Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1950 — Page 18
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~ Altogether Healthy Vote OM a broad national Viewpoint ‘the election's outcome Es healthily reassuring. <———— It's normal for the party out of power to gain seats in Congress in a ‘non-presidential year. The Republican gains yesterday were not large enough to upset nominal Democratic control of House and Senate. But they prove that there's still vitality in our twoparty system—that the GOP isn't nearly as ready as some people have feared, and others hoped, to be counted out as
a potent political factor. And, if President Truman doesn’t have a Republican 82d Congress to blame for everything that goes wrong in the next two years, that will be no misfortune for the GOP national ticket in 1952. Sen. Capehart of Indiana was returned to Washington in an impressive victory over Fair Dealer Alex Campbell, The race that had attracted most attention during the national campaign was in Ohio, where organized labor's political action machines made extraordinary efforts to de“feat Republican Sen. Robert A Taft — ~The impressive Taft vietory- sends him back to Washn for a third six-year term. It makes chances for Tg of the Taft-Hartley Act look mighty slim. And it seems convincing evidence that a big majority of the people in Ohio don’t want to take political orders from union
leaders. Severest blow to the Democrats was defeat of their majority leader in the U. 8S. Senate, Scott Lucas, who was unseated by former Republican House member, Everett . Dirksen. The Democratic machine in Chicago fell down badly, giving Sen. Lucas a Cook County lead so slim that down-state Republican votes far overcame it.
bad licking. Judge Pecora, the Tammany (and Truman) candidate for mayor, was beaten by Mayor Impellitteri. And the city’s vote for the Democratic candidate for governor was far short of enough to offset Governor Dewey's up-state lead for a third term.
A VETERAN Democratic Senator, Millard Tydings, was retired in Maryland. Formerly one of the most independent men in Congress, Sen. Tydings went off on an uncharacteristic tack earlier this year when, as chairman of an investigating committee, he undertook ‘to whitewash the State Department and “the administration's handling of the smelly Amerasia. o case. That Played a major
part in his defeat. / ot California’s Republican Gov. Warren won an expected easy re-election victory over Jimmy Roosevelt. Pennsylvania’s Republican Gov. Duff got himself elected to the Senate by a handsome margin. These gentlemen, and Ohio’s Taft, probably will have to bé reckoned with when the GOP picks its next presidential candidate. New York's Dewey has said he won't be in that race. " It wasn't a good day for such ultra- Fair Dealers as Connecticut's Gov. Bowles and California's Rep. Helen ~ Gahagan Douglas.. Rep. Richard Nixon, who defeated Mrs. Douglas fora seat in the U. S. Senate, is largely responsible for the fact that Alger Hiss was brought fo trial and convicted. And it was a black day for the Communists, whose _ favorite Congressman, Rep. Vito Marcantonio of New York ‘City, was retired to private life by a coalition candidate after seven terms of faithfully following the party line. No defeat was ever more deserved, or more welcome to the American people. Oklahoma did itself, and the country, a good turn Tw} promoting Democratic Rep. Mike Monroney to the Senate, where he is certain to be one of the ablest, most a nderfaent “and most effective ‘members: : : . 8” : ; ; IN GENERAL, the returns seem to reveal a good deal. of dissatisfaction throughout the country with ‘the way have been going under a Democratic administration a nocratic Congress. With “the Blow progress of ‘rearmament and the lack of effective action against inflaton. With the-ominous turn-of everits in Koreas. With the State Department’s handling of foreign affairs, especially "in the Far East. With the failure to deal more vigorously with Communist and pro-Communist influences on the home front.
