Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1950 — Page 16
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A Challenge Unmet
T the outset of his speech last night, President Truman " said: 3 “There is no substitute for personal conversations with “the commander in the teld who knows the problems there from first-hand experience. He has information at ‘his fingertips which can be of help to all of usin deciding upon the right policies in these critical times.” After all the dramatic build-up of the Truman-Mac-Arthur meeting on Wake Island, it seemed for a moment that an eager American public was about to be told some details of that conference. But the disappointing facts are—as disclosed by the remainder of the speech: i There is no change in sight in the Far Eastern policy of the United States as a result of the Truman-MacArthur talks. If Gen. MacArthur was asked for his ideas on such matters as Formosa and Red China, the President did not considér them worth reporting to the people, In any case, the MacArthur suggestions-—he must have had some—are not going to be adopted, except in so far as they substantiate the existing concepts of the Truman administration and its advisers and as they fit into their global design. - ” . . ” » » IT CANNOT be denied that Gen. MacArthur, from his vantage point of 13 uninterrupted years in the Far East as a field commander and administrator, is the best informed American with regard to the entire Asiatic situation. And, since this newspaper is convinced that Gen. MacArthur has been consistently right through these years, and the President and State Department too often wrong, we agree with Harold Stassen’s challenge to Mr. Truman: If the President is not willing to commit himself at this late date to follow Gen. MacArthur's advice, he should explain in detail to the American public why not. This Mr. Truman conspicuously did mot do last night.
FOR A couple of days we nursed the hope that the President would take the people into his confidence about what he had learned at. Wake Island. There he was, a
man who had never been in the Far East, taking his
advice from State Department officials, who also had very little first-hand knowledge of Asiatic problems. And he made a 14,000-mile round trip and had Gen. MacArthur fly a total of 4000 miles. What a marvelous opportunity for the President to get a real “briefing” on affairs in that part of the world where the Truman-State Department policies had so failed that lost prestige could be recaptured only at the cost of 24,000 American casualties. : But Mr. Truman reduced “briefing” to absurdity. He “briefed” it down to an hour and a. half of private conversation with the one American whose operations in the'Far East have been a signal success—plus two hours more where the advisers carted along from Washington sat around the table. The public still does not know who did the listening and who the talking. It was in sharp and pitiful contrast to President Roosevelt's meeting with Gen. MacArthur in Hawaii in the midst - of World War II. FDR devoted all the time that was need to discuss strategic problems, asked the general to stay over with him an extra day, and, over the opposition of other advisers, approved the MacArthur plan for reconquest of the Philippines. Mr. Truman's speech was—otherwise okay. Although it failed to deal specifically with the growing problems of the Far East, it was an admirable restatement of American policy in general — peace through strength. : Mr. Truman believes that the prompt reaction of democratic nations against aggression in Korea had given the free world a new confidence. But he sees no diminishing of communism’s threat. to democratic countries. So long as the Soviet Union and its satellites persist in maintaining armed forces of great size and strength and in using them to intimidate other countries, he said, “the free men of the world have but one choice if they are to remain free. They must oppose strength with strength.” Despite the notable omissions in His address, we are glad the President came back from his conference with Gen. MacArthur “with increased confidence in our longrange ability to maintain world peace.”
