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Give LAght and the People Will Find Thew Own Way

+The Real Culprit

holds that shaft are in Manchuria. I wish to propose - must be withdrawn.” Those vigorous words were spoken to the United Nations Security Council by U. S. Delegate Warren R. Austin. ~ He was picturing the grave situation in Korea, brought on by the intervention of Communist China. But our official spokesman, as usual, was not precise in identifying “the hands which hold the spear.” — The real instigator of Red aggression ir in the Far East is Russia. William Philip Simms puts the Stor on the culprit. ‘(See his article on Page 1 today.) The veteran foreign editor of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers is gravely disturbed by the prospect of America being drawn into a war - with Red China. “We should stop pretending,” he writes, “as we have “been, in and out of the United Nations, that we don’t know what Russia is up to. that we do know and that we won't tolerate it forever... . We should tell Russia bluntly that, if she forces us into a major armed conflict, we will carry the fight direct to her instead of slaughtering her poor dupes, the Chinese coolies.” If Russia forces us to choose between the peace we want and a war we do not seek, says Mr. Simms, we should tell Russia: ; “We will not fight your puppet China. We will use all __the strength we have, and all the added strength we can build, against the Russian source and center of this conspiracy against the world.” :

Marines—175 Years Old

T" United States Marine Corps is 175 years old today. It was created by an act of the First Continental Con-

gress on Nov. 10, 1775—which means that the Marines were on hand and probably on guard, at the very founding of the republic some eight months later. The Marine Corps has taken a mighty prominent part in every war in which the United States has engaged. No wonder it is a fiercely proud organization. It is well entitled to be. , _As on so many. other of its birthdays, the Marine Corps Is observing this one by fighting. There are 30,000 Marines in Korea. Their casualties have passed 3000. The only national observarice of the day was a simple service and wreath-laying at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier ey the. Marine Corps Reserve Officers Association.

Foolish Tactics JL FADERS of the CIO Telephone Workers’ Union are making an unwise attempt to tie up ‘most of the country's telephones by a strike. . The strike involves, directly, only about 17,000 employees of the Western Electric Co., manufacturing subgidiary of the Bell Telephone System. - Some 300,000 of the Bell System's operating workers are not, themselves, on strike. But the union’s leaders have ordered them to stay off their jobs as an evidence of sympathy for the Western Electric strikers. ~The leaders’ idea, of course, is to help the Western Electric employees win by subjecting the telephone-using public to the greatest amount of inconvenience and annoy‘ance. © : . Unless the strike continues for a long time, automatic equipment probably will prevent a tomplete disruption of telephone service. That, however, doesn't alter the fact that the union’ s Hapders a are trying to do something that could cause widepr Sapd-donges.io millions ol. innocent bystanders

oT THEIR ATTEMPT seems especially foolish, coming’ Just: after a national election which revealed an emphatic lack of public approval for abuses of labor's power at ‘the expense of public rights. — . The Taft-Hartley Act authorizes President Truman to seek temporary injunctions against strikes which threaten to create national: emergencies, and to-employ the fact finding process in-an effort to settle the issues fairly. Mr. Truman has used that authority on other occasions, and should not_hesitate to use it. again. if. this strike seri

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~ oualy Affects TRRBhans Service: That would be, a service to Se TaboF For a

far more severe than the Taft-Hartley Act.

Video: Boon to Politicians THE YEAR 1050 will go down in history as the qne In which television, the comic book and the hele opter came te political campaigning in a big way. : We had TV with us in 1948. of course, but present scale. For example, in New York Governor Dewey wound up his vote appeal with an 18-hour marathon on TV. This TV approach represents real work for the candidates. They have to primp for the cameras like prima dannas. They have tb“worry about a hundred little things that don't matter in ordinary radio broadcasts. : ! But they're no more reluctant to undertake these exg chores than they would be to pick up a shovel in the er of our vast gold stocks at Fort Knox.

not on the

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Colorful Emest Bevin pros: BEVIN, Britain's foreign secretary, has an idea that the color of a conference room has a lot to do with r the meeting is a success or not. i He says international gatherings are more apt to flop e walls of the meeting room are green or brown. Someber about these tones, he. feels, and that dedelegates and pre-disposes them to disagree. for a good cheerful color that will keep the boys and give them that urge to Sign on the dotted line, : 8 aunahine yellow.

