Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1950 — Page 38
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vitation to-Dinner "PHANKSGIVING is just around the corner and its no fun being away from home . . especially for a £8 boy uniform. . = A mess sergeant can whip up a meal fit fora king... with all the trimmings and the little extras .. . but still it's not like home. ii A mess sergeant can n't play the part of mom bustling around i in the kitchen . . . testing the roast turkey -.. preng the candied yams. A mess sergeant can't fill a man with contentment as he relaxes in a soft chair . . . reading a ipaper . . . and breathing the zestful odor of cooking inberries. .
BUT YoU can, Mr. and Mrs. Indisiapohs.
iy . . you can
little closer to the hearts of the boys in Camp Atterbury. You can show that true Hoosier spirit . . . by inviting them into your homes for Thanksgiving dinner: On page 24 of today's Times is a story that will give you all the necessary information . . . and” there's also a printed invitation. Fill it out and ‘take a boy into your
home and your heart.
“ A RMY LEADERS” says a United Press dispatch from Washington, ‘have been: debating for more than two
years whether the morale-boosting effect of a new and sleeker (woolen) uniform would outweigh the trouble ad expense of a change.” . Well, for goodness’ sakes, isn't ' that nice. And couldn't come out at a better time, The demand for a new
emt cet et
widespread among our forces in Korea. A bitterly cold winter has closed in. on the fighting front. Temperatures have hit 20 below zero and canteens are freezing at night. Icy winds are sweeping down from ‘the bleak Manchurian plains and our combat units don’t have even the luxury of campfires. Yet many American troops are still wearing cotton fatigues over long underwear—if they ve got the underwear.
he Re - n ss 8 ITS 8 surprising that the Army's modeling of
several natty new numbers—in gray instead of olive drab —was a top-secret affair the other day. The Pentagon
know that style changes, with an eye to the sleek, were being considered. Especially, when the shivering GI's would be glad to get woolens of any kind. "It is also interesting, and perhaps typical of some ~ Army thinking, that a change of woolen uniforms to a
of wool is at a record low. For five years wool consumption has been outstripping production, thus practically using up the world reserves. Our own government stockpile has been used up, and prices have soared to an all-time peak. The Agriculture Department only recently. predicted further decline in U. 8. production for next year. Presumably some of the Army's new uniforms, in several shades of gray, h have been made up. If it's morale- . boosting they're after, it would boost our morale a lot if . these splendid garments were carefully laid away in mothballs until the war is over — along with the brass who
thought up the idea. Man in the ‘Middle Est
FEARS that the Republican election gains. would. lead to
may be lessened by Sen. Taft's expressed willingness to pupport a properly developed program for defense of West __ ‘ern Europe. 3 ‘Much depends;-however, on how far President Truman - prepared to go toward meeting the conditions of Republican co-operation. ~~ __ > :. Sen. Taft insists that future programs. be bite Lo Songs for thorough examination before commitments ~ Are made to foreign governments. He also démands “a truly bipartisan p policy in the Far East’ something we’ ve never had — and that the Communists be kept out of - Formosa. 2
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A Bes ; ould: “such “drastic ohatER of attitude oy Secretaty of State Acheson-that-it-appears equivalent toa eat for his resignation. The demand for defense-of Formosa, in particular, strikes ‘at the heart of his Far-Eastern policy. — It's useful to recall that the bipartisan approach to . foreign. -policy problems worked best during the Republican 80th Congress, when Sen. Vandenberg headed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and former Sen. Byrnes was’ - Secretary of State. The relationship began to go sour after ~ the Democrats recaptured Congress in November, 1948, and curdled badly after Secretary Acheson's s appointment "in January, 1949, : Mr. Acheson became Astistant Secretary of State in 1941, and was Under Secretary from 1945 to Jan. 30, 1947. In this period European issues demanded almost undivided ‘attention from the Secretary of State, and Mr. Acheson had virtually a free hand in the Far East 5 a are LI . on u » ALGER HISS was then'one of his chief advisers. John Carter Vincent headed the State Department's.Far East Division and Dr. Owen Lattimore was: the favored consultant on Far Eastern affairs. It was during this period that a Communist-coalition government for China. was made “& major objective of the United States. When Mr. Acheson became head of the depdrtiiont hear championed policies favored by the clique with he had been associated. And he found himself in table conflict with members of Congress who contended appeasement of communism in Asia was wrong and
foreign policy. Its prospect for getting : BY laaproven by Seorstary Ath
play the part -of mom and dad and at least bring home a .
to. sell us 100 tons about a year from now... years hence we would get 70,000 tons under
it
—if not sleeker—uniform right now seems to be pretty.