Nehro's No Help INCE Korea a lot of bouquets, have been tossed at
India, especially in United . Nations circles, for her seeming effort to enact the role of a neutral ;
The picture fixed in many western rhinds is that of ~ the most infiiential country in Asia doggedly maintaining
a middle-of-the-road course while the Communist and antiCommunist worlds battle it out. But that picture is soon going to be subjected to a more realistic sgrutiny if Prime Minister Nehru keeps on with such policy-shaping statements as the one Monday. If Communist China had been admitted to the United Nations, he said, the Far Eastern crisis would not have arisen—"“China is more -unified than ever in previous history, yet she is ignored. We feel very strongly about - this.” 4: TLS ET a9 # : THE Indian leader also bitterly criticized the crossing of the 38th Parallel by United Nations forces—a decision made by United Nations, of which India is an active and vocal member. = : i Some apologists for the growing anti-American feeling in India, generated downward to the people, are prone to talk of the subtleties of the Asian character, which Mr. Nehru says we do not understand. a Such statements by Mr. Nehru do not make. our understanding easier, nor contribute to India’s reputation a neutral, nor enhance India’s position as a leading
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would not be possible if rank and file Nationalists, who form such a large part of the population, had a better alternative to turn to than the discredited Bao Dai. This ex-emperor playboy never had much chance of providing an effective government or of winning the loyalty of the people. Even that
DEAR BOSS . ... By Dan Kidney
Democrats Seen
Dodging Issues Campaign May Not Follow Party Lines
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18—Dear Boss—Ducking such Fair Deal issues as the Brannan Plan and compulsory health insurance isn’t likely to do Indiana Democrats any good in the opinfon of old political hands on Capitol Hill, One of the top-flight House staffers summed it up this way: “Whenever Democrats start talking like Republicans they get trimmed.” Since Indiana rates as one of the most politically-minded states, he cited the 1044 presidential election to prove his point. In that campaign Gov. Henry F. Schricker and U. 8, Sen. Samuel D. Jackson sought to trade places. Both. largely ignored FDR and his New Deal. They were defeated. Instead the Hoosier voters sent Homer E. Capehart to the Senate and Ralph Gates to the governorship on the GOP ticket. Two years ago Gov. Schricker returned to the statehouse by backing President Truman and the Fair Deal on the stump. His personal following plus Republican feuding, caused him to sweep in, while Truman failed to carry the state, but there was no pulling of campaign punches on the Democratic platform,
On the Defensive
A HALF dozen Democratic freshmen came here to join Rep. Ray J. Madden, Gary. They were elected as Democrats running on the Fair
Deal ticket, Most of them stuck with it in the -
roll-calls. But at the last presidential veto, the anti-Red McCarran measure, all balked and voted with their four Republican colleagues to over-ride. Then they went home and from newspaper accounts some of them have been trimming ever since. They haven't peeped about the Brannan Plan and the doctors have them scared with their American Medical Association cry against “soctalized medicine.” . « They are on the defensive and that is a bad place for administration men to be. Some reportedly are even trying to “make like Republicans.” If the voters want that they will take the real McCoy, observers here believe, ' ° A living example of how standing foursquare. on the New Deal-Fair Deal platforms and winning is Rep. Michael J. Kirwan, Youngstown, O. He has never trimmed and has been coming back here with Increasing majorities ever since 1936. Now he is chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. And his hest “advice to the boys” is “be Democrats.”
No Clear Choice i)
SHOULD the Indiana candidates stick to that rule, the issues in the state would be clearly drawn, For there are no Republican New Dealers running this time. Thus the voters would be given a clear choice. It is the failure to draw such lines that is fouling up the two-party system according to a report just made by a’ committee of the American Political Science Association -after four years of study. This 30,000-word report was compiled by 15 men and one woman representing leading universities. : : . The irate scholars declare that “the parties are now probably the most archaic institution in the United States,” since they were formed on. sectionalism and haven't changed much since the Civil War, (IEE
Elections Meaningless,
ANYONE can be anything within either one, the report maintains in a few thousand wellchosen words. That makes midterm elections particularly meaningless they found. To illustrate the point they citpd Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.), saying in 1941: “I see no reason why each Congressman and each Senator should not run on his own foreign policy.” i : The professors include specific proposals to strengthen parties so that national issues can be clearly presented. They would revise the electoral college, institute majority cloture in the Senate, deny the right-of party rebels to head congressional ° comniittees, redistribute House seats on a basis of population, lengthen terms of House members from two to four years and make their election synchronize with presidential contests so national issues could outweigh local issues, : ?
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By James Daniel -
Transportation Troubles Grow
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18—The transportation industry has been given & new wailing wall for its troubles, which daily are becoming more like those before and during World War II. He is James K. Knudson, a 44-year-old Mormon lawyer who worked in various jobs for the Agriculture Department, mainly in the transportation field, from 1934 until last spring.
