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Have We Sold Out? Fer weeks now, reports have been coming out of Lake Success and Washington that the United States, Britain and India are in on a secret and sordid appeasement deal with Red China. Speculation—with evidence to back it up—runs that we have agreed to go along with Britain and India in recognizing the Chinese Communists, granting them a seat on the United Nations Council, kicking out the Nationalist representative and permitting the Reds to take Formosa after the war. For ‘their part, the Chinese Reds would stay out of Korean hostilities and keep hands off Britain's prized crown colony, Hong Kong. ] Sen. Britiges (R. N. H.) accused the State Department _of plotting such a sell-out. He cited as evidence that Russia’s Jacob Malik three weeks ago told the Security Council .a Korean settlement could be had if Communist China were admitted tor the United Nations.

~ » . » ” - THIS was followed, last Friday, by a Security Council decision on a 7-to-3 vote to invite spokesmen of the Peking regime to come to this country and be heard in their com‘plaints about American “invasion” of Formosa. Thus, for the first time, the. Chinese Reds were permitted to get a foot in the United Nations door. Though the United States voted against the permissive resolution, Sen. Bridges says, “it now seems obvious that the U. S. delegation, on instructions from the Secretary of State, made no real effort to block this move.” ‘The State Department has denied that, and The Times hopes that all such reports are untrue. It is, indeed, difficult to believe that President Truman would assent to any such deal by his Secretary of State— however determined Mr. Acheson may be, on the face of

past performances, to sell out Nationalist China. } » -

~ - ” » TO recognize the Chinese Reds, buying their temporary “neutrality on the eve of a brilliant victory in Korea, would isan repeating and compounding the fateful errors of Yalta and Potsdam. If a sell-out is in the making, as Sen. Bridges and others have charged, the parents of the 17,000 American dead, wounded and missing in Korea should know about it. If it isn’t, President Truman should, once and for all, and not resting’ on a State Department interpretation of the facts, set these gravely disturbing reports at rest.

Not a Question of Morals MONG the signposts of inflation, consider a couple-of Washington dispatches. One, quoting an unnamed “high government economist,”. said that “unjustified price increases by business” were . forcing the government reluctantly toward price and wage controls that might otherwise not be needed. The second article reported that consumer credit had reached nearly $21 billion in August. How much higher that figure became by Sept. 18, when the Federal Reserve _ Board imposed its mild instaliniént-buying restrictions, we will learn some time later when the statisticians catch up on their statistics. Another figure to consider in this connection is the $40 billion Americans have gone into hock buying homes,

mostly on mortgages guaranteed by the government. .

° - Ld » ~ » IN THAT first news dispatch, the “high government economist” advanced a moral argument. He said that ‘on home appliances, aluminum, steel and other commodities, many business firms had increased prices more than could be justified by increased costs, and despite already adequate profit margins. ; Trouble with this argument is that morals have almost nothing to do with prices in a free market where buyers and sellers meet to exchange dollars for goods. In a depres"sion, sellers will sell for less than cost when they have to get dollars. And in a booming market it is straining human nature too far to expect that sellers will continue long to charge a lower price than buyers are eager to pay.

n . = a 8 ) EVER since the war broke out in Korea and the gov-

ernment announced its mammoth multi-billion armament

program, atop an already inflated economy, buyers and sellers have been doing just what comes naturally. ‘Remembering what happened in the last war, buyers have been trying to lay in goods they think will become scarce, and sellers have been selling at a price they anticipate will be necessary to replace the goods they sell. Buyers - are using not only plentiful dollars in hand, but also bor. rowed dollars provided by government-sponsored credit. As to those costs of replacing goods, you need only observe what labor unions are demanding and getting. In the labor market labor is the seller and is getting a seller's price, pushing the replacement costs up. : » = = ! : r° on 2 ONLY the government seems not to remember what happened the last time. The government is repeating the same mistakes, Doing not enough, too slow. Those of us whose incomes have not increased since the fighting started, which means most of us, are finding it harder to pay for our groceries and fuel and clothing and other every-day living costs. : The Only way to end this vicious spiral is to freeze everything across the board. Would have been easier three months ago when the fighting started. today than tomorrow. Spreading a WATTERS seemed to have gone about as far as they =" could go when those girl telephone company employees

at Miami confessed, the other day, to the theft of thousands

* of dollars in rolls of 25-cent pieces which “their brassieres. ; -Now, however, police at Keene, N. J., report the arrest ~ of a 33-year-old woman, accused of shoplifting, who had in her brassiere two toy guns, a necklace, a bracelet, five toy automobiles, a small jack o'lantern, two pairs of ties and a pen and pencil set. It makes a man wonder What's the limit to the spread of this sort of thing.

