign policy,” just published -

by the State Department, must be the Truman administration's reply to. the similar treatise, “Background to Korea,” issued recently hy the Republican national eommittee. ’ : id " There seems no other explanation for the notable omissions, distortions and plain untruths in a document purporting to be an objective review of American foreign policy. The political propaganda of this kind should sail under its own colors, and its publication costs should not be charged to the taxpayers. The over-all subject discussed is communism and how

[ hat threat is being met under Secretary of State Acheson's

guidance by creating “situations of strength.”

THIS, we are told, has been “the whole purpose” of the ‘Marshall Plan, and the Point Four and military assistance programs. As might be expected, however, the explanation founders whenever it touches the subject of China. It is there the most obvious contradictions occur. as On Page 42, it is remarked that at the end of World War IT “the Chinese Nationalist and Communist armies were getting ready to fight a civil war over the exhausted body of China.” But on Page 90, an effort to prove there was no chance to save China includes the statement that in 1945 “the Nationalist government had undisputed control of the country,” vet failed to restore the confidence of the people. The facts, are, of course, that the Communists had held control of substantial sections of China since 1927. The Nationalists failed, this dociiment continues, despite “prodigious American aid” and “the wise counsel -of Gen. Marshall.” How helpful was this aid? According to President Truman's statement of Dec. 18, 1946, on turning over surplus equipment to Chiang Kai-shek, “no weapons which could be used in fighting a civil war were made available through this agreement.” And what was the “wise counsel” offered by Gen. Marshall? Why, to form a coalition with the Communists, the yery thing which

marked the undoing of Poland, Hungary and Czechoslo-

vakia. 3 - » . ~. » r . SUMMING up the case for itself, the State Department explains that “to intervene in what was then still unquestionably a civil war between Chinese Nationalists and Chinese Communists would have meant reversing our his-

good name—and risking defeat.” The fear of defeat may have had some validity, in view

of the weaknesses revealed in our military establishment

by our intervention in Korea: But it is dishonest to intimate that American troops had been requested. All that Chiang Kai-shek ever wanted from us was credit, arms and moral support. ’ : As to reversing our history and abandoning our principles, the State Department booklet says that “Greece was

already in a state of civil war” at the time of American in-

tervention there. Korea was involved in a civil war of even larger proportions when we intervened there last June.

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kes the interesting statement, in vidual, THE booklet also makes the infer nid SR

its review of the world situation in 1945, that “independence movements. were brewing in the Dutch and French colonies of Indonesia and Indo-China.” But it neglects to explain why American arms are being used to resist the independence movement in the French colony of Indo-China. To be sure, the revolt there is Communist-led. But so was the revolt in China. The United States might have maintained one of Mr. Acheson's. “situations of strength” by supporting Nationalist China in the same way we have supported Western Europe. But we have nothing to gain by supporting French colonialism in Indo-China, even if we win.

‘We've Flushed the Covey’

T. GEN. WALTON H. WALKER, commanding the U. 8. Eighth Army, was telling how his men were pursuing the small, disorganized enemy bands still below the’ cut-off line in South Korea. He said: mts “We have flushed the covey and we are now kicking

up the singles.” ,

It couldn't have been better put by an old huntsman

“from Texas, which Gen. Walker is. Born in Belton, Bell

County, Central Texas, it sticks out'all over that he's think-

ing even now of how he used to beat the brush on fall days,

‘behind a good dog and armed with a double-barreled shot-

gun, for a mess of quail. >

FOR the benefit of unfortunates who have never known

such delights; and in collaboration with our leading office nimrod, we'll try to translate the general's nostalgic allusion: 1 2 A : Quail travel in coveys. When you flush a covey, if you are a good shot and not too startled by the flurr of their

~.. wings, you may knock down one bird. A superior shot may -

get two, one with each barrel. And if you're real lucky, you may draw a bead just as two birds cross in flight and get two with one shot—ending with three birds on a covey rise, an extraordinary performance that you'd be entitled to brag about for the rest of the season. 5

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ONCE the covey is flushed—a covey is anywhere from _

a dozen to 30—the birds fly off in all directions, each trying to save its own feathers. So you try to spot where these birds go down. Then you take your dog to each spot in turn

and kick the single birds out of the brush, blasting away at

them one at.a time.

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Monday, Oct. 2, 1950

As any old quail hunter knows, it's when you're kickJog up the singles that youiget the most birds. ~~.

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Walsh Cause Makes Flying Trip to Speak For Democratic Colleague

. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2—Dear Boss: Rep. Andrew Jacobs, t, made a

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returning ashington week-end had some salty 1 : the “revela: tions” of Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind)

that President Truman is t Gen, t 3 , Plotting agains n “Passing through Indianapolis, I read a headline Blasts Truman.