At that time he was appointed to the Inter-
state Commerce Commission as its youngest member. : Mr. Knudson is director of the new Defense Transportation Administation, set up under the ICC to carry out the. President’s economic control powers as they affect rails, motor carriers, inland waterways, lake carriers and port utilization, - The ink was hardly dry on Mr. Knudson's
~ appointment before the American Trucking As-
sociation, Inc., had him to New York to address their convention, and suggested a Federal appeal to the states to ease enforcement of their highway weight limitations,
Roads Damaged
THIS was done in World War II, resulting in immeasurable damage to the nation’s highways. Mr. Knudson intends to appeal for uniformity In state regulations, but he says he won't ask the states to go above the 18,060 pound axle load which the Association of State Highway Officials recommends as the maximum. The railroads have a sadder story to tell Mr. Knudson. They're failing to meet their orders for freight cars by 300,000 a day. Millions of bushels of wheat are on the .ground in the Midwest. Mr. Knudson is taking the heat off the railroads by pointing out there are no elevators able to take more wheat right now even if the farmers got the freight cars. Meanwhile, he’s trying to force shippers to unload freight cars in four days by restricting
“the movement of additional freight cars into
congested areas where empties are backing up.
of Health, revealed here.
‘tection ‘ard defense methods. These in turn will train other scientific and technical personnel, :
2 ® 8 : : . THE training is needéd be-
: gaged in usual peacetime operations are not familiar
in germ warfare detection. Laboratory directors must be prepared to detect and frustrate attempts to produce germ
the few statements that has been made by a government official on this hush-hush sub-
Loudest cry of the railroads is for steel. Only a year ago the freight car builders were laying off men and begging for orders. Now the demand is for steel to build 100,000 more freight cars in the next year, and Mr. Knudson may ask the National Production
Authority to allocate steel for 100,000, or even
150,000 additional freight cars a year hence. Need for Steel . THIS will cut into the civilian economy. The Association of American Railroads figures the need of steel for new rolling stock is 220,000 tons a. month, with “many times” more required for maintenance, repair and operation. In fact, they won't tell the public how much steel they're seeking, for fear of -prejudicing their case. Other forms of transportation have recited their hard luck stories. The diaper washers, anticipating a new crop of war babies, have asked for special consideration, as have the hearse makers who want more steel for bigger and heavier conveyances. The automobile manufactures have argued that the family car is still the most reliable method of evacuating bombed cities. The pickup-and-deliver laundries figure on more women in war industries who will be sending the shirts and the sheets out, and they're asking for help. Also, the taxi people want to be given a preferred status,
Critical Occupations
80 FAR Mr. Knudson has not made apy
moves in the manpower field although he's preparing a list of critica: occupations for Seléctive Service (likely to be deferred: Diesel engine drivers, tugboat operators, master mechanics). In the last war the Office of Defense Transportation actually operated some struck transit lines, and Mr. Knudson reserves the right to
intervene if any strike situation seriously in-
terrupta the flow of war goods and troops.
NATIONAL HEALTH . . . By Jane Stafford
"what it takes . . . to make
"I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."
‘Root of All Evil’
. By F. M, Indianapolis.
