Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1950 — Page 24

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DRESIDENT TRUMAN has renewed his plea for a Universal Military Training law—not before Congress, which is out of session, but before a general conference of the National Guard Association in Washington. He appealed to guard officials from every’ state to help him in a new, all-out effort for UMT which, he said, he has requested of Congress no fewer than eight times.

It is true that Mr. Truman has consistently favored UMT in principle. But last August, with Congress apparently all set to pass such a law, he backed away from action. He said he thought the matter could wait until next year— ‘or, at least, until after the elections. » » # ” " ” THE reason then given for delay ‘was that officers and cadres could not be spared from the Korean War to start the training and that not enough camps were available. Also, the President thought that, with adjournment nearing, other pending legislation was more urgent. This newspaper is glad that Mr. Truman now wants early action on UMT, presumably When Congress gets back on the job next month. Meanwhile, however, another and considerably broader universal service proposal has been taking shape in the Senate Preparedness Committee.

Rie. & » » UNDER IT, every physically fit youth would be refuired to enter one of the Armed Services at a given age, possibly 18. After basic training, he would go through a ‘period—21 months has been suggested—of actual service in the regular Armed Forces, then enter the reserve and ‘be subject to call-up in event of war or ‘other grave emerFences. : - By contrast, under UMT as heretofore considered, ‘boys of 18 would go through basic training only. They would see no actual service during this training and, on returning to civilian life, would be exempt from combat ‘@uty at least until reaching the minimum draft age. The new universal service plan might become a. stibstiute for both the draft and UMT. It has been widely indorsed by educators, business and professional men, and probably will be backed by major veterans’ organizations which already are on record for UMT. It would be premature to attempt to judge the worth of this plan before its details are worked out and thoroughly studied.

But clearly some form of universal training is neces‘gary if this country is to build and maintain for at least eight or 10 years an Armed Force of three million men ror more. Any further long delay in getting it started would :be inexcusable.

Aggression in Tibet #THE Peking radio announcement that Chinese Communist troops are advancing toward Tibet “to free the Tibetans from imperialist oppression” presents another case of unprovoked Red aggression which needs the .attention of the United Nations. : Bounded on the north by Red China, and on the south * by Nepal, Burma, India and Pakistan, Tibet has enjoyed Jocal autonomy for centuries. Except for Vatican City, it is the only country in the world entirely under ecclesiastical control, being ruled by Lama monks who practice a modified form of Buddhism.

The only imperialism ‘involved in the situation is that .-

represented by the Chinese Reds who are invading a peaceful, unarmed country which has asked nothing from the rest of the world but to be left alone.

. » ~ » » » WHEN Britain ruled India, Tibet was protected by the 1014 Simla Convention, under which China was prevented from converting this trans-Himalayan state into a Chinese province. India would prefer to have Tibet remain an in‘dependent buffer state between herself and Red China, “but Premier Nehru has sought to settle the issue by negotiation, instad of placing the problem before the United “Nations, where it belongs. Unless and until India learns that communism cannot be contained by appeasement, other governments are not likely to inject themselves into this situation. But Peking’s announcement that it plans an unprovoked attack against “this peaceful little country certainly should raise another road block against Red China's entry into the United Nations—an organization dedicated to a rule of: law. -

100 Cents on the Dollar

THE town owes a particular debt to three men. They are Otto J. Feucht, John P. Collett and William H. Fleming Jr. They bailed out the old Fletcher American National Bank which went down in the depression. They will pay depositors 100 cents on the dollar when the final liquidation payment comes due next February. : It i= a particular tribute to them that the depositors who had faith in them and waited, didn’t lose a cent. It is not unusual. A little patience and faith in the right men, often pays off 100 cents on the dollar.

‘No Out for Dad THE U. 8. tax court has held that the cost of a daughter's wedding can't be deducted from income taxes, even

: though the guests include a lot of her father’s present and : prospective customers. :

* : - This ruling came down in the case of a Boston shoe. :

- corporation which sough to charge off, as business ex- > penses, $4327 for a hotel dinner, $1468 for liquor and $450

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: and majority stockholdey. Justice and law doubtless support the tax court's deni- ¥ sion, but it cuts off a ray of hope for many a man with marriageable daughters. With a corporation standing ready

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Friday, Oct. 27, 1950. ere vy Oscar BR: (Gack) Ewing,

"a humane one.

: for an orchestra at a party for the daughter of ité treasurer

up the tab, the father of the bride would find it

“The DEMOCRATS never win elections. by . granting concessions to conservatives.” a ‘That was the political ‘rxiom promulgated. the Hoosier Federal Security Administrator whom Collier's labeled “Mr. Welfare State.” Using

+; Republican.”

