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Time to Tell France ITs GOING to take more than wrist-slapping to jolt France off her stubborn stance whieh is preventing the Western Allies from setting up an army for the common “defense of Europe against Russia. pe ~~ France is holding out against her 11 partners of the North Atlantic Treaty organization on the matter of rearming the Germans. She wants no German units larger than battalions. The American plan, based on expediency, is for 10 full German divisions under a central, non-German command. : Precious time is being wasted in an effort to iron out the apparently irreconcilable -differences. The deputies of "the Atlantic Foreign Ministers meet next week for a go at it and if ‘they fail—as seems most likely—the “deadlock will continue until their superiors agree on a meeting, probably late this month.

: ~ MEANWHILE we're trying to prod France into compromise with: cautious, round-about policy statements, One such was issued last Friday through the office of the U. S. High Commissioner for Germany. It reminded France, without naming her, that Americans were losing patience with those who believed the Soviet threat was not urgent and that there was plenty of time to settle the question of rearming the Germans. “If the peoples and governments of Europe desire U. 8. support, they must face up squarely to the realities,” the statement concluded. True enough, but: those words lack the force they would have if they came from Washington, especially from the State Department.

" n » THE TROUBLE is that Secretary of State Acheson is not using the immense bargaining power we have. All too hastily and too lightly, we toss our blue chips into the pot. We've agreed to put our troops in Western Europe permanently — without gaining any commitment from

air and sea forces to protect Western Europe. When France asked for $2.4 billion in money and supplies to increase her own army to 10 divisions by 1951, again we agreed to provide it, without making sure of anything in return. =) France now has only five divisions in Europe, all Wndersizength and Wholly inadequate for her own defense.

The Friendly Fleet

THE U. 8S. Navy has become “a world gendarin and a beastly strangulator of freedom and national liberation movements,” accor “ing to the Soviet navy's official publication, “Red Fleet.” - This angry attack is an unintended tribute. It directs ~ attention to a vital peace-keeping role our Navy has played since the war-:a role which has been: too little appreciated ~ by the American people. The U. S. Fleet based in England, which was under command of Adm. Richard L. Conolly, who has returned to this country: to become president of the Naval War College, has policed the Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Aegean and Arabian Seas, the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean these last four years. Warships fiving the American flag have put in at ports in those waters wherever Communist-inspired trouble has been brewing.

= . = = = = WHEN the Reds were preparing to gobble up Greoce Adm. Conolly’s flagship appeared in the Harbor of Piracus for a good-will visit to Athens, when Italy w as threatened by a Communist civil war, units of the same fleet quietly anchored off Naples. Our ships have had a habit of visiting Istanbul whenever Turkey has been a target for Moscow's radio attacks. - > : “Naturally the Russians are incensed. The. proximity of AdmaLanolly's fleet must have been most discouraging to Moscow's “liberation” programs. The Russian-bestowed title of “world-gendarme” is well deserved; and: our Navy should wear it proudly,

BQUALLY distressing to the Russians, 16" doubt, is . another title the ships under Adm. Conolly have earned--“the friendly fleet.” . It is fleet policy to be in harbor at - Christmas tine to hold parties for war orphans. . Turkey dinners are served, toys and clothing distributed: Public visits are ‘welcomed to American vessels in foreign ports:

tunity on one occasion in Copenhagen. Om Christmas Day, | 1948, while ‘the _ aircraft arrier * Franklin D. Roosevelt was playing host to a thousand destitute Italian children at Naples, a companion ship, the destroyer tender Hamul, was unloading 130, 000 United Nations blankets at Port Said, Egypt, for Arab refugees from the Palestine war. : Such activities must bé baffling to the Communist mind. The Christmas spirit is something not covered by the works of Marx and .Lenin. And the very thought of inviting foreigners to visit a Russian naval vessel would rock the Kremlin.

Small Change OUR Uncle Sam hag his mints and his’ engravers working overtime, trying to keep up with the demand for - small ‘change—pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and dollar bills. There was, of course, a time when a dollar bill was ‘not small change. But in the last 10 years or so the greenback's purchasing power has shrunk by almost: half, and + lately its decline has speeded up. Siiver, nickel and dopper _ coins have experienced similar shrinkage. cash will ouy, ARTEL DeODIe pend It and the ‘more of ht is needed for carrying on businéss. THATS inflation at work. 1 haan’ gone to such ex— here as it has, at various times, in various other . We don’t have to lug along a bushel of pape when we go shopping, and let's hope we never will. .. Ee Es mao Toms aes oer