When asked to comment, I merely sald it wasn't . news because that has been going on for five years,” Mr, Jacobs declared.

“Returning to Washington 1 expected to hear those rumors that the President was about to relieve General MacArthur. Since Homer Capehart is a Senator, I felt he wouldn't be so irresponsible as to make this yarn out of whole cloth, But the Was papers were devoted to the President's fine congratulatory message to the General.

“Therefore, it appears the ‘Capehart Blasts Truman’ was just a single gun salute to Sen.

_ William E. Jenner. The shot was heard round

“the immediate vicinity of New York and Penn--sylvania Streets in Indianapolis.

Roosevelt Favors General

“1 SUSPECT that President Truman appreciates General MacArthur and the Marines, too, He should. After all, they have forced Capehart, and Jenner to fall back from Korea to Formosa.

“Our Republican Senators shouldn't forget that it was a Democratic president—Franklin Delano Roosevelt—who displayed the greatest confidence in General MacArthur's - military leadership in World War II. President Truman has continued to do so, as his glowing message to the general in Seoul shows.”

Mr. Jacobs already had gone on record supporting President Truman's right to cancel General MacArthur's VFW m which was one of the points raised in the Capehart critfeism,

Addressing the House at the time, the Marion County pointed that the general was out of bounds in addressing himself on political matters whica are entirely within the province of the Secretary of State. He denies that either President Roosevelt or Truman ever interfered with the general in mili- , Another matter that Senator Capehart included in his anti-administration charges while addressing a GOP rally at Southport last Thursday night, Mr. Jacobs classed this portion of the senior senator’s address as being in the same category as a broadcast by radio commentator Henry J. Taylor in which he accused the President

of scrapping a plan to defeat the North Koreans

without using U. 8. ground troops.

In his own weekly broadcast at that time, Mr. Jacobs had this to say about such charges:

Men Not Substituted for Armor

“POSING as a great authority he informed the people that that war could haye been won by our Air Force and Navy without the intervention of ground troops. Of course, we all

know that the Air Force and the Navy are both there fighting with the ground troops and that the boys were not substituted for the

: ‘ armor of planes and ships, tory and our character, abandoning our principles and our _

“I need not mince words. I think that this ‘broadcast was the most evil and wicked attempt

-% at undermining your.government that I have

ever heard from a supposedly responsible source.

r fro uselessly distressing the relatives of our fighting men. Yes, for Henry Taylor, who has no responsibility, it is easy for him to say that wars can be won In the air when military history and military experience, and military men who have the responsibility of winning, say it simply can’t be done. i

Undermines Government :

“AN ADMINISTRATION, peacetimé or wartime, is subject to criticism, but such blind appeal to emotion as was broadcast by this indiHenry J. Taylor, undermines not only

posed, but it is an assault upon the government of the land he professes to love.

“With such individuals trying to thus undermine your government about the only hope we have is in the proven wisdom and discernment of the people.”

NEWS NOTEBOOK . . . By Peter Edson

Laughs in Congress

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2—One of the biggest laughs in the last Congress was supplied by Rep. Clare Hoffman, fiery Michi-

gan Republican. He is one of the House's ninute speakers on every subject. ”

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then, can he ‘recall any time when we were not in a real or synthetic emergency, when we have not been in a great crisis? Will he please rise and tell me when it was? No one is on his feet. . . . None seems to recall such an occasion.”

= - r REP. CECIL R. KING of Los Angeles rose. He is one of

the thousands,

driven back. : making a speech. But this * = =» — he a, a mouthful CAPTURE of their weapons “I am afrajd the gentleman by Proved two things. First that has implied Soviet Russia was aiding and

“I came here in January, 1935,” Hoffman said on this occasion, “and if there is anyone on the floor today who was here

visors to the Greek government sent back to the United States German-made Mauser rifles, as well as anti-tank and anti-per-sonnel mines. All were of re- . cent manufacture. Trey The rifles were captured by

tected and removed by the hundreds of thousands as the guerrillas- were - defeated and

"OHIO FIRE . . . By Paul R. Leach Torrid Battle to Beat Taft Rages

COLUMBUS, 0, Oct. 2 — They're calling it a million dollar campaign, the election battle between the Republican Sen. Robert A. Taft, and his Democratic opponent, State Auditor Joseph . , who is backed by the United Labor League of Ohio. The state campaign as a whole probably will cost a lot more than that. Each side is charging the other with putting out heavy sugar and worrying about huge sums that might come into the picture as Nov. 7 voting day nears.

