Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 November 1950 — Page 24

WEST EUROPE . .. By Paul Ghali

WALTER R LECKRONE HENRY W, MANZ Business Manager

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Time to Close Ranks ON THE heels of his impressive victory in Ohio, Sen. Taft has accused the Truman administration of making military commitments abroad “without the slightest public ~ discussion or consideration.” : “The administration has pursued a policy of secrecy and undertaken to deal with these issues without giving the people any chance to decide what they really: want,” he said. This cannot be denied. This was the case when Secretary of State Acheson intervened in French Indo-China. The promise to send additional troops to Europe was made with little, if any, bipartisan or public discussion. The decision to abandon China to the Reds was strictly a backroom proposition. -It also is true, as the Senator charges, that the United States is wasting a lot of money abroad. - = ~ HOWEVER, "sone of the questions Sen. Taft wants answered suggest that he may have in mind a complete withdrawal from the defense of Western Eurape. To do that would be even more disastroiis than the State Department’s abandonment of Nationalist China. The present administration has been reckless, prodigal and inconsistent in its overseas operations and commitments. It has been secretive and deceptive in its relations with Congress on these problems. It has neglected to ‘consult the minority members of Congress on many vital issues. But to go to the dther extreme and abandon the rest of the world to Stalin would be to invite our own destruction. We do not believe Sen. Taft wants to go to such lengths. “Can Western Europe really be defended?" the Senator has asked. The answer is that it must Be defended. But it does not follow that the State Department should be given a blank check and a free rein. This newspaper ‘does not believe Secretary Acheson has contributed to sound defense planning by submitting to thé whims and caprices of the “business as usual” French government. It believes, in fact, that Mr. Acheson should resign, because the public has lost confidence in his leadership. But some straight talking between C ongress and the White House should Iright this situation.

2 ANY RETURN to isolationism, however, moded by events. We dare not retreat from the threat confronting us, for a retreat, however it might be masked, would become a “rout leading to utter disaster. The world is in deadly peril. fatal to us-all. Now that the election is over, Congress and the President must get together, agree on a defensé program and. then stick to it. Immediate rearmament is our most urgent need. That should proceed while other issues are being settled. Waste and nonessential spending must be eliminated. But we cannot turn back. We must go forward.

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Labor’ s Politicos

A GREAT majority “of the American people are fir iy. opposed to control of their government by labor-union leaders. . They are sick and tired of having Philip Murray, William Green, et al, issue “must orders” to the President and the-Congress-of-the United States. : They are fed up to the teeth with the abject tendency of Democratic politicians to acgept such orders and make the Democratic Party more and more subservient to dictation by union bosses. = The election returns have made these facts clear.’ + Outstanding, of course, is what happened in Ohio. _. There the CIO, the AFL and the John L. Lewis Miners’ Union made their supreme ‘political effort. The result was . a resounding victory for Sen. Taft, the man they were most determined to drive from “public office. Mr. Taft, whose majority six years ago was a bare 17 000, piled up a lead of about A 430,000, and returns to the Senate with

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Of 15 Senators: saveinlis. “shagled- out for e dufeat bythe: labor political master-minds, only Forrest Donnell of Mispouri was beaten. And Thomas €. Hennings, the Demo: tic: victor thers, Wek a to: Prat THR.

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IN COLORADO. the labor politicos went all out against Republican Sen. Millikin. He beat an opponent with a pro-union record in the House of Representatives. In Utah, they lost one of their most faithful supa porters, Elbert Thomas, chairman of the Senate Labor ‘Committee, who long blocked all efforts to make the New: Deal's one-sided Wagner Act fairer, and who was. a foremost opponent of the Taft-Hartley Act. In California, they failed by a huge margin to send Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas to the Senate. Rep. Richard Nixon, the Republican who “defeated her, was active in putting the Taft-Hartley Act through the House. All this doesn't mean that the American people have turned against organized labor or that they would stand . for seeing the nation’s workers deprived by repressive laws of necessary rights and proté&ctions. It does mean, in this newspaper’s ‘opinion, that the country won't stand for being governed by union leaders who seek to put politics on a class basis. It does mean ~ that the public, though willing to see the Taft-Harley Act sensibly modified, is determined not to go back to the sort of federal labor legislation that would override public rights.