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“Important Issue’ in ‘By Mrs. Bert Beasley, 3554 ¢ oF

And, the less . ContralA AN important issue has “been injected into

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Formosa, Nov. 7—With limited reBE and little JF orRiopa, 2 help, the Chinese Nationalists have forged an industrial and political revolution on Formosa. It hasn't been easy. It frequently meant dipping into dwindling reserves. It involved first

winning and then solidifying the friendship of "native Formosans, who were either indifferent -But—while"

or hostile to the mainlanders. Washington and London talked knowingly about Nationalist incompetence—it’s been done. Politically the Nationalists won the Formosans by giving them more self-rule than they ever had before; Less than 10 per cent of «the winning ndidates in the recent provincial elections mainlanders. - Nationalists frankly recognize they are refugees and prefer to leave Formosan Government to Formosans. Sixty-nine percent of civil servants are natives of Formosa. So are 17 of 23 provincial commisstoners.

"Free Ballot Assured

PROVINCIAL elections are stilt-under way. Election of mayors and district commissioners

—=will follow. President Chiang Kai-shek and Gov, Wu Kuo-chen have taken steps to assure a free —

ballot. A Formosan “Hatch Act” forbids political activity by office holders.’ A specific number of executive positions are reserved for women and mountain tribesmen. Madame Chiang has been stumping to persuade women to vote. Limits have been set on campaign expenses. : Economic ‘reforms .are in two categories agricultural and industrial, has been land reform. Tenants once returned as much as 70 per cent of the crops to iandlords. Now no rental can exceed 37.5 per cent.

The income of ‘the average tenant farmer is

DEADLINE ii By Fred W. Perkins Will Public OK Phone Strike?

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7-—Overshadowed by public interest in today’s election is the nation-

——wide-intérruption of telephone service threatened

for Thursday. Joseph A. Beirne, president of the Communi-

cations Workers of America and a vice presi -

dent of the CIO, appealed -in ¢ a coast-to-coast broadcast last night for the public's ‘“understanding and support.” Mr. Beirne said today that the actual strike will not be nationwide, but ‘the effects

changes in all principal cities from coast to coast, particularly in long-distance service.” Telephone ¢company officials. said they expected to maintain’ local and long-distance service’ Mr. Beirne . close to normal. They pointed Overshadoiwed ©°Ut that many cities were completely on local dial service, and that dialing had been extended to a part “of the long-distance network. The telephone companies, all part of the Bell System, are expected to use the methods they have employed fn the past to prevent more than minor breakdowns. If necessary, they will assign supervisory employees and executives to handle the business that cannot be put through by dials. :

Two Major Issues

THE DIAL system will work, according to telephone experts, as long as the exchanges do not need maintenance service from techniclans who may be on strike or kept from work by picket lines. Company spokesmen said they hoped "the

* issues with the union will be settled in time

to prevent the strike. Mr. Beirne said he had noted no change in the company position, but that the union’s negotiators were ready to continue settlement efforts until the deadline at 6 a. m. Thursday. The union leader said there were two major Issues ONE: Insufficient wage increases, and uneven distribution of them. TWO: The'company proposal to make a nonreopenable wage contract for 18 months, “It is preposterous,” the CWA president said, “to freeze wages for a year and a half under present domestic and internatidnal conditions. Telephone workers’ pay has lagged behind the wage increases in other industries and the tele-

"phone companies seem determined to perpetuate

this inequity. “We know of no other management which has asked iis workers to take such a wage freeze.”

Covers Three Divisions

THE scheduled strike covers directly three of-the-union’s divisions representing-installation and--repair-—workers-—across the-—country;—an equipment manufacturing plant in Haverhill, Mass.; and the entire telephone organization of the: Michigan Béll ‘Telephone Co. Altogether, about 35000 workers are directly involved. __The’ union, to picket “all the boildihgs where these people work.” That, he says, would produce the nationwide effect “which the telephone companies are preparing ‘to minimize. The tele phone union. threatened strikes last March. but they. were averted.- In the Spring

of 1947 there was a nationwide strike for'.a month. but company preparations. prevented {Sn from becoming a national emergency

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| il defend to the death your right to say it.’