I have no wish to enter into any discussion based on “if” and “if not” because we could “if" ourselves right back to the Garden of Eden and thén off the planet. However, “CDC” of Terre Haute, and others, keep repeating the worn out statement: “Democrats get us into war by their internationalism” and to head off a depression. I repeat, that, if internationalism gets us into wars, it had its start at the turn of the century, under a Republican administration, My point is, that we are in our present position as a world power because of a natural course of events over which no political party, or even nation, has one bit of control. Wars move on, one after another, because one war prepares the soil and sows the seeds of another, ¢ © + Saks I DO not think the United Nations will always keep the peace, I do not think internationalism or collective security will do it. I do not think being armed to the teeth will do it either. Nations will always challenge and we shall have to be prepared to meet it, just to keep the status quo, if nothing mdre. We shall stay where we are just so long as we are able to fight off the hands that grab at us, and not a day longer. There is not the slightest use of preaching isolationism. History is splattered with the blood of nations who tried it alone. Ask Ethiopia. Ask Manchuria. Ask modern Norway and Greece, Yes, ask the American Indians, if you can find any. They will tell you they were in perfect isolation; they threatened no one. Then one day they found themselves in the crossfire of white men’s colonial ambitions; they are now a lost nation, almost extinct, as a race. It won't work! ¢ & o
NO ONE needs to tell me wars bring national disaster. We were told a long time ago, “the nation that lives by the sword, will perish by the sword.” No one needs to inform me that all’ wars are commercial. Of course, because “the love of money is the root of all evil” Mén
~ery “peace.” They want it, yes, but they want
a lot of other things more. So much, in fact, that they are willing to die for them. And why not? From the day you open your eyes in this world, it is drummed into your ears, “get ahead,” “make money,” “be a big success.” If you are poor, you want to be rich. If you are rich, you want to be richer, If you are richer, you want to be the richest. 5 : If a rich mdn babbles nonsense, the world listens. If a poor man speaks with the wisdom of the ages, the people curl their lips and say, “If he is so smart, why is he so poor,” _ . When you get people ambitious te be the most honest, most kindly, most tolerant, most learned and helpful person in the world, in. stead of the richest and the most powerful, you will be on your way to world peace and not a day before. “Righteousness” must come first. Any one who can work that out, will really be known as “blessed.” -
What Others Say—
THE increasing attention universities are giving to the theater will produce . . . a great recognition of the values of the theater as a form a creative art.—Oscar Hammerstein II, librettist. : THIS Congress has done an awful lot to destroy the faith of the American people in representative government.—Sen. Hubert Hum-
Pphrey (D. Minn.).
IF the tennis we are getting today is the best America can produce then the future is dark indeed.—Roger Tracy, noted tennis enthgsiast. 1
SMALL TOWN
Oh little town of mine I know . ., . when weary day is done . , , that I will walk your lane to home . . . where beams the setting-sun « + and birds thai dot your shady trees . . , will sing a sweet refrain | . . to guide me to the garden gate . . , where all my dreams remain . . . for there inside my humble place « « » dwells all my happiness . , . and so it is on bended knees . .-. I ask the Lord to bless + + . each flower, tree and blade of grass . . and all your people, too . .. for all are part of my dreams come true. :
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cause laboratory workers en-
enough with procedures used
ject. . » Large-scale epidemics, how-
ever, are unlikely to result - from germ warfare attacks, in Dr. Haas’ :
Federal agencies are also now planning as part of their civil © defense activities to train selected scientists in germ warfare de-
suitable for dissemination in the air, water, milk and so on, Dr. Haas stated. : a 8 8 “ANY Dbacteriologist can think of a number of agents which could be used to attack us,” he said, giving as examples: Viruses, such as influenza or psittacosis (parrot fever); rickettsiae, such as
those causing Q fever or
typhus; bacteria, such as the typhoid or cholera organisms or the agents causing plague or tularemia; fungi, such as histoplasma or coceidioides; and toxins such as that produced by the botulism germ. : = "=
“THERE is abundant rea- =
son,” he declared, “for believ-
Germ Warfare Defense Centers Planned
CHICAGO, Oct. 18—Fstablishment of germ warfare detec: tion centers is a part of federal civil defense plans, Dr. Victor H. Haas, director of the Microbiological Institute, National Institutes
“AN ENEMY agent with access to a laboratory might manufacture sufficient quantities of live organisms or their toxins to permit extensive sabotage. ' . “Alertness and vigilance on the part of laboratory directors, careful supervision of all activities under their control and’ y of any excessive or unusual demands upon bacteriological suppiies or equipment should minimize the
poseibilities for surreptitious’
production,” . » » - BECAUSE agents of biological warfare, or “B. W." as scientists term it, are not detectable hy the physical senses, civil defense health services
will have to set up a system of
THE first sign of an attack with B. W. agents, he said, will probably come some days after the attack has taken place snd will depend on the appearance of illnesses resulting from exe posure to the germs or toxins, “We can expect,” he said, “a number of primary casualties resulting from a mass: initial exposure, and that secondary cases will be absent or min--“It is not expected that large-scale, self - perpetuating epidemics would develop as a result of attack.”
Barbs—
FOR every perso n who brags about being bright there are dozens ready to do the polish-
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