4 point of the spear is in Korea, but the hands which

one specific answer to this problem. The point of the spear

We should make it absolutely plain’

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SMALL FOOTNOTE .

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. By Frederick C. Othman

Joe Ferguson Lost His Fight And Probably Is Happy About It

COLUMBUS, O.,, Nov. 10—Jumping Joe Fer- ~ guson gently rubbed his sore fingers. It was the gray morning after the night before, “I shook an awful lot of hands,” he said. “But I don't guess it-did much good.” So this is a small footnote to political historv, an interview with the little: man in the. loud suit and the still louder tie who lost at the polls to Mr... Republican, Sen. Robert A: Taft. + Little - Joe's suit of tan with pingstriped squares of orange was rumpled. His cravat of fried egg dewith splotches of purple polka dots was askew. He was amazed at the way he'd been trounced; all his friends had told him he was

cold,

going to win. He still could hardly believe what

had happened to him and yet I got the idea that ‘soon he was going to be delighted that he'd missed the political big time. That Senate's a rough place for a small twinkly eved gent, who mangles the king's English everytime he opens his mouth. And who has his-—own troubles cheosing the right fork when the high mucky-mucks back there in Washington throw a formal dinner. Little Joe knows it and no matter how hiz advisers in the well-tailored suits may feel, he's going to

EYETO 52...By Peter Edson

Truman's Age Certain To Be Election Factor

Nov, 10—With the mid-term election out of

Ww ASHINGTON,

the way, dential election of 1952. Barring his own unexpected death or voluntary retirement, President Harry 8. Truman

tionabily be a candidate to-sueceed himself; “The President ix now 68 vears old. 1£-re-elected; he would be 72 - at. the end of his term, if he lived. it out. And the question _ natur a 1 1y

incredible °

political interest now jumps two vears to the presi-

He will be 68 in 1952.

serious question. said not ax a matter of hind —sight, but as a simple matter - of recorded-historythat anyone

be relieved when he’s back with his adding machines in the state auditor's office. That's where he shines, with nice, solid figures that add up straight and don’t give a fellow an argument. Somehow it hardly seems’ fair to quote this inoffensive littlé man exactly the way he talks. but that undoubtedly had a good deal to do with his defeat and hence is part of the story. 1 saw him first the night the ballots were being counted, and while Sen. Taft already had a commanding lead, little Joe was “COCKY. 1 ain’t conceded nothing” he snapped. “They ain't counted hardly any-of the votes yet and 1 bet we got 10,000 precincts in all, ain't we? His dapper aid confirmed this fact and little Joe said the votes of his friends the ones who'd ruined his hand shaking it. wonld ‘be counted lafer. They weren't. "As the night wore on his losses gY eW Worse

A Pretty Good Guy

HOURS later I saw him again, weary, sleepless and somehow kind of brave. That was when I began to like him. Sn “1-pow to.the will of the people.” said hé, reading through his rimless eyeglasses from a scrap of paper. Then. he put down his notes and began to talk in his own rich version of English. “My help was all grat, grat, gratuitiously,” he said, ‘and all the people who helped me worked for nothing. “But I sent Bob. Taft a telegram of congratulations and I told him he gave me the surprise of FY life. I guess it was a gener: trend thfough the country. A lot of great men lost out.” Little Joe paused, licked his dry lips, and continued: “But my opponent had $4 million to spend; T only had pennies.. So I lost. And my wife, she worked awful hard. And now I guess I'll just stay home for a while.” The small man, who'll never know probably ‘how fortunate he was to escape being a U.S

Senator slid into his overcoat and walked into

the rain. On his lips there was a half smile.

SIDE GLANCES

will unques

This . can be.