"80,000 tons.
probably would not care to have combat soldiers in Korea
new color should be considered when the world’s supply
1 they skip school . —for-rutes~—High se hool principal A. B. Gorsuch.
formation of a streng isolationist bloc if Congress
_its larger Republic: an member~ahip;gtarts.on as
ALUMINUM . - 5 Joma Doniel Canada Lies
Behind Cotback
U.S. Needs Vast Quantity Now To Hike Plane Production
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—Behind the government order cutting. back U. 8. civilian consumption of aluminum by- 35 per cent next year lies an unsuccessful attempt by the U. S. to buy more Canadian aluminum. If the Canadians had co-operated, more aluminum would have been available for the U/. 8. military stockpile. ‘Then the amount of aluminum which would have to be taken away from U. 8. civilian consumption for future defense needs would have been less. © ~The man whose mission failed is Jess Larson, administrator of the General Services Administration. Mr. Larson is the. purchasing agent for the military stockpile which’ is supervised by the Munitions Board. The National Security Resources Board, which sets over-all policy, re-
cently decided that the aluminum stockpile had a
to be filled.
Situation Dangerous
WE'VE GOT to have a vast quantity ‘of aluminum on hand to make the planes which wiil be needed if war comes. We have some
i
~~ “hauxite, the aluminum ore, in stockpile, but dan-
gerously little aluminum. Our government has been asking North American aluminum producers how much metal they ‘can provide for the stockpile. It was thought that Canada, which developed a 525,-000-ton aluminum capacity during World War II largely on American loans and advance payments, might be an immedigte source. But the Canadian = best offer is to sell the stockpile, 220,000 tons of aluminum for
which the production’ facilities do not now exist, . .
The U. 8. cutback order is designed to make available 350,000 tons for the stockpile and for current defense needs. Our officials say the Canadians have offered the stockpile any large amount of current aluminum production. They have offered
their proposal, the- bulk of the 220,000 tons would come in 1954 or later.
Expansion at Home
IN ESSENCE, what the Canadian company ‘has proposed, according to our officials, is that we give them a binding contract to buy future aluminum; on the security of which they would be able to borrow. With. these funds they would expand their present aluminum: plant. Qur government has turned down this proposal. If there is an expansion of aluminum production with U. 8S. funds—and we're talking of at least doubling U.. S. output—it's planned to do the expanding in this country. It’s not unlikely, some of our officials feel, that the Canadian company will be anxious to sell us stockpile aluminum next year. Canada now is making about 421,000 tons of aluminum annually, having diverted some of the World War II capacity to other .purposes. In 1948 our commercial users imported about We've doubled that rate in the last féw months, because of the exceptional civilian demand in this country for articles made of, aluminum, But other nations are still buying more Canadian aluminum than we are able to get, and paying for it, generally, with Economic Cooperation Administration dollars.
What Others Say—
SURE, I'm a Communist. But I don’t believe in overthrowing the government by force. That's silly and not necessary. The government will collapse of its own rottenness.—Registered Communist Norman Duxbury, upon taking the loyalty oath required of all California state employees.
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SUCH (rich) children can't struggle, because they've never learned to struggle. If their wealth were to" disappear, they'd be helpless, because they never learned to exert themselves. Their prosperity causes ‘them to depend on
things rather than ideas. — Recreation Specialist —
Charles Thornton.
THERE is so much truancy at the beginning of the hunting season that some of the schools have’ to be closed. It is not fair to the boys. If they stay in class thejr elders get all the game. . they break down respect
THE Asiatie doesn't know what democracy Im are We’
is. ‘But all we're giving him are slogans.
« nave to give him food and the tools of peace — ~ what the Communists promise but don’t provide. —Union chief Walter ‘Reuther.