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Truman cause for some Serious thought. It should give ‘us all cause to hope that past errors will be rectified, and that the American people will go forward unitedly though the time of trials and dangers that may be ahead. ~~
Our Troops in Korea
(CHINESE Communist troops crossed the ManchurianKorean border more than a week ago and since then have been fighting the United Nations forces. In a formal report to the United Nations, Gen. Douglas - MacArthur has identified and given the locations of Chinese Communist units in North Korea. The official Peking radio yesterday announced the start of a recruiting drive to reinforce the Red Chinese troops
: 5 the face of all this, pussy-footing “statesmen” in the United Nations are trying to frame a resolution on
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now engaging the United Nations—largely American—.
the new Korean crisis without naming or otherwise
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THERE IS A WILL TO FIGHT" . . . By Jim G. Lucas
- Will Lack Of American Dollars Smash Free China 's
TAIPEH, Formosa, Nov. S—Free China has today, only 30 per cent are in wor,
“asked the United States for 4 3250 millon Jiltary assistance program. - It is presumably now under, nsideration in Washington. A detailed inventory was given to
‘The rest can’t fly for the lack of s0i Sager, which can be obtained only from the United tates. Free China's navy has 85 warships of all
types, including six lend-lease destroyer escorts .
Gen. Douglas MacArthur ia July. Later it was and one reconditioned Japanese Sestroyer, But
checked-—and in some particulars modified—by an American survey team which recently returned to Tokyo. : With that aid the Nationalists are confident they can : hold Formosa indefinitely.g Without it free China's war “machine would grind to a spluttering halt® after a few days of heavy fighting. How%
hold out depends on the size’ ev. and type of attack. Estimates “Chia range from a few hours to six Gen, Chisng months. Top priority goes to spare : parts, ammunition and shoes, in that order. Almost as desperately needed are gasoline, jet planes, rifles, machine guns and artillery. Maintenance is the most pressing problem facing those responsible for the defense of Formosa. As matters stand, once a tank, gun or plane breaks down, it is lost. For instance, the Chinese have 556 airplanes. Only 302 are in combat groups. Of these, a responsible air force officer told me
HAW on By | Frederick C. Othman
If It’s Joyful, Can It Be Work?
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—-The experts are in town for conferences on what they call the effect of environment on human endeavor. Their speeches add up to the idea that the pleasanter the place a fellow works, the better the job be does. This I doubt.
ever worked was the Treasury press room in the dear, dead days of . long ago, when
c orrespondent seldom had to worry about all the zeros in that word, billion. In . those times. thanks to steady contri- _ butions by the fiscal ers, the water cooler seldom flowed with such dull stuff as H-2-0. Some times the upturned jug in the tin: stand was full of ready-mixed martinis,
This made for happy working conditions, I will admit, but the quality of the labor somehow suffered. The specialists in pleasing environment made quite’a thing of music as an aid to production. All I know is that the bank where I do business put in a radio dingus to sooth the currency counters, who finally rebelled some months back over a ditty called, “Mule Train.” One more
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but more often the spigot produced ice-cold gin.
only 25 are in service. The Nationalists have a small savy yard at Kaohsiung, staffed by competent men. The yard isn’t big enough and lacks uipment. As a result, only a few of 41,000 sailors and officers have . '¢ Most of free China's warships are rigged with our World War II sonar (underwater listening devices used to locate submarines). Most of this equipment is out of commission ‘most of the time. It is doubtful if the Nation- . alist Navy could cope with a serious submarine attack today.
Good Account of Self
EVEN SO, the Nationalist navy has given
“and “still 18 giving a& good account of itself.-It
has effectively blockaded the South China coast, turning the once thriving port ‘city of Amoy into a ghost town. Recently the Réds bought two liberty ships at Hong Kong. The Nationalist navy overtook them near Shanghai, ordered a privately owned British tug to cut the tow line and hauled one back to Keelung. The other drifted almost back to Hong Kong before being overtaken a second time. It sank while being towed to Kaohsiung.
After the Battle . . .
—erack-of the -whip,—they-said;—and-they were ——¢ ¢
going on’ strike. End music among the moneychangers.