If the grumbling continues there probably will be demands in Congress next January for an investigation regardless of who wins. But if any committee can ever find out in dollars and cents what the Senate campaign actually costs, it will be a miracle. A

Jacob Clayman, state CIO secretary-treas-urer and co-chairman of the United Labor League, said in Columbus that Sen. Taft's backers are spending more in Ohio than any campaign is costing In any other state. :

Faces Big Lineup

THE Labor League includes the CIO's Political Action Committee, the AFL’s League for Political Education, the United Mine Workers, the railroad brotherhoods and the independent International Machinists. :

Mr. Clayman-said labor is spending ‘“‘comparatively little,” that if the United

Labor League puts out more than $75,000 it will be ex- .

ceeding its income. : Ray Bliss, Republican state chairman, who also sits as a member of the Ohio Republican Finance Commiittee, which collects for all state

+. GOP campaigns—state, county and local—says

the whole state campaign for all Republican of- : fot cost much less than the guessers say

Mr. Bliss says he does not know now what his total outgo will be. He will have to make an accounting under state law. T

. The Taft Campaign Committee in Cincinnati will be required also to report its eollections and spending, as will the Labor League. Sen. Taft and Mr. Ferguson will have to.make individual reports to the Senate. But héw those accountings will get at total costs is the big question. 2

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Mr. Bliss points out that the Labor League is using its union headquarters for political activity without rent cost. Mr. Clayman says that the league depends for most of its personnel service on unpaid volunteers. : Mr, Bliss says he has unpaid volunteers, too, but that he has to pay many, as well as rent headquarters. x

The Republicans take a dim view of the Labor League $75,000 estimate. They point out that the 15-page -anti-Taft comic book the league is circulating cost at least 313 cents each. The printing order is reported to have been over 1 million. That alone, they say, will be $35,000.

The CIO ia seeking to collect $1 a head from its 500,000 members in this state in voluntary contributions. The AFL is asking $2 a head from 400,000 more. : ?

Mr. Clayman says actual collections for hil labor throughout the state is far under what those membership figures would indicate as likely. - »

And, he adds, he is expected to send half of what he collects from CIO members to national

PAC in W, He insists no outside CIO money is coming into Ohio. Virtually No Patronage

MR. BLISS explains that he has virtually no patronage and has to pay his help, from messengers, stenographers and press agents to county and precinct workers. There are 80,000 federal employees in Ohio, many of whom are doing their bit for the National Democratic Committee. Of 30,000 Demo-

cratic state.pay-rollers, he says, at least 6000

are active politically.

In addition to the senatorial campaign the Republican and Democratic state committees are expected to finance their candidates for Becretary and Treasurer of State and Attorney General, to say nothing of Congressional and county offices.

The Labor League is concentrating its fire on Sen. Taft, and Democratic organization men complain that they're not getting a cent from the Labor League. ’

= By Galbraith

for bread.

“Jess he did, didn’t he? ¥ %

* NOW, some smart aleck “Yes, something As a matter of historical its isolation skin and made its debut as a world power with its advent into the Spanish-Ameri-car War, : #7 a Bresident William McKinley, a Repuiffican, was Frssident. We pushed Spain out of the Western Hemisphere and acquired the Philippines, but more impo ial, we became a naval power and a great world It m our sea lanes that involved us in World War I when they met the threat of the German U-boat. The fact that we were sitting in the middle of the Pacific did not keep us out of World War II, either. ¢ & ¢ THIS is not a censure of President McKinley. America simply grew up and put on long pants. It is a pity the people did not do the same. In this atomic age, when we can talk

around the world in a few moments, when’we

ean travel around the world in- a few hours, when news is on our radios almost in seconds after the event happens, when we are so involved economically that what happens in. Bra. zil, effects our breakfast table, it is becoming sillier and sillier for these folks to run around in their mental and political rompers. Vote how you please, but face the fact, “you are a big boy and a big girl” mow, and you live in a country that has become a major power among the major powers of the world, That means “man-sized” responsibilities.

‘We Need More Like Jenner’ By G. A. Tipps, Plainfield, Ind." Sr Gutter Politics by Oscar Huston of Elletis. ville is an attack against a man who has youth, energy, and above all—the rea] American guts to come out and speak what he thinks is right. As far as Bill Jenner not being dry behind the ears yet, this is only an excuse of Oscar's to let off pent-up Democratic steam. After all, did Oscar ever vote for Bill Jenner? Isn't it true, that Gen. Marshall gave up China (maybe on. Harry's orders) but neverthe-