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SViot SPs . . By Frederick C. Othman National Potato Council Happy To See the End of U.S. Red Tape
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—How was I to know that the potato moguls of America were meeting in secret? Or that they weren't, either, crying into their souffle? All I knew was that the National Potato Council was assembled to discuss What to do, now that Congress has ~~ pushed the ‘ spud out from under the govern - ment’s multimillion --dollar’ price - support umbrella, Figu r ing ~there’d be wailing and gnashing of teeth, 1 trot‘ted over to the Washing--ton Hotel.
A nice lady qq me of my coat and hat
in a black — —and ‘ushered
dress relieved me into the Mural Room. She must have thought
I was a potato producer, too, on account of
being a little plumpish, like the rest of the delegates. : : 1-me was the fact that instead of béing downhearted. over the end of their five-year handout from Uncle Samuel, the potato fellows seémed glad that the government had decided to let them tend to their own business. 4 They all were taking deep breaths and figuring ways of luring the American housewife into buying more and better potatoes. This was new kind of talk: for the potato growers..and they were happy about it. For instance: E. J. Peters, a Wasco, Cal, potato farmer, ‘said Te believed he and his friends in the West “will be better “off without the government buying up large gments of their crops and dyeing
LACCOMMUNIST revetntiomtrcentrat Europe—— “them Hue
cannot be localized like one in Korea.—Austrian Chancellor Leopold Figl
PAY AS YOU GO...By Earl Richert
Excess Profits Tax Battle Lines Formed— ~~:
ww VW ASHINGTON Nov. battle over an excess profits tax on cor porations. __— President Truman has called for “immediate”
July
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Jan. 3. .- The CED estimates its proBut jts pas: “ posal would raise an additional sage by that, £3 billion a year from corporatime, if at-all, 8 tions. The CED alsd would inappears’ un- 8 ¢rease individual income taxes likely, unless § for the same one-year period Mr Truman § by a flat five per cent and Fsumm o n ss raise. excise taxes some, It Congress back $F says the income tax increases before the 8 would produce another $3 bilscheduled 8 lion and that excise tax inNow 27 date. creases could raise another $1 Senator Mr; Doughton : billion. Robert Avs: ‘we'll pass jes As the CED sees it. present
16—The chips are down now
excess profits tax big enough to. raise $4 billion in Tévenue, ng -retroactive to last 1
out a tax program in line with ry's needs. ries
“We will get out and sell potatoes on their merits,” he said. He added that some of his
SIDE GLANCES
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neighbors were going to grow some cotton, too, in case the price of potatoes fell too low. Ferris S. Owens of Newark, O., the slimmest of the potato producers, had the same general thought. “Our friend, Sen. Taft, is back in the + Senate,” he said, “and that gives you some idea of what the farmers of Ohio are thinking.” Came then Clifford G. McIntire of Presque Isle; Me., where more potatoes are grown than anywhere else. He said Maine's potato men were bubbling over with ideas. For one thing they're working on developing Aa new Lind of tuber, called Kennebeck. They hope it will be better, mashed, fried and baked. They're getting ready to spend money advertising the potato. They're sending service men into the markets of the country to teach the grocers how best to sell potatoes, > They're thinking of packing potatoes in 10pound sacks, to make buying them easier for the ladies. They're also experimenting with packaging their potatoes in cardboard boxes so they won't get bruised.
How to Cook 'Em “AND WE'VE Just published & potato cook“We have half a million copies ready to distribute.” He said his farmers were planning on selling a lot of potatoes to people who intended to eat ‘em, instead of bury 'em. So I got to reading —the annuat report of Whitney Tharin, the executive secretary of the council. He wasn’t sad, either. One of the things, he wrote, that the farmers —must do is. persuade the American female that potatoes re nonfattening. I was deep in this when Mr. Tharin spied me from the ‘speakers’ table. He booted me out. course. He said this was a sécret meeting. The lady sold me back my hat and coat for 25 cents and what I can't understand is why the potato gents were trying to hide under a bushel.
As an old, nonsubsidized farmer, myself, ‘I was proud of ‘em. — TIS SAID
Now-is-the time to develop tolerance. Let's. not make political tinder out of the Korean War lest those who return do hot forget, —B. C1
In a polite_way, of _
"| do not agree with a word that you sy, yy, but
I will defend fo the death your right fo say i." "The Times Republican?
By John Warren, Greencastle
THE TIMES, in its editorial in Saturday's edition, tips itself off that regardless of its ate tempt to make its readers ‘believe it is independent, the truth is that The Times, like the rest of the Scripps-Howard chain, Is bitterly
' Republican.