Office at Home
I ONCE spent an afternoon in a Havana cigar factory, where a fellow with a high-pitched voice was paid for reading the newspapers aloud to those who were rolling out cigats between their hands. why the cigar rollers put up with it; they'd have t rown that reader. out. one of them ‘me. It Is not, or me to criticize the scientists at the Library of Congress discussing ways to make earning a living more agreeable, but what
otherwise
I'm leading up to is my own disastrous experi- '
ment along this line. When we bought our beaten- -up house in the country I picked out the sunniest room with the biggest windows for my office. This I decorated in soothing tones of gray. Upon the walls I placed some bright-looking pictures of prancing horses. I bought a big, shiny desk and a new typewriter ‘with all the keys in perfect conditioh. I installed a’ de luXe neon lamp to give mie Mlumination without eyestrain. My master touch: was one of those super-duper green leather
_ swivel chairs such as those dynamic exec utives
use in the magazine advertisements.
Excellent Investment?
“THIS chair set mie back $120, but I figured With __all this comfort and convenience. my idea was “that these pieces. of mine couldn’t help coming Shakespeare. Haw. First time I tried out my new office, I experi= mented with all my widgets, inc tuding an elec tric cigar a Sheet of white Paper.
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. then 1 have batted out my dispatches at a
beaten-up desk downtown. The environment may ‘not be so hot, but the Copy does get writ.
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TURNABOUT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—The Agriculture Department has been hauled into court because of its treatment of peanut-eating Americans.
That “treatment,” briefly is to force peanut — —authority-to-bar-imports.—
eaters to consume more small, red peanuts than they would normally buy. This is done by banning im-
prefer and which this country doesn’t produce enough of to meet demand. So the M. S. Cowen Co. of
District of Columbia Federal Court to order the Agriculture Department to let it bring 250 tons of the large, white peanuts into this country from Canada: The Cowen Co. contends Agriculture « - Secretary Charles Brannan and his ‘aids. were arbitrary and capric fous”
white Canadian peanuts The U, 8, peahut situaticn is this; try nas a surplus of the s.aall, red peanuts but a FOAICITY OF INE TAPRE WHITE ones AG The ART ~utture Department;
red,
The Cowen Co. contends that under the Fats ‘and Oils Import Control Law the Agriculture Secretary has the power to keep out only the
LAKE SUCCESS, Nov.
people.
us, even more dangerous. They are a grinding destruction of American and other United Nations ‘men. and materiel in a holding operation, or abandonment of Korea and with it half a world to Russia and aggressive Communist minorities. The holding operation would best serve international communism, and that was probably the idea when Moscow pushed the button for Peking’s we + Finter Venton: This was such a” = -—¥iolat ion Of FexKing s ts est as to an Peking's less subservience. The largest organized and in‘tegrated anti-Communist force in the Orient is the half-mil-lion trained soldiers on Formosa wh om Generalissimo Chiang has pledged sometime, somehow to return to the ‘China mainland. -
- Ld . WAITING to join them are anti-Communist Chinese guer“rillas considérable but undetermined .number and ef-
i . Chiang has main-’ J ‘with many of ; : \ pd
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NEARING THE CROSSROADS .
What Course Can We
8 Chinese Communist defiance of the United Nations in Korea is swiftly narrowing United Nations and U. 8S. alternatives to a counter-offensive partnership with Chiang Kai-shek and the non-C ‘ommunist bulk of the Chinese
The Army now has
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any military standard, that is not enough. Most armies set 1400 as the acceptable minimum reserve per rifle. Free China has between 95 and 100 American light and medium tanks, purchased for $1000
each after our Army began to scrap them, We
had already :sawed off the gun barrels. But the sawed-off guns still shoot. But again spare parts and maintenance are major obstacles. During recent maneuvers, 17 out of 20 tanks simply stopped running. China's fighting men have enough guns. But one American familiar with their arsenals says
35 per cent either blow up or stop shooting after
10 rounds. < ~ . The Chinese are not idle. They are doing _ their best with what they have. The Shanghai and Hangkow arsenals, complete with labor force, equipment and buildings, were brought here from the mainland and reassembled at Kaohsiung. A munitions factory has been es-
tablished: Wherever possible the Chinese “are ~
rerifling guns to shoot their own ammunition. But this takes time. Free China does not have jet planes. The Communists on the mainland have several groups of the latest Russian models. The Nationalists hope we'll give them enough jets for one group. That would be 75 planes. And they
would need spare parts to keep them flying.