— the

strike could create powerful pubtic: demand-for-Jegisiation—

arises as to le t ” whether any’ . Should be 2p! ie 10 recognize ~T man shold = AT THE el of ®ni 8 present ~~ ' J bE_mgked to term ip office. Harry Truman .. TRAE thE Will "have “hee “preset Tesponsib ili - over seven years two full" ties of this terms - lacking. only three toughest job TU month THERES HO when he - in the world took office. Only two presi?

at that age. This is said -

regardless of how good a Mr. Truman Chief Execu-. - - toughest job tive: Mr. Truman may be considered, no matter how much of a people's choice and savior of his country he may consider himself to be, : William Henry Harrison is the only U. 8. president ever inaugurated at-68. He died in

his first year in office, 1841. Only 10 of the 33 U. 8. presi dents have lived past 72. All of them, however, reached this old age some vears after

ripe

they had retired from the White House. Herbert Hoover is now 78.

But he quit being president at 58. William Howard Taft was 72 when he died. He was 53 when he quit. Before Hoover and Taft, the last president who ‘lived to be more than 72 was James Buchanan. ‘He was retired from the presidency at 69 and died at 77. Franklin D. Roosevelt was only 63 when he died less than six months after he had

been elected for a fourth term..

There is now no question that the heavy duties of the

office greatly capabilities. The wisdom of many of the

- decisions he made toward the Ed of. f the w war bs 4 open . :

war’ + plus the strain of long years in affected his ;

~ must develop new

dents have been older at in‘auguration. They Adams and Andrew Jackson who were 61. The problems of the young Republic may have been just as big and important as today’s They may have placed just as much a strain on the minds and bodies of the men in the White House. Certainly: their problems were not as numerous nor as complex as today's. No man should be subjected to the punishment of this job to- the point of complete ex haustion and breakdown, Tt isn’t fair to the man. "It isn’t fair to the country.

* um " IT IS beside the point for Democratic Party chiefs and coat-tail riders to argue that Mr. Truman {s the .indispen-

were “John -

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Certainly wa can afford

cat and save enough on entarfainment to pay for the coat!

over his briefcase. ‘That he gets up with the birds and takes long walks. That he

gets complete relaxation from

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"1 do nt ares with a word tha you ey, bl il defend o fhe dash your right fo sey.

Congraivlations to Capers By D., City City. To Sen. Homer Capehart: MAY I congratulate you on your victory in the recent election. ‘ However, may I alse remind you that it was ~—mnot the farmers only who voted to return you to your office, it was not the doctors only, nor

- any special group. It was a combination plus one; and

white collar wor we chose the lesser of two evils; we chose to have less socialism in our government rather than more. That means we are opposed to the Brannan Farm Plan byt we are also opposed to all government hand®outs, even the present subsidy program. Now, Senator, I understand that in 1949 you accepted subsidy payments (or farm loans, whatever you choose to call it) from our government. For shame, when you also have a big corporation. : - We want the subsidy payments to the farmers stopped and all other government waste stopped.

~MR. GOP VS. MR. PRESIDENT .

— Sen. Taft Set for

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 — It will be Mr. President versus Mr. Congress these next two years around here—Harry Truman on one side, Sen. Robert A. Taft on the other. Everybody will be conscious of the fact that it could line up like that in the 1952 presidential election. Bob Taft returns to Washington not ‘only * the leader of a more powerful Republican Senate minority, but as a man propelled by the biggest plurality his state ever gave a Senator in an offpresidential year. He took on both the Democratic Party and the labor politicians and beat them. His feat of carrying heavily industrial and heavily labor Cuya- § hoga County — Cleveland —was spectacular. In the past, more than any member of Congress, Sen. Taft has personified opposition to the Truman Fair Deal. More ~—than any other member, he has been singled out critically by the President. In ¢he past, with a smaller Republican force behind him than the 47 strong minority he now will head, he held the power to give passage or rejection to some . legislation. He will wield greater power now, and on domestic legislation at least probably will be able frequently to say what passes and what is killed.

New Overseas Captain?

THERE will be times when the Henry ( Lodge-Wayne Morse-George "Alken GOP Senate group will not go -along with the man they call Mr. Republican. But he generally will be able to draw more than enough strength to offset this fiom the conservative Southern Democrats. ~ If Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg fails to regain his health, Mr. Taft might extend his influence considerably in foreign policy matters. Mostly in recent years the Ohioan has yielded to Mr. Vandenberg as captain of overseas thinking for the Republicans, though he frequently voted his own different convictions. Sen. Taft in his recent campaign committed himself strongly to a goal of driving communism

Mr. Taft

... long look

‘abot

‘back to ‘the borders of the Soviet Union. That

seemed to pledge support .for military and . ‘economic aid to countries aiding the fight on , Stalin{sm: But~there isn't any doubt Mr. Taft will insist on imposing his own conditions, as he has in the past, on all such programs. The Ohioan has been most critical of administration foreign policy as it relates to the Far East. He will be in the thick of every fight over the war in Korea and on setting the future course in the Pacific. On the domestic front, any hope President Truman has of repealing the Taft-Hartley Labor Law is gone. If the law is amended, it will, be through amendments approved by Mr. Taft.

