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Growing Mystery President Truman chooses to make so much of a mystery out of his talks with Gen. MacArthur on Wake Island passes understanding. An obviously iaspired news story from Washington attributed to “high government officials” the statement that the President and the Allied commander ' “apparently” reached complete agreement on Formosa. The sources of this story, which was quickly discounted by other “informed _ sources” in Tokyo, “indicated”, that Mr. Truman convinced Gen. MacArthur that the administration’s policy of complete neutrality toward the Chinese Nationalist-held island is the right one. » » » ~ IF THAT is ‘the case, it seems a curious way of apprising the public of the truth about the most important single issue of Far Eastern policy that could come up between the two men. Adding to the enigma is the news that Formosa was not discussed at all in the general meeting, with advisers present, immediately after the Truman-MacArthur private session. Mr, Truman is reported to have told the participants that he and the General were in complete accord and “it would be unnecessary to discuss it further.” » » ¥ ~ » ~ WHETHER Formosa is to be. included in our Western "Pacific line of defenses is primarily a military program. .Gen. Bradley and Adm. Radford were taken along for just such a discussion, but apparently their opinions were not solicited. If the sources of the story are to be believed, President Truman changed Gen. MacArthur's mind in an incredibly short time. If Mr. Truman is that good, or his reasoning that forceful, he owes it to the American people to let it be known what facts he marshaled. ¥

. ” ~ . . SECRECY on the Formosa decision can hardly be defended on security grounds, It is already known that the U. 8. Tth Fieet is patrolling Formosa waters to insure the neutrality policy Mr. Truman desires. Even if Gen. MacArthur has reversed his views and agreed in effect to let the Chinese Reds take Formosa, if they can, after the Korean War, the question of security is not now pressing.

With Tongue in Cheek?

SECRETARY of State Acheson's poker face must have served him well this week when he presented the State Department's second highest award to Consul General Angus Ward. ; The citation read: “For superior service, courage, sound judgment and firm adherence to the highest traditions of the foreign service displayed during the period of his detention and incarceration in Mukden.. Notwithstanding constant danger to his own person, his calmness, strength and self-confidence became an inspiring example of leadership to his staff.”

~ - ~ » . » WE concur with all of that and are happy to see Mr. Ward get some belated recognition for his fine services. But Mr. Acheson must have known of the new assignment for Mr. Ward-—an obscure consular post in East Africa— hardly a logical place for a veteran diplomat who in 25

years has distinguished himself as an expert on the evils

and machinations of international communism. If the State Department should care to assess Mr. Ward's services at their true value, a more fitting assignment would be as head of the office of Far Eastern Affairs or at least some post a little nearer the rim of the

Communist world where his talents and experience could -

be invaluable to his country.

Durable Mr. Mack (CORNELIUS McGILLICUDDY, better known as Connie Mack, has retired as manager of the Philadelphia Athletics. He had held that job only since 1901, and won't be 88 years old until next Dec. 23, so this is surprising news. It must be conceded, however, that Mr. Mack's ball teams haven't been going quite so well lately as they did from 1902 to 1931, when they won nine American League pennants and five World Series. This year the Athletics wound up in the Vasément, and Mr. Mack may have been wise in his decision to let

a new manager try to do better with them next season. »

.» » ~ ~ ~ BUT big league baseball, with Connie Mack out of it, will never be the same to a lot of young fellows who remember his days of glory-—the days when Chief Bender and Eddie Plank, Eddie Collins, Lefty Grove, Mickey Cochrane, Jimmy Foxx, Rube Walberg and a host of other greaf players—made history under his leadership. He built—and unbuilt—more championship teams than any other manager ever did. He played professional ball, himself, starting in 1884. He managed the Pittsburgh team in the National League for six years back in the '90s. He took charge of the Athletics the same year the American League wag organized and now, if he actually has retired instead of just taking off a little time to rest and refresh himself for new efforts, Mr, Mack can be sure that his record for durability won't soon, if ever, be broken.

Thoughts on Pumpkins 'VWHILE pumpkins can be prepared for food in a wide variety of ways, only one deserves serious considera-

_ tion. That is in the form of pie. The poet, Whittier, was

well aware of that truth. - Years ago he noted that there was nothing quite like the rich pumpkin pie to moisten the lip, brighten the eye and call back the pastan Thanksgiving Day,

WHEN Whittier penned these words he meant pumpkin, of course, and not squash. A lot of people confuse the two. The pumpkin suffers from the mixup. :

The pumpkin contains plenty of vitamins. That is | not the reason, however, for eating pumpkin pie. A slab <i 4 the ides pis fp Seteh Sor the shoot Joy of sting. :