Your editorial stated that Mr. Averill Harriman disqualified himself as Secretary of State because of his partisan activity in the recent campaign and particularly by his personal attacks on Sen. Taft and Sen.-Elect Nixon. “Why did not The Times publish a like editorial and say that Sen. Jenner disqualified
himself as a Senator because of his dirty at-
tack on our Secretary of Defense, and a great - American, George 'C. Marshall, and at a time when we should have presented & united front? Is it not a fact that the Scripps-Howard Newspapers all over the country, indorsed all Republican Senators for election and re-elec-tion? The Times indorsed Capehart, and I une derstand that he accepted farm loans in 1949, How can your paper and the Republicans contend that the Fair Deal is’ leading toward socialism? If Sen. Capehart accepted farm loans, then he and your paper are not ¥ pragtictog what you continually preach.
‘Back Into China?’ By C. E. L., Montezuma, Ind. I ALSO, congratulate Sen. Capehart on his victory election day. As to D., I oppose the Brannan plan and all other government subsidies. These are not socialistic, but a dole, Socialism is production for use instead of profit, And for the benefit of L. M. B. and F. C. P. the country is-in danger internally and internationally and the incipient cause ig when we lifted the arms embargo and passed the lend-lease and entered’ World War II in blind obedience to F. D. R. to end the depression. Do we, a so-called democracy, have to go
* back into China to make it safe for Fascist ‘Chiang and his three brothers-in-law who have
robbed and kept the Chinese in misery and poverty? No. oo @ WE HAVE the Monroe Doctrine to. protect the entire continent of America from foreign invasion, and when France sent Maxmillan to
- rule Mexico in 1866, our government sent troops
to aid their fight for freedom under the sage Gen. Jares, who, at this time, gave the best definition for demacracy: “The Right to Rule Ourselves.” And I say to let other nations rule themselves. - Sen. Capehart, regardless of his conservatism and reactionary views, knows war is unsound economics and is leading to national bankruptcy. A oe
We Need Public Servants By Howard W. Griffith
AFTER article by Bob Bourne and your editorial of Sunday, Nov. 12, about our
: “institution at Julietta, I want the job of super-
intendent at Julietta. My only recommendation is, citizen, taxpayer, and honest. But the best recommendation that I have to offer is,'that I am not a politician, I do: not know a politician, not even the policeman on the beat, and that I have just completed 14 years as a foreman in charge of shipping, re-
that I am a
ceiving, warehousing, maintenance and other things. I have just been fired. My discharge notes:' Inability to co-operate.
If there iz a chance for other than poli-
ticians to get into office, it is my opinion that .
it is time for the appointment of men who can and will become servants of the public. I am not asking the salary. I'm only asking this newspaper and you that if there is a chance of such an appointment in this age of corruption which your paper has so nobly fought through the years, that you tell me where to start ‘and who to contact. I offer my service to the poor at Julietta and-my fellow citizens.
THANK YOU STARS
The skies looked rather dark that night . .. as we met to say goodbye . .. and raindrops that to me were tears . . , were falling from the sky .. . your lips told me the story but . . . your eyes were dim and wet . . . for hidden: in your heart my love . . . was sadness and regret . .. you told me that our love was through . . . and that you didn’t care . . . but 1 knew that it was not true . , . for you were standing there . . . and so I held you for the . that was to mean goodbye . .. and in a matter of a breath .. . . the stars were standing by . and sweetheart mine until this day . I thank those stars above . .. for shining on two broken hearts . , ., and mending them with love. : :
Kiss ..
—By Ben Burroughs.
By Galbraith TIBET . .. By Clyde. Farnsworth
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passage | of an
with the United States position” towdrd com-
y wegently ‘needs restoration of oly effec- ;
Taft (R. 0.) said he thought it unlikely that the expiring 81st Congress would have time to enact an excess profits tax, Chairman Robert Doughton (D. N.C.) of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee said the lame duck ses-
ston: would pass an excess profits tax. 2 All favor raising taxes
enough to put the federal government ron. a pay-as-you-go basis. But they don’t think the excess profits tax is the desirable way of doing it. The alternative favored by
most is a flat increase in. cor-
porate tax rates, ls » 5 ” “THE Committee for Econom: ic Development (CED3} favors: a “defense profits tax” which would boost corporate profits taxes to a flat 53 per cert,
- will be about $62 billion.