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1 In Social Security

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5—After 10 years of

suffering from rising living costs, people de-

pending on Social Security checks this week find .

themselves—theoretically, ‘at least—about back where they started. REE a And the inflation merry-go-around that made

life so difficult for them in the past is whirling

The average Social Becurity recipient this

week gets a 77 per cent increase in his govern-

ment check—the first ments since Social Security started. of living has increased 73 per cent since 1939. So the larger payments should restore the Social Security check’'s 1939 purchasing power and proyide a little extra.

ASIA . . . By Clyde Farnsworth

increase in size of pay-

Red China May

Be the Winner

Big Advanlage Seen in Passivity of U.S. Policy

LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. 5—If the Chinese Red regime keeps its nose reasonably clean at this juncture of the war in Korea, it stands to be the real winner. It can thank the ‘passivity of American policy makers for that opportunity. First payoff to the Chinese Reds would be the chance of joining the Communist bloc in the United Nations—temporarily at first but before long on a membership basis—to help Russia needle the United States and advance the cause of world confusion. Subsequent dividends may include bloodless acquisition of Formosa, elimination of the last Chinese Nationalist resistance under Chiang Kai-shek and extermination of a growing resistance to Communist rule on the China mainland. To the Chinese Communists all of this is worth waiting for. For this reason, as unpalatable as it may be, it is generally doubted here that reported reinforcement of the North Koreans from Manchuria would pan out as big-scale intervention by Peking.

Plenty of Leeway

FOR no matter what solution is found for Korea Communists, neighboring Manchuria and

_ Siberia still will have plenty of leeway for un-

dercover action in Korea. It therefore seems unlikely that Peking was about ‘to try to rescue the North Koreans from their disastrous adventure. It would be much simpler to count upon confusion, ignorance and indecision among the United Nations to produce a weakened and negotiated peace. Open Chinese Communist intervention in Korea undoubtedly would bring reversal of &n American policy that has starved Chinese Nationalist opposition to the Reds and sought a settlement with Peking. It would array nonCommunist members of the United Nations more or less solidly against Red China. Red China might thus expose herself to direct retaliatory attack by a revived Nationalist government as well as by other United Nations forces. That might be a third world war. If not, it could be the end of Red China and the Far Eastern bulwark which Russia has counted on to avoid fighting on two fronts.

Pivots on U. S. Policy ;

THIS whole speculative picture pivots back to the declared policy of the United States not to raise its voice against any United Nations majority sufficient for seating of the Chinese Red delegation. Shi As matters stand Red China's first bow before the United Nations—for of attacking “American "—depends on what she does at this critical juncture in Korea. e United States has passively compro-

. mised on that point—not merely to clinch an

advantage in Korea but as a gesture of appeasement for Peking. As for seating the Chinese Reds, the effect of our innocent sounding declaration is abandonment of leadership among smaller nations whose self-interest has not already driven them to appeasement. = ; But at -the same time State Department sources insist that the United States will not recognize Peking as the legal government of China.

Academic Exercise

WASHINGTON'S equivocal policy toward the Chinese Nationalists seems now to consider Formosa, not a8 & stra =

tegic troubled world but merely as an academic ex-

ercise in international affairs. Chinese Nationalists who ; first construed assignment of the U. 8. Seventh Fleet to pro-

tection of that island as recognition at long:

last of Formosa’s strategic value were jolted by President Truman's recent disclosure that the action was merely subsidiary to Korean intervention and that the fleet. would be withdrawn upon peace in Korea. Many Americap military men, including Gen. MacArthur, fail to see eye to eye with the State Department on. Formosa’s place strategy. A representative of one military agency in close touch with the Far East says Communist acquisition of Formosa would en-

. ~hance the military potential of the Chinese Reds

by 80 -per cent. : .

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By Talburt

NEW DAY IN POLITICS . . . By Charles Lucey GOP Blasts in Mass Production

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5—Political ballyhoo has come a long way from billboards, candidates beaming from telephone pole lithographs and lapel buttons glowing with witty sayings. There's a new day in this business, and the politicians are beginning to apply all the smart advertising techniques used by mass-production America to merchandise ‘autos, bath salts’ and lawn mowers. :

Witness the near-magic workshop being run -

here by the Republican Congressional Committee, designed to make campaigning a breeze for the GOP candidate who wants to be most effective in tearing Harry Truman and the Democrats into small shreds. Under Chairman Leonard W. Hall (R. N. Y.) and Robert Humphreys, publicity director, the committee had made-to-order productions for the candidate who wants to use television, movjes built around cartoons and charts, dramatized radio spot announcements designed to capitalize on every weakness in the Truman administration, newsletters, street interview techniques, etc.