Te + | “PHE doctors are being bilked of millions for

nobody is advo-

Superintendents before the opening general sessions of the Indiana State’ ** DOgey-man'

. Teachers Convention, Mr. Ewing declined direct

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: “In fact, such scare words have been used by AMA so long that it is a wondeg everybody hasn't caught on to it. Even the gathering of

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MCLEAN, Va., Oct. 27—1 don't know which

I'd rather have deposited in the bank these days, money or beefsteaks. My bride chooses the latter and this, as usual, has become a production. Fact is, if her idea spreads, there won't be any banks because nobody’ll be interested in mere money. You may ember a piece I did six months or so ago about some bull calves she bought while they still were wobbly in the knees. At first she fed ’em milk from a bucket with a rubber nipple built in. Then she sneaked in alittle mush; later she put 'em on a diet of dry corn meal, rolled oats and similar bovine delicacies. These beasts now are fat and frisky and weigh maybe 400 pounds per each; they're sprouting horns and, except for a solid black one with red-rimmed eyes, tifey're affectionate.

This ebony exception chases Mrs. O. whenever .

he gets the opportunity and, though she’s fleet of foot, he sometimes catches up with her. This has resulted in bruises, I mean she doesn’t like him, either, So there she was contemplating him from the other side of a stout fence at about the same time the butcher's boy came around with a dodger announcing a special price on veal steaks—83 cents per pound, Something clicked inside my bride's head.

Does Job Witle Rifle Bullet

SHE'D turn this hoofed enemy of hers fnto meat. This wasn't so easy because though she didn’t like him, neither did she want him to suffer. So she canvassed the rural slaughterhouses in our neighborhood until she located He does the job with a rifle bullet. He keeps the hide and charges $7 for the delivery of a carcass ready to be sliced. Mrs. O. then made a deal with a freezer

SIDE GLANCES

"Don worry: about howe Bob's doing in hdd yd ty oc

Korea, Se fis. in these woods!"

“ed By Fredofick C. Othman gn How to Beat High Cost of Steaks

plant to cut up steaks, chops, roasts and hamburger. Lots of hamburger, as it turns out, but so what (she asks), -with hamburger 79 tents a pound? This plant out Fairfax way “charges 7 ¢ents a pound for carving, wrapping, and freezing into solid blocks. These we drop into, Qu own frecser ai hethe andl est alee in economical The idea sounded fine, but I wonderg we wouldn't get plenty’ sick of even de veal before we'd perhaps 250 pounds of it. My Hilda had taken care of that, too.

‘A Trade Is in the Works’

ONE of our neighbors down the pike. has a freezer full of spring chickens. Her family's growing tired of drumsticks and gizzards. A trade is in the works: One pound of veal for one of chicken. A second neighbor hearing of this reported “that hé was overstocked on fresh frozen ducks and guinea hens. My bride made an evenStephen deal with him, too. She is in a trading mood. The ladies out our way also keep pies and chocolate cakes in their freezers and if any of them care to trade for meat they've got a customer. What honest John Snyder is going to think about all this ignoring of mere money as manufactured by his Treasury Department I hate to contemplate. use to Hilda and her well-fed friends. The tax collector probably is going to be interested, too, but how Mrs. O. will divvy up the government's share of her bartering profits I have only a vague idea. She says no mioney has changed hands and if Uncle Samuel wants a slice of her take, he'll get it in kind; namely: Hamburger, *

By Galbraith POLITRICKS .

“pioneer days.

—expanse of bald head. He can think in the stratosphere and there was an idea 1is campaign might be on that level, but he has crossed

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gnawed our way through.

The stuff obviously is of little -

The Republican is Eugene D. Millikin, present Senator, a big, brainy, scholariy man with bubbling good humor and a vast

_ clear. Inevitably some harsh = Mr,

‘Why The Democrats?’ By William L. Jordan, Anderson

ONE of our Republican friends revealed’ to me the other day that he is puzzled over the

ability of the Democratic Party to retain leader-. ship of the people of the nation for almost a =

second decade, For the benefit of my friend and others who might be seeking an answer to the same question, allow me to attempt to offer an explanation, 3 I can remember watching freight trains loaded with the pathetic soldiers of the “Bonus Army” as they moved toward Washington during the late days of the Hoover administration. Those American war veterans were met by Federal troops and driven from the capital. One of the first acts of the late President Roosevelt was his commendable defense of the veteran. Of course, the war veteran loves the Democratic Party. $$ b 1 CAN remember a friend who saw his business wiped out following the financial “crash” of 1929. A Democratic administration, through governmental subsidies, gave him another

WESTERN EUROPE

“I do not agree with a word that you say, but | “will defend to the death your right fo say it"

chance. He now owns a successful music store, a home and two automobiles. Of course, small business loves the Democratic Party: I can remember the migration of the farmer after dust, crop failures, poverty and the failure of his government, during the inflation. ary boom of the Twenties, to afford ample insurance against such disasters, Through scientific programs, the Democratic Agriculture De-

partment lifted him up from his plight and allowed him to once more receive the rich rewards of honest toil of the soil. Of course, the farmer loves the Democratic Party. There are some of the reasons that we will see another great Democratic victory throughout the nation’ come November.