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France Has Hope For Defense Plan Growing Conviction Ministers

Will Agree at December Talks

: PARIS, Nov. 9—There is a growing conviction here in the French capital today that when the 12 Atlantic Pact Defense Ministers meet again—in Brussels, Dec. 15--a final understanding. on common defense in Europe will be achieved. The French have already replied to the

Washington note received here:

Monday morning. The note asked pointblank whether the Pleven plan for a European army was France's last word vind, in its eyes the only form for Western defense. The reply was “No.” So the way is open for a solution close to that suggested by Washingwy On and approved by London. Premier Pleven is no longer insisting that German military Mr. Pleven participation should be main«+o not divisions; gained on an unequal footing _ with that of other Western states. He has made that clear to Defense Minister Jules Moch, who is presently in Canada. Mr. Pleven still insists—for the sake of French parliamentary opinion-—on the necessity that future German units should not be “divisions.” Such are the present-day subtleties of presentday language, however, that a new word will probably be found with which to placate both the Germans and the French.

Two Big Fattors

TWO FACTORS have contributed during recent days to make French politicians more amenable to Washington reasoning: ONE: The feeling that France is approaching political isolation and that its stubbornness might adversely affect congressional voting of further Marshall Plan funds. TWO: The use opponents of Western Germany’s Chancellor Adenauer have made of French “unfriendliness” toward the Germans in refusing pointblank to support the Bonn government in any form of rearmament. There is ho use, of course, in discussing what form German rearmament must take if the Germans themselves refuse to be rearmed. The profound reluctance of most Germans to be iragged into another war for the sake of the democracies whom they scorn has been steadily growing since the French put up their scheme for a Western European army. This reaction and those coming from Bel--ghim-and-Holland have shown the French that the idea of a Western Europe as an entity is still a figment of imagination.

26 Communists Fired

TO COINCIDE with its own more constructive attitude toward Western skurope, France has taken two steps which can indirectly help rearmament both materially and morally. Parts of the two ports of La Palice and Bordeaux will now be used for landing supplies destined for American Occupational Forces in Germany. So far Bremen has been the only port made available for this purpose. Almost simultaneously the French government dismissed 26 Communist officials who had been heading or administrating some of the chief districts of Paris. These mayors and deputy mayors were nonelective appointies of the Interior Ministry. They also enlisted North Africans ‘here “for nationalist demonstrations” when the Sultan of Morocco visited France last month.

What Others Say—

YOU. CAN'T fight-communism deticately. “To the bleeding hearts who object to McCarthy's

- methods, I want to say it’ 8 been a rough, bare-

knuckled fight and I want to tell all of them that it's going to continue to he a bare- knuckle job, - —Sen. Joseph McCarthy

~ THE L OSS of economic freedom would be followed immediately by the loss of political and

personal freedom, and thus by the collapse of

the entire democratic system. —Penn State College President Milton Eisen hower.

I WANT to say this of the United States. I don't believe they will ever be AgETressors.

“There isn't an atom in thelr policy that justifies

that claim. —British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin.

The minute vou enter’ politics you immedi—afely give {icense to those who oppose vou, news:

papers and radio commentators to slander vou. —{iov. Frank Lausche of Ohio.

I HAVE three sons, and when each wag. 10 Dick looked like the worst ballplayer of the lot. LI hoped one of my sons would follow in my footsteps but I never thought it would be Dick.

- George Sisler, baseball star of Yeateryear.

TAKE ALOOK . . . By Peter Edson

ON THE GO .

WASHINGTON, Now 9—Women aré wonderful. Especially mine. When I returned from my. European hoopla two weeks ago Mrs, O. let me sleep for a couple of days. Then-—she said, casual-like, didn't I think, she ought to take a little trip, too? There was only one way to answer that one. Bang. In a matter of minutes she'd phoned for her reservation She packed Ah ef summer clothes in twos - suitcases pointing how this was saving me money --and that same night she was on a flying machine headed for the West: Indies. This is proving to be - a good investment. Not only is she getting a fine suntan, but’ I am receiving news about life in the tropics: Here's my bride on the subject of a storm at 6500 feet: “The plane rocked and dipped and rolled. The belt instructions were flashed before us in electric lights. I was reading Time Magazine and didn't notice the sign, My seal mate cautioned me to fasten the hook. Just as I did the plane dipped, or rather fell straight down . with great velocity. It was full of papers and everything else that was not fastened down: vatches, magazines and pocketbooks all were n the air. I had some books on the floor and ‘When the plane came out of its skid, they were alt in my seat mate's dap. ‘A’ man’s watch from his shirt pocket was in the back of the plane. A womén’s fountain pen, which she was trying to use, leaked all its ink on her skirt. Everyone looked a bit pale when things quieted. One old gentleman of 77 traveling with a young ‘niece,’ who had been

