Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1950 — Page 26

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United We Can Stand

anniversary dwelt upon the theme that aggression in Korea, and the forthright decision to meet that crisis with force, had marked the world organization's coming of age. The success of that intervention, supported by 53 nations. finds the United Nations stronger than it had been at any ume since it came into existence near the end of World War II. Had the United Nations failed in the Korean emergency, it probably would now have been headed for the fate of its predecessor, the League of Nations. Orie man above all others deserves credit for the fact that it did not fail. Harry S. Truman gave substance of reality to Woodrow Wilson's dream of an association of nations ale 55 Jetermmisied to keep peace i the world.

THE free "world can celebrate victory in 'Eorea because of President Truman's bold decision to support United Nations intervention with the armed might of the United States, and because brave Americans turned back Red

aggression.

And, as Mr. Truman told the United Nations’ anni-

versary session in New York Tuesday, America's military strength is now being increased for the purpose of discouraging and preventing similar aggression in the future. But it is essential to remember that the Korean crisis revealed the present weakness, as well as the potential power, of the United Nations.

” ” = ” » ” WORLD peace should not depend on the decision of one man or the armed force of one country. Its preservation requires the collective strength of all those United Nations members who believe the world should be ruled by

principles of law and justice, not by gangsterism and

tyranny. Many members of the United Nations are reluctant to make the material sacrifices such contributions would entail. Others rest frail hopes on vague forms of neutrality, or on what Mr. Truman described as “paper promises” of peace _ and disarmament.

Aiding “‘Oil-Rich”’ Iran

first grant under President Truman's “bold new” Point Four program of aid to under-developed countries provides $300,000 for improvement of health, agriculture and education in Iran. It is noteworthy for a number of reasons, Iran, better known to most Americans as Persia, is one of the most backward nations. Its feudalistic system has ignored the march of progress for centuries. It is often called “oil-rich Iran.” Oil concessions to the British-o Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. netted its government $65 in royalties and taxes last year. But this money was paid to the Shah, and little benefit from it is likely to have trickled down to a 17 lion subjects.

” = = ASIDE from ofl, most of Iran's wealth is in the hands of a few feudal landlords, so powerful that they pay little if any taxes to support the country’s notoriously weak and corrupt government. Iran's great need is for a fair distribution 6f oil income among the people and for an equitable, honestly enforced

tax oyatems. | In lieu of these, good old Uncle Sugar will spend half a million of the American taxpayers’ dollats. Why? To stop communism, of course. In 1943, President Roosgvelt sent Maj. Gen. Pat Hurley to Iran to see what might be done to rescue the Iranians from their ancient lethargy and poverty. Gen. Hurley reported that the country had ample resources for a program of self-help. > He proposed American assistance in the form of services of experts in agriculture, health and education: The $500,000 point-four grant just approved by our State Department also will give that sort of assistance.

” » s * » » ~ BUT, under the Hurley plan, the experts, though selected by the United States Government, would have been “paid by the Iranian Government” instead of becoming “a financial responsibility of the American taxpayer.” And what happened to the Hurley plan? . Why, Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson labeled it “‘global-baloney” and the State Department turned it down. . Now that the same sort of program will cost the American people $500,000, Secretary of State Dean Acheson has given it enthusiastic approval.

No Stalingrads SEOUL did not turn out to be another Stalingrad; neither did Pyongyang. In less than five weeks the Allied forces — mostly Americans, against whom Russia has directed its most intense hate propaganda—captured first one and then the other of two Red capitals, without siege or over-exertion. Collapse of the North Korean “people’s army” came with a rush. It was a well-equipped army of 200,000, politically needled up and well-trained for invasion—for aggression. But, suddenly thrown on the defensive by Gen. MacArthur's brilliant strategy, it had neither plan nor indomitable will to stand fast, It melted away.

SEOUL fell er only four days of fighting. With 30,000 troops available, the Communists were expected to ght ha harder for Pyongyang. dl 304 fell in twp days. By sou Sutras, Stalin.