Taft Approach SEN. TAFT presumably will go along with the idea of federal "aid to help provide more doctors and to build hospitals, as he has in the

-

past, but he wilt appose” vigorousiy- tie- Praman-

plan for compulsory national health insurance.

And, Senator, we both know the power of the peoples’ votes, particularly ‘when they get good and mad.

No Place for Politics By J. P. E., City THE REPUBLICANS are now stronger tham ever in Congress and it looks like we'll have a battle royal over foreign policy. We all hope they don’t make the mistake of putting politics before logical relations with the rest of the world. Mr. Taft, who seems to spearhead the Republican Party, has a great deal to think about now. If he interjects himself into foreign policy

he's got to forget his per usual isolationist

attitudes. ‘Now is the time to shove political differences aside and show the Reds the U. 8. can conduct its business in a sound manner regardless of who is in power. ® Sen. Taft is a good man in many ways, but he has to be even better if he expects to keep his country alive in a world full of ever-grow-ing danger.

. By Charles Lucey

Battle of '52?

If there is a fair employment practices law, it's fairly safe to predict it will be minus the compulsion of the administration’s proposals and suited to a modified Taft approach. With a plurality of close to a half-million votes over Democrat Joseph T. Ferguson, it's inevitable there will be talk-—and perhaps the fairly early emergence of an actual drive—of Taft for President. Bob Taft tried for the Republican nomination in 1940 but was elbowed aside first by New York's Tom Dewey and then by Wendell I. Willkie. He stood aside in 1944 while his colleague John W. Bricker climbed aboard the GOP ticket. In 1948 Mr. Taft lost again. to. Mr. Dewey in the convention. But Sen. Taft is the man Republican leaders think of as leader when they cry against “metooing” the New IDeal. Financial support for his recent campaign came not just from Ohio bv from all over America. He has country-wide strength with the party leaders who have much to say about who is nominated. In 1947, long~before the 1948 convention, Mr. Taft began to shoot for the Republican presidential nomination. If he decides that way again the signs may not be long in coming,

ARMISTICE

This holiday I glance behind . blood and war , . . when my heart with the millions ached . . . for peace to rent its door... and I think of the many times . . . when hope was all but gone , , . then suddenly a darkened world . . . was blessed ‘with peaceful dawn . . and now I turn back to today . . same old sight . . . the world is full of bate and greed . , . and aching for a fight”... oh\I say this to all who plan .. . eur nation’s future road . remember it may be your own... . who'll carry all the load . .. so do your best to see to it . .. that peace will always reign +>. and that the men who gave their all , . . have not done so in vain.

. to days of

. and see the

By Ben Burroughs,

What Others Say—

NOW we're going to dress Two

~ girls may look good in a style, but three hardly

ever do—Maxene, of the famed singing trio, the Andrews Sisters. . > » = WE do not want war, we abhor a general war, but prudence, our ‘Aational existence, demands that we be prepared. That is the best guarantee.——~Adm. William F, Halsey, oS & IF #t (war) comes, women should be drafted for civil defense, production and th# three services. They have the rights and privileges of government, they should take the responsibilities, too.—Sarah Hughes, president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women. “> Ss 0» THIS goon will be a very sweet goon who kills people only to protect a young girl. That was the secret of my dad’s success. You ended up feeling sorry for him.- Screen Actor Lon: ‘Chaney Jr. > Sd 0S DON'T be’ political mugwumps (person with “no party affiliation). Join the party of your choice—Rep. dohn Vorys (R. 0.).