SIDE GLANCES

U.S. Grain Storage

. By Frederick C. Othman

Mrs. O. Has High Time in Air, Gets Bang Out of Voodoo

. gested a voodoo meeting in celebration of All

“1 do not agree with a word that nd

Political Hangover By L. B. M,, City. ALL THE shouting is over, all the votes’ counted . . . but there's one thing that hasn't left us. The bad taste left in the mouth of every

voter by the juvenile, mud-slinging campaign :

that marked 1950. The country is in a condition of grave danger internally and internationally. Every freedomloving nation on this earth is looking to the United States for unwavering leadership. Voters awaited a show of statesmanship but never got it. These are serious times. The issues - are clear cut. A nation’s life hangs In balance ... our nation. ‘ Let us hope and pray the candidates elected to office will conduct themselves in a more intelligent manner than they did during this cam-

paign.

Wanted—A Breath of Air By Choked, City. WHAT IS this anyway, a city or a mall town floundering around trying to act like a city? What happened to all this talk*we had about smoke control . . . the big deal to get rid of all the smcg? 1 don’t get it. I came down to work the other morning and thought I was in London. I opened the window to signal a turn and almost choked to death. It's getting harder and harder to find air pockets between the big chunks of soot. It makes living tough. Somebody told ‘me you have to breathe air to live. Indianapolis people are absolute proof against that statement. They've been breathing soot for years and love it . .-. of do they?

UN N Police Force? By L. B. R.,, City. IT SEEMS to me that the invasion of peaces ful Tibet by the Chinese Communists clearly demonstratés the need of a United Nations police force, ready at any time to prevent ag. gression in any part of the world.

IsltaCaror...? By Stuffiess, City WHO HAS a car? Do Mr. Editor?” 1 have a car...or at least that's what it was when I bought it. I don't know what you would call it now. Maybe a tin can on wheels, a mass of self-propelled junk or better still a refugee from a scrap drive. I own a car in the low price line...one a poor man can’ afford to buy and operate. But —in—this--eity the last -half of that statement has fallen victim to the chuckhole, You can't operate a car on a low-cost basis when you hit a million craters a day on the way to work and a million more on the way “home. I have to have my wheels realigned at least two times a year if I want to save my tires. : : I propose we change the name of our city to Chuck Holeville...or to Feeneyville, It doesn’t make much difference. Old Al doesn’t care if old Chuck hangs around in the streets knocking. the stuffings out of every car that comes along.

Back Into China? By F.C. P., City SO HERE it is. ‘Do we have to go back into China again? Seems as though all our political

vou have a car,

with us.at all stops, said he didn’t care for such added ‘attractions. I feared for. his heart, as the young thing really had been dragging him around. “When Mayde (Mrs. 0.'s sister, who does not believe that the flying machine is practical) hears of this she will give up all hopes for us plane addicts.” But Hilda got to Haiti undamaged in body or spirit and anxious to see one of those voodoo ceremonies about which she'd read. “We found a native guide with a new Chevrolet,” she began. “We wanted unusual entertainment when Saturday night came: He sug-:

“We drove through dark streets, er bumpy roads, past lines of black faces visible only in the moonlight. We could hear the faint beat of drums. "As we drove farther into the hills the more weird it became. The drums got louder. 1 was afraid, but we drove on in the darkness. Finally we came to a great meeting of hundreds of natives.” i

Saints’ Day. told us not long ago -the corruption of Gen. Chiang's government was too costly for the United States and the rest of the world to bear. We sent him aid, but not enough. What little we did send we cut-off and told Chiang to fight his own war. He did . . . and now it looks as if we might hive to fight it for him. Hindsight. {s the. best- kind. of sight. You can call your shots where they fall. But an honest thinker didn’t have to wait for hindsight to see this one on the horizon. China has millions of people, some of them Reds, some of them Nationalists, but most of . them willing to be ruled by anyone who will let them keep their folkways and their little plots of ground. means nothing in China. They do- not look to the government for a living. They look to the earth.