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. advances for future deliveries, by loans, of tariffs and various other concessions and guarantees—totaling gsome $300: million— we made it possible for the Aluminum Co. of Canada to become the largest in the world.

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possible. Canada’s wartime munitions and sup-

/ ply minister, C. D. Howe, objected to any con-

ditions to assistance which would give our government any long-termi contrel over the Canadian aluminum industry. Mr. Howe drove a hard bargain at that time, Today Mr. Howe is Cangas trade minister, He's still a hard bargainer. cently in describing the present “confusion” in U. 8.-Canadian defense preparations, the Financial Post of Toronto said Mr. Howe is “carefully and effectively avoiding entanglements which might lead (Canada) more directly into controls than he believes wise or necessary.”

U. S. Firms Subject to Seizure

UNDER THE EMERGENCY powers voted py Congress our government can take over the output of American companies for defense purposes anytime it wishes. Canada does not wish to go that far yet, The Canadians contend they are not being ungrateful, Their attitude is that the U. 8. got full value for the aid it extended during the war. Granting that it was costly to expand the aluminum industry in Canada, they said it’ would . have been more costly to achieve the same increase in our own country because of

FROM A GIRL .

By Frederick C. Othman

Pointed Questions About TV

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28—Prettiest bureaucrat in these parts, even when shé's got a head cold, is Miss Frieda Hennock, the Fedéral Communications Commissioner. She asks some of

the doggonedest guestions you ever heard, too. So there was if

our generally higher costs for electric power. ' the blond Miss 4 One reason the U. S. turned to Canada during ~~ Hennock with | the war was that country’s great supply of & string of? power at a time when our country was hard put pearls around for electricity. her neck and Knowing fthat, Mr. Howe at the time insisted a lace handon our government putting up most of the k 8 3 hist at capital required for expansion in Canada. tening to ‘the lawyers and Sell Most to Britain ing Modis SINCE THE WAR Canadian aluminum has yammer about heen sold largely to the British and their cus- revolution i z- ™ tomers. Canada has even sold to Iron Curtain ing the tele-§" countries. A sizable shipment went to Poland vision busi-§ last spring. ness all over The Aluminum in of Canada was pe again with In the late hin America et or hy Tor Sates ements it to a new corporation et bp high tre Eg the British Commonwealth preference system. quency. ww each shareholder in Aluminum Co. Seems that of America received an equal number of shares If more tele- 5 in the Canadian Co. Over the years there has vision stations * 4 been considerable diversification of ownership. are built, Miss Hennock . , . $20 aerial But last June a U. 8. federal court found that they've got to

11 individuals still held sufficient stock in both corporations to control them. The court ordered the joint stockholders to sell their stock in either one company or the other,

What Others Say—

THE STATE DEPARTMENT wants me to consider myself a widow because they are doing nothing about getting my husband out of prison. They want to write him off . . . just like they did Korea. And I intend to see that they make a new beachhead in Bob's case just as they had to do in Korea.—Mrs. Robert Vogeler, wife of an American businessman Imprisoned In ‘Hungary. 4

WHERE the flag and Constitution of the United States have gone, you will find liberty and democracy today. Vice President Alben Barkley.

PROBLEMS IN ROME . . . By Peter Edson Italians Get Marshall Plan Aid Until 1952

ROME, Oct. 26—-U. 8S. Ambassador James C. Dunn says that if it had not been for Marshall ‘Plan aid, Italy would have gone Communist two years ago. But the battle is not yet won. As of today, Italy's Communist vote has been reduced from 30 per cent to perhaps 20 per cent. There still remains a hard core of Commies in the industrial north, where they control