. By Ludwell Denny

Indifference Toward Rearmament

"WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—While President Truman talked disarmament to the United Nations at Flushing Meadow, the Atlantic Pact Conference in Washington negotiated for rearmament. . There is no contradiction. As the President explained, the American and United Nations plan for world limitation of arms is

blocked by militaristic aggressors. Therefore,

“the ony! course the peace-loving nations can

take. in the present situation is to create the

armaments needed to make the world secure against aggression.” The Truman address was more than mere window-dressing for the realistic meetings of Atlantic chiefs of staff and defense ministers here. For unless the heads of governments can convince the democratic peoples that the only road to safe disarmament is through rearmament first, there will be no security.

Have Lost Hope ALTHOUGH this is a platitude, many still don't believé it. In this country they are a small minority, since Korea. But, with the exception of Britain, in most West European countries a majority is either lukewarm or opposed to rearmament. This lack of European public support—rather

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than technical problems—is the reason so little has been done so long after the govérnments pledged action in the. West European Union and -Atlantic Defense Pacts. It is hard for Americans to understand this attitude of so many West Europeans. After _all, those people—the French and others—arsé at once weaker and mare exposed than America, “Then why should they need such prodding from America to get started?

» Acutely Aware of Weakness

NOT because they are indifferent, certainly. Rather the opposite—because they are so acute ly aware of their weakness and their danger, many have lost hope and fallen into fatalism. Appeasement is in instinctive reaction when one is scared and mn Courage is cheaper in America than bombed-out countries,

their quarrel anyway. tween Communist Russia and ica, in which Western Europe will .end up the battlefield and be destroyed whichever giant wins,” they say. %®

. By Earl Richert

Oklahoma Politics and the Bible

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 27 —'

: Everybody's quoting the scriptures in the Oklahoma political

campaign. Bl This is because the Republican nominee for the U. 8S. Senate is a highpowered, red-haired, 35-year-old preacher, the Rev. W. H. (Bill) Alexander of the First Christian Church of Oklahoma guy.

Mr. r's speeches. With evangelistic fervor he calls upon his audiences to vote for him and “a better tomorrow.” He quotes profusely from the J Old and New Testaments and Monr has a parody of the 23d Psalm a. a A $a: trend toward socialism. Mr. .Alexander says he is sure his throat

will stand the rigors of campaigning “because

a hand stronger than. mine led me into this thing.”

The Democrats are doing everything they:

can to fight back at the Rev. Mr. Alexander.

‘Called’ to Run

CONGRESSMAN A. B. Mike Montoney, the Democratic Senate nominee, says that Mr. Alexander is going around the state “with a Bible under one arm and a bucKet of mud under the

' other.

. By Charles Lucey

Colorado Race Has Old- Fashioned Flavor

DENVER, Oct. 27--A clear-cit choice between Democratic New Dealism and middle-of-the-road Republican conservatism is stirring Colorado with one of the hottest senatorial races since

most. That gives special meaning to this Colorado campaign smothered

But so far this contest is

ator called Barkley “one of the , finest men in

“It gives me great happiness ent. i. 1 be wit you o8 the Samipus * Ry ine «+ little people of my alma mater here o Botilder, a_beautiful jewel-at "o> 2nd 3 vey subtle man . t of God's mountains, ~~" grand Happy memories of old land- He “pointed his rapier with a

A religious tone dominates

foned schooimaster's rod had been vigorously applied.” Sen. Millikin was there .to answer Vice President Alben - Barkley, who had stood on the same spot a féw days earlier to cheer for Mr. Carroll's election. Mr. Millikin ust about

rose” said Mr. Millikin — and then, after that poetic warmthat

But the man who is doing the hatchet job on the Reverend is Sen. Robert Kerr, himself a high-ranking Baptist layman who ofteh preaches and conducts Sunday School

classes, - Ren. Kerr has a speech entitled “With Whom .

Did He Wrestle?” It deals with the Reverend's entrance intb - the political arena and his later switch from the Democrats to the Republicans. ’ The Senator recalls how Mr. Alexander said originally he was “called” to run for the Senate on the Democratic ticket after an all-night session of prayer and wrestling with himself ih the sanctuary of his church last spring, Mr. Alexander came out as a Democrat.

Quotes From Bible

WHAT Sen. Kerr, with great relish, wants to know is: “With whem did Mr. Alexander wrestle when he decided to switch over as a Republican candidate?” “I challenge him.” Sen. Kerr says, “to teil the people of ‘Oklahoma with whom did he wrestle, and with whom did he sit up all night, and whose arm was around his shoulder when he changed-his mind. “I know the Lord didn't change because the Bible says: ‘Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today and forever.”

Sen. Kerr tells how Jonah wound up in the "belly of a whale when he didn’t go where the

Lord told him to go. He says Mr. SAlpmnde is in even worse fix for failing to follow the Lord's instructions. : :

Mr. Carroll agrees that the Democrats, in power now for id

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