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Feeding the Spirit

“IN THE center was a tall one; behind him was a row of drummers, beating tom-tom tempo. He was the spirit around which the young men and women danced. He would hold their hands. They would fall on their faces, kissing his feet. Then they went : hysterical dances and became stiff and dazed, while they wept at the same time. : “The spirit ate and drank from a bottle of : pineapple and fruit juices mixed with alcohol. FOLLOW THROUGH : As the night wore on, the more intoxicated he became. This was called feeding the spirit. Approach-a task that you must do... with Otherwise he would be very angry and bring . will.and strength of heart . .. and never give evil it up or quit . . . until you've done your part... no matter how impossible . . . the problem seems to be . . . try the best that you know how . . , to find -the answer's key . . . and should the problem go unsolved . don’t fret or go -.and hide ‘but: feel content becatise at least . vou gave vour all and tried | . . for you must realize success... is not an easy thing . .. and some folks never reap the gold |... or hear the glad bells ring . . . but there's a measure of success . . . and real contentment too... in just how hard you really try . . . thrdugh.

“We went to two other meetings and they were pretty horrifying.” That's all Mrs. O. had to sav about voodoo. T.eave the reader hanging in midair is her motto. So she moved, on to Jamaica, “where she is at a hotel called Tower Isle, operated by “Of all the movies I have séen.'. she Such

now, a Syrian. said, “never did I dream of such a place. beauty, such gardens, such food.” She'll be back home soon; 1 hope, get into her overalls and start worrying about her baby _ bulls. They miss her; so do I.

By Galbraith

__ —By Ben Burroughs.

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SOFT STUFF . . . By Clyde Farsworh

“A Few ltems Need

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“ Needs Some Light?

“WASHINGTON, ‘Nov. 9—The government's huge | grain stor-

age program is something that could sténd-a

-good- -fishy-eyed

Hon —ene—of these day a cams

aspect “NEWipT8 cade history: sok RIVErRNK, plant, owned-by the government: “mR CORE of ome $200 million. 1

CATS, thets 5 in dle shiminum reduction . “Hwan built during the War ai

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A Few Hard Words

TAKE SUCCESS Nov. %-The soft answer hopefully ‘calcu “tated-by tiie United Ngtons 16 (ifn away the wrath of. Chinese CCOMMNRISS IF ROTes- APRA facie ease-of “partieipatoy of "RE" sans in the Hattie of Koren, : ‘As to both Russian and Chinese Reds this £omes under the. ieading. Maybe If we dan't lodk. theyll go AWARE

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advisors, in the governinent and other positions

and how you follow

One. of the items the United Nations has avorted ooking at.’

- officially is the intervention of

hasn't been operated in peace time because of insufficient electricity, .° Most of the equipment has been sold to. aluminum producers, hut the ‘dulldings have remained. Several attempts

have been made to lease ‘part .

of the property for use as a textile plant but no deal has been closed.

Owning the

the property,

" government could have made

it available to the Department of Agriculture’s . Commodity Credit Corporation, which han dles crop loans and storage, for free. But that would apparently have been too simple and it would have been con trary to CCC policy. » ~ ~

SO THE government's General Services Administration leased 106,000 square .feet of building space to Marshall Albee, operating as the Riverbank Warehouse Co. for 30 cents a square foot. Total rental, $31,800 a year. Later Mr. Albee leased 12 ore bins at

the rate of 2 cients a bushel

for every bushel of grain put in-sto

with Mr. Albee to store grain in the space he had leased from GSA. Standard rate of payment is 1/20 cent a bushel per day. As CCC now has 990,000 bushels in storage at

Riverbank, the cost would be

$99,000, assuming. 200° days were average storage. / { . 8. .