They would also need instructions. In one respect President Truman's order
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.. . By Earl Richert ai Peanuts Put Brannan on Hot Spot
items which are in surplus. Since white peanuts have been ‘in scarce supply and with none in government .ownership, the company contends thatthe Agriculture Department: -does not have Agriculture Department officials “declined to comment, pending filing of a formal answer in court.
Huge Losses
THE SMALL, red peanuts are produced chiefly in Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma and Texas. The large. white ones are produced in the Virginia-North Carolina area. The government has ben incurring huge
losses since World War 1I by supporting peanut
prices, as required -by law. amounted to $40 million. And, -in—eutting-peanut produetion to—try to trim these losses, the government has cut the production of both white and red peanuts. A
Losses last year
the “white peanuts be grown “without. affecting
or ne me authority of the Agriculture
curtail production of the red, or Spanish- type, peanuts. Currently the government is supporting pea-
Pan i doesn t-get- _any-of the w sold for crushing for “peanut oil, about-$40-a-teon- ww Last year the government lost about $140 a ton on this process.” The losses are smaller this
year because ofl’ prices are up. ’
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tional Government Chiang Kai-shek as a 2 hopeless
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_Arabian crude oil and never had enough.
Almost Barefooted
THE AVERAGE Nationalist GI is almost’
‘barefooted. The armed forces need 500,000
pairs of combat boots and shoes immediately. Shoes don’t last long in some parts of Formosa. They would like at least 1.5 million pairs if the men are called on to fight for any length of time. Free China’s defense plans call for a 700,000man armed force. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
shek told Gen. MacArthur in July he had 600,000
men. ‘Americans here believe the figure is nearer 450,000. Many soldiers are engaged in nonmilitary work such as construction and farming. To save money, the Defense Ministry operates vegetable and chicken farms at all major bases. 4 : :
“There is a will to right here,” one Ameri-
can officer told me. “There always will be as long as there is the will to return to their homes on the mainland. That's all they live for.”
“| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."
Sam's Ox Gets Gored—Again
. By W, H. Edwards, Gosport
NONE but those who have seen many win“ters can know the facts about the “ Gay Nineties” that were anything but gay for the rank —and-file- of the people living at that time. In 1891 the United States Treasury.had sil“ver In abundance but no gold. So England and France, then holding nearly all of the gold in the world, refused to take silver as payment on the U. 8. national debt of that time. As a result of failure of the national credit factories all over the land were hard put to employ men. Unemployment ‘began growing, slowly at first hen becoming greater, * 4 9 A CHANGE of administration in 1893 put Grover Cleveland in the President's office again, with a Congress of his own party. Righf or wrong, according to which party was speaking, Mr. Cleveland borrowed $50 million in gold from English and French bankers, paying $3 worth of silver for each dollar in gold. That was when Sam's ox took its first goring. Times have changed. Uncle Sap now holds over half of the world’s supply of gold. So Uncle Sap is GIVING England and France the equivalent of gold to the tune of billions. So Sam’s ox gets gored again.