Leon Dayton, held a press conference in which he declared that Italian fiscal policy was retarding recovery, That increased Italian resentment. Ambassador Dunn and Mr. Dayton had to call on Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi to smooth out relations. It can now be reported, hows, ever, that the effect of this flare-up was good. Almost immediately, the Italian Minister

the labor unions, The fight against them can still be lost. “The trouble,” says Frank Gervasi, star reporter and magazine writer, now Marshall Plan information chief in Italy, “is that we're all amateurs. And we're fighting professionals.” » . ” THAT brief expression wraps up the whole situation. The Communist agents in Italy knew what they wanted and how to go about getting it. Against this experienced force the United States has had to

tor for Italy,

use ultra high wave lengths, because we're fresh out of the king that zre in use now, called very frequency. One of the troubles is that most present receivers won't work on the new waves. The television gentlemen, who'd already been revolutionized a couple of weeks ago by the commission's ruling on color video, were in something of a tizzy; mostly they didn’t like the commission's scheme to add ultra high sets in towns now served by very high. Quietly Miss Hennock listened t6 Dr. Thomas T.. Goldsmith Jr., research director for Dumont Laboratories, explain why it would be better for cities yet to be served by television to use ultra high frequencies and leave current TV broadcasting the way it is. :

‘What About Harford?’

‘WHAT,” demanded Miss Hennock, stifling a sneeze, “about Hartford, Conn.?” Oops! There are no TV stations in Hartford

SIDE GLANCES

ington, where very high

now, but hundreds of citizens there have spent hundreds of dollars each installing fancy aerials so they can pick up Milton Berle direct from New York. Even so, the results are not so good. “But what if I lived in Hartford?” insisted Miss Hennock. “What would I have to do to my set to get these ultra high frequency broadcasts?” Dr. Goldsmith said she'd have to build a new aerial, which would cost her about $20, Then she'd have to buy a special tuner in a black box for about $100 and she’d be all set. “And if I also wanted color?” inquired Miss Hennock. “What would I need?”

‘What Would It Cost?

“VERY few existing receivers can be adapted for color at all,” snapped Dr. Goldsmith. “But say mine could be,” insisted Miss Hennock. “What would it cost?” Dr. Goldsmith said he supposed for about $135 she could get an adapter which would allow her to pick up black and white pictures from color broadcasts. If she really wanted color

she'd also need a converter and that would cost

ultra high antenna on the roof.

‘What If | Move?

hot B 1 Movel oo converted and Then 1 move to Wash‘use

I can’t take it with me, can 17” Even the harassed television moguls

and buy another special ome in Washington. She'd still have her $100 ultra high tuner here in the Capital, but since she'd be interested only in very Ng frequencies, she could leave it

on said Miss Hemnock. Now, she did sneeze. ‘The hearings will go on for ks. The commission then will hand down its decision and the fellows who are buying advertisements and filing lawsuits against the FCC's color ruling, will have something new to worry about. And also revolutionary, As for Miss Hennock, I hope she's feeling better soon. It's tough listening to all that scientific yakety-yak when you've got a cold in the head.

By Galbraith

Ferguson.

"WHEN the writer went into Christian” serv ice he expressed words of gladness. He was en-

couraging and helpful. He was always a serious young man. He did

. not seem to waste his time on the frivolous

things of life, In his profession as a lawyer I bélieve he had in mind the sincerity and righteousness of Abraham Lincoln. He was too big to stoop to the gutter to smear a fellow countryman. His was the spirit of helpfulness. He was a man determined to do his duty even if it hurt, but it was what he considered best for all concerned.

‘Competition Needed" By W. R.. Crawfordsville / It is reassuring to see Charles Brownson nail the present city regime, especially ‘n view of the real danger that the United States will wind up with a one-party government. Where would we be without some good old

FEAL res

political competition? One crowd has run Mar- |

fon County for quite a while. They have learned: that it is profitable to put off the granting of

liquor licenses until just before slection and de-

lay transit rate hikes until after election. One-party government is a dangerous thing,

whether in Indianapolis or Washington. If °

Charlies Brownson can take the iid off the Marion County machine and let us have a lock at it, 1 say strength to his elbow. ‘Prosperity? For Whom?’