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makes a nice profit for taxpayers’

expense, "though it

" clear. He has to keep.the grain

turned, fumigated and protected against rodents, fire: and weather. Also, he has to agree to" restore the property to its original condition. after use SA and CCC both defend this type of operation. While the Albee lease runs until June, 1952, Mr. Albee has to agree to turn the property over to the government within 90 days, in

case it is wanted for national:

defense purposes. Government was ‘getting nro income from the property, now it gets something. CCC for its part has a policy against operating its own warehouses. Grain storage is said to be a tricky business. If the government did {its own storing, - its operating costs would be higher and the ex-

- pense to the taxpayer greater,

THERE are many references:

in the law prohibiting the government from going into the grain storage on its own account, if private business storage capacity is available. Representatives of the grain stor-

"OOPR. $940 BY NEA SERVICE. WIC. TW REC. U §. PAT. OFF.

n the office next to m ine and he s just as broke as

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which support price loans have been made 30 Tarmers.

THIS i8 the vay the others

age and warehouse up

CCC then signed a eontract “iL that the,

law was written that way, The Riverbank, Cal. site: is Just one of over 100 idie defense plants, ordnance depots

and airplane hangars now be-

ing ‘utilized by €CC*for grain storage. Taken together, these

100 facilities have as capacity

of over nine million bushels. This is the smallest of the several classifications of grain now. used by

833% com Sn

. leased to private men, 547,000,000 bushels, To--[708,000,000

ships ga3 Jones Point, N.Y. 11,000,000 busheld; private

storage facilities built under.

government guarantee of use, £5000,000 bushels; farm storage facility, 55,000,000 bushels; CCC-owned storage bins, built at ‘government expense and warehouse-

tal capacity is

sea how they

ing the:

can afford to eat hare!’ These CCC-owned bins, belargest classification, offer. a special prope. They consist not only of quonset huts—and—woodenr bins which were first acquired, but of new, modern, all-metal bins which now dot thé grain state landscape. The government has now invested between $100 million and $150 million in

these bins. ‘

THEY are built "only where it has been .determined there if not suffictent privately. wned grain storage capacity to handle Srope 2 held as securty Against Make to farmers.

" American

the new-type-Russian jet fighters, and ‘the likeliBood " that they are flown not by Chinese or’ Koreans, -but by Russians. The 600-mile-an-hour jets have put the Communist fight back into the .skies for the first time in ‘months. The North Korean Air Force was scratched early in the war. = » 5

IF NORTH KOREANS or even Chinese Communists had ever learned to fly jets, the hottest planes in the world, it would have been news to intelligence officers in Korea. One of the principal drawbacks for the Chinese Nation. alist Air Force, the most experienced Oriental force after the demise of the Japanese, has been its inability to make a transition from conventional fighters to jets. © This disparity bétween the Chinese Nationalists and probable Russian ringers on the Red China team became evident last April. when Nationalist Tecophajssance of Shang-

stam ang Chinese “Communist

Aggression for

There are no bases them in Korea. They fly.

either from Manchuria or Si + heria, or both. :

Jets are merely a new exams

plé ‘of the international Com. .

munist partnership at work. Gen. ‘MacArthur's. files are replete with lists of Russian material used by the North Koreans. The transfer of Korean ‘Communist troops from Red China to Red Korea,before the Red offensive of last June was spread on the record long before the Chinese (0 ominyRists

barged into, battle.

THE UNITED NATIONS may get around to considering aggression in Korea, but for the present the fear of an even greater war mingles with an element of appeasement for communism. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo of

the Philippines, whose interim

‘ committee on Korea, labored mountainously yesterday and brought forth an indirect invitation to the Chinese Commu-

im

disclosed Jets with swept: -back wings. ' » ~ » HIGH altitude pictures showed at China fields. Were the Russians trainihig

‘Chinese to fly the jets? No, was

the answergthen, ‘They didn't

' aven- allow "Chinese ta look at them.

In the present case of ‘Korean

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least 30 jets on

about ifs “interests” In the

Manchuria - Korea frontier re-_-

gion, ‘was asked question: “What interest have the Chinese Communists there besides preventing the extinction of another Soviet satellite and carrying out their proclaimed

purpose of saving North Ko.

rea from ‘American rperial. ism?" : Gen. Romulo denied | thers was such a thing as American mpiriniiam but but the question