In Favor of New Deal

By O. Pitschhman, Syracuse; N. Y. . ACCORDING to the latest Gall up Poll, youtt is in favor of New Deal policies. Youth evidently likes the opportunities given it to fight wgrs that might have been avoided by foresight and better statesmanship: to be burdened with debt, much of which was caused getting purposes) by squandering borrowed money on my generation instead of taxing us; and the highest taxes in the history of this ‘nation caused by inefliclency, wasteful spending {plowing under crops), and debt, the size of which doesn’t ‘mean a thing (only $6 billion taxes annually) as “we only owe it to each other” acc ording to the New Deal. I hope they like the New Deal as well five to 10 vears hence, and also that they will enjoy

" paying higher and higher social security taxes

(to support my generation) because the billions of dollars supposed to be in the security fund

have already been spent. iT

the current political ‘campaign. It is the issue of court réform, particularly in county courts with

divorce «Jurisdiction. I know by personal obser- *

vation of the need for a change. The Issue has become far too \mportant te let either political ‘party ignore the matter. It makes no difference which party wins at the election. If the Democrats win we will hold * them to their campaign pledge to carry out the reform’ measures they are advocating. \

We shall expect’ the same action from Re- ;

publicans if they are continued in office. This’ is not a matter of partisan politics. Court reshould nét bear any party label. :

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-will—be felt —in—telephone—ex=—

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: By Jim 6 Lucas’ = Chinese Nafionaiist, RS hionize Formosa Indusiry and Politics

the Ferti- tion. China Silk Corp. and China Tanker Ce. er mainland.

up 25 per cent. Many are able to send children to school for the first time and are able to buy farm implements.

As a result sugar production is up from

30,000 tons the last year of the Japanese occupation to more than 600,000 tons. Rice production has more than doubled. There is no food shortage on Formosa. In fact Formosans are air-dropping rice to starving: mainland Chinese, The industrial problem has been much more difficult. The National Resources Commission manages 14 i The Taiwan Sugar

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Power Companies, ae? Co. the Cement Co. the Pulp snd Paper

Cou he a jointly with the province. The China Tanker Co. is operated with a private firm. : In addition, the central government owns the Chinese Petroleum Corp., Taiwan Aluminum Co. and the Taiwan Gold and Copper Administration. Last winter five new concerns were

. established. The Taiwan Steel Works and the

Sin Chu Coal Mining Administration are new.

The China Spinning, and Weaving Administra-

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LOVE LIFE, SHAVING MUGS . . By Frederick C. Othman :

How Can a Guy Bump Off A Butterfly With a Pile Driver?

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7—My favorite bureaucrat, Lowell Mason, the federal trade commis-

-sioner, claims that-a pile-driver-is not the proper

instrument for killing butterflies. What that has to do with love life and shaving mugs, I'll let him explain in a minute. "The commission decided that it was against the public in= terest for the Reid H. Ray Film Industries, Inc., of St Paul Minn, the Alexander Film Co., of Colorado} Springs, Colo., and three other similar firms to contract for the showing of their advertising films in any movie house for

—longer-than-a year. Commissioner-Mason,-who has -ideas—on-—all--subjects and -doesn’t-—mind-—-

expressing them, dissented. He surely did. And I think T'll just let him do my work for me

. today. He's a funnier writer than I am, anyhow:

-__“When you. look at a picture extolling the virtues of -a specific commodity.” he ‘said. “you are looking at a trailer ad. People mostly goto the movies to forget their cares. In the words of the industry, "this is the privilege of

motion pictures, that they bring great joy and -

relaxation te humankind.’

“Trailer ads do not bring audiences ‘much SE ABE lena alii peopl rR The ary EOE

of advertising ina place of amusement is a

bore and ought to be dorie away with. “But he oe

‘HOOSIER FORUM ER Parting “Shot ot “Be

“No 89 oi of 96" By Lester A. Dudley, Kénnard, Ind. SO THE TIMES suggests that the voters seni HomeF back to Washington for another six years. This is’ the same man-—Homer Capehart whoge brilliant voting record on state, natiopal and international questions has earned him the title .of ,“No. 89” out of 96 Senators. Teamed with “Big Mouthed Bill Jenner”-—-“No, 95’ wouldn't that make a fine pair to represent our awn great Hoosier State? Six years .ago you suggested Capehart for Senator and Gates for Governor -remember? We all know that you are sorry for helping

; thrust Ralph on'us and we would like to: know

what thére has been in the’ legislative conduct

» ~of*Homer- in the: Past, six ‘years. to justify his re”

election. i > ihe ! I HAVE been a constant reader of The Times for the past 16 years and I have pérsonally noted a drift from mdependence, and a marked deterioration in editorial policy. Why “aren't your editorials prope placed tn the:

small: theater owner benefits from trailer ads. He i$ paid to show them. He pays for a film

—of somebody's love life, but he gets paid for

showing the cold facts about somebody's breakfast food or shaving mugs. “The order in this case prohibits the trailerad maker from leasing screen-time from theater "owner for more than a year. “This might be a great favor to audiences. Unfor tunately, the privilege of boring the public for pay is a theater owner's inalienable right, provided he doesn’t carry the thing too far.”