¢ OSCAR states that Bill Jenner is unfit to represent the voters of Indiana. I say he 18 one of the truest outspoken GIs that we have ever-

had in Washifigton, and we do need more like

him up there. As far as putting the “hex” on Homer Capehart, I believe that Sen. Capehart is big enough, old enough, and still carries in his makeup from being a warrior from World War I enough coyrage to take care of himself, No, Oscar, I am beginning to think that these GI Joes, who battled for you and others in World War II have got too much on the ball for you—no, we will not retire him to Bedford. The citizens of Indiana need more like Jenner, who will speak out against those WHO rant to sell America short. hy closing, “Oscar,” let's don ; on our GIs who are in the vg be Bard and find the truth, then expose the corruption of the Democratic administration without fear of personal reprisals. - it

‘Fine Public Service’

By Shirley N. Harman, President, League 2 - Women Voters. o

It is indeed. gratifying to observe the public service The Indianapolis Times is hee in reminding voters to register., x We have been to find that many, many citizens do not know that a voter may register in any registration branch, whether or

_ hot the voter lives in that ward or precinct.

We believe some emphasis on that point might be helpful in that the congestion rs

_ the. evening hours could be relieved for em-

ployed people who have no other time available, Women t register at a branch adjacent to some club or church meeting location. Salesmen/ customer calls could stop at any registration branch they see in operation. This,

,of course, is in addition to the regular 4 1 year« “round registration handled at the Court House.

PRICES . . . By Earl Richert

Your Bread Dollars

of every dollar you spend

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The Bureau of Agricultural Economics says that's more than the baker and the grocer took out lar in 1947. ! os

The farmer's share, meanwhile, has dropped, the bureau says.) In 19047, the wheat farmer was getting 23 cents of

“the bread dollar. Now, his

share:is down to 17 cents. . - .

THE miller's share has

dropped from 5 to 4 cents per

bread dollar and the shares of all others involved in the bread

. process from 11 to 8 cents.

" The bureau's study revives the argument between the Agriculture Department and the American Bakers Association about bread costs. It already has brought a hot an-

~ swer from the association. : . #

comp! Agriculture Department neglected to mention the bakers’ and ers’ increased costs, particularly for labor. He called this “a glaring

“These statements,” said Mr.

a ; ~ BERG of the Afr Force has culture es BranRep. King replied quietly in - : : : 2 Sa ture one of the most amusing under- rt Bpology 10 the "Sergeant, how do you tell an officer that her slip is showing?” yan, oo yay: she Sonpre aston Hatemants of the yeaf: “1 To a Na fe Sah Ther ib ic cent In 1947 and Tf per cent in vew's checkad.” * development of the mew RAM VOIVIig use of SOCIAL Security Adminis. 1949, received by the retailer AGAIN the House members fucigst Which has beet 0 effeos Bad, been Soakug in thelr 120s tration is up to its neck pre- and baker, represent profit to guffawed. What they knew and knocking out Russian \a long time, paring loose-Jeaf manuals of what Rep. Hoffman apparently Sank to Hotes: Iufolsern scientists heard that instruction for their field of- 8, 4 far from I6e tuth, King had just been renomi- ! that the RAM was a Vanden: rea were bouncing off the Rus- fices, covering changes in so- realize.” : nated for office as the candi- berg development, came outof Sian T-34 tanks’ heavy armor, cial security laws made by last : an date of both the Republican Gen. MacArthur's headquar- they got immediate permission congress. New regulations MR. McCARTHY said the and Democratic parties of his ters: It said that Gen. Vanden !0 Speed up on the RAM pro- ,._.\ bo jesued to make {n- Profits of the baking ind California district. ~~~ berg had dreamed up the pro- ject. In fact, four days after. creased benefits conform with = COnfistently had been amo s =» ject aftér his visit to the Ko- they got the ‘full-speed-shead 5 : the Towest in the food field, NO issue was made of it at rean front, and the Navy order, they were testing one of the 48 differing state laws. averaging Jess than four cents the time, but many of the arms had started them at ' the new rockets on a tank. Among other moot questions - on each dollar of sales over used by Communist guerrillas. ts Inyokern, Calif. develop- Apparently someone eager to which have to ‘be decided are, the years. . in the Greek war of 104840 ment center. ~~ please Gen. Vandenberg linked . “Who is a wife™ and "Are {l- He said labor costs had gbne : SEE Ai his with the project. Ae- legitimate children entitled to tha

- bread. In 1947,

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labor costs amounted to only. 38 per cent. Also, he said, costs have ‘gone up and are still increas. ing om pant equipment, dee very wrapping materials, taxes, overhead, main tenance and repair. : »,oo et : IUESE Sosa should be ihe clu show the true pice. ures Bb sald. The Agriculture Department never has accused : the bakery and grocery indus. tries of making undue charges

on bread although that is the

impression created “thei ted by eir

The department, in analyzing where the consumer's bread

‘-dollar goes, never has gone

into the cost components that;

they are justified. It reports.

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