This would be dope by taxing ‘=
corporations at the old rite of. 38 per cent and then adding a defense profits tax of 15 per _ cent. The CED would have its an proposal run Sor one year
was working ;
tax rates produce federal revenues of about $55 billion during calendar 1951 and expenses Its revenue-raising proposals ‘would balance ~ the budget, CED leaders say. : ” = » 3 "THE National Association of Manufacturers has mended. a ‘corporation defense tax" as a substitute for an excess profits tax. It. 300,
.would increase the flat peér-
centage taxes paid by corporations. And Beardsley Runil, author of the withholding tax, has formed a ‘committee of 100 businessmen to fight the excess + profits tax. His group,
which also favors higher taxes
but different methods, includes such ex- -New Dealers as Leon
Henderson and Wilson Wyatt. . the excess ‘profits tax contend that it is “inequitable and inflationary.”
Opponents of
‘They say some big corpora-
tions, . such .as the railroads. would have to pay little extra taxes, .if- any,. under
recom-
w.
"Did Alexander Graham Bell waste his time frying
regarded as inflationary because it encourages corporations to spend for nonproductive and nonessential purposes. Sand .THE WORLD WAR II excess profits tax, which if 1944 was raised to 85'8 per cent, produced $11 billion In federal revenue : in fiscal 1945. That was on a groans national product of $215 billion, © Now, with the national prod. net running at a6 prnusl rete , of over $282 bilion. a much
COPR. 1980 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. M. REG. U. &. PAT. OFF.
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hear not. Or, if they hear, they are not likely to heed. On - the Ti.betan complaint against Red China, the United Nationg isn't ! j kely teh "even
charges of Russian aggression from China, the message from Tibet has fatten oi ears that”
to
old League of Nations’ moral condemnations
Is UN Feeding Milk To the Oriental Tiger?
LAKE-SECEESS Nov. 16—Tt-may' be the year of the iron tiger in Tibet—as the ‘Tibetans gated their tardy complaint of - Red aggression—but here among the United Nations it looks —“like the hour of the rabbit—— Except. for whatexer.use the. Ship Nationalists
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Tibet wouldn't have stood a chance of priority handing:
ceived it has been unofficially reported that Tibet, by “agreement,” has been wed to the Peking Reds—a shotgun wedding to be sure, but enough of a ceremony to ease the. United Nations conscience. . Members “of the Security Council, who had been backed ‘off into consultations - with their home governments when _.the Tibetan case was. laid before them, now can shrug their
not for blue serge shoulders and mur-
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produce the $4 billion Mr. Truman wants. The President did “not'specify a rate in his recommendation. CED officials say that corporations during World War II paid an average of 52 per cent of all their profits to the ‘normal corporation tax and the excess profits tax. They
contend that with their proposed 53 per cent flat rate,
corporations would be paying -4! & rate just as high. as durgt ‘last war, and without
government, through” both the
a while at least. The present unpleasantness of the China Reds over Korea and Formosa is about all the United Nations traffic will bear. " In Korea the issue is far more clearly drawn ‘than it could ever be in Tibet, owing ' to Tibet's cloudy title to nationhood, not to mention her Himalayan isolation. - The eloquent complaint ‘from Tibet, under date of Nov. 7 took: the : questionable stand
that she rates under interna-
tional law as a sovereign state. But under international law there is basis for a strong presumption that Tibet is a historic dependency of China. " = THUS. even if Korea had . never existed, the form of the Tibetan complaint, an accusation against Red China, would V “have had two or three strikes against it, especially among "nations recognizing ‘the Chi.nese Communist government, Moreover, with Korea as the most urgent order of the Unit-
ied Nations’: pendmg Diguess,
the bears could bite! 5
mur “fait accompli.”
SY = oe - THAT IS diplomatic jargon for: “What is the use of locke" ing the barn door- when” the horse has already been stolen?” It does indeed look like the - year of the tiger under the - Tibetan and other Oriental . calendars. The Uhited Nations’ tactic, .
“exemplified. by Security Coun- * cil coaxings of the Chinese
Reds to get out of Korea, is to set out a saucer of milk. To have got tough at this juncture abou® Tibet, even in the moral condemnation department, ‘might have soured that milk.
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