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Friday, Oct. 20, 1950

GLAMOUR

By Charles Lucey

Jimmy Is Chip Off Old Block

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20—Win or lose, Jimmy

Roosevelt and Helen Gahagan Douglas consti-

tute the glamour team on American politics this fall. The prophets give Jimmy scant chance to beat Republican Earl Warren for the governorship and Mrs, Douglas something less than an even chance to defeat Republican Richard Nixon for a Senate seat. But for brilliant gloss of performance in the business of arousing an audience, Mr. Roosevelt and Mrs. Douglas have few equals in the political big time. This doesn't mean they're play-acting — there's real fervor in their audience approach. But they also manage a showmanship that wrings every last bit of value out of every word. Jimmy is cut to the Franklin D. Roosevelt pattern. He's tall, fine-looking, master of good cadences in his talk. inheritor of his father's rich baritone. He whips through his lines faster than FDR and he doesn’t have that Olympian toss of the head with which his father punetuated his But Jimmy's good. If he's defeated it will not be because he isn’t a good campaigner. He has stumped, often by trailer, in all but twe counties of this big coastal empire he'd like to boss from Sacramento.

Has 'Em on Feet

JHE other aight at 3 big labor meeting in Santa Barbara Mr. Roosevelt frequently had the folks on their feet, stomping, and cheering. Sure, with this crowd a friendly pitch was certain before he had said a word. But a dull fellow could have left them unimpressed. When he had finished, the chairman told

Mrs. Douglas—coming on next—she'd have to .. go some to top that

ance. She just about Helen Gahagan Douglas was a talented actress and singer before she was elected to the House of Representatives. Her critics, attacking her chiefly for being a political pinko, say she’s only an actress reading lines someone else has tossed her. Right or wrong, she manifestly believes what she's saying. Mrs. Douglas comes on well gowned and groomed, a double strand of pearls around her neck, a bright flower sweeping away over her left shoulder. She has a change of pace Jimmy misses, a fine range of voice inflection, a use of pauses and silences to give compelling and dramatic emphasis to what she is saying. She uses her hands expressively and sometimes beats out a harsh rat-a-tat-tat with her fists on the table before her as she pushes her pleading to fervent pitch.

Face Obstacles

WHEN she finishes her exhortation against all the fills and injustices of the world—-and for the election of Helen Gahagan Douglas to help remedy them-—she has the audience on its feet screaming just as wildly as it did for Jimmy. Mr. Roosevell’s big fight today is to try to overcome the charge that he is an inexperienced Jimmy-come-lately with nothing much to récommend him for. the California governorship except a name everyone knows. Mrs. Douglas’ fight is to try to explain a long list of liberal-leftist votes in Congress for which her Republican opponents condemn her. Rep. Nixon's supporters say Mrs. Douglas hasn't got an answer and that she has been ducking any comeback on the record of votes

claimed to prove she has been a pal of the leftists. She attacks Mr. Nixon as a “little man” of limited vision whose own record in the House is “too boring” to bear reciting. Mr. Roosevelt in most speeches seeks clearly to identify himself with FDR and his principles, as in warning that with Republican victory “the people would lose the great, humanitarian gains made since that day in March of 1933 when a President of the U. 8. led America out of a Republican depression to the greatest prosperity the world ever has known.”

Condemns Warren

HE condemns Gov. Warren's administration for playing with the big monopolies, permitting higher public utility rates, failure to provide enough schools for the vast new population here, for being unfriendly to labor. Gov, Warren, with three weeks to go to election day, is just beginning to warm up on Jimmy. He already has suggested this foreigner from the East is careless with the truth and driven by an “unbridled ambition.” The fun is just starting out here. :

pro-Communist on foreign measures, “The key votes prove reactionaries are the worst security risks.” Ten key roll-calls were selected for the Sen-

By these tests the League rates both Hoosier Republican Sens. Homer E. Capehart and wil-

WINDOW SHOPPING

Each time I take a trip to town . what I can buy . . . I spend what little dough I have . . without even a try... for there are oh so many ox seem to really need

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that it isn't lorig before + +» + my pocketbook will bleed . . . I've tried most every way I know . . . to save a little, too . . . but with the

prices as they are ,.. what can T really do . and so it is that nowadays « « « I look instead of buy . . . for window shopping saves me dough . , . and satisfies my eye.

-~By Ben Burroughs.

COMPLAINTS .

Walsh, Anderson, ght when Taft-Hartley and Korean

Key Votes Bring Comment

COMMENTING on these key votes, the League said: “This record includes key votes on labor, housing and Social Security. But most of the votes are on military and economic aid to fight Communists abroad and on mobilization and tax bills at home. “Here is your proof from the congressional record. Here is your checklist of had security risks who should be defeated. “The re-election of pro-labor candidates is Your patriotic duty.” Besides such checklists can save a voter a lot of thinking for himself.

By Fred W. Perkins

Oldsters Say Pensions Are Cut

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20—The Federal Security Administration is receiving many complaints from elderly people that they didn't get a “raise” from the recent increase in Social Security benefits. - The complaints come from two classes of beneficiaries: Those who in addition to old-age Insurance payments under the federal system have been receiving old-age assistance, a fed-eral-state program; and those who have been receiving industrial pensions geared to the Fed-

" eral Social Security System.