Reordings Available

ONE recording available to every GOP can-

ments, all doné to a fine prefessional turn. To cite a couple: 5 ’ Sound of‘ ‘booing comes over microphone, rising in volume. A voice tells the listeners

. ‘that’s the way they feel about Joe Stalin. But—

“I like old Joe—he's a decent fellow.” Harry Truman said it, of course. Voice identifies the quote, observes this doesn’t sound like a President who understands communism. Then there's talk of playing cozy with Stalin, and a reminder Mr. Truman vetoed the McCarran anti-Communist bill, * And another:

Sound of marching feet. Voice asks dramat- . jcally whether listener is marching with com-

munism. Of course not, says voice—you're a loyal American. Voice says it wants that kind of free, prosperous America, and no falling for “Socialists or Communist bunk.”

Then there are cartoon movies for use by candidate or campaign worker in a small, easily

By Galbraith

SHORTAGES . . .

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next year. : This whole business is 4 r:w wool. Last January, the best grade of scoured Woo sold on the Boston market for $1.58 a pound. At a recent market

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Soaring Prices on Wool ~~ WASHINGTON, Oct. 5—The prospect is that a $10 pair of is—which now cost $18 may soon cost

up to $30. Translating this into D suit which used to cost $45 now costs near $75 and may go to $90

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the price. a a NTS fi : as | $17 billion oppictental one. But this experiment is a oT Int Srlon Dat SToptla contained NOt far enough along to tell in July but is just now ge passed ple Bin 1 the gov- how successful it will be. into full production (about 815 ovis Selering 308 Soy Main reliance on making million pounds a year), emSenin Gt he three best Available wool supplies cover pioying 500 people. It reprepounds pod gp If some- as many backs as possible 18 seritsa $7 million re arch fo. : grades of | . wool, being placed on still greater gram $15 million in plant: enough to have ordered that a rh a RL Siu Te ont ov bean sare, "ings, Une of ese Modi estan to. sunlight and ul i Ne aya principally rayon, with some violet rays. It is at present SO ACUTE is the world wool ~~ nylon—has been the principal eable, pnd is - supply situation, an interna- factor in keeping down the ' only as an” off-white. But it tional wool study group is price of clothing in the past can be bleached and it meeting in London this month. year. - : be pigmented as the filament

transportable movie projector. The titles tell “the story: 3 - It's de-

“Korea—the price of appeasement.” scribed as a “color strip umentation of the administration's five-year of appease-

ment of the Soviet Union dating from Yalta and culminating in the invasion of Korea.”

‘Creeping Socialism’ “$95 BILLION — what went with it? It's’ called a “striking visual presentation” of the American position on arms preparedness ‘when the North Korean Communists struck. “America’s creeping socialism,” which describes the Democrats’ advocacy of a “Socialist program.” Z > And finally, “the Brannan plan,” a cartoon presentation which, a descriptive booklet says, farm experts call “devastating.” Candidates must provide their own projectors; the committee provides the films and the narrative accounts accompanying them. Mr. Humphrey says 250 of the machines are in use now and new orders are coming in every day. The committee had a projector redesigned without expensive gadgets and candidates are grabbing it up. It's being used at women’s meetings, in hired halls and on the sides of buildings. . “Television will play a part in many conprobably affect every contest,” the committee advises candidates. i So up comes the committee with five TV productions which can be fitted to any candi- _ date’s campaign. Two are on Korea. one on communism, one on lack of military preparedness, one on hidden taxes. Lien oh

‘I Like Old Joe’

SAMPLE of the TV production on communism: : Cartoon shot shows Mr. Truman saying communism is a bugaboo, then flashei a shot of FBI boss, J. Edgar Hoover saying it's a fifth column. The Truman “I like old Joe” theme is used again, with the next shot showing Stalin choking a prostrate China. : The congressional committee staff also has turned out a series of advertisements adaptable to each candidate's campaign. :

By Peter Edson

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suits of clothes, a prewar wool ket auctions.

tion, however, that ‘his big surplus was used up in less than five -

years... With production at new low levels, along came new the de-

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all Tales for Capehart’ ie By Mrs. Walter , Indianapolis There is an eight-page political propaganda pamphlet being mailed free to eligible voters of Indiana which tells some “tall tales” of Indie ana’s own Sen. Homer Capehart. These wonderful stories, unequalled by any folklore we have ever heard before stem from a purely political standpoint. intending to capture all the ignorant votes in this year's congressional election. The “tall tales” run something like this: “Wal, sir, it happened on a night in June that out of a poor peasant tenant farmer family

‘sprang Little Homer. “He has been ihe Hercules of the hilly coun~ .

try of southern Indiana ever since and believes that all hard-working people should send him back to Washington as a reward for his great ness and dignity n has added to labor.” ® ¢

WARNING to voters: We should not over look Jenner, the Paul Runyon of the limestone es, who makes big talk because he says: language to be noticed.”

would also lend dignity and greatness to those who earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, for bread is all they will get if they send Capehart to do their voting for them.