By Nella Atte, Freetown

SO, Mr. J. T. Teewie' Gaby elation to 300 Ti

we wonder) is and has been very prosperous : under Democratic rule. Has he stopped to con- .

sider just what has happened in the 30-odd years -

he can remember? I'm a few years up on him, it seems, as I can remember 50-0dd years. In the past 30 years, which he can remember, we have had two wars, our boys formisg a police force in foreign countries between; a vast

promise of more to come; overburdening taxes; complete government control, ped 1 80 farther Yack and remind him of what happened in the 20-odd years I can re-

Tembex bef he began remembering? I think Frosperity? ) For whom? At what price? I'm just one of the day and night “little fellérs” who help furnish the grub ang the boys.

WHY | LOVE YOU

MY REASONS for loving you , , . are many and I'll state . . . only just a few of them my heart can e'er relate . . . you build for me a temple . . . and make me be a king . . . of all that I survey dear , . . then gifts of love you bring . . . you lay them at my feet then . . . you bow for me to share . .. the beauty of your being . . . the softness of your hair , . . you give to me’ a reason . . . for trying hard to do . . . the things in life that are worthwhile . . . to make my dreams come true .

you've done so many little things . . . the

things in life that count . , . that I could never part repay . . . so highly do they mount . . . to sum up all my feelings... this comes straight from my heart . . . my world eould turn to ashes . ., if from me you would part.

—By Ben Burroughs,

NO SHOO-IN...... By. Earl Richert Taft Favored in Hot 13 Ohio Race for Senate

COLUMBUS, O.. Oct. 26—At this stage In the hot Ohio U. 8. Senate race, most onservers give the edge to Sen. Robert A. Taft to defeat his Democratic opponent, State Auditor Joseph T.

of Agriculture multi-million dollar fund earmarked for land development, . » ”

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But the contest looks close,

The factor baffling the experts is the. farm Yote. About

150,000 normally Republican Ohio farmers didn't vote in the 1948 election and President Truman carried the state by 7000 votes, despite a sharp! drop in the Democratic vote in the industrial areas. Will these farmers take tie trouble to-go to the polis this time? If they do, say Repubican leaders, there is no question of a Republican victory.

TAFT forces. have had men throughout the state checking the farmers. They report that the farmers are still overwhelmingly

THE SENATE campaign in Ohio is one of the most intensively:. organized on both sides that this reporter has ever seen, . . Organized labor is banded into the United Labor League for the No. 1 purpose of retiring Mr. Taft from public life. Serving as co-chairmen are Philip Hanna of the AFL. and Jacob Clayman of the CIO. Ronald .Owens of the United Mine Workers is secretary. Ine . cluded in the top organization are officials of the railroad brotherhoods, the machinists

throw in well-intentioned, en- -

thusiastic but untrained volunteers. The Italian government has been slow in moving on many fronts. Reforms of tax and land laws and general economic {inequalities that have .existed Yor thousands of years have not been made as rapidly

and. politely, so as not to wound Italian pride. But recently a different approach wag tried. x got Tesults,

land U. 8. leaked a critical story to Arnaldo Cortesi, New

‘the Communists grounds for

THIS incident raises the allimportant question of how far and how fast American advisers can push the governments in Marshall Plan countries, In the past, every effort . has been made to avoid giving 10-20 accusing the United States of - - interference with or dictation to foreign governments. This kid glove policy may now be changing and with good reason. The Marshall Plan ends in two years, Something else may have to replace it. But in the main, whether

in western Europe depends Iargely on what the western

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In 1953, the De Gasperi government must go before the polls, It will fall or be reelected on its record of ac-

complished vefogmac—uot op its

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Taft forces.

too don’t know what to expect

and telephone workers. It is doubtfuf that any state has seen such a unified labor setup functioning in" a political campaign.

2 ” ” THE Republicans, on their Bide, seém to have an efficient state organization. It's directed by 43-year-old state chairman Roy Bliss, the oldest man at headquarters,

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