In the first class of cases, some states already have reduced their old-age assistance payments. These are based on need as deter-

“I do net agree with a word that you say, but |

‘Some Getting Raw Deal’ By W. H. Edwards, Gosport Theo. B. Marshall's letter in The Times will, 1 believe, meet with the approval of all independent voters. He was correct in stating that

“the dollar is still the mighty key which unlocks

the door to power and political influence in government . . . We have, as Mr. Marshall says, in the past held too high a regard for government officials; officiais who have betrayed the interests of the peopie in favor of ie interests of business.

MR. MARSHALL takes the capitalist system to task for its neglect of the people's welfare. My own lea 1a Whit She capitalist systems 14 fa

petter than other systems of government. It - Is the evils

t have infiltrated within the capitalist sy that is causing the present unrest among the people, not the system itself, Mr. Marshall is deluded if he thinks all-round

organized labor are both enjoying the better conditions. But both .occupy a preferential position politically. : * & ¢

IT IS the unorganized people in the low in-

come group who are getting a “raw deal.” That is because there is no practical difference between big business corporations and big labor corporations. Each are intent on getting theirs and heck with all others. True, 2!i of us probably have more dollars than ever before. But we have seen our dollars shrink to 50 cents at retail level. And with strikes and higher wages continuing to raise the cost of food, clothing and shelter, we ‘see prospects of our dollars shrinking to 40 cents and 25 and in the end perhaps picture money such as young children Play with. -

SIDE SLANCES : By Galbraith ORGANIZER .

will defend fo fhe death your right fo say it. ‘Is Truth Concealed’

By M. T. IL, Terre Haute I enjoy reading the Hoosier Forum. Looks

the National Guard. It is true some have been ordered into federal service, but the bulk of fighting has been done with regular Army men and, of course, the Navy and Air Corps. We hear arguments as to UMT. We want boys of 18 to men of 25 trained for perhaps a period of 21 or 30 months. Yet the National Guard gets perhaps two weeks

you instances where this 1s the truth. But it looks as if the truth is being concealed sometimes from the American public.

‘The Hard-Boiled View’

By H. E. M,, Indianapolis It is the common practice to view the sigh ter on our highways from the sentimental or humane standpoint. However, to take a more hard-boiled view, these goons. who crack up in a blaze of speed and alcohol (statistics show half the drivers in ‘accidents have been drinking) are not affecting merely themselves and those near fo them, but they make an unholy mess for someone to clean up at great and unnecessary expense to the taxpayer, to say nothing of the offense to public sensibilities,

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mined by state officials. The result is that oldage insurance payments have been Increased, but old-age assistance-—a form of publi¢ help— has been reduced, with the total in many cases remaining where it was, about $100 a month,

Firm Payments Cut

IN THE second class of cases, many industrial pension plans specify that the company will supplement Social Security payments to a total of $100 a month. Now that Social Security payments have om up, the payments from the companies have been reduced. In the Industrial cases the result is to shift a portion of the cost to the federal fund that has been built up by contributions from both employers and workers. In the cases involving old-age assistance, authorities here look for states that have not acted to reduce 8 these dayminia 1 Ds Segres of increase in old-age insurance payments. The to which both the

the aged from old-age assistance to old-age insurance. Two letters illustrate what has happened recently, to the displeasure of old people who thought the Social Security increase would at least meet the increased cost of living since the start of the Korean War: A California man was drawing $22.81 from the federal system, and $75 from old-age assistfederal

been reduced to $59. This leaves him with a net increase of $3.09 a month. And he claims his living costs are up 60 per cent.

Costs Up—Income Cut

A TO-YEAR-OLD man in northern New Jersey wrote that despite his higher living expenses his company pension check has been cut so that it and his Social Security payment still total the same as before—$100 a month. That arrangement is set forth in the pension contracts of some of the biggest American industrial companies.

TIS SAID

War is hell and war by any other name

would be as hellish. Certainly any part of the :

service deserves what little glory they earn regardless of propaganda.

B. C,, Indianapolis.

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‘WIESBADEN, Germany, Oct. 20—Practically the only high “U. 8. official who stayed all through nearly six years of Allied occupation in Germany is Dr. James N, Newman. He is now U. 8. commissioner for the state of IT ‘sae, one of ihe 11 “laender” which make up the American, British and French zones of western Germany. German military production Dr. Newman was formerly and the Nazis. Today we are working to suppress the Communists and we are taking the first faltering steps to rebuild

pert to help reorganize Ger- e = =» Newman

guard haps several hundred more men. Little trouble is ex-

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Germany's military potential,

man schools along democratic IT WILL be ouly a matter |

beaptitude for local government jieves, until U. 8. military organization. He is big and forces start ‘back into somewhat blustery. He liked Germany. The three western the life of living in a big house zones of Ge may soon in Wiesbaden, so he stuck it authorize the ‘up of a out while others went home. national force of perFor a time he went to

for telescopes and military binoculars is“ again being made. Radio and electronics .

were held last year, but they got little or no publicity outside local areas where they were held.

1%y# Stalwart of U.S. Occupation i in 2 Germany

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