‘Big Help From Neighbors’ By Mrs. J. R. Beck, 1407 N. Luett St. Our neighbors have recently proved to us what it means to live in a neighborhood like ours, My husband was in the inactive reserve

~ of the Army. He was ordered to report for a

physical and in five days ordered to active duty, Like many couples, we've never built up a savings. Each time we put aside a little a need arose to use it up. : Our neighbors gave a block party and in addition, asked a few of our close friends and our family. As a gift they made up a “kitty” and gave us $110. This, along with two final pay checks, will carry us until we have an allotment : - My husband was able to leave his family with an easier mind knowing we wouldn't have to borrow in order to meet our financial obli= gations. It was made possible, through the goodness of our neighbors. We can’t begin to thank them—we don’t know who donated or how - much-but we do know they've eased a situation that looked impossible to handle. We're ever so grateful and hope some day we can repay each and everyone in some way for all they have done for us. .

‘Dirty Politics’

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TEN "AS FOR increasing produc that takes time, Mother Nature can’t be hur-

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ABOUT half of the summer

By F. M., Indianapolis, It is with an intermingli of disappointment, disgust, and revolt that I watch this fail political campaign unfold. ih It is not going to be bitter, it is going to be slimy and stinking. Every tactic known to dirty politics is being brought out. Every scrap of information is going to be distorted to inflame the public mind, and to appeal to the prejudices and hates of various groups. * NM Ho THE everlasting pit of it is that this form of government can never achieve the great heights it deserves by such campaigns and SE ot 0 us the political parties are not going to be decent about it. It is up to the press of this community to do something about it. They can show this filth up for just what it is. That is why I am writing this letter to The

Times. It seems to be one ~ an event Without portions Corina i ean iw

PEACEFUL MOMENTS

When I walk through a wooded dell . . . or down a shady lane ... my troubles stray and worries seem . . . to disappear like rain... like magic I approach a place . . . that fills my heart with love . . . a real complete contentment that

‘+a + is sent from up above . . . the gentle falling

leaves that form . .. a carpet for my feet ... crackle out a gleeful tune , . . to brighten my

. + . but yet it’s really true . . . for I am walking through the woods . . . beneath the skies of blue « + » Oh peaceful moments that are mine . . , while wrapped in nature’s arms . . . and sharing all her wonders . . . all her greatnéss and her charms . . . oh trees and flowers, bubbling streams . . . you are the answer to . . . my

.troubled heart, my worried mind . . . are lost

when I'm with you. —By Ben Burroughs,

Clothes Forecast more . than raking -in- the

The Du Pont Company's new “orion” thread 1s - not far enough along to affer any . great hope to alleviate the shortage. Hailed originally as a synthetic .wool, the orion fil . ament does have many of the -* properties of a wool. But it is being produced now only as a monofilament, and not as a short staple for spinning into thread. :

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- willbe represented. An effort suitings—tropical worsteds and - into indus uses, ‘will be made to allocate avail- the like—were made of these for cordage and tenting. It w able supplies at prices agreed = blends. Wool content of these ~ be some years before it y on by the allocators. * . suits was reduced from five find use as an extender in fab- = all such pounds to three. For next rics, to relieve the wool shortmoves will be fought by the summer, worsted nylon blends age. Its price now is between. Australians, who are the prin may contain only two pounds rayon and fylon. Eventually, cipal wool producers. They are of {wool. it may be cheaper than nylop. : i § 25 Sd = ry 1 inna of - ie

seissoring - tI satin ribbon, A. Hook, wid er at his side

where taking their mo Hook's wen pressions, peri . alone can Ke . life in a busin wars, ” EDWARD F ing partner of A. Hook, was He's president . ager. And Mrs present along Hook and the 1 family. From a lit .store at Pros Sts. in 1900, H to 58 stores, 2 town, the othe bigger towns ana.

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* Radio Rach HERE'S A G der than hops. the hotel radio him bluing the you seldom ses in Hemingway. He says the table radios in » AND THERE the door where notice says: “A “radio is room for Y¢ There will be cents per day “If you do the radio, pl cashier at on ‘can be remo room. Otherwis that it meets proval for us radio to your “Your co-ope preciated.

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Royal Roa ROYAL TY] tHe bell with i year in’ history. Earnings for July 31 were $: i net sales of $4: But Royal h: shake the morie $2,739,295 from and miscellane bons, carbons, filled the till to Walter Teer, town, with offic of Commerce B . ~ that there'll be table soon, smo and finger. Cory's Cou ‘THE CORY number one in bought the Ni turns them out And that put the heap in the making trade: . “The battle of over, J. W. Al