No Gobbledegook

COMMISSIONER Mason, who never (bless him) has uttered a word of gobbledegook in his life, ‘went on to say=that he'd be hanged if he could see how something could be legal for less than a year, but illegal longer than that.- Nor

could he understand why ‘his fellow commission.

ers relied on-the ponderous case of the U. 8 versus American Can to decide this one. “On the one hand we have litigation again:t 4 can company doing a ‘fifth of a billion dollars worth of business a year,” he added. “On the other we have a tiny enterprise whose share of the limited market for film trailer ads is represented by 458 leases, or 4 per cent of the market.

“To apply the: reasoning ot the court in ‘the

American Can case here is like killing butterlies with a pile drivera : “Nor can I put much stock in the pleas that

. this order is needed to nip monopoly in the bud. - If we nipped every bud with 4 per cent of the market, the fields of American industry would

look like Egvpt's after the locusts.” 2 That's telling ’em; commissioner, in language that everybody can understand. a I had hoped that I could have a chat with Commissioner Mason, but it developed that as soon as he'd written his butterfly decision, he snuck over to England to see how monopolies

ue As soon as he finds. out

s going to make the British a Speech. I bet

they get an earful.

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"Copy vy Rabbit? By. Mrs. Helen M. Eck, 1935 W. 50th St. Every year as election and the hunting season approaches, the theme of the rabbit comes to me. I used to write about the sad, but not so sudden rabbit. The hunter got him. Or about the lonely rabbit. Lonely? Yes, no human being to shoot at him. Some goshawful war had laid the race of hunters down. Well, weren't there more rabbits and therefore more friends forsthe lonely one? No, this

“rabbit could not abide the ‘sight of his like.

Hasenpeffer everywhere, morning, noqn and night. - He wanted to run away, but his reflexes were” attuned to the sound of the shotgun, and he was sunk without it. . And all because of the atom; it had the rab-, bits too. Nightly our individual rabbit dreamed of .the private-initiative world of boom, boom and boom some more.” He saw himself leaping over the fuzzy ramparts.of Security Hill shout-

ing, “Liberty or Death,” “Freedom!” But in his _

weakened condition, his dream never became a

came from the . Most Formosan industry was built by the Japs and was badly damaged during the war, Some was destroyed. But many companies are — now producing more -than ever before. For instance, the Japanese produced 303,000 tons of cement anually. Last year the Chinese turned, out 400,000 tons. The Japanese produced 33,000 tons of fertilizer. The Chinese raised. that to’ 60,000. The Japs made 152,000 kilowatt hours of electricity. The Chinese have a peak of 168;000, Sugar production has soared from $3 mil. lion to $61,200,000 yearly. The sugar industry provides a living for 20 per cent of Formosa’s population. This year the Chinese Petroleum Corp. will produce 410,000 barrels- of gasoline, diesel oil, __fuel oil and asphalt. However, the productive capacity exceods the demand. Much capacity is idle.

Tin for Canneries : CONSTRUCTION of Taiwan's steel works ~ began in February 1949 and ended this March. The plant is designed to produce 3000 tons of iron sheets yearly, but can be enlarged Jo produce 10,000 tons. The government also is building a - and galvanizing plant to supply 3000 tons of tin to Formosan canneries. Since raw materials are imported, the Chinese cannot produce at competitive prices unless they make their own steel,

They are obtaining two small open hearth fur-

naces and three electric furnaces from Japan as reparations. This’ will enable them to produce 34,000 tons of steel sheets, tin plates and rails, Formosa's coal reserves of 24 million tons are in a remote part of the country where roads frequently are blocked by landslides. Present production is 1000 tons a month. The goal is to boost this to-3000 tons by the end of the year, There is need for 15,000 tons of coal a month, . But the National Resources Commission says, “This plan can hardly be carried out due to ‘the present financial condition. So a smaller scale of 6000 tons a month has been proposed.”