By Galbraith BIG EARS .. . By Jim G. Lucas

“frontier, .The Chang-huan, man ‘here, told the world that the ‘Chinese - Reds

he "announced what armies were on. the move and told where they would take up posts when = crossing the » -¥alu River, °

k coat—we ll buy a teievisic missed as

THERE ig no question but that the Korean War put an. load on the President.

said.

extra This weight of added worry

record cabinet

were planning.

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«+. Red guns

We either didn't believe him, or paid no attention.

armies are earmarked for Korea and that Communists are ready for World War III. \ Previous warnings were dispropaganda .‘“especially In those countries favoring appeasement,’

He announced months ago that Chinese Communists were training and supplying Ho Chi

Best Listening Post In Far East ead?

TAIPEH, Formosa, Nov. 10--The United States consistently “has ignored ifs best listening post in the Far East. : Most of the major events since July wére forecast well in “advance by the Chinese-Nationalist government here. Nationalist —sources—repeatedly tried to warn us that the

Chinese Communists were moving men toward the Manchurian

“Shen : spokes=

shows from Taipeh that timely information" concerning the massing of Chinese Communist

was communicated long ago by responsible quarters .in_. For:

or branded sheer propaganda.

ntl ll air RS

American. and British correspondents here have learned to respect the Nationalist reports. My observation after a week here is that there is a minimum of boasting and wishful thinking by the Chinese. If reports are uné¢onfirmed, the government says so, Confirmed claims usually are far more conserva-

VETERAN

Ho Chi Minh

In their latest report. Na- five than subsequent stori : = tionalist intelligence officials from Hon pe n te Pras stated today that 18 Red & Rong quoting the

Peking radio. ‘I've seen copies of stories filed from Taipeh by two wire services since the start of the Korean War. Quite apart from the government's own records, "Mr. Sher they establish the definite pattion in Korea. “Apparently. they think at home that we've been hoodwinked by the Nationalists

Philadelphia

“It has just been reported

troops to aid the Red Koreans

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When Dax 1 vermmemessonm

“tion was treated-with contempt

tern of Communist interven-

sable man, the perfect cam- his vacations at Key West. a Minh's Viet Minh rebel army : ; pry the Ly man with The President has stood up Kot in its licks of “wear ‘and. 1,4, China: He offered de- A Satie Nationjies Sa : whom the party can win in Well under the strain. He has tear. - tails. But his warnings he said, "on re apo = 1952. E enjoyed his termf”in the White That is why White House were “blandly dismissed as 0 Far Beet Se erlenie n There is always a great_po- House. He has had fun along intimates say that Mrs. Tru- wishful thinking.” ~a3. Commented. litical temptation, of course, to with his headaches.. He may Man TE now-more-. of > a . yw Eg Keep on backing a winner. If _ have the perfect disposition the opinion than ever that her. MR. SHEN AIS predicted; ARHONE-among—-the-d the Democratic Party feels for the presidency. He has husband should retire’ at the well in advance, the Red Cki- . -racies, Free China has the

that it has no other leader to run, that is a weakness of the Democratic Party. Any party that wants to retain power

16se office. \ ® = ” IT IS also beside the pomt

to argue that Mr. Truman is

now in perfect health. That he Marks every night till, Snegnt

EAT

leaders or

heart and guts. He can dish it~ out. He can take it, ; A politician who is in office always hates to let go. (alvin Coolidge had. the wisdom to

count himself out of the pic- ~

ture after six years. He prob-

ably could have been re-elected

if he had chosen to run. But he died before he.would have. Saished hat term. A

end of his present term. So the greatest decision which the President has to make in the next two years is whether to run again or not to Fun again. It is not a question of whether his policies are right or wrong, repudiated or confirmed. It.is entirely a personal questiap, to be decided ‘in the national interest.

hooted” down

More.

later U. this figure.

nese drive on Tibet. in Hong Kong and New Delhi. recentlv he Chinese’ intelligence as saying . that 320.000 Red troops had moved into Manchuria. A week S. Sources. confirmed °

a Hong Kong Standard 531d yesterday:

He was means of knowing what goes on behind the bamboo curtain. Prime Minister Chen Cheng says-he has six million-|agents and guerrillas on the ' mainland. They have seized and held important’ cities for several hours. They have forced 3 the ' Reds to provide heavy guards for convoys even near Peking. } he said. a

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