‘Let's Be Human’
By Bill Jones, City BE HUMAN. I understand some of the Allison CIO employees at Speedway are going out to small towns by the car load to get their hair cut rather than pay a union barber
mark: that they are going to force him out of business. Now isn’t that nice for union brothers te, pull. Did you ever stop to figure how much the barber makes, He goes to work at 8 a. m. and works until 6 p. m. or later. o>. GP : HE GETS no overtime pay, no hospital insurance, no vacations with pay. On the average the union barber works for one dollar an hour when his weekly pay is figured up. When you boys at Allison get a pay hike I have never heard a barber complain. Your ‘barber out there should give your employer your names and let him cut you to one dollar an hour. Then you would really blow your top.
The Simple Way? . By J. L. P., City CONGRATULATIONS to Mr. Emmert for his fine letter in the Forum last Sunday. I agree with him one hundred per cent . there isn't enough traffic control In this ty . we need one-way streets going north and a few more traffic officers doing their jobs. He made mention of cars parked on .the wrong side of the street during late evening or early morning rush hours. But he failed to’ explain the reason. It's simple. You can get by with parking
_vestricted zones for a few dollars a year. It
costs a lot more to park in a commercial lot. "Answer to that one? Haul them in off the street and make the owner gay the cost... or do it the simple way and make the fine 50 pro-
hibitive that drivers won't park overtime.
YOUR TEARS
3 YON'T ery so very hard sweetheart , . . for Sen you do I always see . . . how ‘much you really’ mean to me. I've made you cry so “Any timex 50° oTten $-don't dare . .. to amends or try to ask .,. forgiveness . I know-dear that I'll never rats . the love vou’ ve given me . .. and now I find .-of what might come to be
how much. I love YOU 80 4 x ends in failure the game old WHEY Tous In yourdidn't know of these times you'll-say wer-and-tt-will-break my heart . .. and I will know, no doubt I'll find . . . what it means to be apart. =By: Ben Bunton;
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. By Clyde Eihewodh: Take in Korea?
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troops offered were more tian all the rest of the United Nations members, other than the S., have put into. Korea to
under
self-inter-
The only other courses left are tentative, defensive and, for
Also waiting are millions of Chinese people, the bulk of
. the population, who would wel-
conse release from: Communist control. And in the Chinese Communist armies themselves hundreds ‘of thousands of .captive men and officers who would switch sides if the delivery of China were attempted under the United Nations banner.
are Kai-shek's "visions and an armored con-
can be removed without removing a. great deal of the State Department. A major reversal of foreign policy would
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THF. United Nations, under American leadership “on the Korea issue, snubbed Chiang offer of three di-
tingent for Korea when the battle there had only started.
The ostensible reason was fear
—The brightest promise —of— of Chinese Communist Inter-
such a counteroffensive ‘would be the stabilization of Asia’ and an immeasurable reduction of world communism’s
i“ threat to world peace. . .
But _the promise . cannot be
fulslled or even tested with-"
out American support, moral,
financial and material. There °
are two principal obstructions: JONE: The Truman admin-
istration accepts: the argument’ that the Chinesé people were
willingly captured, by communism,
T™WO: ri sdaaatration as weitiens off the Chinese Ns:
vention in Korea. a ‘The fact was that Peking
had already’ intervened to a great measure by sending at
' Jeast 30,000 veteran Commu-
nist Korean troops from China
into Korea where they had be-
come the backbone of the initial : North Korean Strikmg
. force.
In calling on Secretary’ of State Dean Acheson for recon-
_ sideration of the decision on Sen, ;
. has pointed out tht the 33000
Nationalist Chinese help, William F. Knowland (
date. Sen. Knowland's telegram to
Mr. Acheson said: “Gen. MacArthur should forthwith be authorized to accept with
thanks on behalf of the United Nations the generous offer. of the Republic of China," to allow the non-Communists of Asia to help resist aggressive Communists in that area of the world.” Chiang is not expected to press his offer again. Nationalist sources
time until his help is asked.
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AIRPLANE courtships are ‘becoming common. It's lucky for some of the lads that girls don’t throw them over.
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all day if you want to have a hard time Sndmg your, place in the sun.
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