ON GUARD . . . By James Daniel

U.S. Speeds Up Civil Defense

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7—The U. 8. is stepping up plans for protection of industry against sabotage and enemy bombing, ONE: The National Security Resources Board (NSRB) soon will announce a plan for assigning “critical” ratings to the nation's principal industries. Government agencies will be responsible for assisting those industries in which they have a “paramount” interest in carrying out protective measures specified for gach rating. This means the Defense Department will assume responsibility for those industriés on which its fighting potential ‘depends, including both prime contractors and the important sub-. contractors on orders for war materials, The

Interior Department is being discussed as the =

proper agency to supervise security of power dams and power lines. The Interstate Commerce Commission may do the same job for railroads. —Industries not assigned but still rafed as important to defense, such as food processing, will become the responsibility of the Civil Defense Office of the NSRB, This office is ready to become a separate agency whenever a director is appointed and the President and Congress give the word.

Get Busy Now TWO: The Munitions Board has notified defense contractors not to wait for specific advice from Washington but to get busy * ‘immediately on reinstating World War II protective measures such as screening and training of plant guards, In deciding how much protection they can afford and need, defense industries have been. told by the Munitions Board that “allowance should be made for the fact that there is more likelihood of subvérsive activities today than in World War II and that we face a new hazard due to the fact that ‘Russia has efs [ected an atomic explosion.”

Civil Defense Budget THREE: The NSRB is preparing a civil defense budget for submission to Congress. The agency does not intend to waste manpower and materials by equipping every town "and village with air raid warden helmets and stirrup

pumps. But in areas considered subject to enemy ——

bombing, substantial expenditures are contemplated, especially for protective construction to guard war plants and workers. For instance, the Army. Force have notified the dir contractors to expect “advice and assistance” in drawing up. plans. for protective construction, plant dispersal and employee shelters. The basic designs are being prepared by the NSRB which 18 using as part of the source material a sur. vey made of German. industry aftér the close _of World War II.

Central Security File ‘FOUR: The Defense Départment has és" tablished a central security file. Listed Efe o = the individuals, . organizations, facilities factories that have been cleared by the mittary, departments. FIVE: Maj. Gen. J. V. Matejka, acting di rector of production management for the Mue nitions Board, has. warned industry that ses curity measures, to be effective; must be carried out. before D-day. “A high irdustrial security standard at the outbreak of war may well be the “decisive factor in preventing defeat,” he says.

The Curtin Fall... |

Rude Interruption? By Inez Strickland, City. : SO THE Republican Party and Sally Butler are all mad because Cyr, the war veteran, was manhandled at the Gary Democratic meeting . the other night. Then, too, it said ofher eivie groups ‘were all mad about this incident. I guess that means the Chamber of Commerce and other such civic groups. Too bad. How would Sally like it if she was speaking at a meeting and someone rudely interrupted?

How would the Republican Party like it if their meetings were interrupted in this way? Oh, that would be rude wouldn't it? - But all this is a horse of another color, because it's Demo-~ crats. After all is said and done, Cyr wasn’t on the program that night, and we do have forum meetings where both parties, Democrats and Re- * Pubilioans, are free to give their views, but the Gary meeting wasn’t a forum and Cyr was rude in breaking in'on it the way he did.

Only a Scare Word? ?

‘teality. Getting into the trap wags relatively ddd 4 easy, to escape aRctically impossible Let’ By a Democrat, City — not topy-the EE IT "HAVE heard the Democrat candi [ates 5a)

out of what was once a: newspaper. When voters hegin to ‘udge their elected officials by what they have done to sustain and

improve their well- -being as a group, woe be 2s unto prejudiced editors. ; To the voters of Indiana I say, remember

six years ago when this sameé_ editor recom-

mended “Ralph Gates for Governor” and “Cape- -

hart over Schricker for Senator.” Let's elect Campbell and have one -Senator

aN | EDITOR'S ‘NOTE: Six years ago The Times indorsed Capel: for Senntor, Samuél Jackson for Governor.

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- By Floyd Roberts; ‘West Sider

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. of the other Indiana towns getting” all the gambling publicity and qur own Indianapolis

being left out. Why does it have to be « Gaty, Muncie, Jeffersonville and Evansville? All our bookie joints have a sign on them to re-elect our present oy administration. Too bad Robert, Montgomery haso't heard

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socialism is only a sC are. word used by the Republican Party. “Why wouldn't if be ‘a scare.

word? 1 180KEa the word soclalism and come

miinism up i the Winton. and Webster digtione aries. They give the definition as government. controls 2h nd. the government owns and-.oper-ates all the principal industries. The opposite of individualism. This violates the Constitue tion’ of the United States. ;. Do the people that call themselves. Democrats think the people in America want to live "in ‘a country like. Russia or England? . Na. Rent .

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